This week’s mystery movie was the 1957 Twentieth Century-Fox picture The Deerslayer, with Lex Barker, Rita Moreno, Forrest Tucker, Cathy O’Donnell, Jay C. Flippen and Carlos Rivas. (The original credits have been replaced in the German release I used for the film).
Screenplay by Carroll Young and Kurt Neumann. From the novel by James Fenimore Cooper.
Photography by Karl Struss.
Edited by Jodie Copelan.
Set decoration by Walter M. Scott, Fay Babcock and Max Goldman.
Costumes by George Herrington and Neva Rames.
Music by Paul Sawtell and Bert Schefter.
Sound by Stephen Bass.
Makeup by Nadine Danks and Louis Hippe.
Directed by Kurt Neumann. Assistant director Herb Mendelson.
Produced by E.J. Baumgarten and Kurt Neumann.
Further information on The Deerslayer is available from the AFI Catalog.
The Deerslayer is available on a Region 2 Blu-ray from Amazon.
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I picked The Deerslayer based on reviews in the trades and because it features Rita Moreno. The photography is gorgeous. The plot is very thin and not especially logical. I somehow escaped the novel in school and Mark Twain’s Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses does not inspire me to read it. As usual, the Native American parts are played by non-indigenous people.
I’m going to guess that Bosley Crowther hated it or passed it off to one of the alphabet critics. Nope. The New York Times skipped it entirely.
Well, then.
For Monday, we have a mystery fellow.
Update: This is Jay C. Flippen.
For Tuesday, we have a mystery fellow.
Update: This is Joseph Vitale.
Brain Trust roll call: Howard Mandelbaum (Monday’s mystery guest), Gary (Monday’s mystery guest), B.J. Merholz (Monday’s mystery guest), Lorenzo (Monday’s mystery guest), Mike Hawks (Monday’s mystery guest), Jenny M. (Monday’s mystery guest), Robert Morrissey (Monday’s mystery guest), Patrick (Monday’s mystery guest), Greg (Monday’s mystery guest), L.C. (mystery movie and mystery cast), Sylvia E. (Monday’s mystery guest) and Benito (Monday’s mystery guest).
For “Hm Wednesday,” we have a mystery guest.
Update: This is Carlos Rivas.
Brain Trust roll call: Mary Mallory (Monday’s mystery guest), Sylvia E. (mystery movie and Tuesday’s mysterious tribal leader), Howard Mandelbaum (mystery movie and Tuesday’s mysterious trial leader), Funky PhD (Monday’s mysterious guest), Mike Hawks (mystery movie and Tuesday’s mysterious tribal leader), B.J. Merholz (mystery movie and Tuesday’s mysterious tribal leader), Incredible Inman (Monday’s mystery guest) and Bruce (Monday’s mystery guest).
For “Aha Thursday,” we have an upset mystery woman. Also Back of the Head Woman.
Update: This is Cathy O’Donnell with Rita Moreno as Back of the Head Woman.
We also have a mystery fellow.
Update: This is Forrest Tucker.
Brain Trust roll call: Mary Mallory (mystery movie, Tuesday’s mysterious tribal elder and Wednesday’s mystery fellow), Sylvia E. (Wednesday’s mystery fellow), Floyd Thursby (mystery movie and Monday’s mystery guest), Jenny M. (mystery movie and Tuesday’s and Wednesday’s mystery guests), Big John Wintergreen (Monday’s mystery fellow), Greg (mystery movie, Tuesday’s and Wednesday’s mystery guests), Howard Mandelbaum (Wednesday’s mystery fellow) and Mike Hawks (Wednesday’s mystery guest).
For Friday, we have a mystery fellow.
Update: This is Lex Barker
We also have this mystery woman.
Update: This is Rita Moreno.
Brain Trust roll call: Mary Mallory (Thursday’s mystery guests and Back of the Head Woman), Incredible Inman (mystery movie and Thursday’s mystery guests), Howard Mandelbaum (Thursday’s mystery guests), Robert Morrissey (mystery movie and Thursday’s mystery guests), Gary (mystery movie, Thursday’s frontiersman), Mike Hawks (Thursday’s mystery guests and Back of the Head Woman), Sylvia E. (Thursday’s mystery guests and Back of the Head Woman), Blackwing Jenny (mystery movie and Thursday’s mystery guests), Bruce Reznick (mystery movie, Thursday’s mystery guests and Back of the Head Woman), Patrick (mystery movie, Tuesday’s, Wednesday’s and Thursday’s mystery guests) and Greg (Thursday’s mystery guests and Back of the Head Woman).
