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rougesrant · 2 years

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Illawarriors Finish Country Week With A Bang

By Ron Wood

The Illawarriors started day two of the Country Championships pretty much where they left off from Day one. In the 3rd Place Play Off match in the Caldwell Cup against Far North Coast, the Illawarriors stumbled through the first half with handling errors and poor discipline hampering their chances of finishing the tournament on a positive note.

Their opponents Far North Coast went out to a 17 – 0 lead at halftime after crossing for three first half tries. The Illawarriors re grouped at the break and produced a second half more in keeping with expectations to run out narrow winners 20 – 17, securing third place in the tournament.

On the back of a seven to two penalty count and with front rower Clancy Donnan finishing the half in the Bin, nothing much went right for the side in the first half. Shortly after the break wingman Matori Atunaisa joined Donnan in the Bin as the side was forced to play for about seven minutes two players down. In adversity the players responded. Led by the legendary Paul Tuala, playing his last game for Illawarra, their effort lifted, with the errors disappearing from their game the side went to a new level.

While still one player short, one of their best players across the weekend Lock Jack Hobbs, charged over to score from close range off the back of Flanker Steven Schwenke’s strong lead up work. Within five minutes the electric Eli Sinoti raced away down the left sideline to score for a 10 – 17 score-line putting his side right back in the match at the 60 minute mark.

Far North Coast lost a player to the Bin as the Illawarriors took command of the match. Tuala literally played himself to a standstill in the final twenty minutes of the match. Tuala did it all himself swooping on a loose ball near the Far North Coast line beating several would be tacklers to the line to score. Another of the sides better performers across the weekend Tom Baker made no mistake with the conversion and the scores were locked 17 all with less than ten to run on the clock.

The clock was running down to the final moments of the match when the Illawarriors were awarded a penalty within kicking range. Tom Baker stepped forward and guided the ball through the posts for three points and a 20 – 17 lead. With seconds left to play the kick off restart was taken and immediately kicked into touch for the win securing third spot in the tournament for the Illawarriors.

Co Captains Tom Baker and Paul Tuala led all weekend from the front with strong displays from Jack Hobbs, Steven Schwenke, Hector Tapueluelu and Jake Kamire in the forwards. Out the back Eli Sinoti, along with his center partner Nano Katoa were strong with wingers Matorino Atunaisa and Angus Hodgson catching the eye.

The Caldwell Cup Final was won by Central Coast 32 – 29 over Central West.

Caldwell Cup Third Place Play Off

Illawarriors 20 (Jack Hobbs 1 try, Eli Sinoti 1 try, Paul Tuala 1 try, Tom Baker 1 goal, 1 penalty goal) Def Far North Coast 17 (3 tries, 1 goal)

The Illawarriors Under 19’s Colts finished their tournament with two games on Sunday. The Boys went down 25 – 14 to Hunter and narrowly 28 – 21 to Far North Coast. The Colts Tournament was won by Central West who went through the competition undefeated.

Colts Scores

Hunter 25 (5 tries) Def Illawarriors 14 (Palu Tausala 1 try, James Sykes 1 try, Preston Hanson 2 goals)

Far North Coast 28 (4 tries, 4 goals) Def Illawarriors 21 (James Sykes 1 try, Otis Bottomley 1 try, Palu Tausala 1 try, Preston Hanson 3 goals)

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givemethesauce · 6 years

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This month PWCrate is "BEST OF THE INDIES PT4" and next month is "MASK & PAINT (Halloween Edition)" which includes Ultimatr Warrior, Marty Scurll, GoD (Guerrillas of Destiny), Glacier Warachine (Hanson & Rowe), Papa Shango, & 1 Mystery Luchador Mask by 4 Luchadors Rey Mysterio, Dr. Wagner Jr., Mistico, & Blue Demon.

Thank you #pwcrate

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they-callme-ami · 4 years

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New choices ask Game! Choose 1 (or all 5, whatever you want) questions to answer. Doesn't have to be in a particular order unless you want to either!

