I like a lot of the unpretentious crime/noir movies from the
Seventies: Bronson in MR MAJESTYK, HARD TIMES, and even DEATH
WISH; ACROSS 110th STREET, my favorite "blaxploitation"
movie; WALKING TALL (don't knock it if you haven't seen it);
DIRTY HARRY and MAGNUM FORCE. Agree strongly with TAKING OF
PELHAM, a favorite genre flick of mine. They really knew how
to put together a lean, mean film in those days -- even a
piece of junk like WHITE LIGHTNING looks good today.
doug
--- Pieter Johan Pijpers <
pjp@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> The seventies: also 'Hickey and Boggs' with
Robert
> Culp and Bill Cosby comes
> to mind (the ending like Night Moves includes
an
> aeroplane), Charley Varrick
> (recently shown again on the BBC, but I managed
to
> *delete* that movie
> without wanting it and for the second time in
10
> years), Walter M. again in
> 'The taking of Pelham One Two Three' and
Gene
> Hackman was also in 'Prime
> Cut' with Lee Marvin. This one would be a
great
> double bill with Marvin in
> 'Dog Day' by Yves Boisset, an over-the-top
sleazy
> affair, tongue in cheek
> though and absolutely entertaining.
>
> I think of course of 'The friends of Eddy
Coyle'
> with an unglamorous Mitchum
> in the kitchen with his mousy wife like in a
British
> movie. Robert Duvall,
> of course, in 'The Outfit' and 'The
Conversation'.
>
>
===== Doug Bassett
dj_bassett@yahoo.com
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