We figured it was time to have a place to talk about Steve’s latest video subjects that do not have an UMR page.
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We figured it was time to have a place to talk about Steve’s latest video subjects that do not have an UMR page.
Added Steve’s latest video…Richard Boone Movies to the page. Our thoughts that we shared on his video channel.
“Richard Boone the actor not Richard Boone the composer? Good to see another video from the Lensman. Surprised I have not seen more of his movies. Only 8. Favorites include #1 The Shootist…great swan song for John Wayne. #7 Big Jake…another late in his career Wayne good movie. The Tall T(#3) one of Randolph Scott’s better westerns. I liked The Alamo and The Robe more when I was younger….but they do not seem to be as good now that I am older. Voted up and will share at UltimateMovieRankings.com later today. Good video. Good job.”
Your break hasn’t robbed you of your selection skills because I thought your Boone video is worth a 98% rating especially as it contains a number of 1950s B westerns which hold great nostalgia for me.
The Pick of the STILLS for me are (1) A thunder of Drums (2) Richard and Mr Mumbles (3) Richard with the great Edmond O’Brien (4) Big Jake (5) The Alamo (6) with Chuck (7) with randy in The Tall T (8) Boone with MY Richard in Halls of Montezuma and (9) with The Duke in The Shootist.
Best POSTERS for my money. (1) Bushido Blade (2) Return of the Texan (3) all 3 for Star in the Dust featuring John Agar aka Mr Shirley Temple from 1945 until 1950 (4) 1st one for Thunder of Drums (5) two for 10 Wanted Men [co-starring Sister Mumbles] (6) City of Badmen (7) Lizzie (8) a very raunchy one for Garment Jingle (9) Way of a Gaucho [with my Rory in his heyday] (10) two for I Bury the Living (11) Halls of Montezuma (12) 1st one for War Lord (13) foreign language ones for The Tall T and (14) Hombre featuring my personal fave Boone role as the villain of the plot. Rarely have I seen such aggressive menace on the screen
Haughty Audra Favor [Barbara Rush]
“Do you never take your hat off to a lady?”
Cicero Grimes [Richard Boone]
“Depends on the lady. And what else I take off depends on how lucky I get.”
[Hombre 1967]
Richard Boone joins Chaplin as one of the few actors who got to direct The Great Mumbler. When Boone and Mr Mumbles co-starred in 1969’s Night of the Following Day Brando lost patience with the film’s director Hubert Cornfield, whom Mr Mumbles regarded as incompetent, so he insisted that Richard [with whom Mr M got on well both having come thru the renowned Actors Studio] direct the final scene of the movie.
Richard is thus listed as an uncredited director of that film which represents the lowest point of the King of Method’s 1960s career as it was the only Brando film until then to be widely released as just a 2nd feature. For example when I saw it over here it was in support of Clint Eastwood’s Coogan’s Bluff.
ADDITIONAL TRIVIA
1/In Night of the Following Day Mr Mumbles played a chauffeur called Bud which was the real-life nickname of the Great Mumbler.
2/Boone also directed 33TV episodes spread over 2 series – The Richard Boone Show [1963-64] and Have Gun Will Travel [1957-63] which made him a star
Hi Bob, nearly missed your review, lucky I decided to scan the forum page before I left. 🙂
Thanks as always for the review, generous rating, info, trivia and quotes, always appreciated.
Glad you enjoyed the posters, stills and lobby cards.
Yes I think you’ll enjoy the line up of actors I’ve got standing by in the coming weeks. Few were top billed on the marquee but they certainly had value as supporting actors.
Richard Boone was one of those watchable actors that always made the movie a little bit better by his presence. Who was more craggy-faced Boone or Bronson? Charlie once said that his face looked like a rock quarry that had just been dynamited. 🙂
No 10 out of 10s in Boone’s filmography but there is a 9 – The Shootist. 12 films scored 8 out of 10 including – Hombre, The Tall T, The War Lord and The Alamo.
Topping the charts at IMDB is The Shootist and no.1 at Rotten Tomatoes is The Tall T.
Boone on John Wayne – “He was an heroic figure and a hero. He stood up for causes when they weren’t popular at all and he never hesitated to stand up and get counted, he was that kind of a person.”
