Exclusive: Morgan Freeman and Lori McCreary’s Revelations Entertainment has set up a Bass Reeves series titled Twin Territories at Amazon, after three decades spent chasing the elusive lawman.
The Revelations and The 51-produced series in development at the streamer is based on a novel by preeminent Reeves scholar Art T. Burton. While most people have heard of The Lone Ranger, few know the true story of the man behind the legend, who in his time was arguably the greatest lawman west of the Mississippi. As the first Black Deputy U.S. Marshal, Reeves all but tamed The Wild West single-handedly, bringing well over 3,000 dangerous criminals to justice in his 32 years as a federal peace officer under “Hanging” Judge Parker.
Twin Territories will follow America’s #1 lawman as he and the brash Irishman Chauncey Lee are faced with the almost impossible task of imposing the rule of law in the most dangerous place on earth,...
The Revelations and The 51-produced series in development at the streamer is based on a novel by preeminent Reeves scholar Art T. Burton. While most people have heard of The Lone Ranger, few know the true story of the man behind the legend, who in his time was arguably the greatest lawman west of the Mississippi. As the first Black Deputy U.S. Marshal, Reeves all but tamed The Wild West single-handedly, bringing well over 3,000 dangerous criminals to justice in his 32 years as a federal peace officer under “Hanging” Judge Parker.
Twin Territories will follow America’s #1 lawman as he and the brash Irishman Chauncey Lee are faced with the almost impossible task of imposing the rule of law in the most dangerous place on earth,...
- 6/29/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Only two years after starring in Joe Dante’s The Howling, Dee Wallace and Christopher Stone are face to snout with yet another snarling beast. This time it’s the rabies-infected St. Bernard of Lewis Teague’s Cujo. The film’s frantically suspenseful climax helped make it a modest success in 1983 (the fourth-highest grossing horror film of the year). Teague’s in-your-face action scenes were abetted by editor Neil Travis (Terminator 3) and cinematographer Jan De Bont (eleven years before his directorial debut with Speed).
The post Cujo appeared first on Trailers From Hell.
The post Cujo appeared first on Trailers From Hell.
- 4/13/2022
- by TFH Team
- Trailers from Hell
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Kevin Costner stars in and directs the triumphant cinematic masterpiece Dances with Wolves, based on the novel by Michael Blake. Available November 13th, 2018 from Shout! Factory, this breathtaking three-disc Steelbook Collector’s Edition includes the original theatrical cut for the first time on Blu-ray, an extended cut of the film and an entire disc of bonus features.
Winner of seven Academy Awards®, including Best Directing and Best Picture, this modern classic tells the story of Lt. Dunbar (Costner), a Civil War hero who befriends a tribe of Native Americans while stationed at a desolate outpost on the frontier. What follows is a series of unforgettable moments — from Dunbar’s tender scenes with Stands With A Fist (Mary McDonnell), to the thrilling, action-packed buffalo hunt. Experience the excitement, emotion and sweeping beauty of this cinematic treasure as never before on Blu-ray!
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Kevin Costner stars in and directs the triumphant cinematic masterpiece Dances with Wolves, based on the novel by Michael Blake. Available November 13th, 2018 from Shout! Factory, this breathtaking three-disc Steelbook Collector’s Edition includes the original theatrical cut for the first time on Blu-ray, an extended cut of the film and an entire disc of bonus features.
Winner of seven Academy Awards®, including Best Directing and Best Picture, this modern classic tells the story of Lt. Dunbar (Costner), a Civil War hero who befriends a tribe of Native Americans while stationed at a desolate outpost on the frontier. What follows is a series of unforgettable moments — from Dunbar’s tender scenes with Stands With A Fist (Mary McDonnell), to the thrilling, action-packed buffalo hunt. Experience the excitement, emotion and sweeping beauty of this cinematic treasure as never before on Blu-ray!
- 12/20/2018
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Where were Andy Griffith, Larry Hagman and other well-known celebrities in this year's Oscars In Memoriam montage? They were online at Oscar.com.
Every year it's one of the more reliably ridiculous award show controversies: Who didn't make the cut for In Memoriam?
When it comes to the Oscars, these "snubs" are particularly sensitive given the prestige and viewership of the show, and the fact that the montage inevitably leaves out names and faces of recognizable stars -- usually those known far more for their work in television than their work in film, which is the medium that the Academy Awards actually celebrate.
