Directed by Robert Wise Burt Lancaster is the symbol of virtue, it seems, in just about all of his most iconic roles. Maybe he's not so much so in films like The Sweet Smell of Success and others I can't think of right now, but when I picture Lancaster I picture Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, The … Continue reading Run Silent, Run Deep (1958)
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The Train (1964)
Directed by John Frankenheimer There's a lot of deep focus in The Train and, from what I recall, other John Frankenheimer films like The Manchurian Candidate and Seven Days in May. Let's start there... These are all political films, much more about conflicts between ideologies than between individuals. We see them in deep focus, carefully staged, so that … Continue reading The Train (1964)
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