JUDD NELSON, DANA OLSEN AND JONNA LEE IN 'MAKING THE GRADE'

<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/AVvXsEhgHJ6CR_LFDhm8paKKtXlugGGJ0MQHQ0NcohXwiYY-5Wy7RQmpaOF2MgVjvUDcjPsIePsTRNU0SQeoo3u1kc4ZGy-qqS5yV5RfBqI1s9QXB9bcUPoQue2gLnsFkvziX1Qa-i_xHJB7oSXV6B-jLIDvk9h_D1DyHb2WFytUoshS1DPTCAtgo1_MCOdRMmCG/s2082/Screen%20Shot%202024-07-25%20at%206.26.18%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1012" data-original-width="2082" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgHJ6CR_LFDhm8paKKtXlugGGJ0MQHQ0NcohXwiYY-5Wy7RQmpaOF2MgVjvUDcjPsIePsTRNU0SQeoo3u1kc4ZGy-qqS5yV5RfBqI1s9QXB9bcUPoQue2gLnsFkvziX1Qa-i_xHJB7oSXV6B-jLIDvk9h_D1DyHb2WFytUoshS1DPTCAtgo1_MCOdRMmCG/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-07-25%20at%206.26.18%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Judd Nelson in MAKING THE GRADE Year: 1984 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>A year before THE BREAKFAST CLUB made Judd Nelson a star, turning his energetic acting style into a focused study of teenage angst and rebellion, he played a similar character – only his MAKING THE GRADE hero Eddie Keaton break-dances instead of jamming an air guitar Cream riff; in other words, his rebellion is catered strictly for humor. Wild on the streets, he owes a bookie, Dice Man, played by Andrew Clay, and winds up taking the place of a spoiled rich kid: attending a prep school whilst hiding from mobsters. <br> <br> That’s the plot in a nutshell, and GRADE, within this framework, packs a lot of hit and miss humor as well as likable or fitfully unlikable side-characters, throwing everything into the pot: from pratfalls to one-liners to stereotypes to action scenes, and beyond... No surprise Nelson plays the part with gusto – though sometimes too much. Yet where Eddie’s urban-hip con artist stuck in the fledgling Preparatory academy tries stealing every scene on board, he’s given an ultimately thankless lead to people like Dana Olsen as, technically, the most important person herein...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><span></span>

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JUDD NELSON, DANA OLSEN AND JONNA LEE IN 'MAKING THE GRADE'

Judd Nelson in MAKING THE GRADE Year: 1984 Rating: ***1/2 A year before THE BREAKFAST CLUB made Judd Nelson a star, turning his energetic a...

NICK NOLTE TAKES EDDIE MURPHY FOR WALTER HILL'S '48 HRS.'

<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 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/AVvXsEjT7xG9UL5CloQAaSSzN_oDy0rgcqJClD8htas7ym9PdlNPl25_ZZZ-163t0ex1I0C7Ljqd-QKdgfq29-U4PngLywfJ8ZaNojDImTomH_CbiulxX8gqWOFVOVyqaLYnnpdzrNxxethZ6_N39UKx7Zz0D4VFL0sapYWnJNAS686YuCrTXpNeU-SEZ4XqRnf8/s2248/Screen%20Shot%202024-07-22%20at%202.42.43%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1188" data-original-width="2248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT7xG9UL5CloQAaSSzN_oDy0rgcqJClD8htas7ym9PdlNPl25_ZZZ-163t0ex1I0C7Ljqd-QKdgfq29-U4PngLywfJ8ZaNojDImTomH_CbiulxX8gqWOFVOVyqaLYnnpdzrNxxethZ6_N39UKx7Zz0D4VFL0sapYWnJNAS686YuCrTXpNeU-SEZ4XqRnf8/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-07-22%20at%202.42.43%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy in 48 HRS Year: 1982 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Following <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/09/HTIMES.html">HARD TIMES</a>, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/06/DRIVER.html">THE DRIVER</a>, THE WARRIORS, THE LONG RIDERS and <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2014/10/walter-hills-weekend-warriors-trapped.html">SOUTHERN COMFORT</a>, most forget that 48 HRS was the peak of high-octane director Walter Hill's career, especially with the iconic novelty of being SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE breakout Eddie Murphy's first motion picture, more than proving his worth and successfully continuing with <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2023/11/TP.html">TRADING PLACES</a> and <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2024/06/bhc.html">BEVERLY HILLS COP</a>...<br></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>But the real star is first-billed Nick Notle, whose gruff San Fransisco cop Jack Cates is the kind of flawed/ragged anti-hero that could've led his very own edgy cop thriller, making Murphy's Reggie Hammond... allowed the titular two-days to help find his former prison-breaking partner-in-crime... an essential bonus in what's already a terrific ride: perfectly combining action, drama and comedy...<br></p><p><span></span></p>

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NICK NOLTE TAKES EDDIE MURPHY FOR WALTER HILL'S '48 HRS.'

Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy in 48 HRS Year: 1982 Rating: ****1/2 Following HARD TIMES , THE DRIVER , THE WARRIORS, THE LONG RIDERS and SOUTH...

DAN AYKROYD & EDDIE MURPHY 'TRADING PLACES' FOR JOHN LANDIS

<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/AVvXsEh6D6VAHhFibRNSnu7iv4_cWDfpRiR6IcFoHPWlRivkknplz8JQmA90ANZhvE1quZm0nteyKSo-uXvRfi4_CibixWr6LCDxCPIQfK6OHGM9BtM4gJQ4sAUCfeljBJSD8e5qxZlvihKHruPxBH-gHRCGXTfPYtw-aWtdQu7IX8AS7KB0RJLvhAmev8Jj-c5E/s2012/Screen%20Shot%202023-11-24%20at%203.18.20%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="988" data-original-width="2012" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6D6VAHhFibRNSnu7iv4_cWDfpRiR6IcFoHPWlRivkknplz8JQmA90ANZhvE1quZm0nteyKSo-uXvRfi4_CibixWr6LCDxCPIQfK6OHGM9BtM4gJQ4sAUCfeljBJSD8e5qxZlvihKHruPxBH-gHRCGXTfPYtw-aWtdQu7IX8AS7KB0RJLvhAmev8Jj-c5E/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-11-24%20at%203.18.20%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u> Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy in TRADING PLACES Year: 1983 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The comedy classic TRADING PLACES was an extremely important vehicle for both leading actors <i>and</i> director John Landis since Dan Aykroyd, after the death of SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE and three-picture-partner John Belushi, got a chance to pull-off a multi-layer character with Wall Street to Skid Row businessman Louis Winthorpe while the then-current SNL breakthrough Eddie Murphy was paving his own way... <br></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>Having succeeded with a semi-dramatic turn in Walter Hill's 48 HRS, his brash, foul-mouthed and fast-talking, street-smart humor now translated into what's possibly Landis's greatest mainstream venture, ironically released sixteen-days before the infamously tragic TWILIGHT ZONE movie...  </p><span></span>

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DAN AYKROYD & EDDIE MURPHY 'TRADING PLACES' FOR JOHN LANDIS

Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy in TRADING PLACES Year: 1983 Rating: ****1/2 The comedy classic TRADING PLACES was an extremely important vehi...

EDDIE MURPHY AND MARTIN LAWRENCE SERVE TED DEMME'S 'LIFE'

<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/AVvXsEhz-6zFbBPQP6_detFxY5JNYSYxIYHbqmoZnLCymkqb2FRziWjeFtMB9RlSOQvMdnktjiMCyrJGfgqYTUXRL_m6fUgg15zWivbmZUOIKp82Iw5EbWMiLv9PicM_cihMem_-e8koqNDnzYa5mTNh7MMFSoUg-JmqxJxeutEtfLAnsbyc7-oeXYLTzqyArRIn/s1632/Screen%20Shot%202024-07-21%20at%2012.13.59%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="888" data-original-width="1632" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz-6zFbBPQP6_detFxY5JNYSYxIYHbqmoZnLCymkqb2FRziWjeFtMB9RlSOQvMdnktjiMCyrJGfgqYTUXRL_m6fUgg15zWivbmZUOIKp82Iw5EbWMiLv9PicM_cihMem_-e8koqNDnzYa5mTNh7MMFSoUg-JmqxJxeutEtfLAnsbyc7-oeXYLTzqyArRIn/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-07-21%20at%2012.13.59%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence in LIFE Year: 1999 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Eddie Murphy's final classic being COMING TO AMERICA is half true: it's his last quality vehicle that made a lot of money when in reality, the box-office disappointment LIFE has Murphy really proving himself within a quality central plot that, like his breakthrough 48 HRS., involves crime, prison, mixes comedy with drama and provides the SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE star an equal partner... there in Nick Nolte, and here in Martin Lawrence...<br><br>Who Murphy was as much a standup comedy-mentor as Richard Pryor was to Murphy... the latter having starred in HARLEM NIGHTS that, like LIFE, takes place during the Depression-era... and one of the best moments includes what seems a homage to the Murphy-directed misfire when, trapped in the fence-less, gun-surrounding, rural-southern chain-gang workcamp, he and the entire group of eclectic underdog prisoners (all intriguing despite befitting every prison-flick trope from STIR CRAZY to SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION) dream of partying in Murphy's would-be nightclub... a one-minute fantasy-sequence more entertaining than the entire NIGHTS...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

comedy, depression-era, drama, eddie murphy, martin lawrence, ned beatty, nick cassavetes, nineties, prison, r. lee ermey, ted demme

EDDIE MURPHY AND MARTIN LAWRENCE SERVE TED DEMME'S 'LIFE'

Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence in LIFE Year: 1999 Rating: **** Eddie Murphy's final classic being COMING TO AMERICA is half true: it&#...

