![]() ![]() She has a little brother with longish hair who is about 12 and also wears a school uniform with long trousers. Actually shorts for boys that age were still quite common in 1969. The film begins with Lola's wealthy family at breakfast. The boy helps reveal that Lola is reading a racy novel rather than studying her geometry. There is one brief scene in London, before the movie shifts to the States, picturing a crocodiles of little nippers in proper school uniform including caps with yellow crosses on top. The girls in it all wore proper school uniforms, with short pleated skirt and white knee socks." Also billed as "Lola." A British reader writes, "I remember this film with Charles Bronson in it. Mystery writer Louis Joseph Vance created the Michael Lanyard or Lone Wolf character in 1914. Many books and films followed, bith silent and talkies. While not well known today, he was an important character for many years and many see him as the inspiration for Leslie Chartis' "The Saint". The Lone wolf was depicted as a charming rogue. He began as a crafty European jewel thief, but chilvarous when it came to ladies in distress. He received his criminasl trainng from the an Irishman named Bourke who is never fully explained. The Lone Wolf morphed over time, the original thief became a reformed thief and then spy and private eye. #Love strange love 1982 part 1 series#Ĭolumbia made a series of Lone Wolf films. Francis Lederer stared as the thief turned detective. ![]() Lanyard on vacation in Paris finds the of course beautiful Princess Thania (Frances Drake) in his hotel bedroom. The Princess is attempting to retrieve her country's crown jewels which have been stolen by the villinous Grand Duke Gregor (Walter Kingsford) and his scheming minions. The Lone Wolf takes on the case, but he and Thania are kidnapped by Gregor's henchmen. Child actor Pio Peretti played the boy monarch. (The) Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne - (?,1987)Īn elderly Irish spinster falls in love. ![]() Boys in shorts appear in the Dublin street scenes. One of the boys of a family close to the spinster wears shorts (I think), but it is hard to tell.įigure 1.-I believe that this is a scenre from 'The Long Day Closes'. It deals with a young boy's obsession with the movies. The film is set in Liverpool.Ī British reader has mentioned this film to us. ![]() I know very little about it, except for a few available scenes. The film deals with a young boy's obsession with the movies. The film is set in Liverpool, apparently in the early 1950s. Hopefully our British readers who have seen this film will provide more information. Kit Taylor about 12-year old plays Jim Hawkins, but he is a rather disappointing actor and in some ways rather adult looking. He wears 18th century knee breeches, but there are no scenes of special interest. There is one scene in which Jim appears in a long sleeping gown. ![]()
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