Forgotten Irish movies.

George White · 08-03-2021 9:56pm

Murphy also did a few Irishoid films such as the Leaping Leprechauns films, set in Ireland but American productions shot in Romania with a mostly British cast (Polish-Australian-English John Bluthal of Vicar of Dibley and Spike Milligan sidekick fame, Scottish Sylvester McCoy, English Godfrey James and the one genuine Irishman - Jimmy Ellis) and the bizarre the She-Creature, not a Corman production, but confusingly a remake of one, shot in California but set here, with Rufus Sewell and Carla Gugino as carnies who buy a mermaid from dear old Aubrey Morris.

Ends with Gugino having a daughter... except Sewell isn't the father. The mermaid is.
That's right, lesbian mermaid pregnancy.

vriesmays · 09-03-2021 2:58pm

Fools of fortune - big-house epic. Another good movie made before the Film Board arrived and effed up Irish cinema.

Sgt Hartman · 09-03-2021 3:09pm

Here's two Brendan Gleeson shorts available on YouTube

Cáca Milis
https://youtu.be/SW-tdaO2s9o

Six Shooter
https://youtu.be/n_xMyx_SogA

Del.Monte · 09-03-2021 3:17pm

Sgt Hartman wrote: »

Here's two Brendan Gleeson shorts available on YouTube

Cáca Milis
https://youtu.be/SW-tdaO2s9o

Six Shooter
https://youtu.be/n_xMyx_SogA

I have Six Shooter on DVD - a classic shot down the road for me on a 'Twilight Zone' stretch of railway line.

odyssey06 · 09-03-2021 3:28pm

This is a quirky crime related short...
Mr Crocodile in the Cupboard, starring Gerard McSorley, Darren Healy and Cora Venus Lunny.

saabsaab · 09-03-2021 8:52pm

'Paddy' 1970 with Milo O'Shea,

vriesmays · 10-03-2021 2:19pm

Hangdogroad wrote: »

David Wilmot was the guy I was thinking of. I see from here he was in the Clinic which which I never got into. Recognised his face from a few Irish movies late 90s early 00s.

No, Flick is the actual name of the movie I was talking about.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0932837/

That's David Murray, he got arrested for attacking some woman in Rathmines.

bodhrandude · 10-03-2021 3:42pm

vriesmays wrote: »

That's David Murray, he got arrested for attacking some woman in Rathmines.

He was in Intermission wasn't he.

JimmyVik · 10-03-2021 3:43pm

Rawhead Rex

Samsonsmasher · 10-03-2021 6:11pm

odyssey06 wrote: »

This is a quirky crime related short...
Mr Crocodile in the Cupboard, starring Gerard McSorley, Darren Healy and Cora Venus Lunny.

Gerard McSorley played the Jack Dawson role in the godawful S.O.S. Titanic. David Janssen who played the original fugitive plays a big shot passenger with a pregnant teenage bride. David Warner the English actor who got his head lobbed off by a sheet of glass in The Omen plays another doomed male passenger. James Cameron cast him as Billy Zane's bodyguard in Titanic. Only worth watching for the scenes Cameron copied in his big budget version. Filmed on a clapped out 1950s cruise liner in the 1970s. Wretched.

RandomViewer · 10-03-2021 6:38pm

Samsonsmasher wrote: »

Gerard McSorley played the Jack Dawson role in the godawful S.O.S. Titanic. David Janssen who played the original fugitive plays a big shot passenger with a pregnant teenage bride. David Warner the English actor who got his head lobbed off by a sheet of glass in The Omen plays another doomed male passenger. James Cameron cast him as Billy Zane's bodyguard in Titanic. Only worth watching for the scenes Cameron copied in his big budget version. Filmed on a clapped out 1950s cruise liner in the 1970s. Wretched.

Haven't seen McSorley since the start of lockdown, he was in bad shape then

vriesmays · 11-03-2021 1:58pm

He's supposed to be homeless now.

RandomViewer · 11-03-2021 5:04pm

vriesmays wrote: »

He's supposed to be homeless now.

Bound to have royalties of some kind coming in

Yurt2 · 11-03-2021 7:29pm

vriesmays wrote: »

He's supposed to be homeless now.

That's sad if true. He's a talented character actor. Just goes to show how precarious acting as a career is.

RandomViewer · 11-03-2021 7:37pm

Yurt! wrote: »

That's sad if true. He's a talented character actor. Just goes to show how precarious acting as a career is.

