Biography: Richard Boone |
Rough-hewn American leading man Richard Boone was thrust into the cold cruel world when he was expelled from Stanford University, for a minor infraction. He worked as a oil-field laborer, boxer, painter and free-lance writer before settling upon... more
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Cast: James Earl Jones Toshiro Mifune
Tags: Adventure Adventure Drama Martial Arts
Length: 92min
The Bushido Blade is set in 19th century Japan, at the time of American Commodore Matthew Perry's opening up of the ancient oriental nation. As played by Richard Boone (in his last film), Perry is a megalomaniac mercenary who makes Custer look like a...
Cast: Robert Mitchum Richard Boone James Stewart
Tags: Post-Noir (Modern Noir) Mystery Thriller
Length: 99min
Robert Mitchum reprises his role as Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe from Farewell, My Lovely, in this misconceived remake of Howard Hawks's classic 1946 film -- transferring the setting from 1940s California to 1970s London. Marlowe is hired by a...
Tags: Spaghetti Western Western
Length: 93min
One of two 1976 Italian-Israeli co-productions starring Lee Van Cleef and Leif Garrett (Joseph Manduke's Kid Vengeance was the other), this spaghetti Western stars Van Cleef in a dual role as twin brothers. One of the brothers, Father John, is gunned...
Tags: Revisionist Western Western
Length: 93min
Sister Mary (Leslie Caron) is a nun who enlists the help of Madron (Richard Boone) after she is the only survivor of an Apache massacre. A trio of lecherous bandits try to force themselves on the nun, and Madron shoots two of them to death. The third...
Cast: John Wayne Maureen O'Hara
Tags: Western Traditional Western
Length: 109min
When his grandson (played by real-life son Ethan Wayne) is kidnapped by scurrilous baddie Richard Boone, Big Jake (John Wayne) sets out to deliver the 1 million ransom. On the off-chance that there'll be gunplay, Jake brings along his sons Patrick...
Tags: Detective Film Mystery
Length: 73min
A made-for-TV mystery, Goodnight, My Love is bolstered by a top-flight cast and a clever script. The plot revolves around a pair of down-and-out detectives: tall and disheveled Richard Boone, and short and immaculate Michael Dunn. Boone and Dunn are...
Tags: Western Revisionist Western
Length: 89min
Against a Crooked Sky is a remake of John Ford's landmark western The Searchers. Richard Boone appears in the John Wayne role, playing an ageing trapper obsessed with rescuing a white girl from her Indian captors. Another movie veteran, Henry...
Cast: Kirk Douglas Faye Dunaway Elia Kazan Deborah Kerr Hume Cronyn
Length: 126min
Kirk Douglas has an extreme case of mid-life crisis in Elia Kazan's turgid melodrama (adapted from his best-selling novel). Douglas plays successful advertising executive Eddie Anderson, who cracks under the strain of the morning rush hour in Los...
Cast: John Huston Orson Welles Max von Sydow Bibi Andersson
Tags: Spy Film Thriller Political Thriller
Length: 125min
When American agents in Moscow try to recover a stolen letter implicating America in an anti-Red China plot, they discover a hornet's nest of treason, double agents, murder, and betrayal. The plot has as many switchbacks as a Formula One racetrack,...
The Night of the Following Day (1969)
Cast: Marlon Brando Rita Moreno
Length: 93min
A pair of desperate men plan to kidnap a wealthy heiress upon her arrival in France. Bud (Marlon Brando) and Leer (Richard Boone) grab the gorgeous girl (Pamela Franklin) at the airport in Paris. The limousine is driven down a deserted country road...
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