Vintage Trailer of the Week 14
Probably my two favourite Paul Newman films are "Hombre" and "Cool Hand Luke", but there are no embeddable trailers for either on Youtube. I always preferred him as a Movie Star, at ease with himself, effortlessly cool and beautiful, than as an Actor, trying too hard to be James Dean or Marlon Brando. He was a Great Movie Star, so commanding, magnetic and charismatic, and he appeared to relax and improve with age. I have a real soft spot for the genre films he made in the 60s and 70s - "The Mackintosh Man", "The Life & times of Judge Roy Bean", "Torn Curtain" etc. And perhaps most especially the two "Harper" movies, adaptations of Ross MacDonald's superb Lew Archer books, the first a glossy L.A. Noir of the type riffed on by "The Big Lebowski", the second ("The Drowning Pool" (1975)) set in a sultry, vivid Deep South. Newman seems to be having a fine time in both, taking none of it seriously, allowing his innate likeableness to shine through:
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posted by David N at 12:55 am
4 Comments:
It looks like Batman.
The movie has a more serious feel than the trailer suggests. Cynical and not as camp..
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Batman.
Much better than (60s) Batman in just three and a half minutes, and a great line to end on "Girls go for Harper, Harper goes for girls".
Doesn't seem to be available so you could add both Harpers to my 12.
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