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September 19th, 1997 – The ‘Boat Movie’s’ Competitor Arrived! (HAPPY TWENTIETH BIRTHDAY TO A FILM NOIR CLASSIC)
The so-called ‘Boat Movie’ as it came to be known was released in December of the same year and went on – for a time – to become the biggest worldwide box office hit of all time. When the Academy Awards rolled around in 1998, the blockbuster Titanic’ was considered to have one major competitor when Read More …
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On This Day…
In 2007, the James Mangold directed 3:10 to Yuma was released, a critically acclaimed remake of the 1957, American Western classic originally starring Glenn Ford and Van Heflin. Based on the Elmore Leonard short story, as was its’ predecessor, the most recent version starred Oscar-winner Russell Crowe as outlaw Ben Wade and Christian Bale (The Dark Read More …
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On this date in 1957…
Fifty years before the release of the remake starring Russell Crowe and Eric Bana, the original 3:10 to Yuma had its’ world premiere in Denver, Colorado. Directed by Delmer Daves and based on the short story by Elmore Leonard, the American Western starred Glenn Ford, Van Heflin, and Felicia Farr. The original trailer:
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July 28th…
The film adaptation of the play, The Sum of Us was released in Australia on this date in 1994. Directed by Jeff Burton and Kevin Dowling, with a screenplay by David Stevens, the movie starred Jack Thompson and Russell Crowe as a widowed father and his gay son looking for their versions of true love.
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July 22nd, 1994
On this date, the biographical movie Hammers Over the Anvil had its’ Australian release. Starring Charlotte Rampling and Russell Crowe, the screenplay by Peter Hepworth and (the film’s director) Ann Turner, was adapted from the novel of the same name, written by Alan Marshall.
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Twenty-sixth of July…
On this date in 1990, the movie Prisoners of the Sun, a.k.a. Blood Oath was released in Australia. Directed by Stephen Wallace, it featured Bryan Brown (The Thorn Birds), Russell Crowe, Terry O’ Quinn (Lost), George Takei (Star Trek: the Original Series), and John Polson (The Sum of Us with Crowe). IMDB describes it as follows: “On an obscure Read More …
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Over a Month Late, But What The Heck!
When it’s early May and you’re remembering the wonders of Gladiator and in anticipation of the coming of yet another The Mummy, it was easy to forget that on May 7th of 1999, there was yet another mummy movie from Universal Studios. However, unlike its’ 2017 successor, it was not considered some ‘tent pole’ for a Dark Read More …
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Before The Justice League Dawned There Was…
On the fourteenth of June in 2013, Zack Snyder’s box office hit Man of Steel was released with The Tudors‘ Henry Cavill in the title role. Russell Crowe appeared as Kal-El’s birth father Jor-El, a role for which Clive Owen and Sean Penn had been considered. Crowe incorporates how his own fatherhood informed his reading of the script Read More …
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The Mummy Is Finally Here!
At least in the United States, it’s released today. So will YOU be going opening weekend? Your Keeper has been seeing a somewhat new commercial, new only in that we hear Russell Crowe’s voice right at the beginning of it. It’ll be interesting to see if the movie can hold its’ own against the juggernaut Read More …
