It is a terrific film, and It never ceases to surprise me just how little known it is.
I do remember it coming out to good reviews, and because of Bridges’ steady ascent from Thunderbolt and Lightfoot onwards I would have expected it to be a big success. Very puzzling!
As for Lisa Eichorn, who I’ve only ever seen in Yanks and this, whatever happened to her? She’s a star presence in both, and yet she seems to have just slipped away into some kind of retirement. Great shame!
Agree; definitely John Heard’s best film, Home Alone notwithstanding…ha-ha!
Just googled Eichorn, and she seems to have been a regular fixture on British TV dramas in the 80s and 90s…how odd. It’s a bit like seeing Deborah Winger pulling pints behind the bar in the Rover’s Return!
Cutter’s Way seems to me to be a part of that great wave of 70s noirs, like Parallax View, Capricorn One, Three Days of the Condor, and quite a few others that reflected the downturn of the hippy dream and its malaise before the obsession with all things ‘money’ kicked in in the 80s.
The beginning of post modern uncertainties that Reagan and Thatcher tried to strangle at birth with a laser focus on making money, and money alone.
Speaking of 70s Neo-noirs, check out my review of Who’ll Stop the Rain. I will probably review some of those other films you mentioned in the future. I’m a fan of all of them.
Cutter's Way and Who'll Stop the Rain would make for an incredible double feature.
It is a terrific film, and It never ceases to surprise me just how little known it is.
I do remember it coming out to good reviews, and because of Bridges’ steady ascent from Thunderbolt and Lightfoot onwards I would have expected it to be a big success. Very puzzling!
As for Lisa Eichorn, who I’ve only ever seen in Yanks and this, whatever happened to her? She’s a star presence in both, and yet she seems to have just slipped away into some kind of retirement. Great shame!
Agree; definitely John Heard’s best film, Home Alone notwithstanding…ha-ha!
Just googled Eichorn, and she seems to have been a regular fixture on British TV dramas in the 80s and 90s…how odd. It’s a bit like seeing Deborah Winger pulling pints behind the bar in the Rover’s Return!
Cutter’s Way seems to me to be a part of that great wave of 70s noirs, like Parallax View, Capricorn One, Three Days of the Condor, and quite a few others that reflected the downturn of the hippy dream and its malaise before the obsession with all things ‘money’ kicked in in the 80s.
The beginning of post modern uncertainties that Reagan and Thatcher tried to strangle at birth with a laser focus on making money, and money alone.
Speaking of 70s Neo-noirs, check out my review of Who’ll Stop the Rain. I will probably review some of those other films you mentioned in the future. I’m a fan of all of them.
Another one for the watch list. Cheers, Patrick!