Actors We Miss: Jerry Orbach

Jerry Orbach is the latest actor highlighted in the Actors We Miss series at Cinematical.

I enjoyed the late actor in his role as a detective on TV's Law & Order, but I thought his finest role was that of a darker, more complex detective in the film Prince of the City.

You can read the Cinematical piece via the below link:

http://blog.moviefone.com/2011/03/04/actors-we-miss-jerry-orbach/

Actors We Miss: Lee Marvin

Cinematical looks back on the film career of the late, great actor Lee Marvin.

I'm a big Lee Marvin fan and if I had to pick three favorite films, I would choose The Dirty Dozen, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and Point Blank.

These are films that I can watch again and again, and there so many other Lee Marvin films that I've enjoyed as well over the years.

You can read the Cinematical piece, which offers clips of some of his films, via the below link:

http://blog.moviefone.com/2011/02/18/lee-marvin-movies/

Actors We Miss: The Late, Great John Wayne

Jeffery M. Anderson wrote an interesting piece for Cinematical about the late, great actor John Wayne.

Like Anderson, I admire and miss the old Duke. Unlike Anderson, I share many of Wayne's conservative views.

I love John Wayne in The Searchers, Fort Apache, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, True Grit, The Green Berets, The Alamo, The Cowboys, The Shootist and in many, many more films. I've seen these films and others many times over the years.

I can even even watch his not-so-classic films again and again, because the Duke had great screen presence.

You can read read Anderson's piece via the below link:

http://blog.moviefone.com/2010/10/15/john-wayne-actors-we-miss/

I too miss the Duke, but he left behind some great films for our enjoyment.

"On Her Majesty's Secret Service" Is One Of The Best Bond Films In The Series

Cinematical takes a look back at the 1969 James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

 

The reviewer, like me, believes the film is one is one of the best in the film series. Peter Hunt, previously an editor on the Bond series, directed this film and he was faithful to the Ian Fleming novel.

Although I dearly missed the great Sean Connery, George Lazenby was a fairly good Bond, especially when you consider that he had never acted before. He looks like Fleming's Bond and he  handled the fight and action scenes well.

Although I would have preferred an European actor to portray the mad, evil genius, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, Telly Salvalas was very good in the role. Salvalas had a great sense of command and madness and I believe he was the best Blofeld in the film series.

The beautiful and alluring Diana Rigg was also very good as Bond's doomed girlfriend, and briefly, his wife.

Lastly, John Barry's musical soundtrack is truly outstanding.

It is a pity that Lazenby did not continue in the series, as I believe he would have grown into the role and perhaps given Connery a run for his money. And we would have been spared the decade of Bond-lite with Roger Moore portraying a lighthearted, comical Bond

The below link is to the piece:

http://www.cinematical.com/2009/10/29/shelf-life-on-her-majestys-secret-service/