the peacemaker ( 1956 film )
the thunder child: thursday at williamsburg film festival 2006. jan merlin on the peacemaker
an artifact of the atomic age, the 1956 big budget film, the conqueror could be considered just another costly hollywood mistake .
the peacemaker (1956) is a western film directed by ted post and starring james mitchell, rosemarie bowe, and jan merlin. hal richards based the script on the novel of the same name by richard poole .
howard hugh’s film, the conquerer (1956) was a big budget flop and nearby nuclear testing was blamed for 91 or 220 of the film cast suffering from cancer in subsequent years .
please look closely at the photo (this is the exact poster you are buying). this collectible half - sheet poster, printed in 1956 to promote theatrical release of the peacemaker, is not a reproduction or a reprint .
this is an original half - sheet movie poster from 1956 for the peacemaker starring james mitchell, rosemarie bowe, jan merlin, jess barker, hugh sanders, robert armstrong, and taylor holmes. ted post directed the cowboy western .
after the film was over, jan merlin came to the front of the room give a brief talk. questions in
. rosemarie bowe was married to stack from 1956 until his death in 2003. she acted in only a few movies and briefly in television. ]
strictly a b affair, but not that bad if you don’t mind the preachy nature of the film .
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jan began by speaking of hal r. makelim. this was the first film makelim produced .
some of her tv and film credits include: tv: blake' s seven - gambit (chenie) [ 1978 ] [ see picture, above right, in which sylvia coleridge, mrs butterworth from a little learning, also starred ] the onedin line (ada gamble) [ 1976 ] on the buses - bye bye blakey (lady doctor) [ 1972 ] tracey and me (dorothy) [ 1956 ] two' s company [ 1956 ] film: home sweet home [ 1945 ] nicolette is the sister of nicolas roeg, the famous film director, who directed performance, don' t look now, the witches and the man who fell to earth .
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work on the film progressed with a degree of enthusiasm that should accompany a blockbuster. principle outdoor photography took place near st. george, utah, during the summer of 1954. john wayne went on a crash diet for his role. the local community was wildly enthusiastic at having a big budget film crew in their midst. the film used many locals as extras, including native north americans as horseback warriors. hughes bankrolled the shipment of sixty tons of sand and soil from the area to hollywood for use in retakes .
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one thing that can be said for legendary tycoon howard hughes: when he made a mistake, it tended to be an incredibly costly mistake. the film had a $ 6, 000, 000 budget, and a domestic gross of just $ 4, 500, 000; an almost textbook definition of a failed movie. hughes felt bad enough about the mistakes on the film that he bought every existing print of the film for $ 12 million and kept it from view until 1974 .
the conqueror was the last film with which howard hughes involved himself. the movie’s high cost was one of the final factors in the demise of rko studios. along with another cold war fable, ice station zebra, it was one of the films that howard hughes watched repeatedly during the isolated madness of his final years .
the parson allays the fears of the townsfolk when they learn of his past, wins a brawl with viggo then nurses him back to health, and spends most of the film encouraging his congregation to love — not kill — their neighbors .
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the conqueror was a lousy film. it appears on several lists the “worst films of all time. ” it is a story based on the life of the mongol warrior temujin, whom history remembers as ghengis khan. marlon brando was the intended lead when the script was written. it eventually wound up in the hands of radio and movie star dick powell .
virginia mayo and joel mccrea meet a tragic end in this 1949 western directed by raoul walsh and based on his 1941 film ,
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the st. george area was within 135 miles of the nevada test range. although no test detonations occurred during production of the film, 11 atomic explosions took place the previous year, including two exceptionally “dirty” above ground tests with high degrees of fall out. the dunes around st. george were natural collecting areas for wind - borne material, including fallout. the dunes were also the preferred location for many of the movies very dusty action scenes .
the film marked the directorial debut of ted post, who later worked with clint eastwood on the rawhide series. when eastwood returned to the u. s. as a mega star from his stints in spaghetti westerns, post directed some of his big - budget films, including hang ‘em high. rosemary bowe was the wife of actor robert stack .
along with all american john wayne cast as the mongol leader, susan hayward came on board as a red - headed tartar princess and the picture’s love interest. very creditable supporting roles went to pedro armendariz and radio and film star agnes moorehead .
