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: War
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
THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDIATE (1962)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: John Frankenheimer SCREENWRITER: George Axelrod FILM STARS: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury, James Gregory, Henry Silva, Leslie Parrish, John McGiver, James Edwards, Douglas Henderson. Whit Bissell COUNTRY: USA THIS BOOK AUTHOR: Richard Condon … Continue reading
THE ENEMY BELOW (1957)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: Dick Powell SCREENWRITER: Wendell Mayes FILM STARS: Robert Mitchum, Curd Jürgens, Theodore Bikel, David Hedison, Russell Collins, Kurt Kreuger, Frank Albertson, Biff Elliot, Ralph Manza, Doug McClure, Darryl F. Zanuck COUNTRY: USA THIS BOOK AUTHOR: D.A. … Continue reading
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THE DEVIL’S BRIGADE (1968)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: Andrew V. McLaglen SCREENWRITER: William Roberts FILM STARS: William Holden, Cliff Robertson, Vince Edwards, Andrew Prine, Jeremy Slate, Claude Akins, Jack Watson, Richard Jaeckel, Bill Fletcher, Richard Dawson, Tom Troupe, Luke Askew, Jean-Paul Vignon, Tom Stern, … Continue reading
THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI (1957)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: David Lean SCREENWRITER: Carl Foreman. Michael Wilson FILM STARS: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald, Geoffrey Horne, André Morell, Percy Herbert COUNTRY: Great Britain / USA THIS BOOK AUTHOR: Pierre Boulle TYPE: … 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
MASH (1970)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: Robert Altman SCREENWRITER: Richard Hooker (H. Richard Hornberger and W. C. Heinz) FILM STARS: Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt, Sally Kellerman, Robert Duvall, Roger Bowen, René Auberjonois, Jo Ann Pflug , John Schuck, Carl Gottlieb, … Continue reading
THE OUTSIDER (1961)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: Delbert Mann SCREENWRITER: Stewart Stern FILM STARS: Tony Curtis, James Franciscus, Gregory Walcott, Bruce Bennett, Vivian Nathan, Edmund Hashim, Paul Comi, Ralph Moody COUNTRY: USA THIS BOOK AUTHOR: William Bradford Huie TYPE: Biography PUBLISHER: Panther THIS … Continue reading
A FAREWELL TO ARMS (1966)
THE FILM (Mini Series) DIRECTOR: Rex Tucker SCREENWRITER: Giles Cooper STARS: Vanessa Redgrave, George Hamilton, Susan Engel, Donald Sutherland, Laurence Payne COUNTRY: Great Britain THIS BOOK AUTHOR: Ernest Hemingway TYPE: Novel PUBLISHER: Penguin THIS EDITION PUBLISHED: 1966 COUNTRY: Great Britain … Continue reading
THE WAR LOVER (1962)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: Philip Leacock SCREENWRITER: Howard Koch FILM STARS: Steve McQueen, Robert Wagner, Shirley Anne Field, Gary Cockrell, Michael Crawford, Bill Edwards COUNTRY: Great Britain THIS BOOK AUTHOR: John Hersey TYPE: Novel PUBLISHER: Pan THIS EDITION PUBLISHED: 1962 COUNTRY: … Continue reading
yep re Kirk … no one pushes Kirk around. His Bryna Production Company was involved with (partially funded) POG ..and…