@@TatjanaFiculovic 🤔 The "inspector" antagonist in a film where the protagonist is an antihero or a misunderstood hero is a good place to find examples: Agent Carl Hanratty in Catch Me If You Can isn't a bad guy; Inspector Javert in Les Miserables might be somewhat misguided, but isn't particularly villainous; and the most concrete antagonist in GATTACA is the detective, but he's not a villain either -- although, in that film, some of the "antagonism" is more attributable to the society in general. Scenarios like this can often be found in courtroom stories, too, where the opposing council and/or judge may be an antagonist, but not villainous (like in My Cousin Vinnie). As for going beyond these "law and order" archetypes...? Consider the ex-wife in Mrs. Doubtfire.
In the beginning, Kimble's wife says "Richard" as if she is calling out to him to tell him someone is trying to kill her. Not that she was forced to say his name.
The line up that year for BSA was next level including John Malkoivic Leonardo DiCaprio and Ralph Fiennes but also left out IMHO the actor who should have won Val Kilmer as Doc Holiday in Tombstone 😊
@@raybernal6829 Ralph Fiennes was robbed. Tommy Lee Jones was great but Fiennes’ performance as Amon Goethe was all-encompassing and chilling beyond belief. Malkovich was also better than Jones.
You all do realize that the Oscars are just political BS and mean nothing. If they were about "deserving" then Tommy Lee Jones would have had one well before this movie. As for Val Kilmer, I'm not sure he actually had any other good performances in his career.
The phone call - the wife was trying to warn Richard that she was being attacked, and he was in danger too. But her words out of context made it seem like he did it (obviously).
I love this movie and I've seen it a bunch of times but that one part with the phone call always bugged me. The one armed man waits for her to say her husband's name then hangs up the phone. But he had no idea what her last words were going to be. What if she croaked out "one armed man"? Not a criticism, just a thought that always occurs to me.
I can't believe the prosecutor was able to manipulate everyone into thinking his wife was saying Richard was trying to kill her. It wasn't convincing at all. We didn't see much of the trial but I don't think motivation was established either. Yea, it bugged me too.
@@SurvivorBri you could argue he was indeed railroaded as it was a high profile case and the prosecutor was too hasty in reaching conclusions in the name of furthering their career
My favorite bit of trivia about that film is that they started shooting with a VERY unfinished script therefore a lot of the awesome dialogues were in fact written by the actors, some were ad-libbed, especially on the marshall's people's side.
This movie is just breakneck tension and pacing, with an antagonist moreso than a villain. SO GOOD. You root for both Ford and Jones are both are doing the right thing, legitimately! It has so many great moments throughout. The sequel U.S. Marshals is so worthwhile too.
Yes, based on a TV series, that was based on a true story in Ohio. It was all over the news.I remember as a kid in the 50's and then the 60'S, when the actual TV series aired. Dr. Sam Shepard......really interesting story.
Some feel Jones' '93 Oscar win was sort of a make-up for not winning in '91 for JFK. His competition was Ralph Fiennes (Schindler's List), DiCaprio (What's Eating Gilbert Grape), Pete Postlethwaite (In The Name of the Father) and John Malkovich (In The Line of Fire). The Oscar could have gone to any of them. Likewise, Best Actor nominees were Tom Hanks (Philadelphia- Winner), Daniel Day Lewis (In The Name of the Father), Anthony Hopkins (Remains of the Day), Laurence Fishburne (What's Love Got To Do With It) and Liam Neeson (Schindler's List). What role would you eliminate to make room for Harrison Ford's nomination?
@@BDUBZ49 Probably remains of the Day considering Hopkins had already won for Silence of the Lambs. As far as Jones, JFK certainly helped, but he is legit GREAT in this role and it still holds up imo. Only caveat would be if Val Kilmer had been nominated, then he’d of deserved it imho
@@TKN5199 Right. I forgot about Lambs. Kilmer was amazing...but again, the competition was so stiff that year and Tombstone came out so late in December and it took so long for word of mouth reviews, and for it to be taken seriously..( I think nominations had to be in by the end of January). If Tombstone would have come out a couple months later in '94.. Kilmer would have had a good chance at winning the following year.
I've always thought Ford was left because it was originally a TV series... Basically a remake of a TV show, and thus, frowned upon by those in charge, since TV was looked upon with a goodly amount of disdain still, at this time. Yes Tommy Lee won, but as someone says it was regarded as a make-up for an earlier sin.
@@BDUBZ49 I've honestly never been that big on Neeson in "Schindler's List" (I've always almost felt that he and Fiennes should've been cast in opposite roles), but I think Ford's performance here is pretty typical of what he usually does, so I wasn't that disappointed that he was snubbed.
This is such an iconic movie for real. And it holds up so well. Just an intense, tightly paced and fascinating thrill ride, with two solid leads facing off. It's especially fun to see U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard start out as a guy who doesn't care about the circumstances, but rather only the job getting done. But he is a detective at heart, and once he starts seeing the pieces adding up, people lying to him, and Dr. Kimble showing real heart, he can't help but be won over.
Grew up watching David Jansen in The Fugitive TV series. The show was highly regarded and many viewers were vested in his weekly plight. I remember reading a story at the time, many a solider coming back from Viet Nam ,who were well familiar with The Fugitive before going overseas that they were disappointed that they had missed the final airing of the show. Of course there were no DVD or tape media back then, so they all had to hear the story ending by word of mouth.
"But he is a detective at heart, and once he starts seeing the pieces adding up, people lying to him, and Dr. Kimble showing real heart" Looool no. Gerard attempts to shoot Kimble dead at the county lock up AFTER finding out that he saved the life of that kid while at the hospital. His investigative curiosity is entirely focused on defining Kimble's life and how best to catch him. It's only once he puts all the evidence together and realises that Sykes likely had the opportunity to do the murder from the phone records and his testimony about lending his car to Dr Nichols that Gerard gives him the benefit of a dount, and even then he's doing so because he wants to follow the letter of the law and get him back in custody first.
Neil Flynn, the Janitor from Scrubs is the cop on the train. Literally. They worked that into an episode of Scrubs. JD was watching The Fugitive and he recognized Janitor in that scene.
3:38 Everyone misses this. "Richard... He's trying to kill me." She's calling out to Richard for help because someone is trying to kill her. But her brain has had so much trauma, she can't put a thought together fully. When you play it from the tape with no context, it's an accusation.
She sees Richard walk in and callas his name. Then she tries to tell to Richard what is happening... you're right though,, it is misconstrued as her saying it to the 911 operator instead of her saying it to Richard asking for assistance. (That's what I remember anyway)
They only had one train 😂😂😂 so they had to get the wreck in one take. They used 21 cameras including 2 in the bus. The wreck is still there in North Carolina for people to take a short hike through the woods and see.
@@Tconlon251_2 You can take a train ride past it too on the same train tracks on the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad. It a nice day trip if you are in the area and gives you a really good view of the wreck.
The Fugitive and Regarding Henry are both in my top 3 Harrison Ford movies. The third would be the very different genre of film Sabrina (with Julie Ormand and Greg Kinear). I like many of his other films including the Star wars movies and Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade etc. but, those 3 films are my personal favourites.
