Lee Marvin leads twelve military convicts (including Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, Telly Savalas, Clint Walker, and John Cassavetes) on a suicide mission behind enemy lines in this testosterone-fueled classic.
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‘King of Kings’ – the 1961 Biblical epic free on Hoopla
King of Kings (1961), Nicholas Ray’s epic drama of the story of Christ (and ostensible remake of Cecil B. DeMille’s 1927 silent classic), has less spectacle than the other epics of its era but it remains one of the most interesting and perceptive Biblical epics of its era. Narration (by Orson Welles) takes us back […]
Blu-ray: ‘On Dangerous Ground’ on Warner Archive
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 score by Bernard Herrmann, a theme that rushes forward anxiously, pauses with quieter instruments, then jumps again as we watch the nocturnal city streets in […]