TIMOTHY HUTTON & SEAN PENN 'THE FALCON AND THE SHOWMAN'

<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/AVvXsEi-AQBvAnYV-54Yh9OoDGIL7ybsv0hIuWp_M0wATdw2f4LK5M20b2KafvQs5ABrw1N75VifoPfLnVBplYxXN_2HgF6cHa7eDsNnGzIsmH6AgQeSSkCOQrBlp-nnk0c42MU2PSyeNMK2ny30K05QMTFaA5LwComPHBaPw8ch8X-ZAZPpv97DLbPoezhElG6L/s1310/1111.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="706" data-original-width="1310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-AQBvAnYV-54Yh9OoDGIL7ybsv0hIuWp_M0wATdw2f4LK5M20b2KafvQs5ABrw1N75VifoPfLnVBplYxXN_2HgF6cHa7eDsNnGzIsmH6AgQeSSkCOQrBlp-nnk0c42MU2PSyeNMK2ny30K05QMTFaA5LwComPHBaPw8ch8X-ZAZPpv97DLbPoezhElG6L/s16000/1111.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sean Penn in THE FALCON AND THE SNOWMAN Year: 1983 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In THE FALCON AND THE SNOWMAN, about two young California-born former-Alter-boy rich kids who wound up selling secret documents to the Russians, Timothy Hutton — who won an Oscar for ORDINARY PEOPLE — had the chance to play the role of a lifetime since Christopher Boyce, working within the CIA before his capture, had already broken out of jail and robbed 17 banks before the source biography/novel became a motion picture...</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>But instead of playing Boyce as the sneakily charming sociopath he really was, director John Schlesinger reveals him as a starry-eyed pacifist while his TAPS co-star Sean Penn, as drug dealing partner Andrew Lee Daulton, not only does the real work but (practically alone) ignites the most suspenseful scenes...</p><span></span>

biopic, chris makepeace, dorian harewood, eighties, sean penn, thriller, timothy hutton

TIMOTHY HUTTON & SEAN PENN 'THE FALCON AND THE SHOWMAN'

Sean Penn in THE FALCON AND THE SNOWMAN Year: 1983 Rating: ***1/2 In THE FALCON AND THE SNOWMAN, about two young California-born former-Alte...

TIMOTHY HUTTON WITH SEAN PENN AND TOM CRUISE IN 'TAPS'

<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/AVvXsEjVEw-AtfQVEwxvY2k0TUv9spY6y-KFbW3wV9ZgeUDSBfMAQkcTNIB0O3_Vnp-pmbG2a7FTbD5pcr4RREIpsoHHpYAjwo03nU1dNhDyOD795vqsH5XyDd22qUUu_RykJDJvS73mA31Iwkiag5CECKejPCoL4fNSt_2PUzA_JLXaYf3skFQeEcS_GqQQgFSA/s2272/1%204.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1260" data-original-width="2272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVEw-AtfQVEwxvY2k0TUv9spY6y-KFbW3wV9ZgeUDSBfMAQkcTNIB0O3_Vnp-pmbG2a7FTbD5pcr4RREIpsoHHpYAjwo03nU1dNhDyOD795vqsH5XyDd22qUUu_RykJDJvS73mA31Iwkiag5CECKejPCoL4fNSt_2PUzA_JLXaYf3skFQeEcS_GqQQgFSA/s16000/1%204.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sean Penn and Giancarlo Esposito in TAPS Year: 1981 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Harold Becker's TAPS is perhaps the only movie where Tom Cruise isn't cheered at the end... in fact  he's downright despised for what he causes, underlining how well this involving, thoroughly compelling yet somewhat farfetched military-academy drama fleshes out the characters, and there are many... but four really matter...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Cruise is the extreme military-minded David Shawn, fervently following orders of Timothy Hutton's Brian Moreland, whose initial catapulting mentor is first-billed George C. Scott, sharing first-act experience-filled monologues about the honorary tradition of the central location: an academy that's soon to be turned into condominiums...<br></p><p><span></span></p>

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TIMOTHY HUTTON WITH SEAN PENN AND TOM CRUISE IN 'TAPS'

Sean Penn and Giancarlo Esposito in TAPS Year: 1981 Rating: **** Harold Becker's TAPS is perhaps the only movie where Tom Cruise isn'...

