From The Chicago Sun-Times, January 23, 1954:
“Dickie Barrett, 5, is going to get Guy Madison’s contribution to the forthcoming Heart Fund Campagn even if it means holding up “Wild Bill Hickok,” Madison’s TV role.”
While the photo caption references Madison’s Hickcok show, The Command (1954) — with Madison starring in the first CinemaScope Western — had just opened. By the way, The Command is a good, if minor, Western — worth seeing for James Whitmore alone. It’s available from Warner Archive.
Any experts out there recognize Dickie’s two-gun rig?
One of his films I remenber enjoying was “The Hard Man”, Iv’e not seen it since
1958 has anyone else?
Haven’t seen this one in ages. It’s a George Sherman picture made not long after the terrific Reprisal! (1956), so I’m really wanting to see it again myself.
Believe it or not, it’s on the Encore Westerns channel this Friday:
http://www.starz.com/titles/thehardman
Two great scenes in THE HARD MAN:
(a) the rain drenched opening scene where Madison is forced
to kill his ex-buddy (Myron Healy)
(b) The shoot-out with swaggering “bully boy” gunslinger Rudy Bond.
If only we had something like Encore Westerns over here in the UK