The Bond Girls – Pt2 – ‘Goldfinger & Thunderball’
as Pussy Galore 1964 at 39 […]
Month: September 2017
Darwin Porter – Can we believe what he writes?
Darwin Porter (1937 – ) I doubt if there are many more controversial contemporary writers than Darwin Porter. His supporters believe he is telling the real story of Hollywood in its so-called Golden Age; his detractors consider him to be little more than a peddler of sleazy gossip. I […]
Why the studio system collapsed.
The fall of the studio system in Hollywood did not happen overnight. It took from the late forties until the late sixties, but although it happened over a couple of decades, it was always going to happen sooner or later. Indeed, if World War Two had not interceded it […]
‘THE CRUEL SEA’ (1953 – A British masterpiece.
For some reason or another I had never gotten around to watching, in its entirety, the British World War Two drama The Cruel Sea until just recently. I read the novel by Nicholas Monsarrat on which the picture […]
B-LIST BEAUTIES – PT 3.
PEGGIE CASTLE (1927 – 73) The Yellow Tomahawk (1954) opposite Rory Calhoun Audie Murphy […]
THE BOND GIRLS – PT1.
DR NO (1962) URSULA ANDRESS (1936 – ) as Honey Rider Ursula at 78 Swiss-born Ursula Andress […]
Did O J Simpson’s son Jason do it?
O. J. Simpson Former football champion and actor O J Simpson was granted parole in July 2017 and shall be released from Nevada’s Lovelock Correctional Facility in October. Back in 2008 he had been sentenced to 33 years in prison for armed robbery, assault with a deadly weapon and […]
DUSTIN HOFFMAN – An acquired taste.
DUSTIN HOFFMAN Maybe he has mellowed as he has aged, but I doubt it. Dustin Hoffman’s contemporaries, actors, directors and producers alike, have always found him a […]
ROBERT RYAN – A class act.
RYAN, Robert (1909 – 73) I recently had the pleasure of watching a terrific western named The Proud Ones (1956). It has gone completely unheralded, yet it is clearly a couple of cuts above the average western fare. I watched it for one simple reason, because Robert Ryan was its […]
SNAPSHOTS Vol 2
CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS (1937) I have watched Captains Courageous only twice because, frankly, I cannot abide Spencer Tracy’s portrayal of the Portuguese fisherman Manuel. In fact, I only watched it the second time because of Freddie Bartholomew’s superb performance and to see Lionel Barrymore ‘box his ears’ better than anyone has ever done […]