"has created music for hundreds of films. In the 1960s, director Sergio Leone was impressed by a musical arrangement of Morricone's and asked his former schoolmate to compose music for one of his films, ""A Fistful of Dollars"". This led to a collaboration between the two on future Leone films, some of which came to be referred to as ""Spaghetti Westerns"". After a steady percussion beat, the theme to ""The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"" begins with a two-note melody sounding like the howl of a coyote. Additional sounds follow, some of which symbolize characters and themes from the"
"1966 Western ""The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"", where the titular characters played by Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef and Eli Wallach face each other at gunpoint. Director John Woo, considered a major influence on the action genre, is known for his highly chaotic action sequences, Mexican standoffs, and frequent use of slow motion. Director Quentin Tarantino (who has cited Woo as an influence) has featured Mexican standoff scenes in his films like ""Pulp Fiction"" (restaurant sequence); ""Inglourious Basterds"" (the tavern scene features multiple Mexican standoffs including meta-discussion); and the climactic scene of ""Reservoir Dogs"", which depicts a standoff"
"Good"", in which he worked with Uma Thurman and fellow ""Saturday Night Live"" cast member Robert Downey, Jr. The film was a critical failure, and some reviewers panned Hall's performance as a high school football star, stating that he, the movies' reigning geek, was miscast in the role. A review for ""The Washington Post"" claimed that the film was ""crass, vulgar, and relentlessly brain-dead."" After a two-year hiatus due to a reported drinking problem, Hall returned to acting by starring opposite Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder in Tim Burton's 1990 hit ""Edward Scissorhands"", this time as the film's villain. By"
"1960s, often appearing alongside actors such as Nino Manfredi, Alberto Sordi, Peppino De Filippo, Anna Maria Ferrero, and Totò. Although never a leading actor, he made a number of small appearances as character actors alongside Italy's leading film stars in films throughout the early to mid-1960s and is arguably best known in world cinema for his role as the store keeper in the Sergio Leone classic Spaghetti Western film ""The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"" in 1966. His roles ranged from storekeepers and cobblers to priests and homeless men. His role of most esteem, however, is perhaps as Napoleon"
"100 minutes for a US theatrical release by Astral Films in 1967. After its television broadcast on ABC in 1966, Eli Wallach won an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for his portrayal of drug kingpin ""Happy"" Locarno. This represented the production's only award. The Poppy Is Also a Flower The Poppy Is Also a Flower is a 1966 ABC made-for-television spy and anti-drug film. It was originally made under the auspices of the United Nations as part of a series of television specials designed to promote the organization's work. The film was directed by Terence Young and stars Yul"
"those years. Wallach's film debut was in Elia Kazan's controversial 1956 ""Baby Doll"", for which he won the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) as ""Most Promising Newcomer."" ""Baby Doll"" was controversial because of its underlying sexual theme. Director Elia Kazan however, set explicit limits on Wallach's scenes, telling him not to actually seduce Carroll Baker, but instead to create an unfulfilled erotic tension. Kazan later explained his reasoning: Wallach went on to a prolific career as ""one of the greatest 'character actors' ever to appear on stage and screen,"" notes Turner Classic Movies, acting in over 90 films. Having grown"
"The Bad Man (1941 film) The Bad Man is a 1941 American Western film starring Wallace Beery and featuring Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day, and Ronald Reagan. The movie was written by Wells Root from the Porter Emerson Browne play, and directed by Richard Thorpe. The film is a remake of a 1923 silent version and also of 1930's ""The Bad Man"", which stars Walter Huston in Wallace Beery's role of Pancho Lopez. The supporting cast features Tom Conway and Chill Wills. Gil Jones (Ronald Reagan) is an American who runs a Mexico ranch. A woman he loves, Lucia Pell (Laraine"
"The Bad and the Beautiful The Bad and the Beautiful is a 1952 American melodrama that tells the story of a film producer who alienates all around him. The film was directed by Vincente Minnelli and written by George Bradshaw and Charles Schnee. It stars Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Walter Pidgeon, Dick Powell, Barry Sullivan, Gloria Grahame and Gilbert Roland. ""The Bad and the Beautiful"" resulted in five Academy Awards out of six nominations in 1952, a record for the most awards for a movie that was not nominated for Best Picture nor for Best Director. In 2002, the United"
