Monthly Archives: September 2019

CAUTION: Contains “spoilers.” George Segal’s success with comedy has tended to overshadow his work in drama. Michael Anderson’s 1966 spy thriller “The Quiller Memorandum” is a case in point. Advertised as a different kind of thriller, with a script by Harold … Continue reading →

It was a great loss to film noir that Colin Clive and Conrad Veidt died before it really got rolling and Louise Brooks left Hollywood. Clive had already shown a propensity for playing twitchy neurotics in his two turns as … Continue reading →

CAUTION: Contains “spoilers.” I’ve had frequent debates with a friend over whether or not “Extended Cuts” improve or diminish a film. I would argue that the extended cut of Sam Peckinpah’s third feature film, “Major Dundee” is clearly an argument … Continue reading →

A while back I wrote about a spat of gangster biography films, this time I want to talk about two earlier films (1939 and 1940) adapted by William R. Lipman and Horace McCoy from chapters in J. Edgar Hoover’s book … Continue reading →