Topic: Sterling Hayden

Enlarge image Criterion Collection via Bloomberg. Elisha Cook as nebbishy racetrack teller George Peatty, and Marie Windsor as his tough-cookie...
By Peter Rainer . Cinema visionary Stanley Kubrick got his start directing low-budget crime thrillers. "The Killing," newly restored on a Criterion...
BILL: Whitney Houston first went into rehab in 2005, and copped to drug use on the Oprah Winfrey Show in 2009. Now she's checked herself back into...

Movie reviews: Dr. Strangelove

In 1963, Stanley Kubrik made an odd move called Dr. Strangelove. Dr. Strangelove is about a bomb-plan gone wrong, where insane Air Force Commander Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) shuts down his base and commands his pilots to go into Attack Plan ...

Song of the Sirens

The recent sinking of the Canadian school ship Concordia and the memory it roused in me of the earlier sinking, almost 50 years ago, of Chris Sheldon's school ship Albatross ties into a strong flood tide that has long flowed through ...

On film: Doing their bit

Reading about the undercover wartime adventures of 1930s British leading man Leslie Howard, as they have been depicted in a new book by the Spanish writer Jos& One of Howard's prewar co-stars and ex-lovers, the marvellously named Spanish actress Conchita Montenegro ...

The Asphalt Jungle

The heist movie has been a Hollywood staple for more than a century, from The Great Train Robbery in 1903 to the Ocean's Eleven remake. The genre probably attracts film people because its three stages (preparation, execution, disillusion) parodically re-enact the ...