there were, of course, many other factors behind these cancer deaths than spending the summer of 1954 near the nevada test range. agnes moorehead was a heavy smoker. unfiltered cigarettes were as much a part of john wayne’s screen persona as his colt peacemaker. however, of the conqueror’ s production company of 220 people, 91 contracted some form cancer by 1981 (statistically, a group that size should see around 30 cases of cancer .) this number does not include the high incidence of cancer among the families of the stars who spent that summer in st. george. the residents of that area of utah have an inexplicably high rate of cancer, as well .
i looked good horizontal, ya? know. they once in a while gave me a chance to be a good fella. i was a nice fella in a film called
the rest of the cast includes rosemarie bowe as ann davis, the shopkeeper’s daughter who falls for the preacher; and dorothy patrick as edith sawyer, who angers her dad by falling for and marrying halcomb, the leader of the ranchers .
he did the best he could with this film. as you can see he had some real fine actors in it. robert armstrong... i was still green enough in hollywood so that when i saw robert armstrong on the set i was in awe of him. this is the guy who was in
james mitchell, who played the parson, was a broadway musical star, dancer and actor... he came out to hollywood to do film acting. i think he did a darn good job in the picture. [ james mitchell may be best known to today' s audiences as palmer cortlandt in the soap opera
mitchell is a gunslinger turned preacher who has put down his weapons in favor of wisdom and the lord' s word in this small western with religious overtones. he gets mixed up in a feud between the farmers and ranchers, but ultimately brings law to the land. the first film directed by ted post, who would later direct clint eastwood in hang' em high .
after ending his association with nbc radio’s richard diamond, private detective, powell began directing films. john wayne was near the end of a three film contract with hughes’ rko studios, and came to powell’s office to review scripts. at some point, powell left the office for a few minutes, and the duke began perusing the conqueror. he expressed enthusiasm for the project when powell returned to the office. powell would later comment “who am i to turn down john wayne? ”
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a former gunfighter who went to prison but then took up religion arrives in a western town as the new preacher. there he finds a feud between the ranchers and the farmers. the railroad agent is after the ranchers land and has his men causing all the trouble. the new preacher sets out to bring the two sides together and he says he will not need a gun .
above: two images of paul seed [ with him in the second is robert reegan as sholakh ] as the graff vynda k in the doctor who: the ribos operation [ 1978 ] .
of all the men the parson tries to save from violence, it’s the gunman viggo he identifies with the most. he sees himself in the youngster, and figures he still might be toting a gun for the highest bidder if he hadn’t been thrown in jail and found religion as a result .
when john wayne heard about armendariz’ suicide, he commented “i don’t blame pete. i’d have done the same thing. ” wayne’s doctors diagnosed lung - cancer in 1964, which the duke battled nobly. his entire left lung and four ribs had to be removed, and he was declared cancer free. he would continue to work, including a physically demanding role in the 1969 cold war classic the green berets. john wayne’s final film was the eerily prescient; the shootist centered on an aging gunfighter suffering the ravages of cancer. wayne died of stomach cancer in 1979 .
the time when the preacher walked out with the dead man that i? d shot, and he carried him out in his arms... well, ted framed the shot so that you saw the dead man in his arms while the preacher? s talking, but the dead man? s breathing. i don? t know whether you caught that
before eastenders, derek had various roles in series such as the governor (deputy governor - garry marshall), the bill, the detectives, crime monthly, shoestring, target, dempsey and makepeace, the professionals, the duchess of duke street and doctor who. derek has notched up eight appearances in doctor who, as an extra, stuntman and most significantly as mitchell in the classic 1977 story image of the fendahl. (his other doctor who' s were the romans, the massacre, the highlanders, the web of fear, inferno, the mind of evil and the claws of axos .) derek has also starred in the films: piggy bank [ 1997 ] and boston kick out [ 1994 ] .
below. change permissionsreadwriteexecuteusergroupother a couple of years ago the smithsonian was cleaning out closets, they came across the head, and they contacted the family in florida - and they had a family burial plot there, where the boy? s body was buried after he was hung. and they returned the head, so the family could put it in the family plot .
tom and i were hired for the picture... he was supposed to play the good fella... lieutenant or whatever it was, and i was supposed to play the bad guy, the bad soldier. and during the course of the picture the bad soldier would carry the lieutenant around because the lieutenant got blinded after they landed... he got hit in the face. and the producers looked at us and tom was about this much taller than me, and he was going to be the good guy, and i was going to carry him around through the picture? that wouldn? t work. so the producers kind of said, ? look, fellas, would you mind if we changed parts? ?
