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Mel Gibson as William Wallace in "Braveheart"

 

 

hell no, lazy casting and lack of character work. Just robin hood of Scotland ????//

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Charlton Heston as "El Cid".

 

 

 

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another 'fav' of mine in many ways...but hell no, lazy casting.

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Sean Connery as King Richard The Lionheart.

 

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hell no, lazy casting and lack of character work. take the pay check and ran.

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Colin Farrell as Alexander the Great.

 

 

 

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WAY OFF......played like a superhero, not a real person.

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And another casting of Rudyard Kipling, he as usual, did his superb performance.

 

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Christopher Plummer as Kipling in The Man Who Would Be King.

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Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing in "The Imitation Game" ... Turing was the chief genius responsible for breaking the German Enigma Code during WW II.

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Keeping on the Great War theme of British made films about British Forces.

 

 

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James Wilby as Lieutenant Siegfried Sassoon

 

 

 

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Stuart Bunce as Lieutenant Wilfred Owen.

 

 

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Jonathan Pryce as Captain William Halse Rivers Rivers.

 

 

 

The film is Behind the Lines, a 1997 film, I seen it, it's very good.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regeneration_%281997_film%29

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And one more notable who's portrayed in the film.

 

 

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Dougray Scott as Captain Robert Graves. (Could'nt find an image of Scott in uniform in this film, so had to settle for a random one).

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Don't see him in a Topic search so from A Bridge Too Far here we have.

 

Anthony Hopkins as John "Johnny" Frost CB, DSO & Bar, MC, DL

 

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Don't see him in a Topic search so from A Bridge Too Far here we have.

 

Anthony Hopkins as John "Johnny" Frost CB, DSO & Bar, MC, DL

 

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Something odd in Johnny Frost pic.

Isn't he wearing his Sam Brown belt incorrectly. The cross chest belt isn't doing that and is on the same side as its attachment.

Is this a Highland way of wearing this belt ? Why ?

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Something odd in Johnny Frost pic.

Isn't he wearing his Sam Brown belt incorrectly. The cross chest belt isn't doing that and is on the same side as its attachment.

Is this a Highland way of wearing this belt ? Why ?

He's wears what seems to be leather suspender/harness type of rig, note the strap and buckle on the other side, the sun's glare hides a bit the strap going over the shoulder.

 

Something similar seen on Caine's Bromhead.

 

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It's now available on DVD finally, and inexpensive. No joke, when I looked for this around 4 years ago it was unbelievably expensive, something like starting at $100, and that was only the VHS I recall :o .

 

When it first was released in 2013 on DVD it had some glitches, missing scenes etc.

 

So it appears if your interested you must get this one, it's a 2014 remastered re release of what is supposed to be the complete series.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00MARZSW6/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_1?pf_rd_p=1944687462&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B009OE2O70&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1YY14GT4GWKRE82G08PE

Got it a few weeks ago, watching it now, great series, it bit hard to watch though as it has no scene selection, in others words, if your like me and watch stuff over a period of several nights, you can't just select the scene you left off at, you got to start at the beginning and fast forward, viewing everything and pausing and playing at the point you left off at. Apart from that, it worth the buy, as it's now inexpensive. Make sure though you buy the one I linked, any others apparently are butchered versions IE Cuts and Deleted scenes.

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The Late Frank Thring, this Australian actor played a few notable characters from history.

 

To wit.

 

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Ælla of Northumbria in The Vikings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86lla_of_Northumbria

 

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Pontius Pilate in Ben Hur.


 

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And Al Kadir Emir of Valencia in El Cid (Al Kadir based on composite Moorish figures from the era)

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Having some fun tonight with Washington DC.

 

From the movie The Pink Panther Strikes Again.

 

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Dick Crockett as President Gerald Ford.

 

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Byron Kane as Henry Kissinger.

 

Now in the credits they are not listed as such but clearly this who they are in this 1976 movie, Crockett falling and tripping, and Kane with a German accent :lol: .

 

When the hell can we start deleting images again for Christ sake!!!

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