HENRY FONDA (1905 – 82) [The father of actors Jane and Peter Fonda had this to say about them in 1976]: ‘I didn’t help or discourage them or lead them by the hand. I’m not trying to set myself up as a good father, because I wasn’t a […]
SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SHERIFF (1969) In the opinion of this writer, the screenplay for Support Your Local Sheriff is the funniest ever written for a western. Given that it was the brainchild of William Bowers, the quality of his writing should not come as a surprise for many readers, […]
TALES OF WELLS FARGO (1957-62) 201 EPISODES This long-running series proved to be very popular (certainly in this writer’s household), due in the main to its star Dale Robertson who positively oozed integrity as Special Wells Fargo Agent Jim Hardie. The real Wells Fargo actually employed special agents who […]
(L to R) Efrem Zimbalist Jr, Edd Byrnes & Roger Smith – stars of 77 Sunset Strip The very first private detective TV series was the Warner Brothers production of 77 Sunset Strip (1958-64), and ran for over 200 one-hour episodes. Such was its popularity, it spawned another four […]
GEORGE CLOONEY (1961 – ) [George was asked about the time when, as a sixteen year-old, he was asked to try out for the Cincinnati Reds baseball franchise]: ‘I’d been in a world where I was the best around, and then […]
PETER PAN (1953) Bobby Driscoll was the voice & model for Disney’s Peter Pan. Walt Disney was disappointed in the finished product of his 1953 adaptation of J. M. Barrie’s classic play about the boy who never grew up. Walt felt that Pan […]
STORIES OF THE CENTURY (1954-5) 39 EPISODES This series was set in the American West (from the 1850s through to 1900), much of the footage being lifted from various westerns turned out by Republic Pictures over the years, via that studio’s subsidiary, Hollywood […]
George Clooney in ER George Clooney has always been a man of his word, even when he was barely starting out in the acting business. As his star meteorically rose during his time on ER he adamantly refused to quit before his […]
CHARLES LAUGHTON (1899 – 1962) [The man who played Edward Moulton-Barrett in The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934) and Captain Bligh in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) admitted struggling with the characterizations]: ‘When I have a part like Father Barrett or Bligh, I hate the man’s guts so […]
FROM HELL (2001) This ‘Jack the Ripper’ Victorian England drama was filmed in Prague, capital of the Czech Republic, not in London’s prohibitively expensive East End. The Czech capital provided a convincing impression of 1880s London at a far cheaper cost. Great care […]
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