HANK GOES FISHING

Year Published: 1960

Format: 16mm

Description: Written by Clint Comerford and directed by Austin Green, and with a score by John Bath, this Southern Arizona travelogue "Hank Goes Fishing" features venerable character actor Lindsay Workman, Richard Reeves and Tom Myers. The film takes viewers on an eccentric Model T Ford tour of Southern Arizona including Tucson. At 1:46 is the San Xavier Mission and a painted burro (3:17) set up for photography. Parts of the Tohono-Odham (aka Papago ) reservation are also shown. At 4:24 are shots of Nogales, Mexico and Nogales, Arizona as well as the border (4:41). There are great street scenes in Nogales at 4:58 including various local businesses such as Maya de Mexico, the Red Horse, Via Veneto, and more. A Mariachi type band plays at 6:15. At 9:17 Hank arrives in Tombstone where you will see the famous Boot Hill Cemetery (10:50), the Birdcage Theater and the O.K. Corral. At 10:37 a gunfight for tourists is staged. At 12:12 is an aerial of Douglas, Arizona including the huge copper smelter. At 17:19 Rex Allen Days are celebrated in Willcox, Arizona. At 18:52 the Model T Ford drives through a pine forest.At 20:17 the Roosevelt Dam is shown on the Salt River. At 21:14 the Pima Plaza shopping area in old town Scottsdale is shown including Lulu Belle's Restaurant at 23:57. At 24:45 a dude ranch hotel with a swimming pool and sunbathers is shown along with horse riders. At 25:20 Wickenburg is shown including at 25:35 the Route 66 main street. More horseback riding is shown at 26:52. At 28:34 square dancing is shown at a western hoe down. At 29:15 is an aerial view of Yuma on the Colorado River. At 29:29 the territorial prison is seen. C. Lindsay Workman was a character and voice actor who had a career in film and television that started in the 1950s and continued until the early 1990s. He has over 100 credits. One of his earliest roles was in the television series, Blondie, playing the part of Mr. Knapp in the episode "Howdy Neighbor" in 1957. Also that year, he appeared in the series Sergeant Preston of the Yukon, In the late 1960s, he had a reoccurring role as Reverend Adams in Here Come the Brides. During the 1970s, he had a reoccurring role in the series Julia as Otto Brockmeyer. He had a part in the Paul Wendkos made-for-television film, The Five of Me which was released in 1981.Workman was seen on such programs as Perry Mason, Bonanza, Bewitched, The Donna Reed Show, The Twilight Zone, The Brady Bunch, The Partridge Family, Here Come the Brides, Police Woman, Owen Marshall and The Young and the Restless.

Complete Record: Written by Clint Comerford and directed by Austin Green, and with a score by John Bath, this Southern Arizona travelogue "Hank Goes Fishing" features venerable character actor Lindsay Workman, Richard Reeves and Tom Myers. The film takes viewers on an eccentric Model T Ford tour of Southern Arizona including Tucson. At 1:46 is the San Xavier Mission and a painted burro (3:17) set up for photography. Parts of the Tohono-Odham (aka Papago ) reservation are also shown. At 4:24 are shots of Nogales, Mexico and Nogales, Arizona as well as the border (4:41). There are great street scenes in Nogales at 4:58 including various local businesses such as Maya de Mexico, the Red Horse, Via Veneto, and more. A Mariachi type band plays at 6:15. At 9:17 Hank arrives in Tombstone where you will see the famous Boot Hill Cemetery (10:50), the Birdcage Theater and the O.K. Corral. At 10:37 a gunfight for tourists is staged. At 12:12 is an aerial of Douglas, Arizona including the huge copper smelter. At 17:19 Rex Allen Days are celebrated in Willcox, Arizona. At 18:52 the Model T Ford drives through a pine forest.At 20:17 the Roosevelt Dam is shown on the Salt River. At 21:14 the Pima Plaza shopping area in old town Scottsdale is shown including Lulu Belle's Restaurant at 23:57. At 24:45 a dude ranch hotel with a swimming pool and sunbathers is shown along with horse riders. At 25:20 Wickenburg is shown including at 25:35 the Route 66 main street. More horseback riding is shown at 26:52. At 28:34 square dancing is shown at a western hoe down. At 29:15 is an aerial view of Yuma on the Colorado River. At 29:29 the territorial prison is seen. C. Lindsay Workman was a character and voice actor who had a career in film and television that started in the 1950s and continued until the early 1990s. He has over 100 credits. One of his earliest roles was in the television series, Blondie, playing the part of Mr. Knapp in the episode "Howdy Neighbor" in 1957. Also that year, he appeared in the series Sergeant Preston of the Yukon, In the late 1960s, he had a reoccurring role as Reverend Adams in Here Come the Brides. During the 1970s, he had a reoccurring role in the series Julia as Otto Brockmeyer. He had a part in the Paul Wendkos made-for-television film, The Five of Me which was released in 1981.Workman was seen on such programs as Perry Mason, Bonanza, Bewitched, The Donna Reed Show, The Twilight Zone, The Brady Bunch, The Partridge Family, Here Come the Brides, Police Woman, Owen Marshall and The Young and the Restless.

