The Thirty Nine Steps
Don Sharp
2/5
Surprise make/remake/re-remake!
Literally a very dark film.
Category: At the Movies
The 39 Steps [1959]
The 39 Steps [1935]
Alice in Wonderland: An X-Rated Musical Fantasy [1976]
The Only Good Indian [2009]
The Only Good Indian
Kevin Willmott
4/6
The next film in our Willmott cavalcade was supposed to be Bunker Hill (2008), but that film seems to be completely impossible to find. Shame.
The Only Good Indian sees Willmott in the director’s chair with someone else’s script in his hands. Still much the same subject matter, but it never reaches the heights of CSI.
C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America [2004]
C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America
Kevin Willmott
6/6
A brief history of the Confederate States of America from the hypothetical future in which the south won the American civil war. Back in 2014 I stumbled upon this film and decided to watch Kevin’s entire body of work. And here I am, and it’s not even the next decade!
The ’70s [2000]
Youth in Revolt [2009]
The Man Who Knew Too Much [1934]
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Alfred Hitchcock
5/6
Something wonderful has happened in the realm of cinema since Hitch’s last outing. Or in the realm of digital transfer. Or both. In any case, this film looks about a million times better than the earlier ones.
Things have taken a turn content-wise as well. This feels much more like the later Hitchcock we all know and love. I’m almost allowing myself to hope we’re done with musicals and theater-adaptations.
