As an aside, I read a funny little story about how well William Powell and Myrna Loy got along in real life. Somewhere about 1937 or 1938 a magazine ran a nationwide poll to determine the most popular actor and actress in Hollywood. The response to the poll was huge, with Clark Gable and Myrna Loy winding up being the winners.
William Powell finished 4th in the actor's category, and wasn't about to take this lying down. He sent Myrna a long, florist box filled with sour grapes. The attached card read "Congratulations, from William the Fourth".
I won't go on about this great movie's virtues, as that has been done very well by other reviewers. The one point I want to make is to give credit to the most compelling single line I have ever heard in a movie. Herbert speaking:
"The first person to resort to violence is the first person who has run out of ideas".
I'm an olde farte who was lucky enough to see the original versions of Blackfoot, Outlaws, AND Skynyrd back when they were young and hungry, back in the early and mid '70s. And also more recently (mid '80s or so), before disco and rap and the other mindless modern garbage put these guys in the back room.
I was almost afraid to buy this DVD for a number of reasons -
no Ed King, Allan Collins, Ronnie Van Zant ...
Hughie without the Outlaws?
Rickie without Blackfoot?
No Green Grass and High tides, no Ghost Riders? no Highway Song?
I bought it, and it reintroduced me to the concept of a karma level. Oh, it's good. The older LS material is done right on the nose. Johnny is… Read more
