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  • Опубліковано 31 лип 2023
  • Four Star Playhouse Season 1 Episode 9
    Stars: David Niven, Lowell Gilmore, Rhys Williams
    Director: Robert Florey
    A man encounters an old acquaintance on a train traveling with a large sum of money. He later learns that the man had disappeared four months earlier after embezzling the cash from the train company.

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  • @Southern-author
    @Southern-author Рік тому +199

    Just imagine telling a great story without people screaming at each other; no gun shots; and no car chases. I guess good writers do not need those fake action crutches.

    • @barbarakay6614
      @barbarakay6614 Рік тому

      💖 ~ 🎯 Sadly, Hollywood is overrun with bad writers, actors, directors, & producers ... & they DO need those fake action crutches & all the rest that they contaminate the silver screen with, which is why I stopped going to cinema movies a long time ago; along with China's BlueSuitz' involvement. Nothing compares to these cool black & whites.
      👍✌🤙
      💜 ✝️ 💜
      👊 🇺🇸 ⚖
      If you wish for peace, prepare for war. 💖

    • @Brutus-co9dt
      @Brutus-co9dt Рік тому +29

      Yep. When dialogue mattered.

    • @corneilcorneil
      @corneilcorneil Рік тому +29

      No phones, no drugs, polite language, well dressed, ...

    • @elliebellie7816
      @elliebellie7816 11 місяців тому +25

      Or gratuitous sex, vulgar language

    • @judemorales4U
      @judemorales4U 11 місяців тому +22

      Yes, suspenseful little plot. I appreciate these older films❤

  • @42kellys
    @42kellys 9 місяців тому +10

    I just have always loved David Niven. If I see a film and he is in it I watch it. Never disappointed.

  • @arslongavitabrevis5136
    @arslongavitabrevis5136 11 місяців тому +41

    For all the admirers of David Niven I would recommend "Separate Tables" (1958). In that film he gave his finest performance, for which he was deservedly awarded an Oscar. As the English used to say "he was a wonderful chap". RIP, David and thanks for the memories.

    • @BrianRPaterson
      @BrianRPaterson 11 місяців тому +3

      Separate Tables was wonderful.

    • @arslongavitabrevis5136
      @arslongavitabrevis5136 11 місяців тому +2

      @@BrianRPaterson That's right Brian. Even the musical theme ("Separate Tales") sung by the great Vic Damone is magnificent. I consider it one of the 10 finest films ever made.

    • @angloaust1575
      @angloaust1575 2 місяці тому

      Charming and handsome
      Sad his wife died playing
      Foolish games with lights
      Off!

  • @darrensmith6999
    @darrensmith6999 Рік тому +49

    I think the world is a little emptier with out David Niven.
    Good Night David.

  • @PumaLyn
    @PumaLyn 11 місяців тому +15

    Perfect English, decently dressed actors and actress, no profanity and yet, captivating.

  • @paulmorris5166
    @paulmorris5166 Рік тому +127

    This was a really great episode. David Niven, not just a class actor but a real life war hero.

    • @dougaldouglas8842
      @dougaldouglas8842 Рік тому +7

      He was indeed a war hero, as millions of others were.

    • @scronx
      @scronx 11 місяців тому +1

      What do you mean a war hero?

    • @Eye_Witness
      @Eye_Witness 11 місяців тому

      @@scronx You could always google it, I suppose.

    • @scronx
      @scronx 11 місяців тому +1

      @justthink5854I have -- they're frivolous.

    • @cajsheen2594
      @cajsheen2594 11 місяців тому

      He was a wonderful raconteur, but sadly most of his anecdotes were fiction. Where is he mentioned anywhere as a War hero except in his own book and interviews. One episode he related was a scene from an old film with, if I remember rightly, featuring Tommy Trinder innever had very much at all to do with Trubshaw after the war, yet maintained he always managed to find him work. He tells two different tales of losing his virginity! I could go on

  • @robertfarrow5853
    @robertfarrow5853 11 місяців тому +21

    His autobiographies are laugh til you cry and weep at the sadness. The Moons a Balloon and Bring on the Empty Horses. They read as smooth as his charm, wit and humour.