However, the Academy is hip to the annual controversy and this year produced a supplemental slideshow on their website featuring 114 names and photos of entertainers and film craftspeople who passed away in the past year.
Among the late greats included in the slideshow but not on the...
Every year it's one of the more reliably ridiculous award show controversies: Who didn't make the cut for In Memoriam?
When it comes to the Oscars, these "snubs" are particularly sensitive given the prestige and viewership of the show, and the fact that the montage inevitably leaves out names and faces of recognizable stars -- usually those known far more for their work in television than their work in film, which is the medium that the Academy Awards actually celebrate.
However, the Academy is hip to the annual controversy and this year produced a supplemental slideshow on their website featuring 114 names and photos of entertainers and film craftspeople who passed away in the past year.
Among the late greats included in the slideshow but not on the...
- 2/25/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Oscar-winning Dances With Wolves film editor Neil Travis has died, aged 75.
Travis died on 28 March at his home in California.
He was responsible for slicing two hours from the epic western when Kevin Costner presented him with a five-hour movie. The film won seven Oscars, including Best Picture.
Travis also edited Jaws 2, Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger, The Sum of All Fears and Along Came a Spider.
Travis died on 28 March at his home in California.
He was responsible for slicing two hours from the epic western when Kevin Costner presented him with a five-hour movie. The film won seven Oscars, including Best Picture.
Travis also edited Jaws 2, Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger, The Sum of All Fears and Along Came a Spider.
- 4/9/2012
- WENN
Nice cover for the new issue of Cahiers du Cinéma, which features a collection of articles (all of them offline) on Francis Ford Coppola's Twixt. There's a new Brooklyn Rail out as well, and we've already noted Monica Westin's interview with Geoff Dyer in today's roundup on Andrei Tarkovsky and Paul Felten's review of Damsels in Distress in another roundup on Whit Stillman. In terms of strictly film-related pieces (and let's hope you don't confine yourself to those!), that leaves Troy Swain's graphic celebration of the upcoming series at Anthology Film Archives, The Films of Carmelo Bene, running April 26 through 29, and Donal Foreman's interview with Nicole Brenez.
The occasion for the interview was the series Brenez curated for Anthology last month, Internationalist Cinema for Today (there was a roundup at the time) and Foreman writes a terrific introduction:
In an essay on Adorno's relationship with cinema, Nicole Brenez...
The occasion for the interview was the series Brenez curated for Anthology last month, Internationalist Cinema for Today (there was a roundup at the time) and Foreman writes a terrific introduction:
In an essay on Adorno's relationship with cinema, Nicole Brenez...
- 4/4/2012
- MUBI
Neil Travis, who won an Oscar for Best Editing for Dances With Wolves, died March 28 of natural causes at his home in Arroyo Grande, Calif. He was 75. With a career that spanned more than four decades, the native Angeleno began his entertainment business career as an assistant editor at Paramount Studios while he was in his early 20s. Travis subsequently worked as a second editor for a Fox television series and shortly was offered a position to help edit The Traveling Executioner. His TV work continued and in 1977, Travis won an Emmy for his work on the groundbreaking miniseries Roots. Travis eventually edited more than 25 blockbuster features including No Way Out, Patriot Games, Deceived, Clear And Present Danger and Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines. In 2010 he received the American Cinema Editors Career Achievement Award. Travis is survived by his wife, Ruth and two children, Michael and Michelle. Services will...
- 4/4/2012
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
If you were visiting the cinema between 1987 and 1994, you had the opportunity to witness the 7 solid years of Kevin Costner’s acting career. Starting with The Untouchables and continuing to Bull Durham, Field of Dreams, Dances with Wolves, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, JFK, The Bodyguard, and finally ending with Wyatt Earp, Kevin Costner made a name for himself as a solid respectable actor with a penchant for playing the loner that made women swoon and men cry (assuming it’s Field of Dreams). These films represent the pinnacle of his career and are the successes he tried to repeat over and over again in the 17 years that followed his golden streak’s end. Though he has since made another great western in recent memory (Open Range), Dances with Wolves and Wyatt Earp are the two westerns for which he’ll be remembered.
Of those two, Dances with Wolves seems to hold the highest regard.
Of those two, Dances with Wolves seems to hold the highest regard.
