Word: thriller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Third Man. Directed by Carol Reed and written by Graham Greene with heavy infuence from its star, Orson Welles, this is quite simply the best thriller ever made. The grays and blacks of post-war Vienna provide a perfect backdrop to the machinations of Welles's demonic opportunism, and the expressionist camera angles and bizarvesets sets create a disturbing sense of moral disorder in this divided city. Only Welles could turn a simple shot of a cat licking a man's shoe into a unforgettable avatar of terror and corruption...
...novel, The Family Arsenal, Paul Theroux's characters often are lost like this somewhere in the heart of the city. In fact, stumbling through England's dark, damp, declining metropolis becomes for Theroux like reading that dark, damp, declining novelistic form of sharp turns and blind alleys, the thriller. As in T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland, to which The Family Arsenal seems to invite comparison, the characters emerge at first as anonymous voices: a crook prowling a seedy riverside district; an accountant who refuses to yield his house to a rapidly deteriorating neighborhood, an aristocratic woman who collects people like...
...Harvard-MIT game was a thriller. Crimson player-coach Wes Raffel, the Bill Russell of water polo, had badly injured a finger on his throwing hand during the first game and was sidelined...
...doubt: Marathon Man is the year's most cunning entertainment, a thriller full of spills and shootings, double-dealings and triple betrayals. It is lavishly mounted and loaded with flash. The movie also offers Dustin Hoffman, giving one of his best performances, up against Laurence Olivier, who is in fine form playing an archvillain. Watching Marathon Man is a little like getting crowned by a chain-mail fist...
...Columbia, in the process of writing a doctoral dissertation designed to clear the name of his late father, a noted historian driven to alcoholism, and finally, to suicide by the McCarthy witch hunts, and you'll have something of a notion of what makes Marathon Man an outstanding thriller...