Clockwise from upper left: Star Wars (Disney), Raiders Of The Lost Ark (Disney), The Fugitive (Warner Bros.), Blade Runner (Warner Bros.) American Graffiti (Universal), Hollywood Homicide (Sony)Graphic: AVClub
Harrison Ford is one of our biggest, most iconic movie stars. Much like Gary Cooper and Clint Eastwood, he tends to play tough,...
Harrison Ford is one of our biggest, most iconic movie stars. Much like Gary Cooper and Clint Eastwood, he tends to play tough,...
- 6/30/2023
- by Ian Spelling
- avclub.com
One of the most oddly fascinating chapters of a movie star's career is Harrison Ford's awkward three-year run in between "Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope" and "Star Wars: Episode V — The Empire Strikes Back."
After a rough 10 years that saw him kicked out of Columbia Pictures' New Talent Program, and relegated to smallish roles in films like George Lucas' "American Graffiti" and Francis Ford Coppola's "The Conversation," Ford finally broke through as the dashing rogue Han Solo in Lucas' blockbuster space opera. With the entire country mad for anything even tangentially related to "Star Wars," it seemed like all of the actors were primed for superstardom. This was especially true of Ford, whose banter with Carrie Fisher's unflappable Princess Leia drew the film's biggest laughs.
Ford's presence, delivery, and undeniable good looks should've had every major studio and director in Hollywood knocking on his door — and,...
After a rough 10 years that saw him kicked out of Columbia Pictures' New Talent Program, and relegated to smallish roles in films like George Lucas' "American Graffiti" and Francis Ford Coppola's "The Conversation," Ford finally broke through as the dashing rogue Han Solo in Lucas' blockbuster space opera. With the entire country mad for anything even tangentially related to "Star Wars," it seemed like all of the actors were primed for superstardom. This was especially true of Ford, whose banter with Carrie Fisher's unflappable Princess Leia drew the film's biggest laughs.
Ford's presence, delivery, and undeniable good looks should've had every major studio and director in Hollywood knocking on his door — and,...
- 12/14/2022
- by Jeremy Smith
- Slash Film
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