Mancunian Man: The Legendary Life Of Cliff Twemlow | movie | 2023 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

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00:00 Who are you? What's your name?

00:03 I'd never heard of him before.

00:07 No Cliff, I didn't know who he was. I knew nothing.

00:12 The guy could do everything.

00:13 A polymath, musician, screenwriter, actor, athlete, bodybuilder,

00:19 pulp fiction novelist. Anything he sets his mind to do, he'd go off and do it.

00:24 He had this driving creativity, nothing could stop him.

00:27 You couldn't help but like him.

00:28 And I'm going to be where the action is.

00:30 Cliff Tremlow was a nightclub bouncer.

00:33 Who do you expect? Charles Bronson?

00:35 He was a head doorman, very humble.

00:37 If there was any trouble he could certainly take care of it, I think.

00:40 And he wrote a kind of bouncer's philosophy called Tuxedo Warrior.

00:45 Somebody suggested it would make a good film.

00:47 And they asked Cliff if he wanted to go along for the ride.

00:50 After he did Tuxedo Warrior, he wanted to do films his own way.

00:54 Cliff realised that there was a fabulous potential market for VHS.

00:59 Why not shoot it on video? It's a real big innovation.

01:03 Cliff's ambition was really to make Manchester the Hollywood of the North.

01:07 Okay, let's do it.

01:09 It was a very interesting story of a kind of mini film industry

01:14 that existed for roughly a ten year period.

01:17 It was all about trying to make a film with no money.

01:20 Yes, that's right.

01:21 Action!

01:23 It was utter chaos.

01:25 I don't think anyone really knew what they were doing.

01:29 It was fun times.

01:30 He did what everybody would want to do during the 80s.

01:33 It was wild.

01:37 Blood for the screaming.

01:40 I had no idea I was involved in a video master.

01:43 No.

01:44 On one of the fight scenes, the cameraman got stabbed in the hand.

01:47 Setback after setback.

01:49 A deadly pike in a lake in the north of England.

01:52 The pike didn't work.

01:53 This damn fish.

01:55 It broke down.

01:56 Then it got worse and worse.

01:58 I'm talking like, Kray-style gangsters.

02:00 A lot of guys with guns.

02:02 They basically arrested us.

02:04 They lost all the money for the film overnight.

02:06 So there's always a cycle of boom and bust in Cliff's life.

02:10 The films are the greatest type of exploitation film.

02:14 You laugh at them.

02:15 You laugh with them.

02:17 You laugh with them.

02:19 But they're also entertaining.

02:21 They're brilliant.

02:22 You couldn't get more larger than Life's done for Cliff Trenwell.

02:25 Guy was a legend.

02:27 The Orson Welles of sulphur.

02:29 I didn't know.

02:35 I hadn't got a clue.

02:36 - Good luck. - Thank you.

02:38 (whooshing)

Mancunian Man: The Legendary Life Of Cliff Twemlow | movie | 2023 | Official Trailer

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