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Tom Cruise keeps the torch alight in Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One

By Harry Khachatrian
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Tom Cruise keeps the torch alight in Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One

It was in 1986, in The Color of Money, an often-overlooked Martin Scorsese film, that a 61-year-old Paul Newman, the action icon and ’60s heartthrob, metaphorically passed the torch to a then-budding Tom Cruise, marking a new era of Hollywood stardom.

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