#jack huston is king

[texaschainsawmascara]

Michael Pitt, Day of the Fight (2023)

#love to see an aries king back #michael pitt #day of the fight #jack huston #ron perlman #joe pesci #john magaro #film #movie

[cinemaquiles]

TOP 5: péssimos remakes de clássicos segundo crítica e público e seus originais para maratonar!

#remakes #trash movies #ben hur #charlton heston #jack huston #rodrigo santoro #poltergeist #heather o'rourke #steven spielberg #Horror Movies #zelda rubinstein #the fog #John Carpenter #carrie movie #sissy spacek #stephen king #julianne moore #chloe sevigny #swept away #giancarlo giannini #madonna #Guy Ritchie

[laurent-bigot]

GRÉGORY PECK

Acteur volontaire, Gregory Peck a imposé sa forte personnalité. Dans les années 1940 et 1950 il a tourné plusieurs films de premier plan.  Sa carrière se signala ensuite par un engagement politique très marqué.   Né le 5 avril 1916 à La Jolla, en Californie, fils d’un pharmacien d’origine irlandaise, Gregory Peck serait peut-être devenu docteur en médecine si le démon des planches ne l’avait…

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#alfred hitchcock #gregory peck #henry king #Jack Lee Thompson #john huston #vincente minnelli #william wyler

[tourturedfolkloredepartment]

Hey guys! So I wanted to take a quick break from my Hannibal posting to tell you some more history on the Von Erich family specially the dad. I’m writing an essay on this (just for fun cause why not) and thought I would share some history About the main man behind this. Fritz(jack) von Erich.

*Fritz’s Von erich father and mentor*

Fritzs(real name jack) was born in jewett Texas in 1929 his sir name was Adkisson. He met his wife Doris( who’s Maiden name was Smith) while in high school, they got married in 1950 when he was 20

And she was 17.

He attended southern methodist university where he threw discus and played football. He was reported to have played for the now defunct Dallas Texans,but that wasn’t true he was signed as a guard but was eventually Cut, he then tried playing for the Canadian football league.

In 1952 is when they’re first son jack Jr (named after Fritz’s ) was born.

Fritzs was trained and booked by Stu Hart. While wrestling he was paired with Waldo Von Erich, and they were known as a pair of evil German brothers.

Several years later in 1959 Fritzs son Jack Died of a electrocution and drowning which caused Fritzs to stop traveling the east coast and allowing his former wrestling partner to continue using the name Von Erich.

The 1960’s was a big time for Fritzs despite jack’s death he continued wrestling and in 1963 he won both versions of the AWA world title. His major circuit was when he was playing in St, Louis Missouri at Sam Muchnick’s NWA territorial stronghold,

He wrestles there until 1967.

After he voluntarily left the territory after losing the match for the NWA world heavyweight champion against then champion Gene Kinisk.

Fritz soon became a promoter after that for most of the Dallas territory and overseeing the Huston and San Antonio territories as well.

(This next part is me giving credit to wiki links for what I’m about to write/ copy paste)

Adkisson was a part of rebuilding Japanese wrestling after the stabbing death of Rikidōzan. He became a star due to his feuds with Antonio Inoki and Giant Baba, and his "Iron Claw" hold, which became one of the most popular wrestling moves in Japan.

In 1982 shortly after retiring he held his first retirement match against king Kong bundy in the newly renamed world class champion wrestling based in Dallas. The promotion was known for its high production value and use of entrance music along with the use of television syndication. The promotion was one the most successful territories in the United States, due to having major draws like wrestling such as his own sons, the fabulous free birds ,bruiser broody and other big names at the time.

His last match was in 1986 against Abdullah the Butcher only by disqualification in Dallas. At the end of the 1980’s the promotion pool was thin it would eventually be merged with Jerry jarrett’s continental wrestling association to create the USWA( United States wrestling association) in 1989.

#the iron claw #frizt Von Erich #honestly I’m having alor of fun writing this #Von Erich

[depressoexpresso-anon]

Alphonse's NSFW Alphabet

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⚠️ WARNING⚠️

Strong NSFW material so 18+ please.

A = Aftercare (What they’re like after sex): He gets really snuggly and giggly afterward. Al would be at your beck and call when you need it though, but if not he'll pull your sweaty and exhausted body on top of him while he pets your hair and whispers how good you were for him.

B = Body part (Their favorite body part of theirs and also their partner’s): Ass and thighs for this man. He loves to lay his head in-between or on your thighs. He also loves to see your ass bounce when he's getting rough

C = Cum (Anything to do with cum basically… I’m a disgusting person): loves to cum inside you or splatter it on your stomach. And for him, he loves the taste of you on his mouth sooo...

D = Dirty Secret (Pretty self-explanatory, a dirty secret of theirs): would honestly love to do a glory hole or his cam show with you but doesn't really know how to express it. Just the thought of you getting hammered or sucking someone else gets him going.

E = Experience (How experienced are they? Do they know what they’re doing?): very experienced in some ways, but not all. He watched a lot of porn so he probably knows what to do. And he'll always ask for your input so he knows if he's doing it right.

F = Favourite Position (This goes without saying. Will probably include a visual): low doggy style, reverse cowgirl, and both reverse and normal mating press.

G = Goofy (Are they more serious in the moment, or are they humorous, etc): Al is just gonna Al, which means he's gonna say the most dumbest shit while fucking you. He will say stuff like 'Huston we have a problem.' Or scream 'GET READY FOR MY SWEETNESS!' before cumming. So you'll be both laughing and moaning at the same time.

H = Hair (How well-groomed are they, does the carpet match the drapes, etc.): We all know Al likes to experiment with his hair so it makes sense it's down there too. He shaved it, trimmed it, and dyed it pink once, but for his cam show, he shaved it to look like a heart.

I = Intimacy (How are they during the moment, romantic aspect…): it really matters in the situation because Al can be as rough and hard or soft and gentle as he needs to be. Most of the time though it tends to be very close and passionate. Basically, it's like 'We weren't fucking, we were making L💖O💖V💖E!'

J = Jack Off (Masturbation headcanon): he already works his thing enough you and the cam show, so if he does jack it he's stressed and away from you or he's bored. He usually tries to think of you when he masturbates but sometimes he just watches porn.