I was in my early teens when the TV series THE FUGITIVE aired. I watched every episode. The last episode was the most watched program ever at the time. The series was based on the case of Dr. Sam Sheppard, a surgeon who was falsely accused of murdering his wife. He was sentenced to life in prison. After 10 years his case was picked up by F. Lee Baily one of the best criminal lawyers of the latter half of the 20th century. Bailey got a retrial and took the prosecution's case apart. Sheppard was found not guilty but unfortunately he had lost his skills as a surgeon. He turned to drinking heavily and died at the age of 48 from a wrecked liver. His son managed to get his mother's body exhumed and through DNA Dr. Sam Sheppard was proven innocent. A sad ending to a very sad case.😢
@@Matrim42 It doesn't matter what the creators of the series said at the time most people believed it was based on the Sheppard case. There was no Internet at the time to hash things out. Because most people believed the series was based on the Sheppard case, they also believed he was railroaded by an aggressive / ambitious prosecutor. As it turned out that is exactly what happened. Ambitious prosecutors can be real bastards or bitches. For example when Kamala Harris was a prosecutor she held back information on a convicted murderer that would have proven his innocence. The man, who also happened to be black, was sitting on death row. The man's defense attorney finally got her to release the information and the man got out. Prosecutors have enormous power and if they decide they don't like you for whatever reason, they can find something to charge you with, and the government having unlimited resources, and most defendants having limited cash, they can force one to plead guilty even if they are innocent. I think that because of the series most people believed Sheppard was innocent.
Apparently TV executives had to be convinced by the creators that the murder had to be solved in the finale. They were like "People actually care about that?".
@@AddieCounts I was thinking the same thing. She must not have seen Caddyshack yet. Great movie and a star studded cast. Though you probably won't know some of them. They were before your time lol
Harrison Ford & Tommy Lee Jones…a dynamic duo even though they don’t have much screen time together; this movie has always been a favorite of mine from the 90s
When she said "Richard, he's trying to kill me", she was directing that to Richard, not the police on the phone, she was telling Richard that Sykes was trying to kill her. Sykes did not make her say it.
As much as I love this movie, the TV series was even better. The Fugitive series finale was the most watched episode in television history when it aired.
I discovered the TV through my mum loving it. So I came to really like the series too. However, what the film does better than the series is actually giving a through line of giving a reason for his wife's murder and a back story that tied everything together. I watched an interview with the writer of the series and he literally had to persuade the powers that be to give the series a proper finale with a resolution to the story. The producers were just going to end it without resolving anything. The final season, and last few episodes especially, really give a great ending to the series.
This is one of my favorite "good cop, good criminal" movies. The intelligent plot and snappy dialogue reminds me a lot of Heat (with Al Pacino as the cop and Robert De Niro as the criminal). I highly recommend reacting to that movie if you haven't already seen it.
Hello i got some movie suggestions that might interest you.."Last Action Hero"(arnold schwarzenneger)..."Volcano"(tommy lee jones/anne heche)..."U.S. Marshalls"(tommy lee jones/wesley snipes)..."Space Cowboys"(clint eastwood/donald sutherland/tommy lee jones/james garner)..."Man of the House"(tommy lee jones)..."Heartbreak Ridge"(clint eastwood)...have a nice day.
I haven't seen this since it came out, and there's only one line that I will always remember. "What I want from each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse"
27:45 "Could they still arrest him for running from the cops?". That's a great question that is often overlooked in this kind of story. In Real Life, yes, Richard could be charged with a number of crimes regarding his escape, and what he did afterwards while on the run (stealing the ambulance, holding a federal marshal at gunpoint, false ID, breaking and entering, etc.). Given the situation, however, it's unlikely they would actually charge him with anything; having falsely convicted him of murder (on pretty flimsy evidence to boot), and the eventual murderer that he caught himself turning out to be a former cop, the court would most likely drop most of the charges (counting time served under the original indictment), along with a "We make all these other charges go away, and you don't sue us into oblivion" agreement.
Addie, The Fugitive (1993) is one of my all-time favorite Harrison Ford movies, alongside Air Force One (1997) & the Indiana Jones movies. I own the original 1997 DVD with the 1.33:1 Full-Screen version on Side A and the 1.85:1 Widescreen version on Side B. BTW, the woman that believes that Richard Kimble is innocent is Jane Lynch, Dominique Blatt in Another Cinderella Story (2008), the voice of Sergeant Calhoun in Wreck-it Ralph (2012) & Coach Sue Sylvester in Glee (2009-2015).
This is one of my favorite Harrison Ford movies. Another good one you can watch is 1985's Witness. I won't give away too much, but this is one movie you can't pass up.
Fun Fact: Tommy Lee Jones won the Oscar for best supporting actor for this one. Fun Fact #2 A LOT of people were upset that Harrison Ford was not even NOMINATED for this movie. When Tommy Lee was award the Oscar, during his speech he said " I wanna thank so & so, and whoever, Mom, Dad, and of course the one man that NEEDS no support, Harrison Ford." I though that was real classy of TLJ.
_"Richard, he's trying to kill me."_ A dying wife speaking to her absent husband about the attack she's enduring, but which can be misconstrued as her identifying her husband as the assailant.
The locations where they filmed were all reasonably close to that 9 hour claim with the exception of the Blue Ridge Parkway: Blount County Tennessee 8h 40m Bryson City NC 9h 54m Dillsboro NC 9h 41m Tapoco NC 9h 13m Great Smoky Mountains 9h 4m Blue Ridge Parkway 10 37m
Grew up watching David Jansen in The Fugitive TV series. The show was highly regarded and many viewers were vested in his weekly plight. I remember reading a story at the time, many a solider coming back from Viet Nam ,who were well familiar with The Fugitive before going overseas that they were disappointed that they had missed the final airing of the show. Of course there were no DVD or tape media back then, so they all had to hear the story ending by word of mouth.
Yes, some great hometown stuff here. I used to catch the bus that went past that bar Kimble was making that phone call from. I later moved to a house about a block away from there. I grew up just up the hill from that area, so I was really thrilled to see the south side on the screen again (Blues Brothers)
@@pvanukoff There is actually a recorded incidence of someone surviving a similar fall. While extremely unlikely, it is not impossible. What is impossible is finding a dam like that in Illinois to begin with.
6:10”Somehow I grabbed him, and pushed him out of the bus.” Reminds me so much of that bank guard in Tommy Boy: “After he hit me over the head many, many times, I had to surrender my side arm. I have a family!” 😂😂😂
The film was based on one of the most popular TV series of the 1960s. The finale of the series is still one of the most watched episodes of TV in history. One of the inspirations of the story was Les Miserables, with Kimble as a Jean Valjean type helping people in his travels, and Gerard as Inspector Javert hounding Valjean (Kimble) wherever he goes. Tommy Lee Jones won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor as Sam Gerard. The One Armed Man aka Frederick Sykes was played by the late Andreas Katsulas, who is best known for his TV work especially in the landmark sci-fi series Babylon 5 as Ambassador G'Kar on Narn, as well as his appearances in Star Trek: The Next Generation as the Romulan Commander Tomaluk.
According to the television show Mythbusters, the myth that going in the water would throw off the scent for the dogs was just that, a myth. One of the hosts took every precaution known so that he would not leave a scent. Yet the police dogs still found him.
All the jump scares in the beginning had my rolling on the floor. Best opening for a reaction. I had to watch it multiple time because it was so funny. My abs hurt now. Thanks.
I saw The Fugitive in 1993. It was the 2nd time I saw Tommy Lee Jones in a film. The first time was in 1977 when he played the lead in "The Amazing Howard Hughes" TV movie. That was made 1 year after the real Hughes had died. It was based on a biography of Hughes by his long time business partner, Noah Dietrich.
