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Old 11-07-2008, 07:22 AM
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That is nice to hear about Angela Lansbury. That show was a great favorite in my family.

As for Andy Griffith - as you know, he has been a "household name" here in the US since the 60s. (I'm not sure how popular he is in Britain?) But I have read that he can be rather cranky and irritable. I'm sorry you had to put up with that sort of treatment. But Matlock was quite a good show.
Personally, I've only heard of Matlock via the constant namechecking by Abe Simpson........the same goes for MacGyver...and Marge's sisters.
....though I suspect it might have had an airing here in the seventies. We had all sorts of American shows back then....

Bit of a Bay Window, what??
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Andy Griffith played a really nasty psychopathic murdering landowner in the film Murder in Coweta County with Johnny Cash. He was very good (as was Cash) in this true story.
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Personally, I've only heard of Matlock via the constant namechecking by Abe Simpson........the same goes for MacGyver...and Marge's sisters.
....though I suspect it might have had an airing here in the seventies. We had all sorts of American shows back then....
Yes - Matlock and MacGyver were typical 80s one-hour detective shows. There were so many of them, and very similar - Mr Moxey has directed episodes of many of them.

Do you know The Andy Griffith Show? It was a combination of comedy and small town Americana - very gentle, warm and much more intelligent than the description sounds. It was on throughout the 60s and is still shown today. It has a very large following. It made Griffith a household name - and then came Matlock in the 80s, which was a success because of his following.


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Andy Griffith played a really nasty psychopathic murdering landowner in the film Murder in Coweta County with Johnny Cash. He was very good (as was Cash) in this true story.
He is a strong actor with a powerful presence.

For me, he has a slightly sinister, queasy side - there is a hot temper under all the homsepun niceness. I never really liked his shows because of that - even as a boy when everyone liked him - but there is no question he is a fine actor. Have you seen A Face in the Crowd?

He has his own character: the polite, small town southerner who is underestimated by the city slickers but triumphs, either because of his intelligence or because of his innate goodness or because of his good ol' boy shrewdness - or all three. My mother saw him in NYC in the play No Time for Sergeants back in the 50s. That made him a "name".
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Do you know The Andy Griffith Show? It was a combination of comedy and small town Americana - very gentle, warm and much more intelligent than the description sounds. It was on throughout the 60s and is still shown today. It has a very large following. It made Griffith a household name - and then came Matlock in the 80s, which was a success because of his following.
The Andy Griffith Show made a star of young Ron Howard as well, long before Happy Days. Ronny Howard played Opie Taylor, the son of Sheriff Andy Taylor (Andy Griffith)

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The Andy Griffith Show made a star of young Ron Howard as well, long before Happy Days. Ronny Howard played Opie Taylor, the son of Sheriff Andy Taylor (Andy Griffith)

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Believe me Andy was very pleasant to me. I heard about the british thing later.

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Dear Mr. Moxey,

I am an author of several books on 60s/70s cinema (Sixties Cinema - 60's Beach Movies, film fatales, starlets, Elvis, drive-in dream girls and biker babes) and am doing a piece on the film and TV career of Carol Lynley in horror/fantasy/suspence. One of her standout movies was The Night Stalker, which you directed of course. Can you share any remembrances of Ms. Lynley?

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Angela was great to work with. A very talented and lovely lady. Andy Griffith was a little different! It turned out he was not too fond of the British. Ah well, it takes all sorts.

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John,eveytime I see your posts on the forum I keep meaning to buy the DVD set of Gideons Way which is available in the uK. I know you directed a few episodes apart from seeing one episode on an evening of nostalgic tv some years ago I havent seen Gideon since I was a lad in 1966.
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John,eveytime I see your posts on the forum I keep meaning to buy the DVD set of Gideons Way which is available in the uK. I know you directed a few episodes apart from seeing one episode on an evening of nostalgic tv some years ago I havent seen Gideon since I was a lad in 1966.
Buy it! It is an excellent series.
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Well I'm back from two weeks in Germany with a flight bag full of DVDs. The very first thing I picked up was an Edgar Wallace adaptation with a title which translates as The Mystery of the Silver Triangle. What should I find but that this very film is none other than Circus of Fear, an Anglo-German Harry Alan Towers production shot in 1965 and released in different versions in both countries.

The UK version has the advantage of being in colour and widescreen, and of being directed by our very own John Moxey. The DVD helpfully contains both versions. Haven't had time to watch bopth versions yet, but I'm assuming there are some faily major differences, as each version is credited to a different director.

Any memories as to how that would have worked, John. Would both directors have been on set at the same time?
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Well I'm back from two weeks in Germany with a flight bag full of DVDs. The very first thing I picked up was an Edgar Wallace adaptation with a title which translates as The Mystery of the Silver Triangle. What should I find but that this very film is none other than Circus of Fear, an Anglo-German Harry Alan Towers production shot in 1965 and released in different versions in both countries.

The UK version has the advantage of being in colour and widescreen, and of being directed by our very own John Moxey. The DVD helpfully contains both versions. Haven't had time to watch bopth versions yet, but I'm assuming there are some faily major differences, as each version is credited to a different director.

Any memories as to how that would have worked, John. Would both directors have been on set at the same time?
To tell you the truth I had no knowledge of another version or director!

I am sorry I can't be more helpful.

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To tell you the truth I had no knowledge of another version or director!

I am sorry I can't be more helpful.

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Sounds like a fairly typical experience for a director working for Harry Alan Towers! Some of the stories about him are absolutely hair-raising (and not to be repeated here!).

Your version is great, by the way.
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