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The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story is a 1990 television drama film directed by Leslie Woodhead, written by Michael Eaton, and starring Ned Beatty, Peter Boyle, Harry Ditson, Vincent Gardenia, Timothy West and Michael Wincott. The film is about the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.
Combining dramatic content of four Eugene O'Neill one-act plays, John Ford pilots adventures of a tramp steamer from the West Indies to an American port, and then across the Atlantic with [a] cargo of high explosives. Picture is typically Fordian, his direction accentuating characterizations and adventures of the voyage. [10]
The series holds a 68% "Fresh" score on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, based on 19 reviews with an average rating of 6.9/10. [9] In a positive review, Nick Curtis of the London Standard wrote, "This is a thoroughly decent, even honourable attempt to remind us what the Lockerbie atrocity was, and why it matters that it remains unresolved."
In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic Bosley Crowther wrote: [A] large part of this picture is curiously casual and slow, as Van Johnson, as the blind man, bores the mischief out of everybody with his hazy suspicions. He bores Vera Miles as his ex-sweetheart. She would much rather bill and coo. He bores Cecil Parker as his butler.
The Way Back is a 2010 American survival film directed by Peter Weir, from a screenplay by Weir and Keith Clarke.The film is inspired by The Long Walk (1956), the memoir by former Polish prisoner of war Sławomir Rawicz, who claimed to have escaped from a Soviet Gulag and walked 4,000 miles (6,400 km) to freedom in World War II.
Biopics with outsized heroes can lay it on thick, but “A Million Miles Away” manages to keep its hero Movie Review: 'A Million Miles Away' charms and inspires with the tale of an unlikely ...
Hugh Glass (c. 1783 – 1833) [1] [2] [3] was an American frontiersman, fur trapper, trader, hunter and explorer.He is best known for his story of survival and forgiveness after being left for dead by companions when he was mauled by a grizzly bear.
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