"The Magic Christian (novel) The Magic Christian is a 1959 comic novel by American author Terry Southern (1924–1995) about an odd billionaire who spends most of his time playing elaborate practical jokes on people. It is known for bringing Southern to the attention of filmmaker Stanley Kubrick, who had received a copy as a gift from Peter Sellers, and subsequently hired him as co-writer for ""Dr. Strangelove"" (1964) when Kubrick decided to make that film a black comedy/satire, rather than a straightforward thriller. In 1969, ""The Magic Christian"" was made into a film starring Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr; the"
"re-cast. The part eventually went to actor Slim Pickens, who Kubrick met during his brief stint working on Marlon Brando's ""One-Eyed Jacks"". After the film went into wider release in January 1964, Southern was the subject of considerable media coverage, and was erroneously given primary credit for the screenplay, a misperception he did little to correct. This reportedly angered both Kubrick—who was notorious for his unwillingness to share writing credits—and Peter George, who penned a complaint to ""Life"" magazine in response to a lavish photo essay on Southern published in the May 8, 1964, edition. Stung by the article's assertion"
"were ""Dr. Doomsday or: How to Start World War III Without Even Trying"", ""Dr. Strangelove's Secret Uses of Uranus"", and ""Wonderful Bomb"". After deciding to make the film a black comedy, Kubrick brought in Terry Southern as a co-writer in late 1962. The choice was influenced by reading Southern's comic novel ""The Magic Christian"", which Kubrick had received as a gift from Peter Sellers, and which itself became a Sellers film in 1969. Southern made important contributions to the film, but his role led to a rift between Kubrick and Peter George; after ""Life"" magazine published a photo-essay on Southern"
"The Cowboy Quarterback The Cowboy Quarterback is a 1939 American comedy film directed by Noel M. Smith and written by Fred Niblo, Jr.. The film stars Bert Wheeler, Marie Wilson, Gloria Dickson, William Demarest, Eddie Foy, Jr. and William Hopper. The film was released by Warner Bros. on July 29, 1939. Rusty Walker, a scout for the Chicago Packers professional football team, discovers a young fellow named Harry Lynn in remote Montana who has amazing prowess as a quarterback. He persuades Harry to come to Chicago, but because Harry is afraid to leave girlfriend Maizie alone with rival suitor ""Handsome"
"Carol for Another Christmas"" was a 1964 American television movie, scripted by Rod Serling as a modernization of Charles Dickens' ""A Christmas Carol"" and a plea for global cooperation between nations. It was telecast only once, on December 28, 1964. The only TV movie directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, this was the film in which Peter Sellers gave his first performance after a series of near-fatal heart attacks in the wake of his marriage to Britt Ekland. Sellers portrayed a demagogue in an apocalyptic Christmas. Sterling Hayden, who costarred with Sellers in ""Dr. Strangelove"" earlier that year, was also featured."
"from segments variously directed or co-directed by a team that included Joseph McGrath, Robert Parrish, Val Guest, John Huston, Richard Talmadge, and Ken Hughes. Many planned scenes could not be filmed due to the feud between Orson Welles and star Peter Sellers, which climaxed with Sellers walking out during the filming of the casino scenes and refusing to return. Many writers contributed to the screenplay, including Southern (who wrote most of the dialogue for Sellers), Woody Allen, Wolf Mankowitz, Michael Sayers, Frank Buxton, Joseph Heller, Ben Hecht, Mickey Rose, and Billy Wilder. Southern had been introduced to Robert Fraser by"
"1970, with Lee Marvin in the title role, and again in 2003 as a TV movie starring Tom Selleck. Shane was also made into a movie and a series. Jack Schaefer Jack Warner Schaefer (November 19, 1907 – January 24, 1991) was an American writer known for his Westerns. His best-known work is ""Shane"", which was made into the film ""Shane"", and the short story ""Stubby Pringle's Christmas"" (1964). Jack Schaefer was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and was the son of a German American attorney. In 1929 he graduated from Oberlin College with a major in English. From 1929-1930 he"
"parks just weeks before their scheduled shoot at Paramount Ranch. To remedy the situation, O’Brien and his producing partner Louie Sabatasso of 3rd Partner Productions enlisted the aid of Peter Sherayko, known for providing the historical detail in the film ""Tombstone"". Together they built their own wild west tent city from scratch in the mountains of Agua Dulce, California. Sherayko, who played Texas Jack Vermillion in ""Tombstone"", is also featured in the film as Southern Bill. Sabatasso plays a lead as the eccentric and deadly dandy Salt Peter. Western historian Henry Parke made a visit to the set and did"
"Toughest Gun in Tombstone The Toughest Gun in Tombstone is a 1958 American Western film directed by Earl Bellamy and starring George Montgomery. Before initiating an undercover investigation in Tombstone,Arizona., Capt. Matt Sloane (George Montgomery) sets out to build a reputation for himself as a ruthless man. Sloane distributes ""wanted"" circulars describing his supposed criminal exploits, drops off his young son, Terry (Scotty Morrow), with a friend and joins a vicious gang headed up by his target, reckless outlaw, Johnny Ringo (Jim Davis). As Sloane works his way into Ringo's inner circle, Terry goes home in search of his father."
