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With Norman Kerry as Malabar, the lovelorn strongman and Chaney's rival for Crawford's affections.
and rival trappers (notably Seymour Cassel playing a Canadian), renders the film just about watchable but in no way memorable.
Like many screen adaptations of Christie novels, THE MIRROR CRACK'D features an all-star cast--and in this case the casting would seem inspired: Angela Lansbury as Miss Marple, Rock Hudson as a film producer, Elizabeth Taylor as his movie-star wife, Kim Novack as a rival screen queen, and Tony Curtis as Novak's lover and the producer of the film they are all making.
The movie deals with all kinds of sensitive topics, like elitism, racism, alienation, despair, etc. Yes, I know it is a comedy, but seeing a Coach strike his kid on the mound, seeing players from the rival Yankees degrade the misfit Bears' players, seeing Buttermaker push away one of his players because she wants him to be a father figure, there is real drama at work here.
It don't have a rival.
Decided to pursuit his dream, he fakes his death during the pursuit of a rival agent named "Phantom" and goes to America, precisely New York.
Bernhardt portrays Allen Griffin, an ex-Navy SEAL who's daughter is kidnapped by her Yakuza grandfather to force Griffin to kill an exec of a rival company so he can take it over.
Frederick March gives an Academy-Award-worthy performance as the jaded fighter pilot, and Cary Grant gives a good performance as his rival.
These little cut rate gems rival even the worst overseas, badly dubbed monstrosities.
Albert Dekker is a boring Bat Masterson and Barry Sullivan is his befuddled rival.
Vic Morrow also stars as rival coach Roy Turner whose team is more focused than the other.
A rival restaurant owner across the street (played by an cheerful,over the top Ian Holm)offers to bring his "friend",Italian-American Jazz legend, Louis Prima,to try their restaurant.
Aimed as a rival to the BBC's Doctor Who, the Boswell's and excellent television writer Bruce Stewart produced something entirely different from what was available on British television at the time.
If Pyun had cut out all the crap about cyber enhancement and rival bio-engineering companies, we would probably have about 30 minutes of straight fighting.
The result is merriment that takes many forms, including physical contests at a picnic where Nugent finds himself the rival of Margaret's boyfriend while trying to lose for Susan's sake; a basketball game where he must champion her erstwhile beau from the bleachers; and family occasions where the dialogue turns frequently hilarious.
Fundamentally, the film concerns five persons--Nugent, played with charm by Cary Grant, intelligent Myrna Loy as Margaret, pretty Shirley Temple as a fast-growing Susan, her daughter, Rudy Vallee as Grant's rival, prefiguring his stuffy role in "How to Succeed in Business" and other comedies, and Lillian Randolph as long-suffering Bessie, the family's maid and confidant-adviser.
The corrupt Mayor and his idiot jail warden are willing to execute him for the votes needed to stay in office, but the Governor (who is from the rival party) believes the killer is insane (or at least mentally deficient).
Palance gives the movie some of its best moments as a gay gunslinger ( a rival mercenary) out to revenge himself on Musante for humiliating him.
Dan Chupong, the star of DYNAMITE WARRIOR, would give even Tony Jaa a run for his money (and a film featuring the two of them together would no doubt rival Bruce Lee's showdown with Chuck Norris in WAY OF THE DRAGON for one-on-one action).
The young men are on a macho trip throughout the story, squaring off with rival gangs, the police, authority figures and each other.
Neighbourhood Watch Leader Sid Pegg was just forgettable, and Desiree DeVere's (Bubbles' new rival) fat suit looked generally fake.
Highlights include the character Jeremy, some drunken teenagers, Carl Schoenborn, and especially Hethe Henrickson as Beloch, a rival archaeologist (whose last name happens to be Henrickson), who is also the ultimate in ham villainy, who is after the Infinte Power, which will make him shoot rays like Emperor Palpatine.
There might be a baseball movie out there that can rival how bad this one is, but I doubt it.
Michael Michelle, as the rival to Matthews character, made me want to scratch her eyes out.
The biggest attraction of this film, though, is the wit of its script, which could rival any comedy of Shaw or Wilde or Colette, and top them all for sheer virtuosity in the art of depicting the many faces of love, and its delivery by one of film history's most finely cast troupe of comedians.
Meanwhile, two rival gangs are dealing drugs with an intermediary in an old warehouse without knowing that there is a stakeout of the LAPD of the whole operation.
Set in a small New Mexico village, this is a classic 'noir' tale of two rival nightclub entertainers, an escaped black leopard, and a serial killer.
In London, the powerful gangster Christian (Gary Olsen) decides to eliminate the competition, killing all the rival gangs.
A little too ridiculous for me, rival hit men discover they are long lost friends and team up to do a big score which they plan to donate to African children in order to make up for bad karma.
Well this lack of originality can only rival Christopher Paolini.
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