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First aired on July 14 1956 First watch this on July 14th 1923 69 years later!

Dennis Weaver's character of Chester take Center Stage in this story. Once again showing Weaver's exceptional acting skills Chester, in this story, has a penpal relationship with a girl named Ann on the mail order bride platform. Theater's letters are so filled emotion and intensity, that Ann falls in love with him because of his words! She wants to see a picture of him. But Chester being shy and scared at the same time, sends one of Marshall Dillon instead! This makes Ann pack up her comfortable Philadelphia home and come straight to the wild West Dodge City immediately! What Chester doesn't know is that Ann also sent a fake/catfish pic to him!(one of her better looking sister) Once finally reunited the truth comes out but after talking it out they realize that they truly love each other despite the deception if the pics. But what Chester doesn't know is that Ann is only 17yrs old and her running away from hime caused her mother to have a heart attack! So the family hired a Pinkerton detective to find and bring Ann back home.

After some serious soul searching, Chester has a talk with Ann and convinces her to go back home with the detective, thus eliminating their engagement and marriage.

A truly warm and endearing sad episode.

I had never been a a Bob Hope fan but after this picture I am! He is so aggressive, energetic and funny in this screwball comedy directed by George Marshall. I also have never seen Mickey Rooney so young and boy was he also a Powerhouse very funny and very energetic also he and Bob Hope made a wonderful team I wonder why they never made more films together they would have been a hit. This is the first and only time teeming of these comedy Legends, Bob Hope plays Wally Hogan, a boxing trainer who loses his one and only Champion to the draft and decides to enlist so he can keep an eye on his prize fighter. He is left holding his laces when his boxer is discharge until enlisted private and amateur boxer Herbert Tuttle Rooney ask Wally to train him. But Wally is more interested in tuttle's Aunt play by the beautiful Marilyn Maxwell then actually training the youn pcontender It's a wonderful, full of delicious cameos if you don't blink among the notable cameos are Charles Bronson in a 30-second uncredited wordless bit he is in the scene where Hogan is talking to the military police at the gym I'm training Mickey Rooney Bronson's 30 seconds can be seen in the background with him sparring with another Boxer and that was it. Also Carolyn Jones has a uncredited bit as one of the many girlfriends that Hogan has in the beginning of the film also actress Mary Murphy as an uncredited bit if you remember her she was and the wild one with Marlon Brando. Also Doucet has an uncredited bit as a barfly he had also starred in the wild one with Marlon Brando. Tom Harmon yes Mark Harmon's father is in this film also.

All in all Jurassic Park part 3 was not bad.

Sam Neill and Laura Dern came back for this one! Sam Neill was now the main star of the film while Laura Dern was regulated to a small and brief cameo role. I like when we first see Sam and Laura I was under the impression that they were now married and had kids but it was in-joke as Sam's character was just visiting Laura who is now married to some other guy and is out of the dinosaur business per se William H Macy and Tea Leoni first appear as a married couple but in reality they were a divorced couple who got together because of their son's disappearance as he was on vacation with his new stepdad Mark Harelik. Mark had a very brief role in the beginning of the film and then he was never seen again I remember him right away as Milos from a Seinfeld episode back in the day lol Bill Macy was good but Leoni's annoying character started to get on my nerves. Bill did the best he could but he and T had no chemistry whatsoever so it was kind of hard to swallow that they were once married and had a kid together but that's Hollywood . Alessandro nivola as Sams Young Apprentice was well cast. The three mercenary Musketeers played by Michael Jeter, John Diehl and Bruce A Young had very brief roles?! They killed off fairly quickly!

But like I said Joe Johnston's film is basically a homage to Ray harryhausen go Motion dinosaurs and I appreciate that. I even like Sam Neill Grant character emplifying Indiana Jones! there are quite a few scenes where is Sam where's the same type of hat / fedora that Indie uses! At one point when Sam is in the plane taking a nap he takes off his hat and puts it in his face just like Indie did and his films! Plus Sam Neill has always had that devilish eyebrow is I like Jack Nicholson so makes me wonder how Sam Neill could have played Indiana Jones or he could have played like Indiana Jones brother that would have been amazing, last but not least there was a Jurassic Park 3 reunions of sorts , even though they did not share any scenes in this movie ,the actor who played the very brief role of the ill-fated captain of the boat in the intro of the film Julio Oscar Mechoso, would 16 years later guest star with on Tea Leoni's TV series Madam Secretary ,season 3 episode 14 ,"Labor of Love" as the character Mateo. Unfortunately this would be Julio Oscar last screen appearance as he passed away, at the age of 62, of a heart attack shortly after that guest appearance.

