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Blake,

I don't think anybody wants to dismiss THE EQUALIZER, and certainly not me. My
post just wanted to draw attention to the other excellent work Woodward did on
British television and is not very well-known, even if it survived. His
performance in the early two seasons of CALLAN was riveting and even if the
later seasons diluted it somewhat. it is one of the best examples of television
acting.

Your citation from that EQUALIZER episode evoked Callan very much.

Tony W.

--- In a_film_by@yahoogroups.com, "lukethedealer12" <lukethedealer@...> wrote:
>
> Please don't dismiss "The Equalizer."  Woodward was wonderful in
> a pretty soulful role, way beyond what one usually gets in an
> episodic TV series.  My wife and I were so taken with the characte
> right at the time our first dog wandered in off the street that
> we named him "McCall."
>
> The best moment in the series was when when McCall slams a bad guy
> up against a wall and says something about forgiveness--how God forgives or
something--and then says "I will not forgive."
>
> Blake
>
> --- In a_film_by@yahoogroups.com, "Crescent9" <peckinpah20012000@> wrote:
> >
> > Although probably best known to US viewers as "The Equalizer", Woodward also
had a distinguished film and television career. The former involved THE WICKER
MAN, BREAKER MORANT and the latter as CALLAN. He also starred in a 6 part BBC TV
series 1990 (1977) that has never been repeated since it anticipated the
dystopian world of Britain's New Labour. Like Trevor Griffith's BILL BRAND
(1977) and Loach-Garnett's DAYS OF HOPE (1974), this series has never been
repeated on TV nor available on DVD due to its damning contemporary indictment
of a repressive England. Woodward distinguished himself in the role of an
investigative journalist who becomes a "non-person" in one episode.
> >
> > Tony Williams
> >
>

--- In a_film_by@yahoogroups.com, "tharpa2002" <tharpa2002@...> wrote:
>
> Saw his unworthy obit in the LA Times. He deserved better, both from the Times
and from the industry.

Yes, Richard--that was just terrible.  No sense of him at all, but that's
typical of LA Times obits for any movie figure who isn't right out there this
minute--meaning most anyone really.

I especially agree with you about FACE OF A FUGITIVE, probably my favorite of
his movies, a beautiful, existential Western from 1959 (same year as GIDGET,
which was really very good too, though I haven't seen the sequels) which sounded
spiritual themes and did have
one of Fred MacMurray's best performances ever.  Wendkos' debut, THE BURGLAR
with Dan Duryea and Jayne Mansfield was an excellent late noir from a David
Goodis novel, with the two stars soulful in a tormented, moving relationship. 
TARAWA BEACHHEAD, an excellent, grim WWII movie; THE CASE AGAINST BROOKLYN, good
crime movie, also stand out.  I haven't seen ANGEL BABY, which has a good
reputation.

Those are early ones--moving along there was the surprising, very imaginatively
directed JOHNNY TIGER with overtones of magic and a good treatment of
contemporary Indians.  The best of his TV movies I saw was THE BROTHERHOOD OF
THE BELL (about 1970), a gripping conspiracy drama of how power is taken and
brokered in America.

He was a fine director, both stylistically and in sensibility.  No doubt his
career disappointed him--it pretty much wound up in TV where limitations on
creativity can become more severe, but that doesn't mean he didn't couldn't show
some artistic gifts all along the line.  It's alwyas kind of sad when someone so
talented is also so low-profile--it's good not to forget them.

Blake Lucas

>
> It's pretty unlikely we'll ever see a Wendkos retrospective even though he
made some distinctive pictures in several genres, including his first scope
GIDGET movie. His western THE FACE OF A FUGITIVE has a memorable performance
from Fred McMurray. Among his TV movies the two about a psychic detective played
by Louis Jordan are outstanding as is "Haunts of the Very Rich." The last
theatrical feature of his that I can think off hand, "The Mephisto Waltz," was
also pretty good though I haven't seen it in well over 30 years.
>
> Richard M
>

Please don't dismiss "The Equalizer."  Woodward was wonderful in
a pretty soulful role, way beyond what one usually gets in an
episodic TV series.  My wife and I were so taken with the characte
right at the time our first dog wandered in off the street that
we named him "McCall."

