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Bummer.
He was most often seen in dramatic roles but made his biggest splash in.ain.a comedy!
Rip Rip
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"....Sir, I'm here to kill Japs! I'm gonna shoot 'em, gonna stab 'em, gonna bayonet 'em, gonna break their arms...so they don't give me no more trouble! That's what we're here for...to kill...and the rest is all bull......Sir!...."
Rip Torn as Marine Gunnery Sergeant Honeywell, Beach Red. 1967
Rip Rip.
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Bump
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RIP Torn. Remember him best from FLASHPOINT (1984) with a nice Tangerine Dream score.
Looking at his filmography, it seems like I have also seen AIRPLANE II, EXTREME PREJUDICE, CANADIAN BACON, TRIAL & ERROR and MEN IN BLACK.
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I'll always remember him as Alexander The Greater!
You would.
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Jul 10, 2019 - 3:39 PM
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Bob DiMucci
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Rip Torn had a supporting role and received his first poster credit in the 1957 military legal drama TIME LIMIT. The film begins in a North Korean prison camp in 1951, where an American soldier is shot by Korean soldiers as he tries to escape. A few years later, in his military law offices on Governor’s Island in New York, “Col. Bill Edwards” (Richard Widmark) is under pressure from his superior, “Gen. Connors” (Carl Benton Reid), to wrap up a seemingly obvious case of treason against the ranking American officer at the prison camp, “Maj. Harry Cargill” (Richard Basehart). Bill interviews one of Cargill’s soldiers, “Lt. George Miller” (Rip Torn), who recounts that during nine months of starvation and torture, not one man broke under the strain, but then, in rapid succession, two men died and Cargill became a Communist collaborator.
Richard Widmark paid $100,000 to The Theatre Guild for the film rights to the play Time Limit. The film adaptation of the play marked the first picture for Widmark’s independent production company, Heath Productions, Inc. It also marked the directorial debut of actor Karl Malden. Despite reviews praising his work, Malden’s only other feature film directing work was as fill-in director for Delmer Daves on the 1959 Warner Bros. production THE HANGING TREE. In his autobiography, Malden stated that he preferred being a good actor to being a fairly good director. Fred Steiner’s score for the film has not had a release.
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Jul 10, 2019 - 4:11 PM
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Bob DiMucci
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Rip Torn played Judas in the 1961 Biblical epic KING OF KINGS. The film began as a collaboration between producer Samuel Bronston and writer-director John Farrow, the two of whom had recently worked together on JOHN PAUL JONES (1959). Farrow’s script, based on the life of Jesus Christ, was originally titled “Son of Man” and, later, “The Sword and the Cross.” In October 1959, it was announced that Farrow had left the project over creative differences, but stated that his co-writer, Sonya Levien, was still discussing the script with Bronston.
Around the same time, set construction had nearly been completed at Chamartin (a.k.a. Samuel Bronston Studios) and Sevilla Studios in Madrid, Spain. Bronston initially sought King Vidor to replace Farrow, but the 19 November 1959 Daily Variety announced Nicholas Ray as director. Soon after, another title change to “Man from Nazareth” was reported. It was also stated that Philip Yordan and Diego Fabri were hurrying to finish a “complete rewrite” of the script in time for a February 1960 start of production. A final title change to KING OF KINGS was made in February 1960.
Miklos Rozsa re-recorded his score for an MGM LP. The first original tracks appeared on a 1992 Sony CD, followed by a two-CD set in 2002 from Rhino.
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Jul 10, 2019 - 4:22 PM
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Bob DiMucci
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SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH was adapted from a Broadway play by Tennessee Williams that opened on March 10, 1959 at the Martin Beck Theatre and ran for 375 performances. Elia Kazan directed the stage version. For the 1962 film, Richard Brooks took over the direction, and Paul Newman, Geraldine Page, Madeleine Sherwood, and Rip Torn recreated their roles from the play. Sherwood played "Miss Lucy," the discarded mistress of "'Boss' Finley" (Ed Begley), a corrupt and powerful politician. Rip Torn played Finley’s hoodlum son, “Tom Junior.” The film was scored with stock music from the MGM library.
Rip Torn and Geraldine Page in SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH
During the play’s Broadway run, Rip Torn had been nominated for the 1960 Tony Award for supporting or featured actor in a drama. He lost to Roddy McDowell in his role of “Tarquin Edward Mendigales” for The Fighting Cock. Geraldine Page and Rip Torn married in 1963, one year after this film was released. Torn’s first marriage to actress Ann Wedgeworth lasted from 1956 to 1961. Page and Torn would remain married until her death in 1987.
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