ROD STEIGER COMMANDS 'THE SERGEANT' WITH JOHN PHILLIP LAW

<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/AVvXsEi3Z2REBWBBJZHyVtI43ra1HA0xV6jL13iHIIbiwh3knyZXPXBEJeunb7-ShT9IwZND_ob2eiuP4jB0xz_FHusMD-B-aiwHPulz36q3d8dXhcDDlYMev3n0OGZiGdDGiwWAqMncnVFR62kSc5nzGlnbt3ALgVH17HaJqweFSRN_WW3HmqOzdvNZJSi6-A/s1174/Screen%20Shot%202022-03-24%20at%205.53.02%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="775" data-original-width="1174" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3Z2REBWBBJZHyVtI43ra1HA0xV6jL13iHIIbiwh3knyZXPXBEJeunb7-ShT9IwZND_ob2eiuP4jB0xz_FHusMD-B-aiwHPulz36q3d8dXhcDDlYMev3n0OGZiGdDGiwWAqMncnVFR62kSc5nzGlnbt3ALgVH17HaJqweFSRN_WW3HmqOzdvNZJSi6-A/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-03-24%20at%205.53.02%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Rod Steiger & John Phillip Law in THE SERGEANT Year: 1968 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>It's not just <i>what</i> THE SERGEANT is about, or even <i>who</i> it's about: An American World War II hero returned to France ten years later for a peacetime gig not as risky or daring: This Army Sergeant of military construction laborers wielding old-school brass tactics to shape things up... until both someone <i>and</i> something distracts him...<br> <br> MSgt. Albert Callan is a closet homosexual, and on the surface, Rod Steiger portrays a lonely Army lifer who finally finds a true friend he can mentor and/or simply hang around with... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

controversial, drama, exploitation, frank latimore, homosexual, john flynn, john phillip law, ludmila mikaël, military, rod steiger, sixties, warner archives

ROD STEIGER COMMANDS 'THE SERGEANT' WITH JOHN PHILLIP LAW

Rod Steiger & John Phillip Law in THE SERGEANT Year: 1968 Rating: ****1/2 It's not just what THE SERGEANT is about, or even who i...

RUSHED WRITEUP CLASHING MELANIE CHARTOFF FROM 'FRIDAYS'

<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/AVvXsEhF1Ss0sDb1HaHx4RPeCU-oejzLgi6jE9vIdhGyEVEV4rbwVM48boCkjIRlusutupleWO5L7bhbe3UD1qcgRtnGhVCuItdd0v8wwrRaoGM84L4zW3HieSUsJ0tP-PETtRym5W9LXKFl3HZY6QiVIRkTxLLEk4CH-efqpktKwrDfDT0jgrhk48nulAzjFA/s1702/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="982" data-original-width="1702" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF1Ss0sDb1HaHx4RPeCU-oejzLgi6jE9vIdhGyEVEV4rbwVM48boCkjIRlusutupleWO5L7bhbe3UD1qcgRtnGhVCuItdd0v8wwrRaoGM84L4zW3HieSUsJ0tP-PETtRym5W9LXKFl3HZY6QiVIRkTxLLEk4CH-efqpktKwrDfDT0jgrhk48nulAzjFA/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u> Melanie Chartoff in the opening of the sketch comedy FRIDAYS from 1980 to 1982</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The late night sketch-comedy FRIDAYS began when SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE was transitioning from the original cast, and while not every skit is drop dead hilarious, and both were an Americanized MONTY PYTHON with far-out silliness pushed to deliberately insane, conceptual limits, it was a pretty cool show...<br><br>While SNL had become a kind of faded classic rock ashtray, FRIDAYS felt like one of those new wave/punk rock music store buttons with random shapes swimming in hip colors and busy, hyperactive design...</p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

andy kaufman, comedy, cult, eighties, melanie chartoff, michael richards, punk rock, TV, william shatner

RUSHED WRITEUP CLASHING MELANIE CHARTOFF FROM 'FRIDAYS'

 Melanie Chartoff in the opening of the sketch comedy FRIDAYS from 1980 to 1982 The late night sketch-comedy FRIDAYS began when SATURDAY NIG...

ANTHONY PERKINS RETURNS FOR 'PSYCHO II' WITH MEG TILLY

<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/AVvXsEhlULHBwr1wREPo36KKb8YelnA6UzQuhjm9Ac-GQ8cp9xmqchA4WAELLl0Ql3v5OoEkGbgVd9OAjAZVAJuML-tDpRFpHuK15P7D6_Am9ktopX7jZvMKlLidW4QfneKc3EdK6kd9ZjjDcEfCw5guCIDWb5nIo37cvLA78Rym5PDr4E1vBQTs1ZShk8Va3A/s2227/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1009" data-original-width="2227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlULHBwr1wREPo36KKb8YelnA6UzQuhjm9Ac-GQ8cp9xmqchA4WAELLl0Ql3v5OoEkGbgVd9OAjAZVAJuML-tDpRFpHuK15P7D6_Am9ktopX7jZvMKlLidW4QfneKc3EdK6kd9ZjjDcEfCw5guCIDWb5nIo37cvLA78Rym5PDr4E1vBQTs1ZShk8Va3A/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Meg Tilly foxes Norman Bates in PSYCHO II Year: 1983 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The infamous yet somewhat unfairly maligned PSYCHO II actually includes the surrounding town viewed clearly during daylight hours, a friendly sheriff (Hugh Gillin), a helpful shrink (Robert Loggia), and a somewhat mysterious young lady, played by Meg Tilly, who becomes a kind of little sister/ingenue for Norman Bates...<br><br>And while the passive, newly-released Anthony Perkins returns as the legendary killer, he winds up helping the vulnerable young beauty survive, in and out of the greasy spoon diner where they work, and at the spooky manor, she even takes a shower... safely...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

anthony perkins, cult, dennis franz, exploitation, horror, hugh griffin, meg tilly, richard franklin, robert loggia, rural, sequel

ANTHONY PERKINS RETURNS FOR 'PSYCHO II' WITH MEG TILLY

Meg Tilly foxes Norman Bates in PSYCHO II Year: 1983 Rating: *** The infamous yet somewhat unfairly maligned PSYCHO II actually includes the...

