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sosooley · 2 years

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Gerald Mohr as Doc Holliday in Maverick 1957 TV series pt 1

so charismatic i caaaaaaaant. the actor amazingly copies Romero's style of performance from the 1939 film. I mean manners, accent pronunciation, all that shit

#doc holliday #tombstone #maverick 1957 #james garner #gerald mohr #bret maverick #western #old west #old hollywood #wild west

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familyofpaladins · 3 months

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By "old" I mean the series that aired from the 1950-1970's , as I feel that's kind of the "classic" western age

Theres A LOT of western shows, but I chose some that I think are a little more popular/well known, and/or that I enjoy

#Idk how many people here on tumblr watch westerns but I'm curious to see the results #Polls #Westerns #Bonanza #The rifleman #The lone ranger #Gunsmoke #Rawhide #Laramie #big valley #Wanted dead or alive #Wagon train #Maverick (1957)#Western tv series #Poll

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doyoulikethissong-poll · 1 month

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Jerry Lee Lewis - Great Balls of Fire 1957

"Great Balls of Fire" is a song recorded by American rock and roll musician Jerry Lee Lewis. It was written by Otis Blackwell and Jack Hammer. The song was featured in a performance by Jerry Lee Lewis and his band in the 1957 Warner Brothers rock and roll film Jamboree.

It sold one million copies in its first 10 days of release in the US making it one of the best-selling singles in the US at that time. It reached number 2 on the Billboard pop charts, number 3 on the R&B charts, and number 1 on the country charts. It also reached number 1 on the UK Singles Chart, and appeared on the New Zealand Singles Chart and the Dutch Top 40. It was ranked as the 96th greatest song ever by Rolling Stone. In 1998, "Great Balls of Fire" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

In the 1986 film Top Gun, LTJG Nick "Goose" Bradshaw (Anthony Edwards) plays the song in a bar with his family and Pete "Maverick" Mitchell (Tom Cruise). The song is performed again in the sequel, the 2022 film Top Gun: Maverick by Goose's son LT Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw (Miles Teller).

"Great Balls of Fire" received a total of 75,4% yes votes!

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#finished #high yes #low reblog #50s #jerry lee lewis

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bitter69uk · 11 days

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How great to see the outpouring of affection for wildly influential and prolific high potentate of low-budget cinema Roger Corman (5 April 1926 - 9 May 2024). The maverick director, producer, actor, author of How I Made a Hundred Movies and Never Lost a Dime (1990) and self-described “Orson Welles of the Z movie” died this weekend aged 98. I totally get why obituaries are focusing on Corman’s discovery and mentorship of A-list Hollywood figures like Jonathan Demme, Martin Scorsese, Peter Bogdanovich, Frances Ford Coppola, Jack Nicholson, and Robert De Niro early in their careers, but I’m far more interested in Corman’s own lurid juicy filmography. Who else would title a movie The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent (1958)? It feels like only yesterday I was raving about The Wasp Woman (1959). I urgently need to revisit Sorority Girl (1957)! And I’ll always remember that the very first time I entered London’s much-missed, long-defunct, life-changing Scala Cinema in Kings Cross in the early 90s, it was to see a double bill of Corman’s biker movie The Wild Angels (1966) with Girl on a Motorcycle (1968). Now I’m yearning to properly delve into Corman’s fifties juvenile delinquent flicks like Rock All Night and Teenage Doll (both 1957). In the meantime, I recommend Swamp Women (1956) (Tagline: “Flaming Passions! Weird Adventure! Women with a Lust for Men!”). Like many a fun movie, it starts with tough-as-nails female convicts busting out of a women’s prison. Shot on location in Louisiana (or, as the poster promises, “Filmed in the beauty and danger of the reptile infested Louisiana bayous!”), Swamp Women features a desperate hunt for a stash of missing diamonds, Mike Connors in bondage, exploitation movie queens Marie Windsor and Beverly Garland in starring roles and alligators! Swamp Women is easy to find on YouTube.

#roger corman #b movie #exploitation film #exploitation movie #exploitation cinema #swamp women #lobotomy room #bad movies for bad people

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usafphantom2 · 7 months

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WHAT? No Ice Cream cone?

Before the U2 and the SR 71, the United States used the RB 47E and H. These brave men need to be appreciated for what they did. They risked their life over and over again.