Director Robert Aldridge really put quite a cast for this film. But most in a cast had very brief or bit Cameo roles at best but they were still in the picture.

I must say it was quite shocking and now I've heard everything to hear Burt Lancaster, Charles Durning, Richard Jaeckel, Richard Widmark, Paul Winfield and Gerald S. O'Loughlin to be dropping the F-bomb, that S bomb, the Mother F bomb, Etc. I never thought in a million years of watching millions of movies I would here and see these classic gentleman use that type of language but it was great!

sadly this was the last movie for the great Leif Ericson and Charles McGraw. they both had brief roll in this film but they did great with that time they didn't appear till an hour had elapsed. Same thing with the late great William Marshall who a lot of people don't know this but is Paul Winfield real life cousin they did not share any scenes together but this was the only film that they were in it together.

I was really surprised to see one of my all-time favorite Stars appear right at the beginning of the movie none other than bad boy big boy William Smith but he did not last not even 15 minutes and he was killed off. Also another one of my favorite actors mr. Roscoe Lee Browne who also appears at the beginning of the film talking with the president for no more than about 5 minutes and then he was completely gone and never came back.

While there were no major women roles in this film there had two actresses who had filmed major roles for this film but their scenes were deleted!? The president's wife and who would have been first lady was to be played by Vera Miles. And also actress Pippa Scott had a major role but her scenes were deleted as well.

All in all the film is very long but it keeps you glued and interested based just on this fantastic cast in this film. the music by Jerry Goldsmith was excellent it reminded me of like Planet of the Apes so I gave it that science fiction tension feel to it.

The only problem I have with this film is that in the end when they meet the demands of the so-called terrorists they want the president as a hostage why did it not feel the president with a bulletproof vest and wired him so they can hear everything that he was talking but I know that Lancaster or his cronies would have discovered the wire or taken off the vest but here's that issue also again why wouldn't Lancaster Ask for a bulletproof vest for he and his cronies? I would have! so there are some big potholes in the script and from what I heard militaristicly it's not very valid and in a lot of ways but if you can Overlook that then you should be able to enjoy yourself if you don't know too much about weapons and whatnot all in all it's still a wonderful achievement for director Robert Aldrich in getting such a fantastic and diverse cast as always and it's highly recommended.

A very weird and strange Western starring good ol Captain Kirk William Shatner as a Comanche!? It was done during a Hiatus of Star Trek so it's no wonder that Shatner still looks young enough to do the stunts in this movie and whatnot and show off his athletic body. My poor Shatner he will always be remembered as Captain Kirk that's the way at least how I see him and even in Long fighting scene that he has in this film it seems captain kirkish type of fight and it's funny. Old-time Legend Joseph Cotten does a better job as a old-time Sheriff and Cotton plays him and like a Gary Cooper type of way. The beautiful Argentinian actress Rosanna Yanni play the so-called love interest and while there really isn't any chemistry between her and Shatner she is still very easy on the eyes and to look at.

at the beginning of film there is a this is a very disturbing scene with Shatner basically raping Yanni and it's very unnerving to see Shatner do that type of roll but it looks like he was having fun doing it playing against type. Another thing I couldn't get out of my mind was that all the other actors playing the Indians were wearing their Shawty black wigs while Shatner just kept it short Captain Kirk hairstyle and wrap the bandana around his head to look Indian no wonder his twin brother who Shatner also plays in a dual role is having problems because they both have the same haircut so I look at it if I was Johnny Moon Comanche who was trying to be white, I would have dyed my hair or let a mustache grow a beard or just shave my head Yul Brynner look good in the Magnificent Seven and as the Gunslinger in the original Westworld so if it was good for Yul Brynner could have been great for William Shatner haha Oh and this has to be the first time I've ever seen in a western that everybody's such a good shot that everybody that died, dies from a bullet in the head except Shatner when he kills his twin brother. And also the little boy that got caught in the crossfire I believe he got shot in the stomach and he did a little nice acting job in dying so I give the Oscar to that little boy haha

Let me start off saying what an incredible picture starring those great wonderful actors Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas. This was their second teeming what would eventually be seven times that they will get together. what great chemistry they both had and it showed oh, perfect casting if I do say so myself.

