Katharine Ross was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for The Graduate and appeared in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Stepford Wives, the last giving her a lead in a film whose title became a permanent English phrase. The Final Countdown gave her a further genre role, and she has worked increasingly in television.
Jeff CoreyButch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. William Goldman sold the screenplay for four hundred thousand dollars and the film is a comedy about two men becoming obsolete. The freeze frame…
Drew BarrymoreDonnie Darko (2001) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A time loop film that works better as a portrait of adolescence than as a mechanism. Failed on release for reasons of timing, found its people on DVD,…
Ben GazzaraVoyage of the Damned (1976) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The true story of the MS St. Louis, which carried 937 Jewish refugees out of Hamburg in 1939 and was refused entry everywhere it went. A…
Henry FondaThe Swarm is Irwin Allen's 1978 American disaster film. Allen's disaster filmography had included The Poseidon Adventure (1972) and The Towering Inferno (1974) that operated at substantially higher register.
James FarentinoUSS Nimitz time-travels to day before Pearl Harbor. Authentic F-14 Tomcat sequences.
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