Whoever wrote the above review should pay more attention to the credits. It would indeed be "unique" if American action star(Sheriff of Cochise) had written The Rains Came. A more careful reviewer wouldn't have confused him/her with Louis Bromfield who, I doubt, starred in many actions films in the 50's.
shareBromfield wrote the novel this thing was based on and had no more to do with this. John Bromfield was the "B" actor or a reasonable facsimile.
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You're right about that though I can only remember seeing JB once. Whoever posted that review had trouble telling them apart.
Having to toss out a lot of VHS tapes now due the sound being detroyed.
Just finished watching Westward The Women, a Wagon Train type movie that even has John McIntire along for the ride, Robert Taylor as the scout and dozens of women crossing the country to the gold fields--Denise Darcel, Julie Bishop and six footer Hope Emerson. Who does she pair off with? George Chandler who comes up to her broad shoulders.
I kept looking for Dave Sharpe but couldn't find him. On the other hand, you had westerns fixture Chubby Johnson and perennial bad guy John Cason actually getting the girl. Cason, by the way, who doubles the nasty sergeant who fights Montgomery Clift in FHTE, was also a boxer.
It's supposed to have been based on idea by Frank Capra. TCM, speaking of McIntire, neglected to mention it was an evening of his films--Winchester 73 and The Far Country.
Hope you're feeling better. Depression can be rough. I lost a brother to bipolar, but that's another story if you remember One Step Beyond.
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Ouch! Have you ever thought of writing about your family's history of mental illness, alcoholism, pill addiction and creativity/music? You are very fortunate to have a good, loving wife. When I gave a speech years ago at a mental health conference here in Montgomery County, MD where F Scott and Zelda are buried, I had two visual aids--my wife and Roy Torcaso who successfully sued the state of MD over the right not to believe in God.
This story is right out of One Step Beyond if you remember that show. My mother loved it. About 1986 I was living by myself in Takoma Park, home of Goldie Hawn, in the first floor apartment. I was sound asleep when I heard a deep, masculine voice tell me "Put your arm around a sister's shoulders to heal a broken heart." I immediately jumped out of bed and turned on the lights. I was alone and scared to death.
I may suffer from depression but I do NOT hear voices ordinarily, This is only the second time this has happened to me. The first time inspired me to write my first screenplay. I still have no idea where that voice came from. But I know any time you have such an experience, you write it down.
I have three sisters, but none of them had anything going on in their lives that could account for something like that. I talked to my doctor and he couldn't offer any explanation. I also had three brothers.
Five years later I had a call from Dad saying my oldest brother had committed suicide. He suffered from bipolar and his doctor had to put him back in the hospital. Larry was a photographer for the Arizona Republic, and of his photos made the cover of Science magazine.
The only explanation I have is that something bad was going to happen. Larry had a twin sister whose daughter made her first movie two years ago.
The other voice came in broad daylight when I was minding my own business. "The Wages of Fear with women."
I am still waiting for a voice to tell me to don a suit of armor and go save France. I used to have a Terry-Thomas album with a monologue about Joan of Arc's defense attorney. "You took showers with the men? Didn't you notice anythng? You kept your eyes closed? Good show."
I remember one step beyond. From now on I'll answer on the Personal Message site. U can read more there.
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Personal Message site? Do I access that by clicking on your nom de plume. Old technology brain in new technology world.
Re David(or Dave) Sharpe. He went back, I think, to Fairbanks' The Mark of Zorro, was a circus acrobat and National Tumbling champion. Curly hair and boyishly handsome he did a Hal Roach series called the Boy Friends with Grady Sutton. Sharpe is especially remembered for being of Republic's stunt team where he doubled Tom Tyler in Captain Marvel. He was also one of the Trail Blazers with Alibi Terhune and Dusty King. By King of The Rocket Men his features had somewhat hardened.
As serials and B westerns started dying off he moved into stunt direction. He was famous for his flying leaps and doubled Tony Curtis in The Vikings and The Great Race. He was the little old lady who did back flips on Red Skelton and later appeared in Heaven Can Wait, The Poseidon Adventure, War of The Worlds and Blazing Saddles(along with Tom Steele) where he does a forward flip and gets dragged down the street by a horse. In Judge Roy Bean he plays a drunken doctor who Newman hangs. In Touch of Evil he does one of his flying leaps and tackles Heston in a barroom brawl.
Sharpe died about 1980 from ALS, I think. He claimed he appeared in 4,000 movies.
As for John Cason, he was part of the Gower Gulch stock company at PRC. His career in the ring probably helped him fight Buster Crabbe and Fuzzy St. John along with I Stanford Jolley, Kermit Maynard and Bud Osborne who was one of the best stagecoach drivers in westerns. Cason shared a rare distinction with Dale Robertson for a movie cowboy--they were both southpaws. In Westward The Women he lends his glasses to the young woman whose own were deliberately broken. A rare sympathetic role for Cason.
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This is getting into some pretty heavy stuff, and I'm surprised you want to talk about it.
I see Esther Williams died today. Aside from Mickey Rooney, Margaret O'Brien and Luise Rainer I can't think of any other MGM star with us today. Rooney and his wife made a personal appearance at the local college several years ago, and I would like to have seen him. A friend was disappointed because Rooney didn't say much.
My father claimed he won a baby contest when he was 3 and was given a movie contract. But his father didn't like California and moved back to Prince
George's County where he'd been a bootlegger.
Dad used say "And then my parents got divorced and that was the end of my movie career. I could have been another Mickey Rooney."
To which I replied "Yeah and been bankrupt from paying all that alimony."
"But look who I would've been married to. Ava Gardner."
My mother also loved those old MGM musicals, and I took her to see Howard Keel when he was starring in Shennadoah at the Kennedy Center. He won a whole new generation of fans when he married Miss Ellie on Dallas. Did you know Jim Davis was at MGM in the 40's? Aside from 30 Seconds over Tokyo, Gallant Bess, The Romance of Rosy Ridge and What Next Private Hargrove I don't know what other MGM films he was in. Worst movie I ever saw him in was Monster from Green Hell.
Winter Meeting with Bette Davis I turned off. He looked embarrassed.
Embarrassed are U?
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