TV Guide: Arthur Penn

Video: Arthur Penn On Bonnie & Clyde

Spike — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:25:42 -0500

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Video: The Missouri Breaks - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:11:03 -0500

Cattle thief Jack Nicholson vs. "regulator" Marlon Brando in Arthur Penn's The Missouri Breaks (1976).

Video: Dead of Winter - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:05:11 -0500

Mary Steenburgen plays a struggling actress trapped in a deadly mansion in Arthur Penn's Dead Of Winter (1987).

Video: Arthur Penn on Bonnie and Clyde - (A TCM Featurette)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:19:48 -0500

Director Arthur Penn comments on the making of his Bonnie and Clyde (1967) in the TCM original documentary, Edge of Outside, premieres July 5th at 8 & 11:30 pm ET.

Video: Bonnie and Clyde - (Movie Clip)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:14:16 -0500

The Barrow gang torment Texas lawman Frank Hamer (Denver Pyle) in Bonnie and Clyde (1967), directed by Arthur Penn.

Video: Bonnie and Clyde - (A TCM Featurette)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:14:14 -0500

Stage actress Estelle Parsons describes her first film role in the landmark Arthur Penn film and how it impacted her acting career.

Video: The Missouri Breaks

iTunes — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 01:22:20 -0500

An 1880s Montana cattle baron (John McLiam) hangs a cattle rustler, mostly as an example to the gang's leader (Jack Nicholson). Nicholson vows revenge, but falls in love with the daughter (Kathleen Lloyd) of the cattle baron, and decides to settle down and become a farmer. But he continues to assist the rustlers who still raid McLiam's land. McLiam hires a top-gun bounty hunter (Marlon Brando). Nicholson sets out to kill Brando, but loses his chance. Brando resumes a murderous rampage which will soon wipe out all the outlaws-except Nicholson, who will precede his final battle to the death with Brando in a competition of mugging, switching accents (Brando) and mannerisms that would, in themselves, do in lesser men. This enormously entertaining movie was directed by Arthur Penn.

Video: Miracle Worker, The

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:33:55 -0500

Based on William Gibson's Broadway play and retaining its acclaimed cast, Arthur Penn's The Miracle Worker tells the true story of Helen Keller (Patty Duke), an Alabama girl struck blind and deaf as a baby after an elevated fever. Enter Annie Sullivan (Anne Bancroft), a partially-blind woman assigned the task of teaching Helen sign language. After first separating Helen from her over-protective parents (Victor Jory and Inga Swenson), Annie begins the arduous process of teaching the girl. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide.

Video: Little Big Man

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:42:53 -0500

Recounting how the West was won through the eyes of a white man raised as a Native American, Arthur Penn's 1970 adaptation of Thomas Berger's satirical novel was a comic yet stinging allegory about the bloody results of American imperialism. As a misguided 20th-century historian listens, 121-year-old Jack Crabb (Dustin Hoffman) narrates the story of being the only white survivor of Custer's Last Stand. White orphan Crabb was adopted by the Cheyenne, renamed Little Big Man, and raised in the ways of the Human Beings by paternal mentor Old Lodge Skins (Chief Dan George), accepting non-conformity and living peacefully with nature. Violently thrust into the white world, Jack meets a righteous preacher (Thayer David) and his wife (Faye Dunaway), tries to be a gunfighter under the tutelage of Wild Bill Hickock (Jeff Corey), and gets married. Returned to the Cheyenne by chance, Jack prefers life as a Human Being. The carnage wreaked by the white man in the Washita massacre and the lethal fallout from the egomania of

Video: Dead Of Winter

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:24:47 -0500

Despite its relative failure at the box office, this is a worthwhile thriller from the director of Bonnie and Clyde. Mary Steenburgen stars as an actress, Katie McGovern, lured to the upstate New York cabin of crazy Dr. Joseph Lewis (Jan Rubes), a diabolical crippled shrink playing a blackmail game with the ruthless sister of a recently murdered woman, who happened to be a dead ringer for Katie. Lewis and his creepy assistant (Roddy McDowall) keep Katie captive, videotaping her and cutting off her finger to further their sordid plot, while she tries desperately to get away. As the title implies, Arthur Penn gets a lot of atmosphere out of the remote cabin and a raging blizzard, and the cast is terrific. It all falls apart eventually, but is quite gripping until the required histrionics in the silly final reel. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide.

Video: Alice's Restaurant

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:22:57 -0500

Intrigued by the counterculture tale of Arlo Guthrie's epic 1968 talking-blues record The Alice's Restaurant Massacree, director Arthur Penn, co-scripting with playwright Venable Herndon, adapted the song into the 1969 feature Alice's Restaurant. Hippie outsider Arlo (Guthrie, playing himself) encounters suspicion from the straight world; visits his dying father, renowned leftist activist/singer Woody Guthrie (Joseph Boley), in the hospital along with friend Pete Seeger; and hangs out in the title converted church/commune created by his friends Alice (Pat Quinn) and her husband Ray (James Broderick). After Alice's Thanksgiving dinner that couldn't be beat, Arlo is arrested for littering by rule-following Officer Obie Obanhein (William Obanhein, playing himself). That littering arrest helps Arlo avoid the Vietnam draft, but the commune is threatened after more personal, old-fashioned conflicts over sex and partnerships permeate Alice and Ray's alternative world. ~ Lucia Bozzola, All Movie Guide.

Video: Night Moves

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 01:53:07 -0500

Academy Award-winner Gene Hackman ("Unforgiven," "The Firm"), a former pro-football star turned private eye, is caught up in a dark web of crime. More than a suspense thriller, the movie is also a compelling character study of a man trying to find himself. Co-stars Academy Award-nominees Melanie Griffith ("Working Girl," "Nobody's Fool") -- in her screen debut -- and Academy Award-nominee and Emmy-winner James Woods ("Nixon," "Ghosts of Mississippi"), deftly written by Alan Sharp ("Rob Roy") and directed by Academy Award-nominee Arthur Penn ("Bonnie and Clyde").

Video: Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 01:30:29 -0500

The Dust Bowl bandits whose blood-splattered spree of robbery and murder became a Depression legend and the basis for Arthur Penn's Oscar-winning movie.

Video: Night Moves

Amazon Video on Demand — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:50:45 -0500