  • @tomhaskett5161
    @tomhaskett5161 11 місяців тому +29

    When 4 Star TV started, it was a brave step for the founders Niven, Powell, Lupino and Boyer. It was defying the power of the movie studios, who wanted to stop TV from getting traction.

  • @Honemmon
    @Honemmon Рік тому +27

    David Niven, great actor, and a lovely gentleman

  • @waterbourne9282
    @waterbourne9282 11 місяців тому +39

    David Niven, always a class act.

  • @jkardez4794
    @jkardez4794 11 місяців тому +47

    I really wish there were more helpful ghosts like these ; a great many more mysteries would be solved in our world. David Niven had that unique look that projected a feeling of being helpful and helpless at the same time . Loved it.

    • @ajivins1
      @ajivins1 11 місяців тому

      Marty Hopkirk was the best.

    • @billybob9961
      @billybob9961 11 місяців тому

      Yes me too

  • @ara8253
    @ara8253 Рік тому +7

    Really good. I've never seen it before in my 71 years. ❤

  • @michelleleigh2895
    @michelleleigh2895 Рік тому +8

    I miss and adore old black and white movies.
    Thankyou ❤❤❤

  • @prodigal1970
    @prodigal1970 Рік тому +47

    pretty awesome performance, great quality classic with David Niven.

  • @NoosaHeads
    @NoosaHeads Рік тому +48

    Everything - absolutely everything - with David Niven is always worth watching.
    Check out "A matter of life and death" aka "Stairway to Heaven." Superb movie... (made in the 1940s but you'd swear it was much more recent than that).

    • @JehanineMelmoth
      @JehanineMelmoth 11 місяців тому +3

      One of my top three films!

    • @NoosaHeads
      @NoosaHeads 11 місяців тому +4

      @@JehanineMelmoth Great minds think alike...

  • @binduzutshi2874
    @binduzutshi2874 Рік тому +8

    I thoroughly enjoyed seeing this TV film. They don't make like that anymore.

  • @bobadkins7377
    @bobadkins7377 Рік тому +17

    Well that was an interesting diversion for a Sunday afternoon. David Niven, always the consummate British gentleman.

  • @lilliankeane5731
    @lilliankeane5731 Рік тому +15

    David Niven class actor, I enjoyed that movie!

  • @liamegan4303
    @liamegan4303 Рік тому +18

    David Niven. Class Act. At his very best 😅

  • @Booker830
    @Booker830 11 місяців тому +3

    Niven top shelf .

  • @sharpear1031
    @sharpear1031 11 місяців тому +4

    A realgood filmed story. David Niven really controls the tone and mood. He knew how to speak in a way that kept matters light, yet dramatic.

  • @JehanineMelmoth
    @JehanineMelmoth Рік тому +21

    Always lovely to see David Niven! Many thanks.

  • @petehall889
    @petehall889 Рік тому +49

    Thank you for screening this episode. Great to see David Niven in his prime - a wonderful actor of his time! He very much reminds me of my father, both of whom are much missed.

    • @myriaddsystems
      @myriaddsystems Рік тому +7

      Very fortunate to have a father anything like David Niven, he was such a gentleman

    • @petehall889
      @petehall889 Рік тому +5

      @@myriaddsystems Indeed, he was a jolly decent chap.

  • @mpgchgo
    @mpgchgo Рік тому +24

    Enjoyed seeing David Niven again, Alan Napier TV's "Alfred the Butler" from Batman (1966) was a bonus!

    • @stephenvanwoert2447
      @stephenvanwoert2447 Рік тому +3

      Alan Napier also appeared in some Alfred Hitchcock Presents tv episodes in the 1950's.

    • @craigkdillon
      @craigkdillon Рік тому +3

      Thanks. I was trying to remember that face.
      I was thinking Michael Rennie, but I knew that was wrong.
      Alan Napier, of course.

  • @melmack2003
    @melmack2003 11 місяців тому +6

    I adored David Niven.

  • @ramonasp4989
    @ramonasp4989 11 місяців тому +2

    Thank You, I enjoyed this very much ! I love the old times when blood and guts were not thrown all over the screen or filth, to tell the story, just Great actors and actresses!

  • @Paladin1873
    @Paladin1873 11 місяців тому +3

    When television still contained style and class.

  • @felicitysummers9140
    @felicitysummers9140 11 місяців тому +2

    Well those were the days, David Niven a great actor, when there were decent movies. Really enjoyed.

