I've just finished a triple bill of excellent, but very different films:
Frantic - Roman Polanski directs Harrison Ford (now one of his best friends) in this fine thriller in which Ford plays a doctor who, with his wife, travels to Paris for a conference and, only minutes after settling into their hotel room, she disappears.
The Big Country - A brilliant western directed by William Wyler and with a superb central performance from Gregory Peck and the supporting cast, including Charlton Heston, Jean Simmons and Carroll Baker, is exemplary.
Pandora's Box - This 1929 silent movie from Austrian director Georg Wilhelm Pabst has a fairly simple story [about the rise and fall of a naïve trapeze artist called Lulu] but is superbly directed, has a great lead actress in the American Louise Brooks and features the first lesbian character in film history.
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