Great B Movie Actors in Westerns
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Taking a look at a very particular category of western actors today. I’m sure you will recognise many but probably didn’t know the name that goes with the face?
Here is a definition of what a B Movie is.
A B-movie is a low-budget commercial motion picture. Made during the Golden Age of Hollywood, the term identified films intended for distribution as the less-publicized bottom half of a double feature. The production of films intended as "second features" largely stopped by the end of the 1950s. With the beginning of commercial television at that time, studio B movie production departments became television film production departments. They created the same type of content in low-budget films and series. The term "B movie" continues to be used in its broader sense to this day. In post-Golden Age usage, B movies can range from exploitation films to independent arthouse films.My Channel - www.youtube.co... Facebook Page - / famous-people-10080870...
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I thought Ronald Reagan belongs in this group.
Take a look at my video on Reagan Westerns on my channel
Dane Clark, Scott Brady, Neville Brand, Skip Homeier
Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Broderick Crawford, Harry Morgan? Ronald Reagan?
A good list, thanks.
Thanks for your video 😂❤ I always enjoy them ❤❤
Dale Robertson, Richard Arlen, Lon Chaney jr, Yvonne DeCarlo and John Payne are a few who come to mind.
Noted for next time, thanks
Actor Wayne Morris, was a decorated World War II fighter ace. A December 15, 1944 Associated Press news story reported that Morris was "credited with 57 aerial sorties, shooting down seven Japanese Zeros, sinking an escort vessel and a flak gunboat and helping sink a submarine and damage a heavy cruiser and a mine layer." He was awarded four Distinguished Flying Crosses and two Air Medals. This war service, of the highest order, also cost Morris his movie career. He was a top billed A- list actor in the '30's and '40's and when released from active duty found himself forgotten by the studios who had procured fresh faces during the war, he never again regained the momentum he once had in the industry.
I remember the first time I saw Macdonald Carey. He was the detective that fell in love with Theresa Wright in the movie shadow of a doubt
What were the westerns that were shown in Saturday morning matinee in theaters in the early 1950's. As a kid 8-10 years old, I really loved them. They were bigger than life.
I'm guessing they were called the matinee's. Good question. Thanks.
Wow!! So many familiar faces and great memories here. As always thoroughly enjoyable, well put together and nostalgia-laden production. Great stuff, also as always. Thank you, Wrangler and don't stop, please!
Very good. 1 complaint- NO “leftenants” in the us military. Only “lootenants”.
Jim Davis, good B-movie Western actor. Buster Crabbe. Robert Stack in War Paint, good one.
Mostly unsung heroes who filled our afternoons with adventure and romance in the 50s.
SIR------WHAT I FIND SO FASCINATING IS THIS : YOU SIR, ARE BRITISH, & YET, IT'S THE CLASSIC AMERICAN FILM, THE WESTERN, THAT YOU OBVIOUSLY HAVE A REAL LOVE FOR. ONE JUST NEVER DOES KNOW---------DOES ONE ??????? ----- A LOVER OF CINEMA ALL OF MY LIFE. -----------TIM HOLT--------REX ALLEN-------JOEL MCRAE------DOLORES DEL RIO-------JANE RUSSELL-------AS WELL AS THE 5 NAMES IN THE ENTRY BELOW THIS ONE--------ARE SOME ADDED NAMES THAT COME TO MIND NOW. ------------------MJL, 77 Y/O
I think the British will be insulted you call me British! :) You Love what you love!
I have Roko which has a Western channel. I came across the show series Death valley Days, one episode starred Jim Davis, have not seen him mention here. I watched him in a series in the 50s called , Rescue 8 about 2 firefighters assigned to Rescue 8 . His last roll was on the TV series Dallas , he played JR's Father till he passed away from a heart attack.
Thanks for mentioning. Noted for the followup video.
Ride the High Country was released on the bottom half of a double bill with The Tartars.
If you can believe it, The Good, The Bad and the Ugly was released on bottom half of a double bill I saw in 1967. I loved it. Can't even remember the 'main' feature....
Yes, I remember you mentioned once before. So time will tell. Cream rises to the top!
@@famouspeople63I think my parents actually fell asleep during it too :) I was laughing and bounding in the aisles (literally), I enjoyed it so much.
Dennis O'Keefe, good call. He was also in two great Anthony Mann-directed film noirs in the late 1940's, T-Men and Raw Deal. Definitely recommend those to see great movies and performances from Dennis O'Keefe. Also, you'll see how Anthony Mann developed his directorial style right before he made those fantastic Jimmy Stewart Westerns in the 1950's.
O’Keefe was excellent in The Eagle and The Hawk with John Payne and Rhonda Fleming. A criminally neglected Western because there were Western other 1950’s masterpieces filmed and taking place in Mexico like Garden of Evil and Vera Cruz that overshadow it:
@@davidbrown386 Agreed. Speaking of John Payne, he was excellent in El Paso (1949) alongside Sterling Hayden. A great anti-hero performance from Payne in that, and a great Cinecolor B-Western. And fun Fact, the scene where John Payne learns how to quick-draw his guns again was the inspiration for Robert De Niro's famous "You talking To Me?" scene in Taxi Driver where he practices quick drawing his guns in front of a mirror. Martin Scorsese was a fan of the film and saw it in its original release.
I always considered Payne’s career to be similar to Dick Powell!’s. Starting out in Musicals and shifting over to film noirs and westerns. Speaking of noirs, I thought the best Payne films were Kansas City Confidential and ( especially) 99 River Street. Both excellent film noirs.
@davidbrown386 Yeah, those were probably Payne's best, and they've influenced a lot since then too. Without Kansas City Confidential, no Reservoir Dogs, for example. And credit to Dick Powell as well for making the switch to a more hard-boiled persona. I think I'd put Dennis O'Keefe, John Payne, Dick Powell, Dana Andrews, and Cornel Wilde in a group of greatly underrated actors that really put out some quality work in the 40's and 50's, especially in Western and Noir.
Wilde’s career was interesting . He had one movie that was great and he was the star: Edge of Eternity one of Don Siegel’s best films. Wilde’s best known film of course was The Greatest Show On Earth where he played a supporting role. Wilde’s best period Western ( since Edge of Eternity was a “Modern Day Western” I am differentiating) was Two Flags West where he supported Jeff Chandler, Joseph Cotton and ( in my opinion) best of all Linda Darnell.