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.
John Derek’s You Tube Video and my thoughts on the video and Derek’s movies….all found on Steve’s channel.
Bo’s hubbie gets a video. When I was in love with Bo…I always wondered why she was married to an old man. After seeing some of his early movie photos….I was like….”Oh….he is a good looking man…now I understand.” Have not seen many of his movies. #26 Tarzan…brutally bad…Bo did not save that movie. #4 Exodus…massive hit….overshadowed by Newman. #2 All The King’s Men…..his first classic movie. #1 Ten Commandments…his last classic movie. So that is a grand total of 4 movies seen. Not good…but still 15% of the movies listed here. Voted up and shared. Good video.
Hi Bruce, You’ve seen 1 more than me, my tally 3, yours 4 and Flora 5. I want to see All the King’s Men, it’s appeared in 3 of my videos in the past couple of weeks!
One more video tomorrow and I’ll take another of my irregular breaks. Thanks again for the comment, vote and share.
Hey Steve…these are some weak tallies for sure. Another break? Good for you. I should probably do that too. Work is getting crazy as the school year winds down. 19 days more of school….and then it is summertime….yeah!
At last I have beaten the Big 3 – Flora, Steve and The Work Horse as I’ve seen 14 John Derek films!
Congrats to Bob….who tops the combined tally of Flora, Steve and myself. You are the man.
Just call me Sir – which for you Teach would be the boot on the other foot!
PS Those who paid double ticket prices are not going to get their money’s worth – Rog has just pulled out of the Rome Open with a leg injury though I don’t yet know how serious it is.
Added Steve’s Broderick Crawford Video to the page. Our thoughts on the video and Crawford.
“Have gotten a few requests to do an UMR page on Broderick Crawford, but so far I have not put that together. And now…you beat me to the punch. Not thinking I have seen many of his movies. Let’s find out. First one I have seen is all the way to #13 Seven Sinners. That is a Marlene Dietrich movie all the way….Crawford and Wayne pretty fade into the background of that movie. Then my next match is #2 Born Yesterday. I actually like his role in this one more than his Oscar winning role in #1 All The King’s Men. King’s Men is a very very dated movie. Crawford does shine in this one. So…wow….only 3 of his movies seen. Gotta work on that. Good video. Voted up and shared.”
Only 3 Bruce? I expected more from you on ‘Brodie’, as Bob calls him. I’ve seen just 5 of these. Flora did a lot better with 14. Bob’s probably watched them all, can tell you which cinema he saw them in and what other films were playing with them.
I think you can produce a Broderick Crawford page at the UMR without too much trouble. Thanks again for the vote, share and comment, always appreciated.
“As power mad Willie Stark he was superb and he held his own perfectly with Judy Holliday in Born Yesterday. He had one other good role in Not as A Stranger, but he was relegated back to supporting roles and villains for the remaining bulk of his career. The public probably remember Crawford best for the hit TV series Highway Patrol” [The 1983 Book of Terror talking about Broderick Crawford].
Following your recent video on John Ireland it was but fitting that you profile his old stable-mate Brodie and you have done so with a 97.5% offering in my book. Best POSTERS 36-19 (1) Red Tomahawk (2) both for Goliath and the Dragon (3) Cargo to Capetown [how that one takes me back!] (4) Slave Girl (5) FL for Texican (6) FL for Stop You’re Killing Me [a remake of 1938’s Slight Case of Murder starring Edward G] (7) two for The Black Cat (8) Down Three Dark Streets (9) Night unto Night (10) Slightly Honourable and (11 Last of the Comanches [ aka The Sabre and the Arrow].
Best POSTERS 1-18 (1) 1ST ONE FOR Between Heaven and Hell (2) Both for Night People (3) both for The Real Glory (4) 1st saucy one for Human Desire (5) FL for New York Confidential [another one that really takes me back] (6) 1st for Il Bidone (7) Fastest Gun Alive – probably my own fave Crawford film along with New York Confidential and All the King’s Men (8) Larceny Inc (9) FL for Scandal Sheet [aka The Dark Page, the title of the book by Samuel Fuller, who also directed, but not that movie, but for example Widmark’s classic Pickup on South Street (10) When the Daltons Rode.
1st Class STILLS are (1) Brodie with Clark and Ava (2) Big House USA with a young Charlie in the background (3) Brodie with Randy (4) Brodie with Marlene (5) coloured lobby card for N Y Confidential – the movie itself was in black and white (6) priest Brodie (7) “Stick em Up!” (8) Brodie with Judy and Golden Holden and (9) as Willie Stark
Hi Bob, thanks for the review, generous rating and info, always appreciated.
Glad you liked the posters, stills and lobby cards.
Have to confess I have not yet seen All the King’s Men, but I do know the story and the facts behind the story.
It’s been years since I saw Born Yesterday, can barely remember it.
I was going to do a video on Oscar-Winner Judy Holliday but was surprised at how few movies she’s made.
