HW:Damnation Alley film on BBC tonight

Tigger Tigger at PUDDYTAT.FSNET.CO.UK
Sat Feb 17 21:20:54 EST 2001


In article <5.0.2.1.0.20010218022216.009f4ec0 at kommsrv.rz.unibw-
muenchen.de>, Denis Regenbrecht <denis.regenbrecht at UNIBW-MUENCHEN.DE>
writes
>Hi,
>
>>I don't know, but I say, save yer time, skip the movie, and read the book
>>instead!
>
>ACK, you're totally right, the book's many times better.
>
>BTW: The first time I watched this flick I wasn't well versed in Hawklore
>(that was years ago mind you). I only knew that both the Quark-album and DA
>were released in 1977. I thought that this couldn't be coicidental and thus
>was waiting for some HW-tunes to show up the whole time the movie was
>playing. When the end-titles began I couldn't believe that there was not
>even one HW-song in the whole thing. ;-)

The only similarity between the film and the book/song seems to have
been the title.

--
David Blair



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