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: Robert Ryan
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 »
Day Of The Outlaw
Andre DeToth’s masterpiece of the Western genre, Day Of The Outlaw (1959), is one of the most influential and important films of its genre ever made. From Il grande silenzio… Read more »
The Naked Spur
This short piece about Janet Leigh was originally written and published in 2010. Let’s talk about Janet Leigh’s character Lina in Anthony Mann’s film The Naked Spur (1953). Though her social… Read more »
On Dangerous Ground
Almost all of Nicholas Ray’s films deal with a protagonist whose behavior isolates themselves within their society. Ray implements these concerns fluidly in his screen adaptation of Gerald Butler’s Mad… Read more »
