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.
I was curious….so I looked it up. We have 77 John Caradine Movies in the database. Enough for a page? Probably.
MovieYear MovieScorePct
Grapes of Wrath, The (1940) 99.53
Around the World in 80 Days (1956) 99.52
Captains Courageous (1937) 99.25
Ten Commandments, The (1956) 99.14
Alexander’s Ragtime Band (1938) 98.90
Stagecoach (1939) 98.78
Les Miserables (1935) 96.81
Drums Along the Mohawk (1939) 95.81
Blood and Sand (1941) 95.41
Jesse James (1939) 93.85
Johnny Guitar (1954) 93.34
Egyptian, The (1954) 93.10
Casanova’s Big Night (1954) 92.68
Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The (1962) 91.34
Man Hunt (1941) 91.12
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex, But Were Afraid to Ask (1972) 90.81
Adventures of Mark Twain, The (1944) 90.20
Hurricane, The (1937) 89.88
Court Jester, The (1956) 89.55
Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) 88.80
Submarine Patrol (1938) 88.76
This Is My Affair (1937) 87.87
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942) 87.30
Return of Frank James, The (1940) 86.63
Fallen Angel (1945) 85.89
Prisoner of Shark Island, The (1936) 85.35
Shootist, The (1976) 84.64
Dimples (1936) 84.47
Brigham Young (1940) 81.22
Four Men And A Prayer (1938) 79.41
Kentuckian, The (1955) 79.09
Secret of NIMH, The (1982) 78.09
Western Union (1941) 78.09
Thank You, Mr. Moto (1937) 77.95
Last Hurrah, The (1958) 76.73
Last Gangster, The (1937) 76.40
Swamp Water (1941) 76.38
Love Under Fire (1937) 76.27
Cheyenne Autumn (1964) 76.22
Garden of Allah, The (1936) 75.22
Frontier Marshall (1939) 75.04
Hound of the Baskervilles, The (1939) 74.95
Mary of Scotland (1936) 74.25
It’s In The Bag! (1945) 73.98
Patsy, The (1964) 72.59
Chad Hanna (1940) 72.54
Winterset (1936) 69.52
True Story of Jesse James, The (1957) 68.44
Howling, The (1981) 68.25
Captain Kidd (1945) 67.87
Five Came Back (1939) 67.71
Gateway (1938) 66.66
Tarzan the Magnificent (1960) 66.62
Stranger on Horseback (1955) 66.60
Proud Rebel, The (1958) 66.34
Reunion in France (1942) 65.73
Private Affairs of Bel Ami, The (1947) 62.68
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The (1960) 62.15
Mr. Moto’s Last Warning (1939) 55.85
House of Frankenstein (1944) 55.83
Sentinel, The (1977) 55.06
Cardinal Richelieu (1935) 52.03
This Day And Age (1933) 49.17
Three Musketeers, The (1939) 48.19
Northwest Rangers (1942) 35.69
Ice Pirates (1984) 32.66
Last Tycoon, The (1976) 22.84
Boxcar Bertha (1972) 22.18
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976) 17.86
Good Guys and the Bad Guys, The (1969) 15.72
Female Jungle (1955) 14.02
Myra Breckinridge (1970) 12.79
Story of Mankind, The (1957) 8.21
Oregon Trail, The (1959) 6.01
White Buffalo, The (1977) 5.30
Nesting, The (1981) 3.28
Terror In The Wax Musuem (1973) 3.08
HI BRUCE:
Some list: those guys must have lived on the set!
I for one would welcome as a good complement to Steve’s excellent Carradine video the above table expanded into your usual informative and comprehensive stats tables in a new page.
However as there will be so much stats involved is it humane to expect Steve to read the new page?!!!
Hey Bob….that was 78 movies without doing any research on Mr. Carradine…I am tempted to just run with those and call it a day…..or at least do two more which would double Steve’s total.
