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Thread #110146   Message #2309301
Posted By: Big Al Whittle
07-Apr-08 - 02:07 PM
Thread Name: BS: RIP Charlton Heston (5 April, 2008)
Subject: RE: BS: RIP Charlton Heston (5 April, 2008)
I really love that version of Treasure Island with him as Long John Silver. He really gave full measure with that role - he treated a role that is usually pantomimed to death a real shot of reality.

Great cast: Olly Reed as Billy Bones, Vincent price as Blind pew; that bloke out of American Psycho as Jim.

The version of A man for All Seasons that he did was truer to the Robert Bolt play, but Paul Scofield, and the remarkable cast of that film:Orson Welles, Leo McKern, Wendy Hiller, Corin Redgrave had really made too deep an impression.