35th anniversaries of B Squadron getting on the trucks at Ascension for Operation Mikado [one way trip to Rio Gallegos - operation scrubbed] and then dropping into the South Atlantic at night for recovery by Royal Navy (HMS Plymouth?) must have passed in last 72 hours. Ditto a certain one-way-trip S...

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Chopper wrote:Yowzer, I'll be off to see that one. I do think it needs this theme though;

Martin Shaw may appreciate the irony. Or not.

And so the story ends, if not for the second trailer for Six Days released last week: note how many elements and atmospherics perhaps influenced by the original reenactment, from ubiquitous Transit vans, to Regents Park barracks, the main distraction charge in stairwell, even bandy legged random on ...

Part 5: Doesn't feature the local constabulary stopping :attack: dragging the final terrorist found in the garden back into the burning building, but, then, not many versions of the story do. He's living in Peckham now, enjoying life. Job done. ENDEX. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIDfjIZC9fc :quick:

Part 4:

The rollerball had started.
Got to follow it down, down into the cellar.
Stun grenade out
No sledge, no shotgun, gotta drill the locks.

Part 3: Steve Scott regales us again. Notable here you hear the jumbos coming in much lower than usual on Heathrow approach - all part of the plan to distract the hostage takers and cover a variety of other noises from intel gathering (a British Gas team doesn't feature but they had the same MO). Th...

Part 2: Story tells itself as protests occur and initial recces and intel gathering occur. Possibly some of the original police material shown. Can't remember if the discussions between negotiator and Salim are original but, if not, very close imitation. Will return to that in part 4. Also the sound...

Dunno precisely what Steve Scott was doing after losing his job on digital F1 in 2002 (Channel 5?), but he proceeds to present the original version of the Carlton 1996 adaptation of the Iranian Embassy siege. Initial narration by Soldier I, the original UKSF chronicler c. 1989 who, after being (the ...

Read about this movie wrapping up several years ago in Der Stürmer and, although perhaps a mildly interesting coda to the fetishisation of UK SF in the land of offshore casinos, royals, bad tatts and alcopops, assumed it had been junked due to the proliferation of imitations. Was perhaps wrong about...