Tag: Charlton Heston
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Movie Review: “Planet of the Apes” (Franklin J. Schaffner, USA 1968)
Franklin J. Schaffner may not be any sort of household name now or make lists of the greatest directors in cinema history, but when the respected stage and television director turned permanently to film in 1968, he went on a run of critical and commercial success to rival anyone this side of Woody Allen, going…
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Movie Review: “Soylent Green” (Richard Fleischer, USA 1973)
Soylent Green (Richard Fleischer, USA 1973) is one of those rare films that became so much a part of popular culture that the film itself disappeared under its own mythology, like The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, USA 1939). People who not only have never watched the film but never would do so can quote,…
Crowd of Full Pockets 