JACK NICHOLSON

[JoondalupJ]

Got onto You Tube last night and found this obscure western, with Jack Nicholson in it and Warren Oates too. Jack co-produced as well.

Its called the Shooting?
Very weird ending and very gripping story even though nothing much was happening in the desert, with a woman a gunslinger and two gold minors I think they were. Chasing someone, and the miner fellows had a mate dead in their camp at the start.

The actor that played Sugerfoot in the old TV western was in it, and crikey he can act too
Don't know his name, I think it was him, that was the Cheyenne Bodie era, and Bronco Lane. If anyone remembers those.

But, find it!

There is another one that follows, I'll have to find again, and watch.
Jack is in it too, and he co produced that one too.

It's called "Ride the Whirlwind" , I saw about 5 minutes, looks curious too, but too late for this old bastard to watch by then.
But the Shooting, well, check the end .
I may be dumb but I couldn't get the message. But had me intrigued. Anyone else seen this?

 

[Roobs321]

They were both filmed back-to-back from memory in Jack's days with Roger Corman. Solid for genre fans like me. The Shooting is decent. B-movies are a good playground for talents to flex their stuff more freely without producers breathing down their necks. It has been forever since I've seen Shooting so if it is on YT I might seek it out and see how I feel about it now.

Given your thread title implies it is about the actor in general (rather than these films specifically, otherwise you'd surely title it accordingly), I'll give my favourite films which feature him:

1. Chinatown
2. The Shining
3. Terms of Endearment
4. Five Easy Pieces
^all-time faves
5. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
6. The Last Detail
7. Reds
^classics
8. The Departed
9. Broadcast News (smallish appearance as old TV anchor)
^excellent, worthy of winning awards

Those 9 are a cut above, but after that there are approx 20 films worth the occasional watch. The Missouri Breaks, About Schmidt, The Pledge and The Last Tycoon some of my most preferred from the rest. Depends on your taste.

 

[JoondalupJ]

They were both filmed back-to-back from memory in Jack's days with Roger Corman. Solid for genre fans like me. The Shooting is decent. B-movies are a good playground for talents to flex their stuff more freely without producers breathing down their necks. It has been forever since I've seen Shooting so if it is on YT I might seek it out and see how I feel about it now.

Given your thread title implies it is about the actor in general (rather than these films specifically, otherwise you'd surely title it accordingly), I'll give my favourite films which feature him:

1. Chinatown
2. The Shining
3. Terms of Endearment
4. Five Easy Pieces
^all-time faves
5. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
6. The Last Detail
7. Reds
^classics
8. The Departed
9. Broadcast News (smallish appearance as old TV anchor)
^excellent, worthy of winning awards

Those 9 are a cut above, but after that there are approx 20 films worth the occasional watch. The Missouri Breaks, About Schmidt, The Pledge and The Last Tycoon some of my most preferred from the rest. Depends on your taste.

Yes sorry the thread title was misleading. I was curious about Jack , but the fact that he was mentioned in credits for Producing , I was thinking maybe he was testing the ground on both sides of the camera.

Everything you've mentioned above with Jack Nicholson I am exactly in agreement. I love his work, and there are more in his movie history.
The shooting had me riveted to the screen and that and Ride the Whirlwind, I watched on two nights , on YouTube , so you will find it, I went into the search section and just put in Westerns.
I sort of stumbled across it, I couldn't figure it out and couldn't stop , I will wait until you find it and discuss the end, I like the way the dialogue was written in both , the language felt like a different era, and by that I mean , the talking to each other was a bit like those times the movie is set in.

For its age bracket I though it was a ripper, both sort of straight forward, yet off the wall a bit? Missouri Breaks , About Schmidt, brilliant.
My last question The Departed, not sure exactly but is that fiction somewhat related to the Whitey Bulger story.

I know there was a good one with an Australian in it. But it was pretty well to the actual point of the true story? I think J Depp played Whitey in that one?

 

[Roobs321]

Yeah, Jack Nicholson had that reputation early in his career for being a capable hand in many areas of filmmaking. He went on to direct a few across his career. He came to public notice through Easy Rider (his performance in hindsight is clearly responsible for making that film the success it was), to the point that you sometimes get the impression that was his debut role, but it was more of a well-earned breakout than anything else. And after working early on with directors like Corman, Forman, Polanski, Kubrick, etc. then you'd probably pick up a few tricks along the way. Come the mid 80s he was sort of going part-time as a celebrated self-parody, but the likes of Sean Penn were still able to pull out the odd serious performance from him.

YT is great for old movies. Lots of older classics and B gems on there, some public domain but a lot that aren't as well.

That sounds like Black Mass with Joel Edgerton in it. Now that you say it, I guess there is similarity between Bulger and Frank Costello from Departed. Hadn't really thought about that before but I can certainly see the connection there.