This week’s mystery movie was the 1957 Twentieth Century-Fox film Three Brave Men, with Ray Milland, Ernest Borgnine, Frank Lovejoy, Nina Foch, Dean Jagger, Virginia Christine, Edward Andrews, Frank Faylen, Diane Jergens, Warren Berlinger, Andrew Duggan, Joseph Wiseman, James Westerfield, Richard Anderson, Olive Blakeney, Robert Burton and Jason Wingreen.
Written by Philip Dunne.
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning articles by Anthony Lewis.
Music supervision by Hans Salter.
Photography by Charles G. Clarke.
Art direction by Lyle R. Wheeler and Mark-Lee Kirk.
Set decorations by Walter M. Scott and Chester Bayhi.
Special photographic effects by Ray Kellogg.
Edited by David Bretherton.
Executive wardrobe designer Charles LeMaire.
Costumes designed by Adele Balkan.
Assistant director Hal Herman.
Makeup by Ben Nye.
Hairstyles by Helen Turpin.
Sound by Alfred Bruzlin and Harry M. Leonard.
CinemaScope lenses by Bausch & Lomb.
Produced by Herbert J. Swope Jr.
Directed by Philip Dunne.
Further information on Three Brave Men is available from the AFI Catalog.
Three Brave Men is available on DVD from Critics’ Choice Video.
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I chose Three Brave Men by going through the trades and I was intrigued because I didn’t expect Hollywood to produce a film in which a wrongfully accused Communist sympathizer is exonerated. (The film is based on the story of Abraham Chasanow, who was fired by the Navy in 1954 as a security risk although he was cleared by a hearing board.) It’s a good story with a strong cast and many familiar faces from television of the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s.
Bosley Crowther may have approved of such goings-on. Possibly.
Actually, Bosley does not, though it takes him several paragraphs to get around to saying so (The New York Times, March 16, 1957):
Have patience with the government’s security program and don’t leap to conclusions that a man released from a government job for “security reasons” is necessarily disloyal or a spy. This is the well-intended thesis of Twentieth Century-Fox’s Three Brave Men, a little film starring Ray Milland and Ernest Borgnine that came to the Paramount yesterday.
More than the thesis is well intended. Everything in this film appears to be carefully calculated, with a general public service in mind. But, brother, have its makers confused it with a complex of “guilt” attitudes and a shocking revelation of incompetence and irrelevance in the administration of the program.
For Monday, we have a mysterious fellow. Also Back of the Head Guy.
Update: This is Roy Glenn Sr. and Ernest Borgnine as Back of the Head Guy.
For “Tricky Tonsorial Tuesday,” we have this week’s mysterious shaving guy. His mystery companion has been cropped out due to lack of mysteriousness and will appear later in the week.
Update: For Friday, adding mysterious woman cropped out due to lack of mysteriousness.
Update: This is Virginia Christine and Ernest Borgnine.
Brain Trust roll call: Howard Mandelbaum* (mystery movie, Monday’s mysterious police officer and Back of the Head Guy), Norman Desmond (Monday’s mysterious police officer), Mary Mallory* (mystery movie, mystery policeman and Back of the Head Guy), Dan (Monday’s mysterious police officer), Anne Papineau (Monday’s mysterious police officer), Jenny M. (Monday’s enigmatic police officer), Roget-L.A. (Monday’s mysterious police officer), Skretvedt1958 (Monday’s mystery officer), L.C.* (mystery movie and mysterious cast), Sylvia E.* (mystery movie, Monday’s mysterious officer and Back of the Head Guy), Sarah (Monday’s mystery officer), Greg (mystery movie, Monday’s mystery police officer and Back of the Head Guy) and Megan and Thom (Monday’s mystery officer).
Via email: James Curtis (Monday’s mysterious police officer).
*Rescued from the spam folder.
For “Hm Wednesday,” we have a mystery fellow and Back of the Head Guy.
Update: This is Jason Wingreen and Ernest Borgnine once again as Back of the Head Guy.
