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FAMOUS DIRECTORS CHECKLIST SERIES - Volume #132 - The Films of RICHARD BROOKS

THE FAMOUS DIRECTORS CHECKLIST SERIES - Volume #132 - The Films of RICHARD BROOKS


Rank ‘em, rate ‘em, review ‘em or whatever.

RICHARD BROOKS

Fever Pitch (1985)
Wrong Is Right (1982)
Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977)
Bite the Bullet (1975)
$ (1971)
The Happy Ending (1969)
In Cold Blood (1967)
The Professionals (1966)
Lord Jim (1965)
Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
Elmer Gantry (1960)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
Something of Value (1957)
The Catered Affair (1956)
The Last Hunt (1956)
Blackboard Jungle (1955)
The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)
The Flame and the Flesh (1954)
Take the High Ground! (1953)
Battle Circus (1953)
Deadline - U.S.A. (1952)
The Light Touch (1952)
Crisis (1950)

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Jim_K

Seen 19
* Own 1

Fever Pitch (1985)
Wrong Is Right (1982)
Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977)
Bite the Bullet (1975)
$ (1971)
The Happy Ending (1969)
In Cold Blood (1967)
* The Professionals (1966)
Lord Jim (1965)
Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
Elmer Gantry (1960)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
Something of Value (1957)
The Catered Affair (1956)
The Last Hunt (1956)
Blackboard Jungle (1955)
The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)
The Flame and the Flesh (1954)
Take the High Ground! (1953)
Battle Circus (1953)
Deadline - U.S.A. (1952)
The Light Touch (1952)
Crisis (1950)

The Collection (Blu-Ray High Definition/DVD)

Pre-orders - BLU-RAY: Akira, The Dark Knight, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Death Proof, King Kong, La Femme Nikita, Planet Terror, Raging Bull, Ronin, The Third Man DVD: .................

Steve Christou

Wrong Is Right (1982)
Bite the Bullet (1975)
The Professionals (1966)
Lord Jim (1965)
Blackboard Jungle (1955)

I've bought The Professionals twice on dvd, great western. Wrong is Right was called The Man With the Deadly Lens over here in Britland, in a lame attempt to make it sound Bond'ish, since Sean Connery was starring.

SteveGon

Fever Pitch (1985)
Wrong Is Right (1982)
Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977)
Bite the Bullet (1975)
$ (1971)
The Happy Ending (1969)
In Cold Blood (1967)
The Professionals (1966)
Lord Jim (1965)
Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
Elmer Gantry (1960)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
Something of Value (1957)
The Catered Affair (1956)
The Last Hunt (1956)
Blackboard Jungle (1955)
The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)
The Flame and the Flesh (1954)
Take the High Ground! (1953)
Battle Circus (1953)
Deadline - U.S.A. (1952)
The Light Touch (1952)
Crisis (1950)

Bolded films I've seen. Probably seen a few of the others as well.

Recently viewed films:

Onechanbara **
Night of the Living Jews **
White Heat ****
Dead Set ***
Working Stiffs ***

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RICHARD BROOKS

Seen: 9
Like: 0
Own: 0

Rank order:

Deadline - U.S.A. (1952)
Battle Circus (1953)
Crisis (1950)
Bite the Bullet (1975)
Blackboard Jungle (1955)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
Elmer Gantry (1960)
In Cold Blood (1967)
Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977)


A perfect example of a director who gets an A for craftsmanship, which means nothing to me, since each of these films gets an F for overall grade. I didn't find anything to like about any of them. Battle Circus is the most interesting, but only because it's an early film about MASH units in Korea, but pales compared to the weakest episode in the tv show, not to mention the movie.

"Movies should be like amusement parks. People should go to them to have fun." - Billy Wilder

"Subtitles good. Hollywood bad." - Tarzan, Sight & Sound 2012 voter.

"My films are not slices of life, they are pieces of cake." - Alfred Hitchcock

"My great humility is just one of the many reasons that I am vastly superior to everyone else." - Ramrod Clerk

Brook K

1. The Professionals - B+
2. Elmer Gantry - B

Own: 0

Interested in Blackboard Jungle, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and a couple of others.

Yes, Captain Hammer's here, hair blowing in the breeze. The day needs my saving expertise! - Captain Hammer, Corporate Tool

2002 Sight & Sound Challenge: 314 Last Watched: An Autumn Afternoon

Last 10 Films Watched:
Mon Oncle Antoine - B / Late Autumn - A-
Paranoid Park - B / An Autumn Afternoon - A
Forgetting Sarah Marshall - B / Run, Fatboy, Run - B
Get Smart - C- / Rendition - B-
Springtime in a Small Town - B+ / Evan Almighty - C

DVD BEAVER My Collection

Bill McA

Rated from to
Titles in RED are theatrical screenings

Richard Brooks
May 18, 1912 - Mar 11, 1992

Fever Pitch (1985)
Wrong Is Right (1982)
Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977)
Bite the Bullet (1975)
$ (1971)
The Happy Ending (1969)
In Cold Blood (1967)
The Professionals (1966)
Lord Jim (1965)
Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
Elmer Gantry (1960)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
Something of Value (1957)
The Catered Affair (1956)
The Last Hunt (1956)
Blackboard Jungle (1955) (Own the DVD)
The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)
The Flame and the Flesh (1954)
Take the High Ground! (1953)
Battle Circus (1953)
Deadline - U.S.A. (1952)
The Light Touch (1952)
Crisis (1950)

Seen 13
Own 1

My DVD Collection Film Lists: 2001 (416), 2002 (412), 2003 (374), 2004 (346), 2005 (302), 2006 (221) Film Tracking 2005 (862), 2006 (852) Last 15 Watched: Pulse (2006,Jim Sonzero) 2/5, In the Realm of the Senses (1976,Nagisa Oshima) 4/5, Sing a Song of Sex (1967,Nagisa Oshima) 2/5, The Passionate Friends (1949,David Lean) 3/5, Band of Ninja (1967,Nagisa Oshima) 1/5, Saw V (2008,David Hackl) 3/5, Quantum of Solace (2008,Marc Forster) 2/5, Role Models (2008,David Wain) 3/5, Dorm (2006,Songyos Sugmakanan) 3/5, Candy (2006,Neil Armfield) 3/5, Shutter (2004,Banjong Pisanthanakun, Parkpoom Wongpoom) 1/5, Skinwalkers (2006,Jim Isaac) 2/5, Out of Season (1998,Jeanette L. Buck) 2/5, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983,Nagisa Oshima) 5/5, The Catch (1961,Nagisa Oshima) 3/5

Mario Gauci

In order of merit:


1.In Cold Blood (1967) ***1/2
2.The Professionals (1966) ***1/2
3.Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) ***1/2
4.Elmer Gantry (1960) ***1/2
5.Bite the Bullet (1975) ***
6.The Last Hunt (1956) ***
7.Sweet Bird of Youth (1962) ***
8.$ (1971) ***
9.Lord Jim (1965) ***
10.The Brothers Karamazov (1958) ***
11.Blackboard Jungle (1955) ***
12.Crisis (1950) ***
13.The Catered Affair (1956) **1/2
14.Something of Value (1957) **1/2
15.Wrong Is Right (1982) **1/2
16.Battle Circus (1953) **
17.Take the High Ground! (1953) **


I also have THE HAPPY ENDING (1969) on VHS.