Pahonu wrote:
NEXT QUESTION: What were TM's and Rick's favorite movies? (I would suppose Higgins favorite could be "The Bridge on the River Kwai", but didn't he once make a disparaging remark about it?)
Rick's has to be Casablanca with his Bogey impersonation in the pilot. Magnum's must be Stalag 17 with Bill Holden, though he seems to love lots of whodunnits. I always liked the original idea of Rick owning a club inhabited by the underworld. I wonder how that could have been developed.Edit: I was a film major and wrote a research paper on David Lean's The Bridge on the River Kwai, another Bill Holden film. It was the 1957 Academy Award winning best film and Alec Guinness won the best actor Oscar for his portrayal of Col. Nicholson as did Lean for direction. The Japanese silent film star, Sessue Hayakawa came out of retirement to portray Col. Saito. The two writers were blacklisted and the Oscar for screenplay went to the French author Pierre Boulle who spoke no English!I think Higgins disliked the fact that the film changed the circumstances under which the bridge was destroyed. It was bombed rather than destroyed by detonation. Madness! Madness!
Hi Pohonu
You are right of course.
You know it's a rare movie that is better than the original book it is based on. "Bridge on the River Kwai" is light years better than the book, as is "True Grit" and most amazingly, "To Have and to Have Not", which was based on a series of strung together short stories by Ernest Hemingway, definitely one of his lesser efforts.
And "The Ten Commandments" packs a lot more star power than it's source material.
NEXT QUESTION:
What is the slogan of the ANIGRAMS company, and in what episode do it's employees memorably appear?
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"Today we're going to explore some flora and fauna, and if we're lucky we might see some plants and animals too!" Russell Coight, Outback dweller and Ocker, and host of "All Aussie Adventures" TV series.