K = Kink (One or more of their kinks): Al is always down for anything but his top 5 are bondage, voyeurism, roleplay of any typical stereotype but his favorite is mostly doctor and patent or police with a criminal, dirty talk, orgasm control either be him or you.

L = Location (Favourite places to do the do): any place he can get it on, is his favorite place.

M = Motivation (What turns them on, gets them going): seeing you innocently flirting or teasing him. Like you'll wear a shirt a little low or have a few more buttons undone and ask him what's wrong. It's cute but it can just leave him annoyed and aroused. Also when you get all lovey-dovey and passionate with him, either physically or verbally.

N = NO (Something they wouldn’t do, turn-offs): full-on hitting you or slapping you and severely degrading you. Like here and there he will call you a slut, whore, etc. But it's not every sentence that falls from his mouth

O = Oral (Preference in giving or receiving, skill, etc): he is like a king when it comes to oral. He would 100% gobble you swallow you then hold your thighs down for multiple rounds, leaving you shaking and overestimated. Al likes blowjobs but he will not ask for them straight up. He won't force you to do it if you didn't want to either, but if your experience with him and ok with it he's gonna fuck your throat raw.

P = Pace (Are they fast and rough? Slow and sensual? etc.): it matters what you want and what mood Al's in.

Q = Quickie (Their opinions on quickies rather than proper sex, how often, etc.): he likes them, but not all the time.

R = Risk (Are they game to experiment, do they take risks, etc.): Al is very adventurous and open when it comes to sex. He is willing to experiment with you but only if you want to.

S = Stamina (How many rounds can they go for, how long do they last…): he can go at least 5 times, but he will make you cum so much more than 5 times.

T = Toy (Do they own toys? Do they use them? On a partner or themselves?): with his cam show, one can expect that he has so many toys with a vast majority of uses.

U = Unfair (how much they like to tease): he will tease you all day if he's feeling needy and bratty.

V = Volume (How loud they are, what sounds they make): it matters where he is, but he can scream out with pleasure if he's rubbed the right way. Once you had to cover his mouth because the neighbors got pissed.

W = Wild Card (Get a random headcanon for the character of your choice): when seth was over for Christmas you both had to be real sneaky, so there was a lot of shower sex and the snuggle position.

X = X-Ray (Let’s see what’s going on in those pants, pictures, Ir words): pony man, 7 inches with a slight curve

Y = Yearning (How high is their sex drive?): he is always a but yearning but it teally depends on you. But at least 3 times a week or more if he is busy during the show.

Z = ZZZ (… how quickly they fall asleep afterward): he would always make sure you fall asleep first before he does. Don't be surprised if you make up snuggled into you and holding tight. He is also a light sleeper, so if you try to move the grips tighter and mumbles where your going.

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Thank you for reading!

❤🧡💛💚💙🖤💜

#yuurivoice #yuurivoice fanfic #yuurivoice alphonse

[thealmightyemprex]

Oscar Nominated Genre Film Performances of the 20th Century

HB Warner in Lost Horizon

Walter Huston in Devil and Daniel Webster

Robert Montgomery and James Gleason from Here Comes Mr Jordan

Angela Lansbury in Picture of Dorian Grey

James Stewart in Its a Wonderful Life

Ethel Barrymore fromThe Spiral Staircase

Cecil Kellaway from Luck of the Irish

Jean Simmons in Hamlet

Janet Leigh in Psycho

Bete Davis in What Ever Happened To Baby Jane

Agnes Moorhead in Hush Hush Sweet Charolotte

Linda Blaire,Jason Miller,and Ellen Burstyn in Exorcist

Sissie Spacek and Piper Laurie in Carrie

Alec Guiness in Star Wars

Melinda Dillon in Close Encounters of the Third Kind

LAurance Olivier in Boys from Brazil

Warren Beatty ,Dyan Cannon and Jack Warden in Heaven Can Wait

Jeff Bridges in Starman

Kathleen Turner in Peggy Sue Got Married

Sigourney Weaver in Aliens

Robin Williams in FIsher King

Brad Pitt in 12 Monkeys

Michael Clarke Duncan in Green Mile

Hayley Joel Osment and Toni Collete in 6th Sense

@ariel-seagull-wings @the-blue-fairie @themousefromfantasyland @princesssarisa @theancientvaleofsoulmaking @minimumheadroom

#oscars

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

On this date in 1967, "Camelot" was released.

In April 1961, the rights to produce a film adaptation of the Broadway musical "Camelot" were obtained by Warner Bros. with show creator Alan Jay Lerner attached to write the screenplay. However, the film was temporarily shelved as the studio decided to adapt "My Fair Lady" into a feature film first (in 1964). In 1966, development resumed with the hiring of Logan as director. Original cast members Richard Burton and Julie Andrews were approached to reprise their roles from the stage musical, but both declined.

While filming "Hawaii" (1966), Richard Harris learned of "Camelot" and actively sought for the role. For four months, Harris sent complimentary letters, cables and offers for a screen test to Lerner, Logan and Jack Warner indicating his interest in the role. Logan refused his offer due to his lack of singing abilities. When Logan returned to The Dorchester after having his morning jog, Harris ambushed him again about the role in which Logan finally relented as he offered to pay for his own screen test. Harris later hired cinematographer Nicolas Roeg to direct his screen test, which impressed Logan and Warner, who both agreed to hire him.

Logan desperately wanted to cast Vanessa Redgrave as Guenevere. after seeing her performance in "Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment" (1966). However, he had to wait several months as Redgrave was performing in the stage play "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie". Despite her not being a traditional singer, Logan was impressed by her renditions of folk songs that he listened to. The studio was initially reluctant due to her left-wing activism, but Logan negotiated for her casting until after she fulfilled her stage commitments. Redgrave was signed in November 1966 for $200,000 and permitted to do her own singing.

