pedanther

Well done on your rereading/blogging project! It sounds pretty impressive.

5. *looks slightly sheepish*

I was amused to note, when I opened the parcel, that despite having been in only two episodes Anthony Head is on the cover for Enemy at the Door more often than some of the regular cast.

Network are really good about telling you when famous people are in old TV things, even sometimes when they're only in it for five minutes and they're completely ignoring who the actual guest stars are. At least with Enemy, everyone pictured on the cover is at least a major guest star and Anthony Head is a particularly significant character in 2 eps.

Strangely enough, one of the two things I ordered this time (for free postage! I feel bad about you having postage costs, but then the world is quite large and I suppose it can't be helped) was The Beiderbecke Trilogy. I haven't watched it yet, but it does look good - and Network seem to have made a real effort with the boxset. I think aralias recommended Children of the Stones to me - I have it sitting on my Amazon wishlist but it's stayed there. (It has such a sad lack of certain actors.)

I feel kind of bad about Enemy at the Door - I love it to pieces, but if it was a modern thing, I would just huddle together with the few other people who loved it and not bother people, but because I went and watched a really old thing and loved it, I have to oppress people in order to try and have company. However, while I can't promise you'll like it, I think it's fair to say that it is genuinely good. I think it's flown under the radar because it's WWII but atypical WWII (and of course, lacking the relatively young male casts of the more soldierly things). But maybe I was just accidentally dazzled by Alfred Burke's face, despite his growing a beard for the sake of humanity.