- 2/24/2011
- by Lex Walker
- JustPressPlay.net
Chicago – Can anyone else believe that it’s been 20 years since “Dances With Wolves”? In a lot of movie snob circles, the Kevin Costner epic has been relegated to a tragic tale as the thing most remembered about it is that it stole several Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director, from a movie that even Costner himself would probably now admit deserved them more — “GoodFellas.” Watching it again after so long, it’s easy to see what people liked about the film. It may not have deserved Best Picture but it’s still a worthy addition to many a movie lover’s collection.
Blu-Ray Rating: 4.0/5.0
In many ways, “Dances With Wolves” was about timing. Kevin Costner had just come off a remarkably successful run of films in the ’80s that had made him one of the most beloved actors in the Hollywood star system. And the Academy loves it...
Blu-Ray Rating: 4.0/5.0
In many ways, “Dances With Wolves” was about timing. Kevin Costner had just come off a remarkably successful run of films in the ’80s that had made him one of the most beloved actors in the Hollywood star system. And the Academy loves it...
- 1/24/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
DVD Playhouse: January 2011
By
Allen Gardner
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (20th Century Fox) Sequel to the seminal 1980s film catches up with a weathered, but still determined Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas, who seems to savor every syllable of Allan Loeb and Stephen Schiff’s screenplay) just out of jail and back on the comeback trail. In attempting to repair his relationship with his estranged daughter (Carey Mulligan), Gekko forges a reluctant alliance with her fiancé (Shia Labeouf), himself an ambitious young turk who finds himself seduced by Gekko’s silver tongue and promise of riches. Lifeless film is further evidence of director Oliver Stone’s decline. Once America’s most exciting filmmaker, Stone hasn’t delivered a film with any teeth since 1995’s Nixon. Labeouf and Mulligan generate no sparks on-screen, and the story feels forced from the protracted opening to the final, Disney-esque denouement. Only a brief cameo by Charlie Sheen,...
By
Allen Gardner
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (20th Century Fox) Sequel to the seminal 1980s film catches up with a weathered, but still determined Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas, who seems to savor every syllable of Allan Loeb and Stephen Schiff’s screenplay) just out of jail and back on the comeback trail. In attempting to repair his relationship with his estranged daughter (Carey Mulligan), Gekko forges a reluctant alliance with her fiancé (Shia Labeouf), himself an ambitious young turk who finds himself seduced by Gekko’s silver tongue and promise of riches. Lifeless film is further evidence of director Oliver Stone’s decline. Once America’s most exciting filmmaker, Stone hasn’t delivered a film with any teeth since 1995’s Nixon. Labeouf and Mulligan generate no sparks on-screen, and the story feels forced from the protracted opening to the final, Disney-esque denouement. Only a brief cameo by Charlie Sheen,...
- 1/21/2011
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Dances With Wolves is finally being released on Blu-Ray, and guess what? We are giving you the chance to win a copy!
I am really starting to think that we are spoiling you too much. Maybe you cut the neighbors grass, or babysit to start earning these pizes!
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment & MGM Home Entertainment is releasing Dances With Wolves: 20th Anniversary Edition on Blu-ray on January 11, 2011. Kevin Costner’s film has never been released on Blu-ray, so we’re offering our loyal Wamg readers the chance to win a copy for their own collection.
Dances With Wolves (20th Anniversary Edition) [Blu-ray] (1991)
Kevin Costner stars in and directs this triumphant masterpiece written by Michael Blake, based on his novel. On Blu-ray for the very first time, this breathtaking 20th Anniversary Edition includes an extended cut of the film and all-new exclusive extras. Winner of seven Academy Awards®, including Best Directing and Best Picture,...
I am really starting to think that we are spoiling you too much. Maybe you cut the neighbors grass, or babysit to start earning these pizes!
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment & MGM Home Entertainment is releasing Dances With Wolves: 20th Anniversary Edition on Blu-ray on January 11, 2011. Kevin Costner’s film has never been released on Blu-ray, so we’re offering our loyal Wamg readers the chance to win a copy for their own collection.
Dances With Wolves (20th Anniversary Edition) [Blu-ray] (1991)
Kevin Costner stars in and directs this triumphant masterpiece written by Michael Blake, based on his novel. On Blu-ray for the very first time, this breathtaking 20th Anniversary Edition includes an extended cut of the film and all-new exclusive extras. Winner of seven Academy Awards®, including Best Directing and Best Picture,...
