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THE BULLETIN • JULY 21 - 27, 2022
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“Movie: Infinitum: Subject
Unknown”
Shot entirely on an iPhone during
lockdown in the U.K., this 2021 sci-fi
actioner follows Jane (Tori Butler Hart),
who is trapped in an experiment in a
parallel universe and is forced to find a
way to alter her reality before she is lost
forever. Ian McKellen, Conleth Hill and
Wendy Muir Hart (“Two Down,” “The
Isle”) also star for director Matthew
Butler Hart.
BY JAY BOBBIN
“On the Town”
“Suddenly”
“Guys and Dolls”
“Movie: Racing With the Moon”
Richard Benjamin (“Mermaids,” “My
Favorite Year”) directed this 1984 drama
that stars Sean Penn and Nicolas Cage
as small-town World II-era teens who
attempt to have one last hurrah before
joining the Marines but events take them
in sharply different directions. Elizabeth
McGovern, John Karlen and Rutanya
Alda are also in the cast.
“Movie: Gunfight at the
O.K. Corral”
“Paper Girls”
Of their numerous screen teamings over
the course of their careers, longtime
friends Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas
had one of their very best with their
re-creation of a legendary Old West
showdown. In director John Sturges’
excellent 1957 Western. Lancaster plays
lawman Wyatt Earp, and Douglas is
Doc Holliday. Dennis Hopper portrays a
member of the Clantons, the gang they
oppose.
While out delivering newspapers,
four girls find themselves caught in
the crossfire between warring factions
of time travelers and subsequently
catapulted into the future, where they
must find their way home. It’s a journey
that brings them face-to-face with their
adult selves in this fantasy drama series
that is based on the graphic novels by
Brian K. Vaughan. Camryn Jones and
Sofia Rosinsky star. (ORIGINAL)
BEST FRANK SINATRA MOVIES
“On the Town” (1949) Sinatra, Gene Kelly and
Jules Munshin live it up energetically as sailors who
pack in all the fun they can while on a 24-hour leave
in New York.
“From Here to Eternity” (1953) Sinatra’s fight
to land the role of Maggio in this military drama
about the Pearl Harbor attack paid off big, since he
won a supporting Oscar (as did co-star Donna Reed).
“Suddenly” (1954) In this intense melodrama,
Sinatra plays a captor of a family as he invades their
home and waits to assassinate the U.S. president.
“Guys and Dolls” (1955) Sinatra is gambler
Nathan Detroit in the screen version of the famously
sassy hit musical.
“The Tender Trap” (1955) A major highlight of
this romantic comedy is the opening, in which Sinatra
shows off the wide screen by walking toward the
camera singing the title song. This is part of a Sinatra
mini-festival Wednesday, July 27, on Turner Classic
Movies.
“The Man With the Golden Arm” (1955)
A stunning Sinatra plays a recovered heroin addict
struggling to keep from resuming the habit in Otto
Preminger’s drama.
“High Society” (1956) “What a swell party this
is,” indeed, as Sinatra teams with Bing Crosby and
Grace Kelly in this musical take on “The Philadelphia
Story.”
“Pal Joey” (1957) Sinatra has the title role
in the Rodgers and Hart musical about a singing
womanizer whose deepening affection for a chorus
member (Kim Novak) doesn’t keep him from trying to
use a former flame (Rita Hayworth).
“The Joker Is Wild” (1957) Sinatra is terrific in
the true story of comedian Joe E. Lewis, who incurred
the wrath of mobsters in a drastic way.
“Ocean’s Eleven” (1960) This popular casino-
heist caper, the first of Sinatra’s “Rat Pack” movies
with such pals as Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr.,
was reborn as a franchise for George Clooney and
company four decades later
“The Manchurian Candidate” (1962) A
Korean War veteran’s (Sinatra) hunch that a former
comrade (Laurence Harvey) is being prepped to
commit an assassination fuels this controversial
thriller, which Sinatra also produced.
“Robin and the 7 Hoods” (1964) Sinatra
introduced his song standard “My Kind of Town” in
this highly entertaining gangster spoof featuring much
of the “Rat Pack,” plus Bing Crosby and Peter Falk.
“Von Ryan’s Express” (1965) This excellent
military drama casts Sinatra as a prisoner of war
who engineers an escape for many of his fellow
captives.
“Assault on a Queen” (1966) Rod Serling
wrote the screenplay for this crime caper, with Sinatra
playing the leader of a gang planning to rob the
Queen Mary ocean liner.
“Tony Rome” (1967) Sinatra is suited ideally to
the title role of a laid-back Miami private eye who
becomes entangled with a wealthy, troubled family. A
sequel, “Lady in Cement,” was released a year later.
“The Detective” (1968) In this very adult
police drama, Sinatra plays a veteran investigator
whose murder probe hints at corruption within his
department.