Dargo2

>That's Bobby Buntrock Hmmmm...sounds like some pseudonym they would've given to some baseball player/guest star on "The Flintstones"! (...uh huh, can't ya see it now?..."Hey Wilma, here comes Stoney Curtis and Bobby Buntrock. Let's get their autographs!")

Interesting theory here and most likely true, Fred, however being a native Angeleno, I know that while most of the greater L.A. area does indeed run in a North/South/East/West grid pattern, the oldest part of the city, the downtown L.A. area(and where Mr. Lloyd filmed these sequences), actually runs at a diagonal from the rest of the area's grid. And so, as I figure it, none of those highrise buildings face either North or South, but instead either face Northwest/Northeast/Southwest/Southeast. (...not to be a stickler here, mind you)

>2. Was Karl Malden in every movie made in the 1960s?! (Of course, I know he wasn't...but so many films I have been seeing from the Sixties recently...there he is.) And then of course, just a short decade later he'd appear on every television set in America, TOO! (...and if not as a San Francisco cop, then on those series of commercials where he'd advise you to NOT visit San Francisco or any OTHER locale on the planet without first stopping by your bank and exchanging your greenbacks for a certain company's Travelers Cheques!)

I'm gonna guess that it was either his close resemblance to Milburn Pennybags(you know, the "Monopoly Man"...'cause who didn't like playin' that board game back in the day ) OR maybe that he almost always played the rather "cool, detached and knowing" type, and which I think is why he was perfectly cast as the ultimate example of that type later in his career in Paths of Glory .

Funny you should bring up seeing the Vinny Price movie back then Sepia, 'cause that reminds me of when this then 13 y/o kid here and his friend Dennis were all set to go see that flick until Dennis' mother told him that he was definitely NOT going to go see a movie which had all those scantily-clad women in it. (...times, and what parents think is appropriate viewing for their kids, sure have changed since '65, haven't they?!)

You could probably add most of the Roger Moore Bond flicks to that list too, Sepia. In fact, up until the present and decidedly more serious Daniel Craig editions, the Bond franchise had considerably gone toward the campy end of the spectrum since the first few Connery films, and which in even his last appearance as the spy in Diamonds Are Forever began down that path.

>Wow. When I first saw this last photo, I thought it was Robert Culp!!! Striking resemblance in profile to Gower Champion, If ya ask me, lavender, I think Gower looks a bit more like Don Murray there than he does Culp. AND, now that I think about it, I believe Haydn there resembles more an older Richard Harris than he does Trevor Howard. (...not that anyone HAS asked me here, of course!) Edited by: Dargo2 on May 17, 2013 11:05 AM

Well, nobody ever did a Widmark(or for THAT matter, a Kirk Douglas or a Burt Lancaster) impression better than Gorshin.

Martine Beswick (...I would sometimes get her confused with Barbara Steele, another of the exotic looking British Horror Queens)

>Andy, there's no question that Sinatra's strongest dramatics efforts were edgier than Crosby's. Having said that, though, you made no reference to The Country Girl, the most complex part that Crosby ever played (quite magnificently, I feel) Well said Tom, and exactly what my reply to Andy was going to be until I spotted yours here. Yep, up until my first viewing of The Country Girl maybe some 30 years ago now, I was pretty much in the "Eeh, Crosby's okay I guess, but he sure isn't that good an actor" camp, but after watching him more than capably play the troubled, complex and somewhat unlikable character in this film, I gained some appreciation for his acting abilities.

>Dargo, I've always regarded THE BIG COUNTRY as one of the most impressive westerns that I've seen. My main complaint about the film would be its excessive length. Wonderful cast, with Burl Ives a standout but terrific work, too, by Gregory Peck, Charlton Heston and a wonderful Chuck Connors, a far cry from the same character that he would play as The Rifleman on TV. AND The Big Country has one of the truly GREAT western film scores by Jerome Moross. Few westerns have had musical as epic or rousing as this one. Interesting you made special mention of Chuck Connors here, Tom. When I said earlier that I've loved this film since I first watched it in the late '60s, one of the key "revelations" I remember having at that time was discovering that Connors could act so well as a "lowlife" character, as up until that time I had really only known him as the good "Lucas McCain" on that TV show. And yep, regarding the music, Moross' score for this film is also in my estimation THE greatest Western theme music ever, followed closely by Elmer Bernstein's score for The Magnificent Seven.

