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(And More Bears) NTSC, Code 0, English, Time 101:38 TV-Western, USA 1960 - Mit: Johnny Cash,...more

Johnny Cash: The Night Rider - TV Western (DVD)

(And More Bears) NTSC, Code 0, English, Time 101:38 TV-Western, USA 1960 - Mit: Johnny Cash, Eddie Dean, Gordon Terry, Merle Travis, Johnny Western, Wesley Tuttle, Karen Downes, Whitey Hughes, Jimmy Wilson. TV pilot in color and best possible quality. First time on DVD!

During the 1957-'58 TV season I was doing a TV series called 'Boots and Saddles - The Story of the 5th Cavalry' for NBC-TV. I played the lead trooper in the series in about a third of the episodes. Michael Hinn, a fine character actor played the part of the chief scout. Michael and I had the same agent and we talked a lot when we were on location in Kanab, Utah and again back in Hollywood, where we shot interior scenes. He expressed an interest in producing and directing for TV and movies and said he and his wife, who was a writer, had some ideas for possible series consideration. A few years went by and we went our separate ways, doing roles in many TV shows and movies but we stayed in touch.

One day I got a call from Michael wanting to know how to contact Johnny Cash. He and his wife had come up with an idea for a TV series with each episode based on a hit song. He wanted to produce a pilot with Cash, using Johnny's hit song from 1959, Don't Take Your Guns To Town, as the theme. If that worked out, he wanted to do a show with Jimmy Dean’s Big Bad John as the theme and go from there with enough theme-based shows for syndication or TV network release.

Michael contacted Cash and presented him with the idea for the film. Cash was offered the lead based on a character similar to the famous western gunfighter, John Wesley Hardin. He agreed to do the pilot and Hinn set about rounding out the cast. The second character was very important, and for the part of 'Billy Joe' Hinn was able to sign Dick Jones, a veteran of over 400 films and TV shows. Jones had starred in the 'The Range Rider' and 'Buffalo Bill, Jr.' TV series for Gene Autry's Flying-A productions. The remainder of the cast was assembled to fill out the script.

I was signed to play one of the cowpokes, along with my roommate for many years on the Johnny Cash Show, Gordon Terry. Cowboy movie star and recording artist, Eddie Dean, was signed as the trail boss and singer-songwriter-guitarist, Merle Travis, was signed as the camp cook. Veteran stuntman, Whitey Hughes, took the job as the bartender,  young actress, Karen Downes, as a dancehall girl, and Jimmy Wilson, who’d played piano on a lot of Cash's records and many Sun Records sessions came on board as (what else?) the piano player in the saloon scene.

At the time, Jimmy was married to Barbara Cohen, daughter of Nudie, the famous rodeo tailor, who made all the fancy outfits for nearly everyone in Hollywood and Nashville. For the funeral scene, Travis suggested that Hinn get singer-songwriter Wesley Tuttle, who was in real life an ordained minister. Everyone liked that idea and Wesley signed on.

We filmed the entire show on a soundstage in Hollywood that had been used for the 'Wild Bill Hickock' TV series, starring Guy Madison and Andy Devine. Michael produced and directed from his wife’s script. Shooting went smoothly over a 3-day period and the basic half-hour show was completed. Hinn then tried, unsuccessfully, to find a market for the TV show and finally decided to go back and shoot a bit of additional footage, featuring Walter Brennan's son, Andy, as the host of a theatre inviting everyone in to enjoy the show. Gene Autry's longtime musical conductor, Carl Cotner, scored the film and added some finishing touches to the extended product. Hinn kept shopping the film around Hollywood and finally got a deal with Crown International, who was looking for a short film to fill out time for some of the epic films that ran over 3 hours and where a full length second feature would make the program too long. So ‘The Night Rider’ was released as a 'Featurette' and played quite well in drive-in theaters and smaller venues, especially in the South where Cash maintained a huge fan base.

For years, I carried a clipping from a newspaper in Birmingham, Alabama with a headline, "'The Night Rider' starring Johnny Cash" in huge letters and then under that in very small type, "also Kirk Douglas in 'Spartacus'".  Cash would later star with Douglas in 'A Gunfight' and I don't think he ever showed Kirk that advertising, as 'Spartacus' had cost millions to produce and 'The Night Rider' was done for a few thousand dollars.

