Thursday, April 19, 2018

On the set of "The Great Escape," 1963


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  1. Great actors, great film.

    Sic transit gloria mundi. (All glory is fleeting)

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  2. Bad photo chop photo.

    Spin

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  3. To this day, all 3 are still some of my all time favs.

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  4. Charles Bronson Steve McQueen James Coburn not sure of the guy in the shades

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  5. The guy in the shades is the director, John Sturges.

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  6. 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.

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    1. 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.)

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    2. 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.

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  7. Don't give a sh*t, still the manliness of men.............

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