The Fall Guy - A Tribute to Elisha Cook Jr

A short music video that I put together for a college project. There isn't enough about Hollywood's Lightest Heavy around, I hope you enjoy it :-)

Music: - In the House, In a Heartbeat - 28 Days Later Soundtrack

Disclaimer: - I don't own any of the images in the video, or the music playing throughout it and I'm making no profit through the video. I'm just an enthusiast having a bit of fun :-)

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Elisha Cook Jr
• Born to Kill
• I Wake Up Screaming
• Hellzapoppin
• Phantom Lady
• The Big Sleep
• The Maltese Falcon

[slobomotion]

Anything he's in, I watch. My French husband is thrilled.

[SkellingtonSkullz]

@slobomotion Glad to hear it, I'm happy you enjoyed it :-)

[slobomotion]

@SkellingtonSkullz Takes a lot of time and love to set up an account and upload and present things nicely. I think people just take it for granted. I see hours and hours of love here you put into this, appreciation, and it is actually darned educational! People have to weigh what they see but on the whole the 'net is great for learning, sharing. I have no TV, I am fine with a big radio in many bandwidths and face to face, letters, the 'net. I am thrilled whenever I see Elisha in the creds!

[SkellingtonSkullz]

@slobomotion It did take a good long while to get all the clips together and edit it, it can get frustrating, haha, I know what you mean about the TV, I hardly watch it anymore, there's too many other interesting things to be doing :-)

[slobomotion]

@inkey2 USA, had to leave when I was 37. Was way too old for it. Very hard.

[inkey2]

@slobomotion so were you born in france or the usa?

[slobomotion]

@inkey2 And after I lost the baby, my Wall Street job fired me for having the timerity to get pregnant -- this was very typical at the time about 20 years ago. I really hope America gets its healthcare scene together, because most Americans I know are in need of medical care they have to not deal with for money reasons. It's really sad having to expatriate, so if you are fighting to make your life where you come from better, good for you! I was just a broken woman after that . . .

[slobomotion]

@inkey2 I know, I basically had to leave the USA to get healthcare. I had some money but became uninsurable after winning a settlement against an insurance company who'd revoked a disability policy on me. Once you have a health insurance policy revoked, you are in the MIB as being uninsurable. I was liable to pay alimony to my second husband and had no right to give up my baby for adoption (it was not his) because the divorce was not quite final, lost the baby for lack of healthcare.

[inkey2]

@slobomotion well we may be the least taxed people on earth but we do not have National health care and must pay $12000 or more dollars per year for health insurance so I guess it equals out

[slobomotion]

@inkey2 I'm serious. Color or b/w (few still have those) has a different rate, and for each one you have, you pay more. If you use it in business, you pay more. For just one set per household, it comes to several hundred USD per year. Most of the world is like this. Americans don't realize, they are the least taxed people on Earth, and they are also at early 1950s tax levels, everything being equal. French TV is dreadful -- not worth it to have a set at all!

[inkey2]

@slobomotion you pay a "TV tax"....? were you joking or serious.....if so, how much of a tax?

[bchfront]

Very nice. I think the word "cool" was invented to describe Elisha Cook. People like this contributed so much to the landscape of movies at that time, it's very nice to know they're finally getting their due, however late. I'm sure the old boy's resting in peace from this!

[sherpa285]

"Hollywood's lightest heavy"!  Ha!

[neddly]

I happened to run into Elisha in a local bar in Bishop, CA about 1988 and had a few beers with him. He was of the same school of acting of Spencer Tracey, James Cagney anf Bogard. Acting was just a job. Show up, know your lines, hit your marks, collect your check and go home. A genuinely nice man to meet.