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Written by James M. Tate / 11/01/2023 / No comments / boxing , expose , felice orlandi , fifties , humphrey bogart , jan sterling , marian carr , mark robson , melodrama , nehemiah persoff , rod steiger , sport

HUMPHREY BOGART AND ROD STEIGER IN 'THE HARDER THEY FALL'

<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/AVvXsEgqlJgbzXIQuGEIvIbtWWbx3v2_yOGzeBYuOXySAX4bSHge4wjY8Nat5ILFGCWydR4srtQF89B1ijuLzFBjNwh31YWcOMxcqUnUu5oROi_VK4pbIrpRPiGCqv4PS7gitDNfO6BqcQC43AzCVP2v2WJqSrti1vCb2l2KRR-T9uXZnBpDcgtricd9wmXqKF7t/s971/first.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="618" data-original-width="971" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqlJgbzXIQuGEIvIbtWWbx3v2_yOGzeBYuOXySAX4bSHge4wjY8Nat5ILFGCWydR4srtQF89B1ijuLzFBjNwh31YWcOMxcqUnUu5oROi_VK4pbIrpRPiGCqv4PS7gitDNfO6BqcQC43AzCVP2v2WJqSrti1vCb2l2KRR-T9uXZnBpDcgtricd9wmXqKF7t/s16000/first.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: ANTS Year: 1977 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The legendary Humphrey Bogart's last movie, during the mid-1950's when the big message could become more important than the characters, which is the opposite of ON THE WATERFRONT that Mark Robson's extremely bias boxing scandal-expose THE HARDER THEY FALL attempts the suspenseful, brawny big city edginess of... armed gangsters ruling over muscular everymen... but in a passive, mainstream fashion...</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>A shame since the boxing sequences — where has-been sports-writer Bogart and his seedy promoter boss Rod Steiger have ringside seats — are filmed with brutal realism... both men making sure the opponents of their mediocre giant upstart take the same kind of fall that could have made Marlon Brando a contender....</p><p><span></span></p>

boxing, expose, felice orlandi, fifties, humphrey bogart, jan sterling, marian carr, mark robson, melodrama, nehemiah persoff, rod steiger, sport

HUMPHREY BOGART AND ROD STEIGER IN 'THE HARDER THEY FALL'

Title: ANTS Year: 1977 Rating: **** The legendary Humphrey Bogart's last movie, during the mid-1950's when the big message could bec...

CHARLES BRONSON IN 'LOVE AND BULLETS' FEATURING PAUL KOSLO

<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/AVvXsEiXsSKgj_AJnTU574DcE55pTen_bQ3s6E88AhI9hAAsURHmKjCuPri_DhdS5R-UrbPb23nAqvPq0WZGDC-M0Ni33aXNfNIXACcUnFpPwXx1B8kviTyN-w5S8kSV6P4X5kW-XlCMATmjprFgILWJLuyuZN_-bn9Q-6RbrJ6eIobxnqpRzs1lgHN5S1wOkw/s1777/Screen%20Shot%202021-07-13%20at%205.48.18%20AM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1142" data-original-width="1777" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXsSKgj_AJnTU574DcE55pTen_bQ3s6E88AhI9hAAsURHmKjCuPri_DhdS5R-UrbPb23nAqvPq0WZGDC-M0Ni33aXNfNIXACcUnFpPwXx1B8kviTyN-w5S8kSV6P4X5kW-XlCMATmjprFgILWJLuyuZN_-bn9Q-6RbrJ6eIobxnqpRzs1lgHN5S1wOkw/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202021-07-13%20at%205.48.18%20AM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Charles Bronson in LOVE AND BULLETS Year: 1979 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>For some, during Charles Bronson's Cannon era, sadly gone felt the MGM days. But it was Lew Grade's ITC that bridged the action star in-between, and LOVE AND BULLETS... once again casting Bronson alongside wife Jill Ireland, keeping her protected from killers... makes the similar, decade-later action/adventure ASSASSINATION seem like THE MECHANIC by comparison... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Only instead of the Secret Service protecting the President's wife it's an Arizona cop protecting a gangster's moll from being killed by a hit man hired by said gangster. Providing Henry Silva another coldblooded turn, partnered with Bronson-flick regular Paul Koslo, both working for (or rather getting paid by) a stuttering mobster overacted by Rod Steiger, whose performance still fares better than Ireland's incessant dumb blonde (in a dumb blonde wig)...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, billy gray, bradford dillman, charles bronson, europe, hit-man, jill ireland, mafia, paul koslo, rod steiger, seventies, strother martin

CHARLES BRONSON IN 'LOVE AND BULLETS' FEATURING PAUL KOSLO

Charles Bronson in LOVE AND BULLETS Year: 1979 Rating: *** For some, during Charles Bronson's Cannon era, sadly gone felt the MGM days. ...

