Down at the Hydro - starring Ian Carmichael, Jean Simmons & Joan Sanderson (1983)
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
- Colonel Hunt (Ian Carmichael) is a widower in his 60s. It is in search of health, not romance, that he books in for a week at the Elm Park Hydro and submits himself to a regime of rest, carefully controlled exercise and starvation rations. When he meets the attractive Deidre Mackay (Jean Simmons) he finds himself experiencing emotions he had never expected to feel again.
Part of the "All For Love" anthology series.
Broadcast 4th September 1983
Looking forward to this. Escaping the madness of 2024. Thanks for posting 🙏
Oooh, if only to go back to 1983...I'm 58 now, older than she was then- how did I get this old? Where did the years go? I'd give anything to meet such a man as Colonel Hunt now. How terrible this world is in 2024...
Absolutely charming. A lovely respite from a hardened world. Thank you.
Another superb find, thank you very much. Another one that tackles loneliness even when you are not alone. We are strange creatures are we not?
We are indeed !!
A poignant nostalgic portrait of love in late middle age. Superb actors from my youth. Thank you. It settled me to sleep when most needed. 😊
What a great program love it! Thank you!!!!!!!!
Wow Ian Carmichael was a beautiful man. I think the director thought so too. All those close ups. I loved that. Thank you for uploading it.
They look young…in 1983 Carmichael was 63 and Jean Simmons 54…they were good looking actors…they were always looking younger for their ages. Wonderful talent character actors on plays on the BBC….in those times. Thank you for sharing with us 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏😊👍👍
ian was my father
@@redorblue8124your a very lucky person ❤😂
@@redorblue8124Always appeared a lovely man.
@@redorblue8124wow Ian Carmichael was your dad thank you for sharing ❤
@@redorblue8124 I remember him coming to my school during the Sevenoaks summer festival in about 1980. I didn't get to meet him, but we walked past each other. He was on his way to a rehearsal, I think. I was only in my teens at the time and was rather star-struck, I must say. 🙂
Jean Simmons was a wonderful lovely actress and Carmichael he was a funny great actor I liked them both
She was exquisite in the title role of "Désirée" (1954?) free on UA-cam; with Marlon Brando as the most charismatic Napoleon of any film, ever.
@@adrianjohnson7920 Jean Simmons....Footsteps in The Fog was brilliant.
Two great actors. I fell in love with Jean Simmons when she was in the film, Blue Lagoon, with Donald Huston. A beautiful lady.
Thank you so much for putting this on. I’ve been looking for it for ages. Wonderful, subtle and beautifully acted piece.
Always loved Ian Carmichael. A great british actor. He had a style that was distinctive. Always a scene stealer for me. Loved his expressions and he knew how to do it. He just had it...the it factor. One of the best of british. Glad he left us with much. This shows a sadder side to him.
He was a superb actor. Far more versatile than is sometimes realised.
I loved it! Still hope for romance in the autumn of life!
not in a caravan though so it seems
Oh, if only romance could be like this today for old people. So sad, at my stage of life (over 60) to watch men giving up all they’ve worked their entire lives for to be humiliated and tortured by young ladies who use them. Just because everything is about aggressive sex now. No one would ever want all that flopping around with some old woman, especially me.
Quaint, charming, and beautiful...thanks ever so much for uploading !!
Ian Carmichael - brilliant in all he did.
Regimen and not regime. Thanks for uploading; I do so love British movies and TV and this offering is no exception
If you like this, you will, I hope, love "Daisies in December" starring the incomparable Jean Simmons and the equally brilliant Joss Ackland.
Excellent movie...😊
Joan Sanderson gave a spot on performance as the control freak spinster; one she perfected over the many years of her varied and excellent acting career....
She was marvellous as Miss Yule in Please Sir!
She just had that control freak spinster manner and facial expressions!! Perfect🙂
Wasn't she also the demanding crabby guest in Fawlty Towers? (And she was also deaf). One of the funniest episodes.
@@soniavadnjal7553 “ Call that a Baaaaath! You couldn’t drown a rat in it! “ Fawlty Towers.
Nice simple and real. Thank you.❤
Thanks for posting. Wonderful talent
Wow. This was made in 83?? I was 12 when this came out. (53 now). I know the actors. The fashion & hairstyles make them look older. A nice gentle play. Going to get a cuppa & a sausage roll 😂
Thank you for uploading; it's abreathe of fresh air.
Checking into a country mansion estate: Wearing one's night attire in the dining room. Turning in the wireless, then reading a good book. Enjoying tiffing on the terrace prior to their massage. It's all part of the package at the hydro retreat. Those quality moments that soothe a troubled mind.
The chat in the pub at the end is brilliantly done. I can empathise but his pitch of a wandering life together in a caravan was not going to work on a woman used to fine living. She could not get out of the place quick enough.
