Fifty/Fifty is the last film where crap-master screenwriters Dennis Shryack and Michael Butler worked together, though it appears they wrote the script in the mid-eighties. It’s one of their best films, which isn’t difficult, only because the film occasionally batters its viewer with man’s inhumanity to his fellow man (in this film’s case, it’s when […]
Entries Tagged as 'Dennis Shryack'
Fifty/Fifty (1992, Charles Martin Smith)
October 10th, 2009 · No Comments
Tagged: Cannon Films· Charles Martin Smith· Dennis Shryack· Michael Butler· Peter Weller· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ
The Gauntlet (1977, Clint Eastwood)
March 9th, 2007 · No Comments
I think I watched The Gauntlet for masochistic reasons, namely screenwriters Michael Butler and Dennis Shryack, the late 1970s, early 1980s version of Mark Rosenthal and Lawrence Konner–incompetent Hollywood writers. Even so, the film’s not wholly terrible. It’s rarely exciting, just because the action sequences are so poorly written, and Clint approaches the whole thing […]
Tagged: Clint Eastwood· Dennis Shryack· Michael Butler· Sondra Locke· Warner Bros.· ★½
Pale Rider (1985, Clint Eastwood)
November 9th, 2006 · 1 Comment
Pale Rider is an interesting Eastwood–while it is a milestone in Eastwood coming together as a filmmaker–it’s also one of the few films where he really offered up so much for another actor to do. The film’s some kind of homage to Shane–as well as a colder, more mountainous version of High Plains Drifter–but Michael […]
Tagged: Clint Eastwood· Dennis Shryack· Michael Butler· Warner Bros.· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ
The Car (1977, Elliot Silverstein)
October 26th, 2006 · No Comments
Sitting and watching The Car in 2006, it was amusing to know what Universal studio executives were saying about the film some thirty years ago… “It’s like Jaws, but with a car.” At first, I thought the movie was some kind of Duel remake, but then the Jaws comparisons became obvious, but not obvious in […]
Tagged: Dennis Shryack· Elliot Silverstein· Kathleen Lloyd· Lane Slate· Michael Butler· Ronny Cox· Universal Pictures· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ
