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STRAIT-JACKET (1964)

Director: William Castle Cinematography: Arthur E. Arling

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Leif Erickson (October 27, 1911 – January 29, 1986)

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Sketches I did for Leif Erikson day and then... didn't post lol

Leif belongs to @epnona-the-wisp and you can learn more about him here!

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Series Premiere

The Rifleman - The Sharpshooter - ABC - September 30, 1958

Western

Running Time: 30 minutes

Written by Sam Peckinpah 

Produced by  Jules V. Levy and  Arthur Gardner

Directed by Arnold Laven

Stars:

Chuck Connors as Lucas McCain

Johnny Crawford as Mark McCain

Dennis Hopper as Vernon Tippert

Leif Erickson as Jim Lewis

Sidney Blackmer as Judge Hanavan

Charles Arnt as Wes Tippert

R. G. Armstrong as Sheriff Tomlinson

Mickey Simpson as Carl Lamprey

Kathleen Mulqueen as Nancy Hanavan

Virginia Aldridge as Waitress

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Arabian nights promotional photos (John Rawlins 1942)

Ebay & Scans from 1990s French magazine.

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I Saw What You Did (1965)

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Leif Erickson-Frances Farmer "Ride a crooked mile" 1938, de Alfred E. Green.

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Night Monster (1942)

"Why don't you have Millie do that, Miss Judd? That's a maid's work, not a housekeeper's. You needn't answer because I know the reason: that spot under your hand is blood and you didn't want anyone to know."

"Blood? Ridiculous."

"Yes, it is ridiculous. It couldn't be blood, but it is. I've seen those spots before and I've seen you trying to scrub them out because you knew what they were. Blood, the whole house reeks of it. The air is charged with death and hatred and something that's unclean!"

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As Thanksgiving is on the horizon for us American folks (simmer down, we have enough problems and we know it) here are a handful of gifs from one of my favorite Thanksgiving TV episodes ever.

High Chaparral is a great show anyway, but For What We Are About to Receive might be my favorite episode of the series. I only wish I'd made more gifs. Maybe at a later time.

As Thanksgiving approaches, Victoria implores Big John to get them a turkey so they can have a proper Thanksgiving dinner. Big John is like >:| He's a cattle rancher and they eat beef, damnit.

However, Mano, Buck, and Blue attempt to secure a turkey for Victoria on their trip to Tuscon for supplies. Mano wins the local turkey shoot but in his perpetual attempt to get p*ssy, has the family wagon stolen right from under him by his girlfriend's fiance, turkey included.

Meanwhile, while out on the range, the rest of the bunkhouse boys are lamenting that they won't have a proper Thanksgiving dinner when a wild turkey comes along...

Anyway. Hijinks ensue, the guys exhibit the true spirit of the holiday when they come upon a family in need, and ultimately end up with their own bona fide Thanksgiving dinner, plus a few quirky guests.

While High Chaparral is definitely a show of its era, it also managed to be pretty progressive on a lot of fronts.

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The High Chapparal. First shown on US television on 10 September 1967 and ran for four seasons, finishing in March 1971. The High Chapparal was the name of the ranch in the series run by the Cannon family (Chapparal being the name of a plant). The main stars were Leif Erickson, Cameron Mitchell, Henry Darrow and Linda Cristal with Mark Slade also starring in the first three seasons.

The theme tune was by David Rose, who also composed the theme to Bonanza and Little House on the Prairie as well as a piece of music called 'The Stripper' which many know better as the music Morecambe and Wise make their breakfast to. There is a bit of similarity to Telstar by The Tornados but the two tunes are distinct enough.

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Happy Leif Erickson Day! Happy Indigenous People’s Day!

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Marsha Hunt and Leif Erickson in COLLEGE HOLIDAY (1936)

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Strait-Jacket

Joan Crawford has two entrances in William Castle’s STRAIT-JACKET (1964, Tubi, YouTube) that suggest two very different movies. In her second, following the titles, she steps off a train after having spent 20 years in an asylum. She’s tentative, vulnerable and very moving. Had Castle drawn on that, he might have had a delicate story of a mental patient adjusting to life on the outside, the senior version of HOME BEFORE DARK (1958). But that wouldn’t be a William Castle film. Her first entrance, in a pre-credits prologue set in the 1940s, is like her entrance in RAIN (1932). You get bits of a garishly dressed woman stepping off a train. Crawford, at 60 trying to play a hot babe in her 20s is high camp, though not of the knowing John Waters variety. There’s something sad about watching her go over-the-top, seemingly without realizing it, as she draws on tricks that sometimes worked back when she had good scripts.

And this is not a good script (that may not be screenwriter Robert Bloch’s fault; the script had to be re-written to make it a Joan Crawford film). In the flashback, Crawford catches her husband cheating and chops him and his mistress up as their little girl watches. Twenty years later, Crawford is out of the asylum to meet her daughter (Diane Baker), who insists she dress as she did when she was younger. At times it’s embarrassing, particularly when Crawford starts trying to act like her younger self and comes on to Baker’s boyfriend (John Anthony Hayes, an actor so wooden, you expect his leading ladies to get splinters). And then the killings start back up. Crawford’s performance, like the writing of her character, is all bits. To make matters worse, they’re often poorly played bits. She only really works playing the character’s vulnerable side. When she loses her temper or gets hysterical or tries to be seductive, it’s laughably bad, though she’s also so magnetic you can’t look away. Until the writing does her in. Baker comes off much better. Once you know the final twist, you can see how skillfully and subtly she works out her character arc. Leif Erickson is jovial and caring as Crawford’s farmer brother. Rochelle Hudson is his wife. Every time she has to deal with Crawford’s problems, she looks as if she were smelling something bad. Also with George Kennedy as a farmhand, Pepsi vice president Mitchell (don’t quit your day job) Cox as Crawford’s psychiatrist, Edith Atwater and Howard St. John as Hayes’ snooty parents, and Lee Majors, making his film debut as Crawford’s husband. To survive this one, he’d need a bionic head

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Terror in the Sky - CBS - September 17, 1971

Drama

Running Time: 90 minutes

Stars:

Doug McClure as George Spencer

Leif Erickson as Marty Treleavan

Roddy McDowall as Dr. Baird

Lois Nettleton as Janet Turner

Keenan Wynn as Milton

Kenneth Tobey as Captain Wilson

Jack Ging as Controller

Sam Melville as Stewart

Leonard Stone as Harry Burdick

Television film remake of 1957's Zero Hour!, which itself was based on the 1956 television play Flight into Danger. Arthur Hailey recycled the premise in his book Runway Zero-Eight which was co-written with John Castle in 1958.

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Garm?? Being gentlemanly??? THATS a first