"The Ugly American (film) The Ugly American is a 1963 American adventure film directed by George Englund, written by Stewart Stern, and starring Marlon Brando, Sandra Church, Eiji Okada, Pat Hingle, Judson Pratt and Arthur Hill. It is based on the 1958 novel ""The Ugly American"" by Eugene Burdick and William Lederer. The film was released on April 2, 1963, by Universal Pictures. American ambassador Harrison MacWhite (Marlon Brando) travels to a Southeast Asian country beleaguered by rival factions but MacWhite views the political situation only in the simplest terms: as a struggle between communism and democracy. By the time"
"with the script which they believed ""overdevelops some characters and situations, and underdevelops others"". Author John H. Lenihan compares the film to ""The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly"", in that both films ""offer no consolation in their vivid deglamorization of war. The heroes, or antiheroes, of both films pursue selfish pecuniary ventures as a conscious alternative to becoming committed in a pointless destructive war"". Alvarez Kelly Alvarez Kelly is a 1966 Pathécolor war film set in the American Civil War starring William Holden and Richard Widmark. The film was based on the historic Beefsteak Raid of September 1864 led"
"The television is showing a scene from Sergio Leone's film ""The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"" with actors Eli Wallach and Antonio Casale, and a still of Gian Maria Volontè from another Leone film, ""A Fistful of Dollars"", is visible on the television on the back cover. A picture of footballer Rodney Marsh playing for Manchester City (the football team the Gallaghers support) is propped against the fireplace, and a poster of Burt Bacharach (one of Noel Gallagher's idols) is also shown leaning against the side of the sofa on the lower-left-hand side of the cover. Some writers believe"
"The Good Old Soak The Good Old Soak is a 1937 drama film starring Wallace Beery and directed by J. Walter Ruben from a screenplay by A. E. Thomas based upon the stage play of the same name by Don Marquis. The picture's supporting cast features Una Merkel, Eric Linden, Betty Furness, and Ted Healy. Screenwriter Thomas was disturbed that MGM changed the title from the original ""The Old Soak,"" to the ""Good Old Soak."" MGM did that because it felt Wallace Beery's fans considered the word ""good"" synonymous with Beery. Rollin Kirby, a distinguished political cartoonist on the ""New"
"these things,"" he said. ""Stay as far away from special effects and explosives as you can."" Minutes later confusion among the crew over the word ""Vaya!"" resulted in a premature explosion that could have killed Wallach. The ""Dollars"" trilogy was not released in the United States until 1967, when ""A Fistful of Dollars"" opened on January 18, followed by ""For a Few Dollars More"" on May 10, and ""The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"" on December 29. All the films were commercially successful, particularly ""The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"", which eventually earned $8 million in rental earnings"
"Eli Wallach Eli Herschel Wallach (; December 7, 1915 – June 24, 2014) was an American film, television and stage actor whose career spanned more than six decades, beginning in the late 1940s. Trained in stage acting, which he enjoyed doing most, he became ""one of the greatest 'character actors' ever to appear on stage and screen"", with over 90 film credits. On stage, he often co-starred with his wife, Anne Jackson, becoming one of the best-known acting couples in the American theater. As a stage and screen character actor, Wallach had one of the longest ever careers in show"
"Mickey Knox Abraham ""Mickey"" Knox (December 24, 1921 − November 15, 2013) was an American actor with nearly 80 films to his credit. He was also a screenwriter, film producer and novelist. Blacklisted during the McCarthy era, he moved to Paris and Rome to work. His screenwriter credits where he adapted approximately 150 Italian and French into English translations include the English adaptation of Sergio Leone's ""The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"". As a dialogue director he coached many non-English speaking actors in performing convincingly in the English language. Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino named his lead character, portrayed by Woody"
"Reynolds reportedly had sought the film rights in 1961.) Lear originally announced that production would start in the fall of 1966. Dick Shawn was reportedly being considered for the ""lead role"" (unspecified) in July 1966. However, filming didn't begin until a year later, on October 8, 1967. On May 23, 1967, the ""Los Angeles Times"" reported that William Friedkin was set to direct. Friedkin's first film, ""Good Times"" (1967), starring Sonny and Cher, had just been released. A musical comedy which spoofs various movie genres, including mysteries, westerns and spy thrillers, it was a critical and box-office flop. He was"
