Tag Archives: Henry Fonda

FLIX PIX (1302): “SPENCER’S MOUNTAIN Was The Waltons Before The Waltons”

Posted on June 23, 2024 by KPKeelan

SPENCER’S MOUNTAIN (directed by Delmer Daves, 1963) ****+ (out of 5) . > Aw! Gosh! Golly. Shucks! . I was well into this family-friendly drama before I realized what I was watching: The clear, obvious inspiration for Earl Hamner Jr.’s TV … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged Americana, arts, cinema, criticism, Delmer Daves, Earl Hamner Jr., entertainment, family films, films, Flix Pix, Henry Fonda, ideas, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Maureen O’Hara, movies, opinion, relationships, reviews, Spencer’s Mountain, The Waltons, Wally Cox | Leave a comment

QuickPix (14): “Great WESTERNS For You to Savor, Vol. 1”

Posted on January 9, 2024 by KPKeelan

> Welcome to KPK’s “QuickPix”, a new feature here in KPKworld! > Enjoy brief capsule reviews of very worthy films- not a stinker in the lot. Culled from my monthly compendiums, every title here is a 4 to 5 star … Continue reading →

Posted in QuickPix | Tagged Angel and the Badman, Anthony Mann, Anthony Perkins, art, Arthur Kennedy, Bend of the River, cinema, classics, corruption, criticism, entertainment, ethics, films, Harry Morgan, Henry Fonda, ideas, Janet Leigh, Jimmy Stewart, John Wayne, justice, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, morality, movies, opinion, QuickPix, reviews, Robert Ryan, Rock Hudson, Royal Dano, Stepin Fetchit, The Naked Spur, The Tin Star, westerns | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (859): “Natalie Wood is Helen Gurley Brown in: SEX AND THE SINGLE GIRL”

Posted on October 22, 2022 by KPKeelan

SEX AND THE SINGLE GIRL (directed by Richard Quine, 1964) *** (out of 5) . > A hip, mod mid-sixties comedy featuring the darling Natalie Wood playing a (very) fictionalized Helen Gurley Brown relentlessly pursued by a shamelessly sexist Tony Curtis? … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged arts, battle of the sexes, cinema, comedies, criticism, entertainment, farce, films, Helen Gurley Brown, Henry Fonda, humor, ideas, journalism, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lauren Bacall, movies, Natalie Wood, opinion, reviews, Richard Quine, satire, Sex and the Single Girl, sexism, tabloids, Tony Curtis | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (834): “John Wayne, John Ford, Henry Fonda: FORT APACHE”

Posted on October 10, 2022 by KPKeelan

FORT APACHE (directed by John Ford, 1948) ****+ (out of 5) . > Another John Ford western I hadn’t seen! O, rapture! As usual, it is something special. . Henry Fonda plays effectively against type as a supremely arrogant and headstrong … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged arts, cinema, criticism, drama, duty, entertainment, films, Fort Apache, Henry Fonda, ideas, Indians, John Ford, John Wayne, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, movies, native Americans, opinion, racism, reviews, Shirley Temple, violence, westerns | Leave a comment