Hi Addie. Director Andrew Davis....like John Hughes, has a lot of his movies set/filmed in Chicago. (6 I think). This film, along with The Blues Brothers and Ferris Bueller's Day Off form the Holy Trinity of Chicago Films. Andrew and Harrison Ford are both from Chicago, as are much of the cast: - Jane Lynch - Deputy Marshal Poole (the black lady) - Deputy Marshal Stevens (the one who said "Right, no press!") - the lying corrections officer - Dr. Alec Lenz - the cop on the train who got shot (Neil Flynn) - the 2 Chicago Police detectives - Richard Kimble's lawyer (Dick Cusack- John and Joan Cusack's father) - the 2 news reporters Pam Zeckman and Lester Holt - the hospital secretary
This has been for most of my life one of my favorite movies, one of my go to "comfort movies". It has just the right amount and right mix of excitement, tension, story and mystery, with a wonderful cast of characters, that I can just go back to it at least once a year. Great reaction Addie!
Ford's career has been amazing! Starred in 3 franchises simultaneously. Indiana, Han Solo, Deckerd in Bladerunner. Also involved in 2 of the greatest stunts ever. Train scene here, and slide under the truck in Raiders. From American Graffiti to apocalypse now and Force ten from Navarrone, to everything after and the highly underrated movie, presumed innocent! The sequel to this os pretty good also. US Marshalls. Also the best TV show movie tie in ever? Type in here, TV show Scrubs, The Fugitive episode!
Sela Ward, who played Helen Kimble, said that after this movie, she would never do another role where she dies in the first ten minutes. In a lot of murder cases, the killer is usually someone the victim knew. Which is why Richard was arrested and convicted for Helen's death. The guys who crashed the train did a different Harrison Ford movie, Clear and Present Danger. They blew up a house.
😄👍 Most people who watch this film for the first time already know that Tommy Lee Jones is in it but are surprised to discover that Jane Lynch and Julianne Moore are as well. 😎 Trivia: Of course what you saw going over that waterfall wasn't really Harrison Ford or even a stunt man, but a dummy. In reality, no human could ever have survived that fall. When the dummy hit the bottom it was instantly torn to shreds. 🥸 This is one of those plots that simply cannot be written anymore. There are too many phone booths and land lines that are integral to the story. By the time of the similar "Bourne" trilogy in the 2000s, the phone booths were all gone, but people in offices still had land lines. Now even all the land lines are gone.
@19:26, To be fair, if I was walking down those stairs alone and I heard someone yell out "RICHARD", I too would probably look up even though Richard is not my name.
You're both wrong. Tommy Lee said "gopher" because he went underground. Addie said "Gopher?" because it reminded her of the scene in O Brother. When the graphic about the movie reference popped up, it was about Addie's quote, not the movie she is watching.
A lot of this film was filmed in my neck of the woods. Specifically, between Sylva, Bryson City, and Murphy, North Carolina. The bus wreckage is still on the side of the tracks in Sylva.
The Fugitive was an excellent TV series in the 60’s. Recently, I watched on TH-cam the pilot and the two part series finale. Richard Kimble did get around. Every week he’d be in a new location with a new name, trying to survive while looking for that rat bastard one-armed man that killed his wife.
Hi Addie. Really good performances from several people in this. Great reaction too. Don't know if you have seen the Lonesome Dove mini series, or if you even like westerns. You should watch it if you haven't. Really great story (writing). Absolutely amazing performances too. The 2 main characters are a couple of older former Texas Rangers, played by Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones. Both are absolutely brilliant. It has a few rough moments like any western or action film might, but such great story telling. trust me it will be worth the watch. Enjoy! Stay safe and well!!
"This is my favourite St. Patrick's Day movie. It takes place at St. Patrick's Day, and the plot could not have moved forward without there having been a parade for it. Definitely a St. Patrick's day movie. It doesn't have to be *about* St. Patrick's Day!" 'Die Hard is an X-mas movie' people, this is you. This is what you sound like.
This is probably the best of Harrison Ford's "action" films (Indiana Jones I'd classify as "adventure"), but, also ranked very highly are **Patriot Games** and **Clear and Present Danger** . Harrison Ford plays the 'Jack Ryan' character from the Tom Clancy novels.
There is a parody movie mainly based on The Fugitive, with lots of other references, of course, called Wrongfully Accused, starring Leslie Nielsen. It came out in 1998.
I loved David Jansen as Dr. Kimball in the TV series. It was an exciting weekly series back when I was a young man always wondering when he would catch the one armed man.
This is a great movie. Coming from the Chicago area, it was great seeing the city on display. Tommy Lee Jones won an Oscar for this role. Well deserved. Your reaction was so much fun from the get go. Maybe you have your volume up too much for those musical bangs. LOL! If you want another Harrison Ford movie, I recommend "WITNESS". And then watch Weird Al's "Amish Paradise" music video.
19:25 That happened to me at a shopping centre once. Someone called out “Rickard!” I stopped then resumed walking, thinking they were after someone else. Then I realised that I was the only Rickard I knew and that it had to be me! 🤦♂️
I grew up watching re-runs of the old 'The Fugitive' TV series (1963-1967), with David Janssen as Dr. Richard Kimble, and Barry Morse as Lt. Philip Gerard (unlike Tommy Lee's character, Deputy US Marshal Samuel Gerard).
Fun fact: the bus/train crash was filmed in the backwoods of North Carolina and the buses and trains used for the scene were just abandoned there afterwards. They're apparently still there, years later, and some TH-camrs have actually gone there and found them. It would probably be rather confusing for someone who didn't what what they were to find a train market "Illinois Freight" in North Carolina.
This is one of my favourite films of the 1990s, and in my all time top 10. There are not many times when Harrison Ford can be upstaged, but Tommy Lee Jones does it in this one. Both men are on top form, and what you said about who to root for - the great thing is, you can root for either or both and you'll be right in the end! This film very cleverly develops both characters to growing mutual respect, until the climax where they effectively save each other. At the outset, TLJ's Sam Gerrard seems like he's just "doing his job", with no personal regard for whether his 'fugitive' actually deserved to be hunted down - as shown by the way he just shoots the other fugitive and says "I don't bargain" - but it's really well written (and acted by TLJ) how you see him gradually developing respect and understanding for the kind of man Dr Kimble really is, and how a serious miscarriage of justice has happened. It shows that for all his toughness and smart quips, deep down Gerrard is concerned about justice too. The pacing in this is also great, and there are some classic quotable lines.
My mom used to tell me that back when the TV series was on the air the guy that played the FBI agent would get harassed by fans demanding him to stop going after Dr. Kimble and he had to tell them that what their watching was just a TV show.
Scrolled to find the fellow Babylon 5 enthusiast. Andreas Katsulas (One Armed Man) turned in an absolutely amazing performance playing Ambassador G'Kar in Babylon 5. Astounding character development arc portrayed while wearing a complex alien make-up and prosthetics of a different nature than the one portrayed in the Fugitive. Someday would love to see Babylon 5 get its special effects upgraded, but I cannot imagine a better set of performances than we had between the alien Ambassadors G'Kar and Londo Mollari (Peter Jurasik).
Thank you. Trivia: Joe Pantoliano seen here as Cosmo Renfro was also in a little movie from 1999 called "The Matrix." He has been in almost ninety movies, often appearing in five a year, and is always watchable whether playing a good or bad guy.
They need to reboot this movie as a TV show. In the 60s this started out on television when someone realized the most popular shows were cop shows and hospital shows, so they combined them into one. fast forward 60 years and those are still the top genres.
