Diplomatic Bungling: The Chairman (1969) + The Ugly American (1963)
Cold War thrillers and diplomatic bungling galore in THE CHAIRMAN (1969) on Twilight Time Blu + THE UGLY AMERICAN (1963) from Mill Creek.
Tag: Marlon Brando
BR: Ugly American, The (1963)
After a largely successful series of films in the second half of the 1950s, Marlon Brando’s push into the 1960s seemed a little cursed, starting with his lone directorial effort, the weird but compelling western…
Revisiting Bubber: Arthur Penn’s The Chase (1966)
Revisiting Arthur Penn’s film version of Horton Foote’s The Chase (1966), new on Blu from Twilight Time.
BR: Lost Soul – The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau (2014)
After switching from directing music videos to feature films with his punk, post-apocalyptic sci-fi thriller Hardware (1990), Richard Stanley would follow-up with Dust Devil (1992), and what was supposed to be his Hollywood debut, The Island of Dr. Moreau, a revisionist version of H.G. Wells’ novel…
A Hope Lange Double-Header: The Best of Everything + The Young Lions on Blu
Reviews of two classic films with underrated actress Hope Lange – Jean Negulesco’s The Best of Everything (1959) + Edward Dmytryk’s The Young Lions on Blu via Twilight Time.
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