Who are your top 5 MC's (Moty MC, ES MC, ILITW MC, OH MC, Bolas MC)

Who are your top 5 /most memorable LI's? (Caleb Mitchell, James Ashton, Jax Matsuo, Colt Kaneko, Jake McKenzie)

Who are your bottom 5 LI's? (Reed Hanson, Mason Jennings, Sam Dalton, Professor Kingsley, Drake Walker)

What were your top 5 favorite and/or most replayed books? (Nightbound, ACOR, Moty, TH:M, Perfect Match 2)

What were your top 5 LEAST favorite books? (The Nanny Affair, RCD 1, The Junior, HFTH, MTFL)

@indescribablybre

@what-do-you-mean-theyre-evil

@kingliamsbitch

And amyone else who wants to join in!

#choices #playchoices #pb choices #choicesgame #choices ask #ask game

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if-you-fan-a-fire · 4 years

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“Strange Murder: Motive Unknown In Parkland Fatality,” Calgary Herald. June 1, 1940. Page 10. ---- Claresholm, June 1 How their father, who had been abusive of late to members of his family, suddenly decided upon killing them, was revealed to a coroner's jury here Friday, which probed the deaths of Charles Magnus Hanson, Parkland farmer, and R.C.M.P. Constable Gordon Counsell, of Lethbridge. The probe failed to reveal any motive for the shooting by Hanson of his son George.

The jury established the fact that Hanson, after killing Counsell when the latter sought to arrest him, was shot by a Royal Canadian Mounted Police bullet.

As the inquiry proceeded, it became evident that Constable Counsell had disregarded the instructions of his superiors in going upstairs in the Hanson home, early in the morning of May 22, the day after Hanson had shot and killed his son on the son’s farm.

JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE The jury returned a verdict to Coroner Dr. P. J. Carroll of justifiable homicide in the death of Hanson, Sr., and declared in a seperate finding that Counsell was the victim of a bullet fired by Charles Hanson as the policeman climbed the attic stairs in the Hansen home in his search for Hanson.

Hanson, an expert marksman, shot the policeman with a .38 calibre revolver, firing at point-blank range at the head from his refuge in the attic. The bullet drove through the policeman’s skull and out through the lower cheek, killing him instantly.

An outstanding point of the testimony was that the R.C.M.P. had made every effort, consistent with their own safety, to take the senior Hanson alive.

TEAR-GAS SHELLS Tear-gas shells had been poured into the farm home through the windows until, the constables declared, they could not believe that anyone could still stay in such an atmosphere. Then, after inspecting the lower floor through the windows, they entered the house. The constables had had instructions from Inspector J. Brunet, officer commanding the Lethbridge subdivision, and Staff-Sergeant Harvey, not to become separated, not to proceed to the upper floor, and to cover each other in groups as they investigated. The gas, a lachrimator which would produce unconsciousness within half-an-hour, had by that time been in the house for an hour-and-a-quarter.

Constables E. V. Carter and F. W. Barnes who followed up the stairs when they saw Constable Counsell go up, said they were following with about 12 feet between each of them when they heard a shot, and a noise which suggested Counsell was coming back down the stairs, and when Counsell did not appear, they concluded he had been injured, and a watch was placed from all sides of the house on the upper windows.

CONSTABLES IN LOFT A patrol of constables was placed in the loft of a barn facing the west side of the house, and Constable John Bull, of Barons, one of this patrol, fired three rifle shots into the attic, one of them striking Hanson in the left shoulder and eventually causing his death from severe hemorrhage into the respiratory cavity. With Inspector Brunet, Constable Bull later climbed the veranda roof and then up to the attic, where he found Hanson’s body.

With the body were Hanson’s two revolvers, a .45 Colt’s, fully loaded, and a .38 Colt’s, with one discharged shell under the hammer and five lives ones in the chambers and a .300 Savage sporting rifle fully loaded. Counsell’s service revolver had one discharged shell in the chambers and five live ones, and the police presumed his hand hadn clenced when he was short, firing the revolver. The bullet was recovered from a board in the attic stairway. Though the bullet was never recovered. It was presumed that Counsell was shot with Hanson’s .38 revolver.

