BURT REYNOLDS IN 'BOOGIE NIGHTS' STARRING MARK WAHLBERG

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqQeDkkZXn6ENCiCorQMfu7jfAs3ZQ2xOUPbZODF1FbC3BTeP2j8uy9kOBgFy-mhU1B_1OXfX5NK9TGEUXr_fW-J63ISobUu2JJx42Ud0GeJctkzw4gLCyV6QW2MqC4iBD0uSBhVSupdpD4vpodoawobD3FyXY5sAmBJEVXGDl_MR0lZZzA1UH3Sb88Q/s1173/0.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="647" data-original-width="1173" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqQeDkkZXn6ENCiCorQMfu7jfAs3ZQ2xOUPbZODF1FbC3BTeP2j8uy9kOBgFy-mhU1B_1OXfX5NK9TGEUXr_fW-J63ISobUu2JJx42Ud0GeJctkzw4gLCyV6QW2MqC4iBD0uSBhVSupdpD4vpodoawobD3FyXY5sAmBJEVXGDl_MR0lZZzA1UH3Sb88Q/s16000/0.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds & Mark Wahlberg from BOOGIE NIGHTS Year: 1997 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Basically the GOODFELLAS of the 1970's porn industry, Paul Thomas Anderson's BOOGIE NIGHTS mirrors Martin Scorsese's mob classic from similarities such as wall-to-wall groovy tunes to deliberate homages like an end-of-the-second-act death (Joe Pesci to William H. Macy) that leads to a morbidly cascading downfall of all remaining characters, suddenly thrust and exposed into the bright-lit 1980's...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Of course NIGHTS is a classic all its own — both the celebration of a porn star's life and a cautionary tale of the decadent lifestyle to get and remain there: with budding star Mark Wahlberg as porn climber Dirk Diggler... </p><p><span></span></p>

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BURT REYNOLDS IN 'BOOGIE NIGHTS' STARRING MARK WAHLBERG

Burt Reynolds & Mark Wahlberg from BOOGIE NIGHTS Year: 1997 Rating: ****1/2 Basically the GOODFELLAS of the 1970's porn industry, Pa...

BURT REYNOLDS AND KRIS KRISTOFFERSON ARE 'SEMI-TOUGH'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLDaNPfvwD4fGSodpDeuuVMUryxdiU2CLAzNipgxKvjKfPKlQC3D0UBTlJQ-TjBz-Me77_rh1jrhRwPZn_9UeDw0euvag0LGB0SdzMWvc_SrcGsK8CEVB-GhK24cR-Fu4yddUO2Hd8_gxNjIEFsn_xfRQGazXWywj87OvDLn7GEX7y3MVjMMRYcMG0Tw/s2198/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-25%20at%2010.41.43%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1235" data-original-width="2198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLDaNPfvwD4fGSodpDeuuVMUryxdiU2CLAzNipgxKvjKfPKlQC3D0UBTlJQ-TjBz-Me77_rh1jrhRwPZn_9UeDw0euvag0LGB0SdzMWvc_SrcGsK8CEVB-GhK24cR-Fu4yddUO2Hd8_gxNjIEFsn_xfRQGazXWywj87OvDLn7GEX7y3MVjMMRYcMG0Tw/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-25%20at%2010.41.43%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds in SEMI-TOUGH Year: 1977 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The second mainstream football flick for one-time college star turned cinematic superstar Burt Reynolds isn't as gritty as THE LONGEST YARD, which took place in prison involving prisoners vs guards...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>But SEMI-TOUGH centers on a professional team where the most famous and beloved players, odd couple Reynolds and Kris Kristofferson (flanked by muscular loon Brian Dennehy and a stable Roger E. Mosely), hardly compete on the field but, as a romantic comedy, seek a relationship with the team owner's progressive daughter, Jill Clayburgh...</p><p><span></span></p>

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BURT REYNOLDS AND KRIS KRISTOFFERSON ARE 'SEMI-TOUGH'

Burt Reynolds in SEMI-TOUGH Year: 1977 Rating: *** The second mainstream football flick for one-time college star turned cinematic superstar...

BURT REYNOLDS DRIVING HAL NEEDHAM'S 'THE CANNONBALL RUN'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtKN64pGGF7vYDK0j9N4bJnDok24xMihOWOX99QZ88IuNIHV9s_Z6gFse5TfZr_7HRm4c2CDVlyBdalC57JruTix8C7oG3mMTsjR7OgzfyOcy_8LrdQq7jvhANYvBINoanktq52u1Le83858J0V_qNbyKUwbZjLH2xsVvhqpoV8hHaBDRF3D3mvKTfaQ/s919/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="451" data-original-width="919" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtKN64pGGF7vYDK0j9N4bJnDok24xMihOWOX99QZ88IuNIHV9s_Z6gFse5TfZr_7HRm4c2CDVlyBdalC57JruTix8C7oG3mMTsjR7OgzfyOcy_8LrdQq7jvhANYvBINoanktq52u1Le83858J0V_qNbyKUwbZjLH2xsVvhqpoV8hHaBDRF3D3mvKTfaQ/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds in THE CANNONBALL RUN Year: 1981 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>After SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT, director Hal Needham and actor Burt Reynolds had the car chase comedy down, but it was more like a romantic adventure where the humor derived from the situation and characters...<br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Unlike THE CANNONBALL RUN, an intentional slapdash smashup where laughs were meant to happen at every turn... almost like AIRPLANE but without the spoof aspect... and it mostly delivers with an all-star cast ranging from Roger Moore pretending to be a guy pretending to be Roger Moore as James Bond to a Kung Fu fighting/biker-brawling Jackie Chan, an Arab Sheikh, two hot-rod hotties and...</p><p><span></span></p>

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BURT REYNOLDS DRIVING HAL NEEDHAM'S 'THE CANNONBALL RUN'

Burt Reynolds in THE CANNONBALL RUN Year: 1981 Rating: ****1/2 After SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT, director Hal Needham and actor Burt Reynolds had...

BURT REYNOLDS & JON VOIGHT VENTURE THROUGH 'DELIVERANCE'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeqaQhQE-Y3gh8Wzx-77045UDvzqPnqme0bw1hEISMywJUHl98qbZmTEqmThABnG30q8fZf0SZxUBE_f5dSPmQOdNPkveAy_hepPbc-tF9AS1Ai2MfuksgW4uKTn1I5h36-i00Hmo-jxqYkS3DG9EC6yjZCcR-Cj3OOch3yLJMiTfZYEf9zH1cMLnH8w/s1839/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="933" data-original-width="1839" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeqaQhQE-Y3gh8Wzx-77045UDvzqPnqme0bw1hEISMywJUHl98qbZmTEqmThABnG30q8fZf0SZxUBE_f5dSPmQOdNPkveAy_hepPbc-tF9AS1Ai2MfuksgW4uKTn1I5h36-i00Hmo-jxqYkS3DG9EC6yjZCcR-Cj3OOch3yLJMiTfZYEf9zH1cMLnH8w/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds in DELIVERANCE Year: 1972 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Going backwards, many fans of Burt Reynolds happened upon DELIVERANCE later on, and the biggest difference between that and even his better-than-car-chase movies is the ensemble of four characters who get almost equal story-time and importance to the plot...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>A would-be vacationing adventure of businessmen taking to the white water rapids, led by a confident and gusty survivalist-type Reynolds as Lewis, good friend of polar opposite Jon Voight, the actual main character, who, as Ed, can hardly sling a bow-and-arrow while Burt leads one of the all-time great bow-and-arrow rescues...</p><p><span></span></p>

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BURT REYNOLDS & JON VOIGHT VENTURE THROUGH 'DELIVERANCE'

Burt Reynolds in DELIVERANCE Year: 1972 Rating: ****1/2 Going backwards, many fans of Burt Reynolds happened upon DELIVERANCE later on, and ...

