#jack elam

[hotvintagepoll]

Cantinflas (Around the World in 80 Days, Ahí está el detalle, Ni Sangre, ni Arena)—OH BOY I GET TO TALK ABOUT CANTINFLAS!! Honestly, I’m 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 I’m missing some of the jokes…..but even so he is so SO funny it’s 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 “SCRUNGLY” across the scene.He also does little tricks, wears his dumb little shoes, has some kind of weird romantic thing going on with David niven…..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.  

Jack Elam (Kansas City Confidential, Once Upon a Time In the West)—The 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.

This is round 1 of the contest. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. If you're confused on what a scrungle is, or any of the rules of the contest, click here.

[additional submitted propaganda + scrungly videos under the cut]

Cantinflas:

charlie chaplin once called him the greatest comedian alive

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]

[popclture]

Once Upon A Time In The West (1968)

[citizenscreen]

Jack Elam was born on November 13, 1920 #botd

[oldshowbiz]

Jack Elam on an episode of Zorro

[kwebtv]

From the Golden Age of Television

Series Premiere

Lawman - The Deputy - ABC - October 5, 1958

Western

Running Time: 30 minutes

Teleplay by Dean Riesner

Produced by Jules Schermer

Directed by Montgomery Pittman

Stars:

John Russell as Marshall Dan Troup

Peter Brown as Deputy Johnny McKay

Bek Nelson as Dru Lemp

Edd Byrnes as Lacy Hawks

Jack Elam as Flynn Hawks

Lee Van Cleef as Walt Hawkes

Stanley Farrar as Judge Patterson

Lane Chandler as Tom Pike

Rankin Mansfield as Carl Shoemaker

[thatsprettylane]

[worldofhurt]

Rare Breed (1966).

[erstwhile-punk-guerito]

[cowboysource]

The Rare Breed (1966).

[howardhawkshollywood]

John Wayne, Jack Elam, and Victor French in a British publicity still for Rio Lobo (1970)

[thealmightyemprex]

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

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[duranduratulsa]

Now showing on DuranDuranTulsa's Creature Feature...The Night Of The Grizzly (1966) on glorious vintage VHS 📼! #western #horror #westernhorror #monstermovie #creaturefeature #NightoftheGrizzly #clintwalker #nancykulp #MarthaHyer #kevinbrodie #VictoriaPaigeMeyerink #keenanwynn #jackelam #EllenCorby #donhaggerty #60s #vintage #VHS #durandurantulsa #durandurantulsascreaturefeature

[citizenscreen]

Jack Elam (November 13, 1920 - October 20, 2003)

[oldshowbiz]

[cinemaquiles]

FALTOU VERBA: O VIKING (THE NORSEMAN, 1978)

[thatsprettylane]