Lee Marvin News

My crime film fest continued last night with a weird entry from 1972... PRIME CUT starring Lee Marvin as a Chicago enforcer who heads out to the fields of Kansas to collect a $500,000 debt from Gene Hackman, another enforcer who has gone into the cattle business.

You can't really miss Jim Jarmusch. One of the last truly independent American film directors , his white-grey pompadour, pug nose, set jaw and gravel voice combine to give him an uncanny resemblance to the late Lee Marvin.

You know who finally killed Eliot Ness? Capone? Nitti? Moran? Nah...it was Mitch "Sing Along with Mitch" Miller.

Most Americans have this whole Fort Hood massacre all wrong. Maj. Nidal M. Hassan was not a terrorist.

By Don Bolding Killeen Daily Herald SALADO - The Institute for the Humanities at Salado completed its four-part Heritage, Heroes and Home series of programs Sunday night with one of its greatest debuts - the first presentation of the Lee Marvin Lectureship for Word and Image.

The best film in this five-movie set - and certainly the most well known - is Fritz Lang's hard-edged "The Big Heat" , based on the novel by William P. McGivern.

Jean Reno is set to return as cold blooded killer, a much nastier character than you might remember from Leon, Ronin, The Crimson Rivers or his money making Hollywood roles since.

The Sniper 1952 // 88 Minutes // Not Rated The Big Heat 1953 // 91 Minutes // Not Rated 5 Against The House 1955 // 83 Minutes // Not Rated The Lineup 1958 // 86 Minutes // Not Rated Murder By Contract 1958 // 80 Minutes // Not Rated Released by Sony Reviewed by Appellate Judge James A. Stewart // November 4th, 2009 View Appellate Judge Stewart's ...

Triola Marvin won palimony Lee Marvin's girlfriend fought landmark suit for part of his fortune By ANAHAD O'CONNOR The New York Times Sun.

Michelle Triola Marvin, who waged a landmark palimony case against former lover actor Lee Marvin of "The Dirty Dozen" fame, died Friday at age 76.

More noir: the Columbia Noir Classics on DVD 0 After writing the onerous article on " Boston Noir " and attending the "Boston Noir" book launch/reading at the Boston Book Festival I thought I'd fill in the gaps in my noir knowledge by checking out the Columbia Film Noir Classics I box set of five 50s B-ish films from that genre, to be released by ...

"THE Man Who Shot Liberty Valance," John Ford 's great, autumnal western, dramatizes a moment of historical transition.

Share on Facebook Variety is reporting that "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" star Hugh Jackman is in talks to star in "Real Steal", the Shawn Levy-directed project that is based on a short story by Richard Matheson, and was also the basis of an episode of the original run of "The Twilight Zone" that starred Lee Marvin.

THE BIG RED ONE Sunday, SABC3, 22:00 PAYBACK Friday, SABC3, 19:30 If you love high-action thrillers filled with screen tough guys, make a date with these two macho movies.

In the late 21st Century an earthling and a Drac, on opposite sides of an outer-space dogfight, are downed together on an uninhabited planet, rather like Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune on an uninhabited island during World War II in Hell in the Pacific.

Mr. Inman: I was watching "The Dirty Dozen" recently, and I could swear that Charlotte Rae was one of the French hookers that the Lee Marvin character brings to the camp after his men complete their training.

So I sneaked out last night to see Inglourious Basterds , which I found to be generally fantastic; Brad Pitt's craft has come a long way since Meet Joe Black .

When summer movies' bombast leaves EW pop culture columnist Stephen King exhausted, he returns to these perennials at the video store that simply never disappoint - "Die Hard," "Titanic," "The Blair Witch Project" and more.

ANY movie that Frank Faylen was in, is great to watch; Seigel's name was on a tombstone in a western once - possibly a Clint pic.

T HE SUN intrudes on my personal space. Loud whistles from the train greet me as I head through the small covered bridge leading into Roaring Camp.