Boone and Brando in action –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE38qDiz5Z0
HI STEVE Thanks for the feedback, additional information and especially the link to The Night of the following Day clip. You must have on instant tap, for pulling on appropriate occasions, a large reservoir of videos or part thereof so all credit to you in that respect.
It is one Brando movie that I’ve never actually seen though I always did like that unusual title. When the movie was released on the lower half of a double bill way back in 1968/69 [after the huge flops in 1967 of Reflections in a Golden Eye and Countess from Hong Kong] we all thought that Brando’s days as a top star were well behind him. So apparently did HE – “Had it not been for the Godfather I was going fast down the tubes.”
Your clip has reminded me that Rita Moreno was the leading lady in Night of the Following Day, so see Part 2 of this post.
I agree with your assessment of Boone’s overall impact on, and contribution to, movies. Sadly though Richard gets no mention at all in The Master’s 1983 Book of Terror [that The Work Horse regards as the 8th Wonder of the World].
Amazingly the movie career of singer PAT Boone does, though Hirsch didn’t think much of him even as a singer. However until I read Joel’s piece on Pat I never realised that the latter had a cameo [as an angel at Christ’s tomb] in 1965’s Greatest Story Ever Told, starring The Duke and Chuck [you should have worked out by now that I take every opportunity that arises to mention MY guys [and gals] – again and again!]
Anyway welcome back and you have whetted my appetite for the further interesting videos that you seem to have in mind.
Actress Rita Moreno keeps remnants of her star-studded life in her bedroom in her California home. One of those relics, reports People is a framed photo of her ex, Old Hollywood legend Marlon Brando.
“Why that picture of Marlon Brando? Because he was a big love of mine in my life,” Moreno said of the photo. “This one, it almost seems like a vignette out of a movie, so that’s why it’s there.”
Moreno, who met Brando in 1954, when she was 22 years old, went on to have an eight-year relationship with the star, who was seven years her senior. Per the New York Post, Moreno wrote about this affair in her 2013 memoir, Rita Moreno.
But, she noted, Brando was also a difficult personality. She said his actions during their relationship hurt her extensively. “He broke my heart and came close to crushing my very spirit with his physical infidelities and, worse, with his emotional betrayals,” she said.
Moreno now remembers her time with Brando fondly, though as she told People, she went on to have a great love with her husband of 45 years, Leonard Gordon, who died in 2010.
“[Brando] was the LUST of my life and that over there is the LOVE of my life,” she said, pointing to a framed photo of Gordon.
As always….a fun conversation between Bob and Steve. Bob getting some Brando talk in….did not see that coming…lol. Off to work.
‘Bob getting some Brando talk in….did not see that coming’
Borg was basically a base liner in his tennis game but occasionally would come to the net ‘to avoid being predictable.’
Borg? Now we are talking about great tennis players. The Swedes of the 1970s and 1980s….Bjorn, Mats and Edberg.
HI STEVE Thanks for the feedback, additional information and extensive interesting quote. I should record how much I have enjoyed your film composers series and indeed it should have pleased you too because you have further extended the fine variety of the film artist-types that you have comprehensively profiled with videos. Very well done.
Actually I was thinking of you last night when my 2 brothers and I watched a TV re-run of Jimmy Stewart’s Destry Rides Again. When saloon gal Marlene sang her famous song “See what the boys in the backroom will have” my brothers with a few drinks in them, sang along with her as follows. [Both are ardent Remainers and they had obviously been rehearsing the duet beforehand just to annoy me in the way that WH tries to rile me by spouting Hirsh’s utterances on this site!]
Just see what the boys in the BACKSTOP will have
And tell them I’m having the same.
Then tell them I sighed,
And tell them I cried,
And tell them I LIED
And tell them I died of shame.
By the way if you have a moment you might like to look in on my John Houseman post to Work Horse YESTERDAY as it contains some “additional trivia” that should interest you as you are probably this site’s foremost scholar of spoken English in the movies.
