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Written by James M. Tate / 7/14/2023 / No comments / charles bronson , david morse , dennis hopper , drama , jordan rhodes , melodrama , nineties , patricia arquette , sean penn , vietnam , viggo mortensen

SEAN PENN DIRECTS VIGGO MORTENSEN IN 'THE INDIAN RUNNER'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirHNpD96Jo2YLx8mSKzZ6SGbveUJbylpPHbj0460JA5Zg1DiaNytShQl7X9NHiHvbn8jyaG8-snmGPfOhu3EwokYWJyVooL-iK7MacLS1ZdSwRg6Ig-z0WomwsLjsctoJ5QduvkPsNE9J6ALoZJMdqNlL7qwOjlZlfbhU3DB5m6NZ8wMQpvnRQaeXQY9V-/s1962/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-14%20at%203.55.44%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="984" data-original-width="1962" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirHNpD96Jo2YLx8mSKzZ6SGbveUJbylpPHbj0460JA5Zg1DiaNytShQl7X9NHiHvbn8jyaG8-snmGPfOhu3EwokYWJyVooL-iK7MacLS1ZdSwRg6Ig-z0WomwsLjsctoJ5QduvkPsNE9J6ALoZJMdqNlL7qwOjlZlfbhU3DB5m6NZ8wMQpvnRQaeXQY9V-/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-14%20at%203.55.44%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE INDIAN RUNNER Year: 1993 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Sean Penn wrote and directed THE INDIAN RUNNER about two brothers that couldn't be more different: the central lead is David Morse as Joe Roberts, a humble cop in a small town the movie's set, deliberately outshined by the focal point for both the audience and Joe himself...  </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Enter Viggo Mortensen as the scene-stealing ex-con rebel Frank, visually a perfect-looking Marlboro Man with a sleazy antagonistic voice, he's one of those harsh, uncompromising born-losers that hurts everyone and everything, making RUNNER his own character-driven tragedy that, during the Vietnam war, also makes him a jilted returning-veteran: although the time-period aspect seems a bit forced and unnecessary...</p><p><span></span></p>

charles bronson, david morse, dennis hopper, drama, jordan rhodes, melodrama, nineties, patricia arquette, sean penn, vietnam, viggo mortensen

SEAN PENN DIRECTS VIGGO MORTENSEN IN 'THE INDIAN RUNNER'

Title: THE INDIAN RUNNER Year: 1993 Rating: **** Sean Penn wrote and directed THE INDIAN RUNNER about two brothers that couldn't be more...

KOLCHAK VS 'THE NIGHT STALKER' AND 'THE NIGHT STRANGLER'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Reviews of NIGHT STALKER & STRANGLER Years: 1972-73</u></td></tr>
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Darren McGavin's Kolchak is a throwback in an era that at this point is a throwback, causing a double-whammy of nostalgia in two Made-for-TV movies where a snoopy middle-aged reporter, dressed in 1940's Film Noir attire, or as described by one character, looking "part of the road company of THE FRONT PAGE," is more a detective or rather Gumshoe Private Dick than anything else...<br>
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Perhaps not a very hard stretch for McGavin who played Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer with more zest and charm than necessary, yet that jovial persona fits as Kolchak, specializing in Investigative Journalism by opening the right doors with a terrific personality, and when getting knocked down, not staying down... And to begin we'll learn about working with McGavin from one of the cast, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2010/03/jordan-rhodes-streets-of-san-francisco.html">MR. MAJESTYK character-actor Jordan Rhodes</a>, who played Dr. O'Brien, someone who actually helps the beleaguered reporter along, or at least tries to...<br>

carol lynley, claude akins, dan curtis, darren mcgavin, gumshoe, horror, jazz score, jordan rhodes, kent smith, larry linville, neo noir, ralph meeker, seventies, simon oakland

KOLCHAK VS 'THE NIGHT STALKER' AND 'THE NIGHT STRANGLER'

Reviews of NIGHT STALKER & STRANGLER Years: 1972-73 Darren McGavin's Kolchak is a throwback in an era that at this point is a th...

