the deadly companions is a 1961 american western film directed by sam peckinpah and starring maureen o'hara , brian keith , steve cochran , and chill wills .

based on the novel of the same name by a. s. fleischman , the film is about an ex-army officer who accidentally kills a woman 's son , and tries to make up for it by escorting the funeral procession through dangerous indian territory .

the deadly companions was sam peckinpah 's motion picture directorial debut .

the deadly companions

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maureen o’hara and brian keith in sam peckinpah’s western “the deadly companions” ( 1961 ) .
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the deadly companions
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the celebration also includes sam peckinpah ' s feature directorial debut , 1961 ' s
the deadly companions ,
with o ' hara and brian keith .
the deadly companions is directed by sam peckinpah and written by albert sidney fleischman . it stars brian keith , maureen o ' hara , chill wills and steve cochran .
on another point of interest , sarah , one of the doctor’s most popular companions , also lived in croydon .
peckinpah made 16 films , including several westerns , and he was the first to acknowledge that
deadly companions
was little more than a learning experience for him . the movie sunk without a trace and remains his least - known work .
when looking at the career of sam peckinpah people usually skip to his second film , the excellent ride the high country , and skip over this first effort of his the deadly companions . turns out there’s a good reason for this : the deadly companions is not that great . it’s not bad either , it’s just a fairly mediocre sixties western . the film isn’t pushing the limits on onscreen violence and it’s not that much of an elegy for the west . you can sort of see some of peckinpah’s sensibilities sneaking in on the margins but if peckinpah had stopped making movies after this these elements would not be that interesting .
even in peckinpah ' s earliest film , the west is a world of delirious violence . the deadly companions is not as brutal as his later work , but it ' s very ugly . john ford isn ' t even out the door yet and peckinpah is already turning the western into a playground for sadists and psychopaths .
…as a film director with the deadly companions ( 1961 ) , a low - budget western that starred brian keith as a former cavalry officer who , after accidentally killing a young boy , accompanies the funeral procession through hostile apache territory . next came the elegiac ride the high country ( 1962 ) , about two former lawmen ( played…
on the face of it the deadly companions does have strong themes which seem to be lost along the way , with interesting casting that really doesn’t help the film . still this is a debut film and very much not in the same vein as most westerns of the day . no killer would be seen to wear his guilt on his sleeve as openly as yellowleg who coming from civilised society maybe bring that sensibility with him to the west .
elsewhere , when tom baker’s doctor returned to skaro in 1975 , with strict instructions from the time lords to destroy the daleks forever , betchworth quarry hosted the daleks’ home planet . the following year , baker visited betchworth again to film part of the deadly assassin .
over the next 50 years , the doctor , and a whole host of different companions , would travel all over the universe , encountering monsters and aliens that would send children , and a fair few adults , scurrying behind the sofa for safety .
because fitzsimmons forgot to put a copyright notice on the film , “the deadly companions” slipped into the public domain , and as a result peckinpah’s first film has been available to home video only in versions of varying degrees of awfulness . a new edition , released by vci entertainment and produced by the archivist cary roan , presents the best sound and image of any i have seen so far , and is the first american disc to present the film in its original wide - screen dimensions .
sam peckinpah was born on february 21 , 1925 , in fresno , california . he became a screenwriter for tv westerns like gunsmoke before making his film directorial debut with the deadly companions . later films like the wild bunch , which received a screenwriting oscar nomination , and straw dogs were noted for their grisly violence . known for his hard - living lifestyle , peckinpah died on december 28 , 1984 .
on siegel’s recommendation , peckinpah found work as a writer in the flourishing field of television westerns , and by 1960 was receiving producing and directing credits as well on “the westerner , ” a well - reviewed but short - lived series starring brian keith . when keith was cast in the low - budget theatrical western “the deadly companions , ” he suggested peckinpah as a director to the producer charles b . fitzsimmons , whose older sister , maureen o’hara , was the project’s nominal star .
the deadly companions is noted for two more sequences . one is pure western art for its own sake . instead of having the lone yellowleg ( established as a western hero who cannot shoot his gun ! ) hold off indian attacks , peckinpah shows a group of drunken indians playfully re - enacting a stagecoach robbery that perhaps happened the day before . indians on horseback chase their friends , who are dressed up in the clothing left by the presumed victims . the unique sequence is rather eerie .
the movie was always considered an interesting failure with interesting scenes and characters . although peckinpah didn ' t write the script and was forbidden to change the dialogue ( a shame , as his colorful western speeches are unmatched ) , the deadly companions has themes lot in common with his later work : a tortured , crippled hero , a wild and wooly villain and a contemptuous attitude toward frontier hypocrisy . the big news with this release ( savant rarely reviews region 2 releases ) is that futurefilm ' s finnish release ( said to be similar to the uk optimum release ) is a beautiful widescreen transfer . since its abbreviated initial release , the deadly companions has only been available in miserable ( the word is too kind ) pan - scanned tv prints and video releases . seen in its proper panavision screen shape , it finally looks like a real movie . savant is indebted to finnish reader olli larimo for the opportunity to view this new release .
another sam peckinpah film in as many days , and one i was unaware that even existed , being a much earlier film in his back – catalogue of work . probably made with more studio control , yet the deadly companions ( 1961 ) does have some of the hallmarks of his later work . i do feel it’s slightly more successful than his next film major dundee ( 1962 ) , but that’s for another review .
the deadly companions futurefilm ( finnish import , region 2 pal ) 1961 / color / 2 : 35 anamorphic widescreen / 90 min . / street date july 18 , 2007 starring maureen o ' hara , brian keith , steve cochran , chill wills , strother martin , will wright cinematography william h . clothier film editor stanley e . rabjohn original music martin skiles written by a . s . fleischman from his novel produced by charles b . fitzsimons directed by sam peckinpah
reportedly peckinpah was not allowed to modify the script ( by a . s . fleischman ) or participate in the final editing . but “the deadly companions” seems like pure peckinpah from its opening scene , in which a group of children are seen torturing , not a scorpion as in “the wild bunch , ” but one of their own ; the outcast is the fatherless son of a dance hall girl , kit tildon ( ms . o’hara ) . when a spasm of violence breaks out , the boy is accidentally shot and killed by a stranger in town , a former union officer who goes by the generic name of yellowleg ( keith ) .
the deadly companions looks great on futurefilm ' s dvd ; the main logo on the transfer is lakeshore entertainment . colors are rich and i assume that the picture is a bit sharper on a real pal screen ; my converting player probably adds a level of softness . the 25fps speedup is noticeable in some of the dialogue . futurefilm ' s disc comes with subtitles in suomi ( finnish , i assume ) , swedish , norwegian and danish . all are removable . i remember the stagecoach scene as being day for night and it ' s timed for day here , but the pan - scanned prints i saw are unreliable . the film has other day for night sequences , which look on a par with the ones in major dundee
“the wild bunch” touched a nerve with audiences that “major dundee” did not , perhaps because the intervening four years had brought an escalation of the war in vietnam , paradoxically introducing a greater suspicion of american military adventures and a greater fascination with violence . for a moment , peckinpah’s personal obsessions would find themselves reflected in the culture at large ; that moment has not yet arrived in “major dundee , ” though the groundwork is there . ( “the deadly companions” : vci entertainment ; dvd , $ 14 . 99 ; not rated . “major dundee” : twilight time ; urltoken ; blu - ray , $ 34 . 95 ; pg - 13 )
while both o ' hara and keith turn in good performances , there ' s just a little something missing here that prevents me from rating the deadly companioms more highly . i think i needed more of a connection to the leads and the movie just didn ' t have enough
character
moments to get me that .
in a talk at the tucson press club in 1972 , burt lancaster discussed the astonishing brutality of the movie and compared it to racism . he drew parallels between the extermination of the indian people in the american west and the slaughter of asians in the vietnam war .
arthur , holden and other stars of the movie went from one theater to the next , introducing the film . they watched it with the audience at the state theater .
• asked why , in the climactic chase scene , the indians didn ' t simply shoot the horses to stop the stagecoach , ford said :
because that would have been the end of the movie .
the stars of
the parent trap
trapped again . . . by their pasts and by the killers who pursued them through the badlands !
broken menudo bowls were found as far away as the foothills the next morning ,
the star reported .
the director stocks his film with the scuzziest collection of lowlifes you ' ve ever seen . redemption is a hellhole where the good are far outnumbered by the bad and the really , really ugly . ' the quick and the dead , ' on the other hand , is pretty and slick .
all the hallmarks of peckinpah just not as refined as in the later films .
but their mission becomes the subject of hot debate between the pair of searchers .
the young lieutenant is forced to confront his prejudices before the end credits roll .
the world premiere of
arizona
on nov . 15 , 1940 , was held at five local theaters simultaneously : the state , the rialto , the temple of music , the lyric and the fox - all of which were sold out .
