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Ooouuhhh... this hits hard. (Of course, it's a ripe age, so that part is "ok".) Barry Newman may not be the best known leading actor today, but I do remember him from my formative years. Movies like THE LAWYER and the subsequent TV series PETROCELLI, or VANISHING POINT, of course. May he rest in peace.
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Wow, the Fear is the key man. Rip.
easily top 3 car chase ever.
92 is a grand age.
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I wonder if he ever finished building THAT house?
RIP.
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I wonder if he ever finished building THAT house?
RIP.
The running gag in the show. :-)
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His name was Barry NORMAN, Ram.
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For uk fsmers, Talking Pictures is showing Vanishing Point tonight (saturday) at 11.25pm
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Fear is the Key on at 9pm on Legend channel tonight, 148 on sky
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Aug 27, 2023 - 1:54 PM
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In THE MOVING FINGER, a wealthy espresso club owner in Greenwich Village (Lionel Stander) likes to recite poetry and act hip to attract tourists, and allows a small group of indigent actor-bohemians (Barry Newman, Carol Fleming, Garry Goodrow) to live in his basement. The close-knit bunch bathe and scrounge together, swiping milk from doorways and attending art exhibits to steal the cold cuts. A seriously wounded bank robber eludes the cops by taking the tour bus to the Village and ends up in the care of this merry band and the local crooked doctor (Art Smith). When not taking bribes and hitting on the girls, a detective on the bank robbery case watches the group carefully. Newman encourages his girlfriend to sleep with the crooked detective, if that's what she's after. She doesn't care what happens, as long as she can avoid returning home to her parents. Finally, the news gets out, and several people make plans to help themselves to the robber's $90,000 in stolen cash.
Larry Moyer produced, directed, and co-wrote this independent film. It was Lionel Stander’s first on-screen appearance in a dozen years, after having been blacklisted. On 8 November 1963, the film opened at the San Francisco International Film Festival, the only U.S. film shown in competition. Although the film won the Festival’s “Best Director” award, it failed to find distribution in the U.S. It did, however, play in Britain during the summer of 1964. Shel Silverstein and Teddy Vann provided the unreleased score.
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Aug 28, 2023 - 10:39 PM
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Barry Newman had his first lead role in THE LAWYER. The 1970 film was inspired by the true story of neurosurgeon Dr. Sam Sheppard, who was convicted of murdering his wife in 1954. After spending a decade in prison, the doctor was acquitted in 1966, following a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that reversed his conviction “on the grounds that publicity before and during the trial had prejudiced the jury.” Sheppard’s lawyer, F. Lee Bailey, sold the screen rights to Sheppard’s 1966 book, Endure and Conquer, to Twentieth Century-Fox, in lieu of direct payment from Sheppard for representing him. Twentieth Century-Fox also purchased rights to two other books about Sheppard’s case, written by reporter-novelist Paul Holmes. Through the book sales, Bailey received $100,000-$150,000.
In summer 1966, the project was announced as a collaboration between filmmakers Philip D’Antoni and Norman Baer. At the time, it was titled “The Sheppard Murder Case,” after one of Paul Holmes’s books. Several months later, Paramount Pictures took over the rights, with plans to begin filming a “dramatic documentary” in August 1967. The picture was then referred to as “The Sam Sheppard Story.” In addition to the two books by Holmes, and Sheppard’s Endure and Conquer, producer Brad Dexter acquired rights to Sheppard’s brother, Steven A. Sheppard’s, book, My Brother’s Keeper. The rights to all four books cost Paramount $175,000.
F. Lee Bailey, who was described in the 23 February 1967 New York Times as “one of the nation’s most famous defense attorneys since the Sheppard trial,” signed on to play himself. Norman Bogner was said to be working on the script, while Paul Holmes was enlisted as a technical advisor; the two were set to join Dexter and director Sidney J. Furie to observe Bailey at a trial in Fort Lauderdale, FL, in March 1967, and another in Tucson, AZ, the following month. Prior to principal photography, some exteriors were scheduled to be shot in Sheppard’s hometown of Bay Village, OH, and in Cleveland, OH. Views of the Ohio State Penitentiary in Columbus, OH, were also slated to be filmed.
More than a year later, the 9 May 1968 Daily Variety indicated that the project had gone through two additional title changes, to “Endure and Conquer,” and finally, to THE LAWYER. The “quasi-documentary” approach Sidney J. Furie originally planned was scrapped due to lack of interest from the studio. F. Lee Bailey left the project, and Furie co-wrote a more fictionalized tale with Harold Buchman. With Barry Newman playing ambitious young attorney “Tony Petrocelli,” filming began on the Paramount studio lot on 1 August 1968. The story found Petrocelli taking on the defense of “Jack Harrison” (Robert Colbert), a physician accused of murdering his wife. Diana Muldaur played Tony’s wife, “Ruth Petrocelli.” Brad Dexter claimed that the final cost of production was $1.8 million.
Diana Muldaur and Barry Newman in THE LAWYER
The film was previewed for a group of students and faculty at Harvard University’s Harvard Square Theatre on 19 January 1970. Theatrical release followed on 4 February 1970 in Boston, MA. Malcolm Dodds provided the unreleased score.
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