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Sorry for the camera lighting I'm over my dads house. Anyways here's another phobia called Thalassoharpoxophobia (fear of pirates). In his level there are crashed and sunken ships everywhere on a isolated island full of rapscallion enemies. When he is still a phobia he is a pretty greedy bastard (who wants his host child to forever remain his loot). When he reforms he takes the name Davy Jones (who is still a greedy bastard who wants loot). In dreamscape he owns a trade shop were you can trade special items he ask for for special items that will help you in new phobia levels. Also his reformed personality is just like Jack Sparrow ,so there's a bonus. ----------------------- I don't own night terror rebornica does so there I however own Thalassoharpoxophobia so don't steal.
DAVY (Dir: Michael Ralph, 1958).
Notable as the first British film shot in Technirama and featuring a lovely muted Technicolor palette, Davy is often regarded as the final Ealing comedy. In truth this is a bit of a misnomer. A better description of Davy would be a comedy drama which happened to be released by the Ealing Studios, as it has little of the characteristics associated with Ealing and the comedy is some rather heavy handed slapstick.
Harry Secombe stars as the titular Davy, the only real talented member of a family vaudeville act. When he is given the chance to audition for Covent Garden’s Royal Opera House he must decide whether to keep the act together or go it alone.
Much of the comedy in Davy is confined to sequences of the family’s act and is not really part of the narrative. The remainder of the film is somewhat downbeat in tone and not really a comedy at all.
Secombe and his beautiful singing voice are undoubtedly the film’s strong suit and one feels that with a better showcase for his talents he could have carved out a successful film career. As it is, Davy was seen as a critical and commercial disappointment. However Davy is by no means a bad film. If you watch it expecting an Ealing comedy you will be disappointed; if you approach it as a low-key drama with musical interludes there is much to enjoy.
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BARNACLE BILL aka ALL AT SEA (Dir: Charles Frend, 1957).
The last true Ealing comedy; 1958’s Davy, often regarded as the last, is a comedy/drama quite different in tone. Barnacle Bill, retitled All at Sea for US audiences, adheres to the ‘little guy against the system’ aesthetics of the classic Ealing comedy, although less subversively and with a little less bite than earlier films.
The marvellous Alec Guinness is on good form as Captain William Horacio Ambrose, the last in a succession of seafarers. Afflicted with seasickness, Capt Ambrose purchases a dilapidated seaside pier which he runs as a stationary luxury liner to the chagrin of the town council who wish to bulldoze the site to make way for a marina. A scene in which Guinness portrays his ancestors recalls Kind Hearts and Coronets (Robert Hamer, 1949) where he plays all 8 members of the D’Ascoyne family.
To be honest, Barnacle Bill is not as good as earlier Ealing comedies, despite its screenplay by TEB Clarke, scenarist of previous winners Passport to Pimlico (Henry Cornelius, 1949) and The Lavender Hill Mob (Charles Crichton, 1951). Perhaps director Charles Frend, an Ealing stalwart notable for Scott of the Antarctic (1948) and The Cruel Sea (1953) was better suited to drama than comedy. That said, it is not at all bad and as an example of a brand of comedy that cinema no longer produces it should be considered a minor treasure.
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