the deadly companions
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maureen o’hara and brian keith in sam peckinpah’s western “the deadly companions” (1961) .
( novel
the deadly companions
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the celebration also includes sam peckinpah' s feature directorial debut, 1961' s
the deadly companions ,
with o' hara and brian keith .
the deadly companions is directed by sam peckinpah and written by albert sidney fleischman. it stars brian keith, maureen o' hara, chill wills and steve cochran .
on another point of interest, sarah, one of the doctor’s most popular companions, also lived in croydon .
peckinpah made 16 films, including several westerns, and he was the first to acknowledge that
deadly companions
was little more than a learning experience for him. the movie sunk without a trace and remains his least - known work .
when looking at the career of sam peckinpah people usually skip to his second film, the excellent ride the high country, and skip over this first effort of his the deadly companions. turns out there’s a good reason for this: the deadly companions is not that great. it’s not bad either, it’s just a fairly mediocre sixties western. the film isn’t pushing the limits on onscreen violence and it’s not that much of an elegy for the west. you can sort of see some of peckinpah’s sensibilities sneaking in on the margins but if peckinpah had stopped making movies after this these elements would not be that interesting .
even in peckinpah' s earliest film, the west is a world of delirious violence. the deadly companions is not as brutal as his later work, but it' s very ugly. john ford isn' t even out the door yet and peckinpah is already turning the western into a playground for sadists and psychopaths .
…as a film director with the deadly companions (1961), a low - budget western that starred brian keith as a former cavalry officer who, after accidentally killing a young boy, accompanies the funeral procession through hostile apache territory. next came the elegiac ride the high country (1962), about two former lawmen (played…
on the face of it the deadly companions does have strong themes which seem to be lost along the way, with interesting casting that really doesn’t help the film. still this is a debut film and very much not in the same vein as most westerns of the day. no killer would be seen to wear his guilt on his sleeve as openly as yellowleg who coming from civilised society maybe bring that sensibility with him to the west .
elsewhere, when tom baker’s doctor returned to skaro in 1975, with strict instructions from the time lords to destroy the daleks forever, betchworth quarry hosted the daleks’ home planet. the following year, baker visited betchworth again to film part of the deadly assassin .
over the next 50 years, the doctor, and a whole host of different companions, would travel all over the universe, encountering monsters and aliens that would send children, and a fair few adults, scurrying behind the sofa for safety .
because fitzsimmons forgot to put a copyright notice on the film, “the deadly companions” slipped into the public domain, and as a result peckinpah’s first film has been available to home video only in versions of varying degrees of awfulness. a new edition, released by vci entertainment and produced by the archivist cary roan, presents the best sound and image of any i have seen so far, and is the first american disc to present the film in its original wide - screen dimensions .
sam peckinpah was born on february 21, 1925, in fresno, california. he became a screenwriter for tv westerns like gunsmoke before making his film directorial debut with the deadly companions. later films like the wild bunch, which received a screenwriting oscar nomination, and straw dogs were noted for their grisly violence. known for his hard - living lifestyle, peckinpah died on december 28, 1984 .
on siegel’s recommendation, peckinpah found work as a writer in the flourishing field of television westerns, and by 1960 was receiving producing and directing credits as well on “the westerner, ” a well - reviewed but short - lived series starring brian keith. when keith was cast in the low - budget theatrical western “the deadly companions, ” he suggested peckinpah as a director to the producer charles b. fitzsimmons, whose older sister, maureen o’hara, was the project’s nominal star .
the deadly companions is noted for two more sequences. one is pure western art for its own sake. instead of having the lone yellowleg (established as a western hero who cannot shoot his gun !) hold off indian attacks, peckinpah shows a group of drunken indians playfully re - enacting a stagecoach robbery that perhaps happened the day before. indians on horseback chase their friends, who are dressed up in the clothing left by the presumed victims. the unique sequence is rather eerie .
the movie was always considered an interesting failure with interesting scenes and characters. although peckinpah didn' t write the script and was forbidden to change the dialogue (a shame, as his colorful western speeches are unmatched), the deadly companions has themes lot in common with his later work: a tortured, crippled hero, a wild and wooly villain and a contemptuous attitude toward frontier hypocrisy. the big news with this release (savant rarely reviews region 2 releases) is that futurefilm' s finnish release (said to be similar to the uk optimum release) is a beautiful widescreen transfer. since its abbreviated initial release, the deadly companions has only been available in miserable (the word is too kind) pan - scanned tv prints and video releases. seen in its proper panavision screen shape, it finally looks like a real movie. savant is indebted to finnish reader olli larimo for the opportunity to view this new release .
