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Written by James M. Tate / 3/04/2022 / No comments / airplane , body count , dee wallace , eighties , ensemble , frank m. benard , hijack , kim johnston ulrich , kristina wayborn , mitchell ryan , morgan paull , thriller , tv movie , warner archives

TELEVISION AIRPLANE-HIJACKING THRILLER OF 'HOSTAGE FLIGHT'

<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/a/AVvXsEgWW-V_Eq0sYAnHfyheEYisk5FUp-xBqrf2wevO2VaxKdoRM17zVtzY_ivqfwcZvlxheF4C2_suo-mBGaVGWitSGZqyFFx5knMUJvnioSqS8BOZzehMr3VYGeND2UbuORyMNFO3spn75c93oYnoJma94dehi0KgF87W-OjV26cZGlEdROQoUp41RfQHOQ=s1170" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="767" data-original-width="1170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgWW-V_Eq0sYAnHfyheEYisk5FUp-xBqrf2wevO2VaxKdoRM17zVtzY_ivqfwcZvlxheF4C2_suo-mBGaVGWitSGZqyFFx5knMUJvnioSqS8BOZzehMr3VYGeND2UbuORyMNFO3spn75c93oYnoJma94dehi0KgF87W-OjV26cZGlEdROQoUp41RfQHOQ=s16000"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Frank M. Benard and Kristina Wayborn in HOSTAGE FLIGHT Year: 1985 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The 1985 TV-Movie HOSTAGE FLIGHT is one of the better hijacking dramas, which includes theatrical features with the1970's All-Star-Cast device only here with actors and actresses mostly known for television, at that time... </p><p></p><p></p><p>Except Ned Beatty as the man in charge on the ground (with gunman Morgan Paull at his beckon call), stressing on the situation in the air, filmed with a worthy amount of suspense and for very good reason... </p><p><span></span></p>

airplane, body count, dee wallace, eighties, ensemble, frank m. benard, hijack, kim johnston ulrich, kristina wayborn, mitchell ryan, morgan paull, thriller, tv movie, warner archives

TELEVISION AIRPLANE-HIJACKING THRILLER OF 'HOSTAGE FLIGHT'

Frank M. Benard and Kristina Wayborn in HOSTAGE FLIGHT Year: 1985 Rating: **** The 1985 TV-Movie HOSTAGE FLIGHT is one of the better hijacki...

PILOT EPISODE OF THE TELEVISION SERIES 'BEYOND WESTWORLD'

action, cassandra peterson, james wainwright, jim mcmullan, morgan paull, mystery, nancy harewood, science-fiction, tv series

PILOT EPISODE OF THE TELEVISION SERIES 'BEYOND WESTWORLD'

Nancy Harewood in Beyond Westworld 1980 Rates: ***1/2 Unfairly maligned, BEYOND WESTWORLD was a pretty great short-lived series, lasting onl...

ELYSSA DAVALOS IN 'THE APPLE DUMPLING GANG RIDES AGAIN'

comedy, disney, don knotts, elyssa davalos, harry morgan, morgan paull, sequel, tim conway, tim matheson

ELYSSA DAVALOS IN 'THE APPLE DUMPLING GANG RIDES AGAIN'

Eylssa Davalos and Robert Pine in THE APPLE DUMPLING GANG RIDES AGAIN Year: 1979 The original APPLE DUMPLING GANG is one of those experi...

WILLIAM LUSTIG & LARRY COHEN WANT YOU TO FEAR 'UNCLE SAM'

bo hopkins, body count, christopher ogden, exploitation, horror, isaac hayes, larry cohen, leslie neale, morgan paull, nineties, pj soles, robert forster, war, william lustig, william smith

WILLIAM LUSTIG & LARRY COHEN WANT YOU TO FEAR 'UNCLE SAM'

Christopher Ogden daydreaming of war in UNCLE SAM Year: 1996 Never have two actresses looked so much like sisters who aren't playing...

DENNIS CHRISTOPHER'S TOUR-DE-FORCE OF 'FADE TO BLACK'

body count, dark comedy, dennis christopher, eighties, exploitation, horror, linda kerridge, marcie barkin, mickey rourke, morgan paull, neo noir, tim thomerson

DENNIS CHRISTOPHER'S TOUR-DE-FORCE OF 'FADE TO BLACK'

Dennis Christopher in FADE TO BLACK Year: 1980 "That was a lot of fun and I got burnt by squibs, they’re called," is not a qu...

