The Long Goodbye (1973)
Robert Altman’s 1973 Chandler revisionism. Elliott Gould as Marlowe out of place in 1970s LA. Cat opening. Hooray for Hollywood.
Sterling Hayden
This archive gathers the films featuring Sterling Hayden reviewed at Master of Worlds: “Dr. Strangelove (1964)”, “The Asphalt Jungle (1950)”, “The Blue and the Gray (1982)”, “The Killing (1956)”, and “The Long Goodbye (1973)” — 5 titles in all. Across these reviews the focus stays on how Sterling Hayden 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.
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
John Huston’s 1950 jewel heist noir. Sterling Hayden, Sam Jaffe, brief Marilyn Monroe. The original ensemble heist film.
The Killing (1956)
Kubrick’s 1956 racetrack robbery. Sterling Hayden. Non-linear structure that became Tarantino’s vocabulary. Lionel White novel.
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Kubrick’s 1964 Cold War satire. Sellers in three roles, Scott as Buck Turgidson. The film that established what political satire could do on film.
The Blue and the Gray (1982)
The Blue and the Gray is a CBS miniseries from 1982 that tried to do for the Civil War what Roots had done for slavery a few years earlier. Andrew V…