another sam peckinpah film in as many days, and one i was unaware that even existed, being a much earlier film in his back – catalogue of work. probably made with more studio control, yet the deadly companions (1961) does have some of the hallmarks of his later work. i do feel it’s slightly more successful than his next film major dundee (1962), but that’s for another review .
the deadly companions futurefilm (finnish import, region 2 pal) 1961 / color / 2: 35 anamorphic widescreen / 90 min. / street date july 18, 2007 starring maureen o' hara, brian keith, steve cochran, chill wills, strother martin, will wright cinematography william h. clothier film editor stanley e. rabjohn original music martin skiles written by a. s. fleischman from his novel produced by charles b. fitzsimons directed by sam peckinpah
reportedly peckinpah was not allowed to modify the script (by a. s. fleischman) or participate in the final editing. but “the deadly companions” seems like pure peckinpah from its opening scene, in which a group of children are seen torturing, not a scorpion as in “the wild bunch, ” but one of their own; the outcast is the fatherless son of a dance hall girl, kit tildon (ms. o’hara). when a spasm of violence breaks out, the boy is accidentally shot and killed by a stranger in town, a former union officer who goes by the generic name of yellowleg (keith) .
the deadly companions looks great on futurefilm' s dvd; the main logo on the transfer is lakeshore entertainment. colors are rich and i assume that the picture is a bit sharper on a real pal screen; my converting player probably adds a level of softness. the 25fps speedup is noticeable in some of the dialogue. futurefilm' s disc comes with subtitles in suomi (finnish, i assume), swedish, norwegian and danish. all are removable. i remember the stagecoach scene as being day for night and it' s timed for day here, but the pan - scanned prints i saw are unreliable. the film has other day for night sequences, which look on a par with the ones in major dundee
“the wild bunch” touched a nerve with audiences that “major dundee” did not, perhaps because the intervening four years had brought an escalation of the war in vietnam, paradoxically introducing a greater suspicion of american military adventures and a greater fascination with violence. for a moment, peckinpah’s personal obsessions would find themselves reflected in the culture at large; that moment has not yet arrived in “major dundee, ” though the groundwork is there. (“the deadly companions”: vci entertainment; dvd, $ 14. 99; not rated. “major dundee”: twilight time; urltoken; blu - ray, $ 34. 95; pg - 13 )
while both o' hara and keith turn in good performances, there' s just a little something missing here that prevents me from rating the deadly companioms more highly. i think i needed more of a connection to the leads and the movie just didn' t have enough
character
moments to get me that .
in a talk at the tucson press club in 1972, burt lancaster discussed the astonishing brutality of the movie and compared it to racism. he drew parallels between the extermination of the indian people in the american west and the slaughter of asians in the vietnam war .
arthur, holden and other stars of the movie went from one theater to the next, introducing the film. they watched it with the audience at the state theater .
• asked why, in the climactic chase scene, the indians didn' t simply shoot the horses to stop the stagecoach, ford said :
because that would have been the end of the movie .
the stars of
the parent trap
trapped again... by their pasts and by the killers who pursued them through the badlands !
broken menudo bowls were found as far away as the foothills the next morning ,
the star reported .
the director stocks his film with the scuzziest collection of lowlifes you' ve ever seen. redemption is a hellhole where the good are far outnumbered by the bad and the really, really ugly.' the quick and the dead,' on the other hand, is pretty and slick .
all the hallmarks of peckinpah just not as refined as in the later films .
but their mission becomes the subject of hot debate between the pair of searchers .
the young lieutenant is forced to confront his prejudices before the end credits roll .
the world premiere of
arizona
on nov. 15, 1940, was held at five local theaters simultaneously: the state, the rialto, the temple of music, the lyric and the fox - all of which were sold out .
