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Written by James M. Tate / 12/31/2023 / No comments / action , adventure , alex nicol , anthony mann , arthur kennedy , cathy o'donnell , donald crisp , jack elam , james stewart , mystery , thriller , wallace ford , western

JAMES STEWART WITH DONALD CRISP IN 'THE MAN FROM LARAMIE'

<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/AVvXsEizmRCoXCqF_tvhiH-ZKpz0UuoWe-HrEzXi9zSg_7cP2sNDtu5inH4VqyaUsFXQswoizZ0ah9qlDMM1CjNeZ04gUGmulz1KwReqeIyCEf6rAYp5FTNJF9YkQLdIluJGxiIbGP_tB59XP7C-QohBsdiRdbIqd9PmOUXe9DgXkrWeTm6Q_wBxoK_x3-Mrc_6E/s2166/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-25%20at%2011.33.19%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1212" data-original-width="2166" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizmRCoXCqF_tvhiH-ZKpz0UuoWe-HrEzXi9zSg_7cP2sNDtu5inH4VqyaUsFXQswoizZ0ah9qlDMM1CjNeZ04gUGmulz1KwReqeIyCEf6rAYp5FTNJF9YkQLdIluJGxiIbGP_tB59XP7C-QohBsdiRdbIqd9PmOUXe9DgXkrWeTm6Q_wBxoK_x3-Mrc_6E/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-25%20at%2011.33.19%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE MAN FROM LARAMIE Year: 1955 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Within moments of Anthony Mann's THE MAN FROM LARAMIE, the old and new aspects of the beloved genre shift, and progress: opening with an old-fashion crooner singing about the title character and then, once we meet James Stewart's Will Lockhart, it's soon learned he's investigating the sale of repeating rifles to Apache Indians, causing his brother's death and leading to an edgy revenge plot popular in almost any Western to come...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And, although eventually revealed to be a Army officer, his agenda — having traveled from Laramie to the small town of Coronado — is like a film noir detective, making LARAMIE stand out from other Mann/Stewart Westerns along with a cerebral theme from William Shakespeare's fallen-monarch tragedy, King Lear...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, alex nicol, anthony mann, arthur kennedy, cathy o'donnell, donald crisp, jack elam, james stewart, mystery, thriller, wallace ford, western

JAMES STEWART WITH DONALD CRISP IN 'THE MAN FROM LARAMIE'

Title: THE MAN FROM LARAMIE Year: 1955 Rating: ****1/2 Within moments of Anthony Mann's THE MAN FROM LARAMIE, the old and new aspects of...

DIRECTOR TONINO RICCI'S 'CAVE OF THE SHARKS' WITH JANET AGREN

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adventure, andrés garcía, arthur kennedy, fantasy, janet agren, mystery, shark, stelvio cipriani, thriller, tonino ricci, treasure

DIRECTOR TONINO RICCI'S 'CAVE OF THE SHARKS' WITH JANET AGREN

Title: CAVE OF THE SHARK Year: 1978 Rating: ***1/2 Italian director Tonino Ricci's CAVE OF THE SHARKS seems like a JAWS-clone by the tit...

PULP NOVEL 'HIS BONES ARE CORAL' BECOMES THE CHOPPY 'SHARK'

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With a terrific Hemingway TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT-style fishing boat rocking through stormy waters: Wherein the film begins with a choppily-edited shark attack, the book opens with a plane crash, and he soon meets a pretty girl who introduces him to her father, and, like the movie, is hired to captain a charter where dad can dive for gold in a location guarded by sharks. Our ragged lead winds up fighting for his life to win the girl, and to come out of the situation without getting stabbed by human goons...<br>
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action, adventure, arthur kennedy, barry sullivan, book review, burt reynolds, exploitation, neo noir, samuel fuller, shark, silvia pinal, sixties, thriller, treasure

PULP NOVEL 'HIS BONES ARE CORAL' BECOMES THE CHOPPY 'SHARK'

Title: SHARK Year: 1969 Rating: *** Sometimes you run into a terrific pulp novel watching an old bad movie: In this case the Samuel Fuller ...

HUMPHREY BOGART'S CAREER SKYROCKETS FROM 'HIGH SIERRA'

<span style="font-weight: bold;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhso3txDCTPodjTfwBfYX52oRwHMSiBouuyK8MO2PAaaPjlxEZEV9zPTf9njHv2WE57Y03FiI8moPSTjq0mFykPf0d1ChQy89FSDKxWcRAlY9mF6Jad0Myr5begWNrlZCHgTC-ai9EKC_ahnE-OEWtDCGt5HPFca2p-PhKQW22PCLgrBRuefO2hl5YyRQ/s1500/81no6FXP13L._SL1500_.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1207" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhso3txDCTPodjTfwBfYX52oRwHMSiBouuyK8MO2PAaaPjlxEZEV9zPTf9njHv2WE57Y03FiI8moPSTjq0mFykPf0d1ChQy89FSDKxWcRAlY9mF6Jad0Myr5begWNrlZCHgTC-ai9EKC_ahnE-OEWtDCGt5HPFca2p-PhKQW22PCLgrBRuefO2hl5YyRQ/w321-h400/81no6FXP13L._SL1500_.jpeg" width="321" /></a></div>title:</span> HIGH SIERRA<span style="font-weight: bold;"> year:</span> 1941<span style="font-weight: bold;"> cast:</span> Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino, Alan Curtis, Joan Leslie, Arthur Kennedy<span style="font-weight: bold;"> rating:</span> ****<br />
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There's a dog that, wherever he goes, gives bad luck to whomever takes him in: this happens to be Humphrey Bogart and Ida Lupino, who both meet each other, then the pooch, in a rural small town hideaway whilst Bogart and three other men plan a caper to rob a plush mountainous hotel. But bad luck usually <span style="font-style: italic;">dogs</span> these kind of characters, doomed from the start while plotting their big easy score which, in this case, got Humhrey's Roy Earle cut from prison early: Although Bogart isn't altogether villainous as he, after meeting a down-home family which includes a beautiful young girl with a club foot, invests in real people, hoping for the girl's hand in marriage: but he's more suited for Lupino, a gun moll whose bittersweet performance adds to Bogart's seasoned usual, and from one scene to the next this is a thoroughly enjoyable melodrama centering on tough human beings, not your typically cliched gangsters. Unfortunately some really bad performances, like the dog's last owner, and the insertion of melodrama into what should have been a leaner, tighter, more edgy crime flick, especially if our man's flawed cohorts Arthur Kennedy and Alan Curtis along with nervous middleman Cornel Wilde had more than peripheral importance: But, either way, HIGH SIERRA, with Bogart's name after Lupino in the credits, is the last movie where that would ever happen again. <br />