SMOKING THROUGH A YEAR OF 'FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH'

<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><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><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/AVvXsEgutVLa6X_oHDkCqFwWl8utOidJnWitVUHkavNGbMxuxmME2OFppKW73Mt42DDrNa6r70hW93GEdMpUhh-WS5mQgG2nms-Jivlt5ZIkvnpPIHyyHohd79o3qepRt5gfcQoHRAMSAVyHbVI9aSmwy_Ov-kARco4BCa-bZxnGUn9O410OBhzH6T_KWYJ4TkFz/s1118/362282388_1772987636463738_1630293739962888312_n.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="582" data-original-width="1118" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgutVLa6X_oHDkCqFwWl8utOidJnWitVUHkavNGbMxuxmME2OFppKW73Mt42DDrNa6r70hW93GEdMpUhh-WS5mQgG2nms-Jivlt5ZIkvnpPIHyyHohd79o3qepRt5gfcQoHRAMSAVyHbVI9aSmwy_Ov-kARco4BCa-bZxnGUn9O410OBhzH6T_KWYJ4TkFz/s16000/362282388_1772987636463738_1630293739962888312_n.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sean Penn flanked by Anthony Edwards & Eric Stoltz in FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH Year: 1982 Rates: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The 1982 Cult Classic FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH only sporadically features first-billed, poster-laden Sean Penn as now-legendary surfer/stoner Jeff Spicoli since Amy Heckerling's year-at-school movie based on Cameron Crowe's year-at-school novel's mostly about Jennifer Jason Leigh as freshman Stacy Hamilton, along with Judge Reinhold as her extremely likeable older brother senior Brad Hamilton... </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></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></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 on almost equal footing are two thankless roles by young unknown character-actors <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2010/03/robert-romanus-fast-times-at-ridgemont.html">Robert Romanus</a> as confidently manipulative ticket-scalper Mike Damone and his geeky sidekick in Brian Backer's Mark "Rat" Ratner...</p><p><span></span></p>

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SMOKING THROUGH A YEAR OF 'FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH'

Sean Penn flanked by Anthony Edwards & Eric Stoltz in FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH Year: 1982 Rates: ****1/2 The 1982 Cult Classic FAST ...

SEAN PENN WITH ESAI MORALES IN RICK ROSENTHAL'S 'BAD BOYS'

<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/AVvXsEjoatKSNqK0GU1SrP-MUVQSYVdo53hSNa5Ss1SHlp_XzxGRbIsQtI3ZVfPKCZBx-D7VHP33xigqvqSgT37JnGZwgVb9KaqRoDGI4cq4Xiw4PQPDSU7Av_-gde3vV3bBh0Ax2jdHRG8x0iEyyAIxZBmMoETepPt43TTQIPPCbN350taniJ_tRoq9m58zZsHn/s2434/moreblue%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1514" data-original-width="2434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoatKSNqK0GU1SrP-MUVQSYVdo53hSNa5Ss1SHlp_XzxGRbIsQtI3ZVfPKCZBx-D7VHP33xigqvqSgT37JnGZwgVb9KaqRoDGI4cq4Xiw4PQPDSU7Av_-gde3vV3bBh0Ax2jdHRG8x0iEyyAIxZBmMoETepPt43TTQIPPCbN350taniJ_tRoq9m58zZsHn/s16000/moreblue%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sean Penn from the soundtrack cover of Rick Rosenthal's BAD BOYS Year: 1983 Rating: *****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In 1983, between playing a poignantly-logical, well-read military academy student in TAPS; a fan-favorite, classic-quote-spouting stoner in <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/11/fast-times.html">FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH</a>; and a rambling, high-strung, coke-dealing spy in THE FALCON AND THE SNOWMAN, director Rick Rothenthal provided Sean Penn his greatest, most authentic performance in BAD BOYS where ironically, driven by an intensely defiant glare, he hardly speaks at all...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>As the first act takes place in the crime-ridden night-streets involving a Spanish vs black gang's big-money drug-deal as O'Brien and naive pal Alan Ruck attempt snaking the spoils, leading to the death of the little brother of Esai Morales's Paco Moreno, who intensely bookends the movie's revenge-driven main antagonist spot and yet, during the primary lockup scenes in a severe youth reformatory straight from the previous decade's gritty and uncompromising, steadicam-gliding, rock/funk-blasting exploitation era, it's Clancy Brown and Robert Lee Rush as violent/raping versions of high school bullies that terrorized 1980's cinema...</p><span></span>

action, alan ruck, ally sheedy, clancy brown, cult, eighties, exploitation, jason gedrick, prison, reni santoni, rich rothenthal, sean penn

SEAN PENN WITH ESAI MORALES IN RICK ROSENTHAL'S 'BAD BOYS'

Sean Penn from the soundtrack cover of Rick Rosenthal's BAD BOYS Year: 1983 Rating: ***** In 1983, between playing a poignantly-logical,...

