{"id":1282,"date":"2009-09-21T10:00:41","date_gmt":"2009-09-21T17:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/?p=1282"},"modified":"2009-09-21T10:00:41","modified_gmt":"2009-09-21T17:00:41","slug":"arnold-laven-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/?p=1282","title":{"rendered":"Arnold Laven, R.I.P."},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href='http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/arnoldlaven.jpg' title='arnoldlaven.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/arnoldlaven.jpg' alt='arnoldlaven.jpg' \/><\/a><br \/>\nProducer- Director Arnold Laven has passed on. He&#8217;s responsible for a large amount of influential film and television. I just read a great interview with him the other day. It was done for the Noir City Sentinel, the newsletter of the Film Noir Foundation and you can read it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmnoirfoundation.org\/arnoldlaven.pdf\">here<\/a>. I was so impressed with this interview I ordered the DVD of Laven&#8217;s directorial debut, 1952&#8217;s <em>Without Warning<\/em>, one of the first serial killer pictures and full of great Los Angeles location photography. I will post about it once I get it. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href='http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/without_warning_title.jpg' title='without_warning_title.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/without_warning_title.jpg' alt='without_warning_title.jpg' \/><\/a><br \/>\nBesides his great film noir work Laven was in a large way responsible for two giant Western television sagas, <em>The Rifleman<\/em> and <em>The Big Valley<\/em>. Both big sources of inspiration for a generation of filmmakers including Quentin Tarantino who has expressed as much to me. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href='http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/rifle.jpg' title='rifle.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/rifle.jpg' alt='rifle.jpg' \/><\/a><br \/>\nHe also directed Tim Holt&#8217;s last picture <em>The Monster That Challenged The World<\/em>, Laven and Holt met many years earlier on the set of <em>The Arizona Ranger<\/em> and became good friends. He talked Holt out of retirement to make this SciFi \/Horror movie. It has a gripping scene of a woman and a young girl trapped in a closet as the monster breaks through the door to get them. Check it out.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href='http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/1525601705_44f2a71973_o1.jpg' title='1525601705_44f2a71973_o1.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/1525601705_44f2a71973_o1.jpg' alt='1525601705_44f2a71973_o1.jpg' \/><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Producer- Director Arnold Laven has passed on. He&#8217;s responsible for a large amount of influential film and television. I just read a great interview with him the other day. It was done for the Noir City Sentinel, the newsletter of the Film Noir Foundation and you can read it here. I was so impressed with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,7,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}