Archive for tag: Rod Steiger

‘Run of the Arrow’: Birth Pangs of the United States

8 May, 2012 (06:52) | by Rick Hermann, Essays, Film Reviews, Sam Fuller | By: Rick Hermann

[Originally published in Movietone News 50, June 1976] As with many of Fuller’s films, Run of the Arrow is finally about nothing less that the United States, even though it is “just” a Western. As a matter of fact, it is perhaps the most conventionally “Western” of Fuller’s Westerns, the only one that really utilizes [...]

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Out of the Past: The Illustrated Man

8 February, 2010 (03:30) | by Pierre Greenfield, Film Reviews | By: Pierre Greenfield

[Originally published in slightly different form in Movietone News 62-63, December 1979] Before anything happens in The Illustrated Man, a voice (Claire Bloom’s) warns us that those who try to see beyond their own times find themselves facing problems that cannot be explained in present-day terms. This gets reprised at the very end of the [...]

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