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John Frankenheimer: Arthur Hamilton
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John Frankenheimer's chilling vision of middle-aged malaise concerns 50ish banker, Arthur Hamilton (John Randolph). Bored with his wife and comfortably retired life, Arthur happens to run into Charlie Evans (Murray Hamilton), an old friend he believed to be dead.
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In a 1996 interview with TVOntario, Frankenheimer explained that he wanted Laurence Olivier to play Arthur Hamilton and Tony Wilson. Olivier was the only actor who could have pulled it off, Frankenheimer believed. But the producers didn’t want Olivier, who was no longer a big box office draw.
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To be fair, it would be difficult to argue that any of those who began directing films in the US at approximately the same time—Sidney Lumet, Blake Edwards and Arthur Penn, for example—outshone Frankenheimer by any immense degree. To reject the constraints of liberal anticommunism and a general satisfaction with the American status quo, as well as the pragmatic and eclectic aesthetics that generally accompanied such positions in the postwar period, is the task of another generation of filmmakers.
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