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Fighting Man – Frank Gruber

30 Wednesday Jun 2010

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Frank Gruber, western

Jim Dancer had a reputation. He’d ridden with Quantrill during the Civil War and since then had killed a hundred men, robbed fifty banks, and was Jesse James’ lieutenant. None of it was true except riding with Quantrill. In the seven years since the war had ended, Dancer had spent most of it out of the country. Didn’t stop the rumors of course.

Chapter one serves as a prologue for the main story. It deals with the assault on Lawrence, Kansas in 1863 and the beginnings of Dancer’s reputation. Just a boy of nineteen, he led the troop taking on the Union troops quartered there. He carried a deep hate for Northern soldiers who’d shot his father down for no reason. But he had no stomach for killing old men, civilians who’d done nothing to him and only stepped in when he saw a wretch named Yancey about to shoot a young girl trying to defend her father.

He stopped that, but drew Quantrill’s ire such that he was ordered to kill the girl’s father right in front of her. Quantrill called him by name and gave the order. So Dancer pulled the trigger and ended the life of one Theodore Slocum.

Chapter two opens nine years after that horrific raid and Jim Dancer has been captured by George Cummings of the Pleasanton Detective Agency out of Chicago. An eighteen month hunt had resulted in Dancer’s arrest, Cummings was pleasant enough. “Just doing a job.”

An attempt to cross a flood swollen river on a ferry results in spooked horses, the ferry overturning, Cummings getting a kick in the head, and Dancer nearly drowning. As it was, he spent the night on the bank handcuffed to a dead man, the key long lost in the waters of river. Rescue came from a stage expecting to cross on the ferry.

Dancer decides on the spur to become George Cummings, the dead man beside him Jim Dancer. He resigns from the detective agency at a satellite office where no one knows him and takes a job building the new railroad line in Kansas going to the new instant town of Lanyard, closer to for Texas trail herds than Dodge. After getting paid off and entering town, a chance encounter with him stopping a drunken cowboy from manhandling a young woman draws the ire of the cowboy who demands Dancer get a gun(he’s unarmed) or get out of town.

The law in town is a scared little man who’d just resigned rather than go up against half a dozen drunken Texans. borrowing the gun, Dancer outdraws the man and is an instant hero. The woman is the niece of the man who virtually owns the town and their name is…Slocum!

Dancer, nee George Cummings, gets roped into the town Marshall job, six hundred a month and three dollars for every arrest. Then he begins a tight rope walk as he cleans the town up. He feels an attraction to Slocum’s niece, daughter of the man he’d killed nine years before. She doesn’t remember him and has blossomed into a beautiful twenty-four year old woman.

Another old acquaintance is in town and can’t quite remember where he knows Dancer from: Yancey, the nasty little cretin from Lawrence who’d started his “bad” reputation.

The book has much more and Dancer even gets some help at an awkward moment from some old friends.

A fine little novel from an old master. He turned it into a movie in 1949 titled FIGHTING MAN OF THE PLAINS starring Randolph Scott. A couple of notes on small roles in the film. Paul Fix(Micah Torrance on The Rifleman) plays the little weasel Yancey and a very young Dale Robertson(of Gruber’s Tales of Wells Fargo series) has a small part as Jesse James. The movie follows the book pretty close with a few minor changes to make for a more dramatic effort.

June 2010 Book Round-Up

30 Wednesday Jun 2010

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102: SP: The Sword of Lankor – Howard L. Cory(Jack Jardine)

103: WE: Sidewinders: Mankiller, Colorado – William W. Johnstone with J. A. Johnstone

104: CR: Find My Killer – Manly Wellman

105: CR: The Green Eagle Score – Richard Stark(Donald E. Westlake)

106: CR: Quarry’s Deal – Max Allan Collins

107: WE: Longarm and The Deadly Flood – Tabor Evans

108: SF: The Wall Around The World – Theodore R. Cogswell

109: MY: The Death In The Willows – Richard Jefferson

110: CR: 87th Precinct: ‘Til Death – Ed McBain

111: CH: The Tilting House – Tom Llewellyn

112: CR: The Black Ice Score – Richard Stark(Donald E. Westlake)

113: SF: The Sun Smasher – Edmond Hamilton

114: SF: StarHaven – Ivar Jorgenson(Robert Silverberg)

