Chuck with my favorite leading lady of his.America sure could use President Reagan and Charlton Heston right now. We’re and deep kimchi right now and Baby Kim might be about to make it deeper.
Charlton Heston “Cold Dead Hands Speech Transcript”:
Every time out country stands in the path of Danger an instinct seems to summons her finest first. Those who truly understand it.
When freedom shivers in the path of true peril it is always the patriots who first hear the call.
When loss of liberty is looming as it is now the siren sounds first in the hearts of freedoms vanguard the smoke in the air of our Concord Bridges and Pearl Harbors is always smelled first by the farmers. Who come from their simple homes to find the fire and fight, because they know that sacred stuff resides in that wooden stock and blued steel.
Something that gives the most common man the most uncommon of freedoms. When ordinary hands can possess such and extraordinary instrument that symbolizes the full measure of human dignity and liberty.
That is why those 5 words issue an irresistible call with all and we must. So as we set out this year to defeat the divisive forces that would take freedom away, I want to say those fighting words, for everyone within the sound of my voice, to hear and to head, and especially for you Mr. Gore “From my Cold Dead Hands”.
Charlton Heston (addressing the 2000 NRA Convention)
There, much more accurate...
Chuck with my favorite leading lady of his.Other movies he made memorable.
The Naked Jungle (1954) Not a movie to see if you have Myrmecophobia, the fear of ants. In particular a 2-mile wide, 30 mile supercolony of army ants consuming everything in their path.
Touch of Evil (1958) With Orson Welles. Often called the best film-noir ever made.
El Cid (1961) A movie strongly supported by dictator Francisco Franco, who provided thousands of Spanish Army soldiers as costumed extras.
55 Days at Peking (1963)
The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)
Khartoum (1966)
The Three Musketeers (1973) and The Four Musketeers (1974)
Midway (1976)
And don’t forget those science fiction films.
Hesston was not the only one who turned conservative.
President Kennedy appointed Whizzer White to the Supreme Court and he was widely believed to be a liberal and sure enough he was.
As time passed he seemed to get more and more conservative. He never reached the point where he was a hard core conservative but he did reach the point where he decided cases based on what the evidence and law said rather than just automatically rule to the left.
Or, to paraphrase-
“Take Your Stinkin’ Claws Off My Guns, You Damn Dirty ATF!”
His portrayal of Michelangelo in The Agony and the Ecstasy opposite Rex Harrison’s Julius II is an acting master-class.
Chuck was a friend, a Christian man, and a hard-core conservative that never once was too proud to stop and talk to anyone about politics, the Bible or the anything Hollywood. His wife Lydia is among the most gracious and kind women on the face of this planet.
Charlton Heston considered the best movie he ever made and liked it better than any other was, “Will Penny”.