Word: kirkes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Even the cast mishmashes beach and horror types. Boris Karloff plays a corpse in search of his youth; Tommy Kirk, who must be pushing 30, plays his usual teenager; Basil Rathbone, who must be 80 and sorely in need of funds, plays a conniving old lawyer; and Nancy Sinatra embodies all her father's physical attributes except his voice...
There are a couple of new offerings. Maureen O'Hara's daughter Quinn is Rathbone's daughter Sinistra; Deborah Walley is Kirk's semifrigid girlfriend; and one Aron Kincaid does a "new" Hollywood type--the dumb blond beachboy...
Cast a Giant Shadow, another exercise in movie biography, may be filed as a case of mistaken identity: any resemblance to persons living or dead is sacrificed to make elbowroom for Hero Kirk Douglas. The ostensible hero is Colonel David "Mickey" Marcus, a Jewish graduate of West Point who became New York City's crime-busting commissioner of correction under Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, was a wartime adviser to President Roosevelt and helped to organize the Nurnberg trials. In 1948, after serving as unofficial military adviser to Israel, he became supreme commander of the Israeli armies fighting the Arabs...
Telemark is a palm-dampener when exiled Norseman Kirk Douglas and Richard Harris first parachute into the white northern wastes and go whooshing silently across the slopes, pursued by a gunner in a light plane or spectral Nazi ski troops. Director Anthony Mann (El Cid) makes the rest of the action, and the acting, seem quick-frozen. Too often chased indoors, Douglas confronts his ex-Wife Ulla Jacobsson, who appears eager to forgive his intervening philandering, and her kindly Uncle Michael Redgrave, who lends a touch of headmasterish solemnity, as if to prove that the Allied cause is just...
...scene is Norway, the subject sabotage. Richard Harris plays a man of action, Kirk Douglas a scientist whom he lures into anti-Nazi resistance work. They spend two and a half hours of film time launching just two sabotage efforts. Their target is a factory that makes "heavy water" for atomic tests...