ORSON WELLES AND JOSEPH COTTEN SURVIVE 'THE THIRD MAN'

<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><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/AVvXsEh6oCNiwVUAf2-1HtIaI1ebf2ckaOjHaWyP8XeW26P9n2pfT7QMoO8QYxiHeyOXQSea2H4tEkRneaZPBEuFiAKKfWh53RkElWHKZNxxtNtDbtaxLP5OOMtGcWwhrbc00EQpKidd19NIXPHJmjg7or83upEnlgt6RzpdzualfWAPimaV5WSkrkX_ZrYdVaR1/s2094/Screen%20Shot%202026-05-02%20at%201.57.39%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1154" data-original-width="2094" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6oCNiwVUAf2-1HtIaI1ebf2ckaOjHaWyP8XeW26P9n2pfT7QMoO8QYxiHeyOXQSea2H4tEkRneaZPBEuFiAKKfWh53RkElWHKZNxxtNtDbtaxLP5OOMtGcWwhrbc00EQpKidd19NIXPHJmjg7or83upEnlgt6RzpdzualfWAPimaV5WSkrkX_ZrYdVaR1/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-05-02%20at%201.57.39%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jospeh Cotten and Orson Welles in THE THIRD MAN Year: 1949 Rating: *****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>It's not really that big a deal that Orson Welles turns up over fifty-minutes into THE THIRD MAN, being that audiences awaited KING KONG for about the same period of time...<br></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></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The term best describing Welles's Harry Lime is <i>anticipated antagonist,</i> and yet all his criminal activity is refuted by best friend Joseph Cotten as <i>cheap novelette</i> Western writer Holly Martins, and especially heartbroken stage-actress-girlfriend Alida Valli, who Cotten attempts subtly romancing... but can't compete with the ghost...</p><p><span></span></p>

alida valli, bernard lee, british film noir, carol reed, forties, joseph cotten, mystery, orson welles, thriller, trevor howard

ORSON WELLES AND JOSEPH COTTEN SURVIVE 'THE THIRD MAN'

Jospeh Cotten and Orson Welles in THE THIRD MAN Year: 1949 Rating: ***** It's not really that big a deal that Orson Welles turns up over...

VICTOR MATURE AND TREVOR HOWARD BATTLE IN 'PICKUP ALLEY'

<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/AVvXsEgy33Rr1Ww_apBeyTbSElQCojWQrDdRSEHxpOPdw6wfZJiXNrz3wL4aPtPqLCX1DHQaoY78iMaQ-tMIhHqmUdEmGPsQnn3XuVw6mAr3LDWyGkDoYwwHCy4cfcph7u7SJFHJF53wu4jxZDpLRYx7fxFv0bhpAg6xlVokiuzOzFIrn5KOv2SPna3MhbCEQ4Ki/s1858/369792540_1791421271287041_2486943400021753132_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1082" data-original-width="1858" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy33Rr1Ww_apBeyTbSElQCojWQrDdRSEHxpOPdw6wfZJiXNrz3wL4aPtPqLCX1DHQaoY78iMaQ-tMIhHqmUdEmGPsQnn3XuVw6mAr3LDWyGkDoYwwHCy4cfcph7u7SJFHJF53wu4jxZDpLRYx7fxFv0bhpAg6xlVokiuzOzFIrn5KOv2SPna3MhbCEQ4Ki/s16000/369792540_1791421271287041_2486943400021753132_n.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Poster art for Pickup Alley Year: 1957 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Sometimes those late 1950's anti-drug, jazz-soaked neo noirs feature shaky method actors mimicking shaky legend James Dean, and for a reason... they're coming off heroin... and preachy melodrama ensues. But this British import starring American actor Victor Mature only begins that way... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>What everything narrows down to is Mature, a U.S. drug enforcement agent, going after classy drug-smuggling kingpin Trevor Howard, himself after an eventual load of heroin in a port among various countries, from England to Greece to France, yet this was all filmed in Italy while making terrific use of their iconic Roman ruins...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, alec mango, anita ekberg, bonar colleano, brian wilde, british film noir, drugs, fifties, film noir or melodrama, jazz score, john gilling, maurice browning, trevor howard, victor mature

VICTOR MATURE AND TREVOR HOWARD BATTLE IN 'PICKUP ALLEY'

Poster art for Pickup Alley Year: 1957 Rating: **** Sometimes those late 1950's anti-drug, jazz-soaked neo noirs feature shaky method ac...

