Sunday So Soon!,

on a personal note, 

my back is a lot better, still not 100%, but I can now at least sleep for 3 or 4 hours without being woken up by any pain, walking is now a lot easier too, on to Sunday, a read and a sherry, 

then let the turkey curries commence!

'Cheers!',

for dessert,

sticky toffee pudding, with cream, 

after that we decided on a film fest, Diana choose every one of them, all of which we had seen before, all well worth watching again, firstly in the afternoon we watched Bad day at Black Rock,

 followed by The Abominable Dr. Phibes, both Diana and myself enjoyed the comedy/horror so much when we watched it before we decided to watch it again, released in 1971, it does show it's age a tad, but great fun, below the plot from one reviewer on IMDB, 

'Vincent Price plays a "dead" man avenging the surgical team that lost his wife on the operating table. Nine doctors in all (one of them a nurse) are treated to nine of the most innovative, creative, outlandish deaths imaginable. The deaths loosely follow the Ten Plagues of the Old Testament, but each with a new twist. The film is an exercise in witty, stylish black comedy seldom seen today. Price gives one of his best performances in a role that barely utilizes his greatest attribute, his voice. Price relies heavily on movement and facial expressions, and does so wonderfully. The cast is superb with British stalwarts adorning the film all over. This film rejuvenated Price's career in the 70's. It is unique, poetic, haunting, and, for me the most important, very amusing. If you lack a sense of humour with regards to the world of the macabre, you might want to stay away from Phibes. It is a very dark, black comedy, yet one that is at its heart nothing more than a tragic love story of sorts'.

some of the sets especially Dr. Phibes home are so Art Deco, a style that we really like, if you have time and have not watched it before it is a great look at the 1970s horror movie scene, 

 in the evening a real favorite, Casablanca, great film we both thoroughly enjoyed, even though as I mentioned we had watched it before, 

we rounded off the evening with Some Like It Hot, and we were so fortunate, on the DVD we have there is an in depth interview with Tony Curtis and the surviving girls that made up the band, Sweet Sue Society Syncopators, an all-female band that appears in the film, and here is some trivia about the film, Marilyn Monroe required 47 takes to get "It's me, Sugar" correct, instead saying either "Sugar, it's me" or "It's Sugar, me". After take 30, Billy Wilder had the line written on a blackboard. Another scene required Monroe to rummage through some drawers and say "Where's the bourbon?" After 40 takes of her saying "Where's the whiskey?", 'Where's the bottle?", or "Where's the bonbon?", Wilder pasted the correct line in one of the drawers. After Monroe became confused about which drawer contained the line, Wilder had it pasted in every drawer. Fifty-nine takes were required for this scene and when she finally does say it, she has her back to the camera, leading some to wonder if Wilder finally gave up and had it dubbed, but what a great and funny film, and after the end of that film fest we were off to bed.