KPK on the Cinema (121): The Films of MARCH 2022

Posted on April 19, 2022 by KPKeelan

. > MARCH 2022! TIME MARCHES ON! (All films are rated on a 5-star basis and must be over a decade old to get 5 stars.) (All titles in PURPLE have been expanded for Flix Pix columns.) > This month I … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged A Big Hand For the Little Lady, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, addiction, AFI, Al Pacino, Alan Hale, Alana Haim, American Film Institute, animation, Ansel Elgort, Aretha Franklin, Ariana DeBose, Arthur O'Connell, arts, Audra McDonald, Aunjanue Ellis, backstage musicals, Benny Safdie, Bhutanese cinema, biography, Bradley Cooper, British cinema, Burgess Meredith, Buster Keaton, Catherine Deneuve, Charles Bickford, Charlotte Rampling, child abuse, Christine Ebersole, cinema, cliches, Clint Eastwood, comedies, comedy, coming of age, Cooper Hoffman, crime, criticism, Cry Macho, Danielle Haim, Dave Bautista, David Alvarez, Denis Villeneuve, Disney, drama, drifters, Dune, Dwight Yokam, Eileen Brennan, Elizabeth Hartman, entertainment, epics, escapes, Este Haim, families, fantasy, films, Forest Whitaker, Francis Ford Coppola, Frank Herbert, Fred Gwynne, friendship, gambling, gangs, Gary Goetzman, Gene Hackman, gentrification, George DiCaprio, Geraldine Page, gospel, Grant High School, Haim, Harriet Sansom Harris, Henry Fonda, Herman Munster, Hollywood, Hume Cronyn, ideas, insanity, irony, Italy, Jack Gilford, Jason Momoa, Jason Robards, Javier Bardem, Jennifer Hudson, Jerry Schatzberg, Joanne Woodward, Joel Wachs, John B. Sebastian, John C. Reilly, John Michael Higgins, John Randolph, Jon Peters, Josh Brolin, Karen Black, Kevin Keelan, Kevin McCarthy, King Richard, Kirk Douglas, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Leonard Bernstein, Licorice Pizza, Luca, Lucille Ball, Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom, madness, Marlon Wayans, Martin Luther King Jr., Maya Rudolph, melodrama, mental illness, mentoring, Mexico, Michael Hordern, movies, musical, musicals, musicians, New York City, opinion, Oscar Isaac, parenting, Paul Ford, Paul Thomas Anderson, Peter Kastner, Phil Silvers, Pixar, prisoners, psychological drama, Rachel Zegler, relationships, remakes, Repulsion, respect, reviews, Richard Williams, Rip Torn, road trips, Roman Polanski, romance, Romeo and Juliet, rural life, San Fernando Valley, Scarecrow, sci-fi, science fiction, Sean Penn, Serena Williams, sex, sex comedy, singers, slapstick, soul music, sports films, stardom, Stellan Skarsgård, Stephen Sondheim, Steven Spielberg, success, supernatural, Tail o’ the Cock, teachers, teaching, tennis, The Broadway Melody, There Was a Crooked Man, Timothée Chalamet, tragedy, Venus Williams, violence, Warren Oates, West Side Story, westerns, Will Smith, William Holden, You’re a Big Boy Now, Yours Mine and Ours, Zendaya, Zero Mostel | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (333): “John Ford’s DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK”

Posted on February 1, 2022 by KPKeelan

DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK (directed by John Ford, 1939) ***** (out of 5) . > Iconic director from Hollywood’s golden era, John Ford, directed this excellent adaption of the book about two newlyweds setting off to make a life in a … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged Claudette Colbert, criticism, Drums Along the Mohawk, films, Henry Fonda, John Carradine, John Ford, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, movies, opinion, reviews | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (110): The Films of April 2021

Posted on August 3, 2021 by KPKeelan

. Oscar season! O rapture. (Ratings are on a 5 star scale. Note that a classic only becomes a classic after a decade or more.) (Titles in purple have been expanded for Flix Pix columns.) > This month I review the … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged #MeToo, A Man For All Seasons, abuse, action, addiction, aging, Aida?, alcohol, alcoholism, ambition, Americans, Andra day, animation, Another Round, Australian cinema, Bertrand Tavernier, big agra, biography, blockbusters, Bo Burnham, Bosnian cinema, brotherhood, Bruce Beresford, campers, capitalism, Carey Mulligan, caste system, Catholic church, childbirth, childhood, Chilean cinema, Chloé Zhao, Chris Pratt, Christopher Nolan, class, Clémence Poésy, Collective, comedies, coming of age, conscience, corruption, crime, criminals, Danish cinema, David Straithairn, death, Death Watch, Disney, documentaries, drama, dramas, drinking, drugs, dying, economic refugees, economics, Ed Harris, elderly, Ellen Burstyn, England, ethnic cleansing, family, family drama, fantasy, farming, fires, Francis McDormand, French cinema, Fritz Lang, Garrett Hedlund, gay films, gender, genocide, George MacKay, George Patton, globalism, government, grief, grieving, Harry Dean Stanton, Harvey Keitel, Helena Zengel, Henry Fonda, Himesh Patel, historical drama, Holocaust, humanity, identity, India, itinerant workers, Jasna Đuričić, jazz, Jesse Eisenberg, Jews, John David Washington, John Hurt, John Ratzenberger, journalism, justice, Kanopy, Kenneth Branagh, King Henry VIII, Klaus Barbie, Korean immigrants, Lee Daniels, legends, Leo McKern, lesbians, Leslie Jordan, love, Mads Mikkelsen, Marcel Marceau, mass murder, Matthias Schweighöfer, media, medical fraud, Michael Caine, midwives, Minari, musicians, Natasha Lyonne, Nazis, Netflix, News of the World, Nicholas Hoult, noir, Nomadland, nursing homes, Octavia Spencer, Onward, Paul Greengrass, Paul Scofield, peer pressure, people, persecution, Pieces of a Woman, Pixar, politics, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Promising Young Woman, Puberty Blues, Quo Vadis, racism, rape, rebellion, rebels, relationships, reporters, resistance, revenge, Robert Bolt, Robert Pattinson, Robert Shaw, romance, Romanian cinema, Romy Schneider, Russell Crowe, satire, sci-fi, science fiction, sex, sexism, Shia LaBeouf, social criticism, Strange Fruit, success, supernatural, surf culture, survival, Susannah York, Sylvia Sidney, Tallulah Bankhead, Tenent, The Mole Agent, the press, The True History of the Kelly Gang, The United States Vs. Billie Holiday, The White Tiger, Thomas Vinterberg, Tom Hanks, Tom Holland, Tracey Ullman, tragedy, Trevante Rhodes, Vanessa Kirby, Vanessa Redgrave, violence, visual effects, war crimes, We the Animals, Wendy Hiller, westerns, World War II, You Only Live Once, youth | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (102): The Films of August 2020