I guess a lot of people did see 'The Night Rider' over a period of years as I have been asked about it by lots of fans  at western film festivals I have attended. Dick Jones, Whitey Hughes, Wesley Tuttle and I did many of those festivals together through the years and we always had fun remembering the making of 'The Night Rider'. It was a chance to do a movie with many old friends, several of whom  have now passed away. For me, it has a special meaning: I made 37 TV films and feature westerns, this was the last. (Johnny Western)

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  • Interpret: Johnny Cash

  • Album titlle: The Night Rider - TV Western (DVD)

  • Genre Country

  • Label Bear Family Records

  • Preiscode AT
  • DVD-SubGenre Country
  • DVD-Regionalcode 0
  • DVD-Genre Music & Concert
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  • EAN: 4000127300027

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Johnny Cash Geboren am 26.2. 1932 in Kíngsland -Arkansas. Gestorben am  12. September... more
"Johnny Cash"

Johnny Cash

Geboren am 26.2. 1932 in Kíngsland -Arkansas.
Gestorben am 12. September 2003 in Nashville, Tennessee

"No one but no one more original than Johnny Cash."

So lautete der Text einer Columbia-Anzeige aus den 60er Jahren. Wie wahr! Damals. Und während seiner gesamten, fast 50jährigen Karriere. Einer Karriere, die am Freitag, den 12. September 2003, morgens um 2 Uhr in einem Krankenhaus in Nashville ihr Ende fand.

James Mangold, Regisseur des Films 'Walk The Line' über das Leben von Johnny Cash (mit Joaquin Phoenix in der Titelrolle), hat beim Interview in Los Angeles versichert:"Ich hätte diesen Film nie gedreht, wenn ich nicht auf die Cash-Boxsets des Labels Bear Family gestoßen wäre. Ein Fan war ich zwar schon, seit ich 'At Folsom Prison' als Kind in der Plattensammlung meines Vaters zwischen lauter merkwürdigen John-Denver-Scheiben entdeckt habe. Aber erst durch die Fotos und Begleittexte der Bear-Family-Boxen entwickelte ich ein Gespür für die Ära. Sie waren auch beim Set- und Kostümdesign eine große Hilfe."

Cash war zwischen 1951 und 1954 als Angehöriger der US Army in Landsberg am Lech stationiert, wo er seine erste Band gründete, die Landsberg Barbarians.

Beginn der Plattenkarríere 1955 bei Sun Records. Veröffentlichte bis heute mehrere hundert Singles und Langspielplatten, Dutzende seiner Songs wurden Klassiker (z. B. "I Walk The Line", "A Boy Named Sue", ”Folsom Prison Blues”). Cash -"The man in black" - war der erste US-Topstar, der in deutscher Sprache aufnahm: Am 25. 10. 1959 entstanden in den Bradley Film & Recording Studios von Nashville - Tennessee die Titel “Wo ist zu Hause, Mama" und "Viel zu spät" mit Luther Perkins (Gitarre), Marshall Grant (Bass) und Michael Kazak (Drums); es produzierte Don Law.

Beide Titel wurden in Deutschland von Bear Family Records auf LP erst veröffentlicht. Als eine Cash-Tournee anstand, folgte die Single-Ausgabe der CBS. Mit deutschen Musikern hatte Cash im Juni 1965 in Frankfurt die Backing-Tracks für drei weitere deutschsprachige Titel aufgenommen, “Kleine Rosmarie", "Besser so, Jenny-Joe" und "In Virginia". Den Gesang fügte er am 19. und 20. 6. in den Columbia Studios von New York hinzu. Während dieser Sessions sang er außerdem auf das Original-Band von “I Walk The Line" den deutschen Text "Wer kennt den Weg?".

Produzenten dieser Aufnahmen waren Don Law und Gerd Schmidt. Als Schauspieler sah man Cash u. a. in den US-Produktionen “Five Minutes To Live” ("Noch 5 Minuten zu leben", 1962) und “A Gunfight" (”Duell in Mexiko" bzw. "Rivalen des Todes",1970).

Aus dem Bear Family Buch - 1000 Nadelstiche von Bernd Matheja - BFB10025 -

 

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