The best moment in the series was when when McCall slams a bad guy
up against a wall and says something about forgiveness--how God forgives or
something--and then says "I will not forgive."

Blake

--- In a_film_by@yahoogroups.com, "Crescent9" <peckinpah20012000@...> wrote:
>
> Although probably best known to US viewers as "The Equalizer", Woodward also
had a distinguished film and television career. The former involved THE WICKER
MAN, BREAKER MORANT and the latter as CALLAN. He also starred in a 6 part BBC TV
series 1990 (1977) that has never been repeated since it anticipated the
dystopian world of Britain's New Labour. Like Trevor Griffith's BILL BRAND
(1977) and Loach-Garnett's DAYS OF HOPE (1974), this series has never been
repeated on TV nor available on DVD due to its damning contemporary indictment
of a repressive England. Woodward distinguished himself in the role of an
investigative journalist who becomes a "non-person" in one episode.
>
> Tony Williams
>

Also, I've just discovered that not only does somebody in the US have all the
episodes of 1990 but also some of the early b/w ones of CALLAN that escaped the
UK tape holocaust of the 1970s. One episode derives from a rehearsal intact with
bloopers.

It is really good that some of this material has survived.

Tony W.


--- In a_film_by@yahoogroups.com, scott wannberg <scottwannberg@...> wrote:
>
> that was edward mulhare.edward woodward was in the wicker man and played an
agent on a tv series but mulhare was in the tv version of ghost
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: tharpa2002 <tharpa2002@...>
> To: a_film_by@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Mon, November 16, 2009 7:20:32 PM
> Subject: [a_film_by] Re: Edward Woodward (1930-2009)
>
>
> Woodward is probably best known to US audiences for his role as the captain in
"The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" TV series.
>
> Richard M
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>

that was edward mulhare.edward woodward was in the wicker man and played an
agent on a tv series but mulhare was in the tv version of ghost




________________________________
From: tharpa2002 <tharpa2002@...>
To: a_film_by@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Mon, November 16, 2009 7:20:32 PM
Subject: [a_film_by] Re: Edward Woodward (1930-2009)


Woodward is probably best known to US audiences for his role as the captain in
"The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" TV series.

Richard M







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james coburn was in face of a fugitive




________________________________
From: tharpa2002 <tharpa2002@...>
To: a_film_by@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Mon, November 16, 2009 7:36:13 PM
Subject: [a_film_by] Paul Wendkos RIP


Saw his unworthy obit in the LA Times. He deserved better, both from the Times
and from the industry.

It's pretty unlikely we'll ever see a Wendkos retrospective even though he made
some distinctive pictures in several genres, including his first scope GIDGET
movie. His western THE FACE OF A FUGITIVE has a memorable performance from Fred
McMurray. Among his TV movies the two about a psychic detective played by Louis
Jordan are outstanding as is "Haunts of the Very Rich." The last theatrical
feature of his that I can think off hand, "The Mephisto Waltz," was also pretty
good though I haven't seen it in well over 30 years.

Richard M







[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Saw his unworthy obit in the LA Times. He deserved better, both from the Times
and from the industry.

It's pretty unlikely we'll ever see a Wendkos retrospective even though he made
some distinctive pictures in several genres, including his first scope GIDGET
movie. His western THE FACE OF A FUGITIVE has a memorable performance from Fred
McMurray. Among his TV movies the two about a psychic detective played by Louis
Jordan are outstanding as is "Haunts of the Very Rich." The last theatrical
feature of his that I can think off hand, "The Mephisto Waltz," was also pretty
good though I haven't seen it in well over 30 years.