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filming sites included the colorado rockies , the black hills of south dakota , the ohio and cumberland rivers in kentucky , and monument valley on the arizona - utah border .
an element of the plot reportedly considered unsuitable for audiences at the time was the use of a coffin with a dead child in many of the scenes . the story is told that to get financial backing , the screenplay was first novelized by the writer , a . s . fleischman , and published successfully as a western under the title yellowleg .
the coach looks so tiny and frail against the vast , immovable landscape near the utah border . ford creates ample tension , and when the indians attack , as we know they will , it makes the heart race .
ward bond , like his character in the movie , sided squarely with the forces demanding names . he cooperated fully with the committee .
the screenplay was written by albert maltz , one of the original hollywood 10 who was blacklisted for failing to name names at the house unamerican activities committee hearings in the late 1940s .
keith’s obsession with revenge is broken by the ounce of conscience that makes him feel responsible for the death of the boy . when o’hara refuses his protection on the trail , he proves the strength of his character by sticking with her , at the risk of his own life . though at story’s end the scar on his forehead remains , the love he finally wins from her softens the stigma he has carried .
• production was stopped at one point because the dust made the actors too hoarse to continue .
john wayne plays a borderline sadist cattle baron who cracks the whip on the first cattle drive over the chisholm trail from san antonio to abilene .
the film critic at the star called it
a garish , hip , ludicrous joke .
the hatred for the comanche that consumes ethan is nothing short of breathtaking . audiences today can only gasp at the ugliness on display when , for example , ethan kicks a squaw , sending her tumbling into the dirt for the sport of it .
this majestic western centers on roy bean , the corrupt justice of the peace who sided with the brutal cattlemen in post - civil war texas and threw the book at homesteaders every chance he got .
• only two other movies made in 1948 made more money at the box office :
the three musketeers
and
the red shoes .
all three were filmed in monument valley , starred john wayne as capt . york and showed the cavalry as the enforcers of manifest destiny - the deeply held belief that it was the god - given destiny of the united states to expand all the way to the pacific . a voice - over in
yellow ribbon
proclaims this about the cavalry :
wherever they rode and whatever they fought for , that place became the united states .
nominated for three oscars , for the screenplay , the cinematography and supporting actor ( jeff chandler ) .
an adventurer and wily intellectual , mark twain wrote the classic american novels ' the adventures of tom sawyer ' and ' the adventures of huckleberry finn . '
twentieth - century fox , which made the technicolor western , promised that the apache would get to see the movie before it was screened for anyone else .
when john wayne sent some scoundrel into eternity , he always stuck around to give the guy a decent burial . the code of the west demanded it .
desperate for money , the rancher agrees for $ 200 to take the captured wade to contention city and make sure he ' s onboard the 3 : 10 to yuma , bound for the yuma territorial prison .
hughes , whose uncredited co - director was howard hawks , pushed the boundaries of the moralistic production code that prevailed at the time . but while censors were fixated on cleavage , they didn ' t seem to notice the rampant homoeroticism going on with the men .
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this movie may or may not convey much truth about life in the old west . but it speaks volumes about america in the middle of the 20th century .
• navajos were employed by the hundreds to work on the production or don war paint as ruthless comanche .
the movie is not that original and does not carry the visual intensity that would later characterize the director ' s work . it also feels choppy and half asleep at times . that ' s hardly peckinpah ' s fault because each of his films , with the exception of bring me the head of alfredo garcia , were tampered with by the studios . but the themes are there , along with the edgy performances to embolden them .
unlike so many other hollywood westerns , the blinding fear of indian attacks is made visceral . ford doesn ' t show the savagery that threatened settlers , leaving the worst to our imagination .
the searchers
instead conveys the awful anticipation of violence , and its aftermath .
( 1969 ) , sam peckinpah ' s bloody , high - body - count eulogy to the mythologized old west .
pouring new wine into the bottle of the western , peckinpah explodes the bottle
, observed critic
when plans for the movie were announced in the arizona daily star in september 1946 , the reporter couldn ' t help but rub salt in the wounds of prominent texans who hated to see their stories filmed in arizona .
fort apache ,
which never wavers from its
us against them
theme , ranks as one of the most influential westerns because it set the tone for the countless siege movies in the years to come .
during the cold war , a controversial tv journalist is asked by the cia to persuade certain acquaintances , who are soviet agents of the omega network , to defect .
cbs built the town on a bluff southeast of tucson near benson , and when the movie was done , old tucson bought the town and later renamed it mescal .
built in the 19th century to mine the north downs for chalk , the lime works were serviced by a private narrow gauge railway . after the lime works closed in 1936 , the area was preserved by brockham museum , and today it is a designated site of special scientific interest ( sssi ) . the engines meanwhile became part of the collection at amberley museum in 1982 . the locomotive used in the doctor who scene was one of only two surviving diesels built by ransome and rapier of ipswich .
the civil war yankee sergeant yellowleg saves the cheater turkey from hanging after a card game , and together with turk ' s gunslinger buddy billy keplinger , they ride together to gila city with the intention of heisting a bank . when other bandits rob a store , yellowleg shoots at the outlaws and accidentally kills the son of the cabaret dancer kit tilden and the grieving woman decides to bury her son in the town of siringo in apache country where her husband is buried . yellowleg enlists billy and turkey to escort kitty and the coffin through the dangerous land .
this lovely meditation on the disappearing cowboy way doesn ' t rely on gunfights , and the only real villains are the unseen eastern conglomerates who are buying up all the land and putting folks like monte walsh out of work .
once owned by fullers earth union ltd , today the upper part of the quarry is now a landfill site .
borgen in season 1 of the cult danish political drama , sidse babett knudsen stars as a newly appointed prime minister learning the ropes under the critical eye of the news media and the sniping of her opponents . ( mhz networks ; dvd , $ 49 . 95 ; not rated )
when the film was finished , the studio kept its word and arranged a free screening on the fort apache indian reservation in whiteriver during fourth of july celebrations in 1950 .
a hobo accidentally stumbles onto a water spring , and creates a profitable way station in the middle of the desert .
many critics have pointed out that the film is a hidden commentary on the mccarthy witch - hunts on capitol hill .
the bbc couldn’t afford to jet down to antarctica for the shoot , so they settled on buckland quarry near reigate . they also used the quarry for several other scenes too .
also unexpected is the title song , sung under the opening credits . instead of the usual deep male voice , tex ritter or frankie lane , we hear a woman singing the lyrics . and we learn from the credits that it is o’hara herself . classical guitarist laurindo almeida also gets a credit .
the scenes in gila city are rather flat and sometimes even awkwardly blocked , with the only memorable image that of the cheating turk half - hung in the saloon , his cards pinned to his shirt . the movie picks up out in the open desert , where william clothier ' s beautiful cinematography takes over . the character action is predictble until kit and yellowleg find themselves alone in the wild , eventually dragging the son ' s coffin by hand . kit is determined to prove to someone that her dead husband , meade tilden , really existed .
in planet of the daleks in 1973 , beachfields quarry , just south of mercer’s country park near merstham , becomes skaro , the daleks’ home planet . during the previous adventure , frontier in space , jon pertwee’s doctor went to the quarry to film a visit to the home planet of an ape - like race called the ogrons . daleks used ogrons as security guards back then . four years later , beachfields was the setting for a sontaran invasion of the doctor’s home planet , gallifrey .
the civil war yankee sergeant yellowleg saves the cheater turkey from hanging after a card game , and together with turk ' s gunslinger buddy billy keplinger , they ride together to gila city with the intention of heisting a bank . when other bandits rob a store , yellowleg shoots at the outlaws and accidentally kills the son of the cabaret dancer kit tilden and the grieving woman decides to bury her son in the town of siringo in apache country where her husband is buried . yellowleg enlists billy and turkey to escort kitty and the coffin through the dangerous land . written by claudio carvalho , rio de janeiro , brazil
• only one 1946 movie made more money at the box office : disney ' s
song of the south .
originally created by the bbc as an educational family show to fit between the football results and evening entertainment programmes , when the first doctor , william hartnell , wanted to leave after three years , the idea of renewing their leading man was born .
