Ladies, control yourselves!
Pin-up of the day.
Justin Timberlake may have brought sexy back, but Tom Neal is taking it away again.
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November 24, 2009 at 5:52 pm
Try to snag a copy of Barbara Payton’s I Am Not Ashamed. She was totally enraptured by Tom Neal.
November 24, 2009 at 7:14 pm
Talk about doomed romances.
Tom Neal’s performance in Detour is truly great work and none shall ever say otherwise!!!
November 24, 2009 at 9:24 pm
He works brilliantly in Detour, but one wonders if he was at all aware of how he was coming across. He kind of gives the same performance in other stuff I’ve seen, and it’s not nearly as effective because the films don’t support that kind of anti-charisma.
As for Franchot Tone, who was severely beaten up by Neal when they discovered they were both engaged to Joan Crawford, I get the impression he may have been a little annoying, because he was severely beaten again while shooting a Twilight Zone episode years later, so that they had to shoot him entirely in profile.
November 25, 2009 at 2:08 am
I may have already posted this elsewhere. Apologies if i have but these opening credits really are one of my things of ever (and remind me a lot of Peter Serafinowicz):
Who are all these people! Do they even know!
November 25, 2009 at 2:11 am
That should read “one of my FAVOURITE things”. Apologies again.
November 25, 2009 at 4:35 am
William Boyd,Kane Richmond,Claudia Dell and George “Gabby” Hayes and the ALWAYS useful Frankenstein electircal equipment of Kenneth Strickfaden are all well known..
November 25, 2009 at 12:13 pm
Pretty close to the Flash Gordon pattern. My Dad says when the credits would come up the kids would boo the villains and cheer the heroes, a sort of practice run for the episode itself.
November 27, 2009 at 2:02 pm
As to Franchot Tone/Tom Neal: the disputed lady was Barbara Payton, not Joan Crawford. The vintage TIME-speak in the article below is too delicious to be summarized — enjoy.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,821692,00.html
Considering this incident AND the fact that he shot his fourth wife in the head, Mr. Neal seems to have been best appreciated from afar.
November 27, 2009 at 5:12 pm
What an amazing bit of writing! We don’t get sleaze like that anymore. Joan Crawford is rumoured to have cared for Tone when he was dying. Kind of a scary idea, Joan as nurse, but I’m very sorry to have conflated her with Payton, who sounds like a nightmare made (voluptuous) flesh.
November 28, 2009 at 11:07 pm
And the sleaze WILL NOT STOP!
More on the Barbara Payton/Franchot Tone/Tom Neal imbroglio in heartbreaking post on the Black Dahlia case from David Coniam’s Movietone News blog:
http://www.movietone-news.com/2009/03/brunette-uncredited.html
November 29, 2009 at 2:03 am
Outstanding piece, thanks for linking!
December 2, 2009 at 12:06 am
You or somebody might have mentioned that your sexy Tom Neal pinup is his Main Title card from Republic’s 1941 serial “Jungle Girl”, the source also of one of the most frequently reproduced of all absurd stills, Frances Gifford gamely screaming while being menaced by a patently phony guy in a gorilla suit. (Still, it’s the best of all the late neo-Serial Queen adventures of the 1940s).
December 2, 2009 at 12:25 am
I should’ve ID’d the image, yes. I haven’t actually seen the serial, although I did recently take a look at Gorilla Nabonga, or something. It had Julie London as a jungle queen called Doreen.