William Holden Articles
THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI on TCM
Alec Guinness, Sessue Hayakawa in David Lean's The Bridge on the River Kwai David Lean's 1957 blockbuster and multiple Oscar winner The Bridge on the River Kwai will be presented tonight at 5 p.m. PT on Turner Classic Movies. Many consider The Bridge on the River Kwai one of the greatest war movies ever made. Whether or not you agree with that assessment, Lean's war [...]
J.D. Salinger and the Movies
Upon learning of author J.D. Salinger's death at the age of 91, I immediately thought of Phil Alden Robinson's Academy Award-nominated 1989 drama Field of Dreams, in which Kevin Costner's character sets out to find a reclusive writer played by James Earl Jones. In W.P Kinsella's novel Shoeless Joe, the character is Salinger himself, but not surprisingly, the reclusive real-life Salinger refused to allow the [...]
Best Films – 1950
Simone Signoret, Gérard Philipe in La Ronde FILM All About Eve d, scr: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Annie Get Your Gun d: George Sidney; scr: Sidney Sheldon Caged d: John Cromwell; scr: Virginia Kellogg, Bernard Schoenfeld Harvey d: Henry Koster; scr: Mary C. Chase, Oscar Brodney King Solomon’s Mines d: Compton Bennett, Andrew Marton; scr: Helen Deutsch Madeleine d: David Lean; scr: Stanley Haynes, Nicholas Phipps [...]