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Torslanda

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RIP Bert Kwouk
« on: 24 May, 2016, 02:04:23 pm »
Clouseau's manservant is no more. He has ceased to be.

R.I.P.
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Quote from: trekker12 on 16 July, 2016, 08:54:33 am
Well that's the more blunt way of putting it but as usual he's dead right.

Jaded

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Re: RIP Bert Kwuok - not now, Cato!
« Reply #1 on: 24 May, 2016, 02:08:51 pm »
Must watch another Pink Panther film soon...
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Torslanda

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Re: RIP Bert Kwuok - not now, Cato!
« Reply #2 on: 24 May, 2016, 02:10:51 pm »
Quote from: Jaded on 24 May, 2016, 02:08:51 pm
Must watch another Pink Panther film soon...

Dear me, NO!

If you must watch a Blake Edwards offering then make it S.O.B.
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Quote from: trekker12 on 16 July, 2016, 08:54:33 am
Well that's the more blunt way of putting it but as usual he's dead right.

caerau

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Re: RIP Bert Kwuok
« Reply #3 on: 24 May, 2016, 02:22:26 pm »
Eh?  I find it hard to imagine funnier films than the earlier Pink Panthers.
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caerau

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Re: RIP Bert Kwuok
« Reply #4 on: 24 May, 2016, 02:22:57 pm »
Wasn't Bert in Tenko and other fairly major offerings later on...?
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pcolbeck

Re: RIP Bert Kwuok - not now, Cato!
« Reply #5 on: 24 May, 2016, 02:26:58 pm »
Quote from: Torslanda on 24 May, 2016, 02:10:51 pm
Quote from: Jaded on 24 May, 2016, 02:08:51 pm
Must watch another Pink Panther film soon...

Dear me, NO!

If you must watch a Blake Edwards offering then make it S.O.B.

Oh come on the fart in the lift scene is classic! I also love some of the repetition gags like the repeated driving of cars into the same swimming pool.
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caerau

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Re: RIP Bert Kwuok
« Reply #6 on: 24 May, 2016, 02:28:29 pm »
The fart in a lift is about the only funny bit in that one though - that was a sad testament to the earlier classics.
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Torslanda

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Re: RIP Bert Kwuok
« Reply #7 on: 24 May, 2016, 02:34:23 pm »
Quote from: caerau on 24 May, 2016, 02:22:26 pm
Eh?  I find it hard to imagine funnier films than the earlier Pink Panthers.

There's one huge stumbling block. Peter Sellers was singularly UNfunny.

My apologies if that makes me a Phillistine but it's not something I'll ever get past...
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Quote from: trekker12 on 16 July, 2016, 08:54:33 am
Well that's the more blunt way of putting it but as usual he's dead right.

caerau

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Re: RIP Bert Kwuok
« Reply #8 on: 24 May, 2016, 02:43:48 pm »
Well if you don't find him funny that's not likely to help.  I could almost fall over just looking at him personally. <shrug>
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fuzzy

Re: RIP Bert Kwuok
« Reply #9 on: 24 May, 2016, 04:22:47 pm »
RIP Bert :'(

As for Sellars, he was/ is an acquired taste. I for one, have acquired. The father of a good friend at school introduced me to The Goons. These shows had me crying with laughter.
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Torslanda

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Re: RIP Bert Kwouk
« Reply #10 on: 24 May, 2016, 05:58:31 pm »
Goons - Yes. Genius. Sellars on his own - No.
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Quote from: trekker12 on 16 July, 2016, 08:54:33 am
Well that's the more blunt way of putting it but as usual he's dead right.

Eccentrica Gallumbits

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Re: RIP Bert Kwuok
« Reply #11 on: 24 May, 2016, 06:18:49 pm »
Quote from: caerau on 24 May, 2016, 02:22:57 pm
Wasn't Bert in Tenko and other fairly major offerings later on...?
And Banzai.
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Re: RIP Bert Kwouk
« Reply #12 on: 24 May, 2016, 10:24:29 pm »
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Re: RIP Bert Kwuok
« Reply #13 on: 25 May, 2016, 12:31:30 pm »
Quote from: caerau on 24 May, 2016, 02:22:57 pm
Wasn't Bert in Tenko and other fairly major offerings later on...?
He started out in Inn of the Sixth Happiness.

My mother and father in law were on honeymoon in Wales when this was being filmed. They had no idea what was going one when suddenly a load of chinese in coolie hats appeared on the Welsh hills.
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Re: RIP Bert Kwouk
« Reply #14 on: 25 May, 2016, 04:42:56 pm »
RIP Burt.

I feel it is such a shame that he spent so much of his life acting in comedy stereotype roles.  He was so much more talented than that.
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