Word: elisha
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Robert Duvall, a fine actor shipwrecked here, plays the same part that Lee Marvin played in Point Blank; indeed, both movies were adapted from Richard Stark thrillers. The supporting cast is spiked with faces familiar from other criminal excursions (Elisha Cook, Marie Windsor, Emile Meyer, Sheree North). Their presence was probably intended to be an affectionate homage, but just increases the enervating familiarity of the entire enterprise. Robert Ryan, looking worn (this was one of his last roles), appears as Mr. Big, who is constantly being irritated by his young wife, the egregious Joanna Cassidy...
...Maltese Falcon is Captain Jacobi, played by Walter Huston, the old man in Treasure of Sierra Madre and the father of the director. He bursts into the office of Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart), gasps "Falcon!" and dies. But the film offers still more: Sidney Greenstreet at his most rotund, Elisha Cook in an oversized overcoat. This third and most faithful adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's novel dwarfed its predecessors and became the screen's classic American crime tale. This was the film that established John Huston as a director...
...Anything Goes, Billy Crocker, sometime employee of the wealthy Mr. Elisha Whitney, comes to the liner to see off his boss and the evangelist-turned-torch singer, Reno Sweeney. Finding that Hope Harcourt, the love of his life, is aboard ship, Billy decides to travel, too. When Moonface Martin, travelling with submachine gun in violin case as the Reverend Doctor Moon, provides Billy with a ticket and berth, more problems are created than solved. The ticket belonged to Public Enemy Number 1, who never showed for the voyage; now everyone is chasing after Billy, who becomes sailor, chef...
...impeccable crafted lines of action, this film is as much fun as anything Bogart starred in. He's a more glib and humorous hard-boiled dick than Chandler's Philip Marfowe, but the entire film is played for laughs--and played to the hilt by Lauren Bacall and Elisha Cook, among others...
...grateful for the presence of actors who can make all this at least momentarily diverting. Tom Skerritt, as a young but already jaded detective, looks like a stoned-out combination of Jack Nicholson and Elisha Cook Jr. The late Steve Ihnat (TIME, May 29), a cop down to his white socks and rumpled plaid shirt, is required at one point to shoot himself in the foot with his police special, an ancient bit of business that he contrives to make fresh. The hero of the film, if there is one, is Burt Reynolds, who displays an enviable sense of comic...