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Cantinflas (Around the World in 80 Days, AhĂ estĂĄ el detalle, Ni Sangre, ni Arena)âOH BOY I GET TO TALK ABOUT CANTINFLAS!! Honestly, Iâm not the most qualified to even be talking about him: he was famously a king of wordplay, but Spanish is my second language so I always feel like Iâm missing some of the jokes���..but even so he is so SO funny itâs like unbelievable. Ok so also. One movie I can talk confidently about is him in around the world in 80 days, which i have watched so many times and he just rocks. Like. ROCKS. Here he is on his dumb little bike [included below the cut]. This is how we meet him in th movie and I think they should have just put the words âSCRUNGLYâ across the scene.He also does little tricks, wears his dumb little shoes, has some kind of weird romantic thing going on with David nivenâŚ..it makes me so sad we dont have even more movies from him because honestly his whole thing (esp in 80 days with his silly trousers) is just Gender. Â
Jack Elam (Kansas City Confidential, Once Upon a Time In the West)âThe MOST character actor he's always playing weirdos. In Kansas City Confidential he gets slapped senseless and thrown around like a rag doll and he spends most of his limited screen time anxiously lighting one cigarette butt with another cigarette butt and also being covered in sweat. In Once Upon a Time in the West he gets terrorized by a fly.
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Cantinflas:
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charlie chaplin once called him the greatest comedian alive
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Jack Elam:
One of the A+ henchmen of gang movies and westerns. Usually paired with Claude Atkin (another contender for the scrungle-crown), he's made a career out of being a weird looking dude that plays bad guys. Jack Elam probably says it best himself: "The heavy today is usually not my kind of guy. In the old days, Rory Calhoun was the hero because he was the hero and I was the heavy because I was the heavy - and nobody cared what my problem was. And I didn't either. I robbed the bank because I wanted the money. I've played all kinds of weirdos but I've never done the quiet, sick type. I never had a problem - other than the fact I was just bad."
From 32:56 to 36:52 of this (it's the whole movie) [link]
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Jack Elam (November 13, 1920 - October 20, 2003)
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Rare Breed (1966).
#Rare Breed#James Stewart#Don Galloway#Maureen O'Hara#Juliet Mills#Jack Elam#1960s#60s movies#my gifs#classic whump#vintage whump#whumpedit#whump#filmedit#filmgifs#old hollywood
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#Kansas City Confidential#John Payne#Coleen Gray#Preston Foster#Neville Brand#Lee Van Cleef#Jack Elam#Dona Drake#Mario Siletti#Phil Karlson#1952
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Jack Elam when he was skinny
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The Rare Breed (1966).
#The Rare Breed#Maureen O'Hara#James Stewart#Jack Elam#1960s#1966#my gifs#userthing#cinemapix#cinematv#cinemaspast#classicfilmcentral#classicfilmblr#userstream#silverscreendames#filmtvcentral#tvfilmspot#ladiesofcinema#filmedit#uservintage
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Kansas City Confidential | Phil Karlson | 1952
Preston Foster with Jack Elam, Lee Van Cleef, Neville Brand
#Preston Foster#Jack Elam#Lee Van Cleef#Neville Brand#Phil Karlson#Kansas City Confidential#1952#Noirvember
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Western Heavies:Sci Fi/Fantasy /horror edition
Here is a selection of western heavies in more genre roles (Not all examples ,just notable ones for the performers )
Lee Van Cleef in Escape from New York
Jack Palance in Hawk the Slayer
Richard Boon in the Hobbit
Ernest Borgnine in Devils Rain
Neville Brand in Eaten Alive
Claude Akins in Battle of the Planet of the Apes
Jack Elam in Creature From Black Lake
Eli Wallach in Circle of Iron
Jeff Corey in Beneath the Planet of the Apes
And LQ JONES DIRECTED A SCI FI FILM A BOY AND HIS DOG
@ariel-seagull-wings @the-blue-fairie @themousefromfantasyland @theancientvaleofsoulmaking @piterelizabethdevries @countesspetofi @barbossas-wench @amalthea9 @princesssarisa
#westerns#sci fi#fantasy#horror#jeff corey#ernest borgnine#claude akins#richard boone#lee van cleef#jack palance#LQ Jones#jack elam#neville brand
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Kansas City Confidential
The pit boss at a Mexican craps table shouts, âYou might as well be broke as not have enough.â Thatâs the all-or-nothing world of Phil Karlsonâs films noirs. In KANSAS CITY CONFIDENTIAL (1952, Criterion Channel, Prime, Tubi, Plex, YouTube), ex-con John Payne loses everything because a criminal mastermind (Preston Foster) has set up an armored car robbery using a floristâs truck identical to the one Payne drives to make deliveries near the bank. His future stolen, Payne sets out to track down the real culprits and turn them in for the reward money.
