Posts Tagged ‘James Stewart’
Hail To The Chief: A Brief History of American Movie Presidents
Written by James on October 13, 2008 – 1:23 pm -
Following the victory of Barack Obama in the 2008 US Presidential Elections, Cillian Donnelly (author of what was Picturenose’s most popular post, 100 Movies To Be Seen Before You Die, until James’s Quantum of Solace review blew it away, ha-ha) returns with a look at how America’s Chief Executive has been portrayed on the silver screen. So, another list of films, eh Cillian? Nice one…
Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Airforce One (1997), Alexander Knox, Amistad (1997), Annie (1982), Anthony Hopkins, Biff McGuire, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989), Bill Pullman, Birth of a Nation, Blind Ambition (1979), Bob Gunton (1995), Churchill and the Generals (1979), Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course (2002), Dan O’Herlihy, Dave (1993), DC 9/11: Time of Crisis (2003), Dean Stockwell, Dennis Quaid, Dick (1999), Dr Strangelove, Dr Strangelove (1964), DW Griffith, Fail Safe (1964), Freedom: A History of US (2002), Frost/Nixon, George Bush, George W.Bush, George Washington, Harrison Ford, Henry Fonda, Independence Day (1996), It Happened One Night (1935), J. Edgar Hoover (1987), James Stewart, Jason Robards, John Fitgerald Kennedy, John Quincy Adams, John Voight, Kevin Kline, Kissenger and Nixon (1995), Krusty the Klown, Lyndon Johnson, MacArthur (1977), Night Moves (1975), Nixon (1995), Oliver Stone, Oppenheimer (1980), Paul Schrader, Pearl Harbor (2001), Richard Milhouse Nixon, Robin Williams, Ronald Reagan, Roosevelt, Secret Honour (1984), Seven Days in May (1963), Sullivan's Travels (1941), That's My Bush! (2001), The American President (1995), The Blue and the Grey (1982), The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951), The Godfather (1972), The Grapes of Wrath (1938), The Longest Yard (1974), The Walker (2007), Three Days of the Condor (1975), Timothy Bottoms, Tom Hanks, Tricky Dicky, Truman at Potsdam (1976), Ulysses S Grant, W (2009), Watergate, Werewolf of Washington (1973), Wilson (1944), Winchell (1998), Woodrow Wilson, Woody Harrelson, You Only Live Twice (1967), Young Mr Lincoln (1939)
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Rope (1948)
Written by James on August 28, 2008 – 9:43 am -
In cold blood
Young Cillian Donnelly, whose 100 Movies To Be Seen Before You Die was, irritatingly enough, our most popular post until James’s fabulous review of Quantum of Solace blew it out of the water, commemorates the 60th anniversary of Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope, first released on 28th August, in 1948.
Tags: Alfred Hitchcock, Arthur Schlesinger, Cold War, Compulsion (1959), Farley Granger, Frenzy (1972), Harry S. Truman, Jack the Ripper, James Stewart, John Dall, Lifeboat (1944), Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941), Nathan Leopold, Norman Bates, North by Northwest (1959), Psycho (1960), Rear Window (1954), Richard Loeb, Rope (1948), Shadow Of A Doubt (1943), Spellbound (1945), Strangers on a Train (1957), Swoon (1992), The 39 Steps (1935), The Lodger (1927), Topaz (1969), Under Capricorn (1949), Vertigo (1958)
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