Airport (1970)
George Seaton’s 1970 airline disaster film. Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Helen Hayes Oscar. Launched the 1970s disaster cycle.
George Kennedy
This archive gathers the films featuring George Kennedy reviewed at Master of Worlds: “Airport (1970)”, “Cool Hand Luke (1967)”, “Earthquake (1974)”, and “The Dirty Dozen (1967)” — 4 titles in all. Across these reviews the focus stays on how George Kennedy serves each story: the choices that make a performance work, the roles that anchor a film, and the range visible across different pictures. Rather than rank the performances, the collection treats them as a body of work worth examining. The list continues to expand as additional films are reviewed.
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Rosenberg’s 1967 prison drama. Paul Newman as Luke. Failure to communicate. The chain gang sequence, the egg-eating contest, the broken man at the end.
Earthquake (1974)
Earthquake is the second-best disaster film of 1974. The Towering Inferno is the best. Both films defined what the disaster genre would be for the next…
The Dirty Dozen (1967) — Review
Lee Marvin, the famous misfit-unit war film, and the anachronistic line that broke it. The Dirty Dozen reviewed honestly at 5/10 by a viewer who stopped watching.