Although the studio initially sought a Frenchman, Italian actor Franco Nero was cast as Lancelot based on the recommendation from Harris and John Huston who worked with Nero on "The Bible: In the Beginning..." (1966). Although Logan was aware of Nero's thick Italian accent, he initially permitted him to do his own singing. The first scene shot was his performance of the musical number "C'est Moi," by which Logan found Nero's singing voice incompatible with the song's musical arrangement. His singing voice was dubbed by Gene Merlino while Nero was given a speech coach to help improve his English. Nero's romantic involvement with Redgrave began when they met on the set. After separating for many years, during which they both had relationships with other people, they reunited and married on December 31, 2006.

John F. Kennedy's presidency became inextricably linked to "Camelot "after his wife, Jacqueline Kennedy, revealed in a Life article following his assassination that the Broadway cast recording had been one of his favorite records, particularly the song "Camelot" and the lines "Don't let it be forgot/That once there was a spot/For one brief shining moment/that was known as Camelot." Roberta Davidson, in her article "The 'Reel' Arthur: Politics and Truth Claims in 'Camelot', 'Excalibur', and 'King Arthur'," notes that there are no true correspondences between Kennedy and Arthurian characters, which was fortunate considering the film centered around an adulterous love triangle. In creating the association between Kennedy's presidency and "Camelot,"Jackie Kennedy connected her husband to the hope, goodness, and glamour of "Camelot." She wanted her husband to be remembered as "well-meaning, fallibly human but ultimately idealistic," devoted to his country's interests above his own.

(Wikipedia)

[Cinema Shorthand Society]

#movies #cinema #Cinema Shorthand Society #Camelot

[whosafraidofvirginiawoolf]

Hi! Ok, so I've watched Tea and Simpathy last night and now I AM OBSESSED. Which Deborah Kerr movie should I watch next? Thanks🌻

ahhhh!!!! I'm so happy you liked tea and sympathy!!!!!!!! here's some more deborah kerr movies I love!!!!!

the innocents (1961) dir. jack clayton : adaptation of henry james' turn of the screw, kerr plays the governess and her acting + the cinematography is insane, one of my favorite movies in general (not just deborah kerr ones lol)

the life and death of colonel blimp (1943) dir. pressburger & powell : kerr plays not one, not two, but THREE characters and looks so good in technicolor you could die !!!!! (the rest of the movie is also really really good and moving)

the night of the iguana (1964) dir. john huston : tennessee williams adaptation so be warns the dramatic parts are DRAMATIC, this is one of my fav plays of his!!! in typical kerr fashion her character is incredibly moving, slightly (or more than slightly) crazy, and just makes you THINK!

the grass is greener (1960) dir. stanely donen : romantic comedy, and kerr is hilarious and so so good, robert mitchum and cary grant are so funny in this too, all around a very fun hilarious movie I've already seen twice i liked it so much

an affair to remember (1957) dir. mccarey : just a classic, cary grant and kerr are so good together and the story is kind of silly in typical old hollywood romatic drama style, but its not too silly that it doesn't WORK with kerr and crant carrying the film through!!!

vacation from marriage (1945) dir. alexander korda : first of all deborah kerr has a girlfriend in this movie who is none other than glynis johns! also its super funny, its about a husband and a wife reuniting after they both had gone off to war and how different they've become and how they've both been able to be more themselves once they had a chance to not be so strictly a Couple and how that plays out

the chalk garden (1964) dir. ronald neame : okay hear me out, the plot is kind of dramatic and could be dismissed as slightly silly and while it could have been done better, I think its good lol kerr is a governess here again! we love to see it <3 (also hayley and john mills are in this)

the naked edge (1961) dir. michael anderson : there's nothing like out of the box special about this movie, the plot isn't going to shock you, but i think it's done very well and the cinematography snaps and kerr is really good!!!! also i love a dark sinister gloomy atmosphere and its done very well here!

bonjour tristesse (1958) dir. otto preminger + 10. from here to eternity (1953) dir. fred zinnemann : these are both great movies, well made, interesting compelling plots, kerr is obvs amazing in both, don't really have anything else to say (put them together bc this list is getting long he he)

beloved infidel (1959)dir. henry king : insanely bad, melodramatic done so poorly that you laugh out loud when someone dies.........including it on the list bc you'd probs have a lot of fun watching this if you're in the mood to make fun of a dumb movie lol

#check out my list of deborah kerr movies on my letterboxd! #asks #deborah kerr #anon #also look in to the king and i and black narcissus and decide for yourself about those

[jakobdodson]

2022 in Music

Here is a note about the music I listened to in 2022. I hope you enjoy it!

Favorite Albums of 2022

Blue Rev - Alvvays

Banger after banger after banger on here!

Favorite Songs:

After The Earthquake

Tile By Tile

Belinda Says

Bored In Bristol

A Light For Attracting Attention - The Smile 

This is essentially a Radiohead album with a jazzy twist. Accordingly, it belongs here, among my favorites of the year. 

Favorite Songs:

Speech Bubbles

Open The Floodgates

Free In The Knowledge

Skirting On The Surface

Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You - Big Thief

My most anticipated release of the year that easily surpassed my highest expectations. It explodes into several beautifully creative directions and where it could overwhelm with its ambition it tends to endear and make you smile.

Favorite Songs:

Change

Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You

Flower of Blood

Red Moon

Promise Is a Pendulum

12,000 Lines

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Runners Up

Dawn FM - The Weeknd 

Once Twice Melody - Beach House

LABYRINTHITIS - Destroyer 

Ice, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms, and Lava - King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