- 1/4/2011
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The editors of "The Hurt Locker," "The Hangover" and "Up" won feature film competitions Sunday at the 60th annual American Cinema Editors Eddie Awards at the Beverly Hilton.
"The Hurt Locker" editors, husband-and-wife team Bob Murawski and Chris Innis, earned the trophy for a dramatic film, topping a category that included "Avatar," "District 9," "Star Trek" and "Up in the Air."
"It's a great way to spend Valentine's Day, to win an award with my wife," Murawski said onstage, adding with a smile, "she did most of the work."
"The Hangover" editor Debra Neil-Fisher, Ace, topped the category for comedy or musical, which included nominees "500 Days of Summer," "Julie & Julia," "A Serious Man" and "It's Complicated."
Editor Kevin Nolting earned the award for best edited animated feature for "Up," leading a group that included "Coraline" and "Fantastic Mr. Fox." Additionally, "The Cove" editor Geoffrey Richman won best edited documentary, a...
"The Hurt Locker" editors, husband-and-wife team Bob Murawski and Chris Innis, earned the trophy for a dramatic film, topping a category that included "Avatar," "District 9," "Star Trek" and "Up in the Air."
"It's a great way to spend Valentine's Day, to win an award with my wife," Murawski said onstage, adding with a smile, "she did most of the work."
"The Hangover" editor Debra Neil-Fisher, Ace, topped the category for comedy or musical, which included nominees "500 Days of Summer," "Julie & Julia," "A Serious Man" and "It's Complicated."
Editor Kevin Nolting earned the award for best edited animated feature for "Up," leading a group that included "Coraline" and "Fantastic Mr. Fox." Additionally, "The Cove" editor Geoffrey Richman won best edited documentary, a...
- 2/14/2010
- by By Carolyn Giardina
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
By Wrap Staff
American Cinema Editors (Ace) will honor veteran editors Paul F. Lamastra and Neil Travis with its Lifetime Career Achievement Award at its annual Ace Eddie Awards in February, the organization announced on Thursday.
Lamastra (left is an Emmy-Award winning editor whose film and television credits include "Attica," "Hallmark Hall of Fame: Foxfire," and Woody Allen's "What's Up Tiger Lilly."
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American Cinema Editors (Ace) will honor veteran editors Paul F. Lamastra and Neil Travis with its Lifetime Career Achievement Award at its annual Ace Eddie Awards in February, the organization announced on Thursday.
Lamastra (left is an Emmy-Award winning editor whose film and television credits include "Attica," "Hallmark Hall of Fame: Foxfire," and Woody Allen's "What's Up Tiger Lilly."
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- 2/11/2010
- by Brent Lang
- The Wrap
Who would you cast to fight a kodiak bear in the North Woods, and who would you imagine would be most likely to pen a yarn set in the open wilds?
Anthony Hopkins for the bear-fighter and David Mamet for the writer, right?
We're not joking and, no, this isn't a production from the Zucker brothers but, rather, a psychological/survivalist saga in which Hopkins gets physical and Mamet takes on new terrain, namely penning something that doesn't take place indoors in a city. However, as the opening credits roll -- Hopkins, Alec Baldwin, Bart the Bear, Elle Macpherson, in that order -- we know we're in for something "unique."
Undeniably, it's a tricky assignment for the marketers: how to lure the upscale fans of Hopkins and Mamet to a wilderness/bear-attack movie or, even more challenging, how to entice the connoisseurs of deep-woods actionry who don't generally cancel their hunting trips to take in the highbrow stuff Hopkins and Mamet usually turn out.
Unfortunately, fans of Hopkins and Mamet will find nettlesome certain logical gaps and character-development inadequacies that are usually only associated with big-budget summer films.
Not that he's completely forsaken his fuss-budget, buttling ways or metamorphosed from a cerebral and cunning chap to some sort of Grizzly Hopkins, but the British actor brings his steely mettle to an environment where his character is, uncharacteristically, out of his depth.
Hopkins plays Charles, a taciturn billionaire who tends to bury himself in books (the film was originally titled "The Bookworm"). Charles seemingly knows everything about everything -- just ask his supermodel wife (Macpherson). But the self-analytical Charles admits most of his knowledge is "theoretical," and it's not hard to notice that one big question mark is his marriage: It's pretty obvious his beautiful young wife is an acquisition, like one of his holding companies, and one gets the suspicion that he's such a distanced chap that a vacuous supermodel is the best he can do in relating to a real woman.
