Written by James M. Tate / 3/31/2018 / No comments / adventure , bill mumy , biopic , don gordon , drama , dustin hoffman , francis j. schaffner , john quade , prison , seventies , steve mcqueen , woodrow palfrey
STEVE MCQUEEN ESCAPES IN 'PAPILLON' ORIGINAL ADAPTATION

Year of Capture & Release: 1973 Director Francis J. Schaffner and scriptwriter Dalton Trumbo convert Henri Charriere's riveting ...
Written by James M. Tate / 3/28/2018 / No comments / 2018 , new , science-fiction , steven spielberg
STEVEN SPIELBERG GOES FUTURE-PAST IN 'READY PLAYER ONE'

Real of Release: 2018 Years of Celebration: 1980's Most films begin slowly, and then open up into an adventurous middle with pockets...
Written by James M. Tate / 3/26/2018 / No comments / edgar buchanan , fifties , jack elam , jacques tourneur , joel mccrea , john smith , lloyd bridges , peter graves , robert wilke , sam peckinpah , wallace ford , warner archives , western
JACQUES TOURNEUR DIRECTS THE WYATT EARP FILM 'WICHITA'

Joel McCrea rides smoothly, coolly into WICHITA Year: 1955 This Jacques Tourneur's Western is as basic and entertaining as they come...
Written by James M. Tate / 3/25/2018 / No comments / boxing , felice orlandi , fifties , film noir or melodrama , frank silvera , jamie smith , jazz score , mobster , stanley kubrick , thriller
STANLEY KUBRICK'S FILM NOIR BOXING FABLE OF 'KILLER'S KISS'

Lobby Card for Killer's Kiss YEAR OF RELEASE: 1956 When it's not a primal, jazz piano, mamba-like rhythm as gangster/dance club ...
Written by James M. Tate / 3/20/2018 / No comments / al ruscio , biopic , fifties , gangster , james gregory , jazz score , martin balsam , mobster , nehemiah persoff , neo noir , rod steiger , sally todd , warner archives
ROD STEIGER ABSOLUTELY KILLS IT AS 'AL CAPONE' W/ FAY SPAIN

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Written by James M. Tate / 3/14/2018 / No comments / action , andy devine , brian donlevy , dana andrews , drama , forties , hoagy carmichael , jacques tourneur , lloyd bridges , susan hayward , ward bond , western
JACQUES TOURNEUR DIRECTS DANA ANDREWS IN 'CANYON PASSAGE'

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Written by James M. Tate / 3/05/2018 / No comments / 2018 , action , bruce willis , elizabeth shue , exploitation , new , remake , suspense
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