EDDIE MURPHY RETURNS FOR NETFLIX'S 'BEVERLY HILLS COP: AXEL F'

<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/AVvXsEiMvnJqRG52UbPmbO2aHYbcUJWaq6u_y_4vuZPpvbJ7msbgm0EV8WeddCzVq0_DgMsVWOTaX2hlY1otJcmUOYZLahXn_c2kQ_NR77MWhIzUdhTU_nFYRnF3bEfAjr255_NW0TGhTRiqAR4puRlX11gNmW5IBnA0pKM3iscdaDkmghqNlrkhtQ3Qar_uWB_Z/s2144/Screen%20Shot%202024-07-03%20at%203.57.28%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1192" data-original-width="2144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMvnJqRG52UbPmbO2aHYbcUJWaq6u_y_4vuZPpvbJ7msbgm0EV8WeddCzVq0_DgMsVWOTaX2hlY1otJcmUOYZLahXn_c2kQ_NR77MWhIzUdhTU_nFYRnF3bEfAjr255_NW0TGhTRiqAR4puRlX11gNmW5IBnA0pKM3iscdaDkmghqNlrkhtQ3Qar_uWB_Z/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-07-03%20at%203.57.28%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: Beverly Hills Cop: Axl F from 2024 Rating: **</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Between a fan-service opening where Axel Foley winds up in a truck chase through Detroit, like the original... only orchestrated with the second movie's song and with <i>him</i> behind the wheel this time... and vignettes with Eddie Murphy doing various imitations to trick people within the comparably soft and gullible Beverly Hills... he's hanging around his idealistic lawyer daughter (Taylour Page), so severely uptight and painfully miscast it's never quite clear if BEVERLY HILLS COP: AXEL F is the pilot for a Netflix series or a stand-alone feature...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Because there's no real character or story-arc to fit within an effective 2-hour mainframe while Murphy, no matter how hard he tries to be funny with those cute little voices, simply cannot play off this new smug sidekick the way he did Judge Reinhold and John Ashton... both seeming thrown in here at the last minute... who were his polar opposites, dead set against before inevitably joining into the original classic's infectiously entertaining revenge-plot misadventure — that should have been left alone in the first place.</p><span></span>

2024, action, comedy, eddie murphy, franchise, john ashton, joseph gordon-levitt, judge reinhold, kevin bacon, netflix, new, sequel

EDDIE MURPHY RETURNS FOR NETFLIX'S 'BEVERLY HILLS COP: AXEL F'

Title: Beverly Hills Cop: Axl F from 2024 Rating: ** Between a fan-service opening where Axel Foley winds up in a truck chase through Detroi...

EDDIE MURPHY LEADS THE ACTION/COMEDY 'BEVERLY HILLS COP'

<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/AVvXsEiflnzmpkDCNle3iGzpb3e-c9gfa0b-SOhnhjJAgAWwwsQBcKgmtOC_4YzyAfJxvkrlUEMcpHI8HxYA_kaIxCUcUkHHjUWYmE0VUZt2-gMyaQ_HyFnfb_xsI3Jvsim36srPjKY7Z5gmgzS6x7iWwyljpB-phZUkDZjX9DDD9lzGA5qmfyVYBYl8Uu-5-Kh5/s2062/Screen%20Shot%202024-06-28%20at%2010.59.05%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1048" data-original-width="2062" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiflnzmpkDCNle3iGzpb3e-c9gfa0b-SOhnhjJAgAWwwsQBcKgmtOC_4YzyAfJxvkrlUEMcpHI8HxYA_kaIxCUcUkHHjUWYmE0VUZt2-gMyaQ_HyFnfb_xsI3Jvsim36srPjKY7Z5gmgzS6x7iWwyljpB-phZUkDZjX9DDD9lzGA5qmfyVYBYl8Uu-5-Kh5/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-06-28%20at%2010.59.05%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Eddie Murphy in BEVERLY HILLS COP Year: 1984 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Eddie Murphy had one of the greatest trifectas in the history of hot young stars: while the breakout favorite of SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, he co-starred opposite Nick Nolte in Walter Hill's action flick with comedy 48 HRS; then against Dan Aykroyd in John Landis's straight-out comedy <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2023/11/TP.html">TRADING PLACES</a>; followed by his first solo starring role in BEVERLY HILLS COP, both a full-blown comedy and deadly serious action flick... <br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The latter because his buddy's brutal death by Jonathan Banks is as grim as things get, leading Murphy's cocky yet misadventurous Detroit cop Axl Foley into Beverly Hills, California, where the contrast between the black former street kid and the plastic rich white man's land provides a sublime template for an edgy yet affable Murphy...<br></p>

action, bronson pinchot, comedy, cop, eddie murphy, eighties, frank pesce, john ashton, jonathan banks, judge reinhold, Lisa Eilbacher, martin brest, ronny cox, stephen elliott, steven berkoff

