Tag: Lloyd Bridges
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Joe Versus the Volcano’s final punchline comes during the end credits when it turns out Industrial Light and Magic did the special effects. Volcano’s got terrible special effects, especially for an Amblin production, but for ILM to have done them? Yikes. Now, the film’s an absurdist riff on sixties comedies, so the obvious artifice could…
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Surprisingly solid TV thriller about veteran cop Lloyd Bridges losing it when he finds out son-in-law Frank Converse is stepping out on daughter Sallie Shockley. As Bridges spirals more and more out of control, his partner (Murray Hamilton) starts investigating him and it ends up being up to Converse to mitigate the fallout. Simple enough…
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Jean Simmons doesn’t smile until over halfway through The Happy Ending. The movie runs almost two hours and has a present action of like eighteen years. The first eight minutes are a mostly wordless summary of John Forsythe courting Jean Simmons in the early fifties. The time period’s not important–even though the film taking place…
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High Noon is a film all about courage and cowardice, so it’s appropriate the film starts with the most courageous thing it’s ever going to do and it does a few. It commits to its theme song. Not a piece of music from Dimitri Tiomkin, but a country song (written by Tiomkin, lyrics by Ned…
The Stop Button 