‘ARACHNOPHOBIA’ (1990) – ‘DOWN PERISCOPE’ (1995)

‘ARACHNOPHOBIA’ (1990) – ‘DOWN PERISCOPE’ (1995)

October 28, 2022 Alan Royle 0

     ARACHNOPHOBIA (1990)             Times have most certainly changed since the days when trip-wires were used to bring down, maim, and kill horses in movies. Today, all animals, birds, fish, even insects and arachnids, are treated with extreme care. The 1990 movie Arachnophobia is proof of this. Not one spider […]

WAR PICTURES WORTH WATCHING – PT3.

February 14, 2019 Alan Royle 0

    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 […]

MEMORABLE PERFORMANCES – PT8

November 30, 2018 Alan Royle 0

  Rita Hayworth as Gilda in Gilda (1946) Glenn Ford & Rita in Gilda  Gilda was an enormous success for Columbia in 1946, so much so that Rita Hayworth’s agent demanded a share of the profits of all subsequent films made by her. Columbia head Harry Cohn point blank refused. Her […]

MOVIE TRIVIA – PT22.

June 17, 2018 Alan Royle 2

        Margaret ‘Hot Lips’ Houlihan (M.A.S.H.)                                 Loretta and her husband Dennis Holahan Loretta Swit portrayed Nurse Margaret ‘Hot Lips’ Houlihan in the enormously successful TV series M.A.S.H. from 1972 until 1983. In […]