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 recently tried to trade in a whole set of MacClain books at the local used book store. They were turned down because "nobody reads those any more". That's when I knew the world is populated by snowflakes and is going to hell.
Same guy who wrote Guns of Navarone. Richard Burton looked like he was thinking about something more important all through that picture. To me, he showed how effortless his acting was, and he made everyone else look wooden.
WHERE Eagles Dare - great scenery acting, and characters, back when movies were believable. If netflix or disney did it then, Redd Foxx & Richard Pryor would have starred.
Guns Of Navarone Ice Station Zebra Where Eagles Dare Breakheart Pass Force 10 From Navarone Those and half a dozen more were made into films. Most of which, after the first four, purely sucked.
Pity, because the ones not made into movies all could be, tomorrow. But Hollyweird would screw the pooch. Someone already probably owns the rights, just to see that they aren't made.
His books, however, purely kicked ass. He was the trailbreaker for later authors like Jack Higgins and Tom Clancy.
His opener was H.M.S. Ulysses. Naval surface warfare types will cream themselves reading it. Bubbleheads, not so much.
After that he wrote an unbroken string of best-sellers, all highly recommended. And no, you can't borrow mine.
The best quintuple agent movie ever!
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"I'll take Publicity art for scenes that never happened in the movie for $500, Alex."
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed his books. I never see them anymore.
ReplyDeleteI recently tried to trade in a whole set of MacClain books at the local used book store. They were turned down because "nobody reads those any more". That's when I knew the world is populated by snowflakes and is going to hell.
DeleteYou are correct.
DeleteAnd it's "MacLean".
A proper Scot.
Reminds me of cartoonist Gary Larson's "crisis center" on fire, floating down the river and heading for the water falls.
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ReplyDeleteAlistair MacLean
ReplyDeleteSame guy who wrote Guns of Navarone. Richard Burton looked like he was thinking about something more important all through that picture. To me, he showed how effortless his acting was, and he made everyone else look wooden.
ReplyDeleteAlso the same guy that wrote Ice Station Zebra
ReplyDeleteCan't wait for the Netflix remake!
ReplyDeleteI remember it well. I'm not buying that operational helicopter, though.
ReplyDeleteWHERE Eagles Dare - great scenery acting, and characters, back when movies were believable. If netflix or disney did it then, Redd Foxx & Richard Pryor would have starred.
ReplyDeleteAlistair MacLean very partial list:
ReplyDeleteGuns Of Navarone
Ice Station Zebra
Where Eagles Dare
Breakheart Pass
Force 10 From Navarone
Those and half a dozen more were made into films. Most of which, after the first four, purely sucked.
Pity, because the ones not made into movies all could be, tomorrow.
But Hollyweird would screw the pooch.
Someone already probably owns the rights, just to see that they aren't made.
His books, however, purely kicked ass.
He was the trailbreaker for later authors like Jack Higgins and Tom Clancy.
His opener was H.M.S. Ulysses.
Naval surface warfare types will cream themselves reading it.
Bubbleheads, not so much.
After that he wrote an unbroken string of best-sellers, all highly recommended.
And no, you can't borrow mine.