Among die hard cinephiles, J. Lee Thompson’s, Cape Fear, is perhaps one of the greatest and one of the most important thrillers ever made. It’s based on the 1957 psychological thriller-suspense novel, The Executioners, written by American author John D. MacDonald. The story revolves around attorney Sam Bowden (played by […]
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One of the top grossing films of 1976, The Omen is a supernatural thriller that, though sometimes heavy on exposition, scripture and appropriation, remains creepy and remarkably unsettling. Something about the idea that maybe this diabolical event involving Satan, human beings, and the world, could actually take place. Gregory (To […]
Following his role in J. Lee Thompson’s 1962 psychological thriller Cape Fear actor Gregory Peck was in Robert Mulligan’s classic drama TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1963, USA). In that film, Peck played a small town southern lawyer who represents a black man in a controversial court case. He was brilliant […]
In 1962 Harper Lee’s best selling classic American novel “To Kill A Mockingbird” became a feature film. Director Robert Mulligan and Screenwriter Horton Foote adapted the story about a Southern family into one of the finest productions to come out of Hollywood. It looks at lives of a lawyer named […]