  • @yevonnehorn6196
    @yevonnehorn6196 Рік тому +12

    David Niven. Thank you for this movie. Enjoyed it.

  • @ednammansfield8553
    @ednammansfield8553 11 місяців тому +7

    I really enjoyed this video which I have never seen before with the great David Niven one of my favourite actors. Thanks for sharing this.

  • @addie_is_me
    @addie_is_me Рік тому +7

    David Niven, what a treat. TY

  • @josephineramirez2826
    @josephineramirez2826 11 місяців тому +2

    I ❤him in Around The In 🌎80 Days.

  • @rosemariemann1719
    @rosemariemann1719 11 місяців тому +2

    Glad to find this by
    chance. David Niven
    was always good.
    When this was new,
    my older brother was
    7, I was 5, and younger
    brother was 1...😊
    Coronation year of
    our late lamented
    Q.E. ll.🇬🇧.
    🇬🇧😊🥀🚂💕🌿👍🇬🇧

  • @Ripplin
    @Ripplin Рік тому +5

    Such a fun, quirky performance by Alan Napier!

  • @kimba381
    @kimba381 Рік тому +9

    I want more of that.
    Love David Niven

  • @markvines7308
    @markvines7308 Рік тому +11

    I've listened to this story many times on audiobook channels, it was great to actually watch it on the screen.

  • @user-kl6rq2sy7n
    @user-kl6rq2sy7n 11 місяців тому +2

    Very simple way in which the movie is well made

  • @johngreen3543
    @johngreen3543 Рік тому +8

    Another very good David Niven performance in a 4 star playhouse is series 1 episode 13
    The episode is called "No Identity".

    • @looloo4029
      @looloo4029 11 місяців тому

      Thank you for that information. I will do some research about the program. 😊

  • @mannyj4751
    @mannyj4751 7 місяців тому

    Great episode. I was 1 year old in 1953...so I guess I missed the original airing! Lol...we didn't have TV until many years later.

  • @JohnHill-qo3hb
    @JohnHill-qo3hb 11 місяців тому +3

    One of my favorite British actors.

  • @Prof.Tarfeather
    @Prof.Tarfeather Рік тому +6

    Two of the Greats, David Niven and Alan Napier!
    A good story ...You never know? Some people have the minds eye to pick up on certain energies?

  • @judyledbetter3915
    @judyledbetter3915 Рік тому +7

    Thank You PizzaFlix.🌹
    Really Good.
    God Bless.❤️🙌

  • @rogerrendzak8055
    @rogerrendzak8055 9 місяців тому +3

    That went from, a crime drama, to a fantasy thriller, in a heartbeat💓!! Wasn't expecting that, at ALL!! Always enjoyed David's personality, and acting. Never heard of this television program, before either. Thank you😁!!

  • @michellegulden1052
    @michellegulden1052 9 місяців тому +2

    I noticed some of these. I look for things like this in movies and t.v. Not for negative feelings, just is further entertaining.

  • @ChristineRobinette-ue2mj
    @ChristineRobinette-ue2mj Рік тому +8

    Thank you. For this..👍

  • @RetiredSchoolCook
    @RetiredSchoolCook Рік тому +4

    🍕🍕Thank you , PF .🍕David Niven , a great talent .❤👍🍕🍕🍕

  • @margaretgaal937
    @margaretgaal937 11 місяців тому +1

    Brought to you by the Singer Sewing Machine company. Sounds sweet. Sewing machine was a fantastic standard for woman sewing at home.

    • @looloo4029
      @looloo4029 11 місяців тому

      I still sew 🧵 on a Singer 306K. Scottish made, an absolute workhorse. It was built in September 1959, making it 64 years old in a few days. Puts modern machines to shame.

  • @Firebrand55
    @Firebrand55 Рік тому +3

    Tall, dapper, suave, controlled, great author......it was men like David Niven what really won the War!

  • @katayounahoo4016
    @katayounahoo4016 11 місяців тому +2

    I loveed Hollywood in that era.

  • @misfit2022
    @misfit2022 5 місяців тому +2

    An enjoyable little short with David Niven and Alan Napier now famous for playing Alfred from Batman but had many screen credits before this and also a few afterwards.

