The London Nobody Knows

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Audience Member James Mason walks around some of the seedier, less frequented parts of 1960s London - a dilapidated music hall, a Victorian public convenience complete with ornamental fish tank and a Salvation Army dosshouse. This being 1967, it's not a straight-up documentary and there is a rather surreal interlude in an egg breaking factory (!?), but it doesn't spoil things too much. I could listen to James Mason's rich, fruity tones all day - if anybody could make The Mental Capacity Act 2005 (or insert your own choice of incredibly dull topic here) come alive, he could. Thankfully, he's got some great material to work with, filled with human interest. He's a brilliant guide, making warm, witty and at times trenchant observations, whilst picking his way through the neglected backwaters of London, before the wrecking crews move in and such places are lost forever. Snappy editing and crisp colours give the film some striking visual poetry, and the soundtrack is great too. Half a mark deducted for the shots of squirming eels, intercut with shots of their dead cousins being served up to hungry Cockneys. Yeuch. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Audience Member James Mason wanders round in a flat cap with an umbrella pointing at things. Interesting. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/28/23 Full Review Audience Member James Mason should have travelled the world making documentaries like this one, they would have been classics! I really enjoyed this, how about a sequel for posterity? Who would be the new Mason though? hmmmm Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/11/23 Full Review Audience Member WILD! A brilliant, WEIRD documentary about Victorian London, made in the swinging 60s, showing the history/forgotten places as James Mason wanders round in a flat cap with an umbrella pointing at things. Utterly GLORIOUS. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/28/23 Full Review Audience Member A very British film experience, complete with James mason wxing lyrical about the victorian era, whilst stood in a London torn apart from war bombs. grand. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Audience Member In which James Mason curls his lips disdainfully at carefully chosen sections of fading London. I liked the men's urinals in which the tank was made of glass with fishies in it, who had to swim up and down as the tank filled and emptied along with the mens' weeing. It's not really the London nobody knows though - Edgware marke t isn't that much of a secret. But an honourable mention to Manzes pie-emporium. Looked like the Walthamstow one - hope it ws. I been there and even tried the liquor. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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