Dripfield - Goose

Music for Animals - Nils Frahm

Liked It

Misadventures of Doomscroller - Dawes

I’m Not Sorry, I’m Just Being Me - King Hannah

Good and Green Again - Jake Xerxes Fussell

Hell on Church Street - Punch Brothers

Time Skiffs - Animal Collective

Ants from Up There - Black Country, New Road 

Humble Quest - Maren Morris

The Joy of Music - Ben Rector

The Jacket - Widowspeak

Underground Complex No. 1 - Typhoon 

Fear of the Dawn - Jack White

Omnium Gatherum - King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

Giving The World Away - Hatchie 

Break Me Open - S. Carey

Romeo & Juliet - Ryan Adams

One is One - Delta Spirit

Two Ribbons - Let’s Eat Grandma

Big Time - Angel Olsen

Preacher’s Daughter - Ethel Cain

Cruel Country - Wilco

The Loneliest Time - Carly Rae Jepsen

Surrender - Maggie Rogers

Teeth Marks - S.G. Goodman 

Take It Like A Man - Amanda Shires

Sons Of - Sam Prekop & John McEntire

Chloe and the Next 20th Century - Father John Misty

Reggae Film Star - Damian Jurado

Freakout/Release - Hot Chip

Will Of The People - Muse

WE - Arcade Fire

Birds In The Ceiling - John Moreland

Profound Mysteries II - Röyksopp 

sandhills music - Ben Seretan

The Blue EP - MORE&MORE

I’m Sweating All the Time - Wormy

Heartmind - Cass McCombs

The Liar - John Fullbright

Midnights - Taylor Swift

Changes - King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

Rolling Golden Holy - Bonny Light Horseman

Into the Blue - Broken Bells

I Walked With You a Ways - Plains

Laminated Denim - King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

ILYSM - Wild Pink

Being Funny in a Foreign Language - The 1975

And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow - Weyes Blood

Schvitz - Vulfpeck

MUNA - MUNA

Cowboy Ballads, Pt. 1 - Jesse Tabish

Drew Winn - Drew Winn

Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven? - Tyler Childers

Blue Skies - Dehd

Harry’s House - Harry Styles

Ali - Vieux Farka & Khruangbin

Meh

Quitters - Christian Lee Huston

Chris - Ryan Adams

Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers - Kendrick Lamar

Plonk - Huerco S.

Palomino - First Aid Kit

Alpha Zulu - Phoenix

God Save the Animals - Alex G

No Rules Sandy - Sylvan Esso

Not from 2022

Ram - Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney 

Plum - Widowspeak

Tago Mago - CAN

Ege Bamyasi - CAN

Night Moves - Bob Seger

Dots & Loops - Stereolab

Haven’t Listened Yet...

ForeverEverAndEverNoMore - Brian Eno

Empire Central - Snarky Puppy

Björk - Fossora

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Cool It Down

FM - Ryan Adams 

Entering Heaven Alive - Jack White

V I N C E N T - FKJ

Inside Problems - Andrew Bird

Kumoyo Island - Kikagaku Moyo

Dropout Boogie - The Black Keys

Headful of Sugar - Sunflower Bean

Everything Was Beautiful - Spritualized

Electricity- Ibibio Sound Machine

(watch my moves) - Kurt Vile

You Belong There - Daniel Rossen 

El Mirador - Calexico

Unlimited Love - Red Hot Chili Peppers

Things Are Great - Band of Horses

caroline - caroline

Pompeii - Cate Le Bon

The Dream - alt-j

Anaïs Mitchell - Anaïs Mitchell

Laurel Hell - Mitski 

Silver Sash - Wovenhand

Concerts Attended in 2022:

The War on Drugs - Cains Ballroom - Tulsa, OK - 6/4/22

John Fullbright - Fassler Hall - Tulsa, OK - 10/2/22

Spoon - Austin City Limits - Austin, TX - 10/9/22

Goose - Austin City Limits - Austin, TX - 10/9/22

Kacey Musgraves - Austin City Limits - Austin, TX - 10/9/22

Luke Combs - Paycom Center - Oklahoma City, OK - 12/9/22

The Book of Mormon - Eugene O’Neill Theatre - New York, NY - 12/21/22

Links to past lists:

10 Albums that changed my life

2012

2013

2014 

2015

2016

2017 

2018

2019 

2020 

2021 

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Happy Listening!

Jake

[the-music-stories-blog]

The Fountainhead  , 1949

The Fountainhead is a 1949 American black-and-white drama film produced by Henry Blanke, directed by King Vidor, and starring Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal, Raymond Massey. The script was written by Ayn Rand.

Roark is a brilliant architect.  However, he always has to go his own way, even if it means damaging his career.  At the start of the film, we watch Howard Roark losing one opportunity after another. Also, he takes menial work as a quarryman to finance his projects. He falls in love with heiress Dominique (Patricia Neal), but ends the relationship when he has the opportunity to construct buildings according to his own wishes. Dominique marries a newspaper tycoon (Raymond Massey) who at first conducts a vitriolic campaign against the radical Roark, but eventually becomes his strongest supporter.

The stormy and subversive character of Roark dynamizes the script which contains, in addition to love with Dominique, a trial, a suicide and a debate between two opposite philosophies: individualism vs. collectivism.

The reviews for this movie are divided, some people liked it a lot and some didn't like it at all. What is your opinion ?

Relative posts :

#movies #noir vs dark #films #drama movies #romance

[adamwatchesmovies]

Outlander (2008)

Outlander is not a great film but it has a certain charm. I can see this mish-mash of Predator and Beowulf finding an audience... in viewers who haven’t yet seen Predator or Beowulf yet. Hmm.

In 709 A.D., a spacecraft crash-lands in Scandinavia. From the wreckage emerge Kainan (Jim Caviezel) and a “Moorwhen”, a hulking, alien creature whose hide is impervious to the Iron-Age weapons of the abandoned “seed” colony we know as Earth. Kainen must find a way to band the feuding Viking tribes together to stop the monster.

Directed by Howard McCain (who also co-writes with Dirk Blackman), this movie feels like something that would’ve come out in the late 80s/early 90s. I mean that in a good way. Jim Caviezel plays an alien that blends in perfectly with the locals, he’s up against a monster with an insatiable appetite, and helping him defeat it are the manliest of men history has ever produced: vikings. To kill it, they’ll have to forge part of his ship into blades, set traps, and stalk the creature in its lair. For good measure, there are details about this world peppered throughout that make it feel bigger than the plot, such as the Moorwhen’s origin, the concept of Earth not being mankind’s homeworld, rivalries and feuds between the vikings, and more. This was a movie people were excited to work on and for the right audience, that will be enough to bridge the gaps in the writing.

