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Solitaire and Yaphet force. His whistle-blowing
Kotto as the Bond turns his own comrades
villain—an evil drug against him; in spite of
dealer who has killed constantly facing threats
several British agents and danger, he refuses to
who went to his turf back off. A fine tribute to a
in New Orleans. Then real life hero.
Bond goes in and solves
the case.
The Sting:
Mean Streets: George Roy Hill’s film,
Martin Scorsese, based on David Maurer’s
combined with the star book, The Big Con: The
power of Robert De Story of the Confidence
Niro and Harvey Keitel, Man, starring Robert
telling the story of gangs Redford and Paul
of New York, which Newman—easily the
turned out to be his most gorgeous leading
favourite genre. In this men of the time—was about a petty con
gritty film, the story centers around Charlie man Johnny Hooker, who teams up with
and his buddy Johnny, who are up against a buddy Henry Gondorff to avenge the
a vicious mobster and loan shark, Giovanni murder of their friend by the ruthless
(Cesare Danova). The film built Scorsese’s crime boss Doyle Lonnegan (Robert Shaw).
reputation as one of Hollywood’s finest. They cook up a complicated and elaborate
scheme to swindle the villain that makes for
Papillon: a totally gripping watch.
The book by Franklin The Way We Were
J Schaffner was a best Sydney Pollack’s film
seller, the cover with starring Robert Redford,
the butterfly (papillon Barbra Streisand, was a
in French) was one a thinking audiences’ love
favourite of pirates. It story, using the ‘opposites
was based on the story attract’ formula to tell the
of the writer, played by story of a Jewish political
Steve McQueen in the movie, activist, Katie Morosky
and rich white man, Hubbell Gardiner,
Serpico : who wants to be a screenwriter. Then the
Sidney Lumet’s classic based on a book McCarthy Era arrives with the notorious
by Peter Maas, had Al Pacino playing an witch hunts and Hollywood blacklist;
honest New York cop called Frank Serpico, Katie’s radicalism puts her husband’s
who refuses to take bribes and become a career and reputation at risk. A fascinating
part of the rampant corruption in the police story of love in the times of conflict.
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