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…
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2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: Stanley Kubrick SCREENWRITER: Arthur C. Clarke, Stanley Kubrick FILM STARS: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter, Leonard Rossiter, Margaret Tyzack, Robert Beatty, Sean Sullivan, Douglas Rain, Frank Miller, Edwina Carroll, Penny Brahms, Heather Downham … Continue reading
THE MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER (1982)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: George Miller SCREENWRITER: John Dixon, Cul Cullen FILM STARS: Kirk Douglas, Tom Burlinson, Terence Donovan, Sigrid Thornton, Jack Thompson, Tony Bonner, Chris Haywood, Gus Mercurio, Tommy Dysart, Bruce Kerr, David Bradshaw, June Jago, Lorraine Bayly, Kristopher … Continue reading
THE PANIC IN NEEDLE PARK (1971)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: Jerry Schatzberg SCREENWRITER: Joan Didion, John Gregory Dunne FILM STARS: Al Pacino, Kitty Winn, Alan Vint, Richard Bright, Kiel Martin, Michael McClanathan, Warren Finnerty, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Raúl Juliá, Angie Ortega, Larry Marshall, Joe Santos, Paul … Continue reading
REACH FOR THE SKY (1956)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: Lewis Gilbert SCREENWRITER: Lewis Gilbert, Vernon Harris (additional scenes) FILM STARS: Kenneth More, Muriel Pavlow, Lyndon Brook, Lee Patterson, Alexander Knox, Dorothy Alison, Michael Warre, Nigel Green, Eric Pohlmann, Michael Gough, Anton Diffring COUNTRY: Britain THIS … Continue reading
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA (1978)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: Richard A. Colla and, Alan J. Levi SCREENWRITER: Glen A. Larson FILM STARS: Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict, Lorne Greene, Herbert Jefferson Jr., Maren Jensen, Tony Swartz, Noah Hathaway, Terry Carter, Lew Ayres, Wilfrid Hyde-White, John Colicos, … Continue reading
NIGHT PASSAGE (1957)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: James Neilson SCREENWRITER: Borden Chase FILM STARS: James Stewart, Audie Murphy, Dan Duryea, Dianne Foster, Elaine Stewart, Brandon deWilde, Jay C. Flippen, Herbert Anderson, Robert J. Wilke, Hugh Beaumont, Jack Elam, Tommy Cook, Paul Fix, Olive … Continue reading
THE SECRET WAYS (1961)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: Phil Karlson SCREENWRITER: Jean Hazlewood FILM STARS: Richard Widmark, Sonja Ziemann, Charles Régnier, Walter Rilla, Senta Berger, Howard Vernon, Heinz Moog, Hubert von Meyerinck, Oskar Wegrostek, Stefan Schnabel, Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel, Helmut Janatsch. COUNTRY: USA THIS BOOK … Continue reading
ST TRINIAN’S (2007)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: Oliver Parker and Barnaby Thompson SCREENWRITER: Piers Ashworth and Nick Moorcroft FILM STARS: Talulah Riley, Rupert Everett, Jodie Whittaker, Gemma Arterton, Kathryn Drysdale, Juno Temple, Antonia Bernath, Amara Karan, Tamsin Egerton, Lily Cole, Paloma Faith, Holli … Continue reading
MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY (1962)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: Lewis Milestone SCREENWRITER: Charles Lederer FILM STARS: Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, Richard Harris, Hugh Griffith, Richard Haydn, Tarita Teriipaia, Matahiarii Tama, Percy Herbert, Duncan Lamont, Gordon Jackson, Chips Rafferty, Noel Purcell, Ashley Cowan, Eddie Byrne, Tim … Continue reading
TERMINATOR 3 – THE RISE OF THE MACHINES (2003)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: Jonathan Mostow SCREENWRITER: John Brancato, Michael Ferris FILM STARS: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl, Kristanna Loken, Claire Danes, David Andrews, Mark Famiglietti, Earl Boe, Jay Acovone COUNTRY: USA THIS BOOK AUTHOR: David Hagberg TYPE: Novelisation PUBLISHER: Tom … Continue reading
yep re Kirk … no one pushes Kirk around. His Bryna Production Company was involved with (partially funded) POG ..and…