LGTTM – ‘BACK TO THE FUTURE’ (1985)

LGTTM – ‘BACK TO THE FUTURE’ (1985)

August 16, 2022 Alan Royle 0

  BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985)                 Twenty-three year old Michael J. Fox had always been the first choice to portray seventeen year-old Marty McFly, but he was unavailable due to scheduling conflicts with his work on the smash hit TV series Family Ties […]

MEMORABLE MOVIE DIALOGUE – PT8

MEMORABLE MOVIE DIALOGUE – PT8

June 20, 2022 Alan Royle 4

  Lauren Holly in Down Periscope (1996) [Lauren Holly as Lt. Emily Lake, Diving Officer aboard the diesel submarine USS Stingray, as she completes a tricky and highly dangerous manoeuvre in the 1996 comedy Down Periscope]: ‘Balls to the wall, boys!’ Gregory Peck in Twelve O’clock High (1949) [Gregory Peck as General Savage in […]

MOVIE TRIVIA – PT132.

July 16, 2019 Alan Royle 2

    Columbia head Harry Cohn pictured with Rita Hayworth The notoriously vulgar Harry Cohn, head of Columbia Pictures, had his mind set on using Rita Hayworth, an actress he sexually harrassed for decades, for the role of Billie Dawn in the 1950 classic Born Yesterday, but she had just […]