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Rare UK TV Broadcast! 1:35pm Monday 16th March on Channel 4

posted 15 years ago by ukjf
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Yes - it's true!

As Crooks in Cloisters is unavailable on DVD, and VHS copies (when they rarely come up for sale) go for silly money on eBay, a rare chance to see this film...

The film is on the Channel 4 schedule for Monday 16th March 2009

Broadcast Time: 1:35pm - 3:25pm

Old fans and new fans...enjoy!

Salmon...Mack-Rel...Swordfish and Tu-u-u-Na! Ha-Ha!

[–] darkshaihulud 15 years ago

By change I caught a few minutes while I was at lunch - and enjoyed what I saw, brief as it was.
Does anyone know the name of the sea shanty Wilfrid Brambell sang on his trip back from from the monastery? The first line of the first verse went something like:

"I've never seen Southampton, I've never seen Brazil"

[–] ukjf 15 years ago

Wilfrid Brambell has some great lines in this film - the next time I'm gasping for a drink, I shall use the phrase "I've a tongue like an aborigine's nightshirt"!

Does anyone know the name of the sea shanty Wilfrid Brambell sang on his trip back from from the monastery?

The sea shanty Wilfrid Brambell sings is his own drunken version of "Rolling Down To Rio", a song adapted from a poem at the end of "The Beginning Of The Armadillos" (one of Rudyard Kipling "Just So Stories")

I've never sailed the Amazon,
I've never reached Brazil;
But the Don and Magdalena,
They can go there when they will!

Yes, weekly from Southampton
Great steamers, white and gold,
Go rolling down to Rio
(Roll down -- roll down to Rio!),
And I'd like to roll to Rio
Some day before I'm old!

I've never seen a Jaguar
Nor yet an Armadill --
O dilloing in his armour,
And I s'pose I never will,

Unless I go to Rio
These wonders to behold --
Roll down -- roll down to Rio --
Roll really down to Rio!
Oh, I'd love to roll to Rio
Some day before I'm old!

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[–] darkshaihulud 15 years ago

That's very kind, thank you so much

[–] Prismark10 8 years ago

It is also shown on UK Gold.

Not a good film though. Almost a Carry On script which was binned for not being good enough.

It's that man again!!

[–] The_Khazi 8 years ago

It`s very tame and quite harmless although Bernard Cribbins has the best (possibly ad-libbed) line when the goat inadvertently pokes his horns somewhere sensitive!I thought Ronald Fraser totally miscast in a role that was crying out for the likes of Frankie Howerd.Babs and Francesca Annis look great, as does the scenery, but it`s just not particularly funny.