Set in tsarist Russia around the turn of the century and based on a true story of a Russian Jewish peasant Yakov Bok Read More »
Tag Archives: John Frankenheimer
52 Pick-Up (1986) John Frankenheimer, Roy Scheider, Ann-Margret, Vanity, Crime, Thriller
He has been put up, and they need $100,000. To guard his wife’s political ambitions, Harry will not go to the authorities; rather, he excels them and then does not pay. Read More »
Year of the Gun (1991) John Frankenheimer, Andrew McCarthy, Sharon Stone, Valeria Golino, Action, Romance, Thriller
David Raybourne is an American journalist covering political news in Italy during the 1970’s. Read More »
Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) John Frankenheimer, Charles Crichton, Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Thelma Ritter, Biography, Drama
Seven Days in May (1964) John Frankenheimer, Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March, Drama, Romance, Thriller
An unpopular U.S. President manages to get a nuclear disarmament treaty through the Senate, but finds that the nation is turning against him. Read More »
Prophecy (1979) John Frankenheimer, Talia Shire, Robert Foxworth, Armand Assante, Sci-Fi, Horror
A Savage beast, grown to monstrous size and driven mad by toxic wastes that are poisoning the waters, spreads terror and death on a Maine countryside.
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The Manchurian Candidate (1962) John Frankenheimer, Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Thriller, Drama
Major Ben Marco is an intelligence officer in the U.S. Army. He served valiantly as a captain in the Korean war and his Sergeant, Raymond Shaw, even won the Medal of Honor. Marco has a major problem however: he has a recurring nightmare, one where two members of his squad are killed by Shaw. He’s put on indefinite sick leave and visits Shaw in New York. Shaw for his part has established himself well, despite the misgivings of his domineering mother, Mrs. Eleanor Shaw Iselin. She is a red-baiter, accusing anyone who disagrees with her right-wing reactionary views of being a Communist. Raymond hates her, not only for how she’s treated him but equally because of his step-father, the ineffectual U.S. Senator John Iselin, who is intent on seeking higher office. When Marco learns that others in his Korean War unit have nightmares similar to his own, he realizes that something happened to all of them in Korea and that Raymond Shaw is the focal point.
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