...if he watched this film all day long. A dull and turgid "thriller" with no thrils at all.
shareSorry, ya gotta love the part when the Russian paratroopers arrive. Chilling, if you'll excuse the expression!
shareHere's an interesting piece of trivia from IMDB:
"In the era before VCRs, Howard Hughes would call the Las Vegas TV station he owned and order them to run a particular movie. Hughes so loved this that it aired on his Las Vegas station over 100 times."
Personally, I think it's a solid thriller. It ain't Bad Day at Black Rock, but Ice Station Zebra is still pretty good.
"Dry your eyes baby, it's out of character."
He lived in Vegas for years and he also owned the TV station. It doesn't seem that huge a deal, over all that time with his TV on 24 hours a day whether he was awake or asleep, he requested this 100 times. Ted Turner's probably hit or passed that many viewing of Gone with the Wind...if not, he's darn close. In those pre-VCR, pre-DVD, pre-video-on-demand days, I'm sure there were lots of people, given the opportunity, that would've watched a particular movie they enjoyed a hundred or more times.
shareI'm sure Howard Hughes was a nut, but who the *beep* isn't? I know for a fact that everyones insane in some way or another. Maybe you're anal retentive, maybe you can't stand something (for irrational reasons), maybe you just feel a small impulse on not stepping on that black square of marble, etc etc etc and so on. Forever.
Sure sure, most of that isn't "clinacally" insane but... You're still pretty nutty in my book.
We're all a little crazy, some just go one crazie further :P
Besides, an eccentric rich nutjob watch a movie he loves 100 times? What a big deal. Even the Howard Hughes, that pees in bottles and doesn't wash/shave for weeks at a time, that is portraited in "The Aviator" is a pretty, no not pretty, VERY harmless guy.
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A dull and turgid "thriller" with no thrils at all.
And, this movie would have been better served with less Hollywood sets (especially the confrontation with the Russians at the end); but at that time location shooting was still not well accepted - or affordable - in Hollywood. The age of the big budget films of today had not yest arrived.
Love the music though.
at that time location shooting was still not well acceptedErm..... exactly how many movies have been filmed on location at the North Pole?
points well taken
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