Karlson directs kinetically. He cuts on movement to create some brutal fight scenes and uses imaginative, deep-focus compositions to disguise the cheapness of the filmâs sets. He also favors soul-bearing closeups that reveal any acting short cuts. His work with Payne, on the first of three films they made together, is particularly revealing. Most famous for his films at 20th Century-Fox, which treated him as the poor manâs Tyrone Power, his later work in Westerns and noirs revealed an actor of surprising depth. He doesnât need to express any inner conflicts verbally. Theyâre all there in his weathered face, and he has silent moments here that are surprisingly moving. The film also features a trio of great heavies â Neville Brand, Jack Elam and Lee Van Cleef â as the criminals Foster recruits to pull off the heist. The only misfire is Coleen Gray, who seems to act as if she knew her role was only there as butch assurance (some of the scenes of Payne tracking down the crooks read like pickups). Her character has no real bearing on the plot, and she falls back on indicating, as if she couldnât find any truth within the role. Moreover, her unlined baby face, which worked in films like NIGHTMARE ALLEY (1947) and THE KILLING (1956), makes the wrong kind of contrast in this film. It doesnât fit in a world of grizzled, hard-lined crooks where, when you fly somewhere, the plane arrives at night on a rain-soaked runway.
One of the filmâs most influential plot elements is Fosterâs insistence that none of the criminals know who anybody else on the team is. They wear masks reminiscent of those worn by spies and crooks in European thrillers of the 1920s and 1930s. Itâs a great look, and the plot device would influence Norman Jewisonâs THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR (1968) and Quentin Tarantinoâs RESERVOIR DOGS (1992), with the latter rivaling Karlsonâs brutal intensity.
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Season 1 Episode 5
Stagecoach West - A Fork in the Road - ABC - November 1, 1960
Western
Running Time: 60 minutes
Written by D. D. Beauchamp and Mary M. Beauchamp
Produced by Vincent M. Fennelly
Directed by Thomas Carr
Stars:
Wayne Rogers as Luke Perry
Richard Eyer as Davey Kane
Robert Bray as Simon Kane
Jack Warden as Stacey Gibbs
Jack Elam as Clell
Richard Devon as Ohio
Joseph V. Perry as Somerset
Riley Hill as Marty
Olan Soule as Cal
#A Fork in the Road#TV#Stagecoach West#ABC#1960#1960's#Western#Wayne Rogers#Richard Eyer#Robert Bray#Jack Warden#Jack Elam#Richard Devon
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Hannie Caulder, Mexican lobby card. 1971
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Jack Elam (November 13, 1920 - October 20, 2003)
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Nikolas Van Helsing, Professor of proctology, and other related tendencies. Graduate of the University of Rangoon, and assorted night classes at the Knoxville Tennessee College of Faith Healing.
Doctor Nikolas Van Helsing - The Cannonball Run (1981)
#the cannonball run#jack elam#burt reynolds#dom deluise#hal needham#quack#drug addict#cross country race#80's comedy#star studded cast
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Jack Elam
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Born today: November 13, 1920: William Scott "Jack" Elam.
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