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Written by James M. Tate / 3/03/2023 / No comments / angie dickinson , claude akins , clu gulager , crime , don siegel , ernest hemingway , john cassavetes , lee marvin , norman fell , race car , robert phillips , ronald reagan , sixties , thriller

DON SIEGEL'S VERSION OF ERNEST HEMINGWAY'S 'THE KILLERS'

<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/AVvXsEgb2c7L1CNGSRYClg2aosrvnBJASPWmgmQcSyBhOaC4BCIE6piQZeNDfy_5F8K5IP5fQpv2jxMrBqNrK5c4BwyLfm3KZ5ti44hyYAh0h8aWVuRiGq97i_irJoLWueYF9WZRu4Rot8YA2pFGd9gvMfOZiu0gaP2t5udYmJNhoIJqwL_5F_HINI-IDLWeMw/s1233/2.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="652" data-original-width="1233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb2c7L1CNGSRYClg2aosrvnBJASPWmgmQcSyBhOaC4BCIE6piQZeNDfy_5F8K5IP5fQpv2jxMrBqNrK5c4BwyLfm3KZ5ti44hyYAh0h8aWVuRiGq97i_irJoLWueYF9WZRu4Rot8YA2pFGd9gvMfOZiu0gaP2t5udYmJNhoIJqwL_5F_HINI-IDLWeMw/s16000/2.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: THE KILLERS Year: 1964 Rating: **** </td></tr></tbody></table>Ernest Hemingway's 1927 short-story THE KILLERS is indeed quite short, mostly taking place in a diner where two hit men are looking for a renegade who that tale's protagonist, Nick Adams, works with at the small town's gas station... also the prologue to the 1946 Film Noir introducing Burt Lancaster... This 1964 Don Siegel version couldn't be more different, deleting the central diner scene (from the book and previous film) and was originally intended for television: no surprise given the somewhat mundane framing, noticeable studio sets (more inexpensive than stylized), soapy dialogue and lack of blood — THE KILLERS is not violent enough a theatrical thriller and too intensely lethal for the small screen...

angie dickinson, claude akins, clu gulager, crime, don siegel, ernest hemingway, john cassavetes, lee marvin, norman fell, race car, robert phillips, ronald reagan, sixties, thriller

DON SIEGEL'S VERSION OF ERNEST HEMINGWAY'S 'THE KILLERS'

Title: THE KILLERS Year: 1964 Rating: **** Ernest Hemingway's 1927 short-story THE KILLERS is indeed quite short, mostly taking place i...

VIRGINIA MAYO IN 'SHE'S WORKING HER WAY THROUGH COLLEGE'

<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/AVvXsEj2yKv5HnzIqNlVpSyayKHCAGVA-qPehN0R7yt5DElFfSCXNdfj6RMV1f5-svpZkBSF7wazGtoEK06snuySZfyy6mg-HY8sTOf9gPdrRsojPj_zzdh3T80D4ZxwfTVmJ4OTIY5cY4Ny568I5ItESV8xWUm_FZDfrOByzmnj0iFZPp1rpMXfkoxbH6zyMQ=s1159" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="766" data-original-width="1159" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj2yKv5HnzIqNlVpSyayKHCAGVA-qPehN0R7yt5DElFfSCXNdfj6RMV1f5-svpZkBSF7wazGtoEK06snuySZfyy6mg-HY8sTOf9gPdrRsojPj_zzdh3T80D4ZxwfTVmJ4OTIY5cY4Ny568I5ItESV8xWUm_FZDfrOByzmnj0iFZPp1rpMXfkoxbH6zyMQ=s16000"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Year: 1952 Rating: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>"I don't know what there is about the pelts of 
dead little animals that makes them so attractive to women when one 
little mouse scares them silly," says Ronald Reagan to Virginia Mayo in SHE'S WORKING HER WAY THROUGH COLLEGE. "A confusing sex, yours," he slurs, just slightly, with a hazy grin. "But a delightful 
confusion." 
 
There's nothing like seeing the future President playing a friendly yet uptight college professor given a cold remedy with a fair amount of codeine that he didn't "Say No" to. But no man refuses Mayo, one of the prettiest actresses ever filmed. Having catapulted as James Cagney's sexy yet put-upon, cheating wife in WHITE HEAT, she headlined a string of musicals during the 1950's, and this is one of the most memorable...

college, comedy, fifties, gene nelson, musical, patrice wymore, ronald reagan, virginia mayo, warner archives

VIRGINIA MAYO IN 'SHE'S WORKING HER WAY THROUGH COLLEGE'

Year: 1952 Rating: ***1/2 "I don't know what there is about the pelts of dead little animals that makes them so attractive to wom...

RONALD REAGAN IN 'KINGS ROW' ALSO STARRING ROBERT CUMMINGS

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Year of Release: 1942 Rating: ***1/2</td></tr>
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There's something thoroughly hypnotic and intoxicating about this 
melodrama centering on a handful of unlucky individuals growing up in a 
strange dusty town the film's named after. 
 
Ronald Reagan, never celebrated
for his acting ability, has enough charm to make you forget his
 limited range, and Robert Cummings is his perfect corny counterpart, 
always seeming ready to break into proverbial song, and a sad one at that. 
 
The best 
performances are from the ever-competitive envy-ridden women, either 
going insane or just about to as the camera sweeps to all the right 
angles and the music flows heavenward, but, by the end, since most of the 
story-line jumps to and fro at a rather quick pace, KINGS ROW seems like a 
condensed epic, raising the enviable question: Where's the rest of it?

ann sheridan, drama, forties, melodrama, robert cummings, romance, ronald reagan

RONALD REAGAN IN 'KINGS ROW' ALSO STARRING ROBERT CUMMINGS

Year of Release: 1942 Rating: ***1/2 There's something thoroughly hypnotic and intoxicating about this melodrama centering on a han...

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