Word: fixers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Director John Frankenheimer has exercised his film-making talents on such diverse subjects as The Manchurian Candidate, The Fixer and The Train. However the stories vary, Frankenheimer remains obsessed by the qualities of valor. Even his little-seen comedy, The Extraordinary Seaman, has a ghostly hero condemned to walk the decks of a rotting gunboat until he is able to execute a single act of military courage...
...FIXER. Alan Bates, Ian Holm and Dirk Bogarde perform with passionate conviction in this movie based on Bernard Vlalamud's novel in which a 20th century lob survives the plague of prejudice and degradation in Czarist Russia...
...FIXER. A persecuted Jewish handyman in turn-of-the-century Russia battles his fate with an intensity that makes this John Frankenheimer film a harrowing and moving experience. Alan Bates (in the title role), Dirk Bogarde and Ian Holm perform their difficult assignments with fierce passion...
...FIXER. Bernard Malamud's novel is the source for this resonant essay on individual courage and political morality. The actors-notably Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde and Ian Holm-all seem perfect for their roles, and John Frankenheimer's direction is impeccable...
...FIXER. Bernard Malamud's novel is the source for this resonant essay on individual courage and political morality. The actors-notably Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde and Ian Holm-all seem perfect for their roles, and John Frankenheimer's direction is impeccable...