General Chat

Hello all,

Just started to watch "Once Upon a Time in the West", one of Sergio Leone's later spaghetti westerns.

I've never seen it before and so far it looks quite good. Doubt whether I'll manage to stay up until 2 in the morning to finish it off but I'll have a go!

Actully Pam I didnt care much for Jerry Lewis, cramped Dean's style. When Dean went solo he blossomed in so many ways

If you search Dean Martin on You Tube you can watch him in snips from his own very popular TV show as well as bits from his films

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Hi David, yes some of my dad's favourite songs were sung by Dino! He was so funny with Jerry Lewis wasn't he, I believe they had a fall out though and didn't speak for many years. Dean Martin lost a son in the Vietnam conflict, it really broke him.

Kirk Douglas isn't enjoying good health since a troke a few years ago. His son Michael Douglas also an actor has the greatest respect for his father.

Dean Martin was talented in that he was not only an actor, he was an excellent singer and a very funny comedian

Hi David, think the film Dean Martin was in with John Wayne was Rio Bravo, he played a drunk trying to come off the booze. Think his character was named Dude. He sang the song for the film too I believe. He wasn't a heavy drinker at all apparantly and according to reports went to bed early and enjoyed being with his family. I remember he died on a Christmas Day in the 1990's, about 1994/5.

Yes Kirk Douglas was an exellent horseman...he must be sooo old now...about 99 or 100!

Hope our film thread doesn't dry up!!!!!!!!

I liked John Wayne in any film, especially westerns, but Robert Mitchum was excellent in Eldorado opposite hin as a drunk sherrif

Dean Martin played a drunk come good opposite him in another western, the name of which escapes me.

Kirk Douglas was excellent in War Wagon. He could mount his horse by vaulting on from the rear. Must have been fit. He excelled opposite Jean Simmons and Tony Curtis in Spartacus

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If ever I want cheering up I watch BABE about the sheepdod pig.
Always makes me laugh

David,

I think those words were from The Shootist actually ...

Ed

Mr Cunningham's actor starred in a TV series called Father Brown and Henry Winkler is now a producer/director

Ritchie Cunningham in Happy Days..........always amazes me how Ron Howard went from being geeky Ritchie to a top Hollywood director.............

He did so well but what happened to the rest of the cast?

Joanie
Potsy Webber
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and of course Henry Winkler who STILL dines out on being the Fonz today........

Mr Cunningham....{real name escapes me} has been in many tv movies over the years, but the rest of them????


Nicky

Were John Wayne's words, I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted and I won't be laid a hand on, his own or from one of his many films ?

Hello David,

Yes the boy was played by a youthful Ron Howard, who is now a director. One of his most famous films is Apollo 13, starring Tom Hanks - another outstanding film which I don't think we've mentioned before.

I remember the Apollo 13 saga vividly from when I was a child of about 8 years.

"Houston, we have a problem ..."

Ed

In The Shootist one of his opponents in the saloon was the actor who played Palladin in Have Gun Will Travel, a popular TV series

His land ladies son starred as Cunningham in Happy Days (Fonzereli)

Hi David I love the Shootist - as a matter of fact I love anything John Wayne was in. I still believe he was one of the greatest actors (along with Spencer Tracey) ever; I was weaned on John Wayne films when I was a kid.

Don't know if we have to be honest David, it wasn't that scarey I didn't think...adults screaming and diving under seats!

I wont be back on 'til tomorrow night as I'm doing a night shift tonight.

Take care folks

Pam.

Have we said PSYCHO ?

Saw it when I was young. Adults were screaming and diving under their seats.

John Wayne excelled in The Shootist at a time when he was dying of C

In Burt Lancasters film The Train (recommended) Paul Schofield played a German officer, but better than him was the real German actor who played Major Herring (?) He also played an officer in Von Ryan's Express