Martin Ransohoff — Producer (5)

Movie

Switching Channels (1988)
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other title: 头条大新闻 / 冤家三文治 …
This umpteenth version of the Front Page story made the quite appropriate adaptation from newspaper journalism to television. Although the character names have been changed we have no problems identifying the main characters of the Front Page. As in His Girl Friday, Hildy is played by a woman and Kathleen Turner was the ideal choice for this role at the time. Burt Reynolds takes on the Walter Burns character, but he neither has the charm of Cary Grant [His Girl Friday] nor the comic timing of Walter Matthau [Front Page, The (1974)] - but then, who has? The only serious miscasting is Christopher Reeve who just can't match the whimpish Ralph Bellamy. All in all it's not as good as the previous (excellent) versions, but it is still quite enjoyable. A story with that many remakes normally has a stinker amongst the lot, but this one has not (so far).

Movie

Silver Streak (1976)
Silver Streak
★ 7.0 5 ratings
阿瑟·希勒 actor: Gene Wilder / 吉尔·克雷伯格 …
other title: 银线号大血案 / 三上银色快车 …
A somewhat daffy book editor on a rail trip from Los Angeles to Chicago thinks that he sees a murdered man thrown from the train. When he can find no one who will believe him, he starts doing some investigating of his own. But all that accomplishes is to get the killer after him.