Walter Brennan, July 25, 1894 – September 21, 1974.
With John Russell, John Wayne, Angie Dickinson, and Dean Martin, on the set of Howard Hawks’s Rio Bravo (1959).
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Moebius
Walter Brennan and Henry Fonda in "My Darling Clementine"
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Bad Day at Black Rock is a 1955 neo-Western film directed by John Sturges with screenplay by Millard Kaufman (the creator of Mr. Magoo).
It stars Spencer Tracy and Robert Ryan with support from Anne Francis, Dean Jagger, Walter Brennan, John Ericson, Ernest Borgnine and Lee Marvin.
In the plot, a one-armed stranger comes to a small desert town in 1945, and uncovers a secret that has corrupted the entire community.
The film was a key reference for the design of the 2023 Wes Anderson film Asteroid City.
"Generally, we were looking at ‘Black Rock’ for overall how the town’s [located] in the landscape," confirmed designer Adam Stockhausen. "But also we’d go in and look at tiny details, too. How the tar paper was nailed to the roof of the gas station, and we ended up using it for the way we wrapped the tar paper around the motel cabins. Or the cafe when we took several little detailed pieces for the back counter of the luncheonette straight from there".
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Three Godfthers (Richard Boleslawski, 1936)
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Walter Brennan-Eve Arden-Vincent Price "Curtain call at cactus creek" 1950, de Charles Lamont.
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The Over the Hill Gang - ABC - October 7, 1969
Made for TV movie
Western (ABC Movie of the Week)
Running Time: 75 minutes
Stars:
Walter Brennan as Nash Crawford
Pat O'Brien as Captain Oren Hayes
Chill Wills as Gentleman George Asque
Edgar Buchanan as Jason Fitch
Gypsy Rose Lee as Cassie
Andy Devine as Judge Amos Polk
Jack Elam as Sheriff Clyde Barnes
Edward Andrews as Mayor Nard Lundy
Ricky Nelson as Jeff Rose
Kristen Nelson as Hannah Rose
William Smith as Amos
Myron Healey as Deputy Tucker
Rex Holman as Deputy Dolby
Bruce Glover as Deputy
Allen Pinson as Deputy Steel
Burt Mustin as Old Man
Almira Sessions as Mrs. Fletcher
Robert Karnes as Sheriff
Dennis Cross as Sheriff
William 'Billy' Benedict as Joe (telegrapher)
Harlen Carraher as Nash Crawford's grandson
Larry Michaels as Nash Crawford's grandson
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The Gnome-Mobile
1976 theatrical re-release poster
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Walter Brennan (July 25, 1894 – September 21, 1974)
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Hangmen Also Die
Because we were at war with Germany, Bertolt Brecht was credited with the less Teutonic “Bert” for Fritz Lang’s HANGMEN ALSO DIE (1943, TCM, Hulu, Prime, Tubi, YouTube). He was only credited for co-writing the story with Lang, though later scholars have suggested he had much more influence over the writing than previously thought. Shot when the public had no knowledge of who had killed Reinhard Heydrich, the Nazi’s commander in Bohemia and Moravia (now the Czech Republic), the film ascribes the assassination to a Czech doctor (Brian Donlevy) who’s unwittingly helped in his initial escape by the requisite sweet young thing (Anna Lee). When the Nazis fail to find the killer, they take hundreds of Czechs hostage, including Lee’s father (Walter Brennan), and start executing them until the killer comes forth.
There are lengthy discussions of whether Donlevy should sacrifice himself to save the hostages that smack of Brechtian philosophizing, particularly since there’s no right answer. There are also places where the Resistance is shown to be almost as ruthless as their occupiers, particularly a scene in which a crowd tries to stop Lee from going to the Gestapo with what she knows. But there are also a lot of complications involving Lee’s fiancé (Dennis O’Keefe), who thinks she’s having an affair with Donlevy, that reek of Hollywood. Fortunately, whenever the action flags, there’s a Lang touch — a quirk or gesture that gives a minor character more of an identity, rapid cutting to capture the plot’s repercussions on the city, a murder committed in silence and depicted through details— to liven things up.
Lee is lovely, as usual. She’s both natural and committed. Donlevy has good moments but suffers in the debate scenes, where he doesn’t seem to know what to do. The film also has strong support from Brennan along with Nana Bryant as his wife, Margaret Wycherly as his sister, Gene Lockhart as a Nazi informant, Alexander Granach as head of the Gestapo, Jonathan Hale and Byron Foulger as Resistance leaders and Lionel Stander as a Resistance fighter. German actor Hans Heinrich von Twardowski only has a few moments as Heydrich, but his body language as he sadistically dominates his underlings provides everything you need to understand the monster who helped craft the Final Solution. James Wong Howe did the cinematography and captures some wonderfully stark black-and-white images. And Brecht’s frequent collaborator, Hans Eisler did the effective score, including music for a Resistance song that runs through the film’s latter half.
Co-writer John Wexley appealed to the Writer’s Guild for sole credit and won, although at least one member of the jury called him a “credit-stealer” and said he’d only won on a technicality. Years later, HUAC labeled the film Communist propaganda, and its sole credited screenwriter was blacklisted. I think there’s a moral there somewhere.
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