Robert Benton directed and co-wrote (with Richard Russo) Twilight, a dull neo-noir thriller, starring Paul Newman, Susan Sarandon, Gene Hackman, Reese Witherspoon, Stockard Channing, and James Garner.
Twilight (1998): Robert Benton’s Neo-Noir Thriller, Starring Paul Newman, Susan Sarandon, Gene Hackman, Reese Witherspoon, Stockard Channing, James Garner
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Buffalo Bill and the Indians (1976): Altman’s Revisionist Western, Starring Paul Newman, Burt Lancaster, Shelley Duvall (*AMOUR)
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Robert Altman directed Buffalo Bill and the Indians (aka Sitting Bull’s History Lesson), a revisionist Western film, based on Arthur Kopit’s 1968 play, “Indians.”
Rack, The (1956): Arnold Laven’s Courtroom Drama, Starring Paul Newman, Wendell Corey, and Walter Pidgeon
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In "The Rack," Paul Newman gives a strong emotional performance as Edward W. Hall, Jr., a young Army captain charged with collaboration during the Korean War and brought to a court-martial.
Until They Sail (1957): Robert Wise’s Middling War Melodrama, Starring Jean Simmons, Joan Fontaine, Paul Newman
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Paul Newman was reunited with director Robert Wise, who had catapulted him to stardom in “Somebody Up There Likes Me,” for his third MGM loan-out from Warner in the WWII melodrama “Until They Sail.”
Cool Hand Luke (1967): Prison Drama, Starring Paul Newman, George Kennedy, Supporting Actor Oscar Winner (Cult Movie)
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Thematically, this popular chain gang film drew heavily on the gloomy Depression era drama, “I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang,” starring Paul Muni. Its protagonist is James Allen (Paul Newman, at his best), a war hero down on his luck who's sentenced to a chain gang, presided over by Strother Martin (George Kennedy).