ROD STEIGER COMMANDS 'THE SERGEANT' WITH JOHN PHILLIP LAW

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</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 cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSc4_ix08RGWWjEjiNTtMyoegbGtX0-CRzPH7Vk78cUfzLpmMco3cK15XCAk116vxFKrugb4F-axvt3QQIkQfh4z_qnceEn_V-qT4ZQASiqiX3OUy5lntBpKnCqXS2hPNanj8AikeTWJoLgLnT7OghVMqpyes1lzlMaQPDmMHrzDIr-yPGjOefWwKfdQ/s992/Screen%20Shot%202023-05-15%20at%204.28.33%20AM.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="699" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSc4_ix08RGWWjEjiNTtMyoegbGtX0-CRzPH7Vk78cUfzLpmMco3cK15XCAk116vxFKrugb4F-axvt3QQIkQfh4z_qnceEn_V-qT4ZQASiqiX3OUy5lntBpKnCqXS2hPNanj8AikeTWJoLgLnT7OghVMqpyes1lzlMaQPDmMHrzDIr-yPGjOefWwKfdQ/w225-h320/Screen%20Shot%202023-05-15%20at%204.28.33%20AM.jpeg" width="225"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1968 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>It's not just <i>what</i> THE SERGEANT is about, or even <i>who</i> it's about: An American World War II hero returned to France ten years later for an otherwise breezy peacetime gig not as risky or daring...</p><p>This Army Sergeant of military construction laborers wielding old-school brass tactics to shape things up... until both someone <i>and</i> something distracts him... because MSgt. Albert Callan is a closet homosexual, and on the surface, Rod Steiger portrays a lonesome Army lifer who finally finds a true friend he can mentor and/or simply hang around with...</p><p></p><p></p><p>Of course it's deeper than that... but as a film from 1968 <i>about</i> 1952, John Flynn directs with a unique, strategic, cautious approach aptly suited for and catered to Steiger's creepy-harsh yet desperately sympathetic performance...</p><p></p><p>And on the other side is tall, handsome John Phillip Law, who often plays calm wooden types but he plays them well... His targeted Pfc. Swanson to Steiger's subtle style of persuasive bullying... after being shifted to his personal office clerk... is, in its own way, equal to the intense title role...<br>
</p><p>Law's oblivious reactions to the passive/aggressive action that only an offbeat genius like Steiger could effectively pull off within this sparse, subtle maze countered by French starlet Ludmila Mikaël as Law's gorgeous town-next-door girlfriend (who he's captivated with like Steiger is to him), caught in the middle of something that would not only be considered completely impossible back then, but never fathomed in the first place: And yet, putting the controversial theme aside, THE SERGEANT is an outright buddy flick bromance coinciding with the gentle male/female love story. Surprisingly, it's the latter that comparably lacks conviction and seduction.</p><p><span></span></p>

controversial, drama, exploitation, frank latimore, homosexual, john flynn, john phillip law, ludmila mikaël, military, rod steiger, sixties, warner archives

ROD STEIGER COMMANDS 'THE SERGEANT' WITH JOHN PHILLIP LAW

Year: 1968 Rating: ****1/2 It's not just what THE SERGEANT is about, or even who it's about: An American World War II hero return...

ROD STEIGER STARRING AS 'AL CAPONE' FEATURING FAY SPAIN

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In fact, this biopic is so subtle he seems more a blue collar ruffian than outright gangster: A sort of throwback to the olden days of Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson, Steiger's performance brings the mafia henchman turned head honcho through sparse narration by James Gregory as a trailing cop...<br>
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Although there's no suspense that he might be kept from doing what he does best: killing to climb the ladder with a string of creative <i>whacks</i>, and yet the most improbable con is landing the wife of one of his otherwise incidental hits: And in that, Fay Spain, who'd be Hyman Roth's walk-on yet memorable wife in THE GODFATHER 2, is beyond a common love interest since it <i>is extremely</i> interesting how he seduces this beautiful mother and widow with the same determination that he takes on surrounding, paranoid and lethal enemies during the superior first half while the second deals mainly with his waning popularity leading to a rushed exile in Miami...<br>
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But no matter where and how the film rides out, and along with crooked reporter Martin Balsam who verbally toys with Capone as if he were the moll instead of Fay, it's Steiger's his job alone to make an otherwise pretty-good feature pretty damn fantastic to watch, and keep rewatching again and again. You'll always see something different in his reactions to the spontaneously violent actions: He steals both the movie <i>and the story </i>that it's all loosely based upon. Forget the overrated Robert DeNiro UNTOUCHABLES Capone. It's Steiger's that can't be touched. <br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Photos Screen Captures of the Warner Bros Neo Classic Gangster Rod Steiger starring AL CAPONE</u></td></tr>
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al ruscio, biopic, fifties, gangster, james gregory, jazz score, martin balsam, mobster, nehemiah persoff, neo noir, rod steiger, sally todd, warner archives

ROD STEIGER STARRING AS 'AL CAPONE' FEATURING FAY SPAIN

AL CAPONE Year of Release: 1959 Like Jack Nicholson (intentionally or otherwise) displayed a little of pal Bruce Dern in THE SHINING , perh...

