Post by Doghouse6 on Mar 4, 2017 1:37:45 GMT
Such films aren't normally up my alley, but there are some I find quite compelling:
Jeremiah Johnson
The Man From Snowy River
And for reasons I can't quite fathom, desert environments "speak to me" when presented cinematically:
Legend Of the Lost - John Wayne, Sofia Loren and Rossano Brazzi on a quest for said-to-be-mythical desert treasure.
The Garden Of Allah - Wildly glamorous and fanciful desert romance with Marlene Dietrich, Charles Boyer and Basil Rathbone in ravishing mid-'30s Technicolor.
Inferno - Robert Ryan, injured and left for dead in a scorching desert by faithless wife Rhonda Fleming and her lover, struggles for survival and retribution.
Savages - A 1974 TV movie cross-breeding Inferno and The Most Dangerous Game, in which wealthy and cold-blooded sportsman Andy Griffith - twisting his grinning Andy Taylor charm into one of the most smugly sinister villains you'll ever see - makes teenage guide Sam Bottoms his prey, engaging him in a sadistic cat-and-mouse game after the young man has witnessed Griffith's killing of a prospector. Hard to find, but well worth seeking out if you can.
Jeremiah Johnson
The Man From Snowy River
And for reasons I can't quite fathom, desert environments "speak to me" when presented cinematically:
Legend Of the Lost - John Wayne, Sofia Loren and Rossano Brazzi on a quest for said-to-be-mythical desert treasure.
The Garden Of Allah - Wildly glamorous and fanciful desert romance with Marlene Dietrich, Charles Boyer and Basil Rathbone in ravishing mid-'30s Technicolor.
Inferno - Robert Ryan, injured and left for dead in a scorching desert by faithless wife Rhonda Fleming and her lover, struggles for survival and retribution.
Savages - A 1974 TV movie cross-breeding Inferno and The Most Dangerous Game, in which wealthy and cold-blooded sportsman Andy Griffith - twisting his grinning Andy Taylor charm into one of the most smugly sinister villains you'll ever see - makes teenage guide Sam Bottoms his prey, engaging him in a sadistic cat-and-mouse game after the young man has witnessed Griffith's killing of a prospector. Hard to find, but well worth seeking out if you can.