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Irish Times
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Irish Times
The Movie Quiz: Which Saturday Night Fever song is a recommended guide to the rhythm for manual CPR?
Who was not recently appointed an ambassador? Who has yet to direct Liam Neeson? Woody Allen Clint Eastwood The Coen Brothers Richard Curtis Who has not played title character in a John Boorman film? Marcello Mastroianni Geoffrey Rush Nigel Terry Brendan Gleeson Which is the odd one out? Bravo Grande Ferdinand Lobo Which is not on Brand? Flash Harry John Nash Dr Nefario Arthur Bach Who is not of the clan? Bill Alexander Peter Gustaf Which catchy tune from Saturday Night Fever is recommended as a guide to the rhythm for manual cardiopulmonary resuscitation? Night Fever More Than a Woman Stayin' Alive How Deep Is Your Love Which features only one of Burton & Taylor? The Sandpiper (1965) Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967) Doctor Faustus (1967) Boom! (1968) Whose signature has yet to appear (so far as I'm aware) on domestic screens? Ger Connolly Désirée Finnegan John Kelleher Ciarán Kissane Who, in 1999, accompanied the apparent end of the world? The Pixies Hüsker Dü The Breeders Dinosaur Jr
The Guardian
21-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Hitting the road with the Dave Clark Five
Without wishing to take anything away from Slade and Flame, it wasn't the first British pop music film to offer a downbeat take on the entertainment industry ('The Citizen Kane of rock movies': glam rockers Slade and their bid for cinema greatness, 14 April). John Boorman's 1965 film Catch Us If You Can presents the Dave Clark Five – lovably free of acting talent – as stunt men in the advertising industry escaping west with Barbara Ferris, the poster girl of a meat campaign. Thinking that they are Mini-Moking their way to a new life of freedom and love in the mystical West Country – despite a bizarre encounter with some disillusioned beatniks on Salisbury Plain – they discover that the ruthless advertising executives have been using their elopement as a publicity stunt. We hear the band's music, but never see them play, and neither do we get a happy ending. All this is captured by Manny Wynn's sombre black and white photography. Ironically, the chief advertising executive is played by the wonderful David de Keyser, who became the distinctive voice of advertising in the late 1960s and 70s. The legend goes that Pauline Kael's affection for the film helped prompt Hollywood offers to Boorman, leading to the seminal Lee Marvin gangster flick Point Blank (1967), among Kaye-SmithBristol Have an opinion on anything you've read in the Guardian today? Please email us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our letters section.
