Lee Marvin won Best Actor for Cat Ballou, playing two roles including a drunk gunfighter, and appeared in The Dirty Dozen, Point Blank and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. He was a Marine wounded at Saipan, and his palimony case in 1979 created a legal term still used.
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…
Angie DickinsonPoint Blank (1967) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Lee Marvin threw the script in the bin, handed his script and casting approval to a British director who had never worked in Hollywood, and the result is…
Elizabeth AshleyShip of Fools (1965) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A German liner crossing from Veracruz to Bremerhaven in 1933, carrying passengers with no idea what they are sailing toward. Vivien Leigh's last film.
Charles BronsonThe Dirty Dozen is the better-known cousin of The Devil's Brigade, released a year earlier in 1967 to massive box office success. This is going to be a different kind of review because the experience was different.
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