MORGAN PAULL, JUNE FAIRCHILD & TARA STROHMEIER 'DIRTY O'NEIL'

But he’s not only in it for the good times. He digs his job… Protecting the small town where he resides… and when three grimy criminals attack one of his girlfriends, he has to step up and really take action.<br />
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Paull, in a Cult Film Freak podcast interview, and who played the Tyrell agent Harrison Ford replaces in BLADE RUNNER, noted: “So that’s the chance of the business. Harrison Ford was up for several movies, including DIRTY O’NEIL. He got the hit, I got the bomb… What can I say?”<br />

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<i>Well let me tell you, I was happily married at the time so it was the greatest waste of talent in my life... My wife checked every night… She called the set to say, “Have they rapped yet, have they rapped yet?” She wanted to know everything, so those girls – we had our scenes and that was the end of it.</i><br />

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<i>It’s the lowest budget movie in history, believe me… I mean our lunch was whatever they could find at a local hotdog stand... But it was a lead role and it was supposed to be funny, a takeoff on all the cop movies that were going on… And it had potential of being funny... </i><br />
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<i>Art Metrano was funny and I was trying to be somewhat funny… And the premise was funny. But you know – it was what it was.</i>   <br />

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Tara Strohmeier</td></tr></tbody></table><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/AVvXsEgRHVSFwqHvy7IfhtC_ohrgFR-MS239zivgf0Mv1ZPo2X2LyWuS_CQz01aX3BdExBCqO5q-8lJCnI0AFKkkbG8JY8gse9EsKKdtAeZGvaOJ8RzuMwJbfYY3_CiKeGQvYoHHIPNAX_Bfxq1AxFC2MJOZ5qjgKfFGpMLqWPfbIIWPsf3T0OuhTooVKpeHZLMu/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202024-04-12%20at%201.58.55%20AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="860" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRHVSFwqHvy7IfhtC_ohrgFR-MS239zivgf0Mv1ZPo2X2LyWuS_CQz01aX3BdExBCqO5q-8lJCnI0AFKkkbG8JY8gse9EsKKdtAeZGvaOJ8RzuMwJbfYY3_CiKeGQvYoHHIPNAX_Bfxq1AxFC2MJOZ5qjgKfFGpMLqWPfbIIWPsf3T0OuhTooVKpeHZLMu/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-04-12%20at%201.58.55%20AM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tara Strohmeier in DIRTY O'NEIL<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><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/AVvXsEjlhcIIexHzt-Ib2Gpc4UPGScnatZmP66iCeiUYgqFRvAZnYlX_pszofllmZXrCBh3N4r6KIBz93c-EZjTgEZsMpNf7nYtXA6-ChIvLvBoKYCR3_yLDraYzpIFnqASBDYwlvU01v7Z9F50ncXZTzLl-qLy9wNMQr-xshgyEDghaGyx2lw3sLTPfwlOC5fNs/s1634/Screen%20Shot%202024-04-12%20at%201.59.08%20AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="898" data-original-width="1634" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlhcIIexHzt-Ib2Gpc4UPGScnatZmP66iCeiUYgqFRvAZnYlX_pszofllmZXrCBh3N4r6KIBz93c-EZjTgEZsMpNf7nYtXA6-ChIvLvBoKYCR3_yLDraYzpIFnqASBDYwlvU01v7Z9F50ncXZTzLl-qLy9wNMQr-xshgyEDghaGyx2lw3sLTPfwlOC5fNs/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-04-12%20at%201.59.08%20AM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kitty Carl and Tara Strohmeier in DIRTY O'NEIL<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><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/AVvXsEjUANPjouuMfhBEzsXfUiXf-IMCLihYjp3Q-QeMSwBtejzi-0Y82esTEvS4abV2oiuvm_zsPffk49ex7dW9fPEhV2VVL45pE3YiYwN5DrtqtI_5JHH-yHFWoM6SyaRUabcS0r03x6pOI2K6CJqtpFDtc98qFN0t2TkgezQfGztPW1YMYRijUVWsm0W7i3h-/s1678/Screen%20Shot%202024-04-12%20at%201.58.37%20AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="906" data-original-width="1678" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUANPjouuMfhBEzsXfUiXf-IMCLihYjp3Q-QeMSwBtejzi-0Y82esTEvS4abV2oiuvm_zsPffk49ex7dW9fPEhV2VVL45pE3YiYwN5DrtqtI_5JHH-yHFWoM6SyaRUabcS0r03x6pOI2K6CJqtpFDtc98qFN0t2TkgezQfGztPW1YMYRijUVWsm0W7i3h-/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-04-12%20at%201.58.37%20AM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Titles from DIRTY O'NEIL</td></tr></tbody></table><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/AVvXsEisJUU5HeXwnFkNl2inwgDoRgHUpd93x2cOk9KWfyVBcajsKW2SLlc9boFIqd6_ifL19nAHUQe154PkQeYWCeC92RgE1124WBUrBvq6RW0fVnT20f0Ks0RWheTOzdwa4zbVhiSnHfKIVvK5dN900ZL2nQ3aW3faROxtiG7GQPe39P4is8stC1H4GnsVohqn/s1608/Screen%20Shot%202024-04-12%20at%201.58.24%20AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="972" data-original-width="1608" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisJUU5HeXwnFkNl2inwgDoRgHUpd93x2cOk9KWfyVBcajsKW2SLlc9boFIqd6_ifL19nAHUQe154PkQeYWCeC92RgE1124WBUrBvq6RW0fVnT20f0Ks0RWheTOzdwa4zbVhiSnHfKIVvK5dN900ZL2nQ3aW3faROxtiG7GQPe39P4is8stC1H4GnsVohqn/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-04-12%20at%201.58.24%20AM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">June Fairchild as the sexy hitchhiker in DIRTY O'NEIL<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br />