STACY KEACH TRUCKS THROUGH RICHARD FRANKLIN'S 'ROADGAMES'

<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/AVvXsEgdgSU2JoI0ZH_Yv-HWE7vbrItt_nGxP1MkLUcYDeNZTHhBXl_Hqch5qOn6x145gjNezsRMxRHfZL0UUQrQsndv-9s-lst9KkMN4pr3uDzgBPkKWi7_-zNMFHhTfb1a6msv37tq55qRVjkAJlf1oV6k01x3n3wS_vCpPcTkad76-BtoS5-AAV5jSvW3gA/s2175/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-03%20at%207.17.24%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="901" data-original-width="2175" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdgSU2JoI0ZH_Yv-HWE7vbrItt_nGxP1MkLUcYDeNZTHhBXl_Hqch5qOn6x145gjNezsRMxRHfZL0UUQrQsndv-9s-lst9KkMN4pr3uDzgBPkKWi7_-zNMFHhTfb1a6msv37tq55qRVjkAJlf1oV6k01x3n3wS_vCpPcTkad76-BtoS5-AAV5jSvW3gA/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-03%20at%207.17.24%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Stacy Keach in ROADGAMES aka ROAD GAMES Year: 1981 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Australian exploitation director Richard Franklin was picked for <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2015/10/psychos.html">PSYCHO II</a> as a <i>student of Alfred Hitchcock</i>, and his best Down Under-set vehicle, ROADGAMES, is said to be REAR WINDOW on wheels when it's actually Steven Spielberg's DUEL in reverse (while both DUEL <i>and</i> JAWS have Hitchcock elements)... <br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>But in this case a carefree trucker follows and is followed by a killer in a passenger vehicle, and an otherwise optimistic Stacy Keach as Quid, who proudly states "just because I drive a truck doesn't make me a truck driver," also narrates, either in his mind or, for the most part, talking to himself out loud, like Dennis Weaver did in the groundbreaking Spielberg TV-Movie, both also winding up in a diner loaded with possible suspects... </p><span></span>

eighties, exploitation, horror, jamie lee curtis, modern western, richard franklin, road movie, robert thompson, serial killer, stacy keach, thriller

STACY KEACH TRUCKS THROUGH RICHARD FRANKLIN'S 'ROADGAMES'

Stacy Keach in ROADGAMES aka ROAD GAMES Year: 1981 Rating: **** Australian exploitation director Richard Franklin was picked for PSYCHO II ...

LANCE COMFORT'S 'THE PAINTED SMILE' WITH NANETTE NEWMAN

<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/AVvXsEhIzZCJ7mfmN2Moc8N_ZGEJVoOADYA8xntychZ64aTL4IWfvJ8_9hrD-6VJV-knmYjF6mUPshnRKoyr0cYgof_EhD6xoCvsfJdy4eLIeji1gylc24qRUCBqu-2u4aOU9AlGjZBh5Kgkvu0WXJGAlfkEXCQmen8r2ISELger8j60HpvOnTWq9BYqwuWkBw/s1169/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="676" data-original-width="1169" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIzZCJ7mfmN2Moc8N_ZGEJVoOADYA8xntychZ64aTL4IWfvJ8_9hrD-6VJV-knmYjF6mUPshnRKoyr0cYgof_EhD6xoCvsfJdy4eLIeji1gylc24qRUCBqu-2u4aOU9AlGjZBh5Kgkvu0WXJGAlfkEXCQmen8r2ISELger8j60HpvOnTWq9BYqwuWkBw/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Nanette Newman in THE PAINTED SMILE Year: 1962 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Somewhat complicated British Neo Noir with two separate stories that eventually connect, connected to a murder that begins with a scheming couple who make their living taking a targeted man back home: a sultry blonde Liz Fraser does the rudimentary work while her partner Mark (Peter Reynolds), plays the angry jealous husband aka the badger game... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>But while Liz's Jo Lake arrives at a nightclub to find the right prey, back home Peter's killed by a brooding crippled psychopath played by Kenneth Griffith, usually cast as a wimp but not here... </p><p><span></span></p>

british neo noir, british new wave, david hemmings, grazina frame, kenneth griffith, lance comfort, liz fraser, nanette newman, sixties, tony wickert, wrong man

LANCE COMFORT'S 'THE PAINTED SMILE' WITH NANETTE NEWMAN

Nanette Newman in THE PAINTED SMILE Year: 1962 Rating: *** Somewhat complicated British Neo Noir with two separate stories that eventually c...

JANINE GRAY WITH GLYN HOUSTON AND DYSON LOVELL IN 'PANIC'

<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/AVvXsEhuB_-YgPf1Mo-ktSMUr9A_I8gmAIoIprTQ8vVxcf_7FTlWnArWjL4JyU2hnyofZKHkZKg6Tyt7yr_Ep56vXil3-JuyNC-YjTqedh2NSdECHe50hKRS09KflYGW8sfdFLnkWoxBsVnw6902qSZWl8UgP0Vh7meRf-C0hliE8kVYNh5NBgDbTOw3MhBnOQ/s1996/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-04%20at%2012.16.32%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1228" data-original-width="1996" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuB_-YgPf1Mo-ktSMUr9A_I8gmAIoIprTQ8vVxcf_7FTlWnArWjL4JyU2hnyofZKHkZKg6Tyt7yr_Ep56vXil3-JuyNC-YjTqedh2NSdECHe50hKRS09KflYGW8sfdFLnkWoxBsVnw6902qSZWl8UgP0Vh7meRf-C0hliE8kVYNh5NBgDbTOw3MhBnOQ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-04%20at%2012.16.32%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Dyson Lovell in PANIC </u><u>Year: 1963 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>By the end of John Billing's 1963 Neo Noir PANIC, a has-been boxer, who just got a pounding in the ring, is about to be killed by a punk crook in a back alley, and what climaxes into a sparse b-movie was quite complicated and surreal, beginning with what should have been an easy jewelry heist that morphs into the most hackneyed plot device ever...<br><br>And bad old amnesia's thrust upon lead ingenue Janine Gray, the secretary where the diamond got swiped by a gang plotted by her boyfriend played by an edgy, James Cagney-looking, trumpet-playing loser Dyson Lovell as Johnny, sending two goons including JUNGLE GIRLS lowlife Brian Weske and a mug-faced Stanley Meadows...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