Following its first flight on July 3, 1953, the RB-47E performed some of the most sensitive reconnaissance missions of the Cold War. During its service, at least two of these planes were lost flying missions over the Soviet Union. One incident involving an RB-47E occurred during a photographic mission over the Soviet Union. The plane was intercepted and fired upon by Soviet MiGs and sustained wing damage.

General Curtis LeMay, Chief of Staff of the Air Force, responded to the men telling him that the Soviets had attacked their airplane. ‘What do you do you expect them to do? Give you an ice cream cone🍦”

Fortunately, it could outrun them at altitude and return to base.

My father, Butch Sheffield, graduated from Cadets in 1955. He was selected to go to B-47 navigation bombardier school at Mather Air Force Base , CA. After graduating, he was assigned to Little Rock Air Force Base. Soon after, in January 1957, his squadron went to England to practice bomb runs. The next paragraph is from my father, Col. Richard “Butch” Sheffield's unpublish Book.

“My targets were in Russia and mostly air bases near large cities. I had to know the target so well that I could bomb it in my sleep. Every six months or so, we would change targets. I believe this was because more bombers and missiles were coming into the fleet, and the targets were reassigned to add them.

“We were briefed that if we had to bail out in Russia, we should dig a hole three feet deep, get in it, and wait till the war was over, then go to a safe area where we would be picked up U. S. Forces. This was hard for us to stomach, but we kept our mouths shut. My B-47 Aircraft Commander, Merle JeuDevine, was a real maverick. Our crew was selected by the SAC Inspector General (IG) to brief him on our war plan, and he asked us about how we would evade the enemy on the ground in Russia. He asked what we would do as soon as we arrived in Russia.

Merle told him that the first thing he would do was throw the cal. Thirty-eight handguns we carried as far as he could. The IG looked shocked. He said why? Merle said they would be looking for us with automatic weapons; we don’t stand a chance with that handgun. To my surprise, the General agreed.

Arming Mark 6-mode-6

The bomb we carried in the early part of the B-47 Program was the Mark-6, Mod. -6. It was a six hundred-kiloton weapon. It was like the weapons used on Japan in as much as it needed to be armed in flight by putting the critical mass, U-238 plutonium, into the bomb.

My job was to arm it while we refueled in-flight at fifteen thousand feet in the aircraft's bomb bay. This was hard to do because the aircraft was bouncing around as we refueled behind the KC-97. The critical mass was very heavy, and the threads on the mass were very fine. We were told to do it while wearing our parachute and to wear heavy gloves, neither of which we could do and accomplish the mission. When we landed, the IG would look into the bomb bay before we could taxi back to the park. It had to be done and had to be done right, or we flunked, so we did it.

--Special film of my target

In the late 1950’s, I was told to go to the Wing Plans Division. They took me into a vault, and I was told that I could not tell anyone what I was about to see, even my own crew.

They then showed me a radar film of my target in Leningrad, Russia. It looked like the same type of radar I had in my B-47. I believe it was from an RB-47.”

I asked my friend, Robert Hopkins. He said, “Your Dad was watching films of a bomb run over the USSR. They were movies of the radar track collected in 1956 when SAC flew 156 overflights of the USSR as part of operations HOME RUN crews use the movies taken by RB-47Es for target study.

Written by Linda Sheffield

@Habubrats71 via X

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citizenscreen · 10 months

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James Garner publicity portrait for 'Maverick' (1957-1962)

#james garner #maverick

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bearsinpotatosacks · 1 year

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I made a post a few days ago about my personal top gun timeline, and I said I'd post about my interpretation of the top gun timeline, so here it is.

Canon dates are in bold, my additions are in italics

3rd October 1957- Nicholas "Goose" Bradshaw

1958- Tom "Iceman" Kazansky and Ronald "Slider" Kerner are born- this is my only deviation because the wiki says Iceman was born in 1959, died aged 61, but the film takes place in 2019, but if he was 61 he would've died in 2020 or be born in 1958? Also this post I made talks about how TGM may take place around 2016 because Mav says he was an instructor "almost thirty years ago" in 1986.