BIG-GAME HUNTER Lance-Corporal W. Wilson, of the Lethbridge detachment, described a number of sporting rifles and revolvers taken from the lower floor by Constable Barnes. They had been the property of Hanson, who had been a big-game hunter in his youth.

Close questioning by the jurymen and Sergeant Harvey of the two other sons of Hanson, Bennie and Carl, failed to reveal the background of the disagreement between Hanson and his other son, George.

Both recalled, however, that some 10 or 12 years ago, their father had threatened to shoot someone - neither could remember whom - and the result had been a mental examination of the senior Hanson by a neurologist, now dead, but no charge had been laid and Hanson was released. IN POOR HEALTH Carl told the jury his father’s health had not been good then. Bennie, questioned by Sergeant Harvey, recalled details of the threatening incident, but could not remember who was threatened. ‘You mean, you’d rather not say?’ I prompted Sergeant Harvey.

‘I don’t remember,’ was the reply.

‘Was anyone, outside of the family, there at the time?’ pursued Sergeant Harvey. Bennie couldn't’ be sure. ‘Then it was one of your family?’ suggested the sergeant.

‘No,’ Bennie replied.

Bennie related how he had met his father on the night of the shooting of his brother. He had been working in a field with a tractor, and his father had ordered him into the car, which then contained Carl and John Ranta, a tractor service man from Calgary, under the menace of the two revolvers.

DIE TODAY OR TOMORROW Bennie said his father has asked him ‘whether he wanted to die today or tomorrow,’ and Bennie had tried to appease his father.

Ranta related a detailed account of the shooting. He said when he was ordered into the car he had tried to get Hanson to ‘throw them rods in the ditch and forget about it,’ but Hanson was adamant.’

When they all drove to George’s farm, Ranta said, Hanson had told his son, ‘Well, we’re going to have a settlement tonight.’

George had replied: ‘All the settlement I’m going to make is this: There’s the gate and get the hell out.’

Hanson then pulled out his two revolvers and fired four shots at George. George ran around the side of the barn and collapsed, and Carl pulled the car into gear and tried to run over his father. Then they drove the car out of the gate and sent word to their mother and sister to leave the house.

Bennie and Carl both told the jury their father had been upset by the death of George’s wife in March of this year.

Also giving testimony at the inquest were John O’Keefe, an hotel clerk, of Stavely; Chief Constable William Summerfield, of Nanton; Dr. W. M. Hodgson, autopsy surgeon; Constable Charles Pease, R.C.M.P., Macleod; Constable R. Stewart, of Lethbridge, and Joseph Bidley, of Vulcan.

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kevrocksicehouse · 4 years

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Panning for gold. Some kind words about Steve Guttenberg who turns 62 today. A few films from a career:

Eddie Simmons in Diner. D: Barry Levinson (1982). In one of the most empathetic and nuanced comedies about Guys being Guys, Guttenberg features in three classic scenes – the repartee with Modell (Paul Reiser) the mooch ( “You gonna finish that sandwich?” “Say the words Modell!”), The Wedding Test where he makes his fiancée take a Baltimore Colts trivia test before the wedding, and the great out-of-nowhere strip-club scene where he helps Timothy Daly set the joint on fire (“What is that classical?” he asks right before all heaven breaks loose.)

Carey Mahoney in Police Academy. D: Hugh Wilson (1984). In this misfits-against-the-machine franchise, which would be Guttenberg’s home for four movies, he’s a rebellious cop’s son who gets shanghaied to a police academy and bonds with rebels and nerds at the institute. It’s a third-rate Bill Murray role but in his own amiable slapdash way Guttenberg makes it work and at the very least sets up George Gaynes with a crude and cheap oral-sex gag that’s funnier than anything he did in Tootsie.

