Check out all of the posts tagged with "Mexico".
Director Gore Verbinski’s intriguing but all too moderate 2001 thriller stars Brad Pitt as hapless, clumsy small-time crook Jerry Welbach, who is forced by his mob boss to retrieve a priceless pistol called The Mexican back […]
Director/star Marlon Brando’s legendary 1961 revenge Western is an explosive emotional and visual powderkeg, with a great flavour of the Old West. It was a troubled production but that doesn’t show on screen. Brando took […]
Director Curtis Hanson’s little-known 1983 comedy stars the 21-year-old Tom Cruise as Woody, a young and innocent Los Angeles kid, who heads south of the border to Tijuana, Mexico, with three stereotypically rowdy and randy […]
Clint Eastwood returned to Spain for a few dollars more – actually only $50,000, but his percentage of the movie must have compensated for this low salary – to re-team with co-writer/ director Sergio Leone […]
Writer-director Sergio Leone’s splendidly and impressively over-the-top 1972 modern Western is set in Mexico in 1913 at the time of the Mexican Revolution. Succeeding by excess, this nevertheless thoughtful and intelligent action spectacular turned out to be […]
John Huston’s renowned 1948 adventure thriller film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre showcases one of Humphrey Bogart’s finest hours as the greedy Fred C Dobbs, one of three itinerant American prospectors, who try to […]
Writer-producer-director Blake Edwards hits the jackpot with his 1979 comedy gold classic starring Dudley Moore as George Webber, a lecherous British popular songwriter living in LA. George has a sweet girlfriend, singing star Sam Taylor […]