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Category Archives: Lee Marvin
Bob Hoskins and The Long Good Friday
A couple of years ago I had a lengthy exchange on social media with a British crime writer on the subject of what was the best crime film to come out of the UK, Get Carter (1971) or The Long … Continue reading
Richard Burton and the face of a Villain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xsL4zBmbl0
Richard Burton has been on my mind ever since I watched him a couple of weeks ago in the strange 1971 British film, Villain. Burton was a regular fixture on the TV screen in our house when I was young. … Continue reading
Posted in British crime cinema, Crime film, Heist films, Lee Marvin
Tagged 1974, Elizabeth Taylor, Ian McShane, Nigel Davenport, Peter Glenville, Raid on Rommel (1971), Richard Burton, Ronnie Cray, The Comedians (1967), The Klansman, The Longest Day (1962), The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1965), The Wild Geese (1978), Villain (1971), Where Eagles Dare (1968)
The Don Siegel Rule
I had to give it a name, so I called it the Don Siegel Rule. I was watching Charley Varrick recently, the 1973 heist film directed by Siegel, starring Walter Matthau as an ex-crop duster and stunt pilot turned bank who, … Continue reading
Posted in Angie Dickinson, Crime film, Don Siegel, Heist films, Lee Marvin
Tagged Charles Bronson, Charley Varrick (1973), Dirty Harry (1971), Don Siegel, Donald Pleasence, Hell is For Heroes (1964), Invasion of the Body Snatches (1956), Janet Suzman, Joe Don Baker, John Vernon, Lalo Schifrin, Lee Remick, Michael Caine, Point Blank (1967), Robert Siodmak, Telefon (1977), The Black Windmill (1974), The Killers (1946), The Killers (1964), Walter Hill
Crime Factory issue 13 is out
A heads up that issue 13 of Crime Factory is out (with cover design by the one and only Eric Beetner, who also did the cover for my novel, Ghost Money) In this issue I talk to Dwayne Epstein, author … Continue reading
Posted in 70s American crime films, Angela Savage, Crime Factory, Crime Factory Publications, Lee Marvin, Ozsploitation
Tagged Black Pulp, Crime Factory 13, Crime Factory Publications, Dwayne Epstein, Gary Phillips, Ghost Money, Lee Marvin, Lee Marvin: Point Blank, Prime Cut, Roger Ward, Ruth Dugdall, Tommy Hancock
Warren Oates, Gloria Grahame & other subjects for fiction anthologies
The recent release of Crime Factory’s LEE, an anthology of crime fiction inspired by the life of iconic actor Lee Marvin, has got me thinking about who else would be a good subject for similar treatment. There’s already been a … Continue reading
Posted in 60s American crime films, 70s American crime films, Film Noir, Gloria Grahame, Lee Marvin, Stanley Baker, Sterling Hayden
Tagged 92 in the Shade (1975), Asphalt Jungle (1950), Badlands (1973), Bit Heat (1953), Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1969), Cockfighter (1975), Dillinger (1973), Hell Drivers (1957) The Criminal (1960), Hell is a City (1966), In a Lonely Place (1950), innocent Bystanders, Johnny Guitar (1954), LEE, Lee Marvin, Major Dundee (1965), Naked Alibi (1954), Odds Against Tomorrow (1959), Race with the Devil (1975), Sam Peckinpah, Stanley Baker, Stanley Kubrick, Sterling Hayden, Stripes (1981), The Godfather (1972), The Guns of Navarone (1961), The Killing (1956), The Wild Bunch (1969), Two Lane Black Top, Warren Oates
