FredCDobbs
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> Technically, the "old B&W show" aired one episode in
> color, "The Big Little Jesus," but it apparently
> survives only in B&W. I think it's among the various
> PD episodes floating about today.
I saw that episode when it was first aired. We got our first TV back in 1953. But I can't remember why the kid took the statue.
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> The odds of being killed during a scheduled airline
> flight are about one per million--nearly four times
> greater than the odds of being killed in an
> automobile ride. But most car trips are for far fewer
> miles. Per passenger mile an automobile ride is 10
> times more likely to result in fatality than an
> airplane journey.
Statistics don?t mean a danged thing when I?m up in one of those aluminum coffins and the plane is bouncing around while the pilot is trying to find his way through the thunderstorms and clouds so he can miss the mountain that is on the West side of the Tegucigalpa airport while he?s trying to avoid the sheer cliff drop-off on the East end of the runway.
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Ok, I've looked around the internet at some pictures of her, and that's probably her, but it seems that my 78 album was from the '40s.
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I can?t remember if that is her name or not.
The photo on the cover of the album that I had, looked similar to this one but it was a real photograph on my album and I think it was released in the 1940s:
http://www.ccmusic.com/item.cfm?itemid=CCM06812
Also some of her tunes on my album were the same as the ones on Joan Baez?s first album.
I got rid of my entire 78 collection just before my last move. I gave them to some music students at the local university.
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I like the film for several reasons.
It basically covers a common theme: The first settlers who are tough open range ranchers vs. the newly arrived farmers, their families, and their fences.
However, the cast is really good, with a lot of outstanding actors, and the situations the characters get involved with are not typical of common westerns.
The fact that the farmers have to go into the little town and use the stores owned by the supporters of the ranchers makes for a delicate situation.
Naturally, the farmers aren?t fighters while the ranchers are, but Allen Ladd sort of helps even out the playing field when he, as a drifter, stumbles into the middle of this feud and is befriended by a farm family and that darned cute kid and his pretty mama.
After a while, the ranchers begin to get really mean, and....... that?s when the film gets tense and exciting.
Jack Palance eventually comes in from out of town like a Super Killer from Outer Space, and he is about the most frightening cowboy type guy I?ve ever seen in any film. I mean, his sardonic grin alone can knock half a dozen dirt farmers right off their horses.
I would recommend that everyone should see this film at least once, and then decide if they like it or not.
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> FredCDobbs: The trouble is, it wasn't supposed to be
> funny!!!
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> Neil
Right, the movie was not supposed to be funny, but the promo uses an "Airplane" type of narration that make the scenes in the movie seem funny. People smoking, the co-pilot slapping the pilot, people yelling and screaming, the airplane on fire, while in the promo the lady narrator makes everything seem nice and normal.
After I saw that movie as a kid, every time I got on an airliner I'd have mental visions of all the passengers going berserk while we went down in flames, while the pilot and co-pilot were having a fist-fight in the cockpit.
It never happened of course, but for the hours of the flight this is the mental image I couldn't shake.
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It is possible to fake a country accent. The New Lost City Ramblers of New York in the ?60s used to mimic the old Lost City Ramblers.
Bob Dylan used to imitate country singers he heard on old folk records. His ?New Talkin? Blues? was copied after ?The Talkin? Blues? which was recorded in the early ?30s. Dylan?s running ?stringbean? joke came from this old record.
Joan Baez?s first album of old Irish folk tunes came from a specific two or three record set recorded by an Irish lady who played a harp and made her recordings in the early 1940s. I had that album at one time and the lady sounded like Joan Baez, or vice versa.
I read somewhere that the name Vernon Dalhart came from the names of two small towns in Northwest Texas.
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> In fact, back in 1954 if you ran from a cop, he
> could pull out a gun and shoot you.
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> You mean they don't now (but, then, I'm white)?
Back in the '50s and earlier they could do it with witnesses around. Today if there are witnesses and TV cameras, they can't do it. That's why we see so many car chases on the news today. In the '50s they could shoot up the cars right away.
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> My favorite moment in this movie is when Gannon and
> Smith get into the elevator and lift their heels
> ALMOST at the same time to pantomime the elevator
> going up. Then the lift 'em again ALMOST at the same
> time to pantomime the elevator stopping.
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> It doesn't get any better than this!
Lol, yeah, I noticed that. It was ALMOST at the same time.
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This sounds very much like ?The Divorcee?, 1930, with Norma Shearer, Chester Morris, and Robert Montgomery.
This, in fact, was the basic theme of this movie, although it was mainly about one woman and her husband. They did get back together in the end.
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I'd like to see "O Brother, Where Art Thou," from "Sullivan's Travels," and "The Passion of Joan of Arc" from "Miracle of the Bells."
