Showing posts with label Walter Brennan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Walter Brennan. Show all posts

Sunday, 28 May 2017

Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)


A one-handed stranger comes to a tiny town possessing a terrible past they want to keep secret, by violent means if necessary.

Friday, 22 May 2015

Rio Bravo (1959)


A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a cripple, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy.

Monday, 27 April 2015

To Have and Have Not (1944)



During WWII an American expatriate helps transport a Free French Resistance leader and his beautiful wife to Martinique while romancing a sexy lounge singer.

A pulp adaptation of an Ernest Hemingway novel (script co-written by William Faulkner!) has achieved iconic status by superb direction, ironic narration, atmospheric cinematography, and the first-time-on.screen chemistry between Bacall and Bogart.

Halliwell**: "Fairly routinely made studio adventure notable for first pairing of Bogart and Bacall, as an imitation of Casablanca, and for its consistent though not outstanding entertainment value."

Maltin***1/2: "Hemingway's "worst novel" forms the basis for Hawk's version of CASABLANCA...Their [Bacall and Bogart's] legendary love scenes make the movie, but there are also solid performances, and a couple of songs."