115: AD: Hunt Among The Killers of Men – Gabriel Hunt(David J. Schow)

116: SF: Davy -Edgar Pangborn

117: FA: Bitter Steel – Charles Allen Gramlich

118: CR: Quarry’s List – Max Allan Collins

119: AD: Indiana Jones and The Army of The Dead – Steve Perry

120: SF: Star Surgeon – Alan E. Nourse

121: AD: The Phantom Chronicles, Volume 2 – edited by Joe Gentile & Mike Bullock

122: MY: Blues For The Prince – Bart Spicer

123: WE: Fighting Man – Frank Gruber

June 2010 Movie Round-Up

30 Wednesday Jun 2010

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The Outlaw(1943)

Trail Street(1947)

Colorado Territory(1949)

Fighting Man of The Plains(1949)

She Wore A Yellow Rose(1949)

Kansas Raiders(1950)

Devil’s Doorway(1950)

Westward The Women(1951)

Ride, Vaquero!(1953)

Vera Cruz(1954)

Five Guns West(1955)

Ransom!(1956)

The Last Hunt(1956)

Decision At Sundown(1957)

The Horse Soldiers(1959)

The Hound of The Baskervilles(1959)

North To Alaska(1960)

Panic In Year Zero!(1962)

Ride The High Country(1962)

Cheyenne Autumn(1964)

The Glory Guys(1965)

A Time For Killing(1967)

The Mercenary(1968)

Will Penny(1968)

100 Rifles(1969)

The Hunting Party(1971)

Valdez Is Coming(1971)

American Gangster(2007)

The Golden Compass(2007)

Princess of Mars(2009)

The Phantom(2010)

A little extra this month. My DVR was full and watching a dozen movies a month wasn’t whittling it down. Not to mention there’s always stuff on TCM, AMC, or THIS, a local over the air(as well as cable) channel that shows old movies and TV series(Highway Patrol, Sea Hunt, Bat Masterson, a number of children’s shows) twenty-four hours a day. I have some there over a year old and I needed to get them watched.

Reading Forgotten Books: The Carney Wilde Books – Bart Spicer

29 Tuesday Jun 2010

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Bart Spicer, Carney Wilde, Forgotten Books

I owe thanks to Bill Crider for posting on these two books HERE and HERE. They are the first two books in the PI Carney Wilde series. Five more followed these two.

I love PI novels, have for a long time, and are always happy to learn of new ones, whether really new or just to me. These two were especially good and, as I said, thanks to Bill for posting on these. Had never heard of him before reading these. Read his reviews(his voice is better than mine and then go find these two. I need to get off my butt and trace down the rest of them.

A Time For Killing

29 Tuesday Jun 2010

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George Hamilton, Glenn Ford, Inger Stevens, Paul Peterson

A TIME FOR KILLING is a 1967 film set near the end of the Civil War. Based on the novel THE SOUTHERN BLADE by Nelson and Shirley Wolford, it concerns a Union prison camp in Arizona and the pursuit of a group of rebels that escape, heading toward Mexico.

Glenn Ford plays Major Tom Wolcott, second in command of the prison, an officer who tries to treat the Rebel prisoners with some kind of dignity. They hate him as a Union officer, but afford a certain respect as a man. George Hamilton is Captain Dorrit Bentley, ranking officer among the prisoners, a Southerner from the deep South ravaged by Sheridan and harboring an intense hatred of that and his inability to do anything about it. Inger Stevens is a missionary, Emily Biddle, from Massachusetts visiting the camp to do her duty to give aid and comfort to the enemy.

Some of the other key roles in the film are, on the union side, Kenneth Tobey(he of THE THING fame), Paul Peterson(the son on The Donna Reed Show), and a very young actor near the beginning with only a couple of lines(maybe a half dozen words) billed as Harrison J. Ford. On the Rebel side, Harry Dean Stanton and Max Baer, Jr.(who chews up the scenery as a laughing, homicidal killer, a far cry from dim bulb Jethro Bodine)named Luther. There’s also a host of that unsung corp of actors, those “faces” you know, but just can’t remember a name.

At about the time the escape is going on, Inger Stevens is leaving on her wagon with an eight man escort. Major Wolcott doesn’t want to pursue the escapees. He knows from dispatches that the war is near an end and figures “we’ll just have to turn them loose as soon as we catch them.” What is the point in risking the lives of men on either side? The camp commander doesn’t see it that way. “How will it look on the report that I couldn’t hang onto prisoners?” he threatens to court-martial anyone who refuses the mission.

