Guinness: End of Play
Guinness advert equating the slow pace of its drinking and serving with that of a game of cricket.
If there's one theme that constantly recurs in Guinness advertising, it's the notion that a pint should be enjoyed at leisure - or, as the equally languid narration puts it, a 'long, easy pace'. A cricket match is a singularly appropriate sport to convey that notion, the measured strides of the players returning to the pavilion after taking up the stumps matched by the equally painstaking pouring of the bottled Guinness right down to the very last drop - this last given special attention.
Director Tony Scott spent the period between his first two features Loving Memory (1971) and The Hunger (1983) almost exclusively making commercials, mostly for his older brother's Ridley Scott Associates. He also helped oversee the company, especially when Ridley's feature film career began to take flight in the late 1970s. One of the briefly-glimpsed cricketers is played by John Alderton, who initially made his name as the newly-qualified teacher in the LWT sitcom Please Sir! (1968-71) and had more recently graduated to feature films (Zardoz, 1974; It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet, 1976).
Liquid Refreshment
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48 videos in this collection
Guinness - RAF Flying Toucans
Pg Tips: Hairdressers
The Spirit of His Forefathers
Fun on the Farm
What Ho She Bumps
"Corona" Cordials taken hot - are good to drink and good for you
There is going to be a Great Demand for - "Corona" Fruit Drinks
South Sea Sweethearts
Love on the Range
Coco and the Bear
Horlicks Advert: Dan Dare
The Man with a Girder
Guinness: Shipwright
Guinness - Factory
Coca-Cola: Refreshes You Best - Bowling
Coca-Cola: Things Go Better With Coca-Cola - Diving, Bowling and Tennis
Coca-Cola: Alan Beale
Coca-cola: Biba's Boutique
Coca-cola: Piccadilly
A Guide to Goodness
Guinness Export - The Man (Version 1)
Guinness Export - The Man (Version 2)
Guinness Export - The Man (Version 3)
Carling Black Label Bike Girl
Guinness - Young Barmaid
Guinness - Hop Farm
Brooke Bond D: Tea Party
Guinness - Do It Yourself
Cinema Commercial for Charbonnier Red
Guinness - Streebe-Greebling (English)
Guinness - Kung Fool
Guinness - Ploughman
Whitbread Trophy 'shakespeare' 'a'
Guinness - End of Play
Guinness - Talking Lesson
Guinness - Film TEST
Guinness - April Fool
Guinness - April Fool (Animatic Version)
Babycham: Clovelly
Babycham: Tennis
Domestic Help
Meet the Ovaltineys
Good Strong Coffee
Dolly Put the Kettle On
Guinness - Cycle Race (Version 1)
Ace of Clubs