art metrano, cop, crime, exploitation, june fairchild, lewis teague, morgan paull, seventies, tara strohmeier

MORGAN PAULL, JUNE FAIRCHILD & TARA STROHMEIER 'DIRTY O'NEIL'

year: 1974 cast: Morgan Paull, June Fairchild, Tara Strohmeier, Art Metrano rating: ***1/2 “Caught in the act,” says one of many vixens in ...

Written by James M. Tate / 1/15/2013 / No comments / comedy , disney , don knotts , elyssa davalos , harry morgan , morgan paull , sequel , tim conway , tim matheson

THE APPLE DUMPLING GANG RIDES AGAIN

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">year: 1979 cast: Don Knotts, Tim Conway, Tim Matheson, Elyssa Davalos, Robert Pine rating: ***1/2</td></tr>
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The original APPLE DUMPLING GANG is one of those experiences you remember as a kid for two reasons: Don Knotts and Tim Conway as two hilariously clumsy bank robbers. But upon rewatching you realize they aren’t in the movie enough.<br />
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Unlike using comic relief mascots sparingly in a successful manor (so not to ware out their welcome), like John Belushi in ANIMAL HOUSE, Sean Penn in FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH, or Michael Keaton in BEETLEJUICE, the comic duo are needed much more in the first Disney film that spends too much time on Bill Bixby and his orphans who deem themselves The Apple Dumpling Gang. That’s right… the Gang isn’t even named after Knotts and Conway – but in this superior sequel they keep the title for continuity’s sake.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elyssa Davalos and a shifty Robert Pine</td></tr>
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We begin with the two bumbling crooks Theodore (Knotts) and Amos (Conway) who’ve gone straight. Riding around on a faithful mule they enter a mining town to hit a bank: depositing money this time. But two scruffy bank robbers, posing as tellers, steal their loot and the adventure begins – mostly dealing with “The Apple Dumpling Gang” being mistaken as sharpshooters since they accidentally thwarted the legendary Sheriff Hitchcock (Kenneth Mars), who keeps on their trail in a Wile E. Coyote fashion.<br />
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Tim Matheson, as a young private in a Calvary Fort being marauded of supplies, drives the necessary plot; Harry Morgan runs the show with his right hand man played by CHIPS sarge Robert Pine; and providing the love interest (to Pine and then Matheson) is the gorgeous Elyssa Davalos as Morgan’s classy daughter.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elyssa Davalos as Miss Millie Gaskill</td></tr>
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Theodore and Amos go from the Fort to a prison to an underground lair run by Jack Elam and his henchman. There are plenty of locations and twists and turns and, while some of the gags aren’t drop dead hilarious, there’s enough going on to keep you entertained till the climax involving a speeding train heist. <br />
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Great stuff and proof that sequels <i>can</i> be better.<br />
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THE APPLE DUMPLING GANG RIDES AGAIN

