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LGTTM – ‘The Absent-minded Professor’ & ‘Saboteur’.

July 7, 2023 Alan Royle 3

    THE ABSENT-MINDED PROFESSOR (1961)                A few nights ago I subjected myself to watching a movie that had been the fifth-highest grossing film in the USA back in 1961.  Regretfully, I assumed it must have been a great deal better than its dubious title (The Absent-minded Professor) suggested. To […]

MOVIE TRIVIA – PT208

MOVIE TRIVIA – PT208

December 30, 2022 Alan Royle 3

  Dennis Quaid as Doc Holliday in Wyatt Earp (1994) If you have ever watched the film Wyatt Earp (1994), starring Kevin Costner in the title role, you were probably shocked to see how emaciated Dennis Quaid looked in his role as the consumptive killer Doc Holliday. By the time Quaid had […]

‘LIFEBOAT’ (1944) – ‘THE PHANTOM’ (1996)

‘LIFEBOAT’ (1944) – ‘THE PHANTOM’ (1996)

December 12, 2022 Alan Royle 0

  LIFEBOAT (1944)                This Alfred Hitchcock directed drama focuses on the aftermath of a confrontation in the Atlantic between a merchant ship and a German U-Boat during World War Two. Survivors from various walks of life are left adrift in a lifeboat on the ocean and the tension heightens considerably […]

RANDOM QUOTES – PT59.

RANDOM QUOTES – PT59.

May 27, 2022 Alan Royle 2

  ANN SHERIDAN (1915-67)                        [Born Clara Lou Sheridan in Denton, Texas, she was used as a body double (hands, legs & shoulders) by Paramount in her early days in the industry]: ‘I used to go to Grauman’s Chinese or Pantages and sit there waiting to see my faceless body on […]

RANDOM QUOTES from directors.

RANDOM QUOTES from directors.

August 6, 2021 Alan Royle 0

  ALFRED HITCHCOCK:               ‘There is a dreadful story that I hate actors. Imagine anyone hating Jimmy Stewart…Jack L. Warner? I can’t imagine how such a rumour began. Of course, it may possibly be because I was once quoted as saying that actors are cattle. My actor friends know I would […]

MOVIE TRIVIA – PT169

MOVIE TRIVIA – PT169

March 21, 2021 Alan Royle 2

  Don Adams as Maxwell Smart in Get Smart Don Adams was offered a rather large (for that time) $12,500 per week to portray Agent 86 – Maxwell Smart in the hit TV series Get Smart (1965). He turned the offer down. Instead, he opted to take a smaller salary […]

LET’S GO TO THE MOVIES – PT3.

LET’S GO TO THE MOVIES – PT3.

March 10, 2020 Alan Royle 5

  The 1970 abomination titled Ned Kelly was initially intended as a vehicle for Albert Finney in the title role back in 1964 but it never happened. Instead, someone with a warped sense of humour reached the ludicrous conclusion that Rolling Stones front-man Mick Jagger could portray the iconic Aussie […]

MOVIE TRIVIA – PT138

August 30, 2019 Alan Royle 0

  Judy Garland & her mother Judy Garland spoke about her abominable mother’s handling of money – Judy’s money. ‘When I was put under stock contract at Metro and I had a steady income for the first time, we lived in a four-unit apartment building. I suggested to Mother that […]

MOVIE TRIVIA – PT134.

July 22, 2019 Alan Royle 0

  Ingrid Bergman & Alfred Hitchcock Ingrid Bergman told her first husband, Peter Lindstrom, that she could never work effectively without being in love with either her director or her leading man – hence her affairs with Gregory Peck, Gary Cooper, Spencer Tracy, Omar Sharif and Bing Crosby, to name […]