Yes. First movie I can recall seeing him in was The Bridges at Toko-Ri. I was pretty young at that time, almost 50 years ago, so it would be quite awhile before I saw it again and find out it was William Holden starring in it. Of course, by then, I had seen some of his other movies and always found him to be an excellent actor.
Thanks for posting this one! Alexis Smith looked just like Alexis Smith, I’ve never been a big fan of hers. But I always like Holden, and Ed Begley. Also a n uncredited cameo by the flinty-voiced Whit Bissell as the records clerk.
2 of my fave actors from this period and add in ed Begley and you have a real treat of tough talking hard boiled noir that goes well with a side of bacon and some toast.
N Brand the hit man at the fight...for 1940s boomers he'll always be remembered as "al capone" and in real life served like most of our dads in ww2 ....patriotic hero.
great movie but the bad guys haven't changed all that much.... Too many good people having to lose everything to get one bad guy... I can only think of our politics of today, How so many have gone through the ringer to tell you all about him and he is still on the ticket... very little justice to the rich business man.
I was just thinking, the next movie these two was to be in was, The Wild Bunch 1969. I remembered Holden didn't get out of that one alive either. Both of these were fantastic movies. I was crushed to see Tom Tully as a dirty cop.
so i'm looking through the opening credits . i think ho-hum, find another flick. then i see Makeup Supervision...Wally Westmore ! wow ! Now i know i gotta watch this movie !
@@DonaldPBorchersOG oh really. well i taught Mickey Mantle and Wilt Chamberlain everything they knew about baseball and basketball . I wrote the screenplays for Dr.Zhivago but that evil mofo David Lean ripped me off. I taught John Coltrane how to play saxophone and gave Jimi Hendrix his first guitar lessons. I made love to Jean Tierney. Hedy Lamarr , Sophia Loren , Billie Holiday , almost suffocated in Jayne Mansfield's huge mammary glands ,etc.. I was good friends with cowboy movie star Tom Mix . I taught Sinatra and Sammy Davis how to sing . I also...
Don't know about his personal life, but was he not the boss in the TV show, Private Secretary, starring Ann Sothern? That was my favorite show. I must have been about seven years old.
@@cosettecopperfield8397 I meant the character Porter played, not the actor himself, I was just joking because my generation saw him often playing bad guy types (typecast like Leslie Nielsen & Jack Elam were) before becoming Gidget's good guy dad.
@@cosettecopperfield8397 Similar notable transformations happened with other character actors we grew up watching, like Vincent Price, Leslie Nielsen, Jack Elam, Burt Reynolds, to name a few, they never played comical roles until the late '60s and '70s, and it was a real surprise at the time, but great, unlike when a comical actor tries to switch to playing evil villain roles, that's always WEIRD, like Robin Williams playing a psychotic serial killer!
@@gordonmorris6359 Robin Williams really surprised me in that role. He was remarkable. How would anyone have known how good he was as an actor if he had not done that movie. I assume you are referring to the flic with Al Pacino as the cop gone to Alaska to catch that freak. Leslie Nielson picked up a whole lot of fans that he would not otherwise had caught if he had not done Airplane and the other nutty pictures. I really appreciated him as a comic player. In what movie was Vincent Price playing comedy in the later years?
Damn, this sounds a lot like the media today. Not a bad movie when you overlook the emotional emoting, and rigidness. Life is serious, but the dialog too point blank with edges as sharp as a Picasso painting, but what works in visual arts doesn't always work in dialog. I was born in 1952 and this film is too dramatic. I know my memories have lost all their color and most are now in black and white, but I don't remember everybody being a suspect.
Twenty minutes in and I have no idea what is going on! So many men in similar suits we don't know who is who! There is still no explanation of who the guy who arrived on a plane at the beginning is other than he is heading up some crime task force. Who is the woman? Why do they all speak in such "smart aleck" language instead of having normal conversations?!! I give up!
Good movie, well paced and keeps your attention. My only issue is Edmond O'Brien. As a blue collar worker or a thug he was fine. As a law enforcement agent and/or a ladies man? Uh uh.
William Holden in particular is so watchable! A great, great actor.
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Yes. First movie I can recall seeing him in was The Bridges at Toko-Ri. I was pretty young at that time, almost 50 years ago, so it would be quite awhile before I saw it again and find out it was William Holden starring in it. Of course, by then, I had seen some of his other movies and always found him to be an excellent actor.
Roger that. I posted William Holden in "The Dark Past" (1948) here: th-cam.com/video/KjWEWcVxSt8/w-d-xo.html
@@DonaldPBorchersOG Also a great performance (as a bad guy) by William Holden, together with Lee J Cobb.
What a brilliant film, with several of my favourite stars, who were _class actors_ too.
