General Chat

Bought a new western
Tombstone.
A modern rehash of an old story

Was Sandra Locke Charles Bronson's girl ?

Not as far as I know David...... just know that she took up with Clint Eastwood for a number of years....

Tombstone...is that the one with Val Kilmer..?
Nicky

Yes that's the one - Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday, Kurt Russell as Wyatt Earp, Sam Elliott as Virgil Earp and I think Powers Boothe as one of the "Cowboys". It covered much of the aftermath of the OK Corral and Earp's one-man crusade to hunt down the outlaws who were responsible for his brother's death.

It came out the same time as "Wyatt Earp" with Kevin Costner and overshadowed it. Kurt Russell's portrayal of the legendary lawman as a philandering bully was excellent.

Yes I watched the Gauntlet too. I thought Eastwood's affair with Sondra Locke started when they both starred in The Outlaw Josey Wales, which was released a year or two before. I loved Chief Dan Goerge in that one as the hopelessly bungling Indian.

David, Charles Bronson was married to Jill Ireland for many years, his previous wife was an unknown, I think.

Ed

Your probably right Ed, Clint probably did take up with Sondra Locke on the Outlaw Josey Wales..... I just know she starred in every film after that with him, like Pam I could never see what he saw in her....

Thought I was correct about Tombstone...its a very good film.


Nicky

Aaah there you go - I CAN see what Clint Eastwood saw in Sondra Locke - sometimes it takes a man's perspective ...

(Not my cup of tea exactly, but she does have some qualities that gets the heart rate going).

Hi all, watched Kinky Boots on telly tonight, bit daft but easy going and one you can watch with most members of the family!!

Wasn't Jill Ireland married to David Cullum at one time, and she went off with Charles Bronson. Think it was when Bronson and Cullum were in The Great Escape.

Pam.

Dear Pam

Hello,

Yes, Jill Ireland was married to David McCallum.

Jill did meet Charles Bronson on the set of "The Great Escape".

She later married Charles and they had a daughter together.
They made several films together including:

"Assisanation"
"Breakheart Pass"

David went on to marry again.

Sadly, Jill became ill in 1984 with cancer and died in 1990, age 54.
She had written two best selling books about her illness and life.

Best wishes
xx

Hi Elizabeth, thank's for the info and confirming that. Doesn't time fly, I can remember Jill Ireland dieing and seeing Charles Bronson and David McCullam chatting at her funeral in Hello magazine. He's dead too I believe, Charles Bronson, think he had very bad dementia in his latter years.

Speak soon,

Pam.

Yes Pam,

Charles Bronson died in 2003. Just checked he did have dementia in his later years.

One of his films that you don't see much of now is "Hard Times" (Released in the UK as "The Streetfighter"). Set in the Great Depression, it's the story of a bare-knuckle fighter, played by Bronson and also starring Jill Ireland.

Also, a film of his that I really like is "Red Sun", about the train robbers who hold up a train and steal an ancient samurai sword being carried by the Japanese ambassador as a gift to the President. Bronson is one of the robers and he is railroaded (no pun intended) into hunting down and recovering the sword. He is accompanied by the ambassador's surviving bodyguard, played by the eponymous Toshiro Mifune.

Charles Bronson - nearly always played a rogue with a heart didn't he?

Ed

Just about to start watching the docu-drama about the Apollo 11 moon landing. I think it is the first global event I really remember - I was 6 at the time and a space nut. Jeez 40 years ago ...

I remember being at High School Ed, I was 14 years old....Christ I'm ancient!!

Pam.

I liked Charles Bronson in Chato's Land. He plays an Indian whose wife is raped and murdered by a mob from the local town.
He kills one of them and then disappears into the rough country, (his type of land). A posse follows him and he picks them off, one by one.........................

I see they`ve made a remake of the Taking of Pelham 123...... Denzil Washington and John travolta star in it ,and its directed by Quentin Tarantino, so bound to be some spooky bits in it....its released this week.....another one to add to the list.

I liked the original, but think this will probably be better as John Travolta plays Bad/Mad very well.........


Nicky

I have only just found this link,seems it has been going for 2 years!! First film I ever remember as a child was Its a Wonderful Life with the lovely Jimmy Stewart, I can remember every bit of it. Fave films, how about anything with Gary Cooper(wasn't he handsome?) Musicals,West Side Story, South Pacific,Singing in the Rain, Calamity Jane....A bit more up to date The Bridges of Madison County, Dirty Dancing, Moonstruck Ghost,Braveheart,Chocolat, oh i am such a romantic!! Then the last film I saw, The Reader, which was fantastic.
And there is still loads more!!

Hi Jane , and welcome to the thread, its been going since december last year, and is frequented by myself ,Pam, Ed, David and recently Elizabeth...... like your film choices a wonderful Life, such a great film, and Dirty Dancing is one of my all time favourites, Ghost another great one...though I`m not actually a Patrick Swayze fan......

The reader...wasn`t that Kate Winslet,? it came out the same time as Revolutionary Road that she also starred in and won the Oscar for , I saw that one and enjoyed it, Leonardo de Caprio was excellent in it as well.


Nicky

You seldom see them now, not even on TV but I always enjoyed a musical.

Paint yor wagon being the most recent.

Charles Bronson played a bare knuckle boxer in a film I forget the name of.
James Coburn played his agent

Before being crippled with arthritis James Coburn was a martial artist I read.

John Travolta was good in Phenonomum also as an angel in Michael



Flies his own Boeing 747 !

David..... Think I know the Charles Bronson film your on about where hes a bare knuckle fighter.......I`m sure Ed will know its title.

John Travoltas been great in many films Pulp fiction, Swordfish, Basic, The Generals Daughter and of course as the King of Cool Danny in Grease to name but a few. Yes I knew John Travolta has a pilot license.....imagine having a back garden big enough to land a Jumbo jet in!!!.........lol

James Coburn another great actor as well.

I see The Rock was on BBC1 last night, did any of you catch it? I don`t like Nicholas Cage but it is an excellent film, mainly due i feel to the performance of Sean Connery.


Nicky