#jack elam

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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.

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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]

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Jack Elam was born on November 13, 1920 #botd

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Rare Breed (1966).

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The Rare Breed (1966).

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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

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Once Upon A Time In The West (1968)

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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

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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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Kansas City Confidential

The pit boss at a Mexican craps table shouts, “You might as well be broke as not have enough.” That’s the all-or-nothing world of Phil Karlson’s 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 florist’s 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 film’s 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 man’s Tyrone Power, his later work in Westerns and noirs revealed an actor of surprising depth. He doesn’t need to express any inner conflicts verbally. They’re 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 — Neville Brand, Jack Elam and Lee Van Cleef — 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 couldn’t 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 doesn’t 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 film’s most influential plot elements is Foster’s 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. It’s a great look, and the plot device would influence Norman Jewison’s THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR (1968) and Quentin Tarantino’s RESERVOIR DOGS (1992), with the latter rivaling Karlson’s brutal intensity.

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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)

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Jack Elam when he was skinny