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Just googled Alcatraz films.....all 4 we`vve mentioned were the only ones to come up.......

EDIT......Pam.....I remember that Lille Marlene song when I was a little girl....your right its very haunting, she sounds so sad in it.......wonder why you didn`t see her face in that interveiw? prehaps the years hadn`t been kind to her, and she didn`t want her public seeing her that way.
Nicky

Daniel Bruhl is another German actor, he played the polish violinist in Ladies in Lavender with Maggie smith and Judy Dench. He was in a film on 4 last week and it was about the wall coming down but his character's mum had been in a coma when it came down and the shock may have killed her so they had to keep it from her for as long as possible........phew, anyway I was really enjoying it but tiredness took over and I woke about 3 in the morning, hubby was snorring away too!

Yes Nicky think that was the reason. I saw a documentary about her and she wore wigs in the 70's and under the join of the wigs she kind of used to pin her hair back and it gave the effect of her skin being more tight...bit like the Croydon Facelift!! A very tight pony tail isn't it!!

EDIT: Marlene died in her Paris apartment on 6th may 1992, she's buried next to her mother in Berlin. That docummentary with Maximilian Schell was made in 1984.

Night. ☺

Hi all, what about Westerns - I do love a good Western!

The Searchers - John Wayne as the Civil War veteran Ethan Edwards looking for his neice (played by Natalie Wood) who has been captured by the injuns.

Stagecoach - there's the 'Duke' again in his first starring role as the Ringo Kid - six horses, four wheels and lots of action!

High Noon - Gary Cooper as the retiring lawman who has to face one last enemy, and the people he protected for several years all turn their back on him.

Shenandoah - James Stewart as the farmer who's youngest son gets taken prisoner by the "Blues" and he sets out to find him and bring him home ...

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon - There's John Wayne again as a retiring US cavalryman going out on one last patrol. (She wore, she wore, she wore a yellow ribbon, she wore a yellow ribbon in the merry month of May, and when, I asked her why she wore that ribbon, she said it's for my football team who are going to Wembley - WEMBLEY, WEMBLEY, were the famous Arsenal and we're going to Wembley) Sorry couldn't resist it ...

You might have noticed a few John Wayne/John Ford combinations up there.

Ed

How about Burt Lancaster in The Bird Man of Alcatraz ?

The guvenor was played him from Streets of San Francisco

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

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

Have we said PSYCHO ?

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

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.

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.

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)

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

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 ?

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
Ralph malph
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

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

David,

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

Ed

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

nudge

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

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!!!!!!!!