comment #1

christian says ...

Fortune and glory, kid.

comment #2

Scott Feinberg says ...

The Duke

comment #3

actionman says ...

I thought it was The Duke.

comment #4

BurmaShave says ...

Who, of course, Wells would have been calling Uncle Festus back then.

comment #5

Wrecktum says ...

I dunno...kinda looks like Gary Cooper to me.

comment #6

Walter Sobchak says ...

Gary Cooper.....

or Shelley Winters

comment #7

p.Vice says ...

Peter Lorre, no doubt about it.

comment #8

dangovich says ...

Harrison Ford?

comment #9

bachelorcool says ...

Gary Cooper coming to Cordura?

comment #10

atticusrex says ...

It could be Jimmy Stewart,Cooper is a good choice and Henry Fonda... But the Duke? That ain't the Duke. Duke never stood that tall and narrow.

But I'm sticking with Jimmy Stewart from one of his Anthony Mann Westerns. But I won't be surprised if it's Cooper.

comment #11

Dan Revill says ...

I was gonna say Stewart too.

comment #12

vansmith says ...

The Duke stood way tall, it aint stewart his face was long and narrow, its The Duke or Cooper

comment #13

Nick J says ...

I know it's not, but it looks like present-day Paul Newman.

comment #14

siowafc says ...

Looks a lot like Indiana Jones heading into Mordor, but who knows?

comment #15

MickTravis says ...

Wesley Snipes?

comment #16

Cindy says ...

My first thought was Gary Cooper and I'm sticking to that. It's not The Duke and not quite lanky enough for Jimmy Stewart.

comment #17

atticusrex says ...

Dang... it is Snipes! Mick Travis... That was funny.

Vansmith... I wasn't knockin the Duke... But trust me the Duke never stood that erect and his gut pulled in.

When is Wells going to let us know how it is... Seeing how we all know it's not Bogart, Cagney or Joan Crawford.

comment #18

cacophony says ...

cade blanchett as one of the many faces of gary cooper.

comment #19

TheJeff says ...

Could be Randolph Scott. Is he a "big-name" actor?

comment #20

le corbeau says ...

I'm thinking Cooper in Man of the West.

I also thought it looked like Paul Newman, but he never had hair that color when Technicolor skies were that color.

comment #21

AlexStroup says ...

Gary Cooper, Garden of Evil

comment #22

le corbeau says ...

Good call, Alex-- since it was on AMC this morning.

comment #23

vansmith says ...

randolph scott!!

comment #24

OddDuck says ...

Wouldn't it be great if it were a still from Indy IV?

comment #25

Josh Massey says ...

Looks like an older McQueen to me.

comment #26

ZacharyTF says ...

The file name is evilview.jpg which for some reason led me to think it's Orson Welles in Touch of Evil, which I know isn't right, since TOE was Black and White.

That being said, I'm going to guess Robert Mitchum or Gary Cooper.

comment #27

AlexG says ...

It's Coop in the Henry Hathaway film Garden of Evil. Am I good or what?

comment #28

T. S. Idiot says ...

Arnold Stang?

comment #29

MickTravis says ...

I don't know who the man in the foreground is, but I'm pretty sure the guy way down in the valley, riding out front and wearing a white hat, is Lord Baltimore.

comment #30

atticusrex says ...

Like said earlier... I first thought it's Jimmy Stewart... and Cooper would be my 2nd choice. And More folk here think it's Cooper.. so I guess it is.

That said wouldn't it be a kicker if we are all wrong and it's actually Joel McCrea form Ride the High Country!

comment #31

Rich S. says ...

Though it's not him, it's very reminiscent of Harrison Ford's scene in the first Indy where he's looking out over the hills while the workers are excavating the Well of Souls. I wouldn't be surprised if this scene is where Spielberg got the idea.

comment #32

Chicago48 says ...

My first thought was Gary Cooper...my second was Tommy Lee Jones...and lastly, John Wayne.

comment #33

Mr B says ...

"Though it's not him, it's very reminiscent of Harrison Ford's scene in the first Indy where he's looking out over the hills while the workers are excavating the Well of Souls. I wouldn't be surprised if this scene is where Spielberg got the idea."

Watched this again the other day. Wells needs to watch this next time he is on his 'Spielberg is a hack' routine. A hack couldn't sniff that movie.

comment #34

JackeyAces says ...

Its J-Lo!

comment #35

gruver1 says ...

Wells to readers: Gary Cooper in Henry Hathaway's "Garden of Evil," a talky, second-tier western with a tedious Susan Hayward performance. Best scene: the Mexican guy gets hit in the chest and back with arrow after arrow after arrow...and keeps screaming at his Indian attackers all through it, as if their arrows are some kind of PERSONAL affront.

comment #36

scooterzz says ...

ok, i'll be first: why is it not surprising that wells' 'best scene' would be a mexican getting hit with an arrow?

comment #37

nemo says ...

I've never seen Garden of Evil (1954), but Kurosawa's Throne of Blood (1957) features a scene almost identical to what you describe. Toshiro Mifune's Macbeth character staggers along an elevated platform against the inside of a fortress wall as he gets hit by dozens of arrows shot by his own men as they turn against him. And man, does he ever rage against them before he goes down.

Magnificent. All in a single shot. Kurosawa said he outfitted Mifune with an inner layer of real armor, covered with padding to hold the arrows as they hit, in turn covered with fake armor. Then he had a couple dozen skilled archer shoot real arrows into Mifune.

Even if Mifune had total faith in the director, special effects guys, and the archers, it took incredible guts to act that scene.

Kurosawa was a well-known fan of American westerns. I wonder whether he had this scene from Garden of Evil in mind when he designed this climax to Throne of Blood.