« Previous Post | Main | Next Post »

Last week's Movie Quiz winners

Filed under: Imported

I'm not a Sylvester Stallone hater-- I still think Rocky is a terrific movie and the road not taken for him as an actor, and I think he was great in Cop Land, where he shared the screen with DeNiro and Keitel and was better than both of them. But what was Sly thinking when he remade Get Carter, and put himself up for comparison with Michael Caine in one of the latter's all-time best roles? (In fact, some say it is his best, and I may be one of them.)

The original Get Carter is still a treat in every way. Besides Caine's amazing turn as a professional hit man looking for his brother's killers, the supporting cast is similarly striking, both the ugly ones like Ian Hendry and the beautiful, especially Britt Ekland in a scene that, once seen, is never forgotten (at least not by hetero males of a certain age, like mine). And the music by Roy Budd is one of the grooviest Euro-crime scores ever; in fact, it's so good that the DVD has a music-only track for the film.

Congratulations, then, for the guys who got it from last week's clues: Wayne Palmer, E. Yarber, Joe Rosenberg, Hank Parmer, and Bill Hearne.

Posted by Steve Monaco at June 13, 2005 10:45 PM

« The Monday Movie Quiz #61 | Main | The Monday Movie Quiz #62 »