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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Two classic films from 1973 that were both based on true stories dealing with honor and corruption among lawmen are Sidney Lumet’s character study-procedural Serpico and Phil Karlson’s southern fried actioner Walking Tall. Each of these tales dealt with a certain kind of man, more precisely a certain kind of […]
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 […]
Fresh off the success of the award winning masterpiece The Godfather (1972), Robert Duvall took a role in this film playing Earl Macklin, a convict who is being released back into society after a stretch in prison. Macklin doesn’t know yet that as he’s breathing in the fresh air of […]
Director Sam Peckinpah was enamored with the Old West and the people who were attributed to that era as can be seen from the many films he made. Beginning with his debut The Deadly Companions (1961) through to his romanticized masterpiece Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973), Peckinpah explored […]
“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 […]
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 […]