Friday, June 15, 2012
From Noon Till Three (1976)
FROM NOON TILL THREE (1976) ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Frank D. Gilroy
Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Douglas Fowley,
Stan Haze, Damon Douglas, Anne Ramsey
Bronson plays an outlaw who has a nightmare about a bank robbery gone bad, then wakes up to a reality that's no less strange than the dream. With a setup like that, plausibility's a long way off, and it doesn't matter a bit. It's like a story shot through a fun-house mirror, off-kilter, offbeat, unpredictable, and in the end, literally mad, about what happens when the truth dares to intrude on a culture obsessed with celebrity and myth. Bronson never did anything else quite like it, and he appears to be having a real good time.