#jack elam

Cantinflas (Around the World in 80 Days, Ahí está el detalle, Ni Sangre, ni Arena)—OH BOY I GET TO TALK ABOUT CANTINFLAS!! Honestly, I’m not the most qualified to even be talking about him: he was famously a king of wordplay, but Spanish is my second language so I always feel like I’m missing some of the jokes…..but even so he is so SO funny it’s like unbelievable. Ok so also. One movie I can talk confidently about is him in around the world in 80 days, which i have watched so many times and he just rocks. Like. ROCKS. Here he is on his dumb little bike [included below the cut]. This is how we meet him in th movie and I think they should have just put the words “SCRUNGLY” across the scene.He also does little tricks, wears his dumb little shoes, has some kind of weird romantic thing going on with David niven…..it makes me so sad we dont have even more movies from him because honestly his whole thing (esp in 80 days with his silly trousers) is just Gender.  

Jack Elam (Kansas City Confidential, Once Upon a Time In the West)—The MOST character actor he's always playing weirdos. In Kansas City Confidential he gets slapped senseless and thrown around like a rag doll and he spends most of his limited screen time anxiously lighting one cigarette butt with another cigarette butt and also being covered in sweat. In Once Upon a Time in the West he gets terrorized by a fly.

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[additional submitted propaganda + scrungly videos under the cut]

🎥 1954: Vera Cruz starring Gary Cooper, Burt Lancaster, George Macready, Denise Darcel, Sara Montiel, Cesar Romero, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson and Jack Elam.

• After the American Civil War in 1866, mercenaries travel to Mexico to fight in their revolution for money. The former soldier and gentleman Benjamin Trane (Cooper) meets the gunman and killer Joe Erin (Lancaster) and his men, and together they are hired by the Emperor Maximillian (Macready) and the Marquis Henri de Labordere (Romero) to escort the Countess Marie Duvarre (Darcel) to the harbor of Vera Cruz.

No, not The Northman (2022) starring Alexander Skarsgård. Instead, this stinker hails from the year 1978, starring and co-produced by Lee (The Six Million Dollar Man) Majors.

This was made after Majors finished on The Six Million Dollar Man. It was filmed in Tampa, Florida, and utilized several players from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as Vikings.

What's it about? I'll let this blurb from the back of the original VHS cover tell the story:

"(She) became entranced at the sight of him." SHEESH! You can tell this is cinema gold--NOT!

Wait! Maybe it's Thorvald's porn 'stache that entrances the beautiful Indian maiden!

Or maybe Jack Elam's wizard character, Death Dreamer, put a spell on her.

I pretty certain Ragnar (Cornel Wilde) is counting on not fighting his enemies, but on them laughing to death at the sight of his helmet.

And why, oh why, is Thorvald wearing a mask as he leads his Viking crew? And why are they wearing armor they bought at a Spirit Halloween store?

(via Film Noir Photos: Dance Hall Demoiselles: Diane Sayer)