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That would be actor Morgan Woodward, and he plays the character Boss Godfrey in this film, Tom.

Ya know folks, I'm really starting to hate it when these dang youngins come on here and make me feel old!

I don't think Vautrin meant earlier to imply that her soldier boyfriend died Hibi, but just that because of being hit by the "commie shrapnel" she lost him to the nurse who convalesced him. (edit: I see Vautrin just explained this himself)

Yep, and who always seemed to give the impression that he thought his you-know-what didn't stink. (...YOU know Tom, just like Laur...ahem, excuse me...that British actor!)

IF this film (which btw, I still think is only questionably a "noir") IS considered one of "Lang's lesser ones", then I'd say that this probably has most to do with its happy ending finale. (...bottom line though here...I'm with ya on this MissW...I've always found it an entertaing little film with very good acting all-around, and that moves along at a decent pace)

Yeah, good point here, Tex! Maybe the ABC television network affiliate in Detroit re-scheduled the airings for The Fugitive to coincide with GM's second shift punching out for the night on their timeclocks! AND, word WAS that the shop foreman on that shift, "Manny somethin'-or-other", was a big David Jannsen/Fugitive fan too, ya know. (...and you know how strong and influential the UAW union was back then, don't ya?!) LOL

Well, in your defense, I do understand that those Michigan winters of yours back there can often reek havoc on a guy's appearance! LOL

LOL Yeah, but I'M still fairly good lookin' AND in pretty damn good shape for an old guy, wouldn't ya SAY?!!! LOL

Yep, when the 'The Fugitive' series was first run, it was always scheduled Tuesday nights on the ABC television network at 10pm, 9pm Central, as they used to say. (...and I watched it in the sunny climes of Los ANGLE-less, ahem, I mean Los Angeles California on KABC channel-7 during that time...well okay, with the time of 10pm being hours after the sun had set on the City of Angels, anyway)

No, I was born in March of 1952, Sepia. And, with this series premiering in Sept of 1963, thus making me 11 y/o at the time. (...don't know how you got the idea that I was older than you, as I've always known that you were WAY older than I am, ol' boy...well okay, a whole year older. anyway) LOL

Actually here Ed, you might recall that after his turn as Andy Taylor was over, in efforts to do just that, attempts to break from that image that is, in a number of guest roles in 1970s TV series and in a couple of TV-movies made during that decade, he played the villain. (...one TV-movie in particular I recall in this regard and which co-starred William Shatner was the 1974 motorcycle-themed "Pray for the Wildcats")

Yep, have to agree with ya here, Sepia. There was always something about Peppard that was in a way a bit off-putting, wasnt't there. (...although maybe less so than how Tom feels about a certain British actor "who shall remain nameless" here if our Canadian buddy might happen upon this thread)

Nope, not really. I thought it was one of Eddie's shorter and least interesting outtros he's done in quite a while. (...in fact, it even seemed as if he might have been in a hurry to get back to his Facebook and Twitter feed!)

Nope, this ride's central tower which was as I recall the tallest structure at P.O.P... ...was where the final showdown between Kimble and the One-Armed Man was filmed...

And, Nip's David Janssen/The Fugitive thread today has in this regard also reminded me that the climactic scene in that series' final episode "The Judgment: Part 2" and where the one-armed man finally gets his just deserts, was also filmed at P.O.P. and as you might know, NS. (...and even through as I recall, that amusement park was supposed to actually be located in Indiana, Dr. Richard Kimble's home state)

Yep, kind'a looks like it might be Walter's third wife Nan Sunderland here, Tom...

In regard to your topic "Father Knows Jest" here, NS... In my case, the first thing that came to mind was when I'd reach the front door to our house when I was a kid and it would be locked. If my father were inside, he'd always yell out from the other side of the door, "What's the password?" Knowing that the "password" since I was a young tot had been established as "swordfish", I'd then call out that word to him and he'd unlock the door so I could enter the house. It wouldn't be until I was in my teenage years and happened to one day catch a showing of the Marx Bros' Horse Feathers on TV would be when it would dawn on me why the password was always what it was... (...in other words, evidently being a big Marx Brothers fan must have been handed down to me by my Pop and wasn't by sheer coincidence)

Ah yes! The ill-fated actor Clifton Young. Yep, first, it must have been tough being born with one of those faces ya just wanna punch, AND who died at the tender age of 33 after setting his hotel room on fire after falling asleep while smoking in bed. (...yep, it sure don't get much more "ill-fated" than THAT, alright)

Oh yeah, NS! One of the best documentaries I've watched in years. (...caught it on PBS a few years ago)

I was kind'a thinkin' this too, in fact. This was now probably the third time I've watched The Blue Gardenia over the years and still found it an entertaining mix of drama with just the right amount of humor and humorous characters inserted occasionally into it. (...I remember it was during my first viewing of it a few years back as being when I began rating Ann Sothern much higher on my "Watch-o-meter", as I think she's terrific in this film)

You might remember Sepia that there was a 1975 TV-movie made of the Sam Sheppard case which starred George Peppard in the titular role. (...I vaguely remember watching it)

During the time The Fugitive TV series was first run, I was ages 11-15 and my bedtime during the school year was 10pm, EXCEPT on Tuesdays nights when my parents allowed me to stay up until 11pm to watch each episode as it unfolded. I remember studying David Janssen's mannerisms, and for many years even affected that signature quick one-sided little grin of his because I thought the guy was cool as hell. (...however, I can't completely agree with Nip the OP's assessment of the Harrison Ford movie, as I think it was a great condensed movie-length version of the story that easily deserves its 7.8 IMDb and 96% Rotten Tomatoes ratings)

I've always felt the Rob Stephenson character was really only introduced into the film for two reasons. First, to show that Teresa Wright's Peggy character wasn't an only child, and secondly to perhaps show a generation gap possibly forming between March's Al character and with that of his son, and due to the former having recently experienced the horrors of WWII firsthand and with the latter seeming more concentrated upon the future in an atomic age. And so after he's introduced and has that one little interection with his father, Rob presence isn't required after that in order to move the story along. (...although and as you may have heard Toto, Rob reportedly WOULD end up being the roommate of another lost and missing son from another family just a few years later...one Chuck Cunningham, originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin)

I would think the skyrocketing land values of where they were all situated probably had the most to do with their demise, and then a close second the idea of a diminishing attendance at them and after the novelty of them had faded in the public's mind.

Yeah, I think I remember how that whole thing played out too.