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Post by spiderwort on Oct 2, 2019 21:27:46 GMT
I'll start with one that is among my favorites from the early days of live television, Marty, which aired on "The Philco Television Playhouse" in 1953. It was written by Paddy Chayefsky, starred Rod Steiger and Nancy Marchand, and was directed by Delbert Mann, who two years later directed the feature film version starring Ernest Borgnine. The feature film won 4 Oscars: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director, and Best Screenplay. Please feel free to add and comment upon any titles that you know and want to share - Golden age live productions, or anything else on down the line.
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Post by marshamae on Oct 2, 2019 22:36:40 GMT
Days of Wine and Roses - first appeared on Playhouse 90 starring Piper Laurie . Wish we coukd see these
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Post by marshamae on Oct 2, 2019 22:42:38 GMT
Judgement at Nuremberg - starring Claude Rans and Paul Henreid as the judge and Ernst Janning. It was a terrific film but I would really like to have seen this.
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Post by marshamae on Oct 2, 2019 22:49:12 GMT
Requiem for a Heavyweight - also Playhouse 90 starred Jack palance Keenan Wynn’s in TGE Jackie Gleason role and Ed Wynn as Army tye Mickey Rooney role.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Oct 2, 2019 23:21:57 GMT
Twelve Angry Men, Westinghouse Studio One (1954) Dir: Franklin Schaffner  It's always fascinating to compare the approaches of different directors and actors to the same material. In place of Lee J. Cobb's belligerent bombast as Juror #3 in 1957's 12 Angry Men, for instance, we have the imperious Franchot Tone's gradual unraveling and meltdown. But it's skilled farceur Robert Cummings, whose dramatic chops weren't always optimally evident in big-screen appearances, as Juror #8 providing the most rewarding interpretation of his character.
Cummings precedes Henry Fonda's calm, salt-of-the-earth integrity with halting diffidence that slowly transforms into emphatic assuredness as Juror #8's uncertainty becomes confidence, and his questions become assertions. Conveying silent thought must be one of the most difficult things for an actor to visually communicate, and Cummings allows the viewer to see the wheels turning and gears meshing.
Alongside Cummings and Tone are Edward Arnold, Walter Abel and Norman Fell among others, with George Voskovec and Joseph Sweeney originating the roles they reprised in the film. Look for Vincent Gardenia in a bit as the bailiff.
By necessity, the film extends the running time from that formatted to a 1-hour broadcast, enabling some fleshing out of both characters and evidentiary points, but the shorter form concentrates the tension, and even if some memorable inventions created for the film are absent, there's little sense of deprivation. It's one of the most worthwhile TV predecessors of a major film that I've seen.
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Post by mattgarth on Oct 2, 2019 23:26:17 GMT
'The Fugitive' -- David Jansenn (1963-1967)
THE FUGITIVE -- Harrison Ford (1993)
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Post by spiderwort on Oct 2, 2019 23:31:38 GMT
marshamae Oh, you know your Golden Age of live television! I'm sure that everything you've suggested is wonderful. The only one of those I've had the good fortune to see in its live production, however, is The Days of Wine and Roses, which I have to say, dwarfs the film production (even though I love that, but OMG there's no comparison, really). The live production - also starring Cliff Robertson opposite Piper Laurie - is stunningly brilliant and absolutely haunting. It was directed by a 28-year-old John Frankenheimer, and what he was able to accomplish with it is nothing short of amazing. Imagine an hour and a half of that non-stop alcoholic madness live!I have a collection of several shows, including Marty and Requiem for a Heavyweight (not Judgement at Nuremburg), but as yet I haven't gotten around to watching either, though I know I should. I did watch another that later became a prominent film, Bang the Drum Slowly. The live production stars Paul Newman, Albert Salmi, and Georgann Johnson. I liked it very much, but I confess in this case that I liked the film better.
