Word: holliman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Maybe it was my fault. It ain't easy to raise a boy without a mother," sorrowfully explains the beef baron (Anthony Quinn), whose tosspot son (Earl Holliman). a sort of Leo Gorcey in chaps, has raped and murdered, just for pure meanness, the beautiful Indian "squaw missy" wife of the marshal (Kirk Douglas). The job of avenging his squaw's death is made much more complicated by the fact that Widower Douglas, "a poor fool with high-flown ideas," is also the best friend of Widower Quinn...
...federal police, who takes over a small town in southern California, uses it as a base from which to stage his escape to Mexico. Unfortunately, the mobster has forgotten to fix the scriptwriters, who permit him to be captured by the hero (Richard Widmark) and his kid brother (Earl Holliman), who are involved in a nasty sibling rivalry over the kid brother's wife (Tina Louise). Anyway, they all start out across a gangster-infested desert in the direction of the nearest police station. Groans Actor Cobb: "It's gonna be a long, hot night...
...kids. She lives in a pleasant, old-fashioned house in a middle-class section of New Orleans, and her man (Anthony Quinn), a virile, still handsome Cajun ("They always stay young and excitable"), runs a successful employment agency. The three children are good-looking and intelligent. The oldest (Earl Holliman) is a live wire who works in his father's office and is obviously going to make out. The middle one is a girl (Shirley MacLaine) and pretty enough to keep the porch glider occupied almost every night of the week. The youngest (Clint Kimbrough) is the serious type...
...desert, Playwright Simon Wincelberg almost captured the novelist's eerie mood as well. In The Sea Is Boiling Hot, the panther became a stoical Japanese infantryman (Sessue Hayakawa) marooned alone on a Pacific island in World War II. His unwelcome visitor: a fallen U.S. airman (Earl Holliman). The two-man play dared to turn almost entirely upon monologues by the American, yet managed effectively to sweep its characters over their language barrier from enmity to camaraderie. Though obliged to make few sounds other than some grunted Japanese, aging (68) Silent...
...clans, the Sullivans and the Aliens. On either channel the image was poor. Jack Oakie's ogling, leering Bill ("Hello, you beautiful people") Brogan was a gusty old buffoon eating high off the ratings when the opposing network decided to fight him with a popular young singer (Earl Holliman). The singer had to survive Madison Avenue metaphors ("Throw Wednesday night in his lap and let him kick it around") and a scourge of publicity beaters who manufactured a cheap exchange of insults ("This feud is all that's keeping you alive...