Outstanding!
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Excellent excellent movie terrific actors we would never find this today that's why I enjoy these films they can't be and thank you for posting
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Great movie. William Holden always adds a touch of class to any movie. Thanks for sharing.
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A great classic with moral resonance! Thank you so much for taking the trouble to put this up.
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This is a movie that has strong acting and a timeless theme. Thanks for uploading.
Timeless Themes Memes?
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Blowing up a building to destroy some records; now where else..? What a great film and script and everything; surely an ageless masterpiece.
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Superb actor always ❤
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Powerful cast,excellent print ,best one I’ve seen in a while.
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Thanks for posting this outstanding movie. Terrific acting, very convincing from all concerned.
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William Holden was an amazing actor 😊. A great actor.❤❤❤
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Thanks, that was an excellent movie!
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This was a great movie! And it was one I had never seen. Thanks for posting!
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"You guys get the idea that the diploma you get when you graduate Journalism School makes you a special person! Don't believe it!" GREAT LINE!!!
Not exactly a subtle hint
That's with any job forsure
So true
Should make todays “journalists” repeat this daily.
Looking at Holden and knowing he died a miserable death.
what a great film.Full of pathos and emotion. Holden the debonair hero and Bigley the baddie as usual. Really worth seeing
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I remember watching Connie’s landing in Honolulu in the 50s . Dad was in the tower and the view was great .❤❤❤
Fond memories. I was in Honolulu for the first time in 1958. Thanks for the visit!
Never saw a movie with Edmund O’Brien that wasn’t terrific.
Roger that. Edmond O'Brien won one Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
A teachable moment this film. Thank you for sharing with us. 🎉😊
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Thank You,for showing this film.
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His comment that the city has become invested in crime is an understatement.
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An intelligent movie...no CG...just a great story and acting...not like today.
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Alexis Smith looked just like Alexis Smith, I’ve never been a big fan of hers. But I always like Holden, and Ed Begley. Also a n uncredited cameo by the flinty-voiced Whit Bissell as the records clerk.
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2 of my fave actors from this period and add in ed Begley and you have a real treat of tough talking hard boiled noir that goes well with a side of bacon and some toast.
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One of the great Actors of all time. Bill Holden. Just made it look easy.
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Thank you 👍Good movie , good cast .
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Thanks for uploading, pity the quality wasn't higher
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This is going on all over america now
With one major exception, those fleecing the average citizen are the corporate oligarchs who operate within the laws passed to favour themselves.
For a very long time
America is a continent. You mean the U.S.A.
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Class A studio production.
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I liked it. Thank you 🌻
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Interesting to see what Septon was doing after his successful escape from Stalag 17.
JJ had the Barrack 4 wire cutters framed and hung on his office wall.
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Some great support actors - Ray Teal, Ted de Corsia, Neville Brand, Ed Begley. Also, Whit Bissell & Carolyn Jones ( both uncredited )
And Russell Johnson as Herman (uncredited) the Professor from Gilligan's Island
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A brilliant movie ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
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47:46 Carolyn Jones. Her back story, as seen in The Adams Family never mentioned her associations with gangsters.
Watch "King Creole", Her performance is outstanding.
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Great movie. If William Holden ever looked at me like that id melt like snow. Ha.
Holden gave millions of women damp drawers.
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N Brand the hit man at the fight...for 1940s boomers he'll always be remembered as "al capone" and in real life served like most of our dads in ww2 ....patriotic hero.
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Russell Johnson a.k.a. 'Professor' from Guilligan's Island played Herman, and Carolyn Jones a.k.a. Morticia Addams played Lillian.
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Good movie❤
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Excelente movie
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great movie but the bad guys haven't changed all that much.... Too many good people having to lose everything to get one bad guy... I can only think of our politics of today, How so many have gone through the ringer to tell you all about him and he is still on the ticket... very little justice to the rich business man.
One man or woman makes a sacrifice for the good of all the others.
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A. Very. Good. Top. Classic. One. 🎞 whit. A. Fenomenaal. Cast. 🎥 just. Exelent. Watch. This. Movie 🎬 💯💫💢💥🎉🎉🎉 thanks. D. P. 👍👌
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1:20:52 one of Septon's fellow inmates from Stalag 17. The dirty crumb.
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very timely theme about a magalomaniac threatening the rule of law.
Spot on.
YES, like NOW.
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Merci
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I was just thinking, the next movie these two was to be in was, The Wild Bunch 1969. I remembered Holden
didn't get out of that one alive either. Both of these were fantastic movies. I was crushed to see Tom Tully
as a dirty cop.
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Intelligent actors, intelligent film. No histrionics. Makes a joke of today's films.
