Billy Two Hats (United Artists, 1974)
. . Peck’s last Western . . Gregory Peck’s last excursion in our noble genre was a ‘matzo-ball western’. Or it was filmed in Israel anyway. But this is no cheap Eurotrash; it’s a classy, gritty, tight tale written by the excellent Alan Sharp (Ulzana’s Raid) but this time with Peck in the aging toughie […]
The Naked Dawn (Universal, 1955)
. . Kennedy at his best . . Edgar G Ulmer (1904 – 1972) is considered now a cult director. Peter Bogdanovich thinks that his films “had a clearly identifiable signature” and that The Naked Dawn was a classic. Moravian-born Ulmer worked for most of his professional life at PRC (Producers Releasing Corporation, known in […]