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.
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
Ron today posted a 1937 Morecambe bill in which Jack Pye was billed as having starred in the 1937 film "All-in." Promising title from our angle; but the write-up mentions only horse racing.
Anyway, looks like there were four wrestlers featured:
It also appears that Jack Pye was in two other films at that time.
This must be the earliest entry on our list!
Today's episode of Heartbeat titled 'Thanks to Alfred' centres around a wrestling promotion visiting the village and features Pat Roach, Steve Casey and Mal Sanders amongst the wrestlers featured.
I have just come across a corker. Alf Garnett is a wrestling fan.
Intriguing group of non-ITV wrestlers, too. Ironic really, considering Alf was insisting he watched only ITV, and therefore didn't have to have a tv licence!
Sorry about the pre-pixel times quality from Till Death Us Do Part in 1974:
We have just started to watch a modern film and I am surprised to be able to list perhaps the most recent film here featuring one of our Heritage Years wrestlers, Peter Szakacs.
He's there ten minutes in turning sausages in the 2000 film, Snatch.
Unmistakably him, and he speaks.