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Post by topbilled on Oct 14, 2024 17:05:43 GMT
Jeff Chandler was one of the busiest leading men who ever worked at Universal. He not only starred in countless motion pictures at the studio, he also had two regular starring roles on radio. Plus he ran his own production company. He first made a splash at the studio in a supporting role in the thought-provoking war flick SWORD OF THE DESERT. During the 1950s he enjoyed a string of hit films across genres, with many of Universal’s most important leading ladies. Jeff was Universal’s most successful screen personality during the first half of the decade, until Rock Hudson came along. But even then, Jeff still continued to make popular 'A' films; and his motion picture career never went into decline.
Check out:
DEPORTED (1950)
RED BALL EXPRESS (1952)
BECAUSE OF YOU (1952) |
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Post by Fading Fast on Oct 14, 2024 17:44:17 GMT
I just watched Jeff Chandler in 1957's "The Tattered Dress" (comments on it here: "The Tattered Dress"), a thoroughly enjoyable mid-'50s B-movie crime and courtroom drama in which Chandler is excellent.
Plus, he'll always be the slick NYC publisher in "Return to Peyton Place" for me.
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Post by NoShear on Oct 18, 2024 15:07:42 GMT
I just watched Jeff Chandler in 1957's "The Tattered Dress" (comments on it here: "The Tattered Dress"), a thoroughly enjoyable mid-'50s B-movie crime and courtroom drama in which Chandler is excellent.
Plus, he'll always be the slick NYC publisher in "Return to Peyton Place" for me.
Fading Fast, this supports my observation that Suzy Parker was surprisingly left off your five entries... Here she's stunningly seen with an apropos tall one:  |
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Post by I Love Melvin on Oct 21, 2024 12:24:36 GMT
I like Jeff with Jane Russell in Foxfire (1955). The poster here makes it seem like some kind of typical hot-and-heavy romance, but it's more than that, bringing in questions about racial identity in the case of Chandler's character as a mining engineer whose Apache mother has returned to a reservation and her culture. The "impatient love" is more a matter of a relationship crossing racial and cultural lines, with much deeper implications. Chandler was one of those actors, like Anthony Quinn, who could realistically portray a variety of ethnicities when called upon to do so.  Jeff also headed a really good cast in Universal's Away All Boats (1956) as the captain of a Navy ship during its shakedown cruise and into combat. The movie used Paramount's VistaVision process to good effect in the scenes at sea and in battle.  |
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Post by topbilled on Oct 21, 2024 14:49:49 GMT
Good shout-outs. I'm particularly enamored with AWAY ALL BOATS. I think it's a very well-crafted motion picture, and Chandler's seamless performance holds it all together, brilliantly.
Another one I like is IRON MAN (1951) in which he plays a coal miner turned boxer. Evelyn Keyes is his wife, and there are supporting performances by Stephen McNally, Rock Hudson and James Arness.
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