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Re: Ben Johnson
Posted: June 4th, 2014, 8:47 am
by pvitari
Kino Lorber Studio Classics will release Breakheart Pass on Blu-ray (and also on DVD) on August 12.
And the annual appearance of this flyer. ;) The steer roping on Saturday is in honor of Ben, Sr.
Re: Ben Johnson
Posted: June 6th, 2014, 7:22 am
by pvitari
I posted two additional pictures of Ben from that party with Nudie Cohn over at the Ben page -- you'll have to go there to see them. They're not my pictures, they're scans provided by a Facebook acquaintance named Joyce. One is a really big picture of just Ben looking very serious with a drink in his hand. ;) Definitely worth a click over to see. ;)
http://benjohnsonfanpage.shutterfly.com
Re: Ben Johnson
Posted: June 7th, 2014, 10:04 am
by pvitari
More DVD news. Twilight Time has announced that Sam Peckinpah's "Noon Wine" -- a dramatization of the Katherine Anne Porter novella for the TV series ABC Stage 67 -- will be included as a standard definition extra on their upcoming Blu-ray of Peckinpah's The Killer Elite, to be released September 9. "Noon Wine" was originally broadcast on November 23, 1967 and has rarely been seen since. It has never been released in any home video format and only one print suitable for transfer to DVD exists. It is housed at the Los Angeles branch of The Paley Center for Media. Only 3,000 copies will be pressed and they can be purchased only through Screen Archives.
Ben has one scene in "Noon Wine," playing a kindly sheriff. The show was filmed in color and presumably the DVD will be in color too, and of much better quality than this screencap I made from a really awful "unofficial" DVD. :)
Re: Ben Johnson
Posted: June 9th, 2014, 8:25 am
by pvitari
This photo has an interesting history. :)
This is a publicity picture for The Getaway. It's autographed to Ira Kramer, the nephew of Irving and Paula Klaw, who founded Movie Star News, a legendary New York City shop originally founded as a bookstore in 1939. The Klaws found that movie stills and lobby cards was a more profitable business, and that cheesecake photos and films were especially popular. Eventually they began producing and selling their own striptease and "fetish" photos and films, most famously of Bettie Page. Movie Star News recently closed down and nephew Ira Kramer sold off the store's vast inventory, including this photo which ended up on eBay.
http://bigstory.ap.org/photo/ira-kramer-1
Re: Ben Johnson
Posted: June 11th, 2014, 10:29 am
by pvitari
I found this 1988 catalog from Dixie Gun Works on ebay. This edition of the company's catalog has a picture of Ben on the cover (this particular copy is rather beat up, alas) and a letter "signed" by Ben on the inside cover, but you can tell from the fake-folksy writing with the dropped "g's" that it probably written by the company's marketing director. :) I've seen small examples of Ben's writing and his grammar, punctuation and syntax are excellent standard English.
Dixie Gun Works (
http://dixiegunworks.com) sells antique and replica blackpowder (muzzle-loading) firearms, replacement parts and anything else you'd need for your antique/replica gun collection. Their current catalog has over 10,000 items! Although I'm not a gun collector myself, I have to say that I was quite fascinated with the items offered for sale and spent some time leafing through looking at this and that. I can imagine the anticipation a real gun collector would have for such a big catalog -- the way I used to feel when Sears catalogs came in the mail when I was a kid, or the Scholastic Book Club catalog. (Anyone remember those?) :)
Re: Ben Johnson
Posted: June 13th, 2014, 10:06 am
by pvitari
Happy 96th birthday to Ben. ;) Here's a school portrait of the birthday boy....
Re: Ben Johnson
Posted: June 15th, 2014, 12:35 am
by pvitari
Re: Ben Johnson
Posted: June 17th, 2014, 9:36 am
by pvitari
Another candid from One-Eyed Jacks. That's Ben on the left. The young lady is Lisa Lu, whose already tiny part got cut down to basically an extra role.
Re: Ben Johnson
Posted: June 19th, 2014, 7:11 am
by pvitari
Re: Ben Johnson
Posted: June 23rd, 2014, 10:33 am
by pvitari
More Ben from the back! He and James Drury get it on, fists-wise, in Ten Who Dared.
Plus snipe pasted to the back of the photo.
Re: Ben Johnson
Posted: June 23rd, 2014, 11:04 pm
by pvitari
More Ben and James Drury fisticuffs. ;)
Re: Ben Johnson
Posted: June 26th, 2014, 7:04 am
by pvitari
Another one from Ten Who Dared.
Re: Ben Johnson
Posted: June 27th, 2014, 10:09 am
by pvitari
Not done yet with Ten Who Dared. :)
Re: Ben Johnson
Posted: June 30th, 2014, 6:40 am
by pvitari
More Ten Who Dared this week.
Re: Ben Johnson
Posted: July 1st, 2014, 5:56 am
by pvitari
Ten Who Dared again. ;) With snipe.