TRACKDOWN (1957-9) 71 EPISODES Robert Culp starred as Texas Ranger Hoby Gilman (who thinks up these Christian names?), who travels throughout the Old West hunting down bad guys and bringing them to justice. The end credits claim the stories are true and based on actual cases from the Texas […]
WOMAN IN GOLD (2015) This is a fine historical drama about the efforts of a Los Angeles lawyer named Randy Schoenberg (played by Ryan Reynolds) and an octogenarian Jewish refugee from Austria named Maria Altmann (Dame Helen Mirren) to sue the Austrian Government in an endeavour to reclaim five […]
SHIRLEY TEMPLE (1928-2014) The darling of the American cinema, Shirley Temple, was abused psychologically and sexually from the moment she first appeared on the screen back in 1932. And Hollywood did its damnedest to hide those abuses from the public and the authorities. However, many incidences have since […]
JILL IRELAND (1936-90) Jill’s movie career was hardly the stuff of legend yet she has still managed to be remembered for three things: Her marriages to David McCallum and to Charles Bronson, and for her role as ‘Leila Kalomi’, the […]
Howard Carter & Lord Carnarvon The 2016 mini- series Tutankhamun has come under considerable criticism from Egyptologists and archaeological experts who claim it is not historically or factually accurate. Certainly, the depicted romantic relationship between Lord Carnarvon’s daughter Evelyn and Howard Carter never actually happened, but this is a […]
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971) Stanley Kubrick directed only sixteen movies in his lifetime. I unreservedly admired two of them – Paths of Glory (1957) and Spartacus (1960), the rest I could take or leave. I remain at a loss, however, to understand the […]
AL PACINO (1940 – ) [In 1979 he attended the Oscars for the first time]: ‘I was at the Oscars once – for Serpico. That was the second time I was nominated. I was sitting in the third […]
Jeffrey Hunter as Temple Houston TEMPLE HOUSTON (1963-4) 26 EPISODES This series starred Jeffrey Hunter as the real-life 19th century Texas lawyer Temple Lea Houston, son of the legendary Sam Houston. Unfortunately, the producers seemed unsure of just how they would […]
ARACHNOPHOBIA (1990) Times have most certainly changed since the days when trip-wires were used to bring down, maim, and kill horses in movies. Today, all animals, birds, fish, even insects and arachnids, are treated with extreme care. The 1990 movie Arachnophobia is proof of this. Not one spider […]
Michael Douglas as President Shepherd in The American President (1995) One of the highlights of President Andrew Shepherd’s defence of his girlfriend (Sydney Ellen Wade) in his address to the press corps towards the end of The American President (1995), is the following challenge he makes to Presidential candidate Bob Rumson: […]
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