Tag: Richard Boone

The Arrangement (1969)

DVD Review: The Arrangement (1969)

Written and directed by Elia Kazan (A Face in the Crowd), The Arrangement, released in 1969, was based on his own bestselling novel of the same name. Having read Kazan’s A Life, it quickly becomes clear that Kazan saw something of himself in the film’s protagonist, Eddie Anderson, a high-flying advertising executive. So, perhaps he’s to be forgiven for failing to realize that Eddie is

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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 name, it’s hard not to think that Ritt, a victim of the Hollywood Blacklist during the 1950’s, didn’t feel a certain kinship with Paul Newman’s

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