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Post by flyaway on Apr 18, 2017 5:52:01 GMT -5
Watched it also!!!! Love my westerns Me too...especially the old one...Bonanza, The Rifleman, Big Valley and of course Gunsmoke. Miss those kind of shows. Today the shows seem to spend more effort in being graphically correct and lose the story... My Best favorite western.......High Chaparral, also enjoy Maverick and Have Gun Will Travel
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Post by flyaway on Apr 24, 2017 19:25:30 GMT -5
Just watched Gunsmoke 1959, "Kangaroo" and there was "Ep Bridges", John Crawford.
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Post by married2oldfool on Apr 30, 2017 0:40:16 GMT -5
I'm watching a movie on TCM channel tonight called Wild Rovers (1971) starring William Holden and Ryan O'Neal. They are 2 cowboys who decide to rob the town bank in order to help them finance a dream ranch they both have wanted--Holden because he is getting older and O'Neal because he doesn't want to end up old like Holden with nothing to show for it. When they go to the banker's house at dinnertime to kidnap him and take him to the bank to get the money, O'Neal has to stay with the banker's wife and her mother. The banker's wife is Sara Griffith Bridges (Lynn Carlin) and her mother is portrayed by Miss Emily (Mary Jackson). This movie has quite a few stars in it including Joe Don Baker, Karl Malden, Tom Skerritt and Victor French (Mr. Edwards from Little House) who is the sheriff. It's a good movie that has comedic qualities.
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Post by e knight on May 3, 2017 18:31:49 GMT -5
At 9:30 p.m. tonight, TCM has Black Like Me, based upon a true story, with James Whitmore as a white writer who disguises himself to experience what the Deep South is like to a black man.
Will Geer gives a brief but chilling performance as an old racist.
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Post by married2oldfool on May 3, 2017 21:32:35 GMT -5
I am watching the movie right now (Black Like Me) and just saw the segment with Will Geer. WOW! I was totally flabbergasted watching him portray a racist. The things he said were horrendous and I'd like to hope that anyone watching this feels the way. Right after James Whitmore hitches that ride with Will Geer who next that picks him up is ironic. It's David Huddleston (The Literary Man). He is totally opposite Will Geer in this movie in that he treats Whitmore just like any other man and not by race.
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Post by e knight on May 5, 2017 19:47:10 GMT -5
I am watching the movie right now (Black Like Me) and just saw the segment with Will Geer. WOW! I was totally flabbergasted watching him portray a racist. The things he said were horrendous and I'd like to hope that anyone watching this feels the way. Right after James Whitmore hitches that ride with Will Geer who next that picks him up is ironic. It's David Huddleston (The Literary Man). He is totally opposite Will Geer in this movie in that he treats Whitmore just like any other man and not by race. View AttachmentThanks for catching that! I'd forgotten to mention that a young David Huddleston -- another Waltons favorite -- appears next and at least briefly restores the protagonist's faith in humanity. It all makes for a memorable sequence. Some powerful acting by Will Geer. Politically, he was a lifelong leftist, and certainly not a bigot in life.
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Post by nedandres on May 7, 2017 18:40:49 GMT -5
I caught Robert (Yancy Tucker) Donner in "The Older Brothers" episode of "Little House: A New Beginning" which was "Little House on the Prairie" in the revised format during the final year. He played a gangster brother of Geoffrey Lewis's character.
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Post by married2oldfool on May 20, 2017 23:29:39 GMT -5
TCM is airing the movie "Cornered" (1945) starring Dick Powell. Ben Mankiewicz, the host of TCM, speaks of this movie as the first credited role for Ellen Corby who in the 1940s had several uncredited roles in movies and was also a long time script girl (the production person responsible for maintaining a film's continuity for the benefit of the film editor) before stepping in front of the camera. In this movie, Ellen is a French maid--yes, you read correctly. Although a small part, she was young and pretty and it was good to see her playing a young girl instead of the older woman roles she often played even when she was young (kind of like Beulah Bondi).