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Jay C. Flippin
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Richard Egan? Unlikely on a Monday …
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No, it’s not Boris Karloff. It’s Joseph Vitale in THE DEERSLAYER (1957).
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Jay C. Flippin?
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J.C. Flippen
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Today’s guest…JC Flippen.
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Jay C. Flippen.
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J. C. Flippen in the The Far Country.
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That’s Jay C. Flippen.
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Jay C. Flippen
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Jay C. Flippen
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The Deerslayer (1957) w/Jay C. Flippen, Forrest Tucker, Lex Barker, Rita Moreno, Cathy O’Donnell, Carlos Riva…
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Monday – is that Jay C. Flippen?
That building looks like something from “Wild River”, but I think I’ll keep searching for now.
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Izzat old coot Jay C Flippen, or old coot Van Heflin?
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THE LAST WAVE.
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Jay C.Flippen Monday.
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Okay l’m going to try “The Deer Slayer” 1957 as guess number 2. I think I see that silver thingamabob in Tuesday’s image in a photo I found from that movie. No guesses on the foreground guy, or the serious faces surrounding the guy holding the thingamabob, though. Will await your confirmation that I’ve found the right title.
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Jay C. Flippen on Monday?
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Joseph Vitale in THE DEERSLAYER 1957.
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Joseph Vitale in THE DEERSLAYER 1957.
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Joseph Vitale in Deerslayer?
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Is Tuesday’s guy Joseph Calleia (sp?)? I don’t know the movie though.
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Lex Barker; Rita Moreno.
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I think that’s Joseph Vitale holding the thingamabob. IMDb says he’s playing the Huron Chief.
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I take it back — Jay C. Flippen as Monday’s mystery fellow.
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RUN OF THE ARROW. Jay C. Flippen MOnday and Frank De Kova today.
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J C Flippen for Monday?
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THE DEERSLAYER. Joseph Vitale yesterday and Carlos Rivas today. When will we have another silent film, Mike and I love those.
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Wednesday – Carlos Rivas as Chingachgook. Interesting to find out that Bela Lugosi played this role in the 1920 version.
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For Monday we have a strangely lit Jay C. Flippen. The movie is “The Deerslayer.”
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Tue – Joseph Vitale
Wed – Carlos Rivas
Movie – The Deerslayer (1957)
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Jay C. Flippen on Monday
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Tuesday’s mystery fellow is Joseph Vitale and Hm Wednesday’s is Carlos Rivas. The movie must be “The Deerslayer” from 1957
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Carlos Rivas
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Carlos Rivas.
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Cathy O’Donnell and rita Moreno BOTH, and Forrest Tucker.
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Cathy O’Donnell and Forrest Tucker today, making this “The Deerslayer.”
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Cathy O’Donnell; Forrest Tucker.
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Cathy O’Donnell and Forrest Tucker, so IMDb tells me it’s gotta be 1957’s The Deerslayer. Better late than ….on Friday!
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Add Forrest Tucker and we have The Deerslayer.
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Cathy O’Donnell, Rita Moreno and Forrest Tucker.
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Thursday – image #1 Cathy O’Donnell and BOTHW Rita Moreno/ image #2 Forrest Tucker
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Well, at least I know Cathy O’Donnell and Forrest Tucker! In “The Deerslayer”.
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Forrest Tucker and IMDb combine with Jay C. Flippen to suggest “The Deerslayer” (1957), which suggests that Cathy O’Donnell is the Thursday woman with Rita Moreno as BOHW. I don’t think I’ve ever been right on a Monday before!
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Joseph Vitale, Carlos Rivas, Cathy O’Donnell and Forrest Tucker in The Deerslayer from 1957.
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Aha Thursday is Cathy O’Donnell. Back of head woman is probably Rita Moreno. Thursday’s mystery man is Forrest Tucker.
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Lex Barker and Rita Moreno.
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I see Forrest Tucker, and Cathy O’Donnell, and Lex Barker…
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For Friday we have Lex Barker and Rita Moreno.
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Friday – Lex Barker/ Rita Moreno
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Lex Barker, Rita Moreno.
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Lex Barker and Forrest Tucker on Friday. The Deerslayer from 1957
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