Liquid diet doesn't help

George White · 11-03-2021 9:22pm

He did seem to be a mercurial figure, to put it lightly.

I think falling out with Scorsese didn't do him any favours.

George White · 11-03-2021 9:27pm

Samsonsmasher wrote: »

Gerard McSorley played the Jack Dawson role in the godawful S.O.S. Titanic. David Janssen who played the original fugitive plays a big shot passenger with a pregnant teenage bride. David Warner the English actor who got his head lobbed off by a sheet of glass in The Omen plays another doomed male passenger. James Cameron cast him as Billy Zane's bodyguard in Titanic. Only worth watching for the scenes Cameron copied in his big budget version. Filmed on a clapped out 1950s cruise liner in the 1970s. Wretched.

I believe that while some scenes were done in California on the Queen Mary, the majority of boat scenes that weren't done in studio were done on something more eeble than a clapped out cruise liner, the old Isle of Man ferry.
Was the first film AFAIK to have the Isle of Man play Ireland.

WArner has been in three Titanic movies.
The other being Time Bandits.

odyssey06 · 11-03-2021 9:28pm

George White wrote: »

He did seem to be a mercurial figure, to put it lightly.

I think falling out with Scorsese didn't do him any favours.

Wow. I had to google that. Never knew that he was originally cast in the Departed then replaced by Martin Sheen.

George White · 11-03-2021 9:32pm

Yeah, he wanted to use his own accent, and MS was adamant that the character would not be a first generation immigrant.

That didn't quite shoot his career in the foot,but that his personal life went a bit wonky shortly after, which did, may not be coincidence.

Which is a shame.

vriesmays · 12-03-2021 2:51pm

No resting place - old black and white movie about travellers.

Del.Monte · 12-03-2021 3:24pm

vriesmays wrote: »

No resting place - old black and white movie about travellers.

https://irelandsmovies.wordpress.com/n/

George White · 12-03-2021 3:35pm

vriesmays wrote: »

No resting place - old black and white movie about travellers.

With a pre-horror stardom Michael "Alfred" Gough, of all people as a Wicklow traveller.

Church on Tuesday · 12-03-2021 3:38pm

Night Train?

weadick · 12-03-2021 4:24pm

Worst Irish movie ever is probably Strength and Honour starring Michael Madsen and Vinny Jones. How it ever got made is hard to fathom.

Del.Monte · 12-03-2021 5:15pm

weadick wrote: »

Worst Irish movie ever is probably Strength and Honour starring Michael Madsen and Vinny Jones. How it ever got made is hard to fathom.

I think that you'll find plenty of better contenders for that award including "Fatal Deviation" (1998) an Irish martial arts movie and a long-time favourite amongst boardsies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPne3Wh0lqk

Sunny Disposition · 12-03-2021 5:21pm

I'd love to see Reefer and the Model, just because of the name, which used to be mentioned all the time in the papers.

Del.Monte · 12-03-2021 5:33pm

Sunny Disposition wrote: »

I'd love to see Reefer and the Model, just because of the name, which used to be mentioned all the time in the papers.

You'll be lucky, I've been searching for it for years as it never made it 'officially' to DVD and even the VHS tape is impossible to find.

Hangdogroad · 12-03-2021 5:43pm

Del.Monte wrote: »

You'll be lucky, I've been searching for it for years as it never made it 'officially' to DVD and even the VHS tape is impossible to find.

I was able to rent it out circa 1995 from a regular video store but have never seen it turn up anywhere since.

RandomViewer · 12-03-2021 5:48pm

Del.Monte wrote: »

You'll be lucky, I've been searching for it for years as it never made it 'officially' to DVD and even the VHS tape is impossible to find.

Film four put up some of the budget so they'll likely have it somewhere

NewbridgeIR · 12-03-2021 7:32pm

Hangdogroad wrote: »

I was able to rent it out circa 1995 from a regular video store but have never seen it turn up anywhere since.

Have recollection of it being in Late Night Movies, Donnybrook.

saabsaab · 12-03-2021 8:22pm

Sunny Disposition wrote: »

I'd love to see Reefer and the Model, just because of the name, which used to be mentioned all the time in the papers.

Copy here.. I'm sure you could change the language option?

https://www.ebay.ie/itm/Reefer-And-The-Model-Presseheft-136/393133516463?hash=item5b889566af:g:lTEAAOSwy8BgKol9

NewbridgeIR · 12-03-2021 8:57pm

saabsaab wrote: »

Copy here.. I'm sure you could change the language option?

https://www.ebay.ie/itm/Reefer-And-The-Model-Presseheft-136/393133516463?hash=item5b889566af:g:lTEAAOSwy8BgKol9

Looks like a press booklet rather a VHS tape.

