29 thoughts on “Rex Harrison Movies”

1. It actually always struck me as an ironic coincidence that in Raging Work Horse DeNiro’s boxer Jake LaMotta got to recite Brando’s classic “I coulda been a contender” speech from Waterfront-

   whereas Tennessee Williams effectively blocked ‘Rocky’ Stallone from reproducing the Stanley part in a big-screen remake of Streetcar. The world can surprise you with how fair it can be at times!

   Wisely, over here at least, the distributors gave Banshees only a limited Art House release, accurately assessing that it would mostly appeal to artistic connoisseurs such as I.

   And if you are in touch with Steve again, WH, in whatever one of those alternative universes where he currently lurks tell him that Banshees is not a horror movie and it shouldn’t go into his Xmas movies video.

   Actually I was wondering if there is a coincidence in Steve’s absence with the fact that when Martin Luther King was assassinated Brando went absence from films for a time, so demoralised was he by Dr King’s death. You know, Work Horse, how Steve likes to emulate Brando and other Legends.

   And I did notice that when Steve went AWOL last summer it was round-about the time his own political hero Boris “Big Dog” Johnson lost the British Conservative party leadership.

   Although as you know Steve has always been a big hit with me and indeed many others on this site – I’m afraid he wouldn’t have gone down well with Laddie or The Duke.That’s because Steve, whilst probably a moderate or even conservative voter himself most likely lives in one of what are called the “Red Wall” voting districts of England.

   Anyway in a nutshell my main point here is that as the old cliché goes you should always “follow the money”. Anyone who has read my own posts – and there will be many of them out there; reading my posts probably account for about 90% of the total views that the Cogerson site racks up – will know that whereas despite my misgivings about Myrna Loy I always thought that she deserved Oscar-love as much as most stars and more-so than many;

   but unfortunately she had no box office clout to encourage the “money vultures” to fight her corner. They were simply not interested in sponsoring one of the uncommercial “leading ladies” of Gable, Powell and Leach.

   And finally a “word to the wise guy” himself. You are undoubtedly one of the most active and purposeful guys that I have had the pleasure to come across BUT – whilst it is undoubtedly a healthy lifestyle choice and commendable athletic feat – running up and down the Rocky Steps like a [this time Race] Horse will never turn anyone into a good actor or great boxer.

   If that WAS an automatic key to greatness in those activities whoever Stallone’s double was might well have eclipsed Brando’s Stanley on screen or Ali in the ring.

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   1. Hey Bob….Steve has said a return visit to UMR is coming in the near future. We have been discussing a recent trivia that has really blown my mind. A little background.

      Over the weekend, WoC and I saw A Man Called Otto in theaters….and The Duke at home. The Duke which stars Helen Mirren and Jim Broadbent. It revolves around the stealing of a Goya painting in the early 1960s. In real life the painting was missing for 4 years.

      When Dr. No came out in 1962, the painting was missing. There is a scene in Dr. No’s lair where Connery stops and looks at a painting. That painting was a copy of the stolen Goya. The joke being that Dr. No had the missing photo. Apparently the Bond producers have been doing this in joke for numerous Bond movies.

      Steve was aware of the joke…but another UMR Hall of Famer, George, who is a huge Bond fan, had no idea that was there….I told George “It’s like a joke that took you 60 years to understand.”
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8ZFCF-C0W0&t=183s

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      1. HI BRUCE

         Thanks for the reply, new interesting trivia and the link.

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