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that little town didn? t exist. they had two stages down at the hal roach studios, and they? d opened the ends of? em so the two of them were one huge stage. they built the town
a former gunfighter who went to prison but then took up religion arrives in a western town as the new preacher. there he finds a feud between the ranchers and the farmers. the railroad... see full summary »
heather emmanuel heather appears as tessa in the 1975 doctor who story, the android invasion, one of the operatives at the devesham space research centre [ see below left ]. she was also a regular play school presenter, had minor roles in two carry on films [ up the jungle and again doctor ] and appeared variously as nurses and lab assistants in the professionals, the andromeda breakthrough and danger man. she is still acting today .
the blood was... sometimes it was a mixture they made up in the makeup department, but it had a tendency to stain the clothes permanently. i had a nice jacket i once wore, it was my own... they stained it forever, i was sorry i? d let? em use it. but sometimes they? d use chocolate syrup when it was a black - and - white film. then when we went to color why they had to use color, so they tried ketchup for a while, they were better off to have the makeup department mix up the stuff .
no, i write books now. i write some film books, i write about films, but mostly i write novels. they? re all based on people i know, places i? ve been. if i write about africa every word of it is based on what i? ve really seen and its described in its entirety. the languages of the countries i? ve been in are in the books. if i? m writing about the philippines you get tagalog, their philipino language. if i write about africa you get arabic, bantu, all the other... swahili. i love doing books like that .
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after the picture was done hal mikelim bought himself a combination restaurant and bowling alley. i? ve forgotten where it was, but i did go to see him there. he was going to convert it into a studio, a film stage, and he was going to shoot pictures in it. i went out to see him because he was interested in having me do some more pictures for him .
alan halley alan halley has principally worked in the theatre since his role in survivors, although he did appear in the blake' s seven episode pressure point (see below) and the series blore m. p. in 1989 .
i had a wonderful time in those days. i loved playing the bad guy because he? s the engine of the show. he causes - that? s why the picture? s made. it? s about the troubles he? s started or got into or whatever... and i didn? t care about riding off in the sunset with the girl, i wanted to get in there and have a lot of fun. you enjoy yourself being rotten... it? s a wonderful way to make a living .
based on the novel by richard poole. screenplay by hal richards and jay ingram
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i ran into dick boone? s son, peter about two years ago. i? d never met him... young fella, and i got to talking with him. he never knew that his father had once been a dancer. i said, ? wait. ? the next time i saw him i had a photograph of his father in the dance pose with the bunch of us. he? s busy kicking me in the ribs and i? m on the floor with the other people, and i also gave him a copy of the
when finished, click save or cancel we got a letter from the great - great - great grandson of one of that boy? s sisters. they still lived in florida. and he wanted a copy of the book. and he got it. and he let us know that the head of the confederate boy - payne he was called - was removed after the hanging. in those days they? d study the criminal head and brain and what not. and it was in a jar at the smithsonian, and it was off in some closet somewhere .
one of my recent books, which is a favorite of mine, was a book about the lincoln assassination. i wrote it from the point of view of the young rebel soldier who was hung for being one of the conspirators. but it? s written from his point of view, and therefore you never read about the actual assassination, because we? ve all read about that a thousand times .
or not. he sometimes. . he? d get confused about what to do and the lighting men up above would call down and give him a suggestion. and i was getting angrier and angrier and of course it showed within the character, who was supposed to be kind of an angry fella. every once in a while you? d see me - the eyes were blazing because i was angry with ted at some dumb thing he might have done. but ted was a good director, he wound up doing a lot of good work. but that was his beginning as a film director .
james mitchell is parson terrell butler, an ex - gunslinger turned preacher who’s determined to cleanse the town of penbrook with the good word rather than a fast gun .
the man behind the feuding is gray arnett (herbert patterson), who wants to scare the ranchers off their land, then snatch it up at bargain prices. he has his own fast gun (jan merlin as viggo tomlin) working for him .