Not surprisingly, Charles is a trifle insecure about whether his gorgeous wife is really in love with him or his bank account. That he's observed flirtation between her and her photographer (Alec Baldwin) does not settle his unease. It's this insecurity that prompts his accompanying the duo on a weekend fashion shoot, deep in the wilds of Alaska.
Plugging in the full iconography of the don't-go-into-the-woods genre, Mamet and director Lee Tamahori have forged a generally solid generic entertainment, one that is smartly shaded and shrewdly based upon the smoldering perspectives of a love triangle.
Unfortunately, even a movie tenderfoot will find the narrative trail littered with way too many signposts, both in the screenwriting and in the directorial aesthetics. Indeed, camera movement is over-obvious in tipping events, as are the actions of the cadre of stereotypical characters that populate this formulaic outing.
As the bollixed billionaire, Hopkins flashes his role repertoire of skills, but his performance unfortunately seems more a showy dissertation of his acting mannerisms -- fastidiousness, aloofness, steeliness -- that we've seen him flex with far greater economy and substance before. Admittedly, Mamet's shallow characterizations contribute to the surface quality of this dramaturgy, which is so woefully pedestrian that it renders Macpherson unconvincing as a supermodel. Baldwin, however, is wonderful as a callow, self-absorbed and cowardly photographer.
Technically, "The Edge" is first-rate, including the marvelously shrouded cinematography of Donald McAlpine and composer Jerry Goldsmith's chilly and majestic score. Other technical contributions are a mixed bag, including Julie Weiss' costumery. At one point, after skinning the bear, Hopkins and Baldwin concoct bearskin garb that is so pristinely trendy that one suspects they ordered it direct from the Sundance catalog. In the same vein, the animatronic fatso that hungers for Hopkins and Baldwin is to bears what Chris Farley is to marathon runners.
THE EDGE
20th Century Fox
Producer Art Linson
Director Lee Tamahori
Screenwriter David Mamet
Executive producer Lloyd Phillips
Diretor of photography Donald McAlpine
Production designer Wolf Kroeger
Editor: Neil Travis
Costume designer Julie Weiss
Music Jerry Goldsmith
Color/stereo
Cast:
Charles Morse Anthony Hopkins
Robert Green Alec Baldwin
Mickey Elle Macpherson
Stephen Harold Perrineau
Styles L.Q. Jones
Running time -- 121 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
Anthony Hopkins for the bear-fighter and David Mamet for the writer, right?
We're not joking and, no, this isn't a production from the Zucker brothers but, rather, a psychological/survivalist saga in which Hopkins gets physical and Mamet takes on new terrain, namely penning something that doesn't take place indoors in a city. However, as the opening credits roll -- Hopkins, Alec Baldwin, Bart the Bear, Elle Macpherson, in that order -- we know we're in for something "unique."
Undeniably, it's a tricky assignment for the marketers: how to lure the upscale fans of Hopkins and Mamet to a wilderness/bear-attack movie or, even more challenging, how to entice the connoisseurs of deep-woods actionry who don't generally cancel their hunting trips to take in the highbrow stuff Hopkins and Mamet usually turn out.
Unfortunately, fans of Hopkins and Mamet will find nettlesome certain logical gaps and character-development inadequacies that are usually only associated with big-budget summer films.
Not that he's completely forsaken his fuss-budget, buttling ways or metamorphosed from a cerebral and cunning chap to some sort of Grizzly Hopkins, but the British actor brings his steely mettle to an environment where his character is, uncharacteristically, out of his depth.
Hopkins plays Charles, a taciturn billionaire who tends to bury himself in books (the film was originally titled "The Bookworm"). Charles seemingly knows everything about everything -- just ask his supermodel wife (Macpherson). But the self-analytical Charles admits most of his knowledge is "theoretical," and it's not hard to notice that one big question mark is his marriage: It's pretty obvious his beautiful young wife is an acquisition, like one of his holding companies, and one gets the suspicion that he's such a distanced chap that a vacuous supermodel is the best he can do in relating to a real woman.
Not surprisingly, Charles is a trifle insecure about whether his gorgeous wife is really in love with him or his bank account. That he's observed flirtation between her and her photographer (Alec Baldwin) does not settle his unease. It's this insecurity that prompts his accompanying the duo on a weekend fashion shoot, deep in the wilds of Alaska.
