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Heck, I didn’t need the hint to see AH Senior up there. I recognized him in the Varsity Club sweater instantly.
A remake of a great movie by Julien Duvivier, starring Jean Gabin called…. PEPE LE MOKO.
Bob
Yes indeed – Gabin would have brought toughness to the role, I’m sure. There was another remake in ’48, with Peter Lorre in the role of the policeman. He wears a fez throughout.
As big fans of old Warner Brothers films, Alan Sr. is familiar as an old friend. A favorite role is his Ed Carlsen in “They Drive By Night”.
CorelDraw (vector-based graphic art program, similar to Illustrator) “borrowed” Hedy Lamarr’s face from “Algiers” for the packaging of Corel 7 or 8 — I forget which. Rendered her lovely visage in a cold, repulsive blue-gray, they did. And kinda forgot to get permission in advance, if I recall this accurately. I don’t know how this was resolved — possibly her face had passed into public domain.
Yep. Here it is, via imdb, bottomless source of annoying trivia:
Sued software company Corel Corporation for using her photo on the cover of software product CorelDRAW. [April 1998]
also sued Mel Brooks for using her name in “Blazing Saddles.”
Algiers — directed by John Cromwell, father of James Cromwell — very tall actor, seen in “Six Feet Under” and played the Duke of Edinburgh in “The Queen.” I think he got started in “All in the Family” as an occasional (and deeply annoying) character called “Stretch”.
It’s the Skipper’s Paw!!
“That’s HEDLY!”
(Sorry, couldn’t resist).
TCM doesn’t have it currently scheduled, but thy have in the past shown “Ecstasy” – the 1933 Czech film in which Hedy appeared totally nude and also simulated orgasm . Made her an international sensation, to say the least. I have to admit the movie is hot stuff, even today. In her autobiography, she says the orgasmic effects were caused by someone under the bed jabbing her with pins.
There are some wonderful free high-resolution scans of Lamarr (and just about everyone else) at:
www(.)doctormacro1(.)info
Spotted Alan Hale, SR, from the get-go. I’m always on the lookout for The Skipper’s Dad since my Dad pointed him out to me while we were watching ‘The Adventures of Robin Hood’, back when I was a wee’un.
Having watched more than my fill of ‘Gilligan’s Island’ way back when, I wonder now if Bob Denver stuck pins in Alan Hale, jr, from underneath the hammock, to get some of those reaction shots from ‘The Skipper’.
I love, love, love this movie. It made the whole set worthwhile for me. I’d seen it as a kid, but it’s not the sort of thing a kid appreciates. The scene at the harbor at the end, where Charles Boyer just catches a glimpse of Hedy–it went through my heart like an arrow. They say “Casablanca” was, in part, an hommage to “Algiers.”
Sigrid Gurie was born Sigrid Guri Haukelid, and she was the fraternal twin of Knut Haukelid, one of the leaders of the team of Norwegian saboteurs who foiled the German heavy water operation at Vemork, Telemark (heavily dramatized and telescoped in Kirk Douglas’ movie, “Heroes of Telemark”).
I saw the first Pepe cartoon a little while back and he had no name other than Stinky and his love interest was a dog. They had not yet gone full Boyer yet.
So where is the Star Trek connection, also no mention of laxatives.
I also meant to add that it is funny to listen to Jack Benny and hear all the familiar Mel Blanc voices used with characters different than the ones your used to from the WB cartoons.
Pepe LePew is Jack’s violin teacher. I also was pleased to hear when Mel provided the slobbery growl for Jack’s polar bear Carmichael and realized it was the Tasmanian Devil.
Didn’t Heddy first sue Andy Warhol for using her name in one of his films and that is why the Gov in Blazing Saddles says something to Hedley like “this is 1875, you can sue her”
Mike H, see Marjorie J. Birch comment. The director’s son went on to play Zefram Cochrane in “First Contact”
“The most exciting characters that ever thrilled you from the screen …”
“The Casbah, strange haunt of humanity’s stepchildren … ”
http://graphic-design.tjs-labs.com/show-picture?id=1165504345
As for laxatives, just drink the water in Algiers.
