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Old 24-08-2008, 12:43 PM
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Reference the many other imported Brits, was that because Americans knew that we Brits give good medieval??

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The Black Shield of Falworth (1954) is actually an American film but could well be the one you're thinking of. It's a Knights in armour Medieval pic set in Britain. It has Tony, in his best Bronx accent, say "This is the palace of my faddah, and yonda lies his valley"

With David Farrar, Torin Thatcher and many other imported Brits

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He was in Trapeze with Burt Lancaster, I believe that was made in the UK as it was directed by Carol Reed and had Sid James in it.

Those Sword and the Rose, etc that you mentioned were made for Disney I believe as I read that they were in the James Robertson-Justice biography
"Trapeze" was an American film ( Hecht Lancaster production) mainly made on location at a real circus in the centre of Paris, Cirque d'Hiver, 110 rue Amelot, Paris. Its still there with regular circus performances, I've been there several times and it is exactly as it was in the movie. Carol Reed directed but no filming in the UK as far as I know. On a historical note Cirque d'Hiver is where the trapeze act was first exhibited by Mr Leotard in the 1800's.
Fast forwarding to the 1960's, "Monte Carlo or Bust" has a Brit feel to it with Pete and Dud, Jack Hawkins, Susan Hampshire and numerous other Brit actors in a Tony Curtis movie filmed in England and around Europe. I think the production studio base was in Rome though.
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Reference the many other imported Brits, was that because Americans knew that we Brits give good medieval??

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That's because there was no medieval United States.
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In my younger days (and before you ask, it was the fifties) we used to have a hair-cut called "THE Tony Curtis style". All of us boys wanted to look like this guy, he was the best looking actor in Hollywood at the time. So, it wasn't a mullet, it was an original hair design called after the actor.
That is unless you look back at Francis Llederer several years earlier.
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They "seem" to be a series, as they all stared Todd and James RJ. But one starred Joan Rice and the other 2 starred Glynis Johns. Does anyone know of any reason for this?
In Ken Annakin's book So You Want to Be A Director? he recounts that Joan Rice was cast as Maid Marion at the behest of Walt Disney, and try as he might he couldn't convince him otherwise (no-one it seems had a very high opinion of her acting skills).

By the time Disney filmed The Sword and the Rose and Rob Roy he'd changed his mind and Glynis Johns replaced Rice.
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In Ken Annakin's book So You Want to Be A Director? he recounts that Joan Rice was cast as Maid Marion at the behest of Walt Disney, and try as he might he couldn't convince him otherwise (no-one it seems had a very high opinion of her acting skills).

By the time Disney filmed The Sword and the Rose and Rob Roy he'd changed his mind and Glynis Johns replaced Rice.
Apparently, Joan Rice had been a waitress Walt discovered. I've read a couple of biographies of cast members who grumbled (politely) about her 'acting'. She seems perfectly charming on screen, but maybe she was a bit of a Marilyn Monroe to work with - 20 takes to get one good shot? I actually preferred her to Gylis Johns. Not that there's anything wrong with Glynis.
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Well, you'll get no argument from me about the 'best looking guy in Hollywood' tag.

But wasn't this the Tony Curtis Haircut, rather than the above variation?
YEP! That was it. Read Tony's book in it he talks about how even he WANTED to be Tony Curtis! Meaning he created this look and the star he became. In the movie "City Across The River" he was a bit part actor, but all the mail to the studio was for Anthony Curtis!
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I've just finished reading both of Richard Todd's autobiographies and although he mentions all of the films discussed, he doesn't give any particular reason why they appear to be a series.
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