{"id":42576,"date":"2026-09-15T07:53:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T11:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42576"},"modified":"2026-09-14T17:20:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T21:20:24","slug":"the-long-lonesome-highway-the-michael-parks-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42576","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Long Lonesome Highway: The Michael Parks Story&#8221; (2025) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z091526review_michaelparks.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"752\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Long Lonesome Highway: The Story of Michael Parks <\/i>(2025)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Josh Roush<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: \u00a0<strong>Josh Roush<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars:\u00a0 <strong>Michael Parks, James Parks, Kurt Russell, Haley Joel Osment, Robert Rodriguez, Leonard Maltin, Mickey Rourke, Justin Long and Wyatt Russell<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: None.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Michael Parks is perhaps the greatest actor you&#8217;ve never heard of.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He began getting television roles in 1960 and quickly became a popular guest star.\u00a0 Some of the shows he appeared on include Zane Grey Theater, The Untouchables, The Real McCoys, Gunsmoke, Ben Casey, Perry Mason, 77 Sunset Strip, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Wagon Train and Route 66.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 1965, he started appearing in feature films as well.\u00a0 In 1966, Michael Parks was nominated as a <em>Photoplay Most Promising New Star<\/em>.\u00a0 \u00a0Then in 1969, Mr. Parks was given the lead in the television series <em>Then Came Bronson<\/em>.\u00a0 \u00a0The show was well received, but behind the scenes there was trouble.\u00a0 Michael Parks pushed back on ideas he didn&#8217;t like.\u00a0 The show lasted one season and Michael Parks developed the reputation as <em>difficult<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When the series ended, Mr. Parks didn&#8217;t act on television or films for a couple of years.\u00a0 Then he began to get guest spots and small roles in both tv and feature films.\u00a0 Those that worked with Michael Parks universally praised his acting&#8230; but also tempered that with Parks&#8217; offscreen behavior could be\u00a0 non-conformist.<\/p>\n<p>This is Michael Parks story.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I was a kid when <em>Then Came Bronson<\/em> premiered.\u00a0 I liked the show and expected Michael Parks to become a bigger star.\u00a0 Now we learn part of the reason it didn&#8217;t happen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Michael Parks was an amazing actor.\u00a0 His scene in <em>From Dusk Till Dawn<\/em> is one of my favorites.\u00a0 A small role, but man did he nail it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><strong><i>Long Lonesome Highway: The Story of Michael Parks <\/i>(2025)<\/strong> rates 4 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.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\/2026\/z091526review_michaelparks2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long Lonesome Highway: The Story of Michael Parks (2025) Director: Josh Roush Screenplay: \u00a0Josh Roush Stars:\u00a0 Michael Parks, James Parks,<\/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":[17,54,65,50,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-trivia","category-tv","category-z-view"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42576","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=42576"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42781,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42576\/revisions\/42781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}