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Apr 23, 2014 - 3:11 AM
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Episode #25: The Last Order written by Tom Seller directed by Robert L. Friend guest: Efrem Zimbalist Jr, IMF Lawrence Dobkin, Harry Lauter, Kelton Garwood, IMF Rex Holman, Bruce Mars, Ken Konopka Five bandits rob a stagecoach's money box containing the amount of $50,000. Mushy and Wishbone witness the hold up. On their way to leave the premises, one of the outlaws is gunned down by Wishbone. Later on, at night, the wounded man pop-up in the camp of Gil Favor with the loot and dies. The morning after, two lawmen stop at the camp to report the felony and Favor gives them the money box when Wishbone recognizes the leader which happens to be former confederate officer McKeever that Rowdy Yates used to serve. The other phony lawman runaway but Favor ties up McKeever and treats him as a prisoner: that's when the big trouble starts… Produced by Endre Bohem. Associate producer Robert L. Friend directs this intriguing confederate renegades piece. In this episode, we learn that the majority of Gil Favor's drovers was former confederate soldiers, including Rowdy Yates as a sergeant! One unusual detail, Favor fires Yates because of his betrayal. For the anecdote and the same year, actor Efrem Zimbalist Jr will play the opposite part: righteous government man Inspector Lewis Erskine in The F.B.I. Too bad, an interesting supporting actor dies in this adventure: Harry Lauter.
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Glad you last two cleared that up. My next question was about what, if any, connection there was between the series and the movie beyond the title. Cheers fellers.
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. Member, it's always intrigued me what Eastwood is like in the last season, where he's now the lead, and he's done Fistful of Dollars. . EVEN MORE intriguing.....! the season before the last. Sergio Leone said he noticed Eastwood in an ep from that year and was impressed (dont know the ep title off-hand) brm
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Apr 24, 2014 - 1:40 AM
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Episode #26: Mrs. Harmon written by John Mantley directed by IMF Michael O'Herlihy AD IMF Lee H. Katzin music by Rudy Schrager guest: Barbara Barrie, IMF Paul Lambert, Jim Hampton, Pat Cardi, IMF William Wintersole, Richard O'Brien Replacing Gil Favor, Rowdy Yates, supported by the Silver Creek sheriff, interviews and selects men to be hired as drovers but one of them is a erratic drunk and disorderly named Fred Harmon who reacts violently at his rejection and hits Yates. Later on, cook Wishbone is summoned by Yates to buy the supplies when he notices a wild kid stealing and follows him down to his house where his two little brothers remain and his mother is lying unconscious with bruises and a broken rib. Wishbone calls the doctor, takes care of the kids and resigns from Gil Favor's outfit. One night, drunk Fred Harmon returns home and learns that Wishbone helps his family so he rushes to the restaurant where he works and beats him real hard when his wife pops-up and guns him down. A man witnesses Mrs. Liz Harmon pulling the trigger and is ready to spill it out: Wishbone's deep trouble starts… Produced by Kowalski and Geller after a gap in the broadcast order. It's a tough marital drama with a drunk unemployed husband and a touch of Dostoyevsky a la "A Man Called Mushy" (also written by Mantley and directed by O'Herlihy) because cook Wishbone ends up in a sordid dark kitchen from a hotel-restaurant. The social misery back story is similar to "The Enormous Fist" (directed by Bernard Kowalski) but instead of Gil Favor doing some charity, it's cook Wishbone who tries to help a beaten up wife and her untamed kids. Apart from the focus on Wishbone who acts like the tired old drover from "Josh", Rowdy Yates shines, in short, actor Clint Eastwood displays his full persona. As in "The Race", one of the crew quits. Director Michael O'Herlihy excels with mood and fight scenes: see misfit Fred Harmon attacking Rowdy Yates during the job interview.
