Sorcerer: Calamity in Colombia
Photo: Paramount The premiere of Sorcerer, a remake of the equally excellent Wages of Fear (1954), was marred by a troubled production in the jungles of the Dominican Republic, bloated…
Blue Thunder
L.A. cop and helicopter pilot Frank Murphy (Roy Scheider) is ordered to attend a demonstration of a new advanced helicopter called ”Blue Thunder”; while impressed, he's also wary of what…
2010
In 2010, a joint Russian-American expedition goes to Jupiter to find out what happened to the crew aboard the Discovery. The sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is actually…
Jaws 2
Chief of Police Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) begins to suspect that another great white is killing people in the waters off Amity Island, but the mayor refuses to listen to…
Jaws: A Whale of an Adventure
Robert Shaw, Roy Scheider and Richard Dreyfuss. Photo: Universal In 1975, scientists knew a thing or two about sharks. The public, however, seemed to be largely ignorant. That must be…
French Connection: How It Was Broken
Gene Hackman. Photo: 20th Century Fox In 1971, William Friedkin was not happy at all. The French Connection had the potential to become not only his breakthrough but also a…
RKO 281
The story of how a lauded theater man called Orson Welles got the chance to direct a movie, but his choice to make Citizen Kane damn near killed his career. Why? Because…