The first 1/2 of the first one nearly had us give up, wallpaper on dock workers walls and clean clothes 
The day of the Jackal (2024 version).
But maybe wait until all ten episodes are available to avoid frustration…,
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Where are you watching it? Is it on Sky? If so, no good for us. Shame because Eddie I gather is excellent.
We have a Now TV subscription rolled into out UK phone/internet which allow us to watch some sky things, including this (not that I have yet)
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It is on Sky or NOW with the entertainment package, or a Russian pirate stick…
Yes, he is good mainly because he is not the macho figure that past directors cast for this type of role,
I wish though they called it something else and not lessen the excellent movie of the same name.
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If anyone on here is a fan of Outlander, its back in the next week or so - Series 7. Can’t wait as have followed it from day one and have the books too. Netflix by the way.
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I have it on Plex to watch as SIL put it on there for me. Maybe tonight.
Another netflic series - Unbelievable
Serial rapist and the work by detectives to catch him.
Made me so mad the other evening.
I’ve seen several different adaptations, several times, of ‘The 39 Steps’ film over the years, starring Kenneth More (1959) Robert Powell (1978) and Rupert Henry Jones (2008) but not starring Robert Donat (1935) directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
The Hitchcock version is supposed to be the most famous adaptation. Didn’t know it existed and watched it tonight on YouTube. Quaint, different and entertaining, with a touch I think of Hitchcock sexification! Worth a watch IMO.
The 39 Steps (1935) Alfred Hitchcock | Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll | Colorized Movie | Subtitles. (Cult Cinema Classics).
The only one I’ve heard of, and seen. What is Hitchcock sexification please? 
The heroine taking off her damp silk stockings with some difficulty as her hand was cuffed to Hannay’s hand while she did so. That scene seemed to me to be quite deliberate. Hannay’s hand slid down alongside both of her legs, from her upper thighs to her ankles, as she peeled them off. That scene isn’t in the book or to my recollection in the other later film adaptations.
There was more than sexification in the film. The heroine was physically manhandled by Hannay, and the wife in the crofter’s house, where they spent the night, was physically assaulted by her religious crofter husband. Needless!
On a different tack did you recognise Dad’s army’s John Laurie as the religious crofter? (Dame)Peggy Ashcroft played his abused wife but I didn’t recognise her.
Added edit - maybe I should have put the word in italics “sexification” or called it subtle sensuality. But there’s nothing subtle about it as far as I can see. Others may have different opinions clearly.
Blimey, I missed all that, I must have been very young when I saw it. And you must have been much more advanced.
Can’t wait to see it again. 
I think this film was considered worthy of rescuing and spending money on to colourize it and to raise it to 1080HD quality. It’s regarded by some as a classic.
I’m noticing many free full length older films on YouTube now, absent of advertising. I like to look out for well-known actors and actresses when they were nippers and unknown. I can recognise the back of Alec Guinness ‘s head as being Alec Guinness before he turns round, even as a young man. And others!
There are late 40s into the 50s English movies on YouTube which I enjoy watching. Many I’ve not seen before.
There are a lot though which are rubbish! IMO.
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Anyone who enjoys a good old French slapstick (and has Disney app) may enjoy ‘Les Amateurs’, (strangely translated in English to ‘The French Mans’). I find it laugh out loud and the two chaps endearing.
To give a hint of the level… After sitting waiting rather a long time in the back of a police car, the two decide to play guess which movie a line comes from. One says, “Welcome to Jurassic Park”. (Then the police person lands on the car roof having been chucked from the building by an assailant).
Silly fun but maybe a change from thinking about politics and war. 
One of my favourite TV shows of all time is Le Bureau des Légendes. I’ve just seen this trailer, which looks like an American remake… I’m not sure the original can ever be improved upon.
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I enjoyed the first few episodes, then didn’t keep up watching - probably should have another look.
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Oh, yes, you must… it’s very binge-worthy (is that a word?).
I have copies, if you’d like them.
Master of suspense Steven Spielberg’s ‘Duel’ movie 1971 with Dennis Weaver. Main ingredients - apart from suspense - a car, a monster-truck, silence and lots of muscular noise. And I mean lots of noise. Had to adjust the earphone volume throughout.
Could be called a psychological thriller as much as an action movie. I think the term ‘road rage’ wasn’t used until the 1980s…
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Oh yes, that scruffy old Pete (Peterbilt), I must have seen that film half a dozen times.
And yes you are right, a psychological thriller, a bit far fetched but well worth it.
