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Montgomery "Monty" Pittman is a Actor and Scriptwriter born on 1 march 1917
Montgomery "Monty" Pittman (March 1, 1917 – June 26, 1962) was a television writer, director, and actor. Pittman was born in Louisiana and reared in Arkansas. He left home and joined a carnival as a snake oil salesman. He made his way to New York, hoping for at least a small Broadway role. There he met actor Steve Cochran, who hired him as caretaker of his Los Angeles home around 1950.
In Los Angeles he tried to break into acting, but soon turned from acting to screenwriting. He wrote for such television series as ABC/Warner Brothers' 77 Sunset Strip, Sugarfoot, Maverick,
Cheyenne, Surfside 6, and Colt .45 and also for NBC's The Deputy, and CBS's The Twilight Zone.
Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., lead star of 77 Sunset Strip, a detective series which aired from 1958 to 1964, recalls that his friend Pittman at forty-five became ill with "a tumor on the side of his neck that grew rapidly to grapefruit-size. He had it excised, but it left a gaping hole, which he covered with a kerchief". The tumor was treated as cancer but did not go into remission, and Pittman soon died. Zimbalist delivered a eulogy at Pittman's funeral. Will Hutchins, another friend of Pittman's whom he attributed to having saved the Sugarfoot series for its two final seasons, was asked to be a pallbearer but declined because as a teenager Hutchins had dropped the casket of a relative and feared he might do so again.
Pittman is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills.
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Montgomery "Monty" Pittman
Birth 1 march 1917
Death 26 june 1962 (at 45 years)
Death 26 june 1962 (at 45 years)
In Los Angeles he tried to break into acting, but soon turned from acting to screenwriting. He wrote for such television series as ABC/Warner Brothers' 77 Sunset Strip, Sugarfoot, Maverick,
Cheyenne, Surfside 6, and Colt .45 and also for NBC's The Deputy, and CBS's The Twilight Zone.
Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., lead star of 77 Sunset Strip, a detective series which aired from 1958 to 1964, recalls that his friend Pittman at forty-five became ill with "a tumor on the side of his neck that grew rapidly to grapefruit-size. He had it excised, but it left a gaping hole, which he covered with a kerchief". The tumor was treated as cancer but did not go into remission, and Pittman soon died. Zimbalist delivered a eulogy at Pittman's funeral. Will Hutchins, another friend of Pittman's whom he attributed to having saved the Sugarfoot series for its two final seasons, was asked to be a pallbearer but declined because as a teenager Hutchins had dropped the casket of a relative and feared he might do so again.
Pittman is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills.
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Untamed Women (1952)
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, War, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, La préhistoire, Transport films
Actors Doris Merrick, Morgan Jones, Carol Brewster, Lyle Talbot, Montgomery "Monty" Pittman
Roles Prof. Warren
Rating37%
The Enforcer (1951)
, 1h27Directed by Raoul Walsh, Bretaigne Windust
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Humphrey Bogart, Zero Mostel, Ted de Corsia, Everett Sloane, Don Beddoe, Roy Roberts
Rating72%
The action is set in an unnamed American city and is told mainly in flashback, and flashbacks within flashbacks.
, 1h27Directed by Crane Wilbur
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Prison films
Actors Steve Cochran, David Brian, Philip Carey, Ted de Corsia, Michael Tolan, Scott Forbes
Rating65%
During 1920s, before the 1944 California prison reform, Warden Ben Rickey (Ted De Corsia) rules Folsom Prison with ruthless control. He believes that prisons should be used more for punishing the captive convicts, rather than using the time that they would spend behind the walls of the prison as an opportunity to reform their unruly behavior and repeated returns to a life behind bars. His methods of control are violent, torturous, and meant to beat the prisoners into submission.
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Money, Women and Guns (1958)
, 1h20Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Jock Mahoney, Kim Hunter, Gene Evans, Timothy Hovey, Tom Drake, Lon Chaney, Jr.
Rating60%
Avant de mourir, assassiné par trois bandits masqués dont deux tombent sous ses balles, Ben, un vieux chercheur d'or, écrit son testament, léguant $ 300.000 à cinq hommes. Célèbre marshal fédéral, Ward Hogan reçoit pour mission de les retrouver. Un à un, méthodiquement, il les identifie, tout en ne perdant jamais de vue qu'il doit aussi démasquer le troisième tueur. Et si, justement, celui-ci compte parmi les héritiers ?
Tarzan and the Lost Safari (1957)
, 1h17Directed by H. Bruce Humberstone
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about animals, Films about children, Le thème de l'enfant sauvage, Films about apes, L'enfance marginalisée, Tarzan films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Gordon Scott, Robert Beatty, Yolande Donlan, Betta St. John, Wilfrid Hyde-White, George Coulouris
Roles Writer
Rating56%
An airplane crashes in the jungle, stranding passengers Gamage Dean (Yolande Donlan), Diana Penrod (Betta St. John), "Doodles" Fletcher (Wilfrid Hyde-White), Carl Kraski (George Coulouris), and Dick Penrod (Peter Arne). Before the plane slides into a gorge the group is rescued by Tarzan (Gordon Scott), who undertakes to lead them back to civilization. Diana is kidnapped by warriors from Opar under Chief Ogonooro (Orlando Martins). The Oparians desire the strangers as sacrifices for their lion god. She is recovered by Tarzan and hunter Tusker Hawkins (Robert Beatty), whose advances Diana rebuffs. Secretly, however, Hawkins is in league with the Oparians, and plans to sell the castaways to the natives for a fortune in ivory. Tarzan, rightly suspecting Hawkins' untrustworthiness, exposes his treachery. Now openly in league with the natives, the hunter helps them take the white party captive in Tarzan's absence. The ape man returns to save them before the sacrifice can take place, aided by his chimpanzee ally Cheeta, who sets fire to the native village. He then leads them to the safety of a nearby settlement. Hawkins meets his fate at the hands of the Oparians, to whom Tarzan has signaled his double-dealing by a creative use of jungle drums.
Come Next Spring (1956)
, 1h32Directed by R. G. Springsteen
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Ann Sheridan, Steve Cochran, Walter Brennan, Sherry Jackson, Richard Eyer, Edgar Buchanan
Roles Writer
Rating70%
Come Next Spring (1956)
, 1h32Directed by R. G. Springsteen
Genres Drama
Actors Ann Sheridan, Walter Brennan, Steve Cochran, Sherry Jackson, Richard Eyer, Edgar Buchanan
Roles Writer
Rating70%
Après douze ans d'absence, Matt Ballot, autrefois connu pour son caractère bagarreur et son alcoolisme, revient dans sa région. Il y retrouve sa femme Bess qui durant ce temps a continué à s'occuper de la ferme, en élevant ses deux enfants, Annie, une jeune fille qui a perdu l'usage de la parole à la suite d'un accident provoqué par Matt, et Abraham qui ne l'a jamais connu. Bess ne leur cache pas que cet inconnu est leur père. Matt, qui s'est acheté une conduite, désire rester, mais Bess est réticente. Annie et Abraham se sentent attirés vers Matt, qui, petit à petit, se rend indispensable.