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Aug 25, 2016 - 4:03 AM
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Bob DiMucci
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Back in 1959, when director Sydney Pollack was still an actor, he and Steven Hill had worked together in a two-part television production of "For Whom the Bell Tolls" which aired on Playhouse 90. Later, after Pollack turned to directing, Hill appeared in several television shows directed by Pollack. And Pollack cast Hill in a major role in Pollack's first feature film, THE SLENDER THREAD. Nearly 30 years later, Hill worked for Pollack for the last time in the 1993 thriller, THE FIRM. It was Hill's final role in a feature film. In the film, Tom Cruise plays a young lawyer who joins a prestigious law firm only to discover that it has a sinister dark side. Steven Hill plays "F. Denton Voyles," a ruthless FBI agent out to get information from Cruise about his employer. Dave Grusin's score was released by GRP, and an expanded edition was released by La-La Land in 2015.
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Aug 25, 2016 - 5:22 AM
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Rollin Hand
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Steven Hill was chosen by writer Bruce Geller for Mission: Impossible because he guested in the final episode of the seventh season of Rawhide: Episode #30: "The Gray Rock Hotel" (1965) written by Jack Curtis directed by Stuart Rosenberg edited by IMF Paul Krasny music by Rudy Schrager guest: IMF Steven Hill, Lola Albright, Strother Martin, IMF Vic Tayback, IMF Rex Holman (uncredited, again) After loosing one man because of a plagued herd, Gil Favor and his six sick and feverish drovers (Rowdy Yates, Jim Quince, Wishbone, Mushy, Marty Brown, Bates) ride to a desert town to get some help. Once inside an empty dark hotel, Favor and his men meet a strange marooned lady named Lottie Denton who helps them to cure in exchange of a free horse. Favor sends Jim Quince to the mining town of Gold Ridge to get a doctor. Meanwhile, four mysterious riders cross the country to find out Lottie when they bump into sick Jim Quince. Slowly but surely, Lottie fool each delirious man in order to raise dedicated gunmen to protect her against her husband's avenging friends: Monte and his three men. Produced by Kowalski and Geller. It's a veiled story about bewitchment that takes place in a ghost town. The female character of Lottie acts like a Lorelei/Siren and turns each ill man against Gil Favor. The weird masterpiece that closes the season because of Stuart Rosenberg's inspired film-making that helps to create a supernatural atmosphere inside the dusty old hotel that is not far away from Boris Karloff's Thriller anthology. The stock music by Rudy Schrager is also very evocative. It makes a good companion to "The Book" in terms of American gothic mood. Both actors Steven Hill and Lola Albright receive two sets of credits: at the start of Act 1 with the producers, writer and director and also during the end titles. Knowing the nasty little secret of Lottie, the drover character of Marty Brown (actor Steven Hill) ends up murdered by suffocation by Lottie that he calls Palomino. Producer Bruce Geller will select again actor Steven Hill but to be the leader of the team for his pilot Mission: Impossible (1966). Actor Strother Martin will work many times for director Stuart Rosenberg: see Cool Hand Luke, Pocket Money, Love and Bullets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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