The special effects are good for a mid-budget 2008 sci-fi movie. There’s plenty of gore and action. I’ve got no complaints about the costumes, sets, makeup or performances. Where the movie could’ve been improved is at the script level. The characters are basic and often the movie forgets to follow through with the arcs they’re given. The “outlander” is captured early on and interrogated by Wulfric (Jack Huston), who's described as arrogant and cruel by his betrothed, Freya (Sophia Myles). On the one hand, I want to give the movie credit for making him smarten up once the Moorwhen is sighted and forget all about the grudge he develops towards our protagonist, but he seems so reasonable once the chips are down that you question Freya’s description. As for her, she’s set up as a much tougher woman than anyone believes she could be but eventually, she gets captured by the Moorwhen and needs to be rescued… so it didn’t matter that she could swing a sword.

There’s an attempt to make the Moorwhen more of a tragic wild animal than a monster. We’re told by Kainan that its species was wiped out so humans could occupy its planet, that it’s the last of its kind. That’s sad, but your sympathy for it is hard to maintain when you see its den. We’re not just talking about a pile of bloody bones; it’s several villages’ worth of half-eaten corpses piled high, underground. Talk about a glutton. It’s just killing people for fun at this point!

Either the characters needed to be developed a little further or the plot needed to be a bit smarter. Of course, King Hrothgar (John Hurt) and his people don’t believe Kainan when he tells them he’s hunting “a dragon”. Too bad. Is that line going to work in any time period, ever? I mean where do they think all the bodies went, didn’t they see the bent swords and the huge claw marks on the buildings? Anyway, when they take down a bear instead of the monster, it’s as if he doubts his claims because he doesn’t speak up again until the Moorwhen re-appears and starts butchering people en-masse. Maybe the problem is that the movie is too long, that its premise didn’t need the introduction of the rival village led by Gunnar (Ron Perlman).

I’ve got many criticisms for the movie but overall, I’d say I enjoyed Outlander. There are plenty of missed opportunities, but seeing the Vikings pitted against the space alien monster is cool. The movie looks good and it gets its homages right. You're reminded of other movies but this story isn't copying them outright or even putting in any easter eggs for fanboys to discover. Outlander simply captures the essence of the other properties it loves.

Having viewed Outlander twice now, I see the flaws, I accept them and have decided they just don’t weigh as much as the entertaining bits. Even so, I don’t think anyone would ever call this their favorite movie, which makes it a good rental, or the kind of movie you catch on TV, enjoy as a substitute for a classic (or “classic”) and then set aside. (September 23, 2021)

#Outlander #movies #films #movie reviews #film reviews #Howard McCain #Dirk Blackman #Jim Caviezel #Sophia Myles #Jack Huston #Ron Perlman #John Hurt #2008 movies #2008 films #predator #beowulf

[blogger360ncislarules]

THE SHIFT star Kristoffer Polaha joined THE JENNIFER HUDSON SHOW to talk about the secret to his 20-year marriage and shared highlights from his Hallmark career.

“The trick is just lots of love, lots of honesty, lots of coming home,” he said of keeping his marriage strong.

Polaha and his wife Julianne Morris married in 2003. The couple shares three sons: Kristoffer “Caleb,” Jude and Micah.

Hudson also mentioned that the actor is “the Hallmark, like, King. How many films have you done?”

“To date, I have made 18,” Polaha responded. “In about five years.”

His favorite? A BILTMORE CHRISTMAS, which premiered on Nov. 26. 

“I think is my favorite one so far,” he explained. “It’s like trying to choose a favorite kid. I love the work and I love the characters.”

The movie follows Lucy Hardgrove (Bethany Joy Lenz), a screenwriter tasked to remake a classic holiday movie called HIS MERRY WIFE! 

“When the head of the studio isn’t satisfied with the ending Lucy wrote because it deviates from the original’s feel-good conclusion, he sends Lucy to Biltmore Estate for research and inspiration. While there, she unwittingly discovers the ability to travel to the 1947 set of HIS MERRY WIFE! through the help of an hourglass,” Hallmark summarizes. 

“After shaking off the initial shock of this turn of events, Lucy embraces this as her chance to uncover the truth about the movie’s original ending. While on set, she and Jack Huston (Kristoffer Polaha), one of the film’s stars, spend time together and become close. But her sudden appearance has set off a chain of events that put the production in jeopardy. Before she can return to the present, Lucy must make things right or threaten to alter the future forever,” the summary concludes.  

Most recently, Polaha starred in THE SHIFT, a sci-fi thriller based on the Book of Job. 

“Kevin Garner (Kristoffer Polaha) travels across worlds and dimensions to reunite with Molly (Elizabeth Tabish), the love of his life. A mysterious adversary known as The Benefactor (Neal McDonough) upends Kevin’s world as he tries to escape an alternate dystopian reality,” Angel Studios describes.

#hallmark #countdown to christmas

[texasobserver]

From ”A Border Crossing with the Devil” by Texas Observer McHam Investigative Reporting Fellow Josephine Lee:

This is part of our coverage of South by South West (SXSW) 2023.

Baal was once known as the king of gods. The ancient Canaanites called him the “Lord of Rain and Dew.” The Phoenicians, the “Lord of the Heavens.” The Israelites named him “He Who Rides the Clouds.” It was only after the Hebrew queen Jezebel tried to replace the official worship of the Hebrew God with the worship of Baal in the ninth century BCE that Baal became the emblem for a false god, a fallen angel, and later, the prince of demons himself: Satan. 

But in the supernatural thriller Hail Mary, directed by Rosemary Rodriguez and written by Knate Lee, Baal (Jack Huston) arrives in Central America as the devil’s servant incarnate. While all powerful, he lacks autonomy. And he’s on his master’s mission to hunt down Maria (Natalia del Riego) before she makes her way from Belize to the United States to give birth to an infant who will someday save the world. 

Audiences will recognize the plot when Maria suddenly experiences immaculate conception. But the Herod virus, which has killed all newborns in Central America, forces her to make her way north to the United States, the only safe place to give birth. To make things worse, the United States has closed its borders to pregnant women fleeing the crisis, terrorizing and separating families who attempt to cross the border. It’s only with the angel Gabrielle’s (Angela Sarafyn) intervention and carpenter Jose’s (Benny Emmanuel) help that Maria stands a chance to escape Baal and make it through the tunnels under the Rio Grande. 