Richard M

Woodward is probably best known to US audiences for his role as the captain in
"The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" TV series.

Richard M

Although probably best known to US viewers as "The Equalizer", Woodward also had
a distinguished film and television career. The former involved THE WICKER MAN,
BREAKER MORANT and the latter as CALLAN. He also starred in a 6 part BBC TV
series 1990 (1977) that has never been repeated since it anticipated the
dystopian world of Britain's New Labour. Like Trevor Griffith's BILL BRAND
(1977) and Loach-Garnett's DAYS OF HOPE (1974), this series has never been
repeated on TV nor available on DVD due to its damning contemporary indictment
of a repressive England. Woodward distinguished himself in the role of an
investigative journalist who becomes a "non-person" in one episode.

Tony Williams

"That's (Hollywood) Entertainment"!

Tony W.

--- In a_film_by@yahoogroups.com, "Rick S" <rick.segreda@...> wrote:
>
> That Tom Cruise and John Travolta are going to star in a remake of "Butch
Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" is wrong on so many levels that I don't even know
where to begin...they are both Scientology cult loyalists, they are both
fulsomely grinning closet queens, they are both too old for either role, and
would be completely wrong for either part in any year, John Travolta should
never, ever do a Western, the original film is fine as it is, that this is
looking to shape up as unintentionally morbid camp on the order of "Grey
Gardens," and so forth and so on.
>
> Sorry, I know we believe in the ability of autuers to transform any dross into
gold, but I can't imagine a director alive who could salvage this.
>

Just saw Morris Engle's 'Little Fugitive" and kind of loved it. Anyone care to
comment - it needs a rediscovery and I don't quite think it's a great film.

That Tom Cruise and John Travolta are going to star in a remake of "Butch
Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" is wrong on so many levels that I don't even know
where to begin...they are both Scientology cult loyalists, they are both
fulsomely grinning closet queens, they are both too old for either role, and
would be completely wrong for either part in any year, John Travolta should
never, ever do a Western, the original film is fine as it is, that this is
looking to shape up as unintentionally morbid camp on the order of "Grey
Gardens," and so forth and so on.

Sorry, I know we believe in the ability of autuers to transform any dross into
gold, but I can't imagine a director alive who could salvage this.

>I work as a publicist for somebody relatively famous (at least by
>association, since her husband of 50 years is showbiz-political legend),
>who now produces documentaries, including one narrated by Danny Glover. I
>want to update her CV on IMDB (and Danny Glover's), so I can mention the
>films she has made as a producer, but I have not the slightest idea of how
>to go about doing so. If somebody can enlighten me, I would be very
>grateful.
>

It's very easy. Just click on the UPDATE button at the bottom of the page
and away you'll go. It takes some time for the new information to show up,
but it's all explained very carefully in the instructions.

-Bilge

I work as a publicist for somebody relatively famous (at least by association,
since her husband of 50 years is showbiz-political legend), who now produces
documentaries, including one narrated by Danny Glover. I want to update her CV
on IMDB (and Danny Glover's), so I can mention the films she has made as a
producer, but I have not the slightest idea of how to go about doing so. If
somebody can enlighten me, I would be very grateful.

Sadly, I have no way of watching DESIRE ME, but I wanted to ask if any of
a_film_by'ers had a chance to see it? If so, whose hand is most visible in it:
Cukor's...? LeRoy's...? Conway's...?

I would love to read any recollections of this unattainable non-auteur (?)
curiosity item -- if the happy few are willing to share them.

--Michal

Thanks guys for all the recommendations: lots to look for, lots to track down.
I'll post something if I can get a hold of any of the titles you mentioned (with
THE NIGHT HAS A THOUSAND EYES on top of my list).

For the record: I watched Wilder's A FOREIGN AFFAIR yesterda and it redeemed
John Lund for me. I have THE MATING SEASON on DVD, I'll watch that and make it a
dealbraker.

--Michal