“Well, you know Chick, like old momma said, next best thing to playing and winning is playing and losing.” Walter Hill’s crackerjack Depression era film HARD TIMES (1975) was his directorial debut. Before this he had been a screenwriter on several films including Hickey & Boggs and The Getaway. Charles […]
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FILM REVIEW (145 MINUTE VERSION) “When you side with a man, you stay with him, and if you can’t do that you’re like some animal!” – Pike Bishop Sam Peckinpah’s 1969 masterpiece about the end of The Old West begins with a scene that was inspired by a story told […]
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 […]