arthur kennedy, cornel wilde, crime, film noir or melodrama, forties, heist, humphrey bogart, ida lupino, joan leslie, john huston, raoul walsh, rural

HUMPHREY BOGART'S CAREER SKYROCKETS FROM 'HIGH SIERRA'

title: HIGH SIERRA year: 1941 cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino, Alan Curtis, Joan Leslie, Arthur Kennedy rating: **** There's ...

Written by James M. Tate / 5/10/2020 / No comments / arthur kennedy , counter-culture , deborah winters , michael douglas , peter strauss , rural , sixties

MICHAEL DOUGLAS SERVES 'HAIL, HERO!' WITH DEBORAH WINTERS

arthur kennedy, counter-culture, deborah winters, michael douglas, peter strauss, rural, sixties

MICHAEL DOUGLAS SERVES 'HAIL, HERO!' WITH DEBORAH WINTERS

Poster showing Michael Douglas and Deborah Winters from HAIL, HERO! Year: 1969 Rating: *** In the beginning of Michael Douglas's car...

JAMES STEWART & ARTHUR KENNEDY IN 'BEND OF THE RIVER'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Arthur Kennedy and James Stewart in Bend of the River directed by Anthony Mann YEAR: 1952</u></td></tr>
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Of James Stewart's "Cowboy Pictures" under the direction of Anthony Mann, WINCHESTER '73 is the most famous, THE NAKED SPUR his edgiest, THE MAN FROM LARAMIE the most underrated, THE FAR COUNTY the most picturesque, and the most uneven is BEND OF THE RIVER, starting out as one of many wagon trailer adventures until leading to Portland, Oregon, making this a North Western much like Jacques Tourneur's CANYON PASSAGE, which this uses chopped-tree-falling stock footage of...<br>
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At first Stewart, helping a group of mobile settlers, has a distracting voice. Not the usual alum-jawed, slow-paced drawl, it's more like he's imitating Edward G. Robinson. Which kinda fits. Stewart's Glyn McLyntock is a former outlaw, something we learn later after an outlaw friend, saved from a kangaroo court's noose and played by Arthur Kennedy who turns... well... that's a spoiler: What's important is that with Kennedy's initially friendly charm turned cocky bravado, BEND wouldn't be much at all. Rock Hudson as a handsome gambler adds very little...<br>
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It's about Kennedy and Stewart — the latter turning into what we'd later refer to as the "Rambo" character or, before that, MR. MAJESTYK: an underrated guy who shows his resilient worth against a ton of odds and proves he's more cunning and badass than any other badass within an untamed terrain that he's become used to. A shame that it took so long for this too happen, before which we got otherwise good actress Julia Adams reacting hilariously slow to an arrow through her chest, and too many familiar character actors talking about what's about to happen. When it finally does — blink once and it's gone.<br>

action, adventure, anthony mann, arthur kennedy, fifties, james stewart, jay c. flippen, julie adams, rock hudson, western

JAMES STEWART & ARTHUR KENNEDY IN 'BEND OF THE RIVER'

Arthur Kennedy and James Stewart in Bend of the River directed by Anthony Mann YEAR: 1952 Of James Stewart's "Cowboy Pictures...

LAST STAND OF STEWART & MANN WITH THE MAN FROM LARAMIE

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Going backwards in the next few month's ongoing tribute to actor James Stewart and director Anthony Mann, together or apart, THE MAN FROM LARAMIE is their last Western genre collaboration...
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Once again, like BEND IN THE RIVER, our leading man is a drifting, hired loner in James Stewart, taking a dramatic backseat to Arthur Kennedy's far more interesting and fleshed-out character, Vic... But that's only because his story is more desperate, urgent, while with Stewart, the more times you view the movie, the deeper his character becomes: And the scene-stealing Kennedy's not much without this film's rich rancher, who's not the typical cattle baron but actually has a little soul in him, and creepily foreboding dreams. Enter Donald Crisp's Alec, with three problems, two he's aware of: The first being Stewart's title hero, Will Lockhart, a stranger from Laramie, dead-set on sticking around, eventually hired by Alec's rival... a tough old gal played by Aline MacMahon. Will's out to thwart a gun deal to the Apache's that could make them ten times as dangerous...<br>

anthony mann, arthur kennedy, james stewart, western