In its nasty 83 minutes, a kid is chucked off a cliff a guy is trapped inside a giant boiler - and promptly steamed like a lobster tail and Bronson has his face and fingertips seared off with a blowtorch to conceal his identity. Koch, with a great cast: Broderick Crawford, Ralph Meeker, William Talman, Lon Chaney (Jr.) and Charles Bronson. It’s a tough, gritty B crime film, directed by Howard W. While you’re there, scroll down and look into Big House USA (1955). It was also the first leading role for Anthony Quinn. He got a job at Universal Pictures as a prop man, then worked pretty much any job they threw at him, from being an assistant director on several Bud Abbott and Lou Costello films to directing short subjects. Phil Karlson entered the film industry while a law student at Loyola Marymount University in California. It was the first Monogram Pictures film released under the Allied Artists banner and had the highest budget in Monograms history at the time. Phil Karlson, Director: The Scarface Mob. Over the last couple years, Karlson has become one of my favorite directors - and I’ve developed a real appreciation of Payne (thanks largely to his work with Allan Dwan). Black Gold is a 1947 American drama western film directed by Phil Karlson and starring Anthony Quinn, Katherine DeMille and Raymond Hatton. Around here, if you can’t find a Western to watch, you start digging for an old crime picture, and this one’s as good as they get. Laura (she of the Miscellaneous Musings) has reminded me that Phil Karlson’s 99 River Street (1953), starring John Payne and Peggie Castle, is now available through TCM’s on-demand program. UPDATE: Each of these theaters (The Roosevelt, The Met, The New Albert and The Regent) are gone. Karlstein, (born July 2, 1908, Chicago, Illinois, U.S. 2 It was also the first leading role for Anthony Quinn. 1 It was the first Monogram Pictures film released under the Allied Artists banner and had the highest budget in Monograms history at the time. Not sure where I would’ve had my mom drop me off. Black Gold is a 1947 American drama western film directed by Phil Karlson and starring Anthony Quinn, Katherine DeMille and Raymond Hatton. Looks like a rare booking as the top of the bill.Īnd sprinkled around other theaters: Clark Gable in Raoul Walsh’s The King And Four Queens (1956) Flesh And The Spur (1957), an AIP Western with John Agar, Marla English and Touch Connors Phil Karlson’s They Rode West (1954) even James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart in The Oklahoma Kid (1939). ![]() Then there’s Stagecoach To Fury (1957), a Regalscope picture with Forrest Tucker and Mari Blanchard. Robert Taylor and Eleanor Parker in Many Rivers To Cross (1955).ĭrango (1957) with Jeff Chandler, paired with The Peacemaker (1956), an early feature credit for Ted Post. ![]() The Brass Legend (1956) stars Hugh O’Brien, Nancy Gates and Raymond Burr. Lewis - followed by The Gamma People (1956). The Searchers (1956), which needs no explanation.ħth Cavalry (1957), a Columbia Randolph Scott picture directed by Joseph H. ![]() Baltimore was a good place to be on Februjudging from this page out of The Baltimore Afro-American.
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