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Sep 19, 2024 · An early-career J. Lee Thompson, who would later go on to direct The Guns of Navarone (1961) and Cape Fear (1962), was a stifled man in 1956. Like Dors, he was frustrated with the lightweight material he was being assigned; they’d worked together on several such films already, and in the process grown to like and trust each other.
3 days ago · September 2024. The Weak and the Wicked (aka Young and Willing, J. Lee Thompson, 1954). Inventive little touches (Thompson was just at the beginning of his very long career) and vivid performances help this liberal-minded prison picture, in which a relatively innocent woman (Glynis Johns) goes to the clink on a minor fraud charge. As she meets….
Sep 12, 2024 · Directed by J. Lee Thompson. Image via Universal Pictures. Robert Mitchum gives an intensely chilling performance in Cape Fear as a convicted rapist, Max Cady. After being released from prison,...
13 hours ago · The Exorcist is a 1973 American supernatural horror film directed by William Friedkin from a screenplay by William Peter Blatty, based on his 1971 novel.
Sep 22, 2024 · Directed by J. Lee Thompson, Murphy’s Law follows grizzled detective Jack Murphy (Charles Bronson) as he reluctantly teams up with a foul-mouthed thief (Kathleen Wilhoite’s Arabella) to track down and capture a vicious killer (Carrie Snodgress’ Joan).
2 days ago · Yet, the silver lining was that the movies were able to tackle riskier material, with director J. Lee Thompson and his writer Paul Dehn making the film a metaphor for fraught race relations...
Sep 11, 2024 · This fantasy Western, directed by J. Lee Thompson, stars Charles Bronson, Kim Novak, Jack Warden, Slim Pickens, and Will Sampson. Bronson plays Wild Bill Hickok — a man so haunted by dreams of the titular beast that he travels west to find and face it.
