Chuck Connors (1921-1992). Connors played both professional baseball and professional basketball before later becoming an actor, best known for The Rifleman (1958-1963)

𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑹𝒊𝒇𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏 is an American Western television program starring Chuck Connors as rancher Lucas McCain and Johnny Crawford as his son.

Soylent Green (1973). Poster art by John Solie.

(via The Grim Gallery: Exhibit 4415)

Chuck Connors in Werewolf (1987-1988)

Lucas McCain

The rifleman is my latest obsession

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Terror Threads celebrates 45 years of Tourist Trap with three shirts designed by Yannick Bouchard, Dismay Design, and Brandon Stecz. Priced at $30, they’ll ship the week of April 15.

I call this the 'Kindly and Charismatic Old Person Who Turns Out to be a Serial Killer' collection, now on Blu Ray

The Rifleman (3.07 The Martinet, 1960).

The Foul-Mouthed Man

Awkward covers of the past #20: The Rifleman #10, published by Dell Comics, March 1962.

This rapid fire mechanism was designed originally just to keep Chucks finger from getting punctured by the trigger as he fired and cocked the rifle very fast. The role demanded that. To have a rifle modified in this way certainly presents a safety hazard since the gun will fire in a semiautomatic fashion as the lever is cocked if the screw is turned in to initiate the trigger. The Rifleman cocked the rifle in two unique fashions. He spin cocked it and swing cocked it. These two cocking methods enabled Chuck to cock the rifle using only one hand. The weapon that made the Rifleman a television legend was an 1892 .44-40 Winchester carbine. The gun itself was specially modified with a large loop and metal tab to turn his rifle into a rapid-firing machine. The modification was made giving Connors the ability to spin and cock the rifle in a dramatic fashion. The trigger guard was retooled with a screw to trip the trigger every time the lever was closed. The gun became an icon for Connors, and today is one of the most recognizable guns in the world. Source

Chuck Connors (April 10, 1921 – November 10, 1992)

"i watch the rifleman for the plot!"

the plot:

Tourist Trap (1979)

I liked this sequence of frames from the episode "The Visitor"

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Tourist Trap was released on March 14, 1979(Los Angeles, California).

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