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Hello Nicky, yes she's a lovely kid and very sensible (or so she leads me to believe!)

Yes 101 Dalmatians is another good Disney film, I also liked the films they used to make that starred real animals, big countryside and had some sort of moral story behind them - I remember my elder sister taking me to see "Charlie the Lonesome Cougar" when I was about 4 or 5 (I think it may have been a double bill with Jungle Book.) More films like this one please, Disney - break away from the constant stream of animation!

Sorry to spoil the myth ladies but ...

David Bowie hasn't got two different coloured eyes - he has one pupil permenantly larger than the other due to being punched in the eye in a playground fight. The unequal pupil size gives the appearance of him having two different coloured eyes.

Another bit of trivia for your pub quiz Nicky!!

Yes the new Disney hollywood chiuaha is real animals, thats why I want to see it.... do you remeber Turner and Hooch? that was funny, and the very 1st film i remember seeing in that genre The incredible journey, where 3 pets made there way to their owners across hundreds of miles of wilderness, I think they did a remake in the 90s , but it wasnt as good as the original.


nicky

"Westworld" with Yul Brynner, bit difficult to describe, but if you've seen it you'll know the one I mean. I enjoyed it, Yul Brynerr looks very menacing in parts as the 'Cowboy Robot.'

Going to turn in now, night night and take care. ☺

I never knew that Ed, I'll tell hubby he's a Bowie fan.

Well Ed, they say you learn something new every day... I ALWAYS thought he was born with 2 different coloured eyes, don`t worry the info is stored on the back burner for later.....lol


Teenagers...don`t get me started on that one, until February last year i had 3 of them!!!!!! i must have been very bad in a previous life or something...... but no seriously ,they are a worry, but i wouldn`t be without them....

nicky

Me too Pam...... night all

Ed ,get your thinking cap on, leave a few films on the thread for us to mull over next time.

Nicky

Nicky, I do remember Turner and Hooch - boy could that dog dribble! I'm glad to hear the new Disney film has real animals in it, this may make me go and see it (for the kids of course)

Yes Pam, Yul Brynner in Westworld - I think he wore the same clothes in the Magnificent Seven! (Wasn't Westworld a Michael Crichton book?)

Actually, my favourite Yul Brynner role was as Taras Bulba - the one about the Zaporozhian cossack. Tony Curtis played one of his sons in it.

EDIT: Got the Cossack tribe name wrong and had to retype it - I don't want to offend anyone (especially the descendants of the original Zaporozhians!)

Yes I remember that film Ed, it was a good one. At the end as I remember don't they gallop over a great big gorge to prove how fearless they are or something.

Yes I think you're right...he did wear the same black gear in the Magnificent Seven.

Didn't they make a follow-up to Westworld?

Some other good films for you to think about ...

Have either of you seen Ridley Scott's first film - The Duellists, with Keith Carradine and Harvey Keitel? It's about two French Cavalry officers in the Napoleonic Wars who embark on a series of duels over the next 15 years because one insulted the other? As well as being a cracking good yarn, the wardrobe and props department gave one of the most realistic portrayals of Napoleon's army.

Probably one of the best westerns of recent years - The Long Riders. That was the one about the James/Younger gang and they actually cast brothers as brothers, you had James and Stacy Keach as Frank and Jesse James, Dennis and Randy Quaid as the Miller brothers and David, Keith and Robert Carradine as the three Younger brothers. Love the scene where they ride their horses through the window in slow motion to escape the sherriff and his posse. Damn fine score by Ry Cooder as well ...

Police drama - Internal Affairs with Richard Gere as the really evil bent cop and Andy Garcia as the officer investigating him.

Weepie - Sophie's Choice with Meryl Streep, it even got me going a bit!

Finally Pam, yes I do remember the Duel with Dennis Weaver (unforgettable as Chester in Gunsmoke). 'Twas Steven Spielberg's first film as a director.

Night all - speak again tomorow

Ry Cooder, that's a name I know...didn't he do a very good cover version of Elvis' song "Little Sister".....remember seeing him on The Old Grey Whistle Test years ago...back later better get ready to go to work.

Just googled him, he did the music for "Southern Comfort " too amongst many others, bet you knew that Ed.
Also............. he's got nice brown eyes!

Gonna be late!!!!!

Westworld....seen it once but many years ago.

The Duellists....sounds like something OH would love, you and him seem to have similar tastes Ed, he watches back to back episodes of Sharpe on a regular basis, and though Sean Bean IS very pleasing on the eye, I just can`t get in to it..

The long riders.... sure iv`e sen it, your description of them riding through the window rings a bell.

Yul Brinner as Taras Bulber, again sounds like something OH would like, but not my cup of tea.

Internal Affairs.......loved that when I was going through my Richard Gere phase, and he was such a Pig {polite} in it, made him all the more appealing.....

Never seen Sophies Choice, though Meryl Streep has made many excellent films Out of africa, A Cry in the dark, {seen that a few times} where she played the hard faced austraian woman whose baby was allegedly taken by a dingo, River Wild {another favourite} Kramer versus Kramer, oh the list is endless...I think shes one of the most nominated actors for Golden Globes/Oscars .etc...

Didn`t know Duel was a Spielberg film......

I see Hand that Rocks the Cradle is on again tommorow night, on ITV may give it another whirl......another film similar to that is Single White Female, where a girl takes in a lodger, who then tries to steal her identity/boyfriend etc.... quite gripping stuff as I remember.


