Pic of the Day: “Bayou” revisited
It’s time for yet another look at Bayou (aka Poor White Trash) (1957), directed by Harold Daniels and starring Peter Graves, Lita Milan, “and presenting Tim Carey” (as the movie poster says)! Ulysses...
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Our video this week is another version of Ulysses shaking what his mother gave him in Harold Daniels‘ Bayou (1957) (aka Poor White Trash). This has been uploaded several times on YouTube, and this is...
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Previously unbeknownst to us, Romeo Carey, upon his first visit to the [Dead Flowers] exhibition in Philadelphia, revealed the origin of one of Timothy Carey’s signature “dances,” first devised for the...
View ArticlePic of the Day: “Bayou” revisited
Our pic today takes another look at Ulysses, the “confused teenage gorilla” of Bayou (1957), directed by Harold Daniels on location in LaFitte, Louisiana. Here we see him giving his all during a kayak...
View ArticlePic of the Day: “Bayou” revisited
Today’s pic captures the hot-headed Cajun Ulysses, the most colorful denizen of Harold Daniels‘ swamp melodrama Bayou (1957), as he goes into his infamous dance. This screen cap catches the beginning...
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Carey was certainly attracting the right kinds of people with such skewed antics. In 1956, Stanley Kubrick gave Carey the role of racist horse-killer Nikki Arane in The Killing and the court-martialled...
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“Somewhere around there I was kicked out of six films in a row. Then I did BAYOU and they wanted me to play the heavy, so I went down to Louisiana and played a Cajun, Ulysses. ‘What I want I gonna get...
View ArticleVideo of the Week: “Bayou” fight scene
Another one from the archives! This is Timothy and Peter Graves‘ big fight scene at the end of Bayou (1957), aka Poor White Trash, directed by Harold Daniels. The entire film has been building up to...
View ArticlePic of the Day: “Bayou” revisited
Today’s pic takes another look at Ulysses, the hot-tempered Cajun of Harold Daniels‘ Bayou (1957) (re-edited and re-released as Poor White Trash in 1961). Here we see him bullying hapless booze hound...
View ArticlePic of the Day: “Bayou” revisited
Let’s close out the week with another look at Ulysses, the “ragin’ Cajun” of Harold Daniels‘ Bayou (1957). Here he confers with Emil Hebert (Douglas Fowley) and his sidekick Bos (Jonathan Haze). This...
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