Tag: Lee Marvin
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David Ayer Says His Remake Of The Dirty Dozen Is Still A Moving Target
Robert Aldrich’s “The Dirty Dozen” is the daddiest of dad movies. A box office smash upon its theatrical release in 1967, it was the proto-“men-on-a-mission” movie. Lee Marvin stars as a World War II U.S. Army major ordered to lead a pack of disposable military prisoners on a suicide mission to slaughter numerous high-ranking Nazi…
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‘The Twilight Zone’s Best Western Episode Is Also a Ghost Story
The Twilight Zone is a show that is remembered for its horror, science fiction, thriller, and mystery-centric episodes… which is what makes it weird when your occasional Western episode pops up. That being said, it wouldn’t be a Twilight Zone episode if there wasn’t a little bit of genre storytelling thrown into the mix. Every…
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Clint Eastwood Once Starred in a Western Musical
If you’ve heard of 1969’s “musical Western” Paint Your Wagon, there’s a decent chance you only know it from The Simpsons. In Season 9, Homer rents Paint Your Wagon for family movie night, hoping for a blood-and-guts western, as the picture stars Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood, both known as men of violence. The Simpsonized…