BURT REYNOLDS STARS IN 'THE MAN WHO LOVED CAT DANCING'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiteOLm8zp9pTYX4aXJ-NTpP_dShnPhzMRPj19pGg9thod1P_MZ1vIKwvRvsZoLF4PKPZiOi3wXYE_Cj3fBITVttmKe1-xRF38f2lcSVI62V4qe4dJL2VHFE2JptUtCTJjGkscVdy6fv-eptzoJhmsvkpkYGzleo_f9yG_PaKbZ0uw8TirdpVlmFeiSjQ/s1129/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="1129" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiteOLm8zp9pTYX4aXJ-NTpP_dShnPhzMRPj19pGg9thod1P_MZ1vIKwvRvsZoLF4PKPZiOi3wXYE_Cj3fBITVttmKe1-xRF38f2lcSVI62V4qe4dJL2VHFE2JptUtCTJjGkscVdy6fv-eptzoJhmsvkpkYGzleo_f9yG_PaKbZ0uw8TirdpVlmFeiSjQ/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE MAN WHO LOVED CAT DANCING Year: 1973 Rating: **</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>VANISHING POINT director Richard C. Sarafian and budding superstar Burt Reynolds teamed for THE MAN WHO LOVED CAT DANCING, based on a then-popular Gothic Western novel and almost the kind of horsepower road movie that Sarafian already had down pat... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>But more a deliberate adventure in reverse, beginning with a train robbery introduction to a bank robbing gang led by a quiet-silent Renyolds; a tough-as-nails Jack Warden; a passive Indian and Bo Hopkins, again playing an unpredictable, hopped-up hillbilly ala Sam Peckinpah cinema...</p><p><span></span></p>

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BURT REYNOLDS STARS IN 'THE MAN WHO LOVED CAT DANCING'

Title: THE MAN WHO LOVED CAT DANCING Year: 1973 Rating: ** VANISHING POINT director Richard C. Sarafian and budding superstar Burt Reynolds ...

BURT REYNOLDS DRIVES 'HOOPER' WITH JAN-MICHAEL VINCENT

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUs5o3Ov_wtQzeFl3a7D3bjVZFmstyAegVDzN5jUVDBN04NSd0BYOnTMXtCzGRjWrI5dYaXfJIplp8rY2cjLZGuJ5fDRlt1kZuY84-_tnJiNOzdbY0OsGX0LnSv3iufnt76jtNgo0AWkMcYBAk9VP4FTLaSe7Rr_j4sszGDM_PwwwYdyuI6rT6q2mI5Q/s1769/1%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1123" data-original-width="1769" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUs5o3Ov_wtQzeFl3a7D3bjVZFmstyAegVDzN5jUVDBN04NSd0BYOnTMXtCzGRjWrI5dYaXfJIplp8rY2cjLZGuJ5fDRlt1kZuY84-_tnJiNOzdbY0OsGX0LnSv3iufnt76jtNgo0AWkMcYBAk9VP4FTLaSe7Rr_j4sszGDM_PwwwYdyuI6rT6q2mI5Q/s16000/1%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds and Jan-Michael Vincent in HOOPER Year: 1978 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>By the time HOOPER hit theaters, star Burt Reynolds and director Hal Needham were already reeling from the blockbuster success of SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT, a car-chase movie with a lot of stunts — so it made sense to have their next literal vehicle be a tribute to stuntmen...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Plus the fact Burt liked doing his own, and Needham was a genuine Hollywood fall guy for decades, making this a doubled-down labor-of-love that mostly strays from the intentional silliness of SMOKEY, but with a few exceptions...</p><p><span></span></p>

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BURT REYNOLDS DRIVES 'HOOPER' WITH JAN-MICHAEL VINCENT

Burt Reynolds and Jan-Michael Vincent in HOOPER Year: 1978 Rating: ***1/2 By the time HOOPER hit theaters, star Burt Reynolds and director H...

BURT REYNOLDS IN THE SLOWBURN COP SERIES 'DAN AUGUST'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH_yekySutZ4hA3_wk27YdVXzzrTVIZoznoV1pxSNuFM_VQnnlIRBUuiX6DPnLaBPTofKpM_yPWNKAkVDbe-gFuDwp5n_EtACN23RO2tf_NCEmZBggO5gr8jPdoab4z6MqLz9PB4ipwMZ9L4koYdZa9B1yHcyOCu160IfiFUsfLLMqLs579z1zp9BWfg/s1336/0.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="801" data-original-width="1336" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH_yekySutZ4hA3_wk27YdVXzzrTVIZoznoV1pxSNuFM_VQnnlIRBUuiX6DPnLaBPTofKpM_yPWNKAkVDbe-gFuDwp5n_EtACN23RO2tf_NCEmZBggO5gr8jPdoab4z6MqLz9PB4ipwMZ9L4koYdZa9B1yHcyOCu160IfiFUsfLLMqLs579z1zp9BWfg/s16000/0.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds on the series DAN AUGUST Years: 1970-1971 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In two decades, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/burt%20reynolds">Burt Reynolds</a> went from being a TV actor to a movie star, and following both GUNSMOKE and HAWK, a Western and a cop series playing part Indian, he's in the latter's genre as pure white guy DAN AUGUST, a Southern California cop who seems to know everyone he's investigating...</p><p></p><p></p><p>Except a ragged, wrongly-accused hippie in Harrison Ford, featured here from THE MANUFACTURED MAN where his future STAR WARS co-scoundrel, Billy Dee Williams, is an idealistic reporter trying to convince Reynolds' Lt. August into blaming a governor and his flaky, boozing son (David Soul), blocked by token stern chief Richard Anderson while Burt's partnered with a mellow Norman Fell, later co-starring in <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/04/thend.html">THE END</a> and <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/04/paternity.html">PATERNITY</a>... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

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BURT REYNOLDS IN THE SLOWBURN COP SERIES 'DAN AUGUST'

Burt Reynolds on the series DAN AUGUST Years: 1970-1971 Rating: ***1/2 In two decades, Burt Reynolds went from being a TV actor to a movie ...

BURT REYNOLDS GETS CAPTURED FOR 'THE LONGEST YARD'

<div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0isnuS7k0RMnvfTX9md4joUrwVm1MNIygv151NOLcHUasDjCwk71g8ivqfsYo-7IMa2rIEdqy3Y2PvKGIDfvH3RoagmZZKyHHRg0EVwwcj8WKX-3x5CnmHSH2bUP_ra6DKgHJBwQV96WgjKLgDF2coj5rS8hkNopWRD8lmwNS_CerGogtSvs1KPjLGg/s1037/the_longest_yard__1974__poster_by_a_jaded_smithy_d9qld7i_pre.0%202.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="586" data-original-width="1037" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0isnuS7k0RMnvfTX9md4joUrwVm1MNIygv151NOLcHUasDjCwk71g8ivqfsYo-7IMa2rIEdqy3Y2PvKGIDfvH3RoagmZZKyHHRg0EVwwcj8WKX-3x5CnmHSH2bUP_ra6DKgHJBwQV96WgjKLgDF2coj5rS8hkNopWRD8lmwNS_CerGogtSvs1KPjLGg/s16000/the_longest_yard__1974__poster_by_a_jaded_smithy_d9qld7i_pre.0%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds in THE LONGEST YARD Director: Robert Aldrich Year: 1974 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table>Having experienced the many Burt Reynolds road flicks throughout the mid/late seventies and early eighties, you'd expect him to, in the very beginning as he's being chased by cops in a stolen hot rod, get away and avoid all punishment... </div><div> </div><div>Nothing doing in THE LONGEST YARD since Burt, playing a has-been football star, is sent to a backwards Florida work-camp where he's called upon by a power hungry warden (Eddie Albert backed by chief guard Ed Lauter) to start a team of convicts: who end up challenging the prison guard semi-pro outfit with a start-up game (fitfully helmed by DIRTY DOZEN prisoners-with-a-purpose director Robert Aldrich) ...</div><p><span></span></p><span></span>

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BURT REYNOLDS GETS CAPTURED FOR 'THE LONGEST YARD'

Burt Reynolds in THE LONGEST YARD Director: Robert Aldrich Year: 1974 Rating: **** Having experienced the many Burt Reynolds road flicks ...

