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Entries Tagged as 'Ed Lauter'

King Kong (1976, John Guillermin)

December 26th, 2008 · No Comments

In 2001, the Academy awarded Dino De Laurentiis the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial award. The clips ran from the beginning of his career to the present–I can’t remember if Body of Evidence got a clip–and I kept waiting to see how they’d deal with Kong. The De Laurentiis produced remake is either forgotten or derided, […]

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Tagged: Charles Grodin· Ed Lauter· Edgar Wallace· James Ashmore Creelman· Jeff Bridges· Jessica Lange· John Guillermin· Lorenzo Semple Jr.· Merian C. Cooper· Paramount Pictures· Ruth Rose· ★★★

The Rocketeer (1991, Joe Johnston)

July 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

Joe Johnston never getting recognition for The Rocketeer astounds me. Johnston creates a perfect adventure film, a now neglected and abused genre. Additionally, Johnston never fetishizes the historical setting. The late 1930s, Nazis as villains setting is practically its own genre at this point (strange how after a half decade, there are so few choices […]

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Tagged: Alan Arkin· Danny Bilson· Dave Stevens· Ed Lauter· Joe Johnston· Paul De Meo· Walt Disney Pictures· William Dear· ★★★★

The New Centurions (1972, Richard Fleischer)

May 29th, 2007 · No Comments

I was going to start this post saying complementary things about Richard Fleischer, something about how his mediocrity doesn’t get in the way of the film (and the film’s melodramatic mediocrity). Then he goes too far at the end, plunging the damn thing ever further into the muck. And The New Centurions is unbearably melodramatic. […]

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Tagged: Columbia Pictures· Ed Lauter· George C. Scott· Joseph Wambaugh· Richard Fleischer· Stirling Silliphant· William Atherton· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ

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