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SPEAKING OUT

March 16, 2024 Alan Royle 0

  STERLING HAYDEN (1916-86)                            ‘I wonder whether there has ever before been a man who bought a schooner and joined the Communist Party all on the same day. After completing Johnny Guitar opposite Joan Crawford in 1954, […]

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QUOTES FROM THE 1975 THRILLER ‘JAWS’

March 12, 2024 Alan Royle 0

  JAWS (1975) This movie was chock-full of many memorable lines of dialogue, none of which were more riveting than the monologue delivered by Robert Shaw (as Quint) when he described in detail the sinking of the USS Indianapolis by a Japanese submarine during World War Two. The horrific and […]

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DID YOU KNOW?

March 4, 2024 Alan Royle 2

  HERBERT LOM Early in 1939, shortly before the Nazis over-ran what was left of Czechoslovakia, Czech-born actor Herbert Lom arrived in Britain with his Jewish girlfriend, Didi, seeking asylum. Tragically, she was sent back at Dover because she did not have the correct papers. Her subsequent death in a […]

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SPEAKING OUT

February 29, 2024 Alan Royle 1

  HERBERT LOM (1917-2012)                                  ‘Peter Sellers was always a mixed-up guy, a childish fellow. But if you’re fond of children, you’re also fond of childish men. He was always very helpful to me. After […]

DID YOU KNOW?

DID YOU KNOW?

February 21, 2024 Alan Royle 1

Aware of Elvis Presley’s infatuation with actress Debra Paget on the set of the 1956 film Love Me Tender, fourteen year old Priscilla Beaulieu, the future Priscilla Presley, copied Debra’s hairstyle in the hope of meeting Presley when he came to West Germany with the US Army in 1959. Elvis […]

QUOTES FROM THE 1975 FILM ‘JAWS’

QUOTES FROM THE 1975 FILM ‘JAWS’

February 18, 2024 Alan Royle 1

JAWS (1975) This movie was chock-full of many memorable lines of dialogue, none of which were more riveting than the monologue delivered by Robert Shaw (as Quint) when he described in detail the sinking of the USS Indianapolis by a Japanese submarine during World War Two. The horrific and tragic […]

DID YOU KNOW?

DID YOU KNOW?

February 8, 2024 Alan Royle 0

  The scene in which Arthur (Dudley Moore) and his ‘hooker’ date, Gloria, are dining in the 1981 film Arthur, was filmed at the famous Oak Room inside the Plaza Hotel in New York City. This was the same restaurant where Cary Grant’s character, Roger Thornhill, was abducted in the […]