Dear Don Seigel,
I am a fan of your movies. I mean some of them. You worked with all the real men in the 70s - Bronson, Clint, Wayne, Burt Reynolds etc. Sure most of your films were the big studio movie type. But you knew how to make a good film.
With Telefon I think you did something very interesting. You provided the prototype for the big budget American action films of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Telefon was set in many different countries and I am sure some of the studio executives and filmmakers who came later saw this and told themselves "well, lets set our big budget action film in many different countries and give the audience a look around each place". Though it can be argued that even James Bond films did the same thing. But I am sure the makers of films like Bourne Identity were inspired by your films rather than James Bond movies.
Charles Bronson was too tough to attempt pussy crap like method acting. He left that to people like Patrick Mcgee and Donald Pleasance. Lee Remick's age showed. And Tyne Daly in the role of an industrious agent stole her thunder.
I felt like kicking the writers in the balls. They had such a great premise. I mean, this could have been as good as The Manchurian Candidate or something. There aren't too many films about MK Ultra's. It did not work as an action thriller. There were too many characters who repeated the same actions over and over to establish the premise. The plotting was inane though they did have some interesting ideas towards the end.
I liked parts of Lalo Schifrin's score.
Best Regards, Pimpin.
(5/10)
I am a fan of your movies. I mean some of them. You worked with all the real men in the 70s - Bronson, Clint, Wayne, Burt Reynolds etc. Sure most of your films were the big studio movie type. But you knew how to make a good film.
With Telefon I think you did something very interesting. You provided the prototype for the big budget American action films of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Telefon was set in many different countries and I am sure some of the studio executives and filmmakers who came later saw this and told themselves "well, lets set our big budget action film in many different countries and give the audience a look around each place". Though it can be argued that even James Bond films did the same thing. But I am sure the makers of films like Bourne Identity were inspired by your films rather than James Bond movies.
Charles Bronson was too tough to attempt pussy crap like method acting. He left that to people like Patrick Mcgee and Donald Pleasance. Lee Remick's age showed. And Tyne Daly in the role of an industrious agent stole her thunder.
I felt like kicking the writers in the balls. They had such a great premise. I mean, this could have been as good as The Manchurian Candidate or something. There aren't too many films about MK Ultra's. It did not work as an action thriller. There were too many characters who repeated the same actions over and over to establish the premise. The plotting was inane though they did have some interesting ideas towards the end.
I liked parts of Lalo Schifrin's score.
Best Regards, Pimpin.
(5/10)