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Connery and Lynch

posted 10 years ago by ianprl
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This film was pretty lighthearted and I'm sure it was intended to be.

Ne'ertheless it had a couple of serious bits, for instance where the Lynch character got sick in reaction to instinctively killing enemies, which he did not anticipate ever doing.

Connery was the consumate buffoon, who would have thought he was being cast as James Bond about then.

Only a few years later the two were together in "The Hill", a war/prison movie, nothing comic about it at all.

Lynch played a sad little guy who should never have been a soldier at all, imprisoned for trying to run away home. Connery a warrior type who had stuck his neck out to save his men.

These guys were real actors, who could play a range of parts.

[–] donaldking 10 years ago

Alfred Lynch never became a star, but he popped up as the twins' father in THE KRAYS. As for Connery, enough said, although by 1965 when he co-starred with Lynch in THE HILL he seems to have rapidly lost the thick curly hair he had four years earlier. (Like Ernie Wise, surely 007 never wore a wig?)

[–] The_Khazi 10 years ago

The Hill is a fantastic film with fine acting throughout but "On the Fiddle" hasn`t aged well with Connery,Lynch totally wasted in what amounts to merely a curiousity these days.Billed as a comedy but it`s not particularly funny and I`d totally lost interest when it tried to get serious at the end.Interesting to see a young Babs and Patsy Rowlands from the Carry ons but nothing else really.

[–] Squeeth2 10 years ago

Quite agree

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