Drive-In Mash-Up :: Eastwood is Back and He’s Burning at Both Ends! (May, 1969)

 

 

 

 

 
A Fistful of Dollars (1964) Constantin Film Produktion :: Jolly Film :: Ocean Films :: United Artists / P: Arrigo Colombo, Giorgio Papi / AP: Piero Santini / D: Sergio Leone / W: Víctor Andrés Catena, Jaime Comas Gil, A. Bonzzoni, Sergio Leone / C: Massimo Dallamano, Federico G. Larraya / E: Roberto Cinquini, Alfonso Santacana / M: Ennio Morricone / S: Clint Eastwood, Gian Maria Volonté, Marianne Koch, Wolfgang Lukschy, Sieghardt Rupp

For a Few Dollars More (1965) Constantin Film Produktion :: Produzioni Europee Associati :: United Artists / EP: Alfredo Fraile / P: Alberto Grimaldi, Arturo González / D: Sergio Leone / W: Luciano Vincenzoni, Fulvio Morsella, Sergio Leone / C: Massimo Dallamano / E: Eugenio Alabiso, Giorgio Serrallonga / M: Ennio Morricone / S: Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Klaus Kinski, Luigi Pistilli, Gian Maria Volonté

A Rebel’s Hate, A Woman’s Undying Love! (August, 1957)

 

 

 

 

 

 
I first saw Samuel Fuller’s Run of the Arrow under the alternate title, The Last Bullet, on the late-late show many moons ago. Kind of a nastier, edgier version of Dances with Wolves (that final massacre is just brutal), this was my introduction to both Fuller and Rod Steiger and it needs to be seen by a lot more folks.

Run of the Arrow (1957) Globe Enterprises :: RKO Radio Pictures / P: Samuel Fuller / D: Samuel Fuller / W: Samuel Fuller / C: Joseph F. Biroc / E: Gene Fowler Jr. / M: Victor Young / S: Rod Steiger, Sara Montiel, Brian Keith, Ralph Meeker, Jay C. Flippen, Olive Carey, Charles Bronson

Temptation and Terror! Raw Violence and Savage Fury! (December, 1957)

 

 

 

 

Other Points of Interest:

Film review of Flesh and the Spur at the Brewery.

Poster campaign for Flesh and the Spur at the Archive.

Naked Paradise a/k/a Thunder Over Hawaii (1957) Sunset Productions :: American International / EP: James H. Nicholson / P: Roger Corman / D: Roger Corman / W: Charles B. Griffith, Mark Hanna / C: Floyd Crosby / E: Charles Gross / M: Ronald Stein / S: Richard Denning, Beverly Garland, Lisa Montell, Leslie Bradley, Dick Miller, Jonathan Haze

Flesh and the Spur (1957) Hy Productions :: American International / EP: Mike Connors, Charles J. Lyons Jr. / P: Alex Gordon / D: Edward L. Cahn / W: Charles B. Griffith, Mark Hanna, Lou Rusoff / C: Frederick E. West / E: Robert S. Eisen / M: Ronald Stein / S: John Agar, Marla English, Mike Connors, Joyce Meadows, Raymond Hatton

Entering the 3rd Dimension :: Hot Blooded, Silent as Gunsmoke, a Stranger to All (December, 1953)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Hondo (1953) Wayne-Fellows Productions :: Warner Bros. / P: Robert Fellows, John Wayne / D: John Farrow / W: James Edward Grant, Louis L’Amour (novel) / C: Robert Burks, Archie Stout / E: Ralph Dawson / M: Hugo Friedhofer, Emil Newman / S: John Wayne, Geraldine Page, Ward Bond, Michael Pate, James Arness

Entering the 3rd Dimension :: When Her Honor Cried Out for Vengeance, He Rode South to Get It! (November, 1953)

 

 

 

 

 
Gun Fury (1953) Columbia Pictures / P: Lewis J. Rachmil / D: Raoul Walsh / W: Irving Wallace, Roy Huggins, Kathleen B. Granger (novel), George Granger(novel), Robert A. Granger (novel) / C: Lester White / E: James Sweeney, Jerome Thoms / M: Mischa Bakaleinikoff, Arthur Morton / S: Rock Hudson, Donna Reed, Philip Carey, Roberta Haynes, Leo Gordon, Lee Marvin, Neville Brand

Combat Squad (1953) Jack Broder Productions Inc. :: Columbia Pictures / P: Jerry Thomas / D: Cy Roth / W: Wyott Ordung / C: Charles Van Enger / E: Harry W. Gerstad / M: Paul Dunlap / S: John Ireland, Lon McCallister, Hal March, George E. Stone, Norman Leavitt

Entering the 3rd Dimension :: The Story of a Great Betrayal that Bathed the West in Blood! (November, 1953)

 

 

 

 

