"A Time For Killing" (also called "The Long Ride Home") isn't one of the best Westerns of all time, nor is it the most memorable, but the 1967 film still comes up in conversation thanks to its unique status as the very first movie role Harrison Ford was ever credited in. Ford played a young, sideburn-wearing Union soldier in the film, which followed the exploits of a group of captured Confederate soldiers on a mad dash for Mexico — none of whom realize the war has officially ended.
Aside from Ford's debut as Lieutenant Shaffer (for which he was credited as Harrison J. Ford), "A Time For Killing" is most noteworthy for its status as an abandoned Roger Corman flick. Corman started making "A Time For Killing" after already churning out cult classics like "A Bucket of Blood" and "The Little Shop of Horrors," but the low-budget filmmaker was replaced by "99 River Street...
Aside from Ford's debut as Lieutenant Shaffer (for which he was credited as Harrison J. Ford), "A Time For Killing" is most noteworthy for its status as an abandoned Roger Corman flick. Corman started making "A Time For Killing" after already churning out cult classics like "A Bucket of Blood" and "The Little Shop of Horrors," but the low-budget filmmaker was replaced by "99 River Street...
- 4/7/2024
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
After Lucille Ball's spunky housewife Lucy signed off on the last episode of "I Love Lucy" but before Mary Tyler Moore did away with the nuclear family sitcom model with her own self-titled show, another actress was one of the faces of womanhood in comedy. Oscar-winning actress Donna Reed headlined "The Donna Reed Show" from 1958 to 1966, playing middle-class mother and housewife Donna Stone in the popular black-and-white series. Reed starred opposite Carl Betz, who played Donna's husband, pediatrician Dr. Alex Stone. In season 5, family friends Midge and Dave joined the fun, but for the most part, the show was all about the lighthearted hijinks of the Stone family.
Though "The Donna Reed Show" was popular upon release, it's now perhaps most often referenced as a pop cultural window into a time before second-wave feminism, when women were expected to spend their time cooking, cleaning, and child-rearing while men went to work.
Though "The Donna Reed Show" was popular upon release, it's now perhaps most often referenced as a pop cultural window into a time before second-wave feminism, when women were expected to spend their time cooking, cleaning, and child-rearing while men went to work.
- 3/29/2024
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
Patty Griffin will perform a series of three concerts to help support independent live-music venues in jeopardy because of the pandemic. The Austin singer-songwriter will livestream the shows from her hometown’s famous Continental Club.
In a statement, Griffin lamented the toll inflicted upon live music’s infrastructure. “This translates to job losses on so many levels — the hardworking people that run these venues, book these venues, clean and repair them, take your tickets and serve your beers there, not to mention many musicians like myself who have depended on...
In a statement, Griffin lamented the toll inflicted upon live music’s infrastructure. “This translates to job losses on so many levels — the hardworking people that run these venues, book these venues, clean and repair them, take your tickets and serve your beers there, not to mention many musicians like myself who have depended on...
- 10/21/2020
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Dave Hause interprets the songs of two wildly different artists on a new double EP. Patty/Paddy features the punk troubadour interpreting five songs by Americana songwriter Patty Griffin and five by Paddy Costello, of the Minneapolis punk band Dillinger Four.
Hause, the leader of Philadelphia group the Loved Ones, previews the project with the Griffin song “Long Ride Home,” off her 2003 album A Kiss in Time. For the recording, Hause enlisted the Gaslight Anthem’s Brian Fallon and his brother Tim Hause to join him on harmonies. The result...
Hause, the leader of Philadelphia group the Loved Ones, previews the project with the Griffin song “Long Ride Home,” off her 2003 album A Kiss in Time. For the recording, Hause enlisted the Gaslight Anthem’s Brian Fallon and his brother Tim Hause to join him on harmonies. The result...
- 9/24/2020
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Who doesn’t love a tale of redemption and recovery?”American Idol” hopeful Dillon James might be just 26, but he has gone to homeless hell and back after overcoming his addiction to alcohol and drugs. With an ornate tattoo of Jesus Christ that encases his entire torso, this construction worker from Bakersfield, Calif., has made a definite commitment to cleaning up his act.
