And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I didn't know this until he died, but James Garner wrote an autobiography that was pretty rough on Bronson and McQueen both, especially in regards to this movie.
I'd never heard of that, but immediately found that in his book "The Garner Files," Garner calls his friend Steve McQueen, of the original 1968 “Thomas Crown Affair,” an “insecure poseur and not much of an actor.” And Charles Bronson, with whom he co-starred in the 1963 movie “The Great Escape,” “bitter and belligerent.”
I was sad to read that. It doesn't change my appreciation of McQueen or Bronson, but it's lowered my opinion of James Garner (who I loved in Maverick, The Rockford Files and Murphy's Romance.)
I flipped through a copy of football player/actor Jim Brown's auto-biography or biography (don't remember which). I was looking for his experiences filming The Dirty Dozen. Brown said Bronson was one of the toughest, strongest men he had ever known. A legit tough guy from his youth working in the coal mines. Brown talked about how Bronson would walk up to a car and flat footed jump over it.
Great actors, great film.
ReplyDeleteSic transit gloria mundi. (All glory is fleeting)
Bad photo chop photo.
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To this day, all 3 are still some of my all time favs.
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ReplyDeleteCharles Bronson Steve McQueen James Coburn not sure of the guy in the shades
ReplyDeleteThe guy in the shades is the director, John Sturges.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know this until he died, but James Garner wrote an autobiography that was pretty rough on Bronson and McQueen both, especially in regards to this movie.
ReplyDeleteI'd never heard of that, but immediately found that in his book "The Garner Files," Garner calls his friend Steve McQueen, of the original 1968 “Thomas Crown Affair,” an “insecure poseur and not much of an actor.” And Charles Bronson, with whom he co-starred in the 1963 movie “The Great Escape,” “bitter and belligerent.”
DeleteI was sad to read that. It doesn't change my appreciation of McQueen or Bronson, but it's lowered my opinion of James Garner (who I loved in Maverick, The Rockford Files and Murphy's Romance.)
I flipped through a copy of football player/actor Jim Brown's auto-biography or biography (don't remember which). I was looking for his experiences filming The Dirty Dozen. Brown said Bronson was one of the toughest, strongest men he had ever known. A legit tough guy from his youth working in the coal mines. Brown talked about how Bronson would walk up to a car and flat footed jump over it.
DeleteDon't give a sh*t, still the manliness of men.............
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