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@rmgluck2017.bsky.social

Writer/editor. Substack: As Luck Would Have It (https://richardluck.substack.com/publish/home)

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Sam Peckinpah's Major Dundee - Moby-Dick On Horseback The cavalry epic that stalled the filmmaker's Hollywood career.

On the anniversary of Sam Peckinpah's birth, a FREE Substack post dedicated to his misunderstood cavalry epic Major Dundee... #sampeckinpah richardluck.substack.com/p/sam-peckin...

21.02.2026 08:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Just seen Alex Cox's Dead Souls and it's terrific. Indeed, my endorsement runs to it carrying my name in the credits! #deadsouls #alexcox

19.02.2026 12:54 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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How 'The Russian Lion' Inspired The Planet's First Bout Of Wrestlemania Richard Luck celebrates the life and times of Georg Hackenschmidt, the body-building renaissance man who put sports entertainment on the map.

Remembering 'The Russian Lion' Georg Hackenschmidt who died #onthisday in 1968. Here - FREE on Substack - is his story... richardluck.substack.com/p/how-the-ru...

19.02.2026 15:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Just seen Alex Cox's Dead Souls and it's terrific. Indeed, my endorsement runs to it carrying my name in the credits! #deadsouls #alexcox

19.02.2026 12:54 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Remembering Gene Hackman, one year on. #genehackman

18.02.2026 15:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Bonnie and Clyde Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker achieve growing notoriety as they carry out a series of robberies with their gang in 1930s America.

Now available on the BBC iPlayer... www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

18.02.2026 12:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Chin chin, Tom Noonan - excellent as the wheelchair-bound Kelso in Michael Mann's Heat. #tomnoonan

18.02.2026 09:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Weekend Update: Jesse Jackson - Saturday Night Live
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live Weekend Update: Jesse Jackson - Saturday Night Live

A favourite Jesse Jackson memory - the reverend reading Green Eggs And Ham on SNL... www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXIA...

17.02.2026 10:05 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3
Weekend Update: Jesse Jackson - Saturday Night Live
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live Weekend Update: Jesse Jackson - Saturday Night Live

A favourite Jesse Jackson memory - the reverend reading Green Eggs And Ham on SNL... www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXIA...

17.02.2026 10:05 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3
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Peter Cook, A Dandy In Aspic, @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social, 9pm.

17.02.2026 09:59 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Watch Decameron | Prime Video An adaptation of nine stories from Bocaccio's classic work including tales about an aspiring painter, nuns, a gardener, a priest and a husband.

New to @primevideouk.bsky.social, Pasolini's The Decameron. www.amazon.co.uk/gp/video/det...

17.02.2026 09:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

'Happy Pancake Day!' Are we actually saying that now?!

17.02.2026 09:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Farewell to the incomparable Robert Duvall.

16.02.2026 18:37 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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John Milius - Guerilla Filmmaker The great man on Red Dawn, the film that pitted Patrick Swayze and Charlie Sheen against the USSR.

With the original Red Dawn on 5Action from 9pm, here's a Premium Substack post in which I discuss the film with its director, the inimitable John Milius (that's him wearing the Red Army hat, with Patrick Swayze)... richardluck.substack.com/p/john-miliu...

15.02.2026 11:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Had a shock watching Nigel Kneale's supernatural drama Murrain when I realised the mad woman in the cottage is none other than Una Brandon-Jones, aka Mrs Parkin, the mad woman in the cottage in Withnail & I! If only someone had pointed out that they weren't from London...

15.02.2026 11:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Excerpt from Soho Bites episode 21
YouTube video by Soho Bites Podcast Excerpt from Soho Bites episode 21

πŸ“½οΈ If, like me, you enjoy Soho sci-fi with your cornflakes, make sure to catch β€œThe Night Caller” (1965) on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social tomorrow at 6:15am. Doncaster’s favourite son @cevni.bsky.social of @househammerpod.bsky.social talked about it way back in ep 21 sohobitespodcast.com/episode/21

13.02.2026 07:22 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Many happy returns, Ollie!

13.02.2026 12:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Many happy returns, Matt Salinger - small-screen Captain America and son of JD.

13.02.2026 14:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Many happy returns, Matt Salinger - small-screen Captain America and son of JD.

13.02.2026 14:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Many happy returns, Ollie!

13.02.2026 12:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Withnail and Brexit: Why the cult classic is the perfect movie for our troubled times It might be set 50 years ago this month, but RICHARD LUCK says Withnail and I has a lot to say about Brexit-bound Britain "Ah, my boys, my boys, we're at

Released in the UK #OnThisDay in 1988. #Withnail

www.thenewworld.co.uk/brexit-news-...

12.02.2026 11:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Well put, Charles Darwin.

12.02.2026 10:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Bye bye, Bud Cort - excellent in so many things but awesomely odious as the corrupt restaurant manager in Michael Mann's Heat. Unbilled, too. #BudCort

11.02.2026 21:41 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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England - Scotland: Auld Enemies The tries, the tears, the Slams, that semi-final - when England and Scotland take to the rugby field, it's not sport, it's moider.

Ahead of this Saturday's Sixth Nations Scotland-England clash, a Premium Substack piece on memorable occasions the auld enemies have taken to the field... richardluck.substack.com/p/england-sc... #SixNations #CalcuttaCup

11.02.2026 09:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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England - Scotland: Auld Enemies The tries, the tears, the Slams, that semi-final - when England and Scotland take to the rugby field, it's not sport, it's moider.

Ahead of this Saturday's Sixth Nations Scotland-England clash, a Premium Substack piece on memorable occasions the auld enemies have taken to the field... richardluck.substack.com/p/england-sc... #SixNations #CalcuttaCup

11.02.2026 09:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

In the 1930s, a right-wing cabal tried to overthrow the French government. This in itself isn't surprising, right-wing coups being all the rage in '30s Europe. What is remarkable, however, is that the coup was organised by the chairman of L'Oreal. The boycott begins now...

10.02.2026 15:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Roy Scheider - When Tough Guys Get Facelifts The star of Jaws, Marathon Man and The French Connection seems an unlikely candidate for cosmetic surgery...

The mighty Roy Scheider died on this day in 2008. In this Premium Substack piece, I investigate his decision to have a facelift later in life...

richardluck.substack.com/p/roy-scheid...

10.02.2026 14:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Remembering Jan-Michael Vincent who died #onthisday in 2019.

10.02.2026 14:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Jean-Claude Killy - King Of The Mountain Men Celebrating the genius of the French skiing great.

Another FREE Substack post, since I couldn't allow the Winter Olympics to go on much longer without singing the praises of the incomparable Jean-Claude Killy... #winterolympics #downhill richardluck.substack.com/p/king-of-th...

09.02.2026 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I see @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social is repeating Give Us A Clue. Can't say I was that interested but then I caught an episode in which Emma Thompson - yes, *that Emma Thompson - tackled The Falcon And The Snowman and I've been obsessed ever since!

09.02.2026 16:10 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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