LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Sterling Hayden: Beautiful Man
built 676 days ago
Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden), a psychotic general obsessed with Commies and bodily fluids, triggers a possible nuclear confrontation in Stanley Kubrick's landmark satire, which turns the entire concept of global annihilation into mad black comedy. Peter Sellers stars in three roles: the mild-mannered U.S. president; a British officer held prisoner by the insane general; and the title character, an ex-Nazi scientist. George C. Scott, Slim Pickens, Keenan Wynn, Peter Bull and James Earl Jones (in his film debut) co-star. Screenplay by Kubrick, Terry Southern and Peter George. This is a fully restored, remastered, ultra-high-resolution digital presentation. Read More About the 4K Digital Restoration
Source:
In late 1960, Hayden met and married another woman, Catherine (Kitty) McConnell. McConnell seems to have understood Hayden more than his past wives and the two remained together until his death in 1986. By this time, Hayden was taking on fewer acting roles. However, he did take on a couple of notable roles including the lead in a John Frankenheimer adaptation of William Faulkner’s The Old Man (Hayden was so terrified of the live aspect of television that he began fasting to calm his nerves), and a towering performance as Colonel Jack D. Ripper in Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove. Hayden’s beautiful psychotic Ripper was largely influenced, again, by his inability to feel comfortable on Kubrick’s set. “My father had to do one scene about 40 times.” Says son, Andrew, “He couldn’t get the scene right, but Kubrick said that’s what he wanted, the terror and intensity.” Ironically, Hayden’s Ripper was a fanatical anti-communist convinced that the communist had infiltrated the drinking water of America.
Source:
The use of flashbacks to interrupt the linear, forward-moving narrative was a source of concern for many people -- including Sterling Hayden's agent -- and United Artists were slow in releasing The Killing. But it's this very technique that marks the film as different from its predecessors. While the technique is common today -- especially in television drama, where the Master Scene often involves cutaways to a parallel present or the past -- it was perceived as confusing, and anti-dramatic.
Source:
Im Januar 1959 erreichte Haydens geschiedene Frau eine Gerichtsanordnung (court order), der zufolge Hayden die Kinder nicht aus Kalifornien bringen durfte. Hayden plante daraufhin offiziell eine Segeltour mit der Wanderer von San Francisco nach Südkalifornien; tatsächlich aber stellte er aus Freunden und über Zeitungsanzeigen eine gut 20 Mann starke Besatzung zusammen und brach im Januar 1959 mit ihr und seinen Kindern nach Tahiti auf. Seine geschiedene Frau alarmierte die US-Küstenwache, weil das Schiff angeblich nicht seetüchtig sei, und brachte über ihre Rechtsanwälte vor Gericht Anklagen von Entführung bis zur Verschwörung zur Missachtung des Gerichts (contempt of court) vor.[1] Die Wanderer, die ohnehin kein Funkgerät an Bord hatte,[6] erreichte jedoch unbehelligt Tahiti. 1960 kehrte Hayden an die Westküste der USA zurück und verkaufte kurz nach seiner Ankunft den Schoner.
Source:
By that point Hayden had already led at least several spectacular, incident-packed lives. He ran away from home as a teen to become a sailor and sailed the world many times. When he hooked up with Paramount as a handsome young man the studio tried to sell the strapping, 6'5 behemoth as "The Most Beautiful Man In Movies" and "The Beautiful Blond Viking God". During World War II he parachuted into Croatia and won the Silver Star.
Source:
It might help to have a little perspective on this time in history regarding Hayden. He himself had attended Communist party meetings for about six months in 1946 after having fought with Tito's Communist forces against the Germans in the war, and had friends in the party. Realizing the party had nothing to offer to anyone in the U.S., he stopped going. In 1951 was forced into testifing as a ' friendly witness' by the FBI for having been involved. McCarthy was denounced by congress for his shameful actions that ruined the lives of many innocent people. McCarthy may have had the right idea, but went way over the top.
Source:
MORE ABOUT
Beautiful Man