Flipping through the channels last last night I came across this Clint Eastwood movie on TCM.This turned out to be a pretty good movie. Too many screenshots and time spent showing the escapees digging for it to be a great movie and as with most early to mid career Clint movies not a lot of breathtaking dialogue but a very interesting story nonetheless.
Clint plays Harris a man determined soon to get off " The Rock" as Alcatraz was called. The Warden takes great pride in no one having ever escaped and plays his role as a vain, malicious man very well. Harris has to defend himself who decides he would make a good punk and watches as two of his good friends succumb to the wardens punishments before he makes his escape.
Based on a true story the movie is in its simpleness quite engrossing. On a 1 t0 10 it gets a 6.5 which means that many days you might flip through, it does not jump out at you to make you stop and watch, but if you do it you will not be disappointed.
Rating: 5.5
Showing posts with label John Ford. Turner Classic Movies. Show all posts
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Friday, January 22, 2010
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Who Shot Liberty Valance
Watched this movie yesterday. It was on the TIVO from a recent Turner Classic Movies and it was a great movie. Jimmy Stewart and John Wayne with Lee Marvin as the the gunslinger Liberty Valance. This was a John Ford western shot in black and white. In 1962 they certainly had color available but the director felt that color would add nothing to the story.
Jimmy Stewart was an incredible actor in this movie. The rivalry over the girl between Stewart and Wayne's character was very good but yet Wayne still did the right thing in the end. Of course we always expect John Wayne to do the right thing.
At the end of the movie Rance ( played by Stewart) and his wife are leaving on the train and it Rance asks his wife who left the cactus rose on Tom Donovan's ( played by Wayne) coffin. She tells him she did and he looks at her and is about to say something else and is interrupted by the train conductor and we never know what he was going to ask.
Jimmy Stewart made some incredible movies and is one of my favorite actors. This movie was another of his best.
Rating: 8.5
Jimmy Stewart was an incredible actor in this movie. The rivalry over the girl between Stewart and Wayne's character was very good but yet Wayne still did the right thing in the end. Of course we always expect John Wayne to do the right thing.
At the end of the movie Rance ( played by Stewart) and his wife are leaving on the train and it Rance asks his wife who left the cactus rose on Tom Donovan's ( played by Wayne) coffin. She tells him she did and he looks at her and is about to say something else and is interrupted by the train conductor and we never know what he was going to ask.
Jimmy Stewart made some incredible movies and is one of my favorite actors. This movie was another of his best.
Rating: 8.5
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