THE BLUE AND THE GRAY

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">year: 1982 cast: John Hammond, Stacy Keach, Gregory Peck, Penny Peyser, Bruce Abbott rating: ****</td></tr>
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In making a story about the Civil War, where “Brother fought Brother” on American soil, what better medium than an artist to tell the Civil War saga from both sides. <br />
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In this exceptional TV miniseries, we meet John Hammond’s passive John Geyser, who dreams of sketching illustrations in the big city. He lives on a farm in the South and his family’s bent on defending their land from the Northern Yankees. Although when THE BLUE AND THE GRAY begins and John (to the chagrin of his father and patriotic brothers) leaves home – traveling north to get a job from his cousin at a small town newspaper – there’s only the impending rumor of war… Which doesn’t last long.   <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John Hammond's John Geyser sketching both sides</td></tr>
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When the war begins, after his brothers and cousins have all signed up, Geyser has a meeting with Abe Lincoln – who saw him sketching he and wife Mary Todd. The 16th President gives John permission to sketch both sides of the war so he doesn’t have to eventually fight his own siblings. In a previous scene, John had turned against the South because of racism: his friend, a freed slave played by Paul Winfield, was lynched for harboring runaways. This was the last straw. <br />
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The big battle scenes are shot well, and best yet, they're up close and personal. Of John’s four Yankee cousins (including Bruce Abbott and David W. Harper), Brian Kerwin as Malachy, who’s afraid of battle and surreptitiously runs away when things get hairy, is mainly centered on as he goes from “coward” to hero in the course of several campaigns.  <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Penny Peyser's Emma Geyser loses her cool</td></tr>
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Stacy Keach plays an intrepid scout named Jonas Steele – he works for Lincoln personally and has the dangerous job of riding to the front lines to check on what the South is up to. The always dependable Keach makes a worthy maverick and takes John under his wing, but his constant dreams of the future are annoyingly farfetched. These scenes (and a few subplots, mostly involving top men discussing strategies) are the only slight drawback to an otherwise perfect tale that, despite a three-part run time, is hardly searing or tedious. <br />
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There are many locations and situations on and off the battlefield, like John’s romance with society girl turned front line nurse; Steele’s courtship with John’s pretty cousin; and John’s tough sister (Penny Peyser) slowly losing her sanity – yet the baseline remains at the rural Geyser home. The final stand takes place here, and as some exceptionally cutthroat Yankee soldiers attack his family, John must chose which side he’s really on.   <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brian Kerwin (right) faces battle</td></tr>
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An excellent miniseries that... despite the presence of bigger stars including Gregory Peck as Lincoln and Lloyd Bridges as the Geyser patriarch... never loses place of the important "smaller" characters, providing not only historic battles but involving undercover missions and plenty of suspenseful one-on-one fights, including a good old fashion duel.<br />
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THE BLUE AND THE GRAY has everything for both historians and die hard fans of the <i>war movie</i> genre.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The lovely Kathleen Beller as Kathy Reynolds</td></tr>
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THE BLUE AND THE GRAY

year: 1982 cast: John Hammond, Stacy Keach, Gregory Peck, Penny Peyser, Bruce Abbott rating: **** In making a story about the Civil War,...

Written by James M. Tate / 3/01/2010 / No comments / jordan rhodes , karl malden , seventies

JORDAN RHODES ("THE STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO")