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filming sites included the colorado rockies, the black hills of south dakota, the ohio and cumberland rivers in kentucky, and monument valley on the arizona - utah border .
an element of the plot reportedly considered unsuitable for audiences at the time was the use of a coffin with a dead child in many of the scenes. the story is told that to get financial backing, the screenplay was first novelized by the writer, a. s. fleischman, and published successfully as a western under the title yellowleg .
the coach looks so tiny and frail against the vast, immovable landscape near the utah border. ford creates ample tension, and when the indians attack, as we know they will, it makes the heart race .
ward bond, like his character in the movie, sided squarely with the forces demanding names. he cooperated fully with the committee .
the screenplay was written by albert maltz, one of the original hollywood 10 who was blacklisted for failing to name names at the house unamerican activities committee hearings in the late 1940s .
keith’s obsession with revenge is broken by the ounce of conscience that makes him feel responsible for the death of the boy. when o’hara refuses his protection on the trail, he proves the strength of his character by sticking with her, at the risk of his own life. though at story’s end the scar on his forehead remains, the love he finally wins from her softens the stigma he has carried .
• production was stopped at one point because the dust made the actors too hoarse to continue .
john wayne plays a borderline sadist cattle baron who cracks the whip on the first cattle drive over the chisholm trail from san antonio to abilene .
the film critic at the star called it
a garish, hip, ludicrous joke .
the hatred for the comanche that consumes ethan is nothing short of breathtaking. audiences today can only gasp at the ugliness on display when, for example, ethan kicks a squaw, sending her tumbling into the dirt for the sport of it .
this majestic western centers on roy bean, the corrupt justice of the peace who sided with the brutal cattlemen in post - civil war texas and threw the book at homesteaders every chance he got .
• only two other movies made in 1948 made more money at the box office :
the three musketeers
and
the red shoes .
all three were filmed in monument valley, starred john wayne as capt. york and showed the cavalry as the enforcers of manifest destiny - the deeply held belief that it was the god - given destiny of the united states to expand all the way to the pacific. a voice - over in
yellow ribbon
proclaims this about the cavalry :
wherever they rode and whatever they fought for, that place became the united states .
nominated for three oscars, for the screenplay, the cinematography and supporting actor (jeff chandler) .
an adventurer and wily intellectual, mark twain wrote the classic american novels' the adventures of tom sawyer' and' the adventures of huckleberry finn.'
twentieth - century fox, which made the technicolor western, promised that the apache would get to see the movie before it was screened for anyone else .
when john wayne sent some scoundrel into eternity, he always stuck around to give the guy a decent burial. the code of the west demanded it .
desperate for money, the rancher agrees for $ 200 to take the captured wade to contention city and make sure he' s onboard the 3: 10 to yuma, bound for the yuma territorial prison .
hughes, whose uncredited co - director was howard hawks, pushed the boundaries of the moralistic production code that prevailed at the time. but while censors were fixated on cleavage, they didn' t seem to notice the rampant homoeroticism going on with the men .
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this movie may or may not convey much truth about life in the old west. but it speaks volumes about america in the middle of the 20th century .
• navajos were employed by the hundreds to work on the production or don war paint as ruthless comanche .
the movie is not that original and does not carry the visual intensity that would later characterize the director' s work. it also feels choppy and half asleep at times. that' s hardly peckinpah' s fault because each of his films, with the exception of bring me the head of alfredo garcia, were tampered with by the studios. but the themes are there, along with the edgy performances to embolden them .
unlike so many other hollywood westerns, the blinding fear of indian attacks is made visceral. ford doesn' t show the savagery that threatened settlers, leaving the worst to our imagination .
the searchers
instead conveys the awful anticipation of violence, and its aftermath .
( 1969), sam peckinpah' s bloody, high - body - count eulogy to the mythologized old west .
pouring new wine into the bottle of the western, peckinpah explodes the bottle
, observed critic
when plans for the movie were announced in the arizona daily star in september 1946, the reporter couldn' t help but rub salt in the wounds of prominent texans who hated to see their stories filmed in arizona .
fort apache ,
which never wavers from its
us against them
theme, ranks as one of the most influential westerns because it set the tone for the countless siege movies in the years to come .
during the cold war, a controversial tv journalist is asked by the cia to persuade certain acquaintances, who are soviet agents of the omega network, to defect .
cbs built the town on a bluff southeast of tucson near benson, and when the movie was done, old tucson bought the town and later renamed it mescal .
built in the 19th century to mine the north downs for chalk, the lime works were serviced by a private narrow gauge railway. after the lime works closed in 1936, the area was preserved by brockham museum, and today it is a designated site of special scientific interest (sssi). the engines meanwhile became part of the collection at amberley museum in 1982. the locomotive used in the doctor who scene was one of only two surviving diesels built by ransome and rapier of ipswich .