So the chase is on.

When the Rebels intercept and kill the missionary escort, taking Emily Biddle prisoner. Captain Bentley had seen a close relationship starting to build between Wolcott and Biddle and focused his hatred of the rape of the South into something closer to him now.

Wolcott is a man who wants to just follow orders until he finds Biddle in the back of a cantina just vacated by the Rebels. They find a Union dispatch rider murdered with an empty pouch. Only Bentley, Biddle, and Luther know the truth and none of them are talking.

As these things go, a violent finale is sure to follow.

I enjoyed this one. The only jarring note I finally overcome. The sight of seeing Jethro laughing and giggling as he killed, hacking one Union soldier up with his sword put me off for a while. Baer was a better actor than he ever got credited. After all, he made us believe so much in his portrayal of Jethro on The Hillbillies that it virtually ruined his career. I’m as guilty as any in buying into that, but, as I said, I overcame that as the movie rolled. Yes, he overplayed the laughing a bit here, not sounding real at times. He finally won me over though, especially the death scene.

I give this one a B. Worth a look, if not going out of the way to find it.

The Hunting Party

28 Monday Jun 2010

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Candace Bergen, Gene Hackman, Oliver Reed

THE HUNTING PARTY is a 1971 western about two obsessions. Oliver Reed is Frank Calder, an outlaw that wants to learn to read. Gene Hackman is Brandt Ruger, a very rich man who takes his pleasures as he finds them, with no regard for anyone else.

Calder kidnaps Melissa Ruger(Candace Bergen) who he finds at a school handing out books to children. She’s the wife of Brandt Ruger, though, and that kidnapping sets off the hunting party of the title.

At the time the kidnapping is going down, Brandt Ruger has left on a train with all his rich friends for a regular hunting party. He has gifts for them all: something new in hunting, powerful rifles with “telescopes” mounted on top of each. “Can shoot seven hundred yards!” They are all amazed.

When word comes of the kidnapping, Ruger talks his friends into hunting them down instead of sending for the law. “They’re gunslingers” was one protest, but Brandt suggests they use the distance of the rifles to stay safe.

The movie becomes one long chase where bullets come from nowhere to cut down a few men, then run. Death, then fleeing. At first, Melissa uses every opportunity to try to escape. But as things wear on, she starts to teach Frank the rudiments of reading, the alphabet, how to write his name, and the pair start to draw close(the Stockholm Syndrome they call it these days I believe).

Melissa sees the differences in the outlaw and her husband. Frank cares for his men and is devastated by the deaths by sniper of his men. Her husband has always been cold and a bit brutal.

Ruger pushes his friends on and Frank refuses to give up Melissa. Either man breaking the chain would end it. Neither does, all the way up to the final confrontation.

A brutal and bloody film, I read where one fan called it an answer to The Wild Bunch. Not in that class, surely, but not a bad film. Directed by Don Medford, Riz Ortolani provides a fine score to highlight the action. L.Q. Jones, Mitchell Ryan, and Simon Oakland perform admirably in key roles. At nearly two hours, I would say it’s worth a look.

Mailbox Monday

28 Monday Jun 2010

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Mailbox Monday



1. The Captain Midnight Chronicles: from Moonstone: Star of a radio Program in the forties, a television series in the fifties. Not to mention comic strips, comic books, and movie serials. A WWI ace who led the Secret Squadron during WWII. A collection of new stories.

2: Snowbound – Richard S. Wheeler: a biographical novel built around John C. Fremont’s fourth and last mission into the unexplored, at least by white men, western part of America.

3: 12 Worlds of Alan E. Nourse: 12 works of science fiction by one of the early writers in the genre.

4: Dance Back The Buffalo – Milton Lott: a novel based on historical events with the Sioux Ghost Dancers.

5: Ranger’s Apprentice: The Ruins of Gorlan – John Flanagan; first book in the young adult series by the Australian writer about Will, a boy to small to be a warrior. But becoming a Ranger, a sort of wizard, is next best thing.

