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Pic of the Day: “Convicts 4″ revisited (4)
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on Jun 18, 2013
It’s time to revisit Convicts 4 (1962), aka Reprieve, directed by Millard Kaufman. Genial convict Nick welcomes his old pal John Resko (Ben Gazzara) to The Hill. Timothy’s teeth-clenching pseudo-Kirk Douglas delivery really gets a workout here. Keep your eyes open also for a fleeting ap read more
Pic of the Day: “The Devil’s Gas” revisited (4)
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on Jun 17, 2013
Our pic today takes another look at Professor Petro, who confounds his students with a lecture on “Dali and the Power of the Fart” in The Devil’s Gas (1990), the short film directed by Timothy’s son Romeo. It was Tim’s last film performance. When I visited Tim’s read more
Happy Father’s Day!
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on Jun 16, 2013
Wishing all you dads out there a wonderful Father’s Day! Among the many virtues of this day is the opportunity I get to post this great pic once again. It’s Timothy, his wife Doris and their six young’uns, from the early 1970s. It accompanied the article “Timothy Carey: The W read more
Pic of the Day: “Fade In to Murder” revisited (3)
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on Jun 14, 2013
Today’s pic is another from the Columbo episode “Fade In to Murder,” first broadcast on October 10, 1976. Timothy is sandwich slinger Tony, injured in a hold-up whose real objective was the murder of his TV producer friend Clare (Lola Albright). Here he begs Columbo (Peter Falk) to read more
Pic of the Day: “The Book” revisited (2)
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on Jun 13, 2013
Our pic for today takes another look at the Rawhide episode “The Book,” first airing on January 8, 1965. Pop Starke (Pat Hingle) is trying the patience of Carl Hatcher, the villain (big surprise, eh?). Hingle was a familiar presence in films and on television from the 1950s all the way read more
Video of the Week: “The Velvet Jungle” (2)
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on Jun 12, 2013
Sorry I missed the last couple days – still disorganized after our California adventure. But I finally got it together enough to post our Video of the Week, and it’s a good one. It’s part one of “The Velvet Jungle,” the Starsky and Hutch episode that first aired on Marc read more
The Tweet’s Lady of Pasadena Report.
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on Jun 5, 2013
Well, it’s been an amazing trip so far. Saturday night Romeo Carey, my husband and I headed out to the desert and met up with the splendiferous Don Calfa, who showed us through his memorabilia-packed double-wide trailer and happily shared his memories of working with Timothy in Peeper (1975) a read more
Quote of the Week (95)
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on Jun 2, 2013
Timothy Carey was a poet. - Don Calfa, during our interview yesterday. Romeo Carey and Don Calfa at Don’s place, June 1, 2013. Friends til the end. Marisa, if you love Italian food, especially pizza, boy have I got the place for you! It’s right next door to Pasadena, maybe 15 minutes aw read more
Pic of the Day: “Crime Wave” key set photo
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on May 31, 2013
Today’s pic is one of two key set photos from Andre De Toth‘s Crime Wave (1954) that I recently scored on eBay. Key set photos were often used by script supervisors to help with shot continuity; they were put into a binder for easy reference. Both of the photos feature Timothy menacing P read more
Pic of the Day: “Change of Habit” revisited (2)
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on May 31, 2013
Greetings from Pasadena, California! Our pic for today revisits Elvis Presley‘s last feature film, Change of Habit (1969), directed by William A. Graham. Timothy’s unnamed and uncredited market manager pauses in his labors to chow down. He’s a real class act. More to come as our C read more
Video of the Week: “The Odds Against Donald Jordan” (2)
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on May 29, 2013
In our continuing quest to re-post all the videos we’ve already posted because there aren’t anymore to post, this week’s video is Timothy’s performance in its entirety from the Mannix episode “The Odds Against Donald Jordan”. It first aired on March 1, 1969. Manni read more
Pic of the Day: “The Last Wagon” revisited (2)
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on May 28, 2013
Today our pic revisits Delmer Daves‘ The Last Wagon (1956). Timothy received no screen credit for his admittedly minor role as bad guy Cole Harper. Here Cole and his father, Sheriff Bull Harper (George Mathews), shoot it out with renegade Comanche Todd (Richard Widmark). As I’ve mention read more
Memorial Day (2)
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on May 27, 2013
Today we remember those who fought and died during wartime. Stanley Kubrick‘s Paths of Glory (1957) is one of the best cinematic depictions of the insanity of war. Timothy, Ralph Meeker and Joseph Turkel portrayed the innocent victims of the incompetence and arrogance of the generals on the hi read more
Quote of the Week (94)
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on May 26, 2013
Previously unbeknownst to us, Romeo Carey, upon his first visit to the [Dead Flowers] exhibition in Philadelphia, revealed the origin of one of Timothy Carey’s signature “dances,” first devised for the camera in Bayou (1957, directed by Harold Daniels, re-released in 1961 as Poor W read more
Pic of the Day: “Andrew Johnson” revisited (2)
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on May 24, 2013
The Memorial Day weekend begins with another look at the Profiles in Courage episode “Andrew Johnson,” first airing on February 28, 1965. Hartwick and his band of torch-bearing ruffians are intent on harassing President Andrew Johnson (Walter Matthau), embroiled in the vicissitudes of re read more
Pic of the Day: “Unwed Mother” revisited (3)
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on May 23, 2013
Our pic today takes another look at Timothy’s grumpy back-alley abortionist from Unwed Mother (1958), directed by Walter Doniger. He seems to resent the intrusion of the title character, Betty Miller (Norma Moore), into what is apparently his drinking time. Betty seems to be reconsidering her read more
Pic of the Day: “Cinema Justice”
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on May 21, 2013
I apologize for missing yesterday! A very busy weekend left me completely exhausted. But today we’re back with a pic from Cinema Justice, the six minute outtake from Steve De Jarnatt‘s as-yet-unreleased short homage to private dick flicks of the 1940s, Tarzana (1978). It’s develope read more
Quote of the Week (93)
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on May 19, 2013
“My personal opinion is that [The World's Greatest] Sinner is very unusual,” [Gil] Barreto observes. “Nobody else but Tim would have dared to make a movie like that. Very controversial, especially when Tim pierces the host (to make God cry out in pain and reveal Himself). Tim’ read more
PIc of the Day: “The Velvet Jungle” revisited (4)
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on May 17, 2013
Super pancakes, anyone? Today we take another look at Danny, the comical but racist diner proprietor from the Starsky and Hutch episode “The Velvet Jungle,” first airing on March 5, 1977. Here we see him growling “El close-o!” to the frantic Latina woman who has just witnesse read more
Video of the Week: “Minnie and Moskowitz” (2)
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on May 15, 2013
I’m just basically going to repeat what I wrote when I first posted this video in June 2011. I don’t think I could improve upon it. Today we present Timothy’s incredible performance from John Cassavetes‘ Minnie and Moskowitz (1971). The video note states he improvised the sce read more