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Written by James M. Tate / 7/18/2012 / 1 Comment / cult , eighties , june fairchild , morgan paull , science-fiction

PATTON TO BLADE RUNNER: FINAL INTERVIEW OF MORGAN PAULL

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Transcribed Morgan Paul final interview by James M. Tate</u></td></tr>
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<i>MORGAN PAULL was a versatile actor who appeared in many films including 
PATTON as the General's right hand man, and others including THE SWARM, FADE TO BLACK, MITCHELL and he is most remembered for BLADE 
RUNNER playing the Tyrell agent, Holden...</i><br />
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<i>In this interview, possibly Morgan's final before his death, he discusses working with the likes of Harrison Ford, Michael Caine and the dislikes of George C. Scott...  </i><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b>Tell us about the real-life character you played in PATTON, Captain Richard N. Jenson... </b></span><br />
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He was from Pasadena, California where Patton himself spent a lot  of time. And I had, before I got cast in the movie, a part in a play at  the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles… The first play about Vietnam of any  significance... The producers saw me and wanted me to play Patton’s  aide.<br />
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And  I wanted to meet the Jensen family and they just advised against it  because they wanted everything in the movie to be true, and we had to  get General Bradley’s permission for everything that was about him. And  they <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">didn</span>’t  want to muddy the waters by suddenly having my character’s parents  having something they disagreed with. It was a great experience of one’s  life. General Bradley was around a lot. It was an incredible experience  and I had just come from theater… It was my first movie.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">You're  in this a lot in the beginning – the first forty five minutes – as  General Patton’s right hand man… How was it working with George C.  Scott?</span></span><br />
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How did you know it was forty-five minutes? Because it was exactly forty-five minutes before they kill me off…<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Well I usually time these things… But I’<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">ve</span>  seen so many movies and forty-five minutes is usually the point where  something of great significance happens… From KING KONG to whatever  else… And this is the big battle: the first battle scene altogether…</span></span><br />
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I  don’t know whether it hurt my career, but every picture after that…  Directors call other directors in Hollywood and ask: “How is this guy to  work with?” And the first time they called Franklin <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Schaffner</span> for FOOL'S PARADE, my second movie… <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Schaffner</span>  said, “He’s fine, as long as you kill him off after the first 45  minutes.” And every movie I made that was successful, I die in, so I  don’t know what that means…<br />
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George was insane, personally, and that’s it. I  mean, people loved his acting and we loved working with him but after  the third time he pulled a stunt with me, I said, “Don’t look at me  again in a restaurant, just stay away.” He said, “So you’re my ex aid?”  And I said, “I’ll finish the movie, obviously. But stay away from me  socially.” And he even thought he was Patton at some point.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Okay  Morgan, I have an idea for a script I want to pitch for you… It’s  called ALABAMA AND THE FORTY THIEVES and… Actually, this is from the  cult horror movie FADE TO BLACK where you play a producer named Gary <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">Bially</span> who rips off Dennis Christopher’s movie idea...</span></span><br />
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That  scene was quite a lot of fun. By the way, that was produced by two guys  I went to school with. They were a year behind me, at Culver Military  Academy in Indiana… George <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">Braunstein</span> and Ron <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">Hamady</span>.  Two of the greatest guys you ever want to know. And my agent called me  one day and said, “Look, these guys are independent, I don’t know who  they are. But they got options over at CBS studio center, which is a  little film studio in studio city. They want to see you.” And I said,  “Why?” And he said, “I don’t know why, but you live near there.” So I  went over and they turned out to be guys who went to the same school.  They were one year behind me and they had seen me in school plays. And  they said, “We got a movie and we want you in.” And I said, “Okay, fine,  I’ll call my agent.”<br />
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So they did and we went on to  make it. And it’s really a true story about the film’s writer, Vernon  Zimmerman, who had a script stolen… It’s nothing new in Hollywood. So it  was all based on truth: The psychotic kid played all these movie  characters and took care of Hollywood.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">And your death scene involves Dennis Christopher shooting you with a Tommy Gun in a hair salon…</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Yeah, it’s one of my favorites and a dream for nostalgia buffs as Dennis imitates movie legends like James Cagney and Richard <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">Widmark</span>…</span></span><br />
