5 Fingers (1952)
John Wengraf (as Count Franz von Papen): ‘I’ve often wondered, Countess – why did you leave Warsaw?’ Danielle Darrieux (as Countess Anna Staviska): ‘Bombs were falling. I felt I was in the way.’
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Charlie Wilson’s War (2007)
Tom Hanks (as Charlie Wilson):’You know you’ve reached rock bottom when you’re told you have character flaws by a man who hanged his predecessor in a military coup.’
Jaws (1975)
Richard Dreyfuss (as Hooper): ‘Mr. Vaughan, what we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, an eating machine. It’s really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks, and that’s all.’
GEORGE CLOONEY – No friend of Charlton Heston.
Clooney’s first marriage was to actress Talia Balsam, the daughter of brilliant character actor Martin Balsam and actress Joyce Van Patten, the sister of Dick Van Patten, star of the 80’s comedy- drama series; Eight is Enough. The union lasted almost four years. His famous aunt, Rosemary Clooney, was a […]
JOHN BARRYMORE – A drunk, a rake & a rare talent.
John Barrymore’s siblings, Lionel and Ethel, both won Oscars in their careers, but most critics are agreed that John was the best actor of the three. Not everyone agreed, however. Playwright George Bernard Shaw detested his ‘Hamlet’, describing it as one of the worst portrayals in history, accusing the […]
Accused, The (1988)
ACCUSED, THE (1988) This film centres on the pack rape of 21 year-old Cheryl Araujo in Big Dan’s Tavern in New Bedford, Massachusetts in March 1983. The case achieved national prominence when six accused young men went on trial. What made the case grab the headlines, however, was […]
A Cry In The Dark (1988)
A CRY IN THE DARK (1988) This film, starring Meryl Streep, tells the story of a bizarre real-life tragedy that transpired near Ayers Rock (now called Uluru) in central Australia on 17 August 1980. On that day a ten weeks old baby named Azaria Chamberlain was taken from the family’s […]