EDDIE MURPHY LEADS THE ACTION/COMEDY 'BEVERLY HILLS COP'

Eddie Murphy in BEVERLY HILLS COP Year: 1984 Rating: ****1/2 Eddie Murphy had one of the greatest trifectas in the history of hot young star...

ZEPPO/MARX BROTHERS PRESENTATION 'ANIMAL CRACKERS'

<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/AVvXsEgxCwEhnAsW-xS9vUd_DxerHhNtzNOhKsmtsNKeQAqgWgYfRKVRg6K_35I7WjVvDmM7g5d9ZXny7IkVYg-Wof1kKux9G2p9nwctPAlKHkF8Yg_Hf8EgW4pVIEm2CWClTSmwHq4ReaQemdJrS28gNVGo7Ljekrn_xlF2jMIYmJNBpxSxyifCRf5WFwnG4UAx/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202024-06-16%20at%205.46.15%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="752" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxCwEhnAsW-xS9vUd_DxerHhNtzNOhKsmtsNKeQAqgWgYfRKVRg6K_35I7WjVvDmM7g5d9ZXny7IkVYg-Wof1kKux9G2p9nwctPAlKHkF8Yg_Hf8EgW4pVIEm2CWClTSmwHq4ReaQemdJrS28gNVGo7Ljekrn_xlF2jMIYmJNBpxSxyifCRf5WFwnG4UAx/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-06-16%20at%205.46.15%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: ANIMAL CRACKERS Year: 1930 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The Marx Brothers ANIMAL CRACKERS is basically their hangout movie, seeming like a grand Broadway showcase with elaborate sets, mostly of a giant mansion interior celebrating Groucho as a famous big game hunter, introduced by his assistant played by straight-man brother Zeppo...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>What's ironic is there's a kind of standard-handsome young actor named Hal Thompson whose relationship with beautiful Lilian Roth would have fit Zeppo instead of the few scenes as Groucho's note-scribbling gopher...</p><span></span>

chico marx, comedy, harpo marx, lilian roth, margaret dumont, marx brothers, thirties, zeppo marx

ZEPPO/MARX BROTHERS PRESENTATION 'ANIMAL CRACKERS'

Title: ANIMAL CRACKERS Year: 1930 Rating: *** The Marx Brothers ANIMAL CRACKERS is basically their hangout movie, seeming like a grand Broad...

ZEPPO/MARX BROTHERS BATTLE LOUIS CALHERN IN 'DUCK SOUP'

<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/AVvXsEhKFXrH6j781t6TXf4Pnv7wVttNV2Cvl5U5rqELAw5KeFFlcIK5W7w1a3BZXleBCLc0ZlAGwMSCQcNCPUCH3DqsbowPXYpxHEHbskRobwUDlTDKUjjVE1tnlp8qspF9cScF61nKwcLzP1U0kFJnp01Bjwreu1Ihzj63n-088StffqoEFFNGRgsKAP_prd4y/s2278/0.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="894" data-original-width="2278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKFXrH6j781t6TXf4Pnv7wVttNV2Cvl5U5rqELAw5KeFFlcIK5W7w1a3BZXleBCLc0ZlAGwMSCQcNCPUCH3DqsbowPXYpxHEHbskRobwUDlTDKUjjVE1tnlp8qspF9cScF61nKwcLzP1U0kFJnp01Bjwreu1Ihzj63n-088StffqoEFFNGRgsKAP_prd4y/s16000/0.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: DUCK SOUP Year: 1933 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Heavily influencing comparably-modern classics from Mel Brooks' BLAZING SADDLES to Woody Allen's BANANAS (and even Charlie Chaplin's THE GREAT DICTATOR), The Marx Brothers' DUCK SOUP is by far their greatest movie... with a neatly constructed beginning, middle and end where their perfect straight-person Margaret Dumont forces the fictional country of Freedonia to hire Groucho Marx's Rufus T. Firefly to rule the land...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And while quiet/handsome brother Zeppo is ultimately wasted, once again as Groucho's note-scribbling assistant, and Harpo's role seems rather forced, mostly just cutting things with scissors, Chico, who becomes Groucho's more hands-on sidekick, is of almost equal importance to the quip-spouting, mustached leader...</p><p><span></span></p>

chico marx, comedy, groucho marx, harpo marx, louis calhern, margaret dumont, marx brothers, politial, thirties, zeppo marx

ZEPPO/MARX BROTHERS BATTLE LOUIS CALHERN IN 'DUCK SOUP'

Title: DUCK SOUP Year: 1933 Rating: **** Heavily influencing comparably-modern classics from Mel Brooks' BLAZING SADDLES to Woody Allen&...

