Just watched "The Psychic". OK episode and another to feature guest team members, one played by Richard Anderson of television series "The Six Million Dollar...
Apart from "The Sting", one of my favourite 1980's film is all about a con business aka a sham; it's David Mamet's "House of Games" (1987). Anyone also know...
... guest ... series "The ... screen ... the ... scene ... missing ... would ... Barbara Bain will play another type of psychic, a fortunate teller in the nex...
... in ... in the hotel ... well ... 1966. ... THE ... handler ... course Willy ... Do you really believe foes as important as the big shots in the real world...
"Do you really believe foes as important as the big shots in the real world can be fooled as easily with the time or travel con?" Yes ! Well , If done...
... accomplish ... Which ... For instance, if you take seriously such episode as "Operation Rogosh" where a man has forgotten two years of his life. Or going...
<<"For instance, if you take seriously such episode as "Operation Rogosh" where a man has forgotten two years of his life. Or going way back to 1937 in...
Cool movie with Henry Fonda playing a parole officer being forced out due to mandatory retirement. He recruits four of his charges to rob an armored car. A...
House of Games is GREAT with Lindsay Crouse and Joe Mantenaga. Crouse is a psychiatrist who helps Mantenaga pull off a sting to pay his bills ANother movie in...
... Crouse ... I watched that one too but "House of Games" was really new back then. Other Mamet's films use the con trick (see "Things Change" and "Homicide")...
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... CHARLES NOVINS: Oh, yes, it is among my all-time favorites, and made me a consumer of every subsequent Mamet film. Mamet financed the film from his own ...
... Campbell ... CHARLES NOVINS: Joe is spot-on with the under-rated and under-seen SPANISH PRISONER, which is arguably the second-most electrifying Mamet...
I spotted Australian actor Michael Pate in "Trek", a great spaghetti Western style tale of a desert treasure hunt. Pate was originally from Australia before...
I'd like to discuss briefly the most radical and important change that took place during MISSION's seven years. I am referring, of course, to the show's...
<<CHARLES NOVINS: Although it involves the same sort of "cons" we saw in MISSION, it was far more down-to-Earth and realistic. No one imagines that anything...
... I think it is Mamet who had to have written and even directed MISSION: IPOSSIBLE - the feature film. That's a big mistake to have selected De Palma and,...
... Because that was the mid-1960's and the production was very classic and classy as in the 1950's. When MISSION meets the 1970's, that means gritty, blunt, ...
... [There were previous gangsters plots during the good years: see "The Frame", "Fakeout", "The Widow", "The Council", "The Counterfeiter", "The Contender",...
... I don't. Ed Wood would have made a better Mission Impossible movie than such overrated clowns as De Palma and Woo. I remember seeing Mr. Graves on the...
Find another IMF type of film: Steven Soderbergh's "Ocean's Eleven" (2001) starring George Clooney. Most casino IMF episodes initiated by Woodfield and Balter ...
... wrote: In the 1960's, there were actually two Geller involved in the TV productions: composer Harry Geller (see "The Wild Wild West", "Voyage to the Bottom...
Among the gallery of foes, which are the ones you enjoy the most or find interesting (type and name)? Just to give you few examples of my favourite ones: Imry...
Season 5 1. Sharon Acker (Homecoming) 2. Lou Antonio (The Hostage) 3. Barry Atwater (The Field) 4. Michael Baseleon (The Field) 5. Arthur Batanides (The Rebel,...
Season 5 Story Consultant: Laurence Heath Script Supervisor: Barbara Atkinson 1. Ed Adamson (The Amateur, A Ghost Story) 2. Eric Bercovici (Butterfly) 3....
Season 5 1. Resa S. Badiyi (Homecoming, The Field, A Ghost Story) 2. Terry Becker (Hunted) 3. Leon Benson (The Merchant) 4. Barry Crane (The Rebel, Flight, The...
Saison 5 1. Robert Drasnin (2): "Butterfly", "My Friend My Enemy" 2. Harry Geller (1): "The Innocent" 3. Benny Golson (2): "Flip Side", "A Ghost Story" 4....
... CHARLES NOVINS: Yes, I believe it would be interesting to have a "MISSION-related" database. The first entries would include OCEANS, as well as THE ...
[Thomas] ... I watched the original ITALIAN JOB (1969) with Michael Caine on the cable along with THE IPCRESS FILE. Did Caine play in many caper types? What do...