BURT REYNOLDS AND CASEY SIEMASZKO ARE 'BREAKING IN'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0ca-h-wV7bKHGGG5Upbvl7SZqUdV2PNO8pbtoncNMiVYbPMG4dTNygpJ_4di-HE3tF3Qqu3YF1KT1Z0_QMdVglC80YexaZGeOGo08kjcRGDsP-BmW2-WAjspxlhl_ygjOXMLasBUFAVNUvPvBlIsTwRip4pg5-Ii5b9cyrNMqZTqpt4U3F_vRqUOmzA/s1497/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1011" data-original-width="1497" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0ca-h-wV7bKHGGG5Upbvl7SZqUdV2PNO8pbtoncNMiVYbPMG4dTNygpJ_4di-HE3tF3Qqu3YF1KT1Z0_QMdVglC80YexaZGeOGo08kjcRGDsP-BmW2-WAjspxlhl_ygjOXMLasBUFAVNUvPvBlIsTwRip4pg5-Ii5b9cyrNMqZTqpt4U3F_vRqUOmzA/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds in BREAKING IN Year: 1989 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>After a string of good but neglected action flicks as a character either a decade younger or else acting that way, Burt Reynolds plays a professional safe cracker at sixty-one while in his early fifties: a smooth, experienced veteran of life, and without a distracting toupee: in fact Burt's Ernie Mullins is both gray-haired <i>and</i> slightly balding...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Overall his performance is a non-performance, natural and laidback, perfect for LOCAL HERO director Bill Forsyth, making this another hangout indie, written by indie guru John Sayles and co-starring Casey Siemaszko as the young wannabe burglar who meets Ernie in one of many great sequences, seeming like connected short stories, each with a beginning, middle and end...</p><p><span></span></p>

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BURT REYNOLDS AND CASEY SIEMASZKO ARE 'BREAKING IN'

Burt Reynolds in BREAKING IN Year: 1989 Rating: ****1/2 After a string of good but neglected action flicks as a character either a decade yo...

BURT REYNOLDS RETURNING FOR 'SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT 2'

<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpf6RN8SGp3BVTRStuHqwyZE7oBTnu3IzDgjqqJLQgI7DRuBxnM5olWZfoLxB9z_mG3L044PURzWoCE7HOpIVJF2aSX2HNXlZv74lyjqLE5eQ4SOFWCGdr7C-qVWiWFRFfBv0BeG6JMQ0KOvUdMLxZEP5Ms_n40SVecMBJUHhSo7CrbLeydUFTSokXXg/s1818/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1039" data-original-width="1818" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpf6RN8SGp3BVTRStuHqwyZE7oBTnu3IzDgjqqJLQgI7DRuBxnM5olWZfoLxB9z_mG3L044PURzWoCE7HOpIVJF2aSX2HNXlZv74lyjqLE5eQ4SOFWCGdr7C-qVWiWFRFfBv0BeG6JMQ0KOvUdMLxZEP5Ms_n40SVecMBJUHhSo7CrbLeydUFTSokXXg/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT 2 Year: 1980 Rating: ***</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p>One scene in this sequel to SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT has Burt Reynolds and Sally Field, playing Bo The Bandit and his reluctant road moll Frog, joking around with each other in the proverbial cockpit of the cross country vehicle...</p><p>And instead of hearing their inane banter... liken to the superior first movie that's pretty fun with an exception of their insane banter... easygoing country music plays over the scene...</p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

burt reynolds, comedy. sequel, eighties, franchise, jackie gleason, jerry reed, race against time, road movie, sally field

BURT REYNOLDS RETURNING FOR 'SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT 2'

Title: SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT 2 Year: 1980 Rating: *** One scene in this sequel to SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT has Burt Reynolds and Sally Field, ...

BURT REYNOLDS WANTS TO HAVE YOUR BABY IN 'PATERNITY'

<p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTQRyl3Ur72kdBJj2a8aGg_JOjkoEUAzcalZifSuItIxSCHuDSevniRL_8Ivq-61lrzf514F57-K_4UI42wzNwj77ootZ-J-PiGykZqDYISjvklMfhyoe8sx7Fz_C2O8AznhumD-cy9ubQg2KecuedORVdXb66xaSsh3ECibpPaVsQ4cM6wFTAVxqNQg/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202020-04-20%20at%207.53.29%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="887" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTQRyl3Ur72kdBJj2a8aGg_JOjkoEUAzcalZifSuItIxSCHuDSevniRL_8Ivq-61lrzf514F57-K_4UI42wzNwj77ootZ-J-PiGykZqDYISjvklMfhyoe8sx7Fz_C2O8AznhumD-cy9ubQg2KecuedORVdXb66xaSsh3ECibpPaVsQ4cM6wFTAVxqNQg/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202020-04-20%20at%207.53.29%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds and Lee Ann Duffield  in PATERNITY Year: 1981 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In his string of romantic comedy films, and even his car chase flicks, Burt Reynolds is never alone. There's always an eclectic cast of characters supporting him along the process...<br> <br> But here’s a movie where Burt, playing extremely subtle as a single successful guy who yearns to have a baby, seems completely isolated, at first, and not only because he wants the child born through a surrogate mother...<br> </p><p></p><p></p>

aileen quinn, beverly d'angelo, burt reynolds, comedy, eighties, lauren hutton, norman fell, paul dooley, toni kalem

BURT REYNOLDS WANTS TO HAVE YOUR BABY IN 'PATERNITY'

Burt Reynolds and Lee Ann Duffield  in PATERNITY Year: 1981 Rating: ***1/2 In his string of romantic comedy films, and even his car chase f...

