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Written by James M. Tate / 5/26/2025 / No comments / action , burt lancaster , heist , jeanne moreau , john frankenheimer , paul scofield , sixties , train , wolfgang preiss , world war II

BURT LANCASTER STEALING JOHN FRANKENHEIMER'S 'THE TRAIN'

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action, burt lancaster, heist, jeanne moreau, john frankenheimer, paul scofield, sixties, train, wolfgang preiss, world war II

BURT LANCASTER STEALING JOHN FRANKENHEIMER'S 'THE TRAIN'

Burt Lancaster in THE TRAIN Year: 1964 Rating: ***1/2 Not since Jean Renior's French classic LA BÊTE HUMAINE has the rugged, grimy, grun...

BURT LANCASTER IN ROBERT SIODMAK'S HEIST-NOIR 'CRISS CROSS'

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burt lancaster, dan duryea, film noir or melodrama, forties, heist, robert osterloh, stephen mcnally, tom pedi, yvonne de carlo

BURT LANCASTER IN ROBERT SIODMAK'S HEIST-NOIR 'CRISS CROSS'

Title: CRISS CROSS Year: 1949 Rating: *** Burt Lancaster became a breakout star in director Robert Siodmak's complicated heist-noir THE ...

BURT LANCASTER IN JULES DASSIN'S PRISON NOIR 'BRUTE FORCE'

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anita colby, ann blyth, burt lancaster, film noir or melodrama, howard duff, howland chamberlain, hume cronyn, jack overman, jeff corey, john hoyt, jules dassin, prison, sam levene, yvonne de carlo

BURT LANCASTER IN JULES DASSIN'S PRISON NOIR 'BRUTE FORCE'

BRUTE FORCE Year: 1947 Rating: ***1/2 Director Jules Dassin basically made his own post-war World War II picture, only set in an American ho...

BURT LANCASTER IN HEMINGWAY'S PULP FICTION 'THE KILLERS'

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albert dekker, ava gardner, burt lancaster, edmond o'brien, ernest hemingway, film noir or melodrama, forties, jack lambert, jeff corey, phil brown, post-heist, thriller

BURT LANCASTER IN HEMINGWAY'S PULP FICTION 'THE KILLERS'

Title: THE KILLERS Year: 1946 Rating: **** Little did Ernest Hemingway know, when he created the very short short-story THE KILLERS, that he...

BURT LANCASTER AND GENE HACKMAN SOARING 'THE GYPSY MOTHS'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Scott Wilson's yellow suited character's jump YEAR: 1969 </u></td></tr>
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John Frankenheimer's THE GYPSY MOTHS has some incredible aerial shots, and it's a shame they had to, right off the bat, provide studio inserts of two of the actors: one who should have been famous from IN COLD BLOOD and the other soon to make his breakthrough in THE FRENCH CONNECTION...<br>
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When Scott Wilson and Gene Hackman, as the gold and white suited jumpers, are shown in an obviously contrived setting with a counterfeit sky-blue backdrop, supposedly far up and descending with their own colored parachutes open, it's impossible <i>not</i> to tell we're watching a motion picture... But Frankenheimer, in what's his personal favorite film, and, despite a dated made-for-television style main theme, gives us the impression, otherwise, that these guys are the genuine article: not only by the myriad of actual footage, but in a more harmonious, less obvious rhythm, combining these with close-up expressions of each actor, about to jump for what may be their very lives...<br>

action, burt lancaster, carl reindel, deborah kerr, drama, gene hackman, john frankenheimer, romance, scott wilson, sheree north, sixties, sport, suspense, william windom

BURT LANCASTER AND GENE HACKMAN SOARING 'THE GYPSY MOTHS'

Scott Wilson's yellow suited character's jump YEAR: 1969 John Frankenheimer's THE GYPSY MOTHS has some incredible aerial sho...

