Post by neferetus on Dec 27, 2006 18:30:29 GMT -5
With it's strong cast (Jimmy Stewart, Dean Martin, Raquel Welch, George Kennedy, Will
Geer, Denver Pyle and Rich Curilla) and compelling script, "Bandolero!" (1968) is a pretty
darn good Western.
That being said, it will be left to the viewer to decide as to whether or not, the destruction
of the Alamo set in Brackettville was worth it.
The first of the photos shows the Alamo Village and the San Fernando Church; photos two and three show the Waynamo set, drastically revamped for the making of "Bandolero". While the second photo shows the production's new well, in the background is the Long Barrack with all of the stucco knocked off the walls to make it almost unrecognizable. In photo three is the de-humped Alamo chapel, with an arcade in front of it to further disguise it. But who's kidding who? It's still the Alamo chapel without the hump, hidden behind a false front arcade. Running off of the chapel where the palisade once stood, is Happy Shahan's $7,000 wall, adjoining the two storey adobe structure in which Jimmy Stewart hid the bank money and Raquel Welch was almost raped by the bandito leader.
Following production, a new hump was added to the church facade, but it was never to look quite like the original Waynamo one ever again. Most of the other non-Alamo walls, meanwhile, remained until 1986 when the production companies for "Gone To Texas" and "13 Days To Glory" did a partial renovation of the set. It was not until the production of the IMAX film, "Alamo: The Price Of Freedom, however, that the balance of the "Bandolero!" walls came down, at last.
RICH CURILLA REMEMBERS:
I was just an extra, but in maybe 16 different scenes -- usually in deep background. But I had one featured extra spot. When Jimmy Stewart is sitting in the outdoor bathtub overhearing the hangman (Guy Raymond) tell the barber (John Mitchum) about Jimmy's brother (Dean Martin), I am the townsman who sits in the chair when the hangman gets out. There's a cutaway to Jimmy when he says, "Would ya get my clothes?" Then he looks back at the chair as I sit in it.
My friend Ted Althof was in one of the other tubs. Jimmy got to wear a bathing suit, but the extras in the other three tubs (Ted, Bud Breen and Roy Langston) were in their Jockey Shorts since they never knew they would be doing that. And 75 tourists were gawking over the low wall at the front edge of the area, which was right next to our current museum.
Jimmy started flubbing his lines (very unlike him). Finally, Bill Clothier asked him what was wrong. "There's something... There's something in the water burning my eyes. I lose concentration." Director Andy McLaglen called a break, and everybody got out of the tubs. Ted came over and stood with me as the special effects man scooped the soap suds out of Jimmy's tub, since it was determined that the culprit was the detergent used to make them. He was dipping the suds out of Jimmy's tub and putting them in Ted's. Ted just grinned, looked at me and quipped, "They're putting Jimmy Stewart's dirty bath water in my tub!" I don't think he took a bath for a year!
Jimmy Stewart, Dean Martin and Raquel Welch, in the finale of BANDOLERO!
(That cowboy in the background is walking by the Long Barrack.)
Geer, Denver Pyle and Rich Curilla) and compelling script, "Bandolero!" (1968) is a pretty
darn good Western.
That being said, it will be left to the viewer to decide as to whether or not, the destruction
of the Alamo set in Brackettville was worth it.
The first of the photos shows the Alamo Village and the San Fernando Church; photos two and three show the Waynamo set, drastically revamped for the making of "Bandolero". While the second photo shows the production's new well, in the background is the Long Barrack with all of the stucco knocked off the walls to make it almost unrecognizable. In photo three is the de-humped Alamo chapel, with an arcade in front of it to further disguise it. But who's kidding who? It's still the Alamo chapel without the hump, hidden behind a false front arcade. Running off of the chapel where the palisade once stood, is Happy Shahan's $7,000 wall, adjoining the two storey adobe structure in which Jimmy Stewart hid the bank money and Raquel Welch was almost raped by the bandito leader.
Following production, a new hump was added to the church facade, but it was never to look quite like the original Waynamo one ever again. Most of the other non-Alamo walls, meanwhile, remained until 1986 when the production companies for "Gone To Texas" and "13 Days To Glory" did a partial renovation of the set. It was not until the production of the IMAX film, "Alamo: The Price Of Freedom, however, that the balance of the "Bandolero!" walls came down, at last.
RICH CURILLA REMEMBERS:
I was just an extra, but in maybe 16 different scenes -- usually in deep background. But I had one featured extra spot. When Jimmy Stewart is sitting in the outdoor bathtub overhearing the hangman (Guy Raymond) tell the barber (John Mitchum) about Jimmy's brother (Dean Martin), I am the townsman who sits in the chair when the hangman gets out. There's a cutaway to Jimmy when he says, "Would ya get my clothes?" Then he looks back at the chair as I sit in it.
My friend Ted Althof was in one of the other tubs. Jimmy got to wear a bathing suit, but the extras in the other three tubs (Ted, Bud Breen and Roy Langston) were in their Jockey Shorts since they never knew they would be doing that. And 75 tourists were gawking over the low wall at the front edge of the area, which was right next to our current museum.
Jimmy started flubbing his lines (very unlike him). Finally, Bill Clothier asked him what was wrong. "There's something... There's something in the water burning my eyes. I lose concentration." Director Andy McLaglen called a break, and everybody got out of the tubs. Ted came over and stood with me as the special effects man scooped the soap suds out of Jimmy's tub, since it was determined that the culprit was the detergent used to make them. He was dipping the suds out of Jimmy's tub and putting them in Ted's. Ted just grinned, looked at me and quipped, "They're putting Jimmy Stewart's dirty bath water in my tub!" I don't think he took a bath for a year!
Jimmy Stewart, Dean Martin and Raquel Welch, in the finale of BANDOLERO!
(That cowboy in the background is walking by the Long Barrack.)