the civil war yankee sergeant yellowleg saves the cheater turkey from hanging after a card game, and together with turk' s gunslinger buddy billy keplinger, they ride together to gila city with the intention of heisting a bank. when other bandits rob a store, yellowleg shoots at the outlaws and accidentally kills the son of the cabaret dancer kit tilden and the grieving woman decides to bury her son in the town of siringo in apache country where her husband is buried. yellowleg enlists billy and turkey to escort kitty and the coffin through the dangerous land .
this lovely meditation on the disappearing cowboy way doesn' t rely on gunfights, and the only real villains are the unseen eastern conglomerates who are buying up all the land and putting folks like monte walsh out of work .
once owned by fullers earth union ltd, today the upper part of the quarry is now a landfill site .
borgen in season 1 of the cult danish political drama, sidse babett knudsen stars as a newly appointed prime minister learning the ropes under the critical eye of the news media and the sniping of her opponents. (mhz networks; dvd, $ 49. 95; not rated )
when the film was finished, the studio kept its word and arranged a free screening on the fort apache indian reservation in whiteriver during fourth of july celebrations in 1950 .
a hobo accidentally stumbles onto a water spring, and creates a profitable way station in the middle of the desert .
many critics have pointed out that the film is a hidden commentary on the mccarthy witch - hunts on capitol hill .
the bbc couldn’t afford to jet down to antarctica for the shoot, so they settled on buckland quarry near reigate. they also used the quarry for several other scenes too .
also unexpected is the title song, sung under the opening credits. instead of the usual deep male voice, tex ritter or frankie lane, we hear a woman singing the lyrics. and we learn from the credits that it is o’hara herself. classical guitarist laurindo almeida also gets a credit .
the scenes in gila city are rather flat and sometimes even awkwardly blocked, with the only memorable image that of the cheating turk half - hung in the saloon, his cards pinned to his shirt. the movie picks up out in the open desert, where william clothier' s beautiful cinematography takes over. the character action is predictble until kit and yellowleg find themselves alone in the wild, eventually dragging the son' s coffin by hand. kit is determined to prove to someone that her dead husband, meade tilden, really existed .
in planet of the daleks in 1973, beachfields quarry, just south of mercer’s country park near merstham, becomes skaro, the daleks’ home planet. during the previous adventure, frontier in space, jon pertwee’s doctor went to the quarry to film a visit to the home planet of an ape - like race called the ogrons. daleks used ogrons as security guards back then. four years later, beachfields was the setting for a sontaran invasion of the doctor’s home planet, gallifrey .
the civil war yankee sergeant yellowleg saves the cheater turkey from hanging after a card game, and together with turk' s gunslinger buddy billy keplinger, they ride together to gila city with the intention of heisting a bank. when other bandits rob a store, yellowleg shoots at the outlaws and accidentally kills the son of the cabaret dancer kit tilden and the grieving woman decides to bury her son in the town of siringo in apache country where her husband is buried. yellowleg enlists billy and turkey to escort kitty and the coffin through the dangerous land. written by claudio carvalho, rio de janeiro, brazil
• only one 1946 movie made more money at the box office: disney' s
song of the south .
originally created by the bbc as an educational family show to fit between the football results and evening entertainment programmes, when the first doctor, william hartnell, wanted to leave after three years, the idea of renewing their leading man was born .
• when orson welles appeared on
the merv griffin show
in 1962, he said that after watching
the outlaw josey wales
for the fourth time, he realized
that it belongs with the great westerns. you know, the great westerns of ford and hawks and people like that .
the list, which came together after a monthlong immersion in old west movies, includes some of the most acclaimed films of the genre, from
stagecoach
to
tombstone .
james stewart plays tom jeffords, the real - life ex - soldier who ventured solo into cochise' s stronghold east of tucson to talk peace with the leader of the chiricahua apaches .
but the romantic myth of the visionary rebel destroyed by the system is a powerful one, and peckinpah’s has steadily grown in the decades since his death. amazon lists over a dozen biographies and critical studies of peckinpah currently in print, and the internet overflows with fan sites and tributes. the cult of personality inspired by “bloody sam” now threatens to overwhelm the films themselves — a shame, since there is much to be rediscovered in peckinpah’s work, and particularly in those movies that don’t necessarily conform to the sanguinary image: films like “ride the high country” (1962), “the ballad of cable hogue” (1970), “junior bonner” (1972) and the 1966 television drama “noon wine. ”
• jean arthur surely ranks as one of the first cougars in motion pictures. she was 40 years old when the movie came out, and the then - unknown william holden was 22 .
