Posts from arthurarnell in thread „Last Non Western You Watched“

  • Last Non Western You Watched

    Hi

    Had a real feast last week, with my wife away I watched Solomon and Sheba Saturday afternoon, The Dam Busters Saturday teatime and a film I hadn't even heard about before based on a true story called 'Two Men Went To War' last Saturday night.


    Regards

    Arthur

  • Last Non Western You Watched

    Hi


    Just finished watching 'The First of the Few' with Leslie Howard and David Niven.
    Brilliant film about a brilliant man R.J.Mitchell the designer of the Spitfire.
    In the extras it included an interview with his son who put a few facts straight about the accuracy of the events.
    But made at a time when Britain needed all the help it could get it was a good moral booster.
    I believe there are moves afoot to remake it.



    Regards


    Arthur

  • Last Non Western You Watched

    Hi


    Over the past four days sitting on aship goung through the Bay of Biscay I have watched


    Passport to Pimlico an old Ealing Comedy.


    Around The World In Eighty Days with Pearce Brosnin, & Peter Ustinov


    Maby Baby


    Penny Sernade


    A Farewell To Arms with Gary Cooper (That'll have em rolling in the Aisles)


    Kind Hearts and Coronets with Alec Guinness playing 8 roles.


    and Spellbound with Gregory Peck and Ingrid Bergman an Alfred Hitchcock picture.



    Regards


    Arthur

  • Last Non Western You Watched

    Hi


    The last non western I watched was Lady and Gent last Sunday. I watched it for two reasons, the first simply because although I have had the tape for over a year I hadn't got around to watching it.
    The second reason was because in my next unsung hero or star of the month I plan to write up on the career of George Bancroft. (Any contributions welcome).


    The quality of the film was diabolical with it losing sound and picture quality constantly but it was easy enough to follow the story and not a bad picture.



    Regards


    Arthur

  • Last Non Western You Watched

    Hi


    I watched Rommel Desert Fox last night with James Mason playing Rommel.


    It was directed by Henry Hathaway and also had in the cast Richard boone, Sir cedric Hardwicke and George Macready. In the supporting cast were American actors that you would normally see playing cavalry troopers, certainly I recognised the blonde soldier from the TV series Boots and Saddles of the fifties, and another famous supporting player featured as Doolittles mate in My Fair Lady.


    It is a fact that when these films were made in black and white so quickly after the ending of the Second World War how much action footage could be used. If you added it up probably threequarters of the film was taken up with original action footage.



    Regards


    Arthur