‘AN IDEAL HUSBAND’ & ‘THE GREAT ESCAPE’ – MOVIE DIALOGUE.
AN IDEAL HUSBAND (1999) I suppose there are those who dislike the works of Oscar Wilde, but I am not one of them. He was high society (I am not), he was homosexual […]
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GREAT MOVIE DIALOGUE – ‘The Magnificent Seven’
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (1960) When the inhabitants of a small Mexican village become fed up with being robbed and terrorized by a forty-strong bandit gang, led by Calvera (Eli Wallach), they send a delegation across the border into Texas to look for help. Everything of value in the village […]
‘THE WAR LOVER’ (1962 & ‘THE CUP’ (2011)
THE WAR LOVER (1962) The film is set in Britain during World War Two and focuses on the relationship between a hot-shot bomber pilot named Buzz Rickson (Steve McQueen) and his co-pilot Ed Bolland (Robert Wagner). […]
RANDOM QUOTES – PT74
HEDY LAMARR (1914-2000) [On working with Clark Gable]: ‘Although I never quite understood his sex appeal, I thought he was one of the nicest people I’d met, and a great practical joker.’ Hedy & Robert Taylor in Lady of the Tropics (1939) [On Robert Taylor, her co-star in Lady of the […]
MOVIE TRIVIA – PT211
Rosie O’Donnell In 2006, Rosie O’Donnell donated $5,700,000 to Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, including Renaissance Village (a temporary shelter for Katrina victims), day care centres, a rehabilitation centre in San Antonio, Texas, and a Habitat for Humanity subdivision in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Not enough is reported about the generous […]
TV WESTERNS – PT42
WAGON TRAIN (1957-65) 284 EPISODES Ward Bond & Robert Horton This iconic series followed the daily life and adventures of a post-Civil War wagon train as it meandered its way from Missouri to California. For 134 episodes the trail master was Seth Adams, played […]
MOVIES – PT27 – ‘The Sand Pebbles’ & ‘The Asphalt Jungle’.
THE SAND PEBBLES (1966) The Sand Pebbles is a fine movie, one that enabled its star Steve McQueen to reach the peak of his career. In fact, he received his one and only Oscar […]
LET’S GO TO THE MOVIES – PT19.
ONCE UPON A TIME IN…HOLLYWOOD (2019) This Quentin Tarantino film can best be described as a revisionist-fictional tale of a created Hollywood star and his best friend/stuntman/ gopher; a tale that culminates in a thoroughly preposterous, concocted climax that takes place right next door to a residence that, in […]
MOVIE TRIVIA – PT153.
Marilyn Monroe Sir Laurence Olivier once gave his opinion to Michael Parkinson on Marilyn Monroe, his co-star in The Prince and the Showgirl (1957). Olivier said she was unhappy throughout the shoot and very difficult to work with, discomforted and forlorn in front of a movie camera. But then the […]
‘THE GREAT ESCAPE’ (1963)
The Great Escape (1963) is often talked about as Steve McQueen’s movie but there are a number of fine performances in this fine film, particularly those of James Garner, James Donald, Hannes Messemer and Donald Pleasence. Of course, McQueen was given the showiest part and he squeezed every drop out […]