Just loved watching Audie Murphy in this, shows just how fantastic an actor he really was slipping back and forth between violence and psychopathic, couldn't take my eyes off him, my attention was focused the entire show.... Thelma Ritter always played great parts showing what a great lady of the screen she was.... RIP AUDIE MURPHY.
Audi Murphy was actually quite limited as an actor. That's why when you saw him in the movies he was usually playing either a soldier or a cowpoke. Movie producers of the day were loathe to cast him in any role requiring a more expansive range. In this particular play, he seemed self-conscious at times and robotic at times. He also overplayed the psychopathy. A more subtle and nuanced performance would have served him better. Great soldier and American hero, but his chops as a thespian were quite limited.
HansDelbruck53 I disagree.....the directors pegged him as a cowboy or soldier......but Don Segal had offered Audie the part of Scorpio in Dirty Harry......but he turned it down due to the despicable part he would have to play......but I think he would have made a great Scorpio......and Segal thought so too,or would not have asked him......
Thanks so much for posting this. I always wanted to see Audie in something other than a western or war movie. He was excellent in this and of course as cute as could be.
This was so spell binding, I was sitting on the edge of my chair. Audie played that part so well. He was an excellent actor. Only 1 of his many lifes accomplishments . And Thelma Ritter ,was excellent also. The ending tho, one of those cliffhangers , like what happened next? Thanks so much for this. May they both RIP.
I just think they're doing something far better than resting in peace, in addition to living forever in human memory, or anyway for a real long time. :9)
Audie Murphy (as I'm sure everybody knows) fought in both the Pacific and European theaters and was the most decorated US soldier in WWII, so it's intriguing that he plays a man who was discharged from the service as mentally unfit - and plays the character frighteningly well. A radio version of this play was broadcast on Suspense with Frank Sinatra as Howard and Agnes Morehead as Mrs Gillis: th-cam.com/video/sC0p_Kbvm2M/w-d-xo.html
Audie's performance should have gotten him an Emmy. Maybe there were no Emmy's back then. His ability to go back and forth from a likable to a violent-psychopath is startling. His eyes are incredible. My favorite line comes in the first act when the visitor lets the dog in the house and closes the door before Audie can stop him. When Audie turns with his eyes flaring to the dog, and says "Don't YOU growl at me ... SHUT UP!" and then kills the dog .... MAN! That's a powerful scene.
This is the first time that I have seen Thelma Ritter play a straight dramatic role. She normally plays a more lighthearted roll and almost always as a housekeeper.
I only discovered Audie Murphy last year, and I only saw him playing the good guy for the first few movies. I couldn't see "good guy Audie" standing up to German tanks. But after I saw him playing the "bad guy" I knew he was capable. I wish we had more men like him today.
Similar story as the Ida Lupino and Robert Ryan “Beware My Lovely.” That screenplay was written by the same writer who wrote the original play “ The Man “ 1950.
The original story (movie and radio) puts him out there in the telephone truck, at long last no longer in the house or acting bad, and from there he will get what he needs, HELP. Mrs. Gilly is fine, he never harmed her! Ford Startime apparently decided to do something artsy that would set their show apart from previous versions, and to foil everyone who thinks they know the ending, because THIS ending is not the original; nobody knows THIS ending. They fail by having the poor lady just go get her coat (always a bad move) but instead she wanders maddeningly back and forth, to and fro, in a circle, like she doesn't know which end is up, as if she's in a strange house, but most of all as if she is the classic "idiot in the attic" going up with one flickering candle to confront flesh-eating ghouls that infest the death-dark space upstairs. Just determined to be killed. Why? Just 'cuz. Audie Murphy did a delicious and riveting job of this. His psycho was right on the money, and his ruthlessly casual, and his sweet act, and openness with the child, and his flashes of genuine desperate confusion, far better than the guy in the movie version who I can't even recall. Audie Murphy is chiseled handsome! I was never really aware of that. Who was that actor who played the helpful beatniky boy in black-framed glasses at the bowling alley? I've seen him as an OLD man in several spooky TV shows, often rich and in a wheelchair making all the lives around him miserable. Never as a dark-haired gangling boy. * * OK, I found him too (bowling alley boy) and he's just who I thought he was. William Hickey. Played the ancient Mafia don in "Prizzi's Honor." Thanking IMBD. Many GOOD things on the internet still work.
