I thought The Snatchers was Lionel White's weakest Gold Medal
effort, and I didn't really care for the movie, either,
though Richard Boone did do his best to save it. Hubert
Cornfield also directed Lure of the Swamp based on Gil
Brewer's Hell's Our Destination -- not a great adaptation,
though Leo Gordon and Jack Elam are good. The best Hubert
Cornfield movie is Plunder Road (1957). Song and dance men,
you know, make great tough guys (in this case Gene
Raymond).
And yeah, The Big Caper is Robert Stevens! He did a lot of TV
work: Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Twilight Zone, and
Playhouse 90. Now there is some real, old school noir.
--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Juri Nummelin"
<juri.nummelin@...> wrote:
>
> George T:
>
> > Charles Williams-I am not crazy about The Hot
Spot, Dead Calm,
> > or The
> > Third Voice, either, in case anyone is
curious.
>
> And:
>
> > Lionel White--The Killing is the best, but The
Big Caper is
> > really,
> > really good.
>
> You've seen some pretty obscure films here. I only
know a guy
> who's seen THE THIRD VOICE (it was banned in
Finland, by the way)
> and he says it's the best film the director - isn't
it Hubert
> Cornfield? - ever made.
>
> As for THE BIG CAPER, isn't it by the same guy who
made lots of
> Disney movies later on? Robert Stevenson? (Or
Stevens?)
>
> Juri
>
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