On the trek north, the vibrant green sugarcane fields of Belize turn into the sprawling metropolis of Mexico City, and then the mountains of Nuevo Laredo. Crosses dot the landscape, but God is hard to find. Baal acts as a reverse Jesus in a land desperate for deliverance from cartels and corruption. Whereas Jesus laid his hands on the sick to heal, Baal’s touch takes away the lives of those he meets. Whereas Jesus gave sight to the blind, Baal makes blind those with sight. 

At first, Baal scoffs at the limitations of human mortality and our proclivity toward pain and disease. But then Baal’s curiosity leads him to question what it is like to be human. In doing so, he seems more human than the other characters in the film, who seem like static tropes by comparison—like Maria who follows divine providence to serve as a vessel for her baby savior or the fair-skinned, blue-eyed white angel Gabrielle who aids migrants through prayer from her gated mansion in Texas’ Hill Country. 

In what turns out to be a parallel quest to comprehend what it means to be human, Baal tastes his own blood, tries tacos al pastor, and snacks on Slim Jims. He kisses a woman he meets for the first time, asking her, “Is that love?” to which she replies, “No lo creo [I don’t think so].” He tries to imagine Jose’s love for Maria and expresses disappointment when Jose vacillates between self-preservation and self-sacrifice for the virgin madonna. 

Along the way, Baal becomes the moral lens through which the audience sees the heinous acts of U.S. immigration authorities. While Baal hunts down Maria and child on the devil’s command, he reminds the border agents that they “hunt humans” of their own volition.  

“I am what I am,” Baal says, apologizing. But to those he meets, he says, “You were given free will and self-determination.” Free will, as the angel Gabrielle reminds Maria, to choose between “on one side the devil, and on the other your child.”

So in this pointed and sometimes belabored challenge to Americans, Hail Mary asks us which we will choose—to accept our neighbors or turn them away in a time of crisis. What we choose may either save or damn this country’s soul. 

Read more of our coverage of SXSW 2023.

#sxsw 2023 #sxsw #immigration #religion #movie review #film #horror movies #thriller #border #mexico city #Texas #Austin

[alexlacquemanne]

Décembre MMXXII

Films

Détective privé (Harper) (1966) de Jack Smight avec Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Janet Leigh, Robert Wagner, Julie Harris, Shelley Winters et Pamela Tiffin

Le Grand Sommeil (The Big Sleep) (1946) de Howard Hawks avec Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers, Dorothy Malone et Peggy Knudsen

Rebecca (1940) d'Alfred Hitchcock avec Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Judith Anderson, Nigel Bruce et Reginald Denny

Le Baron de l'écluse (1960) de Jean Delannoy avec Jean Gabin, Micheline Presle, Jacques Castelot, Aimée Mortimer, Jean Constantin, Blanchette Brunoy et Jean Desailly

La Femme d'à côté (1981) de François Truffaut avec Gérard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant, Henri Garcin, Michèle Baumgartner : Arlette Coudray et Véronique Silver

De la part des copains (Cold Sweat) (1970) de Terence Young avec Charles Bronson, Liv Ullmann, James Mason, Jill Ireland, Jean Topart et Michel Constantin

Un Américain à Paris (An American in Paris) (1951) de Vincente Minnelli avec Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Georges Guétary et Nina Foch

L'Odyssée de l'African Queen (The African Queen) (1951) de John Huston avec Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley, Peter Bull et Theodore Bikel

L'Arnaqueur (The Hustler) (1961) de Robert Rossen avec Paul Newman, Piper Laurie, Jackie Gleason et George C. Scott et Myron McCormick

L'Express du colonel Von Ryan (Von Ryan's Express) (1965) de Mark Robson avec Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard, Raffaella Carrà, Brad Dexter, Sergio Fantoni et Edward Mulhare

L'Adorable Voisine (Bell, Book and Candle) (1958) de Richard Quine avec James Stewart, Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs, Hermione Gingold et Elsa Lanchester

Hannibal (Annibale) (1959) de Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia et Edgar G. Ulmer avec Victor Mature, Rita Gam, Mario Girotti et Carlo Pedersoli, Gabriele Ferzetti et Milly Vitale

Cléopâtre (Cleopatra) (1963) de Joseph L. Mankiewicz avec Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Roddy McDowall, Pamela Brown, George Cole et Martin Landau

Astérix et Cléopâtre (1968) de René Goscinny et Albert Uderzo avec Roger Carel, Jacques Morel, Micheline Dax, Lucien Raimbourg, Pierre Tornade et Bernard Lavalette

Les Trois Mousquetaires (The Three Musketeers) (1973) de Richard Lester avec Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Richard Chamberlain, Michael York, Frank Finlay, Christopher Lee, Geraldine Chaplin, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Faye Dunaway et Charlton Heston

On l'appelait Milady (The Four Musketeers: Milady's Revenge) (1974) de Richard Lester avec Oliver Reed, Frank Finlay, Richard Chamberlain, Michael York, Raquel Welch, Christopher Lee et Faye Dunaway

Salomon et la Reine de Saba (Solomon and Sheba) (1959) de King Vidor avec Yul Brynner, Gina Lollobrigida, George Sanders, Marisa Pavan, Finlay Currie et David Farrar

Avatar : La Voie de l'eau (Avatar: The Way of Water) (2022) de James Cameron avec Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Britain Dalton, Chloe Coleman et Stephen Lang

Fantômas (1964) d'André Hunebelle avec Jean Marais, Raymond Pellegrin, Louis de Funès, Mylène Demongeot, Jacques Dynam, Robert Dalban et Marie-Hélène Arnaud

Fantômas se déchaîne (1965) d'André Hunebelle avec Louis de Funès, Jean Marais, Mylène Demongeot, Jacques Dynam et Robert Dalban

Derrick contre Superman (Eine grosse Fünf) (1992) de Michel Hazanavicius et Dominique Mézerette avec Patrick Burgel et Évelyne Grandjean

La Classe américaine : Le Grand Détournement (1993) de Michel Hazanavicius et Dominique Mézerette avec Christine Delaroche, Evelyne Grandjean, Marc Cassot, Patrick Guillemin, Raymond Loyer et Jean-Claude Montalban