Terry Lambert in The Bedroom Window. D: Curtis Hanson (1987). A smart Hitchcokian thriller with an intriguing premise, Guttenberg seduces his boss’s wife who sees an assault and near-rape from his window. When they hear about a murder nearby he wants to go to the police, but to protect her he claims he saw the attack. The actor holds his own with Elizabeth McGovern, Isabelle Huppert and especially with Wallace Shawn as a defense attorney who eviscerates him in court.

#steve guttenberg #diner #police academy #bedroom window

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mrdraws · 1 month

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Lil dialogue meme-y thing with my new zombie cowboy! Original meme is by @cereovo and can be found here.

#ocs #art #headcanons #colt hanson #zombie #cowboy

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kwebtv · 4 years

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Character Actor

Karl Swenson (July 23, 1908 – October 8, 1978) Theatre, radio, film, and television actor. Early in his career, he was credited as Peter Wayne

In 1956, Swenson played police Captain Harris of the Monticello Police Department and commanding officer to Detective Lieutenant Mike Karr on The Edge of Night. Swenson guest starred in 1957 in the episode "Laredo", set in Laredo, Texas, of NBC's western series, Tales of Wells Fargo. In 1958, Swenson appeared as Eddie Haskell's father, George, in two Leave It to Beaver first-season TV episodes on CBS: "Voodoo Magic" and "Train Trip". In 1958, Swenson was cast as Jim Courtright, a controversial lawman from Fort Worth, Texas in the episode "Long Odds" of Colt .45. From 1958 through 1961, he had various roles in the television series Have Gun Will Travel.

In 1959, Swenson played a former Russian seaman en route to becoming an American citizen, Alexi Sharlakov, in the episode "The Extra Hand" of the ABC/WB western series, Sugarfoot, with Will Hutchins in the title role. In the story line, in exchange for a horse and supplies, Sugarfoot becomes Sharlakov's traveling companion. When the two reach a mining ghost town in Kansas, Sharlakov searches for Vic Latour (Anthony Caruso) and Hank Bremer (Jack Lambert), two men who had tried to kill him and left him with only one arm. The "extra hand" is that of Sugarfoot, backing up Sharlakov in a showdown with Latour and Bremer.

A month after this episode, Swenson was cast again on Sugarfoot, this time as a wealthy Irish rancher, Dennis O'Hara. Sue Randall plays his daughter, Kathy, an aspiring concert pianist attracted to another pianist, Frederick, Pulaski (Adam West) Frank Cady played a corrupt lawyer to whom O'Hara had blindly trusted his business.

In 1959, Swenson was cast as Ansel Torgin, with John Ireland as Chris Slade, in the episode "The Fight Back" of the NBC western series, Riverboat. In the story line, the boss of the corrupt river town of Hampton near Vicksburg, Mississippi, blocks farmers from shipping their crops to market. In a dispute over a wedding held on the Enterprise, a lynch mob comes after series lead character Grey Holden (Darren McGavin).

In 1959, Swenson was cast in an episode of the 1959 Police Drama "Lock Up". In the series pilot "The Failure", Swenson is cast as Ed Reed, a man who is accused of arson and murder. The series ran from 1959–61, starring Macdonald Carey. He appeared in 1959 in an episode of The Man from Blackhawk.

In 1960, Swenson appeared in an episode ("Odyssey of Hate") on the CBS adventure/action drama series Mr. Lucky. The same year, he was cast in the NBC science fiction series The Man and the Challenge. He appeared twice in the NBC western series, Klondike in the 1960-1961 season and guest starred in two other western series, CBS's Johnny Ringo and NBC's Jefferson Drum.

In 1961, Swenson appeared with John Lupton in the episode "Doctor to Town" of the Robert Young series Window on Main Street.