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1,000 + US films were released in 2023. You've seen 'em all, eh mack?
Neville Brand was the actor who kills William Holden. In real life Brand was a much decorated WWII veteran.
YES, US ARMY.
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Well, I didn't expect that ending.
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so i'm looking through the opening credits . i think ho-hum, find another flick. then i see Makeup Supervision...Wally Westmore ! wow ! Now i know i gotta watch this movie !
His granddaughter, Pamela S. Westmore, was makeup supervisor on my production, "Vamp" (1986): th-cam.com/video/A5MTIMpIwjg/w-d-xo.html
@@DonaldPBorchersOG oh really. well i taught Mickey Mantle and Wilt Chamberlain everything they knew about baseball and basketball . I wrote the screenplays for Dr.Zhivago but that evil mofo David Lean ripped me off. I taught John Coltrane how to play saxophone and gave Jimi Hendrix his first guitar lessons. I made love to Jean Tierney. Hedy Lamarr , Sophia Loren , Billie Holiday , almost suffocated in Jayne Mansfield's huge mammary glands ,etc.. I was good friends with cowboy movie star Tom Mix . I taught Sinatra and Sammy Davis how to sing . I also...
Good movie.
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Good movie!
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He’s acting the way and playing the same character he was in sunset blvd
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I don’t know!! Fellas 💰💰💰💰🍷A LITTLE RFK action!!
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Notice how all actors smoked in those days.Some died from lung cancer.
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Gidget's dad (Don Porter) had quite a shady past! haha
Don't know about his personal life, but was he not the boss in the TV show, Private Secretary, starring Ann Sothern? That was my favorite show. I must have been about seven years old.
@@cosettecopperfield8397 I meant the character Porter played, not the actor himself, I was just joking because my generation saw him often playing bad guy types (typecast like Leslie Nielsen & Jack Elam were) before becoming Gidget's good guy dad.
@@gordonmorris6359 Thank you for the clarification.
@@cosettecopperfield8397 Similar notable transformations happened with other character actors we grew up watching, like Vincent Price, Leslie Nielsen, Jack Elam, Burt Reynolds, to name a few, they never played comical roles until the late '60s and '70s, and it was a real surprise at the time, but great, unlike when a comical actor tries to switch to playing evil villain roles, that's always WEIRD, like Robin Williams playing a psychotic serial killer!
@@gordonmorris6359 Robin Williams really surprised me in that role. He was remarkable. How would anyone have known how good he was as an actor if he had not done that movie. I assume you are referring to the flic with Al Pacino as the cop gone to Alaska to catch that freak. Leslie Nielson picked up a whole lot of fans that he would not otherwise had caught if he had not done Airplane and the other nutty pictures. I really appreciated him as a comic player. In what movie was Vincent Price playing comedy in the later years?
"Do you want me to go now " ? "Yes"...Kiss,Kiss,Kiss.. And the scene goes Black! What happened next ? .....LOL
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Damn, this sounds a lot like the media today. Not a bad movie when you overlook the emotional emoting, and rigidness. Life is serious, but the dialog too point blank with edges as sharp as a Picasso painting, but what works in visual arts doesn't always work in dialog. I was born in 1952 and this film is too dramatic. I know my memories have lost all their color and most are now in black and white, but I don't remember everybody being a suspect.
It's very realistic.
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Snappy repartee😃
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Alexis Smith looked just like Elizabeth Ross.
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I was born in 1952....
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Twenty minutes in and I have no idea what is going on! So many men in similar suits we don't know who is who! There is still no explanation of who the guy who arrived on a plane at the beginning is other than he is heading up some crime task force. Who is the woman? Why do they all speak in such "smart aleck" language instead of having normal conversations?!! I give up!
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Holden had such an ignominous death.
And left some insightful performances. A good actor.
Roger that. Makes me glad I stopped drinking after college.
Sad that Holden and Lee Marvin ruined their careers by being alcoholics.
Their masculinity is very appealing to me❤
They both left a good body of work. What have you accomplished ?
Enjoy the old films, much better than todays. Miss the stars of yesterday. Thanks for making it possible to enjoy them again.
@@joelonzello4189 Well said. They both left performances that give insight to others because of their interpretations and talent.
It’s sad when anybody ruins their lives with alcohol. As well as the lives of the people around them!!!!
The film has some great lines but itsessage of hope in "the majesty of the law"is risible today
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Good movie, well paced and keeps your attention.
My only issue is Edmond O'Brien. As a blue collar worker or a thug he was fine. As a law enforcement agent and/or a ladies man? Uh uh.
Good in "The Killers"
He was pretty peppy as an Accountant with "luminous poisoning"..
And outstanding as "Winston Smith" 🎉🎉
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