the beautiful Rhonda Fleming has a nice bit-part as a love interest and all she has to do is just look pretty. Yeah wonderful and talented Joe Van Fleet did a great job as Kirk Douglas's mistress / woman

This film is the movie that is accused of Hollywood "ripped off " in their version of it in K-Pax. The synopsis and plot is the same with very few changes here and there. While in K-Pax Kevin Spacey's Plut does not interrupt a symphony concert by taking over and conducting it, Hollywood did take that same premises & scenario and had Richard Gere do it in "Mr. Jones"! I was very fortunate enough to see the original Spanish audio film with subtitles and it's a very sad haunting and hypnotic film. the music score is very creepy, sinister and hypnotic and its own way. Especially the Sinister saxophone playing in the background. sometimes the music was so loud that I don't know if the director did that on purpose that the audio was still hearable but the music overwhelmed it at certain points so I don't know if that was on purpose or not. But regardless it gave certain scenes a very haunting and creepy horror like tension which I believe in a lot of ways it was very appropriate for this type of film and for it to convey The Haunting images of the mental hospital itself and what goes on there. the film truly focuses on three characters the first being 'Rantes' play by the excellent actor Hugo Soto who unfortunately had a very short career he passed away in 1994 at the young age of 41 due to complications of AIDS. Actor Lorenzo Quinteros who played Dr. Julio Denis, he did a excellent job add the psychiatrist dealing with the reality is Ranted a lunatic or is he really an extraterrestrial like he claims to be? the distinguish Lorenzo retired at the age of 70 and 2016 due to heart issues. He passed away three years later in 2019 at the age of 73 having had a long and distinguished career in his native country of Argentina. the young and lovely Ines Vernengo (Beatriz Dick) made her debut with this film and it looked like it would be her one and only film until six years later she appeared in 1992 in the film The Dark Side of the heart in a part credited as La Ciega (the blind woman) and after that she has not been seen or heard of ever since a complete mystery. So do yourself a favor and check this film out if you can with its original Spanish audio and subtitles and you will see the difference between it and K-PAX , especially the ending which has a very surprising twisting endimg Revelation that explains a lot! I for one enjoyed both versions of this intriguing premises and story Man Facing Southeast is very cerebral and hypnotic and Haunting in a lot of ways and K-PAX endearing, thoughtful and sad also in its own way both films to me are excellent I have no problems I just love the storyline, the plot it is very fantastic and I'm glad that to some degree K-PAX did their own reimaging of this fantastic Man Facing Southeast film so do yourself a favor and check them both out!

This was the third episode and the iconic TV series The Rifleman. It guest-starred a very young pre-Bonanza Michael Landon. This episode mostly focused on Young Landon more than Lucas and his son. young Michael Landon plays in this episode a bad boy Gunslinger,Will Fulton. Landon's older brother Hank Fulton in this episide is played by Charles Cooper This was the first time they work together but throughout the years they would work once again together four times in the next 30 Years! The following year after this episode,1959, Landon was now established as Little Joe on Bonanza. Cooper guest-starred on season 1 episode 8 The Phillip Diedesheimer. 19yrs later in 1978, Cooper would guest star on Landon's Little House on the Prairie show in season 5 episode 10 Men Will Be Boys. 3yrs after that in 1981, Cooper would now co-star in Landon's Little House on the Prairie spin-off Father Murphy in Season One, 13 episodes, as The Sheriff. Landon directed many episodes on that show.

This incredible movie triggered in me a almost emotional breakdown.. i never thought i could could get so emotional over a film and it's very unnerving because I haven't been able to shake off the sadness and it's affected my health to the point where I got to be very careful or I'm I wind up going to ER. I believe that knowing it's a true story made it even more impactful. but I am so glad that that credit is given now where it's due. Willem Dafoe and Julianne Nicholson did a great job and especially the puppy who played the main part of Togo. I've always been a Willem Dafoe fan but with this film he's really cemented as one of my all-time favorites now. So please folks be prepared for an emotional rollercoaster of a film but don't let that stop you from watching it it is one of the top 2019 films that I've seen and I highly recommend it