amnesia, boxing, brian weske, british neo noir, charles houston, crime, dyson lovell, gilling, grazina frame, heist, janine gray, john billing, sixties, stanley meadows

JANINE GRAY WITH GLYN HOUSTON AND DYSON LOVELL IN 'PANIC'

Dyson Lovell in PANIC Year: 1963 Rating: **** By the end of John Billing's 1963 Neo Noir PANIC, a has-been boxer, who just got a poundin...

LAWRENCE TIERNEY PLAYS THE WRONG MAN IN 'KILL OR BE KILLED'

<div style="text-align: right;"> </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://3.bp.blogspot.com/-D7tS_w5TXnU/V2aID_0RhSI/AAAAAAAAtEM/WHmabp3cpD00dBPEN4qs3JbP10jo_eXuACLcB/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2016-06-19%2Bat%2B4.54.31%2BAM.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="263" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-D7tS_w5TXnU/V2aID_0RhSI/AAAAAAAAtEM/WHmabp3cpD00dBPEN4qs3JbP10jo_eXuACLcB/s400/Screen%2BShot%2B2016-06-19%2Bat%2B4.54.31%2BAM.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: KILL OR BE KILLED Year: 1950 Rates: ***1/2</u></td></tr> </tbody></table><p>The epitome of a programmer with a beginning, middle and end, and plenty in-between which includes deadly piranha, mistreated jungle labor, the beautiful yet put-upon wife of an eccentric German land developer and one of the few things befitting the Noir template...</p><p>Though this is more an action-packed adventure where our hero, Lawrence Tierney, is not his usual DILLINGER vicious, BORN TO KILL sneaky or THE HOODLUM dangerously lethal villain but in this particular case, as The Wrong Man, he's not only wronged but not as angry or cunning as usual: Even after returning to an Opening Soon Nightclub after installing a complicated air conditioning system throughout the two-story joint: which was a bragged-about three month task. He even gets to sing and dance with a gorgeous blonde, until he learns he ain't getting paid. Of course a loud argument arises – and soon enough the boss is killed by a wraithlike stranger who makes out the window in seconds flat, and it sure seems like  Tierney's Robert Warren is the killer...<br /> </p><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="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKyyaxl0AJIu0_knI14CMCNasLB8FG9bcY4zdaUr-7VmjTHwECmyZmku5vg2w9C3TzX9EzbBx6TMEWodUr8_pRIci7nO5tpxSReXkbBAqGmX-raSNaGR7WcRbQAw9iZ4IWPaRft4wA3ZYQrXsVHhmNAKD_v1KakXPBU70SQfmnX-KR0iQmmIcxlxBdDw/s400/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-01%20at%2010.47.24%20PM.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="262" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKyyaxl0AJIu0_knI14CMCNasLB8FG9bcY4zdaUr-7VmjTHwECmyZmku5vg2w9C3TzX9EzbBx6TMEWodUr8_pRIci7nO5tpxSReXkbBAqGmX-raSNaGR7WcRbQAw9iZ4IWPaRft4wA3ZYQrXsVHhmNAKD_v1KakXPBU70SQfmnX-KR0iQmmIcxlxBdDw/w263-h400/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-01%20at%2010.47.24%20PM.jpeg" width="263" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Movie Poster for Kill or Be Killed</u><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p>He becomes a hunted man, shot at by natives hired by local mobster George Coulouris, the banker from CITIZEN KANE, as tne nefarious Victor Sloma is as sleazy as his name... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" 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/AVvXsEi6e9lJtIn5nE-z1hO5aL_JWV51IDqSwGBst9trWI9-NZOFeict8so0_mZpWbhj4dyfgKh0_B4HStNseVniKj_VT7wfUxvXghCWfMnU02asQ3Tn_8kaMygKUF1Sis0wMKAkTCFMTCzUyze8dRA5Mmz5Jlnp0lcLqKXhWYfNgTyIqSKWAjJbsJREiMIAvA/s1163/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-02%20at%203.37.59%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1163" data-original-width="631" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6e9lJtIn5nE-z1hO5aL_JWV51IDqSwGBst9trWI9-NZOFeict8so0_mZpWbhj4dyfgKh0_B4HStNseVniKj_VT7wfUxvXghCWfMnU02asQ3Tn_8kaMygKUF1Sis0wMKAkTCFMTCzUyze8dRA5Mmz5Jlnp0lcLqKXhWYfNgTyIqSKWAjJbsJREiMIAvA/w217-h400/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-02%20at%203.37.59%20AM.jpeg" width="217" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Larry's Killer Role</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Henchman of a sinister and downright creepy, former and now hidden Nazi whose oblivious American wife, in a boat heading to the river locale, falls for Tierney's dogged Robert, hidden inside her cloistered room...</p><p>Marissa O'Brien, a pretty wife-next-door, and Tierney have chemistry that makes their romance matter on a personal basis... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Without her he'll be caught, and without him she'd never learn the truth about her husband, and with all the pulpy action stretched into a programmer, hat KILL OR BE KILLED amounts to is Tierney becoming part of a jungle chain gang involving free men but they're not really, and he's much too quickly recognized and realized as the so-called killer from town... being the only white man so the suspense amounts to very little, as it's deliberately no thriller, and we hear about the central river's ferocious piranha more than we actually witness their wrath, or aftermath yet it all still works, hearing a piercing scream from their victims, which, at one point, comes to pass during a pivotal clash between Tierney and Coulouris. Overall, when it comes to acting, Tierney's usual monotone works well enough to make him a hero to root for with an edge to keep him alive, without anyone by his side.          </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/AVvXsEjjcisDCjB5TabqbOtHrgMlyeYU2ieYcj9P176giW_gO93TeH9hXOSFv9arBdoJPfSt_-bvDLt4_mInXd1p0NH-562jHVEE8iSVH05hY8DWSYPSdnlI0c5hHOPkqRK9PGsUqCiLjr82tcvT_XQD774WSQLr635-JqPnBGOIL8PT6CzhL4Ea7wkbDoz5DQ/s1271/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-02%20at%203.09.42%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="830" data-original-width="1271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjcisDCjB5TabqbOtHrgMlyeYU2ieYcj9P176giW_gO93TeH9hXOSFv9arBdoJPfSt_-bvDLt4_mInXd1p0NH-562jHVEE8iSVH05hY8DWSYPSdnlI0c5hHOPkqRK9PGsUqCiLjr82tcvT_XQD774WSQLr635-JqPnBGOIL8PT6CzhL4Ea7wkbDoz5DQ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-02%20at%203.09.42%20AM.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lawrence Tierney in KILL OR BE KILLED</u></td></tr></tbody></table><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/AVvXsEhAu-ToGAfdDim4_S5-5z-IRKyZygLRS7po1ye58GtNxc9uRWZSEtxK7kNmhKr3hGgcLCCJPs3O8lo7LzpPlWd6jn3QHOoM5ak0MG8PlppvG2P8sZJxa0q9R2BXAOwrtoPPJmnoqTryiCNtUxXW5HpLGghxBrv4jRhWeLOU_5qo7hT5Zm1jdFuhg5_-KA/s1329/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-02%20at%203.09.54%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="858" data-original-width="1329" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAu-ToGAfdDim4_S5-5z-IRKyZygLRS7po1ye58GtNxc9uRWZSEtxK7kNmhKr3hGgcLCCJPs3O8lo7LzpPlWd6jn3QHOoM5ak0MG8PlppvG2P8sZJxa0q9R2BXAOwrtoPPJmnoqTryiCNtUxXW5HpLGghxBrv4jRhWeLOU_5qo7hT5Zm1jdFuhg5_-KA/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-02%20at%203.09.54%20AM.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lopes da Silva in KILL OR BE KILLED</u></td></tr></tbody></table><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/AVvXsEgUPW7IN2JaVusBoPrkFLu5rTm9mXuj5DgcETjuT4Wu39U3GjRzhwpHV3ycfVMevArQlXXRrO-_iySrreiEauEb8N4p_zMjuA_YqZv8Jewe7paFLOn-Vp7itITcYc-ansrxwkQeIAb5pt0i9Nfw9Lbgny3ksoJgPm_gmc2FZaBq8N63yEPnDPm_I00_ug/s1338/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-02%20at%203.10.24%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="770" data-original-width="1338" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUPW7IN2JaVusBoPrkFLu5rTm9mXuj5DgcETjuT4Wu39U3GjRzhwpHV3ycfVMevArQlXXRrO-_iySrreiEauEb8N4p_zMjuA_YqZv8Jewe7paFLOn-Vp7itITcYc-ansrxwkQeIAb5pt0i9Nfw9Lbgny3ksoJgPm_gmc2FZaBq8N63yEPnDPm_I00_ug/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-02%20at%203.10.24%20AM.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>George Coulouris  in KILL OR BE KILLED</u></td></tr></tbody></table><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/AVvXsEj5JrwEUO3RcXws87bwR7LWkeY5LwBPCJ7ilIGnNxVxIXlLnEJCDXjVDNKKX9zAo6AZIaN760Ynar4ZQm2GfDVMlQzSZ-O4Unpvuqtl4gLJ_8KbStnN_X5-7Dva09pFSAbV63glJWoDQQskdHc8n9mGCJUTUSaNVJg1AXQmtzVY3FC5PEQc928pYDKMXg/s1271/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-02%20at%203.10.43%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="765" data-original-width="1271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5JrwEUO3RcXws87bwR7LWkeY5LwBPCJ7ilIGnNxVxIXlLnEJCDXjVDNKKX9zAo6AZIaN760Ynar4ZQm2GfDVMlQzSZ-O4Unpvuqtl4gLJ_8KbStnN_X5-7Dva09pFSAbV63glJWoDQQskdHc8n9mGCJUTUSaNVJg1AXQmtzVY3FC5PEQc928pYDKMXg/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-02%20at%203.10.43%20AM.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lawrence Tierney in KILL OR BE KILLED</u></td></tr></tbody></table><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/AVvXsEhVbnwW1EpuEiDb08hI8xtITAvx-ZwFwVc11ETnWLT75DXF5WBynwInd1MBFIYE8aLM0be2OvelN9XCDkUDNy05IA70DKH2kHBpazRcVY12oKAf44MQmVlcTOYXIpgMBIyho5jbDYx8FARGdSmvq07AwGSlIw_TgxRMv2ykBP07KDz8fnGux9E7MDrMNA/s1361/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-02%20at%203.14.35%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="920" data-original-width="1361" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVbnwW1EpuEiDb08hI8xtITAvx-ZwFwVc11ETnWLT75DXF5WBynwInd1MBFIYE8aLM0be2OvelN9XCDkUDNy05IA70DKH2kHBpazRcVY12oKAf44MQmVlcTOYXIpgMBIyho5jbDYx8FARGdSmvq07AwGSlIw_TgxRMv2ykBP07KDz8fnGux9E7MDrMNA/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-02%20at%203.14.35%20AM.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lawrence Tierney in KILL OR BE KILLED with Marissa O'Brien<br /></u></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqJoT7vWBaeIWcOihDhupDnA-WXcT038lYylXYwFw5zjrqfxCFvcVPGtSgPwuDwU0A3zl-LK7l8lgSlwkQMrahRN5aTMt8ZVYoANcvy5PyFUCEoQrKofnJTkoelF8ESOfEG2TfLRNyl2vpeBeavwneCSUjz_LgF-kEQtTCWlegAaLKk8KAi5chEqvBBQ/s1347/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-02%20at%203.09.08%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="841" data-original-width="1347" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqJoT7vWBaeIWcOihDhupDnA-WXcT038lYylXYwFw5zjrqfxCFvcVPGtSgPwuDwU0A3zl-LK7l8lgSlwkQMrahRN5aTMt8ZVYoANcvy5PyFUCEoQrKofnJTkoelF8ESOfEG2TfLRNyl2vpeBeavwneCSUjz_LgF-kEQtTCWlegAaLKk8KAi5chEqvBBQ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-02%20at%203.09.08%20AM.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lawrence Tierney in KILL OR BE KILLED</u></td></tr></tbody></table><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/AVvXsEjJZUnVOqVAlE6GNOz2skmHzEBQNSyUBORihnKv0ZZmv9lMFEPCgy_aQ5-n3RcUSGpu6IaD2rOxXDDGE6pzII1DtHd73u843TBUr3ws9tiQms7E8ZjsebNoY2EYEQj6uMxQIUV-G0f7OCJaVX8xcsf6jX62STmFVU_93OhPneHiYzI3iTZwGKjWHjy1bw/s1836/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-02%20at%203.35.25%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1401" data-original-width="1836" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJZUnVOqVAlE6GNOz2skmHzEBQNSyUBORihnKv0ZZmv9lMFEPCgy_aQ5-n3RcUSGpu6IaD2rOxXDDGE6pzII1DtHd73u843TBUr3ws9tiQms7E8ZjsebNoY2EYEQj6uMxQIUV-G0f7OCJaVX8xcsf6jX62STmFVU_93OhPneHiYzI3iTZwGKjWHjy1bw/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-02%20at%203.35.25%20AM.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lawrence Tierney in KILL OR BE KILLED</u></td></tr></tbody></table><br />