We also have these mysterious chaps.
Update: This is Edward Andrews, left, and James Westerfield.
Brain Trust roll call: Mary Mallory (Tuesday’s lathered-up fellow), Blackwing Jenny (Tuesday’s shaving guy), Anne Papineau (mystery movie, Tuesday’s shaving guy and Mystery Woman Cropped Out Due to Lack of Mysteriousness), Sarah (mystery movie and Tuesday’s shaving cream guy), Chrisbo (Tuesday’s lathered-up fellow), Charles Kjelland (Tuesday’s future sitcom star), B.J. Merholz (mystery movie and Tuesday’s shaving fellow), Megan and Thom (mystery movie and Tuesday’s mysterious clean-shaven fellow), Jenny M. (mystery movie and Tuesday’s shaving guy), Earl Boebert (Tuesday’s mystery fellow), Roget-L.A. (mystery movie and Tuesday’s shaving man), Sylvia E. (Tuesday’s mystery man and Mysterious Woman Cropped Out Due to Lack of Mysteriousness) and Bruce* (Tuesday’s mystery fellow).
*Rescued from the spam filter.
For “Aha Thursday,” we have a mysterious fellow.
Update: This is Andrew Duggan.
We also have this mystery chap.
Update: This is Frank Faylen.
And finally, a mysterious woman.
Update: This is Nina Foch with Bow-Tie Guy Joe McGuinn.
Brain Trust roll call: Anne Papineau (Wednesday’s mysterious guests and Back of the Head Guy), Suznchaz (mystery movie, Monday’s and Tuesday’s mystery guests and Wednesday’s mystery guest No. 2), Mary Mallory (Tuesday’s mystery woman cropped out due to insufficient mysteriousness, Wednesday’s mystery guests and Back of the Head Guy), Howard Mandelbaum (Wednesday’s mysterious guests Nos. 2 and 3), Sylvia E. (Wednesday’s mystery guests and Back of the Head Guy), Roget-L.A. (mystery movie, Wednesday’s mystery guests and Back of the Head Guy), Mike Hawks (mystery movie, Monday’s and Tuesday’s mystery guests, mysterious woman cropped out due to insufficient mysteriousness, and Wednesday’s mysterious guest No. 3, and Back of the Head Guy), Benito* (mystery movie, Monday’s mysterious guest and Back of the Head Guy), Allison Francis (mystery movie), Thom and Megan* (Wednesday’s mysterious guests Nos. 2 and 3).
*Rescued from spam folder.
For Friday, we have these mysterious fellows.
Update: This is, from left, Richard Anderson, Dean Jagger and Walter Reed.
And these mystery personages.
Update: This is Ray Milland, left, and Ernest Borgnine.
Brain Trust roll call: Mary Mallory (Thursday’s mysterious guests), Chrisbo (mystery movie, Thursday’s mystery guest No. 2), Mike Hawks (Thursday’s mystery guests), Sylvia E. (Thursday’s mystery guests and various off-screen folks) and Anne Papineau (Thursday’s mystery guests).
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Roy Glenn, Ernest Borgnine in Three Brave Men (1956).
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Terry Carter today?
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Roy Glenn or, as he was also, Roy E. Glenn Sr.
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Roy Glenn on the left and both guy Mel Torme from A MAN CALLED ADAM.
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Roy Glenn
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Roy Glenn?
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Roy Glenn
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Monday: Roy Glenn
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Looks like Roy Glenn, who is memorable in “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” (1967).
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Three Brave Men (1956) w/Roy Glenn, Ernest Borgnine, Ray Milland, Frank Lovejoy, Nina Foch, Dean Jagger, Virginia Christine, Diane Jergens, Frank Faylen…
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Mon – Roy Glenn
Maybe the movie is Three Brave Men 1956
Maybe the BOTHG is Ernest Borgnine
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It’s Roy Glenn.
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THREE BRAVE MEN. Roy Glenn and Ernest Borgnine BOTH.