This movie was supposed to be titled the Gunslinger AKA El Pistolero and starring John Leguizamo in the title role. Raúl juliá was supposed to be playing the part of "Bucho". unfortunately Raul was too sick to play the role and eventually he passed away. the Studio's then decided to go with Joaquin de Almeida. And also got Antonio Banderas for the main role as the Mariachi. even though this movie had a bigger budget it's still just as enjoyable as the original mariachi I think all this extra money just went for all the star power that was in this one versus the other one that didn't really have anybody. in my opinion Steve Buscemi and Quentin Tarantino as amusing as their bit roles were they were totally miscast in this film. Cheech Marin had a better brief role as the bartender. So did Joaquin de Almeida as main bad guy "Bucho". And as his main Right hand, Carlos Gomez. Toto Larriva as "Tavo" also was good. His character in one scene almost got Antonio when we first meet the beautiful Salma Hayek as he was coming to get Antonio with guns in the background is music playing which is an original piece from Tito and his band In real life! The very beautiful Angel Aviles had a silent role as Bucho's lovely but deadly bodyguard. Aviles was in Allison Andres "Mi Vida Loca", she was 'Sad Girl'. Next we have Danny Trejo and the colorful non speaking role as Navajas. I looked at it as a tease to his future role in Robert Rodriguez "Machete". Wonderful character actor Mike Not off had a bit role and was well cast but he was killed to soon. What was amusing and surprising to me where the very brief cameos of the original El Mariachi cast! Consuelo Gomez (Domino), Jaime de Hoyos (Bigoton), Peter Marquardt (Moco), Reinol Martinez (Azul) and Carlos Gallardo the original Mariachi. Consuelo, Jaime and Peter play the same characters from the original in a non speaking dream sequence. Reinol is back but in a different bit role as a bar patrons who pushes the little boy played by Abraham Verduzco, aside and provides him to enter the bar. Carlos has a more bigger bit role , and he is once again a Mariachi, but a different one since Antonio is playing the role Carlos played in the original?! my take is that since Carlos' s Mariachi didn't have a name in the original, and in this one he does, his name is "Campa", then he is a alternative reality Mariachi! Lol Anyways and by the way before I go I didn't know this until I seen the credits IMDb but I didn't see him but it says that Superstar singer ,Julio Iglesias son, Enrique Iglesias was in this movie as a hitman!? I have yet to see him I guess I better start using the pause and freeze frame haha

Vince Vaughn doing his impression of Tom Hardy as Bronson. from the very first scene I was just blown away that here is Vince Vaughn shaved head with a cross tattoo on the back of his skull looking like a white supremacist taking a shower Nazi skinhead! And to me the beginning of the film and especially the scene where he goes home after losing his job and finds out but he's lost something else also or could be his marriage because his wife is cheating that scene really hit me hard is it felt so real that when he sent her inside the home he then proceeds to destroy her car and to me that was more like instead of going inside the house and beating her up and whatnot he decided to take all his frustration and anger out on the car and that to me felt so real. I had never really been a big Vince Vaughn flan cuz I only seen him in comedies and I could not imagine him doing anything really dramatic or serious but boy was I wrong! I really did enjoy him in this role and I hope that from now on he does more serious and dramatic roles like this I was very impressed very very impressed. He had a nice great Supporting Cast and Jennifer Carpenter, Don Johnson and Udu Kier. Machines or at least some of them are very beautiful and very graphic one scene in particular was when and I felt really bad for the prison guard that got really really broken down by Vince Vaughn. And what I mean by that is that the prison guard had apologized to Vince for pushing him in the beginning but he did apologize saying that the reason he did that was because he saw potential in Vents and wanted him to be boxing for him and the prison but when Vince out of nowhere just surprise them they went at it one on one boxing but when the guard saw that he couldn't bring Vince down He was ordered to using his billy club and even still he couldn't bring Vince down and that's when Vince really when Adam and literally just broke both his arms that was to be a very tense very realistic and brutal scene to watch. Towards the end the movie becomes almost unbelievable and almost unrealistic and what started off to me in a very good fashion resort it to a 1970s Grindhouse Quentin Tarantino type film towards the end and to the point where I was just almost ridiculous but by then you're so immersed in that all that you just want to see the end of it and see what happens and you stick with it regardless so it's not for the squeamish cuz some people might be able affable because of the so-called FX effects what's tail I enjoyed it I will watch it again and I will recommend it to my friends

Not a lot of people know this but actor Charles Bronson had a uncredited bit role as one of the parking lot thugs that included Michael Pataki, Michael Morelli and John indrisano. At this juncture in his career, Bronson bit role in this Gary Cooper film can only be explained by his loyalty to that actor, with whom he had become friendly during the filming of USS Tea kettle and Vera Cruz. His flash appearance in this unsuccessful mixture of politics and tortured family relationships, from the John O'Hara best seller, must have been performed for a lark, and as a good luck salute to Cooper, during a visit by Bronson to the Fox set.

