Danger Route (1967) – Director: Seth Holt – 6/10 (good)The motion picture represents more of a John Le Carre style spy thriller, eschewing the jubilant, playful disposition of the James Bond rip-offs of the era and thereby, opting for the more cynical approach instead. The film is executed in a […]
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“In my day, we had to either learn the tricks or we gave work to the gravediggers.” Following the massive success of Sergio Leone’s Dollars Trilogy, the spaghetti western became the most popular genre in Italy. From the mid 60s to the mid 70s hundreds of these thrilling action movies […]
On July 8th Warner Home Video will be releasing John Boorman’s 1967 crime classic POINT BLANK starring Lee Marvin and Angie Dickinson on Hi-Def Blu Ray. Point Blank is one of several film adaptations based on author Donald E. Westlake’s Parker character. The others being Made in U.S.A, The Split, […]
Director Robert Aldrich was a man who seemed to love different genres of cinema. Just look at his filmography and you can see he wasn’t afraid to take on a variety of subject matter. Not only that but each time out he made classics. From his 1955 film noir Kiss […]
In The Flim Flam Man (1967), a southern fried 60’s screwball crime comedy directed by the late Irvin Kerschner, George C. Scott plays Mordecai Jones a legendary, cantankerous old grifter who has been scamming people in the Southern states for years. Our story begins when Mordecai is thrown off a […]
“Sometimes nothin’ is a real cool hand” We’d like to kick off our latest feature on Furious Cinema with the theatrical poster from one of our favorite films: Stuart Rosenberg‘s Cool Hand Luke. Luke Jackson (Paul Newman) is a man who has a hard time conforming to society. After he […]