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I rewatched that episode of The Virginian I love, The Deadly Past, where Darren McGavin plays a hired gun who insists he has no use for friends because they'll get him killed, but then he stays to help the others anyway come the climax. It's so squeeable. I want to write ficlets involving him and some of the other guest-starring characters in that episode.
I also finally had the chance to see Bullitt. And I liked it! Oh, it was a relief to see a good crime film from the late sixties, after the awfulness of Tony Rome. I wasn't bored by the procedural content of Bullitt at all. I was fascinated and intrigued. And it never felt like it was dragging. I guess that goes to show where my true genre love lies. Frankly, the pace of the film is a lot like some of my stories, where I'm trying to build things up and show things instead of leaping in right away.
Simon's character is wonderful, too. He's Bullitt's boss, as I thought. And he's tough, but compassionate and fair. I love him. And there was a neat scene where he and his family are going to church (and then get waylaid outside by the guy who wants his disappeared witness).
Robert Duvall is also in it; he has a bit part as a cab driver. I like him after seeing him on The Outer Limits (including my favorite episode, The Inheritors), so that was a nice added treat.
While watching The Outer Limits earlier, I got a plunnie idea that I think I'm going to incorporate into the ghost town fic (which I've started). The episode was Cold Hands, Warm Heart, the William Shatner one. In it, he's an astronaut who starts behaving oddly after a trip around Venus. It turns out he was possessed by a Venusian monster.
And the plunnie involves Kolchak being possessed (probably by the psychopath, if I'm using that angle for the ghost town fic) and trying to strangle Tony. (Strangling also happens to be how the psycho really did kill people in the Bonanza episode, so it would fit perfectly.) Tony doesn't want to believe what's happening, but he's forced to. He has to fight against Kolchak in a panic. When Kolchak manages to break free of the control over his body, he's horrified by what he almost did.
I also finally had the chance to see Bullitt. And I liked it! Oh, it was a relief to see a good crime film from the late sixties, after the awfulness of Tony Rome. I wasn't bored by the procedural content of Bullitt at all. I was fascinated and intrigued. And it never felt like it was dragging. I guess that goes to show where my true genre love lies. Frankly, the pace of the film is a lot like some of my stories, where I'm trying to build things up and show things instead of leaping in right away.
Simon's character is wonderful, too. He's Bullitt's boss, as I thought. And he's tough, but compassionate and fair. I love him. And there was a neat scene where he and his family are going to church (and then get waylaid outside by the guy who wants his disappeared witness).
Robert Duvall is also in it; he has a bit part as a cab driver. I like him after seeing him on The Outer Limits (including my favorite episode, The Inheritors), so that was a nice added treat.
While watching The Outer Limits earlier, I got a plunnie idea that I think I'm going to incorporate into the ghost town fic (which I've started). The episode was Cold Hands, Warm Heart, the William Shatner one. In it, he's an astronaut who starts behaving oddly after a trip around Venus. It turns out he was possessed by a Venusian monster.
And the plunnie involves Kolchak being possessed (probably by the psychopath, if I'm using that angle for the ghost town fic) and trying to strangle Tony. (Strangling also happens to be how the psycho really did kill people in the Bonanza episode, so it would fit perfectly.) Tony doesn't want to believe what's happening, but he's forced to. He has to fight against Kolchak in a panic. When Kolchak manages to break free of the control over his body, he's horrified by what he almost did.
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