My dad would have loved this had he still been with us. He used to listen to this on the radio when he was young. RIP dad, I hope you're watching over my shoulder as I watch this :)
I have wondered about this lately. I had always thought that that didn't happen as time has GOT to be different when we die than when we live. However, Hebrews DOES talk about witnesses so maybe you are right. I know we're not supposed to conjure up the dead as that takes God's place (in a way) but I think I'm more on your page these days.
Also I KNOW we are beneath the angels in our current position but we WILL be higher than them in the future. So humans and angels are different from each other. FOR SURE!
I have collected the pc49 books over the years. I read the first one when I was 14. I got it from a jumble sale. Great stuff and proper brit stuff. So dated now but cool never the less.
We have Biggles books, but the children of today are not interested. I am not a Brit, however it doesn't stop me enjoying them. Haven't got PC49 books, they look more in my grandfather's time (poppa to me) he was a policeman with a similar helmet.
The best thing about these old films is how even the lowliest character on the social scale has a really posh accent. Although that has kinda never really changed within British films and TV....
it probably would have been hard work being a PC in those days. ..always walking everywhere. ..in heat or chill... and being always on the alert. Every day all year long.
now dont he look great in his blue uniform n his pointed hat , belt and his bulls eye light , instead we to day have in 2023 scruffy over weight un fit 2ft 6 in tall security gaurds in yellow vests , bring back the bobby uniform
Can't believe the same company Hammer, famous for horror classics and psychological thrillers made this. A curiosity piece of very British quota quickies made on a shoestring.
Have to say it, this one is quite hard to sit through nowadays. But it was a success for Hammer because PC 49 was such a popular character back then, especially with children. Still, it gives an interesting insight into what life was like in those days.
I dunno - its a proper caution innit? Yer goes up ter RADA where they gets yer to talk like Noel Coward dear boy. Well then I got to play this frightfully nice posh chap PC49 who then only bleedin goes undercover to give it all ver patter as a street tough...I tell yer its a proper caution an no mistake, dear boy
PC49 was a little grainy, but clear enough to watch. The sound was good. The British accent was understandable through most of the movie. The plot was interesting keeping our attention. The Police Copper #49 volunteered to imbed himself with a local gang to bring them down. He learned his part well to do this, being very believable to the gang members. But he had a hurdle to jump and overcome. This was a 1 hour good movie for which we offer thanks to gary170459
PC 49 gave all his energy to noticing the cold, getting his illegal cup of tea and kissing his wife, completely ignoring the direct order by his boss to keep an eye open for exactly the thing that actually happened, completely caught off guard in handling it. Then he had the nerve to ask his superiors if they would mind letting him in on solving it.
My late Brother would have loved this, It was the Radio seros that got hom interested in jpining the police. Or and the fact both of our parents were police officers Ah an I forgot we lived in a police station.
the don't give it away twist near end a beaut---well done--except his going back to beat, was ridiculous, he should have moved from beat to detective at close--his girlfriend , a GA was tough sharp on iMMB scaie of 10, give 7.5.
She gives him a drink which he takes with his right hand and gets told off. What nonsense! I'm left handed and regularly drink right handed. Somebody even said about it in the pub thinking I should drink left handed. it depends where I put my glass which hand I use. Then the police smash the cafe window, kick a few panels in before thinking to kick it where it matters. A good film anyway.
You may be ambidextrous, I write left handed, use a fork left handed, use scissors right handed. Play softball right handed and use a glass with both. Brush my teeth with both can tie my shoes both ways. A neurologist told me if I ever had a stroke, the success of healing is greatly increased if a person us ambidextrous.
absolutely amateurish and wooden. No wonder the British film industry at that time was laughed at by the Americans. Personally I love the 50's and later British movies but this particular movie and era I suppose was still in it's infancy and as such the director and actors/actresses had no idea how to act believably. But thank you for posting the movie anyway as the nostalgia of that era always makes me feel good especially when one has experienced the same era as I did.
Police officers of days gone by were a credit to their uniform and same applies today for our boys in blue ever their when needed care and consideration.
+Joseph Landrut yeah,except when they don't honour their oath of office,by taking sides of bogus bailiffs,who arrive at your door,with false paperwork, without wet signature of a jp,rendering the action unlawful.or doing the same about tv licence,or claiming that police don't get involved in civil disputes,then taking sides and threatening to arrest the other party,depending if their face fits,as happened to me over a dispute with my neighbour.the copper threatened to arrest me and he would think of a charge later,pity for him I recorded the threat on tape and am not afraid to use it,if necessary.no,i don't believe they are a credit to their uniform.
Brian Reece was born on July 24, 1913 in Wallasey, Cheshire, England. British light supporting actor who was noted for roles in musical comedies on stage. Popular in the title role of the radio series "P.C. 49" in the late 1940s alongside Joy Shelton. Films he was known for Orders Are Orders (1954), A Case for PC 49 (1951) and Carry-on Admiral (1957). He died on April 12, 1962 in London, England from a bone disease.
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