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Ya know, it's a sad shame to hear certain things about hollywood personalities that I grew up watching. No disrespect to anyone posting about Jerry Lewis and Mickey Rooney. What I mean is, is that I am shocked to hear that they and people like Henry Fonda; really seem to have a "dark side" if you know what I mean?
Yes I know exactly what you mean, Ringo. I read a book about Jimmy Stewart and he certainly had his dark side as well.
OK, thanks very much for that! I think I'll keep it as it is. When I ordered it two weeks ago I thought it was of Duke as Thomas Dunson in "Red River" for some reason. "Hondo" was a lesser film but it's a great statue!
It would be great if they could restore the film to its original length one day. I was surprised how good this is for a western that was made nearly 80 years ago.
Yes, probably the best final film for any star along with Gable in The Misfits.
Randolph Scott, Cary Grant and James Cagney were right to retire in their early sixties.
I have just received a porcelain sculpture of Duke as Hondo Lane from the Franklin Mint.
Am I supposed to glue it to its wooden base or is it supposed to remain separate?
Oh I see. The Naked Edge was filmed in London in the autumn of 1960. Cooper had two operations for prostate cancer in April 1960, was The Sundowners filmed then?
Stan accepted a knighthood in his friend Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson's controversial resignation list in 1976. He died from pneumonia in Spain before he could make the journey to Buckingham Palace, aged 48. He released a statement saying he had accepted the award because it was for his acting career, and because he hoped it could help the British film industry.
Sean Connery, also very left-wing, accepted a knighthood some years ago. In fact I believe he complained about not getting one.
i don't think clark would have offered the role of TRAVIS in THE ALAMO. he would have been a little to old for the part. the real TRAVIS was only twenty six at the time.as for HATARI I never heard of that story.GABLE died in (61).HATARI came out in (62) it could be true.
Gable died at the end of 1960, and Hatari was filmed at the end of 1961. I think somebody like Gable would have been good in The Alamo regardless of his age, at least he could have done a convincing American accent unlike Laurence Harvey.
Sadly I haven't even heard of that one. Was it like the Name of the Rose?
You seem to have a little trouble making up your mind, Cole.
I meant the film was a huge success. However, with Wayne (who was approaching his 60th birthday) it would not have had the same impact. Like Kelly's Heroes and Patton, The Dirty Dozen was anti-war and Wayne would not have liked many things about the film.
Yes but Sir Stanley was very far to the Left and an active socialist, as reflected by most of his films. He didn't get on with Dirk Bogarde who was a Conservative.
Mitchum knew he was miscast here, and his attempt at an accent was pretty bad. Probably his hammiest performnace since Night of the Hunter. The part was originally meant for Gary Cooper, but he made The Naked Edge instead.
Ryan was a brilliant, underrated actor who should have won an Oscar for "The Set Up", which is almost as good as "Raging Bull". It's ironic that a man who played so many villains and authority figures was in fact a great activist liberal. He was too old to play Lt. Gen. Gavin in "The Longest Day", but then most of the cast were too old for their parts, including Duke. I only wish they had made a better film together than "Flying Leathernecks".
It was interesting seeing 27-year-old Holliman playing 29-year-old Rock Hudson's son in "Giant"! He was also memorable in "Broken Lance", a western with the great Spencer Tracy.
My father always though McLaglen overacted but I think it was probably right for the characters he played. You can't really compare styles of acting from the pre-Brando Hollywood with today. I saw a film with McLaglen and Freddie Bartholomew which was pretty good.
Mitchum was the best Philip Marlowe in Farewell My Lovely. Going Home was a great film as well.
Apart from his westerns with Anthony Mann, I can't say I'm a big fan of Stewart. He was miscast in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. I have what is often heralded as his greatest film on DVD, Vertigo, but I don't really care for it. I bought it in a petrol station last year.
I'm amazed he didn't die years ago, he was declared clinically dead following a huge heart attack in 1982.
Like Duke, Jerry Lewis is as hated as he is beloved.
I'm not sure about that, The Dirty Dozen was an anti-war film at the time of the Vietnam conflict. It would have been radically altered if he had starred in it because he would have objected to many things.
I agree that The Shootist was a great performance by Duke, but it felt more like a TV movie. It was the same with Steve McQueen's last film, The Hunted.
