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LON JR. A BRAWLER?

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jamesenstein31		#21	[-]
Apr 19 12 9:33 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I heard he was so tough that one time he wore a hook on his hand so he could kill this alligator man, like any four-legged gator. It was quite extraordinary.
TomWeaver999		#22	[-]
Apr 21 12 5:16 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	If you'd like to see Chaney and Broderick Crawford playing their cute little game where they sit opposite each other, taking turns hitting the other as hard as he can, seeing who'll be the first to fall ..... well, you can't, they're dead. But I believe it was recreated for a movie: In JOE DAKOTA (Universal, 1957), Claude Akins and Lee Van Cleef are two oddball tough guys who play exactly that game, and I allllways had the feeling that SOMEbody connected with the movie based that scene/those characters on Lon and Brod.
kochillt		#23	[-]
Apr 21 12 11:21 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	NORTH TO THE KLONDIKE, which Chaney and Crawford made right after BADLANDS OF DAKOTA and just before THE WOLF MAN, ends with a genuine brawl that goes on for two incredible minutes. This was also the first time Chaney worked with Evelyn Ankers, who was promptly rewarded with his dressing room, which often looked like a WW2 battlefield due to those infamous battles. Chaney mistakenly believed that she deliberately stole it from him, when he only had himself to blame. This was commonplace while he was a contract player at Universal, but he wisely mellowed over time, due to the need to continue working. Only during succeeding decades do we hear more and more stories about how 'darling' or 'sweet' he was, but 'drunk as a skunk!' (Gloria Talbott, THE CYCLOPS). Maybe he did eventually become Lennie, or at least what he might have become if he hadn't been shot by George.
Mora		#24	[-]
Apr 21 12 1:28 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Tom just got me to thinkin'. Claude Akins woulda made a good Lonster in a biopic.

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