He has a type
1) Sugarland Express - Goldie Hawn
2) Jaws - Lorraine Gray
3) Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Teri Garr and Melinda Dillon
4) ET - Dee Wallace
5) Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom - Kate Capshaw
6) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade - Alison Doody
7) Hook - Catherine Goodall
8) Jurassic Park - Laura Dern
9) Schindler's List - Catherine Goodall
10) The Fabelmans - Michelle Williams
In his memoirs, Bernard Gordon said this was the worst Phil Yordan production he worked on - claimed it didn't make sense, Yordan didn't care. He's not wrong - it's not very good.
Lee Van Cleef is in colourful cowboy mode as an outlaw who is conned by Gina Lollobrigida and then tries to steal some money.
Confusing. Dull.
This movie was so annoying. Wallace Shawn lying in a hospital bed having scenes while a machine goes beep. Everyone has strong articulation.
Harry Alan Towers kind of sequel to Sumuru with Shirley Eaton again in that role although she has a slightly different name. It's like a lot of Towers/Franco films - it looks good, has a dreamlike state, is confusing, continuity is weird. Lots of nudity.
Eaton makes a splendid villain. Sanders is looking old and only a few years away from suicide but that has its own appeal now the years have gone on.
Someone called Richard Wyler is the hero, I guess, who is kidnapped by Eaton.
Got into this reading a Vanity Fair account of its writing. I'd actually never heard of it but it's renowned as a classic of reporting, made with Kennedy involvement only they backed off.
Exhaustive, feels accurate. Powerful. So believable. I began to get angry reading it at the conspiracy theorists. Maybe that was just trauma dealing. Of course it was. The truth too uncomfortable but we see it so clearly now. Hostile press. Mad city. Anti-commie rhetoric. Incel with a gun. Trained by marines. Wants to kill someone. Hates his wife. Looking for a place in a world. Wife leaves him for another woman (I totally didn't know this.)
Very thotough.
A respectful sequel - picks up immediately after the events in Aliens versus Predator with the ship crashing and the escape of a predator-alien hybrid which isn't bad. It has the guts to kill off a kid in the opening sequence.
The cast is full of really not well know people. Couldn't they afford one more than Robert Joy? I guess John Oritz has been in a few things.
These stories weren't based on scripts.
