Directed by Fred C. Newmeyer. Story by Hal Roach, Sam Taylor, & Jean C. Havez, with titles by H.M. Walker. Pre-film, TCM’s J. Stew shares with us that this movie’s status as something other than a two-reel short came about largely by accident – as the project began as a typical two-reeler – but as […]
Directed by Vincent Sherman. Screenplay by Daniel Fuchs & Peter Viertel. Daniel Fuchs – whose entire film career included only 15 screenwriting credits – was an Oscar winner for Best Original Story, for LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME (1956); Peter Viertel – whose entire film career consisted of only 10 screenwriting credits – never earned an […]
Directed by Josef von Sternberg. Screenplay adapted by Jules Furthman, from the play “Amy Jolly” by Benno Vigny. This is a re-watch. So…we find ourselves in Morocco – where the lives of Tom Brown (a Légionnaire on temporary leave, played by Gary Cooper), Monsieur La Bessier (a richling hobbyist painter & frequent visitor to the […]
Directed by Jane Campion. Screenplay also by Campion, based on the 1967 novel by Thomas Savage. Montana, 1925. After some introductory cow squabbling – there’s an immediate visual reference to THE SEARCHERS (1956), in the form of an inside-looking-outside, reverse-silhouette doorway shot. THE SEARCHERS is definitely not a favorite movie of mine (I hold an […]
Directed by Anthony Mann. Screenplay by Burden Chase, based on the novel “Bend of the Snake” by Bill Gulick. Burden Chase did not have a super extensive career as a screenwriter – though it’s worth noting he was responsible for the screenplays of several more highly regarded Westerns: RED RIVER (1948)(for which Chase received his […]
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