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Where Eagles Dare (1968)
One of the worst WWI films ever made
Where the Eagles Dare is a cartoon of a film.1Totally unrealistic, bombastic, and has no remote relation to reality or what war is. Richard Burton may have been a great theater actor, but as a film actor he always seems to be trying to do a soliquey. Here, the years of hard living are plainly clear. He is totally unconvinging as an elite paratrooper. Even Eastwood would comment later, that the stuntmen had a field day because they worked a lot of overtime!
Las Islas Marías (1951)
Supeerb film about the prison experience in Mexico in the 1950s
This is an extraordinary film, sadly neglected in the body of work of the legendary Pedro Infante. He plays a wayward youth, who ends up in the infamous prison in Las Islas Marias. The film is bleak and powerful, with many of the best Mexican film talent of the time: director Emilio Fernandez; cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa; the legendary Rosaura Revueltas, who later starred in the blacklisted film Salt of the Earth; Tito Junco, Rodolfo Acosta, and several other superb actors. It was shot on-location in the recently closed federal prison at the tip of Baja. The film powerful captures the state of the disfranchised of Mexico City. It is moving and illuminating.