Every time I see the cop get killed on the train I think to myself don't worry he survives and becomes the janitor in Scrubs. And also the dad in The Middle , love that actor
The train wreck and dam scenes were filmed in western NC. I’ve been near the dam, locals now call The Fugitive Dam. You can see the train engine crash scene from an excursion train. Tommy Lee Jones and others reprised their role in US Marshalls. Also a good movie.
So glad you finally got to this Ads - I knew you'd dig it. Ford & Jones are excellent - I always hoped they'd re-team for another film (well not one related to this but) - and yes Jones richly deserved his Oscar win. The film is based on a '60s TV series with David Janssen and you s/binge it - it was very solid. This series also inspired the TV series version of THE INCREDIBLE HULK with Bill Bixby as David Banner (the Hulk) on the run as a fugitive with a dogged investigative reporter on his trail. Also the original series was a parallel to LES MISERABLES with the Jean ValJean & Javert tangle.
Great Reaction Addie! As someone who actually watched the TV Series for the Fugitive needles to say to see brought to the Big Screen by Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones and for them to do it Justice makes this movie that much more special! I also watched Tommy Lee Jones first two movies Coal Miners Daughter (1980) and The River Rat (1984) at the theaters! As for a Sleeper Movie by Harrison Ford I would recommend ‘Frantic’ Hope someday you’ll react to it!! It’s on Amazon Prime and TH-cam Movies to Rent or Own! 🤘🙏🏻
FWIW This movie was based on a long running TV Series from the 1960s. The TV Series was based on a 19th Century French novel call "Les Miserables", which was made into a musical "Les Miserables", which you may know... In the novel and musical, the Police person chasing the "Hero" is named "Javert" - The Detective in "The Fugitive" is "Gerard"...
Actually, the series was based on the Sam Sheppard murder case. Sheppard claimed a shaggy haired stranger killed his wife but was found guilty at trial. Unlike The Fugitive, Sheppard never escaped prison but did get a retrial at which he was acquitted. The escape and manhunt parallel Les Miserables but I don't think any attribution was ever made by the series producers.
5:43 That train wreck is basically a tourist attraction. It's still there from what I understand. It was a real train that they used for the shot and it was just left there. 20:35 That was a real parade going on and they just kind of winged it with this scene.
“U.S. Marshals” with Tommy Jones, Wesley Snipes, Robert downey jr PG-13 1998 ‧ Action/Thriller ‧ 2h 11m Hopefully you watch this sequel.. Made you look 😂
You can see whats left of the bus and train outside Dillsboro in North Carolina. The dam scenes was recorded at Cheoah Dam north of Robbinsville and the scfnes wdre Ford walk on railway tracks in a tunnel is filmed in the Cowee tunnel west of Asheville
Hi Addie, 2 more great non-franchise Harrison Ford movies to put on your viewing list are "Witness" (1985) and "Regarding Henry" (1991). I love'em both! 💚
This is an excellent example of how a story's antagonist doesn't have to be a villain.
Do you have any other examples of this?
@@TatjanaFiculovic 🤔 The "inspector" antagonist in a film where the protagonist is an antihero or a misunderstood hero is a good place to find examples: Agent Carl Hanratty in Catch Me If You Can isn't a bad guy; Inspector Javert in Les Miserables might be somewhat misguided, but isn't particularly villainous; and the most concrete antagonist in GATTACA is the detective, but he's not a villain either -- although, in that film, some of the "antagonism" is more attributable to the society in general. Scenarios like this can often be found in courtroom stories, too, where the opposing council and/or judge may be an antagonist, but not villainous (like in My Cousin Vinnie). As for going beyond these "law and order" archetypes...? Consider the ex-wife in Mrs. Doubtfire.
In the beginning, Kimble's wife says "Richard" as if she is calling out to him to tell him someone is trying to kill her. Not that she was forced to say his name.
Addie, you may not have been told this because you weren’t aware of Tommy, but he won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in this role. 🎉🎉
The line up that year for BSA was next level including John Malkoivic Leonardo DiCaprio and Ralph Fiennes but also left out IMHO the actor who should have won Val Kilmer as Doc Holiday in Tombstone 😊
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Ralph Fiennes was robbed. Tommy Lee Jones was great but Fiennes’ performance as Amon Goethe was all-encompassing and chilling beyond belief.
Malkovich was also better than Jones.
You all do realize that the Oscars are just political BS and mean nothing. If they were about "deserving" then Tommy Lee Jones would have had one well before this movie.
As for Val Kilmer, I'm not sure he actually had any other good performances in his career.
@@raybernal6829 YES! Val should have won.
@@keefriff99I don't even think that TLJ was great. That performance was not a stretch for him. It wasn't anything special or nuanced.
The phone call - the wife was trying to warn Richard that she was being attacked, and he was in danger too. But her words out of context made it seem like he did it (obviously).
I love this movie and I've seen it a bunch of times but that one part with the phone call always bugged me. The one armed man waits for her to say her husband's name then hangs up the phone. But he had no idea what her last words were going to be. What if she croaked out "one armed man"? Not a criticism, just a thought that always occurs to me.
"Richard. He's trying to kill me." and "Richard,..he's trying to kill me." are two very different statements. Very well said, Slava!
I can't believe the prosecutor was able to manipulate everyone into thinking his wife was saying Richard was trying to kill her. It wasn't convincing at all. We didn't see much of the trial but I don't think motivation was established either. Yea, it bugged me too.
@@SurvivorBri you could argue he was indeed railroaded as it was a high profile case and the prosecutor was too hasty in reaching conclusions in the name of furthering their career
Kimble's wife obviously heard him come home and heard him moving around downstairs. She was speaking directly to her husband and not the operator.
- I didn't kill my wife.
- I don't care.
Love this dialog, such a classic 🤣
this is K's first job
And the line was improvised!
My favorite bit of trivia about that film is that they started shooting with a VERY unfinished script therefore a lot of the awesome dialogues were in fact written by the actors, some were ad-libbed, especially on the marshall's people's side.
This movie is just breakneck tension and pacing, with an antagonist moreso than a villain. SO GOOD.
You root for both Ford and Jones are both are doing the right thing, legitimately! It has so many great moments throughout.
The sequel U.S. Marshals is so worthwhile too.
Tommy Lee Jones got a spin-off of this movie, US Marshalls.
It's just as good, maybe even better. Samuel L. Jackson's wife is in it, too.
------which the writers eff up
Yeah...all my childhood i waiting for third movie in this series
@@MATTHEW-rp3kq I liked US Marshalls with Snipes
@@AbeVicious Hard disagree. It was just a lukewarm remake of this one, without the iconic story from the TV show for inspiration.
It's not Marshall's job to investigate the wife's murder, it's their job to track down and arrest the fugitive..
One of the best movies based on a television series.
Good memories watching the series with my late father
@@Hopz47same!!!! Harrison Ford is one of the best actors who is known for Han Solo and Indiana Jones!!!!!😊😊😊😊😊
Yes, based on a TV series, that was based on a true story in Ohio. It was all over the news.I remember as a kid in the 50's and then the 60'S, when the actual TV series aired. Dr. Sam Shepard......really interesting story.
30:15 I think you'll also enjoy the stand alone sequel called "US Marshals" which has the further adventures of Agent Samuel Gerard.
Harrison Ford was robbed of an Oscar nomination…Tommy Lee deservedly won Supporting Actor, but Ford’s is just as strong of a performance.
