Some old Photos for your enjoyment

[richhodg66]

Mark Twain with his Colt Model 1903 pistol, 1908.

 

[RicinYakima]

Yep! Colt had Mark Twain for their 32 ACP's and Savage had Bat Masterson selling their 32 ACP's.

 

[Bret4207]

I passed on a few of those old Colts. Wish I'd picked up at least one!

 

[Winelover]

Picture of my wife with her father, back in Pennsylvania, circa 1955. George died in 1976 at 44 years old. Navy veteran, served on a battleship.

 

[richhodg66]

Always impresses me how fit people looked back then than nowadays. I am sorry he passed so young.

 

[richhodg66]

Sister Wilfrid, Sister Mary Janet and Sister Mary, Sisters of Divine Providence set their sights as they try out new .22 caliber guns presented to them at camp Mishannock by Harrington and Richardson of Worcester. The guns will be used in a rifle training program at the camp.Three of the nuns will be instructors in the rifle program. USA - Massachusetts, Kingston, 12 July 1957

 

[richhodg66]

Caption said from Wortham, Texas in 1924.

 

[Missionary]

That photo is a jewel !

 

[Winelover]

The motorcycle that Marlon Brando rides in 1953’s The Wild One was his personal Triumph Thunderbird 6T!

 

[richhodg66]

I'm a fan of Triumphs and own and ride one, but I thought that movie wasn't very good at all.

 

[462]

The movie was Hollywood's version of the Hollister invasion/riot.

Hollister is a 45 minute drive from my house.

There is a story I may tell sometime involving my wife and I, and the president of the local Hells Angles chapter.

 

[Bret4207]

I've watched a bunch of Brandos movies. I still don't see him as very good.

 

[Snakeoil]

Article I read years ago said they wanted all Harleys for the movie, but could not procure them.

 

[richhodg66]

I've watched a bunch of Brandos movies. I still don't see him as very good.

I've always felt he was over rated as well.

 

[Bret4207]

Just my opinion, but a good actor doesn't look like he's acting. Brando, and a whole lotta others!, always plainly appeared to be acting. Just not convincing I guess. It's the roles they play I suppose, but that's what made some actors better, choosing/getting the right role. Thats about as much as I know about the whole acting biz, except that it's incredibly over valued and over paid.

 

[Glaciers]

I’ve always called them stick actors.

 

[Bret4207]

I was reading a review of "Man in a Net", an old Alan Ladd movie that really wasn't very good at all. It was in his later years when the booze really had a hold on him. The guy referred to Ladds acting style as "The Cigar Store Wooden Indian style of acting"! It was hilarious, and right on target. He was just trying to make some $$$, he had zero interest in the movie, you could tell.

Richard Burton was another I just didn't get the big deal about. He and William Shatner seem about on the same level in my mind, and I know that's blasphemy! Being "intense" is fine, but come on!

I'll give you a couple people that really can act. Geoffrey Rush, the bad ghost pirate captain in "Pirates of the Carribean", but also the protagonist in "The Kings Speech". I couldn't beleive it was the same guy! Edward G Robinson, watch him in "Key Largo" or something and the in "Our Vines have Tender Leaves". It's like it's not even the same guy. Paul Muni is another that was like that. None of them were naturals at the roles like Barry Fitzgerald in "The Quiet Man" or "The Naked City", but they weren't playing anything like similar characters. I dunno, those guys impressed me I guess.

 

[RBHarter]

Unfortunately many actors get stuck in a type cast .

Allen Tudyk has managed to avoid it .
Ewen Bremer has too .

 

[richhodg66]

I was reading a review of "Man in a Net", an old Alan Ladd movie that really wasn't very good at all. It was in his later years when the booze really had a hold on him. The guy referred to Ladds acting style as "The Cigar Store Wooden Indian style of acting"! It was hilarious, and right on target. He was just trying to make some $$$, he had zero interest in the movie, you could tell.

Richard Burton was another I just didn't get the big deal about. He and William Shatner seem about on the same level in my mind, and I know that's blasphemy! Being "intense" is fine, but come on!

I'll give you a couple people that really can act. Geoffrey Rush, the bad ghost pirate captain in "Pirates of the Carribean", but also the protagonist in "The Kings Speech". I couldn't beleive it was the same guy! Edward G Robinson, watch him in "Key Largo" or something and the in "Our Vines have Tender Leaves". It's like it's not even the same guy. Paul Muni is another that was like that. None of them were naturals at the roles like Barry Fitzgerald in "The Quiet Man" or "The Naked City", but they weren't playing anything like similar characters. I dunno, those guys impressed me I guess.

Key Largo is, in my opinion, hands down the best Bogart movie ever, but it was as much or more due to Robinson's part than Bogart (gotta admit to having a crush on young Laren Bacall too).

The King's Speech was a surprisingly good movie, my wife couldn't understand what I saw in it, she thought it was slow and dull. The old' Guy flicks are always about conflict, chick flicks are always about relationships" thing didn't seem to work in that case.

 

[462]

In my opinion, "The African Queen", with Bogart and Katherine Hepburn, was his best movie.