Written by James M. Tate / 6/24/2025 / No comments / british , capucine , comedy , paula prentiss , peter o'toole , peter sellers , romy schneider , ursula andress , woody allen
PETER SELLERS OVERTAKES WOODY ALLEN'S 'WHAT'S NEW PUSSYCAT?'

Title: WHAT'S NEW PUSSYCAT? Year: 1965 Rating: ** Then strictly standup-comedian Woody Allen got his cinematic kickstart writing the scr...
Written by James M. Tate / 6/23/2025 / No comments / blake edwards , comedy , counter-culture , denny miller , gavin macleod , peter sellers , sixties , slapstick , steve franken
BLAKE EDWARDS REDIRECTING PETER SELLERS FOR 'THE PARTY'

Title: THE PARTY Year: 1968 Rating: **** Fans of Blake Edward’s PINK PANTHER movies starring Peter Sellers will find similarities between ...
SUE LYON IN STANLEY KUBRICK'S 'LOLITA' WITH JAMES MASON

Title: LOLITA Year: 1962 Rating: **** Between Stanley Kubrick's financial gig on Kirk Douglas's epic SPARTACUS and the immense Cold ...
Written by James M. Tate / 6/22/2025 / No comments / adam faith , british neo noir , british new wave , carol white , crime , cult , david gregory , david lodge , elizabeth sellars , john guillermin , peter sellers , revenge , richard todd , teddy boys , thriller
PETER SELLERS GETS COMPLETELY VICIOUS FOR 'NEVER LET GO'

David Lodge and Peter Sellers in NEVER LET GO Year: 1960 Rating: **** A British Neo Noir cross between DEATH OF A SALESMAN before and DEATH ...
Written by James M. Tate / 6/21/2025 / No comments / akim tamiroff , brit ekland , british , comedy , cult , french , heist , jailbreak , maria grazia buccella , peter sellers , satire , sixties , victor mature
PETER SELLERS, BRITT EKLAND & VICTOR MATURE 'AFTER THE FOX'

Title: AFTER THE FOX Year: 1966 Rates: *** Victor Mature plays an aged, has-been actor who spends so much time bickering with agent Martin B...
Written by James M. Tate / 6/20/2025 / No comments / capucine , comedy , david niven , denise crosby , eighties , harvey korman , joanna lumley , peter sellers , pink panther , robert loggia
PETER SELLERS GHOSTING THROUGH 'TRAIL OF THE PINK PANTHER'

Title: TRAIL OF THE PINK PANTHER Year: 1983 Rating: **1/2 Peter Sellers' trophy wife Lynne Frederick not only inherited all his money bu...
Written by James M. Tate / 6/19/2025 / No comments / blake edwards , comedy , david niven , denise crosby , eighties , franchise , harvey korman , herbert lom , pink panther , robert loggia , robert wagner , ted wass
BLAKE EDWARDS RETURNS WITH 'CURSE OF THE PINK PANTHER'

Title: CURSE OF THE PINK PANTHER Year: 1983 Rating: *** Blake Edwards held onto the Peter Sellers legacy for two entire films, beginning wi...
Written by James M. Tate / 6/18/2025 / No comments / blake edwards , comedy , dyan cannon , franchise , mafia , peter sellers , pink panther , robert loggia , robert webber , seventies , sue lloyd
PETER SELLERS FINISHING ON 'REVENGE OF THE PINK PANTHER'

Title: REVENGE OF THE PINK PANTHER Year: 1978 Rating: **1/2 The last PINK PANTHER movie starring Peter Sellers was the first time he was com...
Written by James M. Tate / 6/17/2025 / No comments / action , blake edwards , burt kwouk , franchise , herbert lom , lesley-anne down , leslie anne-down , peter sellers , pink panther , sequel , seventies , spy
PETER SELLERS STRIKES IN 'THE PINK PANTHER STRIKES AGAIN'

