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The title?

Withnail, and I
Or
medicine?

I can't remember the name of the writer exactly, but given that it's a semi-autobiographical work, the writer is, in a sense, I.


Geggs

Hold on... a memory stirs... was it Paul Dickinson?


Geggs

Taff is this a blown thread

Answers on a crisp £10 note to Prof

no not blown, just not putting the tiome into hootoo, next week maybe

Bruce Robinson wrote Withnail & I.

Ah, right. I knew the name was not disimilar to the lead singer of Iron Maiden (Bruce Dickinson), but I couldn't quite remember it.


Geggs

As a side, 'I's' name is never actually mentioned in the film, is it?

Quite so.

Not even mnetioned in the credits either.

IIRC, the start of the credits look something like:


WithnailRichard E Grant
& IPaul McCann



Geggs

Apologies in advance for copying this from the imdb, but I thought it would be an interesting bit of clarification:

Although credited on screen only as "...and I", Paul McGann's character is named as "Marwood" in the script. It is widely believed that the character's first name is Peter; although this is incorrect. This myth arose as the result of a misheard line of dialogue when Withnail and Marwood are enjoying drinks at Monty's house. The only occasion Marwood's name appears in the film, is when it can be just be made out written upside down on the envelope he receives at Crow Crag.

Obviously, this breaks the rules of QI, so I expect suitable castisement.


Geggs

"As a side, 'I's' name is never actually mentioned in the film, is it?"

As opposed to the movie "Rebecca" where the character Rebecca is constantly referred to but never seen, and the main character played by Joan Fontaine is never actually named - she is called "The second Mrs DeWinter"

right time to put this to bed

Phenodihydrochloride Benzelex

what is its street name? the embalmer

who supplys it? danny

who invented? bruce robinson

why? he didn't want to be responsable for promoting a potentialy dangerous drug as a recreational drug, so he invented the name.

yes its from the film withnail and i

scores to follow

just putting this to the top to score later