You can rely on standard-issue Hollywood biopics to sand down the more complex edges of their central figures in favor of presenting clear, streamlined narrative and character arcs. Sports biopics tend to go one step further, rendering their protagonists as implacable forces of self-determination who allow nothing to get in the way of their ultimate triumph.
Some sports biopics avoid becoming simplistic odes to the value of hard work by either exploring the psychological turmoil that can fuel such tenacity, as in Raging Bull, or the physical and emotional costs of ceaselessly pushing oneself to succeed, as in The Iron Claw. But most are like The Young Woman and the Sea, trivializing the adversity that their subject faced by surrounding them with one-note foes that are easily defeated (and easier to root against) and barriers that are shattered as easily as swinging a sledgehammer at a thin glass ceiling.
Telling...
Some sports biopics avoid becoming simplistic odes to the value of hard work by either exploring the psychological turmoil that can fuel such tenacity, as in Raging Bull, or the physical and emotional costs of ceaselessly pushing oneself to succeed, as in The Iron Claw. But most are like The Young Woman and the Sea, trivializing the adversity that their subject faced by surrounding them with one-note foes that are easily defeated (and easier to root against) and barriers that are shattered as easily as swinging a sledgehammer at a thin glass ceiling.
Telling...
- 5/30/2024
- by Derek Smith
- Slant Magazine
It’s smooth noir sailing with this polished noir from Universal-International and its choice cast of pros — Edmond O’Brien, Ella Raines and William Bendix, plus Vincent Price doing an excellent turn as a Machiavellian businessman, a ‘frame’ expert with a side specialty in double-dealing. Director Michael Gordon earns an early credit at Universal-International with a nice look: almost all exteriors are richly photographed nighttime scenes. Ella Raines is particularly good — despite the cover illustration, she’s not a femme fatale, just a cautious independent woman.
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Kl Studio Classics
1947 / B&w / 1:37 flat Academy / 87 min. / Street Date July 13, 2021 / available through Kino Lorber / 24.95
Starring: Edmond O’Brien, Ella Raines, William Bendix, Vincent Price, Maria Palmer, John Abbott, Fritz Leiber, Howland Chamberlain, Tito Vuolo.
Cinematography: Irving Glassberg
Production Designer Art Directors: Bernard Herzbrun, James Sullivan
Film Editor: Russel F. Schoengarth
Original Music: Hans J. Salter
Written by William Bowers, Bertram Millhauser...
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Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1947 / B&w / 1:37 flat Academy / 87 min. / Street Date July 13, 2021 / available through Kino Lorber / 24.95
Starring: Edmond O’Brien, Ella Raines, William Bendix, Vincent Price, Maria Palmer, John Abbott, Fritz Leiber, Howland Chamberlain, Tito Vuolo.
Cinematography: Irving Glassberg
Production Designer Art Directors: Bernard Herzbrun, James Sullivan
Film Editor: Russel F. Schoengarth
Original Music: Hans J. Salter
Written by William Bowers, Bertram Millhauser...
- 7/6/2021
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Take another look @ footage from the futuristic cop TV series "Almost Human" and the episode titled "Arrythmia", airing December 16, 2013:
"...'Detective John Kennex' and android cop 'Dorian' respond to a suspicious death at a hospital where - before having a fatal cardiac arrest - a man claimed someone was trying to kill him...
"...and inexplicably knew his exact time of death.
"As the investigation unfolds, a black market for vital organs is uncovered in which bio-mechanical hearts can be resold and remotely 'shut off'.
"As the team fights to find the pulse of this 2048 tech-centric crime, Dorian reconnects with a decommissioned android..."
Guest cast includes Anthony Konechny, Darren E. Scott, Garfield Wilson, Jonathan Holmes, Patrick Sabongui, BC Lee, Benjamin Rogers, Elizabeth McLaughlin, Erica Carroll, Laura Adkin, Kara McKnight, Sharmaine Yeoh, Fred Keating, Sheila Tyson, Hugo Steele, Alyson Bath, Diana Ha, Yoshie Bancroft, Yasmin Abidi, James O'Sullivan, Jennifer Juniper-Angeli, Leana Yu,...
"...'Detective John Kennex' and android cop 'Dorian' respond to a suspicious death at a hospital where - before having a fatal cardiac arrest - a man claimed someone was trying to kill him...
"...and inexplicably knew his exact time of death.
"As the investigation unfolds, a black market for vital organs is uncovered in which bio-mechanical hearts can be resold and remotely 'shut off'.
"As the team fights to find the pulse of this 2048 tech-centric crime, Dorian reconnects with a decommissioned android..."
