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.
Peter comments are so right, the terms heel and face would never be used ,Les Kellet was reprimanded by joint for using the phrase blue eye in an article in Yorkshire and that was 1972. In the 60s and 70s most workers considered them selves sports men this especially in the lancs and Yorks areas.Bert Royals number in the phone book was listed as Herbert Faulkner professional athlete,we all had pride in our work.
The episode has anachronisms. When interviewed by Endeavor the character played by Grado states wrestling is show business full of faces and heals.
In 1970 no wrestler would have used the expression faces and heals and would not publicly have admitted it was anything other than a legit sport.
Aaaah, now I see you wrote "set in 1970."
Does he have an opponent?
Anglo Italian
42m
"A 1970 show has a 2025 wrestler in it?"
Acting in professional wrestling. Who would have thought that?
Just an instant reaction to the figures, Peter.
A 1970 show has a 2025 wrestler in it?
A recent episode of Endeavour set in June 1970 features Professional Wrestling supposedly taking place at Oxford Town Hall.
The wrestlers on the bill are fictitious but the lead is present day wrestler Grado from ICW based in Glasgow
Milton Reid was also in the original Casino Royale film. As was Dazzler Joe Cornelius, below supported by Woody Allen:
1965 to 1970 were THE years for wrestlers in the movies.
The Goodies episode 'Kitten Kong' had Milton Reid in a tobacco send up advert
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.