Title: THE PINK PANTHER STRIKES AGAIN from 1976 Rating: *** There’s a pivotal sequence where Herbert Lom’s Inspector Dreyfus — having just ...
Written by James M. Tate / 6/16/2025 / No comments / action , andré maranne , blake edwards , burt kwouk , catherine schell , christopher plummer , comedy , david lodge , franchise , herbert lom , peter sellers , pink panther , seventies
PETER SELLERS RETURNS IN 'THE RETURN OF THE PINK PANTHER'

Title: THE RETURN OF THE PINK PANTHER Year: 1975 Rating: *** Sir Charles Litton in the original 1964 classic THE PINK PANTHER was a soph...
Written by James M. Tate / 6/15/2025 / No comments / blake edwards , body count , bryan forbes , comedy , david lodge , elke sommer , george sanders , herbert lom , mystery , peter sellers , pink panther , sixties , vanda godsell
PETER SELLERS TAKES 'A SHOT IN THE DARK' WITH ELKE SOMMER

Title: A SHOT IN THE DARK Year: 1964 Rating: ***1/2 While Inspector Clouseau was dropped into the romantic-comedy-heist THE PINK PANTHER wi...
Written by James M. Tate / 6/14/2025 / No comments / blake edwards , caper , capucine , claudia cardinale , colin gordon , comedy , con man , david niven , fran jeffries , heist , peter sellers , pink panther , robert wagner , romance , sixties
PETER SELLERS STEALS 'THE PINK PANTHER' FROM DAVID NIVEN

Title: THE PINK PANTHER Year: 1963 Rating: ***1/2 Blake Edwards' original THE PINK PANTHER refers to a diamond that drives the overall c...
Written by James M. Tate / 6/11/2025 / No comments / cold war , edward g. robinson , fifties , film noir or melodrama , george dolenz , george raft , peter hansen , peter van eyck , sandy sanders , thriller
EDWARD G. ROBINSON IN 'A BULLET FOR JOEY' WITH AUDREY TOTTER

Audrey Totter in A BULLET FOR JOEY Year: 1955 Rating: ***1/2 Two groundbreaking crime genre actors from the 1930's team up in a movie th...
Written by James M. Tate / 6/10/2025 / No comments / edward g. robinson , fifties , film noir or melodrama , jailbreak , jean parker , kidnapping , milburn stone , peter graves , russell johnson , warren stevens
EDWARD G. ROBINSON IN 'BLACK TUESDAY' WITH PETER GRAVES

Title: BLACK TUESDAY Year: 1954 Rating: ***1/2 By the 1950's, twenty years after pioneering the crime/gangster genre, Edward G. Robinson...
Written by James M. Tate / 6/09/2025 / No comments / adam williams , barry kelley , cop , dan riss , edward binns , fifties , film noir or melodrama , jay adler , lee van cleef , mary ellen kay , paulette goddard , thriller
EDWARD G. ROBINSON BUSTS ADAM WILLIAMS IN 'VICE SQUAD'

Adam Williams and Edward G. Robinson in VICE SQUAD Year: 1953 Rating: ***1/2 A year before Edward G. Robinson starred in a film noir basical...
Written by James M. Tate / 6/08/2025 / No comments / billie whitelaw , british neo noir , donald pleasence , geoffrey frederick , george a. cooper , hammer films , jazz score , john crawford , lois daine , sarah branch , sixties , stanley baker , val guest , vanda godsell
VAL GUEST DIRECTS STANLEY BAKER IN HAMMER'S 'HELL IS A CITY'

Stanley Baker in HELL IS A CITY Year: 1960 Rates: *** * * The second and final Hammer feature with Val Guest directing his YESTERDAY'S E...
Written by James M. Tate / 6/07/2025 / No comments / british tv , gareth edwards , john clive , mike gwilym , miniseries , ray smith , remake , seventies , siân phillips , stanley baker , sue jones-davies , union , victoria plucknett
TV MINISERIES 'HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY' WITH STANLEY BAKER

