Cannon fodder
Recently viewed and really enjoyed the Pride and the Passion. I remember seeing it as a kid - I'd say it was the summer and ABC Sunday Night at The Movies. The reason I never found it is no wonder - I thought it was called The Gun. Why it stayed in my mind all these years is a quandary.
No wonder I thought it was The Gun. It is a strange dream. They haul that gun across the plain in Spain. [The trailer: "Blistering hands drag their only weapon."] It often seems to be night. They have to hide. They have to do some obscure engineering. A bit of near medieval religiosity. The people are seconds to the gun. Cary Grant is a royal British navy pain - never breaks character. Frank Sinatra is somewhat trapped in a Hoboken state. And Sophia Loren, is women. [As the trailer says:"A woman on fire - a woman to be loved."] Does not live up to Goya, a clear objective; but I was not disappointed after many many years of chewing on the cud of that recuerdo of Avila.
I think the music has something to do with it. You know score-smith George Antheil was a rebel avant-gardist in his early years. [And in the strangest technological episode Hollywood ever saw, he and Hedy Lamar invented a forerunner of modern frequency carrier hopping, which is key to today's cell phones, after a party concert]. Cannon fodder
Recently viewed and really enjoyed the Pride and the Passion. I remember seeing it as a kid - I'd say it was the summer and ABC Sunday Night at The Movies. The reason I never found it is no wonder - I thought it was called The Gun. Why it stayed in my mind all these years is a quandary.
No wonder I thought it was The Gun. It is a strange dream. They haul that gun across the plain in Spain. [The trailer: "Blistering hands drag their only weapon."] It often seems to be night. They have to hide. They have to do some obscure engineering. A bit of near medieval religiosity. The people are seconds to the gun. Cary Grant is a royal British navy pain - never breaks character. Frank Sinatra is somewhat trapped in a Hoboken state. And Sophia Loren, is women. [As the trailer says:"A woman on fire - a woman to be loved."] Does not live up to Goya, a clear objective; but I was not disappointed after many many years of chewing on the cud of that recuerdo of Avila.
I think the music has something to do with it. You know score-smith George Antheil was a rebel avant-gardist in his early years. [And in the strangest technological episode Hollywood ever saw, he and Hedy Lamar invented a forerunner of modern frequency carrier hopping, which is key to today's cell phones, after a party concert].
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