The Bridge on the River Kwai桂河大橋

The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 British World War II film by David Lean based on The Bridge over the River Kwai by French writer Pierre Boulle. The film is a work of fiction but borrows the construction of the Burma Railway in 1942–43 for its historical setting. It stars William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Alec Guinness and Sessue Hayakawa. The movie was filmed in Sri Lanka (credited as Ceylon, as it was known at the time). The bridge in the movie was located near Kitulgala. Continue reading

The Magnificent Seven 豪勇七蛟龍

The Magnificent Seven is a 1960 American western film directed by John Sturges. It is a western-style remake based on Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 Japanese film Seven Samurai. The film stars Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Robert Vaughn, Brad Dexter, and Horst Buchholz who play a group of seven American gunmen who are hired to protect a small agricultural village in Mexico from a group of marauding native bandits. The film’s musical score was composed by Elmer Bernstein. Continue reading

Your Cheating Heart

“Your Cheatin’ Heart” is a song written and recorded by the American country music singer and songwriter Hank Williams in 1952, but released after his death in 1953. It is often considered one of his greatest songs, and one of the great songs of country music. The song is a slow blues ballad, telling an unfaithful lover of the guilt that she will feel for cheating on the singer. Continue reading

The Longest Day 最長的一日~無解的謎

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記得小時候,在一個過年前的夜晚,家父帶我和鄰居小朋友一起去西門町看電影;就是這部約翰韋恩恩主演的『最長的一日』,講述二次世界大戰諾曼地登陸戰史。當時,物資相當貧乏,一般人也沒有太多的娛樂活動,去戲院看電影是了不得的大事。一群小男生欣喜雀躍的隨家父擠上三輪車,到了萬國戲院,卻發現售票口早已排滿人山人海的長龍。看來買不到票了,大夥垂頭喪氣…,家父叫我們站在戲院入口處等他……. Continue reading

Young Love

“Young Love” is a popular song, written by Ric Cartey and Carole Joyner and published in 1956.
The original version was recorded by Ric Cartey With The Jiva-Tones on November 24, 1956. It was originally released in 1956 by Stars Records as catalog number 539 and one month later by RCA Records. Cartey’s version never charted, but better-known versions were released by Sonny James, Tab Hunter (in a version that did even better on the charts) and The Crew-Cuts. Continue reading