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I did a few movies with <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">Ricahard</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">Widmark</span>. We did one called THE TWILIGHT’S LAST GLEAMING together, and we did THE SWARM,<span style="font-style: italic;"> really</span> a "Bee" movie. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">Widmark</span> and I were in a death scene together there… <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">Widmark</span> was great. And in THE SWARM I’m the scientist explaining to everybody… Olivia <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">de</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19">Havilland</span>, Henry Fonda, all these people… about the killer bees coming to the country and if we don’t do something about it…<br />
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So, on the sixteenth take I apparently said, “The end of the human <span style="font-style: italic;">feces</span>.” And Olivia <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21">de</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22">Havilland</span>  said, “I’m sorry, did he say Species or Feces?” So they played back the  tape… This is my first day… And sure enough I slip up and say, “Feces.”  So Irwin Allen says, “Do your jokes on your own time… Not very nice.”<br />
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So Michael <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23">Caine</span> took me to lunch and said, “Look, let me explain to you about this director because I’<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24">ve</span> been out here a couple weeks: He’s like the London airport authority. They got everything lined up at <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25">Heathrow</span>.  They got the luggage coming and going. They got the ticketing  absolutely perfectly processed. They got all the time schedules all set  and then – the passengers arrive and fuck everything up.” He said,  “That’s the way he is with actors.”<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">So you die in THE SWARM… And in FADE TO BLACK you’re killed in a chair and the same with BLADE RUNNER…</span></span><br />
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But  I don’t die in BLADE RUNNER. Here’s the catch… New to your universe… If  you listen closely: a couple scenes after me, Harrison Ford goes to the  police sergeant and asks what happened to Holden, my character. And he  answers, “He’s okay if you don’t unplug him.” And there were scenes shot  – which are in an extended version of BLADE RUNNER. In that four pack  they show a couple of the scenes where I’m plugged in and shooting  myself with drugs and watching movies. And Harrison Ford comes in to see  what happened, and all that might be in another new version of BLADE  RUNNER which apparently is gonna go forward… But at any rate, instead of  that, in trying to trim the movie they trimmed those scenes.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Before you were cast as Holden in BLADE RUNNER, you had another job on the film...</span></span><br />
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I  was hired as an actor to do screen tests to help girls in the part of  Rachel and five girls for Daryl Hannah’s part. So I tested with each of  those girls and for a good amount of money, at the end of which they  decided to have them in the movie. And they’d all been cast except for  this Holden character. So he offered me Holden, which I <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26">wasn</span>’t expecting… It was unusual for me. My agent said. “You’re not testing, you’re gonna test girls.” And I said, “What kind of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_27">flukey</span>  thing is that?” And he said, “You’re gonna get paid a good amount of  money. You’re probably gonna be kissing and necking with ten of the most  beautiful actresses in Hollywood.” And I said, “Okay, it can’t be all  that bad.” And then they hired me as Holden and that’s how that came  about.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Your brief but extremely important scene when you interrogate Leon, played by Brion James, sets the stage for the entire film…</span></span><br />
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Brion was a good friend of mine, and we’d worked on other things, TV shows… And it <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_28">wasn</span>’t  that short a scene when we did it. I actually had a terrible cold and I  can hear it myself but I guess most people can’t. At any rate, it was  what it was and very intense – Brion James is just terrific. He would  have a difficult time, because we worked together before and everything,  of not cracking each other up. So there was a little bit of that going  on… I’m afraid he’s gonna make me laugh, and I’m gonna make him laugh.  Of course there’s none of that in there… But it worked out, I guess. And  I was surprised it became such a cult thing.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Does your character, who works for the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_29">Tyrell</span> Corporation, already know Leon’s a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_30">Replicant</span> and wants to confirm it, or do you not know anything?</span></span><br />
