Michael Curtiz's The Breaking Point , an adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's 1937 novel To Have and Have Not , ends with perhaps the bleakest image I can remember seeing in a classical Hollywood film. Th...
12.03.2024 Texasguardian.com and 8 sitesThere’s a gentility about “Hard Times, ” a bare-knuckle brawling drama set during the Great Depression. It’s a genre piece populated with veteran character actors playing archetypes bound by their own...
12.03.2024 Rogersmovienation.comWhere Was Sergeant York Filmed? Sergeant York is a 1941 American biographical war film directed by Howard Hawks and starring Gary Cooper as the real-life hero Alvin C. York. The film tells the story o...
12.02.2024 Militarymodelling.comGREATEST SCORES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Original Review by Craig Lysy Director Howard Hawks had long been fascinated by the magnitude of one of the architectural wonders of the world, the Great Pyram...
12.02.2024 Moviemusicuk.usART of Action, the latest offering from the ever adventurous young LUMI programmers at Queen’s Film Theatre in Belfast, is an action-packed all-nighter running tomorrow evening right through until Sunday morning. It all starts at 11pm, and for those with serious stamina, a total of five films have been lined-up for screening through until breakfast. The treats in store include Polite Society, The Heroic Trio, Fallen Angels and Monkey Man, but for me the real delights are to be found in Jack Hill...
11.29.2024 Irishnews.comHoward Hawks is famous for having said that a movie is properly regarded as a major stand-out or perhaps as an Oscar contender if it has “three great scenes and no bad ones. ” What are Wicked ’s three...
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