--30-- revisited

 

Los Angeles Times file photo

Jack Webb, William Conrad and James Bell in a scene from "--30--".

Howard Decker, formerly of the Examiner, writes:

Regarding Jack Webb's film --30-- you are right. Webb made a copy of the Examiner city room at the film studio. I worked in this city room for years and knew it well.

There were two small mistakes in the film version. In the real Ex city room there was a spike where people put wire copy for the managing editor. In the studio set, the spike looks different than the one in real life. I forget the other mistake.

Otherwise, it is an amazing copy of the real thing. In the film David Nelson (Ricky Nelson's older brother) plays a copy boy. That could have been me (I was kind of a goof off at the time) although I admit Nelson has me in the good looks department. Such is life.

Comments

[Joe]

I guess you finally ran out of pictues of Nancy Valentine

[Gabe]

Wonder if "--30--" is commercially available anywhere. How about "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians?" Funny how that film didn't draw protests and we'd have to wait another 20 years for "Silent Night, Deadly Night" to do that.