Audie made his part, just so believable, that it probably did scare her, not that she was scared of him, on a personal level, because she knew the kind of man he was, kind, & gentle. But he got so into, that part, and so, became that personality, that it probably did scare her. In turn she, played off that, and did her excellent acting work as well. That's what made this an excellent show, their fantastic acting ability.
I have read that Fred de Cordova one of Audies directors and producer of the tonight show...changed a couple of closeups of Audie because of his frightening eyes....it is in his biography Johnny came Lately......
That is really interesting! Who would ever have thought it of Audie Murphy, one of those people who still looks like a kid when they're 45? Robert Mitchum was purported to be terrifying to work with according to at least 2 female co-stars, one of them Polly Bergen of course. But that's Robert Mitchum. This is Audie Murphie, for gosh sake.
Wow! Audie must have really studied in-depth for this psychopath role. He did an astoundingly convincing job. I must say I thought this would be a sucky role for him, but not so. The ending, however, was a letdown. Not because of any of the actors at all - but rather the script was at fault.
Oh my goodness,he is such a wonderful ac tor I've seen alot of his movies and wished he had not had to leave us so soon ,he is my hero and love the time I can spend learning and watching him, l love audie RIP
Please check out the video of our campaign to award Audie Murphy the Presidential Medal of Freedom and sign the petition. The list of endorsements is quite extraordinary. It is posted on my channel. Look for the one the runs 22:00 minutes. It is the full video. Thank you!
I had the impression Audie Murphy did really well in the movies. How successful SHOULD he have been? Battle fatigue, that poor angel. It is sure to have made all postwar endeavors for him a lot harder than they were for, let's say, John Wayne who did not serve, but was a raging, RAGING success in Hollyweird and is so powerfully associated with flag and country.
@@Carly8Corday he had many different types of movies he wanted to do but hollywierd relegated him to mostly westerns. He only had a few movies like this.
There was another movie of this story and also a radio drama. Google refuses to yield a shred of info on who was in those or what the titles were. All I get from them is 20 listings for "Straw Dogs." Google is almost not Google anymore, I've begun to notice. They're accepting far fewer marching orders from us, too many from elsewhere. * I found the radio and movie versions. The movie stars Ida Lupino, and Robert Ryan who of course was plenty good as the deranged handyman, though no better and really not as good, IMO, as Audie Murphy. Ryan wasn't young or "boy" enough and he doesn't play innocent terribly well, but he was much scary. The title is "Beware, My Lovely" (1952) and it shows a slightly more complete ending than we see here. The radio drama was an episode of SUSPENSE titled "To Find Help." Same slightly more thorough conclusion, if the ending of the Audie Murphy version really troubles you. Mrs. Gillis is played by Agnes Moorehead, the young handyman by FRANK SINATRA! He does great, doesn't even sound like himself, sounds very young and ingenuous. There seems to be an earlier version also, with Ethel Barrymore as Mrs. Gillis, Gene Kelly as the young man.
What a sick movie. Killing her dog and then her? Then he comes back on to say sweet dreams! I'm surprised he agreed to do it. I'm sorry, but I don't find that entertaining.
Please check out the video of our campaign to award Audie Murphy the Presidential Medal of Freedom and sign the petition. The list of endorsements is quite extraordinary. It is posted on my channel. Look for the one the runs 22:00 minutes. It is the full video. Thank you!
Audie and Thelma.........It takes me back Thank you. What a performance by both of them.Good cast.
It was the performance of the year!
Wow what a versatile actor he was. This is one of the best performances I've ever seen. Thank you for posting this
Just loved watching Audie Murphy in this, shows just how fantastic an actor he really was slipping back and forth between violence and psychopathic, couldn't take my eyes off him, my attention was focused the entire show.... Thelma Ritter always played great parts showing what a great lady of the screen she was.... RIP AUDIE MURPHY.
Audi Murphy was actually quite limited as an actor. That's why when you saw him in the movies he was usually playing either a soldier or a cowpoke. Movie producers of the day were loathe to cast him in any role requiring a more expansive range. In this particular play, he seemed self-conscious at times and robotic at times. He also overplayed the psychopathy. A more subtle and nuanced performance would have served him better. Great soldier and American hero, but his chops as a thespian were quite limited.