, which was shooting... was going to shoot, in boston. and i went to boston, and while i was there, i was playing a kid of about 15 in that, i was actually much older, i was about 26, and after the day? s shooting i? d go off in the bar with the rest of the fellas and get a drink, and the rest of the kids who were in the show would go back to the hotel with their mommies, and the director looked at me and said, ? how old are you? ? and i said, ? well, i? m 26. ? he says, ? well, you could play yorself as the older part, ? and i said? of course. ? he said, ? you? re going to hollywood. ?
paul seed paul seed went on to play the villainous graff vynda k in doctor who: the ribos operation [ see below ] the following year. during the rehearsal period for this story, it was actually paul' s dog that bit tom baker' s face. tom' s' wound' can be clearly seen in this and the following story, the pirate planet. paul gave up acting pretty soon after he started out and become an accomplished tv director instead. some of his directing credits (many of which are for award winning series) include: house of cards, to play the king, murder rooms, playing the field, a rather english marriage and a touch of frost .
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i wish i had known that because... it would have been a wonderful tag in the book, but instead i tagged the book with what the defense attorney had to say about him, because the papers at the time, and everything you read about him, describe this monster of a person, this killer, this real awful person, which he was not. that he was illiterate, which he was not. he was the son of a baptist minister. the family owned slaves, they moved to florida from alabama. he was well - educated. he was nice enough, and charming enough so that when he was a captive, having been wounded, and he was a captive of the union army, they allowed him to help tend the wounded. and when he was eventually put in prison his guards found him so charming and delightful, they really, really really liked him, and the picture of him, you would swear it was taken of some young kid today, who could have been in the movies .
he steps into the middle of a land war between cattlemen led by lathe sawyer (hugh sanders) and farmers led by ed halcomb (jess barker). seems when the railroad came through, it wound up with one mile of land on either side of the tracks and sold that land to farmers when ranchers couldn’t meet the asking price, robbing them of land where they used to graze their cattle .
i heard about some kind of space show they were going to be shooting for television. i went over to see them. i guess i must have been about the first one they saw. i was the first one cast, and then they had me remain and read with other actors and they cast finally the other two fellows who were going to be the permanent people, frankie thomas, one of? em .
parson: “quoting the scriptures with every breath doesn’t make a man any better or worse. it’s what’s inside — the way a man secretly thinks — that’s what he is, no matter what his mouth declares. ”
you asked how i got out to hollywood. i was down to my last 15 cents after i? d finished the schooling, and i? d tried auditioning for shows and hadn? t gotten anywhere. they called me from the school and said that joshua logan, who had just directed the biggest hit in town ,
generally tea, sometimes coca cola. generally it was tea... all about the same color. .
well, yeah. i loved westerns mostly because you could get dusty and they weren? t forever at you with a powder puff and making you look pretty. you could get as grungy as you wanted, especially being the heavy. a lot of times i? d be playing the grungy heavy and i? m better looking than the hero was. i think because of all the grungy stuff, you know, it was more interesting .
i? d been doing... when i got out of the navy nobody needed torpedomen so i was looking for something to do... i got into summer stock theater by accident. i was very handy, i was able to paint and draw, i was a pretty good carpenter. i got me a job building sets for a summer theater, and in the course of that summer i watched those actors and i thought, ? i could do that, ? and i? d been told about a school called the neighborhood playhouse school of the theater. i went around to see them... and the fella there, who was a big time teacher, named sanford meisner. i didn? t know it at the time, i was raw out of the navy, for heaven? s sake, i still had a chip on my shoulder, and he was supposed to be practically godlike in the theater school business, he was supposed to be the best teacher around .
that? s the fun of being an actor and writing a book. both fields marry each other in the work. you can get inside your characters? heads in a different way. you can write them emotionally rather than just descriptively .
gary arnett, about viggo being a hired gun for the farmers: “you don’t fight rifles with a willow stick. ”
but today the tendency is to show you these psychotics who hate themselves and they hate the way they live. they wouldn? t stand a chance of robbing a bank because everybody? d say ,
out. you? re cuckoo .
