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"Point Blank" is on YouTube, but the only free version I found has Portuguese subtitles. Must have been posted for our members Kurusu and Ray in Rio...
Great article about Lee Marvin's "Point Blank" 4" Model 29.
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I think Luciano Pavarotti's legacy remains intact!
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Not too crazy about the female lead, but really loved Lee Marvin's (2) character(s) in Cat Ballou. His portrayal of the drunken good guy and the sinister bad guy with the silver nose was unforgettable.
IIRC, his military service during WW II was both memorable and heroic, a fact he minimized in interviews while he was more willing to speak of the heroism of others. He was a class act!
Froggie
PS He sang in Cat Ballou too..."Happy Birthday."
IIRC, his military service during WW II was both memorable and heroic, a fact he minimized in interviews while he was more willing to speak of the heroism of others. He was a class act!
Froggie
PS He sang in Cat Ballou too..."Happy Birthday."
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Wyatt Burp
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Les, If that scene can be spotted in the film and he isn't shooting it, then it's the gun in the article that had the firing pin removed just for brandishing which he did constantly with it. I wonder who got the 1959 gun used for the the shootin scenes.Good call, Kurusu!!!
Here's the photo that my avatar came from...as you point out, a publicity shot for "Point Blank", which I may or may not have been aware of when I picked it. Back then I was finishing up watching my "M Squad" DVDs, and searched for a good black and white of Marvin for my avatar.
What do you guys think...is he holding the gun that the OP's thread tells the story of?? A 4" Model 29?
Best Regards, Les
Think about this. In Point Blank Lee Marvin is on Alcatraz meeting or having a shoot out with someone. It was 1967. If the cops went there to check it out, an officer or Detective Callahan might have been among them. Dirty Harry was in 1971. Imagine these two facing each other! Maybe they would just start singing out of tune together like in Paint Your Wagon.
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"Point Blank" is on YouTube, but the only free version I found has Portuguese subtitles. Must have been posted for our members Kurusu and Ray in Rio...
Well... I watch my DVDs with English subtitles on.
I'm getting a little hard of hearing.
And I found out the subtitles sometimes don't follow exactly what's being said.
And. most Portuguese subtitles found online are simply atrocious. and in Brazilian/Portuguese which feels kind of weird to me.
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Wyatt Burp
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I found the guy's website and he has various blogs and stories. In the listing there is one called People With Guns. nothing about Lee Marvin. But you can comment on his pictures and stories and have to put your Email. I was tempted to write him to ask about the Lee Marvin story and the story he said he wrote prior to it. But then I thought there might be a copyright issue with me posting this story here. Do you folks think there's any issues there? Are people's writings online fair game to transfer?
Google his name and it's the 6th one listed.
Google his name and it's the 6th one listed.
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No copyright issues - you simply posted a link to the story, something done a trillion times a day by Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc.
There are two kinds of copyright issues. The ones that go to court and the ones that the Forum moderators insist upon. I have been dinged sufficiently for not posting copyright information that I NEVER post a website URL without a (C) Date Name of Whomever
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On another note, how old do you have to be to actually know who Lee Marvin was?
And my favorite, after M Squad, is "Big Red One".
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One of my three favorite "cowboy" movies of all time. I mean where moving cattle and other livestock was what the main characters did. To say I liked it much better than the Tom Selleck version is no slight on Tom Selleck. The first one was just that great. My other two fave cowboy flicks, Red River And Conagher.
Reference "Death Hunt" "One of my favorites, but only about 2% true to the real story. It was set in the Northern Territories. That's about it. The real hunt for "Albert Johnson" is covered in a real good book called "The Mad Trapper Of Rat River". Johnson was a bad guy, but of almost super human endurance."
Dick North also wrote "The Lost Patrol" in which all 4 (?) members died up there circa 1910. The wife and I went up there on the Dempster Highway in 1979. There was one gas stop in the middle of the 400 plus mile gravel road--a place called Eagle Plains Lodge. It was fairly close to the area that "Albert Johnson", the Mad Trapper, was . Helluva story...He was buried up at Aklavik, NWT. He never was truly identified, and exhumation some years back was inconclusive.
Damned rugged country, I can tell you that!
Albert Johnson (criminal - Wikipedia)
Dick North also wrote "The Lost Patrol" in which all 4 (?) members died up there circa 1910. The wife and I went up there on the Dempster Highway in 1979. There was one gas stop in the middle of the 400 plus mile gravel road--a place called Eagle Plains Lodge. It was fairly close to the area that "Albert Johnson", the Mad Trapper, was . Helluva story...He was buried up at Aklavik, NWT. He never was truly identified, and exhumation some years back was inconclusive.
Damned rugged country, I can tell you that!
Albert Johnson (criminal - Wikipedia)
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Gordyf808
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Yes he was quite a guy.
Met him in Kona, he was a fisherman, owned a boat there, "Blue Hawaii"
run by a local guy in the '70's
Pretty for real people.
Did not know about the gun thing
Aloha
Gordy
Met him in Kona, he was a fisherman, owned a boat there, "Blue Hawaii"
run by a local guy in the '70's
Pretty for real people.
Did not know about the gun thing
Aloha
Gordy
Nope your not alone.I still dont know the story because I cant open your link for two days nowOK, this has to be well known here except for little ol' me, but I couldn't find it in a search. This article about the 13 year old kid who inherited one of Lee Marvin' two Model 29s from that film is unbelievable. Unbelievable by the fact that the documentation about which gun was used in which scene is so precise. And it shows the class act Lee Marvin was to keep his word with what could have been a frivolous promise made while having drinks. Thanks to the Colt Forum member who posted this, though, again, it must be old news here.
Lee Marvin's 44 Magnum – John S. Wilson
Lee Marvins war record
Lee Marvin enlisted in the Marines at 18 in August 1942. He served with the 4th Marine Division in the Pacific theater. He was wounded in The Battle of Saipan June 18 1944 where he was hit by machine gun fire suffering a severed sciatic nerve and then hit in the foot by a sniper. He was a corporal earlier in his enlistment but got in trouble and was reduced to private first class as shown on his marker in Arlington.
Lee Marvin enlisted in the Marines at 18 in August 1942. He served with the 4th Marine Division in the Pacific theater. He was wounded in The Battle of Saipan June 18 1944 where he was hit by machine gun fire suffering a severed sciatic nerve and then hit in the foot by a sniper. He was a corporal earlier in his enlistment but got in trouble and was reduced to private first class as shown on his marker in Arlington.
You may be thinking of James Arness. I believe that he was the first off his landing craft because he was the tallest man on it, and the sergeant wanted to see how deep the water was!
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