Posts from arthurarnell in thread „Clark Gable“

Hi

I have followed this topic with some interest. My daughter is a teacher, teaching pupils with a varied reading age.

Recently she did a topic on the western and asked me for some DVDs to take in to school. I gave her The Searchers and Chisum. She only played a segment of the Searchers (the fight with the Commanches by the river). The kids thought it brilliant and many of them knew who John Wayne was.

Interestingly when she asked who were the goodies and who were the baddies there was a silence from the class not because they didn't know but it was politically incorrect to mention the indians as baddies.

On slightly the same subject talking to a girl aged 27 who I work with, when I asked her if she had ever seen a silent picture she looked at me in amazement and said how can you have a film with no talking and was serious.


Regards

Arthur

Hi

If you look at John Ford's Mogambo which was remake of Red Dust i would imagine its possible to see Clark Gable in the Sean Mercer role in Hatarari, but then as everyone says where would Duke have fitted in.

For the Alamo possible the Sam Houston role. But again Richard Boone did it quite well.


Regards

Arthur

Hi

There is a new book coming out about Clark Gable its been serialised in one of our Sunday papers I read the first bit but didn't bother with the rest.

Apparently during the war Adolph Hitler was supposed to have put a price on his head if he was ever captured.

The early stuff was a bit salubrious saying that gable in his early days swung both ways to earn money, but so did many of them.

Regards

Arthur