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Entries Tagged as 'John Vernon'

Tell Them Willie Boy is Here (1969, Abraham Polonsky)

July 25th, 2007 · No Comments

Is that the one where Katharine Ross plays an Indian?
Sorry, I couldn’t resist.
Tell Them Willie Boy is Here starts incredibly strong. It gives a real sense of building towards something, but when that something arrives–Robert Blake and Katharine Ross on the run from a posse–it’s handled so poorly, the film falls apart. Maybe it doesn’t […]

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Tagged: Abraham Polonsky· Harry Lawton· John Vernon· Robert Redford· Susan Clark· Universal Pictures· ★½

The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976, Clint Eastwood)

November 15th, 2006 · No Comments

There are a couple kinds of Westerns, once you break it down enough. Ones where people go places, ones where people don’t. The Outlaw Josey Wales is a going places Western. It’s about a man on a trip and what the trip does to the man on the trip. I’ve seen Josey Wales before, probably […]

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Tagged: Clint Eastwood· Forrest Carter· John Vernon· Philip Kaufman· Sondra Locke· Sonia Chernus· Warner Bros.· ★★★★

The Black Windmill (1974, Don Siegel)

October 30th, 2006 · No Comments

The Black Windmill features Michael Caine and John Vernon shooting it out with Uzis. I’m sorry, I’m wrong. They’re shooting it out with MAC-10s. It’s an absurdity worthy of Siegel’s directorial protege Clint Eastwood–actually, Eastwood might have been paying homage to Siegel’s choice of lunacy here in Blood Work (when the serial killer happened to […]

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Tagged: Clive Egleton· Don Siegel· Donald Pleasence· Janet Suzman· John Vernon· Leigh Vance· Michael Caine· Universal Pictures·

Charley Varrick (1973, Don Siegel)

April 18th, 2006 · 1 Comment

Walter Matthau hated Charley Varrick. He must have been stuck in a contract or something. It’s understandable why he did, however. Matthau’s whole image is one of the likable curmudgeon. Varrick casts him as a gum-chewing (for that Matthau effect) bank robber… who doesn’t do it because he needs the money, but because crop dusting […]

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Tagged: Dean Riesner· Don Siegel· Howard Rodman· Joe Don Baker· John Reese· John Vernon· Norman Fell· Universal Pictures· Walter Mattheau· ★½

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