The guns of Navarone was a 1961 movie about a British commando team that is sent on an almost impossible mission of destroying a massive German gun emplacement after crossing occupied Greek territory. This film was directed by J. Lee Thompson and had some of the biggest stares of the day in it. This movie was based on a well known 1957 novel about World War Two by Scottish writer Ail-stair MacLean.The sweeping landscape photography and several cultural touches truly captured the beauty and
This is a fictitious Typhoon class submarine in the Tom Clancy novel The Hunt for Red October and the movie which followed.
When I first saw this film, written by Tom Clancy, I thought that an awful lot of research had gone into the making of this movie, but I often wondered where someone would come up with such a plot. Was this filam based on fact, or fiction in the writers mind.
The first time that I saw from here to eternity was late in the sixties. I have been
somewhat of a fan of Frank Sinatra's and I wanted to see what part he would play
in this so called "military" film. I must admit that I was
surprised at the content
of this film. Being in the military at this time, I could almost understand why the
military was against this movie when it first came out years earlier. That may have
been one of the reasons that I liked it so much.
Through his rear window and the eye of his powerful camera a photo journalist watches
a great city tell on itself, expose its cheating ways and Murder! The movie is about
voyeurism and to a lesser degree about love between two apparently different people.
Rear Window is a 1954 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on Cornell Woolrich's
1942 short story It Had to Be Murder. It stars James Stewart as photojournalist L.
B. Jefferies, Grace Kelly as his fashion model girlfriend Lisa Carol Fremont, and
Raymond
Away From Her is an English-Canadian film which debuted at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival and also played in the Premier category at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. The feature-length directorial debut of English-Canadian actress Sarah Polley, the film is based on Alice Munro's short story "The Bear Came Over the Mountain."
Miramax Films presents a film written and directed by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen. It
is a critically acclaimed 2007 film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Cormac
McCarthy. The film features Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, and Javier Bardem.
If you
like the kind of film that surprises you and takes away your breath at the same time,this
is it. It tells the story of a drug deal gone very wrong and the ensuing cat-and
DreamWorks, Warner Bros. and Paramount present a film directed by Clint Eastwood
and written by William Broyles Jr. and Paul Haggis, based on the book by James Bradley
with Ron Powers.It's the life stories of the six men who raised the flag at the battle
of Iwo Jima which was a turning point of World War Two.
The film opens with interlocking
scenes from past and present, showing the battle
The Three Mile Island accident was the most significant in the history of the American commercial nuclear power generating industry.
Living in Pennsylvania at the time of the accident, I remember it as if it was yesterday.
It began on Wednesday,the 28th of March 1979.It took local, state and federal officals
five days to decide what to do with the residents of local communities.
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is a 1960 film adaptation of the novel of the same
name by Alan Sillitoe. Sillitoe adapted the screenplay himself and the film was directed
by Karel Reisz.
It tells the story of Arthur Seaton,played by Albert Finney, a young
Nottingham factory worker, who is having an affair with Brenda, played by Rachel
Robertas,the wife of an
Romancing the Stone is an American 1984 action-adventure film.Directed by Robert
Zemeckis, it stars Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito. This film was
one of the best adventure/humor movies of the eighties. Not only did it boost the
star rating of Michael Douglas, it helped launch Kathleen Turner into stardom. It
also was Robert Zemeckis's first box office hit as a director.
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