Richard Todd and Antony Forwood on bicycles Richard Todd as Robin Hood and Anthony Forwood (Will Scarlet) arrive in Burnham Beeches on bicyc...

I recently received this from John, who wrote : “ Saw this and thought of you”. John sent me this signed picture of Ken Annakin (191...

Anthony Eustrel, Patrick Barr and Walt Disney Once again I am indebted to Neil Vessey for sending me yet more rare pictures of the maki...

Two years ago Christian sent me images of the final resting places of some of the people responsible for creating our favourite film, 'T...

Joan Rice in an earlier page-boys outfit. Last week we looked at how Walt Disney set up Perce Pearce and Fred Leahy to supervise ...

The British government, in an attempt to revive its own film industry after the war, had imposed a 75% import tax on American films shown...

Neil has discovered an interesting snippet from The Cinema magazine of April 1951. It backs-up the strong rumor that Robert Newton had ...

These two YouTube clips from the  Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco were kindly sent in by Neil.   The first one advertises th...

My thanks go out again to retired press photographer Horace Ward, who has very kindly sent me yet another rare photograph from his collecti...

I have just heard the very sad news that Ken Annakin has passed away in Beverly Hills aged 94. As my regular readers will know, it was Ken ...

This excerpt is taken from the excellent book, Peter Finch –A Biography by Trader Faulkner…. “As soon as Peter had finished his six we...

"I was interviewed by Perce Pearce, who was the producer and we got on very well. I hadn’t met Walt till he came over and visited the s...

Another interesting behind-the scenes picture sent to me by Neil. This time of Richard Todd (Robin Hood) and James Robertson Justice (Little...

Once again Neil has sent me a remarkable picture. This time it has been taken behind the scenes of the First Unit’s filming of Walt Disney’s...

Some critics of Walt Disney’s Story of Robin Hood were surprised by the casting of Richard Todd as the outlaw. They said it flaunted a Hol...