27th November 1959- Carole Bradshaw née Edwards

6th March 1962- Mav is born

8th March 1965- US officially enters the Vietnam War

5th November 1965- Duke Mitchell dies

28th January 1973- US part in the Vietnam War ends

1973- Goose's dad dies

1976- Goose, Iceman and Slider graduate high school and go to the Naval Academy

1978- Carole Bradshaw graduates high school and goes to live with her sister in Annapolis. She meets Goose.

1979- Goose and Carole start dating

1980- Goose, Iceman and Slider graduate the Naval Academy and go to flight school, Mav graduates high school and goes to OCS. Carole goes with Goose to flight school - Mav being younger than anyone else makes sense just by how he's treated. Them all graduating in 1980 also makes sense because Goose would have time to get to know Iceman's flying style without Mav knowing and Carole saying she's known Mav for a lot of years also makes sense if they've known each other for 6 years. And Goose and Mav having time to become one of the best naval aviators.

1983- Goose and Carole get married, Carole gets pregnant

1984- Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw is born - I am a firm "Bradley was not born in 1984" truther, I just don't think that Bradley in Top Gun looks 2? But also this is a small thing so it doesn't really matter (although top gun Maverick's dates evidently weren't made by an autistic person who's special interest is top gun)

June/July 1986- The events of Top Gun happen

1999- Carole gets terminal cancer and dies

2002- Mav pulls Rooster's papers, Rooster graduates high school and goes to university

2006- Rooster graduates University and goes to the Naval Academy

2016- The events of Top Gun Maverick take place, Iceman dies - Mav says "Almost 30 years ago" when talking about being a top gun instructor, which insinuates to me that this is happening around 2016 which I said in my post here

That's it! Thanks for reading!

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kwebtv · 2 months

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Character Actress

Joan Shawlee (March 5, 1926[2] – March 22, 1987), nee Joan Fulton (and also credited sometimes under that name. Film and television actress. She is known for her recurring role in The Dick Van Dyke Show.

Shawlee had a recurring role on TV in The Dick Van Dyke Show as Fiona "Pickles" Sorrell, wife of writer Maurice "Buddy" Sorrell (Morey Amsterdam). She played the lead in The Adventures of Aggie (1956–57), which ran for only one season. She played Lorna Peterson on Betty Hutton's short-lived series Goldie; Margo on the 1976–77 crime drama The Feather and Father Gang; and Tessie on Joe's World. She was also a regular on The Abbott and Costello Show. She played a dead criminal's wife in Stories of the Century with Jim Davis and a 1957 episode of Maverick titled "Stampede", starring James Garner and Efrem Zimbalist Jr., in which she portrayed the exuberant Madame Pompey. Her final acting appearance was in an episode of Crazy Like a Fox in 1985.

Her other televison credits include:

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet

Zorro

The Rifleman

Columbo

Highway to Heaven

Hart to Hart

Archie Bunker's Place

Joe's World

The Last Resort

Delta House

Quincy, M.E.

Starsky & Hutch

The Tony Randall Show

Emergency!

S.W.A.T.

Matt Helm

Movin' On

Mannix

The Magician

The Rookies

Arnie

Men at Law

The Name of the Game

Adam-12

The Red Skelton Hour

Run For Your Life

Hazel

Glynis

The New Phil Silvers Show

The Rifleman

The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse

Your Jeweler’s Showcase

My Little Margie

(Wikipedia)

#Character Actress #TV #Joan Shawlee #The Dick Van Dyke Show #The #Adventures of Aggie

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sosooley · 2 years

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Gerald Mohr as Doc Holliday in Maverick 1957 TV series pt 3

my beloved

#doc holliday #tombstone #maverick 1957 #james garner #gerald mohr #bret maverick #western #old west #wild west

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skylarynns-silverado · 3 months

