Today’s film treat was a largely unknown but rather entertaining Space Western called OUTLAND.
Made in 1980 it was a kind of remake of the classic High Noon with a mining space station on Jupiter a Moon standing in for the town of Hadleyville.
The film has Sean Connery in the famous Gary Cooper role with Frances Sternhagen playing his surprising ally in the altered Katy Jurado role, and the whole film is a refreshing twist on the “ sheriff with no friends storyline.
I liked the late Connery in this homage. He underplayed the quiet hero type very well and his scenes with Sternhagen as the foul mouthed over-the-hill station doctor in need of redemption have a rather moving power about them
Did you ever see him in the movie about the crazy poet, 'A Fine Madness'?
ReplyDeleteI didn’t, and it’s film I know little about except his co star jean seberg fell for him
DeleteHe was the 'real' James Bond
ReplyDeleteMost of his movies out of bond I never liked
DeleteI could never get past his comments about how women should be slapped if they were this or that, and that that's what they wanted. Just couldn't. It was a loss because before I heard him say that in a documentary, he was a handsome man, to me. After that, he was ugly. I read today that he later "evolved" and changed his attitude, but for me the damage had already been done -- you know, like what has been seen cannot be unseen. -Kate
ReplyDeleteYes, in some of his interviews, he did come over somewhat badly
DeleteKate
DeleteI feel the same as you about him.When he said it's ok to slap a women with an open hand was ok that's when I changed my mind about him.
Have to agree with Stubblejumpers Cafe. Plus it seems he was a Trump enabler if you can believe the lying turnips Tweet.
ReplyDeleteNever that impressed with is acting either tbh.
Sad for his family and his fans though.
He had a presence on screen, which is a rarity
DeleteLiked him as an actor; didn't like his accent. Sad for his family, quite a decline at the end.
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I know little about his latter years , I loved the untouchables ( he played Irish with a Scots accent) and the hunt for red October ( a Russian with a Scots accent)
DeleteThe movies Outland and A Fine Madness are new to me. Anyone remember Darby O'Gill and the Little People?
ReplyDeleteI quite liked Sir Sean and am glad those who wrote his obituary referred to those comments of his from the 1960s as "of that time" as he did learn better as he aged. I worked with many doctors in the late 1960s and early to mid 1970s who thought they could kiss any nurse they wanted to as well as undo bras and pinch bottoms as those are things the other nurses and I experienced. I'm not saying it was acceptable then, but a life shouldn't be judged on comments made more than 40 years ago.
Sir Sean was nothing akin to the horror and criminal behavior of Trump.
Just saying.
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Babs good point , we know little of the man
DeleteThe real man
I recommend A Fine Madness, he is a young man, I think it was made in '66 or so.
DeleteA mans man totally
ReplyDeleteThe best Bond until the arrival of Daniel Craig who absolutely nails it, the darkness in his soul true to the original books of Ian Fleming.
ReplyDeleteI didn't like many of his films though The Man Who Would Be King was ok.
I like Craig . His grandfather lived 3 mikes from Trelawnyd
DeleteMy husband and I had recorded Outland and we watched it. It was a very good movie. As soon as we finished the movie and put some news on tv, we heard the news that Sean Connery had passed away. So sad. He had lived a long good life. What a year it has been.
ReplyDeleteI read online that his wife said he had been dealing with dementia!
ReplyDeleteConnery was a great talent.
ReplyDeleteI think I first saw him when he had a cameo role in The Hell Drivers; still one of my favourite films.
ReplyDeleteMy 'records' show that [surprise, surprise!] I did indeed see 'Outland' way back in 1981, though I've long since had no memory of it. Clearly didn't make much of an impression. Yet even further back, in 1974 he made another sci-fi romp, 'Zardoz', which was critically dismissed as being risible, and that I DO remember.
ReplyDeleteThose pants
DeleteHe was awesome.
ReplyDeleteTHE James Bond, in my book.
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