Brannigan
After he failed to secure the lead role in Dirty Harry (1971), John Wayne made McQ (1974) then he went on to do another cop picture, Brannigan (1975). Brannigan takes… Read more »
Tag: Mel Ferrer
…Et mourir de plaisir
Roger Vadim’s adaptation of Sheridan Le Fanu’s novella Carmilla, …Et mourir de plaisir (1960), opened to poor reviews focused on Vadim’s choice to relocate the setting of Carmilla to a contemporary… Read more »
Nightmare City
It took only a dozen survivors of a toxic waste spill to spread a deadly contagion through all of society. These survivors, mutated by radioactivity, have becomes vampiric zombies that… Read more »
Knights Of The Round Table
Although I did not know it at the time, Richard Thorpe is the first director whose career I ever charted as an audience member. And though I cannot find his… Read more »
Rancho Notorious
“Cinemascope is not for men, but for snakes and funerals.”-Fritz Lang Rancho Notorious (1952) is not unique in its inversion of the traditional female role in Westerns. Nicholas Ray’s Johnny… Read more »
Lili
Lili is one of those anomalous films that was ostensibly made for children or at least young adults, like The 5,000 Fingers Of Dr.T (1953), during the latter days of… Read more »
