Honor Blackman

darren · Post by **darren** » Sat Jan 30, 2021 3:17 pm

Frankymole wrote:Honor is rather good in this as a vampire hunter... dressed in leather with a very Cathy Gale taste in hats!

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x56ngay

Ah that's a blast from the past! I'd forgotten about that show. I'll see if the other episodes are around.

mousemeat · Post by **mousemeat** » Sat Jan 30, 2021 4:25 pm

cyberrich wrote:I watched Diamond City (1949) starring Honor Blackman recently. I have to say it was the worst film I have ever seen her in. I do remember her being interviewed and she bemoaned many of her early roles. It was a pretty awful role she had to play here, very saccharine with not much depth. It must have been Manna from heaven when she got the part of Cathy Gale. Post Avengers, Honor's roles improved significantly. Pussy Galore is the best Bond girl (along with Tracy Di Vicenzo). She was also terrific in Life at the top and Shalako, and practically stole the show in Dagger of the mind, my favourite Columbo movie.

familiar tale of woe...many actors, actresses, etc.often got stuck in horrible films / TV programs, early on...especially if they were trying to jump start their careers, or pay the rent, etc...for Years, Paul newman, would wince, when the local TV station in L.A. , would air his first film, the golden chalice, (??) Newman actually took out a newspaper ad, moaning that film....and offered to buy up every print of that film..LOL !

denis · Post by **denis** » Sun Jan 31, 2021 11:24 am

I watched yesterday A Night to Remember with Honor Blackman (and Laurence Naismith and David McCallum...); she is the mother of 3 and her husband has to stay on the Titanic. A very good movie (better than Cameron's version for me).

Frankymole · Post by **Frankymole** » Sun Jan 31, 2021 12:19 pm

A Night To Remember has an amazing cast. Some later-to-be-much-more-famous faces in early roles... Cameron's "Titanic" (with it's cheesy love story nonsense) stole many of the same camera shots and angles.

Frankymole · Post by **Frankymole** » Sun Jan 31, 2021 12:33 pm

Well done to David McCallum for cso-starring with so many Avengers ladies, too! Honor in A Night to Remember, Joanna Lumley in Sapphire and Steel, Diana Rigg in Mother Love... did he ever do something with Patrick Macnee?

Edit: silly me, of course there was the Man From UNCLE reunion film, "The Fifteen Years Later Affair".

mousemeat · Post by **mousemeat** » Sun Jan 31, 2021 5:03 pm

Frankymole wrote:A Night To Remember has an amazing cast. Some later-to-be-much-more-famous faces in early roles... Cameron's "Titanic" (with it's cheesy love story nonsense) stole many of the same camera shots and angles.

there was two more Titanic films....one from 1958......and a german version of it..late 30's, very early 40's.........and i believe it's out on dvd...

and still the other from 1953...........also add several TV / Cable productions as well...

Frankymole · Post by **Frankymole** » Sun Aug 22, 2021 3:54 pm

Remembering the magnificent Honor on her birthday. I'm so glad to be enjoying her first series again, after a long gap they seem very fresh.

mousemeat · Post by **mousemeat** » Mon Aug 23, 2021 12:42 am

Frankymole wrote:A Night To Remember has an amazing cast. Some later-to-be-much-more-famous faces in early roles... Cameron's "Titanic" (with it's cheesy love story nonsense) stole many of the same camera shots and angles.

true....but cameron shooting in color, and using at the time, state of the art, CGI....and it looked well, despite the cheese-ola...love story...the two earlier films...1953, and 1958, had better script/story...and of course, all three pretty much had the same ending....

Frankymole · Post by **Frankymole** » Thu Jan 06, 2022 6:07 pm

Honor in color...

mousemeat · Post by **mousemeat** » Fri Jan 07, 2022 1:15 am

Frankymole wrote:Honor in color...

great pict...of course, she was at her peak..as pussy galore in Goldfinger....and I still crack up..when watching 'too many xmas trees' when Steed muses out loud, ' Mrs. Gale...I wonder what she's doing at Ft.Knox....

Diana Dors, was another UK star in the 50's....