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The Hopalong Cassidy film series ended in 1948, due to declining revenues, and their star William Boyd, who was now 53 years old, was regarded as a film star of the past. . However, Boyd thought Hopalong Cassidy might have a future in television, and spent $350,000 to obtain the rights to his old films; [1] he sold or mortgaged almost everything he owned to raise the mon
In the films, Hopalong, or "Hoppy", and his white horse, Topper, travel through the Old West while dispensing justice, usually with two companions: one young and trouble-prone with a weakness for damsels in distress, the other older, comically awkward and outspoken.
There was a new demand for Hopalong Cassidy features in movie theaters, and Boyd licensed reissue distributor Film Classics to make new film prints and advertising accessories. Another 1950 enterprise saw the home-movie company Castle Films manufacturing condensed versions of the Paramount films for 16 mm and 8 mm film projectors; they were ...
Saturday Night is in theaters in select cities now, followed by a wide release on Oct. 11, the anniversary of the show's premiere. Saturday Night Live, currently in its 50th season, airs Saturdays ...
In 1990, Lorne Michaels oversaw the writing of a sketch anthology feature film titled The Saturday Night Live Movie with many of the show's then-current writing staff, including Al Franken, Tom Davis, Greg Daniels, Jim Downey, Conan O'Brien, Robert Smigel, and George Meyer, contributing. The screenplay only got as far as a Revised First Draft ...
Belushi, played by Matt Wood in the movie, appeared on SNL throughout the 1970s, winning a 1977 Emmy for writing. He was Aykroyd’s right-hand man in the Blues Brothers sketches, which turned ...
The entire movie takes place in the hour and a half before the show goes live at 11:30 p.m. and a seemingly unsurmountable amount of chaos ensues from the drama between the crewmates to the ...
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