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In my perception, I <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_31">didn</span>’t know… I was giving a test rather, you know, routinely like I’<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_32">ve</span> given it many times. And it’s only when he balked at a couple things that I got suspicious.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU-5g6PzL_PyKfliTX2V_p8CY37597RH0j_uPXsaL49epEGs5zx0xHOJC2Xx0g5b6DATj5y2k1Bfgx82yjICfL9SwrZwrDzqzE-Sz3rxKGrzT50siy6v2nRu8OTN8gG3KLsDrrjJwESLE/s1600/17.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5689202087063265058" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU-5g6PzL_PyKfliTX2V_p8CY37597RH0j_uPXsaL49epEGs5zx0xHOJC2Xx0g5b6DATj5y2k1Bfgx82yjICfL9SwrZwrDzqzE-Sz3rxKGrzT50siy6v2nRu8OTN8gG3KLsDrrjJwESLE/s320/17.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 198px; margin: 0 0 10px 10px; width: 320px;" /></a><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">So tell me about <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_33">Ridley</span> Scott, the director, and working with him…</span></span><br />
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Great, I mean, he’s just one of those hands-on people. He’ll move chairs, he’ll move lights… And that <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_34">didn</span>’t  make Hollywood labor unions happy at all. They had problems after  problems. I mean, he wanted to run the camera occasionally. That’s not  allowed in Hollywood so he found a cinematographer who’d let him… But  why not, he’s directing it? And he also knew how to run a camera… So he  wanted to sit behind it in crucial scenes – like he considered the  opening scene, my scene, crucial. And instead of standing there watching  with the cameraman, he’d get behind the camera and watch it himself to  make sure he captured the emotion and intensity. He was just a hands-on  guy and I really loved him, and I’m surprised I haven’t worked for him  since… He keeps hiring Russell <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_35">Crowe</span>… But what can I say?<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">In my interview with actor</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Yaphet Kotto who was in ALIEN, he described <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_38">Ridley</span> Scott in the same way: working behind the camera as he directs…</span></span><br />
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He  gets involved in everything. And, probably to the woe of studios, when  he’s doing it he really forgets about the budget… He wants it to look  perfect. He invented that smoke, which everybody seems to be using now,  that look. The budget would be just… It would take time to get that  right look. But guys like David Lean did that… You know, DOCTOR ZHIVAGO,  LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, all that… In RYAN’S DAUGHTER he’d wait for the  clouds to be right.<br />
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And <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_39">Schaffner</span>  did that a lot with PATTON. But PATTON actually managed to stay on  budget whereas BLADE RUNNER went over. And they had to keep finding more  people to help kick in with the financing, and that’s why there’s so  many partners involved, including Bud <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_40">Yorkin</span>,  and it was so hard to get a sequel together. They all want to get the  biggest chunk now, it’s ridiculous. If they’d just relax and let it go  forward, there <span style="font-style: italic;">would</span> be a sequel. And there still may be… And my character is still alive!<br />
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Oh he’s great… We’d done a TV show together before called <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_41">PETROCELLI</span> out in Tucson and I had the top billing guest star. In fact, William <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_42">Shatner</span>  was in that with us… It was a lawyer thing, if anybody remembers. It  only ran a couple of years, but anyway, I was the top guest star and  Harrison was a minor co-star.<br />
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So we go into the  rehearsal for BLADE RUNNER… The first day, a read-through of the script…  And Sean Young was, of course, late. I told <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_43">Ridley</span>  that this girl was gonna be nothing but a pain in the ass… And Harrison  was doomed. All of which was true. So the first day we were sitting  there at the table and Harrison comes in and shakes hands with  everybody. He’s like, “Hi, I’m Harrison Ford… Hi, I’m Harrison Ford.”  Now I know he knows me, we spent a week together in Tucson on this thing  not that long ago. And it’s like he’s gonna ignore me as he’s walking  around. And he finally doubles back, leans over and whispers in my ear:  “I got top billing this time.” And I laughed and it was great. And right  after he came to see me in my dressing room and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_44">couldn</span>’t be nicer.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUhmJbeMadlZHatzwKvfG7gYQxHsWeBIXzjorCdg5UEG6A2lpnHY4olyYMfPYF5wRLkdsoA5Yy2V8ZtZoFAF6Mges3hA9upyWCBQ6W-8lzQhKMlOUiLx84g7KX_cUaeB4XXg22FZUzyKo/s1600/mt1131519646.