Dragnet The Movie
Dragnet (1954) was on last night/early morning on I think it was a remnant of Retro, not sure. There are a bunch of stations scrunched together near the end of my dial. Good reception, tough, and a...
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You have a point, Will. Jack Webb was also a minimalist, as in was to say little, imply a great deal, with the one liners. The movie's faults, such as they can called, are along the lines of too much...
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>The fifties version of the show seemed to border on parody.< With respect, will, I'd hang that label on the sixties revival! The original tv series is, for the time, near-documentary. (And the...
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Craig: The TV series of Dragnet was a continuation of the radio show with pictures, and many of the early eps of the TV Dragnet were remakes, so to speak, of radio eps. Webb's aesthetic, such as it...
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This Classic Radio Drama feller is cognizent of all of those factoids, tele. Though I'd submit that you left out one elephant in the room:The terrific noir docudrama feature HE WALKED BY NIGHT, which...
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Wich2 wrote:This Classic Radio Drama feller is cognizent of all of those factoids, tele. Though I'd submit that you left out one elephant in the room:The terrific noir docudrama feature HE WALKED BY...
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Indeed, Craig, I left out He Walked By Night, am very familiar with the film. It's excellent; and many suspect that Anthony Mann had a hand in the production, but you probably know that, too (credited...
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I've never been a GREAT viewer of it, but I've always wondered how an "animated" actor like Harry Morgan (in the later version) was even ABLE to stick to that deadpan acting. And going by things like...
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Stan Freberg's parody was St. George and the Dragonet. You can hear it on YouTube.
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That's right. I believe there were other Dragnet parody records as well. The show was irresistible that way. Wasn't there a sci-fi one, sort of like a Jack Arnold flick or something? Or maybe that was...
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The "acting "on both incarnations of the series was,in large part,a direct result of the fact thatWebb insisted that all performers READ their lines from a teleprompter,placed so that up tothree...
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I remember when the 1960s show was early in its run Jerry Lewis had a hilarious Dragnet parody on his otherwise mediocre NBC variety show. The Webb like narrator would note the time almost second by...
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I was about to mention the Jerry Lewis TV show parody, but the one I saw had Jack Webb and Harry Morgan acting in it. I remember it being funny, but the only details I remember are that Harry Morgan...
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Alan Moore also did a DRAGNET spoof in 2000AD involving a pair of "Time Cops" who would routinely run into their future and past "selves" and give them deadpan "updates" on what to expect (FUTURE...
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Grant wrote:I've never been a GREAT viewer of it, but I've always wondered how an "animated" actor like Harry Morgan (in the later version) was even ABLE to stick to that deadpan acting. And going by...
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Yup. Jack was quite animated in Sunset Blvd, and showed a lot of effect in the same year's The Men, holding his own with Marlon Brando nicely. Also from 1950: Dark City, in which Webb is also quite...
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Morgan was pretty poker faced in My Five Convicts. Webb and Morgan might have been in that Jerry Lewis sketch. I don't remember a whole lot except I was practically on the floor watching it. It was...
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rvoyttbots wrote:Grant wrote:I've never been a GREAT viewer of it, but I've always wondered how an "animated" actor like Harry Morgan (in the later version) was even ABLE to stick to that deadpan...
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Lawrence Fechtenberger wrote:rvoyttbots wrote:Grant wrote:I've never been a GREAT viewer of it, but I've always wondered how an "animated" actor like Harry Morgan (in the later version) was even ABLE...
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