Maybe not great Kirby but a very good one about the American Revolution is The Devil's Diciple (1959) starring Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas and Laurence Olivier.
Simon Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device -----Original Message----- From: Kirby McDaniel <[email protected]> Sender: MoPo List <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 08:58:01 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: Kirby McDaniel <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MOPO] I re-watched Die Hard the other day (for the first time since 1988) Yeah! Like in THE PATRIOT. Cartoon English soldier keeps Mel Gibson from joining the Tea Party! What an thoroughly idiotic film. It is said that there has never been a really great film about the American Revolution. Would MOPOers agree? Kirby On May 23, 2012, at 8:46 AM, Simon Oram wrote: > Make sure the villain is English and you have a hit, a great Hollywood > tradition which goes back quite a long way. > > John Lithgow is an exceptionally good bad guy and I always thought he was > English until I checked - must of been his hammy Shakespearean roots. > > Simon > Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device > From: Bruce Hershenson <[email protected]> > Sender: MoPo List <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 06:02:57 -0500 > To: <[email protected]> > ReplyTo: Bruce Hershenson <[email protected]> > Subject: [MOPO] I re-watched Die Hard the other day (for the first time since > 1988) > > I re-watched Die Hard the other day (for the first time since 1988) and I was > reminded of just how excellent a movie it was. It has a great script and > great performances by Bruce Willis and Bonnie Bedelia, but what really makes > it "work" so well is the remarkable performance by Alan Rickman as the > villain (and amazingly he had never been in a movie before!). > > The producers of the James Bond and Mission Impossible type movies should > ALWAYS hire a really first-rate actor (Ben Kingsley, Geoffrey Rush, F. Murray > Abraham, Bob Hoskins, etc) to play the villain, because it adds SO MUCH to > the movie (and of course it also makes sense to find the most beautiful women > in the world, whether or not they can act at all)! > > Bruce > > -- > Bruce Hershenson and the other 26 members of the eMoviePoster.com team > P.O. Box 874 > West Plains, MO 65775 > Phone: 417-256-9616 (hours: Mon-Fri 9 to 5 except from 12 to 1 when we take > lunch) > our site > our auctions > > > Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com > ___________________________________________________________________ > How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List > Send a message addressed to: [email protected] > In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L > The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. > Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [email protected] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
