Don Siegel at Film Forum
by Andre Soares
Elliott Stein in The Village Voice: "Don Siegel was the outstanding American action director of his generation, a worthy successor to Raoul Walsh and Howard Hawks. His finest work is to be found in a series of male-oriented picturestough and tight thrills, Westerns, war movies, noirs. It’s an oeuvre that would be unthinkable in today’s Hollywood, consisting as it does of stylish but unpretentious mainstream films made with intelligence and vitality."
From March 17 through April 13, New York City’s Film Forum will be showing a series of Don Siegel films, including the absurd but moderately entertaining chase thriller The Big Steal (1949), starring Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, William Bendix, and silent-film heartthrob Ramon Novarro; Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954), which was shot at Folsom Prison; one-of-a-kind sci-fi thriller Invasion of the Body 
Snatchers (1956), with Kevin McCarthy and Dana Wynter at their paranoid best; Baby Face Nelson (1957), starring Mickey Rooney; the Elvis Presley Western Flaming Star (1960); The Killers (1964), a made-for-TV film, starring Lee Marvin, John Cassavetes, Angie Dickinson, and Ronald Reagan, that was deemed too violent for the little screen and was thus shown in theaters; and several Clint Eastwood vehicles, including the iconic Dirty Harry (1971).
Some of the films will be screened in new 35mm prints. The full schedule is here.
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