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Dilemma (1962)
Blind piano tuners
Coming to this film only eleven years (!) after Chris Gaskins' review, his comment "The piano tuner being blind is a little far fetched though" stirred a memory,so I looked online and saw that there is indeed an Association of Blind Piano Tuners. It may be an edition of QI that I am remembering, and I believe that Stephen Fry said that there is no authoritative figure of the number of UK piano tuners. My education is not solely derived from TV, I hasten to add.
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
RYAN O'NEAL TOO YOUNG?
It has been suggested that a drawback to this marvellous film is the comparative youth of Ryan O'Neal as General Gavin.
O'Neal was 36 in 1977, the year the film was made, and the General's obituary in 1990 gave his age as 82, so he would have been 36 in 1944.
No problem there, then!
Incidentally, one of my favourite film actors was the incomparable Robert Ryan, but there can be no denying that, pushing 50, he was significantly too old to play Gavin in 'The Longest Day'.