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LAWRENCE TIERNEY PLAYS THE WRONG MAN IN 'KILL OR BE KILLED'

Title: KILL OR BE KILLED Year: 1950 Rates: ***1/2 The epitome of a programmer with a beginning, middle and end, and plenty in-between w...

OLIVER REED EPISODES OF THE BRITISH CLASSIC 'THE SAINT'

<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/AVvXsEgYvH3QTxjvbp-m7WSFWEWsoQW1LEl2f4qDivIKBg33_ZlgbQA9-7kVNCqfaXyH3mRwSHuvqFh7OB1u5myITM8d60S327QhHr4vZuULqy9ZzbnoTkPRaDpRZ1ayln62c1jAgDHobu8NRQTOtGiBsE2Kv51kWNAl8QubBB9_iKtIcaFUjJHh_yExSJUagA/s1600/0%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="958" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYvH3QTxjvbp-m7WSFWEWsoQW1LEl2f4qDivIKBg33_ZlgbQA9-7kVNCqfaXyH3mRwSHuvqFh7OB1u5myITM8d60S327QhHr4vZuULqy9ZzbnoTkPRaDpRZ1ayln62c1jAgDHobu8NRQTOtGiBsE2Kv51kWNAl8QubBB9_iKtIcaFUjJHh_yExSJUagA/s16000/0%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Oliver Reed on two 1963 episodes of THE SAINT starring Roger Moore</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In his early troubled-youth pictures THE SYSTEM and THE PARTY'S OVER, British actor Oliver Reed gave his future roles away with imitations that are, in those cases, poking fun of either Americans or the typical cinematic Gangster...<br> <br> The latter being used in the episode SOPHIA where Roger Moore's THE SAINT finds himself in rural Greece where the episode's titular character (played by a gorgeous Imogen Hassall)... the daughter of a stubborn, old-fashioned pub owner... is anticipating her supposedly rich New Yorker cousin...<br> </p>

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OLIVER REED EPISODES OF THE BRITISH CLASSIC 'THE SAINT'

Oliver Reed on two 1963 episodes of THE SAINT starring Roger Moore In his early troubled-youth pictures THE SYSTEM and THE PARTY'S OVER...

ROGER MOORE IN 'THE SAINT' WITH JACKIE COLLINS & BRIAN WESKE

<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/AVvXsEj89vsyJRIoazWk5tC-5hkoxHjU7FR6LICxEOQpsq6RLeDDyyTl36FlZ0wax9rDaTuUnmILaXz3eki6NXOyNcUpdr-tRBaEiQKOn4seWtva35hz0-4ULmHJqxa2v0wiAip9jd7d3bIVucy_00L4Hjm91SMi6xh_oBF3nwpVWRnzjE1x3NZvUDN2EftE3w/s1883/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-02%20at%2011.05.22%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1136" data-original-width="1883" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj89vsyJRIoazWk5tC-5hkoxHjU7FR6LICxEOQpsq6RLeDDyyTl36FlZ0wax9rDaTuUnmILaXz3eki6NXOyNcUpdr-tRBaEiQKOn4seWtva35hz0-4ULmHJqxa2v0wiAip9jd7d3bIVucy_00L4Hjm91SMi6xh_oBF3nwpVWRnzjE1x3NZvUDN2EftE3w/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-02%20at%2011.05.22%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Roger Moore is THE SAINT episode STARRING THE SAINT Year: 1963 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In most TV-series about unique human beings there's usually one that tweaks the 4th wall in having the concept of a film studio wanting to make a motion picture about the series itself, which for the viewer isn't a series at all, often feeling intrusive or contrived but THE SAINT season two's STARRING THE SAINT is one of the iconic British show's best episodes, and features two polar opposite bombshells... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>One being Joan's sister, future scandal writer Jackie Collins as a lavish actress and Moore's love interest, and sophisticated secretary Monica Stevenson who... along with has-been actor Alexander Davion seeking the Saint role, troubled director Alfred Burke wanting out of a contract and a frustrated writing team including LOLITA actor Jerry Stovin... continuously weathers her nefarious producer boss, played with sublime menace by Ronald Radd...</p><p><span></span></p>