TREVOR HOWARD AND HERBERT LOM IN 'GOLDEN SALAMANDER'

<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/AVvXsEjq9ednWXh26qq5RAuYiFe-1sblKyyrkK0_-gdD8d7V2yTCOw4DpZ8tg0FdJsaGTXxB32k6MpNkhkjHrU8cR42XeAyvzPVajQbXXPT79RA6A-revX8hJgbWJkfpePyMYLKjsCGSBgNTjBOVeqciJYNCKT_clfx7p_dzSK4dn1xBaMl2HtmSXc0h5Rw4X2YO/s2060/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1374" data-original-width="2060" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq9ednWXh26qq5RAuYiFe-1sblKyyrkK0_-gdD8d7V2yTCOw4DpZ8tg0FdJsaGTXxB32k6MpNkhkjHrU8cR42XeAyvzPVajQbXXPT79RA6A-revX8hJgbWJkfpePyMYLKjsCGSBgNTjBOVeqciJYNCKT_clfx7p_dzSK4dn1xBaMl2HtmSXc0h5Rw4X2YO/s16000/1.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: GOLDEN SALAMANDER Year: 1950 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>No matter how low budget a British movie is, there's usually great acting being filled with great actors... of the British or neighboring-European kind... here from 1950 with night-passage stranded archaeologist Trevor Howard in a Tunisian town, consisting of a noirish tavern that includes wispy ingenue Anouk Aimée and where usual-lead-villain Herbert Lom only <i>seems </i>in charge of the impending darkness...<br /></p><p></p><p></p><p>Turns out being a more sophisticated, monologue-spouting Walter Rilla while Howard's distracted in a beachy romance with the extremely vulnerable Aimée... while Lom's and handsome partner Jacques Sernas are keeping something chillingly secret: the only real nice person is bartender Wilfrid Hyde-White while Howard, in the midst of a lean, economic thriller without much suspense yet high on atmospheric tension, seems to kind of stand around and... wait for the outcome, which is actually pretty tight and pulpy, and worth rewatching. <br /></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEP466B4Wd586MoUAnKz-FOT7Kb0IcCIiJWTPs8YtLWnP9KiD1CIiQXsu1Sdu749pCUwou0hS-sDnds_ZFiMwZxCU1ZOTTHzM71p8rvTSQffgNUzrpF2aSJVQNtLBmWARVpoHFbIjS5Lkuee936kFMHr0i-Cfe3pZFWvVLlFWUpcJH20WHyZVM5soEOn-e/s1932/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.46.16%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1436" data-original-width="1932" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEP466B4Wd586MoUAnKz-FOT7Kb0IcCIiJWTPs8YtLWnP9KiD1CIiQXsu1Sdu749pCUwou0hS-sDnds_ZFiMwZxCU1ZOTTHzM71p8rvTSQffgNUzrpF2aSJVQNtLBmWARVpoHFbIjS5Lkuee936kFMHr0i-Cfe3pZFWvVLlFWUpcJH20WHyZVM5soEOn-e/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.46.16%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Trevor Howard and Anouk Aimée in GOLDEN SALAMANDER</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAirBcUEelwcyZCXg10BLn8wbQjwBiouH1utq0i77UGknZNW7H09Z6kzwLc9oTXoq9C-viqES-M8C2bFLO-Y3soWzNJZr1cgD5GR_vQdjog_d6xNH1m_3mDq8DdUDl4nL1JvkDhk90P6EDtlhCOHf_9L5pBvfTCMCj8hklnYpEjWct9NDloD27dn3QMOjj/s1916/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.34.47%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1362" data-original-width="1916" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAirBcUEelwcyZCXg10BLn8wbQjwBiouH1utq0i77UGknZNW7H09Z6kzwLc9oTXoq9C-viqES-M8C2bFLO-Y3soWzNJZr1cgD5GR_vQdjog_d6xNH1m_3mDq8DdUDl4nL1JvkDhk90P6EDtlhCOHf_9L5pBvfTCMCj8hklnYpEjWct9NDloD27dn3QMOjj/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.34.47%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Anouk Aimée in GOLDEN SALAMANDER</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRIw_tho8lz1Y5apCZbKrP_lfAMgskY0LJWzlvobtrJ2kLz3Y_T5gaqO_mZJchnImXor3Ezd6mwvpbEvPprOqjo8Qxwi1SQp494tXx5ePoqqDiyBhpsI4aufqOYWeslMWdNxojNVFUI4uOTTRSllqvROkHX9FTbuhXjLx9qtqfICgHV-zkX6-LpfFm3sfu/s1296/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.35.24%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="952" data-original-width="1296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRIw_tho8lz1Y5apCZbKrP_lfAMgskY0LJWzlvobtrJ2kLz3Y_T5gaqO_mZJchnImXor3Ezd6mwvpbEvPprOqjo8Qxwi1SQp494tXx5ePoqqDiyBhpsI4aufqOYWeslMWdNxojNVFUI4uOTTRSllqvROkHX9FTbuhXjLx9qtqfICgHV-zkX6-LpfFm3sfu/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.35.24%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Trevor Howard in GOLDEN SALAMANDER</u></td></tr></tbody></table><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/AVvXsEi5cChfC5yYgrkJGxKgEiBvTYk-rOHErAr5AAQFu6e594OUXRmA03YOsaKc7VfQBp794n5J7e1RHahQUQV-bxfd1N2TCNy3rWuGGVORB0j_JktEgSsAa-UhYZmhFIeJZ9pZWEM8h8WEwe_A0ovDksHz2eDAlE36rCnfjAfZaHN88t_ucdtCBca9gdmaHR9D/s1804/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.37.54%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1316" data-original-width="1804" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5cChfC5yYgrkJGxKgEiBvTYk-rOHErAr5AAQFu6e594OUXRmA03YOsaKc7VfQBp794n5J7e1RHahQUQV-bxfd1N2TCNy3rWuGGVORB0j_JktEgSsAa-UhYZmhFIeJZ9pZWEM8h8WEwe_A0ovDksHz2eDAlE36rCnfjAfZaHN88t_ucdtCBca9gdmaHR9D/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.37.54%20PM.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Anouk Aimée in GOLDEN SALAMANDER</u></td></tr></tbody></table><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/AVvXsEjHTo-G244n4oGBBG4HHPc0_IBKuLVW9rDgrSf70wTv0zV5L9SrYXK8nyh87dpOS9QgykTy9hehO-6rSFdQ7VNEXMl0IWHcNwhyLAFmEwlCGvD7AiNqXhV4_KWBPZ4ZG9J5pe9aIwfwmSTGXZ0tg-ZvWajmPB2jz39Pdddr9aDZbLPQbCr287W9Wow6msLD/s2028/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.38.08%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1418" data-original-width="2028" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHTo-G244n4oGBBG4HHPc0_IBKuLVW9rDgrSf70wTv0zV5L9SrYXK8nyh87dpOS9QgykTy9hehO-6rSFdQ7VNEXMl0IWHcNwhyLAFmEwlCGvD7AiNqXhV4_KWBPZ4ZG9J5pe9aIwfwmSTGXZ0tg-ZvWajmPB2jz39Pdddr9aDZbLPQbCr287W9Wow6msLD/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.38.08%20PM.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jacques Sernas in GOLDEN SALAMANDER </u></td></tr></tbody></table><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/AVvXsEgvwOjgCraGxH2hfIoJBtH1_fr-2ej9QLHhalS1z87hd25eQB3egIYSdqwS-Wgrq8ENBD-DBIZ3PMzZQCi4gZBw5F25YXJ8leAgBhvyuDoTpp2ltk7SC8oF5O2XW2tLGCE46JvKlXm9d9F7Q29YEiWNDngkm-ChQfqonyIcudotTFLef8X5ec-mIN96qC2z/s2076/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.33.04%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="2076" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvwOjgCraGxH2hfIoJBtH1_fr-2ej9QLHhalS1z87hd25eQB3egIYSdqwS-Wgrq8ENBD-DBIZ3PMzZQCi4gZBw5F25YXJ8leAgBhvyuDoTpp2ltk7SC8oF5O2XW2tLGCE46JvKlXm9d9F7Q29YEiWNDngkm-ChQfqonyIcudotTFLef8X5ec-mIN96qC2z/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.33.04%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jacques Sernas and Herbert Lom in GOLDEN SALAMANDER with Trevor Howard<br /></u></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p>

