Harry Essex
Auteur de Sons Of Katie Elder, The (1965)
Œuvres de Harry Essex
The John Wayne Collection, Vol. II: Big Jake / The Shootist / The Sons of Katie Elder (2003) — Writer — 4 exemplaires
Creature From The Black Lagoon (Screenplay) 1 exemplaire
I, The Jury - Special Limited Edition 1 exemplaire
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Kansas City Confidential par Phil Karlson
Intriguing premise and a great chance to see some memorable actors, but the film drags toward the middle and is a bit over-melodramatic. Payne is great, however, as the man trying to get to the bottom of how he almost did 20 years in prison for someone else's perfect heist. Elam, VanCleef, and Brand make a memorable trio of bad guys. I love the way they're all supposed to be on vacation in Mexico, but they wear suits all the time!
½
Amphibian remains draw an expedition into the Amazon, and nothing could possibly go wrong.
2/4 (Indifferent)
I knew it would be dumb, but I didn't expect it to be so boring.
(Oct. 2021)
2/4 (Indifferent)
I knew it would be dumb, but I didn't expect it to be so boring.
(Oct. 2021)
Brothers come home for their mother's funeral and learn that their father had been murdered.
2/4 (Indifferent).
There are some very good parts in it. But it's twenty minutes too long, characters often communicate in sermon instead of dialog, and a large amount of time is spent talking about characters that aren't in the movie.
(May 2021)
2/4 (Indifferent).
There are some very good parts in it. But it's twenty minutes too long, characters often communicate in sermon instead of dialog, and a large amount of time is spent talking about characters that aren't in the movie.
(May 2021)
This is an effective noir film set in late 1940s Los Angeles. It starts out documentary style with a voiceover about LA--just like Dragnet, but settles down into a much more serious police procedural. (Dragnet's Jack Webb, by the way, plays a key role here as the LA Police Department's lab specialist, who not only can do ballistics but also Identikit! Webb apparently got the idea for Dragnet here.) The film looks great all the way through, and the scenes in the storm drains will remind you of the Third Man, but He Walked by Night was filmed a year earlier. The film is made most interesting by its alternation between scenes of the killer, well played by Richard Basehart, and the police investigation. Of course, the LA police department, make up entirely on white guys in dark suits, comes off as completely competent and uncorrupt. This is based on a true story, by the way. I guess I have given it only 3 1/2 stars for the simple reason that the killer's motives are never revealed or even hinted at. Which I guess is why it was so hard to track him down! I watched this movie on Kanopy through my library, so it should be easily available to anyone who wants to journey back 70 years. Recommended.… (plus d'informations)
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