Some feel Jones' '93 Oscar win was sort of a make-up for not winning in '91 for JFK. His competition was Ralph Fiennes (Schindler's List), DiCaprio (What's Eating Gilbert Grape), Pete Postlethwaite (In The Name of the Father) and John Malkovich (In The Line of Fire). The Oscar could have gone to any of them.
Likewise, Best Actor nominees were Tom Hanks (Philadelphia- Winner), Daniel Day Lewis (In The Name of the Father), Anthony Hopkins (Remains of the Day), Laurence Fishburne (What's Love Got To Do With It) and Liam Neeson (Schindler's List). What role would you eliminate to make room for Harrison Ford's nomination?
@@BDUBZ49 Probably remains of the Day considering Hopkins had already won for Silence of the Lambs. As far as Jones, JFK certainly helped, but he is legit GREAT in this role and it still holds up imo. Only caveat would be if Val Kilmer had been nominated, then he’d of deserved it imho
@@TKN5199 Right. I forgot about Lambs. Kilmer was amazing...but again, the competition was so stiff that year and Tombstone came out so late in December and it took so long for word of mouth reviews, and for it to be taken seriously..( I think nominations had to be in by the end of January). If Tombstone would have come out a couple months later in '94.. Kilmer would have had a good chance at winning the following year.
I've always thought Ford was left because it was originally a TV series... Basically a remake of a TV show, and thus, frowned upon by those in charge, since TV was looked upon with a goodly amount of disdain still, at this time. Yes Tommy Lee won, but as someone says it was regarded as a make-up for an earlier sin.
@@BDUBZ49 I've honestly never been that big on Neeson in "Schindler's List" (I've always almost felt that he and Fiennes should've been cast in opposite roles), but I think Ford's performance here is pretty typical of what he usually does, so I wasn't that disappointed that he was snubbed.
WITNESS(1985) Starring Harrison Ford. A brilliant film!! His only Oscar nomination and best performance.
Yes, Witness would be another great one to react to. Also, Mosquito Coast
@@meganlutz7150 I use to love Mosquito Coast back in the 80s. But not now. No one wants to watch Harrison Ford be mean to kids for 2 hours.
@@reesebn38 the show is really good too!
Loud noises... Addie's arch enemy lmao.
😂😂😂
@@AddieCounts Wait until you watch Dunkirk (2017) & Tenet (2020).
@@AddieCounts Wait until you watch Dunkirk (2017) & Tenet (2020).
@@AddieCounts, wait until you watch Dunkirk (2017). You're definitely going to feel on edge after that movie. #DunkirkForAddieCounts
This is such an iconic movie for real. And it holds up so well. Just an intense, tightly paced and fascinating thrill ride, with two solid leads facing off. It's especially fun to see U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard start out as a guy who doesn't care about the circumstances, but rather only the job getting done. But he is a detective at heart, and once he starts seeing the pieces adding up, people lying to him, and Dr. Kimble showing real heart, he can't help but be won over.
Grew up watching David Jansen in The Fugitive TV series. The show was highly regarded and many viewers were vested in his weekly plight. I remember reading a story at the time, many a solider coming back from Viet Nam ,who were well familiar with The Fugitive before going overseas that they were disappointed that they had missed the final airing of the show.
Of course there were no DVD or tape media back then, so they all had to hear the story ending by word of mouth.
"But he is a detective at heart, and once he starts seeing the pieces adding up, people lying to him, and Dr. Kimble showing real heart"
Looool no.
Gerard attempts to shoot Kimble dead at the county lock up AFTER finding out that he saved the life of that kid while at the hospital.
His investigative curiosity is entirely focused on defining Kimble's life and how best to catch him.
It's only once he puts all the evidence together and realises that Sykes likely had the opportunity to do the murder from the phone records and his testimony about lending his car to Dr Nichols that Gerard gives him the benefit of a dount, and even then he's doing so because he wants to follow the letter of the law and get him back in custody first.
Neil Flynn, the Janitor from Scrubs is the cop on the train. Literally. They worked that into an episode of Scrubs. JD was watching The Fugitive and he recognized Janitor in that scene.
And not even credited under his real name, Dr Jan Itor.
The janitor from Scrubs has a name... it's Jan Itor. 😉
Gimbal!❤
also the dad from The Middle
3:38 Everyone misses this. "Richard... He's trying to kill me." She's calling out to Richard for help because someone is trying to kill her. But her brain has had so much trauma, she can't put a thought together fully. When you play it from the tape with no context, it's an accusation.
She sees Richard walk in and callas his name. Then she tries to tell to Richard what is happening... you're right though,, it is misconstrued as her saying it to the 911 operator instead of her saying it to Richard asking for assistance.
(That's what I remember anyway)
His lawyer was just terrible to not call into doubt that bit of “evidence.”
@@joeconcepts5552 There is a suprising number or really good movies whose plot would not have happened if a key character had good lawyer. :)
There's a Leslie Nielsen parody of this, called "Wrongfully Accused". Imagine The Fugitive + The Naked Gun.
They only had one train 😂😂😂 so they had to get the wreck in one take. They used 21 cameras including 2 in the bus. The wreck is still there in North Carolina for people to take a short hike through the woods and see.
You can actually see most of it from the road on the hill above it. I stopped there last summer on the way to Dollywood
@@Tconlon251_2 You can take a train ride past it too on the same train tracks on the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad. It a nice day trip if you are in the area and gives you a really good view of the wreck.
They also used a lot of very good miniatures for many of the shots, and then used front projection to put Harrison in them.
Another great Harrison Ford movie that rarely gets mentioned is Regarding Henry. Great movie!
I always forget about that one...
Yes!! Such an underappreciated film and his performance was fabulous
The Fugitive and Regarding Henry are both in my top 3 Harrison Ford movies. The third would be the very different genre of film Sabrina (with Julie Ormand and Greg Kinear). I like many of his other films including the Star wars movies and Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade etc. but, those 3 films are my personal favourites.
I was in my early teens when the TV series THE FUGITIVE aired. I watched every episode. The last episode was the most watched program ever at the time. The series was based on the case of Dr. Sam Sheppard, a surgeon who was falsely accused of murdering his wife. He was sentenced to life in prison. After 10 years his case was picked up by F. Lee Baily one of the best criminal lawyers of the latter half of the 20th century. Bailey got a retrial and took the prosecution's case apart. Sheppard was found not guilty but unfortunately he had lost his skills as a surgeon. He turned to drinking heavily and died at the age of 48 from a wrecked liver. His son managed to get his mother's body exhumed and through DNA Dr. Sam Sheppard was proven innocent. A sad ending to a very sad case.😢
The creators of The Fugitive flatly deny that they took inspiration from that case.
@@Matrim42 It doesn't matter what the creators of the series said at the time most people believed it was based on the Sheppard case. There was no Internet at the time to hash things out. Because most people believed the series was based on the Sheppard case, they also believed he was railroaded by an aggressive / ambitious prosecutor. As it turned out that is exactly what happened. Ambitious prosecutors can be real bastards or bitches. For example when Kamala Harris was a prosecutor she held back information on a convicted murderer that would have proven his innocence. The man, who also happened to be black, was sitting on death row. The man's defense attorney finally got her to release the information and the man got out. Prosecutors have enormous power and if they decide they don't like you for whatever reason, they can find something to charge you with, and the government having unlimited resources, and most defendants having limited cash, they can force one to plead guilty even if they are innocent. I think that because of the series most people believed Sheppard was innocent.
the FBI......IN Color!