CRAMMING THROUGH ZEPPO/MARX BROTHERS 'HORSE FEATHERS'

<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/AVvXsEia_ReU9VeWsOQxnIhFdy9URCbUkSdBRkAWyaxQZEcBCoKpWb73sehZhES7Zbx76lg9gWC5xSmiop9i13K16jhJesNceB0GKDDtPmH1gAY6-OiFlwXepSbsi-Nx2TVea093-q4xtZ-dvtv1Nwcs-S84MUCPgmW-dHUyseF_VlvygIgPO7K7syK_Jukpr6OE/s1464/Screen%20Shot%202024-06-16%20at%201.56.36%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="636" data-original-width="1464" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia_ReU9VeWsOQxnIhFdy9URCbUkSdBRkAWyaxQZEcBCoKpWb73sehZhES7Zbx76lg9gWC5xSmiop9i13K16jhJesNceB0GKDDtPmH1gAY6-OiFlwXepSbsi-Nx2TVea093-q4xtZ-dvtv1Nwcs-S84MUCPgmW-dHUyseF_VlvygIgPO7K7syK_Jukpr6OE/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-06-16%20at%201.56.36%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Zeppo and Grouchy Marx from HORSE FEATHERS Year: 1932 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>While THE MARX BROTHERS are all great performers, Chico Marx is the character-actor of the bunch, moving the exposition and far more grouchy than Groucho, the one-line-spouting leader... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And while they're all funny, Harpo Marx is the token zany physical comic while Zeppo, appearing in their first five films and here playing the college student son of new campus president Groucho, is the young handsome straight man... </p><p><span></span></p>

chico marx, comedy, groucho marx, harpo marx, marx brothers, thelma todd, thirties, zeppo marx

CRAMMING THROUGH ZEPPO/MARX BROTHERS 'HORSE FEATHERS'

Zeppo and Grouchy Marx from HORSE FEATHERS Year: 1932 Rating: *** While THE MARX BROTHERS are all great performers, Chico Marx is the charac...

OUT TO SEA FOR THE ZEPPO/MARX BROTHERS 'MONKEY BUSINESS'

<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/AVvXsEhtFTAjV5Gb6QF6cI4xkS_Qwqqv9sfxBcnc049q0mdPzQ0hcCX9KS1nTOKkPfZdX9Jb9QfrxV6Y0sXwzGJB4oOgCbt4xyp5nAh4OGK4Flm1zyXePXa5nQAHC-djnSEbLhRa_Y6KWsu17LpUPYEr5LRrnWl-bEhEI8bBLJusbw4Whc1e_XGpAREt61Sz_2Hk/s1386/Screen%20Shot%202024-06-19%20at%203.36.44%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="802" data-original-width="1386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtFTAjV5Gb6QF6cI4xkS_Qwqqv9sfxBcnc049q0mdPzQ0hcCX9KS1nTOKkPfZdX9Jb9QfrxV6Y0sXwzGJB4oOgCbt4xyp5nAh4OGK4Flm1zyXePXa5nQAHC-djnSEbLhRa_Y6KWsu17LpUPYEr5LRrnWl-bEhEI8bBLJusbw4Whc1e_XGpAREt61Sz_2Hk/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-06-19%20at%203.36.44%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: MONKEY BUSINESS Year: 1931 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>One of the first five Marx Brothers films featuring youngest brother Zeppo, usually cast as a romantic sidebar being more handsome and move star-looking than tough-type Chico, physical-comic/brilliant musician Harpo and one-liner leader Groucho, here in MONKEY BUSINESS aboard a luxury-liner ship and, while romancing semi-regular blonde ingenue Thelma Todd (along with brunette Ruth Hall), the boys are up to a lot of... <br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Well the title says it all... as this isn't one of the better Marx flicks, with Zeppo actually taking part in the physical hijinkx with his comedic siblings instead of playing the straight man... the latter position where he fits best, needed far more for the guys to play off or against than along with, wherein four's kind of an unnecessary crowd.</p><p><span></span></p>

chico marx, comedy, franchise, groucho marx, harpo marx, marx brothers, thelma todd, thirties, zeppo marx

OUT TO SEA FOR THE ZEPPO/MARX BROTHERS 'MONKEY BUSINESS'

Year: MONKEY BUSINESS Year: 1931 Rating: **1/2 One of the first five Marx Brothers films featuring youngest brother Zeppo, usually cast as a...

