THE ACADEMY AWARDS BIG FIVEIn the history of the Oscars, only three films have swept the so-called “Big Five” categories, which include Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay. The first was 1934’s “It Happened One Night,” earning Frank Capra, Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, and Robert Riskin individual awards in theContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: FILM #30”
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BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: FILM #29
A STUNTMAN DESCRIBES SADDLE FALLS IN THE MOIVIE THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE “In the final dramatic sequence, where the Lancers charge the cannons of the Russian army, I took numerous ‘saddle falls’ rigged by ‘the running W.’ A cable was strung from an old car axle, driven in the ground, and then tiedContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: FILM #29”
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