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh218XeGH4U5Trn7CF6BBxxUq-pWK37qUsgTClrHrVpeqd10nrSEF8HvHZsVkOyDKqIRYRY9u-UsOY4FT65GanIuGFqGWUC9gtXZsktE3tYD0r0sY-c0RsmTnfFAlw6ZnoOPrVM4QG0EtwZ/s1600-h/extra1+copy.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434639625449530290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh218XeGH4U5Trn7CF6BBxxUq-pWK37qUsgTClrHrVpeqd10nrSEF8HvHZsVkOyDKqIRYRY9u-UsOY4FT65GanIuGFqGWUC9gtXZsktE3tYD0r0sY-c0RsmTnfFAlw6ZnoOPrVM4QG0EtwZ/s200/extra1+copy.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 200px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 147px;" /></a><i>Character-actor Jordan  Rhodes appeared in numerous classic cult films including the Charles  Bronson vehicle MR. MAJESTYK and Sean Penn's directorial debut THE  INDIAN RUNNER, and in-between this time he got the opportunity to work  on a popular television series called THE STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO with  the late Karl Malden...</i><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFlkrrkRcP8hY6k89rX4eq8-S6nxyw0tbxfRv_SoSVE0GL8hvXuIcfMnHswfbgo3uE99z2czo4IhDLlkpHSlbWojO2UdMQG7YXn3Z99RS9S6QWoV6TPs0vD2OUL3Bn1qjPlQ8r7xaN2Zrd/s1600-h/Karl-Malden-001.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433183906120119314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFlkrrkRcP8hY6k89rX4eq8-S6nxyw0tbxfRv_SoSVE0GL8hvXuIcfMnHswfbgo3uE99z2czo4IhDLlkpHSlbWojO2UdMQG7YXn3Z99RS9S6QWoV6TPs0vD2OUL3Bn1qjPlQ8r7xaN2Zrd/s200/Karl-Malden-001.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 120px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;" /></a><b><u>JORDAN RHODES:</u></b> Karl  Malden…What a tremendous actor and professional. When I first was hired  to recur as Jerry Billings, the D.A. on Streets of San Francisco, to  replace John Kerr, I had no idea that Karl was the man responsible for  getting me the job. I had been hired to do a guest shot on the show a  few months before, during the season. In that show, my character had a  couple of scenes with Karl and Michael Douglas. Shortly after I finished  that episode, John Kerr, the actor that had been playing the D.A., left  the show because of some creative differences. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2ID1w88zlvaZBrDm0NgjAnEXuiFLPZz8RamtzeGiNk0PaPoa7eY4_4ZkZytCkAOd8NB9oYU38Ey3pGeW7uhNr5ca1j2vech7iqaDdrxMSSmRdBCVcbzdwrVKf59_8F42IxmM61rOofwxS/s1600-h/streets-of-san-francisco-3.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433184657106467698" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2ID1w88zlvaZBrDm0NgjAnEXuiFLPZz8RamtzeGiNk0PaPoa7eY4_4ZkZytCkAOd8NB9oYU38Ey3pGeW7uhNr5ca1j2vech7iqaDdrxMSSmRdBCVcbzdwrVKf59_8F42IxmM61rOofwxS/s200/streets-of-san-francisco-3.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 106px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;" /></a>Michael  had just announced that he was also leaving the series so he could  produce One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest. A play, that his father, Kirk  Douglas, had starred in on Broadway and had owned the movie rights to  for over ten years. Kirk had given the rights to Michael and he had  finally found the financing and wanted to produce the movie. So the  production company was going to bring in another young actor to take  over the role of Karl’s partner and side-kick, Richard Hatch. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGiAzz5dGxR8-7t97_Jcgae3_Aoc9ecxnDKJaVjRSFK2ZvkD33UJEu3d1GLRFRShG_1LUUiYruoZW63fpoglV9wWBjtlVKunZ9Lyue-kfRG7U6cuwRFrJYvtL1HJ17Aon3qdx6NE80x7Qv/s1600-h/02malden_600.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433184491129631970" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGiAzz5dGxR8-7t97_Jcgae3_Aoc9ecxnDKJaVjRSFK2ZvkD33UJEu3d1GLRFRShG_1LUUiYruoZW63fpoglV9wWBjtlVKunZ9Lyue-kfRG7U6cuwRFrJYvtL1HJ17Aon3qdx6NE80x7Qv/s200/02malden_600.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 180px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 179px;" /></a>The  company was very anxious to keep Karl happy, and now due to a new guy  coming in, Karl was going to have to go back to working at least 5 days a  week, since Michael’s character and story line would no longer be able  to take up a couple of days a week. The production company wanted to  bring in a new guy for the D.A. that was capable of taking up some of  the slack and have enough scenes in a show to allow Karl a day or two  off during a grinding season of shows. I’m not sure people realize you  work 10 to 12 hours a day on a series, and when it’s a hit, you were  doing 26 episodes. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSEA-eM2piyBmah9MVD_ghDCsABoKKQly0PFdAslKaCWZsXIWmTgPC-6bsB7AKt1rvq6fIY-zlu_0o_aeCaZnRuwlHVMwZDoBUGdCVA5N-PF1DqcbbLKi5B12YUxQb8fe4Wv5ET2DuO1ZZ/s1600-h/as+a+gentleman.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433185560501519906" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSEA-eM2piyBmah9MVD_ghDCsABoKKQly0PFdAslKaCWZsXIWmTgPC-6bsB7AKt1rvq6fIY-zlu_0o_aeCaZnRuwlHVMwZDoBUGdCVA5N-PF1DqcbbLKi5B12YUxQb8fe4Wv5ET2DuO1ZZ/s200/as+a+gentleman.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 200px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 154px;" /></a>They  went to Karl and asked him if he had any suggestions for the new D.A. –  AND he remembered me from my guest shot, where I played an attorney  whose law partner had been killed by an ex-convict, and he suggested  they bring me back as the D.A., who left his private practice to join  the district attorney’s office.  Karl never said anything about this to  me, I learned it from someone in the production office after I was on  the show for a while. I learned a great deal from Karl. He would tell me  how to “stay” in a shot, even when we were walking along headed to the  courthouse, he would grab me by the arm and say, “stay close, that way  you’ll always be in the shot”. In the beginning, he watched out for me  with the make-up men and the lighting. In every scene I did with him,  Karl was always “there”! <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3ovND8eeIBqQ0SGis70Uk8CkUT98slxfvomvYymYoynKJU738p5EVjEhgz8qXEliQSmksZc-xvDPUF-FnQITSxvyeL6SrN9Y2oTs9Cllwbbm3Xl0GILMhowYvtYNDNFNoP2z1XMp47ziV/s1600-h/Karl-Malden.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433189621937690018" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3ovND8eeIBqQ0SGis70Uk8CkUT98slxfvomvYymYoynKJU738p5EVjEhgz8qXEliQSmksZc-xvDPUF-FnQITSxvyeL6SrN9Y2oTs9Cllwbbm3Xl0GILMhowYvtYNDNFNoP2z1XMp47ziV/s200/Karl-Malden.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 91px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;" /></a>He  believed in giving, sometimes more than he got, and taught me you  always worked for the “good of the scene”, the good of the story. He was  just terrific to work with and if you could leave your ego home, you  would always learn something from working with him. I’m thankful that a  few years ago, I took the time to write him a letter expressing my  thanks for all he taught me, and his kindness toward me during the time I  worked with him.

jordan rhodes, karl malden, seventies