When we first met Dillon during the audition rounds, he told the judges Lionel Richie, Katy Perry and Luke Bryan that he had a good home life growing up. But when he got older, “I met my trials and tribulations.” Now that the singer is sober, he is “trying to do better than what I was doing before.”
When he was at his worse, Dillon confessed, “I lost pretty much lost everything. I found myself on the streets with no money.” Instead of going off the deep end,...
When we first met Dillon during the audition rounds, he told the judges Lionel Richie, Katy Perry and Luke Bryan that he had a good home life growing up. But when he got older, “I met my trials and tribulations.” Now that the singer is sober, he is “trying to do better than what I was doing before.”
When he was at his worse, Dillon confessed, “I lost pretty much lost everything. I found myself on the streets with no money.” Instead of going off the deep end,...
- 4/6/2020
- by Susan Wloszczyna
- Gold Derby
I can't remember a time I went to the Seattle International Film Festival (Siff) press launch and looked over the list of films and saw so many I was interested in seeing. The claim to fame for over the years is to call it the largest and most-highly attended festival in the United States. This is a fact I've often taken issue with as I don't equate quantity with quality. Granted, there has been a large number of quality features to play the fest over the years, including Golden Space Needle (Best Film) winners such as Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985), My Life as a Dog (1987), Trainspotting (1996), Run Lola Run (1999), Whale Rider (2003) and even recent Best Director winner, Michel Hazanavicius's Oss 117: Nest of Spies in 2006. That said, looking over this year's crop of films I see a lot of films I will be doing my absolute best to see.
- 4/27/2012
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
A lot can happen in a decade, especially for an actor. Harrison Ford appeared in "A Time for Killing," his first credited screen role, in 1967 and became Han Solo in 1977. Halle Berry made her film debut in "Jungle Fever" in 1991 and by 2001 was starring in "Monster's Ball," for which she earned an Academy Award.
This year Zac Efron celebrates 10 years in Hollywood, and as he prepares to release his new romantic drama, "The Lucky One," we can look back on his career to see just how fortunate he's been. Though he's most famous for singing and dancing in three "High School Musical" movies and "Hairspray," this heartthrob first found work in the geekiest place imaginable: Joss Whedon's "Firefly."
A young Efron honed his abilities on stage in local productions of "Peter Pan" and "Little Shop of Horrors" in Arroyo Grande, California, where he lived a "normal childhood in a middle class family.
This year Zac Efron celebrates 10 years in Hollywood, and as he prepares to release his new romantic drama, "The Lucky One," we can look back on his career to see just how fortunate he's been. Though he's most famous for singing and dancing in three "High School Musical" movies and "Hairspray," this heartthrob first found work in the geekiest place imaginable: Joss Whedon's "Firefly."
A young Efron honed his abilities on stage in local productions of "Peter Pan" and "Little Shop of Horrors" in Arroyo Grande, California, where he lived a "normal childhood in a middle class family.
- 4/18/2012
- by Daniel Hubschman
- NextMovie
This lively documentary traces the remarkable career of the independent American film-maker Roger Corman, a tall, handsome Stanford engineering graduate who has produced and directed several hundred low-budget movies over the past half-century and kick-started the careers of, among many others, Jack Nicholson, Martin Scorsese, John Sayles, Francis Ford Coppola, Ron Howard, Jonathan Demme, Peter Bogdanovich and Bruce Dern.
In 1950 he decided to steer clear of the big studios after people at 20th Century-Fox robbed him of a credit and a bonus for his work on the Gregory Peck western The Gunfighter, and he struck a deal with a small exploitation company to make genre pictures (westerns, horror flicks, sci-fi, crime, biker pictures) on small budgets and short schedules aimed at young drive-in audiences.
Instead of the subtitle "Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel", this film could as easily be called "The Rebellion of a Hollywood Exploiter" for the way it records the ingenuity,...
In 1950 he decided to steer clear of the big studios after people at 20th Century-Fox robbed him of a credit and a bonus for his work on the Gregory Peck western The Gunfighter, and he struck a deal with a small exploitation company to make genre pictures (westerns, horror flicks, sci-fi, crime, biker pictures) on small budgets and short schedules aimed at young drive-in audiences.
Instead of the subtitle "Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel", this film could as easily be called "The Rebellion of a Hollywood Exploiter" for the way it records the ingenuity,...
- 2/19/2012
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
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