Thursday 26 October 2023

In The Line Of Fire (1992 Wolfgang Petersen)

Written by Jeff Mcguire. An FBI agent who has failed to protect JFK is targeted by a mad assassin with sights on the current president. These Americans and their President slayings, I don't know. Perhaps if you guys had less guns...?

Clint Eastwood gives a lovely performance as the grizzled, piano-playing, romantic detective. He apparently wouldn't rehearse his scenes and would act slightly differently from take to take, giving Anne Coates a pleasurable headache. John Malkovich good too as the psycho. With Rene Russo, Dylan McDermott, Gary Cole, John Mahoney.

This is one of Anne's 'cheats' - in the previous shot he's holding an ice cream spoon in his right hand

Edited with aplomb. Photographed by John Bailey. Music (though mixed rather low) by Ennio Morricone. Michael Grillo is assistant director, campaign unit.


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