Burt Lancaster News

How did Chris Evans swing that? Broadcaster is given trip-of-a-lifetime on Britain's only airworthy Lancaster to mark Dambusters anniversary Presenter boasted of trip in historic aircraft, saying 'I can't believe I am getting paid to have this much fun' Radio 2 listeners know not to expect a lot of subtlety when they tune in to Chris Evans' ... (more)

An Oscar-winning performance from Lancaster as the eponymous bible-thumping con artist in Richard Brooks' visually ravishing and dynamic adaptation of Sinclair Lewis' novel.

Norman Mailer once said that he had never looked into eyes as chilling as Burt Lancaster's. Sam Shepard spent days as a boy trying to copy his smile.

Based on the true relationship between Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot, the renowned 19th century French neurologist and mentor to Sigmund Freud, and his prized teenage patient, Augustine darkly dazzles and intrigues.

Radio DJ Chris Evans touched down at the runway at around noon yesterday in a Lancaster bomber which had flown from the home of the Dambusters at RAF Scampton.

With funding once again flowing to Capital City and Lancaster airports' contract towers through Sept.

A high-pressure system brought above-normal temperatures to Los Angeles County Monday, but relief is forecast for Tuesday.

Two decades after Apache , Lancaster and Robert Aldrich reunited for a darker and more complex meditation on the Indian wars.

The Roxie Theater, an oasis of subversion in the hyper-gentrifying Valencia Corridor, celebrates our roots in crime and over-determined gender roles with passionate programmer Elliot Lavine's annual "I Wake Up Dreaming" festival.

Bob Hope Airport in Burbank topped out at 103 degrees, breaking a 100-degree record for the day that had stood since 1976, the National Weather Service said.

If you're looking for events worth getting out of the house for, then Get Up and Go! has you covered Mondays-Fridays. EARLY BIRD FLICKS: Tinley Park Public Library, 7851 Timber Drive, presents screenings of "Skyfall" at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. This James Bond film stars Daniel Craig, Judi Dench and Javier Bardem.

In this 1950 swashbuckler, starring Burt Lancaster as Dardo, the leader of a peasant revolt in twelfth-century Lombardy against the Hessian overlords, the director Jacques Tourneur, working with a script by Waldo Salt, turns the medieval action-adventure tale into a symbol of the French Resistance in the Second World War and locates its roots in ... (more)

Lancaster, in his last great performance and one of the best of his career, plays Lou, an aging mob foot soldier in the once bustling and now sleepy gambling mecca, who can't help peering across the way at his beautiful neighbor when she bathes at her sink.

In 1927, Ernest Hemingway published a frightening story about a former boxer and small-time gangster, the Swede, who lies in bed in a New Jersey rooming house, too disgusted to defend himself against men coming to kill him.

The second of the four films that Burt Lancaster and Robert Aldrich made together is the story of two mercenaries in Mexico after the American Civil War who are hired by Emperor Maximillian to safely bring a countess to Vera Cruz.

During Geronimo's surrender to the U.S. Cavalry, a lone Apache warrior defiantly interrupts the ceremony of his white conquerors.

"Match me, Sidney." Lancaster held his powerful frame in perfect check when he transformed himself for this now-classic film into J.J. Hunsecker, the sexless, iron-willed gossip columnist who rules the world from his table at 21.

The stellar debut of an American movie icon. Ernest Hemingway, author of the classic short story so chillingly recreated in the opening reel of Robert Siodmak's noir classic, always cited The Killers as the best movie ever made from his work.

A companion film to The Killers , perhaps even more visually exciting , also directed by German A©migrA© Siodmak, and told through flashbacks.

Adapted from James Jones' classic novel of Army life, From Here to Eternity racked up eight Oscars including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and two Best Supporting Actors Schofield Army Barracks, Honolulu, 1941.