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1.Seven Days in May (B&W) starring: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien directed by: John Frankenheimer June 17, 1997
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Some of the best actors in Hollywood are in this film, but the best performance, as far as I am concerned is by Burt Lancaster. When I read this book and saw the movie as a teenager, it scared me to death to think how easy it would have been to topple our government. I would highly recommend this movie for any age range, with the caveat that reading the book first would enhance the experience.

2.Manchurian Candidate starring: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury, Henry Silva directed by: John Frankenheimer August 06, 1996
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Has all the subtlety of an elephant's tread. A group of American soldiers are kidnapped by Russkies, brainwashed to assassinate a Presidential Candidate. The man chosen to do the job is the very wooden Harvey doing all sorts of facial-contortions that are supposed to be passed off as acting. The most debilitating part of the movie is the absurdity of watching that Italian Club-Singer trying, you guessed it, act. Of all the bad looking rats to have ever disgraced America Cinema, Sinatra must take the cake. Few females are thereabouts doing exactly nothing! Few blacks are so generously included in the movie's cast - not real blacks really but light-skinned mullato types. Not a single character comes to his/her logical conclusion and not even an ambiguous one; they all end up in a ... Read More

3.The Burning Season - The Chico Mendes Story starring: Raul Julia, Carmen Argenziano, Sonia Braga, Kamala Lopez, Luis Guzmán directed by: John Frankenheimer September 01, 1998
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My only reason for seeing this film is because Luis Guzman is in it. Raul Julia plays "Chico Mendes" who tried to save his people in the Amazon Rainforest. A story that needed to be told, but this film is overlong and slow-moving. I do believe the rainforests should be saved and destroying them should be stopped. Instead of decreasing them the forests should be expanded. The rainforests are beneficial to our weather. Their is wildlife there and flowers used for medical research and medicine that can not be found anywhere else. What would happen if land was just roads, concrete, buildings and dessert. I think if a patch of unhistoric dessert is bare, just plant trees there. It would look nicer than a vacant lot. it is trees that tranform our air into ... Read More

4.French Connection 2 starring: Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Bernard Fresson, Philippe Léotard, Ed Lauter directed by: John Frankenheimer January 05, 1994
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I'm not sure, but I think this may very well be Gene Hackman's finest performance. Though the storyline is somewhat weak, cinematography is superb, and direction is pretty good too. Definately an underrated film.

5.George Wallace starring: Gary Sinise, Mare Winningham, Clarence Williams III, Joe Don Baker, Angelina Jolie directed by: John Frankenheimer August 25, 1998
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I may have to edit the opening scene some for my high school audience, but they will certainly be watching this movie. It was wonderfully made. I loved the mix of original pictures and movies intertwined with the story plot. I would highly recommend this for any Alabama history buff or for Gary Sinise fan. My mom even sat and watched this with me.

6.Birdman of Alcatraz starring: Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Thelma Ritter, Neville Brand, Betty Field directed by: John Frankenheimer August 06, 1996
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As someone noted previously, this role was unusual for Lancaster in that it required him to project a thoughtful, quiet intensity and and a more introverted personality, rather than the extroverted, flamboyant personalities he tended to portray before in such movies as Elmer Gantry or From Here to Eternity. Playing a convict rather than a handsome leading man, Lancaster never did anything like it before or since. Telly Savalas also turns in a notable performance many years before his well known TV series Kojak debuted. Playing a fictionalized warden character, Malden also turns in an excellent performance. Robert Stroud eventually became famous for researching and writing on bird diseases. I once looked up his book in a college library, and read some of it to see what it was like, since I was a physiology ... Read More

7.52 Pick Up starring: Roy Scheider, Ann-Margret, Vanity, John Glover, Robert Trebor directed by: John Frankenheimer October 02, 1997
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Clarence Williams played a reprehensible scumbag on this one. I guess when you're not offered much in quality movies, you get what you can. John Glover's "Sport" was really annoying. But then again, it must've worked well, because I really hated him throughout the entire movie. The reviewers who think this was Roy Scheider's best performance, are nuts. What about "French Connection?" or "The Seven-Ups?" or even "Sorcerer?" This was not one of his best. This film was not "Ahead of its time" - it was a 1980's film; and looked it. Ann Margret relegated a part that could been played by any amateur, was also in need of a job and money to play in this stinker. But again, if you don't have studios calling for you as much as they were when you were young; this is what happens. (yeah, yeah - Grumpy Old Men 1983. Grumpier ... Read More

8.Manchurian Candidate starring: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury, Henry Silva directed by: John Frankenheimer December 23, 1993
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Has all the subtlety of an elephant's tread. A group of American soldiers are kidnapped by Russkies, brainwashed to assassinate a Presidential Candidate. The man chosen to do the job is the very wooden Harvey doing all sorts of facial-contortions that are supposed to be passed off as acting. The most debilitating part of the movie is the absurdity of watching that Italian Club-Singer trying, you guessed it, act. Of all the bad looking rats to have ever disgraced America Cinema, Sinatra must take the cake. Few females are thereabouts doing exactly nothing! Few blacks are so generously included in the movie's cast - not real blacks really but light-skinned mullato types. Not a single character comes to his/her logical conclusion and not even an ambiguous one; they all end up in a vacuum. To call it the best movie of ... Read More

9.The Horsemen starring: Omar Sharif, Leigh Taylor-Young, Jack Palance, David de Keyser, Peter Jeffrey directed by: John Frankenheimer February 19, 1987
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Set in Afghanistan, John Frankenheimer's 'The Horsemen' is the story of a tribesman determined to rival his father at horsemanship... Uraz is sent by his father Tursen to win the traditional Royal Buzkashi on the field of Bagrami in the capital city of Kabul... Uraz on Jahil has to battle for control of a headless calf, carry it around a blue flag, and deposit it back in the 'Circle of Justice'... thus signifying that he wins the king's pennant... and remains as the master chapandaz of all Afghanistan... During the tournament, opposing horsemen use their whips to urge on their horses and to hit the rider for the chance to snatch the heavy carcass... The motion picture turns around five well drawn characters: an angered son eaten up with vanity; a brave father who knew something worse than danger; a nomad woman ... Read More

10.Days of Wine & Roses starring: Malcolm Atterbury, Charles Bickford, Mimi Gibson, Piper Laurie, Marc Lawrence directed by: John Frankenheimer June 16, 1993
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There was a CBS-TV special on last spring which celebrated the "Television City" studio's 50th anniversary. Apparently, the "Playhouse 90" production of 'Days' was done there, and they ran a clip of this and other examples of their anthology-series plays. But is anyone out there aware that this was clip was a 2-inch b/w broadcast quality videotape? (If you taped the special, look at the clip against the VHS transfer of the kinescope which we all own, and you'll see a world of difference in movement. The 2-inch video master is gorgeous; it is the live production they did back in 1958.) But apparently, this master remained in the CBS vault and was never used for mass production; when I contacted a network liason, he told me that the ownership of that tape changed hands several times over the years and he dosen't know who has it now. Did anyone ... Read More

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