FlyBackTransformer Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 Well, what am I suppose to do with a whole day of Rex Harrison? *Nothin'!* Tonite I will finally watch my Ghost of Frankenstein/Son of Dracula vcd. The Sand Pebbles comes on a local PBS station at eight tonite, JakeHolman may wanna tune in if he can get it, I myself only really like the beginning of the film with the local indigenous fellas in the engine room. I myself feel that the film never really gets going what with a PC martinet officer like Richard Crenna so I'll just watch my vcd. I'm outta fresh CD-Rs so I hadda use some old mouldy CD-RW disc I scrounged from one of my spools. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wouldbestar Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 FlyBackTransformer wrote: Well, what am I supposed to do with a whole day of Rex Harrison? Nothin'! What else can you do? As far as I'm concerned SUTS ended yesterday. I've been watching old Westerns and waiting for *Kansas* *City Confidential* and *Abbott & Costello Meet the Mummy* tonight. I've never seen a movie I liked Mr. Harrison in and think him overrated. I can't even put actor as a tag on this post. Is it true that nobody came to his funeral? Was he that disliked? At least Walter Winchel's daughter showed up for his and she was the only mourner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swithin Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 The Sand Pebbles actually has quite a literate script, by Robert Anderson, who wrote Tea and Sympathy. Really nice, erudite man. Regarding Rex Harrison, I agree with you. He was fun in Night Train to Munich, but I think his Oscar win for My Fair Lady was one of the great travesties of the Academy Awards. Every other nominated actor that year (Burton, O'Toole, Quinn, Sellers) gave a better performance. I've seen Harrison on stage twice, in Aren't We All and The Admirable Crichton. He was ok. I've heard he was an SOB! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakeem Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 Did Carole Landis' suicide have a negative impact on Harrison's career? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesJazGuitar Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 According to what I found on Wikipedia, Fox and Harrison agreed to end his contract after Landis' suicide and the associated negative press. After Unfaithfully Yours he didn't make an American film until 6 years later and no films at all for 3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakeem Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 Wow! And this is the same guy who went out of his way to prevent Kay Kendall from finding out that she had a terminal illness! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MovieMadness Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 That PBS station runs come good movies, I missed some of Planet Of The Apes a few weeks back. The Sand pebbles was nice to see again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo2 Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 RO's introduction of the film "The Foxes of Harrow" tonight where he recounts the friction between Rex Harrison and Maureen O'Hara during the filming of this movie, and his mentioning that Harrison was married 6 times, pretty much DOES confirm the thought that the guy was a real "Piece O' Work", doesn't it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 I tried to watch THE SAND PEBBLES. Borrrrrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrroberts Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 I remember watching Rex's son , Noel Harrison, costar with Stefanie Powers in The Girl From U.N.C.L.E.. Noel looks and sounds a lot like his dad, I wonder how close their personal relationship was? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrroberts Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 I find *The Sand Pebbles* to be an intriguing story, great acting by Steve McQueen and Richard Attenborough. Very well filmed, the ship board action seems very real. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 Too bad you feel that way, finance. I found it compelling. Yeah, it drags a bit here and there, but when you do ANY movie involving China's political history, it can't be helped. It was so complex( China's history, I mean) and often confusing and never really covered well in American World History classes. Robert S. Elegant's book "The Dynasty", although heavily peppered in soap opera-ish storyline, paints a very clear picture of this complex national story. What I find amusing about it is, I meet people often who after seeing it for the first time, voice surprise that Candace Bergen was once a "serious" actress. Many admit they only first knew her from "Murphy Brown". Or, at the very earliest, "T.R. Baskin". Sepiatone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrroberts Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 I just read the Wiki entry for the film, very interesting stuff about the making of the film. Anyone have the recent DVD of it? Anyone familiar with the original book and if the film is close to it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimred99 Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 mrroberts, Noel Harrison sang the song Windmills of your Mind for a Steve McQueen film called The Thomas Crown Affair. He hated his father because his father always took his girlfriends away from him. And about the Sand Pebbles I have it on dvd and watched all the specials when I got it about 2 years ago. I don't have the book but believe the movie is close to the story. Richard McKenna the author enlisted in the Navy in 1931. He was stationed on gunboats in the Yangtze River and heard many stories about the 1920's Chinese Revolution. He decided he would write a novel one day based on all the stories and called it The Sand Pebbles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twinkeee Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 Finaceu wrote: "I tried to watch THE SAND PEBBLES Borrrrong" Now finaceu.....unless someone is on a stationary bike, you probably find every movie Borrrong! Twink Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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