We have discussed lots of films over the years: The Touchables, the Seven Ages of Nakedness, the Cuckoo Patrol, the Night and the City, A Kid For Two Farthings, and others. I was looking for the main thread.
I've just discovered another and this one is Academy Award nominated. Lots of posters of Wimbledon Palais and Guildford and a wrestling bout in the middle of the picture.
Morgan - A Suitable Case for Treatment. 1966.
It's doing the rounds on Talking Pictures at the moment.
Just goes to underline the mainstream importance of wrestling in the mid-sixties that a psychological film would use wrestling as one of its backdrops.
I am rather chuffed with this find.
This is not merely our perhaps first international inclusion and in such a prestigious film as Chariots of Fire:
The colours of the typically French poster blend in perfectly with the setting.
On closer inspection we have our first and whopping ANACHRONISM. By over 40 years! Walter Bordes wasn't even born in 1924; and the midget wrestlers certainly weren't around at the time of those Paris Olympics.
It would also have been a very very early tag match.
I hope the people at the Academy Awards are seeing this. Such mangling and misappropriation of wrestling history warrants the rescindment of any Oscars that may have been awarded.
Great to see a new series of Hancock's Half Hour airing on the "national broadcaster."
We know that Hancock embraced Our wrestling from the entire episode he would devote to it, But it's still good to see from some months prior that wrestling was mainstream in 1956:
Another Til Death do us part episode tonight and Alf and Bert talking with a number of wrestling posters behind them . Pete Roberts, Bert Royal, Les Kellett, Mike Marino and more, all Joint Promotions.
An episode of Till Death us do Part from the early seventies had a pub scene with a Pallo/Logan poster in the background
An episode of Z cars from half a century ago had a wrestling poster in the background with the Borg Twins topping the bill
Just to reiterate @Powerlock I found several episodes of The Losers on youtube. The very first episode has a quite a lot of old wrestling posters dotted throughout.
Kiwi Kingston the New Zealand wrestler as the creature the Evil of Frankenstein, he also appeared in very minor roles in a couple of other films
It Always Rains On Sunday. A very good and gritty movie, featuring a host of great character actors of the day in the undercard. Bert, Charlie Green, Chic Rolfe and a Fisher on the bill as well. I posted the film name, the first time around we did this, this time I thought I’d include the attached. (I think maybe there was a sighting of a different bill, but I’m don’t remember.
I have just come across the World Middleweight Champion in the 1971 film "A Couple of Beauties." Poor us who grew up at that time, it's dire.
Still thinking about the 1950s and the big name was Bert Assirati: does anyone know of any show or film in which he appeared?
In the 1950 film Soho Conspiracy, Francis P. Blake has a feature role and punches a Catholic priest.
In the 1966 film Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150AD starring Peter Cushing (a movie adaption of the 1964 William Hartnell era Doctor Who story "The Dalek Invasion Of Earth") there were some retro wrestling posters (along with various other retro posters) up on the wall of a tube station being used as a base by humans rebelling against Dalek rule.
'The Leather Boys', 1964. In a scene filmed in the Ace Cafe, there is a poster advertising a November 1963 show featuring Pedro Bengochea vs Steve Veidor, Danny Lynch vs Spencer Churchill, Cliff Beaumont vs Peter Szakacs, and Ajit Singh vs Ray Fury. The venue is unseen.
Tiger Joe next Tuesday on tv for the first showing of Fighting Mad from 1957.
Milton Reid on the Legend Channel tonight in Blood on Satan's claw.
I am pleased just to have discovered on line something I haven't seen for 51 years. Robbie (sic.) Baron v Mick McManus on the Generation Game.
You'd think they could have invested in some ropes ....
Watched Doctor Who invasion earth 2150AD and Ray Brooks walks past a poster with Tony Mancelli v Johnny Yearsly as top of the bill, other wrestlers on the poster inlcude Dick Conlon, Harry Kendall and Tug Holton. Its nice to know that these gentlemen will still be gracing the squared circle in a 127 years from now.
Funnily enough, I was just reading a load of 1930's Merseyside results, yesterday, and all of those four, from the film "All-In" have a lot of mentions.
We can push back the earliest date another couple of years courtesy of Rough House King Curtis appearing in the 1933 film 'Pride of the Force' here are the details:
The Pride of the Force (1933) - IMDb
It was actually released in 1936 so it's even older here's a little more info and a couple of reviews .
All In (1936) - All In (1936) - User Reviews - IMDb