ROBERT RYAN VS RHONDA FLEMING & WILLIAM LUNDIGAN 'INFERNO'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><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/AVvXsEiCF0o2oZvs4kDhD34nDSPZl0wT7oyh3Ws2PKgwVEgRSy6o1S3Kl51WT2RECAnUpi0ZDLMVAjvj3-hcTtxAOWsgskLrF0LXQpcErDqTEOJjk6PuVzrzBv53V2lQMrfUceU6Z1PANoFf6T7GVtyfNzXFlnKI4j7VESAO-y74GqWmFlro9O-jkq2nvqREUPzK/s1552/NEWEST.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="848" data-original-width="1552" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCF0o2oZvs4kDhD34nDSPZl0wT7oyh3Ws2PKgwVEgRSy6o1S3Kl51WT2RECAnUpi0ZDLMVAjvj3-hcTtxAOWsgskLrF0LXQpcErDqTEOJjk6PuVzrzBv53V2lQMrfUceU6Z1PANoFf6T7GVtyfNzXFlnKI4j7VESAO-y74GqWmFlro9O-jkq2nvqREUPzK/s16000/NEWEST.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Poster for Ronda Fleming INFERNO Year: 1953 Rating: *** </u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Leading <i>and</i> character actor Robert Ryan is difficult to root for since he played contentedly bitter types who didn't want rooting for... but with INFERNO his rich-husband character gets so screwed-over by his wife and her lover, left in the scorching desert — with a broken leg — to trudge through rocky terrain before he's lunch for condors, there's no other option but to have complete sympathy, if anything else for the movie (and his dire situation) to conclude...<br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yet the most intriguing scenes not only alleviate the halting, awkward tension but add a touch of paperback-pulpy and best yet, film noir/melodrama to the stranded-in-peril, fight-to-survive adventure...</p><p><span></span></p>

3D, action, adventure, desert, fifties, melodrama, rhonda fleming, robert ryan, rural, survival, thriller, william lundigan

ROBERT RYAN VS RHONDA FLEMING & WILLIAM LUNDIGAN 'INFERNO'

Poster for Ronda Fleming INFERNO Year: 1953 Rating: *** Leading and character actor Robert Ryan is difficult to root for since he played co...

STANLEY BAKER AND STUART WHITMAN IN 'SANDS OF THE KALAHARI'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><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/AVvXsEi_MXFybahkxYWn0Wh1ZfRwntITQfDKhaPH6FI87u9vYWyrsAjBuyYAI4brlotvy3hBHlpiYUAAfnn6cvz3QLH-GxXVeIpkHimTfv_ZdQVNG8v-3r_gTE6PWLu27s1_ejiwaQ6Ir8ek-IZtId169rFa0QuEVtjinZIFu80rblUf2e9nwP5SLxwbr-8Z5Jpo/s1412/AVvXsEiWGyz9WS4HfmnGfB05kNPJn4UFES-yqgQt9ab0MLLweJZyfSmjoRYnR28d7cNXsgY73zuw9-5JXEt9je8cSkkduwPb1SvitXqPpi5X6aqZexQjqV6CJuw1cFpF9-VFhVd9nMOnzzyLKkNt07JN_UoxnEJce8QF3Qw0H7vjL5ICTJsS0o_ZePIopL5TwA=s16000.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="658" data-original-width="1412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_MXFybahkxYWn0Wh1ZfRwntITQfDKhaPH6FI87u9vYWyrsAjBuyYAI4brlotvy3hBHlpiYUAAfnn6cvz3QLH-GxXVeIpkHimTfv_ZdQVNG8v-3r_gTE6PWLu27s1_ejiwaQ6Ir8ek-IZtId169rFa0QuEVtjinZIFu80rblUf2e9nwP5SLxwbr-8Z5Jpo/s16000/AVvXsEiWGyz9WS4HfmnGfB05kNPJn4UFES-yqgQt9ab0MLLweJZyfSmjoRYnR28d7cNXsgY73zuw9-5JXEt9je8cSkkduwPb1SvitXqPpi5X6aqZexQjqV6CJuw1cFpF9-VFhVd9nMOnzzyLKkNt07JN_UoxnEJce8QF3Qw0H7vjL5ICTJsS0o_ZePIopL5TwA=s16000.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: SANDS OF THE KALAHARI Year: 1965 Rating: *** </u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Supposedly this was the movie that pushed square-jawed British superstar Stanley Baker — who'd <i>just</i> peaked with the same director Cy Endfield for <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/03/ZULU.html">ZULU</a> — into a career downturn, and not just because SANDS OF THE KALAHARI is a deliberately strange and uncomfortable (FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX style) survival tale, initially involving six passengers of a crashed plane stranded in the vast titular desert... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>As producer, Baker not only gave the best role to Stuart Whitman, but his own character's injured and therefore basically useless for most of the picture: one that features a somewhat convenient ensemble...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, airplane, british, harry andrews, nature, nigel davenport, sixties, stanley baker, stuart whitman, survival, susannah york, theodore bikel

STANLEY BAKER AND STUART WHITMAN IN 'SANDS OF THE KALAHARI'

Title: SANDS OF THE KALAHARI Year: 1965 Rating: *** Supposedly this was the movie that pushed square-jawed British superstar Stanley Baker —...

