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…
Category Archives: Drama
WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (1966)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: Mike Nicolls SCREENWRITER: Ernest Lehman FILM STARS: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Dennis, Agnes Flanagan (uncredited), Frank Flanagan (uncredited) COUNTRY: USA THIS BOOK AUTHOR: Edward Albee TYPE: Play PUBLISHER: Penguin THIS EDITION PUBLISHED: 1984 … Continue reading
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 EDITION PUBLISHED: 1970 … 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
SONS AND LOVERS (1960)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: Jack Cardiff SCREENWRITER: Gavin Lambert, T.E.B. Clarke FILM STARS: Trevor Howard, Dean Stockwell, Wendy Hiller, Mary Ure, Heather Sears, Donald Pleasence. COUNTRY: Great Britain THIS BOOK AUTHOR: D.H. Lawrence TYPE: Novel PUBLISHER: Penguin THIS EDITION PUBLISHED: … Continue reading
POWER WITHOUT GLORY (1976)
THE FILM (Mini Series) DIRECTOR: Douglas Sharp, Keith Wilkes, David Zweck, Oscar Whitbread, John Gauci, Michael Ludbrook SCREENWRITER: Howard Griffiths, Cliff Green, Sonia Borg, Roger Simpson, Tom Hegarty, John Marti STARS: Martin Vaughan, Rosalind Speirs, John Wood, Heather Canning, Terence … Continue reading
THE ARRANGEMENT (1969)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: Elia Kazan SCREENWRITER: Elia Kazan FILM STARS: Kirk Douglas, Faye Dunaway, Deborah Kerr, Richard Boone, Hume Cronyn, Harold Gould, Michael Murphy, John Randolph Jones, Charles Drake, Barry Sullivan COUNTRY: USA THIS BOOK AUTHOR: Elia Kazan TYPE: … Continue reading
THE VIRGIN AND THE GYPSY (1970)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: Christopher Miles SCREENWRITER: Alan Plater FILM STARS: Joanna Shimkus, Franco Nero, Honor Blackman, Mark Burns, Fay Compton, Maurice Denham, Kay Walsh COUNTRY: Great Britain THIS BOOK AUTHOR: D.H. Lawrence TYPE: Novella PUBLISHER: Penguin THIS EDITION PUBLISHED: … Continue reading
DISCLOSURE (1994)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: Barry Levinson SCREENWRITER: Paul Attanasio FILM STARS: Michael Douglas, Demi Moore, Donald Sutherland, Caroline Goodall, Roma Maffia COUNTRY: USA THIS BOOK AUTHOR: Michael Crichton TYPE: Novel PUBLISHER: Arrow THIS EDITION PUBLISHED: 1994 COUNTRY: Australia COVER: Paperback … Continue reading
LIFE AT THE TOP (1965)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: Ted Kotcheff SCREENWRITER: Mordecai Richler FILM STARS: Laurence Harvey, Jean Simmons, Honor Blackman, Michael Craig, Donald Wolfit, Robert Morley, Margaret Johnston, Ambrosine Phillpotts, Nigel Davenport COUNTRY: Great Britain THIS BOOK AUTHOR: John Brain TYPE: Novel PUBLISHER: … Continue reading
TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT (1972)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: George Cukor SCREENWRITER: Jay Presson Allen, Hugh Wheeler FILM STARS: Maggie Smith, Alec McCowen, Louis Gossett Jr., Robert Stephens, Cindy Williams, Robert Flemyng, José Luis López Vázquez, Valerie White COUNTRY: USA THIS BOOK AUTHOR: Graham Greene … Continue reading
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yep re Kirk … no one pushes Kirk around. His Bryna Production Company was involved with (partially funded) POG ..and…