Howard Hughes

The Racket tackles on a subject matter that can be rather confounding for unsuspecting viewers hoping to relish in a good old fashioned yarn about two tough guys having a blistering tête-à-tête from start to finish. Make no mistake, the battle between the film’s chief protagonist and antagonist does transpire, and the scenes in which both actors face off against each other explode with tension, only that director James Cromwell and the duo of screenwriters painstakingly depict nearly every aspect of municipal corruption they see fit in order to properly, if in somewhat convoluted fashion, present the facts of the case to the audience.

The most enjoyable thing about F for Fake is that Orson Welles seems to be having such fun. It’s rare to see a filmmaker displaying, though his actual presence and through the tools of his trade, such an unadulterated delight in expression.

The Conqueror Written by Oscar Millard Directed by Dick Powell USA, 1956 How bad a film is Howard Hughes notorious disaster, well it only managed to kill John Wayne is all.  No not Wayne’s career, Wayne himself.  The film was shot on location near St. George, Utah (obviously for its uncanny resemblance to that of …