You can be 12 years old or 70. You fall in love and fall flat on your face. But there are still sweet memories and you blush.
So true. 😅
Enjoyed that! Thanks for sharing
Wonderful actors
Two things bugged me about this: the way he wore socks with his dressing-gown - and how glibly she lied at the end. Two good actors, a treat to watch.
My Dad did the same thing-- I thought it ridiculous even as a child. This is why when I got my first job I got him and elegant floor-length tailored burgundy velour double-breasted dressing gown (suggesting an 18th century aristocrat ) to hide the shoes and socks. He looked SO elegant; my mother was delighted when he wore it to the breakfast table and afterward took coffee in his arm chair reading the newspaper. 🤗
She was being polite. And kind. Not "glib". Gave him/them, a way out. And she never pretended to be what he thought she was.
@@adrianjohnson7920 That was kind to both your parents.
You have to be good to pull-off a love scene wearing a dressing gown with no trousers but your black ankle socks on.
Im old enough now to laugh at that.
Ian Carmichael certainly was a handsome guy. Can’t get over how ancient the TV looks!
Mrs Richards. "You call that a bath! Not big enough to drown a mouse. It's disgraceful"
Fawlty Towers ❤
does she play any other type of character? same type exactly
C K Watt?
Thanks for the upload
The beautiful Jean Simmons........... Footsteps in The Fog.
He was lonely and didn't realise it. She wasn't and did. People are younger on the inside than they are outside and time is very cruel to our physical bodies.
I think he well realised that he was lonely, and made the mistake of thinking she was, too.
She was lonely in a dull marriage
@@michelez715 Yes, a bit sad, he felt all the torment of a much younger person
@@fkd1963 Yes but she valued it enough not to want to lose it so it can't have been too dull I suppose
@@claireseyeviewonredbubble It seems he was a good man and looked after her and they had been together a long time. It was a rational choice.
Living in Bayswater or Chelsea then typically meant you were cultured and very wealthy , today it typically means you are a Russian tycoon or Arab billionaire and beyond merely wealthy.
Very enjoyable
Reminds me of Brief encounter
A film that starts with such a decent car...
I'd love to go to a retreat like this without romance, at 61 it's just not my priority anymore!!
Doctor: "How about the waterworks...everything all right in that department?" Hilarious, the things that we once took for granted, the way some people in some positions got around ever speaking directly.
Nice building, and wow, that bridge....
As for the movie, the acting is great, the story a bit thin, variation on "Remains of the day". Or maybe I just don't like getting older myself, who knows...
If that was made today colour blind casting is more important than great actors.
It’s the BBC. They don’t make anything now where w. ytes aren’t outnumbered.
The masseuse could have taught Monty python something his hands sounded like the horses hooves almost but I hardly think they could carry bodies. So sticking with the coconuts was more portable, haha
Thankyou 🎉
Jean Simmons did this with Joss Ackland as well.
So sad 😞
I’ll always associate Joan Sanderson with Fawlty Towers. I’m sure I’m not alone. An expat watching in S Florida.
Three days in a health farm and he's in love ! What he doesn't know is he's in need of a good ........ And an intelligent woman with a good husband and two children doesn't want to live in a caravan ! Modern age they have a bonk and keep mum. 😀
The two leads died only a fortnight apart in 2010
yes thats a thought
Love british movies etc.
Wasn’t there a part one and a part two? Yesterday I watched one video that was part one and then I watched another video that was part two. Now I can’t find part one, and I wanted to share it with a friend who would enjoy it.
The whole programme is on this video
Cruel of Hunt to hide the chair so far.. Poor woman had to pull it back to where it was. So I was glad Simmons left him alone. Well deserved
it was indeed a schoolboyish prank
Well! I don't know which film came first, but I've just SEEN Jean Simmons getting a beau, then deciding she had to run off - in a taxi! Talk about plagiarism!
THE HOUSE IS VERY SCARY
Which house is it set in?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weston_Park
All those women!
❤
What is the point of all the guests being made to wear dressing gowns all day?
It's a psychological thing, to emphasise that they are there for medial reasons. Some have scheduled massages just before or after lunch.
So poignant.
Why are the men in suits and ties and the women in pajamas?
Only the English would think this is funny.
janiekcarney5482, Yes, British humour is notoriously weird!
But often laced with the reality of human life and loss..."funny" sometimes is the only way onward.
I was amused at the bathrobes, bare legs, socks, very high-heeled shoes, so many pink caftans...and the acting is So authentic.
It’s not meant to be funny!
Pretty slow stuff; no story arc at all. They meet, then go their separate ways.
What an absolute waste of time !! Weak storyline, weak acting, great if you are interested in ........ Nothing !!
Exactly
try Star Wars then
@@LPCLASSICAL ...or American 'comedy'.