Trailer in 1953 trailer for Arrowhead “The story of a forgotten man – Ed Bannon, Army Chief of Scouts” Big year for Walter Jack Palance was 1953. The previous month he had appeared with Mitchum in Second Chance and 3 months before that he wowed audiences by squaring off against Laddie in the classic Shane. I will always remember the slightly risque song in Arrowhead
“She stood right there
In the moonlight bare,
And I came up behind her!”
Best POSTERS 42-21 FL=foreign language. (1) Saturn 3 (2) Kings of the Sun (3) Spies Like Us (4) FL for Scalphunters (5) The Buccaneer (6) Thoroughly Modern Myrna (7) Cast a Giant Shadow (8) Sudden Fear (9) 2nd one for The Carpetbaggers and (10) The Comancheros. My Joan, Laddie and [in very iconic pose] the Duke one after each other – is it my birthday? –
Now Paul Regret from New Orleans
Was a fast man with a gun
He didn’t want to go, he had to run
When he shot down the judge’s son
Yes, he shot Judge Cobain’s son.
And the Comancheros are takin’ this land
The Comancheros are takin’ this land
Best POSTERS 1-20. (1) FL for Some Came Running (2) a very raunchy Kim posing for us in The Man with the Golden Arm (3) FL for Sons of Katie Elder (4) FL True Grit (5) A Brexit Werewolf in Manchester (6) FL for The Shootist (7) an iconic Hud (8) both for 10 Commandments (9) The Magnificent 7 and (10) The Tin Star.
I was surprised to see The Tin Star doing so relatively badly at the US box office [adjusted gross of just approx $45 milllion according to WH] as there were massive queues everywhere for it in Belfast when it was released back in 1957. Elmer seems to have been very fond of composing for Duke and Brynner movies.
Hi Bob, thanks for the review, generous rating, posts, info, trivia and song lyrics, it is appreciated.
Glad you enjoyed the picture gallery.
So many favorites from Elmer Bernstein this could easily have been a top 50.
His music score for The Magnificent Seven contains one of the all time great western themes, right up there with Jerome Moross’ The Big Country and Alfred Newman’s How the West Was Won, and not forgetting Ennio Morricone’s many iconic themes for Italian westerns.
Surprisingly Bernstein’s epic score for The Ten Commandments wasn’t even nominated, shame on you Oscar people.
Nine Bernstein films scored 10 out of 10 from my sources –
The Great Escape
Sweet Smell of Success
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Magnificent Seven
The Ten Commandments
Airplane
Hud
My Left Foot
The Tin Star
One scored 9 out of 10 – The Shootist. And ten more scored 8 out of 10.
Elmer Bernstein on how he got stuck into doing modern comedies – “It was very strange. Early in my career I had done comedies but they didn’t stick. I had tried very hard not to get pigeonholed. In fact, I won my Academy Award for a comedy, for Thoroughly Modern Millie. But in 1977 I had a call from John Landis. I knew him as a childhood friend of my son Peter. My wife and I remember taking them to see The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl. John called me up and said he would like me to take a look at a film he had just done. I said, “Sure. What is it?” He said, “It’s called Animal House.”
“So I went and looked at this film. It was hysterically funny. I said, “Well, John. It’s very funny. But I still don’t see where I fit into all this.” He said, “I have an idea how I’d like this film to be scored. I would like you to score this film as if it were a drama. Score these scenes as if they were drama without any reference to funny sounds and funny music, anything like that.” I said, “Well, that’s a good idea.” And so I agreed to do it.”
“Of course, the effect is hysterical. If you score funny scenes seriously they are much funnier, so long as they are funny to begin with. It set a trend on how to score comedies. Animal House was the most successful comedy of one summer. Meatballs was the most successful film of the summer after. And Airplane! was the most successful comedy of the summer after. So I was in trouble. I kept going with it through to Ghostbusters. But when I was asked to do the Ghostbusters sequel, I knew it was time to leave. I decided that I wouldn’t do any more comedies.”
Bob, I’m having a break from videos next week, I’ll be back with another series of videos after Easter. I’ll still be popping intp Bruce’s Movie Stats Emporium, from time to time.
p.s. I’m watching Arrowhead, recorded off TCM a few months ago, Charlton Heston vs Jack Palance. It was also Brian Keith’s first film.