Reply With QuoteAh, you may be slightly underwhelmed then, in that case. He rarely looked better thoughOriginally Posted by Sir C
Not Gene Hackman's
A fine actor, but casting him as a Polish colonel was a bit odd.
Ah, you may be slightly underwhelmed then, in that case. He rarely looked better though
"Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.
"But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."
Yes. Completely miscast, of course, though. Marlowe is described repeatedly as looking like the quintessential rugged, All-American hero. Elliott Gould looks like..well...Elliott Gould.Ah, you may be slightly underwhelmed then, in that case. He rarely looked better though
Last edited by Burney; 02-02-2017 at 03:38 PM.
Agreed. I love Guy Ritchie but I can never bring myself to watch his Sherlock Holmes for just that same reason. *This* man is Sherlock Holmes
"Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.
"But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."
I'm sure he used the same accent for the blind monk in Young FrankensteinNot Gene Hackman's
A fine actor, but casting him as a Polish colonel was a bit odd.
Sherlock Holmes has been so buggered about with now that it's all academic imo.
He'll always be Basil Rathbone to me. Did you know Basil Rathbone won the MC? After his brother was killed, he used to snipe the German front line in broad daylight while dressed as a tree. Bizarrely, he served in the same regiment as Claude Rains and Ronald Colman
Terrific! I didn't know any of that.
"Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.
"But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."
Yes. Extraordinary stuff, isn't it? Apparently, old Basil offed an awful lot of Huns before becoming Sherlock Holmes.
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