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ROGER MOORE IN 'THE SAINT' WITH JACKIE COLLINS & BRIAN WESKE

Roger Moore is THE SAINT episode STARRING THE SAINT Year: 1963 Rating: **** In most TV-series about unique human beings there's usually ...

WILLIAM LUCAS NEO NOIR THUGS ROGER MOORE IN 'THE SAINT'

<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/AVvXsEgZUb5-7kjchkWtIb9QTTEB1dz9FvHESUx2UngvOPaY8TnRg1ms0rFLTT4zibYqDA9GsTkVnceSPBn95SKh45qqXx2DIbbUgRHESwvaOG3UNB1EFcf1i2e_tXKS-6ZlZ3p-5IDdlaoNF_1l-mPBetD2cMJUQ6Oz8cQtAMjmui-bPSmzTukQQXYaOPPwNQ/s1230/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-01%20at%201.54.06%20AM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="830" data-original-width="1230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZUb5-7kjchkWtIb9QTTEB1dz9FvHESUx2UngvOPaY8TnRg1ms0rFLTT4zibYqDA9GsTkVnceSPBn95SKh45qqXx2DIbbUgRHESwvaOG3UNB1EFcf1i2e_tXKS-6ZlZ3p-5IDdlaoNF_1l-mPBetD2cMJUQ6Oz8cQtAMjmui-bPSmzTukQQXYaOPPwNQ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-01%20at%201.54.06%20AM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Peter Jeffreys with William Lucas and Roger Moore on The Saint from 1965</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>British crime-genre actor William Lucas, star of neo noirs <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/02/gimme-a.html">THE BREAK</a>, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/03/payrollers.html">PAYROLL</a> and <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/09/freeze.html">CALCULATED RISK</a>, as one of two sophisticated thugs flanking a sophisticated scientist/villain planning to heist forgery plates (same McGuffin from another Reynolds vehicle <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2022/09/wlucas.html">THE MARKED ONE</a>) for what's to become THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY: and these cocky antagonists have only future James Bond icon Roger Moore to stop them... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Meanwhile, the primary guest spot's for beautiful, resilient ingenue Sarah Lawson, seeking to reunite with her kidnapped husband while Moore' Simon Templar, as usual, gets in disguise... herein as an undercover safe cracker watched by Lucas and co-thug Peter Jeffreys... and yet he never feels in that much danger, making this particular episode more action than thriller, and for an otherwise great series, mostly filler.  </p><p><span></span></p>

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WILLIAM LUCAS NEO NOIR THUGS ROGER MOORE IN 'THE SAINT'

Peter Jeffreys with William Lucas and Roger Moore on The Saint from 1965 British crime-genre actor William Lucas, star of neo noirs THE BREA...

WILLIAM LUCAS, MICHAEL CRAIG & BILLIE WHITELAW IN 'PAYROLL'

<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/AVvXsEi199PgGMDJCLOJl5rVuSZZCj1MNjtuCV5uBGVxw_CUpj2-J63uL7QzLVfxlRcQYo-FxLv7nxojLV4zBXBRENAWiMlROqE8dThC_5I_2doiwRmozZIIVY_okVkmRpBzbHW47kBkeeHC86UHw23domo8Cqb4SmYYflO8cqgBxlkxkBNvymnmTdvMM4Ge3g/s1564/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-02%20at%204.46.30%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="971" data-original-width="1564" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi199PgGMDJCLOJl5rVuSZZCj1MNjtuCV5uBGVxw_CUpj2-J63uL7QzLVfxlRcQYo-FxLv7nxojLV4zBXBRENAWiMlROqE8dThC_5I_2doiwRmozZIIVY_okVkmRpBzbHW47kBkeeHC86UHw23domo8Cqb4SmYYflO8cqgBxlkxkBNvymnmTdvMM4Ge3g/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-02%20at%204.46.30%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>William Lucas & Michail Craig in PAYROLL Year: 1961 Rates: ***</u><u>*</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Early example of girl power encroaching a manly action flick, or more like widow power in that Billie Whitelaw only initially <i>seems</i> the docile suburban wife/mother, married to the literally <i>driven</i> creator of an armored vehicle... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Whose invention thwarts a gang's plan to rob a factory safe, now mobile... but the equally driven <i>and</i> dangerous Michael Craig (contrasting to the heroic <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/05/Misland.html">MYSTERIOUS ISLAND</a> role) is hell-bent on the blag going down... </p><p><span></span></p>

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WILLIAM LUCAS, MICHAEL CRAIG & BILLIE WHITELAW IN 'PAYROLL'

William Lucas & Michail Craig in PAYROLL Year: 1961 Rates: *** * Early example of girl power encroaching a manly action flick, or more l...

