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unless the director and others involved can sustain the viewers’ active attention. Usually<br />

they cannot.<br />

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-Secret Agent (Danger Man) Set 1 (1964) *** 1/2<br />

http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Agent-Aka-Danger-<br />

Man/dp/B00005NKCS/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1292883348&sr=1-1<br />

-Secret Agent (Danger Man) Set 2 (1965) *** 1/2<br />

http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Agent-AKA-Danger-<br />

Man/dp/B00005UW75/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1292892265&sr=1-1<br />

-Secret Agent (Danger Man) Set 5 *** 1/2<br />

http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Agent-AKA-Danger-<br />

Man/dp/B00006FD8R/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1293763705&sr=1-1<br />

-Eyewitness (1981) *** [music **]<br />

http://www.amazon.com/Eyewitness-William-<br />

Hurt/dp/B0007WQGS6/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1292883413&sr=1-1<br />

[Reviewed Wednesday, June 15, 2011]<br />

I liked this B movie when I saw it in the original release and I still like it upon<br />

watching it in dvd format. The Fox cable channel (locally 74) actually played it just a few<br />

hours ago. I am listening to Peter Yates in his audio commentary. He just passed away<br />

January 9 of this year at age 81. Remember that he directed Steve McQueen in Bullitt in<br />

1968, a true classic. He also directed the excellent competitive bicycling movie, Breaking<br />

Away just before Eyewitness. Before that he did The Deep, an okay movie at best but with<br />

a nice John Barry score. Yates also did Krull a movie I enjoyed quite a lot. William Hurt<br />

and Sigourney Weaver are in their youthful vitality. I was already impressed with his just<br />

previous performance in Altered States so I was eager to see him in Eyewitness—as well<br />

of course S. Weaver after her great success in Alien. A young James Woods is also in the<br />

movie. He and Hurt team up again in this year’s HBO stock market drama, Too Big To<br />

Fail. Morgan Freeman is also here, Christopher Plummer, and Steven Hill—so a great<br />

cast!<br />

This movie needed a jazzy Jerry Goldsmith score!<br />

-Spencer’s Mountain (1963) *** [music ****]<br />

http://www.amazon.com/Spencers-Mountain-Henry-<br />

Fonda/dp/B00009AVA5/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1292883549&sr=1-1<br />

This is a decent and wholesome family picture with a vibrant Max Steiner score. I<br />

already did a rundown treatment of the score on my site:<br />

http://www.filmscorerundowns.net/steiner/spencer.pdf<br />

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