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Land of the Pharaohs: Massive exercise in dullness

Posted in DVD, Directors, Howard Hawks, Land of the Pharaohs, Movies on October 17th, 2007 No Comments »

Watching Howard Hawk’s Land of the Pharaohs (1955) is extraordinary but for all the wrong reasons. How is it Howard Hawks, director of Rio Bravo, His Girl Friday, Scarface and other great movies, got involved with this turgid turkey of an epic? How did William Faulkner, author of Light in August, As I Lay Dying, […]

Revisiting Rio Bravo

Posted in Directors, Howard Hawks, John Wayne, Movies, Rio Bravo on September 16th, 2007 No Comments »

Although I’ve had the relatively recent release of Rio Bravo (Two-Disc Special Edition), it has taken me most of the summer to get around to actually watching it. And I actually picked up Rio Bravo (Two-Disc Ultimate Collector’s Edition), which is the same thing just with more stuff like a comic book of Rio Bravo […]