WILLIAM LUCAS & JOHN RUTLAND WEATHER 'CALCULATED RISK'

<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/AVvXsEhmrMVr85crDogWGRjcgHZzUByptCbuAeJKQnQtCiXYDAlRAvN2mpwOJZJErq6InhOsarTVhcLRWrq3DwwQapdVcXPSUoT5eVyTrxllDxGryQVqEnJm4HTWpZg4NsX-jkUViO8AZ0r2eKfi61KvOO8dER34KWwR8JOvBpAS_dO4RF8muj7CFdS8j6y__w/s2122/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-27%20at%204.59.37%20AM-1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1203" data-original-width="2122" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmrMVr85crDogWGRjcgHZzUByptCbuAeJKQnQtCiXYDAlRAvN2mpwOJZJErq6InhOsarTVhcLRWrq3DwwQapdVcXPSUoT5eVyTrxllDxGryQVqEnJm4HTWpZg4NsX-jkUViO8AZ0r2eKfi61KvOO8dER34KWwR8JOvBpAS_dO4RF8muj7CFdS8j6y__w/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-27%20at%204.59.37%20AM-1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>William Lucas in CALCULATED RISK Year: 1963 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Low-budget thriller has <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/02/gimme-a.html">THE BREAK</a> baddie and overall capable <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/british%20new%20wave">British New Wave</a> actor William Lucas in CALCULATED RISK, a hybrid of THE ASPHALT JUNGLE as a newly-released older short guy has big plans for a big heist (John Rutland doing Sam Jaffe) and LARCENY INC since they must dig through a pair of locations to reach the targeted goal... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Which aren't stores but bombed-out houses from twenty-years past, leading to a lucrative bank vault while Lucas, as a sophisticated yet crooked businessman (like ASPHALT backer Louis Calhern), who really doesn't need the bread (unlike Calhern and more like shifty Marc Lawrence), heads up a group of thugs resembling dockyard barflies...<br> </p>

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WILLIAM LUCAS & JOHN RUTLAND WEATHER 'CALCULATED RISK'

William Lucas in CALCULATED RISK Year: 1963 Rating: ***1/2 Low-budget thriller has THE BREAK baddie and overall capable British New Wave a...

WILLIAM LUCAS MAKING 'THE BREAK' WITH CHRISTINA GREGG

<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/AVvXsEhxo3yMVLt5wle6NlH_OLAWA__6LJ0vj8R8VGWla-UJbLQy3ufi3oxk5_9XYSgyVNdqg-_8gcO2jVsfp7AEWk-AlMdVHAwByA9atzp9c3Lqy8D7R3P9fh0T957E5cmsGMGyVnhqVt-GVfrC0G5t4fNMEH_bxqQquUVk31ZCXPCi1lq5calDSAmA9XGRAQ/s2051/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-30%20at%2012.04.00%20AM.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1395" data-original-width="2051" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxo3yMVLt5wle6NlH_OLAWA__6LJ0vj8R8VGWla-UJbLQy3ufi3oxk5_9XYSgyVNdqg-_8gcO2jVsfp7AEWk-AlMdVHAwByA9atzp9c3Lqy8D7R3P9fh0T957E5cmsGMGyVnhqVt-GVfrC0G5t4fNMEH_bxqQquUVk31ZCXPCi1lq5calDSAmA9XGRAQ/w400-h272/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-30%20at%2012.04.00%20AM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Christina Gregg & William Lucas THE BREAK Year: 1962</u></td></tr></tbody></table>The same year British beauty Christina Gregg played a schoolgirl told <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/08/catfone.html">DON'T TALK TO STRANGE MEN</a>, she was the twenty-something sister of a convict who made THE BREAK from a train...<br> <br> And winds up with handful of eclectic characters that... as Quentin Tarantino attempted in HATEFUL EIGHT inspired by John Carpenter's classic THE THING... are all stuck together, here within a rural hotel: all with not only different personalities and perspectives but purpose, motivation and temperaments... Meanwhile the leading man is a sophisticated type: here a blocked author and, on the upside he quickly yet slowly finds kinship with the gorgeous Christina Gregg, but he's also being surreptitiously eyed by the most intriguing and perhaps crooked person onboard in CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN tutor Robert Urquhart as a wily-charming gumshoe insurance investigator...<br>

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WILLIAM LUCAS MAKING 'THE BREAK' WITH CHRISTINA GREGG

Christina Gregg & William Lucas THE BREAK Year: 1962 The same year British beauty Christina Gregg played a schoolgirl told DON'T TAL...

WILLIAM LUCAS WITH ZENA WALKER FOR 'THE MARKED ONE'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/william%20lucas"></a></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/AVvXsEgufKnycIa74-W9bm2jaMYHkH21U1955OF5u6zLrROLM8IKlcc5eofbUo1triHN9kAsshu-ATxJaTTqdzR1Rm_fI_67EnyaeQmo7dqn_lHCF7pfOiL-0xH1k5cnHijl4-oELhSb3rGxqhD56lGQ5oZ3aUkpaqyI-M1LajD7q50mtjsYqc0WBJ7ZPt3cww/s1883/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-30%20at%2011.02.24%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1323" data-original-width="1883" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgufKnycIa74-W9bm2jaMYHkH21U1955OF5u6zLrROLM8IKlcc5eofbUo1triHN9kAsshu-ATxJaTTqdzR1Rm_fI_67EnyaeQmo7dqn_lHCF7pfOiL-0xH1k5cnHijl4-oELhSb3rGxqhD56lGQ5oZ3aUkpaqyI-M1LajD7q50mtjsYqc0WBJ7ZPt3cww/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-30%20at%2011.02.24%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>William Lucas and Zena Walker in THE MARKED ONE Year: 1963 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Obscure British actor <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/william%20lucas">William Lucas</a> gained niche fame as the father from the 1970's BLACK BEAUTY, no longer the Bogart-looking tough guy from a string of early-1960's b-crimes as leading bad guys (<a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/02/gimme-a.html">THE BREAK</a>), sketchy middlemen (<a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/03/payrollers.html">PAYROLL</a>) or criminals in-between (CALCULATED RISK, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/03/breakOUT.html">BREAKOUT</a>)...<br><br>And THE MARKED ONE also leans to that midpoint... an ex convict who, with a divorced wife, young daughter and nowhere factory gig, is threatened by enigmatic prior-partners-in-crime to retrieve forgery plates that he might or might not have, providing more mystery to the character than his dire circumstance...</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><span></span></p>

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WILLIAM LUCAS WITH ZENA WALKER FOR 'THE MARKED ONE'

William Lucas and Zena Walker in THE MARKED ONE Year: 1963 Rating: *** Obscure British actor William Lucas gained niche fame as the father ...

