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The Law And Jake Wade
''The Law and Jake Wade'' is a 1958 American Western film directed by John Sturges and starring Robert Taylor and Richard Widmark. The picture was based on the 1956 novel by Marvin H. Albert. The film was shot on location in California's High Sierra mountain range, Lone Pine, and Death Valley in Metrocolor by MGM and in CinemaScope. This film was Robert Taylor's last A-picture as the top-billed lead. Plot Reformed criminal Jake Wade breaks his former partner, Clint Hollister, out of jail in the small western town of Morganville. The men have not seen each other since the bank robbery and murder that resulted in Wade's arrest. Wade refuses to tell Hollister where he has hidden the $20,000 from the robbery and advises him to leave the territory. Wade returns to Cold Stream, where he serves as marshal. Hollister and his men catch up with Wade, kidnap his fiancee, Peggy, and demand that Wade take him to the buried money. The next morning, they begin a long trek into the desert, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Hawks
William Bellinger Hawks (January 29, 1901 – January 10, 1969) was an American film producer. Career Hawks attended Yale University, where he was a member of Scroll and Key and graduated in 1923. In his early career, Hawks was a stockbroker. By the early 1930s, Hawks was a Hollywood talent agent and, as such, brought novelist William Faulkner to his brother Howard Hawks' attention in 1932, becoming Faulkner's Hollywood agent. He created United Producers Corporation in 1940 with Charles Boyer, Ronald Colman, Irene Dunne, Anatole Litvak, and Lewis Milestone. They intended to produce ten films for RKO Pictures. '' My Life with Caroline'' was the first of the intended series, thus Hawks became a film producer. Personal life Hawks married actress Bessie Love at St. James' Episcopal Church in South Pasadena, California, on December 27, 1929. Mary Astor, Carmel Myers, and Norma Shearer were her bridesmaids, and Howard Hawks and MGM wunderkind Irving Thalberg ushered. Mary Ast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lone Pine, California
Lone Pine is a census-designated place (CDP) in Inyo County, California, United States, located south-southeast of Independence. The population was 2,035 at the 2010 census, up from 1,655 at the 2000 census. The town is located in the Owens Valley, near the Alabama Hills and Mount Whitney, between the eastern peaks of the Sierra Nevada to the west and the Inyo Mountains to the east. The local hospital, Southern Inyo Hospital, offers standby emergency services. The town is named after a solitary pine tree that once existed at the mouth of Lone Pine Canyon. On March 26, 1872, the very large Lone Pine earthquake destroyed most of the town and killed 27 of its 250 to 300 residents. History The Paiute Indians inhabited the Owens Valley area from prehistoric times. These early inhabitants are known to have established trading routes which extended to the Pacific Central Coast, delivering materials originating in the Owens Valley to such tribes as the Chumash. A cabin was bui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1958 Western (genre) Films
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Reginald Simpson
Reginald Simpson (1896–1964) was a British stage actor and playwright.Mycroft p.209 He moved to Hollywood where he appeared in around seventy films in a mixture of supporting and minor roles. Selected filmography * '' Wallflowers'' (1928) * '' The Honor of the Press'' (1932) * '' Bird of Paradise'' (1932) * '' Kiss of Araby'' (1933) * '' I Believed in You'' (1934) * '' Fifteen Maiden Lane'' (1936) * ''Find the Witness'' (1937) * ''The Law and Jake Wade ''The Law and Jake Wade'' is a 1958 American Western film directed by John Sturges and starring Robert Taylor and Richard Widmark. The picture was based on the 1956 novel by Marvin H. Albert. The film was shot on location in California's High ...'' (1958) References Bibliography * Mycroft, Walter. ''Walter C. Mycroft, the Time of My Life: The Memoirs of a British Film Producer''. Scarecrow Press, 2006. External links * 1896 births 1964 deaths British male film actors British male stage actors British emigrants ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rory Mallinson
Charles Rory Mallinson (October 27, 1913 – March 26, 1976) was an American film and television actor. Career Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Mallinson began his acting career after signing a contract with Warner Brothers in 1945. That year he had a small role in the film, '' Pride of the Marines'', starring John Garfield and Eleanor Powell. Mallinson continued making films through the 1940s, and throughout the 1950s, appearing in over 90 films during this period. Notable films in which he performed include: a featured role in the 1947 film noir '' Dark Passage'', starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall; '' Mighty Joe Young'' (1949); the Abbott and Costello vehicle, '' Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man'' (1951); the 1952 western, '' Springfield Rifle'', starring Gary Cooper; and Howard Hawks' 1952 film, '' The Big Sky'', which stars Kirk Douglas, Dewey Martin, and Elizabeth Threatt. In the early 1950s, he also had a featured role in the film serial, '' Blackhawk''. His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Ferguson
Al Ferguson (19 April 1888 – 4 December 1971) was an Irish-born American film actor. Born in County Wexford, Ireland, he appeared in nearly 300 films between 1912 and 1956. Billed as Smoke Ferguson, by 1912 he was making Westerns for Selig Polyscope Company. In the 1920s he was the star, producer, and director for several low-budget Western films. He also appeared in some television Westerns in the 1950s. Ferguson died in Burbank, California. He is interred at Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery. Selected filmography * '' Youth's Endearing Charm'' (1916) – Joe Jenkins * '' Where the West Begins'' (1919) * '' The Timber Queen'' (1922) * '' Boomerang Justice'' (1922) * ''The Trail of Vengeance'' (1924) * '' Officer 444'' (1926) * '' The Baited Trap'' (1926) * '' Tentacles of the North'' (1926) * '' A Captain's Courage'' (1926) * '' West of the Law'' (1926) * '' Wolves of the Desert'' (1926) * '' The Wolf Hunters'' (1926) * '' The Fighting Stallion'' (1927) * '' W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roy Engel
