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Playhouse's 'Friday' a multilayered marriage
A bad marriage might have been the best thing that ever happened to “The Front Page,” the iconic 1928 play that’s so steeped in the down-and-dirty business of old-time newspapering that it just about drips ink. The original story by Ben Hecht and Charles from San Diego Union-Tribune Read more »
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Cannes this year has a distinctly American flavour
"They love me in France,” is the familiar claim of the unappreciated Hollywood director, which, in the postwar years, applied to such names as Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Hawks and Samuel Fuller, who were acclaimed by the young French film critics who went from Globe and Mail Read more »
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Blu-ray Review: 3:10 to Yuma (1957)
(click linked text below to jump to related section of the review) Legend has it Howard Hawks' decision to produce and direct 'Rio Bravo' was ultimately in response to his disapproval of Fred Zinnemann's 'High Noon' and Delmer Daves's '3:10 to Yuma.' The from High-Def Digest Read more »
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Director Delmer Daves Shines in Anthology's Retrospective and on Criterion's DVDs
Delmer Daves (1904-77), one of Hollywood’s most accomplished directors of Westerns, is seldom mentioned in the same breath as such tough-guy auteurs as John Ford , Raoul Walsh , Henry Hathaway , and William Wellman , or the more urbane Howard Hawks . Mor from ArtInfo Read more »
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Remembering John Carpenter's The Thing
The summer of 1982 was an incredible time for movies, but oddly enough, three great cult classics from that year were not hits in their time: Tron, Blade Runner, and The Thing. John Carpenter’s remake of the Howard Hawks sci-fi classic was completely pum from Tom's Hardware Guide Read more »