The Phantom Chronicles, Volume 2

26 Saturday Jun 2010

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The Phantom

Edited by Joe Gentile and Mike Bullock, volume 2 of THE PHANTOM CHRONICLES is the latest collection from Moonstone, new stories of Lee Falk’s famous creation, The Ghost Who Walks. The stories feature different Phantoms from the Walker family line, that unbroken chain going back more than four hundred years, giving rise to the legends of He who never dies, protector of the innocent. An introduction by Falk’s daughter, Diane M. Falk-Fitzpatrick, opens the book.

Fifteen new stories from such writers as Ed Gorman, Jeff Mariotte, Will Murray, Win Scott Eckart, Tom DeFalco, and Harlan Ellison among others. The editors offer stories as well.

Here the Phantom has to deal with Nazis during WWII, pirates in the early nineteenth century, a blackmail plot in late nineteenth century London involving a certain missing English Lord and his wife, presumed killed when their ship sank off the coast of Africa, modern day warlords in a far different Africa from those of Falk’s classic tales. There’s even the story of how the Phantom first hooked up with his friend, the big gray wolf, Devil.

And the Phantom deals with them all in his own unique manner.

A fine collection told in the wonderful old pulp style. The cover of my edition is by Douglas Klauba, interior illustrations by Stephen Bryant, except for Harlan Ellison’s tale of how he set out to write of the meeting between the Phantom and the Green Hornet. The artwork for that one are by Reuben Procopio and Jeff Butler.

I’ve been a fan, like many of us here, of The Phantom for most of my life. I have a complete set of the paperback novels, mostly ghost written I believe, from the early seventies. I know Falk wrote the first one and Ron Goulart some of the others, but don’t know who else was involved.

One final word here on the recent Syfy(shudder at that name) miniseries. I was surprised at how respectful they were to the source material. Not the greatest thing I’ve ever watched(but the best I’ve seen from them), my only real problem was the updated suit. I understand, though, they were going for a younger audience that likes geegaws and flashy stuff. A planned series, I don’t know what happened there, it was much better than the ill-conceived Flash Gordon series that, happily, died a quiet death I believe.

Def Leppard

26 Saturday Jun 2010

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Def Leppard

I almost saw DEF LEPPARD three times, way back before they turned into a pop band, when they were young enough to kick ass unashamedly, in that bloom of youth when music is king, all important, nothing else matters. The first time had them opening for Ted Nugent and Sammy Hagar(pre-Van Halen, post Montrose) during the release of their first album, ON THROUGH THE NIGHT. The second time they headlined, with KROKUS opening.

That almost saw them the third time is an embarrassing moment. They had TESLA opening and it was after Rick Allen had the car accident where he lost an arm. He’d had a special set of drums designed where he used both feet and the one arm to play. He’d had to start over, reinventing the way to play his drum kit. I was especially looking forward to seeing him in action.

I bought two tickets, thirty-five apiece, and took a young woman to the show. She was one of these types that wanted her own liquid refreshment for the show and chose Royal Velvet. I told her she’d never get it through the gate, but she didn’t listen, got caught, and watched as I had to pour the contents into a trash bag lined can.

Ticked off, she railed about not being able to enjoy the show and insisted on leaving while TESLA was performing. You know how it is with males when they are in -er- love. We left.

I’ve tried to pick some clips from their early years.

The first is a song from their first album:

The second clip, ON THROUGH THE NIGHT, though the title of their first album, was actually on their second release. HIGH ‘N’ DRY:

FFB: Star Surgeon – Alan E. Nourse

24 Thursday Jun 2010

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Alan E. Nourse, Forgotten Books, Science Fiction

I read a few Nourse books when I was a young man. I knew nothing about him or even where to look to find out anything. The only thing I was positive was that if his name was on the book I would enjoy it. STAR SURGEON was one of those and, in rereading for this post, a lot of it felt new. I mean I remembered the basic idea, but that was about it. Thousands of books have come and gone since then.

Thanks to the internet, one can learn about all but the most obscure writers if you know where to look.

Alan E. Nourse was born in 1928 and served in the Navy after WWII. He graduated from Rutgers in 1951, married his wife, Anne, in 1952, and received a Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1955. A one year internship in Seattle, Washington was followed by a medical practice in North Bend, Washington from 1958 to 1963, all the while pursuing his writing. He’d in fact sold stories to help pay his way through medical school.

