On November 12, Kino Lorber will be releasing a newly remastered BluRay of one of our favorite crime films of the 1970s, Don Siegel’s Charley Varrick, starring Walter Matthau, Joe Don Baker, Andrew Robinson, John Vernon, and Sheree North. Synopsis: When small-time criminal Charley Varrick (Walter Matthau) leads a crew […]
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Don Siegel and Clint Eastwood’s final film collaboration, the prison docudrama-thriller ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ (1980) is coming to Blu Ray in October from Warner Home Video. The story is based on true events surrounding the prison break of 1962 on Alcatraz Island. Clint stars as the bustout ringleader Frank Morris […]
“Some men are destined never to leave Alcatraz… alive.” Don Siegel’s 1979 prison film Escape From Alcatraz marked the fifth and final collaboration between the director and friend/star Clint Eastwood. The story is based on true events surrounding an escape from the infamous maximum security prison on Alcatraz Island in […]
Every now and then we at Furious Cinema turn to one of our favorite classic genres, the western. We’ve previously posted a list of 50 Furious Westerns, and to build on that, we’re launching a series of in-depth looks at some classics of the genre. No rules. This is another guest […]
We couldn’t do our Don Siegel retrospective without reviewing the film that features one of the international icons of popular cinema… Clint Eastwood plays “Dirty” Harry Callahan a rebellious San Francisco police homicide inspector who is investigating the killing of a woman by a serial killer called Scorpio (Andrew Robinson) […]
During the Civil War, somewhere in the state of Louisiana, a Union soldier John McBirney (Clint Eastwood) is seriously injured in battle and on the verge of succumbing to his wounds. Luckily he is discovered by a young girl Amy (Pamelyn Ferdin) who is able to get him back to […]
Two years after making the film noir classic Out of The Past (1947) together, Robert Mitchum and Jane Greer co-starred in this South of The Border crime adventure. Mitchum plays U.S. Army Lieutenant Duke Halliday, who is robbed of a $300,000 payroll he is carrying by a fast talking shyster […]
In this 1977 spy thriller, a rogue KGB agent Nikolai Dalchimski (Donald Pleasance) steals a secret book containing the names of operatives hidden all over America. They have been part of a deep cover Russian offensive called Telefon (Russian spelling of Telephone) which was a new mind control experiment that […]
Two hitmen, Charlie (Lee Marvin) and Lee (Clu Gulager) are hired to track down and kill Johnny North (John Cassavetes) by an unknown client. When they find North he is teaching auto repair at a school for the blind. Right away it is apparent these two assassins mean business as […]
The 1970s was an incredible decade for cinema. One of my personal favorite films from that era is Don Siegel’s crime thriller Charley Varrick. Story has it Siegel’s pal Clint Eastwood was originally supposed to star in the film, but the part ended up going to the late great Walter […]