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Apr 24, 2014 - 4:54 AM
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FROM RAWHIDE TO A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clint_Eastwood_in_the_1960s ···The story behind A Fistful of Dollars (1964)··· In late 1963, an offer was made to Eastwood's co-star Eric Fleming on Rawhide to star in an Italian made western, originally to be named The Magnificent Stranger (A Fistful of Dollars) to be directed in a remote region of Spain by a relative unknown at the time, Sergio Leone. However, the money was not much, and Fleming always set his sights high on Hollywood stardom, and rejected the offer immediately. A variety of actors, including Charles Bronson, Steve Reeves, Richard Harrison, Frank Wolfe, Henry Fonda, James Coburn and Ty Hardin were considered for the main part in the film, and the producers established a list of lesser-known American actors, and asked the aforementioned Richard Harrison for advice. Harrison had suggested Clint Eastwood, whom he knew could play a cowboy convincingly. Harrison later said: "Maybe my greatest contribution to cinema was not doing Fistful of Dollars, and recommending Clint for the part". … Leone watched Rawhide upon the advice of Claudia Sartori, an agent working at the William Morris Agency in Rome. He viewed Episode 91, Incident of the Black Sheep, dubbed into Italian. Leone intended to focus on Fleming, but claimed to find entirely distracted, watching Eastwood. Leone said, "What fascinated me about Clint, above all, was his external appearance. I noticed the lazy, laidback way he just came on and stole every single scene from Fleming. His laziness is what came over so clearly." However, Leone's claim that he was entirely distracted by watching Eastwood is somewhat contradicted by the fact that, after Fleming turned down the role, he was urged by Sartori to rewatch the episode and to concentrate on Eastwood. … | "He viewed Episode 91, Incident of the Black Sheep, dubbed into Italian." | | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n0mMMzTtk8 | … An offer was made to Eastwood through Irving Leonard. However, Ruth Marsh of the Marsh Agency, who had supported Clint since the 1950s, and his wife Maggie, conspired to manoeuvre past Leonard, when he had refused the funds to provide a reel of Eastwood in Rawhide to the Italian producers. They sent a reel to Jolly Film and agent Filippo Fortini, who had agency contacts with actor Philippe Hersent, the husband of writer Geneviève Hersent and the Italian intermediary of the Marsh Agency. Eastwood initially thought the same as Fleming. After all he was already in a Western and was tired of it, and wanted to take months off to play golf and relax. However, he was urged to read the script: a lone stranger rides into a Mexican frontier town, controlled and fought over by two gangs, and double-crosses them by playing them off against each other, while accepting money from both sides. After just ten pages, Eastwood recognised that the script was based on Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo. Eastwood had initially described the dialogue as "atrocious", but thought the storyline was an intelligent one. Seeing potential, Irving Leonard cut Fortini out of the deal, so that the William Morris Agency would receive credit. The agreement offered Clint $15,000, an air ticket and paid expenses for 11 weeks of filming. Eastwood saw it as an opportunity to escape Rawhide and the states and saw it as a paid vacation and signed the contract which also threw in a bonus of a Mercedes automobile upon completion. Nota Bene Director Sergio Leone used the nickname Bob Robertson in A Fistful of Dollars.
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Thanks for the info. There are so many stories concerning Eastwood being cast in FISTFUL its hard to know who to beleive. i will check my archives of Frayling research and see what he says brm
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this thread has been robbed!!!! where did Member's posts go?????
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Apr 25, 2014 - 1:34 AM
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Episode #27: The Calf Women teleplay by Lou Vittes and Buckley Angell story by Buckley Angell directed by Tony Leader AD John W. Rogers edited by Paul Krasny music by Lyn Murray guest: Julie Harris, Kelly Thordsen, Karl Lucas, John Boyer (again), Betty Conner, Roger Ewing A band of buffalo hunters blocks the access to the mountain's plateau of the herd of Rowdy Yates. An ultimatum of three days is given by Yates to set it free. Meanwhile Wishbone orders Mushy to gun down two calves. On his way to shoot the two animals, two women stop him and take them. Returning to his wagon without the morning milk, Wishbone reports missing cows to Yates who goes after them with three drovers and end up in the camp of the two women. They locate the cows and destroy their wagon when both women pop up to stop the destruction and introduce themselves as the Teall sisters. Yates invites them to stay with them while fixing their wagon. A gunslinger named Billy Wallace working for the buffalo hunters has a crush on young Betsy Teall when her old sister Emma guns him down cold! Yates takes the blame to protect Emma and sends back the dead man to his camp where his brother Cole is furious and wishes to retaliate fast. The day of departure, Yates declares his love to Emma who drops dead because of Cole Wallace's gunshot. Yates decides to avenge! Produced by Endre Bohem. It starts as a routine and corny adventure and finishes up as a poignant drama. Actor Eric Fleming is absent and Clint Eastwood takeover as the trail boss, promotes the Jim Quince character as his ramrod and falls in love with a shrewish woman and even fails to marry her but a gunslinger shoots her in the back! First and only episode in which actor Clint Eastwood does the sign off "Head them Up! Move them Out!" before the end credits.