anouk aimée, british, british film noir, europe, fifties, herbert lom, thriller, trevor howard, walter rilla, wilfrid hyde-white

TREVOR HOWARD AND HERBERT LOM IN 'GOLDEN SALAMANDER'

Title: GOLDEN SALAMANDER Year: 1950 Rating: ***1/2 No matter how low budget a British movie is, there's usually great acting being fille...

BRANDO AND BRYNNER IN THE WARTIME THRILLER OF 'MORITURI'

<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/AVvXsEjyffmQQszDaOIXPSlcDE4g0lg8_ZXatUwhLJeMztXVu3UT45_TObooET7yNsrBJu9U8uNb6E3TP_kMC9Lw26FMXJZ7fjeR5_CES32ArHuwWSMIri5-A_DtCdvrZ5DlvFHKsPB6hvV2X-pbuggf_n8fW7EFzIXhqr-DSMFuZ1C74FZ3cnLn6-1Ps_wWWVIv/s2008/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-21%20at%2010.11.59%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="930" data-original-width="2008" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyffmQQszDaOIXPSlcDE4g0lg8_ZXatUwhLJeMztXVu3UT45_TObooET7yNsrBJu9U8uNb6E3TP_kMC9Lw26FMXJZ7fjeR5_CES32ArHuwWSMIri5-A_DtCdvrZ5DlvFHKsPB6hvV2X-pbuggf_n8fW7EFzIXhqr-DSMFuZ1C74FZ3cnLn6-1Ps_wWWVIv/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-21%20at%2010.11.59%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Marlon Brando and Yul Brynner in MORITURI Year: 1965 Grade: B— upon a **1/2 star rating</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>During Marlon Brando's lost decade — of box office and critical failures in-between ONE-EYED JACKS and THE GODFATHER — he played the unlikeliest of World War II-movie heroes in MORITURI... </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>Which is where Brando's Robert Crain begins... in an expository mission-setup sequence with Trevor Howard, who finds Marlon's pacifist German character hiding out in India before thrusting him into the complicated task...</p><p><span></span></p>

