Two months ago, in an article for The Huffington Post, Kirk Douglas wrote: “My 100th birthday is exactly one month and one day after the next presidential election. Spartacus sealed his popular image as a rugged action star, but Douglas rarely gravitated towards un-ironic heroics in his films. Most actors—especially those acting in their second film, as Douglas was—would have played Whit as overtly menacing, and the scene would probably still have worked. In the 1950 film, Douglas plays Rick Martin, a character based on real-life jazz cornetist Bix Beiderbecke. Last action heroAlong with George Miller’s The Man from Snowy River (1982), The Fury represents the best of late-period Douglas.

Source: Mint December 03, 2016 17:54 UTC