Well this is the one that started it all. And what a collection of stars and future stars in the making and working together for the first time. But this time I'm going to start from the bottom and work my way to the top. let's start off with actor Brian Tochi, a great character actor who's been around for a long time some people may remember him from the Revenge of the Nerd movies he was the nerdy "Takashi" or the voice of Leonardo of the Teenage Ninja Mutant Turtles. he's been around for quite a while he started his career as a child actor appearing in one of the original Star Trek episodes! so it makes me wonder why at this juncture in his career he would take a role in this film as basically nameless extra!? He will simply credited as a male Trooper and to tell you the truth I didn't see him for nothing! then we have two real military personnel who are now actors and I'm talking about military correspondent Dale Dye and Sergeant R. Lee Ermey. Dale was credited as a general but I don't remember seeing him and Lee Ermey was credited only as a voice on a speaker when the soldiers were getting their weapons. next we have former President Gerald Ford's real son Steven Ford and a thankless role that that made him practically invisible among The Ensemble. but I was happy to see that one of my favorite actors who only had a brief 10 to 15 second cameo bit, really stood out. I'm talking about Timothy Omundson. he was the "Psychic" and one of the commercials to promote the war against the bugs. with his striking clear blue eyes and devilish looking appearance he stood out immensely. and how ironic that he would be here later on a TV show as one of the main characters call Psych! real life amputee actor Robert David Hall has a nice Cameo bit role. that is used the full effect. Actress Amy Smart was seen briefly as Denise Richards friend and co-pilot but too bad they didn't use her more and as I said she was just seeing briefly But she look very cute in her uniform. another actor named Matt Levin, who like Timothy Omundson, has strikingly intense clear blue eyes, had a nice bit role as one of the Troopers named 'Kitten'. actor Marshall Bell had a very brief appearance as a cowardly General and is so in shock what happened to his platoon he can no longer function. actor Dean Norris had a very nice role as the commander of the Troopers. Also actor Clancy Brown had a very great role as one of the stern but kind-hearted Sergeants. Golden Girl star Rue McClanahan had the role as one of the teachers at the school but I didn't even recognize her with all that weird makeup they put on her!? But it was nice to see her name in the credits. Old Reliable bad guy Michael Ironside has somewhat of a dual role because at first he's presented as one of the teachers and later it turns out Denny's the commander of the Roughnecks I don't know how I felt about him and his role it's like he was good but then again it's like he wasn't maybe it's because he always playing so many bad guys that we finally see him in a kind of a good guy role it kind of threw me off haha. there is even a young Seth Gilliam who many know him from the Walking Dead's father Gabriel, he has a nice role as a gun-ho roughneck Trooper. Gary Busey's son, Jake, is cast here as a big comical goofball kind of reminding us of his dad. Neil Patrick Harris is cast as a citizen who is recruited as a psychic and I would have been some nice potential there but we don't see him too often almost to the very end of the movie too bad they didn't use him more or had more scenes with him. no I come to the love rectangle of Patrick Muldoon, Denise Richards, Casper Van Dien and the lovely Dina Meyer. Four very attractive leads. it was very interesting the way they made this where Denise is attracted to Patrick well Casper is attracted to Denise and Dina is attracted to Casper. Casper only joined because Denise joined and Deena join only because Caspar joined but Denise, Casper and Dina were spared a untimely death had they remain in Argentina. It was sad though that Dina did ultimately die but she felt it was worth it because she finally "got together" with Casper so in a way she thought it was worth it. so like this film it is not a great film but it is a good enough film to be checked out

This is my first time seeing a Akira Kurosawa film and I was told not to watch this as my first film since it is a very slow and Abstract type of film. but being one of many benighted people on Akira Kurosawa films, I wanted to be enlightened. There was an earlier film version of this story made in 1961 by director Agasi Babayan, but I could not find it anywhere so I had no choice but to watch this version. It is a very simplistic and Bland story involving a very ancillary type of camaraderie between Dersu Uzala and Vladimir Arseniev. The conundrum of this film is that it is very slow but then again that may have been the intentions of the director to make it the crux of the story. It seems to me that this director is very cryptic in his way of directing. I do want to watch more of his films to get a full opinion of him and want to see if he truly is a dogmatic type of director that he was accused of, . I mean he must have been in a real dark place of depression for him to try and commit suicide just because one of his films didn't do good. I don't want to judge the man because of just that, I need to see all his work and then have an opinion. I truly want to see all of his work and I do not want to believe that he was very overrated and most of his fans have had a Idolatrous addiction to his so-called masterpieces. I want to remain prudent until I see all of his work and I believe is my requisite so that I can and then convey and justify my opinion. and be sublimed by this directors work.