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celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, cult tv show doctor who is the longest running science - fiction series in the world .
so many showed up, from all corners of the reservation, that the film had to be shown six times that weekend to accomodate everyone. according to an article in the star, the indians reacted with cheers and more than a few tears of appreciation .
the red - headed stepchild of peckinpah movies; compared to rthc or major dundee, you' d hardly even know it existed... and yet everything in the first two scenes of this is the embryonic form of something from the beginning of pat garrett and billy the kid... just minus all the nastiness, because hays code. from the
children at play whose game reflects the violence of grown - ups
to the
mysterious joker who seems unstuck in time and space because he' s bob dylan ,
each new discovery made me laugh with delight .
many of the scenes were shot in the oak creek canyon area, and nearly 400 whiteriver apaches were hired to play their own ancestors. during the shoot, they lived on location in wickiups .
here' s the tagline for this revisionist western, filmed in nogales and in areas southeast of tucson :
one man alone understood the savagery of the early american west from both sides .
the adobe buildings that were built by columbia pictures west of the tucson mountains were donated to pima county and became old tucson studios .
• this was the film in which wayne finally retired the hat he had worn since
stagecoach ,
made 20 years earlier .
here' s one way to tell a traditional western from the revisionist type exemplified so perfectly by
the outlaw josey wales .
the buxom jane russell, who died feb. 28 at age 89, made her movie debut in
the outlaw .
the posters featuring her sprawled suggestively on a haystack resulted in pinup stardom .
in 1866, courageous new fighting units were formed within the u. s. cavalry: the black 9th and 10th regiments, a fighting force that was called
buffalo soldiers
by the indians .
this is the first in john ford' s trilogy depicting the eternally heroic u. s. cavalry under siege from the savage
red hordes
that surrounded them. it was followed by
she wore a yellow ribbon
in 1949 and
rio grande
in 1950, which also used the dramatic landscape near the utah border .
turner classic movies will celebrate the legacy of the legendary actress maureen o' hara with a 24 - hour film tribute on november 20 .
there' s some merit to the charge that the indian hasn' t been portrayed accurately or fairly in the western, but again, this charge has been a broad generalization and often unfair. the indian didn' t welcome the white man... and he wasn' t diplomatic... if he has been treated unfairly by whites in films, that, unfortunately, was often the case in real life. there was much racial prejudice in the west .
the impact of
yellowleg' s
injured shoulder varies throughout the film, for example he has difficulty handling a gun or raising his arm in the doctor' s office yet seems to have no problems using the same arm to mount his horse or to clamber up rocks .
the police station, filmed at the old ashdown road post office sorting station, is deserted, too, although the doctor and sarah do see a van speeding along palmer crescent. later, troops shoot at looters (by the old kingston meat market on kent road) and the doctor tracks a mysterious signal (around south lane and parkfields lane) .
brian keith was quite a good actor, though i always think of him as the father on that family show. i forget the title .
sam peckinpah was a controversial, academy award - nominated screenwriter and director known for films like the wild bunch, straw dogs and the getaway .
this was the sixth film made in monument valley by director john ford, and his love affair with the landscape is more apparent than ever .
•
that' ll be the day ,
a song written by buddy holly and jerry allison, was inspired by their viewing of this film in june 1956 .
that' ll be the day
was the world - weary catchphrase employed by john wayne throughout the film .
the arizona daily star devoted many pages of coverage to the weeklong premiere celebration, which included a downtown parade led by the governors of arizona and sonora and a midnight menudo party that lasted until 4 a. m .
another early movie with arizona in the title :
in old arizona ,
filmed at locations all around the state, was oscar - nominated for best picture in 1928, the second year that oscars were presented .
the bbc find themselves in need of some wild moor - like terrain but can’t afford to take the outside broadcast unit up to scotland; much easier just to travel a few miles down the road to frensham common .
sam peckinpah ’s life, like many of his movies, ended in a kind of apocalyptic debacle. too many arguments with producers, too much alcohol - fueled misbehavior and (always the real problem) too many disappointments at the box office had rendered the director of “the wild bunch” (1969) effectively unemployable by the time he died in 1984, at 59 .
the gay subtext has been explored at length and no doubt exaggerated over the years. but at a time when subtext was the only way for gay people to see themselves in hollywood films, the interpretation is understandable. how else should we take the priceless game of
i' ll show you mine if you show me yours
played by two lonely cowboys .