 
The Nebraskan (1953) Columbia Pictures / P: Wallace MacDonald / D: Fred F. Sears / W: David Lang, Martin Berkeley / C: Henry Freulich / E: Al Clark, James Sweeney / M: Ross DiMaggio / S: Philip Carey, Roberta Haynes, Wallace Ford, Richard Webb, Lee Van Cleef, Jay Silverheels

Serpent of the Nile (1953) Columbia Pictures / P: Sam Katzman / D: William Castle / W: Robert E. Kent / C: Henry Freulich / E: Gene Havlick / M: Mischa Bakaleinikoff / S: Rhonda Fleming, William Lundigan, Raymond Burr, Jean Byron, Michael Ansara

Entering the 3rd Dimension :: 500 Men Caged Up with One Woman! Real as Flesh! (November, 1953)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Devil’s Canyon (1953) RKO Radio Pictures / EP: Howard Hughes / P: Edmund Grainger / D: Alfred L. Werker / W: Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, Harry Essex, Bennett Cohen, Norton S. Parker / C: Nicholas Musuraca / E: Gene Palmer / M: Daniele Amfitheatrof / S: Virginia Mayo, Dale Robertson and Stephen McNally, Arthur Hunnicutt, Whit Bissell, Morris Ankrum

Lumber Jack-Rabbit (1953) Warner Bros. Pictures / P: Edward Selzer / D: Chuck Jones / W: Michael Maltese / E: Treg Brown / M: Carl W. Stalling / S: Mel Blanc, Norman Nesbitt

Entering the 3rd Dimension :: For Men with a Killing Coming to Them! (October, 1953)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
After the brutal massacre at Lawrence, Kansas, one of Quantrill’s lead scouts sours on all the killing and flees to the Arizona territories. Alas, old habits are hard to break as he falls in with another bad bunch of stagecoach bandits. But once again, a senseless killing triggers a long dormant conscience, and payback with lead interest has finally come due! Based on John Cunningham’s novel Yankee Gold, this was director Andre de Toth’s 3-D follow up to House of Wax. And this was also only one of about a half-dozen oaters that de Toth made with star Randolph Scott. Now. There were some conflicting reports that The Stranger Wore a Gun was never released in 3-D, but these ads kinda skewer that notion, don’t ya think?

The Stranger Wore a Gun (1953) Scott-Brown Productions :: Columbia Pictures / P: Harry Joe Brown / AP: Randolph Scott / D: André De Toth / W: Kenneth Gamet, John W. Cunningham (novel) / C: Lester White / E: Gene Havlick, James Sweeney / M: Mischa Bakaleinikoff / S: Randolph Scott, Claire Trevor, Joan Weldon, George Macready, Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine

Entering the 3rd Dimension :: An Adventure so Tumultuous only 3-D Could Unleash All its Fabulous Force! (September, 1953)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Though The Charge at Feather River isn’t the precise origin of The Wilhelm Scream, it does have the honor of coining the phrase itself. Sort of. What the hell am I talking about? And what’s a Whilhelm Scream, you ask? Well, I’m sure you’ve heard it, we all have, and to find out more you can click on over to the Brewery where I get to the bottom of the most heard unheard of Hollywood cliche. And on top of that, The Charge at Feather River also contains one of my favorite applications of 3-D, when an unarmed Frank Lovejoy’s Sgt. Baker spits several volleys of tobacco juice right into a camera to fend of a deadly rattlesnake. *ptui* Wow.

The Charge at Feather River (1953) Warner Bros. Pictures / P: David Weisbart / D: Gordon Douglas / W: James R. Webb / C: J. Peverell Marley / E: Folmar Blangsted / M: Max Steiner / S: Guy Madison, Vera Miles, Frank Lovejoy, Helen Westcott, Neville Brand

Entering the 3rd Dimension :: The First Epic of America! So Real You Can Reach Out and Feel it! (August, 1953)

 

 

 

 

 

 
A few years before he started wiring up seats and floated skeletons over audiences, Fort Ti marked director William Castle’s first foray into gimmick film-making and doesn’t cheat the audience, exploiting the stereoscopic process for all it was worth. Though technically a western, I suppose, Castle’s little adventure into the Third Dimension actually takes place during the French and Indian War, where Roger’s Rangers come to the aid of the British outpost at Fort Ticonderoga, currently on the verge of being overrun by said French and Indians. Produced by the notoriously cheap Sam Katzman, I’m surprised folks were given glasses with two lenses instead of one to cut down on costs.

Fort Ti (1953) Esskay Pictures Corporation :: Columbia Pictures / P: Sam Katzman / D: William Castle / W: Robert E. Kent / C: Lester White, Lothrop B. Worth / E: William A. Lyon / M: Ross DiMaggio / S: George Montgomery, Joan Vohs, Irving Bacon, James Seay, Phyllis Fowler

Pardon My Backfire (1953) Columbia Pictures / P: Jules White / D: Jules White / W: Felix Adler / C: Henry Freulich / E: Edwin H. Bryant / S: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Benny Rubin, Frank Sully