In 1962, Swenson made a one-time appearance on CBS's The Andy Griffith Show as Mr. McBeevee, a lineman for the power company who became Opie’s mystery friend. He guest starred in NBC's Laramie western series and in the science fiction series, Steve Canyon, with Dean Fredericks in the title role. In 1963, he portrayed Nelson in the episode "Beauty Playing a Mandolin Underneath a Willow Tree" episode of the NBC medical drama, The Eleventh Hour. That same year, he was cast with Charles Aidman and Parley Baer in the three-part episode "Security Risk" of the CBS anthology series, GE True, hosted by Jack Webb. And also in 1962, he appeared as the father of Jena Engstrom in the "Chester's Indian" episode of Gunsmoke, in a story featuring Dennis Weaver.

From 1962 through 1973 Swenson made guest appearance on the TV series Lassie in the episodes "The Nest" (1962), "Crossroad" (1964), "In the Eyes of Lassie" (1965), "The Homeless" (1967), "A Time for Decision" (1967), "Hanford's Point" (1968), "Other Pastures, Other Fences" (1971) and later would become a regular playing Karl Burkholm in Season 18 and 19.. Swenson made four guest appearances on Perry Mason, including the part of defendant Axel Norstaad, a Danish woodshop owner in the 1961 episode, "The Case of the Tarnished Trademark", and an ex-convict in the 1963 episode, "The Case of the Bigamous Spouse." From 1959 through 1967 Swenson made guest appearance on the TV series Bonanza in the episodes "Death on Sun Mountain" (1959), "Day of Reckoning" (1960), "A Natural Wizard" (1965) and "Showdown at Tahoe" (1967).

Swenson appeared in a 1967 episode of Hogan's Heroes entitled "How to Win Friends and Influence Nazis", in which he played a likable and friendly Swedish scientist, Dr. Karl Svenson, who is persuaded by Hogan (Bob Crane) to join the Allied war effort. Although Swenson had credits on dozens of other television series, including an appearance on the ABC/WB episode "Shady Deal at Sunny Acres" of the western Maverick, he is best known for his performance as the kindly Lars Hanson in NBC's Little House on the Prairie. He appeared in forty episodes of the show from 1974–1978. (Wikipedia)

#Karl Swenson #TV #Character Actor #Little House on the Prairie

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notesonfilm1 · 4 years

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Burt Lancaster got his contract with Hal B. Wallis at Paramount on the basis of a test directed by Byron Haskin with Wendell Corey and Lizabeth Scott for Desert Fury. Lucky for him, the film was not ready to shoot for another six months and he was able to fit in Robert Siodmak’s The Killers(1946) for producer Mark Hallinger at Universal beforehand. Desert Fury started shooting two weeks before the release of The Killers but there were already whisperings of Lancaster as a big new star, and the whisperings were so loud that Hallinger gave him first billing and a big publicity build-up rather than the little ‘and introducing….’ title at the end of the credits that was then typical, and is indeed the billing offered Wendell Corey in Desert Fury as you can see in the poster above. Before Desert Fury started shooting, Hal Wallis knew he had a big fat star on his hands and that his part had to be beefed up so as to capitalise on it.

By the time the film was released on September 24th, 1947,, Burt Lancaster was the biggest star in the film. The Killers hit screens on the 29th of August 1946. As Kate Buford writes, Ít was an extraordinary debut for a complete unknown. Overnight he was a star with a meteoric rise ¨faster than Gable´s, Garbo´s or Lana Turner,¨as Cosmopolitan said years later (Buford, loc 1260). In New York the movie, ‘played twenty-four hours a day at the Winter Garden theatre, ‘where over 120,000 picture-goers filled the 1,300 seat theatre in the first two weeks, figures Variety called “unbelievably sensational.”‘ Brute Force was the fourth film Lancaster made, after I Walk Alone, but it was the second to be released, on June 30th 1947. According to Kate Buford, it too ‘set set first-week records at movie houses across the country’ (loc 1412).

Lancaster’s status as a star is reflected in the lobby card and poster above, where in spite of being billed third, what´s being sold is what Burt Lancaster already represented, the publicity materials giving a false impression that he is much more central to the narrative than is in fact the case. His image dominates in both, and even the tag lines are attributed to him: ‘I got a memory for faces…killer´s faces…Get away from my girl…and get going’, is the tagline in the lobby card. The text on the poster reads, ´Two men wanted her love…the third wanted her life.

