"I liked Ice Cold in Alex too; no nonsense about drinking then."
I remember it not just for that final scene in the bar (which took several 'takes' to get right - John Mills got quite pi$$ed in the process), but more for Sylvia Syms in that Army nurse's uniform...
Yum!
Back to CFS groundschool, I was told of 2 good tricks in the past. One was a chap who demonstrated the safety requirements of plastique - and finished off by firing a detonator embedded in plasticene (which he'd swapped for the plastique when the audience was distracted). The other was a chap who gave a talk on shotgun safety and the need to carry the gun broken, but available for quick action should a pheasant suddenly appear. Whereupon a mate on the floor above dropped a dead pheasant on a piece of string into view outside the window. "Look, there's one of the buggers now!" shouted the lecturer, swung up his 12 bore and blew the window out......