Posted on 04/05/2013 6:03:13 PM PDT by ReformationFan
His portrayal of Michelangelo in The Agony and the Ecstasy opposite Rex Harrison’s Julius II is an acting master-class.
Skyjacked-where he played a airline pilot who’s plane was hijacked by a young man played by James Brolin!
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.
Of all Hollywood actors who’ve passed on, he would be one of the ones I’d most like to have met along with James Stewart and Ronald Reagan. His last interview with the lovely Lydia by his side-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkS5i8qpEXA
Charlton Heston considered the best movie he ever made and liked it better than any other was, “Will Penny”.
There were some very interesting ironies in the movie Skyjacked. First of all, the hijacker was a Vietnam veteran with severe PTSD, “which had made him psychotic”, but technically, it is recognizable as schizophrenia on top of his PTSD, which has to be an awful combination.
Amusingly, a combination that made him attracted to communism. The attraction that was not mutual, as the Soviet military demonstrated at the end of the movie, a lot.
One other thing, the hijacking actually punched through the professionalism of the plane captain, Heston, and the toothsome head stewardess, Yvette Mimieux, so that they realized they were in love with each other.
And her name was “Thatcher”. Not Margaret, but Angela, but amusing none the less.
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