The Days of Wine and Roses
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Post by spiderwort on Oct 2, 2019 23:41:23 GMT
Doghouse6 Oh, dog, I don't have 12 Angry Men and still haven't watched it on-line after your strong recommendation some time ago. I really need to do that, and I will. It's only an hour, for goodness' sake! I have no excuse except my forgetfulness. Thanks for the reminder and the excellent review.
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Post by mattgarth on Oct 3, 2019 4:15:05 GMT
'The Fugitive' -- David Jansenn (1963-1967) THE FUGITIVE -- Harrison Ford (1993)
I always forget about this one, so prominent to me in terms of television, yet all but out of my memory in terms of the film. I wonder what that means?
In psychology it's referred to as 'selective forgetfulness.' I suffer from it myself each year at Lady Garth's birthday and our anniversary. It usually results in my having to sleep on the living room sofa for a week thereafter.
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Post by teleadm on Oct 3, 2019 7:46:29 GMT
On top of my head, Star Trek 1966 to 1969 TV-series, has been the ground for at least 13 cinema movies, creating it's own movie series, starting in 1979.   |
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Post by teleadm on Oct 3, 2019 8:03:44 GMT
The Miracle Worker started as a teleplay on Playhouse '90 in 1957, became a Broadway play in 1959 and had a run of 719 performances, and then became a movie in 1962.
Annie Sullivan: Teresa Wright - Anne Bancroft
Captain Keller: Burl Ives - Victor Jory
James Keller: John Drew Barrymore - Andrew Prine
Kate Keller: Katharine Bard - Inga Swenson
Helen Keller: Patty McCormack - Patty Duke
Mr. Anagnos: Akim Tamiroff - Jack Hollander
Without the teleplay, there wouldn't have been the movie, even if it went via a successful play.
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Post by mattgarth on Oct 3, 2019 9:20:01 GMT
PATTERNS -- the 1956 film with Van Heflin was adapted from the 1953 Rod Serling TV drama with Richard Kiley (Everett Sloan and Ed Begley reprised their roles). It was the first shot in the Eisenhower era of dramas centering around the trials and tribulations of Big Business (EXECUTIVE SUITE, WOMAN'S WORLD, THE POWER AND THE PRIZE, etc.)
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Two Glenn Ford movies at MGM in 1956 began as Television plays:
1) THE FASTEST GUN ALIVE appeared first as 'The Last Notch' with Jeff Morrow. The gunslinger he must face was played by a young baby-faced Richard Jaeckel -- much superior as a wild, 'Billy the Kid' type over Broderick Crawford in the big screen version (too old, too urban, too paunchy).
2) RANSOM! as the father who refuses to pay his son's kidnappers and even goes on TV to make his case (perhaps Ford's best single scene in his long career) started as the TV play 'Fearful Decision' with Ralph Bellamy. It was performed twice to great acclaim at the time, but did not provide the emotionally happy ending of the film (child is released safely). Instead the father is left at the end to face the consequences of his choice with everyone abandoning him.
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Post by spiderwort on Oct 3, 2019 21:42:40 GMT
The Miracle Worker started as a teleplay on Playhouse '90 in 1957, became a Broadway play in 1959 and had a run of 719 performances, and then became a movie in 1962. Annie Sullivan: Teresa Wright - Anne Bancroft Captain Keller: Burl Ives - Victor Jory James Keller: John Drew Barrymore - Andrew Prine Kate Keller: Katharine Bard - Inga Swenson Helen Keller: Patty McCormack - Patty Duke Mr. Anagnos: Akim Tamiroff - Jack Hollander Without the teleplay, there wouldn't have been the movie, even if it went via a successful play.
Oh, you're so right! It began in live television that was its springboard to all that came after. Teresa Wright - oh, I so wish I could see this live version. Maybe I'll find it one of these days.