WARNER ARCHIVES MELODRAMA 'CONVICTS 4' WITH BEN GAZARRA

<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/AVvXsEgNUXT7Vjqn9Jgh2hAek_dogirXD5QCgKnVAhWa7_TaINaAjs7cwSlc7mAoL5UBtkYuk_Pcf48VjcQQuOcBUKOa7A4yoIYTgmon8-irrvvLLItKNo4-U750xbfKx1QCzl8r68mtD0WWcV_PasVGAeeaBdzS2WbPU5Cw1Ulvmpr2U5ZwOM0YtZQaWxOTbA=s1178" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="772" data-original-width="1178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgNUXT7Vjqn9Jgh2hAek_dogirXD5QCgKnVAhWa7_TaINaAjs7cwSlc7mAoL5UBtkYuk_Pcf48VjcQQuOcBUKOa7A4yoIYTgmon8-irrvvLLItKNo4-U750xbfKx1QCzl8r68mtD0WWcV_PasVGAeeaBdzS2WbPU5Cw1Ulvmpr2U5ZwOM0YtZQaWxOTbA=s16000"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Ben Gazarra and Sammy Davis Jr. in CONVICTS 4 Year: 1962 Rating: **</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>There's a point in the prison drama CONVICTS 4 when Ben Gazzara, after standing-through a rowdy lecture from one-scene-only chief guard Rod Steiger, complains about bedbugs in his cot: Which wouldn't seem all that questionable if the film actually began with Gazarra's John Resko being thrown into this not-so-cleanly prison...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>But what the audience and main character had suffered through during an entire first act was a waiting game for impending execution on death row, harboring the most suspenseful and effective scenes and making those gripes about the next prison's subpar prison-conditions seem outright ludicrous...<br></p><p><span></span></p>

andy williams, ben gazzara, broderick crawford, death row, drama, prison, rod steiger, sammy davis jr., sixties, stuart whitman, timothy carey, warner archives

WARNER ARCHIVES MELODRAMA 'CONVICTS 4' WITH BEN GAZARRA

Ben Gazarra and Sammy Davis Jr. in CONVICTS 4 Year: 1962 Rating: ** There's a point in the prison drama CONVICTS 4 when Ben Gazzara, aft...

STALLONE & STONE IN THE SPECIALIST

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While painful and unrealistic to see scrawny James Woods beating up Sylvester Stallone, it's only during the set-up instigated by a guilt-ridden premise borrowed from SCARFACE catapulting a sort of Neo Noir sexually-driven camp vehicle that's so bad it's good, and can actually be intriguing.<br>

action, eric roberts, james woods, neo noir, nineties, rod steiger, sharon stone, sylvester stallone

STALLONE & STONE IN THE SPECIALIST

year: 1994 cast: Sylvester Stallone, Sharon Stone, James Woods, Eric Roberts, Rod Steiger While painful and unrealistic to see scrawny J...

SYLVESTER STALLONE IN F.I.S.T.

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVyoHtM8XxNLFzJmeIXti4lzUY0zhzXPg_ipMWg4DxZiJdzZtG0EAZ6vsugU06cOHAt8_I4ZZhucKI6NXiC3f6YWQMhqWom4tTDIHepTENQD7MxoM4M6olgBKnlddVGY1QkaAH-GMhmMQ/s1600/Sly-Stallone-Fist_l.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573311413758810722" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVyoHtM8XxNLFzJmeIXti4lzUY0zhzXPg_ipMWg4DxZiJdzZtG0EAZ6vsugU06cOHAt8_I4ZZhucKI6NXiC3f6YWQMhqWom4tTDIHepTENQD7MxoM4M6olgBKnlddVGY1QkaAH-GMhmMQ/s200/Sly-Stallone-Fist_l.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 166px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 200px;" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">year:</span> 1978 <span style="font-weight: bold;">rating:</span> **<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">cast:</span> Sylvester Stallone, Richard Herd, Rod Steiger, Peter Boyle<br />
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During the depression, unions were important, being that there weren't many and workers were exploited. And that's what this movie shows from the first minute to the last, all within a two-and-a-half hour epic that needed more humanity than plot: that is, the moments between the strikes and hardships were too few and far between, never really getting to know the characters as actual people. Sylvester Stallone, fresh from his breakthrough in ROCKY, is hit-or-miss. His sometimes mumbling, other times voracious character moves up the ladder, from put-upon factory worker to spokesman for a trucker's union, way too fast. And the side-characters, including Peter Boyle and Rod Steiger, serve only as fuel to entice or enrage Stallone: who's fighting for a<span style="font-style: italic;"> real </span>cause... but it's all too heavy, and goes on way too long, to be genuinely effective. And while this might be the kind of thing Stallone always wanted to do, and finally got the chance, it doesn't mean he should have. <br />

depression-era, peter boyle, rod steiger, seventies, sylvester stallone, union