GRIT is showing THE OUTCAST-1954, tomorrow, Tuesday night, 8PM to 10PM, EST and again 1AM to 3AM, early Monday, April 29th. THE OUTCAST is a 3-color Trucolor and was one of the restored Republics shown at the Museum of Modern Art in 2018.
Lots of old hands with John Derek, who's fighting...
Joan Taylor, late 1940s to early 1960s, starlet. She performed a very elaborate and physically impressive dance number in ROSE MARIE-1954. She was a regular on "The Rifleman". She was married to TV Producers, Leonard Freeman and Walter Grauman, not at the same time.
Joan Taylor in ROSE...
The UK art magazine ILLUSTRATORS Issue #43 is devoted to western pulp magazine art, Fred Harmon and 'Red Ryder' and western comic book artist John Severin. This magazine sometimes publishes both softbound and hardbound versions.
The publisher's website has issue #43 and many of the back...
In 1957-61, the studios were still touting spectacular color as something you would only see in theatrical movies.
They probably didn't think about color for future-proofing TV shows for reruns.
In 1957 U.S. households that had a B&W TV was about 75%. Even by 1961, it probably was less than...
Merv joked on his talk show sometimes about being a big western star at Warner Brothers. He,also,
had small parts in CATTLE TOWN-1952 and THE BOY FROM OKLAHOMA-1954.
John Sparks, you can see Wayde Preston, as Chris Colt, in the four 'Canary Kid' episodes of SUGARFOOT.
So, as you know, RAWHIDE'S Sheb Wooley is credited as recording the Wilhelm Scream.
And in THE CHARGE AT FEATHER RIVER-1953 Merv Griffin was the opening narrator and the voice of 'Wilhelm', in two scenes.
Stuntman playing 'Wilhelm' taking an arrow in the leg with Merv voicing his lines.
In...
37) THE SHOWDOWN-1950, Republic Studios, B&W, Wild Bill Elliott, Marie Windsor, Walter Brennan. Re-watched from a recent TV broadcast recording. Republic Home Video actually released THE SHOWDOWN on VHS in the 1990s.
SHOWDOWN is a popular title. In this one Wild Bill takes on the job of...
The Kirby Grant and Chinook the Wonder Dog, Monogram series consisted of 10 feature films, released between 1949 and 1954. Nine of the features were released as triple-features on WAC-DVDr.
These North Westerns are surprisingly quick moving with high energy and some pretty fierce shootouts...
Ron Harper had a nice run for awhile in being cast as lead or co-star in series which turned out to be short run.
Harper did an interview on that 87th Precinct DVD.
"Wendy and Me". Ron Harper and Connie Stevens. I think George Burns was 'Me".
Harper was excellent as 'Garrison', a tough...
26) CHEYENNE-1947, Warner Brothers, B&W, Dennis Morgan, Jane Wyman, Janis Page. WAC-DVDr
Dennis Morgan heads to Cheyenne, Wyoming at the 'request' of an insurance investigator, Barton MacLane, to track down a stagecoach robber, known as 'The Poet". 'The Poet' leaves poetic notes at the scenes...
The subtitles misspell some of the tribal names. But generally speaking subtitles are pretty hilarious.
Below are some clips from a 29 minute version of "One Good Turn", S1E7,showing the "brought to you by" sponsor tags, the out going to commercial bumper and the coming back bumper, plus...
23) CHEYENNE TV Series, S1E1-1955, "Mountain Fortress". Remake of ROCKY MOUNTAIN-1950, with footage from ROCKY MOUNTAIN, plus a couple of the same actors and even the same dog from the movie.
Clint Walker and Ann Robinson.
24) CHEYENNE-S1E3, "The Argonauts"-1955. CHEYENNE remake of THE...
George Feltenstein said in a January podcast that "a very popular WB western series was being remastered" and it was one that had already been released on DVD. And it may take a year to be released on Blu-Ray.
I think "very popular" can mean only CHEYENNE or MAVERICK. Personally, I would...
The filmed at Republic Trucolor released by RKO, MONTANA BELLE-1952 with Jane Russell is showing again, this time on the new OTA station OUTLAW Saturday morning at 11:30AM to 1:30PM Eastern Time.
Publicity.
Jane Russell co-starred with Roy Rogers and some...