I'm heading out for 4 days. I haven't been posting much lately, but I can assure that I am working on projects all the time. Typically I'm working on 3 posts at once.
These days it takes me longer to put a post together. I'm more particular than I used to be. I'm trying to include more content - do more research - and I rework pretty well every image I post. This takes a long time, but I want to do good stuff.
There are a number of projects of that I haven't finished - including John Wayne's Filmography. I will get back to those.
Ongoing:
Onward ...
Back soon.
Claudia Cardinale only made about 3 Westerns - which is rather startling since she is an Italian actress and was a major Star in Europe during the height of Spaghetti Westerns.
However, when she did her aim was extremely good - starring in 2 of the greatest Westerns ever made: The Professionals and Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West - which many rank as the Top Western of all time.
Not bad at all.
" ... Without love, without a cause, we are... *nothing*!
We stay because we believe. We leave because we are disillusioned.
We come back because we are lost. We die because we are committed ..."
- Jack Palance as Jesus Raza
The Professionals / Laurel Award
Best Director: Richard Brooks
Best Adapted Screenplay: Richard Brooks
Best Cinematography: Conrad Hall
The film won two Motion Picture Magazine Laurel Awards in 1967, for Best Action Drama and Best Action Performance for Lee Marvin.
In Germany, it was one of only four movies to receive a Golden Screen award (the others were Doctor Zhivago, Merveilleuse Angélique and You Only Live Twice) in 1967.
The Professionals / Lee Marvin
"Maybe there's only one revolution, since the beginning, the good guys against the bad guys. Question is, who are the good guys?"
- Burt Lancaster / The Professionals
Truly.
Lee Marvin moves into full blown stardom - becoming a legitimate box office titan - in one of the greatest Westerns ever made (My Favorite) starring along side Western Film Greats Burt Lancaster, Jack Palance, Robert Ryan, Woody Strode, Claudia Cardinale, Ralph Belamy ... What a cast!
Following Cat Ballou (Oscar) this is one of 4 Westerns remaining in Marvin's Western filmography: Monte Walsh / 1970 (with Jack Palance); Paint Your Wagon / 1969 (with Clint Eastwood); Emperor of the North / 1973 (with Charles Bronson).
A true Western Star.
The Professionals posters
Marvin Western Filmography 6 The Comancheros (1961).
Lee makes it to the Top of the Mountain - A Western with John Wayne
The Comancheros banner
The Comancheros - posters
... But he's still 5th on the Bill
A Western actor's dream - a scene - and a drink with the Duke.
Revisionist Postering ... Lee moves to the front.
The Comancheros - The Duke
Marvin and Wayne
The Comancheros - The End
Pillars of the Sky (1956) Banner
Pillars of the Sky (1956) posters
Marvin ... 5th on the Bill
Marvin at center - Chandler at right
The Stranger Wore a Gun (1953) Banner
The Stranger Wore a Gun (1953) posters
The Stranger Wore a Gun (1953) Marvin and Borgnine
Marvin ... Billed behind Borgnine
http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/17309/stranger-wore-a-gun-the/
The Stranger Wore a Gun is a muddled mess made palatable by Scott's likeable hero, a strong supporting cast, and the novelty of 3-D at its most nakedly exploitive.
7 Men from Now - Banner
7 Men from Now - Posters
Lee moves up to 3rd on the Bill ...
7 Men from Now - Lee Marvin
Warning: Huge Spoiler below ...
... Lee gets killed ...
The Raid (1954)
The Raid (1954) - Posters
Lee moves up to 4th on the Bill
The Raid (1954) - Heflin, Graves, Marvin
The Raid (1954) - Marvin - Heflin
... a change of plans ...
http://1linereview.blogspot.ca/2009/03/raid-1954.html
The Raid (1954)
Recommended
USA Feature Film
Director: Hugo Fregonese
Writers: Sydney Boehm, Francis Cockrell, Herbert Ravenal Sass
Cinematographer: Lucien Ballard
Composer: Roy Webb
Cast: Van Heflin, Anne Bancroft, Richard Boone, Lee Marvin,
Tommy Rettig, Peter Graves
Fregonese’s fact based US Civil War film, chronicling a confederate soldier’s infiltration of a small town in Vermont as he prepares to sack it, complicated by his meeting of an attractive young widow, is, with its excellent performances and uncompromising scripting, a thrilling yet intelligent examination of the ambiguities of war and human relationships.
Gun Fury (1953)
Pretty lousy posters ...
Gun Fury - Lee Marvin (right)
Marvin molesting ... what? again?
Gun Fury - Sedona, Arizona
MFW: about the only thing I liked about Gun Fury was that is was filmed around Sedona, Arizona - one of my favorite places on the planet.
Lee marvin / Hangman's Knot / 1952
Randolph Scott - Lee Marvin - Hangman's Knot / 1952
Trailer:
Hangman's Knot posters / 1952
Lee is 5th on the Bill
Lee Marvin - Hangman's Knot
Lee Marvin ... Wandering Star.
via Badguys: Part 1 ... Lee Marvin.
Gregory Peck ... Western Star.
Gregory Peck
"You have to dream, you have to have a vision, and you have to set a goal for yourself that might even scare you a little because sometimes that seems far beyond your reach."
Gregory Peck Awards
Peck was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning once. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Atticus Finch in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird.
In 1968 he received the Academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.
Peck also received many Golden Globe awards. He won in 1947 for The Yearling, in 1963 for To Kill a Mockingbird, and in 1999 for the TV mini series Moby Dick.
He was nominated in 1978 for The Boys from Brazil.
He received the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1969, and was given the Henrietta Award in 1951 and 1955 for World Film Favorite – Male.
In 1969 US President Lyndon Johnson honored Peck with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor.
In 1971 the Screen Actors Guild presented Peck with the SAG Life Achievement Award.
In 1989 the American Film Institute gave Peck the AFI Life Achievement Award.
He received the Crystal Globe award for outstanding artistic contribution to world cinema in 1996.
In 1986 Peck was honored alongside actress Gene Tierney with the first Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award at the San Sebastian Film Festival Spain for their body of work.
In 1987, Peck was awarded the George Eastman Award, given by George Eastman House for distinguished contribution to the art of film.
In 1993, Peck was awarded with an Honorary Golden Bear at the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival.
In 1998 he was awarded the National Medal of Arts.
In 2000 Peck was made a Doctor of Letters by the National University of Ireland.
He was a founding patron of the University College Dublin School of Film, where he persuaded Martin Scorsese to become an honorary patron.
Peck was also chairman of the American Cancer Society for a short time.
For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Gregory Peck has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6100 Hollywood Blvd.
On April 28, 2011, a ceremony was held in Beverly Hills, California celebrating the first day of issue of a U.S. postage stamp commemorating Peck. The stamp is the 17th commemorative stamp in the Legends of Hollywood series.
'Stamp of Approval'
"There's some things a man has to prove to himself alone... not to anyone else."
Gregory Peck / The Big Country
Celebrating Gregory Peck ... Western Star ...
Kirk Douglas Bio
A celebration ...
Honoring the Man ... the Actor ... the Author ...
