“You Ever Pick Your Feet In Poughkeepsie?”
WOW It is funny that you have posted this since my youngest and I were on Netflix and saw a program about marines done by Hackman. In it he states he’s a Marine, BTW it was a good program as we are a Marine family here.
One of my favorite actors. The French Connection and Hoosiers are two of my favorite all-time movies.
This is the second retrospective article about Gene Hackman I’ve seen this week. At first I thought it must mean that he just passed, but it may he’s in a new movie or this is simply a coincidence.
Not sure that Gene ever made a movie I didn’t like.
Enjoyed his role in “Behind Enemy Lines”
One of the greatest American movie actors ever. Popeye Doyle remains seared on my memory. And he had a great role in the film I Never Sang For my Father, where he was a novelist who goes to visit his Father after his mother dies. When the Father and Son went out to meet people, the father (Melvyn Douglas) would always boast that his son was a Marine. Ironically, Hackman, lying in bed with a woman later in the film complains “He always says “Gene was a Marine! He never tells anybody I’m a novelist!!”
Eastforker, thanks for posting these threads...love the subject matter! Good job...:)
One of the last classic westerns. Hackman's Little Bill is one of the all time greatest villains.
That movie is one of the few that justifiably earned Best Picture.
Uncommon Valor.I still remember the scene where his little boy comes into the room telling him he is scared of the dark and Hackman holds out his hand.
In Absolute Power, he was one despicable, villainous President. E.G. Marshall gave him his due!
One of Clint Eastwood’s best films.
i love GH and hope i never hear him spout off like a liberal D- bag. It will break my heart, lol.