Richard Boone and Steve Ihnat in Kona Coast (1968)

This is the final come-uppance scene for the hero (Richard Boone as Sam Moran) and the villain (Steve Ihnat as Kryder). Steve is responsible for the death of a young woman, and Moran intends to have revenge.



I know it's foolish to rail against the action of a TV show made 40 years ago (or indeed, of any TV show, since of course by definition it's on film and can't be fixed!) but I must say it's always annoying when the villain acts really stupidly, which is the only reason why they end up getting captured or killed in the end.

It happened to Steve Ihnat in The Blue Light, when he runs away from Robert Goulet even though he's got a perfectly serviceable knife, and it happens here, when instead of plunking Richard Boone with his spear gun, he tries to run away....only to be cut off by Boone and... well - you'll see.
Grr.

I love Ihnat's vocal delivery in this, somewhat reminiscent of his vocal inflections in Mannix: Endgame... but how he could let Boone sneak up on him.... silly!

FBI: The Escape

With Steve Ihnat and Ann Baxter, along with that Efrem Zimbalist jr. guy

Steve Ihnat in The Highest Fall of All

Steve has a supporting role in this episode of the anthology series Chrysler Theater, which starred Stuart Whitman as an actor/stuntman obsessed on performing the greatest stunt of his career. Steve plays his friend and sidekick.

Mission Impossible: Steve Ihnat in "Amnesiac"

Well...part 1 of Steve Ihnat's appearances in this episode. The IMForce tries to find out where Steve has hidden a stolen substance called "trevanium." Paris (Leonard Nimoy) plays his accomplish whom Steve had shot and left for dead...who now has returned (with a new face, obviously - plastic surgery) but who can't remember anything. Anthony Zerbe plays Steve's superior who is lookng for the trevanium. The woman whom Steve is so attracted to is a member of the IMForce.

I call this Part 4....

Steve Ihnat / Garth of Izar ringtones

I've been playing around with ringtones and came up with these...

Star Trek: Whom Gods Destroy
Kirk as Garth throws a tantrum
Gentlemen. Courtesy for the performer
Queen to Queen's Level Three, Captain Kirk
By the way, I assume you play chess
Queen's Level Three with music

William Powell as Philo Vance Chats with William Powell as Nick Charles

There was a Sherlock Holmes movie marathon on last night, and I set my DVD-r to record it while I went to bed. Imagine my delight today when, as I watched the movies, I came across this.... I don't know if it's technically a trailer or a short or what.... for one of my favorite movies, The Thin Man, starring one of my favorite actors, William Powell.

Lois Nettleton in Bracken's World: The Nude Scene

Below are 7 clips featuring Steve Ihnat and Lois Nettleton in Bracken's World: The Nude Scene. There are no nude scenes in any of the clips, I hasten to add!

I get quite a few hits on the Bracken's World page of my Steve Ihnat website tribute, from people searching specifically for Lois Nettleton. Indeed, I enjoyed her in her many performances, meself. Her most popular episodes are from the Twilight Zone, and the Golden Girls (in her early 60s but looking 40!).

Anyway, she appeared in an episode of Bracken's World with Steve Ihnat, called The Nude Scene. She plays a married actress who worries about how such a role will impact her two little children - a boy and a girl, and her husband. Meantime, Steve Ihnat plays an actor a leetle bit past his prime, who is also worried about playing a nude scene. (And just a year later, Lois would work with Steve again, except he'd be directing her from behind the camera in the movie The Honkers, which starred James Coburn. One wonders if the movie might have been more successful with a more accessible name, like Rodeo Cowboy or something! But I digress.)

This was 1970, when the nudity of women in American films wasn't as ubiquitous as it is today. (Although, interestingly, in the trailer for Madigan, which starred Richard Widmark and had Steve Ihnat as the villain, a woman's breasts are seen, briefly. And this was in the trailer! I dont' think they could do that today, although they do show a lot of disgusting things in trailers...usually from horror films. I don't think horror film trailers should be shown before PG-rated movies!)