Tony Burton

Barry Nelson played Jimmy Bond in that 1954 TV adaptation of Casino Royale, so we're getting closer and closer to completing the cast of that initial Bond adaptation.

While the interview gets underway, we cut back to Jack's wife Wendy and son Danny in their apartment back in Denver, where Danny doesn't seem especially enthused about spending the winter at the hotel, and his imaginary friend Tony seems downright upset at the notion.

Tony is represented by a slightly squeaky voice and Danny rhythmically raising and lowering his index finger in time with Tony's speech, and this is somewhat characteristic of one of King's complaints about the film.

While the original novel establishes early and often that Danny's supernatural abilities are real and powerful, Kubrick plays all the supernatural aspects slightly closer to the vest and brings you in with examples that can be explained away before finally settling on an answer.

It's not that he doesn't think what's going on is actually psychic powers and ghosts and everything else that makes the Overlook so weird and deadly, it's that he wants you to find that conclusion yourself instead of having it pressed upon you.

And the score, by composer Wendy Carlos and Rachel Elkind, is an absolute tone-setter for 80s horrors.

It feels like a close cousin to John Carpenter's chilly synth music, and it gives the whole thing an icy and ominous vibe throughout.

Back in Denver, Tony tells Danny his dad has the job and tries to convince him to warn his parents about the dangers of the hotel by giving him a vision of what's going to happen if they spend the winter there.

One of the bobbies? Interesting.

Tony Burton was in it.

Tony B- who?

From Rocky.

I know-

Apollo's man, right?

I know who Tony Burton is.

What...

I guess the closest analogy would be if you were to visit North Korea today, this is exactly what you would get.

And we're seeing Duke actually, you know, what's funny, Tony Burton, the late great Tony Burton, he was actually a really accomplished chess player.

So I like the fact that they gave him a scene of him actually beating one of these Russian guys in chess.

The Duke motivational speech that he gives Rocky here.

So it was easy for me to play myself, but as far as acting, I wouldn't want to do it.

So Tony Burton, who played in the Rocky movies as Apollo's trainer, he was in Side Out.

Did you cross

paths with him at all? No, but I crossed paths with Gianni Russo.

He was from John Wayne's The Searchers.

Tony Burton was Duke from Rocky.

Basically because he actually done time for robbery before himself in real life.

And the running gag got a smoke.

Yes.

Um, but the other one for The Toy, a meme getting emotional and crying 'cause Tony Burton is getting-

Oh, my man.

Oh, Tony Burton was-

Oh, my God.

Yeah.

Rick McCord and John Paul beat Larry Rott and Keith Robertson.

The Ninja, who is Tony Burton, beat Pat Tanaka.

Tracy Smothers beat boy Tony, who is, again, that was Tony Falk doing a boy George gimmick.

And Tracy Smothers won the Mid-America title in that match.

I think so.

Tony Burton's

right behind him though, right?

Yeah.

And I thought he was great in this.

He actually, he did appear in six Rocky movies more than anyone else besides Stallone and Tony Burton, who just happened to be Apollo's trainer, who maybe has one line in this or a couple, but gets a little bit more in future movies.

But this is another fantastic example of a character that could have been one dimensional.

He could have just been the angry drunk brother.