Anyone seen the movie "My boy Jack" ?

[+Olham]

Well, the title says it - I'd like to know, if that movie is worth seeing it.

Will I learn more about Rudyard Kipling?

(I didn't know, that he had sent his son to WW1).

[Duce Lewis]

I'd never heard of it but it looks interesting

Here's a wikipedia description

http://en.wikipedia....iki/My_Boy_Jack

Sometimes things on PBS pass quietly by

[+Dej]

I watched it when it was first shown. It's worth watching, Olham. Daniel Radcliffe's performance is maturely underplayed while David Haig is extremely good as Kipling, but then, as he wrote it and played the same part both on stage and in the TV version he should be. It's good, but I didn't personally find it as moving as the documentary on Walter Tull.

[Mr. Lucky]

I thought it was very good. I saw it on PBS as well and was somewhat impresses by the enthusiasm the boy showed for going to war and the effort that everyone expended trying to help him get in.

[Bullethead]

I thought it was very good. I saw it on PBS as well and was somewhat impresses by the enthusiasm the boy showed for going to war and the effort that everyone expended trying to help him get in.

 

No surprise there. Our ancestors spent FAR more time biting and stabbing than they've had roofs over their heads. As a result, women are hardwired to dig successful warriors, men are hardwired to become successful warriors to impress the chicks, and parents are hardwired to raise successful warriors who will carry on their name and take care of them in their old age.

[Axgrinder]

Saw it myself on PBS. Great movie. Harry Potter goes to war!

[+Olham]

Thanks all - so I'll rent it soon and see.

 

UncleAl: Sooo it's after WC Fields, and Humphry Bogart. Pretty exclusive company

 

An exclusive company indeed, UncleAl! Bogart in "To have and to have not", one of my all-time-grands.

And W.C. Fields: "I cut my way through a wall of human flesh with my bowie knife; my canoe always right behind me!"

I just love his films.

[+Olham]

"Is she standing in a hole?"

Yeah, the Great McGonnigle, or the movie director, or the Bank detective ("Let me give you

another hearty handshake!") - the man was great. And he did the stunt, where he climbs

on a ladder, thinking it was stairs, falling down the other side - he did that himself!

Well, drunk and children have a guardian angel.