The Silver Screen Oasis

Is anyone still reading this board????

For those of you who are, here's a publicity still from Wagon Master. :)

Here's a magazine article and two publicity stills from a short film Ben appeared in called The Last Ride (1989). The director was Bill Russ, who instead of going on to a film career, now provides family entertainment under the name "RetroBill" (he has a webpage and Facebook page) and his ...

A photo in the September-October 1949 edition of Swing, the official magazine of Kansas City's WHB radio station. The caption reads: Stars Ben Johnson, George O'Brien, Jane Russell, Alan Hale and Harry Carey, Jr., appear at the premiere of the "R.K.O. Missouri" theatre in Kansas City. No m...

A double bill! First, this card for the TV mini-series The Sacketts. http://i742.photobucket.com/albums/xx61/pvitari/Ben%20Pics%202017/The%20Sacketts-2S-1_zpsaodvlbfz.jpg Second, a Wagon Master publicity still. http://i742.photobucket.com/albums/xx61/pvitari/Ben%20Pics%202018/Wagon%20Master-41S-1_zp...

Is there really not a thread for Tyrone Power, matinee idol who to this day I think is truly under-appreciated as an actor? I did a search but couldn't find a thread, so I'm starting this one. So... I made a bunch of screencaps from the recent Blu-ray release of the Technicolor swashbuckling epic Ca...

Here's a behind-the-scenes candid from the set of Hang 'Em High. Photographer is Miguel Miura.

Here's a publicity still from Mighty Joe Young.

Publicity still -- The Wild Bunch.

Two Spanish lobby cards for the 1973 TV movie Runaway! Ben played the engineer of (surprise!) a runaway train. Looks like this received a theatrical release in Spain (a lot of American TV movies got theatrical releases in Europe). http://i742.photobucket.com/albums/xx61/pvitari/Ben%20Pics%202017/Run...

Guten tag! A German lobby card for Dillinger (German title: "The Hunt for Dillinger.")

It's raining and blowing wind a lot here today thanks to (now) Tropical Storm Irma. We get a weather day off from work, hurrah. But I'd happily go to work if it meant no hurricane and no devastation in the Caribbean and Florida. Fortunately here it's just nasty weather, nothing too awful, though I'm...

I posted this last week but forgot to post it here! Publicity still from Dillinger. Ben's really cramming himself down into his coat collar. ;)

Happy Hallowe'en! Kino Lorber will release Junior Bonner on Blu-ray on October 31. I'm really looking forward to this, as both DVD releases were non-anamorphic. http://i742.photobucket.com/albums/xx61/pvitari/Ben%20Pics%202017/Junior%20Bonner%20Blu-ray_zpsx6ogdubl.jpg Synopsis: Steve McQueen is at h...

Book news! Texas author and journalist Kathryn Jones is working on a biography of Ben Johnson, to be published as part of the University of Mississippi Press' "Hollywood Legends" series. Kathryn asks anyone who knew Ben and has anecdotes and memories to share to send her a private message ...

Here's another publicity pose for Mighty Joe Young (this was nothing like this in the movie itself). Interesting angle!