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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008George Kennedy, Diane Baker, and Gregory Peck in “Mirage”
Man On the Run with Nowhere to Go
Mirage. Starring Gregory Peck, Diane Baker, Walter Matthau, Kevin McCarthy, Jack Weston, Leif Erickson, Walter Abel, George Kennedy, and Robert H. Harris. Music by Quincy Jones. Cinematography by Joseph MacDonald. Art direction by Frank Arrigo and Alexander Golitzen. Costume design [...]
Ace in the Hole (1951) – Movie Review
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007
Kirk Douglas and Jan Sterling in the lobby card from Billy Wilder’s lost 1951 masterpiece, “Ace in the Hole”
Wilder Than Reality Television
Ace in the Hole. Starring Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Bob Arthur, Porter Hall, Frank Cady, Richard Benedict, Ray Teal, Lewis Martin, John Berkes, Frances Dominguez, Gene Evans, and Frank Jaquet. [...]
Becket (1964) – Movie Review
Saturday, February 24th, 2007
Dictum Meum Pactum
Becket. Starring Richard Burton, Peter O’Toole, John Gielgud, Donald Wolfit, Martita Hunt, Pamela Brown, Siân Phillips, Felix Aylmer, Gino Servi, and Paolo Stoppa. Music by Laurence Rosenthal. Cinematography by Geoffrey Unsworth, B.S.C. Edited by Anne V. Coates, A.C.E. Screenplay by Edward Anhalt, based on the play by Jean Anouilh. Directed by Peter Glenville. [...]
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) – Movie Review
Wednesday, November 1st, 2006At the end of his rope: Jimmy Stewart gets a chance to see what the world would look like had he never been born
It Was a Wonderful Life
It’s A Wonderful Life. Starring James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell, Henry Travers, Beulah Bondi, Frank Faylen, Ward Bond, Gloria Grahame, Todd Karns, Samuel S. Hinds, and H.B. Warner. [...]
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) – Movie Review
Wednesday, December 10th, 2003
Fistful of Leone
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Starring Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef, Aldo Giuffre, Luigi Pistilli, Rada Rassimov, Enzo Petito, Molino Rocho, and Mario Brega. Cinematography by Tonino Della Colli. Edited by Eugenio Alabiso and Nino Baragli. Restored version edited by Joe D’Augustine. Sets and costumes by Carlo Simi. Music [...]