KA-VOOM! The Lee Marvin Blog-a-Thon

Posted by rhsmith on August 29, 2007

Charlie takes aim in THE KILLERS

Welcome to the 1st official Lee Marvin Blog-a-Thon, which commemorates the 20th anniversary of the great actor's death, on August 29, 1987. I'll be adding to this list as the day goes on, but so far we have a couple of blogs and links for you to check out.

First up:

Over at Radiator Heaven , JD examines Lee's iconic performance in The Killers (1964).

At Johnny La Rue's Crane Shot , Marty McKee looks back at the WWII veteran's guest work on the TV series Combat! and in a now obscure sequel to one of his greatest hits, The Dirty Dozen: The Next Mission (1985).

Elsewhere on this blog, I've written about the two movies Marvin made in 1972, Pocket Money and Prime Cut.

At Film Forno, Joe D'Augustine writes about Marvin butting heads with a highly fetishized Marlon Brando in The Wild One and holding his own as a "crazy macho crown prince of anarchy."

Over at Clarkblog, Clarkman joins thoughts on the birthday of the late comic book genius Jack Kirby with his own impressions of Lee Marvin as a Kirby character come to life. Great pictures as well of a 2002 screening of Point Blank at the Hollywood Forever cemetery.

Over at the United Kingdom's Mondo Esoterico, the Lee Marvin Blog-a-Thon not only rates a cool logo but there are thoughts on Robert Aldrich's underrated Emperor of the North Pole as well.

At Arbogast on Film, a personal take on The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.

Cineaste associate editor Robert Cashill weighs in on the relative Marvin rarities Dog Day and The Spikes Gang over to his own blog, Between Productions.

And drop by Cinebeats. If "Lee Marvin: A Sensitive 17 Year Old Boy" doesn't grab you, brother you're already dead.

Not part of this blog-a-thon but essential reading nonetheless are Brynn White's notes for a Lee Marvin retrospective screened this past spring at New York City's Walter Reade Theater.

Also from this past May, Simon Crowe plugs Point Blank at Mostly Movies.

Going back a bit further, The Melbourne Cinematheque down in Australia recently ran a retrospective they called Wandering Star: The Films of Lee Marvin. As I helped myself to a few of their visuals, I can't not credit them with a belated plug.

Over at the Network and Premium Television page of the Mobius Home Video Forum , blogless Bill Picard has posted links to YouTube and a 1952 episode of Dragnet with an amazing performance by Lee Marvin.

Lots more to come, so stay tuned. Late links are always welcome!

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Posted By Kasumii : February 25, 2009 12:09 pm

I am researching Lee Marvin’s TV career. If anyone can help me find the following episodes please let me know. Contac me at:

kasumii_kenshirou@yahoo.com

TV:

Chicago Beat (1958) (TV Pilot)

Escape – Whappernocker Song (02/09/1950)
Fireside Theatre – Sound in the Night (01/29/1952)
Fireside Theatre – Sound in the Night (02/16/1952)
Rebound – The Mine (02/29/1952)
Dragnet – The Big Whiff (01/15/1953)
The Doctor AKA The Visitor – The Runaways (06/21/1953)
The Revlon Mirror Theater – Lullaby (10/03/1953)
The Motorola Television Hour – Outlaw’s Reckoning (11/03/1953)
Suspense – Needle in a Haystack (11/10/1953)
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars – Give the Guy a Break (01/29/1954)
The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse AKA Action Tonight – The Psychophonic Nurse (02/05/1954)
The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse AKA Action Tonight – Open Season (03/19/1954)
Center Stage – The Day Before Atlanta (11/07/1954)
General Electric Theater – The Rider on the Pale Horse (11/28/1954)
General Electric Theater – Mr. Death and the Red Headed Woman (11/28/1954)
TV Reader’s Digest – How Charlie Faust Won a Pennant for the Giants (04/11/1955)
Studio One – Shakedown Cruise (11/07/1955)
Climax! – Bailout at 43,000 Feet (12/29/1955)
Kraft Television Theatre – The Fool Killer (03/07/1956)
Front Row Center – Dinner Date (03/18/1956)
Studio 57 – You Take Ballistics (02/10/1957)
Climax! – Stain of Honor (02/14/1957)
The United States Steel Hour – Shadow of Evil (02/27/1957)
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars – Easy Going Man (08/02/1957)
General Electric Theater – All I Survey (02/02/1958)
Climax! – Time of the Hanging (05/22/1958)
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars – A Fistful of Love (01/02/1959)
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse – Man in Orbit (05/11/1959)
Western Theater – Easy Going Man (07/31/1959)
Sunday Showcase – The American (03/27/1960)
General Electric Theater – Don’t You Remember? (05/08/1960)
The Americans – Reconnaissance (03/06/1961)
Wagon Train – The Christopher Hale Story (03/15/1961)
March of Dimes: What About Linda? (01/14/1961)
General Electric Theater – The Joke’s on Me (04/16/1961)
The DuPont Show of the Week – The Richest Man in Bogota (06/17/1962)
Pantomime Quiz – Lee Marvin vs. Gypsy Rose Lee (10/01/1962)
Ed Sullivan Show (10/12/1969)
The Changing Scene (1970) TV Special Barbara Eden Gene Kelly
Superstunt (11/17/1977) Host in a TV Special
Tomorrow Show Coast to Coast (05/08/1981)
Late Night with David Letterman (02/12/1986) Final Interview

Tonight Show with Johnny Carson

10/05/1970
02/03/1972
06/20/1972
04/24/1973
06/22/1976
11/04/1976

Lee Marvin’s Lawbreakers:

003 The Seattle Story
004 The Atlanta Story
005 The Philadelphia Story
006 The Dallas Story
007 The New Orleans Story
008 The Pittsburgh Story
009 The Indianapolis Story
010 The Cincinnati Story
011 The Detroit Story
012 The Hartford, Connecticut Story
013 The Westchester Story
014 The Boston Story
016 The Greenburgh, New York Story
017 The Providence Story
018 The Chicago “A” Story: Part II
019 The Baltimore Story
020 The Minneapolis Story: Part I
021 The Minneapolis Story: Part II
022 The Rochester Story
023 The Philadelphia Story: Part II
024 The Buffalo Story
025 The Culver City Story
026 The Burbank Story
028 The Long Beach Story
029 The Denver Story
030 The Milwaukee Story
031 The Miami Story
032 The Oakland Story
033 The St. Louis Story

— The Highway Murder Story (official title unknown)
— The Tony Gonzales Story (official title unknown)
— The Michael Olds Story (official title unknown)
— The Joseph Gaito The Edward Kern Story (official title unknown)
— The Teenage Bomber Story (official title unknown)

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