BURT LANCASTER IN BIRDMAN OF ALCATRAZ

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Twilight Time Blu Ray YEAR: 1962</u></td></tr>
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It's impossible to know the truth, the real truth, about something, or in this case, someone who gained fame from accomplishing <i>something</i> pretty amazing. That being Robert Stroud, given the name THE BIRDMAN OF ALCATRAZ, which was more of a legendary status. On the infamous island fortress, he was already known and famous for what he did in Leavenworth, given free reign to work with birds since he was downright violent around people. Meanwhile, in Alcatraz, he had nothing to do with those feathery friends at all... His reputation proceeded him, and Alcatraz is a much edgier nickname than where he truly broke ground: A more lenient prison that, thankfully, the warden (or actually, several wardens) permitted this strange, desperate lone wolf, in prison for murdering a man who supposedly beat up one of his "girls," be able to keep a good number of birds inside his isolation cell. Much of the film, directed in a beautifully contained and hypnotic manner by John Frankenheimer, shows Stroud during the good times and bad, the birds he raised eventually dying from unnamed illnesses; one he eventually cures them of, which is what made Stroud famous – a violent man with a "third grade education" was able to find a vaccine to save birds – first his own, a mere microcosm for the world, including farm chickens and... Anyhow, when it came to his studies, Stroud, the BIRDMAN OF LEAVENWORTH, was more than an expert: He was a guru and a genius. And that brooding aura is captured nicely by Burt Lancaster in the first two acts in Leavenworth where he's treated like a king, befriended by guard Neville Brand in a surprisingly passive role, and an endearing lunatic in the cell-next-door played by Telly Savalas, who was able to have his own winged pet. But being more than pets to Stroud, Lancaster, with his expressions alone and no dialogue at all, captures the love one man had for a species, other than his own!<br>

burt lancaster, john frankenheimer, prison, sixties, telly savalas

BURT LANCASTER IN BIRDMAN OF ALCATRAZ

Twilight Time Blu Ray YEAR: 1962 It's impossible to know the truth, the real truth, about something, or in this case, someone who ga...

BURT LANCASTER & KIRK DOUGLAS STARRING IN 'TOUGH GUYS'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas fresh outta prison in TOUGH GUYS Year: 1986</u></td></tr>
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With loads of "what were we thinking" hindsight, you'd think TOUGH GUYS was made decades after the glossy decade it parodies: But the heist/comedy starring old time movie stars Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas takes place in the horrendously colorful midst of the 1980's, celebrated through stunned perspective/mockery of the Reagan Era's loudness, from clothes to music to... just about everything...<br />
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All under the stunned, fish-out-of-water perspective of gray-suited ex-cons Harry Doyle and Archie Long, played by polar opposites Lancaster and Douglas, who were never caught until robbing a train in 1955... their very own choo-choo Waterloo...<br />
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Starting with an opening credit Kenny Rogers' imitating Lionel Richie tune while showing the boys in their cell, almost freed, leading to an ongoing techno score sounding like a low-rent Harold Faltermeyer, playing even when the boys reminisce upon the good, or rather, bad old days...<br />
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Not only <i>don't</i> we get a touch of the Film Noir/Crime Era past, there's simply no escaping the decade in which they've been released into, on parole, which turns out almost worse than prison...<br />
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The mellow, reposeful Lancaster is sent to an old age home where the food is awful and bedtime's at 10pm, and yet he still conveniently reunites with his old flame who leads a few exercise classes, while Douglas's maverick story plays more to the comedic male fantasy element: First his moody temperament gets him canned from a few dire jobs, either busing tables full of angry customers to selling Penguins yogurt...<br />
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Unlike his more realistic older-acting buddy, Kirk's Archie lands a girl half his age (Darlanne Fluegel), ultimately getting worn out by the abundance of late night sexercise. In a nut-shell, TOUGH GUYS is a cross between COCOON and STRAIGHT TIME.<br />
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Meanwhile, with their "old gang" out of commission, including a crippled Billy Barty and a crazy Simmy Bow, the duo are being violently stalked, hunted by a shotgun-wielding, lunatic hit-man that neither ex-con has seen before and, not surprisingly given his talent and eclectic career, Eli Wallach is pretty darn scary (albeit sometimes rather annoying).<br />
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For a buddy flick, TOUGH GUYS isn't too shabby, and has most of its soul in Lancaster's character while Douglas, genuinely built like a real ass kicker, plays the "when men were men" Alpha Male, igniting his worn-out partner to help pull-off an impossible caper...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Kirk Douglas tries on 1980's clothes in the 1980's TOUGH GUYS</u></td></tr>
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Which they failed at before: robbing the same train from thirty years ago, that just happens to be making its final run. This is where the eclectic montage of breezy comedy ends and we're stuck with a resolution that rushes towards inevitable finality: the boys making their dreams come true along with a young, helpful, pre-SNL Dana Carvey as a nostalgia-driven fan who's also their parole officer...<br />
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Including the blood-thirsty Wallach and an entirely unlikable Charles Durning as the cop who busted them the first time, wanting revenge for his desk job and to be taken as seriously as our heroes desire for a newspaper headline comeback...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Kirk Douglas tries on 1980's clothes in the 1980's TOUGH GUYS</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas fresh outta prison in TOUGH GUYS </u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Darlanne Fluegel as Skye in TOUGH GUYS with Kirk Douglas</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Darlanne Fluegel as Skye in TOUGH GUYS with Kirk Douglas</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Darlanne Fluegel as Skye in TOUGH GUYS with Kirk Douglas</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Lancaster looking young again facing Charles Durning in Tough Guys</u></td></tr>
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BURT LANCASTER & KIRK DOUGLAS STARRING IN 'TOUGH GUYS'

Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas fresh outta prison in TOUGH GUYS Year: 1986 With loads of "what were we thinking" hindsight, y...

Written by James M. Tate / 2/25/2012 / No comments / burt lancaster , denis lawson , eighties , independent , peter riegert

PETER RIEGERT & DENIS LAWSON SEE STARS IN 'LOCAL HERO'

<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNzIz1FLObb-mogY9UeqSmEcrwXYvMJq5pg01p-WHvuvkEDQ022kg5wC6NzueD0N513xVKIzxMhBVWqglNq_C6lyBAuMRdj2Xf3BmFjAQzihmH-V9JM03P7hmepgWXdllc54u8qbx3aMKzpQHkHjMf1ZylsQNhmVziRkYcLSaxCIjqhzsVOqz5Gw2rwA/s2331/Screen%20Shot%202019-12-27%20at%207.04.22%20PM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1366" data-original-width="2331" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNzIz1FLObb-mogY9UeqSmEcrwXYvMJq5pg01p-WHvuvkEDQ022kg5wC6NzueD0N513xVKIzxMhBVWqglNq_C6lyBAuMRdj2Xf3BmFjAQzihmH-V9JM03P7hmepgWXdllc54u8qbx3aMKzpQHkHjMf1ZylsQNhmVziRkYcLSaxCIjqhzsVOqz5Gw2rwA/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202019-12-27%20at%207.04.22%20PM.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Criterion Collection cover for LOCAL HERO starring Peter Riegert and Dennis Lawson Year: 1983</u></td></tr></tbody></table>A Porsche driving Texas oil company negotiator is sent to a small town in Ireland to strike a deal that will make all the locals rich. Their land and beach is the perfect location for a refinery, and Peter Riegert as Mac – chosen for the assignment because of his supposed "Irish lineage" – enters the town whose inhabitants already know of their impending fortune.</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Peter's subtle performance is nearly matched by the resident accountant Denis Lawson (Wedge from the original STARS WARS trilogy) as they wander around the gorgeous exterior discussing what prices go where...</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Dennis Lawson and Peter Riegert in the gorgeous Scottish beachfront in LOCAL HERO Rates: *****</u></td></tr>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">And always surrounded by an array of hopeful to strike it rich townsfolk including Mac's quirky British sidekick; a beautiful marine biologist; a drunken Russian; a seemingly unimportant beach bum; and an injured rabbit, Trudy... </span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">All leading to the final act when Burt Lancaster, as the eccentric Houston-based oil tycoon behind the deal, realizes the constellations mean everything in this modern fable written and directed by Bill Forsyth and backed by Mark Knofler’s earthy score, where everything remains genuine and grounded, even when those heavenly lights shine above. And after experiencing this movie you’ll never see a phone booth the same way again.</span>

burt lancaster, denis lawson, eighties, independent, peter riegert