Welcome to The Ronald Colman Guestbook Let's hear your comments, questions, and suggestions. [Add a message | return to Colman menu ] There are now 123 messages in the guestbook. [Previous] [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 25 ] [Next] Viewing messages 51 to 55. Simeon Hovey | @ One thing that I apprehend and so love about this place in cyberspace of Ronald Colman is that a Guest Book still means what it did when I was child. This is a place without censors, passwords or rules and laws. It is a place of gentle people, of “ladies and gentlemen” in my humble opinion. I also know of an extant mining site preserved in the western desert high country and the artifacts are amazing. I believe this site would be safe in the hands of the people here, but it’s a long ways out there. One doesn’t need 4WD to get there, but it takes at least a jeep to get beyond. God bless whoever created this site. 14 January 2010 - The Triad, NC Fred Jacobs | @ Just watched A Double Life with my son. I'd remembered it as a great picture, but you know how the memory is often better than the reexperience, especially after 20 or 30 years. Well, the movie was just as powerful, or more so, than I remember it. If Anthony John's greatness is in the extent to which he inhabits a role, Colman's greatness here is comparable: through so much of this incredibly difficult role, he doesn't seem to be acting at all. When he bursts into tears near the end (I'm not giving away anything here), it's not Hollywood sentiment, but Greek tragedy. I suspect the movie would be better remembered and respected if it had come down more, but the writers keep the script on a high level that probably loses some viewers. It's a well-made movie all around, but Colman's performance is certainly one of the greatest I've seen in an American film. 11 January 2010 - Queens, New York Simeon Hovey | @ Yes this is a beautiful and timely discovery for me, this movie and his acting are equal in depth and on so many levels as I would equate to a book like Crime and Punishment. I greatly anticipate the "discovery" of so many "new movies". 9 January 2010 - The Triad NC RM To Simeon - wonderful and insightful, fascinating to read about someone literally discovering Ronald Colman for the first time. Further proof that the man's work surely stands the test of time. 9 January 2010 - California Simeon Hovey | @ The only reason I knew the name Ronald Colman is because his name was mentioned in the movie A River Runs Through It. When I was scrolling through the movies on TCM last week I saw one of the listings with his name in the “Info” about the movie so I recorded it. It took a sleepless Friday night for me to get around to watching it. After listening to the description of the efforts required to restore Lost Horizon to it’s “original” form – I suspected the work of so many had to be for more than just any movie. At the start in the airport the only actor I recognized was Thomas Mitchell so I had to wait a while to figure out which one was Ronald Colman. During the hijacked flight* and dawning recognition that they were headed in the wrong direction; in the milieu of characters the man named Robert Conway stood out – only I couldn’t figure out why he so beguiled me. Whoever this person was soon became the one who hooked me. How could a movie so rich in setting, talent, dialogue, intrigue and plot be dominated by an actor of such subtlety and humanity? 9 January 2010 - The Triad, NC USA [Previous] [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 25 ] [Next]