• when orson welles appeared on
the merv griffin show
in 1962 , he said that after watching
the outlaw josey wales
for the fourth time , he realized
that it belongs with the great westerns . you know , the great westerns of ford and hawks and people like that .
the list , which came together after a monthlong immersion in old west movies , includes some of the most acclaimed films of the genre , from
stagecoach
to
tombstone .
james stewart plays tom jeffords , the real - life ex - soldier who ventured solo into cochise ' s stronghold east of tucson to talk peace with the leader of the chiricahua apaches .
but the romantic myth of the visionary rebel destroyed by the system is a powerful one , and peckinpah’s has steadily grown in the decades since his death . amazon lists over a dozen biographies and critical studies of peckinpah currently in print , and the internet overflows with fan sites and tributes . the cult of personality inspired by “bloody sam” now threatens to overwhelm the films themselves — a shame , since there is much to be rediscovered in peckinpah’s work , and particularly in those movies that don’t necessarily conform to the sanguinary image : films like “ride the high country” ( 1962 ) , “the ballad of cable hogue” ( 1970 ) , “junior bonner” ( 1972 ) and the 1966 television drama “noon wine . ”
• jean arthur surely ranks as one of the first cougars in motion pictures . she was 40 years old when the movie came out , and the then - unknown william holden was 22 .
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celebrating its 50th anniversary this year , cult tv show doctor who is the longest running science - fiction series in the world .
so many showed up , from all corners of the reservation , that the film had to be shown six times that weekend to accomodate everyone . according to an article in the star , the indians reacted with cheers and more than a few tears of appreciation .
the red - headed stepchild of peckinpah movies ; compared to rthc or major dundee , you ' d hardly even know it existed . . . and yet everything in the first two scenes of this is the embryonic form of something from the beginning of pat garrett and billy the kid . . . just minus all the nastiness , because hays code . from the
children at play whose game reflects the violence of grown - ups
to the
mysterious joker who seems unstuck in time and space because he ' s bob dylan ,
each new discovery made me laugh with delight .
many of the scenes were shot in the oak creek canyon area , and nearly 400 whiteriver apaches were hired to play their own ancestors . during the shoot , they lived on location in wickiups .
here ' s the tagline for this revisionist western , filmed in nogales and in areas southeast of tucson :
one man alone understood the savagery of the early american west from both sides .
the adobe buildings that were built by columbia pictures west of the tucson mountains were donated to pima county and became old tucson studios .
• this was the film in which wayne finally retired the hat he had worn since
stagecoach ,
made 20 years earlier .
here ' s one way to tell a traditional western from the revisionist type exemplified so perfectly by
the outlaw josey wales .
the buxom jane russell , who died feb . 28 at age 89 , made her movie debut in
the outlaw .
the posters featuring her sprawled suggestively on a haystack resulted in pinup stardom .
in 1866 , courageous new fighting units were formed within the u . s . cavalry : the black 9th and 10th regiments , a fighting force that was called
buffalo soldiers
by the indians .
this is the first in john ford ' s trilogy depicting the eternally heroic u . s . cavalry under siege from the savage
red hordes
that surrounded them . it was followed by
she wore a yellow ribbon
in 1949 and
rio grande
in 1950 , which also used the dramatic landscape near the utah border .
turner classic movies will celebrate the legacy of the legendary actress maureen o ' hara with a 24 - hour film tribute on november 20 .
there ' s some merit to the charge that the indian hasn ' t been portrayed accurately or fairly in the western , but again , this charge has been a broad generalization and often unfair . the indian didn ' t welcome the white man . . . and he wasn ' t diplomatic . . . if he has been treated unfairly by whites in films , that , unfortunately , was often the case in real life . there was much racial prejudice in the west .
the impact of
yellowleg ' s
injured shoulder varies throughout the film , for example he has difficulty handling a gun or raising his arm in the doctor ' s office yet seems to have no problems using the same arm to mount his horse or to clamber up rocks .
the police station , filmed at the old ashdown road post office sorting station , is deserted , too , although the doctor and sarah do see a van speeding along palmer crescent . later , troops shoot at looters ( by the old kingston meat market on kent road ) and the doctor tracks a mysterious signal ( around south lane and parkfields lane ) .
brian keith was quite a good actor , though i always think of him as the father on that family show . i forget the title .
sam peckinpah was a controversial , academy award - nominated screenwriter and director known for films like the wild bunch , straw dogs and the getaway .
this was the sixth film made in monument valley by director john ford , and his love affair with the landscape is more apparent than ever .
•
that ' ll be the day ,
a song written by buddy holly and jerry allison , was inspired by their viewing of this film in june 1956 .
that ' ll be the day
was the world - weary catchphrase employed by john wayne throughout the film .
the arizona daily star devoted many pages of coverage to the weeklong premiere celebration , which included a downtown parade led by the governors of arizona and sonora and a midnight menudo party that lasted until 4 a . m .
another early movie with arizona in the title :
in old arizona ,
filmed at locations all around the state , was oscar - nominated for best picture in 1928 , the second year that oscars were presented .
the bbc find themselves in need of some wild moor - like terrain but can’t afford to take the outside broadcast unit up to scotland ; much easier just to travel a few miles down the road to frensham common .
sam peckinpah ’s life , like many of his movies , ended in a kind of apocalyptic debacle . too many arguments with producers , too much alcohol - fueled misbehavior and ( always the real problem ) too many disappointments at the box office had rendered the director of “the wild bunch” ( 1969 ) effectively unemployable by the time he died in 1984 , at 59 .
the gay subtext has been explored at length and no doubt exaggerated over the years . but at a time when subtext was the only way for gay people to see themselves in hollywood films , the interpretation is understandable . how else should we take the priceless game of
i ' ll show you mine if you show me yours
played by two lonely cowboys .
• the mexican dancers seen in one brief scene were played by josephine bautista and her sisters , all of whom lived in tucson at the time .
when
fort apache
hit theaters in 1948 , world war ii was done , but many americans still felt under siege from communism . this cold war mentality is apparent throughout the trilogy , but only the first one shows the cavalry laying down their lives in a heroic defense of the frontier .
martin scorsese , praising
the searchers
in a tribute to ford many years ago , swore that vistavistion was the best projection system ever invented .
filmed at old tucson ' s mescal location , the production was by all accounts a fairly out of control nightmare for the cast and crew . it was reported that more than 100 people were fired before the movie wrapped .
the star ' s esteemed reviewer at the time noted :
it ' s directed , after all , by simon wincer , the man who won an emmy award for his direction of the epic television miniseries ' lonesome dove . ' he won ' t win any awards for this one .
• the silurians , 1970 : pertwee confronts prehistoric humanoid reptiles at hankley common , the hog’s back transmitter station , guildford and sheephatch farm in tilford .
peckinpah seems to identify with this dundee more , and the film suddenly falls off the wagon along with its central character , getting lost in a haze of boozy revelry and extravagant violence . his dramatic focus lost , peckinpah resolves the plot with a pair of bloody confrontations , one with the indians and one with the french , neither of which feels much like a meaningful victory .
only later do we learn that he literally bears the wounds of his wartime service . at his hairline show the scars of being scalped by the confederate soldier he’s sworn to avenge . the disfigurement is also a mark of his shame , as he regards himself unworthy of o’hara’s affection once he’s won it .
thousands of cattle were leased from arizona and mexican ranchers , and the san pedro would pose as the red river . the 1868 boomtown of abilene , kansas , was re - created with false fronts on elgin ' s buildings .
i just caught this movie by accident on turner classic movies . i turned on the home theater and it was tuned to tcm from the night before .
heston’s dundee pursues a renegade apache leader , who has kidnapped three white children , across the border into mexico , where he threatens to touch off an international incident by confronting the french colonial troops then occupying the country . so far , so good , but then the film takes a bizarre turn , when the children are suddenly returned and dundee , the point of his mission lost , runs off in an alcoholic fugue , abandoning his troops and self - respect .
often referred to as the queen of technicolor due to her flaming red hair , the spirited irish actress was beloved by movie audiences for over 50 years .
•
red river
featured the movie debut of montgomery clift , whose open homosexuality only fueled speculation about the movie ' s
real
subject .
while
rio bravo
was conceived as a conservative response to
high noon ,
the result was nonetheless unconventional in its own way . the characters , john wayne ' s excepted , were a nontraditional bunch that included dean martin as a drunk and ricky nelson as the new gunslinger on the scene .
inside the matrix , a high - tech system that turns a person’s thoughts and dreams into virtual reality , tom baker’s doctor must overcome a series of challenges to defeat his arch - enemy , the master , and prove that it wasn’t he who shot and killed the president of the time lords . in one scene , the doctor is trapped on a railway line whilst a steam train chugs towards him , and this scene was shot at the old brockham limeworks .
in the fall of 1946 , howard hawks and about 250 actors , wranglers , crew members and production staff invaded the elgin area to shoot
red river ,
a movie now considered one of the top five westerns ever made .
but we ' ve also included movies that were significant for reasons other than quality :
the outlaw ,
for example , was the first movie to challenge the prevailing hollywood production code , and
broken arrow ,
a 1950 movie that was among the first to present indians as something other than savages .
originally a family - run business , the quarry was taken over by amalgamated roadstone in 1978 and then by hanson in 1990 . the original quarry , north of the a25 , is now a private nature reserve . hanson still continues to extract sand and silica for providing specialist glass sand to customers throughout the uk .
