Image of the day, 1/31/12

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• jbryant says:

  January 31, 2012 at 2:24 pm

  ME-TV has been run­ning “Route 66” in the middle of the night on Sundays, but I nev­er remem­ber to check it out. Didn’t know Peckinpah had done an epis­ode, much less with Lee Marvin! Will have to keep an eye out for it.
  It’s a great chan­nel; I ran­domly watch epis­odes of BRANDED, THE FUGITIVE, NAKED CITY, DOBIE GILLIS and THE PHIL SILVERS SHOW. Can’t DVR all of them – it would fill up in a week.

• warren oates says:

  January 31, 2012 at 2:29 pm

  That’s a great still. I wish Peckinpah’s THE WESTERNER would get a prop­er DVD release. Btw, I recently read some­where that it was ROUTE 66 and the writ­ing of the creator/showrunner Stirling Silliphant that ini­tially inspired thrill­er writer(and Rambo cre­at­or) David Morrell to take up storytelling.

• Bruce Reid says:

  January 31, 2012 at 3:16 pm

  I’ve lately become hooked on late night runs of Kraft Suspense Theatre, or Crisis as the syn­dic­a­tion title card has it. The writ­ing and dir­ect­ing are mostly ser­vice­able, though occa­sion­ally an epis­ode will dis­play some flair in one or the oth­er dir­ec­tion. But man those casts. Ida Lupino hunt­ing down the hussy in the hotel room when her hus­band died, not real­iz­ing it’s close friend Gena Rowlands. Robert Ryan sick with hor­ror con­front­ing the bohemi­an proto-hippie friends of daugh­ter Katharine Ross. Backwoods sher­iff Mickey Rooney toss­ing vaca­tion­ing surfer James Caan in jail, then into the woods to hunt him for sad­ist­ic sport. (That lat­ter from an Altman story, turns out.)
  I’ll prob­ably start adding Route 66 to the rota­tion now. Such is the power of a Marvin pro­file, even in soft focus.

• David Ehrenstein says:

  January 31, 2012 at 3:57 pm

  Wow what a fab­ulous still!
  The cinema is all about put­ting Lee Marvin and Macha Meril in the same frame.

• jesse jackson says:

  January 31, 2012 at 6:54 pm

  Oh..that reminds me of my child­hood days way back before. How I wish there will be a DVD bluray copy of this one.

• Stephen Bowie says:

  February 1, 2012 at 10:58 am

  ROUTE 66 and KRAFT are well worth explor­ing. Both old favor­ites that I love get­ting excuses to write about them. Glad you’re check­ing into this kind of thing, Glenn, and I’ll recom­mend Altman’s ROUTE 66 one-off (“Some of the People, Some of the Time”) next. It is even more Altmanesque than “Mon Petit Chou” is Peckinpavian. Altman and Keenan Wynn were “drunk all the fuck­ing time, fight­ing all over the bar” on the loc­a­tion. Altman rewrote Silliphant’s script; pro­du­cer: “Fuck you, I’m nev­er going to hire you again.” (All from Pat McGilligan’s great Altman bio.) Good stuff.

• david hare says:

  February 1, 2012 at 6:16 pm

  Glenn only thanx to your flaw­less taste for the most unlikely frame grabs in the his­tory of cinema Ive just had to spend anoth­er 30 bucks at amazon for Season 2 which includes Mon Petit Chou.
  This grab gave me the biggest high after a totally dread­ful week. Sometimes I think movies really do save our lives. And people like Marvin and Macha. I had no idea (to quote Jodie Foster.)

• Glenn Kenny says:

  February 1, 2012 at 7:16 pm

  I’m very glad you enjoyed it so much, Mr. H.!

• Stephen Bowie says:

  February 2, 2012 at 7:57 am

  It would seem that I can­’t write – please dis­reg­ard the syn­tax error in my second sen­tence above.
  David, I may be in the minor­ity, but I think ROUTE 66 gets bet­ter as it goes along. It was fam­ously named in a con­gres­sion­al anti-violence cru­sade in 1961, and the show’s gra­tu­it­ous fist­fights were dialed down some­what, allow­ing Silliphant et. al. to write more cereb­ral scripts. Enjoy.

• george says:

  February 5, 2012 at 12:04 am

  The Peckinpah and Altman epis­odes are in Season Two of “Route 66.” The DVD set is worth the invest­ment. Aside from Marvin, you get to see Robert Redford, James Caan (billed as “Jimmy Caan”), Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen, Burt Reynolds, Tuesday Weld, Ed Asner and more. Some of the epis­odes look more like art films than TV episodes.

• george says:

  February 5, 2012 at 2:36 am

  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0690503/
  One of the oddest (and best) “Route 66” epis­odes: “Here I Am – Here I Always Am,” co-starring Tatum O’Neal’s gor­geous mom, Joanna Moore. I don’t think I’ve seen any­thing like it on TV.

• george says:

  February 5, 2012 at 2:42 am

  tarletshowcase.blogspot.com/2009/09/joanna-moore-georgia-peach.html
  Actually, I don’t think I’ve ever seen any­thing like Joanna Moore in that “Route 66” epis­ode (here’s a shot from it). A strik­ing, off­beat per­son­al­ity who should have become a real star.

• george says:

  February 5, 2012 at 2:45 am

  http://starletshowcase.blogspot.com/2009/09/joanna-moore-georgia-peach.html
  Oops, try this.

• hilary Barta says:

  February 9, 2012 at 2:10 pm

  The epis­ode fea­tures an exten­ded fist­fight between Marvin and Milner, end­ing with a highly unlikely out­come. Milner actu­ally broke Marvin’s nose dur­ing filming.