#Lee Aaker

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Gig Young-Lee Aaker-Jean Hagen "Arena" 1953, de Richard Fleischer.

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2023: Dario Campeotto, cantante, attore e doppiatore danese di famiglia italiana, divenne noto per aver rappresentato la Danimarca all’Eurovision Song Contest 1961. Si cimentò poi nell’operetta e intraprese anche una carriera di attore. Fu inoltre attivo nel doppiaggio. Fu sposato due volte. Con la prima moglie, l’attrice Ghita Nørby, visse per un periodo in Italia. Ebbe tre figli. (n.…

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Lee Aaker and Rin Tin Tin II in "Rin Tin Tin and the Lost Patrol,” 1954 episode of "The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin."

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"The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin" with Lee Aaker, Rin Tin Tin, James Brown and Rand Brooks

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Day 67- Film (number 2): The Atomic City 

Release date: May 1st, 1952. 

Studio: Paramount 

Genre: Thriller/noir 

Director: Jerry Hopper 

Producer: Joseph Sistrom 

Actors: Gene Barry, Lydia Clarke, Michael Moore, Nancy Gates, Lee Aaker 

Plot Summary: A leading nuclear scientist working on the Hydrogen bomb at Los Alamos finds out his son has been kidnapped. But the ransom the kidnappers want is much more consequential than money. They want the secret of the bomb instead. 

My Rating (out of five stars): ***½ 

Both the films I watched today were about nuclear weapons, but this is the one that was actually pretty good. It was an enjoyable engaging thriller that did leave you thinking, even if it wasn’t a perfect film. 

The Good: 

All the location shooting! This was apparently the first film shot at Los Alamos. There was also a long baseball game scene in a real stadium, and footage from the Puye Cliff Dwellings in NM. It all looked impressive. 

The long scene in the baseball stadium. It was great as a time capsule to see what going to a game then was like. It was great as a vehicle to show the technology the FBI used to catch criminals. It was also just an eerie and suspenseful scene. 

The nitty gritty of the FBI following suspects. We get lots of time to watch the FBI do their jobs- surveilling, following leads, chasing cars, using film and other technologies, etc... 

The little child actor who played Tommy. He was really good! Near the end, I almost couldn’t watch, because the character had been put through so much, I kept reminding myself it was just a movie, and the kid was totally fine. 

I generally liked the actors who played both parents. The dad kind of looked the Jeff Chandler. The mom was really beautiful and interesting, but she didn’t have much to do in this except worry. 

It was definitely suspenseful! 

It raised a lot of interesting “what if” questions. Even just the basic “What if this happened in real life?” But more so, the question of what is more important, the life of one little boy, or the lives of millions? Would a father ever willingly sacrifice his son to save the rest of the world? Would a country do that to one of its citizens?Etc. 

I appreciated the way things were relatively free of sensationalism or sentimentality. Everything was mostly matter-of-fact in tone. The Feds were just focused on doing their jobs, not really moralizing or hyping things up and getting hysterical. That element reminded me a lot of Dragnet. 

The Bad: 

The ending was a bit abrupt. 

The lack of information about the “bad guys.” We know they are communists. Were they spies? Terrorists? From where? What was the punishment for the one guy who was definitely alive at the end? We never find out. 

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publicity still for O Henrys Full House (1952), a collection of five short stories by O Henry, with five different directors. Howard Hawks directed the segment The Ransom of Red Chief. The film premiered Aug 7, 1952 in Greensboro, North Carolina, the birthplace of O Henry, who was born William Sidney Porter. It was Howard Hawks’ 35th film.

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R.I.P. Lee Aaker

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Lee William Aaker (September 25, 1943 – April 1, 2021)   Child actor, producer, carpenter, and ski instructor known for his appearance as Rusty of "B-Company" in the 1950s television program The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin.

Other TV series he guest starred in include Fireside Theatre, The Ford Television Theatre, Schlitz Playhouse of Stars, General Electric Theater, The Lone Ranger, Screen Directors Playhouse, Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers, The Millionaire, Rescue 8, The Donna Reed Show, Make Room For Daddy, and The Lucy Show.   (Wikipedia)

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Desperate Search (1952) Joseph H. Lewis

August 14th 2020

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Lee Aaker

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Lee Aaker-Geraldine Page-John Wayne-Ward Bond "Hondo" 1953, de John Farrow.

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2021: Patrick Juvet, cantante, compositore e modello svizzero. (n. 1950) 2021: Lee Aaker, Lee William Aaker, attore statunitense. Attivo tra il 1949 e il 1959 come attore bambino al cinema e alla televisione, è ricordato soprattutto come il protagonista della serie televisiva per ragazzi Le avventure di Rin Tin Tin. (n. 1943) 2015: Cynthia Powell, più conosciuta come Cynthia Lennon, scrittrice e…

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High Noon 1952

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LEE AAKER (1940-Died April 1st 2021,at 77). American child actor, producer, carpenter, and ski instructor known for his appearance as Rusty of "B-Company" in the 1950s television program The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Aaker

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Hondo (1953) with John Wayne, Geraldine Page, Lee Aaker, Michael Pate and Ward Bond.