Now Screening - What Are You Watching Right Now?

[Macca]

I read somewhere that Eastwood never blinked when firing a gun, a rare thing apparently.

I don't know about that, I don't blink. But saw an interview with Arnie where he said he had to train for ages on 'The Terminator' to stop himself doing it.

[walpurgis]

Like with Bogart you can watch Eastwood films many times and not got bored of them - can't say that about most of the modern films which aren't even worth watching once.

I dunno. When you've watched Clyde bop a hell's angel a couple of times it gets a bit samey .

[walpurgis]

I read somewhere that Eastwood never blinked when firing a gun, a rare thing apparently.

I don't either. Did a lot of shooting.

[struth]

I don't know about that, I don't blink. But saw an interview with Arnie where he said he had to train for ages on 'The Terminator' to stop himself doing it.

its a rare thing, but you can train it out of yourself apparently. havent shot since i was about 20

[struth]

The Lone Ranger (2013).




In an interview, Johnny Depp thanked his stunt horse, Scout, for saving his life after a violent fall during filming. After Scout dragged Depp 25 feet, Scout jumped over him to avoid stepping on him. A clip of the fall shows the horse clearly jumping over Depp, and detaching him from the saddle. Depp suffered only minor bruises and scrapes, but says it could have been a lot worse if the horse had stepped on him.

The "frame story" where young Will meets the old Tonto takes place in 1933, the year of the first Lone Ranger radio broadcast.

Todd McDaniels, a linguist at the Comanche Nation College, commented favorably on Johnny Depp's attempts to speak Comanche, a language with 23 to 30 living native speakers. "The words were there, the pronunciation was shaky, but adequate."

[struth]

Looper, 2012..

[struth]

The Devil and Miss Jones, 1941..

[struth]

The Pearl of Death, 1944...




Holmes tells Watson that if he's wrong about the pearl's hiding place, "I shall retire to Sussex and keep bees." In the original Holmes stories, this is exactly what he does upon retirement.

[struth]

The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1939..




In the original novel, and in all later film versions, the butler is named Barrymore. In this version, the butler was renamed Barryman since the famous Barrymore family - Lionel Barrymore, Ethel Barrymore and John Barrymore - were still acting in films at the time.

The impressive interior set for Baskerville Hall was subsequently recycled by Fox, most notably for their last Charlie Chan feature, Castle in the Desert (1942).

[struth]

We're No Angels, 1955.. watch this a lot as its a great example of a small group of excellent actors all pulling together. Bogey was the top star of course and shows he could do anything, even comedy.