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the music budget must have been practically zero . the music consists solely of slow accordion , guitar , and wurllitzer electric organ puttering , with a . . .
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in this drama a black 9th cavalry officer is on trial for the rape and murder of a white woman . court testimony , relived in flashbacks , shows the accused sergeant - at - arms to be the most brave and noble sort .
this epic , long - winded tale about settling the west was one of the first narrative films made in the large - screen cinerama format . the process required action to be recorded on three 35mm strips of film , then projected side - by - side to create a seamless panoramic view with remarkable depth and clarity .
peckinpah would essentially reshape this material into “the wild bunch” four years later , wisely dividing dundee’s divided character into two separate figures — robert ryan as an obsessive bounty hunter and william holden as the romantically anachronistic outlaw ( the year is 1913 ) whom ryan pursues into a wholly anarchic mexico . “the wild bunch” is both structurally more coherent and stylistically more extreme : the rivers of blood in “dundee” have now become fountains , erupting from bodies as they twist to the earth in balletic slow motion .
howard hughes made
the outlaw
in 1941 , but battles with censors kept it from being released until 1943 , and even then it was banned in many cities , the authorities of which couldn ' t abide by the bosoms on display .
residential property company heylo recently signed the armed forces covenant , pledging its commitment to fair treatment and support to the armed forces community , including regulars , reserves , veterans and their families . the signing took place in a ceremony held at wellington barracks
) , noting the director ' s frequent embellishment of the facts concerning his films , claim that peckinpah did not even consider it - - donati claimed . . .
he played the outlaw ringo in
stagecoach ,
and it made him a star at last . the film also made monument valley a star , and ford would return again and again to the majestic mesas and otherwordly sandstone spires in navajo country .
other , slightly less prestigious westerns with a black hero :
the legend of nigger charley
and its sequel
the soul of nigger charley ,
both filmed at old tucson and both starring fred williamson as the bad - ass title character .
in 1864 , due to frequent apache raids from mexico into the u . s . , a union officer decides to illegally cross the border and destroy the apache , using a mixed army of union troops , confederate pows , civilian mercenaries , and scouts .
director sam peckinpah had little artistic control over this 1961 feature debut , having been brought into the project at the suggestion of lead actor brian keith and being . . .
who is a social outcast , shunned by the other women in her town . mirroring
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when the posse takes turk captive , they put him on a horse with a rifle in the boot and with his hands cuffed in front of himself . see more »
ford was sold on the idea almost instantly , a decision that was made easier when he realized that there would be fewer chances for studio interference on the remote location .
• the first movie wayne made in arizona was
the big trail
( 1930 ) , an ambitious flop from director raoul walsh . it was filmed near yuma .
you wouldn ' t think that a movie in which the major indian characters are played by white men would be held in such high regard today , but the film was an important turning point toward a more sympathetic treatment of native americans in the movies .
when the american film institute named the 100 best american movies in 1998 , it was determined that ward bond appeared in more films on that list than any other actor .
located between hindhead and camberley , frensham common has heathland vegetation and two small lakes – everything the bbc needed to get patrick troughton’s doctor involved in the battle of culloden .
keith rescues chill wills from the hands of several unhappy poker players , who’ve caught him cheating at cards . he befriends wills and a trail buddy ( steve cochran ) who have plans to rob a bank . when other robbers get to the bank first , they join the locals who open fire on the fleeing gang . the young son of a dancehall employee ( maureen o’hara ) is accidentally shot by a bullet from keith’s gun .
among the films screening on tcm are alfred hitchcock ' s 1939 thriller
jamaica inn
; four films she made with wayne — 1963 ' s
mclintock ! ,
1971 ' s
big jake ,
the quiet man
and ford ' s 1957 biopic
the wings of eagles
— and such swashbucklers as 1947 ' s
sinbad the sailor
and 1945 ' s
the spanish main .
after cutting his teeth on tv shows like gunsmoke and the rifleman , sam peckinpah made his debut as a movie director with this often gripping psychological western , which concentrates on the interaction of its quartet of key characters before it bursts into violent life on the streets of a ghost town . as the rose between three thorns , maureen o ' hara is excellent , but it ' s the posturing between gunmen brian keith , chill wills and steve cochran that holds the attention . the direction is tentative at times , but as fleischman ' s script , from his own novel , is solid as a rock .
how the west was won ,
which seems more old - fashioned than movies made much earlier , was released in november 1962 and became the biggest hit of 1963 (
cleopatra
was the top - grossing film , but it lost money ) .
first feature film by sam peckinpah , who was hired due to his experience directing half - hour episodes of
have gun , will travel ,
and
the westerner .
the film , though weak in spots , is an auspicious debut and especially interesting if compared to the director ' s body of work . the plot , though contrived ( peckinpah was not allowed to change the script - - always . . . read more
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edwards is a civil war veteran on the trail of a comanche raiding party that kidnapped his dead brother ' s daughters . the search , joined by his adopted nephew ( jeffrey hunter ) goes on for years , during which we see the mental unraveling of ethan .
- the baby sitter ( 1959 ) . . . ( story ) / ( teleplay )
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the tcm broadcast of december 15 , 2012 was letterboxed panavision , unlike the pan and scan dvd which is pretty old . can we hope for a new blu - ray release ?
there’s an odd peckinpah moment as the three men ride into a town . above them , as if about to jump from a rooftop , stands a boy with a harmonica . he is the boy later shot by keith . we assume he’s been driven to the roof by other boys on the ground , but there could be other reasons that we never learn .
i lazily always thought ride the high country was his first film ( and the only one i liked ) . i ' ll have to give this one a go . . .
i ' m with patti and charles in remembering brian keith as the soft - spoken father on
family affair .
however , i know he was in an action series during the ' 80s and would really enjoying seeing him in this . thanks for the post !
where the film starts to fall down in the love interest that develops it doesn’t feel natural for peckinpah to have that in his films . of course having the only woman and lead actor pair - up is natural for films of that era , there are worse on - screen pairings . it’s the outsider element which draws them together , however it does detract from what the characters have , that dynamic of a mother’s child killer escorting her to his final resting place , whilst also having his own demons . also the added element of the apaches is very unique and not really explored in great detail . they are seen as unhinged , affected by the western society as they play around with a stagecoach they have previously stolen .
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highway 301 ( 1950 ) film noir ( the getaway scene ) . . steve cochran ,
warner baxter , who played the ubiquitous cisco kid in that film , became the first american to win best actor . it was a role given to him after director raoul walsh , set to play the kid , lost an eye when a jackrabbit jumped into his car .
the hot - blooded son of a texas land baron and his clear - headed , calm brother become rivals when the beautiful half - breed pearl comes to live on their ranch .
the duke despised ' high noon ' because he felt it was an allegory for blacklisting , which he wholeheartedly supported . in a 1971 playboy interview , he called the 1953 classic
the most un - american thing i ' ve ever seen in my whole life .
the bbc also filmed another scene from this story at nearby engine pond in gatton park .
two years earlier , william hartnell’s doctor had been down to frensham to get involved in the trojan wars . for this storyline , bbc designers took an ancient trojan scene painted on see - through glass to the pond and put it in front of the camera during filming .
• spearhead from space , 1970 : jon pertwee’s doctor tackles the nestenes and their sinister plastic servants , the autons , at rhs garden wisley near woking and hatchford park near cobham .
the other noted moment is the confused ending , ( spoiler ) yellowleg elects to shoot it out with his ex - partners , who have returned from robbing the bank for real . peckinpah wanted the gunfight to be yellowleg ' s victory over his handicap , which turns out to have been more a mental problem than a physical one . o ' hara and fitzsimons apparently insisted on ' protecting ' brian keith ' s star player status by having turk shoot billy in the back , for the vaguest of revenge reasons . poorly staged and awkwardly cut , the death of billy is an almost complete letdown . yellowleg ' s role in the story is thus limited to finding a bond of common trust with kit tilden . the townsmen offer to let her return to gila city , but kit and yellowleg choose to ride off alone .
• jean arthur ' s last movie was
shane ,
the 1953 classic that ' s widely regarded as one of the genre ' s top five films . filmed in wyoming and california , it turned out to be the biggest hit of her 30 - year career .
he heads for texas , and it ' s what happens on the way that gives this movie such power : he slowly gains a new family , including an indian chief and a young navajo girl , and the realization a satisfying life might be in the stars for him .
would you like to see the parents from the original parent trap movie on a dire journey through indian territory ? if you answered
yes ,
this flick ' s for you .
with the headline : the screen : ' all fall down , ' inge ' s version of herlihy novel ; beatty and miss saint starred in drama 4 other movies have local premieres .


