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Richard, I thought you might enjoy this if you haven't stumbled across it before. Two of your favorite actors, Mr. O' Toole and Mr. Welles together on BBC's Monitor in 1963 discussing Hamlet with the host and a academician. The two actors are in perfect sync with each other, agreeing on every point...

I think we should be amazed he lived as long as he did considering the life he led. Most of his drinking buddies left us in their fifties. And although he appeared in a lot of turkey's, he himself was never the embarrassment of the project. And that's saying something -- Remember, he was in the cas...

After riding high with DIPLOMANIACS and HIPS, HIPS, HOORAY! , their comedy really turned south following THE NITWITS . It's almost as if RKO had lost interest in them due to that flash-in-the-pan dance team on the lot. That was part of it, but the code was what killed Bert and Bob, and frankly, giv...

Back from California, and bummed about Peter O' Toole, one of the ones we should have figured out a way to keep around permanently. Here's one of his last really great performances, from the West End stage, not on DVD and finally scared up on Youtube since his passing. If you haven't seen it, take a...

Gary Johnson wrote: I've recently confessed to Richard that I just don't read as many books as I once did. My whole life I was a voracious reader, and not just about film history. I had a broad range in a vain attempt to become a well-rounded person. It wasn't until my middle age spread appeared th...

I've recently confessed to Richard that I just don't read as many books as I once did. My whole life I was a voracious reader, and not just about film history. I had a broad range in a vain attempt to become a well-rounded person. It wasn't until my middle age spread appeared that I turned well-rou...

... on December 23, 2013 on arte - feature-length and with a lovely trailer: http://www.arte.tv/guide/fr/047599-000/monsieur-de-funes#details-videos http://www.arte.tv/guide/de/047599-000/louis-de-funes Uli Good Lord, I haven't thought about him in probably forty years, ever since I saw THE MAD ADV...

Is this set captioned? Jim Apparently not, and looking at the Amazon listing, apparently not even the complete original issued film versions of the Concerts. Couldn't Shout Factory clear the Billy Connolly appearances? His version of Rolf Harris's "Two Little Boys in Blue" at the SECRET P...

Rob Farr wrote:That final gag with Dudley Dickerson is a real throwback to the silent era. That kind of stuff is not often seen in the 1940s.

A direct steal from SUPER-HOOPER-DYNE-LIZZIES (1925), still breakin' `em up back then at those Klan-Meetin' Matinees in the South.




RICHARD M ROBERTS

Just the type of material that turns me off of Columbia's. Joe Adamson wrote of "....those comedies where a gorilla wanders in and out of a room and no one ever notices it..." This does looks familiar. Was this ever shown at Slapsticon? Or maybe Cinecon...? Catlett's character name of Slo...