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Post by Johnny on Dec 2, 2020 4:23:32 GMT -5
No mention of Geer, but I am going to watch it. It looks kind of slow but maybe good. Thanks. ... Intruder in the DustLet me know what you think of it! I just watched the film now Intruder in the Dust, based on novel by William Faulkner. It's very good !!
It was interesting hearing the lawyer deduce in a monotone, what was about to happen, in a style reminiscent of Sherlock Holmes..
I see Will Geer but would not have recognized him, but do recognize his voice. I notice he knows his way around the kitchen. He cracks eggs like a short order cook
The story ended well, justice for an innocent American of African descent during a time of mob vigilantism. One thing that kept distracting me, many scenes behind the actors wiggled & rotated as if they were added after filming in a studio. I wondered if that was an artifact of poor filming & editing or if it came about when they digitized the old film.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2020 14:00:45 GMT -5
Let me know what you think of it! I just watched the film now Intruder in the Dust, based on novel by William Faulkner. It's very good !!
It was interesting hearing the lawyer deduce in a monotone, what was about to happen, in a style reminiscent of Sherlock Holmes..
I see Will Geer but would not have recognized him, but do recognize his voice. I notice he knows his way around the kitchen. He crack eggs like a short order cook
The story ended well, justice for an innocent American of African descent during a time of mob vigilantism. One thing that kept distracting me, many scenes behind the actors wiggled & rotated as if they were added after filming in a studio. I wondered if that was an artifact of poor filming & editing or if it came about when they digitized the old film.
You did better than me. I could not get through it.
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Post by e knight on Dec 3, 2020 19:48:55 GMT -5
Intruder in the Dust,I thought, was pretty-hard-hitting for a 1949 film.
I think that Juano Hernandez is an actor with remarkable presence. I've seen him in (maybe) only three films (this one, -- as the accused man), Ransom! (1956) and The Pawnbroker (1965), and in each he's difficult to forget.
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Post by journaler on Dec 7, 2020 7:12:31 GMT -5
On Tuesday 12/8 at 9 pm ET, Antenna TV will air "Up in the Air" (1982), a Three's Company episode that is considered to be one of the series' best. In this episode, John Ritter (The Waltons' Reverend Fordwick) performs a spectacular nonstop dance sequence that showcases his comedic genius. Even if this show is not your cup of tea, I think you might find this particular episode very funny. Barry Williams guest stars. Interestingly, Three's Company referred to The Waltons in its first season. I wonder if any Waltons cast member ever considered stopping by the Regal Beagle at some point.
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Post by wacokyd on Dec 13, 2020 13:14:21 GMT -5
Last night on a 1991 "Columbo" episode on Cozi TV, Yancy Tucker appeared as an operator of a porn store (good choice for the charater he played in the Waltons!). Now for a hard to imagine coicidence. My daughter made a short film while attending AFI and the star of the movie was Patricia Arquette, the real life daughter of that creepy owner of a defense plant in the Waltons who hated women but eventually hired Arin Walton. Guess what Ms Arquette's character played in my daughter's movie? A porn shop operator!
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Post by tommyc on Dec 13, 2020 23:02:35 GMT -5
Watched an episode of The Invaders last night. I was flabbergasted by the amount of Walton sightings.
The Invaders is a series from 1967 & 68 about aliens arriving on Earth with evil intentions. Don't know much about it as I never heard of it before catching some episodes recently.
This episode last night is the second last of the series. When I switched to it a couple minutes in, there was Will Geer working at a hotel. The phone rang and he answered. Who was on the other end of the line? It was none other than Mary Jackson (Miss Emily). Poor Miss Emily, she was soon stabbed in the back with a knitting needle by an alien and died.
Then there was a younger kid who looked familiar but I couldn't place him. Looked up the episode on IMDB and found it was Michael McGreevey who played Hobie Shank in The Braggart. I really never knew or cared who played Hobie but knew the name McGreevey was familiar and thought it had something to do with The Waltons. Looked at his credits and in addition to playing Hobie, he is credited as a writer on four episodes of the The Waltons. He was also a producer and appeared in the documentary Earl Hamner Storyteller. His father John McGreevey, has 20 writing credits for The Waltons
I started thinking if it was just a coincidence that Will, Mary and Michael (and Michael's father) ended up together on The Waltons. Or were there other personal or professional links that led them to contribute to The Waltons in some way? It would be interesting to know if it was a coincidence or something else.
