Executive Action
Eleven years after collaborating on the fantastic Western film Lonely Are The Brave (1962), director David Miller and writer Dalton Trumbo made Executive Action (1973). As the Watergate scandal and… Read more »
Tag: Burt Lancaster
Lawman
Lawman (1971) was the first of two films that actor Burt Lancaster and director Michael Winner made together in the early seventies. At the time Lancaster was struggling to find… Read more »
The Osterman Weekend
The Osterman Weekend (1983) was the final film that the infamous Sam Peckinpah ever directed. The film is based on the 1972 Robert Ludlum novel of the same name and… Read more »
Run Silent, Run Deep
Run Silent, Run Deep (1958) tells the story of the obsessive Captain, Commander Richardson (Clark Gable), who assumes command of Lt. Bledsoe’s (Burt Lancaster) submarine to exact revenge on a… Read more »
Castle Keep
Actor Burt Lancaster first met Sydney Pollack on the set of John Frankenheimer’s The Young Savages (1961) where Pollack was employed as an acting coach for the teenaged cast members…. Read more »
La pelle
Liliana Cavani’s film La pelle (1981) is based on a novel of the same name by author Curzio Malaparte which was subsequently banned by the Catholic Church. The film, like… Read more »
Mister 880
20th Century Fox’s production Mister 880 (1950) was a small production that functioned as a showcase for Edmund Gwenn. Gwenn plays Skipper, an amateur counterfeiter, under investigation by Agent Steve… Read more »
A Child Is Waiting
John Cassavetes’ third feature film, A Child Is Waiting (1963), opens with one of the most heartbreaking scenes in American cinema. Ted Widdicombe (Steven Hill) has just brought his son… Read more »
Vera Cruz
Vera Cruz (1954) is the second of two successive westerns that Robert Aldrich made for Hecht-Lancaster Productions at United Artists. At the time that Vera Cruz was made Lancaster was… Read more »
The Cassandra Crossing
It was about twenty years ago that our local Hollywood Video went out of business. When they had their liquidation sale my father bought their copy of The Cassandra Crossing… Read more »
