Tag: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
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Robert Blake, Emmy-Winning ‘Lost Highway’ Actor Who Beat Murder Charge, Dead at 89
Robert Blake, the Emmy-winning film and television star who participated in over half a century’s worth of Hollywood history, has died at the age of 89. The news was confirmed by the Associated Press.Born in New Jersey in 1933, Blake began working in film as a child actor in the late 1930s. His first onscreen…
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John Huston Was Unraveling A Real-Life Mystery On The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre Set
Long before Martin Scorsese and Robert DeNiro, or Wes Anderson and Bill Murray, John Huston and Humphrey Bogart were one of the great director-actor combos of Hollywood’s Golden Age. Their first collaboration, “The Maltese Falcon,” gave the actor his big breakthrough and one of his defining roles as the cynical private eye, Sam Spade.It made Bogart…
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Raiders of the Lost Ark at 40: Indiana Jones’s first adventure remains his greatest
Steven Spielberg’s deliriously entertaining throwback remains a pure pleasure, a film drawn from forgotten serials and comics and brought brilliantly to lifeIt took almost no time – certainly not the 40 years since it was released – for Steven Spielberg’s Raiders of the Lost Ark to become the new standard of adventure films, surpassing the…
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Spike Lee’s ‘Da 5 Bloods’ on Netflix: Film Review
With “Da 5 Bloods,” Spike Lee follows his long overdue Oscar win for “BlacKkKlansman” by revealing a side of the Vietnam story that’s seldom told. Through the Trojan horse of a treasure-hunt adventure movie, the director explores the mindset of Black soldiers who fought for their country at a time when African Americans were being…