"Johnny Be Good Johnny Be Good is a 1988 American comedy film directed by Bud Smith, starring Anthony Michael Hall as the main character, Johnny Walker. The film also features Robert Downey Jr., Paul Gleason, Steve James, Jennifer Tilly and Uma Thurman. Former Chicago Bears quarterback Jim McMahon along with sportscaster Howard Cosell make cameo appearances. Judas Priest, Saga and Ted Nugent, among others, contributed to the soundtrack. The title track, ""Johnny B. Goode"", originally recorded by Chuck Berry, was re-recorded by Judas Priest for their album, ""Ram It Down"". Johnny Walker is the top high school quarterback prospect who"
"the Ugly"". The films catapulted Eastwood and Van Cleef into stardom. Film historian Richard Schickel, in his biography of Clint Eastwood, believed that this was the best film in the trilogy, arguing that it was ""more elegant and complex than ""A Fistful of Dollars"" and more tense and compressed than ""The Good, the Bad and the Ugly""."" Director Alex Cox considered the church scene to be one of ""the most horrible deaths"" of any Western, describing Volontè's Indio as the ""most diabolical Western villain of all time."" The man many call Manco (Eastwood) is a bounty killer who makes a"
"The Good Bad Man The Good Bad Man is a 1916 American silent Western film directed by Allan Dwan. The film stars Douglas Fairbanks (who also produced and wrote the film) and Bessie Love. The film was originally distributed by Triangle Film Corporation. The film was edited and re-released by Tri-Stone Pictures in 1923. A still photo from the film published in ""Overland Monthly"" (November 1916) refers to the film as Coyote of the Rio Grande and gives the name of Fairbanks' character as ""Coyote McCall"". No print of the original 1916 release exists, but a print of the 1923"
"up on the ""mean streets"" of an Italian American neighborhood, and his versatility as a method actor, Wallach developed the ability to play a wide variety of different roles, although he tried to not get pinned down to any single type of character. ""Right now I'm playing an old man,"" he said at age 84. But ""I've been through all the ethnic groups, from Mexican bandits to Italian Mafia heads to Okinawans to half-breeds, and now I'm playing old Jews. Who knows?"" Noting this versatility as a character actor, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences called him ""the"
"Tate and Elke Sommer. Larch appeared in two Clint Eastwood films, including ""Dirty Harry"" and ""Play Misty for Me"" (both 1971). Larch had the role of Captain Ben Foster on the NBC series ""Convoy"" (1965-1966). He guest-starred in ""Jefferson Drum"", ""Johnny Ringo"", ""Riverboat"", ""Naked City"" (three episodes), ""Stoney Burke"", ""Route 66"" (three episodes), ""The Fugitive"" (two episodes), ""The Invaders"", ""The Restless Gun"" (four episodes), ""Gunsmoke"" (seven episodes), ""The Virginian"" (four episodes), ""Bonanza"", ""Hawaii Five-0"", ""Mission Impossible"" (two episodes), ""The Troubleshooters"", ""Bus Stop"", ""The Law and Mr. Jones"", ""The Rifleman"", ""The Feather and Father Gang"", ""The Millionaire"", and ""three episodes of"
"Wallach recalled afterwards, ""Whenever Sinatra saw me, he’d say, 'Hello, you crazy actor!'"" Wallach, however, claimed to have no regrets. Film historian James Welsh states that during Wallach's career, he appeared in most of the ""prestige"" television dramas during the ""Golden Age"" of the 1950s, including ""Studio One, The Philco Television Playhouse, The Armstrong Circle Theatre, Playhouse 90,"" and ""The Hallmark Hall of Fame,"" among others. He won the 1966–1967 Emmy Award for his role in the telefilm ""The Poppy is Also a Flower."" In 2006 Wallach appeared on NBC's ""Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip"", playing a former writer"
"actresses portraying the Satanic gang being composed of black, white, Chinese and Indian members. For the film's major villain Horace Bones, actor and Indian dancer Bhaskar Roy Chowdhury, who had previously starred in a minor role in Durston's earlier film ""Blue Sextet"" (1972) was cast for the role. Many critics have cited Bhaskar's performance as Horace Bones as being one of the film's major assets. Bhaskar would continue his work as a professional dancer until a tragic accident in 1977 while performing a difficult maneuver paralyzed him from the waist down, later dying on August 4, 2003. Several of the"
"Good Times (film) Good Times is a 1967 American musical comedy film starring Sonny & Cher. The film marks the feature directorial debut (excluding documentaries) of William Friedkin, who later directed ""The French Connection"" and ""The Exorcist"". Sonny and Cher appear as themselves in this spoof of various genres, including mysteries, westerns and spy thrillers. The plot revolves around a film contract offered to Sonny by powerful executive Mr. Mordicus, played by George Sanders, who also plays the antagonist in each of Sonny's ideas for the proposed film, which are played out in a number of skits featuring music and"
"the screen as an invisible voice intones ""Hello, this is Edgar Wallace!"". The FSK gave the film a rating of 16 and up and found it not appropriate for screenings on public holidays. It was released on 26 April 1963. The Squeaker (1963 film) The Squeaker () is a 1963 West German-French crime film directed by Alfred Vohrer and starring Heinz Drache. It was part of a very successful series of German films based on the writings of Edgar Wallace and adapted from the 1927 novel of the same name. Both Scotland Yard and the criminal community of London are"