I finally got to see this episode with a young newly christened Charles Bronson. it had barely been a year since he started using the name Bronson instead of his original name of Buchinsky /Buchinski. it was such a treat to see him have a nice little supporting role in this episode. As Jack Benny's future brother-in-law they really work well together. It was a very short and low budget episode with an awkward laugh track thrown in there but all in all to see Bronson acting with Jack Benny and ZahZha Gabor I would have never imagined it. The episode ends very abruptly with the late great Jack La Rue shooting at Bronson and then the next scene Bronson's in the hospital all broken up we never got a chance to see how he got that way!? and somehow Jack Benny's fiance has forgiven him even though she caught him red-handed making out with Zha Zha Gabor earlier!? But anyways I'm glad I have this now in my collection. A very rare episode of General Electric Theater indeed. oh and by the way Bronson calls himself during a phone call to Jack Benny as Machine Gun Blowy and ironically Bronson would play Machine Gun Kelly 3 years later in Rodger corman's film of the same name. In his very first starring role and as we know after that it was history.

What can I say a Harold Ramis film that United a very awkward pairing of actors. Robert De Niro as a gangster, Billy Crystal as a psychiatrist. And with actor Joe Viterelli in the mix it felt like a Three Stooges homage. With De Niro in the Moe role ,Crystal in the Larry role and Big Joe in the Curly role. there was even some slapping Schick when Crystal slaps around Joe at the end of the film!?

I heard that that Robin Williams and Tom Hanks were considered for the doctor Sobel role. It would have been such a treat to see Williams take the role but then again he could have stole the whole movie from De Niro and I don't know if that's would have been a good idea or the intention. Hank's would have also made a interesting choice and to see Hanks and De Niro together would have been a pleasure also. but all in all I believe Harold Ramis made the right choice and stuck with Billy Crystal as he and DeNiro had very good chemistry together. the always lovely and kooky Lisa Kudrow did a good job in her role as Crystal's fiance. She held her own in the supporting role against these powerful actors and even though she had no chemistry with Crystal she did try her best and tried to make it believable in a Friends' like Phoebe like way. SNL's Molly Shannon had a bit cameo role which was amusing at best. Bill Macy as Crystal's father had a very small bit role and was wasted. so was Elizabeth Bracco as De Niro's wife she had a very very small bit role and was completely wasted. Leo Rossi had a nice small role as De Niro's cousin and played it very well and Jimmy Ray weeks was once again in a Robert De Niro film they had worked together in Midnight Run where Jimmy Ray had also played an FBI agent. it was very nice to see character actor Tony DiBenedetto at the end as one of the gangsters at the mafia meeting and what appears to be his last film since he hasn't filmed anything ever since and last but not least to have the great Tony Bennett singing Crystal and Kudrow a song which ends the movie and goes into credits

The walls have ears so I better be brief. during the last week, I had watch 1959 Al Capone Rod Steiger, the TV series The Untouchables with Robert Stack. And now I decided to check out Brian De Palma's 1987 The Untouchables.

first of all I have to say that Robert De Niro's interpretation of Al Capone was very memorizing he not only sounded but looked like the true Al Capone. Rod Steiger in 1959 did a commendable job sounding and acting like Al Capone also. The late great Neville Brand did a good job also on the TV series pilot the Scarface mob potraying a menacing Al Capone also.

Kevin Costner: I believe he was great casting, he actually even look like Robert Stacks Eliot Ness from the TV show only much more taller. What surprised me was that Costner does not have a manly voice! There were quite a few scenes in this movie that to me required a very aggressive and loud voice and Costner just did not have it in him!? Other than that I believe he was right on casting but the voice thing really surprised me.

