8mm Forum: Tony Hancock and Lawrence of Arabia

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Posted by Robert Crewdson (Member # 3790) on July 02, 2013, 11:29 AM:

Freddie Hancock told this story about her late husband , comic, Tony Hancock. During the premiere of David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia, Tony became bored with watching Peter O'Toole drudging through the desert on a camel, and went out to the bar: he was a recovering alcoholic at the time, and when he returned about an hour later, he exclaimed 'I don't know, 6 glasses of orange juice, and they still haven't reached Cairo'.

Posted by Hugh Thompson Scott (Member # 2922) on July 02, 2013, 05:22 PM:

I love it, kinda sums it up. As Sid James said when hearing the news of Tony Hancocks suicide in Australia, "See Naples and Die,
see Melbourne and top yourself"

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