James Garner starred in Maverick and The Rockford Files, and both characters share a quality unusual for their genres: a hero who would rather run than fight and says so.
The Great Escape and Grand Prix gave him film work, and Murphy’s Romance brought a Best Actor nomination. He sued both Universal and Warner Bros over profit accounting and won, which changed how residuals were calculated across the industry.
Gena RowlandsThe Notebook (2004) rates 6 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The young romance is a competent, conventional and occasionally irritating class melodrama. The framing story, an old man reading to a woman with dementia who does not know…
Charles BronsonJohn Sturges's perfect ensemble war film. Steve McQueen and the legendary cast.
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