John Wayne starred in dozens of Westerns during his lengthy career, but he very rarely played the bad guy. One of his darkest roles came in "The Searchers," his 14th and greatest collaboration with John Ford, the director who helped the Hollywood icon make his name in "Stagecoach." It was a film that inverted Wayne's heroic screen persona by casting him as Ethan Edwards, a bitterly racist former soldier who spends many years on an obsessive quest to track down his niece after she is abducted by Comanches.
For a director-star combo that had often portrayed Native Americans as a faceless marauding horde in many of their earlier pictures, "The Searchers" is a soulful and sometimes awkward attempt to reckon with that past and, in turn, America's legacy of genocide and Manifest Destiny. While its comedic moments seem to belong to another film and its use of Redface is cringe-inducing,...
For a director-star combo that had often portrayed Native Americans as a faceless marauding horde in many of their earlier pictures, "The Searchers" is a soulful and sometimes awkward attempt to reckon with that past and, in turn, America's legacy of genocide and Manifest Destiny. While its comedic moments seem to belong to another film and its use of Redface is cringe-inducing,...
- 1/1/2023
- by Lee Adams
- Slash Film
Norman Lear’s Cold Turkey is preferred by 4 out of 5 doctors, and the other doctor is a fool that doesn’t smoke cigarettes. Lear’s triple-threat writing, producing and directing effort is by no means a lazy comedy, with its twenty featured actors dashing around like asylum inmates for ninety minutes. It’s not the show to help one kick the habit, that’s for sure — even though it makes smoking look appropriately disgusting.
Cold Turkey
Blu-ray
Olive Films
1971 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 99 min. / Street Date May 29, 2018 / available through the Olive Films website / 29.98
Starring: Dick Van Dyke, Bob Newhart, Pippa Scott, Tom Poston, Edward Everett Horton, Bob Elliott, Ray Goulding, Vincent Gardenia, Barnard Hughes, Graham Jarvis, Jean Stapleton, Barbara Cason, Judith Lowry, Sudie Bond, Helen Page Camp, Paul Benedict, Simon Scott, Raymond Kark, Peggy Rea, Woodrow Parfrey, M. Emmet Walsh, Gloria LeRoy, Walter Sande, Harvey Jason, Ted Knight, Stan Gottlieb.
Cinematography:...
Cold Turkey
Blu-ray
Olive Films
1971 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 99 min. / Street Date May 29, 2018 / available through the Olive Films website / 29.98
Starring: Dick Van Dyke, Bob Newhart, Pippa Scott, Tom Poston, Edward Everett Horton, Bob Elliott, Ray Goulding, Vincent Gardenia, Barnard Hughes, Graham Jarvis, Jean Stapleton, Barbara Cason, Judith Lowry, Sudie Bond, Helen Page Camp, Paul Benedict, Simon Scott, Raymond Kark, Peggy Rea, Woodrow Parfrey, M. Emmet Walsh, Gloria LeRoy, Walter Sande, Harvey Jason, Ted Knight, Stan Gottlieb.
Cinematography:...
- 6/9/2018
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
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By Harvey Chartrand
Mr. Lucky: The Complete Series is now available for the first time ever as a 4-dvd box set from Timeless Media Group… all 34 episodes, with a running time of about 840 minutes. Mr. Lucky– created by writer/director Blake Edwards (Peter Gunn) – ran for only one season (from 1959 to 1960), even though it was a hit with viewers.
This adventure/crime drama is a sort of Peter Gunn Lite, featuring a lush, organ-powered theme song by Henry Mancini (a bonus CD of Mr. Lucky’s soundtrack is included in the set), an assortment of shady characters aboard a floating casino, and competent acting by series regulars John Vivyan (as suave professional gambler Mr. Lucky), Ross Martin (as his sidekick and business partner Andamo), Pippa Scott (as Mr. Lucky’s girlfriend Maggie Shank-Rutherford) and Tom Brown (as Lieutenant Rovacs, Mr. Lucky’s...
