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Chinatown (1974)

[freetheshit-outofyou]

"Captain, it is I, Ensign Pulver, and I just threw your stinking palm tree overboard. Now, what's all this crud about no movie tonight?"

Ensign Frank Thurlowe Pulver Mr. Roberts (1955)

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Jack Nicholson & Faye Dunaway in Chinatown (1974)

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James Dean with his close friend Perry Lopez in candid photos taken on the set of the Warner Bros./Nicholas Ray drama Rebel Without a Cause in 1955. Jimmy met Perry in New York and brought him to the attention of Nicholas Ray who was developing Rebel at the time; Lopez inadvertently helped Dean get the lead role in the film. Director Ray later recalled meeting the pair in an essay entitled From Rebel—The Life Story of a Film published by the trade newspaper Variety on October 31st, 1956:

"When I moved into an office at Warner's adjoining [director Elia] Kazan’s [who was directing Dean in East of Eden at the time], Jimmy came in and asked me what kind of story I was working on. I told him the idea, the approach; he seemed warily interested, but didn’t say very much. A day or two later he came in with a tough, dark-haired young man called Perry Lopez, whom he had met in New York. He told me that Perry came from the Lexington Avenue district [which was riddled with youth gangs at the time]. 'You should talk to him,' he said. 'You may be able to get some information from him.' After a few more incidents like that, I decided he had to play Jim Stark."

[erstwhile-punk-guerito]

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Perry Lopez and James Dean playing chess in his apartment, 1955

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John Franco, "Taras Bulba", dir. J. Lee Thompson, 1962.

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Chinatown (1974) Roman Polanski

June 30th 2024