The Shamley Silhouette – Chapter One

The Shamley Silhouette – Chapter One

        Chapter 1: Fanciful Notions     “As a matter of fact, that’s how I knew that Cary Grant had died. Every channel on TV was showing that shot of Cary running away from the plane. It’s strange, isn’t it, that such a...
The Shamley Silhouette – Chapter One

The Shamley Silhouette

  Introduction: Repetition   There is no point in doing this… it has already been done a million times over. That was my initial thought when I landed upon the notion of covering Alfred Hitchcock as my next analysis for the Reel Nerds website. It was a...
GROWLS AND ‘SWELLS’: A CLINT EASTWOOD ANALYSIS (PART 19)

GROWLS AND ‘SWELLS’: A CLINT EASTWOOD ANALYSIS (PART 19)

EPILOGUE: JUST ONE MORE… 3 years, 10 months, and 8 days ago…. that’s when this silliness started. The plan to sift through all (at the time of commencing) 57 of Clint’s films from the moment he truly broke out with Leone was never meant to take...
GROWLS AND ‘SWELLS’: A CLINT EASTWOOD ANALYSIS (PART 18)

GROWLS AND ‘SWELLS’: A CLINT EASTWOOD ANALYSIS (PART 18)

LAST CHAPTER: The Remorse of the Man From Malpaso “Did Pa used to kill folks?” -Penny Munny, daughter of known thief and killer William Munny. In the 25 years since the American release of the Dollars Trilogy, Clint Eastwood managed to carve out a career...
GROWLS AND ‘SWELLS’: A CLINT EASTWOOD ANALYSIS (PART 17)

GROWLS AND ‘SWELLS’: A CLINT EASTWOOD ANALYSIS (PART 17)

EPISODE 17: The Bromance At Cinecittà It is said somewhere in the far west, in the mid 1960’s, a modestly successful television actor found out in a newspaper he was a sensation overseas in Italy. The praise of an eager Italian audience was for a job the actor...