{"id":35860,"date":"2024-06-01T16:22:10","date_gmt":"2024-06-01T20:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=35860"},"modified":"2024-06-01T16:22:10","modified_gmt":"2024-06-01T20:22:10","slug":"bad-for-each-other-1953-starring-charlton-heston-lizabeth-scott-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=35860","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Bad for Each Other&#8221; (1953) starring Charlton Heston &amp; Lizabeth Scott \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z060124zview_badforeachother.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Bad for Each Other <\/strong><\/em>(1953)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director: <strong>Irving Rapper<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Irving Wallace, Horace McCoy\u00a0<\/strong>based on <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3X5yC7X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SCALPEL<\/a> by <strong>Horace McCoy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Charlton Heston, Lizabeth Scott, Dianne Foster, Mildred Dunnock, Arthur Franz, Ray Collins, Lester Matthews, Chris Alcaide, Frank Sully, Ann Robinson, Dorothy Green<\/strong> and <strong>Blackie Whiteford<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Ghost Surgeon! Forced into the medical shadow world by the love of a money-hungry woman!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Colonel Tom Owen M.D. (Heston) returns to Coalville, Pennsylvania to attend his brother&#8217;s funeral.\u00a0 His brother, the mining company&#8217;s safety engineer was killed with several others in a mining explosion.\u00a0 Although Tom is a straight arrow military leader and doctor, he discovers that his brother was taking kickbacks to allow the purchase of substandard mining equipment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When Tom investigates further he becomes enchanted with Helen Curtis (Scott), the wealthy daughter of the mine owner.\u00a0 Tom decides to retire from the military.\u00a0 He takes up residence at a medical facility run by Dr. Homer Gleeson (Matthews).\u00a0 Dr. Matthews caters to the rich.\u00a0 Soon the easy money and Helen begin to change Tom&#8217;s point of view.<\/p>\n<p>Tom is blind to the fact that he, Helen (and the easy money) are bad for each other.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Made several years before Heston became a big star.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z060124zview_badforeachother2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"348\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad for Each Other (1953) Director: Irving Rapper Screenplay: Irving Wallace, Horace McCoy\u00a0based on SCALPEL by Horace McCoy Stars: Charlton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35861,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35860\/revisions\/35861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}