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5689214114853014258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUhmJbeMadlZHatzwKvfG7gYQxHsWeBIXzjorCdg5UEG6A2lpnHY4olyYMfPYF5wRLkdsoA5Yy2V8ZtZoFAF6Mges3hA9upyWCBQ6W-8lzQhKMlOUiLx84g7KX_cUaeB4XXg22FZUzyKo/s320/mt1131519646.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 243px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 320px;" /></a>And when I was doing a movie called THE LAST HARD MEN with Charlton Heston, James <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_45">Coburn</span>  and Barbara Hershey… And I’m a rapist and I get killed horribly in that  one… You don’t screw around with Moses’s daughter, I found out. At any  rate, I was offered STAR WARS… Harrison’s part. But Andy had been so  good to me, the director Andy <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_46">McLaglen</span>… That my agent said, “The last guy’s science-fiction was a turkey. It was called <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_47">THX</span>, or whatever. Stick with Andy, he’s been good to you. This is your third or fourth movie with him… Come on, don’t give up.”<br />
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Well  Andy said he could get me off in time for this; he could rap my scenes  in a week if I needed to. And my agent said, “No, no, stick with it.” So  I stayed there three more weeks and I came back to town, and found out  about STAR WARS… You don’t know anything when you’re on location… So I  found out about Harrison doing the role and everything. And I said  [later on] to my agent, “Is that thing you had me turn down, that I  could have gotten… Was that STAR WARS?”<br />
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Anyway, so  that’s the chance of the business. Harrison was up for several movies,  including DIRTY O’NEIL. He got the hit, I got the bomb… What can I say?<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Alright,  so let’s talk a little about DIRTY O’NEIL… This is a fun exploitation  drive-in flick from the early seventies, and I actually enjoyed it a  lot…</span></span><br />
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It’s the lowest budget movie in history,  believe me… I mean our lunch was whatever they could find at a local  hotdog stand. But it was a lead role and it was supposed to be funny, a  takeoff on all the cop movies that were going on… And it had potential  of being funny. Art Metrano was funny and I was trying to be somewhat  funny… And the premise was funny. But you know – it was what it was.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">I  have never been so jealous of a character in my life: DIRTY O’NEIL  gets all these beautiful women, nonstop throughout the entire film, the  likes of June Fairchild, Tara Strohmeier and many others – he’s luckier  than James Bond…</span></span><br />
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Well let me tell you, I was  happily married at the time so it was the greatest waste of talent in my  life. My wife checked every night… She called the set to say, “Have  they rapped yet, have they rapped yet?” She wanted to know everything,  so those girls – we had our scenes and that was the end of it.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Well one b-movie that has a huge cult following is MITCHELL…</span></span><br />
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I’m surprised to hear that… I didn’t think anybody ever saw MITCHELL.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">In  the 1990’s there was a show called MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER where one  guy and two puppets watch low budget movies and make fun of them: and  the best episode was when they set their sites on MITCHELL…</span></span><br />
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I  didn’t know about that. And that was again Andy McLaglen. I’m playing  an Italian hood and the producers are all against this. They said, “He  doesn’t look Italian.” And there are Northern Italians who are blonde… I  had light brown hair, you know. And he sold them on me for this thing. I  think my name was “Mistrada” or something.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">And you die on screen once again, this time on a motorcycle…</span></span><br />
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That  little motorcycle scene he wanted in close-up and it was really dicey  because the guy actually shot a blood pellet and hit me in the forehead.  You know, if they hit you in the eye, you’ve lost your eye. And I said,  “Andy, what are you trying to do to me here?”<br />
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But Mort  was the best guy in the business… It took him three takes before he  fired off the shot and it hit right where it was supposed to hit me.  But, you know, that’s one of those things that can go bad. And Andy I  trusted for everything… You had to… He was my meal ticket.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">And there are other great actors in this including Martin Balsam, John Saxon…</span></span><br />
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And  Merlin Olsen and a girl who I was just in love with at the time, Linda  Evans. And her husband was always lurking around; he wanted to see  what’s going on because she’s so gorgeous. And he didn’t want her out of  his site… It was very inhibiting for everybody. So Andy said, “Tell him  to park in Malibu… We gotta do this thing!”<br />
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<b>REST IN PEACE MORGAN PAULL: </b>A GREAT CHARACTER-ACTOR WHO WILL BE MISSED. AND THANKS TO FRIEND AND ACTRESS SHARON FARRELL, WHO MADE THIS INTERVIEW HAPPEN...

cult, eighties, june fairchild, morgan paull, science-fiction