Posted on July 26, 2021 by KPKeelan

. AUGUST 2020: A sombre time, but a great crop of movies! So many 4-and-a half and five-star films! Oh, the bounty, amid all the horror! Just pinch me. (All ratings are on a 5 star scale. Note that a classic … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged A Disability Revolution, activism, Adir Miller, Africa, Ali Ungár, American Indians, Americana, Americans with Disabilities Act, Andy Devine, animation, Anne Hathaway, Anthony Mann, apartheid, Austrian cinema, beekeeping, bees, Bill Plympton, Bill Pullman, Bruno Ganz, Burt Lancaster, Camp Jened, Cannibal! The Musical, Carl Reiner, celebrity, Chris Evans, Christopher Plummer, Cinema Verite, closure, colonialism, comedies, coming of age, corporate crime, courtroom drama, Crip Camp, Criss Cross, Dan Duryea, dancing, Daniel Craig, Dark Waters, Delmer Daves, Devil’s Doorway, Dick Van Dyke, disability, documentaries, Don Johnson, Dorotha Segda, drama, dreams, Du Pont, Earl Hamner Jr., Edgar Buchanan, Edward Everett Horton, Esy Morales, family films, fantasy, Frank Oz, Fred Astaire, genocide, Ginger Rogers, Hair High, Henry Fonda, Holocaust, homesteading, Honeyland, human rights, humor, Hungarian cinema, I Married a Strange Person, Idiots & Angels, Ildikó Enyedi, Inside Daisy Clover, Israeli cinema, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jews, John Carradine, John Doucette, John Ford, John Wayne, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Kenya, Knives Out, M. Emmet Walsh, Macedonia, Macedonian cinema, magical realism, Mare Winningham, Mark Ruffalo, Matt Stone, Mau-Mau, Maureen O’Hara, Michael Shannon, Michele Lee, Mickey Rooney, murder, musicals, Mutant Aliens, My 20th Century, mysteries, Natalie Wood, Nazis, noir, Out in the Dark, people, Percy Helton, Peter Simonischek, Plymptoons, poisoning, pollution, queer cinema, racism, redemption, relationships, responsibility, revenge, Revengeance, Rian Johnson, Richard Brooks, Robert Redford, Robert Siodmak, Robert Taylor, Rock Hudson, Roddy McDowall, Ruth Gordon, satire, Sidney Poitier, Sigmund Freud, Slovakian cinema, Something of Value, South Africa, Spencer’s Mountain, Stagecoach, success, surrealism, survival, Teflon, The Comic, The Interpreter, The Matchmaker, the past, The Tobacconist, The Tune, The Waltons, Tim Robbins, Todd Haynes, Toni Collette, Top Hat, trauma, Trey Parker, tribalism, violence, Wally Cox, westerns, whodunit, World War II, Yvonne De Carlo | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (100): The Films of JUNE 2020