i guess he wound up just running the restaurant and bowling alley - i lost track of him, never saw him again .
i went down to the theater and fifteen million actors were there waiting to be seen. we went in small groups, progressively smaller groups. they? d say, ? well, you guys stay and you guys go. ? and finally i was in a group of four. the stage was dark, and they were silent out there for a while, and then we heard them say, ? well, take off your shirts, boys. ? so we took off our shirts to show what are physiques looked like, and there was again silence, and then the fellow came walking up to the apron of the stage and it was josh logan. he looked up at me and he said. ? i? ve got a young fellow leaving the cast of
he said, ? you? ll see it tonight, and you? ll rehearse tomorrow. ? the next day was saturday. ? rehearse tomorrow with the stage manager, and you? ll go on tomorrow night. ? and that was my first show, a broadway show. i stayed with that for two years. after two years. . the cast asked for a raise. the producers all said, ? well, gee fellas, we? d love to have money put by for a rainy day, but we just can? t see it .
from that day on everybody in the cast began looking for another job .
it was extraordinary to reach back into time, which i love doing, i did that with the african books. you get back into that era, and you really live in that era, so when you? re writing it, to be called at the end of the day to come to dinner, or get disturbed, it? s like... suddenly being pulled out of a totally different period of time and brought back to life and everything looks strange because you? re living within the era .
name the 2010 western that featured peter dinklage of
game of thrones
and jason priestly of 90210 fame in supporting roles. answer
as background. today you have extras who shuffle around... they? re just waiting for lunch. they? re not doing any acting. if they do, it? s pretty rare to see. it? s because they? ve been ordered without any... big shouts - do this, do that. you didn' t have to get these people to act then... they knew how to work as extras in film. they were old professionals, and that? s what they did for a living. they were wonderful to work with .
that stage, brought in dirt for the horses to ride on, and lit it all for daylight or night, whichever. it was a pleasure to work there, ya know. here i was in the hal roach studios, for heaven' s sake - when you went in to work there you passed a swimming pool and on the side of the building next to it was a bronze plaque that said it was dedicated to laurel and hardy, who did most of their water jokes in that thing. later on - not much later on - they paved it over and made a parking lot out of it for the studio. i was kind of upset with that .
one of the little teachers at the school had a modern dance company, she worked with martha graham. martha taught us to dance. this little lady asked dick and i whether we? d like to be in her dance company. she was going to do something for the young women? s jewish association, and we said sure, we were going to get paid twenty - three dollars per performance .
. and he was a television director. poor ted, this was his very first movie. and we had some problems with him, because the poor guy was shooting as if he was shooting for television. he headed right into the scene, he wanted you to see the faces and all, as if you were going to be looking at a little, tiny screen. but we were being shown in theaters .
jan brought the talk to a close with a few more words, then thanked us for coming, and there was a round of applause .
if you really think about it, the westerns have changed so much since those times. if you watched those extras, we still had extras who
i become them. i become them. if i? m writing from their point of view i become them. which, is peculiar to say, but that? s what i mean about getting into the emotional parts of them, it? s the only way i can reach them, i have to find out why they would think or say or do whatever they do, i have to find the thing that creates those characters. it? s the same thing you do when you? re acting... when you? re playing a heavy you? re not playing a
actress agnes moorehead was one of the first to express concern about rumors over “radioactive germs” near the filming sites. shortly after agnes moorehead’s final role in radio mystery theater, moorehead died of uterine cancer in 1972. director dick powell died of cancerous lymphoma in 1963. pedro armendariz received diagnosis of cancer of the kidney in 1960, and committed suicide when his condition became terminal in 1963. susan hayward passed away in 1975 from pneumonia related to complications due to brain cancer .
nicolette roeg nicolette starred in many west end musicals before she turned her attention to television. her most celebrated stage performance was as nancy in the 1966 production of oliver! . jon pertwee was also in the cast as fagin. this performance can be heard on lp. other lps featuring nicolette include the pajama game, in which she sings' hernando' s hideaway', belle and two cities. [ nicolette is pictured, below left, during her musical heyday ] .
