Sim Card

Still smarting from the suggestion from this bloke on an aforementioned socialist discussion forum that blogging is little more than vanity publishing, it's nice to link to a proper article written by a blogger, Michael Brooke, who blogs regularly at Mischievous Constructions.

I can't kid on that I'm a regular reader of Sight & Sound. If memory serves me right, I've only bought it the once, and that was only because Gong Li was on the front cover but if the articles are regularly up to the quality of Michael's piece on Alistair Sim then I will have to start sending out begging letters to rich relatives, asking for a subscription to it for my forthcoming birthday.

I always loved the old Sim films, especially Scrooge and Green For Danger, but I would love to see the film Climbing High where, according to Brooke, Sim does a comic turn as a disaffected communist. From what info I can glean about the film from the internet, it doesn't seem to be considered a great film by any means, but what with it being directed by Carol Reed and also starring Michael Redgrave and Jesse Matthews, it must definitely be a curio.