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Nice, old time, B&W Cold War spy movie with surprising little gun play. A familiar face or two of the lowly players, too! About the only downer is that 2 or so times, Richard Widmark plays the jerk of the ugly American. In this movie, it may fit in but having seen some other flicks of his, I am wondering if he had a certain level of contempt for the flick and displayed it for the audience. But if he did that, it would be surprising for he was a producer (&director) of the flick, too! A 6.3.
I'm a fan of Richard Widmark. I have enjoyed many of his movies, especially The Long Ships.
Sidney Poitier, Rosanna Schiaffino, & Russ Tamblyn starred also.
I'm a fan of Richard Widmark. I have enjoyed many of his movies, especially The Long Ships.
Sidney Poitier, Rosanna Schiaffino, & Russ Tamblyn starred also.
I liked The Long Ships but didn't like what critics said about Richard in the movie, that they saw him as doing it as a joke, that he was "saying", "Come on, folks, it's just a movie!". When an actor does that, I have the knack not to see anything like that or at least, not interpret it as that, for I watch the movie for escapism, not to see an actor play at their jobs.
Like Matt Helm flick "The Ambushers" where Janice Rule called it her worse flick, many raked it over the coals. Granted, Janice in the movie may have looked rather bored that she was doing the movie but to me, here was one kick butt woman secret agent of the 60s! She saved Matt's cookies at least twice in the flick.
As said, how Richard acted in "The Secret Ways".....I'll take that as him playing the ugly American.
Pretty darn good for a Brit mystery. Things moved nicely along and it was pretty clear....EXCEPT that the production values marred it in a place or two. First of all, when someone of notable fame appears in the front credits but then hardly has any scene time, that either says that someone messed up the movie making.......or that they are highlighting him unintentionally.
As an example, there is a Jason King episode where the police Lt. for that night's episode sends an underling on an errand in his car and when the car blows up, the Lt. is hardly broken up. Initially, I took that as bad production but as it turns out, it was part of the story to be eventually revealed. Saves the director's goose either way, I suppose, but it is the pits for the audience.
Secondly, there is the utter fascination on a central component of the story without consideration to its other uses, ie
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atropine. They lock on it, see it only as a poison, think of only one or two ways that it might be produced. Well, if one has ever been in the service, they know it is also an emergency treatment against nerve gas (especially likely in our modern world) and pesticide poisoning.......and that side angle is never mentioned whatsoever.
Is it necessary for the telling of the story? No, probably not but is it necessary for the audience involvement in the story, their excitement? Could be.
Thanks, it's my second time, and it's like having the flu. No where near as bad as my wife's first time, before the vaccinations were available. She was down for like two weeks.
Was only able to sleep until 3:30 this morning, so I got up and re-watched the 1999 film "Dogma". I forgot how funny, and great the cast was. I actually noticed another actress, I never saw the other times I watched it, Elizabeth Moss.
Action thriller with Antonio Banderas and Ben Kingsley. In my opinion, it was beneath Kinsley's station to do this yarn. But it was a bit of vacuous entertainment.
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