• the mexican dancers seen in one brief scene were played by josephine bautista and her sisters, all of whom lived in tucson at the time .
when
fort apache
hit theaters in 1948, world war ii was done, but many americans still felt under siege from communism. this cold war mentality is apparent throughout the trilogy, but only the first one shows the cavalry laying down their lives in a heroic defense of the frontier .
martin scorsese, praising
the searchers
in a tribute to ford many years ago, swore that vistavistion was the best projection system ever invented .
filmed at old tucson' s mescal location, the production was by all accounts a fairly out of control nightmare for the cast and crew. it was reported that more than 100 people were fired before the movie wrapped .
the star' s esteemed reviewer at the time noted :
it' s directed, after all, by simon wincer, the man who won an emmy award for his direction of the epic television miniseries' lonesome dove.' he won' t win any awards for this one .
• the silurians, 1970: pertwee confronts prehistoric humanoid reptiles at hankley common, the hog’s back transmitter station, guildford and sheephatch farm in tilford .
peckinpah seems to identify with this dundee more, and the film suddenly falls off the wagon along with its central character, getting lost in a haze of boozy revelry and extravagant violence. his dramatic focus lost, peckinpah resolves the plot with a pair of bloody confrontations, one with the indians and one with the french, neither of which feels much like a meaningful victory .
only later do we learn that he literally bears the wounds of his wartime service. at his hairline show the scars of being scalped by the confederate soldier he’s sworn to avenge. the disfigurement is also a mark of his shame, as he regards himself unworthy of o’hara’s affection once he’s won it .
thousands of cattle were leased from arizona and mexican ranchers, and the san pedro would pose as the red river. the 1868 boomtown of abilene, kansas, was re - created with false fronts on elgin' s buildings .
i just caught this movie by accident on turner classic movies. i turned on the home theater and it was tuned to tcm from the night before .
heston’s dundee pursues a renegade apache leader, who has kidnapped three white children, across the border into mexico, where he threatens to touch off an international incident by confronting the french colonial troops then occupying the country. so far, so good, but then the film takes a bizarre turn, when the children are suddenly returned and dundee, the point of his mission lost, runs off in an alcoholic fugue, abandoning his troops and self - respect .
often referred to as the queen of technicolor due to her flaming red hair, the spirited irish actress was beloved by movie audiences for over 50 years .
•
red river
featured the movie debut of montgomery clift, whose open homosexuality only fueled speculation about the movie' s
real
subject .
while
rio bravo
was conceived as a conservative response to
high noon ,
the result was nonetheless unconventional in its own way. the characters, john wayne' s excepted, were a nontraditional bunch that included dean martin as a drunk and ricky nelson as the new gunslinger on the scene .
inside the matrix, a high - tech system that turns a person’s thoughts and dreams into virtual reality, tom baker’s doctor must overcome a series of challenges to defeat his arch - enemy, the master, and prove that it wasn’t he who shot and killed the president of the time lords. in one scene, the doctor is trapped on a railway line whilst a steam train chugs towards him, and this scene was shot at the old brockham limeworks .
in the fall of 1946, howard hawks and about 250 actors, wranglers, crew members and production staff invaded the elgin area to shoot
red river ,
a movie now considered one of the top five westerns ever made .
but we' ve also included movies that were significant for reasons other than quality :
the outlaw ,
for example, was the first movie to challenge the prevailing hollywood production code, and
broken arrow ,
a 1950 movie that was among the first to present indians as something other than savages .
originally a family - run business, the quarry was taken over by amalgamated roadstone in 1978 and then by hanson in 1990. the original quarry, north of the a25, is now a private nature reserve. hanson still continues to extract sand and silica for providing specialist glass sand to customers throughout the uk .
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the music budget must have been practically zero. the music consists solely of slow accordion, guitar, and wurllitzer electric organ puttering, with a ...
