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Written by James M. Tate / 8/16/2023 / No comments / action , bob newhart , bobby darin , don siegel , harry guardino , james coburn , mike kellin , nick adams , steve mcqueen , world war II

STEVE MCQUEEN STARS IN DONALD SIEGEL'S 'HELL IS FOR HEROES'

<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/AVvXsEj1FQdGv77u3lnVLrbn92l7zIrDX6W019CK_icomnfi5HqUq0Diz3GYfwHIaB4IehfIkbKMiOrhdpOZwtgD_GrtMQczeRNVYfgMXtCO1Sru4VGOjEXTMTyAVE9ygcVtrg0G3dREjuCdFuQZtR9A9-MiHcEMe32KjqE9Xp_Tru1NDQfN9fQmdZzHJ9n-Domc/s2048/367404449_1785533148542520_1594276651702841283_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="904" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1FQdGv77u3lnVLrbn92l7zIrDX6W019CK_icomnfi5HqUq0Diz3GYfwHIaB4IehfIkbKMiOrhdpOZwtgD_GrtMQczeRNVYfgMXtCO1Sru4VGOjEXTMTyAVE9ygcVtrg0G3dREjuCdFuQZtR9A9-MiHcEMe32KjqE9Xp_Tru1NDQfN9fQmdZzHJ9n-Domc/s16000/367404449_1785533148542520_1594276651702841283_n.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: HELL IS FOR HEROES Year: 1962 Rating: ***</td></tr></tbody></table>When Bob Newhart is doing the same one-way-telephone bit that made him famous enough to have a comic relief role in director Don Siegel's otherwise intense World War II flick HELL IS FOR HEROES, he actually surprisingly fits since there's a reason behind that call... Otherwise HELL is one of those sparse, brooding and melancholy vehicles... involving a meager troop of eclectic American soldiers, ironically having to do what the anemic production was actually saddled with — stretch a little into a lot, herein providing only a few men to do the job of an entire platoon, and with very limited special effects or extras...

action, bob newhart, bobby darin, don siegel, harry guardino, james coburn, mike kellin, nick adams, steve mcqueen, world war II

STEVE MCQUEEN STARS IN DONALD SIEGEL'S 'HELL IS FOR HEROES'

Title: HELL IS FOR HEROES Year: 1962 Rating: *** When Bob Newhart is doing the same one-way-telephone bit that made him famous enough to hav...

Written by James M. Tate / 1/10/2022 / No comments / barry gordon , bobby darin , hubert cornfield , melodrama , mental ward , noir noir , peter falk , prison , sidney poitier , sixties , stanley kramer

HUBERT CORNFIELD DIRECTS SIDNEY POITIER IN 'PRESSURE POINT'

<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/AVvXsEhURBLAEmK6BbxuezifbDlPGTDN1nbWHt8V9gCAxHk83Fh35MouB9hwhGY7X-m6sVRFS_B9slg3NjZq6q3uMRmfSq375uciK2OxFwpiURw6_4Oqu4DQiakVj25OQsgTl2Ii0pM0udsfyDAF6TKQWPt36RUq7l1NPQgrwZsxBLMutxSEjP2qRpNzWUxyGg=s903" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="473" data-original-width="903" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhURBLAEmK6BbxuezifbDlPGTDN1nbWHt8V9gCAxHk83Fh35MouB9hwhGY7X-m6sVRFS_B9slg3NjZq6q3uMRmfSq375uciK2OxFwpiURw6_4Oqu4DQiakVj25OQsgTl2Ii0pM0udsfyDAF6TKQWPt36RUq7l1NPQgrwZsxBLMutxSEjP2qRpNzWUxyGg=s16000"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sidney Poitier in PRESSURE POINT Year: 1962 Rating: ***</td></tr></tbody></table>Produced by Stanley Kramer and directed by Hubert Cornfield, the recently-departed acting legend Sidney Poitier starred in this psychological drama about a prison shrink batting heads with a full-blown Nazi sympathizer... An unapologetic self-proclaimed Anti-Semitic/White Supremacist who right off the bat considers President Roosevelt (neither Jewish or black) a no-good cripple during a flashback taking up most of the screen-time, so he's... well, opposite of a registered democrat... but made in 1961 what comes across as preachy-bias now was fairly new then, and part of Kramer's usual progressive teachable-moment forte...

barry gordon, bobby darin, hubert cornfield, melodrama, mental ward, noir noir, peter falk, prison, sidney poitier, sixties, stanley kramer

HUBERT CORNFIELD DIRECTS SIDNEY POITIER IN 'PRESSURE POINT'

Sidney Poitier in PRESSURE POINT Year: 1962 Rating: *** Produced by Stanley Kramer and directed by Hubert Cornfield, the recently-departed a...

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