rosemarie bowe was later married to bob stack. stack would come around and watch us rehearse. [ robert stack is most famous for the role of elliott ness in
but it just never worked out, because when they released this picture, the time had passed for the kind of... . that? s a real old time western. that? s not the kind of westerns you have today. there was no psychoanalyzing, there were no dirty words in it. you didn? t see too much blood at all. and people were just genuine moral people. and we don? t make pictures like that anymore. and when the picture came out they were already exposed to a different kind of western. they wanted blood and gore. they wanted something different... so his dream didn? t work out .
i stayed with that show for only three years. i just couldn? t take it. i... just didn? t want to be a space cadet. they began to show cartoons in the sunday papers of tom corbett, space cadet, and i thought, ? i don? t want to end up being like the fellas who played tarzan or dick tracy, that? s all they ever played, ? so i left the show, and i took my wife i had then, who has since died, i took her off to africa for a while, came back. they asked me to come back to the show and i wasn? t getting any offers from anybody else, so i went back to the show for a short time again, but i knew i shouldn? t stay, so i quit again, permanently .
derek martin derek is now best known for his current role as long suffering dad, charlie slater, in the bbc soap eastenders. [ picture below left © steve lewis. ]
we looked at each other and laughed because he always wanted to play a bad guy and i always wanted to play a good guy. he said, ? sure, fine. ? we didn? t even have to change the contracts. that? s the way we did that picture. tom was a nice fella to work with. he was a good man .
the ingenious mrs behn (lord greville) 1997 private ear and public eye (charles) 1988 wife begins at forty (lead) 1987 having a ball (ritchie) 1983 what the butler saw (sgt match) 1983 bedroom farce (nick) 1981 stage struck (robert) 1981 clouds (ed) 1980 outside edge (denis) 1980 alan now lives in maidstone and performs many tv voiceovers .
viggo tomlin: “it’s a funny town stranger. man can live long or die sudden. ” parson: “i’ve heard that before. just what does this depend on? ” viggo tomlin: “simple, friend. just watch the ground before your feet. folks have been known to live for months that way. ” parson: “why you’re a light in the darkness? a bit dim and uncertain. but still a light. ”
savecancelclosedick and i were living off of our fifty - two / twenty club. you got $ 20 dollars for 52 weeks from the government while you were going to school, and we? d do anything to make some money .
this picture? i think we did it in about seven or ten days. the outdoor scenes were shot in chatsworth, i believe, but all of that town stuff was done inside those... great big stages put together .
but writing it this way you? ve got a totally different aspect. because its told entirely through the confederate? s point of view, and how he got involved with j. wilkes booth and how he came to his sad end. i like that book, a lot .
. i was just in awe of him... i couldn? t go up and say, ? gee, i saw that movie. i thought you were wonderful in it and i? m so proud to be in the picture with you. ? i never got to say it .
review. he was astounded, he just couldn? t believe it. but it wouldn? t have been something that dick would brag about. but we did it for the 23 bucks. we were grateful. we didn? t keep it up, though, she had to replace us .
it was... yeah, i guess it might have been cheaper, because you didn? t have to pay for transportation somewhere, lugging all that equipment back and forth, lugging the actors and extras back and forth, having food trucks sent out. you cut a lot of money that way .
dick and i were... we were fresh out of service, we didn? t take much guff from this teacher who was supposed to be the greatest thing in show business. we were there and we thought it was lovely to be there with these young girls who wanted to be actresses and they were simply delightful. they were college age girls, came from wealthy families and beautiful to look at, it was a grand time to be in school .
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, that i? d seen as a kid, i thought he was really a marvel .
- terrall butler - ann davis - viggo tomlin - ed halcomb - lathe sawyer - gray arnett - edith sawyer - mr. wren - sheriff ben seale - elijah maddox - sam davis - doc runyan - walt kemper - miss smith - cowpuncher
i was deep into my bad guy times. i played ten years of being everybody? s bad cowboy, ten years of being everybody? s gangster, ten years of everybody? s nazi or middle - european or russian ...
he wanted to know why i wanted to be an actor and i... i had no answer. i said, ? i don? t know. ? but nevertheless he accepted me. to my surprise we had people like... dick boone was studying there, eli wallach, marion seldes, she? s a big broadway star now... a lot of good types came out of there .
we joined her company, and we worked with her, rehearsing with her for about a month or so, and kind of crazy numbers and dances and funny costumes. dick had a kind of toga drag that he wore. he had lines to say that he did with great elocution and gestures... and... it was... well, let? s face it... we got panned by dance magazine .