@@blueboy4244 Efrem Zimbalist Jr. of the FBI another one of my favorite shows.
Apparently TV executives had to be convinced by the creators that the murder had to be solved in the finale. They were like "People actually care about that?".
You went with O Brother Where Art Thou for the trivia, I was wrong I was thinking Caddy Shack 😂😂
I still need to watch Caddyshack!
@@AddieCounts I was thinking the same thing. She must not have seen Caddyshack yet. Great movie and a star studded cast. Though you probably won't know some of them. They were before your time lol
I was thinking Caddy Shack too lol
@@pjm71-68 Yes, unfortunately, "Caddyshack" keeps losing in every Patreon poll in which she puts it. 😮💨
Presumed Innocent is another Harrison Ford murder mystery. Worth watching!
REGARDING HENRY, too. Both of these are great courtroom-esque dramas/mysteries. REGARDING doesn't seem like a courtroom mystery until the end.
Witness is pretty good as well.
"Frantic" is also a good thriller. He also has memorable smaller roles in "American Graffiti," "The Conversation," and "Apocalypse Now."
11:59 "Need a ride?"
"He could be a serial killer for all you know. "
Yeah, but if he looks like Harrison Ford, I'll take my chances.
26:12 - Don't worry, that police officer survived and became a prolific medical intern & resident-annoying janitor in the show, Scrubs (2001 - 2010).
He has a name, you know?
@@lazyatthedisco Dr. Jan Itor.
He also got married and had 3 kids named Axl, Sue Sue, and Brick in the show, The Middle (2009-2018).
@@pjm71-68 He played a cop on an episode of Seinfeld too.
@@BDUBZ49 I think I remember the episode. It's been awhile since I watched Seinfeld.
Harrison Ford & Tommy Lee Jones…a dynamic duo even though they don’t have much screen time together; this movie has always been a favorite of mine from the 90s
When she said "Richard, he's trying to kill me", she was directing that to Richard, not the police on the phone, she was telling Richard that Sykes was trying to kill her. Sykes did not make her say it.
As much as I love this movie, the TV series was even better. The Fugitive series finale was the most watched episode in television history when it aired.
Yep, fantastic show and I was so happy when the movie was good as well.
I discovered the TV through my mum loving it. So I came to really like the series too. However, what the film does better than the series is actually giving a through line of giving a reason for his wife's murder and a back story that tied everything together. I watched an interview with the writer of the series and he literally had to persuade the powers that be to give the series a proper finale with a resolution to the story. The producers were just going to end it without resolving anything. The final season, and last few episodes especially, really give a great ending to the series.
This is one of my favorite "good cop, good criminal" movies. The intelligent plot and snappy dialogue reminds me a lot of Heat (with Al Pacino as the cop and Robert De Niro as the criminal). I highly recommend reacting to that movie if you haven't already seen it.
Addie, watch Tommy Lee Jones again in U.S Marshalls (the sequel). Wesley Snipes & Robert Downey Jr (Iron Man). Incredible cast in that movie.
#USMarshalsForAddieCounts
Stop stealing my life
Hello i got some movie suggestions that might interest you.."Last Action Hero"(arnold schwarzenneger)..."Volcano"(tommy lee jones/anne heche)..."U.S. Marshalls"(tommy lee jones/wesley snipes)..."Space Cowboys"(clint eastwood/donald sutherland/tommy lee jones/james garner)..."Man of the House"(tommy lee jones)..."Heartbreak Ridge"(clint eastwood)...have a nice day.
It's not a spinoff, but "Witness" (1985) would be a good movie for Addie to see more of Mr. Ford.
That’s a big waste of time. She should Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, Demolition Man and Midnight Run
I haven't seen this since it came out, and there's only one line that I will always remember. "What I want from each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse"
27:45 "Could they still arrest him for running from the cops?". That's a great question that is often overlooked in this kind of story. In Real Life, yes, Richard could be charged with a number of crimes regarding his escape, and what he did afterwards while on the run (stealing the ambulance, holding a federal marshal at gunpoint, false ID, breaking and entering, etc.). Given the situation, however, it's unlikely they would actually charge him with anything; having falsely convicted him of murder (on pretty flimsy evidence to boot), and the eventual murderer that he caught himself turning out to be a former cop, the court would most likely drop most of the charges (counting time served under the original indictment), along with a "We make all these other charges go away, and you don't sue us into oblivion" agreement.
Addie, The Fugitive (1993) is one of my all-time favorite Harrison Ford movies, alongside Air Force One (1997) & the Indiana Jones movies. I own the original 1997 DVD with the 1.33:1 Full-Screen version on Side A and the 1.85:1 Widescreen version on Side B. BTW, the woman that believes that Richard Kimble is innocent is Jane Lynch, Dominique Blatt in Another Cinderella Story (2008), the voice of Sergeant Calhoun in Wreck-it Ralph (2012) & Coach Sue Sylvester in Glee (2009-2015).
Air Force One is peak Harrison Ford. "Get off my plane!"
This is one of my favorite Harrison Ford movies. Another good one you can watch is 1985's Witness. I won't give away too much, but this is one movie you can't pass up.
WITNESS... REGARDING HENRY... PRESUMED INNOCENT - he had this period of strong dramas, courtroom and/or legal dramas.
Fun Fact: Tommy Lee Jones won the Oscar for best supporting actor for this one. Fun Fact #2 A LOT of people were upset that Harrison Ford was not even NOMINATED for this movie. When Tommy Lee was award the Oscar, during his speech he said " I wanna thank so & so, and whoever, Mom, Dad, and of course the one man that NEEDS no support, Harrison Ford." I though that was real classy of TLJ.
_"Richard, he's trying to kill me."_ A dying wife speaking to her absent husband about the attack she's enduring, but which can be misconstrued as her identifying her husband as the assailant.
Living in Chicagoland I can guarantee you that there is no terrain like what was shown within a nine hour drive from Chicago.
The locations where they filmed were all reasonably close to that 9 hour claim with the exception of the Blue Ridge Parkway:
Blount County Tennessee 8h 40m
Bryson City NC 9h 54m
Dillsboro NC 9h 41m
Tapoco NC 9h 13m
Great Smoky Mountains 9h 4m
Blue Ridge Parkway 10 37m
@@0lyge0 but the movie was set in Illinois. I think they mentioned Doverville.
"I didn't kill my wife."
"I don't care."
Iconic scene.
NO! They killed Janitor! LOL
Grew up watching David Jansen in The Fugitive TV series. The show was highly regarded and many viewers were vested in his weekly plight. I remember reading a story at the time, many a solider coming back from Viet Nam ,who were well familiar with The Fugitive before going overseas that they were disappointed that they had missed the final airing of the show.
Of course there were no DVD or tape media back then, so they all had to hear the story ending by word of mouth.
A movie with perfect pacing, so good and love the humour that TLJ brings to some scenes you expect to be so serious.
Consider watching "The Net" (1995) with Sandra Bullock. It has a bit of a similar vibe and was quite popular when it came out.
Every time I see The Net, I think of Frank Costanza on Seinfeld describing it... "I saw this provocative movie....with that girl from the bus." 😀
Great reaction Addie like always, you got scared 5 times in the first minute hahahaha
Fun fact : Some of the reporters at the end asking the Chicago cops questions were actual local news reporters.
Yes, some great hometown stuff here. I used to catch the bus that went past that bar Kimble was making that phone call from. I later moved to a house about a block away from there. I grew up just up the hill from that area, so I was really thrilled to see the south side on the screen again (Blues Brothers)
They used a dummy in the dam jump scene. The dummy was never recovered.