Séries

Inspecteur Barnaby Saison 7, 21, 22, 20, 10

Les Femmes de paille - Le monstre du lac - Epouvantables épouvantails - Les Lions de Causton - La Randonnée de la mort - La monnaie de leur pièce - Le couperet de la justice - Les Sorcières d'Angel's Rise

Friends Saison 1, 2, 3

Celui qui déménage - Celui qui est perdu - Celui qui a un rôle - Celui avec George - Celui qui lave plus blanc - Celui qui est verni - Celui qui a du jus - Celui qui hallucine - Celui qui parle au ventre de sa femme - Celui qui singeait - Celui qui était comme les autres - Celui qui aimait les lasagnes - Celui qui fait des descentes dans les douches - Celui qui avait un cœur d'artichaut - Celui qui pète les plombs - Celui qui devient papa : 1re partie - Celui qui devient papa : 2e partie - Celui qui gagnait au poker - Celui qui a perdu son singe - Celui qui a un dentiste carié - Celui qui avait un singe - Celui qui rêve par procuration - Celui qui a failli rater l'accouchement - Celui qui fait craquer Rachel - Celui qui a une nouvelle fiancée - Celui qui détestait le lait maternel - Celui qui est mort dans l'appart du dessous - Celui qui avait viré de bord - Celui qui se faisait passer pour Bob - Celui qui a oublié un bébé dans le bus - Celui qui tombe des nues - Celui qui a été très maladroit - Celui qui cassait les radiateurs - Celui qui se dédouble - Celui qui n'apprécie pas certains mariages - Celui qui retrouve son singe : 1re partie - Celui qui retrouve son singe : 2e partie - Celui qui a failli aller au bal de promo - Celui qui a fait on ne sait quoi avec Rachel - Celui qui vit sa vie - Celui qui remplace celui qui part - Celui qui disparaît de la série - Celui qui ne voulait pas partir - Celui qui se met à parler - Celui qui affronte les voyous - Celui qui faisait le lien - Celui qui attrape la varicelle - Celui qui embrassait mal - Celui qui rêvait de la princesse Leia - Celui qui a du mal à se préparer - Celui qui avait la technique du câlin - Celui qui ne supportait pas les poupées - Celui qui bricolait - Celui qui se souvient - Celui qui était prof et élève - Celui qui avait pris un coup sur la tête - Celui pour qui le foot c'est pas le pied - Celui qui fait démissionner Rachel - Celui qui ne s'y retrouvait plus - Celui qui était très jaloux - Celui qui persiste et signe - Celui que les prothèses ne gênaient pas - Celui qui vivait mal la rupture - Celui qui a survécu au lendemain

Alexandra Ehle Saison 3

Sans visage

Coffre à Catch

#92 : Kane tombe dans un traquenard ! - #93 : The Brothers of Destruction à la ECW ! - #94 : Edge, Kofi, Shelton : Catch Attack représent !" - #95 : Tac Tac c'est l'anniversaire d'Ichtou ! (feat. David Jouan)

The Rookie Saison 4

Dénouement - Toc toc toc - Les trois quêtes - Tir à vue - Témoins à abattre - Un meurtre pour de vrai - Négociation - Traîtres - Simone - Enervo

The Crown Saison 5

Comme un déjà vu - Le système - Mou Mou - Annus horribilis - Des précautions salutaires - La Maison Ipatiev - No woman's land - Une vraie poudrière - Couple numéro 31 - Déclassement

Columbo Saison 4, 3

Inculpé de meurtre - Play Back - Candidat au crime

Affaires Sensibles

Leonarda, l'adolescente qui a défié le président

Meurtres au paradis

Le fantôme de Noël

Spectacles

Bénabar : tournée des indociles (2022) au Cirque d'Amiens

Alain Souchon au Dôme de Paris (2022)

The Glenn Miller Orchestra Live at the Avalon Theatre (2021)

L'orchestre fait son cinéma au Zénith de Pau (2013)

Livres

La vengeance du Chat de Phillipe Geluck

Nota Bene, Tome 5 : La Mythologie Grecque de Benjamin Brillaud, Mathieu Mariolle, Phil Castaza et Joël Odone

Détective Conan, Tome 3 de Gôshô Aoyama

Mémoires d'un gros mytho de François Rollin et Stéphane Trapier

OSS 117 : Gâchis à Karachi de Jean Bruce

Tatiana K. Tome 3 : Le stygmate de Longinus de François Corteggiani et Emanuele Barison

Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours de Jules Verne

Kaamelott Tome 9 : Les renforts maléfiques de Alexandre Astier et Steven Dupré

The Clash en BD de Jean-Philippe Gonot et Gaëts

Le Voyage du Père Noël des Editions Korrigan

Astérix Tome24 : Astérix chez les Belges de René Goscinny et Albert Uderzo

Lucky Luke Tome 56 : Le ranch maudit de Morris, Claude Guylouis et Michel Janvier

#mediatheque #décembre22

[theinternetmoviedataband]

My 100 best movies of all time

As a start, this is a top 100 I made back in 2018.

To make things tasty, the first rule I followed was "no more than one movie per director". The second one was "don't get mad trying to order that top 100, just write it down".

I told myself a lot of lies about the fact that this top could change any day but I'm too lazy to make a new one every day. So here I am, stuck with this one :)

BEST MOVIES OF ALL TIME ACCORDING TO ME (with no particular order)

Kiss Me Deadly (1955, Robert Aldrich)

The Professionals (1966, Richard Brooks)

Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto (1970, Elio Petri)

Queimada (1969, Gillo Pontecorvo)

C'eravamo tanto amati (1974, Ettore Scola)

Reservoir dogs (1992, Quentin Tarantino)

The Killing (1956, Stanley Kubrick)

Notorious (1946, Alfred Hitchcock)

The Asphalt Jungle (1950, John Huston)

Les enfants du paradis (1946, Marcel Carné)

Kiss Me Stupid (1964, Billy Wilder)

Sullivan's Travels (1941, Preston Sturges)

The Shop Around The Corner (1940, Ernst Lubitsch)

Rio Bravo (1959, Howard Hawks)

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962, John Ford)

The Conversation (1974, Francis Ford Coppola)

Le trou (1960, Jacques Becker)

