fredbaetz
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"Badlanders" was based on "The Asphalt Jungle" by W.R. Burnett. I never read the book and don't know how close the original film followed it. "The Badlanders" is indeed a lot different then the Houston film. Burnett was a great writer of crime novels and he was a talented screenwriter. Credits included "Little Caesar", "High Sierra","Beast of the City", "Yellow Sky" "King of the Underworld" "Nobody Lives Forever" are just a few of his books and screen plays that made it to the screen....
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I remember the series. He was a politician and in love with the mayors daughter. I did like Cleo. But my favorite series of his was "Hennesey" which he played a Navy doctor and Abby Dalton was his nurse. That was a well done series....
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I remember the series. He was a politician and in love with the mayors daughter. I did like Cleo. But my favorite series of his was "Hennesey" which he played a Navy doctor and Abby Dalton was his nurse. That was a well done series....
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"She Wore A Yellow Ribbon" : I was eight years old when I first saw it on the big screen and I never forgot the Color, Music, Actors or the Images that stayed with me. I still feel that way today......
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Any reviews on the new blu ray edition of "Stagecoach" in yet? Mine is on order, but hasn't arrived yet..
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He's one of those actors who make you glad to watch a film with him in it. I've love him since the first time I saw "Scrooge" and two of my all time favorite performances of his are as Miss Fenton, the headmistress in "The Bells of St. Trinian's" and "Blue Murder at St. Trinians' and one of his last roles as Bishop Bertie Lampton in Peter O"Tooles "The Ruling Class"
He was a true British { Scottish} treasure.......
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I worked on a pilot for a cooking show starring Vincent Price in 1969 and had the pleasure of talking to him and his wife Mary during the shoot. He was a gourmet cook and published several cookbooks and a world renown art collector. Once between set-ups I ask what his favorite film role was and without hesitating he answered "The Eve of Saint Mark" a war film he did in 1944 based on a play by Maxwell Anderson. I have not seen it in over 50 years and only vaguely remember the movie. I don't know if there are copyright problems or what, but it's never shown and most list of his films don't mention it.I ask him why that film and he said that it was special for him as it was a Maxwell Anderson play and the only war film he ever did and he was proud of his performance in it.I would love to be able to watch it again.
He always looked to me as if he was having a good time in his films. From classics like "Laura" to films like "House of Wax" and "House on Haunted Hill" he seemed to be having fun. I found him to be a very friendly and out going person. A true gentleman.......
I know I talked about this last year but I though it was worth repeating........
Edited by: fredbaetz on May 24, 2010 12:31 PM
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Sue Sue, Use to visit Nudie's when I lived in Hollywood in the early 70's on Lankershim Blvd, in fact my girlfriend bought me my first pair of adult cowboy boots from there.I also remember his Cadillac with the steer horns on the hood and the pistol doorhandles.
I have been to Lone Pine and you are correct it is awesome and a thrill.
But my biggest thrill was when I got to work and meet Roy and Dale when I was working on the old "Hollywood Palace" in the late 60's. That was one of my big thrills and I was not disappointed . They were just as you would imagine them to be, warm, friendly and down to earth.......
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My name is fredbaetz and I'm not ashamed to admit I'm an cinemaholic.
It started early for me also. My earliest memory is Roy Rogers and Trigger and if I got into trouble my father would say "No Roy Rogers movie this week". I began to distrust grown-ups.But at age eight we moved from New York City to Knoxville, Tn and it was there I became a full blown cinemaholic. I was introduced to John Wayne and Tim Holt, I was on a first name basis with Cody Jarrett. After seeing "White Heat" and a revival of "The Roaring 20's" I seriously considered a like of crime, The Park Theater was a dime and five cents for popcorn and if I couldn't the money from my Dad , I resorted to to a life of crime. I would start looking in someones yard like I lost something and some one would come out and ask what I was looking for and I would say "My Mom gave me a quarter to go to the store and I lost it, my Dad will spank me" I usually got the quarter.But Roy and Tim and the Duke as the good guys put me on the right path again.
I remember seeing "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" for the first time and "Red River". Then a major event took place and altered my life. In the darken theater I was watching a revival of "Cleopatra" with Claudette Colbert and suddenly when she was rolled out of the carpet in front of Caesar with very little on { Cleo not Julius } I lost interest in my Raisinetes. I fell hard for Ann Sheridan
Cary Grant was the classiest man on the screen and the girls fell at his feet. I wanted to be like him.
Gary Cooper, Randy {chorus please} Scott and Joel McRea were my saddle pals and we rode the trails together. I claimed the Sierra Madre with Fred C. and sat at the bar when Ilsa and Victor came into "Ricks" where everyone came. I went on a cattle drive with Tom Dunston, yelled at the private to turn around as the block of ice melts and releases "The Thing " I fell in love all over again with Gene Tierney in "Belle Starr", Maureen O'Hara in almost any film, lived in a P.O.W. camp with William Holden.
As far as I'm concerned I learned most of what I know from movies. I don'r care if they say to many movies are bad for you. I'll never stop watching them until they remove the remote control or my ticket stud from my cold dead hand., I remember Norma's words "Nothing else. Just us,the camera and those wonderful people out there in the dark"...
With movies I feel warn and secure...With movies I'm.....HOME
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I have a dvd of "Wild Horse Mesa" { 1925 } and it is a good well made western with Jack Holt. Not on the scale of "The Vanishing American", but a excellent film and a good idea of what silent westerns could do as great entertainment. The same year George B. Seitz directed "Wild Horse Mesa" he turned around and directed "The Vanishing American" and the following year he helmed another Zane Grey novel "Desert Gold". A busy and excellent film director all but forgotten today.
