A High Win In Jamaica

No!  That Is Not A Typo
But it is a Typho.  Bear with me, this one will take a bit of explaining.  Okay, so you know that currently your humble scribe is creating blog titles that have something to do with either tea or coffee?  Today we go for tea, and the Typhoo brand thereof.  I think we need a bit of pictorial verisimilitude.  Art?

There you go

     Okay.  Typhoo.  What nautical weather phenomena does this name come close to?
     NO!  Not subterranean volcanic acticity.  "Typhoon".  Art?

Hmmm.  Interesting choice, Art.  BUT WRONG!

     <sounds of Tazer artillery being powered up>

Better.

     There you have the awesomeness of a tropical typhoon.  Of course, Typhoo lack the final letter.  So, what film title reflects a tropical storm?  "A High Wind In Jamaica", except to fit in with the tea puns, we have to omit the last letter of "Wind".  Hence the blog title.
     There you go, a pun analysed to death.  And beyond, even.

"The Bridge At Remagen"
I rewatched this film again, and it bears watching carefully, for a good few reasons.  Firstly, the military kit used is authentic period stuff, not <shudders> the usual post-war South Canadian stuff painted grey.  Remember those cod-Hanomag half-tracks in "Kelly's Heroes"?  <pokes Art with electric cattle prod>

They're trying, bless 'em

     Well, TBAR has several real ones.  I suspect that this is because they were filming in Czechoslovakia, where the locals had hung onto the ex-Teuton real things.  Art?

Two of them

     Notice how different they are from the <ahem> other version.  Okay, let us look at the opening scenes for TBAR.  Art?

     The photo I originally wanted to use has camera flash on it.  The purpose was to show how many vehicles there were, all stooging towards that bridge.  Tanks, half-tracks, jeeps, mobile anti-aircraft guns, trucks, weapons carriers, a whole plethora of stuff.  Still, that shot above gives you a sense of what's going on.  
     They don't really blow the bridge up, either.  The shot fades out as the smoke begins to clear, so I suspect this is all special effects.  Real-time real world stuff, mind, as this was decades before CGI: 1968*.
     One name in the credits also stood out:  Hal Needham.  He was a legendary stuntman, who invented lots of now-standard stunt processes, and was a whiz at vehicle stunts.  Take this one -

Ouch!

     This involves driving a truck at speed, creating a huge explosion in the rear as it's supposed cargo explodes, having it swerve off the road and into and through a concrete barrier, then plunge down the bank - without driving into the river - all whilst on fire.  If that was Hal in there, he was earning every single cent of his $25,000 fee.
     That will do for TBAR for today.  Don't worry, we are coming back here again.
     Stop whining, Art!  Remember, that which does not kill us makes us stronger.

"The Centauri Device" By M. John Harrison
I can't remember why I was looking this up again, but I did.  So there.  It's a sci-fi novel from 1975 that is a savage put-down of the old space-opera genre, featuring (as MJH says) a combination of drugs actual, political and spiritual.  It's one of the "SF Masterworks" series.
     Here an aside.  If you happen to fall into conversation with my good friend Jeff Beck, never, EVER EVER mention "Hi Ho Silver Lining", his greatest commercial success, because he absolutely hates the flipping thing and will probably punch you in the face.
     So it is with MJH.  He detests TCD and considers it about the worst thing he's written.
     Art?

The edition I bought originally in 1976.
Because of the space-opera cover.  Sorry, MJH.

     Surprise!  He's wrong.  It's a corking novel, although perhaps not one for smaller humans, as the Tut Factor is prettttty high.  Also, the best cover art I've seen for it is this one.  Art?

Cover by Fred Gambino

     Fred really nails it here.  I know, I know, that's John Truck not wearing his snakeskin combat jacket, but it really hits the sense of a man at the end of his tether, facing the efficient and nameless minions of Eeevil.  All hi-tec hi-rise in the background, grubby stained concrete in the foreground.  IIRC, the artwork continues on the rear cover.  I like this cover so much I am thinking about paying £5 for a paperback edition, which is expensive because it's in France.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Centauri_Device

     The Wiki link.

O wow.  At count.  Well, there you go.

Finally -


Mum and Dad say "Hello!"


*  This is crucial.  Remember that date.