The English gentleman known as Horse, returns to the American west to save his adopted Indian tribe from extinction. Read More »
Tag Archives: Irvin Kershner
The Hoodlum Priest (1961) Irvin Kershner, Don Murray, Larry Gates, Cindi Wood
Based on the true-life story of a St. Louis priest who devoted his life to helping criminals and prisoners turn their lives around. Read More »
The Flim-Flam Man (1967) Irvin Kershner, George C. Scott, Sue Lyon, Harry Morgan
Mordecai Jones is a rural con artist (a ‘flim-flam man’) who takes on a young army deserter; Curley as his protege, and teaches him the tricks of the trade. Read More »
Loving (1970) Irvin Kershner, George Segal, Eva Marie Saint, Sterling Hayden
Brooks Wilson is in crisis. He is torn between his wife Selma and two daughters and his mistress Grace Read More »
Up the Sandbox (1972) Irvin Kershner, Barbra Streisand, David Selby, Ariane Heller
A young wife and mother, bored with day-to-day life in New York City and neglected by her husband Read More »
The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1964) Irvin Kershner, Robert Shaw, Mary Ure, Liam Redmond
James Francis “Ginger” Coffey has no luck finding a job in his native Ireland and him being a dreamer, he decides the place to find a job is Canada. Read More »
The Young Captives (1959) Irvin Kershner, Steven Marlo, Luana Patten, Tom Selden, Crime, Drama
Teen-age sweethearts, Benjie Whitney and Ann Howel, decide to elope to Mexico. Read More »
Raid on Entebbe (1976) Irvin Kershner, Peter Finch, Charles Bronson, Yaphet Kotto, Action, Drama, History
A Fine Madness (1966) Irvin Kershner, Sean Connery, Joanne Woodward, Jean Seberg, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Samson Shillitoe, a frustrated poet and a magnet for women, is behind in his alimony payments, and lives with Rhoda, a waitress who stands by him through all his troubles. Read More »
Eyes of Laura Mars / Les Yeux de Laura Mars (1978) Irvin Kershner, Faye Dunaway, Tommy Lee Jones, Brad Dourif, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Laura Mars (Faye Dunaway) is a fashion photographer who specializes in stylized violence. In her luxurious Manhattan apartment, she has a nightmare that Doris Spencer (Meg Mundy) is viciously murdered with an ice pick, her eyeballs stabbed. Laura wakes up and looks through a soon-to-be-published coffee table book of her photos, titled The Eyes of Mars, which Doris had edited. In it, there is a picture of Doris…identical to an image she had in the dream. Laura calls Doris but she gets no answer. That evening, she attends a reception at the Elaine Cassell Gallery in SoHo for an exhibit of her work. A controversial figure, she is besieged by questions from reporters about whether her photos glorify violence and are demeaning to women. A handsome stranger (Tommy Lee Jones) questions the work as well. The success of the exhibit is disrupted by the news that Doris has been found dead, in the same manner that she was murdered in Laura’s dream…
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