Re: Strike

From: Tim Ellis <tim_at_...>
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 08:16:08 -0000

wrote:
> >
> (NB: "The Strike" was better than the follow-up, "G.L.C.", which
cast
> Charles Bronson as Ken Livingstone and Lee Van Cleef as Tony Benn).
>

I was never sure which was better - Cher as Joan Ruddock, or Dawn French as Cher!

but see also "Churchill:The Hollywood Years" which is a third project in a similar vein, again by Peter Richardson, in which Hollywood decides an elderly cigar smoking Englishman is not a suitable hero for it's wartime drama, so replaces him with a gung-ho American GI