Two of Crawford’s films scored 10 out of 10 from my sources – Born Yesterday and All the King’s Men. There is one 9 – Larceny Inc. And 8 films scored 8 out of 10.
Born Yesterday tops IMDBs chart and ‘All the king’s horses and all the king’s men
couldn’t put Humpty together again’ (couldn’t resist) was no.1 at Rotten Tomatoes.
‘Brodie’ has three entries on my next video too.
HI STEVE Thanks for the fine feedback once more. At one stage before he became more generous and gave them separate pages The Work Horse cunningly covered Danny Kaye and Grace Kelly on the same page as each had relatively few movies 17 and 11 respectively.
You could therefore if you wished twin Judy with another actress such as that other screen dumb blonde Jean Harlow who made just 22 films or Al Leach’s self-proclaimed mentor Miss “Come up and see me some time when I’ve got nothing on” herself with just 12 movies. I can’t remember if you’ve covered either or both of those two ladies.
As The Master indicated in his 1983 Book of Terror, after the back-to-back class movies All the King’s Men and Born Yesterday in the 1949/50 period Brodie had just one more plumb role in a big movie, 1955’s Not as A Stranger.
Even that was just a supporting role in which he was not on screen for much of the time in the long two hours and 30 mins film dominated by Mitchum though HE in turn was 2nd-billed to Olivia de Havilland, still a prestige actress after Snake Pit and of course GWTW.
Nevertheless as I have mentioned I liked Brodie in the lower budget New York Confidential the same year and in The Fastest Gun Alive the following year [1956] which I saw on an MGM double bill at the time with Cagney’s These Wilder Years.
In Fastest Gun Alive Brodie plays Vinnie Harold, obsessed with beating Glenn Ford’s storekeeper George Temple to prove Vinnie is indeed the “fastest gun alive”.
It’s difficult to forget that obsession of Brodie’s Vinnie Harold when he explains to his henchmen that he cannot agree to their plea to get out of town quickly as he must call out and prove he can beat George Temple. Gazing up the street to the church where Temple is congregating Harold, hands twitching above his guns, is heard muttering “I gotta know, I gotta Know!”
Of course Vinnie what didn’t KNOW was that he was on a hiding to nothing because Ford and Temple had yet another aka, Charles William Stuart, whose longevity could not be confined to even the 9 lives of a cat!
HI STEVE Thanks for the fine feedback once more. At one stage before he became more generous and gave them separate pages The Work Horse cunningly covered Danny Kaye and Grace Kelly on the same page as each had relatively few movies 17 and 11 respectively.
You could therefore if you wished twin Judy with another actress such as that other screen dumb blonde Jean Harlow who made just 22 films or Al Leach’s self-proclaimed mentor Miss “Come up and see me some time when I’ve got nothing on” herself with just 12 movies. I can’t remember if you’ve covered either or both of those two ladies.
As The Master indicated in his 1983 Book of Terror, after the back-to-back class movies All the King’s Men and Born Yesterday in the 1949/50 period Brodie had just one more plumb role in a big movie, 1955’s Not as A Stranger.
Even that was just a supporting role in which he was not on screen for much of the time in the long two hours and 5 mins film dominated by Mitchum though HE in turn was 2nd-billed to Olivia de Havilland, still a prestige actress after Snake Pit and of course GWTW.
Nevertheless as I have mentioned I liked Brodie in the lower budget New York Confidential the same year and in The Fastest Gun Alive the following year [1956] which I saw on an MGM double bill at the time with Cagney’s These Wilder Years.
In Fastest Gun Alive Brodie plays Vinnie Harold, obsessed with beating Glenn Ford’s storekeeper George Temple to prove Vinnie is indeed the “fastest gun alive”.
It’s difficult to forget that obsession of Brodie’s Vinnie Harold when he explains to his henchmen that he cannot agree to their plea to get out of town quickly as he must call out and prove he can beat George Temple. Gazing up the street to the church where Temple is congregating Harold, hands twitching above his guns, is heard muttering “I gotta know, I gotta Know!”
Of course Vinnie what didn’t KNOW was that he was on a hiding to nothing because Ford and Temple had yet another aka, Charles William Stuart, whose longevity could not be confined to even the 9 lives of a cat!
HI BRUCE
My post to Steve just now didn’t seem to go through at first so I submitted it a 2nd time and eventually discovered that it has now appeared twice.
I don’t know how that happened because your posting facilities are so sophisticated that they normally stop one from immediately duplicating comments.
Anyhow I would be grateful if you would remove one of the duplicates – many thanks.
Hey Steve and Bob. I will check out Steve’s lastest video latter this morning. For sure…good information share from the two of you. I will keep these trivia facts in my mind when I am watching the video. Good stuff.
I know David Carradine largely from two television series (1) the first Kung Fu adventures [1972-1975] and (2) 1966’s Shane which was taken off after just 17 episodes.
Indeed I have seen just 3 of your 30 Carradine movies – Good Guys and Bad Guys, Heaven with a Gun and The Long Riders. However your video is superb and well worth a 98% rating in my view.
