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WolfmanOz at the Movies #99
Shifting gears. In the 1968 police action film Bullitt, Steve McQueen plays Lieutenant Frank Bullitt who works as a detective in the San Francisco Police Department and, along with his team, is assigned to protect an important witness against the mob that is supposed to be presented to the anti-crime commission by up-and-coming U.S. Senator…
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WolfmanOz at the Movies #82
They fought like seven hundred. The Magnificent Seven (released in 1960) is an American western directed by John Sturges which is a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 Japanese film Seven Samurai, which in turn took its inspiration from American westerns. Seven Samurai is often hailed by film critics as one of the greatest films ever made but I’ll will…
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WolfmanOz at the Movies #63
Tom, Dick and Harry Were the names given to the three tunnels that were used in the mass escape by British and Commonwealth POWs from the German POW camp Stalag Luft III. The film of course is The Great Escape (released in 1963) which depicts a heavily fictionalised version of the escape, with numerous compromises made…