Biggles is one of my all-time heroes - along with Tarzan (I have the entire set of ERB books, but Ron Ely always did it for me) and Zorro (long live Tyrone Power) and I adored him. It''s been many years since I read the books, so my memory of von Stalhein is hazy at best but you've woken me up with the image of John Barrowman as Biggles himself - PERFECT!! I think I'd better hit the library!
Even Neil Dickson, in that so very tongue-in-cheek movie in the '80s, was pretty damn good as Biggles :)
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Date: 2007-11-24 07:42 am (UTC)Biggles is one of my all-time heroes - along with Tarzan (I have the entire set of ERB books, but Ron Ely always did it for me) and Zorro (long live Tyrone Power) and I adored him. It''s been many years since I read the books, so my memory of von Stalhein is hazy at best but you've woken me up with the image of John Barrowman as Biggles himself - PERFECT!! I think I'd better hit the library!
Even Neil Dickson, in that so very tongue-in-cheek movie in the '80s, was pretty damn good as Biggles :)