The Adventures of Jim Bowie: An Adventure with Audubon
6:00 pm - 6:30 pm, Sunday, October 26 on WHTV Binge TV (18.3)
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An Adventure with Audubon
Season 1, Episode 3
Bowie helps John James Audubon escape from both royalist and French revolutionary forces. Bowie: Scott Forbes. Audubon: Robert Cornthwaite. Mrs. Audubon: Barbara Eiler.
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1956
English
720p
Stereo
Adventure
Western
Cast & Crew
Scott Forbes
(Actor)
.. Jim Bowie
Robert Cornthwaite
(Actor)
.. Audubon
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Did You Know..
Scott Forbes
(Actor)
.. Jim Bowie
Born:
January 01, 1920
Died: January 01, 1997
Died: January 01, 1997
Trivia:
American actor Scott Forbes, who spent most of his formative days travelling throughout the world before settling down to a performing career, was seemingly groomed in the early stages of his career to be a "young Gregory Peck", whom Forbes resembled both physically and vocally. Consigned to action roles in such Warner Bros. films as Rocky Mountain (1950), Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison (1951) and Operation Pacific (1952), Forbes was afforded more in-depth characters on television: one of his best TV outings was as a Captain Queeg-like naval officer on "The Deep Six," a 1953 installment of NBC's Robert Montgomery Presents which in recent years has made the videocassette rounds in kinescope form. In 1957, Forbes was cast in the title role of Jim Bowie, a TV "gimmick western"--the gimmick being that Bowie preferred using his knife rather than his guns. The series (and its accompanying theme song) scored an immediate hit with the younger set, though several adult critics found the program crude and Forbes' interpretation of Bowie "uncouth." After Jim Bowie, Forbes was limited to character parts. By the '70s Scott Forbes had left acting for the more rewarding pursuit of owning and operating Studio One, a popular Hollywood nightclub.
Robert Cornthwaite
(Actor)
.. Audubon
Born:
April 28, 1917
Died: July 20, 2006
Died: July 20, 2006
Trivia:
Already a character player in his 30s, American actor Robert Cornwaithe was frequently called upon to play scientific and learned types in such films as War of the Worlds (1953) and The Forbin Project (1971). He was also busy on TV, portraying lawyers, officials and the like on such series as The Andy Griffith Show, Batman (in the "Archer" episode with Art Carney), Gidget, Laverne and Shirley and The Munsters. Cornwaithe earned his niche in the Science Fiction Film Hall of Fame for his performance in The Thing (1951); grayed up, bearded, and looking suspiciously Russian, the actor played the foolhardy Professor Carrington, whose insipidly idealistic efforts to communicate with the extraterrestrial "Thing" nearly gets him killed. In honor of this performance, Robert Cornwaithe was cast as a similar well-meaning scientist in "Mant," the giant-insect film within a film in Joe Dante's Matinee (1993), wherein Cornwaithe shared screen time with two equally uncredited horror-film icons, William Schallert and Kevin McCarthy.
