favourite film, agricultural related

[farmer james]

The Field, starring Richard Harris I remember as being a very powerful film based around farming in Ireland, although to be fair it is now 20 odd years since I saw it,
FJ

 

[JWL]

Back in the 1980's the BBC used to run a schools telly programme which was broadcast in the morning and used to be part of lessons, this had been running for sometime by then as I can remember sitting down in primary school with the blinds down and a damned great telly wheeled into the classroom to watch how things were made, the running of the railways or what happens inside an ironworks and the like.
when I first started work on a farm just outside Stratford on Avon the BBC came out at different times of the year and filmed what jobs were going on at the time and I ended up being filmed a couple of times, moving the electric fence forward on the silage clamp, mowing grass for silage, bedding the beef cattle and other odd jobs.
I've come across these programmes a couple of times many years ago but cannot find any trace of them now but we are talking near enough 40 years ago, even so they were honest windows into what was happening at the time.

 

[Friesianfan]

The lie of the land? Amusing

 

[Kevtherev]

The land girls
Got Rachel weisz in it

 

[Kevtherev]

 

[Pasty]

Braveheart.

Wallace was a farmer (of sorts)

TSS

ps please, don’t any of you get political - it’s just a movie

 

[Red Fred]

I used to take the cows out for filming and it paid well for not much effort.One show was The Brittas Empire, where the cow had to wander into the leisure centre and "give birth" in the squash court. The old Land Rover and trailer also featured in that one although comedy actor Derek Benfield played the farmer. "Dawn the cow" still has her own page on the IMDB.
She also starred in 2.4 Children, when the hubby and wife were smooching in a forest car park and the cow put her head in the window. We had to stick cow nuts inside the door by the mirror, but she did it.

 

[Red Fred]

How about 4 Weddings and a Funeral- complete with Nuffield 4/65 in the background.?

 

[AvonValleyFarmer]

I am not even embarrassed to say it

 

[Goweresque]

Footloose, with what has to be the best way to settle the perennial 'Which tractor make is the best' argument - a game of chicken:

A Deere beats a Massey apparently....

 

[ThatsSomeSheep]

How about 4 Weddings and a Funeral- complete with Nuffield 4/65 in the background.?
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And also starring - in the opening scene - a copy of Farmers Weekly.

TSS

 

[Red Fred]

Another Nuffield down in Dr Evil's cave. (You only live twice)

 

[Old Boar]

Glad you liked Far from the Madding @Red Fred - next time you watch it, look out for a younger version of me! I fell madly for Terence Stamp when I bumped into him coming out of the pie shop in Devizes.

Who was the old boy who used to show country life and skills, he sat in his shed and talked slowly? Name is escaping me.

 

[Red Fred]

Glad you liked Far from the Madding @Red Fred - next time you watch it, look out for a younger version of me! I fell madly for Terence Stamp when I bumped into him coming out of the pie shop in Devizes.

Who was the old boy who used to show country life and skills, he sat in his shed and talked slowly? Name is escaping me.

Jack Hargreaves? He did Out of Town and How?

Where are you in the film? We have it on dvd and will keep an eye out.

 

[Robt]

Against the grain... Oliver Walston... amazing man and father and clear influence of his son, another very good man

 

[Old Boar]

YES! Thank you!
The crowd scene in Devizes, with a little roan mare called Dudu.

 

[bovrill]

I put this as a thread a couple of weeks ago,

We watched this film as six year olds at primary school.

 

[Robigus]

Glad you liked Far from the Madding @Red Fred - next time you watch it, look out for a younger version of me! I fell madly for Terence Stamp when I bumped into him coming out of the pie shop in Devizes.

Who was the old boy who used to show country life and skills, he sat in his shed and talked slowly? Name is escaping me.

I was just thumbing through the thread to tag you in but you beat me to it.

 

[DeeGee]

Unforgiven. Clint Eastwood leaves the pigs with the kids and goes to do what he does best.

Do you mean he went back into dairy farming again?

 

[Dead Rabbits]

Bitter Harvest 1981, sadly based on a true story. Hell of a movie though