Posted on July 24, 2021 by KPKeelan

. JUNE 2020 was a busy film month! Not much else to do, if you have no sex partner and you can hardly heave the house! In this bunch, we get comedies, romances, dramas, animation, film noir, sci-fi, horror, caper … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged 10cc, 8½, A Boy and His Dog, A Ship to India, Abbas Kiarostami, abuse, addiction, Adventures in Psychedelics, Akira Kurosawa, Alan King, And Life Goes On, Andy Richter, Andy Williams, animals, animation, Anthony Bourdain, ants, art, assistants, bank robbers, Barbara Bel Geddes, battle of the sexes, belief, belonging, Ben Stiller, betrayal, Bill Kreutzmann, biography, Birger Malmsten, Blake Edwards, Book of Exodus, brotherhood, Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles, Bunny Lake is Missing, Burt Lancaster, Canadian films, capers, Carrie Fisher, celebrity, censorship, Cesar Romero, Chadwick Boseman, Charles Bronson, childhood, Christopher Walken, cinema, class, classics, Cold Turkey, comedies, coming of age, Communism, composers, crime, criticism, Czech cinema, Czechoslovakia, Da 5 Bloods, dada, Dan Duryea, Danny Kaye, Dash Shaw, David Cross, Deepak Chopra, Delmer Daves, Delroy Lindo, destruction, Dianne Foster, Diary of a Chambermaid, Dick Van Dyke, disaster films, documentaries, Don Johnson, Donald O’Connor, Donovon, drama, Drive a Crooked Road, drugs, Dyan Cannon, dystopia, earthquakes, Emilio D'Alessandro, emotion, environment, Ernest Borgnine, Experiment in Terror, faith, families, family secrets, fantasy, farce, fascism, fathers and sons, Federico Fellini, feminism, film history, film noir, filmmakers, filmmaking, films, folktales, Frankenstein, Fred MacMurray, Fred Willard, French cinema, friendship, Fritz Lang, Gary Cooper, Gaza, Gene Kelly, General Francisco Franco, George C. Scott, Georgina Hale, Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, God, God Went Surfing With the Devil, Guns N' Roses, Harlan Ellison, Have a Good Trip, Helen Gurley Brown, Henry Fonda, Herb Alpert, historical drama, Holger Löwenadler, hope, horror, humor, hunger, hypocrisy, ideas, identity, illness, Ingmar Bergman, injustice, insecurity, Iran, Iranian cinema, Israeli cinema, Italian cinema, Jack Elam, Jacques Tati, Jane Mansfield, Japanese cinema, jazz, jealousy, Jean Reno, Jeanne Moreau, Jesus, Jews, John Lennon, Jour de Fête, journalism, Judaism, Karl Malden, Ken Russell, Kevin Keelan, Kevin McCarthy, kidnapping, Kier Dullea, Kim Novak, Koker, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lacey Schwartz, Land Without Bread, Las Hurdes, Lauren Bacall, Laurence Olivier, L’Age D’Or, Led Zeppelin, Lee Marvin, Lee Remick, legends, Lewis Black, lies, life, Life and Nothing More, Little White Lie, Louis Armstrong, LSD, Luis Buñuel, Mahler, Marcello Mastroianni, Maria Schell, Martin Balsom, Mélanie Thierry, metaphor, Michael Murphy, Mickey Rooney, Miloš Forman, monsters, Moses, movies, murder, musicals, musicians, My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea, Natalie Wood, Natasha, Natasha Lyonne, Natural disasters, Netflix, Nick Kroll, Nigel Davenport, Nina Paley, Noel Coward, Norman Lear, Oingo Boingo, opinion, oppression, Otto Preminger, Palestinians, parenting, peace, people, Phase IV, poverty, psychoactive substances, psychological drama, PTSD, Pushover, Quincy Jones, race, racism, Ramón Acín, Red Nichols, relationships, religion, resilience, reviews, Richard Quine, Rob Corddry, Robert Powell, romance, Rosie Perez, Ross Martin, S is For Stanley, sacrifice, Salvador Dalí, Sarah Silverman, Satchmo, satire, Saul Bass, scandals, sci-fi, science fiction, Sean Connery, Seder-Masochism, self doubt, Sex and the Single Girl, sexism, sexual politics, Sidney Lumet, sight gags, sisters, slapstick, smoking, social criticism, social justice, soldiers, Spain, Spanish cinema, Spike Lee, Stanley Kubrick, Stefanie Powers, Sting, stories, suffering, surfing, surrealism, surrealists, surveillance, suspense, Swedish cinema, symbolism, tabloids, teenage sexuality, teenagers, terrorism, The Age of Gold, The Anderson Tapes, the Bible, The Big Heat, The Burglar, the Church, The Firemen’s Ball, The Five Pennies, The Four Tops, The Hanging Tree, The Holy Land, The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail, The Pointer Sisters, The Spirit of the Beehive, the state, thriller, tobacco companies, Tony Curtis, tradition, tragedy, Tuesday Weld, Vera Cruz, Victor Erice, Vietnam War, violence, westerns, Will Forte, writer’s block, Zach Leary | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (95): The Films of January 2020

