MEMORABLE MOVIE DIALOGUE – PT1.

MEMORABLE MOVIE DIALOGUE – PT1.

April 17, 2023 Alan Royle 4

                     TOMBSTONE (1993) Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday discuss gunfighter/killer Johnny Ringo: Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell): ‘What makes a man like Ringo, Doc? What makes him do the things he does?’ Doc Holliday (Val Kilmer):  ‘A man like Ringo has got […]

TV WESTERNS – PT40.

TV WESTERNS – PT40.

November 21, 2022 Alan Royle 0

  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 […]

TV WESTERNS – PT29

TV WESTERNS – PT29

June 8, 2022 Alan Royle 4

  PARADISE (1988-91) 56 EPISODES                      Paradise is the name of Californian town in which this series, set in 1890, is set. It was broadcast by CBS from October 1988 until May 1991, and was re-named Guns of Paradise for the […]

;RANDOM QUOTES – PT55

RANDOM QUOTES – PT55

February 26, 2022 Alan Royle 0

  DENZEL WASHINGTON (1954 – ) [On working with young female co-stars]: ‘That ain’t fair, really. Michelle Pfeiffer hasn’t been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn’t like what a woman her age is offered. That’s a real double standard. You get Sean Connery, who gets older and […]

PROFILES – Goldie Hawn.

PROFILES – Goldie Hawn.

August 7, 2020 Alan Royle 4

  GOLDIE HAWN (1945 – )                           Goldie Jeanne Hawn was born in Washington DC in November 1945 but grew up in Maryland. Her mother was Jewish and the daughter if Hungarian immigrants, so Goldie was raised in the Jewish faith. Her father was Presbyterian. Today, she is a devout Buddhist […]

MOVIE TRIVIA – PT31.

July 9, 2018 Alan Royle 10

In the novel on which the 1982 movie First Blood is based, Rambo kills eighteen people, among them Deputy Sargent Galt, whose stomach he slices open with a razor! Even though most critics found the film to be ‘too violent’, it is interesting to note that Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) does […]

GOLDIE HAWN (1945- ) – a self-made star.

August 31, 2017 Alan Royle 0

  GOLDIE HAWN (1945 – )                           Goldie Hawn is a direct descendent of the youngest signer of the Declaration of Independence, one William Rutledge. If you have seen the musical 1776, Rutledge is the southern gentleman whose […]

The making of ‘The Magnificent Seven’ (1960)

July 17, 2016 Alan Royle 7

  The Mirisch brothers, Walter, Marvin and Harold, produced a number of highly profitable movies in the fifties and sixties – Some Like it Hot (1959), West Side Story (1961), The Pink Panther (1963) and In the Heat of the Night (1967) were among them. The Magnificent Seven and The […]