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Escape From Red Rock
''Escape from Red Rock'' is a 1957 American Western film written and directed by Edward Bernds. The film stars Brian Donlevy, Eilene Janssen, Gary Murray, Jay C. Flippen, William Edward Phipps and Myron Healey. The film was released in December 1957, by 20th Century Fox. Plot Cast *Brian Donlevy as Bronc Grierson *Eilene Janssen as Janie Acker *Gary Murray as Cal Bowman * Jay C. Flippen as Sheriff John Costaine *William Edward Phipps as Arky Shanks *Myron Healey as Joe Skinner *Nesdon Booth as Pete Archer *Dan White as Al Farris *Al Baffert as Guard *Court Shepard as Rube Boyce *Tina Menard as Maria Chavez *Natividad Vacío as Don Miguel Chavez *Zon Murray as Krug *Rick Vallin as Judd Bowman * Ed Hinton as Tarrant *Frosty Royce as Stage driver * Frank Richards as Price * Linda Dangcil as Elena Chavez *Eumenio Blanco as The Mayor *Elena Da Vinci as Antonia Chavez *Hank Patterson as Sheriff Grover *Eileen Stevens as Mrs. Donnelly *Frank Marlowe as Manager *Joe Becker as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Bernds
Edward Bernds (July 12, 1905May 20, 2000) was an American screenwriter and director, born in Chicago, Illinois. Career While in his junior year in Lake View High School, he and several friends formed a small radio clique and obtained amateur licenses. In the early 1920s, there was considerable prestige for amateur operators to have commercial radio licenses, and Bernds was in a good position to enter broadcasting when he graduated in 1923, a year when radio stations began to be established all over Chicago. He found employment — at age 20 — as chief operator at Chicago's WENR. When talking pictures began in the late 1920s, Bernds and broadcast operators like him relocated to Hollywood to work as sound technicians in "the talkies". After a brief period at United Artists, Bernds resigned and worked at Columbia Pictures, where he functioned as sound engineer on many of Frank Capra's classics in the 1930s. He soon established himself as Columbia's best recording techni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan White (actor)
Dan White (March 25, 1908 – July 7, 1980) was an American actor, well known for appearing in Western films and TV shows. Biography Early life Dan White was born to George and Orpha White in Falmouth, Florida, one of thirteen siblings. The Whites moved to Lakeland during World War I. By age 14, White was in show business. He left home to travel thousands of miles throughout the South in tent, minstrel, vaudeville and theater shows. His brother Willard joined him for nine years in a show in Tampa's Rialto Theatre. Frances Langford worked with White during the time, and he convinced her to go to Hollywood. During this period, he met Tilda Spivey and proposed marriage on February 25, 1933. She had a 2-year-old child, Arthur Gifford, from a previous marriage. Dan left show business for financial reasons to work with the Civilian Conservation Corps. He still longed for a career in entertainment and took a cruise to Los Angeles. He and his family made extra stops at citi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1957 Western (genre) Films
1957 ( MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1950s decade. Events January * January 1 – The Saarland joins West Germany. * January 3 – Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch. * January 5 – South African player Russell Endean becomes the first batsman to be dismissed for having '' handled the ball'', in Test cricket. * January 9 – British Prime Minister Anthony Eden resigns. * January 10 – Harold Macmillan becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. * January 11 – The African Convention is founded in Dakar. * January 14 – Kripalu Maharaj is named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher), after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars. * January 15 – The film ''Throne of Blood'', Akira Kurosawa's reworking of '' Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Western (genre) Films
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
20th Century Fox Films
20th Century Studios, Inc. (previously known as 20th Century Fox) is an American film production company headquartered at the Fox Studio Lot in the Century City area of Los Angeles. As of 2019, it serves as a film production arm of Walt Disney Studios, a division of The Walt Disney Company. Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures distributes and markets the films produced by 20th Century Studios and Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (Buena Vista Home Entertainment) distributes the films produced by 20th Century Studios in home media under the 20th Century Studios Home Entertainment banner. For over 80 years – beginning with its founding in 1935 and ending in 2019 (when it became part of Walt Disney Studios), 20th Century Fox was one of the then "Big Six" major American film studios. It was formed in 1935 from the merger of the Fox Film Corporation and Twentieth Century Pictures and was originally known as the Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation (while owned by TCF Hol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1957 Films
The year 1957 in film involved some significant events. ''The Bridge on the River Kwai'' topped the year's box office in North America, France, and Germany, and won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1957 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Top-grossing films by country The highest-grossing 1957 films in various countries. Events * February 1 – RKO ceases domestic distribution of feature films which is taken over by Universal Pictures. * May – Ingmar Bergman's ''The Seventh Seal'' wins the Special Jury Prize at the 1957 Cannes Film Festival. * June 6 – Jerry Lewis appears in his first film without Dean Martin in ''The Delicate Delinquent''. * June – United Artists rejoins the Motion Picture Association of America, following an expansion of the MPAA code appeals board members. The board had previously denied ''The Man With the Golden Arm'' a Production Code seal in 1955, leading UA to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Crockett
