Paul Newman
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There are echoes of East of Eden (for which Newman tested, losing the role to James Dean), and the story of how Hank and Viv met actually recapitulates the plot of The Wild One.
She's an actress in a dingy production of Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie and her husband Andy (Timothy Spall) drinks and plays pool at the bar that hosts the play.
A scene where Murphy has to survive floating timbered logs recalls the tragic scene from Sometimes a Great Notion (1971).
Another seventies flick, Sometimes a Great Notion (a movie Hawke praised to me when I interviewed him a few years ago), gets referenced in a harrowing scene involving water logs…
Leader of the drillers Harry Stamper (Yes the same last name as the family in "Sometimes a Great Notion"), played by Bruce Willis with Liv Tyler ("Inventing the Abbotts") as his daughter.