GREAT MOVIE DIALOGUE PT9
BEAU GESTE (1939) Beau Geste (Gary Cooper), as Schwartz shouts at the legionnaires, exhorting them to mutiny against Sgt. Markoff: ‘Wait a minute. I don’t know much about mutinies, but I do know it isn’t good form to […]
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WAR PICTURES WORTH WATCHING – PT3.
James Mason & Danielle Darrieux 5 FINGERS (1952) World War Two – Espionage in Ankara, Turkey Possibly my favourite espionage movie of all time, thanks to the superbly convincing portrayal of the spy by James Mason and the delightful performance from Danielle Darrieux as the Countess Staviska (a […]
MOVIE TRIVIA – PT36
Wanda Hendrix & Audie Murphy in Sierra Lovely Paramount actress Wanda Hendrix married war hero Audie Murphy after a two-year engagement, but the union was a disaster. He […]
THE WORST ‘BEST PICTURE’ IN HISTORY.
There has been no shortage of lousy movies that have somehow picked up the ‘Best Picture’ Oscar in their year. Often, that happened simply because there was nothing of much value churned out in that particular year. But not always. In 1952 the nomination list contained a couple of […]
5 Fingers (1952)
John Wengraf (as Count Franz von Papen): ‘I’ve often wondered, Countess – why did you leave Warsaw?’ Danielle Darrieux (as Countess Anna Staviska): ‘Bombs were falling. I felt I was in the way.’