law dawg Wrote:It.
Centennial.
Death in Paradise.
And Shogun, but its already been mentioned.
Ken Valentine Wrote:Yeah . . . Centennial. That was one of the best mini-series'. Have you read the book? It was real history with some of the serial numbers filed off.I have read the book, but a looooong time ago.
For instance, there was a mountain man who had a Pawnee arrowhead in his back for nine years, and it was removed by a doctor whom the mountain man had met. In the book/series, the character was Pasquinel the trapper, and the arrow head was removed by a doctor in Saint Louis. In real life, the arrowhead was removed from the back of a mountain man named Jim Bridger, and it was removed by Doctor Marcus Whitman, pioneer of the Oregon Trail.
Levi Zent was a thinly disguised William Bent, who had a trading post near LaJunta, Colorado . . . Bent's Fort -- instead of Zent's Farm. Both in the book and real life, the Bent/Zent character had an Indian wife who refused to shake the hand of the perpetrator of the massacre at Sand Creek/Rattlesnake Butte.
I grew up in that area.
Ken V.
RichE Wrote:Well, here are two of my favorites that I'm always ringing the bell about:
FEAR NO EVIL
Universal/MCA for NBC TV
1969
Starring Louis Jourdan, Linda Day George, Wilfrid Hyde-White and Carroll O'Conner
Directed by Paul Wendkos
from a story by Guy Endore.
Great film and very sought after-brillant supernatural story!
BROTHERHOOD OF THE BELL
1971
Starring Glenn Ford, Dean Jagger, Maurice Evans and Will Geer
Directed by Paul Wendkos
EXCELLENT-Track it down and see it!
Anyone recall these gems?
Sourdoughs Wrote:The best I can think of is one that I avoided because of the genre. Then decades later it was highly recommended to me, so I borrowed it from my friend. I think "Lonesome Dove" was superb in both screenplay and casting (Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Danny Glover, Diane Lane, Angelica Houston, etc.). Loved it!
(Edit: Not sure what "Classic/"b" Performers" means, but if it means "unknown" then this probably doesn't apply here)
-MarcC
law dawg Wrote:I have read the book, but a looooong time ago.
And I did NOT know it so closely tracked actual history. Thank you for that.