Posted on July 19, 2021 by KPKeelan

. January 2020! A new decade that will no doubt be filled by great movies… If the world can survive tRumpism… (All ratings are on a 5 star scale. Note that a classic only becomes a classic after a decade or … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged 1917, A Hidden Life, Above Suspicion, abuse, action, Adam Roarke, Alfred Molina, Ari Aster, art, August Diehl, Austria, B-movies, Basil Rathbone, Bell Book and Candle, belonging, bigotry, Billion Dollar Brain, biography, Bong Joon-ho, Bruno Ganz, bullying, California, car chases, Cary Grant, cinema, cinematography, class, classics, Clifford Irving, cold war, comedies, comic books, conscience, credit, crime, criticism, Dean-Charles Chapman, deceit, Dirty Mary Crazy Larry, drama, duty, economics, Ed Begley, Edward Everett Horton, Elsa Lanchester, epics, Ernie Kovacs, exploitation films, family, fantasy, films, Florence Pugh, Fort Apache, Fred MacMurray, friendship, gentrification, George Cukor, George MacKay, Ginger Rogers, Gotham City, greed, Gregory Peck, Harry Palmer, Henry Fonda, Henry King, Hermione Gingold, Holiday, horror, House of Wax, Howard Hughes, identity, identity theft, impostors, income inequality, Indians, injustice, Intruder in the Dust, Jack Lemmon, Joan Crawford, Joaquin Phoenix, John Ford, John van Druten, John Wayne, Joker, justice, Karl Malden, Katherine Hepburn, Ken Russell, Kevin Keelan, Kim Novak, Korean cinema, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, life, Linda Ronstadt, love, lynching, magic, Man With a Million, Mark Twain, metaphor, Michael Caine, Midsommar, money, movies, murder, music, musicians, mysteries, native Americans, Nazis, neighborhoods, origin stories, Parasite, Parkinson's disease, Peter Fonda, Phillip Barry, pop music, poverty, prejudice, racism, Ray Milland, Red Skelton, relationships, reviews, Richard Gere, Richard Thorpe, rituals, Robert De Niro, rock 'n' Roll, romance, Sam Mendes, sex, Shirley Temple, singers, spies, success, Susan George, Sweden, Terrence Malick, The Gunfighter, The Hoax, The King of Comedy, The Last Black Man in San Francisco, The Major and the Minor, The Million Pound Note, the seventies, The Sound of My Voice, thrillers, Todd Phillips, Valerie Pachner, villains, Vincent Price, violence, Wally Benton, warlocks, wealth, westerns, Whistling in the Dark, William Faulkner, witchcraft, witches, World War I, World War II, zealotry | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: Henry Fonda

FLIX PIX (1302): “SPENCER’S MOUNTAIN Was The Waltons Before The Waltons”

QuickPix (14): “Great WESTERNS For You to Savor, Vol. 1”

FLIX PIX (859): “Natalie Wood is Helen Gurley Brown in: SEX AND THE SINGLE GIRL”

FLIX PIX (834): “John Wayne, John Ford, Henry Fonda: FORT APACHE”

KPK on the Cinema (121): The Films of MARCH 2022

FLIX PIX (333): “John Ford’s DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK”

KPK on the CINEMA (102): The Films of August 2020

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