Plugging in the full iconography of the don't-go-into-the-woods genre, Mamet and director Lee Tamahori have forged a generally solid generic entertainment, one that is smartly shaded and shrewdly based upon the smoldering perspectives of a love triangle.
Unfortunately, even a movie tenderfoot will find the narrative trail littered with way too many signposts, both in the screenwriting and in the directorial aesthetics. Indeed, camera movement is over-obvious in tipping events, as are the actions of the cadre of stereotypical characters that populate this formulaic outing.
As the bollixed billionaire, Hopkins flashes his role repertoire of skills, but his performance unfortunately seems more a showy dissertation of his acting mannerisms -- fastidiousness, aloofness, steeliness -- that we've seen him flex with far greater economy and substance before. Admittedly, Mamet's shallow characterizations contribute to the surface quality of this dramaturgy, which is so woefully pedestrian that it renders Macpherson unconvincing as a supermodel. Baldwin, however, is wonderful as a callow, self-absorbed and cowardly photographer.
Technically, "The Edge" is first-rate, including the marvelously shrouded cinematography of Donald McAlpine and composer Jerry Goldsmith's chilly and majestic score. Other technical contributions are a mixed bag, including Julie Weiss' costumery. At one point, after skinning the bear, Hopkins and Baldwin concoct bearskin garb that is so pristinely trendy that one suspects they ordered it direct from the Sundance catalog. In the same vein, the animatronic fatso that hungers for Hopkins and Baldwin is to bears what Chris Farley is to marathon runners.
THE EDGE
20th Century Fox
Producer Art Linson
Director Lee Tamahori
Screenwriter David Mamet
Executive producer Lloyd Phillips
Diretor of photography Donald McAlpine
Production designer Wolf Kroeger
Editor: Neil Travis
Costume designer Julie Weiss
Music Jerry Goldsmith
Color/stereo
Cast:
Charles Morse Anthony Hopkins
Robert Green Alec Baldwin
Mickey Elle Macpherson
Stephen Harold Perrineau
Styles L.Q. Jones
Running time -- 121 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
Once again Harrison Ford plays a doctor caught between a rock and a hard place. This summer he's not Dr. Richard Kimble, but once again he's Dr. Jack Ryan, U.S. Navy, and he's thrust smack-dab into the middle of the covert battle between the White House and Colombian drug cartels. It's Ford's rock-solid presence and flinty honor as quintessential American Jack Ryan that will generate blockbuster waves from this big vessel from Paramount.
The third in the fleet of Tom Clancy bestsellers brought to the screen by producers Mace Neufeld and Robert Rehme, ''Clear And Present Danger'' is a spit-polish, fast-moving action-thriller, retaining Clancy's intricate plotting but throwing overboard his turgid techno-prose.
In this post Cold War-scenario, Ryan is promoted to interim deputy director of intelligence for the CIA as a result of his superior's James Earl Jones) ill health. Determined to keep a low profile and guard his flank, Ryan is nevertheless catapulted unsuspectingly into the midst of a clandestine war between the White House and the Colombian drug thugs. Honorable and decent Ryan soon finds himself holding the bag for a covert-action team that's waging a deadly guerrilla war in the jungles of Colombia. No mere desk jockey, he's soon on a plane to Bogota and man-on-man in the combat.
Charting an even balance between action and emotion, the screenwriting platoon (Donald Stewart, Steven Zaillian, John Milius) have skillfully crafted a big-screen actioner that is propelled not only by a cataclysmic and dangerous national situation but, perhaps more movingly, by one man's strong sense of ethics. Indeed, as embodied by Ford, the Jack Ryan character is the epitome of honor, loyalty and bravery. That he's also a bit squirrely makes him wonderfully identifiable and the best kind of hero to root for, especially when he utters what may be the summer's best line -- ''I don't dance.''
While Ford's marvelously forged portrayal of ''Boy Scout'' Jack Ryan is the film's centerpiece, the other players also win stripes, especially Joaquim de Almeida as the slithery counsel to a drug lord and Willem Dafoe as a steely CIA field op. Donald Moffat is superb as a president who masks his ferocity with scatterbrained folksiness.
