Raoul Walsh tried to persuade George Raftto play the lead, but Raft did not want his character to die at the end of the film.
Film Theory: American Unique
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American films that disclose subtle details and subcurrents with each subsequent viewing: Psycho: first hour Sweet Smell of Success: The Wild bunch Kael Americans confuse morality and art to the detriment of both Among the educated, morality tends to mean social-cnsciousness, explicit, machine-tooled, commercialized social consciousness (the claim that L’Avventura is not “saying anything” Our […]
Oscar Actors: Cruise Accepts Honorary Oscar with Emotional Speech
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Making Films Is Not What I Do, It Is Who I Am–Tom Cruise
Gladiator II: Ridley Scott’s Vigorously Violent but Emotionally Hollow Spectacle (Sequel to his 2001 Oscar Winner)
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In the end, Gladiator II reaffirms Scott’s natural tendency toward grandiosity, but seldom justifies its very existence.
Actors: Calhoun, Rory–B-Level Star
Rory Calhoun (born Francis Timothy McCown, Aug 8, 1922–April 28, 1999), the American film and TV actor, starred in many Westerns in the 1950s and 1960s, and appeared in supporting roles in How to Marry a Millionaire (1953), River of No Return (1955), and Motel Hell (1980). Of Irish ancestry, Francis Timothy McCown was born […]