Nicky

Hi Nicky,

yes I'm a great fan of the Sharpe series - but I read all the books first which seems to dull the TV interpretations a little. There's some big discrepencies and "artistic licence" in the TV series - firstly Sharpe is a Londoner in the books; when he takes command of the riflemen he has about 50 men under him (they could have employed a few more extras when they made the first episode) and he is already a Lieutenant by the time he is in the Peninsula (he get's his commission off of Wellington in India). Daniel Hagman gets killed at Waterloo (but I believe he survives in the TV rendition of "Sharpe's Waterloo") - I never saw that one; I was moving house when it was originally screened and I lost the video!!

I do love historical fiction as a whole - and I seriously admire any author who can put a fictional story into a well-documented historical event.

Surfing the web there's a Russian remake of Taras Bulba coming out this year - there's a clip on YouTube and it looks a lot more graphic and the wardrobe is more realistic than the Yul Brynner version. I hope it gets released in the UK and contains the full story of Bulba (originally a short novel by Nikolai Gogol) past the ending in the 1962 film.

As you may have guessed I am a bit of a history buff as well and I loathe it when film makers are sloppy in their props and wardrobe department - I remember seeing a rendition of the "Three Musketeers" or some such in which someone pulls a Derringer pistol! (Derringers were first made in America about 200 years after the period the film is set in.) It also makes me snigger in embarrassment in some of the WW2 films where the Germans are driving 1950s/60s American army surplus tanks.

East is East, Gladiator, The Great escape.

Hi Spinx, it's nice to see someone else contributing to the thread - welcome on board!

I never got to see East is East, but Gladiator is another good film I've seen a good few times now and the Great Escape ranks as one of the classics.

Going back to Alexander Dumas (The Three Musketeers), did anyone see the recent rendition of The Man in the Iron Mask with Leonardo di Caprio in the dual role of King Louis the whatever and Phillipe? I saw it a few years ago and thought it was a very good version of the story.

Evening folks, never seen "The Long Riders Ed," but it sounds good. Never seen Gladiator either (must be the only one who hasn't!) not keen on that Russell Crow...just can't take to him. My hubby is also into Sharp, he could sit and watch it all evening too! Also the history channel is another of his favourites. Was I right with that film "Taras Bulba" Ed? they do all jump over a gorge at the end don't they?

Hi Spinx, as Ed said welcome to our thread...there's not many of us, about three usually eh Ed? Where's our Nicky tonight, maybe she watching the film on channel five "Wyatt Earp", hubby is watching it. Did you see what I said about Ry Cooder Ed? Appparantly he is blind in one eye, didn't realise that...what a talented guitarest though and singer.

East isEast, yes a very funny film, set up north in the seventies, very earthy humour, one of my favourites. It has Dev out of Coronation Street in it and a few other familiar faces too.

Have you ever seen a film made in1985 called "To The Camp and Back". It starred German actor Jan Niklas (brown eyed) and Phoebe nicholls. Now I enjoyed this film, but felt guilty as the story line was an English woman falls in love with a German POW in this country, her husband had been killed in action.

As far as I know it was only ever shown the once on telly.

Hi all......... yes i`m here, just been watching ER.......my all time favourite TV programme, on the last series now, and every episodes a tear jerker, theres talk that George Clooney is coming back for the last episode, as if it wasn`t for ER we`d probably never heard of him.......lets hope his hollywood status hasn`t turned his head, and he comes back to the show that made him....

Pam... these men and their Sharpe....what is it about that programme.?

Havn`t seen Man in the Iron Mask with Leonardo Decaprio, but he is a superb actor......wasn`t he nominated for an oscar/globe etc for that film Ed?

The Great Escape...brilliant, think everyone agrees on that one....

East is East, never seen it

Gladiator... good film but like Pam, can`t take to Russell Crowe...... though he`s good with Meg Ryan in Proof of Life......... its the film where they had an affair when filming and it resulted in her divorce from Dennis Quaid, not long after Russell dumped her..... nice bloke!!!.... See Ed , your not the only one with trivia......lol


Nicky

Hi Nicky, yeah whatever did she see in old fatso Russell Crow, give me Dennis Quaid anyday...please! (even though he's not brown eyed) We liked him in the Big Easy didn't we Nicky...it got very steamy with him and Ellen Barkin.

No Sharp doesn't really do it for me either, hubby sits there glued to it.

Hi Pam, I think they jump the ravine on their horses in the middle - it's one of those initiation tests Bulba's soms have to take to prove they are men and worthy of becoming a cossack or something.

Yes I saw your comment about Ry Cooder - he's been going for years now and contributed to loads of film soundtracks.

I don't like Russell Crowe as a person but he's a good actor.

Never saw "Wyatt Earp" - was that the one with Kevin Costner? I think it came out at the same time as "Tombstone" with Kurt Russell as Earp and Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday, which is another good western. Kurt Russell's portrayal of Earp as a rather angry character was excellent.

To the Camp and Back - the plot rings a bell. Is the German POW assigned to work on the woman's farm, or does gardening for her?

The Sharpe thing is it's a bit of "boy's own" escapism. Loved Pete Postlethwaite's portrayal of the psychopathic Sergeant, Obediah Hakeswill in the series.