By Harvey Chartrand
Mr. Lucky: The Complete Series is now available for the first time ever as a 4-dvd box set from Timeless Media Group… all 34 episodes, with a running time of about 840 minutes. Mr. Lucky– created by writer/director Blake Edwards (Peter Gunn) – ran for only one season (from 1959 to 1960), even though it was a hit with viewers.
This adventure/crime drama is a sort of Peter Gunn Lite, featuring a lush, organ-powered theme song by Henry Mancini (a bonus CD of Mr. Lucky’s soundtrack is included in the set), an assortment of shady characters aboard a floating casino, and competent acting by series regulars John Vivyan (as suave professional gambler Mr. Lucky), Ross Martin (as his sidekick and business partner Andamo), Pippa Scott (as Mr. Lucky’s girlfriend Maggie Shank-Rutherford) and Tom Brown (as Lieutenant Rovacs, Mr. Lucky’s...
- 2/15/2013
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Mod, or manufacturing on demand, means studios and DVD labels don’t press the DVD until you order it. MGM’s Limited Edition Collection and the Warner Archive Collection are the two big names in the Mod game right now, and each month they make dozens of titles available on DVD for the very first time. And The Mod Quad will take a look at as many of them as we can handle on a semi-irregular basis. Which will probably average out to some number divisible by four. This Halloween-themed installment includes eight horror films from the Warner Archive including one of the best made-for-tv horror films ever made (Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark), a freaky and timely movie about a madman who owns exotic animals (Black Zoo), one of the scariest TV mini-series (Salem’s Lot), the best killer pig movie to ever grace the screen (Razorback) and more. * The...
- 11/1/2011
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Can you ever really go home again, even if your director is the guy who made Tootsie? The Twilight Zone, Episode #45: "The Trouble with Templeton" (airdate 12/09/60) The Plot: An actor in the twilight of his life is still haunted by the loss of his one true love. The Goods: Booth Templeton (Brian Aherne) observes a "new guest" paying attention to young Mrs. Templeton by the swimming pool on his palatial grounds. He is rueful but not surprised, accepting her indiscretions as the price he must pay for marrying such a young woman. Templeton, a renowned star of the stage, knows that he's living in his twilight years, and he's occupied by memories of Laura (Pippa Scott), his first wife and one true...
- 8/6/2011
- Screen Anarchy
Director: Steven Peros Writer: Steven Peros Starring: Sybil Temtchine, H.M. Wynant, Pippa Scott People often escape to Hollywood to start their lives anew...and once upon a time a young woman (Sybil Temtchine) wearing a green dress takes that quest quite literally. The woman mysteriously awakens, sprawled across the famed footprints and handprints in front of the Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. We never learn her name (she seems to have amnesia) and she rarely speaks, but we are given the opportunity to listen to her internal dialogue. A series of "quirky Hollywood types" try to "help" the dazed and confused woman, including a vagrant (Jeris Lee Poindexter) and a man wearing a bolo tie, Victor (H.M. Wynant). Is she Mira Sorvino? Is she Wonder Woman? Is she Daisy? Why is William Wyler's 1949 film The Heiress important to her? And who the hell is "fountain boy"? With Footprints,...
- 4/14/2011
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
From award-winning writer Steven Peros, author of the play and screenplay for The Cat.s Meow (directed by Peter Bogdanovich) and twice-published Samuel French playwright, comes Footprints, a haunting, hopeful and unforgettable mystery. The film chronicles a young woman.s journey of discovery in one day, from sunrise to sunset.
Sybil Temtchine (Ten Benny, Passion of Ayn Rand) stars as a young woman who wakes up at dawn on the footprints and handprints of the famed Grauman.s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood with no idea who she or how she got there. Upon awakening, she wonders if she isn.t, in fact, lost in a dream. And perhaps she is.
Regardless of whether she is dreaming or wide awake, Our Gal sets off on her journey, from one person to the next, one famous locale after the other. Among the Hollywood fringe denizens with whom she comes into contact are...
Sybil Temtchine (Ten Benny, Passion of Ayn Rand) stars as a young woman who wakes up at dawn on the footprints and handprints of the famed Grauman.s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood with no idea who she or how she got there. Upon awakening, she wonders if she isn.t, in fact, lost in a dream. And perhaps she is.
