Archive for the 'Action' Category
Adventures of Robin Hood - 1938
Romance, Action| No Comments »It is in color (Technicolor that is), it is big, it is fast and it is funny. The prints of this picture have been restored so it looks like it was made yesterday. Originally this picture was to be just a shot by shot remake of the Douglas Fairbanks version from 1919. However at […]
Caine Mutiny - 1954
Set Your Recorders, Bogart, Action| No Comments »Humphrey Bogart plays the quintessential Navy Captain who is losing his marbles. In one of the most tragic and sympathetic performances of a man breaking down sanity-wise on a witness stand, Mr. Bogart moved the studio crew to a thunderous round of applause when the scene was finished. The film took a year […]
Thirty Six Hours - 1965
Set Your Recorders, Thriller/Suspense, Action| No Comments »On the eve of the D-Day invasion, an Army Major who knows where the action will take place is kidnapped in Lisbon. Drugged and smuggled out of Portugal to an “Army Hospital” our hero is aged, awakened and led to believe that he had been in a coma and World War Two has […]
French Connection - 1971
Drama, New York, Action| No Comments »I was always amazed at how many people had not seen The French Connection. I was even more shocked when some one said to me that they had never heard of it. The above ad was all over the subway when I was a kid. I will never forget the young woman walking up […]
