Movies That No One Else Seems To Know

The Tao of Steve.

And Justice For All

Alan Tudyk



He's a leaf on the wind.

WWII: A young flier is parachuted into France and ordered to assassinate a Frenchman believed to be a double agent. But is the target really guilty?

Based on a story by Donald Chase Downes, a former American intelligence operative who also acted as technical adviser to the film. This is a gritty, detqailed look at spying and killing, surprisingly directed by Anthony Asquith, who generally specialized in veddy refined things like Pygmalion. Features a superb performance by actress Irene Worth as the French contact and a scene that would later be semi-imitated by Hitchcock in Torn Curtain.

Zero Effect, which you mentioned, is a nice little Holmes-style detective story which is a lot of fun.

I’m having trouble coming up with my own recommendations because a lot of what I like is “cult” to the point where it is acclaimed and has a good following.

Like “The Long Good Friday” has a lot of respect from British film fans but is fairly unknown in the US these days if you weren’t a Criterion Collection watcher. London gangster Harold Shand (Bob Hoskins) has invited several American mobsters to town in preparation for a huge business deal but things go sour starting with his car being bombed and one of his top men and friends getting killed at the swimming pool. Harold starts looking for answers and none of the usual suspects appear to be involved.

“Angel Heart” is another one generally overlooked in which a private detective is hired to track down a crooner named Johnny Favorite which takes him from NYC to NOLA in the process. It was mainly known at the time as “that film that got Lisa Bonet canned by Cosby.”

And then there was “1-2-3”, which was a farce about the border crossings in Berlin, which had the Berlin Wall go up between filming and release. A Coca-Cola executive who has spent years overseas with his family is under heavy pressure to return to the US from West Germany. At the same time, a top executive in the company sends his daughter (18-ish) to stay with him. it turns out she has been crossing the border into East Germany, met herself a boy, got married in secret, and is pregnant. Now he has to think of a way to fix this mess.

Love Me if you Dare
The Princess and the Warrior
Steve + Sky

off the top of my head

It always annoyed me when I mentioned Kicking & Screaming people thought I was talking about that stupid Will Ferrell soccer movie.

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So This Is New York

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One of the few Richard Fleischer movies I haven't seen. Will check out.

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And then there was “1-2-3”, which was a farce about the border crossings in Berlin, which had the Berlin Wall go up between filming and release. A Coca-Cola executive who has spent years overseas with his family is under heavy pressure to return to the US from West Germany. At the same time, a top executive in the company sends his daughter (18-ish) to stay with him. it turns out she has been crossing the border into East Germany, met herself a boy, got married in secret, and is pregnant. Now he has to think of a way to fix this mess.

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Pamela Tiffin

She just died last month





In case you noticed the house in the background, it was also Woltz's mansion in The Godfather.

In China They Eat Dogs

Danish Action/Comedy Crime Movie

It's great.