Once Upon a Time in Tinseltown

...or Medveditsa's Little Sandbox to Play with Cowboys, Soldiers, Cops and Bandits

[thekingsofitall]

She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes...

[coolthingsguyslike]

[retropopcult]

“Up the rebels! Down the British!”

The Great Escape (1963)

[on-holidays-by-mistake]

i’m sorry

[thekingsofitall]

Totally. )))

[ciaranhnds]

Richard Burton as Henry V | Stratford, 1951

[clinteastwood-blog]

Happy Birthday Clint Eastwood!

born May 31, 1930

[thekingsofitall]

Hell yeah. 

[boydswan]

GARY COOPER in NOW AND FOREVER (1934) dir. Henry Hathaway

[thekingsofitall]

Ohmygod, control your face, sir.

XD

[soupy-harry]

Where Eagles Dare (1968)

[thekingsofitall]

I adore this movie. It’s like Mission Impossible on steroids, but in the '60s. 

[vintage-every-day]

“We’re all forgotten sooner or later. But not films. That’s all the memorial we should need or hope for.” Burt Lancaster

[myfavoritepeterotoole]

Peter O'Toole photo by Zoë Dominic

- Man and Superman (1982) -

[incredibletales]

Burt Lancaster in Mister 880 (1950) dir. Edmund Goulding

[thekingsofitall]

Oh, you cute bastard... 

[jackharkness]

Lawrence of Arabia as a Vogue Magazine

[thekingsofitall]

...And how the fuck do I stop laughing now?..

[jackharkness]

Clint Eastwood as Monco in PER QUALCHE DOLLARO IN PIÙ (1965) | dir. Sergio Leone

[deborahkerr]

Deborah Kerr and Burt Lancaster in FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (1953) dir. Fred Zinnemann

[thekingsofitall]

Well, this isn’t a new problem, apparently... 

[thekingsofitall]

John Wayne; Edward R. Murrow; George Burns and Gracie Allen; Charles Boyer, Agnes Moorehead, Charles Laughton and Cedric Hardwicke; Emmett Kelly; Jim Eskew Jr; David Burpee, president of the Burpee Seed Co, and Chief Horticulturist E Helaine Lintleeman; and just some common people in Pan-American Coffee Bureau ads. 

[thekingsofitall]

Excuse me?.. 

[robertmitchum]

ROBERT MITCHUM in CAPE FEAR dir. J. Lee Thompson

[thekingsofitall]

He was great in this movie, but still not sleazy enough, imo.