Strange to see such a young O'toole... here he is with Paula Prentiss.
Posted on 12/15/2013 10:42:45 AM PST by vladimir998
Must be from Lawrence. Great scene. Well the whole movie is one big great scene!
Yes, he always praised America.
Hi, beaversmom. I share your well expressed views on Peter O’Toole. :)
Yes. I saw Lawrence of Arabia in the Original CINERAMA Theater in Boston (3D, Stereo Sound) when it first came out. People were throwing up during the Motorcycle Scene!
I loved the quite irreverent “The Ruling Class”
I always knew you had great taste lp! :)
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Some other good otoole clips on you tube.
My favorite year was a tour de force as was Lawrence and some others.
He was bigger than life and one of a few actors I would go see perform regardless of the movie.
I know I’m going to regret this but why were people throwing up during “the motorcycle scene”?
MASADA was a great and under-rated mini-series. It came from a historical novel by Ernest Gann called the Antagonist the adoption from book to film worked well. I’ve shown the mini-series to Western Civ history classes because it brings two sides of an ancient conflict to life so well.
O’Toole was great as was the supporting cast.
At the time this movie first came out, I believe it was thought to be about an appearance by Errol Flynn on Your Show of Shows with Syd Caesar; and, the flunkie who was trying to keep him in check was a young Mel Brooks who worked as a writer for the show.
I’ll join the ranks of those who loved him in “The Lion in Winter.” His performance was a treat.
He was also very good as the Pope in “The Tudors.”
One of my favorite movies. “There’s ‘Out,’ and there’s ‘Out!’”
Cinerama was a an incredible experience at the time. Up till that time, movies were flat and in monaural sound. Cinerama was the forerunner to IMAX, had a huge wraparound screen, three projectors that crossed each other creating stereoscopic (3D)vision, a five HUGE Altec-Lansing “Voice of the Theater” Speakers, the sound of which rumbled the seats. The first Cinerama movie was of a roller coaster ride and had a similar effect.
Remember, we are used to this kind of cinematic realism now, but then, it was totally new!
Strange to see such a young O'toole... here he is with Paula Prentiss.
I LOVED him in MASADA, even though he was the “bad guy”.
Hey...bit of trivia...
When I was at Masada in 1984, there were catapults and trebouchets sitting around at the base of the mountain.
They were left there, not by the Romans, but by the prop crew of the miniseries.
“The trick is not minding that it hurts.”
Great actor. Rest in peace Mr. O’Toole
Thank you! I actually watched that while looking for the quote I remember. I didn’t find the particular one I remember though. As I recall, the Hollywood brats were all turning their acceptance speeches into anti American speeches, and cheering each other for their efforts. O’Toole came up to speak. I don’t remember if he was accepting an award, or presenting one. He said “America has always been very good to me.” It was not well received by those in attendance. They were on a feeding frenzy. I don’t recall him saying anything else. I remember him looking befuddled, as though he was completely shocked by the views of those around him. Like he had fully expected a rational reaction to the attacks against us, and never suspected that Hollywood truly hated America, and like he couldn’t understand how that was even possible. That’s the way I remember it anyway.
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