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in this drama a black 9th cavalry officer is on trial for the rape and murder of a white woman. court testimony, relived in flashbacks, shows the accused sergeant - at - arms to be the most brave and noble sort .
this epic, long - winded tale about settling the west was one of the first narrative films made in the large - screen cinerama format. the process required action to be recorded on three 35mm strips of film, then projected side - by - side to create a seamless panoramic view with remarkable depth and clarity .
peckinpah would essentially reshape this material into “the wild bunch” four years later, wisely dividing dundee’s divided character into two separate figures — robert ryan as an obsessive bounty hunter and william holden as the romantically anachronistic outlaw (the year is 1913) whom ryan pursues into a wholly anarchic mexico. “the wild bunch” is both structurally more coherent and stylistically more extreme: the rivers of blood in “dundee” have now become fountains, erupting from bodies as they twist to the earth in balletic slow motion .
howard hughes made
the outlaw
in 1941, but battles with censors kept it from being released until 1943, and even then it was banned in many cities, the authorities of which couldn' t abide by the bosoms on display .
residential property company heylo recently signed the armed forces covenant, pledging its commitment to fair treatment and support to the armed forces community, including regulars, reserves, veterans and their families. the signing took place in a ceremony held at wellington barracks
), noting the director' s frequent embellishment of the facts concerning his films, claim that peckinpah did not even consider it - - donati claimed ...
he played the outlaw ringo in
stagecoach ,
and it made him a star at last. the film also made monument valley a star, and ford would return again and again to the majestic mesas and otherwordly sandstone spires in navajo country .
other, slightly less prestigious westerns with a black hero :
the legend of nigger charley
and its sequel
the soul of nigger charley ,
both filmed at old tucson and both starring fred williamson as the bad - ass title character .
in 1864, due to frequent apache raids from mexico into the u. s. , a union officer decides to illegally cross the border and destroy the apache, using a mixed army of union troops, confederate pows, civilian mercenaries, and scouts .
director sam peckinpah had little artistic control over this 1961 feature debut, having been brought into the project at the suggestion of lead actor brian keith and being ...
who is a social outcast, shunned by the other women in her town. mirroring
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when the posse takes turk captive, they put him on a horse with a rifle in the boot and with his hands cuffed in front of himself. see more »
ford was sold on the idea almost instantly, a decision that was made easier when he realized that there would be fewer chances for studio interference on the remote location .
• the first movie wayne made in arizona was
the big trail
( 1930), an ambitious flop from director raoul walsh. it was filmed near yuma .
you wouldn' t think that a movie in which the major indian characters are played by white men would be held in such high regard today, but the film was an important turning point toward a more sympathetic treatment of native americans in the movies .
when the american film institute named the 100 best american movies in 1998, it was determined that ward bond appeared in more films on that list than any other actor .
located between hindhead and camberley, frensham common has heathland vegetation and two small lakes – everything the bbc needed to get patrick troughton’s doctor involved in the battle of culloden .
keith rescues chill wills from the hands of several unhappy poker players, who’ve caught him cheating at cards. he befriends wills and a trail buddy (steve cochran) who have plans to rob a bank. when other robbers get to the bank first, they join the locals who open fire on the fleeing gang. the young son of a dancehall employee (maureen o’hara) is accidentally shot by a bullet from keith’s gun .
among the films screening on tcm are alfred hitchcock' s 1939 thriller
jamaica inn
; four films she made with wayne — 1963' s
mclintock! ,
1971' s
big jake ,
the quiet man
and ford' s 1957 biopic
the wings of eagles
— and such swashbucklers as 1947' s
sinbad the sailor
and 1945' s
the spanish main .
after cutting his teeth on tv shows like gunsmoke and the rifleman, sam peckinpah made his debut as a movie director with this often gripping psychological western, which concentrates on the interaction of its quartet of key characters before it bursts into violent life on the streets of a ghost town. as the rose between three thorns, maureen o' hara is excellent, but it' s the posturing between gunmen brian keith, chill wills and steve cochran that holds the attention. the direction is tentative at times, but as fleischman' s script, from his own novel, is solid as a rock .
how the west was won ,
which seems more old - fashioned than movies made much earlier, was released in november 1962 and became the biggest hit of 1963 (
cleopatra
was the top - grossing film, but it lost money) .
first feature film by sam peckinpah, who was hired due to his experience directing half - hour episodes of
have gun, will travel ,
and
the westerner .
the film, though weak in spots, is an auspicious debut and especially interesting if compared to the director' s body of work. the plot, though contrived (peckinpah was not allowed to change the script - - always... read more
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edwards is a civil war veteran on the trail of a comanche raiding party that kidnapped his dead brother' s daughters. the search, joined by his adopted nephew (jeffrey hunter) goes on for years, during which we see the mental unraveling of ethan .
