MickO'Henry

Mick:

Well, where do I start? The half hour sitcom was called of all things, THE JIMMY STEWART SHOW, and you're right, he played a loveable professor. HAWKINS was in the 90 minute format, which later COLUMBO adopted. So I think there were only about 14 HAWKINS episodes done. If I remember correctly, that Tech Sgt. was Walter Matthau. I had forgotten about Josh Logan.

Mitchum as bad ass, well let's see. Of course the Preacher in NIGHT OF THE HUNTER, which along with his Max Cady are his most well known bad guys. But of course there were a few others. Let's start with 1943 when he did a string of William Boyd HOPALONG CASSIDY films. He played bad guys like Nick Drago in LEATHER BURNERS (1943), HOPPY SERVES A WRIT (1943), COLT COMRADES (1943), BAR 20 (1943), FALSE COLORS (1943), and RIDERS OF THE DEADLINE (1943). Then he played a nefarious fellow named Jim Fairways in RACHEL AND THE STRANGER (1948), with William Holden & Loretta Young. He certainly was of dubious character as the mean brother, Curt Bridges in TRACK OF THE CAT (1954), with Tab Hunter. He was a stone killer (for a good reason?) as the Rev. Jonathan Rudd in 5 CARD STUD (1968). He was convicted killer Harry Graham in GOING HOME (1971). He was a jailbird, Gary Tison, talking his three sons into springing him in A KILLER IN THE FAMILY (1983). And he was Miafiso boss Jake Spanner in BROTHERHOOD OF THE ROSE (1989). And those are just the roles I recall. Aren't you glad you asked?

Much of the remake of CAPE FEAR was bunk, but I do disagree about De Niro playing Max Cady. It was one of his better roles. Those scenes with young Juliette Lewis were creepy and inspired. I didn't like Nick Nolte in the lead. He sucked. Interesting though to have Mitchum and Gregory Peck do cameos in the thing.

Richard Boone had done a lot of heavies in early Westerns with Randolph Scott and Kirk Douglas. He was quite good in THE WAR LORD, better than stalwart wooden Charlton Heston for sure. They filmed the whole picture on the back lot at Universal for about ten bucks.

More later.

Glenn


Mick wrote:

Looks like were stuck on Jimmy. The future famous part of the trio did it mostly behind the camera as a producer, director, and writer. Yes it was Josh Logan a well loved man to all those who knew him. I honestly don't remember much about Hawkins or the sitcom except they were short lived. I think Hawkins was one hour and I don't know what detective format it was based on: (stumped again)! The sitcom I think was a half-hour and he played a professor and I can't remember the title.
I only remember two roles where Mitch was psychopathic, Max Cady(Cape Fear) and by the way the remake stunk to high heaven and DeNiro was about as credible as Hillary Clinton saying she's just like Eleanor Roosevelt compared to Mitch! The other was Night of the hunter with preacher love and hate on his fingers. The other bad ass roles he played he had a heart like Luke in Thunder Road.
I concur, Boone's best bad was Cicero Grimes (Hombre) the ransom maniac in Big Jake and the warrior in War Lord and all drunked out but still a pro when the camera's rolled, Sweeny(The Shootist).
O'kay what very famous actor and one of my top five favorites was for a time Jimmy Stewart's tech Sgt on the B-17's in the eighth Air Force in World War 11?
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From: Glenn Buttkus
To: Mick
Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2006 3:53 PM
Subject: Re: it was eggs and Hawkins (+) Other Stuff
Mick:

You really are a font of information and trivia. Broken eggs indeed. I guess I will have to watch that film again, and check out that scene. What the hell did Robert De Niro do in the parallel scene in Scorsese's remake? Now you have got me wondering.

Screen persona and real person, what a quandry. Fonda and Stewart had a roommate in the 1920's in NYC? Who was it, Peter Lorre? You stumped me again, Turkey Breath. Here is one for you, or two. What format was HAWKINS in? Was it a regular series, at 30 minutes long, or 60 minutes long, or otherwise? Its format was similiar to what other popular detective TV films format? And just before he began filming HAWKINS, what other TV series did he do for one year? It may have been a 30 minute sit-com type.

Mitchum certainly was a terrific bad-ass in films, and he did make a great heavy. Besides CAPE FEAR, can you name at least two other films he was the bad guy in?
And I heartedly agree, fine sir, Richard Boone, tyrannical boozer that he was, was a wonderful bad guy heavy. List some of the films he was the bad guy in. My favorite was HOMBRE.

Mick wrote:

Come to think of it, it was Pi not Pie and you win the spelling bee for this week. I did hear about Henry Fonda's picture of Pi and who was Jimmy and Henry's roommate in New York in the 20's when the trio was trying to break into show business? Jimmy actually played the accordian in the streets for loose change to help pay the rent. Many moons ago I had a picture of a very young Henry Fonda in the locker room with his basketball uniform on when he played for the U of Minnesota; my alma mater, where he studied drama. Of course my vagabond and gypsy peripatetic alcoholic ways have left me bereft of my material collections only memories so I know that a person's personna whether real or celluloid sometimes can be decieving!Yea, Mitchum craked eggs on her shoulders and chest and talked real nasty to her and she went balistic. Great acting from both and I believe Mitchum and Richard Boone play the best "real" bad asses on the screen. Yep, Jimmy's Tv Hawkins I think was based on the character he played in the movie Anatomy of a murder where I fell in love with Lee Remick, or any other pretty actress, and I still do!Play it Glenn play it, if she can take it I can take it and yes there will always be Paris.

Regards, Mick