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Apr 25, 2014 - 2:02 PM
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Episode #29: El Hombre Bravo written by Herman Groves directed by Philip Leacock music by Rudy Schrager guest: Frank Silvera, IMF Malachi Throne, Manuel Padilla, Henry Corden, Carmelita Acosta, Allen Jaffe (again and uncredited) In the desert mountains, a band of Mexican revolutionaries look for a renegade called El Hombre Bravo and stop Favor and Mushy to question them about it. At the trail, Yates and Wishbone pinpoint two Mexican riders stealing a cow and head towards them when a federale officer named General Valesquez, supported by an army, confiscate the cow and interrogate them about El Hombre Bravo. The federales search the two wagons of the trail. Meanwhile Favor and Mushy meet poor school teacher Pajarito with little children which happens to be the wanted El Hombre Bravo, indicted as the author of political pamphlets. Later on, Jim Quince and Yates meet the revolutionaries and must give them six cows to feed them and pass trough the territory. Favor and Mushy meet again the revolutionaries and Pajarito join them to fight the federales. But before that, Pajarito asks Favor to gun him down in order to save the legend of El Hombre Bravo he fashioned! Produced by Kowalski and Geller. This is the second Mexican-oriented story after "Canliss" but, here, with a family and educational treatment. It's also a fugitive on the run wanted by both Mexican political sides. The writer takes a clear political position.
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Apr 26, 2014 - 1:17 AM
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Episode #30: The Gray Rock Hotel written by Jack Curtis directed by Stuart Rosenberg edited by IMF Paul Krasny music by Rudy Schrager guest: IMF Steven Hill, Lola Albright, Strother Martin, IMF Vic Tayback, IMF Rex Holman (uncredited, again) After loosing one man because of a plagued herd, Gil Favor and his six sick and feverish drovers (Rowdy Yates, Jim Quince, Wishbone, Mushy, Marty Brown, Bates) ride to a desert town to get some help. Once inside an empty dark hotel, Favor and his men meet a strange marooned lady named Lottie Denton who helps them to cure in exchange of a free horse. Favor sends Jim Quince to the mining town of Gold Ridge to get a doctor. Meanwhile, four mysterious riders cross the country to find out Lottie when they bump into sick Jim Quince. Slowly but surely, Lottie fool each delirious man in order to raise dedicated gunmen to protect her against her husband's avenging friends: Monte and his three men. Produced by Kowalski and Geller. It's a veiled story about bewitchment that takes place in a ghost town. The female character of Lottie acts like a Lorelei/Siren and turns each ill man against Gil Favor. The weird masterpiece that closes the season because of Stuart Rosenberg's inspired film-making that helps to create a supernatural atmosphere inside the dusty old hotel that is not far away from Boris Karloff's Thriller anthology. The stock music by Rudy Schrager is also very evocative. It makes a good companion to "The Book" in terms of American gothic mood. Both actors Steven Hill and Lola Albright receive two sets of credits: at the start of Act 1 with the producers, writer and director and also during the end titles. Knowing the nasty little secret of Lottie, the drover character of Marty Brown (actor Steven Hill) ends up murdered by suffocation by Lottie that he calls Palomino. Producer Bruce Geller will select again actor Steven Hill but to be the leader of the team for his pilot Mission: Impossible (1966). Actor Strother Martin will work many times for director Stuart Rosenberg: see Cool Hand Luke, Pocket Money, Love and Bullets.
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Apr 26, 2014 - 1:34 AM
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RAWHIDE SELECTION BEST SEASON 7 • The Gray Rock Hotel • The Book • Damon’s Road, Part I & II • Piney • The Meeting • Retreat • The Backshooter • A Man Called Mushy • The Race • The Ernomous Fist • Canliss • Corporal Dasovik Notes The first volume contains the greatest amount of good episodes. Anyway, volume 2 has some memorable entries: "Retreat", "The Gray Rock Hotel". It's clear that the producer duo of Geller/Kowalski give the best dramas to the series. Anyway, producer Bohem provides some decent entries in volume 2: "The Winter Soldier", "The Empty Sleeve", "The Last Order", "The Calf Women". Verdict For those who are not versed into Rawhide, try volume 1 as a cautious introduction and volume 1 is a pure Geller/Kowalski vision. Keep in mind this season 7 is an oddity inside the complete series, meaning it's not typical.
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