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The Author Show – Who Nuked the Duke?
Author John William Law recently appeared on The Author Show to discuss the book Who Nuked the Duke? and the related film The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout. The interview is hosted here. The book helped inspire a film that had its world premiere at the Newport Beach Film Festival in October 2023 and closed the Palm…
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Incubus
William Shatner was just beginning his career when he agreed to star in a low-budget horror film called Incubus. While the film had a bizarre story, a strange language and short production schedule, it would have a long path to finding a fan base and would be followed by a series of strange tragedies.
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The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout
As we wrap up this series we wanted to talk a little more about the book and the upcoming feature film on the same topic. The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout will be released in late 2023 (estimated) and cover the filming of John Wayne’s The Conqueror and the tragedy that followed. The Poster for the movie,…
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Hollywood Fallout
With Who Nuked the Duke? in print, a new documentary called Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout was released in 2023 on the big screen and digital platform. With Who Nuked the Duke? as part of the inspiration behind the film, we close out the series by discussing the new edition of the book, the current state of…
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A 30-Year Tragedy
After The Conqueror was completed it would take several years before the film hit big screens. After the release, Hughes removed the film from circulation, but the trouble behind the film – and the filming on a radioactive film site – would begin to follow cast and crew.
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The Conqueror
John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Pedro Armendariz, Agnes Moorhead and a host of others gathers in St. George Utah to film Howard Hughes’ epic The Conqueror. Directed by Dick Powell, the film would be crucified by critics for bad casting, but would still make money thanks to John Wayne and his fans. What followed was a…
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Who Nuked The Duke?
John Wayne is back in 2023. With a new updated release of Who Nuked the Duke, in print, ebook and enhanced digital edition, and a new feature film documentary on the making of The Conqueror, we are revisiting the topic with a new series in Hollywood’nt. This first episode offers an introduction into the topic…
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What Ever Happened to Mommie Dearest?
After her movie career ended, Crawford continued to work for a couple years into the 1970s, but found preparing to be “Joan Crawford” was becoming too much. She receded from public life and in her last few years alcoholism and illness were sometimes issues. We wrap up our series on Joan Crawford.
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I Saw What You Did
With the success of Strait-Jacket, Joan Crawford agreed to another role in Castle’s follow up film, I Saw What You Did. Though her character is killed in the first third of the picture, she got star billing, her usual salary and a chance to be a star again.
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Strait-Jacket
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? was a smash hit and it was followed with numerous offers of work for both Joan Crawford and Bette Davis. However, most of the work was in horror films. Joan Crawford picked up an axe for William Castle’s 1964 classic Strait-Jacket and Crawford saw dollar signs.
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The Prize of Stockholm
Paul Newman, Elke Sommer, Diane Baker and the legendary Edward G. Robinson take a romp through Stockholm in the 1963 classic The Prize. Though the film was films on the soundstages of Hollywood, Stockholm, the Grand Hotel and the illustrious Nobel Prize are featured characters in this Hitchcock-esque feature not made by The Master of…
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Blanche
Joan Crawford found a way out of debt and a shot at a second – or third – act in Hollywood. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? would become a smash, but working with Bette Davis was the price to pay.
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Bond in Berlin
On a recent trip to Berlin and Munich we got to track down some locations for James Bond. Bond was quite the world traveler and Europe was an easy place to drop 007. Bond arrived in Germany for Octopussy for key scenes later in the film, but the story opens up in the city. Octopussy…
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The Widow Steele
Joan Crawford Joan Crawford met Alfred Steele in the mid 1950s when her career was going downhill. She decided to step away from Hollywood and become the wife of a Pepsi executive. All seemed rosy, but the marriage ended in his death and she found she had crushing debt. The only way out was to…
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Crawford, Joan Crawford
Joan Crawford died in 1977, but her career died around 1970 with her final film, Trog. Crawford’s body of work on film from 1960 until her death was primarily horror related. The success of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? gave her career a boost, but put her on a course where nearly every film…
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