
Lee Marvin
(February 19, 1924 – August 29, 1987)
Finally seeing Budd Boetticher’s Seven Men From Now (1956) set me off down the trail that would lead to this blog and its book-in-progress namesake. It’s one of the best movies I’ve ever seen, Western or otherwise.
A huge part of the film’s success is our birthday boy, Lee Marvin. With scenes like the one above, there was no way he was going to remain a character actor. And as we all know, and as films like The Professionals (1966) and Point Blank (1967) prove, he wouldn’t stay one for long.
This’d be a good day (especially since it’s raining here in Raleigh) to curl up on the sofa with that new Marvin biography.
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