Count me among those who think the Best Actor Oscar that Paul Newman won for "The Color of Money" was a make-up call. The groundwork was laid right here in “The Verdict,” and with the equally accomplished “Absence of Malice” a year earlier.

(Delmer) Daves was a genuine artist who crossed genres but was never more comfortable than when using the mythic West as his canvas.

A solid set that will appeal mostly to male viewers, because seven out of 10 films are war movies or Westerns, and an eighth is a crime drama about a mass murderer who targets women.

“Viva Zapata!” is one of those films that, while it continues to have impressive aspects, just doesn’t hold up as well as it did when it was first made. You find yourself wishing it were in widescreen, and that they had hired at least ONE Latino actor.