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[Music] [Applause] they built out here from the desert sands up to the mountain snow when the vote would just go cattle trails and not a tow truck near still now aren't afraid to deep-fry doubt it be tired why of all the insults a quote excuse me it's it's me yeah some folks call me Henry but my friends call me hate they didn't really retire no sir they didn't dear Oh prospector named chuckwalla Charlie came along and bought me right after he'd struck it rich then he got fancied up and we went fishing no no no no no not that way he wasn't fishing he just got lost and fell in the pool but that was a day we started our trip right out of 200 Charlie got about as much dignity as a wildcat being baptized now I'm a 4 cylinder clothesline [Music] you know I really do think this old coots been out in the Sun too long tying me up with a rope and halters though I was a perette this is the Santa beard out Bock mission first built about three hundred years ago the indians call it the white dove of the dish now some hostile Indians burned it down the Padres started rebuilding about 1785 from 13 years to finishing without no government loan neither a Padres has lived here like brother Bonaventure there for a friendly type of coke but they still built the walls nine feet thick [Music] now is he going [Music] but never talked about a mailman taking a walk on his day or while who dips his get man's picture took let's look around so these are some of the engines who live near the mission [Music] she's making corn cake same as her ancestor did hundreds of years ago father Kino helped found some of the first missions walked along the same route we're gonna take from Tucson Dan the Gauss [Music] there's a Nogales Sonora and Old Mexico Nogales Arizona in the United States with only a line between this is the new library on the Arizona south [Music] let's cross over to Old Mexico for a fireman [Music] we United States citizens don't need no passports papers except money a female with a shop a nerd and this is the place and here you can try out your high school Spanish [Music] [Applause] [Music] yep this is a real foreign country visit all right but we gotta move on so it's back home to the States for us now what's the matter what why you brass-bound bureaucrat what do you mean I'm no US citizen I was born in the United States afore you were now if you wanna question old Charlie's only now go ahead but me [Music] you can get some mighty fine entertainment right in the city park here in Nogales this is a Sinaloa band from way south and Old Mexico up here to play for the holidays [Music] imagine the nerve or that galled turned quarter inspector say and I weren't no US citizen finally told Charlie it was okay I was an antique now look I've been around for a while alright but I'm no antique yet I've been on every road they build out here from the desert sands up to the mountains snow when the roads were just old cattle trails and not a tow truck near still aren't afraid to get right out and or nowadays these fancy roads are often fail and cars are built to see how fast they'll go and drivers brag about their speed and all the time they say but where they did not one will ever know these be dismissed the scenery wins right by the greenery all they see is that big hill they gotta climb goldurn hurry with this curry scurry scurry sometimes I think my life being whispered and my transmissions pretty fur from automatic headlamps we'll just barely make a glow but though my chassis has sciatica and I steer a bit erratic [Music] sorry is he like [Music] [Music] no wonder we're in Tombstone probably one of the most written about towns in America and the most famous place in tombstone is the OK Corral it's just down the street here [Music] Hey don't believe me I'm too young to die I don't mind somebody by Shinji but this is ridiculous [Music] fourteen shots at me and they all went between the spokes taking that fight of course it was only a gag the shells was blanks and the marshals and the bandits were being acted out by the vigilantes and poses for the tourists I knew it all the time I guess the real winner was scared reminds me of the epitaph for one of them hypochondriac fellows died hundred and five and on his grave marker was written he I told ya I was sick bird cage theatre was one of the liveliest places the Old West every saw it if you're around at the right time you too can be part of the pets [Music] the futures in these parts to Bisbee Arizona Center one of the richest copper deposits known [Music] he couldn't tell it now but Bisbee Arizona was second only to Tombstone as a rip-roaring boom [Music] less than 25 miles away from Bisbee is the town of Douglas the fourth largest city in Arizona and still growing fast smeller's turned out a powerful lot of copper that's been used for everything millions of miles of electric wire the engine had been speaking engine this rock formation is called Cochise game named after one of the wiliest engines the white man ever had to face we're in the heart of the Chiricahua mountains stronghold of the Apache in the days of for my time now it's the chiricahua national monument and really something to see how's that for sculpture using only the wind Sun and rain now take the camels here some folks tried camels years ago knees part never caught on to with bad and what would have been real handy to have around watering much you go a long time without water if you believe it I'm thirsty tell me I'd know that voice anywhere it's the balancing rock where you just sit there a few thousand years more I'm going for some good old-fashioned I'm scented air like there is around Sapir but first I have to stop off in Wilcox Virginia Oh charlie he still keeps thinking I'm Virginia