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Sources

Maverick 1957-1962

Wanted: Dead or Alive 1958-1961

Rawhide 1959-1965

The Magnificent Seven 1960

A Fistful of Dollars 1964

For a Few Dollars More 1965

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 1966

Hang 'Em High 1968

Once Upon a Time in the West 1969

Support Your Local Sheriff 1969

Two Mules for Sister Sara 1970

Support Your Local Gunfighter 1971

Joe Kidd 1972

High Plains Drifter 1973

The Outlaw Josey Wales 1976

The New Maverick 1978

Young Maverick 1979-1980

Bret Maverick 1981-1982

Rustlers' Rhapsody 1985

Silverado 1985

Young Guns 1988

Quigley Down Under 1990

Young Guns II 1990

The Three Musketeers 1993

Maverick 1994

The Marshal 1995

The Quick and the Dead 1995

The Magnificent Seven 1998-2000

Firefly 2002

Supernatural 2005-2020

3:10 to Yuma 2007

The Three Musketeers 2011

Six of Crows 2015

The Magnificent Seven 2016

The Witcher 2019-2023

The Hunters 2020

Hell's Coming With Me 2021

Loaded Gun 2021

War Cry 2022

1873 Campaign 2023

Welcome Westward 2023-2024

Inserts 2024

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mutedkisses · 11 months

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MY TOP 9 FAVORITE MOVIES

!! IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER !!

SCREAM (1996) horror/slasher ; 1hr 51mins (R) directed by: wes craven ; starring: neve campbell, matthew lillard , skeet ulrich , courtney cox

TOP GUN: MAVERICK (2022) action/adventure ; 2hrs 11mins (PG-13) directed by: joseph kosinski ; starring: tom cruise , miles teller , jennifer connely, val kilmer , glen powell

10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU (1999) romance/comedy ; 1hr 37mins (PG-13) directed by: gil junger ; starring: julia stiles , heath ledger , joseph gordan levitt , larissa olynick , david krumholtz , andrew keegan

DONNIE DARKO (2001) sci-fi/drama ; 1hr 53mins (R) directed by: richard kelly ; starring: jake gylenhaal, maggie gylenhaal, drew barrymore , patrick swayze , seth rogan

SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991) thriller / horror ; 1hr 58mins (R) directed by: john dehm ; starring: anthony hopkins , jodie foster , ted levine , brooke smith , scott glenn

LADY BIRD (2017) coming of age / drama ; 1hr 33mins (PG-13) directed by: greta gerwig ; starring: saoirse ronan , timothee chalamet , laurie metcalf , beanie feldstein , odeya rush

MY GIRL (1991) romance / drama ; 1hr 43mins (PG) directed by: howard zeiff; starring: macaulay culkin , anna chlumsky , dan aykroyd , jamie lee curtis

TICK,TICK…BOOM! (2021) drama / biography ; 1hr 53mins (PG-13) directed by: lion manuel miranda ; starring: andrew garfield , vanessa hudgens , alexandra shipp , robin de jesus , joshua henry

HEREDITARY (2018) horror / drama ; 2hrs 6mins (R) directed by: ari aster ; starring: alex wolff, toni collette , milly shapiro , gabriel byrne , anne dowd

HONORABLE MENTIONS

12 ANGRY MEN (1957)

AMERICAN PSYCHO (2000)

THE OUTSIDERS (1983)

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70s80sandbeyond · 7 months

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James Garner as Bret Maverick on Maverick (1957-1962)

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justforbooks · 2 years

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Jean-Luc Godard, giant of the French New Wave, dies at 91

Jean-Luc Godard, the French-Swiss director who was a key figure in the Nouvelle Vague, the film-making movement that revolutionised cinema in the late 1950s and 60s, has died aged 91. French news agency AFP reported that he died “peacefully at home” in Switzerland with his wife Anne-Marie Mieville at his side. Liberation, quoting an unnamed family member, reported that Godard’s death was assisted, which is legal in Switzerland. “He was not sick, he was simply exhausted. So he had made the decision to end it. It was his decision and it was important for him that it be known.” Godard’s lawyer Patrick Jeanneret told AFP Godard’s death followed a medical report of “multiple disabling pathologies”.

Best known for his iconoclastic, seemingly improvised filming style, as well as unbending radicalism, Godard made his mark with a series of increasingly politicised films in the 1960s, before enjoying an unlikely career revival in recent years, with films such as Film Socialisme and Goodbye to Language as he experimented with digital technology.

The French president Emmanuel Macron tweeted: “We’ve lost a national treasure, the eye of a genius”. He said Godard was a “master” of cinema – “the most iconoclastic of the Nouvelle Vague”.

Film-makers who paid tribute included Last Night in Soho director Edgar Wright, who called him “one of the most influential, iconoclastic film-makers of them all”.