Nourse counted among his friends Avram Davidson and Robert Heinlein. Heinlein dedicated his novel, FARNHAM’S FREEHOLD, to Nourse and did the same, in part, to Nourse’s wife, Ann, in FRIDAY. His novel, THE BLADERUNNER, was acquired just to use the title on the movie version of Dick’s DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? William S. Burroughs was hired to do a story treatment of the Nourse book, but went no further as a movie. It later showed up as a novella titled, Blaedrunner: a Movie by Burroughs.

Now to the book. First published in 1959, hardcover I would imagine, Scholastic put out an edition in 1964. The above cover is from the 1986 Ace issue.

In this future, Earth is a probationary member of the Galactic Confederation(when full membership was attained, a seat on the Council was accorded) a group of united alien races who require two things before a species even is asked to join. They must have invented a star drive on their own and they must have something to contribute to the Confederation.

Medical expertise was Earth’s contribution. Most races had their own medical services, but none of them was into it like Earth.

Hospital Earth had huge hospital ships that patrolled through regions, easily reached if the General Practice Patrol ships needed help. Each branch of the medical profession had their own colors: black for pathology, red for surgery, blue for diagnostics, and green for general physician.

Dal Timgar was the first and only alien that had made it through eight years of schooling on Earth. And a hard eight years it had been. In those eight years, he had only one friend, Tiger Martin, everyone else either avoiding him or giving him the cold shoulder. His only backer had been a member of the Black Corp of Pathology, a man he seldom saw. He also had a Black Doctor who was determined to get rid of him.

Ever since childhood, when he’d seen a plague kill his mother and leave his father a cripple, it had been his desire to wear the red cape of surgery and, especially, the silver star of Star Surgeon.

The differences in Dal, a Garvian, and humans was slight: four digits on his hands, a slight frame, ninety pounds, and a fine gray fur that covered everything but palms, soles, and face. Garvians also had a small ball of protoplasm, Dal’s was named Fuzzy, that rode on the shoulder or the crook of an arm. When a child was born, the father’s split in half and became the baby’s inseparable companion. Theirs was more than just an owner/pet relationship.

Graduation had arrived. In his class of three hundred, Dal had been in the top ten percent for all eight years. He expected to get the cuff and collar of a probationary doctor. Instead he got a summons to Hospital Seattle and a meeting. There he would be evaluated and voted on by a board. His backer, Black Doctor Arnquist, was on that board. But so was the man who hated him, Black Doctor Tanner.

Tanner wanted the experiment ended now. If Doctor Timgar got his star, more aliens would eventually attend Earth training, a flood gate opening. And what else did earth have to offer but their medical expertise. That was Tanner’s rationale.

Arnquist spoke eloquently and got Dal through, but warned him to be careful. He was assigned to a General Practice Patrol ship with two other probationary doctors, one of them Tiger Martin the general practice doctor. Jack Alvarez was the blue diagnostician.

The ship was the LANCET.

Their job was to patrol their sector, answering calls from planets that had contracted for Hospital Earth’s services, and distributing medical supplies from it’s hold to outposts along the way.

Alvarez was a problem from the start. He seemed one of those Dal haters. The bilk of the book is their various stops, one screw-up on their first emergency(with Tanner dogging them every chance), called by Alvarez on that first screw-up(not a big one but Tanner was looking for any excuse) and Tiger shouldering the blame(Tanner wouldn’t dare wreck a human doctor’s career over such a minor thing).

Then the LANCET hit the mother lode when they got a timorous call for help from an unknown race. A plague was killing them by the thousands. A new race and if they could cure the plague, AND land a new contract for Hospital Earth, the stars of full doctor would be automatic.

Of course they ran into problems immediately. Records knew nothing about them. A survey eight hundred years before said there were nothing but plant eating animals on the planet. How could a race grow intelligent and move up to star drives and star radios in eight hundred years. The beings were shy and reticent to discuss the plague when they met them.

The three dove into work. They had to save these people. Because they were doctors. Not to mention a possible new contract.

And Tanner wasn’t through either.

When they finally learn they were all pawns in a bigger game… Well read the book and find out. It seems to be easily available on the used book sites. It’s also at Project Gutenberg.

The lower book is the one I read years ago(and where it went I have no idea). It might have been the Scholastic edition. Some places I looked call it a juvenile. Maybe. Those usually involve teenagers doing cool stuff and these were grown men who would have to have been in their middle or late twenties.

It was fun getting reacquainted with this one.

Go to Patti Abbott\'s blog for moreForgotten Books.

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