Set in Beverly Hills on the eve of Nixon’s 1968 victory and filled with amusing topical references, Shampoo is Ashby’s most complex film.
Set in 1968, Coming Home premiered three years after the fall of Saigon. Two veterans return, both deeply wounded but in different ways.
Based on a novel by William Faulkner, Intruder in the Dust centers on a black man in Mississippi accused of killing a white man.
During a whirlwind courtship, a young woman brings her fiancé home to meet the parents. But she’s white and he’s black, and her upper middle-class parents’ liberal values are put to the test.
While most noirs have lover’s jealousy or greed as criminal motivation, Crossfire’s plot engine is fueled by anti-Semitism.
Broken Arrow is now seen as the progenitor of revisionist westerns such as Little Big Man, The Outlaw Josey Wales, and Dances With Wolves.