espionage, hans christian blech, janet margolin, marlon brando, nazi, sixties, thriller, trevor howard, william redfield, world war II, yul brynner

BRANDO AND BRYNNER IN THE WARTIME THRILLER OF 'MORITURI'

Marlon Brando and Yul Brynner in MORITURI Year: 1965 Grade: B— upon a **1/2 star rating During Marlon Brando's lost decade — of box offi...

KIRK DOUGLAS IN 'CATCH ME A SPY' WITH TOM COURTENAY

<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/a/AVvXsEiJAaoFnbtb1X2GpjJFfSyZrJu077DEk7dyX4YtiZNioNOUkpHNhj_CBCJjr9tUVWsCSCGfmyxxCG0Z4WVYtOmA7qwpsRGEA3S-IQxwfJWOx_PH07IAnVgeWpIRY2NY15-Rteo1EN5ZkX4dDEa6Y1lH0a31n312SVEsxWbyg8TRtsaWDRSXAydMEq-Qvw=s880" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="497" data-original-width="880" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiJAaoFnbtb1X2GpjJFfSyZrJu077DEk7dyX4YtiZNioNOUkpHNhj_CBCJjr9tUVWsCSCGfmyxxCG0Z4WVYtOmA7qwpsRGEA3S-IQxwfJWOx_PH07IAnVgeWpIRY2NY15-Rteo1EN5ZkX4dDEa6Y1lH0a31n312SVEsxWbyg8TRtsaWDRSXAydMEq-Qvw=s16000"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Marlène Jobert with Kirk Douglas and Trevor Howard in CATCH ME A SPY Year: 1971 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In one scene where French starlet Marlène Jobert plugs her nose for a mousy-sounding voice to thwart cat-and-mouse counterpart Kirk Douglas, it's actually less annoying than her real one... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>But she's super cute, probably all that mattered to director Dick Clement in his spy-spoof followup to the spy-spoof <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/02/otley.html">OTLEY</a> that starred Tom Cortenay in his <span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc">penultimate </span></span> big-screen role until THE DRESSER... </p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, british, comedy, dick clement, garfield morgan, john thaw, kirk douglas, marlene jobert, seventies, spoof, spy, tom courtenay, trevor howard

KIRK DOUGLAS IN 'CATCH ME A SPY' WITH TOM COURTENAY

Marlène Jobert with Kirk Douglas and Trevor Howard in CATCH ME A SPY Year: 1971 Rating: **1/2 In one scene where French starlet Marlène Jobe...

RYAN'S DAUGHTER BY DAVID LEAN

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" height="320" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5569900732362432082" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW28CEP5s6xAGQFtKFSYgzGqPXth6nHNTvAf5KNaRo2AFmsixhls7cZQi_EDaQMvQdSamAmSVm-WoK2WDJbu0KFkVv2q4a4TP5_ONqiBPvs7aBML8wxkKiKVx0CaSQExQWrZzgT3uNtfE/s320/ryans+daughter.jpg" style="height: 200px; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 111px;" width="177" /></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1970 rating: ***</td></tr> </tbody></table> Starts out fantastic... The first hour centering on a young girl named Rosy Ryan (Sarah Miles) wandering the Ireland coast, dreaming of being married and growing up; sharing her thoughts with local priest Terrance Howard and courting aged, handsome schoolteacher Robert Mitchum.<br /> <br /> On the peripheral are other townies including the girl's father, a pub owner; a village Idiot; and two revolutionaries. Rosy marries the schoolteacher and realizes her dreams haven't come true.<br /> <br /> She has an affair with the new man in town: a young English war hero. This is where things wane, becoming a glossy soap opera.<br /> <br /> And a side-story involving the revolutionaries and townspeople collecting guns on the beach during a storm makes the entire set-up forgotten. David Lean's direction is creative and the natural settings are gorgeous, but the script's only strong in the foundation... The rest is made of sand that drowns in the tide.

david lean, drama, robert mitchum, romance, sarah miles, seventies, trevor howard

RYAN'S DAUGHTER BY DAVID LEAN

1970 rating: *** Starts out fantastic... The first hour centering on a young girl named Rosy Ryan (Sarah Miles) wandering the Ireland co...