On this day in movie history - The Train Robbers (1973)

The Train Robbers

directed and written by Burt Kennedy,

was released in the United States on February 7, 1973.

Music by Dominic Frontiere.

Cast:

John Wayne, Ann-Margret, Rod Taylor, Ben Johnson, Christopher George, Bobby Vinton, Jerry Gatlin, Ricardo Montalban, Dennis Falt, Ralph Volkie.

Born on this day – Rod Taylor:

Rod Taylor

Actor

January 11, 1930 – January 7, 2015

Credits:

22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2016); 36 Hours (1964); A Gathering of Eagles (1963); A Matter of Wife... and Death (1975); A Time to Die (1982); AFI Life Achievement Award (1973–1979); Alcoa Theatre (1960); All About 'the Birds' (2000); Ask Any Girl (1959); Bearcats! (1971); Biography (1998–2004); Bus Stop (1961); Catalina Island (1966); Cheyenne (1955); Chuka (1967); Colossus and the Amazon Queen (1960); Compression (2016); Cry of the Innocent (1980); Dark of the Sun (1968); Darker Than Amber (1970); Dateline: San Francisco (1962); Dee Time (1968); Disney's Halloween Treat (1984); Do Not Disturb (1965); El lado oscuro (2024); Every Girl's Dream (1966); Falcon Crest (1988–1990); Family Flight (1972); Fate Is the Hunter (1964); General Electric Theater (1957–1960); Giant (1956); Goodyear Theatre (1960); Gottschalk Late Night (1994); Grass Roots (1992); Half Nelson (1985); Hell on Frisco Bay (1955); Hellinger's Law (1981); Here's Hollywood (1961); Hollywood Remembers Lee Marvin (2000); Hong Kong (1960–1961); Hotel (1967); Il barone (1995); IMDb Originals (2019); Inglourious Basterds (2009); Inland with Sturt (1951); Into the Shadows (2009); ITV Television Playhouse (1963); Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (1981); John Wayne: Working with a Western Legend (2005); Kaw (2006); King of the Coral Sea (1954); Kraft Mystery Theater (1962); Legends (2007); Les Oiseaux Kaléidoscopiques d'Alfred Hitchcock (2017); Lionpower from MGM (1967); Long John Silver's Return to Treasure Island (1954); Lux Playhouse (1958); Lux Video Theatre (1955); Marbella, un golpe de cinco estrellas (1985); Mask of Murder (1988); Masquerade (1983–1984); Murder, She Wrote (1995); Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (2008); On the Run (1982); One Chance (1966); One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961); Open Season (1995); Operation Raintree (1957); Outlaws (1986–1987); Pacific Blue (1996); Palomino (1991); Partizani (1976); Playhouse 90 (1958–1959); Raintree County (1957); Robot Head (2023); Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches (2016); Rod Taylor: Return to Oz (2005); Schlitz Playhouse (1958); Sean O'Casey: The Spirit of Ireland (1965); Separate Tables (1958); Seven Seas to Calais (1962); Special Collector's Edition (2015); Step Down to Terror (1958); Studio 57 (1955); Studio One (1958); Sunday in New York (1963); Suspicion (1957); Tales of the Unexpected (1980); TCM Remembers 2015 / Music Video (2015); Terror in the Aisles (1984); The 18th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1961); The 20th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1963); The 24th Annual TV Week Logie Awards (1982); The 33th Annual Thalians Ball (1988); The 34th Annual Academy Awards (1962); The 67th Primetime Emmy Awards (2015); The Birds (1963); The Catered Affair (1956); The Celluloid Heroes (1995); The Deadly Trackers (1973); The DuPont Show of the Week (1962); The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal (1986); The Glass Bottom Boat (1966); The Hell with Heroes (1968); The Heroes (1973); The High Commissioner (1968); The Last Guerrilla (1974); The Late Show (1986); The Liquidator (1965); The Man Who Had Power Over Women (1970); The Merv Griffin Show (1984); The Movie Show (1997); The Oregon Trail (1976–1978); The Oscars (2015); The Osiris Chronicles (1998); The Picture Show Man (1977); The Point of Betrayal (1995); The Rack (1956); The Time Machine (1960); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1966); The Train Robbers (1973); The Treasure Seekers (1979); The Twilight Zone (1959); The V.I.P.s (1963); The Virgin Queen (1955); The Wayne Train (1973); This Is Your Life (1975); Time Machine: The Journey Back (1993); Top Gun (1955); Trader Horn (1973); True Fear: The Making of Psycho (2015); US Against the World (1977); Vortex (1976); Walker, Texas Ranger (1996–2000); Welcome to the Basement (2017); Welcome to Woop Woop (1997); Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1960); World Without End (1956); Young Cassidy (1965); Zabriskie Point (1970); Zane Grey Theatre (1960).

