Posts from Hawkswill in thread „Last Non Western You Watched“

  • Last Non Western You Watched

    Quote from The Ringo Kid

    Hi H/ I replied to your post yesterday but it vanished.


    I have known of Kenneth Tobey but never knew he was in He Walked By Night. I didnt spot him in it but will be watching it again over the weekend. I know of him as Colonel Travis? in one of Fess Parkers Davy Crockett movies or either he was with him as a Riverboat pirate in that Episode? as well, I know him in some old SCi Fi classics as well as the finger-sniffing guy in Airplane.


    Yep, my first post to you vanished also....just copied it from my "old posts" and posted again! Anyway, that link should help you find some of his movies. As you know one movie usually takes you to another one. I watched the one on Ironside, (used to be one of my favorite shows)!
    Sorry I misinterpreted your post. I was indeed surprised that you hadn't seen him before....now I understand. Have a good one, Keith

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    Quote from Dooley

    Hi Gorch,
    Glad you went to see this. As I posted on here I also went to see Jaws restored on the big screen over her in the UK. The cinema was also full and it mad me realise how average most modern films are in comparison.


    WOW, I haven't been to a cinema is many years........think the last one was The Shootist. But, growing up, I went all the time. I DID see the original Jaws in the cinema after reading the book. My ocean free diving was not the same for MANY years. All of a sudden, I would be about 20 feet down looking under a ledge for Lobsters, and I would get a creepy sensation in the back of my neck. I would swirl around expecting to see a humongous shark only to see nothing unusual! Bet it is even scarier now.

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    Hi Ringo. Surprised you haven't run into Ken Tobey before. He was a most prolific character actor and worked for over 50 years as an actor. In the late 50s, he was in a series called Whirleybirds. Here is a link that show full versions of some TV shows and movies he was in
    http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0864851/videogallery
    Hago, Keith

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    The Long Voyage Home. For anyone new, it is a John Ford 1940 movie about merchant marine ships during the war. It has a good many of the Ford Stock Company acting in it. There is a most young looking Duke Wayne, (about 33 years old), and Ward Bond,(37 or so). The ocean scenes are very realistic for the time, and the story is that of the one young man, (Duke), trying to break from the sea and return home to his Mother and the land. It is a classic and one that shouldn't be missed. Keith

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    Hi Ringo. Surprised you haven't run into Ken Tobey before. He was a most prolific character actor and worked for over 50 years as an actor. In the late 50s, he was in a series called Whirleybirds. Here is a link that show full versions of some TV shows and movies he was in
    http://www.dukewayne.com/showthread.php?t=5334&goto=newposthttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm0864851/videogallery
    Hago, Keith

  • Last Non Western You Watched

    Quote from Hawkswill

    [quote='Gorch','http://dukewayne.com/bb/index.php?thread/&postID=116071#post116071']Felt nostalgic and threw on "The List of Adrian Messenger". What a hell of a great film. For those who are unfamiliar with it, Kirk Douglas, George C. Scott, Dana Winter and several surprise guest stars highlight a witty, scary and erudite murder mystery which is scored brilliantly by Jerry Goldsmith.
    Not a big fan of director John Huston, but this is one of his best.
    Watch and enjoy.


    Thanks Gorch! I see some of these movies I have never seen but I don't bother to try to watch them. By your explaining who is in it and what it is about, I will certainly put it on my list to try to find. Thanks again, Keith


    Found it on You Tube in 10 parts......they are all there, but you have to take if off full screen and look on the side...twice I had to go to "more suggestions". Very interesting movie...something always happening to surprise you a bit. Unique twist at the end. Thanks Gorch, was a most different sort of movie with a fairly hefty cast! Really nice hunt scenes with the horses. George C. Scott looked quite well!


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMw0G2ZkGd8&feature=relmfu
    The List of Adrian Messenger

  • Last Non Western You Watched

    [quote='Gorch','http://dukewayne.com/bb/index.php?thread/&postID=116071#post116071']Felt nostalgic and threw on "The List of Adrian Messenger". What a hell of a great film. For those who are unfamiliar with it, Kirk Douglas, George C. Scott, Dana Winter and several surprise guest stars highlight a witty, scary and erudite murder mystery which is scored brilliantly by Jerry Goldsmith.
    Not a big fan of director John Huston, but this is one of his best.
    Watch and enjoy.


    Thanks Gorch! I see some of these movies I have never seen but I don't bother to try to watch them. By your explaining who is in it and what it is about, I will certainly put it on my list to try to find. Thanks again, Keith