adam green 's aladdin is an independent film written , directed by , and starring adam green that presents a modern take on the arabian nights classic tale .

the film stars alia shawkat , natasha lyonne , jack dishel , macaulay culkin , and nicole laliberte .

the film was partially funded through the crowdfunding website kickstarter , and filmed over the summer of 2014 .

the film was released on april 15 , 2016 , through video on demand .

adam green ' s aladdin

here’s the first look at adam green’s aladdin , the second feature film from musician , artist and filmmaker adam green .
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12 . 30pm doors 1 . 00pm adam green ' s aladdin 2 . 30pm q & a with director adam green later in the day adam green plays live at fruit . 7 . 30pm doors . for full info and tickets
adam green’s aladdin will debut in us and canada on april 15 and will be released worldwide on may 12 .
musician and filmmaker adam green’s newest film project , adam green’s aladdin , features the home alone star ( who also appeared in green’s film the wrong ferrari ) , along with a host of other familiar faces in a new take on the classic arabian nights tale .
learn more about adam green ' s aladdin on the movie ' s official website , where you can also to see when the stoner adventure epic / romance / sci - fi / fantasy / legend movie arrives at an art cinema near you . check out more of adam green ' s film , music , and artwork here .
from the director of the ketamine inspired surrealist gonzo feature “the wrong ferarri” comes adam green’s aladdin , a hypersensory , poetic , and humorously modern take on the arabian nights classic tale .
don’t expect any groucho marx and jack nicholson impressions in this version : adam green’s aladdin looks like a psychedelic pastiche of the old fairytale , oingo boingo’s forbidden zone , a dash of pee wee’s playhouse , and some modern cultural commentary . the synopsis states :
worldwide aladdin tour concurrent with the film and album ' s release in spring 2016 .
adam green’s aladdin , a hyper - sensory , poetic and humorously subversive take on the classic arabian nights tale , written and directed by green . the feature film will further explore the recesses of adam’s symbolic imagination , playing like an alejandro jodorowsky version of aladdin on handmade sets à la “the science of sleep” ; with frenetic dialogue at the pace of xavier renegade angel or south park .
aladdin , green’s second feature film will further explore the recesses of green’s symbolic imagination , playing like an alejandro jodorowsky version of aladdin on handmade sets à la the science of sleep ; with frenetic dialogue at the pace of xavier renegade angel or south park .
taking horror back to the old school for a lesson in how to maximise blood loss and minimise survivors , adam greens hatchet eschews everyth . . .
soul mate - adam ' s soul mate gets the actual brass lamp used in the film + everything parents get .
set in the modern day world , adam’s hyper - sensory , poetic and humorously subversive take on the classic arabian nights tale stars adam as aladdin living with his dysfunctional family in a “regular” american town ruled by a corrupt sultan with a decadent socialite daughter .
like some kind of michel gondry orgy taking place in pee - wee’s playhouse , the trailer for adam green’s aladdin leaves the viewer asking , “hrm ? ” the fantasy film features some of hollywood’s hippest crowd : natasha lyonne , macaulay culkin , alia shawkat , zoë kravitz , and more . the official synopsis states :
“i’ve been trying to really take a step back from the traditional rock musician thing , ” said adam green . the musician ' s tour this fall , one of dozens since making a name for himself in the new york indie scene in the 90 ' s , is definitely untraditional : each concert starts with a screening of his film adam green’s aladdin , after which green will take to his set - designed stage in the bell - bottomed costume from the film , bringing the soundtrack alive .
later in the day adam green plays live at fruit . 7 . 30pm doors . for full info and tickets click here .
the film is the second feature from musician , artist , and filmmaker adam green ( one half of the moldy peaches ) . it’s weird , it’s sexy , it’s colorful , and it’s probably too cool for you . but it has a chair made of asparagus . so , you be the judge .
in this way , green gives the human indulgences and imperfections normally airbrushed out of hollywood productions a chance to thrive in the characters of aladdin . this thread links together all the seemingly non - sensical characters in green ' s arabia , whether it ' s dishel ' s dual roles , or culkin as ralph . arrested development star alia shawkat as aladdin ' s sister emily , emmy - winner natasha lyonne as aladdin ' s voluptuous mom , internet curiosity bip ling as the kardashian - esque princess barbara , zoë kravitz as an asparagus - loving miner , and neo - expressionist painter francesco clemente ' s portrayal as the genie each tackle adam ' s lyrical voice in their own way .
indie - folk artist adam green has released the full - length trailer for his feature film and soundtrack album . ‘aladdin’ is the second feature from the musician , artist , filmmaker and moldy peaches member .
( shot entirely on an iphone ) , former moldy peach adam green returns with one of the most bizarre films i have ever seen .
green financed the film via a kickstarter campaign that launched two years ago . a singer best known for his work as half of the moldy peaches , green recorded songs for the soundtrack , which will release alongside the film and be part of green’s aladdin tour starting this spring .
the movie features a brand new soundtrack album composed and recorded by green , who will be kicking off a worldwide ‘aladdin tour’ concurrent with the film and album’s release in may 2016 .
green stars as aladdin in a modern version of the story , bringing aladdin to an american town lorded over by a corrupt sultan . the film’s first trailer offers a look at what green , who also wrote and directed it , has in store for his unique spin , which he describes as a “hyper - sensory , poetic , and humorously subversive” version of aladdin’s story . alia shawkat , natasha lyonne , and zoe kravitz are also among the cast .
last year , adam green almost derailed his career by releasing an uncomfortable album of what sounded like kids songs . it wasnt a kids album . . .
yasmín green produced the film while pregnant with adam ' s child and working at google .
she ' s the smartest person i know ,
says adam . her influence was a pivotal factor in the growth you can see between the wrong ferarri and aladdin . they met shortly after he finished his cinematic debut , tripping and falling headfirst into romance and then marriage . their daughter is now 18 months old . more than just his wife ' s producing abilities , the relationship itself is what drew green to aladdin in the first place .
i like it because it ' s a love story , and i spent the last few years finding love in my life ,
green says .
i was really relating to it because it ' s about love trumping material things .
man adam green is best known as a charmingly scuzzy singer - songwriter with a curiously large following in germany . but his latest labour of love is a warped , feature - length version of aladdin , made on the cheap in a brooklyn warehouse , and starring macaulay culkin and arrested development’s
since his early days as one half of the moldy peaches , adam green has walked a perilously fine line between sly singer - songwriter homage and . . .
if one of your three wishes from a genie included seeing macaulay culkin appear in a new film , then you’ve never had a friend quite like adam green .
a three - minute clip of green’s take on the arabian classic that proves film is what he should be doing .
adam green is best known as one half of anti - folk duo the moldy peaches , but he ' s also a filmmaker and an artist , creating bright , cartoonish paintings as well as collages and papier - mâché sculptures . the trailer for his upcoming film , adam green ' s aladdin , manages to mix all these elements as it retells the classic tale , sprinkling in a cohort of guest stars , from macaulay culkin to alia shawkat of arrested development fame . ( green has previously worked with culkin on the wrong ferarri , a feature film shot entirely on an iphone . )
speaking to twin , green says he wants the film to reinterpret the story of aladdin through modern eyes .
in my version the lamp is a 3d printer that prints out an analogue version of the internet . and the princess is sort of like a kardashian who’s on the sultan’s reality show ,
says green , adding that he used papier - mâché for the set and costumes in the hope that it would feel like the actors were
inside a real life cartoon .
judging by this trailer , it worked . adam green ' s aladdin will debut in canada and the us on april 15th , and released worldwide on may 12th .
you could watch this trailer 20 times and still find something you didn’t see before , which just goes to show how heavily green’s approach relies on chaos and distraction . but that’s precisely what we all want from a perverse , raunchy stoner comedy like this one . with enough papier - mâché boobs and guest stars to make your head explode , the trailer for adam green’s aladdin proves that this movie will is a welcome follow - up to the wrong ferrari we weren’t necessarily waiting for , but will welcome with open arms and stoned spirits .
the film is a modern day version of aladdin , with green starring as the titular character , and explores the recesses of green’s symbolic imagination wherein the lamp is a 3 - d printer , the princess is a decadent socialite , the planet gets a sex - change and its population prints out an analogue version of the internet .
in a way , aladdin is a follow - up to ferrari — an anti - technology meditation on “feeling like your soul is sort of being ripped out of your body by machines that are possessing your soul , ” green explained . this time , the storyline came with a rebel leader ( played by culkin ) and a bitcoin - like currency . lyonne plays green’s mother ; shawkat , his sister ; and the artist francesco clemente , a childhood hero of green ' s , the genie . the film ' s scenes are entirely dream - like , though not all of it is made up : like his character , green was dropped from his long - time label in real life , and did meet the woman who became his wife in the process ( yasmin green is also of the film ' s producers ) .
