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Other shows/movies with James Franciscus

posted 3 years ago by CarolTheDabbler (575)
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This is a thread for reviews, lists, and discussions of other movies and shows with James Franciscus.

In addition to liking Longstreet as a whole, I am very much impressed by James Franciscus making Mike such a real person -- so I am looking for other things he's been in, particularly any that are even half as good as Longstreet. I'll review what I've seen so far in subsequent posts.

Please post your own reviews, lists, and discussions by clicking on "reply" at the bottom of this post. Thanks!

[–] CarolTheDabbler (575) 3 years ago

I just tried to watch City on Fire, a 1978 movie (available on YouTube), but gave up after 18 minutes. It appears to be (as you might guess) a fairly standard disaster movie, and therefore not my cuppa. Might have slogged through even so if JF had a more substantial role, but he's billed as "and James Franciscus as Jimbo," meaning that he's a big name in a small role (along with Ava Gardner and Henry Fonda), and his character seems to be pretty marginal.

If disaster movies happen to float your personal boat, you might enjoy this one. If you do watch it, and if JF's role turns out to have any substance to it, please let me know and I might psych myself up to finish the flick.