BURT REYNOLDS DRIVES MOONSHINE FOR 'WHITE LIGHTNING'

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><p> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6TTj3ok08rJpWCPAr2kuG8nDsCtGtUDn893Mcf6QmhvpUtzcf58cjwvhxIGWPtoz_hu2dnRJYRF2CnQjlOEpRBewbkJkdiwjVqUxyJehtNuZiCaizCj5PGh_-Ydm3GOsJ9X57emb-EeoZIGcDw8NCPOBreAYVfmruhsVDJ1zJMrMLWXCpA6Tj6Mhzvw/s1132/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-05%20at%202.21.02%20AM%203.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="742" data-original-width="1132" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6TTj3ok08rJpWCPAr2kuG8nDsCtGtUDn893Mcf6QmhvpUtzcf58cjwvhxIGWPtoz_hu2dnRJYRF2CnQjlOEpRBewbkJkdiwjVqUxyJehtNuZiCaizCj5PGh_-Ydm3GOsJ9X57emb-EeoZIGcDw8NCPOBreAYVfmruhsVDJ1zJMrMLWXCpA6Tj6Mhzvw/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-05%20at%202.21.02%20AM%203.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u>Burt Reynolds in WHITE LIGHTING Year: 1973 Rating: ***</u></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">After a star-making turn in the groundbreaking DELIVERANCE, this is Burt Reynold's first of many car chase movies. While there are a few cars, there’s only one worthy chas<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">e...</span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Plot centers on a convict whose hippie brother was killed by a crooked small town Sheriff… that’s what everyone suspects including government agents who free Burt’s "Gator McKlusky" from a work camp to go undercover as a freelance moonshiner...</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span></span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><span></span>

action, bo hopkins, burt reynolds, jennifer billingly, matt clark, moonshine, ned beatty, seventies

BURT REYNOLDS DRIVES MOONSHINE FOR 'WHITE LIGHTNING'

Burt Reynolds in WHITE LIGHTING Year: 1973 Rating: *** After a star-making turn in the groundbreaking DELIVERANCE, this is Burt Reynold&#...

BURT REYNOLDS 'MALONE' WITH CYNTHIA GIBB & SCOTT WILSON

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHOx5W1IbH947m809zhqx-kiY9EO8KK8VkvWdKGUwq2D8yVeVd3Y1LBLpS16VJ1hYlx9bNZmAfgnGoWR8Yf_ksxPR8SC8VH0usFqs5iELluy6WvWjqRnFnsxtANaPogoJ7XcWBXQ77aKxK7xBsu2bHlmMUXRqXc8Gs-jv3A4QPGub8gRfl-0DoV57_0w/s1835/Z.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="995" data-original-width="1835" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHOx5W1IbH947m809zhqx-kiY9EO8KK8VkvWdKGUwq2D8yVeVd3Y1LBLpS16VJ1hYlx9bNZmAfgnGoWR8Yf_ksxPR8SC8VH0usFqs5iELluy6WvWjqRnFnsxtANaPogoJ7XcWBXQ77aKxK7xBsu2bHlmMUXRqXc8Gs-jv3A4QPGub8gRfl-0DoV57_0w/s16000/Z.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds in MALONE Year: 1987 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>For Burt Reynolds, compared to his bombs of the early to mid 1980's, MALONE is a nice, tight production that's basically a remake of a classic 1950's Western. "Let's be honest," Reynolds once stated. "The film is SHANE."</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The ongoing lustful flirtation by young, cute-as-a-button, girl-next-door ingenue Cynthia Gibb is a little out of place, although while he might've been too old for the part (Christopher Lambert was originally considered), she's not at all miscast...<br> </p><span></span>

action, burt reynolds, cliff robertson, cynthia gibb, dennis burkley, eighties, kenneth mcmillan, scott wilson, thriller, tracey walter

BURT REYNOLDS 'MALONE' WITH CYNTHIA GIBB & SCOTT WILSON

Burt Reynolds in MALONE Year: 1987 Rating: **** For Burt Reynolds, compared to his bombs of the early to mid 1980's, MALONE is a nice, t...

PULP NOVEL 'HIS BONES ARE CORAL' BECOMES A CHOPPY 'SHARK'

<div style="text-align: left;"> </div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1CPMKHfwpdSuhK81GeSr5qranBB1bj1YlHMmx9lWPo01SVwDeY31NC2khIFRU_Fm5laeMvst12zPcbSjDQIjVKF9vKEnfozLEY1BODjSN_q6DRErEngoYOWC6sxT516l8jfbiI9CKHOhHQncv8LqcXJd51yL33Fp4G9q2Xgb09VHqOUgwSw9uYxMddA/s473/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-04%20at%2010.12.31%20PM.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="473" data-original-width="471" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1CPMKHfwpdSuhK81GeSr5qranBB1bj1YlHMmx9lWPo01SVwDeY31NC2khIFRU_Fm5laeMvst12zPcbSjDQIjVKF9vKEnfozLEY1BODjSN_q6DRErEngoYOWC6sxT516l8jfbiI9CKHOhHQncv8LqcXJd51yL33Fp4G9q2Xgb09VHqOUgwSw9uYxMddA/s320/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-04%20at%2010.12.31%20PM.jpeg" width="319"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>SHARK Year: 1969 Rating: **1/2<br></u></td></tr></tbody></table>Sometimes you run into a terrific pulp novel watching an old bad movie: In this case the Samuel Fuller sea noir SHARK came out in 1969 and starred a then mostly unknown Burt Reynolds as a drug runner, who actually mentions that he's only heard of that occupation, "drug runner," in the movies... His maverick, footloose, hunted character is used by a supposed father/daughter team to dive for gold in shark-infested waters. This was based on the book HIS BONES ARE CORAL by British author Victor Canning, and with a pulpy title like that, it was well worth finding after searching a few used bookstores...<br> <br> <div style="text-align: right;"> </div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-M-l08-E_3HQ/Ve9zYx5BNAI/AAAAAAAAo9w/fExB5pvVgv0/s1600/url.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-M-l08-E_3HQ/Ve9zYx5BNAI/AAAAAAAAo9w/fExB5pvVgv0/s1600/url.jpg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px; text-align: center;"><u>Novel Published: 1954</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> This particular hardback jacket sleeve has a terrific Hemingway TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT style cover of an old fishing boat rocking through stormy waters. Wherein the film begins with a choppily edited shark attack, the book opens with our anti-hero crashing his plane and then hiding a "stash" in a cheap Cairo hotel, where he soon meets a pretty girl who introduces him to her father, and, like the movie, is hired to captain a charter where dad can dive for gold while sharks patrol the area... but are only attracted to blood. Our ragged lead winds up fighting for his life to win the girl, and to come out of the situation without getting stabbed by human goons or eaten by ferocious sharks.<br> <br> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-81Gxgrr1QOk/VfNxZFAlMcI/AAAAAAAApDE/CSfUrmK_kw8/s1600/1.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-81Gxgrr1QOk/VfNxZFAlMcI/AAAAAAAApDE/CSfUrmK_kw8/w192-h320/1.jpg" width="192"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px; text-align: center;"><u>Burt in Shark</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> The first-person narrative is pulpy, poetic, corny, lovely; the action flows and the dialogue is passionate, dreamy and tough at the same time. The only downside is the second half doesn't live up to the first, being that, like many dime novels, the guy gets too weepy and whipped by the backstabbing dame... but no matter...<br> <br> CORAL was a fantastic read that wouldn't have been discovered by Cult Film Freak without that maligned Sam Fuller flick, ruined by studio henchman, which is not only difficult to understand in the dialogue department, taking place in Cairo where the actors seem like the real thing and thus, dubbed horribly. Even Americans like Arthur Kennedy (playing a Walter Brennan style rummy sidekick) and Barry Sullivan rush their lines: providing what feels like a Noir collage of sneaky conversations with brief bouts of jumbled action. Although, technically, if you center on individual shots, creative camera angles, and a few neatly-flowing non-cut performances by a genuinely cool Bogart-style Burt Reynolds, Mr. Fuller's poetic signature is visible, somewhat, within those murky, muddied waters.<i></i>

action, adventure, arthur kennedy, burt reynolds, neo noir, samuel fuller, shark, silvia pinal, sixties, thriller, treasure

PULP NOVEL 'HIS BONES ARE CORAL' BECOMES A CHOPPY 'SHARK'

SHARK Year: 1969 Rating: **1/2 Sometimes you run into a terrific pulp novel watching an old bad movie: In this case the Samuel Fuller sea n...