aside from starring in and writing the production’s entire soundtrack – which he’ll also tour – green has even made all the props , from tables to the camel .
say it with me “future cult classic” . okay cool . this is the most unique film i’ve seen come out of the past few years . it’s a surrealist nihilistic version of aladdin with sets that look like a child with a box of crayons drew them , and props made of papier mache . this movie is fucking crazy and it is a unique trip into the mind of adam green . it’s absolutely ridiculous , and kind of fucking stupid , but it’s enjoyable and had me and my friends losing our minds . it’s absurdity at its best , and i agree with father john misty in saying that this film reminds me of jodorowsky .
adam green funded aladdin through kickstarter , rented a warehouse in red hook a few blocks from pioneer works , and wound up using many of the artists doing residencies there as extras and minor characters . written in the lyrical style of an album of songs , it ' s impossible to grasp every single line , but relaxing and letting sentences unpack themselves helps the film makes sense on it ' s own terms .
it ' s like a cartoon where you feel what ' s happening in the movie ,
green explains to the creators project .
a kid could watch the movie and follow it—well , not a kid becayse it ' s not really a kids movie . but somebody could watch the movie and zone out and feel like they ' d watched the movie aladdin . or they could analyse every line , because every line is its own nugget of something i thought to include in the movie .
green funded the film via a successful kickstarter campaign , and enlisted the help of a who ' s who of new york art , music and film scenesters , with macaulay culkin , natasha lyonne , alia shawkat , zoe kravitz and har mar superstar amongst the film ' s high profile cast members . green casts himself as aladdin , and turns in a stilted and goofy , yet oddly winning performance . though purportedly a re - imagining of the classic tale
a friend recommended i check this out on youtube and i was absolutely blown away . this is one of the strangest , funniest and most creative surrealist movies since the holy mountain . actually i would liken adam green’s style to jodorowsky if he made his movies in his basement . the entire aesthetic may be something you’re familiar with if you’ve seen the music video for father john misty’s “total entertainment forever” . adam green creates a playground world out of cardboard walls and cartoon drawings . his props and sets are all hand made and the characters effortlessly fit into this do it yourself metropolis . it’s raunchy , dirty , nonsensical , and everything that a surrealist movie should be . i adore this movie , and i…
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aladdin ' s colorful set is populated by green ' s fiercely loyal friends , who also happen to be film and fashion celebrities or art world around - towners . the film is uncompromisingly green , which somehow also means that each actor ' s individual personality and humanness is made to shine through .
[ actor ] jack dishel would do these voices in the [ moldy peaches ] tour van ,
green tells us , explaining that aladdin ' s characters are as much a product of the actors as the script . dishel is the creator of uber - bashing web series : dryvrs , and a talented impressionist and character actor . in aladdin , he takes on two separate main charaters , aladdin ' s wholesome - ish uncle gary and a villainous technophile sultan .
he ' d do this old man character and this pan - european character . one time some guy came on the bus , very drunk and very foreign , and just felt entitled to everything , and i was just watching , thinking , ' who the fuck is this guy ? ' later , jack did an impression of him , and that , partially , became the sultan .
adam has begun recording a full - album which will be used as the soundtrack to the film . produced by green ' s long - term collaborator noah georgeson , the soundtrack features playing by stella mozgawa ( warpaint ) , rodrigo amarante ( of little joy ) , and josiah steinbrick ( devendra banhart ) , and binki shapiro .
revolving around aladdin’s dysfunctional family , who live in an “average” american city ruled by a corrupt sultan with a decadent socialite daughter , the film explores themes of technology , government repression , greed , and true love . green , who notably co - wrote the theme song to the grammy - winning juno soundtrack as well as eight solo albums , will record an aladdin soundtrack which will be used to score the film and released concurrently .
the film is an epic surrealist drug - odyssey which focuses on adam’s psychological outlook on love , work , and turning 30 . obsessed with the pet - medicine ketamine , the characters in the film turn into pets themselves only to find that the “k - hole” is bottomless and that they must overtake their masters . with its dialogue - driven approach , “the wrong ferarri” allows green’s poetic and lyrical writing style to come alive .
the trailer , which you can watch above , hints of an inscrutable romp through green ' s subconscious , but the film is actually fairly linear and straightforward , thanks to the influence of green ' s wife , yasmín , and the collective efforts of green ' s sprawling network of friends and acolytes in the new york scene . the plot is driven by a lamp that , rather than relying on pure magic , takes the form of a 3d printer , opening all the doors to sex , power , and antics that modern technology promises in our own world .
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to construct his aladdin universe , he used “cubic reductions” of garfield , elmo , and super mario brothers as building blocks , though they’re abstracted mostly beyond recognition , defined by black lines that mirror one of green’s inspirations , an installation by the french artist jean dubuffet that green saw at the centre pompidou in paris . “i’m making a world out of shapes that i’m familiar with , and i’m using those things as hooks to climb a mountain , ” he said .
ost people know adam green for the purposely stale anti - folk songs he penned alongside kimya dawson in the moldy peaches — or for his extensive solo music catalog — but his career has more dimension than just music . more recently , green has tried his hand at filmmaking , which seems to be an apt opportunity for him to express his whimsical , ironic sense of humor . his first film ,
also featuring pete doherty , devendra banhart , and sky ferreira , the wrong ferrari was shot entirely on green’s iphone , partly to drive home his thesis that life is a video game , and partly because it was “the only camera i knew how to use , ” green said . his character meanders through prague and venice , and ultimately signs to a label called nintendo records — the same made - up label that his titular character in aladdin signs to , too .
your friendly neighborhood visionary art , film , and song maker adam green has put the better part of the last four years into a new adaptation of the classic arabian nights tale , aladdin . the film , which premiered at pioneer works on tuesday night , is a very different beast from the
jessica ,
friends of mine ,
and
dance with me
songwriter ' s first feature , the wrong ferrari , which was shot on an iphone and rests conceptually on a foundation of ketamine . vibrant , and dripping with a meticulous craft aesthetic best described as ,
cartoons made flesh ,
aladdin is a testament to the power of a good love story .
once half of indie oddballs the moldy peaches , green has made the year’s craziest film , a lysergic take on the folk tale starring macaulay culkin . we cadge a few film - making pointers from a diy auteur
the cast includes acclaimed actors macaulay culkin , alia shawkat ( arrested development ) and natasha lyonne ( orange is the new black ) , celebrated ny musicians , adam green , dev hynes , devendra banhart , har mar superstar , andrew vanwyngarden ( mgmt ) , as well as renowned artist francesco clemente .
green spent years dreaming up aladdin , and constructed its set entirely by hand . the papier mâché sculptures and forms were so detailed and imaginative that they got their own exhibition at the hole gallery in new york ; for visitors , it was like walking into “a real - life cartoon . ” although green openly says he “really committed to the ketamine trip” with the wrong ferrari , to the point that he even took the drug at the film’s screenings , the creative process was different for aladdin : he didn’t take any “major” hallucinogens , he said , and is growing somewhat resentful of the skeptical reception his openness about his drug use has earned him .
green summarises his approach in aladdin as a reaction to the dogme 95 movement started by lars von trier and thomas vinterberg , and championed by harmony korine .
i loved lars von trier and harmony korine growing up , with their whole set of rules : you won ' t have any pros , your actors will come to the location , location will not be changed at all , there ' s no music that isn ' t played at the time of shooting ,
green explains .
my movie is the opposite . it ' s completely hand - made , and the rule is that nothing can be real in the movie . which is funny because it ' s actually abut a real life experience .
in an exclusive behind - the - scenes documentary , premiering today on the creators project , actor macaulay culkin , one of green ' s longtime friends , and the character who plays ralph , the leader of anti - government revolutionary group called the magical americans , affectionately says ,
i said yes to the script before [ green ] had even written it ,
effectively summarising the way everyone on set seems to feel about working with green . watch that below :
alia shawkat is constantly making me feel overwhelmed . the . guy . from . little . joy . is . in . this . and just after that scene adam says ' i ' m just a cool cat in a small town . ' could you p o s s i b l y pander to me more ? ? i haven ' t listened to him for years but this album is pretty good .
green was propelled into fame somewhat belatedly , when the 2007 film juno featured music by the moldy peaches , his anti - folk group with kimya dawson , years after they’d disbanded and both gone on to their own solo careers . but growing up in new york , he was always surrounded by talented , recognizable faces — culkin is one of his best friends and primary collaborators . the two have an art collective with the musician toby goodshank , and culkin also starred in green’s first film , 2011’s the wrong ferrari .
in this retelling of the classic tale , aladdin is an out of work indie - rock singer living in a video - game - world ruled by a perverted technology - obsessed sultan . with the help of a magical genie named mustafa and his 3d printer lamp , aladdin gets lost and found again in a story about spiritual redemption in the internet age .
still , he admits it’s “completely true” that drugs are an inspiration . “to me , if i get really stoned and write 10 pages of text and it’s really cool , that’s just tradition — people have always done that , you know ? ” he said . “but at the same time , i’ve written tons of things with no drugs , and the thing is if i’ve ever written things on drugs i’ve always edited it in a very clear state . ” aladdin , he insisted , is not “the work of a drugged - out lunatic . ”
along for the ride with the renowned singer / songwriter are macaulay culkin , alia shawkat , natasha lyonne , zoë kravitz , and many more , all adding to green’s surreal vision of a modern fable filtered through h . r . pufnstuf aesthetics . in addition to writing , directing , and starring in the film , green will be releasing its soundtrack and going on tour to promote this unique cinematic experience .