WILLIAM LUCAS, HAZEL COURT & BILLIE WHITELAW IN 'BREAKOUT'

<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/AVvXsEh2vjRs34orSNOOqWuwckflaW-31YwMrAC4y47v-1NOzMPy75uyyrtUJTcW9q6xB8XnzBN3r3J_0knN5wobtnbvzAl18LPZtUHJKJTpIjwx6N1ltzFlAvOg534b3CXZh5Ml_ZIkCn7VRD3kVjcVcF4lHXxVXqTKFqUASNkidi__1Z6WsnBfqhyf-a9Taw/s2367/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-30%20at%2012.56.03%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1363" data-original-width="2367" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2vjRs34orSNOOqWuwckflaW-31YwMrAC4y47v-1NOzMPy75uyyrtUJTcW9q6xB8XnzBN3r3J_0knN5wobtnbvzAl18LPZtUHJKJTpIjwx6N1ltzFlAvOg534b3CXZh5Ml_ZIkCn7VRD3kVjcVcF4lHXxVXqTKFqUASNkidi__1Z6WsnBfqhyf-a9Taw/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-30%20at%2012.56.03%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>William Lucas in BREAKOUT Year: 1959 Rates: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Yet another cautious, severely unpretentious British heist flick where tight calculation and timing are everything, and, directed by Peter Graham Scott... who'd soon make Hammer's splendid NIGHT CREATURES... this is a Post Noir where the characters discuss more than they actually do while their conversations have a page-turning cadence sans the b-movie pulp... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Making BREAKOUT not very fun but there's another slowburn role for underrated English actor <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/william%20lucas">William Lucas</a> (<a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/02/gimme-a.html">THE BREAK</a>) as a cool, classy and crooked businessman... paired with a spectacle-wearing wolf, seducing the gorgeous wife of the man they're hired to BREAKOUT... </p><span></span>

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WILLIAM LUCAS, HAZEL COURT & BILLIE WHITELAW IN 'BREAKOUT'

William Lucas in BREAKOUT Year: 1959 Rates: *** Yet another cautious, severely unpretentious British heist flick where tight calculation and...

NEO NOIR GUMSHOE BURT REYNOLDS BOOKS KAY FRYE IN 'SHAMUS'

<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/AVvXsEgvtBRX1lzz8w_REFch7HOE42Vt0njqST4KvyNJI1FIBYwMg8caC0OaKd_iL-HK9tqIbGkxjxMj5a1SyM_aojZzNEyKrbYW3jDCbMOvTfpd3MYTct46SYuLQYBdZmr0YbeNuGIDbaUTur7j1tHVu6SISBfP_jl2_QrRMLfO43iSMS43n67ZfZgoBZCv9g/s1135/0.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="714" data-original-width="1135" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvtBRX1lzz8w_REFch7HOE42Vt0njqST4KvyNJI1FIBYwMg8caC0OaKd_iL-HK9tqIbGkxjxMj5a1SyM_aojZzNEyKrbYW3jDCbMOvTfpd3MYTct46SYuLQYBdZmr0YbeNuGIDbaUTur7j1tHVu6SISBfP_jl2_QrRMLfO43iSMS43n67ZfZgoBZCv9g/s16000/0.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: SHAMUS Year: 1973 Grade: C</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>While Burt Reynolds is mostly known for car chase comedies, his deepest niche were neo noir flicks, and SHAMUS centers on modern gumshoe Shamus McCoy, breezily played by Burt in a semi-decent ride that puts the viewer in a seedy city that would have also worked as a dramatic thriller but Reynolds, even after his incredibly dramatic breakthrough in DELIVERANCE, wanted to lighten-up the sleaze...<br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>In one of those last-name-spouting, location-to-location cases... to find diamonds... here alongside ingenue Dyan Cannon yet the best scene features a classy, beautiful and wonderfully stacked bookstore clerk, paying deliberate tribute to THE BIG SLEEP, providing Burt a turn at Humphrey Bogart when, in reality, he got the job done fine... but might not have realized his strengths just yet, and, God knows, the unknown bookworm Kay Frye was a much bigger blast than Cannon, and would have made a far superior love interest too. <br></p><p><span></span></p>

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NEO NOIR GUMSHOE BURT REYNOLDS BOOKS KAY FRYE IN 'SHAMUS'

Title: SHAMUS Year: 1973 Grade: C While Burt Reynolds is mostly known for car chase comedies, his deepest niche were neo noir flicks, and SH...

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>

brian dennehy, buddy, burt reynolds, football, jill clayburgh, kris kristofferson, love triangle, michael ritchie, roger e. mosley, romantic comedy, seventies, sport

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>

adrienne barbeau, burt reynolds, dean martin, dom deluise, ensemble, farrah fawcett, hal needham, jackie chan, race car, road movie, roger moore, sammy davis jr.

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>

adventure, bo hopkins, burt reynolds, jack warden, revenge, romance, sarah miles, western

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>

action, adam west, brian keith, burt reynolds, car, hal needham, hollywood satire, james best, jan-michael vincent, sally field, seventies

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>

action, bernadette peters, burt reynolds, comedy, drama, ed lauter, football, harry caesar, james hampton, michael conrad, prison, richard kiel, robert aldrich, seventies, sport

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, ...