Everyone knows argyle was all the rage in the Casbah back in the day.
“I’m sure he does.”
“Walter Wanger Presents”
Walter Wanger…Ha Ha Ha Ha. So funny!
Sorry, I thought I was mature, but I was wrong.
Hey – a perfect opportunity to say “James, Little Buddy.
Lileks Says:
June 26th, 2009 at 10:50 pm
There was another remake in ‘48, with Peter Lorre in the role of the policeman. He wears a fez throughout.
Just like Morocco Mole in Secret Squirrel!! —http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Squirrel He was always Peter Lorre to me.
dimestore lipstick Says:
June 26th, 2009 at 11:12 pm
As big fans of old Warner Brothers films, Alan Sr. is familiar as an old friend. A favorite role is his Ed Carlsen in “They Drive By Night”.
I enjoy “They Drive By Night”. Never really knew why, just a guilty pleasure.
Here’s another funny little connector. IMDB shows that Gene Lockhart’s one of the actors in this film. The name caught my ear and.. sure enough, that would be June Lockhart’s dad. Yes, THAT June Lockhart. Timmy’s mom.
This really seems to be a big movie that just seems to have fallen through the modern cracks, probably overshadowed by its big brother.
Not only was Alan Hale Sr. in The Adventures of Robin Hood, he seems to have been in every other movie Errol Flynn ever made. Were they best buds or something?
To correct an earlier comment, James Cromwell was “Stretch” Cunningham in Happy Days, the oldest Cunningham sibling. His character was quickly dropped.
The Trek connection is that it was directed by John Cromwell, father of James Cromwell, who played Zefram Cochran in the movie “First Contact” and the first episode of “Enterprise.” He also played Hanok in the Deep Space Nine episode “Starship Down”, Jaglom Shrek in the Next Generation episodes “Birthright” parts one and two, and Prime Minister Nayrok in the TNG episode “The Hunted.”
He also played Marcel in one of my favorite movies, “Murder by Death.”
My favorite Alan Hale performance is in It Happened One Night. “Young people in love are very seldom hungry…”
Nope, according to imdb, Stretch Cunningham was indeed a character on All in the Family.
Yeah, Stretch was played by Cromwell on All in the Family, not Happy Days.
And Hale and Flynn were in so many movies together because they belonged to the studios in those days, doing whatever parts they demanded of them. Sometimes they were loaned out, but mainly they were just part of the studio’s acting stable.
Hale played Little John in three different movies. He played the part in Robin Hood (1922), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) and Rogues of Sherwood Forest (1950), filmed just a year before he died.
The set of “100 Mysteries” which I viewed was borrowed from a friend. Today I found a copy of “Algiers” of my very own, in a double set with “Beat the Devil.”
Just thought I ‘d share.
I thought that guy was Benny Hill, and that he invented the stretch-sideband-revolving-whatsis.
The word you’re looking for is “monocle.”
Thank Wotan someone brought up “Murder By Death”–even Cromwell was funny & he may have been the weakest cast member. One of my college acting prof’s used to point to one of its line readings by Maggie Smith as a perfect example of what a great actor can do–play two(or more) emotions at the same time. [The line in question is her reaction to being told that a corpse was found nude: "That's just tacky."]
As for favorite AH, Sr roles, I think mine is either “The Sea Hawks” or “Destination Tokyo”.
Maggie Smith as Nora Charleston : “But what would someone want with a dead body?”
David Niven as Nick Charleston : “Well dear…” He leans over and whispers in her ear.
Maggie Smith : “Oh, that’s just tacky!”
By odd coincidence, I just picked up a set of Buster Keaton sound shorts, and the first one I saw was “General Nuisance,” in which he plays a millionaire named “Peter Hedley Lamarr.”
I don’t know if Hedy ever sued the sudio.