GREAT MOVIE DIALOGUE – PT2.

GREAT MOVIE DIALOGUE – PT2.

December 17, 2020 Alan Royle 0

I have an unashamedly enormous admiration for New Yorker screenwriter Aaron Sorkin’s work. His most notable achievements in television and movie scripts are indeed impressive. He wrote the Broadway play A Few Good Men and adapted it into a movie screenplay in 1992. The American President (1995) is another of […]

LET’S GO TO THE MOVIES – PT16.

LET’S GO TO THE MOVIES – PT16.

October 18, 2020 Alan Royle 8

  FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL (1994)                                          The enormously popular Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) was the first British film since A Fish Called Wanda (1988) to top the American box-office charts. It was to star Jeanne Tripplehorn as Carrie, but the sudden death of her mother just […]

LET’S GO TO THE MOVIES – PT9.

May 27, 2020 Alan Royle 2

One of my pet hates is watching a biopic about a great sportsperson’s life in which the actor chosen to represent him or her hasn’t the faintest idea how to play the sport in question! Admittedly, this is often the fault of casting, but that does not excuse the actor […]

MOVIE TRIVIA – PT145.

November 16, 2019 Alan Royle 0

Vincent Edwards as Ben Casey From 1961 until 1966, just about the hottest guy in town (television – wise) was Brooklyn-born Vincent Edwards, the star of a popular series called Ben Casey. A former swimming champion, he even trained to represent the USA at the Olympics before taking on an […]

MOVIE TRIVIA – PT141.

October 11, 2019 Alan Royle 2

    Frances Dee Lovely Frances Dee married Joel McCrea after meeting him on the set of The Silver Cord in 1933 when she was 23 and considered to be one of Hollywood’s most beautiful actresses. The marriage would last 57 years until his death in 1990. She was a […]

MOVIE TRIVIA – PT139.

September 11, 2019 Alan Royle 4

  Garry Marshall & Julia Roberts Given his successful directing career, one is left to wonder why American director Garry Marshall, the man who helmed Pretty Woman in 1990, chose to make the sadism & masochism feature Exit to Eden four years after his greatest achievement. He has since written […]

MOVIE TRIVIA – PT119.

April 8, 2019 Alan Royle 1

                                                                                                                                      Wendy Barrie as Jane Seymour in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) Whenever I see the Alexander Korda feature The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933), the one in which Charles Laughton so memorably plays the title role, I find myself drawn to the actress playing Jane […]

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MOVIE TRIVIA – PT55.

September 13, 2018 Alan Royle 2

Per Oscarsson as the priest in The Last Valley I have never fully comprehended why The Last Valley (1971) bombed at the box office and suffered at the hands of the critics. Perhaps, its negative approach to religion (both Catholic and Protestant) and its pointed abhorrence of every aspect of war […]

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MOVIE TRIVIA – PT47.

August 20, 2018 Alan Royle 2

    Hugh Glass Man in the Wilderness (1971) is often mistakenly thought to be a sequel to the 1970 film A Man Called Horse, presumably because Richard Harris stars in both pictures, but Harris plays two entirely different characters in each picture. The 1971 film is based on a true […]

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MOVIE TRIVIA – PT44.

August 12, 2018 Alan Royle 2

   Grace & Prince Rainier For a while it appeared that 1977’s The Turning Point might see Princess Grace of Monaco come out of retirement to star as the ballet dancer who opts for marriage over career. She was on the Board of Directors at 20th Century Fox at that time […]