Word: thriller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sporting goods store (didn't your always hope the man holding a gun in your back was Robert Redford?). Two world powers battle for the Condor, while he humps with a temperamental photographer. Once they catch up, Three Days of the Condor is a face-paced, carefully calculated thriller. Even Redford is convincing half the time...
...three press on. Two of them (along with a teacher answering some mysterious impulse to join them) are never seen again. One girl is rescued some days later but never speaks about what may or may not have happened on Hanging Rock. Nor does the film, based on a thriller by Joan Lindsay, offer any definite explanation. It does explore the rational efforts to solve the mystery (two young men who were near by seem likely suspects at first), and it examines how the tragedy affects the various interested parties in the aftermath...
King Kong, Carefully paced, often gripping, this thriller-fantasy set the style for most of the giant monster movies to come. Special-effects designer Willis O'Brien's giant ape was the source of awe and terror--even the camera froze on him while he did his stuff. To movie-goers of 1933, O'Brien's small moth-eaten model--which had to be moved ever-so slightly and filmed for a fraction of a second at a time--was a revelation, the ultimate fantasy. If Kong appears jerky and slightly ridiculous to us, it must have seemed...
...begins a crucial section of leading Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes' latest novel, The Hydra Head. Billed as the first Third World spy thriller," The Hydra Head is about the loss of identity of Felix Maldonado, a minor bureaucrat in the Mexican government. In a Kafka-esque world in which he has no autonomy, Maldonado becomes an unwilling assassin in an international spy network competing over Mexico's newly discovered oil supply...
...players and coaches of both teams and the 120 or so fans who gallantly fared the weather, Saturday's contest was a thriller of the first degree...