In the ad below, he´s billed second, as ´the sensation of The Killers, Dynamite with the fuse lit’

When trying to recapture a past moment in relation to cinema, it´s often useful to look at trailers and other paratextual publicity materials. Trailers hold and try to disseminate the film´s promise to viewers. Of course, its purpose is to sell, to dramatise its attractions so that viewers will go see it. And of course, they often lie, dramatising not what is but what they hope will sell. That said, those promises, lies and hopes are often very revealing.

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As you can see above, the trailer is selling melodrama — violent passions — in a magnificent natural setting filmed in Technicolor. Burt Lancaster’s name is only mentioned 39 second into the 1.41 trailer, after Lizabeth Scott with her strangeness and her defiance of convention and after John Hodiak with his secrets and coiled snakeyness. And Lancaster’s introduced as ‘hammer fisted’ Tom Hanson, erroneously giving the impression that this will be an action film. But note too that by the end of the trailer, Lancaster is given top billing.

According to Kate Buford, in Burt Lancaster: An American Life, Lancaster thought ‘Desert Fury would not have lunched anybody’, later ‘dismissing it as having ‘starred a station wagon’ (loc 1157). The film is really a series of triangles: Eddie (John Hodiak) and Tom (Burt Lancaster) are both in love with Paula (Lizabeth Scott), Fritzy (Mary Astor) has already had an affair with Tom who is currently pursuing an affair with her daughter Paula, Paula and Johnny (Wendell Corey) are both in love with Eddie etc. I have made a not-quite-video essay that nonetheless well illustrates the Johnny-Eddie-Paula triangle, surely one of the queerest of the classic period, which can be seen here:

Tom is really a fifth wheel in the narrative. But by the time the film started shooting, Burt Lancaster was already the biggest star in it. His part was beefed up to take his new status into account, scenes were added, According to Gary Fishgall, the film was based on a 1945 novel, Desert Town by Ramona Stewart, and ‘ Lancaster’s role was an amalgam of two of the novel’s characters: the embittered, sadistic deputy sheriff, Tom Hansen, and a likeable highway patrolman named Luke Sheridan. Neither character was romantically linked to Paula (p.55). But in the film, he ends up with Lizabeth Scott at the end. All these additions probably contributed to the film seeming so structurally disjointed.

In Desert Fury Tom, a former rodeo rider, just hangs around waiting for Paula to get wise to Eddie, leaving her enough rope to act freely, as he does with colts when taming them, but not enough so that she hangs herself, or so he thinks. Really, he’s extraneous. He gets to walk into the sunset with Paula at the end of the film but the film really ends once Paula and Fritzy kiss, on the lips. He certainly doesn’t get much to do during it, except for a couple of great scenes where Fritzy tries to buy him into marrying her daughter (above) and another bit of banter when she thinks he’s come to accept her offer (below). Mary Astor steals both scenes. In fact she steals everything. Every time she appears, her wit, weariness, intelligence, the intensity of her love for her daughter — she lifts the film to a level it probably doesn’t deserve to be in. But Lancaster is good. These are the only scenes in the film where he looks like he’s enjoying himself.

Tom is the closest the film has to a ´normal character’. Indeed, aside from the character he plays in All My Sons (1948) this is the closest he’d come to such a type during the whole of his period in film noir in the late 40s and which includes all of his films up to The Flame and the Arrow in 1950. Even in Variety Girl, which is an all-star comedy where he and Lizabeth Scott spoof the hardboiled characters they’re associated with, the surprise is that they’ve already created personas to spoof in such a short time (see below).

