TOP BILLING FOR LITTLE BEAVER?
Posted: June 17th, 2007, 10:08 pm
It was an impulse buy at the checkout counter: $1.00 for a DVD with two
early B&W westerns on it. The title that caught my attention was Stagecoach To Denver (1946), one of the old Red Ryder filcks. It's points:
1. Ex-defendant Robert Blake had top billing on the lable. When the opening credits rolled, of course, he was 13 year-old "Bobby" Blake in the
roll of Little Beaver.
2. The star was Allen Lane, having his first go at the role after Wild Bill
Elliott gave it up. (Bobby Blake was in the series from beginning to end --
26 films.)
3. I knew more about Red and Little Beaver from comic books than from
movies; they were in the theaters before my time. But Red in the movies
seems to have had something in common with Red in the comics -- he seemed to always wear his chaps, no matter what the place or the
situation. Even indoors as someone's guest, he was always dressed to
jump on his horse and ride through high underbrush.
That Christmas - season movie where the kid only wants a Red Ryder carbine-action two-hundred shot air rifle with a compass in the stock?
Movies from this series give you a look at the hero that had impressed
the lad. But the word is that the Wild Bill Elliott titles are better. I won't
go out of my way to find out, but I wonder how the billing goes on those lables.
early B&W westerns on it. The title that caught my attention was Stagecoach To Denver (1946), one of the old Red Ryder filcks. It's points:
1. Ex-defendant Robert Blake had top billing on the lable. When the opening credits rolled, of course, he was 13 year-old "Bobby" Blake in the
roll of Little Beaver.
2. The star was Allen Lane, having his first go at the role after Wild Bill
Elliott gave it up. (Bobby Blake was in the series from beginning to end --
26 films.)
3. I knew more about Red and Little Beaver from comic books than from
movies; they were in the theaters before my time. But Red in the movies
seems to have had something in common with Red in the comics -- he seemed to always wear his chaps, no matter what the place or the
situation. Even indoors as someone's guest, he was always dressed to
jump on his horse and ride through high underbrush.
That Christmas - season movie where the kid only wants a Red Ryder carbine-action two-hundred shot air rifle with a compass in the stock?
Movies from this series give you a look at the hero that had impressed
the lad. But the word is that the Wild Bill Elliott titles are better. I won't
go out of my way to find out, but I wonder how the billing goes on those lables.