English audio is usually an option on German DVDs alright - but not on VHS.

Quantum Erasure · 12-03-2021 9:02pm

RandomViewer wrote: »

Bound to have royalties of some kind coming in

One episode of Father Ted doesn't count for much, these days

Saw Song For a Raggy Boy recently on TV, hadnt heard about it before
The true story of a single teacher's courage to stand up against an untouchable prefect's sadistic disciplinary regime and other abuse in a Catholic Reformatory and Industrial School in 1939 Ireland.

ohnonotgmail · 12-03-2021 9:09pm

RandomViewer wrote: »

Bound to have royalties of some kind coming in

living in a homeless shelter around this time last year before they kicked him out. a couple of court appearances around that time as well.

EmmetSpiceland · 12-03-2021 9:25pm

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

One episode of Father Ted doesn't count for much, these days

Yeah, not going to get much for a cameo. Could have picked to a bit doing the Fr Ted “circuit” alright.

Also, I believe with acting it’s called a “residual”.

New Home · 12-03-2021 11:06pm

Mod: I think it'd be fairer to stick to talking about the forgotten Irish fillums than about an actor who's fallen on hard times. As the saying goes, all that stands between any of us and homelessness are two pay cheques.

Hangdogroad · 13-03-2021 11:33am

Del.Monte wrote: »

I think that you'll find plenty of better contenders for that award including "Fatal Deviation" (1998) an Irish martial arts movie and a long-time favourite amongst boardsies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPne3Wh0lqk

I think it's a toss up TBH. Fatal Deviation had zero budget. Strength And Honour had quite a lot of money behind it but still managed to be an unmitigated pile of shyte. I remember reading a quote from one of the backers somewhere who said when he saw the end result he felt like he might as well have thrown his money into the ditch.

vriesmays · 13-03-2021 2:28pm

Set in a sec shop off Grafton Street:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4114608/

PetitPois89 · 14-03-2021 10:03pm

When Brendan Met Trudy...terrible film!

Optimalprimerib · 15-03-2021 9:57am

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Sounds like When Brendan Met Trudy.

That's the one. Never in a million years would I remember that name

Man Vs ManUre · 15-03-2021 2:15pm

Optimalprimerib wrote: »

That's the one. Never in a million years would I remember that name

I even mentioned that film a few pages b4 your first post. I remember it having a great sex scene.

vriesmays · 15-03-2021 2:47pm

wc - set in a toilet in a jazz club.

Sunny Disposition · 16-03-2021 4:15pm

vriesmays wrote: »

wc - set in a toilet in a jazz club.

Saw a bit of it, it wasn't too bad I think?
I Went Down was pretty good, kinda in that forgotten category now.

kildare lad · 16-03-2021 4:40pm

Sunny Disposition wrote: »

Saw a bit of it, it wasn't too bad I think?
I Went Down was pretty good, kinda in that forgotten category now.

I was just going to write about I Went Down , remember though it was quality when I first watched it , I went looking to buy it a while ago and can't seem to get it anywhere

NewbridgeIR · 16-03-2021 4:46pm

kildare lad wrote: »

I was just going to write about I Went Down , remember though it was quality when I first watched it , I went looking to buy it a while ago and can't seem to get it anywhere

The going rate is £20 for I Went Down DVD on Amazon Marketplace and Ebay UK

Also seems to be on Amazon Prime

kildare lad · 16-03-2021 4:57pm

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

The going rate is £20 for I Went Down DVD on Amazon Marketplace and Ebay UK

Also seems to be on Amazon Prime

Thanks man ,I'll check it out ðŸ‘

New Home · 16-03-2021 6:27pm

That's one of Conor McPherson's films.

OU812 · 17-03-2021 12:32pm

Not so much forgotten, just never heard of...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipx6iA2CR1g

George White · 17-03-2021 3:17pm

Absolute grot. Featuring supposedly heroic Irish gangsters putting Israeli embassy staff in a homemade gas chamber.

Hangdogroad · 17-03-2021 5:33pm

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

The going rate is £20 for I Went Down DVD on Amazon Marketplace and Ebay UK

Also seems to be on Amazon Prime

It seems a lot of Irish movies that come out on physical format become very hard to find very quickly. That was fairly successful too in box office terms, I saw it in a near full cinema when it came out.

Forgotten Irish movies.

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