"Anthony Michael Hall. At review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, as of July 2014, ""Johnny Be Good"" had a 0% rating, based on 11 reviews, with an average score of 2.3/10. Nugent's contribution to the soundtrack, ""Skintight"", earned nomination for a 1988 Golden Raspberry Award as Worst Original Song. Johnny Be Good Johnny Be Good is a 1988 American comedy film directed by Bud Smith, starring Anthony Michael Hall as the main character, Johnny Walker. The film also features Robert Downey Jr., Paul Gleason, Steve James, Jennifer Tilly and Uma Thurman. Former Chicago Bears quarterback Jim McMahon along with sportscaster Howard Cosell"
"Lopez will turn him loose. He later shoots one of Lopez's men in the back and flees. He pulls a gun on Gil and Lucia later, but Lopez rides to their rescue. The Bad Man (1941 film) The Bad Man is a 1941 American Western film starring Wallace Beery and featuring Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day, and Ronald Reagan. The movie was written by Wells Root from the Porter Emerson Browne play, and directed by Richard Thorpe. The film is a remake of a 1923 silent version and also of 1930's ""The Bad Man"", which stars Walter Huston in Wallace Beery's"
"Wallach and Joanne Woodward. Many of these actors were making their first television appearance; one was Jose Ferrer, who recreated his stage performance in a one-hour television condensation of ""Cyrano de Bergerac"" a full year before the 1950 film version, for which Ferrer won an Oscar, was released. Another was Paul Muni, who starred in the 1948 presentation ""Counsellor-at Law"". Beginning in 1951, Philco shared sponsorship of the program with Goodyear, with the title alternating between ""Philco Television Playhouse"" and Goodyear Television Playhouse to reflect that week's sponsor. In 1955, the show was retitled The Alcoa Hour. The three series"
"when he had a minor role in ""Eddie Macon's Run"". Over the next 15 years, he appeared in over 50 feature films, increasingly taking the bad guy role for which he is well known, such as Sergeant Major Dickerson in ""Good Morning, Vietnam"". On television, he again portrayed an evil character, prison warden Brodeur on ""The X-Files"" in 1995 in the episode ""The List"". Walsh wanted to show his range as an actor and play good guys, despite being typecast as a villain. He played relatively decent characters in ""Outbreak"" and ""Sniper"", and also played the rather sympathetic Marine Lieutenant"
"first splatter film. Lewis followed with gory films ""Two-Thousand Maniacs!"" (1964), ""Color Me Blood Red"" (1965), ""The Gruesome Twosome"" (1967) and ""The Wizard of Gore"" (1971). This grotesque style translated to Andy Milligan's ""The Ghastly Ones"" (1969), ""Twisted Nerve"" (1968), ""Night After Night After Night"" (1969) as well as ""The Haunted House of Horror"" (1969). Post-World War II Germany adapted British writer Edgar Wallace's crime novels into a subgenre of their own called ""Krimi"" films. The ""Krimi"" films were released in the late 1950s through the early 1970s and featured villains in bold costumes accompanied by jazz scores from composers"
"Bad Bascomb (film) Bad Bascomb is a 1946 western film starring Wallace Beery and Margaret O'Brien. The movie was directed by S. Sylvan Simon. The supporting cast features Marjorie Main, J. Carrol Naish, Frances Rafferty, Marshall Thompson and Henry O'Neill. ""Bad"" Bascomb (Beery) is a notorious outlaw wanted by federal marshals after outwitting every group sent to capture him. He and fellow bandit Bart Ramsay (Naish), a cold-blooded killer, have again eluded the marshalls by joining a Mormon wagon train heading to Utah. They pretend to be helpful, and Bascomb becomes fond of an admiring little girl played by O'Brien."
"to shed light on the political instability of contemporary Italy. Leone, Donati and Luciano Vincenzoni worked together on the film’s screenplay for three to four weeks, discussing characters and scenes for the film. Donati, who had previously acted as an uncredited script doctor for ""The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"", conceived Juan Miranda’s character as an extension of Tuco from ""The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"". Meanwhile, Leone was largely responsible for the character of John Mallory, and the film’s focus on the development of John and Juan’s friendship. At times, however, Leone, Donati, and Vincenzoni found that"
"reference to actor Joachim Fuchsberger, another leading man from the series of Wallace films made by Rialto. The FSK gave the film a rating of 16 years and up and deemed it not appropriate for screenings on public holidays. It was released on 13 September 1963. The Indian Scarf The Indian Scarf () is a 1963 West German crime film directed by Alfred Vohrer. It was part of a very successful series of German films based on the writings of Edgar Wallace and adapted from the 1931 play ""The Case of the Frightened Lady"". After the rich Lord Lebanon has"