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Video of the Week: “Bayou” (and some very good news!)
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on Jul 8, 2015
I had another video in mind for this week, but I got some exciting news today that changed everything! This Saturday night, July 11, at 11:00 pm PST, TCM Underground will be presenting the steamy Southern swampland double feature of Baby Doll (1956) and Bayou (1957). Now, this is not the version of read more
Pic of the Day: “Home to Methuselah” revisited
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on Jul 7, 2015
Our pic today revisits one of Timothy’s most underrated performances, that of doomed outlaw Zach Ontro in “Home to Methuselah,” the episode of The Virginian that first aired on November 26, 1969. Ontro is on the run with Jase Dubbins (Anthony D. Call, with whom I share a birthday; read more
Quote of the Week
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on Jul 5, 2015
In Elia Kazan’s classic John Steinbeck adaptation East of Eden (1955) Carey is a pimp/bodyguard for Jo Van Fleet’s character in a brothel she runs and is ordered to throw her son Cal (played by James Dean) out the door when he comes to see her. Right away you notice a spark of brutality and weirdnes read more
Pic of the Day: “A Time for Killing” revisited
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on Jul 3, 2015
Ending the week and kicking off the Fourth of July weekend here in the US is another look at Billy Cat, the “Yankee from Missourah” of Phil Karlson‘s Civil War melodrama A Time for Killing (1967). Compare this to the iconic shot of Nikki Arano aiming at the racehorse from The Killi read more
Video of the Week: “The Outfit” trailer
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on Jul 1, 2015
Today, on what would have been Karen Black‘s 76th birthday, we present for this week’s video another one from the archives. It’s the trailer for John Flynn‘s gritty crime drama The Outfit (1973). It features Ms. Black and Timothy prominently. You’ve heard me say it bef read more
Pic of the Day: “Peeper” revisited
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on Jun 30, 2015
It’s way past time we took another gander at Sid, the hulking torpedo of Peter Hyams‘ genial homage to the hard-boiled detective flicks of the 1940s, Peeper (1976). Here he oversees his sidekick Rosie (Don Calfa) working over our hero, Leslie Tucker (Michael Caine). As previously mention read more
Pic of the Day: “Paths of Glory” promotional still
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on Jun 29, 2015
Today’s pic is another promotional still from Stanley Kubrick‘s Paths of Glory (1957). Col. Dax (Kirk Douglas) is going over his notes during the court-martial of the three scapegoated prisoners (Timothy, Ralph Meeker and Joe Turkel). My husband is especially fond of Tim’s rather read more
Video of the Week: “One-Eyed Jacks” trailer
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on Jun 24, 2015
This week’s video offering is another one from the archives. It’s a rather unusual trailer for Marlon Brando‘s sole directorial effort, One-Eyed Jacks (1961). It differs from most trailers in that it mixes stills with film footage, and in its length (almost 5 minutes). Naturally, read more
More SINNER ephemera AND a NYC screening!
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on Jun 23, 2015
Today is definitely Sinner day here at the TCE! First up is a submission from friend of the blog Matt Meisenhelter of Pittsburgh, PA. Says Matt, “While going through some long boxed up correspondence, I came across the attached poster. It dates from, I’m guessing, 1991 or 92 and promotes a sho read more
Happy Father’s Day!
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on Jun 21, 2015
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 World’s Greatest read more
Video of the Week: “The Last Wagon” in Italian
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on Jun 17, 2015
Ready to hone your language skills? This week’s video is the Richard Widmark Western opus The Last Wagon (1956) in its entirety, and entirely dubbed into Italian. Uncredited Timothy can be seen in the early moments of the film before getting killed by Widmark (the filming of which was apparent read more
Pic of the Day: “Fast-Walking” revisited
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on Jun 15, 2015
Let’s kick off the week with another look at Bullet, the junkie con of James B. Harris‘ prison drama Fast-Walking (1982). Here he expresses his displeasure with Wasco’s (Tim McIntire) money-making scheme. As we all know, Harris is the man who fired Timothy from Paths of Glory (195 read more
Quote of the Week
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on Jun 14, 2015
This is an insightful piece that deserves to be quoted in its entirety. ***** The World’s Greatest Sinner, Timothy Carey In the spring of 2009 Vox Populi hosted a show and 3 screenings featuring the works of Timothy Carey. Timothy Carey was an actor, director, screenwriter and producer who, li read more
Pic of the Day: “That Sister Ain’t No Cousin” revisited
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on Jun 12, 2015
Our last pic for this week gives us another long-overdue look at El Greco, the colorful drug lord of the Baretta episode “That Sister Ain’t No Cousin.” It was first broadcast on January 19, 1977. Something has amused him – can’t quite remember what. This episode was di read more
Christopher Lee 1922 – 2015
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on Jun 11, 2015
Today we learned of the passing last Sunday of Sir Christopher Lee. The legendary horror icon was 93. He and Timothy never made any films together, unfortunately. But there was a period in the mid-1970s where, if you caught him just right, Tim looked an awful lot like Lee. Ellery Queen, “The A read more
Video of the Week: Bayou Dance by Bob Moricz
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on Jun 10, 2015
Our video this week is another great fan-created tribute to and re-imagining of Timothy’s crazy Cajun dance from Bayou (1957). The video was created and the music composed by Bob Moricz, a humongously talented underground filmmaker out of Sacramento, CA. Says Bob about Tim, “He was one read more
Quote of the Week
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on Jun 7, 2015
Timothy Carey, best known for playing sometimes crazy, sometimes villainous, sometimes both characters in movies (Paths of Glory, The Killing, Beach Blanket Bingo) auditioned for the role of the gang boss [in Reservoir Dogs]. In an interview with Grover Lewis that eventually appeared in Film Comment read more
Pic of the Day: “Flight to Hong Kong” revisited
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on Jun 4, 2015
Our pic today revisits the foreign intrigue potboiler Flight to Hong Kong (1956), directed by Joseph M. Newman. Diamond smuggler Tony Dumont (Rory Calhoun) enlists the aid of shady thug Lagarto at a dive bar in Macao. Here is yet another of Timothy’s early films that deserves a proper commerc read more
Video of the Week: “East of Eden” (1981)
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on Jun 3, 2015
Our video for this week is another one culled from the archives. John Steinbeck‘s great American novel East of Eden has been filmed twice: first as a feature film in 1955, directed by Elia Kazan, and then as an ABC television miniseries in 1981 with Harvey Hart at the helm. (Apparently there i read more
Happy Birthday Marilyn!
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on Jun 1, 2015
Marilyn Monroe was born 89 years ago today. This is what Timothy had to say about her in a 1958 interview with columnist Mel Heimer. Tim is working on three projects: (1) to out-dance Elvis Presley in Macy’s window, (2) to kidnap Marilyn Monroe (“with her permission, of course”), and (3) to steal read more