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Charley Varrick (Don Siegel, 1973)

Posted on November 30, 2019 by Budd Wilkins

“Flush from the success of Dirty Harry, Don Siegel at last found himself possessed with sufficient clout to imprint his next work, Charley Varrick, with the auteurist stamp “A Siegel Film,” a rubric that appears on screen before any other title … Continue reading →

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Private Hell 36 (Don Siegel, 1954)

Posted on August 27, 2012 by Budd Wilkins

“Middling noir bolstered by strong central performances and some canny subtext, Private Hell 36 looks reasonably spiffy in Olive Film’s no-frills Blu-ray package.” Read my review of Don Siegel’s hit-or-miss noir, out last week on Blu-ray from Olive Films, at … Continue reading →

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Take Two: Ernest Hemingway’s The Killers (Robert Siodmak, 1946 & Don Siegel, 1964)

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Budd Wilkins

[Introducing Take Two, a new feature on this blog that will explore the contextual (historical, aesthetic and otherwise) similarities and differences between two versions of the same material, whether two films based on the same source or simply original and … Continue reading →

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