The Richard Boone Show (TV Series) The Hooligan (1964) User Reviews

Response to earlier review

[dcdete · 7/10 · 1 March 2023]

Sorry to hear you didn't think this was a better story. This was actually based upon a play by Anton Chekhov called the Bear: A Joke in One Act. Which at the time was quite popular and made Anton a good deal of money. This is the only Richard Boone Show that was nominated in 1964 for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing Achievement in Drama - Adaptation. Although it didn't win. Note there were two other Emmy nominations for outstanding single performance by an actress by Bethel Leslie in Episode 1 and Jeanette Nolan in Episode 7.

So I need 64 more characters! Somehow I can see why Lewis Milestone chose a fun Chekhov play as his swansong as this came at the end of his directional career. He went out leave them laughing.

Comedy western

[searchanddestroy-1 · 31 December 2015]

This kind of comedy western looks like a Burt Kennedy's film. I would have expected a better story, not this light western yarn. I waited for better than this, even if this is funny and entertaining. So far, this is the only deception of this show. I was not used by this since I began. But, once more, Richard Boone proves he's better than ever, even in a comedy, convincing at the most. I don't understand the title, why THE HOOLIGAN? I don't get it. I would not have bet a dime on the director: Lewis Milestone, the greatest war film maker Hollywood had ever known. He made some TV stuff, very few, and I am really surprised that he gave us this comedy which, I repeat, would have been for Burt Kennedy instead. I would have better seen Sid Landfield or Mitch Leisen, not Lew Milestone for God's sake. You can watch it, but don't dare comparing with the other episodes of this show. Please.