01-07-2013, 08:17 PM
A nod to Rod Taylor, who produced and starred in the flawed but compelling western Chuka.
It's one of my favorites of the cowboy-as-existential-hero genre -- Paul Newman's convention-bombing Hombre, directed by the honorable Martin Ritt from the novel by Elmore Leonard, is far and away the best to date.
The "white flag" and "money for hostage swap" scenes are literally unforgettable.
Taylor as Popeye Doyle? I think not.
It's one of my favorites of the cowboy-as-existential-hero genre -- Paul Newman's convention-bombing Hombre, directed by the honorable Martin Ritt from the novel by Elmore Leonard, is far and away the best to date.
The "white flag" and "money for hostage swap" scenes are literally unforgettable.
Taylor as Popeye Doyle? I think not.
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene