Harrison Ford Movies

When it comes to Harrison Ford I like him, and so I give his movies lots of stars.  But so do lots of people because he has been in most of the highest grossing movies.  This list is not complete but will be growing.

Captain America: Brave New World (2025). Harrison Ford portrays the President/ Red Hulk

**** The Call of the Wild (2020)

***^ The Secret Life of Pets 2 (2019) An animated show 

**** The Age of Adaline (2015) Portrays the past love, and father of the current love of a woman who doesn't age

****^  Ender's Game (2013) Plays a grouchy Colonel

***^ 42 (2013). Portrays the manager of Jackie Robinson

***^ Paranoia  (2013)  Industrial espionage

**** Cowboys and Aliens  (2011)  Harrison Ford and Daniel Craig take on the aliens

**** Morning Glory. (2010). Ford plays a morning show anchor.  With Rachel McAdams.

Extraordinary Measures (2010)

**** Firewall (2006)

Hollywood Homicide (2003)

K-19 The Widow Maker (2002)

**** What Lies Beneath (2000). Great Halloween/ghost story with Michelle Pfeiffer

Six Days Seven Nights (1998)

***^ Air Force One (1997)

**** Sabrina  (1995) A very good remake

****^ Clear and Present Danger (1994

****  The Fugitive  (1993)  Great fun with Tommy Lee Jones

***^ Patriot Games (1992)

**** Regarding Henry (1991)

*****Indian Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) The movie that made archeology cool

****^ Indian Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

*****Indian Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

***  Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull   (2008)  I liked this movie less than the other Indian Jones movies.  Perhaps because Shia LaBeouf plays his son.

****^Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)

***^ The Frisco Kid  (1979)  With Gene Wilder

***** Star Wars: A New Hope (1977) The first Star Wars produced

****^ Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) In which Han Solo is frozen

***** Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (1983) Everyone's favorite with action of many different levels

****  Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)  A very good beginning to the third trilogy, not so good for Han Solo

****^ Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)  Ford makes a cameo as a force ghost to talk to his son.

American Graffitti (1973)

Movie Review: **The Adventures Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother

Gene Wilder portrays Sigerson Holmes, Sherlock's younger, smarter, but sometimes bumbling brother.  The humor misses sometimes, but actually works other times.  The funniest part is where Sigerson visits a Lord's home, and can't help himself but snitch some food on a table, and then he snitches more, and more, and knocks the dish on the floor.  He is covered with sauce when the Lord finally comes to talk to him.  too much boob grabbing, especially for Sheri.  This is rated PG but this was a bit much, and happens several places in the movie, outside of clothing of course.  Dom Deluise has a part as a bad guy blackmailing Jenny Hill (Madeline Kahn) who is the fiance of the Lord, but also Sigerson's love interest.  Marty Feldman portrays the police sergeant helping Sigerson.
Gene Wilder also wrote this movie based on Conan Doyle's characters.  Wilder also directed.

Movie Review: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

This is one of those classic musical movies.  Gene Wilder stars as Willy Wonka, and from the moment we are introduced to him, and he does the somersault before jumping up; we know this is a special character.  The music is superb.  The candy vendor (Aubrey Woods) sings the most popular song, "Candy Man."  Gene Wilder sings "Pure Imagination" which is beautiful.  And then Charlie (Peter Ostrum) and Grandpa Joe (Jack Albertson) sing "I've Got a Golden Ticket."  Then there are the Oompa Loompa songs.
The story goes that Wonka Chocolates advertises a golden ticket, inviting five lucky children to visit his factory.  It is Charlie's dream to see the factory.  He lives close, but he lives in poverty, and money to buy candy is rare.  As people are selected, Charlie's hopes go down.  The other winners are spoiled Veruca, Gum chewing Violet, TV watcher Mike Teevee, and lastly Augustus Gloop who eats everything.  What the contestants don't know is that Willy Wonka is really testing the children.  One by one the children drop out.  Augustus falls in the chocolate river and gets stuck, Violet eats a gum based meal, and turns into a violet, Mike Teevee turns into a miniature size when he transmits himself over TV, and lastly Veruca is a bad egg.  Even Charlie falters.  He and his grandfather drink a fizzy drink which makes them fly.  They discover burping helps them descend when they are close to the vent fan.  Willy Wonka holds this against them, but in the end Charlie's honesty wins the day.
I enjoy this movie, and I enjoy Gene Wilder.  This is the only movie in which appears Peter Ostrum. He was offered more movies, but chose to become a veterinarian instead.
Roald Dahl wrote the book.  He also wrote the first screenplay.  However he dropped out when a subsequent screenplay was written by David Seltzer.  They also added songs against Dahl's wishes.

Movie Review: ***^The Frisco Kid (1979)

In the Frisco Kid Gene Wilder portrays a Jewish Rabbi from Poland, who is being sent to become the Rabbi in San Francisco.  Of course San Francisco is next to New York.  It is 1850, and the journey presents quite a challenge.  First he is robbed, then he travels by train after earning some money working on the railroad.  However he has to get off to not travel on the Sabbath.  In the mean time, he meets u with a train/bank robber played by Harrison Ford.  Ford is always saving him, but in the end they become friends.  A couple things don't work in this movie.  One is having a white guy play the chief.  The other is the interaction between Wilder and a raccoon.  They should have made more of this, or cut it entirely.  The way it was it was lame.  Ford is his grouchy, angry self which marks some of his later characters.  (The first Star Wars predates this film.)  Add a gang of three men who are after them and this show has the makings of a good western.

Movie Review: ***^Silver Streak

This is the first meeting of Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor in a movie.  This is a combination that works.   to Wilder portrays George, a book editor who is trying to have a relaxing time by taking the train.  He decides to make an advance to the woman, Hilly (portrayed by Jill Clayburgh) who is in the room next to his, and while they are starting to make advances, he sees Hilly's boss,  fall off the roof of the train, murdered.  He tries to allay his doubts, maybe he was seeing things, and ends up getting thrown of the train himself.  George getting thrown off the train is a humorous bit of the movie.  The first time, a rural resident gives him a flight in her plane to Albuquerque where he catches the train again.  He tells his girlfriend what has happened.  However, her boss shows up.  He is now very confused.  The bad guy, Devereau says it was a misunderstanding that he was thrown off the train.  He meets the salesman, Sweet (Ned Beatty) he had befriended, but turns out he is FBI.  He discovers the issue is evidence that Hilly's boss has discovered exposing Devereau as a fraudulent art dealer.  Sweet finds evidence of the murder, and the discover the papers implicating Devereau.  (Why is that name always a villain?)  This time when he falls off the train, he killed one of the bad guys.  When he gets to the sheriff's office, he tells his story, and ends up a wanted man.  He escapes with Grover (Richard Pryor) who admits he is a thief.  They take off together.  They make it back to the train station, where there is a police stakeout.  One of the funny things of the movie is George pretending to be black, as they cover his face with black shoe polish. 
The FBI gets involved, and they get their man, but he has set the train on automatic, with no way of stopping it.  I saw this on AMC, which blotted out some of the language.  I cannot tell if the language would have been palatable to me, but the version I saw was acceptable and entertaining.