agreed re SH. His autobiography "Wanderer" is one of the best film star autobios I have read, and I have…
Sterling Hayden was a remarkable actor and a very interesting person. His cameo in Dr Strangelove was essential to the…
It is truly a boring, pretentious movie. I always found a good litmus test to weed out film w-kers was…
Bader was an arsehole by all accounts, though his story was remarkable. I read the book when I was a…
Monthly Archives: November 2022
MIDNIGHT COWBOY (1969)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: John Schlesinger SCREENWRITER: Waldo Salt FILM STARS: Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles, John McGiver, Brenda Vaccaro, Barnard Hughes, Bob Balaban COUNTRY: USA THIS BOOK AUTHOR: James Leo Herlihy TYPE: Novel PUBLISHER: panther THIS EDITIONÂ PUBLISHED: 1970 … Continue reading
MACKENNA’S GOLD (1969)
THE FILM DIRECTOR: J. Lee Thompson SCREENWRITER: Carl Foreman FILM STARS: Gregory Peck, Omar Sharif, Telly Savalas, Camilla Sparv, Keenan Wynn, Julie Newmar, Ted Cassidy, Lee J. Cobb, Raymond Massey, Burgess Meredith, Anthony Quayle, Edward G. Robinson, Eli Wallach, Eduardo … Continue reading
THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL (1978)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: Franklin J. Schaffner SCREENWRITER: Heywood Gould FILM STARS: Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, James Mason, Lilli Palmer, Uta Hagen, Steve Guttenberg, Denholm Elliott, Rosemary Harris, John Dehner, Anne Meara, Bruno Ganz, Michael Gough COUNTRY: USA THIS BOOK … Continue reading
WAKE IN FRIGHT (1971)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: Ted Kotcheff SCREENWRITER: Evan Jones, Ted Kotcheff FILM STARS: Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay, Jack Thompson, John Meillon, Norman Erskine, Slim DeGrey COUNTRY: Australia THIS BOOK AUTHOR: Kenneth Cook TYPE: Novel PUBLISHER: Penguin … Continue reading
yep re Kirk … no one pushes Kirk around. His Bryna Production Company was involved with (partially funded) POG ..and…