Added Steve’s John Carradine YouTube video to this page. Our thoughts on his career and Steve’s video found below.
John Carradine and two of his sons have been on my list subjects to write about at UltimateMovieRankings.com. Yet none of the Caradine clan have gotten a page. John’s 351 IMDb credits has scared me off….lol. Good video breakdown as you picked the best of his movies. I like Flora have 17 of these movies…most of that 17 are in the Top 20. Favorites would include The Man Who Shot Lee Marvin, Stagecoach and The Ten Commandments. I know Grapes of Wrath is a classic….and Carradine is excellent in a supporting role….yet that is a movie I will probably never watch again. Voted up and shared at UMR.
Hi Bruce, I’m sure you have the box office figures for most of John’s filmography and his sons too. It was difficult picking 40 out of the long list of films he was in but I’m happy with the result.
My tally 25 out of 40, you and Flora 17. Thanks for the comment, vote and share, always appreciated.
I found David Carradine’s Shane series boring, sort of like his girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s series The Monroes, which I think were on the same season and both are now available on DVD, for those sleepless nights.
HI STEVE
Thanks for the feedbck and for explaining the background to your Carradine video.
Nice quote. He was obviously relatively modest in his aspirations; was grateful for what he had; wasn’t greedy like Gimme More; and wasn’t full of himself to the extent that he was eaten away with competitiveness and malice in the way Old Cantankerous seemed to be.
Take care.
John sired quite an acting dynasty: David, Keith and Robert were all his children. I used to watch David every week as “Grasshopper” in the two Kung Fu TV series from 1972-1975 and 1993-97. In 1966 he made a TV series based on the classic 1953 cinematic movie Shane; but despite good reviews it was taken off after 17 episodes. How could it have been otherwise? One guy and one guy only has always had the ‘Shane market’ cornered [and you know whom I mean Steve!] and as Rufus Ryker said in the 1953 film “There’s only so many hands in a deck of cards!”
TOP STILLS/LOBBY CARDS [from my perspective]
1/Kid v Alucard
2/Mummy’s Ghost
3/Captive Wild Woman
4/Monster Club
5/House of Alucard
6/House of Long Shadows
7/House of Frankenstein
8/Last Gangster
9/Five Came Back
10/Son of Fury
11/Jesse James
12/10 Commandments
13/Stagecoach
14/Grapes of Wrath.
Indeed I think that’s most if not all the stills/lobby cards. Anyway Great stuff Steve which had an entertainment value for me personally of 98.5%.
Hi Bob, thanks for the review, generous rating and info, much appreciated.
Glad you liked the posters, stills and lobby cards.
I was just telling Flora over at ‘Steve’s Video Emporium’ (mmm catchy name I like it, reminds me of my video renting days) that John Carradine was an old favorite of mine, thanks to a handful of horror classics I watched as a youngster.
I had planned to do a John Carradine video years ago but I wasn’t sure which films to include, he had supporting roles in so many films. I wanted to include films in which he had a more substantial or memorable role, this is where IMDBs review section came in useful.
For movies I wasn’t too sure about I would scan his name in a page of reviews at IMDB, if they mention his name in positive terms that movie gets a tick. For instance John had a small role in the James Stewart movie ‘Of Human Hearts’ playing Abe Lincoln, but his confrontation with Stewart is an important part of the film so I had to include it. Obviously some movies will have escaped my scrutiny. It’s not perfect.
7 films scored 10 out of 10 from my sources –
The Grapes of Wrath
Stagecoach
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Ten Commandments
The Court Jester
Captains Courageous
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Three more scored 9 out of 10.
Liberty Valance tops at IMDB and Stagecoach no.1 at Rotten Tomatoes.
“I never made big money in Hollywood. I was paid in hundreds, the stars got thousands. But I worked with some of the greatest directors in films, and some of the greatest writers. They gave me freedom to do what I can do best and that was gratifying.”