Phillip Noyce's even-keeled direction is distinguished by his expert marshaling of the film's technical crew. Of highest rank, composer James Horner's score is aptly majestic and lean, while Neil Travis' crisp-cadence editing gives it just the right dramatic thrust.
CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER
Paramount Pictures
A Mace Neufeld and Robert Rehme Production
Producers Mace Neufeld, Robert Rehme
Director Phillip Noyce
Screenwriters Donald Stewart, Steven Zaillian, John Milius
Based on the novel by Tom Clancy
Director of photography Donald M. McAlpine
Production designer Terence Marsh
Editor Neil Travis
Costume designer Bernie Pollack
Music James Horner
Music supervisor Tim Sexton
Sound mixer Arthur Rochester
Special effects supervisors Joe Lombardi, Paul Lombardi
Visual effects supervisor Robert Grasmere
Stunt coordinator Dick Ziker
Color/Stereo
Cast:
Jack Ryan Harrison Ford
Mr. Clark Willem DaFoe
Cathy Ryan Anne Archer
Admiral James Greer James Earl Jones
Felix Cortez Joaquim de Almeida
Robert Ritter Henry Czerny
James Cutter Harris Yulin
President Edward Bennett Donald Moffat
Ernesto Escobedo Miguel Sandoval
Ramirez Benjamin Bratt
Chavez Raymond Cruz
Running time -- 143 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG-13...
The third in the fleet of Tom Clancy bestsellers brought to the screen by producers Mace Neufeld and Robert Rehme, ''Clear And Present Danger'' is a spit-polish, fast-moving action-thriller, retaining Clancy's intricate plotting but throwing overboard his turgid techno-prose.
In this post Cold War-scenario, Ryan is promoted to interim deputy director of intelligence for the CIA as a result of his superior's James Earl Jones) ill health. Determined to keep a low profile and guard his flank, Ryan is nevertheless catapulted unsuspectingly into the midst of a clandestine war between the White House and the Colombian drug thugs. Honorable and decent Ryan soon finds himself holding the bag for a covert-action team that's waging a deadly guerrilla war in the jungles of Colombia. No mere desk jockey, he's soon on a plane to Bogota and man-on-man in the combat.
Charting an even balance between action and emotion, the screenwriting platoon (Donald Stewart, Steven Zaillian, John Milius) have skillfully crafted a big-screen actioner that is propelled not only by a cataclysmic and dangerous national situation but, perhaps more movingly, by one man's strong sense of ethics. Indeed, as embodied by Ford, the Jack Ryan character is the epitome of honor, loyalty and bravery. That he's also a bit squirrely makes him wonderfully identifiable and the best kind of hero to root for, especially when he utters what may be the summer's best line -- ''I don't dance.''
While Ford's marvelously forged portrayal of ''Boy Scout'' Jack Ryan is the film's centerpiece, the other players also win stripes, especially Joaquim de Almeida as the slithery counsel to a drug lord and Willem Dafoe as a steely CIA field op. Donald Moffat is superb as a president who masks his ferocity with scatterbrained folksiness.
Phillip Noyce's even-keeled direction is distinguished by his expert marshaling of the film's technical crew. Of highest rank, composer James Horner's score is aptly majestic and lean, while Neil Travis' crisp-cadence editing gives it just the right dramatic thrust.
CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER
Paramount Pictures
A Mace Neufeld and Robert Rehme Production
Producers Mace Neufeld, Robert Rehme
Director Phillip Noyce
Screenwriters Donald Stewart, Steven Zaillian, John Milius
Based on the novel by Tom Clancy
Director of photography Donald M. McAlpine
Production designer Terence Marsh
Editor Neil Travis
Costume designer Bernie Pollack
Music James Horner
Music supervisor Tim Sexton
Sound mixer Arthur Rochester
Special effects supervisors Joe Lombardi, Paul Lombardi
Visual effects supervisor Robert Grasmere
Stunt coordinator Dick Ziker
Color/Stereo
Cast:
Jack Ryan Harrison Ford
Mr. Clark Willem DaFoe
Cathy Ryan Anne Archer
Admiral James Greer James Earl Jones
Felix Cortez Joaquim de Almeida
Robert Ritter Henry Czerny
James Cutter Harris Yulin
President Edward Bennett Donald Moffat
Ernesto Escobedo Miguel Sandoval
Ramirez Benjamin Bratt
Chavez Raymond Cruz
Running time -- 143 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG-13...
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