"Toughest Gun in Tombstone The Toughest Gun in Tombstone is a 1958 American Western film directed by Earl Bellamy and starring George Montgomery. Before initiating an undercover investigation in Tombstone,Arizona., Capt. Matt Sloane (George Montgomery) sets out to build a reputation for himself as a ruthless man. Sloane distributes ""wanted"" circulars describing his supposed criminal exploits, drops off his young son, Terry (Scotty Morrow), with a friend and joins a vicious gang headed up by his target, reckless outlaw, Johnny Ringo (Jim Davis). As Sloane works his way into Ringo's inner circle, Terry goes home in search of his father."
"roles of Sam and Nona Tucker in ""The Southerner"", but the couple left the project in pre-production due to McCrea's dissatisfaction with the script and his ""creative differences"" with Renoir. The roles then went to Zachary Scott and Betty Field. Although Scott did not possess McCrea's ""star power"" as a leading man and had relatively little experience in feature films, he did have one distinct advantage in preparing to portray Sam Tucker; he was a native of Texas, the setting for ""The Southerner"". Robert Aldrich, at age 26, was the assistant director on ""The Southerner"", which was filmed at various"
"Cheyenne Autumn Cheyenne Autumn is a 1964 epic and western film starring Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker, James Stewart, and Edward G. Robinson. It tells the story of a factual event, the Northern Cheyenne Exodus of 1878-9, told in ""Hollywood style"" using a great deal of artistic license. The film was the last western directed by John Ford, who proclaimed it an elegy for the Native Americans who had been abused by the U.S. government and misrepresented by many of the director's own films. With a budget of more than $4 million, the film was relatively unsuccessful at the box office"
"and the influx of oil wealth helped disguise the many systemic flaws in the Soviet economy. At the same time, the entire Eastern Bloc continued to experience massive stagnation, consumer goods shortfalls in shortage economies, developmental stagnation and large housing quantity and quality shortfalls. The preoccupation of Cold War themes in popular culture continued during the 1960s and 1970s. One of the better-known films of the period was the 1964 black comedy ""Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb"" directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Peter Sellers. In the film, a mad United States"
"The Southerner (film) The Southerner is a 1945 American drama film directed by Jean Renoir and based on the 1941 novel ""Hold Autumn in Your Hand"" by George Sessions Perry. The film received Oscar nominations for Best Director, Original Music Score, and Sound. Renoir was named Best Director by the National Board of Review, which also named the film the third best of 1945. The film, now in the public domain, portrays the hardships of a poor family struggling to establish a cotton farm in Texas in the early 1940s. As the film opens, Sam Tucker (Zachary Scott) is a"
"San Sebastián International Film Festival Award for Best Actor and a BAFTA award nomination for his performance, and it was well received by the critics. Stanley Kubrick asked Sellers to play the role of Clare Quilty in the 1962 film ""Lolita"", opposite James Mason and Shelley Winters. Kubrick had seen Sellers in ""The Battle of the Sexes"" and listened to the album ""The Best of Sellers"", and was impressed by the range of characters he could portray. Sellers was apprehensive about accepting the role, doubting his ability to successfully portray the part of a flamboyant American television playwright who was"
"a cast of Italian, Spanish, German, and American actors, sometimes a fading Hollywood star and sometimes a rising one like the young Clint Eastwood in three of Sergio Leone's films. Over six hundred European Westerns were made between 1960 and 1978. The best-known Spaghetti Westerns were directed by Sergio Leone and scored by Ennio Morricone, notably the three films of the ""Dollars Trilogy"" (starring Clint Eastwood as the main character)—""A Fistful of Dollars"" (1964), ""For a Few Dollars More"" (1965) and ""The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"" (1966)—as well as ""Once Upon a Time in the West"" (1968, starring"
"the 1950s. Although the bulk of his work was comedic, often parodying characters of authority such as military officers or policemen, he also performed in other film genres and roles. Films demonstrating his artistic range include ""I'm All Right Jack"" (1959), Stanley Kubrick's ""Lolita"" (1962) and ""Dr. Strangelove"" (1964), ""What's New, Pussycat?"" (1965), ""Casino Royale"" (1967), ""The Party"" (1968), ""Being There"" (1979) and five films of the ""Pink Panther"" series (1963–78). Sellers's versatility enabled him to portray a wide range of comic characters using different accents and guises, and he would often assume multiple roles within the same film, frequently"