  • @buzsalmon
    @buzsalmon Рік тому +9

    ANOTHER GREAT ONE! THANKS PIZZA FLIX!!

  • @janicebrowningaquino792
    @janicebrowningaquino792 11 місяців тому +2

    Wasn’t this absolutely DELIGHTFUL?!?!

  • @emf49
    @emf49 Рік тому +4

    Very intriguing story. Thank you for sharing. :)

  • @2011littlejohn1
    @2011littlejohn1 10 місяців тому +1

    An unexpected gem - David Niven was so good. I miss him a lot.

  • @kiviuq1552
    @kiviuq1552 Рік тому +15

    Oh, this was good! I hope there’ll be more episodes. Thank you.

  • @joannasimmonds3706
    @joannasimmonds3706 10 місяців тому +1

    Marvelous, thank you

  • @Sealight007
    @Sealight007 Рік тому +2

    PizzaFlix, this was a fun one to slip in. Great acting. And the twist and the only plausible explanation was the ghost.

  • @brynleytalbot778
    @brynleytalbot778 11 місяців тому +1

    A simple story from a much gentler age, though the class divides are far more noticeable after decades of social change.

  • @lorismith4368
    @lorismith4368 Рік тому +16

    When they don’t spend half of the time doing all the blood, sex and gore, they can really develop their characters.

  • @suebradford890
    @suebradford890 11 місяців тому +2

    David Niven always cut such an English gentlemanly figure! One mini-criticism: we in Britain don't call our railways "railroads" - they're railways. However, I enjoyed watching this.

  • @pamczech5984
    @pamczech5984 11 місяців тому +1

    I have several David niven movies wish I had this one

  • @jenniferlevine5406
    @jenniferlevine5406 11 місяців тому +3

    Great story! Thanks for providing this for us to watch!

  • @cdmc965
    @cdmc965 10 місяців тому +1

    So good,thank you

  • @CyberDocUSA
    @CyberDocUSA Рік тому +10

    @12:26 perhaps the funniest line in the flick: _Why, come to think of it, Grace, my secretary, has a grey beard._ 🤣

    • @davidallen1418
      @davidallen1418 Рік тому +6

      Back then most secretary's were male, Grace would of been his surname.

    • @rexharrison6827
      @rexharrison6827 Рік тому +3

      That fits perfectly into today's "gender fluid" society! 😆

    • @nildesperandum3
      @nildesperandum3 11 місяців тому +2

      Raikes, not Grace...

  • @FlaminpieSpain
    @FlaminpieSpain 11 місяців тому +1

    Very good thanks

  • @kathycurtis9686
    @kathycurtis9686 11 місяців тому +2

    Simply adored him.

  • @JoFunnyOnion
    @JoFunnyOnion 3 місяці тому

    Very enjoyable, thank you.

  • @marciawade8813
    @marciawade8813 11 місяців тому +1

    Niven's autobiography was one the most entertaining ones I've read.

  • @davidarundel6187
    @davidarundel6187 Рік тому +2

    Ahh , unbeleivers , what would we do without them .
    Singer , a name not seen for years , but in the family home from treddle machine , 1st modle knee bar operated , rather than foot peddle , to two later models , all still going strong .
    "The man on the tràin " , a geeat story , one woth retelling often - such a long time since compartment seating has been seen on English rail .

  • @cliftonjarvis8010
    @cliftonjarvis8010 11 місяців тому +1

    One of the first actors as a kid I could remember

  • @barbarakay6614
    @barbarakay6614 Рік тому +3

    22:11 ☆ 💖 ~ Wowwwww ... was NOT expecting this!!! LUV being surprised like this. Figured him & his boss were gaslighting David Niven's character back in the office. Don't believe in ghosts - but this was a jolly good ride!!! TY🍕
    👍✌🤙
    💜 ✝️ 💜
    👊 🇺🇸 ⚖
    If you wish for peace, prepare for war. 💖

  • @charlottezgoda3248
    @charlottezgoda3248 Місяць тому

    ❤love this David is great

  • @piditte2535
    @piditte2535 11 місяців тому +4

    Lo mejor que he visto hace tiempo.Gracias por subirlo!

