Dragnet Jack Webb "What Do They Pay You?"

Taken from the 1954 Movie, Sgt. Joe Friday (Jack Webb) explains to Max Troy (Stacy Harris) how much his badge is worth!

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[remlap]

Hi OhioFan1989 have this in the mail coming from Amazon US to me in the UK, looking forward to it, had no idea Amazon was offering this as a made to order DVD-R.

And I agree about the Shout Factory S2 set bloody brilliant, they even replaced my Disc 1 because of it missing the start which you probably know about!

I assume you are on the Dragnet Yahoo Group?

Cheers

Patrick

[ohiofan1989]

Hey Patrick from the UK! I just found out about this being on Amazon also and will be ordering it in the next few days. I am indeed in the Dragnet Yahoo Group and actually worked on the 1968 release. (I was a production consultant on the Jack Webb "The Man Behind The Badge" featurette.)

Shout Factory is an awesome company to work with!

Matt

[photomonkey14]

ohiofan,thanks for posting the Jack Webb clips. Love this one...the man left a great legacy and his career shows both the police and the Marines in the best light. I believe he was given a police funeral when he died. Gonna go catch an episode of "Dragnet" right now...thanks again!

[ohiofan1989]

- No problem and if you are a Dragnet fan, don't forget to order

Dragnet 1968. It will be available sometime in July and I know from personal

experience that the distribution company went out of their way to put together

a great set.

[pigletized]

Love the cig. part. Webb fuckin' rocks.

[posthastey]

Joe Friday for president.

[Oliver James]

loved the show, great clip-Friday at his best, thanks for posting!!!

[er10b]

or the cast of Jersey Shore...

[Bestmanme08]

Jack Webb in great bio (All About Jeffrey Hunter) at amazon!

[steven richards]

 Joe Friday! What a guy!

[mojoidol]

Sgt Joe Friday at his best.

[Dave Donahue]

That was bad ass...

[Greg Deal]

I'm 42 and have watched thousands of films and TV shows through the years. This interaction and Webb's speech/delivery and the, "... so you sit right back there in that chair because I'm about to blow 20 bucks of it right now.", is one of my favorites.

[PlasmaCoolantLeak]

Joe Friday was bad ass before the term was coined. RIP, Jack. You are missed.

[LateNightCable]

Sgt. Joe Friday might have been scraping by with $464 per month ($5,568 annually) back in those days. But a rookie LAPD officer makes over $45k per year today right out of the academy - which just happens to be right around what Detective Sgt. Friday would have been making in 1954, adjusted for inflation - maybe more. And from there the sky is the limit. If you're a broke cop today, you're in the wrong department.

[kojifresh]

Gone are the days when DIALOGUE was a crucial element to television.