HansDelbruck53 I disagree.....the directors pegged him as a cowboy or soldier......but Don Segal had offered Audie the part of Scorpio in Dirty Harry......but he turned it down due to the despicable part he would have to play......but I think he would have made a great Scorpio......and Segal thought so too,or would not have asked him......
@@adrianotero7963 I would like to have seen that. Too bad.
Thanks so much for posting this. I always wanted to see Audie in something other than a western or war movie. He was excellent in this and of course as cute as could be.
Love Audie Murphy, he's usually the good guy. He was so good he creeped me out.
This was so spell binding, I was sitting on the edge of my chair. Audie played that part so well. He was an excellent actor. Only 1 of his many lifes accomplishments . And Thelma Ritter ,was excellent also. The ending tho, one of those cliffhangers , like what happened next? Thanks so much for this. May they both RIP.
I just think they're doing something far better than resting in peace, in addition to living forever in human memory, or anyway for a real long time. :9)
Great actor! Loved his movies! Very handsome young man! R. I. P.
Audie was about 35, or so when he made this film. His best looking age, I think.
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Yes. And Thelma Ritter is my FAVORITE actress.
The Ford Falcon! The first of the small cars that I remember.
Audie Murphy (as I'm sure everybody knows) fought in both the Pacific and European theaters and was the most decorated US soldier in WWII, so it's intriguing that he plays a man who was discharged from the service as mentally unfit - and plays the character frighteningly well.
A radio version of this play was broadcast on Suspense with Frank Sinatra as Howard and Agnes Morehead as Mrs Gillis:
th-cam.com/video/sC0p_Kbvm2M/w-d-xo.html
Audie's performance should have gotten him an Emmy. Maybe there were no Emmy's back then. His ability to go back and forth from a likable to a violent-psychopath is startling. His eyes are incredible. My favorite line comes in the first act when the visitor lets the dog in the house and closes the door before Audie can stop him. When Audie turns with his eyes flaring to the dog, and says "Don't YOU growl at me ... SHUT UP!" and then kills the dog .... MAN! That's a powerful scene.
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This is the first time that I have seen Thelma Ritter play a straight dramatic role. She normally plays a more lighthearted roll and almost always as a housekeeper.
Audie was a good actor this one proved it.
I only discovered Audie Murphy last year, and I only saw him playing the good guy for the first few movies.
I couldn't see "good guy Audie" standing up to German tanks. But after I saw him playing the "bad guy" I knew he was capable.
I wish we had more men like him today.
WOW, he is an AMAZING actor. He's officially my favourite 3 and he is cute, hee hee...
Thelma Ritter is amazing too. She is such a believable grandmother. Sweet and scared.
I hope this is the best day to work around the school
R. I. P.
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Similar story as the Ida Lupino and Robert Ryan “Beware My Lovely.” That screenplay was written by the same writer who wrote the original play “ The Man “ 1950.
The original story (movie and radio) puts him out there in the telephone truck, at long last no longer in the house or acting bad, and from there he will get what he needs, HELP. Mrs. Gilly is fine, he never harmed her! Ford Startime apparently decided to do something artsy that would set their show apart from previous versions, and to foil everyone who thinks they know the ending, because THIS ending is not the original; nobody knows THIS ending. They fail by having the poor lady just go get her coat (always a bad move) but instead she wanders maddeningly back and forth, to and fro, in a circle, like she doesn't know which end is up, as if she's in a strange house, but most of all as if she is the classic "idiot in the attic" going up with one flickering candle to confront flesh-eating ghouls that infest the death-dark space upstairs. Just determined to be killed. Why? Just 'cuz.
Audie Murphy did a delicious and riveting job of this. His psycho was right on the money, and his ruthlessly casual, and his sweet act, and openness with the child, and his flashes of genuine desperate confusion, far better than the guy in the movie version who I can't even recall. Audie Murphy is chiseled handsome! I was never really aware of that.
Who was that actor who played the helpful beatniky boy in black-framed glasses at the bowling alley? I've seen him as an OLD man in several spooky TV shows, often rich and in a wheelchair making all the lives around him miserable. Never as a dark-haired gangling boy. *
* OK, I found him too (bowling alley boy) and he's just who I thought he was. William Hickey. Played the ancient Mafia don in "Prizzi's Honor." Thanking IMBD. Many GOOD things on the internet still work.
Ator magnífico!
Originally telecast (in color) on January 5, 1960.
very clever,I thought all sorts of things were going to happen but they didn't.
