Film: Golden Clown, The / Klovnen (1926)
Sweden’s Gösta Ekman is British circus clown Joe Higgins, a man of skill, humour, and agility with eyes for Daisy (Karina Bell), the acrobatic daughter of circus owner and ringleader James Bunding…
Author Archive: Mark R. Hasan
Career High Points: The Hospital (1971) + The Valachi Papers (1972)
Two career peaks are profiled via Twilight Time Blu-rays: George C. Scott in The Hospital (1971) + Charles Bronson in The Valachi Papers (1972).
BR: Hospital, The (1971)
Preceding the bilious Oscar-winning black comedy Network (1977), The Hospital also earned writer-producer Paddy Chayefsky an Oscar for his similarly vicious script on a NYC inner city hospital whose innards and surrounding appendages are erupting with unrest and sudden deaths…
BR: Valachi Papers, The (1972)
Released the same year as Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather, The Valachi Papers is based on Peter Maas’ 1968 book which chronicled the real-life testimony of Joseph Valachi, a driver for the Genovese family whose federal testimony in 1963…
Bloodying It Up When You’re Going Down
A lengthy comparative review of Dick Maas’ extremely fun killer elevator diptych – 1983’s The Lift / De lift + the 2001 English remake Down / The Shaft, both on Blu via Blue Underground.
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