Word: kirks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mind was clearly himself. Tiny (5 ft. 5 in.) but truculent, Zanuck spent 36 supercolossal years in Hollywood, founded 2Oth Century-Fox in 1933, left both company and Hollywood only six years ago when, as he said, "actors like Kirk Douglas started producing movies." Once, on a movie set, he scolded a submissive assistant with a memorable command: "Don't say yes until I'm finished talking." He also made some memorable pictures-Gentleman's Agreement, The Snake Pit, All About Eve, Viva Zapata...
Ride the High Country and Lonely Are the Brave are off-the-beaten-trail westerns about uncommonly untamed men who refuse to traffic with, or truckle to, a mechanized civilization. The gallant losers include Joel McCrea and Randolph Scott (Country) and Kirk Douglas (Brave...
Ride the High Country and Lonely Are the Brave are two vastly superior westerns about untamed, free-spirited men whom civilization has made obsolescent. Joel McCrea, Randolph Scott (Country) and Kirk Douglas (Brave) give strong, graceful performances with the unforced dignity of the old breed of western hero...
Ride the High Country and Lonely Are the Brave are two vastly superior westerns about untamed, free-spirited men whom civilization has made obsolescent. Joel McCrea, Randolph Scott (Country) and Kirk Douglas (Brave) give strong, graceful performances with the unforced dignity of the old breed of western hero...
...same time that he pities his folly. Matthau is an actor of magnetic presence and great comic flair. In this film he looks like a young Robert Benchley and sounds almost as amusing. In a role that calls for him to be someone, rather than to act something, Kirk Douglas is totally and movingly convincing. Philip Lathrop's camera work has harsh dramatic clarity and Jerry Goldsmith's score just the right mixture of nostalgic balladry and percussive tension, and even when the hand of ironic coincidence seems to overshape a scene or two, Dalton Trumbo...