Okay, but once the first gun man got killed in town,
you knew the train was never going to stop there.
The assassins had to realize that as well.
He didn't die. He somehow recovered, amassed a great fortune and began giving away million dollar checks to total strangers.
shareamassed a great fortune and began giving away million dollar checks to total strangers.
I know he did all that, very philanthropic man of course, but make no mistake, he died first. share
I live about 10 miles away from where Paul Frees spent his last years. There's a nice little interview with a former neighbor of Paul's online. Very interesting. Go to ' waltertetley.com/fframe.php3 '. I found it fascinating when I realized some years back, that he was only in his thirties when he was doing the voice of J.B.T. Most people listening would automatically assume the the actor was in his seventies or eighties. At least, I did. I've seen him play actual characters on camera only a few times, but what I've seen made me wish that I could have see more of him. He was quite talented. There's some hilarious stuff of him doing impressions of famous actors singing some standards. Very entertaining.
shareA great film but with an illogical flaw
there was no way even back in the 50's before
the Kennedy assassination that anyone would
allow the president to get off a train after
there had been a shootout in town...so
yes of course, there was no way the train
would stop. but the worst part is Sinatra's
character going through with it anyway
and not realizing it is a plan now doomed
to failure.
In spite of this, Sinatra is extremely
evil and convincing although he does go a
little over the top trying to do a
Jimmy Cagney impersonation. I don't know that anyone
was more brutal until Joe Pesci set the
standard decades later in Goodfellows.
In real life, Had Oswald killed
J. D. Tippet before he was ready to kill
JFK and even had be gotten away, there was
very little or no way that Kennedy would have driven down
that street in an open car and history
would have been changed. Perhaps even Oswald
would have thought twice about going
through with it.