Tag: The Great Escape
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Remembering David McCallum, From His Earliest Days as a British Actor of ‘Rising Reputation’ Through 20 Years on ‘NCIS’
1957 was a big year for David McCallum, the respected Glasgow-born actor known for “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.,” “The Great Escape” and his 20-year run on “NCIS” as quirky pathologist Dr. Donald “Ducky” Mallard.From the Oct. 23, 1957, edition of weekly VarietyThe actor, who died Sept. 25 at the age of 90, logged six mentions…
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Charles Bronson Had a Chip on His Shoulder — And Made a Career Out of It
Charles Bronson is one of the most recognizable figures in film, and equally famous is his reputation of not being one of the most pleasant guys to be with. Most of the time, he kept to himself, and even stole the wife of one of his co-stars in The Great Escape. Every single day, Bronson…
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This Charles Bronson WWII Movie Pushed the Limits of Violence On-Screen
Charles Bronson was an immensely popular American movie star, beginning his career as an actor in the 1950s before achieving significant fame in the 1960s. He was most celebrated for his tough guy persona, his stoic characters who tended to speak more with their actions than their words, and his unique physicality on-screen. Thanks to…
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Steve McQueen Was the True King of Cool in This 8-Minute Scene
Ali MacGraw once said of her then-husband Steve McQueen in an interview with People Magazine, “This was a man who could walk into any room and man, woman, and child all would go, ‘Whoa, what’s that?’ And I was no exception.” Well, that’s some pretty high praise for “The King of Cool” who thrilled us…
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Pierce Brosnan’s Best Role Was Emulating Steve McQueen
If there’s any film that explains why Steve McQueen was known as “the King of Cool,” it’s 1968’s The Thomas Crown Affair. While Bullitt, The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, Papillon, and The Towering Inferno are all classics in their own right, it’s the relative simplicity of McQueen’s slick demeanor in The Thomas Crown Affair…
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The Great Escape, “Tell Me” on Criterion Channel, and Two by Michael Schlesinger: Jim Hemphill’s Home Video Recommendations
The Great Escape was a dream project for director John Sturges for years before the success of The Magnificent Seven finally enabled him to make it in 1962, and the countless hours he spent thinking about and planning the WWII epic are evident in every flawless shot. The true story of a group of Allied…
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My favourite film aged 12: Where Eagles Dare
Continuing our series in which writers revisit childhood movie passions, we find out if a war film from a pre-greenscreen era holds up in the digital ageI was 12 in a time before there was streaming, before there was Blockbuster, when someone with a Vcr in their home boasted playground status roughly equivalent to the…
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‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ Delivers a Mega Movie Star Bromance: Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt
Ascending the red carpet to the world premiere of Quentin Tarantino’s elegiac 1969 portrait of Los Angeles, “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio looked like movie stars. That’s a commodity in short supply these days: stars who can open movies because fans want to see them.At the film’s after-party on…