On this day in movie history - Do Not Disturb (1965)

Do Not Disturb

directed by Ralph Levy and George Marshall,

written by Richard L. Breen and Milt Rosen,

based on the play Some Other Love by William Fairchild,

was released in the United States on December 22, 1965.

Music by Lionel Newman and Alexander Courage.

Cast:

Doris Day, Rod Taylor, Hermione Baddeley, Sergio Fantoni, Reginald Gardiner, Maura McGiveney, Aram Katcher, Leon Askin, Lisa Perav, Michael Romanoff, Albert Carrier, Barbara Morrison, Dick Winslow, Raquel Welch, Britt Ekland.

Recommended reading:

 

Do Not Disturb

by Marvin H. Albert.

Novelization.

ASIN: B000CS3JSU

Published by Dell.

Published 1965.

Description:

Pleasure before business – and after!

“It is difficult to explain,” the Frenchman said. “You see, you are a wife.”

“Of course I am. So?”

“At the Paris business meeting, wives are not allowed.”

“Not allowed?” Janet took another look at all the Do Not Disturb signs. “Exactly what kind of business is this?”

Then, he told her…

Do Not Disturb.

Don’t miss the sensational Twentieth Century-Fox motion picture starring Doris Day and Rod Taylor.

On this day in movie history - Darker Than Amber (1970)

Darker Than Amber

directed by Robert Clouse,

written by Ed Waters,

based on the novel by John D. MacDonald,

was released in the United States on August 12, 1970.

Music by John Carl Parker.

Cast:

Rod Taylor, Theodore Bikel, Suzy Kendall, Ahna Capri, William Smith, Janet MacLachlan, Robert Phillips, Jane Russell, James Booth, Oswaldo Calvo, Sherry Faber, Marcia Knight, James H. Frysinger, Harry A. Wood, Jack Nagle, Judy Wallace, Michael DeBeausset, Jeff Gillen, Chris Robinson, Warren Bauer, Wayne Bauer, Don Schoff, Ted Swanson.

On this day in movie history - The Glass Bottom Boat (1966)

The Glass Bottom Boat

directed by Frank Tashlin,

written by Everett Freeman,

was released in the United States on June 9, 1966.

Music by Frank De Vol.

Cast:

Doris Day, Rod Taylor, Arthur Godfrey, John McGiver, Paul Lynde, Edward Andrews, Eric Fleming, Dom DeLuise, Elisabeth Fraser, Dick Martin, George Tobias, Alice Pearce, Ellen Corby, Dee J. Thompson, Robert Vaughn, Richard Alden, Don Anderson, Tom Anfinsen, Shirley Anthony, Ellen Atterbury, Bella Bruck, William Burnside, Boyd Cabeen, George Carlin, Regina Carrol, Pat Casella, Jerry Catron, Spencer Chan, George Cisar, Robert Cole, Bill Cord, John Dennis, Dick Dial, Dan Dowling, Ken DuMain, Roy Eason, Joe Evans, George Ford, James Gonzalez, M. Hakim, Florence Halop, Joe Haworth, Kathryn Janssen, Maurice Kelly, Richard Kindelon, Paul King, Jeff Lawrence, James Macklin, Mike Mahoney, Theodore Marcuse, Gregg Martell, Hans Moebus, Frank Parker, Joe Ploski, Murray Pollack, Christopher Riordan, Michael Romanoff, Rachel Romen, Jeffrey Sayre, Bernard Sell, George Simmons, Norman Stevans, Charles Stewart, Larry Strong, Blaine Turner, Leslie Vallen, Charles Victor, Carolyn Williamson.

On this day in movie history - The Birds (1963)

The Birds

directed by Alfred Hitchcock,

written by Evan Hunter,

based on the short story by Daphne du Maurier,

was released in the United States on March 28, 1963.

Cast:

Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette, Tippi Hedren, Veronica Cartwright, Ethel Griffies, Charles McGraw, Ruth McDevitt, Lonny Chapman, Joe Mantell, Doodles Weaver, Malcolm Atterbury, John McGovern, Karl Swenson, Richard Deacon, Elizabeth Wilson, Bill Quinn, Doreen Lang, Morgan Brittany, Darlene Conley, Valerie Ferdin, Betsy Hale, Alfred Hitchcock, Dal McKennon, Mike Monteleone, Bob Morgan, Renn Reed, Arnold Roberts, Jeannie Russell, Bill Scully, Rory Stevens, Tomm Wells, Mitch Zanich.