"Soldier Blue Soldier Blue is a 1970 American Revisionist Western film directed by Ralph Nelson and starring Candice Bergen, Peter Strauss, and Donald Pleasence. Adapted by John Gay from the novel ""Arrow in the Sun"" by T.V. Olsen, it is inspired by events of the 1864 Sand Creek massacre in the Colorado Territory. Nelson and Gay intended to utilize the narrative surrounding the Sand Creek massacre as an allegory for the contemporary Vietnam conflict. Released in August 1970, the film drew attention for its frank depictions of violence, specifically its graphic final sequence. Some film scholars have cited ""Soldier Blue"""
"California Split California Split is a 1974 film directed by Robert Altman and starring Elliott Gould and George Segal as a pair of gamblers and was the first non-Cinerama film to use eight-track stereo sound. A friendship develops between Bill Denny (George Segal) and Charlie Waters (Elliott Gould) over their mutual love of gambling. Charlie is a wisecracking joker and experienced gambler constantly looking for the next score. Initially, Bill is not as committed a gambler (he works at a magazine during the day), but he is well on his way. The two bond when they are wrongfully accused of"
"Buckskin (film) Buckskin (1968) is a western film, released by Paramount Pictures, released on a low budget and starring an all-star cast. The main stars were Barry Sullivan and Joan Caulfield. Lon Chaney Jr. plays the role of Sheriff Tangley and Richard Arlen plays a townsman. The other stars were Barbara Hale, John Russell, Wendell Corey, Bill Williams, Leo Gordon, George Chandler, Aki Aleong and Barton MacLane. The film was also known as ""The Frontiersman"". It was the last of the series of A.C. Lyles Westerns for Paramount. The screenwriter Michael Fisher was the son of the series screenwriter Stephen"
"Will Penny Will Penny is a 1968 western film written and directed by Tom Gries starring Charlton Heston, Joan Hackett and Donald Pleasence. The picture was based upon an episode of the 1960 Sam Peckinpah television series ""The Westerner"" called ""Line Camp,"" which was also written and directed by Tom Gries. Heston mentioned that this was his favorite film in which he appeared. The supporting cast features Ben Johnson, Bruce Dern, and Slim Pickens. As the film opens a trail drive is coming to an end, with the resulting payoff of the now out-of-work trail hands. A trio of punchers,"
"with Jock Mahoney (""Overland Pacific"" (1954)), Rod Cameron (""Southwest Passage"" (1954)), Sterling Hayden (""Top Gun"" (1955), ""The Iron Sheriff"" (1957)), and Buster Crabbe (""Gun Brothers"" (1956), ""Gunfighters of Abilene"" (1960)), Jim Davis (""Noose for a Gunman"" (1960), ""Frontier Uprising"" (1961), ""The Gambler Wore a Gun"" (1961)), Bill Williams (""Oklahoma Territory"" (1960)) and James Brown (""Five Guns to Tombstone"" (1960), ""Gun Fight (1961), ""Gun Street"" (1962)). He made a children's Western, ""A Dog's Best Friend"" (1960). Small was reunited with Karlson and Payne for ""99 River Street"" (1953) and he put Payne in a swashbuckler, ""Raiders of the Seven Seas"" (1953)."
"his credit, would you guess it was by Kubrick? Would you connect ""Dr. Strangelove"" with ""Barry Lyndon""?"" Quentin Tarantino has said that ""The Killing"" was a significant influence on his 1992 film, ""Reservoir Dogs"". Nominations A digitally restored version of the film was released on DVD and Blu-ray by The Criterion Collection. The Killing (film) The Killing is a 1956 film noir directed by Stanley Kubrick and produced by James B. Harris. It was written by Kubrick and Jim Thompson and based on the novel ""Clean Break"" by Lionel White. The drama stars Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards and"
"and visual elements in his 2006 book ""Spaghetti Westerns: Cowboys and Europeans from Karl May to Sergio Leone"": ""most critics succeeded in missing the really inventive sections of ""Soldier Blue"", which involve Nelson's use of elaborate zooms, and of untraditional compositions, both of which subtly explore the relationship between the 'initiates' and the virgin land which surrounds them."" Recalling the film, star Candice Bergen commented that it was ""a movie whose heart, if nothing else, was in the right place."" Soldier Blue Soldier Blue is a 1970 American Revisionist Western film directed by Ralph Nelson and starring Candice Bergen, Peter"
"Yellowstone Kelly Yellowstone Kelly is a 1959 Western Technicolor movie based upon a novel by Heck Allen (using his pen name Clay Fisher, which shows in the movie credits) with a screenplay by Burt Kennedy starring Clint Walker as Yellowstone Luther Kelly, and directed by Gordon Douglas. The film was originally supposed to be directed by John Ford with John Wayne in the Clint Walker role but Ford and Wayne opted to make ""The Horse Soldiers"" instead. At the time the film was notable for using the leads of then popular Warner Bros. Television shows, ""Cheyenne"" (Walker), ""Lawman"" (Russell), ""77"