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Roy Glenn as the policeman. Ernest Borgnine is the Side of Head man. The movie is Three Brave Men, 1956.
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I do not recognize the mysterious fellow. But “Back of the Head Guy” is giving off serious Edward G. Robinson vibes, though I suspect it is not.
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One vote for EGR!
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Our guest is Roy Glenn. He looks a little young for it to be in A Man Called Adam. Is it a TV show?
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Back of the Head-Guy Edward G. Robinson?
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Two votes for EGR!
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Good ole Ernie visible today.
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Ernie Borgnine!
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Virginia Christine on the left and Ernest Borgnine in “Three Brave Men.”
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The
movie is Three Brave Men. Today’s mystery guy is Ernest Borgnine.
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Ernest Borgnine on Tuesday?
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Must be Ernest Borgnine today.
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I’m guessing that Ernest Borgnine is one of three brave men.
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Our movie is Three Brave Men with Ernest Borgnine.
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Ernest Borgnine in Three Brave Men.
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I’ll guess Earnest Borgnine on Tuesday.
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Ernest Borgnine in Three Brave Men (1956)
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Tues – Mr Borgnine pulling a “Thomas Mitchell tricky Tuesday” moment. OS, surrounding him in this scene:
Diane Jergens (whose widower, Randy Sparks, I learned from reading about her, died just last month), Virginia Christie (aka ‘Mrs Olsen’ in the Folger’s coffee commercials) and Warren Berlinger (as a kid I loved seeing him in “The Wackiest Ship in the Army”, I think on the Million Dollar Movie show.
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Shaving guy sure looks like Ernest Borgnine to me, but on a Tuesday?
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On Hm Wednesday, Jason Wingreen with our man Ernest, and Edward Andrews and James Westerfield as the Legionnaires.
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“Three Brave Men” 1956. Roy Glenn as cop, Ernest Borgnine, Edward Andrews in outside scene…tbhat’s all I got So it’s a “Three” movie like the Irish!
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Virginia Christine as BOTH Tuesday, Joseph Wiseman and Borgnine, and Edward Andrews and James Westerfield.
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Lee Russell; Edward Andrews, James Westerfield.
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Wed – image #1 Jason Wingreen and BOTHG, Mr Borgnine
image#2 Edward Andrews and James Westerfield
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You neglected to note how much they approve such goings on.
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Jason Wingreen, Ernest Borgnine as BOTH guy, Edward Andrews, and James Westerfield in Three Brave Men (1956)
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Roy Glenn, Ernest Borgnine, Virginia Christine and James Westerfield in THREE BRAVE MEN.
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Roy Glenn and Ernest Borg of Nine in THREE BRAVE MEN 1956
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Three Brave Men
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Today’s guests in the second picture are Edward Andrews and James Westerfield.
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Andrew Duggan, Frank Faylen, and Nina Foch.
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Aha! Frank Faylen plus Ernest Borgnine equals Three Brave Men
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Andrew Duggan, Frank Faylen and Nina Foch.
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Thursday 1) Andrew Duggan 2) Frank Faylen 3) Nina Foch (OS – Mr Borgnine, Frank Lovejoy and one more guy.)
I think the guy juuuusst at the right edge of the image (in the bowtie) is Franklyn Farnum
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Andrew Duggan, Frank Faylen and Nina Foch.
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Richard Anderson, Dean Jagger, and Warren Berlinger, Raymond Milland and Ernest Borgnine.
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Richard Anderson, Dean Jagger, Walter Reed, Ray Milland and Ernest Borgnine.
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Friday – 1) Richard Anderson, Dean Jagger and (I think) Walter Reed
2) Ray Milland and Ernest Borgnine
And the reveal of Tuesday’s Virginia Christine
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Our new guest on Tuesday is Virginia Christine, and the first guest on Wednesday is Jason Wingreen. For Thursday, we have Andrew Duggan, Frank Faylen, and Nina Foch. For today, two of our guests are Richard Anderson and Dean Jagger.
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