Stanley Baker in HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY Year: 1975 Rating: **** In 1975, the BBC brought HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY... John Ford's 1941 Os...
Written by James M. Tate / 6/06/2025 / No comments / british neo noir , british new wave , crime , david gregory , kidnapping , kim tracy , sixties , thriller , william lucas , wrong man , zena walker
WILLIAM LUCAS, ZENA WALKER & DAVID GREGORY 'THE MARKED ONE'

Title: THE MARKED ONE Year: 1963 Rating: ***1/2 Obscure British actor William Lucas gained niche fame as the father from the 1970's BLA...
Written by James M. Tate / 6/05/2025 / No comments / anthony booth , british , british neo noir , british new wave , crime , david gregory , derek francis , glynn edwards , jacqueline ellis , jazz-score , jim o'connolly , sixties
JACQUELINE ELLIS HITCHES JIM O'CONNOLLY'S 'THE HI-JACKERS'

Title: THE HI-JACKERSYear: 1963 Rating: **** Writer/director Jim O'Connolly should be well known for two films where the cult status we...
Written by James M. Tate / 6/04/2025 / No comments / british film noir , fifties , harry fowler , patrick jordan , paul carpenter , race car , robert rietty , rona anderson , sabrina , susan shaw , wolf rilla
SUSAN SHAW AND PAUL CARPENTER IN WOLF RILLA'S 'STOCK CAR'

Title: STOCK CAR Year: 1955 Rating: **** Canadian actor turned British movie stock American character Paul Carpenter had one of the smooth...
Written by James M. Tate / 6/03/2025 / No comments / british film noir , christine finn , donald houston , edward judd , fifties , mystery , robert brown , susan shaw , vanda godsell , wolf rilla , wrong man
SUSAN SHAW & DONALD HOUSTON IN WOLF RILLA'S 'THE LARGE ROPE'

Donald Houston and Peter Byrne in THE LARGE ROPE Year: 1953 Rating: ***1/2 Before becoming known as THE LONG ROPE, director Wolf Rilla's...
Written by James M. Tate / 6/02/2025 / No comments / british neo noir , british new wave , david gregory , derek francis , glynn edwards , jill curzon , jim o'connolly , john carson , penny morrell , peter vaughan , sixties , yvonne romain
JIM O'CONNOLLY'S 'SMOKESCREEN' STARRING PETER VAUGHAN

David Gregory & Jill Curzon in SMOKESCREEN Year: 1964 Rates: **** The biggest shame about Jim O'Connolly's quirky low-budget Bri...
Written by James M. Tate / 6/01/2025 / No comments / airplane , british , cy endfield , diane cilento , disaster , elizabeth sellars , fifties , jocelyn lane , mai zetterling , patrick allen , paul carpenter , richard attenborough , stanley baker , thriller , virginia maskell
STANLEY BAKER IN CY ENDFIELD'S AIRLINE DISASTER 'JET STORM'

Stanley Baker in JET STORM Year: 1959 Rating: ***1/2 The Pink Floyd lyric "Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way" cou...
Written by James M. Tate / 5/26/2025 / No comments / action , burt lancaster , heist , jeanne moreau , john frankenheimer , paul scofield , sixties , train , wolfgang preiss , world war II
BURT LANCASTER DRIVING JOHN FRANKENHEIMER'S 'THE TRAIN'

Title: THE TRAIN Year: 1964 Rating: ***1/2 Not since Jean Renior's French classic LA BÊTE HUMAINE has the rugged, grimy, grungy and grai...
Written by James M. Tate / 5/25/2025 / No comments / action , blaxploitation , don marshall , ena hartman , exploitation , marta kristen , phyllis davis , prison , roger e. mosley , science-fiction , tom selleck
ENA HARTMAN, TOM SELLECK & MARTA KRISTEN 'TERMINAL ISLAND'