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I don't like to fly either. I think maybe because I saw this movie when I was a kid.
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> If any of you noticed it and were too polite to point
> it out, I thank you. If it slipped your notice,
> please dont ask what it was. I am truly ashamed and
> I should have my posting privileges revoked...or at
> least be on probation for awhile.
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> Thanks for indulging me. I feel better now.
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> Kyle In Hollywood
Hey! What was it??
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Interesting stories. Thanks.
I interviewed Fats Domino for a radio show I was doing in high school back around 1959. The guy was quite famous by then, but he seemed like just an average guy and was very polite. I?ve heard that he was like that all of his life.
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I just saw the "High and Mighty" 31 days of Oscar promo again. This is one of the best I've seen on TCM. It's very funny! Lol.
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> I would love to see the original TV show! I have
> never, ever seen it. The 60's version was OK. But I
> bet the old one was better. Even if not, it's of
> cultural significance. Didn't know about Richard
> Boone and MEDIC. But I sure did have a Paladin
> outfit when I was little!
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> Red River
I don't know why the old B&W TV show isn't shown on TV today. I didn't like the newer color TV show. I'd love to the the old B&W one again.
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> > The most shocking part of the whole movie for me
> was
> > the violent murder and then later seeing Jack Webb
> in
> > an intense interrogation scene. I never thought
> i'd
> > see the day when he would more or less harrass
> > someone the way he did in this flick.
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> What I found most shocking is what the police were
> allowed to get away with. I can't imagine the police
> running a "dawn-to-dusk" tail the way they did in the
> movie, with Sgt. Friday just stopping Max Troy on
> half a dozen occasions for no reason and frisking
> him.
There was a wider gap between "criminals" and "everyone else" back then. The average audience in 1954 thought those scenes were funny.
In fact, back in 1954 if you ran from a cop, he could pull out a gun and shoot you.
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> When Taylor is shotgunned at point
> blank he turns to the camera before falling to the
> ground. That image haunted me for the longest time; I
> saw the film (believe it or not) as a six year-old in
> a movie theater when it first came out. I talked
> about the "bloody face" for years!
I was about 12 when I first saw it. The one scene I remember the most over the years is the girl in the tight blouse walking out of the recording studio.
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Here, in the upper left corner click on ?RealAudio? under the title ?Wildwood Flower? by ?Carter Family?:
http://www.honkingduck.com/BAZ/honkingduck78s.php?qt=title&ap=10&tp=14&title=583
You can search around on this website for dozens of old tunes. If the "RealAudio" doesn't work for you, try "Streaming".
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> Vernon Dalhart.
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> I hope you're not a completist - 'cause I think he
> recorded using over a hundred aliases! Probably the
> alias king. In all (including operatic - on Edison
> Diamond Discs) styles of music!
> Bill
I?ve read about that, but I don?t believe it, because over the years I?ve heard hundreds of different country and western and folk songs recorded in the ?20s and ?30s and there were no singers that sounded like Vernon Dalhart who aren?t named Dalhart on the records.
Of course, I suppose he could have had different voices he used that I didn?t recognize, but the Vernon Dalhart voice was so distinctive I can?t imagine the guy having any other voice.
By the way, one of his top tunes, ?The Wreck of the Old 97?, was sung in the movie ?Scarface? by Ann Dvorak.
?Ohhhh, he was goin? down the grade makin? 90 miles an hour, when his whistle broke into a screeammm.....?
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I had a lot of trouble trying to follow all the details of this film, especially the time of day notations during the first half hour, and then later all the many different names of all the characters.
Always the slowest part of any Dragnet show was when some old lady or old man was drunk on a sofa babbling on and on and on about their life history. Jack Webb seemed to think that was "high drama", but all it was, was padding to stretch the story out.
I also noticed that in the move and in the TV show, almost no one ever had anything on their apartment walls. No paintings, no pictures, no nothing. They were the most blank apartment walls in all of movie and TV history.
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I'm not sure, but I don't think it was in 3-D.
I remember the promo trailer for the film, and in it Jack Webb said that we would be seeing some unusual camera angles in the film. He also showed a B&H DR camera with a wide angle lens on it and he said they used some small cameras for some of the scenes to make them seem more realistic.
I remember this fairly vividly, because we got our first TV in 1953 and Dragnet was the main tv show we watched. Then the the movie was announced, my dad and I wanted to see it (my mom stayed home). So my dad and I went to see it together.
I can't remember when Boone started his first TV show, but I saw "Doc" who would later be in Gunsmoke.
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Lol, that was fun.
This movie coming on now, "He Walked By Night," is a very good noir.
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Shane just started. The color is great.
I wonder how they got that deer to act like that?