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The Ruling Class

2026-10-182026-10-18 by Steve

I remember watching The Ruling Class on TV as a kid and being amused by the sight of Peter O’Toole hanging off a full-size cross in a baronial living room, playing an aristo convinced he is the second coming of Jesus Christ. I also remember being bored by the rest of the film. Fast forward some decades to last week and I had the same experience all over again. On paper it sounds like a great idea. Get O’Toole at his most flamboyant to play a lunatic who inherits the ancestral seat of the earldom of Gurney after his father dies in a bizarre accident involving a noose and a ballerina’s tutu. And … Read more

The Avengers: Series 5, Episode 20 – Dead Man’s Treasure

2023-10-262020-09-27 by Steve

Dead Man’s Treasure takes that old staple of the country house weekend – the treasure hunt – and turns it into a reasonably thrilling car-chase adventure unsure quite how jokey it wants to be. My hunch is that the thrills come courtesy of writer Michel Winder, the jokes from showrunner Brian Clemens, since camping it up is pretty much Clemens’s shtick. But on to the plot, and things get going in a very familiar style as one of Steed’s agent colleagues dies in time-honoured “The treasure’s in the … aaaagh” style, having been pursued in his nippy Sunbeam Alpine MG (see below) by stylish dastards in an E Type Jaguar. For car nuts, this … Read more

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