The Great Santini Format:DVD Brenda Joyce

Brenda Joyce

Despite man's combined fear of and fascination with the grizzly

Called "the most interesting and accomplished filmmaker the United States has never heard of" by Godfrey Cheshire in The New York Press

Harrington casts his own mother and father in the lead roles

Huston got his way

The Great Santini Format:DVD Brenda JoyceBill Meechum (Robert Duvall) is one of nature's hard cases, an ace marine fighter pilot so adept at his lethal trade that they call him The Great Santini. But now it's peacetime 1962. And more at home playing "top gun" in the cockpit than playing father in his own living room, he's become that most useless of all figures: a warrior without a war. Based on Pat Conroy's best selling autobiographical novel, The Great Santini's battleground is the family