Rod Serling ֍ Dan Duryea & Malcolm Atterbury in The Twilight Zone Season 1 Episode 3: Mr. Denton on Doomsday (1959)
Portrait of a town drunk named Al Denton. This is a man who's begun his dying early - a long, agonizing route through a maze of bottles. Al Denton, who would probably give an arm or a leg or a part of his soul to have another chance, to be able to rise up and shake the dirt from his body and the bad dreams that infest his consciousness.
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Ricky Nelson and Angie Dickinson in Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, 1959)
Cast: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Angie Dickinson, Walter Brennan, Ward Bond, John Russell, Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez, Estelita Rodriguez, Claude Akins, Malcolm Atterbury, Harry Carey Jr. Screenplay: Jules Furthman, Leigh Brackett, based on a story by B.H. McCampbell. Cinematography: Russell Harlan. Art direction: Leo K. Kuter. Film editing: Folmar Blangsted. Music: Dimitri Tiomkin.
I could never countenance plagiarism, but as they say, if you're going to steal, steal from the best. Even if you're Howard Hawks stealing from Howard Hawks, which happens almost shamelessly in Rio Bravo. No one who loves Hawks's Red River (1948) as much as I do could fail to miss how much of Rio Bravo is, let us say, borrowed from that film. There's the byplay between Sheriff John T. Chance (John Wayne) and Stumpy (Walter Brennan), which echoes that of Dunson (Wayne) and Groot (Brennan) in Red River. Ricky Nelson's young gun Colorado Ryan is a reworking of Montgomery Clift's Matthew Garth. And Angie Dickinson's Feathers could almost be a parody of Joanne Dru's motormouth Tess Millay. But the Hawksian borrowings don't stop with Red River. When Feathers kisses Chance for the first time and then goes in for a second kiss in which he participates more enthusiastically, she comments, "It's better when two people do it," which is a direct steal from a similar scene in To Have and Have Not (Hawks, 1944) when "Slim" (Lauren Bacall) tells "Steve" (Humphrey Bogart), "It's even better when you help." The two movies share not only a director but also a screenwriter, Jules Furthman, who is joined in Rio Bravo by Leigh Brackett, who earlier worked together on another Bogart-Bacall-Hawks movie, The Big Sleep (1946). Even the composer of the score for Rio Bravo, Dimitri Tiomkin, gets into the borrowing game, taking a theme from his score for Red River and handing it over to lyricist Paul Francis Webster for the song, "My Rifle, My Pony, and Me," sung by Dean Martin's Dude and Nelson's Colorado. Rio Bravo maybe isn't as great a movie as Red River, and it probably signals some creative exhaustion on Hawks's part that he not only borrowed so heavily from his earlier work but also felt it necessary to remake Rio Bravo in two thinly disguised versions, also starring Wayne, as El Dorado (1966) and Rio Lobo (1970). But is there a more entertaining self-plagiarism, and a surer demonstration of what made Hawks one of the great filmmakers?
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I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF (1957) – Episode 153 – Decades Of Horror: The Classic Era
“All right now, we’ll move in stagger fashion. We’ll circle the outer edges first and keep going round and round till we meet in the center.” And that’s called a “search grid?” Join this episode’s Grue-Crew – Chad Hunt, Daphne Monary-Ernsdorff, Doc Rotten, and Jeff Mohr – as they go for the winning combination of mad scientist and teenage angst in I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957).
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A troubled teenager seeks help through hypnotherapy, but his evil doctor uses him for regression experiments that transform him into a rampaging werewolf.
Director: Gene Fowler Jr.
Writers: Herman Cohen, Aben Kandel
Makeup Creator: Phillip Scheer
Selected Cast:
Michael Landon as Tony Rivers
Yvonne Lime as Arlene Logan
Whit Bissell as Dr. Alfred Brandon
Charles Willcox as Jimmy (as Tony Marshall)
Dawn Richard as Theresa
Barney Phillips as Detective Donovan
Ken Miller as Vic
Cynthia Chenault as Pearl (as Cindy Robbins)
Michael Rougas as Frank
Robert Griffin as Police Chief P.F. Baker
Joseph Mell as Dr. Hugo Wagner
Malcolm Atterbury as Charles Rivers
Eddie Marr as Doyle
Vladimir Sokoloff as Pepe the Janitor
Louise Lewis as Principal Ferguson
S. John Launer as Bill Logan (as John Launer)
Guy Williams as Officer Chris Stanley
Dorothy Crehan as Mrs. Mary Logan
A young Michael Landon, just a few years before rising to fame as “Little Joe” Cartwright in Bonanza, stars as Tony Rivers, a troubled teen struggling with anger management. Whit Bissell is featured as Dr. Alfred Brandon, a psychologist (or mad scientist) with ulterior motives. Yes! Oh, yes, indeed! It’s the AIP/Herman Cohen campy classic, I Was a Teenage Werewolf. The Grue-Crew is in full Drive-In Theater mode for this one.
High-quality versions of I Was a Teenage Werewolf, streaming or physical media, are not available, but there is a reason. Susan Hart, the actress and widow of AIP co-founder James Nicholson, owns the rights to eleven AIP films outright: It Conquered the World (1956) and its remake Zontar, The Thing from Venus (1966); Invasion of the Saucer Men (1957) and its remake The Eye Creatures (1965); I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957); I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957); The Amazing Colossal Man (1957); Terror from the Year 5000 (1958); Apache Woman (1955); The Oklahoma Woman (1956); and Naked Paradise (1957). She frequently negotiates rights for merchandise and theatrical showings, but physical media has not been updated for release in decades. You can, however, purchase a VHS tape of the movie.
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CINE
El emperador del norte (1973)
Título original: Emperor of the North
Estados Unidos
Dirección: Robert Aldrich
Idioma: Inglés con Subtítulos en Español
Atención: Solo para ver en PC o Notebook
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Reparto: Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Keith Carradine,
Charles Tyner, Malcolm Atterbury, Simon Oakland
Género: Drama | Gran Depresión. Años 30. Trenes
Sinopsis: Oregón, 1933. Entre los vagabundos sin
trabajo que, durante la Gran Depresión, se desplazan
de un estado a otro viajando clandestinamente en los
trenes, el número uno es el Emperador del Norte
(Marvin), llamado así por su astucia para burlar a
los ferroviarios. Dos hombres aspiran a arrebatarle
el título, pero para ello tendrán que llegar a Portland
en el tren de Sack (Borgnine), un sádico e implacable
maquinista. Inspirada en las aventuras de Jack London.
Críticas:
"Excelente drama ambientado en plena depresión económica.
Un guión con muchísimos alicientes, una dirección sin
fisuras y un duelo interpretativo de primera"
-Fernando Morales: Diario El País
"El suspenso de la película es implacable y las actuaciones
de primer nivel."
-Vincent Canby: The New York Times
Café Mientras Tanto
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