This pick of mine is probably way too obvious, but Ava Gardner in vivid Technicolor, in Pandora and The Flying Dutchman. (..aaah, those lips, those eye..brows, and that sexy little cleft in her chin...YOWza!!!)

Yep James, it had been quite a while since my last viewing of "Duel", but what kind of impressed me this time was Vidor's(et al's) direction and the cinematography. And re The Big Country, I too have never understood the reason for this film's lowered status among the great Westerns. I've loved this film since the my first viewing of it when it was broadcast (I think) on the old ABC Sunday Night Movie series back in the late '60s and when I was a teenager. And, after watching it maybe 4 or 5 times since then and with possibly a more discerning eye and with the intent to find some major or minor flaws in it, I just never could. Yep, I think it holds up to scrutiny pretty darn well.

Oh yeah, that would be Kevin...aka "Moochie". And who could forget him in that ultimate Boomer tearjerker, Old Yeller, eh?!

Oops! I guess if that's Noreen, then it wasn't the Corcoran who saw the angels then. (...boy did Donna and Noreen look a lot alike...though then again, so did all the Corcoran kids, huh)

It's that the little girl who's pretty good at spottin' all those angels playin' out there in the outfield, Miles?

>I am 5'10", 135 with 5% body fat, and I'm older than you. Thinburgers would be a stretch for me. 135lb and only 5% body fat, ya say??? Dude, I gotta say I think you SHOULD maybe consider eatin' a few MORE burgers, "Fat" or not, if ya ask me! (...I mean you sound SO skinny that I've wondering how you keep warm during those Philadelphia WINTERS back there???!!!)

Please don't tell me it was on a double bill with Jack Lemmon in PHFFFT! !

So Sans, then I assume you serve the Borscht on the side then...right?!

Well first James, if you live 60 miles "south" of L.A., then I take it you live on boat situated about 25 miles out in the Pacific and off the coast of Oceanside, RIGHT?! (...sorry, couldn't resist that one) But yeah, you make a good point about hamburgers being pretty easy to make at home, though then again, even the ones I grill on my BBQ never tasted as good as Fatburgers, for whatever reason. Yep, I sure wish there was one of there stands around here in Sedona. Oh, and another old L.A. haunt I miss is Fosters Freeze, 'cause Dairy Queen pales in comparison to them, too. Oh, AND I wish there was an El Pollo Loco around these here parts, too, though there's a few of 'em down in the Phoenix area. (...wow, I'm startin' to sound like I live for fast food, huh?!...well, not really, it's just one of those occasional things of which I partake)

LOL!!! Well ya know, my dietary philosophy was always pretty much been, "Eat what ya want, but keep in mind HOW much of it ya eat"....Fatburger or not. And, being a somewhat trim and fit 61 y/o(6'2'' 190lb) gentleman, I'd say that's pretty much worked for me. Yep, as I'm sure you know, it all boils down to "portion sizes" and working off those calories, and tennis 2 to 3 times a week is how I work off those calories.

Now c'mon finance! You're not gonna sit there and tell me here that while you were livin' out there in L.A.(and rackin' up all those jaywalking tickets ), you never walked into a Fatburger stand and ordered a delicious charbroiled burger with a side of their stupendous onion rings, now are YA???!!! (...'cause if you didn't, then you missed one of the best things goin' out in La La Land, AND somethin' that makes those Philly cheesesteaks pale in comparison!)

In-N-Out Burger is probably a slight bit better than any of the major chains, BUT anyone headed out to the West Coast, Vegas or Phoenix is BEST advised to patronize FATBURGER instead. (...mmmmmm, YUM!!!)

Yeah, it wasn't bad at all, FBT. And speakin' of Beau and Jeff's Dad here...Is it only ME noticing this, or have you also noticed that poor Lloyd might hold the acting record for the highest percentage of gettin' killed in movies?!! Yep, I was just thinkin' that he was first of the stranded Allied troops to buy the farm in Sahara, he gets captured, tortured and dies in the arms of his boyhood friend played by James Edwards in Home of the Brave, AND of course falls to his death in THIS flick! (...and I gots me a feelin' I've seen the guy bite the dust in a whole lot o' OTHER pictures TOO!)

Andy, while I realize your thread title's intent was probably meant more in a figurative(a protagonist's mental breakdown) and not in a literal manner, however being a Gearhead, I just can't resist mentioning the ending of 1971's Vanishing Point, as I believe there may not have LITERALLY been a better "crash and burn ending" to a movie since Barry Newman's Kowalski drove his white 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T 440 Magnum right into the blades of those two bulldozers.