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    In Harm's Way TP


    I posted this back before the double posting of all the wonderful pictures. Wondered if it just get buried or if no one knows? So, I posting it again, as I am very curious......maybe a critic or something started it. Can't imagine that his fans would. So, here it is again:
    Oh, while on the subject of the name Duke, can anyone tell me how this "THE DUKE" got started? When he was a boy, as most of you know, he had an Airedale dog named Duke. The fire station men that they used to visit on their "rounds" begin calling young Michael, "Little Duke". Gradually everyone called him that. After his dog died and "Little Duke" began to get his growth, the "Little" was dropped, and he was called simply Duke. That was his name forever after. In fact, when filming, he got a bit upset if cast or crew called him John instead of Duke because John was never even close to his name.....(got very upset with Kirk Douglas in War Wagon because of it). Now, if he was your friend and you greeted him on set, would you say, "Morning, The Duke"? I certainly wouldn't, LOL.
    So, if any of you know why folks began calling him that, please let me know. It isn't THAT important...just one of those little things that bother you, if you understand what I mean. Every time I see someone say, THE DUKE, I just want to know why? I want to tell them...his name was DUKE. Perhaps the queen not only Knights people, but also "DUKES" them and she did so to Duke and I never heard about it, :wink_smile: Thanks in advance if anyone knows how this got started. Keith

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    Operation Pacific thanks to a friend.
    Great movie with super character development.
    Watching Ward and Duke work together is a real treat as usual. It was harder than normall though with Duke's name being DUKE in the movie knowing what was going to happen to Ward, (Pop). Hearing Ward call him that as he did throughout their Real friendship was a bit tough.
    I always wonder how many great movies more they could have made if Ward hadn't died at 57....19 years before Duke did. Well, we will never know, will we?
    Oh, while on the subject of the name Duke, can anyone tell me how this "THE DUKE" got started? When he was a boy, as most of you know, he had an Airedale dog named Duke. The fire station men that they used to visit on their "rounds" begin calling young Michael, "Little Duke". Gradually everyone called him that. After his dog died and "Little Duke" began to get his growth, the "Little" was dropped, and he was called simply Duke. That was his name forever after. In fact, when filming, he got a bit upset if cast or crew called him John instead of Duke because John was never even close to his name. Now, if he was your friend and you greeted him on set, would you say, "Morning, The Duke"? I certainly wouldn't, LOL.
    So, if any of you know why folks began calling him that, please let me know. It isn't THAT important...just one of those little things that bother you, if you understand what I mean. Every time I see someone say, THE DUKE, I just want to know why? I want to tell them...his name was DUKE. Perhaps the queen not only Knights people, but also "DUKES" them and she did so to Duke and I never heard about it, :wink_smile: Thanks in advance if anyone knows how this got started. Keith

  • Last Non Western You Watched

    Quote from Dooley

    Very envious! John carpenter is a great, maverick director.
    Halloween, along with Psycho is still the best 'slasher' movie ever made in my opinion.


    His Private Secretary! In honor of a friend, LOL!


    Saw Psycho at a drive-in with a most determined young man........he DID stop pawing for the shower scene, though, and that is the only time that I wished he hadn't. Anytime I was alone, the bathroom floor got soaked because I wouldn't close the shower door or curtain.....no matter where I was!
    Years ago, I took the blame for a bunch of nursing students who left GA state classes to go see The President in Atlanta. So, I was stuck in the dorm all by myself one weekend. I regretfully watched THE BIRDS and had nightmares for the rest of the weekend, LOL.
    But, the one that really got me was Silence of the Lambs. I don't know why that thing got me so, but Hopkins was so incredibly believable. I didn't overcome that one until I saw the second part.....didn't know there was a first one....might look that up.

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    A Guy Named Joe with Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne, Van Johnson in his first major role, and Ward Bond along with a score of others. It said it was the Full Movie, but it wasn't....now have to find it! It got very good reviews in 1944 when released and it made money, LOL! Plus, for two nights in a row, I got to see a very trim, handsome, young Ward Bond! Must have been JUST before his accident almost tore his leg off.


    I was going to put his picture here but forgot we have to enter a URL....too tired tonight to go put it into an album to get a URL! So used to just being able to take it off my computer. Next time. KPKEITH

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    Well, read up on it, and I am still getting only one quote. Will have to ask one of my friends.
    I saw all of my Duke movies on the big screen up until about, well, when he quit making them. Can still remember sitting in the theater and watching The Shootist. Although three of us loved it, one kept saying how he came to watch a John Wayne movie and "this is NOT a John Wayne movie". I suspected he was just trying to cover up any emotion rather than show it as the rest of us did unabashedly. I rarely saw any on TV until I began my research project, and those were satellite, DVDs or Streamline from Netflix. I lived in big cities the majority of my life, so there were usually re releases of a lot of the great movies. Here is a link to the full movie, THE GREAT ESCAPE. I just watched a little and checked it a few places...seems pretty good.
    http://www.histomil.com/viewtopic.php?f=258&p=62037
    I read that Mcqueen did most of his own riding plus was disguised and rode as a German a bit. One part was where he strung the wire....that was McQueen who hit it and crashed. Also, he attempted the long fence jump but crashed. So his friend, a Triumph , (the motorcycle kind, LOL), dealer did it. That started him on a new career doing scenes in Bullitt and later in the TV show Chips. Good luck on finding it Ringo!


    Quote from The Ringo Kid

    I would love to see it in theaters too, but got lucky with: The Searchers. It took 36 years--for me to see a Duke movie on the big screen. If they ever do this with The Great Escape? Im going and more than once. That movie's 50th anniversary is coming up next year and im HOPING they will show it on the big screen as well as have some sort of Collectors Edition released as I want one and badly. ;-))