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![]() | Pearl Harbor Day Memorial 2007 Gun Salute 1 Pearl Harbor Day Memorial twenty One gun salute at at Patrick Air Force Base in Cocoa Beach Florida. |
![]() | This Gun For Hire - "The Raven" Hired gun, Philip Raven (Alan Ladd)reveals a soft heart for stray cats and cripples in this 1942 adaptation of Graham Greene's novel "A Gun For Sale". Fourth billed, the role made the 29 year old Ladd a star. Previously the 5'5" Ladd had been stuck with radio and bit parts. During the forties, with a brief interruption for a stint in the army (discharged for ulcer and hernia) he was one of Hollywood's biggest and busiest stars, but by the end of the fifties a series of unsuccesful movies and an addiction to alcohol began to take its toll. Ladd died at the age of 50 |
![]() | AC/DC - Guns For Hire Guns For Hire off the Flick Of The Switch album. |
![]() | Gun For Hire - Breadfan - Metallica NOT MY VIDEO Animes: Cowboy Bebop, Mezzo, Trigun, and Outlaw Star Song: Breadfan Band: Metallica Found At: www.animemusicvideos.org The guy who made the video did shorten down the song is still a great song and a great video. THIS VIDEO IS PURELY FAN-MADE AND IS IN NO WAY ASSOCIATED WITH THE MUSICAL ARTIST OR ANIME COMPANY IN ANY WAY. |
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![]() | Alan Ladd Interview with son David Ladd Listen to the interview on www.iconsradio.com Hosted by John Mulholland & Stephen Bogart Alan Ladd's mother immigrated from England age 19. His accountant father died when he was four. At age five he burned his apartment playing with matches, and his mother moved them to Oklahoma City. He was malnourished, undersized, and nicknamed Tiny. His mother married a house painter who moved them to California a la "Grapes of Wrath" when he was eight. He picked fruit, delivered papers, and swept stores. In high school he discovered track and swimming. By 1931 he was training for the 1932 Olympics, but an injury put an end to those plans. He opened a hamburger stand called Tiny's Patio, and later worked as a grip at Warner Brothers Pictures. He married friend Midge in 1936 but couldn't afford her, so they lived apart. In 1937 they shared a friend's apartment. They had a son,Alan Ladd Jr., and his destitute alcoholic mother moved in with them, her agonizing suicide from ant poison witnessed a few months later by her son. His size and coloring were regarded as not right for movies, so he worked hard at radio where talent scout and former actress Sue Carol discovered him early in 1939. After shopping him through bit parts he tested for This Gun for Hire (1942) late in 1941. His fourth-billed role as the psychotic killer Raven made him a star. He was drafted in January 1943 and discharged in November with an ulcer and double hernia. Throughout the 1940s his tough-guy roles filled theaters and he was one of the very few males whose cover photos sold movie magazines. In the 1950s he was performing in lucrative but unrewarding films (an exception being what many regard as his greatest role, "Shane". By the end of the 1950s,liquor and a string of so-so films had taken their toll. In November 1962 he was found unconscious lying in a pool of blood with a bullet wound near his heart. In January 1964 he was found dead, apparently due to an accidental combination of alcohol and sedatives. Listen to Icons Radio Hour this fall every Sunday night at 8PM ET. Join us for this broadcast when John, Meir & Steve welcome son David Ladd to explore the career of his father actor Alan Ladd. www.iconsradio.com |
![]() | Shane - exciting ending to Western movie classic "Shane" played by Alan Ladd and "Wilson" played by Jack Palance in final shootout of the western movie classic "Shane." "You're a low down, Yankee liar." Palance was one of the best actors of the ear and could do one arm pushups at age 73. |
![]() | Hitman Tribute Hitman, Mr. 47, a gun-for-hire clone created in Romania by doctor Otto Wolgang Ort-Meyer combinating five diferent DNA. First game was released in 2000 by Eidos P.S: This video is dedicated to everyone who is celebrating birthday in 11/30. I hope You will like it! |