Henry Hathaway's 1969 "True Grit" was neither "doddery" nor "miscast" - it was perfect; and Glen Campbell's character was not "a major character" - he was there to provide a little light ballast to the tense, central relationship between Mattie and Cogburn. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Prince Philip says Queen may quit before she gets 'doddery' ❋ Unknown (2011)
Doll did not know that he was quoting Shakespeare, but he did know by long experience that this sentence could be relied on as suitable to the occasion, or to any occasion that looked a little "doddery," and finished up all right. ❋ Mary Cholmondeley (1892)
He described how he had seen men who could not get spirits make themselves drunk on "Pain-killer"; how he had seen strong, young station hands, who had not tasted spirits for months, come down from the hills with a hundred pounds in their pockets, and drink themselves into "doddery" old men in a fortnight in the nearest township, where they were kept drunk on drugged liquor till all their hard-earned wages were gone. ❋ Mary Cholmondeley (1892)
Mubarak, as shown by his feeble performances on T.V. during the revolt, is just a doddery old mahout who was tied to his chair with the rubber bands from wads of U.S. cash, so that the U.S.could do , in his name, whatever they wanted with his country. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Having first read Charles Portis's 1968 novel as teenagers, the Coens were allied with it and not with Henry Hathaway's doddery, miscast 1969 version, in which a major role is essayed, ruinously, by Glen Campbell. ❋ Unknown (2011)
I wonder if Chuck Jones ever got this doddery in his twilight years? ❋ Unknown (2009)
That could be when you have to sacrifice your time to help another, whether giving a hand to that doddery old lady to help get her safely across a street or taking a moment to point out the nearest car park to a motorist. ❋ Martin A. Nowak (2011)
Old Folks Games | P2P: - Are you, like, getting a bit doddery? ❋ Unknown (2009)
The multiplex was rotten with franchises all summer, as usual, most of them more doddery than they used to be. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Well, if this woefully anachronistic streak of doddery bloke rock earchunder is anything to go by, Viva Brother absolutely would. ❋ Unknown (2011)
After the stiff and doddery gerontocracy of the Brezhnev years, here was a new man—confident, vigorous, comfortable speaking without notes. ❋ Gideon Rachman (2011)
A story about the doddery old fools at the Mags Court is always a winner! ❋ Inspector Gadget (2009)
Just when you think the joke of the doddery old servant, whose shaking hand is required to carry a soup tureen and who falls backwards down the stairs, can go no further, they build on it. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Might make a decent rubbish low budget Brit-com film starring James Corden and that other bloke from Gavin and Stacey as mad-keen soccer fans, Stephen Fry as an amusingly doddery pilot, Abi Titmuss as a saucy air hostess and Don Warrington as Nelson Mandela. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Along with the bravado, there was also a recognition that war is an occupation for young men, who are killed off by their doddery elders. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Joining Robert Downey Jr. as the title character will be Jude Law as the able sidekick Dr. Watson -- a suave and posh alternative to the doddery Watsons that we normally see onscreen. ❋ Unknown (2008)
There was a doddery starry schoolmaster type veck, glasses on and his rot open to the cold nochy air. ❋ John Myles Aavedal (2010)
