‘TV WESTERNS – PT19’
IRON HORSE (1966-8) 48 EPISODES Dale Robertson portrays Ben Calhoun, a fictional gambler who turns into a railroad baron after […]
Month: September 2021
‘MOVIE TRIVIA’ – PT182
Director James Cameron James Cameron insists he got his big directing break while doing pick-up shots for a minor picture titled Galaxy of Terror (1981) as the second unit director. He was shooting scenes of a dismembered arm supposedly teeming with maggots (they were mealworms actually). He needed to […]
‘THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING’ (1975)
THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING (1975) Michael Caine and Sean Connery play two ex- British Army non-coms named Peachy Carnehan and Daniel Dravot in this delightful adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s 1888 novella of the same name. It is set in the 1880s in India where Kipling (played by […]
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WORLD WAR TWO – The stars & their stories – PT56.
SIMONE SIGNORET (1921-85) When Simone Signoret won an Oscar for Room at the Top (1959), she became the first woman to win a ‘Best Actress in a Leading Role’ Academy Award in a non-American film. Back in the early 1940s, she took her mother’s maiden name to help hide her […]
‘RANDOM QUOTES’ – PT48
AARON SORKIN: (1961 – ) [The man who wrote some of the best screenplays in movie and television history – A Few Good Men, The American President, Charlie Wilson’s War, The West […]
‘TV WESTERNS’ – PT18
HOTEL DE PAREE (1959-60) 33 EPISODES It is odd that this series did not go into a second season, because it was certainly a western with a difference. The main problem, of course, was that saturation point for the western genre had been well and truly reached […]
‘MOVIE TRIVIA’ – PT181
Angelique Pettyjohn in Star Trek: The Original Series (1968) The name Angelique Pettyjohn probably means nothing to all but the most avid fans of Star Trek: The Original Series, and to those ‘Trekkies’ who ventured along to the numerous conventions held over the ensuing years. Devoted fans will no doubt recall […]
‘THE RAZOR’S EDGE’ (1946)
THE RAZOR’S EDGE (1946) It’s a pity that Bill Shakespeare had already used the title ‘Much Ado about Nothing’ a few centuries earlier, otherwise W. Somerset Maugham might have used it for this much-overrated melodrama. The Razor’s Edge takes 148 minutes focusing on Larry Darrell (Tyrone Power) and his […]
WORLD WAR TWO – The stars & their stories – PT55.
ANN SHERIDAN (1915-67) She was born Clara Sheridan in Denton, Texas during World War One. It has been said that Ann was a direct descendant of Union General Philip Sheridan and maybe she was. Her sister thought she was beautiful enough to win ‘The Search for Beauty’ […]
RANDOM QUOTES – PT47
DOLORES HART: (1938 – ) Dolores & Elvis Presley [Six years after playing one of Elvis Presley’s girlfriends in Loving You (1957), Dolores turned her back on Hollywood and entered the strictly cloistered Benedictine Regina Laudis Monastery, in Bethlehem, Connecticut, to become a nun. […]