Roy Engel (born Leroy Englewood Stults Jr.;"Missouri, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QLFM-JTCJ : Thu Jul 18 04:43:41 UTC 2024), Entry for Leroy Englewood Stults and Virginia Groves Stults, 16 Oct 1940. September 13, 1913"California Death Index, 1940-1997," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VPC2-HDQ : 26 November 2014), Roy Engel, 29 Dec 1980; Department of Public Health Services, Sacramento. – December 29, 1980) was an American actor on radio, film, and television. He performed in more than 150 films and almost 800 episodes of television programs. Career Engel's ancestry was Irish and Dutch. His father was Roy Engelwood Stults. Engel was a Letterman (sports), letterman in football Rockhurst High School and Rockhurst University, Rockhurst College. After he graduated from college, he worked in a warehouse. Engel's career in radio began at KCMO in Kansas City. His firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Coby
Frederick G. Beckner Jr. (March 1, 1916 – September 27, 1970) was an American film and television actor. He was known for playing Pony Deal in the fifth season of the American western television series ''The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp''. Coby died on September 27, 1970, at the age of 54. Partial filmography * ''The Cross of Lorraine'' (1943) - French Soldier (uncredited) * ''Girl Crazy'' (1943) - Radio Man (uncredited) * '' Lost Angel'' (1943) - Bit Role (uncredited) * ''A Guy Named Joe'' (1943) - Cadet (uncredited) * '' Two Girls and a Sailor'' (1944) - Sailor (uncredited) * ''Meet the People'' (1944) - Marine (uncredited) * '' Marriage Is a Private Affair'' (1944) - Roger Poole (uncredited) * ''They Were Expendable'' (1945) - Officer at Airport (uncredited) * '' The Scarlet Horseman'' (1946) - Tioga * ''Without Reservations'' (1946) - French Officer (uncredited) * '' The Brute Man'' (1946) - Young Hal Moffat * ''Don Ricardo Returns'' (1946) - Don Ricardo * '' Sweethea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddie Firestone
Eddie Firestone (December 11, 1920 – March 1, 2007), sometimes known as Eddie Firestone Jr., was an American radio, television, and film actor who accumulated over 200 total credits during his performing career. He played the wino who was kidnapped in Hawaii 5-0 Season 2, Episode 13 "The Joker's Wild, Man, Wild." Early life When he was 12, Firestone, along with Harold Peary, was in the cast of '' Wheatenaville '', a program broadcast on NBC's Pacific network beginning September 26, 1932. Career An early success was in the title role of radio's '' That Brewster Boy''. While doing that program, he also was an undergraduate student at Northwestern University. He left the program during World War II to join the United States Marine Corps in 1943, where he was commissioned, reaching the rank of captain, remaining in the Marine Corps Reserve until 1957. Some of the first television appearances with Firestone was in the first season of Jack Webb's ''Dragnet'' (1951–52). He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pistol
A pistol is a type of handgun, characterised by a gun barrel, barrel with an integral chamber (firearms), chamber. The word "pistol" derives from the Middle French ''pistolet'' (), meaning a small gun or knife, and first appeared in the English language when early handguns were produced in Europe. In colloquial usage, the word "pistol" is often used as a generic term to describe ''any'' type of handgun, inclusive of revolvers (which have a single barrel and a separate cylinder (firearms), cylinder housing multiple chambers) and the pocket gun, pocket-sized derringers (which are often multiple-barrel firearm, multi-barrelled). The most common type of pistol used in the contemporary era is the semi-automatic pistol. The older single-shot and lever-action pistols are now rarely seen and used primarily for nostalgic hunting and historical reenactment. Fully-automatic machine pistols are uncommon in civilian usage because of their generally poor recoil-controllability (due to the l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bar (establishment)
A bar, also known as a saloon, a tavern or tippling house, or sometimes as a pub or club, is a retail business that serves alcoholic beverages, such as beer, wine, liquor, cocktails, and other beverages such as mineral water and soft drinks. Bars often also sell snack foods, such as chip (snack), chips (crisps) or peanuts, for consumption on their premises. Some types of bars, such as pubs, may also serve food from a restaurant menu. The term "bar" refers both to the countertop where drinks are prepared and served and also metonym, by extension to the entirety of the establishment in which the bar is located. The term derives from the metal or wooden bar (barrier) that is often located along the length of the "bar". Over many years, heights of bars were lowered, and high stools added, and the brass bar remains today. History There have been many different names for public drinking spaces throughout history. In the Thirteen Colonies, a Taverns in North America, tavern was a Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comanche
The Comanche (), or Nʉmʉnʉʉ (, 'the people'), are a Tribe (Native American), Native American tribe from the Great Plains, Southern Plains of the present-day United States. Comanche people today belong to the List of federally recognized tribes in the United States, federally recognized Comanche Nation, headquartered in Lawton, Oklahoma. The Comanche language is a Numic languages, Numic language of the Uto-Aztecan languages, Uto-Aztecan family. Originally, it was a Shoshoni language, Shoshoni dialect, but diverged and became a separate language. The Comanche were once part of the Shoshone people of the Great Basin. In the 18th and 19th centuries, Comanche lived in most of present-day northwestern Texas and adjacent areas in eastern New Mexico, southeastern Colorado, southwestern Kansas, and western Oklahoma. Spanish colonists and later Mexicans called their historical territory ''Comancheria, Comanchería''. During the 18th and 19th centuries, Comanche practiced a nomadic h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
