Richard Donner

Believe me when I say, I know. I know I could write about how the pacing of the film is jarring at best and sluggish at worst, I know I could find flaws in the cheerfully dated production design. I could vent frustration at the fact that…

“Destroy Superman, now!” Thus spoke Nuclearman, from the lips of model Mark Pillow but the voice of Gene Hackman (rather awkwardly, Pillow had to speak his lines on-set in time with a cassette tape of Hackman’s pre-recorded dialogue).…