ROBERT REDFORD IN ALL IS LOST

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpdpv3H2H68cFeRNHcWtBLaepbH5Lh5pLWjK4mh8LXwwggjwmqF2LdRMPQful8VuL0TAjAqZiBafo-w2D7oYJ5xoP40PIAvoSHHeKCKT1CtO3vbZM_5Vi456V97Uyr2RddJB8onphKR5g/s1600/all-is-lost.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="324" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpdpv3H2H68cFeRNHcWtBLaepbH5Lh5pLWjK4mh8LXwwggjwmqF2LdRMPQful8VuL0TAjAqZiBafo-w2D7oYJ5xoP40PIAvoSHHeKCKT1CtO3vbZM_5Vi456V97Uyr2RddJB8onphKR5g/s640/all-is-lost.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">year: 2013 cast: Robert Redford rating: **1/2</td></tr> </tbody></table> Prepare for GRAVITY at sea, or CASTAWAY without the volleyball… The only difference is we never really get to know the character, credited as <i>Our Man</i>, played by Robert Redford who, at seventy-seven years old, proves he can still get around... Especially since the unnamed character finds himself in trouble when a shipping container, having punched a hole in the side of his boat, causes him to roam around the vessel to stay both afloat and alive…<br /> <br /> From the very beginning we’re stuck on a damaged sailboat, battling formidable storms and other acts of nature… And what writer/director J.C. Chador accomplishes in place of character-development is the meticulous manner of fixing the hull while collecting an assortment of survival gear, from fishing line to a large blow-up raft: making it through each day under the scorching sun…<br /> <br /> Redford’s lone wolf has more goodies than expected including an abundance of flares and the big raft that keeps him alive, much longer than the slowly sinking vessel. These easy-outs hinder the needed suspense for a two-hour survival film with very little dialogue and absolutely no backstory… And not surprisingly, Robert turns in a decent performance – mostly reactions from the impending elements with a few outbursts of emotion… But we never get to know the man to really make him our own i.e. Our Man… He really belongs to the sea: ALL IS LOST is <i>her </i>movie…

2013, robert redford, survival, suspense

ROBERT REDFORD IN ALL IS LOST

year: 2013 cast: Robert Redford rating: **1/2 Prepare for GRAVITY at sea, or CASTAWAY without the volleyball… The only difference is we ...

127 HOURS

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxyvhMBPUo6qEKUYbUP-EJDT2fAeeF72oCjHkXpuwSX3EIRmyweJ19k55mzXpZExV2xhLhpwyI1zU4rv2ITk2oVw5D_NfhYoH7uLXLU2afnhGK4uUMTypp4pxBsnaBrtKHldak0siCM8o/s1600/127-hours-james-franco-006.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5610127010887863554" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxyvhMBPUo6qEKUYbUP-EJDT2fAeeF72oCjHkXpuwSX3EIRmyweJ19k55mzXpZExV2xhLhpwyI1zU4rv2ITk2oVw5D_NfhYoH7uLXLU2afnhGK4uUMTypp4pxBsnaBrtKHldak0siCM8o/s200/127-hours-james-franco-006.jpg" style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 154px; height: 200px;" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">title: </span>127 HOURS<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">year:</span> 2010<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">cast:</span> James Franco<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">rating:</span> ***1/2<br /><br />A cross between ALIVE (a young man surviving nature) and THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (he films himself), James Franco plays mountain climber Aron Ralston, who solos on a hiking trip in the Utah Mountains: documenting it with a small video camera. On the way to his destination, he runs into two beautiful girls – the last of humanity he’ll see for a few harrowing days in which, after venturing off alone, he falls down a crevice: a boulder wedging him inside with no chance of escape. Director Danny Boyle shows dreamlike flashes of Ralston's childhood mixed with delusional fantasies, all working to bridge the long 127 hours until the inevitable, gruesomely desperate task to survive: occurring in less than a minute. Although there are a bit too many flashbacks, taking away from the extremity of the situation, it all works as a mind-trip outdoor odyssey: proving a creative director, and a talented actor, can keep a story interesting in an extremely limited location.

courtroom drama, danny boyle, james franco, oscar nominated, survival

127 HOURS

title: 127 HOURS year: 2010 cast: James Franco rating: ***1/2 A cross between ALIVE (a young man surviving nature) and THE BLAIR WITCH PR...