
Mike Clark gives
an excellent overview of the late Charlton Heston's fine and varied career today at
USA Today with info on DVD/VHS availability.
We still love the larger-than-life actor as "Moses, Moses, Moses", (Passover/Easter time wouldn't be the same without the Easter Sunday broadcast of
The Ten Commandments). But there's a certain something about the actor's quirky '50s films with odd story lines, strange characters and exotic locations. Films that looked and felt like covers of pulp fiction paperbacks and which hold a certain strange fascination. Offputting, yet compelling, these include
Secret of the Incas,
The Naked Jungle and Orson Welle's,
Touch of Evil.
One of our favorite little known Charlton Heston films is
Will Penny, the western about an old cowboy at the end of an era who has lived past his time. Do yourself a favor and seek out this film with Heston's touching and textured performance, bolstered by a fine supporting cast which includes Bruce Dern and Joan Hackett.