Sean Connery: as Eliot Ness right hand man Malone, Connery was ideal casting. it was fun to watch Connery still having that "James Bond" energy and power back in 1987 still. He had someone great one-liners and some nice scenes even though his death scene was a little unbelievable and overdramatic but it was an essential scene since this motivates Eliot Ness to really go after Capone hardcore

Andy Garcia and Charles Martin Smith: two very good actors but they were pretty much regulated to the background with they're small and somewhat insignificant parts in the movie.. but still they made history as one of Hollywood's most awkward and weird pairing of Superstars in a one-of-a-kind movie and a one-of-a-kind group.

Richard Bradford: ideal casting for Bradford as a chief of police, he even has a very nice fight scene with Connery's Malone and the back alley

Billy Drago: wonderful ideal casting for this evil Sinister looking actor who was cast as Capone's number one henchman Hitman Frank Nitti. He practically does away himself Eliot ness's team! It was only fitting that Costner's Eliot Ness was the one to do him away.

There was an assortment of background stars who were to become future stars on their own in the future which included Patricia Clarkson as Eliot ness's wife really didn't have much to do but be a scared wife and mother and was regulated to the background scenes, Don Harvey got a very small seen as one of the officers that assist Eliot Ness in a raid. Chelcie Ross had a bit part as a reporter but I felt he was truly wasted since this character actor in the past has made very good movies and can play Sinister villain as parts to perfection. Jack Kehoe as Al Capone's accountant was also wasted to me in a very small bit role. Robert De Niro's friend Clem caserta play the role of Capone's one of many bodyguards.

There was one actor that threw me off for a little bit at 57 minutes into the movie Eliot Ness and his crew hit went to Capone's operations on the Canadian border and one of the individuals that gave them trouble for a minute to me look like Robert De Niro as Al Capone!? But after carefully seeing him, it turns out to be a character actor Robert Miranda who actually looks exactly like Robert De Niro as Al Capone that was kind of unnerving and kind of weird like to me. And also what threw me for a loop that the district attorney played by the late great Clifton James was uncredited and almost unrecognizable with all the real weight that this actor had gained I couldn't believe it was him when I read the credits later on IMDb.

all in all it's a great movie nonetheless for the fine acting involved especially Robert De Niro he isn't in the movie that much but his very few scenes that he is in he steals them right away what is performance alone is worth seeing

It was nice to see Craig Robinson starring in his own film. He's a rather awkward but very likable like a teddy bear comedian. even though this film was only produced by Tyler Perry it has Tyler Perry written all over it especially and the opening scene which has Craig singing a song about urine to A class of kids and they're into it like if it was a gospel Revival! very weird and not funny at all. there is another scene where Craig goes basically almost into drag by becoming a disco Diva Queen and singing a a very nice song! here he's cast as a child psychologist who writes songs to reach children with emotional problems since Craig is a real life piano player he is perfect casting for that. What I didn't like about his character is that he is so sprung on his girlfriend that he completely evades the reality of her. She lied to him on many levels as he discovers little by little who she truly is yet he continues to be in love with her I don't understand especially when he finds out she used to like to date very mature older men when she was younger. He actually runs into one of her ex boyfriends at the local store and the way the X describes her when they were dating would have been enough for me to just forget about marrying her and getting the hell out of there and go home. In the way that he really just doesn't stand up to to her father the honorable Judge really gets on my nerves. And another thing that got on my nerves was that every time he was getting ready to propose to her something would always interfere and interrupt the moment that just started getting old. The wonderful and beautiful Kerry Washington plays his girlfriend. while her character gets on my nerves big time. that just shows the talent of Kerry portraying a daddy's spoiled little privileged princess. The fact that she didn't even tell her family about Craig made her very despicable to me so I had no feelings for her whatsoever so when the scene came out where she dresses as a little girl wearing her old uniform from back when she used to go to school did nothing for me I don't know how Craig fell for that but since Craig playing a person that is sprung like hell that would explain it. David Alan Grier what can I say about this wonderful funny actor. Here he is perfectly cast as Washington's federal judge father. Greer is not that old and real life but sense in real life he is prematurely he can look the part of an old man. S. Apathy Merkerson: what a treat to see this actress I hadn't seen her since Terminator 2 Judgment Day where she played mrs. Dyson! Here she is perfectly cast as Washington's mother who used to be a disco Diva Queen was now an alcoholic and drugs. Tyler James Williams: nice to see everybody Hates Chris and Walking Dead Noah as Washington's little kleptomaniac brother he doesn't really have much to do but he's such a likeable character you don't mind him being in the background really not adding or subtracting to anything. Kali Hawk: it was very nice to see this actress since I had never seen her in anything but a TV series called Black Jesus where I really felt she was miscast as a thug like girl on that show but here for some reason he's perfectly cast as Washington's whitewashed lesbian sister! Go figure hahaha she really has nothing to do except to look pretty in the background but she is a sight to see so that's okay. and last but not least what better way to have a actor what the name Peeples in it!? well Melvin Van Peebles is as close as you're going to get haha Melvin along with Diahann Carroll as Washington's grandparents is a treat and deed they are perfectly cast and there's a few little scene they shine but that's no surprise coming from these two very talented entertainers

