Mad authoritarian government organises an international football tournament in the hope of scoring a propaganda coup: yes, we're watching Escape to Victory!
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The same employers who witter on about young people lacking the basic social skills, see nothing wrong with not bothering to tell job applicants that they have not been successful.
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Imagine seeing that cold: Is that Stallone? In a football team posed photo? Is that Michael Caine next to Pele? Are they... being guarded by Nazis? It's all questions you'd want answered.
It's a genuinely terrible film, but it's a genuinely terrible John Huston film and I always well up when the crowd start singing the Marseillaise. Sod Casablanca!
Great pod, disagreed on just one thing: you *could* pin down a superstar footballer for a modern remake - simply by explaining that they'd be taking Pele's old role. Good luck replacing Laurie Sivell though