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Post by Doghouse6 on Jan 19, 2022 0:24:57 GMT
I'm sure most of us recognized ol' Roy (or should I say young Roy). I know I did, but had no clue about the film. It was easy enough to ID with a few seconds of research, but I didn't post it because I do that only when I can do so from what's in my own noggin without looking anything up. It would feel like cheating if I took credit for knowing something I didn't. Honestly, I remembered the movie but couldn't bring the title to mind without looking it up. I did know that Hudson, like Curtis and Newman, had made a sword fighting fantasy adventure and that I had seen it sometime in the distant past. Ah, see, now, that's not cheating. That's just recovering something you knew you knew but were temporarily unable to recall (these are among the little rules I make for myself). When I found the title, I had nothing but, "Never heard of it." Looks like it could be fun. Many of those Universal examples of Technicolor exotica of the '40s - '50s were. Besides Hudson and Laurie, when ya got character players like George Macready, Steven Geray, Edgar Barrier and Gene Evans (Gene Evans?!), who needs Maria Montez or Sabu? I'll make a point of tracking it down for some late-night, undemanding entertainment.
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Post by wmcclain on Jan 19, 2022 23:55:09 GMT
At age 21, Piper ("At the Gates of Dawn") Laurie was already a seasoned campaigner. Golden Blade was her third sword-and-sandals film.  |
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Post by Rufus-T on Jan 20, 2022 2:40:56 GMT
At age 21, Piper ("At the Gates of Dawn") Laurie was already a seasoned campaigner. Golden Blade was her third sword-and-sandals film. The young Piper Laurie was quite a looker.
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Post by mikef6 on Jan 20, 2022 3:35:06 GMT
At age 21, Piper ("At the Gates of Dawn") Laurie was already a seasoned campaigner. Golden Blade was her third sword-and-sandals film. The young Piper Laurie was quite a looker. And she knew how to sport a bullet bra.
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Post by timshelboy on Jan 20, 2022 9:54:02 GMT
My gift to the CFB Piper Laurie fan club  Fineartamerica sell Tshirts, totebags, stationary and scatter cushions with this portrait of Piper See link  Piper paraphernalia
David Quinlan on Piper " Red haired, a photographer's dream, Piper really was a pretty package, with full lips, appealing hazel eyes, a cute nose and a figure that set male mouths gaping as it wriggled its way through a maze of iron bars in the Easterns with Tony Curtis that made them a hot romantic team. After 6 yeas as a Casbah spitfire, Piper went away and gradually proved herself as a serious actress, chalking up 3 oscar nominations."
HAS ANYBODY SEEN MY GAL, a charming period family comedy from Douglas Sirk( also with Rock), and SMOKE SIGNAL, a tense western adventure mostly focused on a dangerous escape via raft down river rapids from Indian attack, with Dana Andrews, are probably the best I have seen from her 50s studio player days. Not too much wriggling in revealing Casbah outfits in either, sadly, but both Recommended.   Not quite recommended, but watchable/interesting - She played the slutty sister in Robert Wise's UNTIL THEY SAIL (Jean Simmons, Joan Fontaine and Sandra Dee being unlikely screen siblings but what classic movie buff could resist that cast - plus Paul Newman as Jean's swain)  and here is her TV DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES - a playhouse 90 from 1958 with Cliff Robertson DAYS OF WINE & ROSES 1958 |
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