Guest cast includes Anthony Konechny, Darren E. Scott, Garfield Wilson, Jonathan Holmes, Patrick Sabongui, BC Lee, Benjamin Rogers, Elizabeth McLaughlin, Erica Carroll, Laura Adkin, Kara McKnight, Sharmaine Yeoh, Fred Keating, Sheila Tyson, Hugo Steele, Alyson Bath, Diana Ha, Yoshie Bancroft, Yasmin Abidi, James O'Sullivan, Jennifer Juniper-Angeli, Leana Yu,...
- 12/17/2013
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Sneak Peek new footage from the futuristic cop TV series "Almost Human" and the episode titled "Arrythmia", airing December 16, 2013:
"...'Detective John Kennex' and android cop 'Dorian' respond to a suspicious death at a hospital where - before having a fatal cardiac arrest - a man claimed someone was trying to kill him...
"...and inexplicably knew his exact time of death.
"As the investigation unfolds, a black market for vital organs is uncovered in which bio-mechanical hearts can be resold and remotely 'shut off'.
"As the team fights to find the pulse of this 2048 tech-centric crime, Dorian reconnects with a decommissioned android..."
Guest cast includes Anthony Konechny, Darren E. Scott, Garfield Wilson, Jonathan Holmes, Patrick Sabongui, BC Lee, Benjamin Rogers, Elizabeth McLaughlin, Erica Carroll, Laura Adkin, Kara McKnight, Sharmaine Yeoh, Fred Keating, Sheila Tyson, Hugo Steele, Alyson Bath, Diana Ha, Yoshie Bancroft, Yasmin Abidi, James O'Sullivan, Jennifer Juniper-Angeli, Leana Yu,...
"...'Detective John Kennex' and android cop 'Dorian' respond to a suspicious death at a hospital where - before having a fatal cardiac arrest - a man claimed someone was trying to kill him...
"...and inexplicably knew his exact time of death.
"As the investigation unfolds, a black market for vital organs is uncovered in which bio-mechanical hearts can be resold and remotely 'shut off'.
"As the team fights to find the pulse of this 2048 tech-centric crime, Dorian reconnects with a decommissioned android..."
Guest cast includes Anthony Konechny, Darren E. Scott, Garfield Wilson, Jonathan Holmes, Patrick Sabongui, BC Lee, Benjamin Rogers, Elizabeth McLaughlin, Erica Carroll, Laura Adkin, Kara McKnight, Sharmaine Yeoh, Fred Keating, Sheila Tyson, Hugo Steele, Alyson Bath, Diana Ha, Yoshie Bancroft, Yasmin Abidi, James O'Sullivan, Jennifer Juniper-Angeli, Leana Yu,...
- 12/10/2013
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Sneak Peek new images and synopsis from the futuristic cop TV series "Almost Human" and the episode "Arrythmia", airing December 16, 2013:
"...'Detective John Kennex' and android cop 'Dorian' respond to a suspicious death at a hospital where - before having a fatal cardiac arrest - a man claimed someone was trying to kill him...
"...and inexplicably knew his exact time of death.
"As the investigation unfolds, a black market for vital organs is uncovered in which bio-mechanical hearts can be resold and remotely 'shut off'.
"As the team fights to find the pulse of this 2048 tech-centric crime, Dorian reconnects with a decommissioned android..."
Guest cast includes Anthony Konechny, Darren E. Scott, Garfield Wilson, Jonathan Holmes, Patrick Sabongui, BC Lee, Benjamin Rogers, Elizabeth McLaughlin, Erica Carroll, Laura Adkin, Kara McKnight, Sharmaine Yeoh, Fred Keating, Sheila Tyson, Hugo Steele, Alyson Bath, Diana Ha, Yoshie Bancroft, Yasmin Abidi, James O'Sullivan, Jennifer Juniper-Angeli,...
"...'Detective John Kennex' and android cop 'Dorian' respond to a suspicious death at a hospital where - before having a fatal cardiac arrest - a man claimed someone was trying to kill him...
"...and inexplicably knew his exact time of death.
"As the investigation unfolds, a black market for vital organs is uncovered in which bio-mechanical hearts can be resold and remotely 'shut off'.
"As the team fights to find the pulse of this 2048 tech-centric crime, Dorian reconnects with a decommissioned android..."
Guest cast includes Anthony Konechny, Darren E. Scott, Garfield Wilson, Jonathan Holmes, Patrick Sabongui, BC Lee, Benjamin Rogers, Elizabeth McLaughlin, Erica Carroll, Laura Adkin, Kara McKnight, Sharmaine Yeoh, Fred Keating, Sheila Tyson, Hugo Steele, Alyson Bath, Diana Ha, Yoshie Bancroft, Yasmin Abidi, James O'Sullivan, Jennifer Juniper-Angeli,...
- 12/3/2013
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
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