“obviously there were no contracts . people would oversleep and not show up . one key actor pulled out at the last minute , so there was some radical recasting the day before the shoot . i didn’t even really want to be aladdin ! i asked a bunch of other people but ultimately i ended up being the most famous person i could find to be aladdin . ”
in this retelling of the classic tale , aladdin is an out of work indie - rock singer living in a video - game - world ruled by a perverted technology - obsessed sultan .
“i want to tell the truth . that’s where my storytelling comes from . my feminism comes from somewhere else : acute dissatisfaction . ”
an exclusive look at how a group of friends and lovers , including macaulay culkin , alia shawkat , zoe kravitz , and natasha lyonne , made the version of ' aladdin ' you never knew you needed .
“what i’m most proud of about aladdin is that it was a very unique vision that i got to execute how i wanted . that’s how it should be as an artist : you have something inside of you that you push out through your skin . i’m writing another movie about the afterlife and it’s kind of a war movie . i always wanted to tell the story of hanukkah , like a biblical epic . imagine making noah’s ark out of papier - mache , that would be fun . and somehow it feels like life would not be complete unless i got to design a videogame or an amusement park or something . it would be an adult amusement park – educational too ! ”
on this week’s good one podcast , vanessa bayer tells the full story of her most beloved character , from her own bat mitzvah to her final snl .
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in short , it’s a real - life execution of a movie - turned - art - show - turned - album , which green refers to as “a community project , because everyone did things for free . ” the idea — a film starring himself and a genie lamp that doubles as a 3d printer in one of his favorite childhood stories — started at a dinner with natasha lyonne in new york , and was further improved during a downtown shopping trip where he bought a lamp with alia shawkat . over the next few years , he wrote the screenplay on planes and in hotel rooms while on tour , eventually turning to kickstarter for funds and friends for his cast . in green’s case , those friends happened to be lyonne , shawkat , and macaulay culkin .
“i have a tendency to be pretty abstract in my thinking , so to be anchored by a myth was helpful . i could look at the aladdin story and think : ‘what would a modern - day princess look like ? ’ the answer was : like a kardashian . then the lamp could be a 3d printer and the genie could be like siri . aladdin is based on me , so i made him an indie rock singer whose label is dissatisfied with him , which isn’t dissimilar to my story with rough trade , who told me to cut half the songs on my seventh album . the script is based on a lot of my own real - life experiences , and certainly the feelings and the journey of the character is real . but everything else around aladdin is totally insane . ”
, which was shot on iphone and written on ketamine . suffice to say that green has his own hallucinogenic take on the aladdin fable in which the princess is a reality tv star , the sultan is a pot - bellied pervert and the lamp is a 3d printer that upsets the karmic balance of the universe by printing out an analogue version of the internet . how does a film as whacked - out as this get from drug - addled fever dream to the arthouse cinema screen ? let the man himself explain .
“the wrong ferarri” is a feature - film written and directed by adam in 2010 / 2011 – it stars a diverse cast of actors and musicians including macaulay culkin , jack dishel , alia shawkat , devendra banhart , and pete doherty . essentially a screwball - tragedy , the ketamine inspired movie was the first feature - film to be shot entirely on an iphone .
i asked if the film shows what’s really inside his mind , and he misheard me , maybe fortuitously : “is there a reality show inside my mind ?
he said .
yeah , i think so .
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— which green filmed under the influence of ketamine on his european tour in 2010 — features dadaist dialogue , random celebrities like macauley culkin and sky ferreira , and a non - linear plot line . now you can watch the official trailer for his next feature film ,
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right now , we need to raise funds to pay for the making of the movie , hiring cast , key crew ( director of photography , production designer , costume designer ) , line producer , lighting equipment and warehouse space and promotion . this kickstarter campaign is my way of asking for people who like my music or my art to be a part of making aladdin .
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aladdin is the most creatively ambitious project i ' ve taken on , and i ' ve been obsessed with making it for the past two years . i loved writing the script and i can ' t wait to work on the sets and start directing . i also want to build a community of people that are passionate about this too , and who can experience the making of the movie with me !
“a lot of the dialogue for the wrong ferrari was written under the influence of ketamine . i’d put all these things on scraps of paper and give them to the cast on the day of the shoot . each scene was basically last night’s trip . i was making up the movie from day to day . aladdin was a lot more organised , but sometimes i’d get stoned and write a bit . the way i write is very free - associative . i’d type for two hours and give myself permission to write anything that i wanted . as it progressed , i started to assign the lines to the princess or the sultan or the genie . but they’re all part of my subconcious . ”
but if it does earn him the reputation of being a little crazy , that seems fine with green , too . “i mean , i am crazy , but maybe not in the way people think . i try to understand what subconscious imagery comes to me , and i try to document it , ” he said .
this movie is strange , it’s non - tradional and doesn’t play by the rules of what most films do . those who aren’t interested in art and quirkiness , look elsewhere . also , this isn’t for kids . that all being said , there is plenty to like about this . the plot is basic , but serves as a structure for the poetic mind bending that green wove into the script . i often found myself confused as to what a character was saying , but then stopped and really thought about the line and genuinely smiled . as a whole , this movie doesn’t speak as a giant message , but rather acts as a vessel of obscure brilliances . there are some seriously memorable characters here , most notably the sultan . the music is also great . but that’s expected , right ? support this great little film . amongst the right crowd , it will be greatly appreciated . spread the word , this film is actually noteworthy !
there is a wedding at the end of the movie , culminating in a set of heart - lifting set of vows that green reveals are identical to the ones from his own wedding .
we made the movie together , it was our project . and i think all my projects in the future will be ones i do with her .
“i think everybody grows up with a fantasy of making a movie . in my case , i just did it . not knowing any of the rules kind of helped . i approached aladdin like a community project , inviting people to help me create this papier - mache world inside of a warehouse with a bunch of actors and musicians . the film was just a container for a fun experience , a crazy way to spend the summer in new york city . ”
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visually , the film is a diy marvel , featuring psychedelic handmade papier - mâché sets and props . there are a few driving sequences that are so weird and jarring that they take on an off - putting beauty , and particularly memorable is the
magic rug ride
sequence ( again , better seen than described ) . soundtracked by original green compositions , the film has a ramshackle charm and daffy energy that carries it beyond the limitations of its threadbare story .
plot - wise , things get weird . yes , there is a magic lamp , and a genie , but this lamp is a 3 - d printer , and the genie is italian artist francesco clemente . the rest is better experienced than recapped . the film plays with some big ideas about technology , political activism , sex and love , but as with any fever dreams , there ' s a sense of relief when it is all over .
“on the first day of filming , i thought i’d loosen up by having a beer like i do before a concert . man , it was a total mistake . i forgot my lines and everyone was looking at me . being an actor - director was a lot of pressure , so i had to stay sober . i’d walk home for two hours every night just to unwind . i told myself that even if it all fell apart , it could be this great ill - fated movie , like jodorowsky’s dune . ”
speaking to noisey about the project earlier this year , green said : “the movie is set entirely inside a papier - mâché world . filmed in a massive brooklyn warehouse , we constructed a papier - mâché painted universe where real actors could act as if they were inside a real - life cartoon . the goal was to make a sort of wizard of oz out of cardboard . we constructed 500 props and 30 rooms all out of phone books , newspapers , glue , and house - paint . in a way it felt like we were constructing an analogue version of the internet . ”
so far the committed cast includes natasha lyonne , macaulay culkin , and alia shawkat as well as roles from indie - musicians and friends .
after being completed the movie was immediately released online as a free download . on april 4th 2011 , the film premiered at anthology film archives in nyc . in the weeks that followed it showed at the downtown independent theater in los angeles and at the mexico theater in milan . “the wrong ferarri” has been downloaded in its entirety over 300 , 000 times . rolling stone magazine described it as “fellini on ketamine . ”
writing and directing a movie , composing a full - album soundtrack for it , and designing & constructing 20 film - sets myself is the most ambitious project i ' ve ever undertaken . i dread to think about all the things that could go wrong , from logistical problems , communication problems , to artistic problems . i ' ll have to draw from my years of experience as a bandleader and an intuitive artist to shape each problem into something that gives the film character . one thing that will certainly help is having a completed script before we shoot with full storyboards for each scene . another is having a pre - recorded soundtrack so that the music informs each scene of the film as i shoot . and of course i plan to work as a community with friends , so their involvement will be personal and that may help me in a tough situation .
