Gordon Thomas

Oct 12, 2024 | brightlightsfilm.com | Gordon Thomas

Action scenes are what a summer audience wants, but in Pat Garrett the shootouts become episodic and lack the ratcheting up of tension, followed by its release at the climactic killing, that moviegoers expect from a western’s violence. They also feel not only less exciting but merely a cold means to an end and, in one instance, tragically wasteful.

Jun 18, 2024 | fltimes.com | Joel Freedman |Gordon Thomas |Greg Lewis

Georg Elser was a 36-year-old cabinetmaker from Württemberg who hated bullies and who had a profound sense of justice. When Adolf Hitler came on the radio and a colleague told him to raise his arm in the Nazi salute when a Nazi parade came by, Elser refused. Elser was threatened by local officials to change his views, but he refused. Instead, he drew up a plan to kill Hitler. He managed to plant a bomb and set it to go off on the evening of Nov.

May 29, 2024 | tabletmag.com | Gordon Thomas

On Friday morning March 16, 1984, William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Lebanon, began his 343rd day in Beirut. He was alone in his 10th floor apartment in the al-Manara apartment building in the western suburb of the city. Beyond the windows of his living room were views of the Chouf Mountains and the Mediterranean Sea. It was going to be one of those sublime days which compensated for what Lebanon had become for the few foreigners still living here: a dangerous and volatile hell hole.