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Pic of the Day: “One-Eyed Jacks” transparency

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Whoa everybody, I apologize for being away most of this week! I got sidelined with a bad cold. Today, though, I am back with something really special. I promise to post a better scan of this as soon as I figure out how to scan transparencies (apparently I have to make a folded paper doohickey… well anyway). For now, I’m using the pic that accompanied the eBay auction I got this from. It’s an original transparency of a behind-the-scenes shot from One-Eyed Jacks (1961), featuring Timothy and his director/star, Marlon Brando. And they’re laughing!

One-Eyed Jacks

Poor Margarita Cordova can be seen on the left. I owe a really good high-quality scan of this to my pal Toby of 50 Westerns From the 50s, who brought this auction to my attention, for the book he’s writing on the filming of Jacks. This is another one of those rarities of Careyana that brings a smile to my face. Hope you feel the same.

 

Pic of the Day: “Naked Gun” publicity still

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Let’s close out the week with another publicity still. This one is from the low-budget Western Naked Gun (1956), directed by Eddie Dew and an uncredited Paul Landres. Timothy is getting his clock cleaned by a determinedly two-fisted Tom Brown.

Naked Gun

Many thanks to Toby from 50 Westerns From The 50s for this one! No wonder I missed it; it’s listed as Naked Guns, plural. Pretty bad when the distributor (Associated Film Releasing Corp.) can’t even get the name of their own film right. As I believe I’ve mentioned before, Brown began his career as a child model for advertisements, including Buster Brown shoes. Any relation? You make the call.

 

Pic of the Day: “One-Eyed Jacks” behind the scenes still

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Today’s pic comes to us courtesy of our friend Toby Roan of the great 50 Westerns From The 50s blog. Toby is also the author of the work-in-progress A Million Feet of Film: The Making of One-Eyed Jacks. He sent me this amazing still a while back. It’s a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the shooting of the whipping scene from that film. Even though Timothy’s character doesn’t appear in this scene, being dead and all, we are fairly certain that that is Tim sitting on the ground at the upper right of the photo.

Behind the scenes - One-Eyed Jacks

We’re not exactly sure what that is he’s holding; looks like some kind of measuring instrument. In the foreground are, of course, Marlon Brando and Karl Malden. I for one am anxious to read Toby’s finished work. It’s bound to be something special!

Quote of the Week

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We are indebted to 50 Westerns From the 50s blogger Toby Roan (and his wife!) for this week’s quote. This is the earliest newspaper tidbit about Timothy that I’ve seen to date.

Timothy Carey of Brooklyn followed Horace Greeley‘s advice, went West and landed a screen role with Clark Gable in Across the Wide Missouri.

The lanky young Brookridge High School alumnus, following several seasons playing pro baseball, found himself in Colorado.

He heard that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was about to film the outdoor saga near Durango. With summer stock experience in the east to his credit, Carey set up housekeeping at an abandoned cabin near the studio location.

He finally met Director William Wellman, who gave him the role of French Dunord, Gable’s trapper friend.

Not being a member of the regular Hollywood group, Carey has the distinction of being the only screen actor to share a cabin with several chipmunks.

– “Hollywood Newsreel,” Lebanon (PA) Daily News, August 24, 1950

Across the Wide Missouri

The entirety of Tim’s role as “French Dunord, Gable’s trapper friend”

Pic of the Day: “One-Eyed Jacks” revisited

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Our pic for today is an interesting behind-the-scenes shot from Marlon Brando‘s One-Eyed Jacks (1961). Timothy and Brando appear to be going over their big fight scene.

Brando and Tim on the One-Eyed Jacks set

 

Thanks to the awesome Toby Roan, who runs the great 50 Westerns From The 50s blog and is writing a book on the making of One-Eyed Jacks, we now know why Tim’s character, Howard Tetley, looks like he’s been beaten up. He has been! Toby sent me copies of several pages of the original script, which depict Tetley drunkenly taking on all comers, challenging them to knock him off of a wooden sawhorse type of thing. Several men, including Sheriff Dad Longworth (Karl Malden), have a grand time rearranging Tetley’s face. It’s just too bad most of Timothy’s scenes ended up on the cutting room floor. They would have gone a long way towards defining his character.

Pic of the Day: “Naked Gun” revisited

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We kick off the month of October with another look at Naked Gun (1956), an entertaining low-budget Western also known as The Hanging Judge. Timothy’s hot-tempered henchman Hartman has just hit the floor hard during a big fight. He’s not too happy about it either.

This being a Western from the ’50s, we would like to take this rather roundabout opportunity to wish one of our favorite blogs, 50 Westerns From The ’50s, a very happy third anniversary in cyberspace! Check it out today if you haven’t already – it’s a veritable treasure trove of 1950s Western goodness!

Video of the Week: “One-Eyed Jacks” trailer

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Our video of the week is an unusual trailer for One-Eyed Jacks (1961) that utilizes stills mixed with actual shots from the film. It’s fairly long for a trailer too, clocking in at nearly 5 minutes. Timothy’s big fight with Marlon Brando is, of course, a major highlight.

Many thanks to Toby at 50 Westerns From The 50s for bringing this one to my attention! We are not sure if, in the film itself, Tim’s character actually shoots through the window glass as he’s brought down by Brando, or if this is perhaps an alternate take of the scene. Looks like a re-watching is in order.

Pic of the Day: “One-Eyed Jacks” revisited

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We close the work week with another promotional still from Marlon Brando‘s only directorial effort, One-Eyed Jacks (1961). If I am not mistaken, this scene does not appear in the finished film; at least I don’t remember it (there is a handwritten notation on the back of the photograph: “cancelled shot”).  Timothy’s roughneck Howard Tetley is getting a tuba-full of what looks like beer dumped all over him, as Chico (Larry Duran) watches. Oh, the glamorous life of a Hollywood actor. A bit of payback for the Wild One incident, perhaps?

I am very much looking forward to friend-of-the-blog Toby Roan‘s upcoming book, A Million Feet of Film: The Making of One-Eyed Jacks. Perhaps we will finally gain some insight as to why and how Tim’s role in the film became so ambiguous.

Pic of the Day: “One-Eyed Jacks” promotional piece

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It’s Nigel Tufnel Day and we’re turning it all the way up to eleven with today’s pic, which comes to us courtesy of the awesome friend-of-the-blog Toby of 50 Westerns From the 50s! It’s from an “Information Guide” from One-Eyed Jacks (1961) that was probably sent to the press for promotional purposes.

Scariest pic of Tim ever!

I have to tell you, this is the scariest, creepiest pic of Tim I have ever seen! It strengthens my belief that there was something else going on with Howard Tetley that just got written out of the film for some reason (and, no big surprise, this was yet another film that Tim was fired from). You never really get a good look at him, and when you do it looks like his eyes are swollen shut or something. And is that chili all over his face?? It’s just weird, is all.

50 Westerns From the 50s

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Our humble blog got a wonderful mention over at 50 Westerns From the 50s! If you haven’t seen it, it’s a nifty little blog about, well, read the title, yo.

It’s a fabulous read, full of great pics and terrific insight. I predict it will quickly become one of your favorites. Thank you, Toby!!

(Here’s another shot of Tim from Naked Gun (1956), just to make this post more relevant to the theme.)