According to Fishgall, ‘Lancaster –billed third before the film’s title — acquitted himself well in the essentially thankless other man’ role. Still, if Desert Fury had marked his screen debut as originally planned, it is unlikely that he would have achieved stardom quite so quickly. Not only did the film lack the stylish impact of The Killers, but so did the actor. Without the smouldering intensity of the Swede and his first pictures’ moody black and white photography, he appeared to be more of a regular fellow, and guy-next-door types rarely become overnight sensations’ (p. 67).

In Desert Fury we’re told that unlike the drugstore cowboys who are now criticising him, Tom used to be the best rodeo rider there was but a while back, whilst wrestling a steer, he got thrown off and is now all busted up inside. Being ‘busted up inside’ is what all the characters Burt Lancaster plays in the late ’40s have in common. He thinks of returning to the rodeo all the time but knows he can never be as good. He used to be a champ, now all he can hope for is to be second best. He knows he ‘ain’t got what it takes anymore’. He’s in love with Paula and she knows it. But she doesn’t know what she wants. He think he does: ‘you’re looking for what I used to get when I rode in the rodeo. The kick of having people say “that’s a mighty special person” I’d like to get that kick again. Maybe I can get it with just one person saying it’. He will, but he’ll have to wait until the end of the movie.

But even in this, Lancaster doesn´t play entirely nicey-poo, true-blue, throughout, and his Tom is given moments of wanton bullying and cruelty where he gets to abuse Eddie just because he’s a cop and wants to. And it´s interesting that it´s that moment, which jives so well with the ´brute force´Lancaster was already known for, and which would attach itself to his persona for many a year, that is the one chosen for the trailer.

According to Robyn Karney, in Burt Lancaster: A Singular Man, ‘As the straightforward moral law officer in a small Arizona town who rescues the object of his affections from the dangerous clutches of a murderous professional gambler, Burt had little to do other than look strong, handsome and reliable. Despite Wallis’ much vaunted rewrites, the role of the Sheriff Tom Hanson remained stubbornly secondary and uninteresting, with the limelight focused on John Hodiak as the villain, fellow contract players Elizabeth Scott and Wendell Corey’ (p.31).

I mainly agree with Robyn Karney except for four points, two textual and stated above: the first is that even in this Lancaster is playing a failure, someone once a somebody that people talked about but now all busted up inside; the second is that that element of being ´busted up inside´leads to a longing that gets displaced onto Paula. If the rodeo is what made feel alive and gave him a reason to live before his accident, now it´s Paula, and the idea that she might also be an unobtainable goal leads to his outbursts of unprovoked violence towards the rival for his affections, Eddie (John Hodiak).

The other two points of interest are extra textual. Desert Fury is gloriously filmed by Charles Lang. A few years later, in Rope of Fury, Lang would film Lancaster as a beauty queen: eyelashes, shadows and smoke, lips and hair (see below):

Here, even with his pre-stardom teeth and his bird´s nest of a hairdo, Lancaster sets the prototype for the Malboro Man:

He looks good in technicolour, and Lang brings out the blue of his eyes:

More importantly, the film visualises him, for the first time, as Wester Hero, a genre that would become a mainstay of his career from Vengeance Valley (1951) right through Ulzana´s Raid (1972) and even onto Cattle Annie and Little Britches (1981):

Desert Fury was not well reviewed. According to the Daily Herald ‘The acting is first-class. But except for Mr. Lancaster as a speed cop, the characters in the Arizona town with their lavish clothes and luxury roadsters, are contemptible to the point of being more than slightly nauseating’ (cited in Hunter p. 27),

The Monthly Film Bulletin labelled the film a western melodrama, claiming, surprisingly, that ‘The vivid technicolor and grand stretches of burning Arizona desert give a certain air of reality to the film’. Hard for us to see this thrillingly melodramatic film, lurid, in every aspect, evaluated in the light of realism. The MFB continued with, ´This reality is however counteracted by the way in which the sharply defined, but extremely unnatural characters act. Everything is over dramatised, and the title is a mystery in that the desert is comparatively peaceful compared with the way the human beings behaved…Lizabeth Scott is suitably beautiful as Paula and Burt Lancaster suitably tough as Tom. (Jan 1, 1947, p. 139)

Thus, we can see that on the evidence above, the film was badly reviewed, Time magazine going so far as to call it, ‘impossible to take with a straight face’ (Buford, loc1293). But Burt Lancaster´s performance was either exempted from the criticism or its faults where attributed to the film rather than to himself. More importantly still, the film was a hit, Burt Lancaster´s third in a row. Finally, as I´ve discussed elsewhere, the film is now considered by many a kind of camp classic, a leading example of noir in technicolor as well as arguably the gayest film ever produced in the classic period.

