Breakheart Pass
In the 1870s, a train is headed for Fort Humboldt in California where diphtheria is raging – but that’s far from the whole truth. The same year as the director…
The Sting: Good-Hearted Grifters
Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Photo: Universal One of David S. Ward's first scripts introduced us to the world of confidence men. Not that they hadn't been seen on screen…
Scarface
Tony Montana (Al Pacino) claims asylum in Miami and instantly makes an impact on a wealthy cocaine dealer (Robert Loggia) who offers him work. Oliver Stone did an interesting thing.…
O Brother Where Art Thou: Men of Constant Sorrow
John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson and George Clooney. Photo: Universal In Preston Sturges’s classic film Sullivan’s Travels (1941), Joel McCrea’s character, a Hollywood movie director, sets out to experience “the…