Born in Paris in 1930, Godard grew up and went to school in Nyon, on the banks of Lake Geneva in Switzerland. After moving back to Paris after finishing school in 1949, Godard found a natural habitat in the intellectual “cine-clubs” that flourished in the French capital after the war, and proved the crucible of the French New Wave. Having met the likes of critic André Bazin and future fellow directors François Truffaut, Claude Chabrol and Jacques Rivette, Godard began writing for the new film magazines, including Bazin’s soon-to-be-influential Cahiers du Cinema. Godard struck a maverick note from the start, defending traditional Hollywood film-making and promoting the likes of Howard Hawks and Otto Preminger over more fashionable figures. Godard also had a reverence for Humphrey Bogart, something that would come out in his first feature, Breathless, which he released in 1960.

Before that, however, Godard eased his way into film-making via a series of short films, such as Charlotte and Véronique, or All the Boys Are Named Patrick in 1957, which prefigured his loose, apparently slipshod film-making style. An earlier idea of Truffaut’s, about a petty criminal and his girlfriend, had been abandoned, but Godard thought he could turn it into a feature, and asked for permission to use it. Truffaut, meanwhile, had scored a major success with his own feature, The 400 Blows, and his clout helped Godard get his project off the ground. Shot on the Paris streets in 1959, with negligible use of artificial lighting, and a script written day-to-day, Breathless turned into a bona fide cultural phenomenon on its release, making a star of Jean-Paul Belmondo and winning Godard best director at the Berlin film festival.

Godard went on to make a string of seminal films in the 1960s at a furious rate. His next film, Le Petit Soldat, suggested the French government condoned torture, and it was banned until 1963, but it was also the film on which Godard met his future wife, Anna Karina, as well as coining his most famous aphorism, “Cinema is truth at 24 frames a second.” Other highlights included A Woman Is a Woman, a self-referential homage to the Hollywood musical, which again starred Karina, along with Belmondo and won more Berlin awards; the extravagant, epic film-about-film-making Contempt, with Michel Piccoli, Brigitte Bardot, Jack Palance and Fritz Lang; and Alphaville, a bizarre hybrid of film noir and science fiction.

By 1965 Godard’s marriage with Karina had ended in divorce; their last feature together was Made in USA, a homage to American pulp fiction that ran into copyright trouble in the US. By this time Godard was also thoroughly identified with the revolutionary politics of the age, and his film-making reflected this: he set up a film-making collective named after Dziga Vertov, the Soviet director of Man with a Movie Camera, helped to shut down the Cannes film festival in 1968 in sympathy with the student riots in Paris, and collaborated with young Marxist student Jean-Pierre Gorin on Tout Va Bien, a study of a strike in a sausage factory featuring Jane Fonda.

Godard also met, in 1970, film-maker Anne-Marie Miéville who would become a regular collaborator, and later partner after the breakdown of his second marriage, to Anne Wiazemsky, who had starred in Godard’s 1967 study of student radicals, La Chinoise.

As the 70s moved on, Godard’s strident political and intellectual stances began to lose their cachet, and his work reduced in impact in the 1980s – though, improbably, his 1987 film of King Lear, reconfigured as a post-apocalyptic farce featuring a gangster called Learo, was financed by action specialists Cannon Films.

His 2001 feature In Praise of Love marked a comeback, being selected for the Cannes film festival, while the release of Film Socialisme in 2010 preceded the award in 2010 of an honorary Oscar (the citation read: “For passion. For confrontation. For a new kind of cinema”). Typically, Godard failed to collect it in person. His 2014 film Goodbye to Language saw him pick up a major film-making award, the jury prize at Cannes, and Image Book, which was selected for the 2018 Cannes film festival, was given a one-off “special Palme d’Or”.

Daily inspiration. Discover more photos at http://justforbooks.tumblr.com

#JUST FOR BOOKS #Jean-Luc Godard #in memoriam

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captainthisamerica · 2 years

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Favorite Elvis Photos Each Year

1959 (this was super hard to narrow down) so Pt. 1

1955, 1956, 1957, 1958

You should have Mavericked it and grew a stache

“I don’ understand a damn thing a one of ya’ sayin’” Elvis says in the most thick southern accent (ps. I love his chubby little face he had over there in the early year of 59)