Sean, Sean, Sean
With everyone talkin' about Bond, I got to thinking about Connery. A look at one of the most rarely seen of the actor's five collaborations with director Sidney Lumet: the very grim The Offence, which is only available on Region 2 DVD. Which is why the review is over at The Auteurs', as this week's Tuesday Morning Foreign Region DVD Report.
UPDATE: The ever-astute Tony D. gets the post title reference right out of the gate. Gotta come up with harder ones...
The post's title is from "Duck You Sucker!" aka " A Fistful of Dynamite"
Posted by: Tony Dayoub | November 18, 2008 at 09:18 AM
You're too good.
Posted by: Glenn Kenny | November 18, 2008 at 09:38 AM
Interesting-- I just watched THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY this weekend, and Connery's a lot of fun, wittily playing off his Bond image and really getting into the caperish spirit of the thing.
Posted by: Brian | November 18, 2008 at 12:44 PM
What's interesting about THAT is the late Michael Crichton became so enamored of Connery that his lead characters for his subsequent novels (including "Congo," "Rising Sun," and "Jurassic Park,") were all based a bit on Connery, "Rising Sun's" "John Connor" being the most obvious (and, of course, Connery played him in Kaufmann's film version).
Posted by: Yojimbo_5 | November 19, 2008 at 12:09 PM
Thanks a lot, Glenn. Now I can't get that music from DUCK YOU SUCKER out of my head.
Posted by: Matt | November 19, 2008 at 06:45 PM
Yojimbo_5,
To keeo the word in play, interesting! (: I didn't know that about Crichton/Conery, but that explains a lot.
Posted by: Brian | November 19, 2008 at 07:33 PM
Glenn - THE OFFENCE is coming out on DVD (no Blu-Ray, sadly) in 2Q 2009 from a brand-new HD transfer.
Posted by: bmcintire | November 19, 2008 at 09:34 PM
I still think OFFENCE is his finest performance. I was at MGM/UA when he won the Oscar, and reissued it the Friday after the ceremony. It was first-run in many cities and did rather well.
Posted by: cadavra | November 21, 2008 at 02:07 PM