Men in War on TCM
Anthony Mann’s Men in War is one of the great war films, and one of the least known. Starring Robert Ryan as a platoon leader dedicated to saving his men, who are trapped behind enemy lines, and Aldo...
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The Wild Bunch on TCM
The essays I write for the Turner Classic Movies website all come to me as assignments. I don’t get to the pick the films, which means I get a variety of titles coming my way, some of which I’ve seen...
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Nicholas Ray’s King of Kings: Rebel With a Cause
Jeffrey Hunter: Intense serenity King of Kings (MGM) Nicholas Ray’s 1961 epic drama of the story of Christ (and ostensible remake of Cecil B. DeMille’s 1927 silent classic) has less spectacle than the...
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Blu-ray: ‘Caught’
The American films of German-born filmmaker Max Ophuls have never been as celebrated as his more overtly stylized and seductively romantic French films. That attitude is fed by a sense of...
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Videophiled: ‘Day of the Outlaw’
Timeless Day of the Outlaw (Timeless, DVD), a 1959 western set in a snowbound mountain town on the high frontier, is one of the toughest, most tension-filled pictures from Andre de Toth, a studio...
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#Noirvember Blu-ray: The rural noir of ‘On Dangerous Ground’ and ‘Road House’
On Dangerous Ground (Warner Archive, Blu-ray) (1952), directed by Nicholas Ray from a script he developed with A.I. Bezzerides and producer John Houseman, opens on the urgent yet fractured dramatic...
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