The Honeymoon Killers (1970)
Film review by Dan Willard. The Honeymoon Killers is in a way a response to the 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde in that it seeks to de-glamorize crime.
Category: Biopics
Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)
Rabbit-Proof Fence brings to light another shameful chapter in the history of the migration of European settlers to the New World.
Michael the Brave (1970)
Film review by Dan Willard. Romanian biopic of Mihai Viteazul who united three Romanian principalities in the 16th Century.
Korczak (1990)
Film review by Dan Willard. The true story of Janusz Korczak who tried to protect 200 Jewish orphans from the horrors of life in the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII. The film had a profound influence on Steven Spielberg which is evident in SCHINDLER’S LIST.
Lady of the Camelias (1981)
Film review by Dan Willard. Supposedly the true story of Marie Duplessis, the French courtesan who inspired the novel LA DAME AUX CAMELIA, which when adapted into a play became the inspiration for Verdi’s LA TRAVIATA and numerous films.
Knute Rockne All American (1940)
Review of ‘Knute Rockne All American’ (1940), a biopic on the Norwegian-American regarded as one of the greatest coaches in college football history starring Pat O’Brien with Ronald Reagan in a small role as George “The Gipper” Gipp.
