Tag: Martin Balsam

4K UHD Review: All the President’s Men

1976’s All the President’s Men dramatizes the Watergate scandal that had unfolded just a couple of years before. As with the book of the same name, the film witnesses the events through the eyes of young Washington Post reporters Carl…

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Me, Natalie

Blu-ray Review: Me, Natalie

Released in 1969, Me, Natalie is very much a film of the 1960’s, but dealing with female late adolescence. A subject nearly anyone who’s ever been there, can relate too in some way. Scripted by A. Martin Zweiback, from a…

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Blu-ray Review: Seven Days in May

[amazon_link asins=’B071D7G5VW’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazetteo-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’52906a9b-3347-11e7-9980-55774a0b773a’] Scripted by Twilight Zone creator Rod Sterling and directed by John Frankenheimer (The Manchurian Candidate (1962)), Seven Days in May is based on the novel of the same name by Fletcher Knebel and Charles…

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Two-Minute Warning (Blu-ray)

Released in 1976, Two-Minute Warning tries to be a thriller, but falls back on the predictable characteristics of the popular but fading disaster genre of the era. Despite a cast that includes Charlton Heston, John Cassavetes, Martin Balsam, Beau Bridges,…

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Hombre (Blu-ray)

Directed by Martin Ritt, (Hud, Norma Rae) Hombre is essentially the story of man forced by changing times to enter a world that never truly accepts or respects his beliefs. Though based on the Elmore Leonard novel of the same…

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All The President’s Men (Blu-ray)

1976’s All the President’s Men dramatizes the Watergate scandal that had unfolded just a couple of years before. As with the book of the same name, the film witnesses the events through the eyes of young Washington Post reporters Carl…

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Blu-ray Review: Harlow

Released in 1964, Harlow: An Intimate Biography, co-written by Irving Shulman and Jean Harlow’s one-time agent Arthur Landau, hit the best seller lists and became one of the hottest books of the year. Critically panned and the subject of several…

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Little Big Man

Blu-ray Review: Little Big Man

Three years after the influential Bonnie and Clyde director Arthur Penn helmed the epic and revisionist Western, Little Big Man. Based on the novel Thomas Berger and adapted for the screen by Calder Willingham Dustin Hoffman stars as Jack Crabb,…

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