No One Believed These Jack Elam Stories! Until They Watched This!

No One Believed These Jack Elam Stories! Until They Watched This! Jack Elam — the man with the most terrifying face in western history wasn't a gunfighter. He was an accountant who went blind staring at ledgers. From a copper mining town in Arizona to Sergio Leone's most iconic opening scene, Jack Elam lost an eye at a Boy Scout meeting, traded his bookkeeping career for Hollywood, and became the villain America loved to hate. He was killed by James Stewart five times, made a fly crawl across his dead eye for Once Upon a Time in the West, then reinvented himself as one of the funniest character actors of his generation. And almost nobody knows about his friendship with a dying boy named Mickey Hayes — a bond between two people the world called freaks. This is the story of the wound that became a fortune. What's your favorite Jack Elam moment? Drop it in the comments — we read every single one. Subscribe to Tinsel Town Legends for more stories from the golden age of Hollywood — the faces you never forgot, even when you never knew the name. #JackElam #WesternMovies #GoldenAgeHollywood #OnceUponATimeInTheWest #TinselTownLegends Chapters 0:00 The Fly on the Dead Eye 1:17 #10 — The Pencil 3:17 #9 — The Accountant Who Went Blind 4:35 #8 — The Bookkeeper's Bargain 5:54 #7 — One Real Jack 8:04 #6 — The Man James Stewart Killed Six Times 9:50 #5 — The Fly 12:46 #4 — The Sheriff's Deputy 14:52 #3 — The Boy Who Was Also Called a Freak 16:41 #2 — The Warmest Villain in the Room 17:57 #1 — I Drank Scotch and Played Poker Facts and stories used to write the script of this video are well-researched. The following references are used: Jack Elam — Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Elam Jack Elam Filmography — Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_El... Jack Elam Biography — IMDb https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001181/bio/ The Jack Elam Story — INSP https://www.insp.com/stories/the-jack... Jack Elam — Oregon Encyclopedia https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/ar... Jack Elam from Miami, Arizona — Globe Arizona https://globe-arizona.com/jack-elam-m... Once Upon a Time in the West — Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Up... Once Upon a Time in the West Trivia — IMDb https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064116/... Jack Elam and the Fly in Once Upon a Time in the West — P.O.V. Film Journal https://pov.imv.au.dk/Issue_24/sectio... Mickey Hays — Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_... The Aurora Encounter — Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Aur... Jack Elam — Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8... Golden Boot Awards — Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_... National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum — Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationa... Jack Elam — TCM https://www.tcm.com/articles/61292/ja... Jack Elam on Westerns, Auditing, Acting and That Fly — Ray Bennett https://thecliffedge.com/?p=10096 --- Tinsel Town Legends does not own all content featured in this video. All rights remain with the original copyright owners. We use portions of copyrighted material under Section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Act (Fair Use) for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. If you are the copyright owner and believe any content is used incorrectly, please contact us and we will promptly review the request. Viewers may also contact us if they see any problem in the content being used Contact Email: [email protected]