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Post by spiderwort on Oct 4, 2019 0:45:42 GMT
PATTERNS -- the 1956 film with Van Heflin was adapted from the 1953 Rod Serling TV drama with Richard Kiley (Everett Sloan and Ed Begley reprised their roles). It was the first shot in the Eisenhower era of dramas centering around the trials and tribulations of Big Business (EXECUTIVE SUITE, WOMAN'S WORLD, THE POWER AND THE PRIZE, etc.) ______________________________________________________________ Two Glenn Ford movies at MGM in 1956 began as Television plays: 1) THE FASTEST GUN ALIVE appeared first as 'The Last Notch' with Jeff Morrow. The gunslinger he must face was played by a young baby-faced Richard Jaeckel -- much superior as a wild, 'Billy the Kid' type over Broderick Crawford in the big screen version (too old, too urban, too paunchy). 2) RANSOM! as the father who refuses to pay his son's kidnappers and even goes on TV to make his case (perhaps Ford's best single scene in his long career) started as the TV play 'Fearful Decision' with Ralph Bellamy. It was performed twice to great acclaim at the time, but did not provide the emotionally happy ending of the film (child is released safely). Instead the father is left at the end to face the consequences of his choice with everyone abandoning him.
I have the live tv version of PATTERNS, matt, but haven't watched it yet. But I'm a big fan of the feature, and I'm sure I'll feel similarly about the tv production, if I ever get around to seeing it. 
And I don't think I saw THE FASTEST GUN ALIVE, but I did see and very much liked RANSOM! A really wonderful performance by Ford in that one, I thought, and excellent direction by Alex Segal, who began in live television. Based upon my research, he also directed the live television production of RANSOM! Did not know that. Anyway, I really liked the film version.
Edit: Hey, I just researched THE LAST NOTCH and it turns out that Alex Segal also directed that! A few years later he would direct one of my favorite films, ALL THE WAY HOME.
And THE LAST NOTCH was written by Frank D. Gilroy, who would later write the play, THE SUBJECT WAS ROSES. Oh, I love doing this research!
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Post by jervistetch on Oct 4, 2019 1:11:30 GMT
Days of Wine and Roses - first appeared on Playhouse 90 starring Piper Laurie . Wish we coukd see these The Criterion Collection offers a DVD set that includes several of these titles. The Golden Age of Television
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Post by spiderwort on Oct 4, 2019 1:13:45 GMT
Days of Wine and Roses - first appeared on Playhouse 90 starring Piper Laurie . Wish we coukd see these The Criterion Collection offers a DVD set that includes several of these titles. The Golden Age of Television
Yes, I have this, jervis. I haven't watched everything yet, but it's a real treasure.
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Post by jervistetch on Oct 4, 2019 1:33:45 GMT
I’ve been meaning to buy it for a long time. Hard to imagine a more searing and devastating performance of “Wine & Roses” than Jack Lemmon in the greenhouse looking for his bottle.
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Post by Dirty Santa PaulsLaugh on Oct 4, 2019 2:53:51 GMT
Five Twilight Zone episodes Time Out, Kick the Can, It's a Good Life/Nightmare as a Child, and Nightmare at 20,000 Feet, became Twilight Zone the Movie.
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Post by teleadm on Oct 4, 2019 17:07:45 GMT
Invitation of a Gunfighter directed by Arthur Penn on TV in 1957. Movie version directed by Richard Wilson (Not in the same calibre as Penn) in 1964.
Seen the movie version and thought that is was much better than it's rumour of being too psychological.
The TV version starred Hugh O'Brien, Anne Bancroft, Gilbert Roland, Pat O'Brien and Ray Collins
The movie version starred Yul Brynner, Janice Rule, George Segal, Pat Hingle and Brad Dexter
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Post by sostie on Oct 7, 2019 13:57:36 GMT
SCUM (1979)
Originally filmed for the BBC 2 years earlier, but never transmitted due to the violence, Alan Clarke re-made the whole film again. Stars a young Ray Winstone reprising what would have been his debut in the earlier film.
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