Cliff Robertson

And they get published, uh, and some even get, you know, Hollywood adaptations that he's not involved in.

Uh, but he starts to move up the ladder, first dabbling in playwriting with his older brother, and then he's drafted into screenwriting by one Cliff Robertson, who really liked his Boston Strangler adjacent novel, No Way to Treat a Lady, which would go on to get an adaptation that he did not write the screenplay for.

But Goldman is hired to adapt the book Flowers for Algernon for Robertson, and it is a screenplay for what would eventually be called 1968's Charly.

And Gina, I don't like that movie.

Flowers for Algernon/Charly, only, you know, he gets super hot, wears cowboy boots, and has lady hair.

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Which Cliff Robertson has never been accused of.

But from that experience, Goldman is tasked with writing a bunch of different adaptations, things like Papillon and Harper, and before you know it, his first original screenplay earns him an Oscar when it comes out.

And it stars Joan Crawford, who we know from loads of things.

Cliff Robertson, do you know him from anything else? Right now, superhero fans would know him because he was Uncle Ben in the Spider-Man films with Tobey Maguire.

Oh, so you knew him? I knew him when I saw his name card.

Cliff Robertson, I didn't know him from anything else other than Spider-Man.

He's an old man in Spider-Man.

Oh, okay.

I think she was, yeah, but she liked being in front of the camera too much.

She loved being the movie star.

I loved the theme music by composer Benjamin Lees.

I hung on every word of Schickel's analytical narration, voiced by Cliff Robertson, weaving in and out of these amazing film clips, whole scenes in many cases, of a director's work.

Hitchcock one week, Capra, Howard Hawks, William Wellman the next, and Vincente Minnelli the next.

I talk with Alonso about Minnelli's hundred or more hidden things, not because it's a revolutionary idea, but because it's such a useful entryway into thinking about what we're watching when we watch anything.

Get it? Spider-Man spout? I'm sorry, that was really bad, but I couldn't resist.

Released May 3, 2002, the superhero film Spider-Man, which was the first one in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy, stars Tobey Maguire's the title character, Willem Dafoe, who ended up returning as the Green Goblin from No Way Home, the late Cliff Robertson, Kirsten Dunst, and James Franco.

It honestly doesn't even need a recap.

With $821.7 Plus million dollars worldwide, it was the third highest grossing 2002 film, the highest grossing superhero film, and the sixth highest grossing film overall for its time.

understanding the necessity for joy, you know, and that's, that's a thing because now I have the followers.

And now I have the venues, so now I have, what is it they say, Spider-Man, Cliff Robertson's best line, with ultimate power comes ultimate responsibility.

And that's a real heavy burden if you're a comedian.

It's like, what? You know, how did I put that jacket on? That's not a soft fuzzy

I mean, I guess people watch it.

the thing about Richard Crenna is he's one of these he's got one of these faces and one of these actors that you confuse him with like Gig Young Cliff Robertson and was it Robert Preston the actor not the not the the political journalist he has one of these faces you know the kind he's got brown hair maybe a side parting you know although yeah I liked Richard Crenna he looks the part but I'm not keen on his line line delivery

Yeah, he's got a unique kind of intonation, the way he just, rumble, don't, kind of thing.

It's almost kind of Shatner-esque kind of thing sometimes.

We are talking about 1975's Three Days of the Condor, directed by Sidney Pollack, starring Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway, and several other interesting characters.

Cliff Robertson, Max von Sydow, I hope he's not a bad guy.

Is he? Is it safe? We'll fight about that.

We will fight about that.

There's a consistent toupee theme in this.

I'm not sure if everyone noticed that.

Cliff Robertson's incredible.

If that's not a toupee, I don't know what.

And when it came to the Academy Awards for that particular season, it actually ended up getting nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay.

and as it is the 5th of september we are going to be watching picnic from 1955 directed by joshua logan and starring william holden so when i brought up the poster for this movie did not look familiar and then when i looked at the cast for this movie i did not know at anything about this particular movie so this was definitely a first watch for me And like I just mentioned, not only does this movie star William Holden, but it also stars Kim Novak, Cliff Robertson, Verna Felton, Betty Field, Susan Strasberg, Rosalind Russell, and Arthur O'Connell.

Charming Hal Carter, played by William Holden, turned to wandering after he failed as his acting career left him loose in the wind.

Interested in reuniting with an old colleague friend, Alan Benson, played by Cliff Robertson, Carter bums a train ride to a tranquil Kansas town.

Alan greets him warmly, and together they join the community at a picnic celebrating Labor Day.

However, his welcome quickly sours when sparks ignite between him and Alan's girlfriend, Maggie Owens, played by Kim Novak.

And the fact that obviously we are dealing around these movies at Labor Day with last yesterday's Stand By Me, we still have some sort of like this picnic situation, which to be fully honest is like almost a minor portion of it.

But a lot of the things that happen at it are very crucial to the characters of this movie.