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From: Jim & Ethel Matthew

To: therichardwidmarkfanclub@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Sunday, November 22, 2009 9:46 PM

Subject: [The Richard Widmark Fan Club] YouTube - Backlash (1956)

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcsPyH9To0I&feature=related

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From: Derek Joyce

To: therichardwidmarkfanclub@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Saturday, November 21, 2009 2:46 PM

Subject: Re: [The Richard Widmark Fan Club] Fw: Google Alert - richard widmark

 

Steak, Apple Tart and a great Widmark film ......... I'm on my way!

Derek.

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From: Reiko Shimada <reiko.shimada@yahoo.com>
To: therichardwidmarkfanclub@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sat, 21 November, 2009 13:32:04
Subject: Re: [The Richard Widmark Fan Club] Fw: Google Alert - richard widmark

 

Wow!! Please someone takes me to this nice restaurant!! !!

 

Reiko

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From: Valerie Tomlinson <val@.... co.uk>
To: therichardwidmarkfa nclub@yahoogroup s.com
Sent: Sat, November 21, 2009 9:00:01 PM
Subject: [The Richard Widmark Fan Club] Fw: Google Alert - richard widmark

 

What a superb eveing that will be!!!!

V

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Sent: Saturday, November 21, 2009 4:36 AM

Subject: Google Alert - richard widmark

Google Blogs Alert for: richard widmark

Steak House Movie Night | The Rose and Kettle Restaurant By C Coleman Caesar Salad for startes, and a couple dessert choice. The movie is free, and dinner is 25 dollars. This time we'll be viewing: Pickup on South Street directed by Sam Fuller and Starring Richard Widmark and Jean Peters ... The Rose and Kettle Restaurant - http://roseandkettl e.blogspot. com/

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Backlash is a pretty good suspense story set in a western locale.  RW plays Jim Slater, a man on a quest to find the man he believes is responsible for the death of his father.  He soon crosses paths with Donna Reed's character, Karyl Orton, who is seeking out information from similar sources.  She is on the trail of a gold stash that is rumoured to be buried by her husband and his partners before they were ambushed by Apaches.  It becomes clear that Jim thinks his father was one of those ill fated men and he believes that one of the partners got away and left the others to die.  Jim and Karyl are at odds at first and run afoul of others who also have gold fever.  After a rocky start, they team up and work towards answering the questions plaguing them to a rather satisfying, if somewhat predictable conclusion.

I thought this movie was better than your standard oater because the characters where given solid backstories that were deftly woven into the story.  This helped me understand some of their less than honourable actions at times.  The main characters are 3 dimensional and I thought there is pretty good chemistry between RW and DR.  The dialogue is above average, and quite witty at times.  I have pasted an excerpt below of some lines from my favorite scene, courtesy of Val's screenplay transcription, posted on the RWFC Yahoo website.

Jim: You know if I was smart I run you out of here. 

Karyl:   Why don't you?         Jim:  I'm not smart . . .and you're good lookin'

Karyl:  Oh don't tell me that makes any difference to you.

Jim: At times it does.

Karyl:  With a shoulder like this tonight is not one of those times.

Jim: Why not?  (Carol reaches over and picks a knife from his saddle pack, Jim pulls down his neckerchief and says)  Help youself!

Karyll:  It's a beautiful thought.

Jim:  You know you're right about tonight! (Carol gets up and goes over to her horse. She gets a little bottle out from the saddlebag and throws it to Jim who catches it.)

Karyl:  Here, try this, it might help. (She takes a clean blouse from the saddlebag and puts it on. Jim spills out a tablet from the bottle and swallows it.)

Jim:   Arsenic?         Karyl:  Could be!  (She sits down by his side)

As an extra bonus, Harry Morgan plays a supporting role as one of the brothers out to get RW's character.  William Campbell as Johnny Cool is also a fun and steals his fair share of scenes.

This film gets better with repeated viewings.  I pick up something new each time.  This movie airs frequently on North American TV on the AMC network.  Unfortunately, they air a cropped pan and scan version.  I was lucky enough to watch the widescreen version on a R2 PAL disc, and what a treat that was.  Let's keep our fingers crossed for a North American R1 NTSC widescreen release on DVD soon.

Ann

----- Original Message -----

From: Ann Hall

To: therichardwidmarkfanclub@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 12:59 PM

Subject: Re: [The Richard Widmark Fan Club] A performance fee of RW's�@�hBacklash"

 

Great find Reiko!

Using this nifty tool Inflation Calculator, that would be equivalent to $189115.87 in last year's money.  Pretty good sum of money.

 

Ann

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From: reiko.shimada <reiko.shimada@yahoo.com>
To: therichardwidmarkfanclub@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wed, November 18, 2009 8:31:22 AM
Subject: [The Richard Widmark Fan Club] A performance fee of RW's�@�hBacklash"

 

Here is an interesting document .

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bw  Reiko

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Hi Debbie,

Glad to hear that.

Oh don't tempt me Indiana, PA return would be nice. I still have great memories
of meeting you and seeing the museum.

Best wishes,
Martin



--- In therichardwidmarkfanclub@yahoogroups.com, Debbie-Ticker <ticker_2u@...>
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> Hi Martin ~~
> Thanks for the tip on the radio programs on your BBC Radio Four station.  I
"googled" it and found their website.  I found that I can listen online.  I
love listening to those radio dramas.  I find that they are so descriptive that
I can envision every footstep the character takes.  
> Hope to see you again someday in Indiana, Pennsylvania.
> Debbie
> "Memories...pressed between the pages of my mind...."     "Su Amiga" Debbie 
  
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> --- On Thu, 11/12/09, martyccuk <martyccuk@...> wrote:
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> From: martyccuk <martyccuk@...>
> Subject: [The Richard Widmark Fan Club] Radio days
> To: therichardwidmarkfanclub@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Thursday, November 12, 2009, 4:21 PM
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> On Saturday on BBC Radio Four (BBC's flagship radio station) there is a
documentary devoted to Hollywood stars who appeared on radio. It will be
interesting to listen to see if he is mentioned.
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> Every Saturday night at 8pm they have an hour long programme called The
Archive Hour where they have interesting themed programmes on a great variety of
topics which make use of radio archive material. I catch it when I can and will
certainly listen out for this one.
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> There is something about radio dramas that can be especially entertaining. As
someone once said the audience make up the pictures. Certainly RW's radio work
was of very high quality.
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Umm...Because Richard Widmark has no middle names ?

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----- Original Message -----

From: annette Lake

To: therichardwidmarkfanclub@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 10:59 PM

Subject: [The Richard Widmark Fan Club] Theresas' meeting with Richard Widmark

 

Well I did ask both my siblings, and neither remembers the incident..sorry :(