tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8707040.post115838158560867783..comments2024-02-25T12:47:03.941-06:00Comments on Johnny LaRue's Crane Shot: Clean...My...Shoes!Marty McKeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02084642122976337263noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8707040.post-1158638619688420352006-09-18T23:03:00.000-05:002006-09-18T23:03:00.000-05:00I've been thinking about moving that to the top of...I've been thinking about moving that to the top of the stack!Marty McKeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02084642122976337263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8707040.post-1158638484323049582006-09-18T23:01:00.000-05:002006-09-18T23:01:00.000-05:00Robert is right, McKee. You need to watch HAIL! MA...Robert is right, McKee. You need to watch HAIL! MAFIA. It's the movie that made Silva a star in Europe...and it's got Jack Klugman in one of his least typical characterizations. Very good movie.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8707040.post-1158633903662821822006-09-18T21:45:00.000-05:002006-09-18T21:45:00.000-05:00Silva was in Ghost Dog? Dang it. I gotta' watch th...Silva was in Ghost Dog? Dang it. I gotta' watch that again. <BR/><BR/>"He lived by the gun and by the knife . . . Johnny Cooooool!"Uncle Larryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04588061215149835338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8707040.post-1158450721478334612006-09-16T18:52:00.000-05:002006-09-16T18:52:00.000-05:00I think BUCK ROGERS is probably the first thing I ...I think BUCK ROGERS is probably the first thing I ever saw him in, or at least the first thing in which he made an impact on me. Michael Ansara took over his role in the TV series. ABOVE THE LAW and CODE OF SILENCE gave him his last really meaty roles. I should have mentioned JOHNNY COOL, which is a cool (pardon the pun) gangster movie with an all-star cast and a swinging Billy May score. Silva stars as "Johnny Cool" in a film that tracks his beginnings as an Italian youth all the way through to his violent demise. He's also quite menacing in SHARKY'S MACHINE ("The guy's a fuckin' ghost."). On TV, he played a particularly nasty kidnapper on THE STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO who spits on Michael Douglas when he is apprehended.Marty McKeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02084642122976337263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8707040.post-1158388101577101692006-09-16T01:28:00.000-05:002006-09-16T01:28:00.000-05:00What would you say is your favourite Henry Silva p...What would you say is your favourite Henry Silva performance? I can't remember what the first thing I saw him in was....probably a toss up between SHOOT, WIPEOUT, or BUCK ROGERS. I liked his damned near unkillable hitman in SHARKY'S MACHINE - particularly the close-quarters shooting exchange with Bernie Casey - and he leant a nice bit of villainy to both CODE OF SILENCE and ABOVE THE LAW in later years. He also proved how funny he could be (by playing it straight) in both ALLIGATOR and AMAZON WOMEN ON THE MOON ("Bullshit - or Not!")<BR/><BR/>Funny, but if you back at look at some of his early 1950s roles when he's only in the tiniest of roles he got to play gentle men. In terms of performances probably my own pick for his best would be HAIL MAFIA when he was paired opposite Jack Klugman. It was an extremely well thought out performance, very different from most of what I had seen him in before and as such proved to be a great pleasure.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com