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Scenes are divided between riverboat gambling salons and the frontier farther west. Good Guy is an A-list star with a solid resume`, but he did not often make Westerns. Bad Guy is a solid-citizen support-role performer, seen in many Westerns, but not exclusively. It often happened in his career that he had relatively small roles, but that he often got "killed" on screen by top-name stars.

Well into the last half ot the 20th Century, a film crew are working on a movie about the characters who were in the 19th Cen. scenes. At a cast party in a well-appointed London house, the actor who had portrayed the solemn and ernest doctor in the scene described previously is seen seated at a grand piano with one of the actresses, as they pick out a tune together.

♫ Before you could yell "O'Reilley, look out!" Clancy lowered the Boom, boom, boom, boom Boom, boom, boom. boom...♫

I do remember it, Sixes. I saw it after bigscreen release, back when VHS rental stores were about one to every block, like Starbucks. I will watch for this premier. Next up: Mid-1950s. Asinine scene in a pretty stand Western. Bad Guy, prepared in ambush, aims and fires, with a rifle, at the hero. Misses. Hero quick-draws his pistol, snaps off a shot, and kills the Bad Guy. This kind of unrealistic gunplay draws sneers from viewers who are actually familiar with how to use firearms properly. Film? Who? Edited by: flashback42 on May 21, 2013 10:45 PM

*ROUND 19 REDUX* *Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid* *Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid* *Batman and Robin* *Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde* goodies resume.

WAG: Is this DeNiro and Duvall in 1981's *True Confessions* ??

Fed by material in the self-serving "autobiography", this script portrays the outlaw's criminal career as a series of winning high-stakes poker games with sore losers, and a string of false charges from corrupt lawmen. Among other things it alleges that a famous and respected lawman once sidestepped a showdown with him by letting him leave town.

Correct. Bent Fork is named as the Tennessee home town of "Cousin Ernie". In another episode later, the Mertzes and the Ricardos take a wrong turn on their California trip, and wind up lost -- in Bent Fork. Ernie helps them out in a misunderstanding with the local law types. Your thread.

Thanks, Sixes. Next up. Late 19th Century England. A doctor who, with some justification, considers himself at the forefront of the progress of Science, is about to reveal some information to another character. To show his faithful sincerity, he takes an oath, with his hand placed on a copy of Charles Darwin's works.

Correct, Sixes. The point was that the story was on the film strip, but not yet a commercial product. The editing and the ad campaign, yet to come, was what made the film profitable. I waited for On Demand before I bothered to see this one. Sixes' thread.

*Edie and Pen* *Manny and Lo* *Robin and Marian*

In a 21st Century film, a passing remark by a studio executive: "Thank God we have *Cenderfella* to get us through the holidays."

You've found the series, Sixes. When the wife started spending his hoard on nice clothing and top-rate cuts of meat, the husband decided to rid himself of her. Rejected the hitman's $500 fee, decided to do the job himself. Confronted with the high price of untraceable poison, he smothered her. Informed of the price ($160 !) of a proper burial, he instead sold the corpse, for $75 to the anatomy dept of a university hospital. That was the closing scene, but Hitch's postscript mentioned that the Med students were the ones who diagnosed the actual cause of death, and did him in. Name the star? It came as a surprise to me.

Correct, Sixes. Early 60s, B&W, and a fairly good stab at what Stephen King would soon be doing much better. -- Setting horror and fantisy into backgrounds that looked safe and familiar, then exploding with bizarre SPFX that were quite effective. In this case, a granite eagle in the decorative trim of a campus building that came alive and took flight to do mischief. Sixes' thread.

*Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick* Harness Race

Episode in an anthology of 30-minute stories. Extreme "cheapskate" plot. Not Ebinezer Scrooge or Silas Mariner, but Scrooge McDuck. Jack Benny. Ted Baxter. Read the neighbor's newspaper, then put it back. Kept his wife on a bare-bones budget. Ranted about a lamp left burning. Then his wife, during cleaning, discovered his stash of bank savings records. He had more than "33,000 stashed away. And them was late 1950s dollars.

*Independence Day* ??

hint: Bless your little pea-pickin' hearts.

On a college faculty, two women cast spells to help advance the careers of their husbands.

SETEMBER (1987)

Arriving at his wife's home, the ex-con learns that his son, now an adult, has bought in to his reputation, which the father himself regrets. The young man is practicing fast draw, twirling a pistol, etc. The father loses his temper and strikes his son.

Oohhh, I misunderstood. Clint Eastwood, self directed, in *White Hunter, Black Heart* ??

Thanks, Sixes. Next up: Witchcraft is practiced in a prosaic setting where it would hardly be expected. Purpose: To advance careers in a modern professional venue.

*The Fabulous Baker Boys* A marching band

Correct, Sixes. The other in the conversation is the Emperor Marcus (Peter O'Toole) who is about to tell Maximus that he can not be releasee to go back home, not just yet. Sixes' thread.