8.0/10
BTW, the sound is just a bit out of sync with the video. Not enough to be a major distraction, but still, sorry about that.
Double-feature ping.
“The Killers” was redone in the 60s and, if I remember correctly, it was RR’s last commercial film.
It starred RR, Angie Dickinson, John Cassavetes, and a couple of other big names which I have forgotten.
At one part of the movie RR had to pose as a highway patrolman and barricade a road. Some guy waiting in line asked, “What’s holding up the traffic?” RR responded, “Who knows? They’re always tearin’ up sumthin’.” I LOL’ed about that!
Oh, Lee Marvin, Clu Gulagar and Claude Akins added to Post # 3.
One of the first movies I recorded on my newly-purchased vcr, back when the film was aired on a local late-show in 1983. Still have my old vhs tape of it. Stations were still running ratty-looking 16mm prints back then.
Pretty exciting stuff. I always remember the kick I’d get out of William Conrad in the opening scenes, seeing friendly old “Cannon” being such an obnoxious jerk. Charles McGraw has always been a favorite. Just watched him the other day in an “Untouchables” episode. Anyway, the film was most often cited as being Burt Lancaster’s debut. I saw Lancaster in person a couple of years later, at a college screening of “The Leopard,” and I remember how strong and vibrant he still seemed in his older age, in how he walked and comported himself. Yet I think a stroke managed to put him out of commission a few short years later.
Another Hemingway-based item I watched again not too long ago, for the first time in decades, was “The Breaking Point” (1950), a re-working of To Have and Have Not, but starring John Garfield and Patricia Neal. I’d forgotten what a really top-notch film it is. Tends to be pretty overshadowed by the original. Never really cared too much for Garfield, but he was fine in this, and the movie packs quite a wallop.
Great example of film noir.
Fantastic! Thank you so much for your hard work!