Hi, can anyone who has a healthy (or un-healthy) interest in this film? "Ken", Wolfie's neighbour, asks Wolfie when Terry and Duncan threaten Ken's dog, what was that all about. Wolfie answers : "Nothing, just a couple of ice-creams" Can anyone tell me what that means? Thanks to anyone who can help. My e-mail is: [email protected]
Ice cream :
Is in fact rhyming slang for Geezer.
Ice cream Freezer .... Geezer.
This film is a case of life imitating art and vice versa.
Interesting fact about this film. Its screening was interupted on the BBC TV
by the outbreak of the first Gulf War.
Subsequent wars have not interupted schedules.
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I think that Villain was on BBC 1 although even that was subject to regional variations. I was watching it in London. Ian McShane was on a chatshow and bemoaned the fact that it wasn't re-scheduled. I think actors get screening fees.
I've just posted something similar on this board but it bears repeating; I stayed in to watch Villain one night in the early-90s, a first Gulf War news flash interupted it and I waited like a twit for hours for a return to the movie. And back in those days war reporting was just a loop of a few cleared shots with pundits talking over it. I'm sure we could all have waited until the next news bulletin ...
I did wonder, months later, whether the BBC had enough of a sense of humour to continue the film where they left off. Hohoho. But they didn't.
Villain had the best (UK) car chase and that clip was always shown on TV movie programmes as a fine example of the genre. Always use a Jag as a getaway car and a Ford Cortina for ramming.
Incidently, I too thought 'ice cream' (slang: cream > queen) meant persons of the homosexual persuasion.
Perhaps the BBC will show the film on the 20th anniversary of the interrupted screening?
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"I've just posted something similar on this board but it bears repeating; I stayed in to watch Villain one night in the early-90s, a first Gulf War news flash interupted it and I waited like a twit for hours for a return to the movie. And back in those days war reporting was just a loop of a few cleared shots with pundits talking over it. I'm sure we could all have waited until the next news bulletin ..."
Coincidentally, I used to have a recording of Sidney Lumet's THE OFFENCE, another great British crime movie, whose screening on, if I remember correctly, Sky Movies Gold was interrupted by a bulletin announcing the outbreak of the first Gulf War.
'What does it matter what you say about people?'
Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958).
Ice cream :
Is in fact rhyming slang for Geezer.
Ice cream Freezer .... Geezer.
This film is a case of life imitating art and vice versa.
Interesting fact about this film. Its screening was interupted on the BBC TV
by the outbreak of the first Gulf War.
Subsequent wars have not interupted schedules.
Someone mentioned Tough Guys being on ITV in '91 when that, too, was interrupted by the Gulf War.
I don't remember that, as I only watched the first 15 minutes or so, before I went to bed.
I've only ever seen one clip off Villain, where Dakin deals with that informant, using a razor...
Thanks harley, (Depsite a lot of veering off regarding the Gulf War on the original subject!) I belive the 'ice creams' was rhyming slang for geezers!
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