The Wild Bunch (1969) Review
The Wild Bunch (1969) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Peckinpah cut the violence at multiple film speeds and assembled it at a rate nobody had attempted, and the result changed how every action film since has…
Edmond O’Brien won Best Supporting Actor for The Barefoot Contessa, playing a press agent who perspires continuously, which became something of a signature.
D.O.A. gives him the premise every noir wishes it had: a man walks into a police station to report his own murder, having been poisoned with a slow-acting toxin.
The Killers, White Heat and The Wild Bunch fill out a long career, and he was also nominated for Seven Days in May.
Ben JohnsonThe Wild Bunch (1969) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Peckinpah cut the violence at multiple film speeds and assembled it at a rate nobody had attempted, and the result changed how every action film since has…
Andy DevineThe Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. John Ford spent thirty years building the Western myth and then made the film that takes it apart, shot on a soundstage in black…
Albert DekkerRobert Siodmak's 1946 Hemingway adaptation. The murder happens in the first ten minutes.
Edmond OBrienRaoul Walsh's 1949 noir gangster. Cagney as psychopathic mama's boy Cody Jarrett.
Donald PleasenceFantastic Voyage is the mid-1960s science fiction film about a submarine and crew miniaturized to microscopic size and injected into the bloodstream of a dying scientist. The film made approximately twelve million dollars on a six and a half million…
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