Richard DeHart Crockett (February 27, 1915 – January 25, 1979) was an American television and film actor, stunt performer, stunt coordinator, producer, and director, best known for his work with director Blake Edwards. Career The first film he worked on was ''Room Service (1938 film), Room Service'' in 1938. The following year he began acting and doing stunt work in ''Bachelor Mother'' and ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939 film), The Hunchback of Notre Dame'' respectively. He appeared in ''Munster, Go Home!'' and ''Batman (1966 film), Batman'' which were both released in 1966 and based on the respective television shows. Crockett continued as an actor and a stuntman until the late 1970s. He was also an associate producer for four movies in the 1960s: ''The Pink Panther (1963 film), The Pink Panther'', ''The Great Race'', ''What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?'' and ''Gunn (film), Gunn''. A few years later he became a second unit director for ''Darling Lili'', ''The Moonshin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Marlowe
Frank Marlowe (born Frank Marlowe Riggi; January 20, 1904 – March 30, 1964), also known as Frank Riggi and Frank Marlo, was an American character actor from the 1930s until the 1960s. During Marlowe's 30-year career he would appear in over 200 feature films, as well as dozens of television shows. Early life Born on January 20, 1904, in Massachusetts, he entered the film industry in the early 1930s; while some sources have him in films as early as 1931, the American Film Institute has his earliest film appearance in Howard Hawk's 1934 film, ''Twentieth Century'', starring John Barrymore and Carole Lombard. Career Marlowe's prolific film career involved small roles in many notable films. Some of those films include: the 1935 John Ford comedy, ''The Whole Town's Talking'', starring Edward G. Robinson and Jean Arthur; Howard Hawk's classic romantic comedy, ''Bringing Up Baby'' (1938), starring Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn; 1940's ''My Favorite Wife'', againg starring ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hank Patterson
Elmer Calvin "Hank" Patterson (October 9, 1888 – August 23, 1975) was an American actor and musician. He is known foremost for playing two recurring characters on three television series: the stableman Hank Miller on ''Gunsmoke'' and farmer Fred Ziffel on both ''Petticoat Junction'' and '' Green Acres''. Early life Patterson was born in Springville, Alabama, one of seven children of Green Davis Patterson, an insurance agent, and Mary Isabell "Mollie" Newton Patterson. By the 1890s his family had moved to Taylor, Texas, where he spent most of his boyhood and attended school through 8th grade. In 1917 he registered for a World War I draft card in Lubbock County, Texas. Patterson had intended to be a serious pianist, but he instead became a vaudeville piano player. By the end of the 1920s he moved to California. He entered the movie business as an actor during the 1930s. His earliest identified screen work was an uncredited appearance in the Roy Rogers' Western film ''The Arizo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Dangcil
Linda Dangcil (June 19, 1941 – May 7, 2009) was an American actress and dancer best known for her roles as Sister Ana in the ABC television series ''The Flying Nun'' and Carmen 'Raya' Alonso in the animated series '' Jem''. Dangcil was a native of San Francisco, California. She graduated from Immaculate Heart High School in Los Angeles. She returned to the high school throughout her career to choreograph and assist the school's theater productions. Career She appeared on Broadway when she was a teenager in the 1950s in ''Peter Pan'' opposite Mary Martin, as well as in the show's television production. As a result of her work in ''Peter Pan'', the show's co-director, Jerome Robbins, selected Dangcil as one of the main dancers in the 1961 film adaptation of ''West Side Story''. She was cast as Sister Ana in ''The Flying Nun'', which ran on ABC from 1967 until 1970. The series was set at the Convent San Tanco located near San Juan, Puerto Rico. Dangcil appeared as Sister Ana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Richards (actor)
Frank Richards (September 15, 1909 – April 15, 1992) was an American character actor, typically portraying a hoodlum or thug with a menacing appearance. Richards was born in New York City and raised in Fall River, Massachusetts. Richards began acting in stock theater in Cape Cod while he worked 16 hours a day as a driver of a fruit truck. He continued his stock acting for eight years. He acted on Broadway in ''The Wanhope Building'' (1947), ''Embezzled Heaven'' (1944), ''The World We Make'' (1939), and ''Brown Danube'' (1939). After serving in the military during World War II, Richards studied dialects, diction, and speech in New York, in addition to working in radio and television. He appeared in 150 films and televisions shows from 1940 into the mid 1980s. He appeared in a 1952 episode of '' Superman'' "The Night of Terror" and a 1953 episode of ''The Lone Ranger''. His first stage appearance was in 1938 and his last film was John Cassavetes' ''A Woman Under the Influen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Hinton (actor)
Edgar Latimer Hinton (March 26, 1919 – October 12, 1958) was an American film and television actor. He was known for playing Special Agent Henderson in the American drama television series ''I Led 3 Lives''. Hinton was born in North Carolina. In 1938 he made his first screen appearance in the film ''Spring Madness'', which starred Maureen O'Sullivan and Lew Ayres. He made an appearance to the 1948 film ''Harpoon''. In 1953, he made his television debut in the television series ''Boston Blackie''. In the same year, he played Special Agent Henderson in ''I Led 3 Lives''. Hinton appeared in numerous films such as '' Samson and Deliah'' (1949); '' I Was a Communist for the FBI'' (1951); ''Leadville Gunslinger'' (1952); ''The Hitch-Hiker'' (1953); ''River of No Return'' (1954); ''The Man from Bitter Ridge'' (1955); ''Walk the Proud Land'' (1956); ''Escape from Red Rock'' (1957), and ''Good Day for a Hanging'' (1959). Hinton guest-starred in television programs including ''Wagon T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