8 years before he won 1967 best actor Oscar for his portrayal of a small-town police chief In the Heat of the Night, Rod Steiger play a powerful role on the opposite side of the law, giving a magnetic performance as a notorious Chicago gangster who took the underworld into the business world. I had a good feeling about this film and I was right it was a great film. Rod Steiger electrifies in his portrayal Al Capone, equally well supported bye James Gregory as a police chief trying to bring Capone down, Martin Balsam as the corrupt newspaperman, Nehemiah persoff as Al Capone boss and friend, and the lovely Fay Spain as the Widow of the police officer Capone gun down and later romances. special mention goes to Murvyn Vye,Robert Gist and the always Dependable Lewis Charles who's always good in any gangster movie. these three really personified evilness that were against Capone especially

This was a interesting curio at best. I don't understand why they would remake the classic Punch Drunks that Shemp's Brothers Moe and Curly + Larry did way earlier before and much better. and this remake Shemp takes over the Curley roll and that's where it's the biggest mistake because there's no one that can replace curly and for Shemp even attempt to ape his brother Jerome was not a good idea ,curly was one-of-a-kind and so was Shemp each one had their unique gifts and abilities and talent. Robert B Williams did and okay Moe impersonation not too bad but again no one can replace Moe. Laurel & Hardy foil Charley Rogers impersonation of Larry was very interesting I find that he was very humble and very low-key but once again no one can do a Larry but Larry. once again there was an onslaught of Columbia contract players many of them who had work with the Three Stooges themselves. They all had uncredited bit Parts including Heine Conklin who had a good part as the referee for the final fight. Al Thompson and Victor Travis as Spectators watching the fight. John Tyrrell a Shemp's former boss. Lew Davis as the ring announcer, Johnny Kascier as a Champs trainer and none other than the late great Joe Palma as the champ. It was a complete remake except for one little scene where in the original punch drunks when curly knocks his boss up when one punch and he lands on the fan and in this one also Shemp knocks Tyrrell in the fan above .Curly before leaving turns on the fan and makes his boss go in circles, Shemp goes up and pull some hairs off his legs and then bites him!? and also this was very memorable because I don't think you will ever see Shemp battling his double Mr. Joe Palma like in this short!

This one was a strange one indeed because it is the second or so-called sequel to" Gloves Swingers which had previously come out the year before. Shemp Howard once again reprises his role as Uncle Pat. Dorothy Vaughan reprises her role as grandma. But here's where it gets weird Betty Campbell who played the original Kitty in the first one is now playing a whole different character and a non-speaking role as one of the college students that comes to Terry and kitties party!? She is the one that actually grabs Terry's arm when all the students come in and hold on to him then we later see her dancing with Diggins who momentarily dumps her to dance with the new Kitty!?now how ironic is that?! also coming back and very small uncredited bit roles were Columbia contract players Richard Fisk who was the ring announcer in the original and now plays a waiter and this one. and Bert Young has a non-speaking uncredited role, he was also in the original. What is also very amazing to me was that in the first Glove Swingers , Jules White directed it more like a drama and less slapstick ,in this so call sequel, there's not that much drama and there's way a lot of slapstick primarily gags that were already used to some extent for example like in The Three Stooges shorts. Like washing of the lettuce, cutting a loaf of bread to make it look like an accordion, a blender that goes wild and shoots off mixture in every direction hitting people in the face, and the most blatant gag was the pillow as a layer in the cake and we all know what happens with that everyone starts coughing up feathers!? So I was very disappointed with the sequel to some degree based on the very first one being so original and it just reverted now back to being the slapstick that Columbia was Renown for and recognized ,what a shame ,no wonder Shemp Howard after this one bowed out. I do got to say though that David Duran makes a good Terry but I really enjoyed Noah Beery Jr.'sTerry in the 1st one.