Dead Poets Society (1989, Peter Weir)

Le salaire de la peur (1953, Henri-Georges Clouzot)

Judex (1963, Georges Franju)

The Departed (2006, Martin Scorsese)

The Prestige (2006, Christopher Nolan)

Unbreakable (M. Night Shyamalan)

Le cercle rouge (1970, Jean-Pierre Melville)

Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (1966, Sergio Leone)

Curse of the Demon (1957, Jacques Tourneur)

Singin' In The Rain (1952, Stanley Donnen - Gene Kelly)

Hero (1992, Stephen Frears)

It's a Wonderful Life (1946, Frank Capra)

All About Eve (1950, Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

Das indische Grabmal (1959, Fritz Lang)

Le voleur (1967, Louis Malle)

Born Yesterday (1950, George Cukor)

Ben-Hur (1959, William Wyler)

Seven Samurai (1954, Akira Kurosawa)

Ginger e Fred (1986, Federico Fellini)

Small Time Crooks (2000, Woody Allen)

Barton Fink (1991, Joel and Ethan Coen)

Batman returns (1992, Tim Burton)

I due superpiedi quasi piatti (1977, Enzo Barboni)

The Goonies (1985, Richard Donner)

Carlito's Way (1993, Brian De Palma)

French Connection (1971, William Friedkin)

The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957, Jack Arnold)

Gremlins 2 (1990, Joe Dante)

The Bad and the Beautiful (1952, Vincente Minnelli)

Warlock (1959, Edward Dmytryk)

The Unknown (1927, Tod Browning)

Johnny Got His Gun (1971, Dalton Trumbo)

El ángel exterminador (1962, Luis Buñuel)

Le grand blond avec une chaussure noire (1972, Yves Robert)

Down by Law (1986, Jim Jarmusch)

Jurassic Park (1993, Steven Spielberg)

Ladri di biciclette (1948, Vittorio De Sica)

Man without a Star (1955, King Vidor)

Peter Ibbetson (1935, Henry Hathaway)

City Lights (1931, Charlie Chaplin)

Il mio nome è Nessuno (1973, Tonino Valerii)

Excalibur (1981, John Boorman)

Dance of the Vampires (1967, Roman Polanski)

Au hasard Balthazar (1966, Robert Bresson)

Be Kind Rewind (2008, Michel Gondry)

The Fly (1986, David Cronenberg)

Mononoke hime (1997, Hayao Miyazaki)

Les Douze Travaux d'Asterix (1976, René Goscinny - Albert Uderzo)

Touch Of Evil (1958, Orson Welles)

Star Wars (1977, George Lucas)

The Empire Strikes Back (1980, Irvin Kershner)

Groundhog Day (1993, Harold Ramis)

The Front (1976, Martin Ritt)

Big (1988, Penny Marshall)

El secreto de sus ojos (2009, Juan José Campanella)

Amores perros (2000, Alejandro González Iñárritu)

El espinazo del diablo (2001, Guillermo del Toro)

The Man in the White Suit (1951, Alexander Mackendrick)

Village of the Damned (1960, Wolf Rilla)

The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)

Ms. 45 (1981, Abel Ferrara)

The Gunfighter (1951, Henry King)

Copland (1997, James Mangold)

Terminator 2 (1991, James Cameron)

Starship Troopers (1997, Paul Verhoeven)

Le Schpountz (1938, Marcel Pagnol)

12 Monkeys (1995, Terry Gilliam)

Man on the Moon (1999, Milos Forman)

Imitation of Life (1959, Douglas Sirk)

The Most Dangerous Game (1932, Ernest B. Schoedsack and Irving Pichel)

A Perfect World (1993, Clint Eastwood)

Dances with Wolves (1990, Kevin Costner)

Gentleman Jim (1942, Raoul Walsh)

Good Will Hunting (1997, Gus Van Sant)

Elephant Man (1980, David Lynch)

Casablanca (1942, Michael Curtiz)

The Man with the Golden Arm (1955, Otto Preminger)

The Killers (1946, Robert Siodmak)

Punch-Drunk Love (2002, Paul Thomas Anderson)

L'Atalante (1934, Jean Vigo)

La classe américaine (1993, Michel Hazanavicius and Dominique Mézerette)

Back to the Future (1985, Robert Zemeckis)

Un singe en hiver (1962, Henri Verneuil)

#top 100

[byneddiedingo]

Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer, and Sean Connery in The Man Who Would Be King (John Huston, 1975) Cast: Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer, Saeed Jaffrey, Larbi Doghmi, Jack May, Karroom Ben Bouhi, Shakira Caine. Screenplay: John Huston, Gladys Hill, based on a story by Rudyard Kipling. Cinematography: Oswald Morris. Production design: Alexandre Trauner. Film editing: Russell Lloyd. Music: Maurice Jarre. John Huston's The Man Who Would Be King is not quite the unalloyed delight I remember it being before we became so inextricably embroiled in conflicts in the region where the film's action takes place. We've had our consciousness raised so high about the Middle East and Central Asia that larky adventures, even ones like Rudyard Kipling's story that don't end well for the adventurers, no longer seem so amusing when they take place there. And comic natives like Ootah, religious fanatics like Kafu Selim, or even collaborators with the West like Billy Fish, feel like distasteful stereotypes. But is there another film team more beautiful than that of Sean Connery and Michael Caine, who bring their previous movie personae -- including James Bond and Alfie Elkins -- so effectively into the roles of Danny and Peachy? The story goes that Huston originally saw it as a vehicle for two other vivid stars with trailing personae, Clark Gable and Humphrey Bogart, who never made a film together but should have. It would have been a very different film, but an entertaining one. As the years passed, the roles were handed down, at least in theory, to Richard Burton and Peter O'Toole, and then to Paul Newman and Robert Redford, until Newman supposedly knocked some sense into the producers' heads and suggested Connery and Caine. As for the film, is there more to it than just larky adventure in colorful locations? Is it, perhaps, a warning about getting involved in politics and cultures that we don't fully understand? We are still getting our heads handed to us, and they don't usually wear crowns from Alexander's treasury.

#The Man Who Would Be King #John Huston #Michael Caine #Sean Connery #Christopher Plummer