The character: Kelly The actor: Constance Towers The movie: The Naked Kiss (1964) For me, this is Sam Fuller’s most affecting film. From the beginning, I’ve always found Fuller to be a little bit secondhand. He is a filmmaker of ideas, and while it’s certainly possible to be a filmmaker of ideas with remarkable reliance… Read More Better than AFI’s Heroes and Villains: Hero #49
Dir. John Ford. Starring John Wayne, William Holden, Constance Towers The standout sequence of The Horse Soldiers is about the cadets of the Jefferson Military Academy, which is to say that the best part of this movie about Marlowe (Wayne) and Kendall (Holden) has very little to do with either one of them. In a… Read More The Horse Soldiers (1959)
Dir. Samuel Fuller. Starring Peter Breck, Constance Towers, James Best Here’s the movie equivalent of finding a worm in your apple, and a good apple too. There’s a story edged with lightning to work with here: a journalist (Breck) with a little too much ambition and much too much confidence decides to have himself admitted… Read More Shock Corridor (1963)
Seeing Things Secondhand 