Yeah, no way anyone is surviving that jump lol.
So the dummy is still on the run…diabolical.
@@pvanukoff There is actually a recorded incidence of someone surviving a similar fall. While extremely unlikely, it is not impossible.
What is impossible is finding a dam like that in Illinois to begin with.
@@Matrim42 So the dummy survived the fall,great, now he's got to prove his innocence. 🤔🤨
6:10”Somehow I grabbed him, and pushed him out of the bus.”
Reminds me so much of that bank guard in Tommy Boy: “After he hit me over the head many, many times, I had to surrender my side arm. I have a family!”
😂😂😂
The film was based on one of the most popular TV series of the 1960s. The finale of the series is still one of the most watched episodes of TV in history. One of the inspirations of the story was Les Miserables, with Kimble as a Jean Valjean type helping people in his travels, and Gerard as Inspector Javert hounding Valjean (Kimble) wherever he goes.
Tommy Lee Jones won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor as Sam Gerard.
The One Armed Man aka Frederick Sykes was played by the late Andreas Katsulas, who is best known for his TV work especially in the landmark sci-fi series Babylon 5 as Ambassador G'Kar on Narn, as well as his appearances in Star Trek: The Next Generation as the Romulan Commander Tomaluk.
According to the television show Mythbusters, the myth that going in the water would throw off the scent for the dogs was just that, a myth. One of the hosts took every precaution known so that he would not leave a scent. Yet the police dogs still found him.
Oooooh good to know!!
@@AddieCounts planning on running away, :)
Yep, water retains scents very well. Getting lost in a city though really throws them off.
@@bjchit Does that apply if there's a current? I imagine it would be different from stagnant water.
@@DavetheGrue I would imagine.
All the jump scares in the beginning had my rolling on the floor. Best opening for a reaction. I had to watch it multiple time because it was so funny. My abs hurt now. Thanks.
Richard worked at Chicago Memorial, he went to Cook County Hospital to check out prosthetics.
I saw The Fugitive in 1993. It was the 2nd time I saw Tommy Lee Jones in a film. The first time was in 1977 when he played the lead in "The Amazing Howard Hughes" TV movie. That was made 1 year after the real Hughes had died. It was based on a biography of Hughes by his long time business partner, Noah Dietrich.
Hi Addie. Director Andrew Davis....like John Hughes, has a lot of his movies set/filmed in Chicago. (6 I think). This film, along with The Blues Brothers and Ferris Bueller's Day Off form the Holy Trinity of Chicago Films. Andrew and Harrison Ford are both from Chicago, as are much of the cast:
- Jane Lynch
- Deputy Marshal Poole (the black lady)
- Deputy Marshal Stevens (the one who said "Right, no press!")
- the lying corrections officer
- Dr. Alec Lenz
- the cop on the train who got shot (Neil Flynn)
- the 2 Chicago Police detectives
- Richard Kimble's lawyer (Dick Cusack- John and Joan Cusack's father)
- the 2 news reporters Pam Zeckman and Lester Holt
- the hospital secretary
You definitely need to watch Wrongfully Accused after this😁
I came here to say this!
This has been for most of my life one of my favorite movies, one of my go to "comfort movies". It has just the right amount and right mix of excitement, tension, story and mystery, with a wonderful cast of characters, that I can just go back to it at least once a year. Great reaction Addie!
Ford's career has been amazing! Starred in 3 franchises simultaneously. Indiana, Han Solo, Deckerd in Bladerunner. Also involved in 2 of the greatest stunts ever. Train scene here, and slide under the truck in Raiders. From American Graffiti to apocalypse now and Force ten from Navarrone, to everything after and the highly underrated movie, presumed innocent! The sequel to this os pretty good also. US Marshalls. Also the best TV show movie tie in ever? Type in here, TV show Scrubs, The Fugitive episode!
Sela Ward, who played Helen Kimble, said that after this movie, she would never do another role where she dies in the first ten minutes.
In a lot of murder cases, the killer is usually someone the victim knew. Which is why Richard was arrested and convicted for Helen's death.
The guys who crashed the train did a different Harrison Ford movie, Clear and Present Danger. They blew up a house.
Caddy shack!! 💯🤩
😄👍 Most people who watch this film for the first time already know that Tommy Lee Jones is in it but are surprised to discover that Jane Lynch and Julianne Moore are as well. 😎 Trivia: Of course what you saw going over that waterfall wasn't really Harrison Ford or even a stunt man, but a dummy. In reality, no human could ever have survived that fall. When the dummy hit the bottom it was instantly torn to shreds. 🥸 This is one of those plots that simply cannot be written anymore. There are too many phone booths and land lines that are integral to the story. By the time of the similar "Bourne" trilogy in the 2000s, the phone booths were all gone, but people in offices still had land lines. Now even all the land lines are gone.
You had a good SHOT at landing that joke.
A+ for effort! ;)
5:35
Apparently, Richard Kimble attended the ‘Prometheus’ School for Running Away from Things
😂😂
@19:26, To be fair, if I was walking down those stairs alone and I heard someone yell out "RICHARD", I too would probably look up even though Richard is not my name.
The gopher reference was for Caddyshack imo.
It's not a reference to anything. Gopher (go fer) is a common thing. The 'gopher' is the person in the office that goes fer donuts, coffee, errands...
You're both wrong. Tommy Lee said "gopher" because he went underground. Addie said "Gopher?" because it reminded her of the scene in O Brother. When the graphic about the movie reference popped up, it was about Addie's quote, not the movie she is watching.
You're right. I was thinking gopher was when they were at the office.
@@Lightningrod75 Now you got ME thinking about donuts!! Chocolate with sprinkles 😀
You are SO Adorable, and you give the Best "Startled Reaction...EVER".......
Never saw anyone have a jump scare during the opening credits before..😅
A lot of this film was filmed in my neck of the woods. Specifically, between Sylva, Bryson City, and Murphy, North Carolina. The bus wreckage is still on the side of the tracks in Sylva.
The Fugitive was an excellent TV series in the 60’s. Recently, I watched on TH-cam the pilot and the two part series finale. Richard Kimble did get around. Every week he’d be in a new location with a new name, trying to survive while looking for that rat bastard one-armed man that killed his wife.
Hi Addie. Really good performances from several people in this. Great reaction too. Don't know if you have seen the Lonesome Dove mini series, or if you even like westerns. You should watch it if you haven't. Really great story (writing). Absolutely amazing performances too. The 2 main characters are a couple of older former Texas Rangers, played by Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones. Both are absolutely brilliant. It has a few rough moments like any western or action film might, but such great story telling. trust me it will be worth the watch. Enjoy! Stay safe and well!!
"This is my favourite St. Patrick's Day movie. It takes place at St. Patrick's Day, and the plot could not have moved forward without there having been a parade for it. Definitely a St. Patrick's day movie. It doesn't have to be *about* St. Patrick's Day!"
'Die Hard is an X-mas movie' people, this is you. This is what you sound like.
Haha I love it! Btw, another Chicago movie- Ferris Bueller- also features an ethnic based parade.. the Von Stueben Day Parade!
I love you.🥰
@@seriousleesgaming3042 The same people will say Field of Dreams is NOT a baseball movie.
This is probably the best of Harrison Ford's "action" films (Indiana Jones I'd classify as "adventure"), but, also ranked very highly are **Patriot Games** and **Clear and Present Danger** . Harrison Ford plays the 'Jack Ryan' character from the Tom Clancy novels.