Best POSTERS are (1) Warrior and Sorceress (2) Death Sport (3) Night of the Templar (4) Armed Response (5) Young Billy Young (6) Sundown (7) both for Boxcar Bertha (8) both for True Legend (9) FL for Good Guys and Bad Guys (10) 2 for Gray lady Down (11) 2 very unusual ones for Heaven with a Gun (12) Winged Serpent (13) FL for Death Race 2000 and (14) 1st one for Kill Charlie Bill 2.
My pick of the STILLS are (1) David with dad John (2) Young Billy Young (3) Boxcar Bertha (4) Good Guys and Bad Guys (5) Gray lady Down (6) Lone Wolf McQuade (7) lobby card of Frankenstein (8) The Long Riders (9) Bound for Glory (10) Kill Charlie Bill and (11) Kill Charlie Bill 2.
“Combining the rebelliousness of a Jack Nicholson with silent-loner image of a Charles Bronson, David Carradine makes an ideal action hero. His failure to become a big box office success has made him something of a cult actor, however.”
On David’s famous father “John Carradine …..always enlivens his roles with great energy.”
THE MASTER in generous mood – need I say anymore?
Bob, thanks for the review, generous rating, comment and quote from Hirsch, it is appreciated. Happy you liked the posters, stills and lobby cards.
David Carradine first came to my attention from the TV series Kung Fu, which I remember enjoying quite a bit back in the 1970s. I saw Death Race 2000 a number of times at the cinema, another movie that contributed to my reckless driving.
I remember actually accelarating and driving towards people as they were crossing the road in the distance thats how dangerously maniacal I had become nearly 4 decades ago as a teen. I thought it was hilarious. Thank Christ they finally took my driving licence away when they did. Taught me a lesson.
There are no 10s in Carradine’s filmography but there are a couple of 9s – Bound for Glory and Kill Bill vol.1 (vol.2 had the better overall score).
“Chuck Norris, as you know, has a very heavy competitive background. He’s originally trained in Tang Soo Do, then what he did was competition karate. Chuck is very fast and very precise. I think he’s really good. But I don’t think that the whole thing that is kung fu is even touched on by any of these guys. I just think all they’re into is what they know about fighting and their movie mystiques. I don’t think these guys know anything about the history, the philosophy, the inner truth you’re supposed to be searching for. The stuff that we try to do in Kung Fu, which we did in the old series. “
Thanks for your usual thoughtful feedback and for the interesting thoughts that you quote from Carradine. Nostalgia dictates that David will always have a soft spot in my heart because that hit TV series Kung Fu came out in Oct 1972 and I was married the following month. I never thought of him as a film star and indeed by many of my generation, growing up in the television era, he was usually referred to not as David Carradine but as “Grasshopper” –
“In many flashbacks, Mentor and Elder, Master Po, calls his young student [Kwai Chang Caine] “Grasshopper” in reference to a scene in the pilot episode:
Master Po: Close your eyes. What do you hear?
Young Caine: I hear the water, I hear the birds.
Po: Do you hear your own heartbeat?
Caine: No.
Po: Do you hear the grasshopper which is at your feet?
Caine: Old man, how is it that you hear these things?
Po: Young man, how is it that you do not?
[Kung Fu TV series – 63 episodes 1972-1975]
I think that as an actor it was a mistake for ‘Grasshopper’ to do a flop television series remake of the classic Shane. In Posterity there will always be only ONE screen Shane! Have a good weekend and keep safe.
My comments on Steve’s David Carradine You Tube Video.
I was never a huge David Carradine fan. I know off him…just never really liked the movies he appeared in. First match for me was #19 Bird on a Wire….but I admit…I do not remember his role in that one. #18 Deathrace..nice return to the remake of one of his most famous movie roles. #11 Crank…good action movie. #10 Gray Lady Down….might be my favorite movie of his. #8 Lone Wolf McQuade….he made a good bad guy in this one. #7 Q…guilty pleasure. #6 Serpent’s Egg….really did not like this movie #4 DeathRace 2000…cult classic #3 The Long Riders….a gimmick that really worked for me….brothers playing brothers #1 Kill Bill Vol 2. ….love QT….but the Kill Bill movies are my least favorites of his movies….ok…maybe they are better than Four Rooms. So I have seen 10 of the movies listed. But….8 of his Top 11. Voted up and shared. Good video.
Hi Bruce, thanks for commenting on my David Carradine video, appreciate the vote and share. Your tally 10, Flora 3, mine 14. I enjoyed the two Kill Bill films, less chit chat, more action and more visual than the other Tarantino films, plus as you know I’m a fan of Chinese martial arts and Japanese samurai films.
Hey Steve…..”less chit chat, more action and more visual”…that might explain our difference in movies….I did not like the first Kill Bill….mainly because it was lacking the legendary QT lines. I do acknowledge many more people love the movie than the few, like me, that do not. Happy to add a link for your videos.