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Burt Lancaster in Desert Fury: Third Film, Fifth Wheel Burt Lancaster got his contract with Hal B. Wallis at Paramount on the basis of a test directed by Byron Haskin with Wendell Corey and Lizabeth Scott for…

#Burt Lancaster #Desert Fury #Lewis Allen #Lizabeth Scott #melodrama #noir #post-war cinema #post-war stardom #stardom #Third Film Fifth Wheel #westerns

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endless-vall · 4 years

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Choices LIs Tag Game

I’ve been tagged in this one a couple of times and really wanted to do this, finally gotten around to actually doing it tho, lol!

Thank you everyone who tagged me xoxo

Across the Void: Zekei for MC. Absolutely adored those two together. Zaniah for Pax. Eos fooled around with Lyra and Oberon but eventually he ended up with Oberon.

America’s Most Eligible: Adam (hispanic)

Baby Bump: Myles Dixon. I surprised myself there, but I’m really liking it so far.

Big Sky Country: Sawyer Oakley.

Bachelorette Party: Reed Hanson.

Blades of Light and Shadow: Mal Volari.

Bloodbound: Adrian Raines (also hispanic). I had a real dilemma in this book cuz before it came out I was really set on romancing Jax, and I did like him but I was more interested in Adrian.

The Crown & the Flame: Raydan Lykel the one and only. Sei for Dom

A Courtesan of Rome: Cassius Longinus. I had a second MC for Marc Antony but I did like Cassius better.

Desire & Decorum: Ernest Sinclaire.

The Elementalists: Beckett Harrington.

Endless Summer: Jake McKenzie. Estela was a close contader.

The Freshman series: Zig Ortega.

The Haunting of Braidwood Manor: Victor.

The Heist: Monaco: Fabien Ahmad, but also, like, everyone else?? I had a male mc (which was a first for me, the only other male mc I had was a secondary ES mc) and eventually I made him kinda get together with all the LIs.

Hero: Grayson/Kenji. Couldn’t really choose. Played both routes but couldn’t decide which one I like better?? I think Grayson, maybe?

High School Story: Michael Harrison.

High School Story: Class Act: M!Rory (white)

Home for the Holidays: Nick Peralta.

It Lives in the Woods: Andy Kang

It Lives Beneath: Both Tom and Parker, eventually gone for Parker.

LoveHacks: Mark Collins all the way

Mother of the Year: Thomas Mendez

Nightbound: Nik Ryder

Open Heart: Ethan Ramsey.

Passport to Romance: I think it was Elliot??

Perfect Match: Damien Nazario

Platinum: M!Raleigh Carrera

Red Carpet Diaries: Thomas Hunt and Matt Rodriguez. Had 2 mcs, one for each. Totally different personalities, yep.

Ride or Die: Colt Kaneko

The Royal Masquerade: Started out as M!Hunter (asian one) but ended up switching to M!Kayden (hispanic).

The Royal Romance: Liam (asian).

Rules of Engagement: Leo. Blake Yasuda for party twin, Audrey for nerdy twin.

Save the Date: Justin Mercado.

Sunkissed: Nate.

Veil of Secrets: Naomi Silverhawk

Wishful Thinking: Jaime Lewis

Anddddd, that’s it!

I tag @blue-sappir @catlady0911 @mfackenthal @asprankle @quacksonlover @frugalchoicer @endlessflame @drakewalkerwhipped and anyone who wants to do it 🥰🥰🥰

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