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Whats not to like about that Eug? Black powder and shagging!

So, we conclude- the 1950's pop song "The Duke of Earl" kind o skipped over the Marquess thing- title wise anyway.[quote]My favorite Duke was the Duke of Ellington- "It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing!"

The pegs were very close in "The Shooting Party". But there weren't any Americans, nor any pumps. James Mason (in his last movie) played the owner of the shoot, and he was using a pair of hammerguns. Set in 1913, the year before the lights went out all over the world.

Well, except the lights on the Titanic in 1912-- wonder if WW1 might have had a different out come in Europe had all the "Big Wigs" and money guys hadn't gone down with the ship that had the temerity to defy Mother Nature- with some leadership/planning Fubars added to the mixture- "Hey, no sweat folks, we're just stopping to take on extra ice for the fish and goose soire!" Right.

The book, by elizabeth colgate was good. but as with so many film makers, they simply don't have a clue about any aspect of shooting or firearms. Mythbusters spent years debunking the nonsense that appeared on film to do with guns.

Just watched the shooting bit in the Crown...no recoil! Watch Mountbatten fire two shots, no recoil movement, looks ridiculous.

This may take us out of the normal safe and respectable confines of DGJ .... forgive. The only saving grace of the movie "The Shooting Party" is the presence of the luminous Dorothy Tutin in the cast list.

As a little boy (13?) we were taken on a school trip from The Oratory School in Birmingham to see "The Merchant of Venice" at the Royal Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford where she was playing Portia to Peter O'Toole's Shylock. I spent the entire evening staring down Ms Tutin's cleavage through a pair or those opera glass thingies that were clipped to the back of the seats in front. You had to put in a sixpence piece to release them.

This I then considered, and still do, was the best sixpence I ever spent; it was a life changing experience.

Some years later I was having a drink in the "Mucky Duck" in Stratford when Ms Tutin walked in on O'Toole's arm. The entire pub just dropped into silence; she was a woman of heart stopping beauty, utterly bewitching.



Pray continue whilst I get my breath back.

Eug

"The Big Shots"
http://www.thevintagemagazine.com/sports/the-big-shots-revisited-by-robert-jarman/

"Just How Good Were They" from Fieldsports Magazine is at the bottom here
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x7uk0ii6-lPdWEZj5ctyqr1td19ZcsA5xGGoKBhP9o0/edit

Drew! Great reads! Thanks

The lovely Diana Rigg, of "The Avengers" fame, was another Shakespearean actress . . . before she became Emma Peel. And still wins a lot of votes as the most lovely Bond girl ever.

Other than the fact that the pegs were too close (and that Edward Fox referred to the pheasant he shot at when he killed the beater as "a woodcock"), I thought that the actual shooting scenes in "The Shooting Party" were relatively well-done.