"and abandons him, but the mayor and preacher come to his aid. Gore and the Jenners end up dead, but so does Preacher Stone, which means Jill and Waco can be together again. Waco (1966 film) Waco is a 1966 American Technicolor western film directed by R. G. Springsteen and starring Howard Keel, Jane Russell, Brian Donlevy, Wendell Corey, Terry Moore and John Smith. A town in Wyoming is up in arms. Somebody has shot the sheriff, Billy Kelly, and things are so bad that preacher Sam Stone and businessman George Gates implore the mayor, Ned West, to bring in"
"10, 2004, and again on October 28, 2008 as part of ""Abbott and Costello: The Complete Universal Pictures Collection"". Ride 'Em Cowboy (1942 film) Ride 'Em Cowboy is a 1942 film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello. The supporting cast features Dick Foran, Anne Gwynne, Johnny Mack Brown, Ella Fitzgerald, Samuel S. Hinds, Douglas Dumbrille and Morris Ankrum, and the film was directed by Arthur Lubin. The author of best-selling western novels, Bronco Bob Mitchell (Dick Foran), has never set foot in the west. A newspaper article has exposed this fact to his fans, and his image is"
"Mankiewicz, who, according to Phil Hall, was happy to have work following the damage done to his reputation by ""Cleopatra"" the previous year. The actors involved with the production reportedly agreed to waive their fees due to the nature and perceived importance of the program. Peter Sellers, who at the time was reported to charge $750,000 or more, appeared for only $350, the Screen Actors Guild weekly minimum. Filming took place at the Michael Myerberg Studios located on Long Island, New York, during the fall of 1964. Henry Mancini wrote the theme music, also waiving his usual fee. It later"
"the commuter belt"", Southern maintained his social life in New York with diligence; longtime girlfriend Gail Gerber would often chauffeur him to Studio 54 (where he cultivated a convivial acquaintance with co-owner Steve Rubell), parties hosted by George Plimpton, and other engagements. Following the critical and commercial success of ""Being There"" (1979), Peter Sellers had a chance meeting with an arms dealer during an air flight that inspired him to contact Southern and ask him to write a script on the subject of the shady world of the international arms trade. The resulting screenplay, ""Grossing Out"", was reputed to have"
"Ride 'Em Cowboy (1942 film) Ride 'Em Cowboy is a 1942 film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello. The supporting cast features Dick Foran, Anne Gwynne, Johnny Mack Brown, Ella Fitzgerald, Samuel S. Hinds, Douglas Dumbrille and Morris Ankrum, and the film was directed by Arthur Lubin. The author of best-selling western novels, Bronco Bob Mitchell (Dick Foran), has never set foot in the west. A newspaper article has exposed this fact to his fans, and his image is suffering because of it. He decides to make an appearance at a Long Island charity rodeo to bolster his"
"The Split (film) The Split is a 1968 film directed by Gordon Flemyng and written by Robert Sabaroff based upon the Parker novel ""The Seventh"" by Richard Stark (a pseudonym of Donald E. Westlake). The film stars Jim Brown, along with Diahann Carroll, Julie Harris, Ernest Borgnine, Jack Klugman, Warren Oates, Donald Sutherland and Gene Hackman. The music is by Quincy Jones. It is notable for being the first film with an R rating. Thieves fall out when more than a half-million dollars goes missing after the daring and carefully planned robbery of the Los Angeles Coliseum during a football"
"The Twonky The Twonky is a 1953 independently made American black-and-white science fiction/comedy film, produced by A.D. Nast, Jr., Arch Oboler, and Sidney Pink, written and directed by Arch Oboler, that stars Hans Conried, Gloria Blondell, Billy Lynn, and Edwin Max. The film was distributed by United Artists. After seeing his wife (Janet Warren) off on her trip, Kerry West (Hans Conried), a philosophy teacher at a small-town college goes inside his home to contemplate his new purchase: a television set. Sitting down in his office, he places a cigarette in his mouth and is about to light it when"
"The Killer Shrews The Killer Shrews is a independently made 1959 American black-and-white science fiction film, produced by Ken Curtis and Gordon McLendon, directed by Ray Kellogg, that stars James Best, Ingrid Goude and Ken Curtis. The film co-stars Gordon McLendon, Baruch Lumet and ""Judge"" Henry Dupree. ""The Killer Shrews"" was filmed outside of Dallas, Texas back-to-back with ""The Giant Gila Monster"". Now in the public domain, the film has had multiple DVD releases and was featured in the fourth season of ""Mystery Science Theater 3000"". Captain Thorne Sherman (James Best) and first mate Rook Griswold (""Judge"" Henry Dupree) deliver"