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 »
Tag: Burt Lancaster
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 »
The Crimson Pirate
As a spiritual sequel to the tremendous success of The Flame And The Arrow (1950) Burt Lancaster made The Crimson Pirate (1952). Robert Siodmak directs the film, re-teaming with Lancaster… Read more »
Twilight’s Last Gleaming
There are no midgets in the United States Air Force. – General Lawrence Dell (Burt Lancaster) Twilight’s Last Gleaming (1977) was middle-aged, white liberal Hollywood’s reckoning with the United States’… Read more »
Desert Fury
I first heard about this little gem of a film from watching Mark Rappaport’s Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender (1997). Desert Fury (1947) is a queer, hard as nails melodrama… Read more »
The Train
Because The Train is being made available again, but in a new 4K scan from Kino-Lorber, I thought I’d brush off this piece from 2012. In 1963 John Frankenheimer took… Read more »
All My Sons
All My Sons (1948) is Edward G. Robinson’s movie. The story may be Arthur Miller’s, the script may be Chester Erskine’s, but this film belongs to Robinson. He brings his… Read more »
Buffalo Bill & The Indians
The cinema of Robert Altman is unique in the history of American filmmaking. More than any other director, Robert Altman has been able to apply his style to every genre… Read more »
The Devil’s Disciple
Burt Lancaster would have been 107 years old on November 2nd. So I thought I would revisit one of my late father’s favorite films starring Lancaster, The Devil’s Disciple (1959)…. Read more »
