Showing posts with label Richard Fleischer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Richard Fleischer. Show all posts

Sunday, November 23, 2025

No, you look like me, which is interesting, if rather impertinent


CROSSED SWORDS
aka The Prince and the Pauper

1977 UK/1978 USA
Directed by Richard Fleischer
Written by Berta Dominguez, Pierre Spengler, and George MacDonald Fraser (based on the novel by Mark Twain)

Spoilers: moderate

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Wednesday, January 8, 2025

Thirteen women


THE BOSTON STRANGLER

1968
Directed by Richard Fleischer
Written by Edward Anhalt (based on the book by Gerold Frank)

Spoilers: N/A

Wednesday, November 22, 2023

The transporter


THE LAST RUN

1971
Directed by Richard Fleischer
Written by Alan Sharp

Spoilers: see above? (highish, if you're a real stickler)

Thursday, September 29, 2022

Sleeping, yes, but only a rather ordinary 5'10"


TORA! TORA! TORA!

Directed by Richard Fleischer, Toshio Masuda, and Kinji Fukasaku
Written by Larry Forrester, Hideo Oguni, Ryuzo Kikushima, and Akira Kurosawa

Spoilers: eventually, we won

Tuesday, September 24, 2019

And I've heard it might not even be gluten free


SOYLENT GREEN

Soylent Green is a masterpiece, and I kind of wish it wasn't.

1973
Directed by Richard Fleischer
Written by Stanley R. Greenberg (based on the novel Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison)

Spoiler alert: get real

Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Walt Disney, part XVIII: That's right! It's a measure of length!


20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA

So let's see what happens when you take the travelogue, the anti-imperial themes, and the breathless enthusiasm for made-up science out of Jules Verne's anti-imperialist science-fiction travelogue.  Is it still good?  Surprisingly, very slightly yes, but not much.

1954
Directed by Richard Fleischer
Written by Earl Felton (based on the novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne)

Spoiler alert: moderate

Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Cardboard Science: 20,000 leagues under the skin


FANTASTIC VOYAGE

Slow (and surprisingly dumb for a movie as pompous as this one often is), it nevertheless absolutely lives up to that title, even fifty years after the fact.

1966
Directed by Richard Fleischer
Written by Otto Klement, Jerome Bixby, and Harry Kleiner
With Stephen Boyd (Grant), Arthur Kennedy (Dr. Peter Duval), Raquel Welch (Cora Peterson), William Redfield (Capt. Bill Owens), Edmond O'Brien (Gen. Carter), Arthur O'Donnell (Col. Reid), and Donald Pleasence (Dr. Michaels)

Spoiler alert: high

Sunday, December 11, 2016

Cimmerian Week, part III: You're a brave girl, but danger is my trade!


RED SONJA

The legend of Conan continues without Conan, but not without Schwazenegger, and what we get is a bog standard fantasy-actioner that does nothing very well and nothing very poorly.  It is content, instead, to just exist.

1985
Directed by Richard Fleischer
Written by Clive Exton and George MacDonald Fraser
With Brigitte Nielsen (Sonja), Arnold Schwarzenegger (Kalidor), Ernie Reyes Jr. (Prince Tam), Paul L. Smith (Falkon), and Sandahl Bergman (Queen Gedren)

Spoiler alert: moderate

Thursday, October 20, 2016

Cimmerian Week, part II: "And I suppose nothing hurts you." "Only pain!"


CONAN THE DESTROYER

Even though there are still things to love about this watered-down sequel, it's one damned hard comedown.

1984
Directed by Richard Fleischer
Written by Gerry Conway, Roy Thomas, and Stanley Mann
With Arnold Schwarzenegger (Conan), Tracey Walter (Malak), Mako Iwamatsu (Akiro the Wizard), Grace Jones (Zula), Olivia d'Abo (Princess Jehnna), Wilt Chamberlain (Bombaata), Pat Roach (Toth-Amon), Sarah Douglas (Queen Taramis), and Andre Rene Roussimoff (Dagoth)

Spoiler alert: moderate