BURT REYNOLDS ROLLING IN 'W.W. AND THE DIXIE DANCEKINGS'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqpb7nptvgZaaBGJHO1rLnromntsWl4ATh_6bemYoXb2UzairNYabIB-68E_dCrIWpnB0WleBYMxAW0nmFftYP_Qrp2taaboOmFlqfv6ciAxlWeiSByvvORmeLBsi-9TFlMGobt8om9Q3xoq7HR6hTc_SqOTr49Rn-klDaf6EPcppZM0vhe4NCKMDVfw/s1103/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-04%20at%209.37.22%20PM.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1103" data-original-width="910" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqpb7nptvgZaaBGJHO1rLnromntsWl4ATh_6bemYoXb2UzairNYabIB-68E_dCrIWpnB0WleBYMxAW0nmFftYP_Qrp2taaboOmFlqfv6ciAxlWeiSByvvORmeLBsi-9TFlMGobt8om9Q3xoq7HR6hTc_SqOTr49Rn-klDaf6EPcppZM0vhe4NCKMDVfw/s320/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-04%20at%209.37.22%20PM.jpeg" width="264"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Year: 1975 Rating: ***</td></tr></tbody></table>Orson Welles once stated that fame was the worst thing to happen to Burt Reynolds… And Burt liked this comment enough to place it at the forefront of his now defunct official website…<br> <br> Well in 1975, it would be a few years... and a few more eclectic films... until Burt became the biggest star in the world after SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT, and the obscure W.W. AND THE DIXIE DANCEKINGS is the necessary cog in that inevitable game-changing wheel…<br> <br> <div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTKwwQio_FcxRw8-teUdTRb-ZxJv0sAjPffnQrDfocmnqbjUcWIPFr-4xl9KcgEyhRbiTbHd3WqIhZssC_tqrPBM5ZsvqhCXySdI4prfXOh7MqAux4tYZ2a1ERXzhfmp3DUDFnSUS1SjPHsDyzTEioAO4XK_qSmGG-7u0Qt0Zb0jbWRNimsy0bNjYiMA/s1242/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-04%20at%209.43.44%20PM.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1242" data-original-width="464" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTKwwQio_FcxRw8-teUdTRb-ZxJv0sAjPffnQrDfocmnqbjUcWIPFr-4xl9KcgEyhRbiTbHd3WqIhZssC_tqrPBM5ZsvqhCXySdI4prfXOh7MqAux4tYZ2a1ERXzhfmp3DUDFnSUS1SjPHsDyzTEioAO4XK_qSmGG-7u0Qt0Zb0jbWRNimsy0bNjYiMA/w150-h400/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-04%20at%209.43.44%20PM.png" width="150"></a></div>BANDIT connections include future director Hal Needham as stunt coordinator, and real life musician Jerry Reed is introduced as Wayne, an uptight guitarist for a band led by cute blond Dixie, who meets Burt's roving conman W.W. by accident – of his own making... After politely robbing two gas stations, and being tracked by a cop, the clean-shaven Reynolds doesn’t drive off for the chase like the mustached icon would in years to come – instead, Burt's chortling W.W. stealthily ducks into a cowboy bar where Dixie and company are playing an extremely low rent gig, and, using wily charm and spontaneous rambling, he pretends to be their manager, later promising the outfit a “lucrative” concert in Nashville while distancing himself from the law...<br> <br> Set in the 1950’s, the main vehicle is neat looking but the action scenes are minimal. This is really about W.W. keeping up his perpetual ruse while the band, also including Burt’s LONGEST YARD buddy James Hampton, depends on this convenient stranger to keep them rolling. The only bulwark is an evangelical corporate grump named Deacon, played by Art Carney who, compared to his HONEYMOONERS crony Jackie Gleason as the future SMOKEY antagonist, isn’t much of a threat till the 11th hour. <i></i>

art carney, burt reynolds, connie van dyke, fifties-era, heist, import, james hampton, jerry reed, john g. avildsen, ned beatty, road movie, seventies

BURT REYNOLDS ROLLING IN 'W.W. AND THE DIXIE DANCEKINGS'

Year: 1975 Rating: *** Orson Welles once stated that fame was the worst thing to happen to Burt Reynolds… And Burt liked this comment enoug...

BURT REYNOLDS IN ROBERT ALDRICH'S NEO NOIR OF 'HUSTLE'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMNUDkfq96X1rf_isliHeIYTcN304aoqDbdTVvX5r2c8t97S6hSlIEBhzgFHMneEYF1vL7VARA4KUA6YiMnk19E-52123RdXiFoNxBQ9YMKBGNWLKVJgSWPxgWpOqNTmTmDrSq5Kj_JPdr4peWeNAYllgiEJmDpukWsf_-uu3VWdCMHB79ll94v4zotw/s2010/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-03%20at%2011.22.19%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1140" data-original-width="2010" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMNUDkfq96X1rf_isliHeIYTcN304aoqDbdTVvX5r2c8t97S6hSlIEBhzgFHMneEYF1vL7VARA4KUA6YiMnk19E-52123RdXiFoNxBQ9YMKBGNWLKVJgSWPxgWpOqNTmTmDrSq5Kj_JPdr4peWeNAYllgiEJmDpukWsf_-uu3VWdCMHB79ll94v4zotw/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-03%20at%2011.22.19%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds and Paul Winfield in HUSTLE Year: 1975 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>One of those “stick with it” kind of movies. After the success of the universally entertaining THE LONGEST YARD, director Robert Aldrich reteams with Burt Reynolds in a steamy/gritty cop melodrama that takes a little while to get going...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Reynolds is Phil Gaines, a bitter, world-weary detective who, living with a high priced prostitute, doesn’t represent the typical law and order existence. After the dead body of a drugged young girl turns up on the beach, Gaines and his partner, Paul Winfield’s Belgrave, write it off as suicide...</p><span></span>

ben johnson, burt reynolds, catherine bach, catherine deneuve, cop, crime, eddie albert, ernest borgnine, neo noir, paul winfield, robert aldrich, seventies

BURT REYNOLDS IN ROBERT ALDRICH'S NEO NOIR OF 'HUSTLE'

Burt Reynolds and Paul Winfield in HUSTLE Year: 1975 Rating: *** One of those “stick with it” kind of movies. After the success of the univ...

BURT REYNOLDS STARS AS/DIRECTS THE ACTION NEO NOIR 'STICK'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRNFhVnM4R3EXDiHByS197OQfPQES0JBRP_BZr21AqINVu_EhvtQn8k7gnkzjKZ1sRkOCiHc-ln3YlziKO0J8qEg2Gw3JRDufTbgLKhN6fH0Iw_FjaAY5NIBaNXs-LnAbC2l7iywoOs4WbyC5hyOxBJtg-9zABuaKZi_TSy0vjyDiSTaece7OP8JeCeA/s1395/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-03%20at%208.52.49%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="728" data-original-width="1395" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRNFhVnM4R3EXDiHByS197OQfPQES0JBRP_BZr21AqINVu_EhvtQn8k7gnkzjKZ1sRkOCiHc-ln3YlziKO0J8qEg2Gw3JRDufTbgLKhN6fH0Iw_FjaAY5NIBaNXs-LnAbC2l7iywoOs4WbyC5hyOxBJtg-9zABuaKZi_TSy0vjyDiSTaece7OP8JeCeA/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-03%20at%208.52.49%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds in STICK Year: 1985 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Elmore Leonard's yarn about an ex-con named STICK is brought to the big screen by actor/director Burt Reynolds, who doesn't ruin Leonard's staple brainy dialog by adding plenty of mainstream action, an over-synthesized score, predictable moments (you know who's gonna die and when) and undeveloped characters.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yet none of the flaws matter since the character doesn't take his situation... revenge for his buddy's death (Jose Perez from SHORT EYES)... all that seriously: floating in-and-out of trouble with ease...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, burt reynolds, candace bergen, charles durning, eighties, elmore leonard, jose perez, neo noir

BURT REYNOLDS STARS AS/DIRECTS THE ACTION NEO NOIR 'STICK'

Burt Reynolds in STICK Year: 1985 Rating: ***1/2 Elmore Leonard's yarn about an ex-con named STICK is brought to the big screen by actor...

