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THE DALEKS' first foray onto the big screen was never destined to trouble the Oscar committee, but when their alien descendants finally prevail over planet Earth, this little jewel of a timepiece should provide a surprisingly fertile data source for mid-'60s Britain. Notably, that schoolteachers were acceptable objects of hero-worship for impressionable youngsters, and underfunded resourcefulness would prevail against the forces of totalitarian evil. | THE DALEKS' first foray onto the big screen was never destined to trouble the Oscar committee, but when their alien descendants finally prevail over planet Earth, this little jewel of a timepiece should provide a surprisingly fertile data source for mid-'60s Britain. Notably, that schoolteachers were acceptable objects of hero-worship for impressionable youngsters, and underfunded resourcefulness would prevail against the forces of totalitarian evil. | ||
| − | Thus, we gasp as courting staffroom couple Roy Castle and Jennie Linden (science and history respectively), armed with only a few BBC props, help batty old Peter Cushing and a precocious infant swot save proto-romos the | + | Thus, we gasp as courting staffroom couple Roy Castle and Jennie Linden (science and history respectively), armed with only a few BBC props, help batty old Peter Cushing and a precocious infant swot save proto-romos the Thals, ostensibly from the ever-unscary exterminating ones, but ultimately from themselves. |
| − | Fans of political allegory will recognise Dr Who And The Daleks as a 1965 anti-CND propaganda tract, wherein the peacenik | + | Fans of political allegory will recognise Dr Who And The Daleks as a 1965 anti-CND propaganda tract, wherein the peacenik Thals are shown by the good Doctor and pals that there comes a time when freedom must be fought for - that's how England biffed the Bosch, after all. And when faced by Castle and his stiff upper-lip, the Daleks are found wanting in the vorsprung durch atomik bomb department They would soon hire Davros and make a substantially more entertaining fight of it, while Cushing wisely returned to his ketchup-splattered heartland. |
Now reissued with its original trailer, this film stretches even Mike Flowers' definition of "good, clean fun'. 6 | Now reissued with its original trailer, this film stretches even Mike Flowers' definition of "good, clean fun'. 6 | ||
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