Google wouldn't let me post a pic of Rock as Taza. All I get is an image box.
It has to be a .jpeg or .gif with no data behind either with or without a dot or slash.
Here's several stills but in B & W (I believe the film was in color). BTW, IMDb will often not let you link to their images but check the address to see if they are adding something behind the .jpeg or gif.:
That wouldn't work either. Hmmmm.
Quess who played Cochise? Jeff Chandler. It was a gay old time in the Old West.
Now it seems to be working:
Don't know what is happening to the image links -- they are intermittant.
Jeff as I believe Cochise in another film with Jimmy Stewart:
did anyone see serpent in the rainbow? that vodoo guy certianly scared the you know what out of me...the guy opposite bill pullman, i think it was serpent in the rainbow.
Ah yes, LW. That was Jeff as Cochise in Broken Arrow. Esther Williams really raked him over the coals, didn't she?
I read that Rock Hudson once said that he never cared to hear the name "Taza" again. Maybe he put a jinx on the Google pics.
Dragon: When I hear voodoo movie, I stay away.
Has this been mentioned yet? Alan Arkin's character "Roat" in WAIT UNTIL DARK. I saw that movie as a little kid and it gave me nightmares for years. Movies like this are why they created the "R" rating to protect kids!
I don't remember the character's name, but... Audrey Hepburn is blind and there is a doll filled with heroin (?) hidden in her apartment. Several evildoers, led by Roat are trying to con their way into her house to search for it. Roat kills several people, and at the climax comes after Audrey, in the dark, with a wicked knife. She has broken all the lightbulbs in the house thinking that will give her the advantage, and then hears the refrigerator door open....
OH! Was that disgraceful or what? Why would Esther Williams publish such things about that man? He's gone, both of his children are gone, the way was clear for her to say whatever she wanted with no proof or anything necessary to substantiate her outrageous claims.
For those of you unaware, Esther Williams was engaged (I don't think they actually married) to Jeff Chandler and claimed that not only was he a crossdresser but he beat her up as well.
EOE: You might find some of these reviews/comments at Amazon.com interesting. I did.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0156011352/102-9157814-5847300?v=glance
After seeing Esther Williams interviewed at the time she wrote her book, I had no desire to read it.
Monty Burns (the simpsons), Stewie Griffin (family guy), Jafar (alladin), Scar (the lion king), Jaws (jaws #1-?)
I know it's not one, and they aren't evil, but they are somehow, more human that most of the diabolical f**k wits you see in James Bond movies (like the metal mouthed fruit cake Jaws).
As Esther Williams likely slept with every major male star she could get her hands on (this if first hand information from an exec at MGM), she could hardly point fingers at anyone. If she had married Chandler, it would have been a marriage of convenience. Chandler was also notoriously promiscuous. A volatile mix of these two Hollywood characters would lead one to believe Williams wasn't lying about being hit.
Not everything is make believe in Tinsel Town.
Back to villians, I think one of the classics is Harry Lime as portrayed by Orson Welles in "The Third Man."
Lightwizard wrote:Not everything is make believe in Tinsel Town.
But, I wish they'd leave Errol Flynn alone. He was soooo charming on a TCM bio I just saw about him.
Orson Welles was a pretty disgusting character in "Touch of Evil", too.
Also in "The Stranger" where he was a Nazi ghoul hiding out in a small American town and Shakespeare's "Othello" and "Macbeth." Welles made such a delectable villain.
Of course, Errol could charm the scales off a snake but in his own book he portrayed himself as a rogue. Perhaps because of the taboo on homosexuality at the time and very good PR people, that part of his life was successfully hidden.
I didn't see the TCM bio but looks to me like it would have to be cleverly sanitized to cover up his character flaws, although I really doubt that he was a Nazi sympathizer and none of my Hollywood friends ever confirmed that.