wish she kept to the main road I don't feel too well and I don't like to get too far from a mechanic when I begin today I knew I knew it I knew it I suppose he's looking for a handful of grass to get me started [Music] I coulda told him it was empty [Music] now wait a minute I use gas not that [Music] I'll get you close to me with our King [Music] Oh heat there's some engine law about giving taxes juice to a poor [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] if I live through this never again from now on nothing stronger than regular maybe just a a weave good indifference three musicals [Music] [Applause] and she's Willcox Arizona famous for cowboy don't so a crackerjack will be old horse show come rich hollandaise this is Rex's hometown he's one cowboy that made bronc busting pay off right [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] just smell Olympe nothing like the high country 14 the state of Arizona's got everything you want desert Wow I care for instance ever see a prettier trout stream [Music] hey that might be deep real deep the old fools gonna try it if anyone so much as mentions a flooded carburetor I'll hit him with my tire iron this is mighty good round here and her doing it and the polish to boot a party it was just a little joke of mine here's where the water from that comes from England Oh Roosevelt them the very first to the create Arizona water projects in fact first in the United States it's on the sovereign and furnishes water for pretty coefficient too but don't tell Oh child he might want to try it again with me is bait the way that guy is around water he could get wet in a mirage [Music] and speaking of me Roger some folks think they're seeing well when they get here to Scottsdale it's probably one of the fanciest Old West towns in the country how many times do I have to tell you my name is Hank it's a or what hey and I don't know what you get your shopping done and what get good Scottsdale's also the home of lots artists all kinds mostly folks who make things like the Flemish stained glass artist Floyd kiba's famous handbags for women or his special materials for fancied wretches [Music] and they're just plain artists with beard to turn out pictures I like this fellow know what is been probably one of them beautiful sunsets or maybe a gorgeous Desert Vista thing looks like he's finished let's take a peek that's a picture yeah I never looked that bad even after the run-in with that Maxwell in the middle of bogs flat Colorado in 1918 and you should have seen the other guy just look at that old codger if that's how the West was won that sure hate to see the loser he's coming down with souvenir itis will be this time maybe four pounds of assorted dorky something else practical [Music] I tell you this chuckle wall of Charlie's office feed come hunting season I won't dare poke my fender out of the garage [Music] I guess cars ain't the only ones got felon stations [Music] Carl I'll just have to learn that you can buy liquor for $0.50 a jug what dude here's just a place for him the dude ranch it's just another one of my little joke folks now if you're the kind of person that likes to Russia this is it [Music] there's lots of fine dude ranches around Scottsdale or if you like a different city you can find it when we convert named after Henry Wickenburg fella that missed a mule and found the fortune the rocky threw his mule was filled with gold naturally that caused more than a few folks to rush into the area and pretty soon a town sprung up named after the geezer what started it all then when the railroad came in the town really started to grow some of the old-timers like this little red schoolhouse still don't know they're old so they just carry on business as usual lots of memories left in this town they call this the jail tree story is the Dom folk didn't want to spend their money for a jail so all lawbreakers they're the ones who was caught was chained to the tree Wickenburg area claims the first dude ranch in the country and since then they've been springing up everywhere [Music] yes sir this year's the light women horseback ridin chuck wagon lunch [Music] come even sitting around the campfire before ESquared hands down to the meeting hall hey now what's old Charlie up to if he thinks I'm gonna miss the hole down okay Jenny this is the absolute limit what see you Semites well [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] by golly I feel better this morning must did me good to spend a long night from the head peered old Charlie till the lands Foreman were headed free leave it or not time was when Yuma was a seaport not much upon my time here to earn gospel boats used to come up the Colorado River all the way from the Gulf of California mighty wild times - in the old territorial prison was a busy place [Music] rivers too small for big boats evening but the waters turned the area around human into a ring garden especially known [Music] - mouths words my last boss this guy's flip well morons [Music] sorry old girl it's the only way to left well huh be cold Ernie he's trying to shoot me wait a minute look I ain't no Jenny my leg ain't broken all I need is it would bet mechanic Amy got me thinking I am a Jenny [Music] now I know how John Wayne felt in all their movies the few seconds and I've been on that big Speedway in the sky and heavens a young boss found me said he'd been chasing this for days he may drive me like a hot rod but at least he called me [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] yeah yes we're set for takeoff we're gonna make it on the dark maybe you'll forget that sleeping bag [Music] yeah I'll teach him a lesson once and for all [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music]


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