- the baby sitter (1959)... (story) / (teleplay )
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the tcm broadcast of december 15, 2012 was letterboxed panavision, unlike the pan and scan dvd which is pretty old. can we hope for a new blu - ray release ?
there’s an odd peckinpah moment as the three men ride into a town. above them, as if about to jump from a rooftop, stands a boy with a harmonica. he is the boy later shot by keith. we assume he’s been driven to the roof by other boys on the ground, but there could be other reasons that we never learn .
i lazily always thought ride the high country was his first film (and the only one i liked). i' ll have to give this one a go ...
i' m with patti and charles in remembering brian keith as the soft - spoken father on
family affair .
however, i know he was in an action series during the' 80s and would really enjoying seeing him in this. thanks for the post !
where the film starts to fall down in the love interest that develops it doesn’t feel natural for peckinpah to have that in his films. of course having the only woman and lead actor pair - up is natural for films of that era, there are worse on - screen pairings. it’s the outsider element which draws them together, however it does detract from what the characters have, that dynamic of a mother’s child killer escorting her to his final resting place, whilst also having his own demons. also the added element of the apaches is very unique and not really explored in great detail. they are seen as unhinged, affected by the western society as they play around with a stagecoach they have previously stolen .
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highway 301 (1950) film noir (the getaway scene). . steve cochran ,
warner baxter, who played the ubiquitous cisco kid in that film, became the first american to win best actor. it was a role given to him after director raoul walsh, set to play the kid, lost an eye when a jackrabbit jumped into his car .
the hot - blooded son of a texas land baron and his clear - headed, calm brother become rivals when the beautiful half - breed pearl comes to live on their ranch .
the duke despised' high noon' because he felt it was an allegory for blacklisting, which he wholeheartedly supported. in a 1971 playboy interview, he called the 1953 classic
the most un - american thing i' ve ever seen in my whole life .
the bbc also filmed another scene from this story at nearby engine pond in gatton park .
two years earlier, william hartnell’s doctor had been down to frensham to get involved in the trojan wars. for this storyline, bbc designers took an ancient trojan scene painted on see - through glass to the pond and put it in front of the camera during filming .
• spearhead from space, 1970: jon pertwee’s doctor tackles the nestenes and their sinister plastic servants, the autons, at rhs garden wisley near woking and hatchford park near cobham .
the other noted moment is the confused ending, (spoiler) yellowleg elects to shoot it out with his ex - partners, who have returned from robbing the bank for real. peckinpah wanted the gunfight to be yellowleg' s victory over his handicap, which turns out to have been more a mental problem than a physical one. o' hara and fitzsimons apparently insisted on' protecting' brian keith' s star player status by having turk shoot billy in the back, for the vaguest of revenge reasons. poorly staged and awkwardly cut, the death of billy is an almost complete letdown. yellowleg' s role in the story is thus limited to finding a bond of common trust with kit tilden. the townsmen offer to let her return to gila city, but kit and yellowleg choose to ride off alone .
• jean arthur' s last movie was
shane ,
the 1953 classic that' s widely regarded as one of the genre' s top five films. filmed in wyoming and california, it turned out to be the biggest hit of her 30 - year career .
he heads for texas, and it' s what happens on the way that gives this movie such power: he slowly gains a new family, including an indian chief and a young navajo girl, and the realization a satisfying life might be in the stars for him .
would you like to see the parents from the original parent trap movie on a dire journey through indian territory? if you answered
yes ,
this flick' s for you .
with the headline: the screen:' all fall down,' inge' s version of herlihy novel; beatty and miss saint starred in drama 4 other movies have local premieres.
the deadly companions is a 1961 american western film directed by sam peckinpah and starring maureen o'hara , brian keith , steve cochran , and chill wills . based on the novel of the same name by a. s. fleischman , the film is about an ex-army officer who accidentally kills a woman 's son , and tries to make up for it by escorting the funeral procession through dangerous indian territory . the deadly companions was sam peckinpah 's motion picture directorial debut . 
the deadly companions is a 1961 american western film directed by sam peckinpah and starring maureen o'hara, brian keith, steve cochran, and chill wills. based on the novel of the same name by a. s. fleischman, the film is about an ex-army officer who accidentally kills a woman's son, and tries to make up for it by escorting the funeral procession through dangerous indian territory. the deadly companions was sam peckinpah's motion picture directorial debut.
the deadly companions is a 1961 american western film directed by sam peckinpah and starring maureen o'hara, brian keith, steve cochran, and chill wills. based on the novel of the same name by a. s. fleischman, the film is about an ex-army officer who accidentally kills a woman's son, and tries to make up for it by escorting the funeral procession through dangerous indian territory. the deadly companions was sam peckinpah's motion picture directorial debut.