Marta Kristen, Don Marshall & Ena Hartman in TERMINAL ISLAND Year: 1973 Rating: **1/2 For an exploitation flick that seems to make itsel...
Written by James M. Tate / 5/10/2025 / No comments / fay baker , fifties , film noir or melodrama , richard basehart , robert wise , thriller , valentina cortese , william lundigan
ROBERT WISE NOIRISH THRILLER 'THE HOUSE ON TELEGRAPH HILL'

Title: THE HOUSE ON TELEGRAPH HILL Year: 1951 Rating: ***1/2 If anyone but subtle Italian actress Valentina Cortese had starred in Robert Wi...
Written by James M. Tate / 5/07/2025 / No comments / expose , fifties , film noir or melodrama , jean wiles , joy stoner , michael fox , robert blake , robert mcqueeney , rodolfo acosta
ANOTHER LATE-1950'S CRIME/NOIR EXPOSÉ 'THE TIJUANA STORY'

Title: THE TIJUANA STORY Year: 1957 Rating: ** One of those 1950's noir/exposès that includes an actual government official's openin...
Written by James M. Tate / 5/06/2025 / No comments / british , fifties , george coulouris , hammer films , james copeland , mari aldon , melodrama , race car , terence fisher
RICHARD CONTE DRIVES HAMMER'S RACE VEHICLE 'MASK OF DUST'

Title: MASK OF DUST Year: 1954 Rating: ** One of the greatest titles for a race car movie, Terence Fisher's pre-horror Hammer MASK OF DU...
Written by James M. Tate / 4/27/2025 / No comments / action , adventure , bill mckinney , brian dennehy , chris mulkey , david caruso , eighties , franchise , jack starrett , michael talbott , richard crenna , sylvester stallone , vietnam
TED KOTCHEFF DIRECTS SYLVESTER STALLONE IN 'FIRST BLOOD'

Title: FIRST BLOOD Year: 1982 Rating: ****1/2 When rural sheriff Brian Dennehy drives ragged drifter Sylvester Stallone from one side of a o...
Written by James M. Tate / 4/16/2025 / No comments / action , adventure , constance forslund , eighties , fred ward , gene hackman , harold sylvester , patrick swayze , reb brown , robert stack , ted kotcheff , tim thomerson , vietnam , war , wings hauser
GENE HACKMAN COMMANDS TED KOTCHEFF'S 'UNCOMMON VALOR'

Randall Tex Cobb & Kelly Junkerman in UNCOMMON VALOR Year: 1983 Rating: **** Recently, three important people connected to 1983's UN...
Written by James M. Tate / 4/14/2025 / No comments / action , ann dvorak , boris karloff , exploitation , george raft , howard hawks , karen morley , mobster , osgood perkins , paul muni , thirties , vince barnett
PAUL MUNI IN HOWARD HAWKS ORIGINAL MOB-EXPOSE 'SCARFACE'

Title: SCARFACE Year: 1932 Rating: *** Howard Hawks' SCARFACE is like a Cliff's Notes for a book that's yet to be written... an...
Written by James M. Tate / 4/10/2025 / No comments / ariel winter , buddy , comedy , crime , dark comedy , genre tarantino , gumshoe , michelle monaghan , neo noir , robert downey jr. , shane black , shannyn sossamon , stephanie pearson , val kilmer , zeroes
ROBERT DOWNEY JR WITH VAL KILMER IN 'KISS KISS BANG BANG'

Michelle Monaghan in KISS KISS BANG BANG Year: 2005 Rating: **** Famous for writing the original LETHAL WEAPON, thus receiving story credit ...
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PETER SELLERS OVERTAKES WOODY ALLEN'S 'WHAT'S NEW PUSSYCAT?'
Title: WHAT'S NEW PUSSYCAT? Year: 1965 Rating: ** Then strictly standup-comedian Woody Allen got his cinematic kickstart writing the scr...
