Category: Directed by George Seaton
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Apartment for Peggy has a protagonist problem. It’s also got what seems to be a Production Code problem, but more on that one later (especially since it gets tangled with the protagonist problem). The film opens with retired university philosophy professor Edmund Gwenn dispassionately deciding he’s going to kill himself. He’s been working on his…
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While it did start the seventies disaster genre, Airport barely qualifies. The first hour of the film is excruciating soap opera melodrama—airport chief Burt Lancaster is stuck in a loveless marriage with harpy Dana Wynter, so he’s got a flirtation going with widowed Jean Seberg. His sister, played by Barbara Hale, is stuck in a…
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Okay WWII spy thriller about the Nazis capturing a D-Day planner (James Garner) days before the offensive. They only have… well, longer than thirty-six hours but ostensibly thirty-six hours to crack him. Their plan? Have shrink Rod Taylor convince Garner he’s had amnesia for six years. The first hour’s Taylor’s, which is good because he…
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