The 1940s B&W running commentary thread

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I'm about to watch Mr Godfrey's Arnold Ridley's The Train.

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I'm keeping the lights on in case it's scary.

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Here it is.

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There's a gigantic spider decided to perch three feet from where I'm sitting. I'm having to keep a close eye on it to see what it's getting up to.

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"A Gainsborough Picture."

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Starring Arthur Askey.

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For some reason, I always misread his name as Arthur Whiskey.

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"Dialogue, Val Guest."

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Didn't the original play have dialogue?

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Opening shot of a steam train heading straight at us.

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That would have had people fleeing the cinema in terror when the film was first released. They would have been scared it was going to run them over. That's how things were in the 1940s.

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Everyone in it's a stage cockney.

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Woman with a ration book and a bird cage.

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Man running on the tracks, in a style reminiscent of the bad guy in Night of the .

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Wasn't that something to do with Val Guest as well?

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It's Arthur "Where's my washboard" Askey.

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Passengers getting to know each other.

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Arthur Askey wearing comedy bowler.

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How come Arthur Askey wasn't young in in the 1940s? I mean, there must have been a time when he was young. How could he already have been old even then?

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