The blog

By the way, here is the link to my Perry blog. I'm still pursuing the Blogspot version. I got up a short tribute to William Talman this past day, as it was 43 years ago that he died.

http://parkavenuebeat.blogspot.com/

... Well, how about that.

I saw a really good movie on Netflix Streaming yesterday. (And tonight I have to cancel our streaming part, since they start charging us separate for both streaming and physical DVDs on September 1st. Ugh. It makes more sense to cancel streaming, since we use it less, but I still hate to get rid of it. Nevermind, it looks like we don't have to get rid of it until our next billing period near the end of September. Maybe by that point we'll have some extra money and be able to keep the streaming too.) It was Two-Gun Lady. Short, and little more than an average Western romp (nothing earth-shattering or philosophical happened in it), but gosh it was fun. Robert Lowery (Big Tim Champion from Circus Boy) showed up as the saloon keeper and had a lot of great screentime. And William Talman played a federal marshal undercover. The titular character is a sharpshooter who is out for revenge against the wretch who killed her mother in cold blood and tried to kill her, too. The romance between her and William Talman's character was terribly contrived, but romance in movies often is, so I just ignored the awful set-up and squeed over them getting together. It was certainly interesting to see William Talman as a romantic lead in something! There was a lot of action, suspense, and intensity, and really, for 70 minutes long it's better than some other B-grade movies I can think of. (Paratroop Command, for one. What a dud that is.)

I also suddenly realized that a movie I've remembered off and on concerning Edmond O'Brien and a psychotic hitchhiker is, indeed, The Hitchhiker, arguably William's most famous movie role. I even remember Dad exclaiming as we watched, "Isn't that the guy from Perry Mason?!" It was such a suspenseful, frightening, and exciting movie. I've thought about it sometimes and wondered what the name was, but I didn't bother to go dig it out of the bookcase and see. (I also remember a fly kept bothering us and finally landed on the carpet, and we had to pause the movie to catch it.) Now Mom and I are both highly curious to watch it again.

I also think I remember that after we watched it, I was very happy to see William playing good old Hamilton Burger again.