  • @jeffanderson8678
    @jeffanderson8678 Рік тому +2

    Brilliant ghost story

  • @jamesl9371
    @jamesl9371 11 місяців тому +2

    Great story. It was a ghost

  • @Julietta-zv9db
    @Julietta-zv9db 11 місяців тому +1

    Great entertainment movie

  • @CounterfeitChristianityCanada
    @CounterfeitChristianityCanada Рік тому +2

    That was tremendous!

  • @alejandrayalanbowman367
    @alejandrayalanbowman367 Рік тому +5

    On a British train, he is not a conductor but the guard.

  • @deegeraghty9426
    @deegeraghty9426 11 місяців тому +1

    Brilliant. Thank you 😊

  • @janetmackinnon3411
    @janetmackinnon3411 11 місяців тому +1

    Entertaing. Thank you.

  • @tmo.48
    @tmo.48 Рік тому +2

    Delightful ❤

  • @TigerDominic-uh1dv
    @TigerDominic-uh1dv 11 місяців тому +1

    Good Movie ❤

  • @lechat8533
    @lechat8533 11 місяців тому +1

    This was great. Short but sweet :)
    Thank you for sharing!

  • @judikingsman6132
    @judikingsman6132 11 місяців тому +1

    This is the year in which I was born 🎉

  • @BrittMFH
    @BrittMFH 11 місяців тому +1

    So good. Thank you! 😊👍

  • @josecancela8579
    @josecancela8579 Рік тому +3

    Great story. Thanks!

  • @judikingsman6132
    @judikingsman6132 11 місяців тому +2

    Marvellous 😁❤

  • @david5128
    @david5128 11 місяців тому +2

    I remember when Gregory Peck on the movie guns of navarone that he threatened to shoot oh David Niven!!!!!

  • @paulrigby6545
    @paulrigby6545 11 місяців тому +1

    Based upon Amelia B Edwards' Four Fifteen Express, one of a number of excellent ghost stories she created.

  • @corneilcorneil
    @corneilcorneil Рік тому +1

    Thank you! ❤

  • @yolainesene8691
    @yolainesene8691 11 місяців тому +1

    Merci

  • @stephenperretti8847
    @stephenperretti8847 11 місяців тому +2

    I remember this program. The other stars were ida kuoino, dick Powell and Charles boyer.

  • @chriscoughlan5221
    @chriscoughlan5221 11 місяців тому +1

    great story, nice twist at the end!!

  • @MsBackstager
    @MsBackstager Рік тому +3

    DN was also so very debonair.

  • @brendakrieger7000
    @brendakrieger7000 Рік тому +2

    Thanks for sharing! Subscribed😊🎬

  • @billybob9961
    @billybob9961 11 місяців тому +1

    That was great thank you!!

  • @bsastarfire250
    @bsastarfire250 11 місяців тому

    What a great short tale !

  • @StevenBanks123
    @StevenBanks123 11 місяців тому +1

    The director to Niven: “Bug your eyes. That’s right, and again please … and again.”
    But what a fun little story!

  • @big566bunny
    @big566bunny Рік тому +8

    An intriguing episode. A bit of Twilight Zone in it. If this is typical of English TV of 1953. I’m all for it. A compelling story on a limited production budget. Shows you can’t substitute money for talent. Current English broadcasting is pathetic in comparison.

    • @coopdivi
      @coopdivi Рік тому +5

      It's not English tv at all. It's an American production aimed at an American audience, with a typical Hollywood slant on how they thought the Brits of that time looked, talked and lived. There are many glaring errors, not the least of which is that the British railway system was nationalised in 1948 and became British Railways -- thus there were no private main rail lines or extensions therefrom at that time.

    • @robertwalker5521
      @robertwalker5521 Рік тому

      @@coopdivi
      You'd be fun to sit with in a pub/tavern and
      drink/chat all afternoon.

    • @coopdivi
      @coopdivi 11 місяців тому +2

      @@robertwalker5521 Yeah, ok, so I was a bit ticked off when I wrote that because of all the obvious mistakes from an ex-Brit's point of view. If you're going to set a tv play in Britain, at least make some effort to make it *feel* like Britain. I would have thought that David Niven of all people would have had a word with the producer and/or writer about it.

  • @jean6872
    @jean6872 11 місяців тому +4

    *There must be very few unsolved crimes in England with a police force like Scotland Yard.*