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Post by tvlover on Jun 2, 2017 15:51:38 GMT -5
I watched an episode of The Andy Griffith Show last night, and Helen Kleeb, who plays Miss Emily Baldwin, appeared as a woman whose husband was in one of the cells at the Sheriff's office.
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Post by married2oldfool on Jun 16, 2017 4:38:00 GMT -5
I'm watching a movie called The Seventh Sin (1957) starring Eleanor Parker portraying an unfaithful woman who goes to China with her doctor husband during a cholera epidemic. They are in a village along with Catholic nuns who are helping with all the children who have been orphaned. Half way through the movie, in pops Ellen Corby as Sister Saint Joseph. She is in and out of a few scenes and has some lines as well. I love it when she shows up unexpectedly in random classic movies. *photo shows her standing Attachment Deleted
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Post by cinlou on Jun 16, 2017 21:13:22 GMT -5
Tom Bower was on an episode of Cold Case. He played the adult version of a kid who was a bootlegger. I don't know if you are familiar with Cold Case. The police solve old cases and there are a lot of flashbacks to when the murders happen. In this episode it was based in 1932. Tom Bower played a person nowadays. If that makes sense.
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Post by flyaway on Jun 18, 2017 8:44:32 GMT -5
Merie Earle (Maude Gormley) was on Johnny Carson in 1977. She was 88 at the time and very lucid. Apparently she was on his show a few times
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Post by married2oldfool on Jun 18, 2017 20:37:34 GMT -5
Watching John Wayne in "Chisum" (1970) on the Sundance channel--Father's Day with The Duke. I've seen it a ton of times but never noticed Robert Donner--Yancy Tucker, portraying a corrupt deputy, Bradley Morton who ends up in his long johns on a cantina floor with actor Ben Johnson pouring a bucket of water in his face. Sadly, as Pat Garrett is hauling him and another corrupt deputy to go to trial for murdering Billy the Kid's mentor, Billy intercepts them on the trail fearing that justice will not prevail and for revenge for his mentor's murder, kills both Yancy and the other deputy. I have noticed lately that Robert Donner is in quite a few westerns. Some just bit parts and others quite a lot of dialogue. *Hope all the dads out there enjoyed their day Attachment Deleted
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Post by carol on Jun 18, 2017 23:32:26 GMT -5
I'm watching a movie on TCM channel tonight called Wild Rovers (1971) starring William Holden and Ryan O'Neal. They are 2 cowboys who decide to rob the town bank in order to help them finance a dream ranch they both have wanted--Holden because he is getting older and O'Neal because he doesn't want to end up old like Holden with nothing to show for it. When they go to the banker's house at dinnertime to kidnap him and take him to the bank to get the money, O'Neal has to stay with the banker's wife and her mother. The banker's wife is Sara Griffith Bridges (Lynn Carlin) and her mother is portrayed by Miss Emily (Mary Jackson). This movie has quite a few stars in it including Joe Don Baker, Karl Malden, Tom Skerritt and Victor French (Mr. Edwards from Little House) who is the sheriff. It's a good movie that has comedic qualities. View AttachmentVictor French also appeared in The Waltons. He played Curtis Norton in The Fulfillment.
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Post by flyaway on Jun 19, 2017 6:26:27 GMT -5
Watching John Wayne in "Chisum" (1970) on the Sundance channel--Father's Day with The Duke. I've seen it a ton of times but never noticed Robert Donner--Yancy Tucker, portraying a corrupt deputy, Bradley Morton who ends up in his long johns on a cantina floor with actor Ben Johnson pouring a bucket of water in his face. Sadly, as Pat Garrett is hauling him and another corrupt deputy to go to trial for murdering Billy the Kid's mentor, Billy intercepts them on the trail fearing that justice will not prevail and for revenge for his mentor's murder, kills both Yancy and the other deputy. I have noticed lately that Robert Donner is in quite a few westerns. Some just bit parts and others quite a lot of dialogue. *Hope all the dads out there enjoyed their day View AttachmentI think Robert Donner has been in every western ever made, however I have yet to see him in "Bronco" The most western I've seen him in is "Gunsmoke".
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