Word: milius
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Directed and Written by JOHN MILIUS...
...serious economic analysis. There are exceptions. Leonard Silk of the New York Times is one of the few journalists whom academics respect as an intellectual in the field. The Times's Soma Golden and the Washington Post's Hobart Rowen have both done consistently fine work. Peter Milius of the Post recently explained with clarity the relationship between inflation, wage changes, productivity and unit labor costs-rather basic stuff, but necessary to educate a painfully ignorant public...
...Harry Callahan has been criticized for taking the law into his own hands in his first movie. So in gun-toting tyro John Milius's Magnum Force screenplay, Harry is a law abiding liberal--at least in comparison to a uniformed squad of vigilantes, acting under orders of a San Francisco police commissioner. They enjoy killing everyone who is in cahoots with criminals, including innocent party girls. Harry, who still loves his Magnum 44 with the passion Clint Eastwood usually reserves for faithful animals, refuses to go along with them. "Nothing's wrong with shooting as long as the right...
This liberal-mindedness on the part of the film makers seems more opportunistic than deeply felt-an attempt, perhaps, to still political criticism of the earlier film. But what really spoils the formula is a thin and meandering script by John Milius and listless direction by Ted Post, whose work cannot stand even glancing comparison with Don Siegel's authoritative handling of Dirty Harry. The film climaxes, as all policiers apparently must, with a car chase, but it is nowhere near as interesting as the successful off-casting of nice Hal Holbrook as a heavy. He is the only...
DILLINGER is the first feature directed by John Milius, a young screenwriter who is as well known for his self-publicizing as for his screenplays (Jeremiah Johnson, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean). Sounding in interviews like a combination feudal lord, Texas land baron and bawdyhouse piano player, Milius proclaims the glories of guns, the beauties of blood lust and the masculine honor of big money. Affectation like this makes good copy and, judging from Dillinger, bad movies. Instead of the brash and abrasive effort that might have been expected, Dillinger is slack and derivative. Its main inspiration...