Regardless of whether she is dreaming or wide awake, Our Gal sets off on her journey, from one person to the next, one famous locale after the other. Among the Hollywood fringe denizens with whom she comes into contact are...
- 3/9/2011
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
John Hillcoat's The Proposition received the Mary-Jean Mitchell Green Award for best narrative feature at the ninth annual Bermuda International Film Festival, which concluded Saturday. Pippa Scott's King Leopold's Ghost was named best documentary feature, and Lluis Quilez's short film Avatar won the M3 Wireless Bermuda Shorts Award. Miramax Films' Kinky Boots, directed by Julian Jarrold, took honors as the Audience Choice Award winner. The runners-up were Lucinda Spurling's Rare Bird and Thomas Allen Harris' Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela.
- 3/26/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
PALM SPRINGS -- The story of the Congolese people and their nation -- through its permutations as Belgian Congo, Zaire and the Democratic Republic of the Congo -- is one of the cruelest chapters in modern history. It's a chapter that is far from over, as this exceptionally well-researched film by actress-turned-director Pippa Scott and co-director Oreet Rees makes painfully clear.
The dispiriting facts, drawn from Adam Hochschild's acclaimed 1998 book "King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa," have a harrowing power onscreen. As an introduction and overview, this is an important film. But in a sense the feature length feels awkward; a miniseries would be warranted, given the wealth of archival material, including photographs, illustrations, film footage and journal entries (read by narrator Don Cheadle, Alfre Woodard and James Cromwell, among others). After its world premiere at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, "King Leopold's Ghost" should have a long life on the small screen and video and, in the hands of the right distributor, could connect with theatrical audiences.
The Congo's history is the story of the unchecked quest for rubber, diamonds, ivory and uranium -- and today, coltan, a metallic ore essential to the production of computers and cell phones. The phrase "crimes against humanity" was first used in 1890 by American journalist George Washington Williams, exposing the system of slave labor, torture and mutilation that made Leopold II an unconscionably wealthy man and put his tiny nation of Belgium on the map as a colonial power. In the territory that became the Belgian Congo, Leopold happened upon one of the world's richest stores of natural resources. Ruthless enterprise cost the colony 10 million lives, or half its population, in a 40-year period beginning in 1885. Companies making 700% profit on rubber routinely chopped off the hands of workers who didn't meet their quotas.
The atrocities haven't ended; Congo today is one of the most unstable countries on Earth, mired in war with neighbors and the internecine maneuvers of illegal traders. In its hard-hitting depiction of a legacy of unspeakable brutality, this film shows that the ghosts of Leopold are alive and well.
The dispiriting facts, drawn from Adam Hochschild's acclaimed 1998 book "King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa," have a harrowing power onscreen. As an introduction and overview, this is an important film. But in a sense the feature length feels awkward; a miniseries would be warranted, given the wealth of archival material, including photographs, illustrations, film footage and journal entries (read by narrator Don Cheadle, Alfre Woodard and James Cromwell, among others). After its world premiere at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, "King Leopold's Ghost" should have a long life on the small screen and video and, in the hands of the right distributor, could connect with theatrical audiences.
The Congo's history is the story of the unchecked quest for rubber, diamonds, ivory and uranium -- and today, coltan, a metallic ore essential to the production of computers and cell phones. The phrase "crimes against humanity" was first used in 1890 by American journalist George Washington Williams, exposing the system of slave labor, torture and mutilation that made Leopold II an unconscionably wealthy man and put his tiny nation of Belgium on the map as a colonial power. In the territory that became the Belgian Congo, Leopold happened upon one of the world's richest stores of natural resources. Ruthless enterprise cost the colony 10 million lives, or half its population, in a 40-year period beginning in 1885. Companies making 700% profit on rubber routinely chopped off the hands of workers who didn't meet their quotas.
The atrocities haven't ended; Congo today is one of the most unstable countries on Earth, mired in war with neighbors and the internecine maneuvers of illegal traders. In its hard-hitting depiction of a legacy of unspeakable brutality, this film shows that the ghosts of Leopold are alive and well.
- 1/18/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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