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“the warehouse was 25 minutes from the train , so once you were there you couldn’t leave , you had to hang out ! we did everything we could to make it not feel like work . i made everyone in the movie wear bell - bottoms . i honestly feel that if everyone wore bell - bottoms , the world would be maybe 10 or 15 % better and more groovy . ”
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i feel like i could fight macaulay culkin if i really wanted to , i ' m not that strong but i could take him .
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ah ! les belles bacchantes english : ah !

the nice moustache , is a french comedy film from 1954 , directed by jean loubignac , written by francis blanche , starring robert dhéry and louis de funès .

the film is also known under the titles : femmes de paris and peek-a-boo ( usa ) .

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robert dhéry , director of the theatre ' folies - méricourt ' advertises his latest show entitled ah ! these beautiful women . police inspector michel leboeuf , intrigued and alarmed by bold posters , decides to investigate .
robert dhéry , director of the theatre ' folies - méricourt ' advertises his latest show entitled ' ah ! these beautiful women . police inspector , michel leboeuf , intrigued and alarmed by bold posters , decides to investigate .
the film includes some members of les branquignols , and some of their popular stage comedy and musical sketches . the troupe was credited in the movie ' s trailer . four of them were in the top cast :
dhéry also got a few small parts in films such as marcel carné ' s les enfants du paradis ( 1944 ) and claude autant - lara ' s sylvia and the ghost ( 1945 ) , in which jacques tati made his first appearance ( and disappearance ) in a feature .
in 1949 , dhéry and his wife , colette brosset , founded a joyous troupe of comics , musicians and singers called les branquignols (
the crazies
) , which , at various times , included louis de funès , jean lefebvre , jean carmet , julien carette , jacqueline maillan , pierre olaf and michel serrault . almost immediately , dhéry put the first show on film , in which he played a french cowboy .
premier film de robert dhery et de la célèbre équipe de l ' époque , celle des branquignols . l ' immense succès de leur revue de music - hall à paris nous vaut cette adaptation cinématographique , qui n ' est qu ' une suite de tableaux souvent longuets et ennuyeux . a sa sortie , le film fut un excellent succès commercial , drainant les foules attirées par certainement scènes ( légèrement ) dénudées . . . urltoken
le petit baigneur ( 1968 ) , a slapstick vehicle for a wildly animated de funès , and vos gueules , les mouettes ! ( shut up , seagulls ! , 1974 ) , with dhéry and brosset , were both mainly for home consumption . at the opéra comique in paris , dhéry proved an appropriate director for productions of offenbach ' s robinson crusoe and the grand duchess of gerolstein , and rossini ' s comte ory , with its men disguised as nuns , reminiscent of a sketch from one of dhéry ' s revues .
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a small - town policeman is informed that
naked women
are dancing in a revue at a local variety theater . being the guardian of public morals that he is , he decides to stroll on down there and check it out for himself .
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jockey jack has a bill open with a gangster just released from jail . he somehow manages to parry the gangster ' s knife attack backstage at a theatre and the latter ends up dead being put . . . see full summary »
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shopkeeper victor garnier has naively invested his family ' s life savings in an african mine , on his banker ' s recommendation . when the mine is nationalized , rendering the stock worthless , he . . . see full summary »
léonard monestier has made his fortune trading on the stock exchange . his eccentric wife cynthia almost bankrupts him by selling some of his shares to buy an oil concession in south america . . . see full summary »
pierre cousin , a depressive compositor , wants to die . after five vain attempts at committing suicide , he decides to hire professional hit men to do the job on him .
neurotic businessman must find the right man for his pregnant daughter . in fact , it is little bit complicated .
france , late fifties : the baby boom was not over . . . at least in
bébés a gogo ' ( = baby galore ) . the family ' s daughter and her husband ( supposedly still student ) are still living with dad and mom , and they gave birth to seven children .
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. the programme consists of lively comedy routines , feisty dance numbers and sensational beauty parades - something for everyone in fact . the show ' s title does however cause some concern and detective michel leboeuf must attend the rehearsals to ensure that the show does not contain anything too risqué . robert mistakes leboeuf for one of his comedy performers and offers him a prominent part in the revue . .
. whilst there is not much plot to speak off , mostly a succession of music hall acts of varying degrees of charm and sophistication , the film offers an enticing nostalgia trip , taking us back to a time when live entertainment was as popular as the cinema . and watching the film you wonder how this could possibly have been the case . protracted beauty parades , repetitive prat falls , hopelessly inept musicians - these were once the stock in trade of the french music hall but they are unlikely to be considered quality entertainment by today ' s standards .
dated though the film is , it does abound with a sense of fun and provides a lasting tribute to the music hall . the icing on the cake is the ensemble of great comedy performers that make up dhéry ' s celebrated company , including colette brosset , michel serrault , jacqueline maillan and louis de funès , all of whom would feature prominently in mainstream french cinema in the years to come , none more so than de funès . another comedy giant , francis blanche , is also roped in to lend his support . this was the first film in which michel serrault appeared - he has a non - speaking part as a retarded musician . whilst robert dhéry was most active in the theatre , he directed half a dozen other films for the cinema , which include
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west end theatre - goers who were around in the mid - 1950s are likely to remember a hit french revue called la plume de ma tante , which entertained audiences at the garrick theatre for three years , before being equally successful in new york . the show ' s creator , director and star was robert dhéry , who has died aged 83 . full of zany musical numbers and sketches , la plume de ma tante was france ' s answer to the crazy gang .
when it opened for a three - year run on broadway , louis kronenberger , the american drama critic , wrote :
it spoke a sort of compound - fractured english and was in all other aspects as french as it was funny . the question of speech hardly mattered anyhow , because it stressed the international comic language of leers and leaps , pratfalls and double takes . in contrast to the season ' s mechanical gag shows , that alone would call for thanks . but , with la plume , the quality of merci is not strained , the show shone by more than contrast . la plume had three great merits : madness , precision and charm .
perhaps the most memorable sketch was the one that ended the first act , in which four monks attempt , in a madly acrobatic manner , to pull four bell ropes . this kind of sketch came from dhéry ' s background in the circus and music hall .
born robert léon fourrey , in the small town of dhéry ( hence his adopted name ) , he joined a travelling circus at the age of 14 . after studying at the celebrated rené simon drama school in paris , he began performing in cabaret and music hall .
the following year came la plume de ma tante . the queen went to see it in london , and the cast won tony awards in new york . at a charity night to help the victims of the flood disaster in fréjus in 1959 , rex harrison , claudette colbert and laurence olivier took roles in the show .
after the dazzling long run , dhéry returned to the cinema with la belle américaine ( 1961 ) , in which he played a parisian factory worker who manages to buy a huge cadillac (
the beautiful american
of the title ) , at a bargain price , for the birthday of his wife ( brosset ) . however , it gets him into all sorts of trouble . in his films , of which this was the most widely seen , dhéry retained his madcap comic skills , but only in short bursts ; unlike the supercar ( seen in colour at the finale ) , dhéry was not built for long distances .
he produced , directed , wrote and starred in allez france ! ( 1964 ) , which followed the insane adventures of a french rugby supporter ( dhéry ) who crosses the channel for the england - france match , gets lost , finds himself at a dentist ' s , and in a policeman ' s uniform . most of the humour , which played on french and english misunderstandings , was as subtle as a rugby scrum and almost as funny . but dhéry , with support from his wife , diana dors and arthur mullard , was a likeable clown , who would always come up with surprising visual gags .
he is survived by colette brosset , his fellow artist and wife since 1942 .
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a small - town policeman is informed that “naked women” are dancing in a revue at a local variety theater . being the guardian of public morals that he is , he decides to stroll on down there and check it out for himself .
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succession de sketchs et de défilés de jolies parisiennes dénudées , régulièrement interrompus par de burlesques intermèdes . cinéma music - hall avec la troupe des branquignols .
ouch ! this movie is so bad ! what were they thinking ? it ' s strictly a showcase for beautiful women . in fact , its only originality is probably the amount of nudity for the time .
louis de funès ' talent is wasted . he ' s reduce to imitate a chicken . which is funny , but to carry it on for the entire film is absurd and stupid . oh ! and by the way . . . the musical numbers are awful . skip this one , by all mean .
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