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Monday, May 26, 2025

On this day in movie history - Big Jake (1971):

Big Jake

directed by George Sherman,

written by Harry Julian Fink and R. M. Fink,

was released in the United States on May 26, 1971.
Narrated by George Fenneman.
Music by Elmer Bernstein.

Cast:

John Wayne, Richard Boone, Maureen O'Hara, Patrick Wayne, Christopher Mitchum, Bobby Vinton, Bruce Cabot, Glenn Corbett, Harry Carey Jr., John Doucette, Jim Davis, John Agar, Gregg Palmer, Jim Burk, Robert Warner, Dean Smith, Ethan Wayne, Virginia Capers, Bill Walker, Jerry Gatlin, Don Epperson, Everett Creach, Jeff Wingfield, Hank Worden, José Ángel Espinosa 'Ferrusquilla', George Fenneman, Bernard Fox, Pedro Galván, Tom Hennesy, 'Chico' Hernandez, Roy Jenson, John Kelly, John McLiam, Anna Pavlova, Chuck Roberson, Maria Rocio, Jorge Russek, Jerry Summers, Lisa Todd, Bambino Veira.

Saturday, April 12, 2025

Born on this day – Shannen Doherty:

Shannen Doherty

Actress

April 12, 1971 – July 13, 2024

Credits:

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Sunday, March 23, 2025

The Underground Man

By Ross Macdonald.

# 16 in the Lew Archer series.
Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
First published 1971.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 0679768084
ISBN-13: 978-0679768081

Description:

"There are certain books that bide their time, like plants, waiting decades to flower.... If a copy of The Underground Man, a novel from 1971, by Ross Macdonald, has been sitting on your shelf for ages, unread and barely noticed, try opening it now. Suddenly it's a book in full bloom." – Anthony Lane, The New Yorker.

"A more serious and complex writer than Chandler and Hammett ever were." – Eudora Welty.

"Ross Macdonald is an important American novelist!" – San Francisco Chronicle.

"I should like to venture that Ross Macdonald is a better novelist than either...Dashiell Hammett or Raymond Chandler." – Anthony Boucher, The New York Times Book Review.

As a mysterious fire rages through the hills above a privileged town in Southern California, Archer tracks a missing child who may be the pawn in a marital struggle or the victim of a bizarre kidnapping. What he uncovers amid the ashes is murder – and a trail of motives as combustible as gasoline. The Underground Man is a detective novel of merciless suspense and tragic depth, with an unfaltering insight into the moral ambiguities at the heart of California's version of the American dream.

If any writer can be said to have inherited the mantle of Dashiell Hammet and Raymond Chandler, it was Ross Macdonald. Between the late 1940s and his death in 1983, he gave the American crime novel a psychological depth and moral complexity that his predecessors had only hinted at. And in the character of Lew Archer, Macdonald redefined the private eye as a roving conscience who walks the treacherous frontier between criminal guilt and human sin.

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

On this day in movie history - The Andromeda Strain (1971):

The Andromeda Strain

directed by Robert Wise,

written by Nelson Gidding and Robert Wise,

based on the novel by Michael Crichton,

was released in the United States on March 12, 1971.
Music by Gil Mellé.

Cast:

Arthur Hill, James Olson, David Wayne, Kate Reid, Paula Kelly, George Mitchell, Mark Jenkins, Peter Helm, Joe Di Reda, Ramon Bieri, Carl Reindel, Frances Reid, Peter Hobbs, Kermit Murdock, Richard O'Brien, Eric Christmas, Ken Swofford, John Carter, Richard Bull, James W. Gavin, Garry Walberg, Emory Parnell, Georgia Schmidt, Victoria Paige Meyerink, Don Messick, Michael Crichton.