BURT REYNOLDS STARS/DIRECTS THE NEO NOIR 'SHARKY'S MACHINE'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrQFv53YpS_91Ffv3pfWql4lIfG6b3ZP7ZJhkVOBM1ZfmT_cTGNjXBQPhVbVFc8QQYvZZu3j7YMIVqcDjcDPMX6qRxArX2zB9cZsR4ysgcuTOK4KwqacuYV2pmhsbu6j20oYw2TOp2SKsET__RlvFmI8GMc8YKlGTORYNKZfeUk7eqiEN0UvJ59oHrKQ/s2302/1-1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1231" data-original-width="2302" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrQFv53YpS_91Ffv3pfWql4lIfG6b3ZP7ZJhkVOBM1ZfmT_cTGNjXBQPhVbVFc8QQYvZZu3j7YMIVqcDjcDPMX6qRxArX2zB9cZsR4ysgcuTOK4KwqacuYV2pmhsbu6j20oYw2TOp2SKsET__RlvFmI8GMc8YKlGTORYNKZfeUk7eqiEN0UvJ59oHrKQ/s16000/1-1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: SHARKY'S MACHINE Year: 1981 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Although Burt Reynolds' box office rival Clint Eastwood deemed SHARKY'S MACHINE "Dirty Harry in Georgia," it's actually a spiritual remake of the film noir LAURA where a cop falls for a mysterious woman who was supposedly murdered by a killer using a shotgun at her apartment door — but turns out being another dame entirely...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And before all that, Reynolds goes from a risky narc officer... whose opening drug deal turns into a solid city shootout... to one of several vice squad members in the shabby and neglected police headquarters-basement; and their first gig busting whores at a political rally with the two coolest characters, not including Burt, also the director... and with a skin-diver's cut instead of his usual distracting toupee, he hasn't been this legit since DELIVERANCE... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

action, bernie casey, brian keith, burt reynolds, charles durning, cop, earl holliman, eighties, henry silva, neo noir, rachel ward, vittorio gassman

BURT REYNOLDS STARS/DIRECTS THE NEO NOIR 'SHARKY'S MACHINE'

Title: SHARKY'S MACHINE Year: 1981 Rating: **** Although Burt Reynolds' box office rival Clint Eastwood deemed SHARKY'S MACHINE ...

BURT REYNOLDS IN THE LAS VEGAS NEON NEO-NOIR OF 'HEAT'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF04Do96V6dCUGTK40Byj2YuzzuQwQxkLIh57pTv0hmrfuMuIY9hkQGWs371uFoijOuwB5ErZBLgP0d75moJOHFkdE0s-1dFO8hnZ9HJpvYP2rYB4Bo8ATpGrWSf5ysvVtC3UZrtUqOoi2aRf8aUyNebwSB16gjAXYNcbPM4-AXkxE9l0i2Z6Q0bKFvQ/s1884/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-30%20at%206.13.50%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="935" data-original-width="1884" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF04Do96V6dCUGTK40Byj2YuzzuQwQxkLIh57pTv0hmrfuMuIY9hkQGWs371uFoijOuwB5ErZBLgP0d75moJOHFkdE0s-1dFO8hnZ9HJpvYP2rYB4Bo8ATpGrWSf5ysvVtC3UZrtUqOoi2aRf8aUyNebwSB16gjAXYNcbPM4-AXkxE9l0i2Z6Q0bKFvQ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-30%20at%206.13.50%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: HEAT Year: 1986 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>After <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/burt%20reynolds">Burt Reynolds</a> career derailed following too many bland romantic comedies and vapid car chase movies, especially STROKER ACE, he made a string of relatively unknown neo noir action flicks liken to his 1981 gritty cop exploitation SHARKY'S MACHINE... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And while <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2011/06/stick.html">STICK</a> took source novelist Elmore Leonard's pulpy approach in balmy Florida and <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2018/10/Malone.html">MALONE</a> headed to the woodsy wilderness, HEAT sizzles in Sin City where Reynold's character Nick is a kind of hired makeshift bodyguard with an edgy past while suffering the worst addiction to have in Las Vegas... gambling... </p><p><span></span></p>

action, burt reynolds, deborah rush, eighties, gambling, howard hesseman, karen young, neo noir, peter macnichol

BURT REYNOLDS IN THE LAS VEGAS NEON NEO-NOIR OF 'HEAT'

Title: HEAT Year: 1986 Rating: ***1/2 After Burt Reynolds career derailed following too many bland romantic comedies and vapid car chase mo...

BURT REYNOLDS AND DAVID NIVEN IN DON SIEGEL'S 'ROUGH CUT'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaDcRkNmO3Z8ZqL9izygMWISWuVccJXHLLHkaC7ICnjGleRjwHRYeJKjuKQVAmIypjXtneFiXuCAgkS3Z5DwFfAnnROzvT6qbhbE48ZgjXBCx5ITvUuvNQMbj_bPTI5cXIPs0csdnnG3XfnjOYcSO2LV9wMMxbh6NIgy8pbgpQKaNujD_2zlh4EbB8lQ/s1662/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-31%20at%201.36.24%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="940" data-original-width="1662" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaDcRkNmO3Z8ZqL9izygMWISWuVccJXHLLHkaC7ICnjGleRjwHRYeJKjuKQVAmIypjXtneFiXuCAgkS3Z5DwFfAnnROzvT6qbhbE48ZgjXBCx5ITvUuvNQMbj_bPTI5cXIPs0csdnnG3XfnjOYcSO2LV9wMMxbh6NIgy8pbgpQKaNujD_2zlh4EbB8lQ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-31%20at%201.36.24%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: ROUGH CUT Year: 1980 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>For poor David Niven, ROUGH CUT turned out to be the second heist comedy centering on diamond thieves where he gets lost in the mix: First of course was THE PINK PANTHER as the charming, sophisticated criminal with lawman Peter Sellers historically stealing the show, and here Niven himself is the dogged constable yet the entire picture belongs to Burt Reynolds and Lesley-Anne Down playing the suave burglars...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And although <i>mostly</i> directed by American edgy auteur Don Siegel and starring the American box office champ Reynolds, this British-set CUT has the witty pace and polished style of that country's crime-comedy genre including polite expository banter, lavish interior sets and plenty of champagne...</p><p><span></span></p>

andrew ray, british, burt reynolds, caper, con man, david niven, don siegel, heist, lesley-anne down, susan littler

BURT REYNOLDS AND DAVID NIVEN IN DON SIEGEL'S 'ROUGH CUT'

Title: ROUGH CUT Year: 1980 Rating: *** For poor David Niven, ROUGH CUT turned out to be the second heist comedy centering on diamond thieve...