There is a parody movie mainly based on The Fugitive, with lots of other references, of course, called Wrongfully Accused, starring Leslie Nielsen. It came out in 1998.
I loved David Jansen as Dr. Kimball in the TV series. It was an exciting weekly series back when I was a young man always wondering when he would catch the one armed man.
This is a great movie. Coming from the Chicago area, it was great seeing the city on display. Tommy Lee Jones won an Oscar for this role. Well deserved. Your reaction was so much fun from the get go. Maybe you have your volume up too much for those musical bangs. LOL! If you want another Harrison Ford movie, I recommend "WITNESS". And then watch Weird Al's "Amish Paradise" music video.
"No! Do not give a warm welcome!" That made me laugh!
19:25 That happened to me at a shopping centre once. Someone called out “Rickard!” I stopped then resumed walking, thinking they were after someone else. Then I realised that I was the only Rickard I knew and that it had to be me! 🤦♂️
I grew up watching re-runs of the old 'The Fugitive' TV series (1963-1967), with David Janssen as Dr. Richard Kimble, and Barry Morse as Lt. Philip Gerard (unlike Tommy Lee's character, Deputy US Marshal Samuel Gerard).
Fun fact: the bus/train crash was filmed in the backwoods of North Carolina and the buses and trains used for the scene were just abandoned there afterwards. They're apparently still there, years later, and some TH-camrs have actually gone there and found them. It would probably be rather confusing for someone who didn't what what they were to find a train market "Illinois Freight" in North Carolina.
You have to follow this up with the sequel called U.S. Marshalls. It follows Tom Lee Jones' team on another hunt.
This is one of my favourite films of the 1990s, and in my all time top 10. There are not many times when Harrison Ford can be upstaged, but Tommy Lee Jones does it in this one. Both men are on top form, and what you said about who to root for - the great thing is, you can root for either or both and you'll be right in the end!
This film very cleverly develops both characters to growing mutual respect, until the climax where they effectively save each other.
At the outset, TLJ's Sam Gerrard seems like he's just "doing his job", with no personal regard for whether his 'fugitive' actually deserved to be hunted down - as shown by the way he just shoots the other fugitive and says "I don't bargain" - but it's really well written (and acted by TLJ) how you see him gradually developing respect and understanding for the kind of man Dr Kimble really is, and how a serious miscarriage of justice has happened. It shows that for all his toughness and smart quips, deep down Gerrard is concerned about justice too.
The pacing in this is also great, and there are some classic quotable lines.
My mom used to tell me that back when the TV series was on the air the guy that played the FBI agent would get harassed by fans demanding him to stop going after Dr. Kimble and he had to tell them that what their watching was just a TV show.
This Movie is so intense, addie hurt her jaw in the few first seconds
The movie's sound editors and designers could not predict how harsh and scary those flashback sounds would sound like with our modern-day headphones.
The one-armed man was wonderful as Ambassador G'Kar in Babylon 5.
Scrolled to find the fellow Babylon 5 enthusiast. Andreas Katsulas (One Armed Man) turned in an absolutely amazing performance playing Ambassador G'Kar in Babylon 5.
Astounding character development arc portrayed while wearing a complex alien make-up and prosthetics of a different nature than the one portrayed in the Fugitive.
Someday would love to see Babylon 5 get its special effects upgraded, but I cannot imagine a better set of performances than we had between the alien Ambassadors G'Kar and Londo Mollari (Peter Jurasik).
Thank you.
Trivia: Joe Pantoliano seen here as Cosmo Renfro was also in a little movie from 1999 called "The Matrix." He has been in almost ninety movies, often appearing in five a year, and is always watchable whether playing a good or bad guy.
For a long time, the last episode of the Television series The Fugitive was the most watched event on TV ever. That’s how compelling it was.
They need to reboot this movie as a TV show. In the 60s this started out on television when someone realized the most popular shows were cop shows and hospital shows, so they combined them into one. fast forward 60 years and those are still the top genres.
Every time I see the cop get killed on the train I think to myself don't worry he survives and becomes the janitor in Scrubs. And also the dad in The Middle , love that actor
The train wreck and dam scenes were filmed in western NC. I’ve been near the dam, locals now call The Fugitive Dam. You can see the train engine crash scene from an excursion train. Tommy Lee Jones and others reprised their role in US Marshalls. Also a good movie.
Next time you're in the mood for a good twisty mystery yarn, can't go wrong with The Negotiator.
I remembered, when in The Mask, in the scene in the park, the Mask say to the policemen "It wasn't me, it was the one armed man"
Based on the 1960"s TV series of the same name which was loosely based on the real life Dr. Sam Sheppard murder case.
So glad you finally got to this Ads - I knew you'd dig it. Ford & Jones are excellent - I always hoped they'd re-team for another film (well not one related to this but) - and yes Jones richly deserved his Oscar win. The film is based on a '60s TV series with David Janssen and you s/binge it - it was very solid. This series also inspired the TV series version of THE INCREDIBLE HULK with Bill Bixby as David Banner (the Hulk) on the run as a fugitive with a dogged investigative reporter on his trail. Also the original series was a parallel to LES MISERABLES with the Jean ValJean & Javert tangle.
31:18 there’s a follow up movie called “U.S.Marshal “ just as good
Great Reaction Addie! As someone who actually watched the TV Series for the Fugitive needles to say to see brought to the Big Screen by Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones and for them to do it Justice makes this movie that much more special! I also watched Tommy Lee Jones first two movies Coal Miners Daughter (1980) and The River Rat (1984) at the theaters! As for a Sleeper Movie by Harrison Ford I would recommend ‘Frantic’
Hope someday you’ll react to it!! It’s on Amazon Prime and TH-cam Movies to Rent or Own! 🤘🙏🏻
FWIW This movie was based on a long running TV Series from the 1960s.
The TV Series was based on a 19th Century French novel call "Les Miserables", which was made into a musical "Les Miserables", which you may know...
In the novel and musical, the Police person chasing the "Hero" is named "Javert" - The Detective in "The Fugitive" is "Gerard"...
Actually, the series was based on the Sam Sheppard murder case. Sheppard claimed a shaggy haired stranger killed his wife but was found guilty at trial. Unlike The Fugitive, Sheppard never escaped prison but did get a retrial at which he was acquitted.
The escape and manhunt parallel Les Miserables but I don't think any attribution was ever made by the series producers.
You should watch : Presumed Innocent : with Harrison Ford. Great movie !!!
26:00 No! Not officer Jan Itor!
EAGLE!
5:43 That train wreck is basically a tourist attraction. It's still there from what I understand. It was a real train that they used for the shot and it was just left there.
20:35 That was a real parade going on and they just kind of winged it with this scene.
“U.S. Marshals” with Tommy Jones, Wesley Snipes, Robert downey jr
PG-13 1998 ‧ Action/Thriller ‧ 2h 11m
Hopefully you watch this sequel..
Made you look 😂
Ditto Addie. Who knew what we needed was a Ford/Jones team up.
You can see whats left of the bus and train outside Dillsboro in North Carolina. The dam scenes was recorded at Cheoah Dam north of Robbinsville and the scfnes wdre Ford walk on railway tracks in a tunnel is filmed in the Cowee tunnel west of Asheville
Hi Addie, 2 more great non-franchise Harrison Ford movies to put on your viewing list are "Witness" (1985) and "Regarding Henry" (1991). I love'em both! 💚