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Yes, he seemed to have been good friends with Fairbanks. He appeared in over 20 of his films including "Robin Hood", "The Black Pirate", "The Three Musketeers" and "The Mark of Zorro". When not appearing on film he was busy as technical adviser on American Indian customs and lore.
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That would gag a maggot....
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Just watched "The Vanishing American" and was impressed with it. Richard Dix did fine I though as did the rest of the cast. A beautifully shot film with wonderful locations especially in Monument Valley, this was a grade "A" production. The clever opening sequence with the different tribes coming into the Valley over hundreds or thousands of years was well done to encompass time.Never having read the book by Zane Grey I don't know how true it was to the story, but still a excellent film.Did anyone notice Charlie Stevens the Indian who returns from the war with Dix and finds his girlfriend dead. He was the grandson of Geronimo.
He appeared as Indian Charlie in at least three Wyatt Earp films . "Frontier Marshall" with Randolph [ chorus please } Scott, "Tombstone , The Town to Tough to Die" with Richard Dix and "My Darling Clementine" with Henry Fonda, the "Drunk Indian" who gets booted out of town by Earp.He was also in the remake of "The Vanishing American" in 1955.
His first film was uncredited in 1915 "Birth of A Nation" and his final role was as Joseph Hayes to Tony Curtis's Ira Hayes in "The Outsider" in 1961. One hell of a career........
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I just finished watching "Devil's Doorway". Excellent film with first rate performance from Taylor and rest of cast and fine direction by Anthony Mann. But after film Robert O made a comment regarding this film's treatment of the Indians and just 2 years earlier John Ford's "Fort Apache" showed the Indians as the bad guys. In all my years of watching the great Ford film I never once considered the Indians as the "Bad Guys". The Indian agent Meacham and Lt Col Owen Thursday were the "Bad Guys" in this film. That comment kind of made me whince especially from him... Maybe I'm reading to much in his comment, but it didn't sound right....
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As with a few other actresses in the 1950's she was dubbed the "Queen of the B's", but she could deliver the goods if it was a major role or just a small part. The work she did in "The Killing" Stanley Kubrick's classic heist film is IMHO her finest piece.The scene's between her and Elisha Cook Jr.as her mousy husband are outstanding and Look magazine awarded her it's Best Supporting Actress Award. From all I've heard of her she was a very well loved actress by those who worked her.....
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She was sooooooooo great in anything she did, but I loved her in "The Killing" as Elisha Cook's wife Sherry and "Narrow Margin" as the decoy. No one other then Eve Arden could deliver a zinger to someone better then she could....
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Natalie Wood and Rock Hudson had the same agent Henry Willson. He was know as the man who invented Rock Hudson, which is the title of the book written about him.The story goes that Confidential magazine was going to run a piece on Hudson's sexual preference and in order to kill the story he gave them Rory Calhoun's prison record and Tab Hunter's arrest at a gay party in 1950 and the Hudson story was killed and in order to further prove Hudson was straight he had his secretary Phyllis Gates marry Hudson. They were divorced a few years later.....
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The last time I saw her, she was hanging around e bay for $10.00....
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That was a common practice in those days by the studios. Send out starlets like Natalie Wood on dates with male stars whose sexuality was questioned in the papers or mags. Also if a young actress was involved with someone special like Wood was with Robert Wagner they didn't want the public to know, so it served the studios two ways. Keep their name in the papers and dating the gay actors to help their name.
Raymond Burr was a strange case. He claimed to have served in the Navy in WW2 and was seriously wounded during the battle of Okinawa. He claimed to have been married three time and had a son by his second wife and the boy came was diagnosed with leukemia at age 10 and Burr took off a year to travel the U.S. to show him what a wonderful country he lived in before he died. After Burr's death it turned out he never served in any of the Armed Forces let alone was wounded. The only marriage that could be confirmed and was the woman he claimed to be his second wife and there was never a son.
But on the other side of the coin he was one of the most generous actors in Hollywood. His contributions to many charities are well known, especially children's charities.By all indications he was a very good friend and well thought of by a great many people in and out of the business. Sad to think he had to live with a secret that would have ended his career at that time.
Edited by: fredbaetz on May 20, 2010 12:47 PM
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The story goes it drove Harry Cohn crazy enough to talk to a friend with underworld connections and Davis was reportedly kidnapped and taken out into the desert and informed that unless he broke it off the affair with Novak the next trip to the desert would be a one way trip. It seemed he believed them because in a very short time he was married to a dancer named Loray White in 1958. She filed for divorce less then a year later.....
Edited by: fredbaetz on May 19, 2010 1:39 PM
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It was shot in Monument Valley in Utah and Santa Catalina Island in Ca. There is suppose to be an extra by the name of Gary Cooper in it. Did anyone spot him?....
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Kirk was really upset with Michael for not casting him in the role he created on stage, and Ken Kesey said that Kirk was the best R.P. McMurphy ever. Kirk co starred on Broadway with Gene Wilder as Billy Babbit and Ed Ames as Chief Bromden. But the film is an American masterpiece and deserved every Award it received.....
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Also the supposed famous radio promo for "The Paleface" where the announcer read the copy "So be sure to go see Bob Hope and Jane Russell in The Paleface. What a pair"
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How do I get there? Tried Amazon Marketplace,com but could find nothing like the ones you mentioned.
Bridge on the River Kwai - plot hole in the ending
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I always though the reason he stated that was because of the motor fire. He was firing at the Japanese soldiers running toward the men and how was he to know they were all dead from his position on the opposite shore. He was saying to the girls or reasoning with himself "I had to do it" in order to give them time to push the plunger, He had to keep the enemy off their backs long enough for that and if the motor fire did kill them he still had to do it.. Any how that was what I though when I first saw the film when it premiered and still do......