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TNET: LOOK: Clemson Historic photo #66 'The Midnight Man'
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TNET: LOOK: Clemson Historic photo #66 'The Midnight Man'


Jun 6, 2020, 8:45 AM

LOOK: Clemson Historic photo #66 'The Midnight Man'

TigerNet will be posting several historic Clemson photos during this difficult time with no Clemson sports. Long-time TigerNet member Mintaka ® submitted many o Read Update »


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Re: TNET: LOOK: Clemson Historic photo #66 'The Midnight Man'


Jun 6, 2020, 10:11 AM

I watched it on YouTube the other day. Wasn’t a bad movie.

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I made about $500 renting several pieces of furniture & art for this film..


Jun 6, 2020, 10:15 AM

from my commercial interior design shop in G'ville SC after couple of the studio’s staging people came by & liked my stylish modern furnishings.

In the movie Burt sat on corner of the black&white contemporary love seat as well as against a pillow which I later sold to a customer who paid a premium price after learning of this DNA happening.

LOL

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My older brother was a Clemson student when that......


Jun 6, 2020, 10:36 AM

movie - had a background part where he walked out of a classroom scene shot in Godfrey Hall. Got paid $50 bucks or something like that. That's his claim to fame as a Hollywood movie star.

A lot of the scenes in that movie won't/don't mean a lot to you younger guys (like the way Riggs Field used to look when it was an outdoor track). But that's the way the campus looked when I started school in 1973.

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Re: TNET: LOOK: Clemson Historic photo #66 'The Midnight Man'


Jun 6, 2020, 11:39 AM

Some of the cast including Cameron Mitchell spent time playing money matches at Boscobel with the legendary Harvey Brock. Also, Eleanor Ross, wife of former Clemson footballer Jack Ross and mother of former Tigers Jack(Louis) and John Ross, had a significant role in the movie.

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Jun 6, 2020, 12:30 PM

I remember looking out of a second story window in Godfrey Hall one day and seeing Burt and a few other people walking around campus and wondering what the heck he was doing there. Later we find out he is checking out the campus to possibly make a movie. If I remember correctly most of the on campus scenes were shot over spring break ruining my plan to somehow show up on film. I thought it was a pretty good movie.

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Re: TNET: LOOK: Clemson Historic photo #66 'The Midnight Man'


Jun 6, 2020, 2:28 PM

I remember the first time I watched this movie on TV, many years ago. Had no idea it was filmed in Clemson, some seven years after I graduated, until I recognized the old post office towards the start of the movie. Just watched the entire film again, and enjoyed it.

Did anyone else notice that the motel in the movie had "Clemson Motel" on its sign?

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Re: TNET: LOOK: Clemson Historic photo #66 'The Midnight Man'


Jun 6, 2020, 3:48 PM

I was in the movie at the 13:10 mark.

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There was another Clemson connection in a Lancaster movie


Jun 6, 2020, 8:09 PM

"The Midnight Man" came out in 1974, but the filming took place (of course) a little earlier. In fact, in another Burt Lancaster movie, "Executive Action," which was released in 1973, Burt in one scene wore a scruffy Clemson cap that featured a football helmet with a tiger paw on it. Since this movie was about a plot to kill JFK, the tiger paw helmet was an anachronism. You can see it in this trailer, at about the 1:00 mark. https://www.imdb.com/video/vi4082351897?playlistId=tt0070046&ref_=tt_ov_vi

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That's an old Clemson trucker hat for sure!***


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Re: TNET: LOOK: Clemson Historic photo #66 'The Midnight Man'


Jun 7, 2020, 2:34 PM

I had a speaking part in the movie. I appear at the beginning in a scene filmed in the amphitheatre. I am wearing a toga.

First, Mr. Lancaster was a great guy, very friendly and encouraging. It was a comic scene and, fortunately, I nailed it. He was laughing so hard he couldn't look at me. It is right there on film, him looking down. Later that day, I had to do a recording for a tape so I had to hang around. They were shooting a scene at the fields that are now the soccer stadium. He came over to me and told me that I was great during our scene. An Oscar winning actor told me that I was great. You never forget that... and what a nice guy he was.

Vincent Camby called it the second worst movie made that year (read that in a BL biography.) So, I have that on my resume. But I also have an incredible memory of a day of being in the movies and and IMDB credit

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Re: TNET: LOOK: Clemson Historic photo #66 'The Midnight Man'


Jun 7, 2020, 3:17 PM

I remember that scene. I think you were with the Clemson Players and played Snoopy in Charlie Brown. If my memory in not correct I apologize.

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Jun 7, 2020, 11:45 PM

You're correct. Great times at Clemson. Plays at Daniel Hall auditorium. They have an incredible theater now.

Side note - one of the most talented people in the CP when I was there, Susan Day Smith, is the owner and star at Cafe And Then Some in Greenville. I was a hack, for the most part.

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Jun 7, 2020, 9:14 PM [ in reply to Re: TNET: LOOK: Clemson Historic photo #66 'The Midnight Man' ]

great story for us and what a great memory for you

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Re: TNET: LOOK: Clemson Historic photo #66 'The Midnight Man'


Jun 7, 2020, 6:36 PM

I walked into class one morning in Godfrey Hall and standing in front of the class was Mr. Lancaster. He stood there for a few minutes with nothing happening so I flipped to a clean page in my notebook and approached him for his autograph. Burt Lancaster was one of my Mother's favorite actors. He was very kind and accommodating and gladly signed. My mother framed it and kept it till she passed in 2006. And I still have it today.

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Re: TNET: LOOK: Clemson Historic photo #66 'The Midnight Man'


Jun 7, 2020, 8:31 PM

A side note on Susan Clark... She was the wife of Bob Clark, a producer and director of some(lesser) renown. She was an actor in Porky's that Bob was directing... Alex Karras put the bedazzled on her and stole her away...

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Actually , the trailer now has me curious ....'


Jun 7, 2020, 9:12 PM

think I may watch it one night.

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I actually enjoyed the movie, several good actors, bunch of


Jun 8, 2020, 10:05 PM

bad ones, it would have been better if simpler and not so many guilty ones, it got very confusing but still suspensful. So convoluted that the only clear killer was the cop and the surprising finding that complicit was the main actress, who turned out to be having an lesbian affair with the student.If there had been only one or two others involved would have been more effective. Fun seeing those scenes around Clemson and Anderson.

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Jun 9, 2020, 9:34 AM

agree - ending was ridiculous

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Re: TNET: LOOK: Clemson Historic photo #66 'The Midnight Man'


Jun 9, 2020, 9:36 AM

I attended when they filmed it and I still remember them shutting down parts of the campus

Was a BIG thing back then - Burt was a leading actor - don't remember seeing most of the other actors

Film brought back a lot of great memories of Clemson

GO TIGERS

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Watched Midnight Man last night. Could only find it on


Jun 9, 2020, 4:12 PM

Youtube. A little slow, but not terrible. Lots of neat shots of Clemson. Curious where the "town" shots were done. Does not appear to be Clemson.

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