"There's stuff I can't tell you, but it was pretty crazy, " says actor Robert Duvall who played napalm-loving Lt.

CNN: Francis Ford Coppola: The Hollywood godfather

K. Simmons and Robert Duvall as tobacco executives, Rob Lowe and Adam Brody as glib Hollywood types, and William H.

NEWYORKER: Thank You For Smoking

Bobby (Phoenix) runs a night club, while Joseph (Wahlberg), following in the stern footsteps of their father (Robert Duvall), is a Brooklyn cop.

NEWYORKER: We Own the Night

Also with Jason Patric, Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall, and Matt Damon.

NEWYORKER: Geronimo: An American Legend

We get Richard Jenkins, Robert Duvall, Werner Herzog with eyes of blue ice, and, in the roles of ordinary sufferers, Alexia Fast and James Martin Kelly.

NEWYORKER: Jack Reacher

Her career received a boost in 1990 when she appeared as Offred in the science fiction film A Handmaid's Tale with Faye Dunaway and Robert Duvall.

BBC: Obituary: Natasha Richardson

Also with Robert Duvall, Rachel Ticotin, Barbara Hershey, Frederic Forrest, and Tuesday Weld (floundering in a cruelly conceived role.) The ugly cinematography is by Andrzej Bartkowiak.

NEWYORKER: Falling Down

Green's family, the Grusinskys, are a different tribe: Burt (Robert Duvall) is a veteran cop who can't stomach what his younger son is doing with his life.

CNN: Review: 'We Own the Night' owns the screen

An Arkansas tractor salesman (Robert Duvall) discovers that his real mother was a black woman, and sets off for Chicago to find his black half brother (James Earl Jones).

NEWYORKER: A Family Thing

But McQuarrie has an ace, in the shape of his supporting cast: not just Rosamund Pike, Richard Jenkins, and Robert Duvall but a dead-eyed Werner Herzog, no less, in the role at once camp and genuinely frightening of an icy mastermind.

NEWYORKER: Violent Screen