Posted in 1953, 1957, 1959, Barbara Stanwyck, Dorothy Malone, Fred MacMurray, Jesse Hibbs on July 14, 2014 | 10 Comments »
Want to pass along the link to a piece on Fred MacMurray’s 50s Westerns. These are favorites of many of us that hang around this blog.
Of the eight Westerns he made between 1953 and 1959, four are available in the States on DVD, and you’ll find them at ClassicFlix.com.
Posted in 1954, 1955, Allan Dwan, Audie Murphy, Barbara Stanwyck, Dan Duryea, Making Movies, Robert Wagner on February 25, 2014 | 3 Comments »
Robert Wagner and Virginia Leith on location for White Feather (1955). For some reason, this Delmer Daves-scripted picture has been overlooked. Seek it out.
Barbara Stanwyck and Allan Dwan chat between scenes on Cattle Queen Of Montana (1954). Dwan could do no wrong during this late phase of his incredible career.
Dan Duryea and Audie Murphy hanging out while making Ride Clear Of Diablo (1954). Both were at the top of their game on this one.
Posted in 1950, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, Anthony Mann, Barbara Stanwyck, Festivals, screenings, Gary Cooper, Henry Fonda, Jimmy Stewart, Robert Taylor on January 28, 2014 | 2 Comments »
Another day, another reason I’m living on the wrong end of the country. UCLA will present a very thorough Anthony Mann retrospective, covering all the noir and Westerns we know and love, at the Billy Wilder Theater starting this week. Click on Gary Cooper for details.
The 50s Westerns include:
The Furies (1950) January 31
Devil’s Doorway (1950) March 3
Winchester ’73 (1950) March 15
The Naked Spur (1953) February 9
The Far Country (1954) March 23
The Man From Laramie (1955) February 5
The Last Frontier (1956) February 21
The Tin Star (1957) March 30
Man Of The West (1958) March 30
Posted in 1957, Barbara Stanwyck, Exhibition, theaters, etc., Hank Worden, Making Movies, Sam Fuller, Technical on June 26, 2013 | 18 Comments »
This video from FilmmakerIQ.com may not teach you anything you don’t already know, but it sure is arranged and presented well.
Up top is Hank Worden and Barry Sullivan in Sam Fuller’s Forty Guns (1957) in CinemaScope.
Posted in 1952, 1954, 1956, 1959, Barbara Stanwyck, Howard Hawks, John Sturges, Kirk Douglas, Making Movies, Mara Corday, Republic, Rex Allen, Richard Widmark, Robert Mitchum, Ronald Reagan, Roy Rogers on February 25, 2013 | 7 Comments »
Rex Allen and Roy Rogers, somewhere on the Republic lot.
Mara Corday studies the Raw Edge (1956) screenplay.
Donna Reed and Richard Widmark at work on Backlash (1956). That’s John Sturges obscured in the ball cap.
Howard Hawks shows Kirk Douglas how to do a fight scene for The Big Sky (1952).
Ronald Reagan and Barbara Stanwyck discuss the arms situation on the set of Cattle Queen Of Montana (1954).
Satchel Paige and Robert Mitchum shoot the breeze between takes on The Wonderful Country (1959).
Posted in 1950, Anthony Quinn, Barbara Stanwyck, DVD reviews, releases, TV, etc. on February 14, 2013 | 1 Comment »
The word is that hundreds of Criterion titles will be available on Hulu for free over the weekend. There are some very, very great films in that list — from Wages Of Fear (1953) to Kubrick’s The Killing (1956) to Le Cercle Rouge (1970) and beyond.
One I’d particularly recommend is Anthony Mann’s The Furies (1950) starring Barbara Stanwyck and Walter Huston (in his last role).
Posted in 1957, Barbara Stanwyck, Festivals, screenings, Sam Fuller on August 23, 2012 | 7 Comments »
August 12th would’ve been Samuel Fuller’s 100th birthday, and the Aero in Santa Monica is paying tribute with three double bills. Friday’s is The Shock Corridor (1963) and Forty Guns (1957). Just seeing the title sequence on a big screen is worth price of admission.
Sorry about the short notice, but things move fast with Fuller.
Friday, August 24
7:30pm
Aero Theatre
1328 Montana Avenue, Santa Monica, CA 90403
“It’s not even really a Western. I don’t know what it is… Forty Guns doesn’t care.” — Martin Scorsese.
