This Civil War thriller has so much truth to say about War, Patriotism and combatant-vs.-civilian terror that we can hardly believe it was released in 1954. It’s based on a true event from 1864, a daring undercover mission that hit the Union far away from the conventional fighting. Van Heflin is the vengeance-seeking advance agent, Anne Bancroft a war widow, Richard Boone a maimed Union veteran and Lee Marvin a loose cannon with a hair trigger. The anti-war message is stronger than anything from the Vietnam years! The 20th-Fox release is not on quality home video, and is in great need of restoration.
The Raid
Not on Home Video
CineSavant Revival Screening Review
1954 / Color / 1:66 widescreen / 83 min.
Starring: Van Heflin, Anne Bancroft, Richard Boone, Lee Marvin, Tommy Rettig, Peter Graves, Douglas Spencer, Paul Cavanagh, Will Wright, James Best, John Dierkes, Helen Ford, Lee Aaker, Claude Akins, John Beradino, Robert Easton,...
The Raid
Not on Home Video
CineSavant Revival Screening Review
1954 / Color / 1:66 widescreen / 83 min.
Starring: Van Heflin, Anne Bancroft, Richard Boone, Lee Marvin, Tommy Rettig, Peter Graves, Douglas Spencer, Paul Cavanagh, Will Wright, James Best, John Dierkes, Helen Ford, Lee Aaker, Claude Akins, John Beradino, Robert Easton,...
- 10/8/2022
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
A Chicago grandmother has been sentenced to life in prison for the the 2013 strangling and beating death of her 8-year-old granddaughter, Gizzell Ford, People confirms.
The case sparked intense attention after prosecutors released Gizzell’s rainbow-colored diary, in which the third-grader — nicknamed “Gizzy” — explicitly described some of the abuse she suffered at the hand of her grandma, Helen Ford.
She detailed beatings, being chained to a bed and being forced to squat in one position for hours.
“I hope that I don’t mess up today because I really want to be able to just sit down, watch T.V.
The case sparked intense attention after prosecutors released Gizzell’s rainbow-colored diary, in which the third-grader — nicknamed “Gizzy” — explicitly described some of the abuse she suffered at the hand of her grandma, Helen Ford.
She detailed beatings, being chained to a bed and being forced to squat in one position for hours.
“I hope that I don’t mess up today because I really want to be able to just sit down, watch T.V.
- 6/9/2017
- by Steve Helling
- PEOPLE.com
To the people living in the South Austin area of Chicago, Helen Ford was an enigma.
“Sometimes, she’d be really nice,” neighbor Anitra Watkins tells People. “She’d smile and say hello. But then sometimes she looked angry and you’d know to stay away.”
Despite Ford’s often gruff demeanor, none of her West Adams Street neighbors knew anything about the horrors taking place in her trash-strewn second-floor apartment.
That’s where Helen Ford’s 8-year-old granddaughter, Gizzell Ford, died a brutal and lonely death in 2013. Helen Ford has been convicted of the first degree murder in the girl’s death.
“Sometimes, she’d be really nice,” neighbor Anitra Watkins tells People. “She’d smile and say hello. But then sometimes she looked angry and you’d know to stay away.”
Despite Ford’s often gruff demeanor, none of her West Adams Street neighbors knew anything about the horrors taking place in her trash-strewn second-floor apartment.
That’s where Helen Ford’s 8-year-old granddaughter, Gizzell Ford, died a brutal and lonely death in 2013. Helen Ford has been convicted of the first degree murder in the girl’s death.
- 3/9/2017
- by Steve Helling
- PEOPLE.com
A judge in Cook County, Illinois, has convicted Helen Ford of first-degree murder in the 2013 strangling and beating death of her 8-year-old granddaughter, Gizzell Ford, People confirms.
In court on Thursday, Judge Evelyn Clay did not even try to hide her outrage as she addressed the 55-year-old woman’s crime.
“This murder was torture,” Clay said. “That child suffered a slow and agonizing death. That little body looked like it had been pulverized from head to toe. Her treatment of this child was evil.”
During Ford’s murder trial this week, prosecutors described unspeakable torment: beatings, starvation, forced exercise and strangulation.
In court on Thursday, Judge Evelyn Clay did not even try to hide her outrage as she addressed the 55-year-old woman’s crime.
“This murder was torture,” Clay said. “That child suffered a slow and agonizing death. That little body looked like it had been pulverized from head to toe. Her treatment of this child was evil.”
During Ford’s murder trial this week, prosecutors described unspeakable torment: beatings, starvation, forced exercise and strangulation.
- 3/2/2017
- by Steve Helling
- PEOPLE.com
Like many girls her age, 8-year-old Gizzell Ford kept a diary. The cover was striped with rainbows, and she used a pink marker to record her thoughts.
For the first few entries, Gizzell — known to friends as “Gizzy” — wrote about typical third-grade things: jumping rope, school teachers, clothes and friends.
But her life in Chicago seemed to derail in the summer of 2013, as she began detailing abuse she allegedly suffered at the hands of her grandmother.
“I know if I be good and do everything I’m told I won’t have to do punishments,” Gizzell wrote. She described how...
For the first few entries, Gizzell — known to friends as “Gizzy” — wrote about typical third-grade things: jumping rope, school teachers, clothes and friends.
But her life in Chicago seemed to derail in the summer of 2013, as she began detailing abuse she allegedly suffered at the hands of her grandmother.
“I know if I be good and do everything I’m told I won’t have to do punishments,” Gizzell wrote. She described how...
- 3/2/2017
- by Steve Helling
- PEOPLE.com
Jeanne Crain: Lighthearted movies vs. real life tragedies (photo: Madeleine Carroll and Jeanne Crain in ‘The Fan’) (See also: "Jeanne Crain: From ‘Pinky’ Inanity to ‘Margie’ Magic.") Unlike her characters in Margie, Home in Indiana, State Fair, Centennial Summer, The Fan, and Cheaper by the Dozen (and its sequel, Belles on Their Toes), or even in the more complex A Letter to Three Wives and People Will Talk, Jeanne Crain didn’t find a romantic Happy Ending in real life. In the mid-’50s, Crain accused her husband, former minor actor Paul Brooks aka Paul Brinkman, of infidelity, of living off her earnings, and of brutally beating her. The couple reportedly were never divorced because of their Catholic faith. (And at least in the ’60s, unlike the humanistic, progressive-thinking Margie, Crain was a “conservative” Republican who supported Richard Nixon.) In the early ’90s, she lost two of her...
- 8/26/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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