#percy helton

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Remembering Percy Helton on his birthday #botd

#percy helton #old hollywood

[oldshowbiz]

Percy Helton giving Hollywood directions.

#highland ave #percy helton #character actors

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Criss Cross (1949) Robert Siodmak

December 10th 2023

#criss cross #1949 #robert siodmak #burt lancaster #yvonne de carlo #dan duryea #stephen mcnally #percy helton #joan miller #edna holland #griff barnett #tony curtis

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My Friend Irma

Dive into the enchanting world of Martin and Lewis in their inaugural movie, "My Friend Irma," directed by George Marshall in 1949. With its timeless appeal and vintage charm, this movie is a must-watch for fans of classic cinema and timeless humor.

Continuing my Martin and Lewis binge, I’m looking at their FIRST movie, the 1949, George Marshall directed film, “My Friend Irma,” a romantic musical comedy. Martin and Lewis aren’t actually the stars of this movie, that honor goes to Diana Lynn and Maire Wilson. The movie is adapted from an old radio show of the same name that first aired in 1947. It must have been very popular for it to be…

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#comedy #Dean Martin #Diana Lynn #Don DeFore #Ernö Verebes #Film #George Marshall #Hans Conried #Jerry Lewis #John Lund #Kathryn Givney #Maire Wilson #Movie Review #Movies #musical #Percy Helton #romance

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Art Credit to Joe Phillips

#Joe Phillips #BatGirl #Audrey Hepburn #Percy Helton #Eddie Rochester Anderson

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Larceny | George Sherman | 1948

John Payne, Sam Edwards, Percy Helton, Joan Caulfield, et al.

#John Payne #Sam Edwards #Percy Helton #Joan Caulfield #George Sherman #Larceny #1948 #Noirvember

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Bad movie I have 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 1954

#20000 Leagues Under the Sea #Walt Disney Productions #Kirk Douglas #James Mason #Paul Lukas #Peter Lorre #Robert J. Wilke #Ted de Corsia #Carleton Young #J.M. Kerrigan #Percy Helton #Ted Cooper #Walter Bacon #John Barton #Oscar Blank #Chet Brandenburg #John Daheim #Esmeralda #Jack Gargan #Harper Goff #Fred Graham #Charles Grodin #Harry Harvey #Walter Lawrence #Ray Linn Jr. #Dayton Lummis #Eddie Marr #Laurie Mitchell #T. Monaghan #Charles Morton

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'The Set-Up' – Robert Ryan in the great boxing noir on Criterion Channel

‘The Set-Up’ – Robert Ryan in the great boxing noir on Criterion Channel

Robert Ryan was a well-respected actor with a legacy is intense supporting performances behind him when he finally earned top billing in The Set-Up (1949), a boxing drama seeped in the film noir world of corruption, betrayal, and brutality. Ryan plays Bill “Stoker” Thompson, an aging, past-his-prime boxer who still dreams of a shot at the title despite his losing streak and his body breaking…

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#1949 #Audrey Totter #Blu-ray #Criterion Channel #Darryl Hickman #DVD #George Tobias #James Edwards #Joseph Moncure March #Percy Helton #Robert Ryan #Robert Wise #The Set-Up #VOD #Wallace Ford

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From the Golden Age of Television

Season 2 Episode 11

Racket Squad - The Salted Mine - CBS - November 15, 1951

Crime Drama

Running Time: 30 minutes

Written by Giovanni Bello

Produced by Hal Roach Jr. and Carroll Case

Directed by George Blair

Stars:

Reed Hadley as Captain John Braddock

Percy Helton as Dad Miller

Richard Travis as Evan Davis

Wade Crosby as Sam Kelsey

Bill Kennedy* as Sawyer

Robert Bray as Jeff Retter (billed as Bob Bray)

George Duchin as McGuire

*Bill Kennedy is the narrator of "The Advetures of Superman".

#The Salted Mine #TV #Racket Squad #CBS #1950's #1951 #Crime Drama #Reed Hadley #Percy Helton #Richard Travis

[darlingbandit]

Also, daaaaaamn I wish I’d seen Criss Cross before now. Man. What a great movie. Amazing performances, fucking extraordinary ending, and one really, really cool shot (if you know, you know.)

#Criss Cross #Burt Lancaster #Yvonne De Carlo #Stephen McNally #Percy Helton #Robert Siodmak

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Percy Helton (January 31, 1894 – September 11, 1971)

#percy helton

[oldshowbiz]

nothing will take you out of a period piece faster than a walk-on by Percy Helton

#Percy Helton #Character Actors

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The Monkees, Annette Funicello, Victor Mature | "HEAD" (1968) | Full Mov...

The Monkees are known for zany antics and HEAD is no exception.  Head is a 1968 American satirical musical adventure film written and produced by Jack Nicholson and Bob Rafelson, directed by Rafelson, starring television rock group The Monkees (Davy Jones, Peter Tork, Micky Dolenz, and Michael Nesmith).  The film featured Victor Mature as "The Big Victor" and cameo appearances by Nicholson, Teri Garr, Carol Doda, Annette Funicello, Frank Zappa, Sonny Liston, Timothy Carey, Percy Helton, and Ray Nitschke., Also appearing on screen in brief non-speaking parts are Dennis Hopper and film choreographer Toni Basil.  The film's music included contributions by Carole King and Harry Nilsson. Jack Nicholson compiled the soundtrack album, which approximates the flow of the movie and includes large portions of the dialogue. HEAD was not well received but has gained more and more popularity due to multiple re-releases Head has developed a cult following. Leonard Maltin describes it as "delightfully plotless" and "well worth seeing", giving the film 3 out of 4 stars.   You are invited to join the channel so that Mr. P can notify you when new videos are uploaded, https://www.youtube.com/@nrpsmovieclassics