BURT REYNOLDS AND CLINT EASTWOOD TEAM FOR 'CITY HEAT'

<p> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiepjVpxItgUiL5IuIrxUBVA_HYUxlETWq1JhDStLH4Aw41SyUo5yKrXCLuqpNTqmIoVQOrKBrjEi50wRvcKCZK25jkScrTsCxBtHlz4C_bDU4-0irGepFCGWnd_gvIJiLiE1xsP1LYOtPUlZMF3yw3qTT3hItq8Cm1UGic-C-lWMfVk5XC1v-6KgNEYQ/s894/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-31%20at%203.42.38%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="477" data-original-width="894" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiepjVpxItgUiL5IuIrxUBVA_HYUxlETWq1JhDStLH4Aw41SyUo5yKrXCLuqpNTqmIoVQOrKBrjEi50wRvcKCZK25jkScrTsCxBtHlz4C_bDU4-0irGepFCGWnd_gvIJiLiE1xsP1LYOtPUlZMF3yw3qTT3hItq8Cm1UGic-C-lWMfVk5XC1v-6KgNEYQ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-31%20at%203.42.38%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: City Heat Stars: Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds Year: 1984 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Remembering the time, as a young action movie fan, when realizing CITY HEAT did <i>not</i> take place in an edgy modern setting — before the knowledge and love of Film Noir and/or Classic Gangster flicks — was a complete letdown...<br> <br> Years have opened the mind, and, while remaining an overall dud to what it could have been given the collaborative talents of Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds, CITY HEAT has gotten a little more entertaining... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

buddy, burt reynolds, clint eastwood, cop, eighties, gangster, gumshoe, neo noir, team-up

BURT REYNOLDS AND CLINT EASTWOOD TEAM FOR 'CITY HEAT'

Title: City Heat Stars: Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds Year: 1984 Rating: *** Remembering the time, as a young action movie fan, when realiz...

BLAXPLOITATION MEXPLOITATION HYBRID WESTERN '100 RIFLES'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjosr7KOIrhnaaEu0IrTyV9wiMMhiG4ULIf_HdaI6lQcFvwpo5TehEZEg4rAvckEKzg5m04dgNcJche8n5ZDQDgZCR55V-4OQ9MFm3Jx0P7ls71-TZ6eLHpDJD8skUyBF4sOvGn2Cp065ss0qTEUCma8KLIlahmHJtQl-k87FuTpAF9RNM6fmne2LNeIA/s777/maxresdefault.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="418" data-original-width="777" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjosr7KOIrhnaaEu0IrTyV9wiMMhiG4ULIf_HdaI6lQcFvwpo5TehEZEg4rAvckEKzg5m04dgNcJche8n5ZDQDgZCR55V-4OQ9MFm3Jx0P7ls71-TZ6eLHpDJD8skUyBF4sOvGn2Cp065ss0qTEUCma8KLIlahmHJtQl-k87FuTpAF9RNM6fmne2LNeIA/s16000/maxresdefault.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: 100 RIFLES Year: 1969 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Word has it Burt Reynolds and  Raquel Welch couldn't stand each other on the set of Tom Gries' grungy Neo-Western 100 RIFLES where she was famous and he... still just a climber... already had the attitude of a big star... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Robustly playing the half-Indian bank robber that black lawman Jim Brown, more of a bounty hunter in nature, wants to take from Indian-massacring Mexican authorities back to America...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, blaxploitation, burt reynolds, jim brown, raquel welch, sixties, soledad miranda, tom gries

BLAXPLOITATION MEXPLOITATION HYBRID WESTERN '100 RIFLES'

Title: 100 RIFLES Year: 1969 Rating: **1/2 Word has it Burt Reynolds and  Raquel Welch couldn't stand each other on the set of Tom Gries...

BURT REYNOLDS STARRING IN HIS CULT DARK COMEDY 'THE END'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7Plm9g_B4CzxAdxPMThwlSzgDfKfoyPcwUZBQkvIJZTdNf3HebidboGBfsl5mnzi6KS8zwSKUu3qG8swA_U6pioknY599d85Tgww9Y-CcvYBauDetYqGoUZ2jvlWAW5gLKBDzy2MXla_CfJlScK8FbNTKhGlimVJ3aiGurTFpDkllb0pV8uS3QlW6xw/s1794/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-09%20at%203.50.03%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="866" data-original-width="1794" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7Plm9g_B4CzxAdxPMThwlSzgDfKfoyPcwUZBQkvIJZTdNf3HebidboGBfsl5mnzi6KS8zwSKUu3qG8swA_U6pioknY599d85Tgww9Y-CcvYBauDetYqGoUZ2jvlWAW5gLKBDzy2MXla_CfJlScK8FbNTKhGlimVJ3aiGurTFpDkllb0pV8uS3QlW6xw/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-09%20at%203.50.03%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds in THE END Year: 1978 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Best remembered for the last half-hour involving Burt Reynolds, as a dying man with less than a year to live, and Dom DeLuise, whom he meets at an insane asylum after an unsuccessful suicide attempt: Crazy Dom's given the personal task to kill Burt so he doesn't have to do it himself...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Before the human cartoon zaniness is a satisfying, darkly comedic hour where Reynold's character, a formerly shady insurance scammer, Sonny, meets with a young priest (Robbie Benson, basically playing, Robbie Benson as a priest) who's more curious about Sonny's sins than a confession... <br> </p>

burt reynolds, dark comedy, dom deluise, kristy mcnichol, norman fell, robbie benson, seventies

BURT REYNOLDS STARRING IN HIS CULT DARK COMEDY 'THE END'

Burt Reynolds in THE END Year: 1978 Rating: ***1/2 Best remembered for the last half-hour involving Burt Reynolds, as a dying man with less ...

KIM HUNTER IN VAL LEWTON'S HORROR NOIR 'THE SEVENTH VICTIM'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyEfoK9S7zRCts3Z2Emcx94-8IZIjTS1j4ndEG2KlOHYlCpz2GHyyMXZPOakQUP1F8FiNQeY4igPdVzFmUd9la9LbdVGzDRkyS-stL_QzhrIjq9tGIZn-SyVacI96uYyi_d-M3WQf5y7IIH69tk20bgNEfczU6ruBmDWk3lXzGapJ8aya0SauqTnL45A/s1470/0.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="908" data-original-width="1470" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyEfoK9S7zRCts3Z2Emcx94-8IZIjTS1j4ndEG2KlOHYlCpz2GHyyMXZPOakQUP1F8FiNQeY4igPdVzFmUd9la9LbdVGzDRkyS-stL_QzhrIjq9tGIZn-SyVacI96uYyi_d-M3WQf5y7IIH69tk20bgNEfczU6ruBmDWk3lXzGapJ8aya0SauqTnL45A/s16000/0.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE SEVENTH VICTIM Year: 1943 Rating: ****</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Following producer Val Lewton's exploitation horrors CAT PEOPLE, THE LEOPARD MAN and I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE directed by Jacques Tourneur, where the titles alone helped fill theaters, THE SEVENTH VICTIM, directed by another Lewton stock auteur, Mark Robson, is the most ambiguous, enigmatic, making very little money...</p><p>And unlike a straight mystery, what's buried in the investigative plot-line is revealed halfway through after young Kim Hunter trades her cold yet cozy girl's school education for the big city, searching for her older sister, the highly-regarded owner of a lucrative cosmetics company, who suddenly vanished... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

barbara hale, dewey robinson, elizabeth russell, erford gage, film noir or melodrama, forties, gothic, horror, hugh beaumont, jean brooks, kim hunter, lou lubin, mark robson, tom conway, val lewton

KIM HUNTER IN VAL LEWTON'S HORROR NOIR 'THE SEVENTH VICTIM'

Title: THE SEVENTH VICTIM Year: 1943 Rating: **** Following producer Val Lewton's exploitation horrors CAT PEOPLE, THE LEOPARD MAN and I...

