Robert Mitchum Movies: The Yakuza surprising casting and effectively cast against type in David Lean’s troubled Ryan’s Daughter with Sarah Miles.
Franklin J. Schaffner
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Hiroshima Bombing Anniversary: 6 Must-See Movies Dealing with the A-Bomb Terror from around the world including 2 post-WWII Hollywood films.
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Veterans Day Movies: Good, Bad and Worse from Patton to The Sullivans (whose story inspired Saving Private Ryan) and subversive Pride of the Marines.
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Gore Vidal Controversial Movies: Gay Ben-Hur Subtext?
5 minutes readGore Vidal movies: The Best Man, Caligula, Suddenly Last Summer. (Image: A young Gore Vidal.) Author, playwright, screenwriter, acerbic storyteller, and political commentator Gore Vidal died on July 31 at …
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Gay Blackmail Stories: Victim + The Best Man
12 minutes readSylvia Syms, Dirk Bogarde in Basil Dearden’s Victim. 30 Rock‘s Tracy Morgan is in the news today because of viciously anti-gay remarks he made while performing a comedy routine in …
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Sex Scandals & Politics
10 minutes readWeird stuff happened at the most recent MTV Movie Awards ceremony: Justin Timberlake grabbed Mila Kunis’ breasts, Mila Kunis grabbed Justin Timberlake’s crotch, Robert Pattinson kissed Taylor Lautner instead of …
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Henry Fonda Movies: The Wrong Man + The Lady Eve
5 minutes readHenry Fonda, like James Stewart and Gary Cooper, was one of the prototypical “All-American” actors of the studio era. But if you believe that Fonda’s generally one-dimensional characters represented the …
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Nicholas and Alexandra (1971) review: The last of the Romanovs are at the center of William Friedkin’s lavish but conventional historical drama.
Oscar curse? Two-time Best Actress Luise Rainer remembers In Mason Wiley and Damien Bona’s Inside Oscar, Luise Rainer is quoted as saying the following about winning back-to-back Best Actress Academy …
Gregory Peck Movies: The Paradine Case + Roman Holiday
Gregory Peck movies Sunday, Aug. 3, highlights on Turner Classic Movies: TCM’s “Summer Under the Stars” film series continues with a day dedicated to Gregory Peck, one of the most underrated …