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Larceny | George Sherman | 1948

Percy Helton, John Payne

#Percy Helton #John Payne #George Sherman #Larceny #1948 #Noirvember

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NOIR CITY Hollywood continues tonight at the American Cinematheque: THE HUNTED (35mm), 3:00 PM in 35mm & CALL NORTHSIDE 777 / LARCENY (35mm), 7:30 PM. Eddie Muller in person! Tickets and schedule: https://bit.ly/3pJBmcV 3:00 PM THE HUNTED 35mm print courtesy of the Film Noir Foundation collection at UCLA Film & Television Archive Introduced by Eddie Muller Screenplay by Steve Fisher Directed by Jack Bernhard Paroled after serving a prison term for her part in a jewel heist, Laura Mead (Belita) returns to the city looking to reclaim her life. Waiting in the shadows is her former boyfriend, detective Johnny Saxon (Preston Foster) —who may have railroaded her into the pen out of jealousy. Is Laura ready to forgive… or make good on her jailhouse threat to kill the men who sent her up? THE HUNTED may seem formulaic on the surface, but it’s the one-two punch of Steve Fisher’s screenplay and Belita’s performance that elevates it above so many of its B-movie peers. The former stands out due to its crackling dialogue and the latter for its idiosyncratic grit. A hypnotic twist on the femme fatale tale, resurrected from obscurity in a 35mm preservation print funded by the Film Noir Foundation. 7:30 PM CALL NORTHSIDE 777

Introduced by Eddie Muller Screenplay by Jerome Cady and Jay Dratler, based on news articles by James P. McGuire Directed by Henry Hathaway Jimmy Stewart is terrific as P.J. McNeal, a Chicago newspaper reporter determined to free a convicted killer (Richard Conte) he believes has been unfairly imprisoned for eleven years. Despite a mountain of seemingly irrefutable evidence, McNeal follows his gut and unravels a string of bad luck and miscommunication that would appear unbelievable were it not based on a true story. Stewart rarely ventured into the noir world, but when he did his heroism took on an obsessive bent, giving his performances a notable edge. The first Hollywood feature to be shot entirely on location in Chicago, CALL NORTHSIDE 777 also boasts fantastic cinematography by Joseph MacDonald and stellar supporting performances by Conte, Lee J. Cobb, and Helen Walker. Winner of the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Motion Picture of 1948. Followed by: LARCENY, 89 Minutes, Universal Pictures, USA. Screenplay by Williams Bowers, Herb Margolis, and Lou Morheim, based on the novel The Velvet Fleece by Lois Eby and John C. Fleming Directed by George Sherman John Payne and Dan Duryea play dandy grifters bent on bilking a wealthy war widow (Joan Caulfield) into funding a non-existent war memorial. Both these sharpies get tangled up with saucy Shelley Winters, who’s more dangerous than a loaded .38! George Sherman may not wield the directorial heft of his studio peers, but he clears out plenty of space for his actors to shine, and they fire off Bowers’ one-liners faster than speeding bullets. You know things have been morally compromised when Percy Helton, of all people, is playing an upstanding citizen. We once had to screen this riotously entertaining, little-known gem in 16mm (at NOIR CITY 4), but we’re thrilled to now show it in a glorious 35mm print courtesy of Universal Pictures.

#noir city #noir city hollywood #aero theatre #american cinematheque #film noir festival #35mm screening #eddie muller #the hunted #call northside 777 #larceny

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Kiss Me Deadly

In her film debut, Cloris Leachman says, “I could tolerate flabby muscles in a man, if it’d make him more friendly.” The film that follows is neither flabby nor friendly, but it’s one of the great film noirs with one of the bleakest endings in the genre. Contemporary critics didn’t care for Robert Aldrich’s KISS ME DEADLY (1955, Apple+), but it has grown in reputation over the years, particularly with Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard calling it the single greatest influence on the Nouvelle Vague. Ralph Meeker’s Mike Hammer is far from a crusading private eye at first. He’s lost his gun and his license and concentrates on setting up honey traps with his secretary/lover Velda (the wonderful Maxine Cooper) so he can blackmail cheating husbands. Then he picks up a near-naked hitchhiker (Leachman) who’s escaped from a mental hospital to which she was committed because she knows about “the great whatsit,” one of the best MacGuffin’s in film history. When she’s murdered, Hammer figures whatever she knew must be worth money. Then one of his few friends is murdered, and it gets personal. The corruption he encounters is everywhere, from the government to the kiss of a beautiful blonde. And Hammer is a part of it. Meeker does a marvelous job in the role, changing masks depending on whom he’s trying to manipulate and betraying a bit of glee in beating up attackers and recalcitrant witnesses. Aldrich and A.I. Bezzerides wrote some great punchy dialog for the film (and appropriated the phrase “the great whatsit” from 1932’s THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME), and Ernest Laslo createed some eerie visuals, shooting through objects and casting shadows to create an off-kilter, dangerous world. There’s a lot of good work in the cast, but it’s hard to believe Aldrich couldn’t find a better actress than Gaby Rogers to play the blonde femme fatale. Her tinny line readings sound like a bad imitation of Judy Holliday, or maybe Lina Lamont without the humor. The rest of the cast includes Albert Dekker as a crooked doctor, Paul Stewart as a mob leader, Juano Hernandez as a boxing trainer Wesley Addy as a police lieutenant who may be in love with Hammer, Marjorie Bennett as a landlady (one line, but she delivers it with aplomb), Percy Helton as a coroner, Fortunio Bonanova as an opera singer, and Jack  Elam and Jack Lambert as two dim-witted hired thugs.

#film noir #robert aldrich #mike hammer #ralph meeker #cloris leachman