‘The Fugitive’ at 30: Andrew Davis made a great Chicago movie. Here are some of the secret ingredients
CHICAGO — “The Fugitive” remains singular in the career of Chicago-born director Andrew Davis, raised first in Rogers Park and then, mainly, in the South Side Jeffery Manor neighborhood. The 1993 thriller starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones was a huge hit, Davis’ biggest. But in another way “The Fugitive,” released in theaters 30 years ago this month, is not singular: It’s one of ...
CHICAGO — “The Fugitive” remains singular in the career of Chicago-born director Andrew Davis, raised first in Rogers Park and then, mainly, in the South Side Jeffery Manor neighborhood.
The 1993 thriller starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones was a huge hit, Davis’ biggest. But in another way “The Fugitive,” released in theaters 30 years ago this month, is not singular: It’s one of several movies Davis, 76, shot largely in his hometown with a keen, non-touristic eye.
Take, for example, Davis’ 1985 dirty-cop drama “Code of Silence,” the one verifiably good Chuck Norris movie in existence. “There’s a lot of the Southeast Side in that one,” Davis told me, from his oceanside home