Can this be restored like other older movies are being restored these days? That way it is digitally remastered before it deteriorates.
Wish the quality was better.
It is said that Thelma was afraid of how Audie would look at her....
Audie made his part, just so believable, that it probably did scare her, not that she was scared of him, on a personal level, because she knew the kind of man he was, kind, & gentle. But he got so into, that part, and so, became that personality, that it probably did scare her. In turn she, played off that, and did her excellent acting work as well. That's what made this an excellent show, their fantastic acting ability.
I have read that Fred de Cordova one of Audies directors and producer of the tonight show...changed a couple of closeups of Audie because of his frightening eyes....it is in his biography Johnny came Lately......
That is really interesting! Who would ever have thought it of Audie Murphy, one of those people who still looks like a kid when they're 45? Robert Mitchum was purported to be terrifying to work with according to at least 2 female co-stars, one of them Polly Bergen of course. But that's Robert Mitchum. This is Audie Murphie, for gosh sake.
Wow! Audie must have really studied in-depth for this psychopath role. He did an astoundingly convincing job. I must say I thought this would be a sucky role for him, but not so. The ending, however, was a letdown. Not because of any of the actors at all - but rather the script was at fault.
Thanks for the comment!
Oh my goodness,he is such a wonderful ac tor I've seen alot of his movies and wished he had not had to leave us so soon ,he is my hero and love the time I can spend learning and watching him, l love audie RIP
Please check out the video of our campaign to award Audie Murphy the Presidential Medal of Freedom and sign the petition. The list of endorsements is quite extraordinary. It is posted on my channel. Look for the one the runs 22:00 minutes. It is the full video. Thank you!
The night must fall version with audie Murphy is called the man on you tube
Hollyweird never took Audie seriously. Shameful! Good person sad that he suffered from PTSD and got little help. Gone too soon and a total hottie!
They did not accept him because he was an outsider who did not take any crap.....and had the COJONES to stand his ground.........
I had the impression Audie Murphy did really well in the movies. How successful SHOULD he have been?
Battle fatigue, that poor angel. It is sure to have made all postwar endeavors for him a lot harder than they were for, let's say, John Wayne who did not serve, but was a raging, RAGING success in Hollyweird and is so powerfully associated with flag and country.
Holly weird- I like that!!
@@Carly8Corday i agree
@@Carly8Corday he had many different types of movies he wanted to do but hollywierd relegated him to mostly westerns. He only had a few movies like this.
Grata!
H had post traumatic stess so am sure that influenced his performance
ator e filme belíssimo!
There was another movie of this story and also a radio drama. Google refuses to yield a shred of info on who was in those or what the titles were. All I get from them is 20 listings for "Straw Dogs." Google is almost not Google anymore, I've begun to notice. They're accepting far fewer marching orders from us, too many from elsewhere.
* I found the radio and movie versions. The movie stars Ida Lupino, and Robert Ryan who of course was plenty good as the deranged handyman, though no better and really not as good, IMO, as Audie Murphy. Ryan wasn't young or "boy" enough and he doesn't play innocent terribly well, but he was much scary. The title is "Beware, My Lovely" (1952) and it shows a slightly more complete ending than we see here. The radio drama was an episode of SUSPENSE titled "To Find Help." Same slightly more thorough conclusion, if the ending of the Audie Murphy version really troubles you. Mrs. Gillis is played by Agnes Moorehead, the young handyman by FRANK SINATRA! He does great, doesn't even sound like himself, sounds very young and ingenuous. There seems to be an earlier version also, with Ethel Barrymore as Mrs. Gillis, Gene Kelly as the young man.
good psycho movie
He left his bag at the bar and went to bowl. Doesnt seem to have the bag at the roominhg house either????????
Good movie hate the ending
What a sick movie. Killing her dog and then her? Then he comes back on to say sweet dreams!
I'm surprised he agreed to do it. I'm sorry, but I don't find that entertaining.
It is a weird story but it shows what a wonderful actor Audie was.
Thanks for the comment!
Please check out the video of our campaign to award Audie Murphy the Presidential Medal of Freedom and sign the petition. The list of endorsements is quite extraordinary. It is posted on my channel. Look for the one the runs 22:00 minutes. It is the full video. Thank you!
Audie Murphy American Legend
Grata!
Thanks for the comment!