CHARLES BRONSON IN THE MODERN NOIR TEMPLATE OF 'ST. IVES'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5fCtZxuQvtwKMcPRhz2fSO8uHNEyhlNcZXjtKzw4R0y02CTzc0-odA4uBDi57agFdzk3V3rRLhjwJCUGTbmmFVmJBl-bo9ZpzZrtnj3t9fOucytX7KyOtMD-SoxePFIZV1KRudZ1XLwboGSe29wva77xXMtbQW2qh49qepVU7kAf1-gYgjwu3RCM9gA/s962/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-25%20at%2010.23.50%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="474" data-original-width="962" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5fCtZxuQvtwKMcPRhz2fSO8uHNEyhlNcZXjtKzw4R0y02CTzc0-odA4uBDi57agFdzk3V3rRLhjwJCUGTbmmFVmJBl-bo9ZpzZrtnj3t9fOucytX7KyOtMD-SoxePFIZV1KRudZ1XLwboGSe29wva77xXMtbQW2qh49qepVU7kAf1-gYgjwu3RCM9gA/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-25%20at%2010.23.50%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>ST. IVES Stars: Charles Bronson, John Houseman, Jacqueline Bisset Year: 1976 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The second of two Charles Bronson vehicles after DEATH WISH where Jeff Goldblum plays a member of a gang trio, this time as Hood #3 instead of Freak #1 for ST. IVES, a deliberately nostalgic gumshoe throwback liken to THE BIG SLEEP (ignited by the popularity of CHINATOWN) with Bronson as the snoopy, rough yet vulnerable Humphrey Bogart type, only a crime writer instead of private eye...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And, given a broad task by millionaire John Houseman to find some important papers within 1970's Downtown Los Angeles, Bronson's titular Ives roams from one location to another in the typical Noir fashion...<br></p><p><span></span></p>

action, charles bronson, crime, dana elcar, gumshoe, harry guardino, j. lee thompson, jacqueline bisset, jeff goldblum, john houseman, lynn borden, neo noir, seventies, thriller

CHARLES BRONSON IN THE MODERN NOIR TEMPLATE OF 'ST. IVES'

ST. IVES Stars: Charles Bronson, John Houseman, Jacqueline Bisset Year: 1976 Rating: ***1/2 The second of two Charles Bronson vehicles after...

HUBERT CORNFIELD NEO NOIR 'THE NIGHT OF THE FOLLOWING DAY'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv28Ba6wWOwxnlrOQjMAGDn6v1YE-tPGFHUd4DwPqxOhgsGUD3orcnnbSaW5bZpV8yZyOcF6ap2rxqFJ0lw4dpn32pOiWaH5J94GiSt0REu8JJs-K_dpM7A8KxJTOHBViCbYee-WbKwUlT3Q7hzdLST270cdL9kcpFXJ_yqZtHD2pqUDJ6Mp3XV5JkTA/s1278/285761621_5413029498741286_900411046821438928_n.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1278" data-original-width="1234" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv28Ba6wWOwxnlrOQjMAGDn6v1YE-tPGFHUd4DwPqxOhgsGUD3orcnnbSaW5bZpV8yZyOcF6ap2rxqFJ0lw4dpn32pOiWaH5J94GiSt0REu8JJs-K_dpM7A8KxJTOHBViCbYee-WbKwUlT3Q7hzdLST270cdL9kcpFXJ_yqZtHD2pqUDJ6Mp3XV5JkTA/w386-h400/285761621_5413029498741286_900411046821438928_n.jpeg" width="386"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>The Night of the Following Day 1969 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>There are two things that <i>must be </i>intentional about THE NIGHT OF THE FOLLOWING DAY: One is 40-something Marlon Brando was proving to <i>still </i>be fit and great looking (and he did); the other is this kidnap-thriller's not one bit thrilling, and director Hubert Cornfield deliberately made a character-driven film more about edgy criminals than the edgy situation they're involved in... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And kidnapped Pamela Franklin is hardly shown, especially once inside the main location, a French beach house where even a vacationing cop next door — flirting with Brando's junky girlfriend (and the passive leader's sister) Rita Moreno — doesn't  evoke suspense: Yet it all feels so contentedly and deliberately art-house and extremely dreamlike, leading to the infamous twist ending: And if the kidnapped girl dreamt the entire thing.... and was perhaps recognized (the final shot) by chauffeur Brando... then she may have known him before...</p><p>So this sheltered "rich little princess" had a secret crush on her worldly, rugged driver and fantasized about how he'd act as a criminal anti-hero, saving her from the creepy clutches of token wild card Richard Boone, who seems part of another story altogether: A gritty nightmare as opposed to this passive dream impersonating French New Wave during low tide, speckled with moody diatribes from the actors, and within what should be a more dangerous situation, perhaps the kidnapped girl was protected too well... But it's <i>her</i> movie, not ours (even the characters names, Chauffeur, Friendly, Leer, Blonde, are from her perspective), which may have been the director's intention all along.  </p><p><span></span></p>

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HUBERT CORNFIELD NEO NOIR 'THE NIGHT OF THE FOLLOWING DAY'

The Night of the Following Day 1969 Rating: ***1/2 There are two things that must be intentional about THE NIGHT OF THE FOLLOWING DAY: One i...

PETER SELLERS, BRITT EKLAND & VICTOR MATURE 'AFTER THE FOX'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkdfpVMj_EdxLxSCtWuS5MmNnIclUY2DdRmGFF720HNAO9BtY5aDQ5kZV9hnOFVdsTbXgIUK6RBngJ7NciBwS9SDL8RdSOBnQlMYxLz48Nx4e2XRY2rNnxbsWLHptLObiibl-HWZXnMnrOEnm9qX15waF2vYOY1sZVTA2UxMNsw0M1WKadhevt-Czb-A/s2051/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-24%20at%204.26.06%20AM.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1381" data-original-width="2051" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkdfpVMj_EdxLxSCtWuS5MmNnIclUY2DdRmGFF720HNAO9BtY5aDQ5kZV9hnOFVdsTbXgIUK6RBngJ7NciBwS9SDL8RdSOBnQlMYxLz48Nx4e2XRY2rNnxbsWLHptLObiibl-HWZXnMnrOEnm9qX15waF2vYOY1sZVTA2UxMNsw0M1WKadhevt-Czb-A/w400-h269/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-24%20at%204.26.06%20AM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Britt Ekland in AFTER THE FOX Year: 1966 Rates: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Victor Mature plays an aged, has-been actor who spends so much time bickering with agent Martin Balsam about doing or <i>not</i> doing a French existential film, you'll simply want things to narrow into what the <i>real</i> movie's about...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And AFTER THE FOX doesn't mean <i>what follows</i> but <i>who's followin</i>g Peter Sellers' criminal named Fox, who broke out of prison, in disguise, and there's plenty of humor but not enough laughs... <br></p><p>Shame since the cinematography's so gorgeous, a satire on the pretentious side of 1960's French New Wave cinema, ironically directed by 1950's minimalist BICYCLE THIEVES auteur Vittorio De Sica, not allowing either his funny guy (Sellers) or straight man (Mature) enou