Saturday, December 23, 2017

#18 Frank Buck


7 comments:

Bob Cline said...

It's not very often that you hear of a Three Stooges member being in something other than a Three Stooges production and yet, here are two members from the Three Stooges family.

Is Max Baer related to the other Baer cast member and were they then related to Parley Baer?

Paul Gutheil said...

There were Frank Buck trading cards too.

Fred Pfening said...

The brothers Max and Buddy Baers were both professional boxers. No relation to Parley. Max
Baer was heavyweight champion in 1934 and 1935 while Buddy Baer knocked Joe Louis out of the ring in the first of their two fights, both of which Louis won. Max Baer was the father of the Max Baer who played Jethro Bodine on the Beverly Hillbillys in the 1960s. The Baers were a quarter Jewish, wearing the Star of David on their trunks to become favorites of Jewish fight fans.

Fred Pfening said...

There's a hilarious scene in this movie where Lou Costello, who doesn't know he is talking to Clyde Beatty, beefs that Beatty is a fraud, a phony and that he, Costello really did everything Beatty claimed he did. The Captain takes it all good naturedly. This is a better movie than anyone with a GED would think. Dave Price and I have given it the Ebert and Siskel treatment with two big thumbs up.

Eric said...

Although both Frank Buck and Clyde Beatty appear in this film, they do not have any scenes together. (They do appear together in some of the publicity photos for this film.) Somewhere in the Blog archives is a photo-summary of this film.

Chic Silber said...


Nice to see "The One And Only"

credited above Frank Buck but

in smaller type than 2 others

Roger Smith said...

Beatty fans will enjoy seeing him in the cage, bouncing 4 big male lions. The scene doesn't contain an act as such, but the fury of the animals against Beatty's projection of performance gives us some good frames. The arena sections had bamboo lengths secured by "jungle vines", suggesting they created the cage on safari. The tunnel for the cats was similarly well-treated by the greensmen, making Beatty's scenes a better fit. Otherwise, this Nassour film had little to offer in production values, and came near the end of Abbott & Costello's movie popularity.