Dana Elcar was also in the episode and he was in one episode of The Waltons. He played George Porter in the episode The Prize.
Two notable actors in the episode with no Walton connection that I know of were Suzanne Pleshette and Barry Williams (Greg Brady).
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Post by e knight on Dec 16, 2020 13:57:54 GMT -5
TCM has Hitchcock's Vertigo at 8 p.m. tonight (Wednesday).
Ellen Corby plays a hotel manager, and has some scenes with James Stewart.
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Post by wacokyd on Dec 21, 2020 18:48:14 GMT -5
If you are a Waltons fan, there's a movie that came out in 1974 that you might like called "Where the Lilies Bloom". It's setting is in the backcountry of North Carolina, quite similar to the Waltons setting in Virginia. The story is about four children who have lost both of their parents, have no money, live in a shack and survive off the land. There are virtually no big Holywood stars that you would recognize except for one: Harry Dean Stanton, known for many movies including "Paris Texas" and more recently, "Lucky". He died soon after making "Lucky" which was what the movie was all about. As for "Where the Lilies Bloom" with its similarity to the Waltons, it's easy to figure out why. Guess who wrote the screenplay? Incidentally, I lived in Virginia in 1974, saw the "Lilies" movie when it came out and watched the Waltons during their original showings.
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Post by flyaway on Dec 21, 2020 19:35:28 GMT -5
Watching "Penny Serenade" 1941 with Cary Grant and Irene Dunne, and there was Beulah Bondi , "Miss Oliver", as the head of an orphanage. Never would have recognized her if I hadn't been looking up the cast!!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2020 20:29:51 GMT -5
If you are a Waltons fan, there's a movie that came out in 1974 that you might like called "Where the Lilies Bloom". It's setting is in the backcountry of North Carolina, quite similar to the Waltons setting in Virginia. The story is about four children who have lost both of their parents, have no money, live in a shack and survive off the land. There are virtually no big Holywood stars that you would recognize except for one: Harry Dean Stanton, known for many movies including "Paris Texas" and more recently, "Lucky". He died soon after making "Lucky" which was what the movie was all about. As for "Where the Lilies Bloom" with its similarity to the Waltons, it's easy to figure out why. Guess who wrote the screenplay? Incidentally, I lived in Virginia in 1974, saw the "Lilies" movie when it came out and watched the Waltons during their original showings. I have it. Good movie. It shows how impoverished people could be in certain areas.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2020 20:30:51 GMT -5
I was watching Sargent York when Vernon Rutley, from the Typewriter showed up.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2020 18:20:52 GMT -5
Miss Emily" Baldwin, or Mary Jackson
She is in the first opening.
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Post by wacokyd on Jan 2, 2021 14:18:43 GMT -5
This New Years there were two channels with "Twilight Zone" marathons, one channel lasting 4 days. I saw back to back episodes written in 1962 & 1963 by Earl Hamner, "Ring-a-Ling Girl" about a Hollywood star who returns to her hometown where her ring gives messages of a catastrophy to come and "The Hunt" about an old timer who dies along with his dog and both return to see the burials. You couldn't get any farther from the Waltons family drama. Or could you? Remember "The Changeling" from season 7 where Elizabeth goes Poitergeistic? I didn't like this one but other Walton posters did. I call them Zoners.
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Post by wacokyd on Jan 4, 2021 17:03:41 GMT -5
A few days ago Ellen Corby appeared on "Gomer Pyle" as a con lady who used her rather attractive daughter to lure marines into innocently robbing liquor stores. Some may remember when the same Ms Corby appeared on "Andy Griffith", again as a con lady selling a junk of a car to Don Knotts as hardly ever driven and owned forever by an old lady from Pasadena. Ellen was so good in these rolls that I'm now wondering if her main purpose on the Waltons was to con the children. Maybe Judy knows the answer.
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Post by carol on Jan 10, 2021 1:21:15 GMT -5
I saw an episode of Maude last night. The Election S5 Ep 7. Michael O'Keefe who played Chad in The Competition and The Elopement was in it. He played Lee Harrison. Also in it was William Schallert who played Stanley Perkins on The Waltons. He played Lee's father. Leon Harrison.
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