, was casting a new show, and they were looking for military types, and they figured i might go down and try out for it .
jan merlin far left, henry fonda far right, mr. roberts. (click for enlarged, entire photo) photo courtesy jan merlin
he said, ? have you seen it? ? i said? no. ?
i came out to hollywood, and i never left. after i got to hollywood i never stopped working. it was a good move to have made. and that? s how i got to hollywood .
when you? re writing your books do you see yourself as an actor inside them, or you? re strictly... ?
, you? re playing a guy who thinks he? s right. you? re playing a guy who thinks, ? hey, i? m somebody. i? m pretty good. that? s why they? re so arrogant. they? re so... everybody finds them so vicious, because they? re enjoying it, they? re enjoying their lives .
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cast: james mitchell … parson butler rosemarie bowe … ann davis jess barker … ed halcomb hugh sanders … lathe sawyer herbert patterson … gray arnett dorothy patrick … edith sawyer jan merlin … viggo tomlin taylor holmes … mr. wren robert armstrong … sheriff ben seale philip tonge … elijah maddox david mcmahon … sam davis wheaton chambers … doc runyan jack holland … walt kemper
bart allison (randolph scott) to rancher morley chase in 1957' s decision at sundown: “where i come from, we don’t find it cause to celebrate when a man acts like a man. ”
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the peacemaker ( 1956 ) is a western film directed by ted post and starring james mitchell , rosemarie bowe , and jan merlin . hal richards based the script on the novel of the same name by richard poole . producer hal r. makelim intended the peacemaker to be the first of a series of low-budget productions . according to merlin , who played the villain , shooting took only " seven or ten days . " although the film featured some successful character actors like hugh sanders in supporting roles , none of the performers qualified as marquee names ; in fact , at this point in his career , star james mitchell was known only as a dancer ( despite some dramatic roles at mgm ) . while makelim tried to compensate for these problems by marketing the film to a religious audience — the local clergymen were invited to the film 's premiere in wichita -- the peacemaker enjoyed only sporadic distribution and was not widely reviewed . makelim managed to produce only one more film , valerie ( 1957 ) , and mitchell would not make another film appearance until the turning point ( 1977 ) . 
the peacemaker (1956) is a western film directed by ted post and starring james mitchell, rosemarie bowe, and jan merlin. hal richards based the script on the novel of the same name by richard poole. producer hal r. makelim intended the peacemaker to be the first of a series of low-budget productions. according to merlin, who played the villain, shooting took only " seven or ten days. " although the film featured some successful character actors like hugh sanders in supporting roles, none of the performers qualified as marquee names; in fact, at this point in his career, star james mitchell was known only as a dancer (despite some dramatic roles at mgm). while makelim tried to compensate for these problems by marketing the film to a religious audience — the local clergymen were invited to the film's premiere in wichita -- the peacemaker enjoyed only sporadic distribution and was not widely reviewed. makelim managed to produce only one more film, valerie (1957), and mitchell would not make another film appearance until the turning point (1977).
the peacemaker (1956) is a western film directed by ted post and starring james mitchell, rosemarie bowe, and jan merlin. hal richards based the script on the novel of the same name by richard poole. producer hal r. makelim intended the peacemaker to be the first of a series of low-budget productions. according to merlin, who played the villain, shooting took only " seven or ten days. " although the film featured some successful character actors like hugh sanders in supporting roles, none of the performers qualified as marquee names; in fact, at this point in his career, star james mitchell was known only as a dancer (despite some dramatic roles at mgm). while makelim tried to compensate for these problems by marketing the film to a religious audience — the local clergymen were invited to the film's premiere in wichita -- the peacemaker enjoyed only sporadic distribution and was not widely reviewed. makelim managed to produce only one more film, valerie (1957), and mitchell would not make another film appearance until the turning point (1977).