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1 day ago · This movie shows how Kinsey went from a repressed child into a renowned professor and researcher, whose subject of his work caused him to become a target during Joseph McCarthy's witch hunts in the 1950s. As with several other characters in the movie, Oliver Platt's Herman Wells was based on a real-life person.
In New York City, concerned citizen Dr John Condon (Joseph Cotten) decides to write to the Bronx Home News newspaper to offer himself as an intermediary in the ransom exchange. Condon receives a reply from the kidnapper and telephones Lindbergh, giving him confirmation that the letter has the unique signature with three holes in the paper with a demand for $70,000.
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Aug 11, 2023 · The ramshackle, wild-goose-chase-style plotting gives the film an almost revue-style feeling (one oddly reminiscent of the plot thread in Brian De Palma ’s cult comedy “ Greetings ” involving the conspiracy nut played by Gerrit Graham) that weirdly fits the material at hand. “Winter Kills” does a highly impressive job of milking ...
Twitch: Directed by Daniel Giambruno. With John Condon, Jessica Napier, Paul Tassone, Barry Crocker. A dark comedy about sex trading, mutilation and quiz shows.
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Dec 7, 2003 · The movie is based on the 1959 novel by Richard Condon, who must have been astonished that it became a film with big stars like Sinatra, Angela Lansbury and Laurence Harvey — and still more astonished that Frankenheimer and Axelrod did not soften its wicked satire. Frankenheimer says on the commentary track that he is proudest that the film hammered McCarthyism; there’s a scene where the ...
Jul 19, 2004 · Corporations, not commies, are the sinister force behind Jonathan Demme’s “The Manchurian Candidate,” in which poor Raymond Shaw is told by a liberal senator: “You are about to become the first privately owned and operated vice president of the United States.”. There’s a level of cynicism here that is scarier than the Red Chinese ...
In Waterford, there is a birth certificate that clearly says a boy named John Condon was born in October 1895. This means the youthful adventurer told the truth about his age. In 1938, however, a local newspaper, The Waterford News, claimed that John Condon’s brother Patrick had stowed away, pretending to be his older brother. Patrick’s ...
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