MOVIE TRIVIA – PT222

MOVIE TRIVIA – PT222

August 6, 2023 Alan Royle 0

  Patrick McGoohan in Ice Station Zebra (1968) There is a scene in Ice Station Zebra (1968), in which Patrick McGoohan’s character is required to dive into the flooded torpedo room of the nuclear sub to rescue a trapped officer. Being a strong swimmer, Patrick insisted on doing the scene himself rather […]

TV WESTERNS – PT34.

TV WESTERNS – PT34.

August 19, 2022 Alan Royle 2

                THE ROUNDERS (1966-7) 17 EPISODES                        MGM churned out this series in an endeavour to capitalize on the popularity of the 1965 comedy western of the same name that starred Glenn Ford and Henry Fonda. Unfortunately, the series did not feature stars of […]

MOVIE & TV HORSES DOWN THE AGES.

February 4, 2019 Alan Royle 0

William S. Hart & Fritz Like most kids who attended Saturday matinees back in the fifties, I knew details about all the cowboy stars, who rode which horse and why. Most of my movie heroes back then were cowboy stars and that didn’t change when TV came along in Western […]

MEMORABLE PERFORMANCES PT5

November 16, 2018 Alan Royle 2

Ellen Barkin as Helen Cruger in Sea of Love (1989) Ellen & her husband Gabriel Byrne Ellen Barkin said in an interview that Sea of Love (1989) was not her best work, an observation that movie-goers would probably not agree with, especially those of the male gender. Most men would […]

More Thirties Movie Trivia – PT2.

February 5, 2018 Alan Royle 4

     Olivia de Havilland                              with Errol Flynn in The Adventures of Robin Hood While making The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), Errol Flynn told his co-star Olivia de Havilland that his marriage to Lili Damita was […]

SNIPPETS – PT2.

November 17, 2017 Alan Royle 0

Kate and Barrymore in A Bill of Divorcement (1932) Kate Hepburn made her movie debut in the 1932 drama A Bill of Divorcement, in which the aging John Barrymore played her mentally unbalanced father. Known as ‘The Great Profile’, he invited her to his dressing-room where he promptly stripped naked […]