Flashing Spikes (1962)
October 4, 1962Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.

James Stewart
Slim Conway

Jack Warden
Comissioner

Patrick Wayne
Bill Riley

Edgar Buchanan
Crab Holman

Harry Carey, Jr.
Man in the Dugout

John Wayne
Marine Sergeant

Fred Astaire
Narrator

Tige Andrews
Gaby Lasalle

Stephanie Hill
Mary Riley

John Ford
Director

Jameson Brewer
Writer

Carleton Young
Rex Short

Willis Bouchey
Mayor

William H. Clothier
Director of Photography

Richard Belding
Editor

Charles Seel
Judge

John McCarthy Jr.
Set Decoration

Martin C. Bradfield
Set Decoration

Frank O'Rourke
Novel

Martin Obzina
Production Design

John Williams
Original Music Composer

Frank Baur
Associate Producer

Tony Martinelli
Editor
Details.
Wiki.
"Flashing Spikes" is a 1962 television play directed by John Ford and starring James Stewart, with a lengthy surprise appearance by John Wayne, billed in the credits as "Michael Morrison" (apparently based on Wayne's birth name "Marion Michael Morrison"). The hour-long drama revolving around a disgraced ex-baseball player (Stewart) was broadcast as an episode of the anthology series Alcoa Premiere hosted by Fred Astaire.
The script was based upon a novel by Frank O'Rourke and the supporting cast includes Jack Warden, Tige Andrews, Patrick Wayne, Don Drysdale, Vin Scully, Harry Carey, Jr., and Edgar Buchanan. The Director of Photography was William H. Clothier.
This show's director John Ford, actors James Stewart and John Wayne, and cinematographer William H. Clothier also filmed The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance together the same year. Ford and his cast had made a similar show earlier, with Ford directing a half-hour baseball television drama shown on Screen Director's Playhouse in 1955 with an almost identical motif, Rookie of the Year, also with Patrick Wayne as the phenomenal young player but with his father John Wayne, Vera Miles, and Ward Bond in the leads, all of whom Ford would direct in The Searchers the following year.
"Flashing Spikes" remains available for public viewing at the Paley Center for Media in New York City and Los Angeles.
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