Here’s something odd: the formative feature in Roger Corman’s proto- career. Roger gets credits for Story and Associate Producer, and learned what he needed to learn to produce two movies of his own in the same year. The modest crime thriller sees Richard Conte involved with three women during a chase on dusty desert roads: noir star Joan Bennett and young Wanda Hendrix are a suspicious pair, but special guest Hot Number Mary Beth Hughes all but steals the show.
Highway Dragnet
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1954 / B&W / 1:66 widescreen / 70 min. / Street Date March 20, 2018 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Richard Conte, Joan Bennett, Wanda Hendrix, Mary Beth Hughes, Reed Hadley, Iris Adrian.
Cinematography: John Martin
Film Editor: Ace Herman
Written by Herb Meadow, Jerome Oldlum from a story by U.S. Andersen, Roger Corman
Produced by Jack Jungmeyer, William F. Broidy (executive), A. Robert Nunes & Roger Corman (associates)
Directed by...
Highway Dragnet
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1954 / B&W / 1:66 widescreen / 70 min. / Street Date March 20, 2018 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Richard Conte, Joan Bennett, Wanda Hendrix, Mary Beth Hughes, Reed Hadley, Iris Adrian.
Cinematography: John Martin
Film Editor: Ace Herman
Written by Herb Meadow, Jerome Oldlum from a story by U.S. Andersen, Roger Corman
Produced by Jack Jungmeyer, William F. Broidy (executive), A. Robert Nunes & Roger Corman (associates)
Directed by...
- 3/3/2018
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
CBS has teamed with David Mamet to direct/executive produce a TV pilot, rebooting the network's 1957 western TV series "Have Gun – Will Travel", retooled with more sex and violence, similar to "Deadwood".
The original series, created by Sam Rolfe and Herb Meadow, aired on CBS, 1957-1963, including episodes written by Gene Roddenberry and directed by Sam Peckinpah, following 'Paladin', a gentleman gunfighter who preferred to settle problems without violence.
He lived in the 'Hotel Carlton' in San Francisco, where he dressed in formal attire, ate gourmet food and attended the opera. When 'working', he dressed in black, carried a derringer under his belt, used calling cards with a chess knight emblem and wore a black gunbelt with the same chess knight symbol in platinum attached to the holster.
He was a former Army officer and a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, capable of speaking any foreign language.
The original series, created by Sam Rolfe and Herb Meadow, aired on CBS, 1957-1963, including episodes written by Gene Roddenberry and directed by Sam Peckinpah, following 'Paladin', a gentleman gunfighter who preferred to settle problems without violence.
He lived in the 'Hotel Carlton' in San Francisco, where he dressed in formal attire, ate gourmet food and attended the opera. When 'working', he dressed in black, carried a derringer under his belt, used calling cards with a chess knight emblem and wore a black gunbelt with the same chess knight symbol in platinum attached to the holster.
He was a former Army officer and a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, capable of speaking any foreign language.
- 8/24/2012
- by M. Stevens
- SneakPeek
Playwright, Oscar-nominated screenwriter, essayist and occasional angry person David Mamet has a new TV project in the works. According to The Hollywood Reporter, CBS has made a script deal with Mamet for a reboot of the 1957-1963 Western "Have Gun - Will Travel." The original series was created by Sam Rolfe and Herb Meadow and starred Richard Boone as the San Francisco gunfighter Paladin, who had high-class taste but was still a total badass despite a slightly frou-frou taste for chess symbolism. "Have Gun - Will Travel" ran for 225 episodes, one of which was written by Sam Peckinpah, and 24 of which were written by "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry. A potential movie remake has been bouncing around in development for a while, first with John Travolta attached to star and later Eminem. Mamet will serve as writer and executive producer on the reboot, and he'll direct a pilot if one's ordered.
- 8/21/2012
- by Alison Willmore
- Indiewire
David Mamet is usually found adapting his own work for screens both big and small, but he has dabbled in other sources (The Winslow Boy, for instance). Now he’s taking that trick to television, aiming to reboot the 1950s Western series Have Gun – Will Travel for Us network CBS.The show, which aired on the network between 1957 and 1963 (and also found success on the radio), starred Richard Boone as Paladin, a hotshot gunslinger who preferred to settle issues without resorting to flinging bullets, but who could hold his own when called out.Sam Rolfe and Herb Meadow created the original version, which recruited several notable writers, the most famous of which was Gene Roddenberry, who would go on to make a little show called Star Trek.This will mark Mamet’s second TV show following military drama The Unit, which he co-created with The Shield’s Shawn Ryan and which ran for four years.
- 8/21/2012
- EmpireOnline
CBS has put in development Have Gun – Will Travel, a reboot of the 1957 CBS Western drama, to be penned by writer/director/playwright David Mamet. Mamet is set to direct the potential pilot, which will be produced by CBS TV Studios. He is executive producing with agent-turned-producer Elliott Webb. Have Gun – Will Travel, whose title plays on a line commonly used in personal ads, aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963 and also spawned a successful radio version. Its producers included Frank Pierson, and one of its main writers was Gene Roddenberry who would go on to create Star Trek. Created by Sam Rolfe and Herb Meadow, Have Gun starred Richard Boone as Paladin, a top-notch gunfighter who preferred to settle problems without violence but stood his ground when provoked. (Watch the opening sequence below) Have Gun – Will Travel brings Oscar-nominated writer and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Mamet back to CBS where he...
- 8/21/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
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