See Red Eddie Muller’s Fascinating Video Intro and Outro to Don Siegel’s The Killers (1964) on TCM’s Noir Alley (1/30/21), with Special Guest, 92-Year-Old Clu Gulager!

[Re: “TCM’s Film Noir of the Week Saturday Night-Sunday Morning at 12:30 and 10 a.m. ET is Don Siegel’s The Killers (1964), with Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Ronald Reagan, John Cassavetes and Clu Gulager.”]

Re-posted by Nicholas Stix

Eddie Muller’s Intro to The Killers (1964) on TCM’s Noir Alley (1/30/21)

 

Carney Tynes

On January 30, 2021, TCM showed The Killers (1964) on its weekly "Noir Alley" show (Saturday night at midnight ET, repeating Sunday morning at 10:00 a.m. ET). Here is the intro by host Eddie Muller, aka The Czar of Noir.

 

Eddie Muller’s Outro to The Killers (1964) on TCM’s Noir Alley (1/30/21)

Carney Tynes

On January 30, 2021, TCM showed The Killers (1964) on its weekly Noir Alley show (Saturday night at midnight ET, repeating Sunday morning at 10:00 a.m. ET). Here is the outro by host Eddie Muller, aka The Czar of Noir, along with special guest Clu Gulager, who co-starred [sic] in the movie.

 

Youtube Commenters and Fake Compliments

There are numerous types one runs into on yt comment threads. One is a potty mouth. Another kind is the slavish fan, for whom the performer in question was the greatest ever, or the song in question is from the period with the greatest music (typically the 1970s). A subcategory is the issuer of fake compliments, which are meant to puff up the complimenter’s self-esteem, and make him look especially knowledgeable and discerning. The typical fake compliment asserts that the person in question was terribly underrated, when in fact he was very much appreciated, in his day.

 

Anastasia Beaverhausen 2 days ago

Criminally underrated, underutilized actor. I still remember a guest star role he did on a dr. show where he played (underplayed) a golf pro dying of cancer and was absolutely brilliant. Always loved him in westerns. Damn good actor. N.S.: Fake compliment alert! Clu Gulager was not at all “underutilized.” He was busy while in his twenties, and relatively early in his career, he had his own series, The Tall Man (as Billy the Kid; 75 episodes) and then was a regular on The Virginian. In 1971, he had a featured role in Peter Bogdanovich’s Oscar-winning Last Picture Show, as the boyfriend of the Ellen Burstyn character, who deflowers her daughter, town heartbreaker Jacy Farrow (Ceil Cleveland in real life), played by Cybill Shepard. In 1972, he starred in the Emmy-winning TV movie, as a prison guard, based on a Truman Capote story, The Glass House.

His imdb.com page cites only 165 acting credits, but actually contains 387, plus 25 non-acting credits (“Self,” “Archive,” “Director,” etc.). (imdb.com will count a TV series or mini-series on which an actor was a regular only once, no matter how many episodes he appeared in, or listed him in the credits. Thus, although Gulager appeared, or was listed 104 times on The Virginian, imdb.com only gives him one credit for the show.

And he gave many more performances that aren’t on his official list. I recall that during much of the early-to-mid 1970s, he was a member of a select fraternity of actors who would appear as the guest star on one popular show or another almost every week. (E.g., producer Quinn Martin liked Gulager so much that he cast him in no fewer than 11 episodes of his shows The FBI, Cannon, The Streets of San Francisco and Barnaby Jones.)

At the same time, he somehow found time for theatrical pictures and mini-series. In other words, going back to the 1950s, he was one of the most in-demand and hardest-working actors in the business. He last appeared in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, in 2019.

Clu Gulager only married once, to actress Miriam Byrd-Nethery, who bore him two sons. The Gulagers stayed together for over fifty years, until Mrs. Gulager’s death from cancer in 2003.