Audrey Hepburn stars as Eliza Doolittle a poor flower girl who under the guidance of Professor Higgins played by Rex Harrison becomes the Belle of British Society. Winner of 8 Academy Awards including Best Picture and blessed with an array of scintillating songs this classic movie is a feast for both the eyes and the ears and is breathtaking entertainment for the whole family.
On his way to Australia a frontier opportunist stumbles into a small gold-rush town and decides to earn a little extra pocket money by accepting a temporary assignment as their sheriff. Happily applying himself to his new position McCullough manages to turn the town derelict into his deputy outsmart the dreaded Danby clan and fend off the lusty advances of the mayor's daughter - all without breaking a sweat or dirtying his shiny black boots!
The Best Picture Oscar in 1949 went to All the King's Men, a hard-hitting political melodrama that will strike any number of eerily familiar chords with audiences weaned on later American politics: from the Kennedys to Nixon, Bill Clinton and beyond, US politicians obviously haven't changed much in the intervening decades. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, this grittily realistic movie charts the rise and fall of Willie Stark (Broderick Crawford in an Oscar-winning role), a hick lawyer whose ideals are inexorably eroded by his relentless pursuit of power. When we first meet him, Stark is the people's champion, a struggling self-taught advocate who isn't afraid to speak out against "graft". Although inspired by the real-life story of Louisiana Governor Huey Pierce Long, All the King's Men also parallels the much later Primary Colors (1998), which is itself a thinly disguised portrait of Bill Clinton's presidential campaign. Like that movie, this one tells the tale from the point of view of a young idealist (John Ireland) who succumbs to the fledgling politician's charm and joins his campaign team. There he meets cynical aide Sadie Burke (Mercedes McCambridge, in another Oscar-winning role) and together they connive at and excuse every increasingly corrupt move made in the name of political expediency, until matters get dangerously out of hand after the governor's son kills his girlfriend in a drunk-driving incident (a spooky premonition of Chappaquidick?). The performances are all top-notch, as is the fast-paced screenplay and direction from Robert Rossen (later director of The Hustler in 1961). Less idealistic than Capra's Mr Smith Goes to Washington, this is a movie ahead of its time which still has plenty to say about the state of modern politics, American or otherwise. --Mark Walker
By season 5 Lucy had moved to LA to become Mr Mooney's secretary at the bank and what follows is... 1. Lucy & Carol Go To Palm Springs 2. Lucy Meets The Law 3. Lucy Meets Jack Benny
Karate tournaments had long been considered rather old-fashioned good for those competing but baffling to an audience reared on televised boxing. With International success as fighters and Karate in their blood Joe Long & Paul Alderson (Fighters Inc) modernised Karate tournaments for a mainstream audience and TV through a ground-breaking initiative known as 'The 3on3'. This electrifying team challenge took the hottest teams gave them only three men per team and made Karate fast thrilling and exciting right to the last second as the total points accumulated were all that counted. It was soon followed by the headline grabbing 10K Karate Clash due to the fact that the winner of the 32 man tournament walked away with a cool ''10 000 a prize unheard of in Traditional circles. Fighters Inc Karate now sell out high profile venues and fighter's queue up to be on the roster. Featuring the cream of Karate's elite the 10K was an instant winner and the event perceived as one of the highlights of the International calendar.
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