Re: JOHNNY STACCATO Right Here! Right Now!
Posted: January 7th, 2012, 9:59 am
Congrats on your Xmas bounty, Red! That set will provide you with many years
of repeated use. All the eps are great, some exceptionally so. My own personal
faves are SOLOMON (with the incredible Elisha Cook and Cloris Leachman in
guest roles), NATURE OF THE NIGHT, Cook again in EVIL, MURDER FOR CREDIT
with Charles McGraw, the Twilight Zone-ish A NICE LITTLE TOWN, the Woolrich-
esque A PIECE OF PARADISE, and the epic heroin addict shocker THE WILD REED
with Harry Guardino and Olive Deering. Taken all at once, it's nothing less than an
extended journey to the Planet Noir.
As for the shifting of titles from STACCATOto JOHNNY STACCATO, that
came about midstream when the show, with rock-bottom ratings jumped networks in a last
ditch attempt to salvage things. But by the time that first and only season drew to a close,
Cassaetes seemed ready to move on to other things--like SHADOWS.
of repeated use. All the eps are great, some exceptionally so. My own personal
faves are SOLOMON (with the incredible Elisha Cook and Cloris Leachman in
guest roles), NATURE OF THE NIGHT, Cook again in EVIL, MURDER FOR CREDIT
with Charles McGraw, the Twilight Zone-ish A NICE LITTLE TOWN, the Woolrich-
esque A PIECE OF PARADISE, and the epic heroin addict shocker THE WILD REED
with Harry Guardino and Olive Deering. Taken all at once, it's nothing less than an
extended journey to the Planet Noir.
As for the shifting of titles from STACCATOto JOHNNY STACCATO, that
came about midstream when the show, with rock-bottom ratings jumped networks in a last
ditch attempt to salvage things. But by the time that first and only season drew to a close,
Cassaetes seemed ready to move on to other things--like SHADOWS.