‘Eugene the Marine’ With Scott Glenn to Open Oldenburg Film Festival
Legendary movie tough guy Scott Glenn takes center stage at the 32nd Oldenburg Film Festival, which opens Sept. 10 with the world premiere of Hank Bedford’s Eugene the Marine, starring the 86-year-old character actor in a rare leading role.
The 16mm-shot, retro-tinged thriller sees Glenn playing a former Marine whose life begins to unravel when his son tries to force him from his longtime family home while a string of murders terrorizes his community. Joining Glenn in the cast are Jim Gaffigan, Annette O’Toole, Shioli Kutsuna and Jeremy Bobb.
Oldenburg will also pay tribute to Glenn with a retrospective of his career highlights, including James Bridges’ Urban Cowboy (1980), John Frankenheimer’s The Challenge (1982), Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs (1991) and Ken Loach’s Carla’s Song (1996).
For more than five decades, Glenn has been the character actor’s character actor, working with the world’s greatest directors — Robert Altman, Michael Mann, John Frankenheimer, Francis Ford and Sofia Coppola — and alongside the likes of Marlon Brando, Sir Laurence Olivier, Jodie Foster and Denzel Washington. His credits, from Apocalypse Now to The Right Stuff, from The Hunt for Red October to The Silence of the Lambs and Training Day, are a tribute to his talent and enduring cinematic legacy.
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More recently, Glenn’s become a small-screen presence, with roles in The Leftovers, Daredevil, Bad Monkey and Season 3 of The White Lotus. His turn as the titular resort owner earned him his first Emmy nomination, for outstanding guest actor in a drama series.
The premiere of Eugene the Marine marks Bedford’s return to Oldenburg nearly a decade after debuting his first feature, Dixieland, at the German indie fest in 2015. Glenn, Bedford, producer Stephen Vincent and cast members will attend the premiere and festival events from Sept. 10–14.