JANET MUNRO & JENNIFER JAYNE IN 'THE TROLLENBERG TERROR'

<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/AVvXsEhmNpc32Xls2mMXrjENZFhORiKxNx0x_I_uinwAMnfjHIXZuELgzAw1bl41c6Bo_CMAQS6A_hcg0gsUSF_Kr_yb9VOAHbjsNe6HvpXXERT6qEuoAb4lXY9_9XiAuCcCy4ELhkL0dRJRbV_KkaolMN1KaUN56PjxaxASjCYnYiyAEcUATzgBeSzyN2ln-cEz/s1864/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1030" data-original-width="1864" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmNpc32Xls2mMXrjENZFhORiKxNx0x_I_uinwAMnfjHIXZuELgzAw1bl41c6Bo_CMAQS6A_hcg0gsUSF_Kr_yb9VOAHbjsNe6HvpXXERT6qEuoAb4lXY9_9XiAuCcCy4ELhkL0dRJRbV_KkaolMN1KaUN56PjxaxASjCYnYiyAEcUATzgBeSzyN2ln-cEz/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>THE TROLLENBERG TERROR aka THE CRAWLING EYE Year: 1958 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The originally-titled British horror THE TROLLENBERG TERROR changing into THE CRAWLING EYE is a matter of b-movie peer pressure, morphing a genuinely effective, deliberately slow-paced and mostly character-driven thriller into the kind of campy fare that never really had a chance...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The central character is imported American actor Forrest Tucker, who had just come off another British-made snowbound venture (by Hammer Studios) THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN... and TERROR is equally smart and cerebral, featuring scream-queen Janet Munro as a young lady with telepathic powers, who... before honing in on the impending danger at hand... was a kind of novelty act with perfectly-cast older sister Jennifer Jayne, both lovely brunettes with full lips and looking very much related...</p><p><span></span></p>

british, creature, cult, fifties, forrest tucker, horror, janet munro, jennifer jayne, laurence payne, warren mitchell

JANET MUNRO & JENNIFER JAYNE IN 'THE TROLLENBERG TERROR'

THE TROLLENBERG TERROR aka THE CRAWLING EYE Year: 1958 Rating: **** The originally-titled British horror THE TROLLENBERG TERROR changing int...

LEX BARKER WITH VÉRONIQUE VENDELL IN 'CODE 7, VICTIM 5'

<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/AVvXsEjR5OtiCI30X-r-YSN2mSh09_FF4rmoYjw-X10uLh85wUkxAStnpJU82k7RkdpdM51XYFqi-GTJaPHrROLwHgNL1IZsTY4LtYs5MgUIy89Y2JwNjDMQMshL27DuREwvUtJ1iCES1tPGUudDKDQvbXw7poaoGgo4zhhJ_TB5hy8xAgzoHvcnYUoFZ71lCJ4T/s2068/Screen%20Shot%202024-05-24%20at%205.08.14%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1174" data-original-width="2068" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR5OtiCI30X-r-YSN2mSh09_FF4rmoYjw-X10uLh85wUkxAStnpJU82k7RkdpdM51XYFqi-GTJaPHrROLwHgNL1IZsTY4LtYs5MgUIy89Y2JwNjDMQMshL27DuREwvUtJ1iCES1tPGUudDKDQvbXw7poaoGgo4zhhJ_TB5hy8xAgzoHvcnYUoFZ71lCJ4T/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-05-24%20at%205.08.14%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: CODE 7, VICTIM 5 Alternate Title: VICTIM FIVE Year: 1964 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>With a title that sounds more like the final score of a computer corporation's soccer match than a spy movie, CODE 7, VICTIM 5 takes the then-Sean Connery/James Bond blueprint into b-movie territory under flowing direction from Robert Lynn but more importantly with creatively maneuvered and vibrantly colored cinematography by future legendary auteur Nicolas Roeg, providing former Tarzan (Johnny Weissmuller's  replacement) actor Lex Barker on a case to discover who murdered a millionaire's servant at a bizarre parade... </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 Barker's character Steve Martin (also Raymond Burr's name in GODZILLA before THE JERK comic became famous) is more busy with two lovely dames, equally alluring in their own right while following neo-noir cinema tropes... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, ann smyrner, espionage, lex barker, neo noir, nicolas roeg, robert lynn, ronald fraser, sixties, spy, veronique vendell

LEX BARKER WITH VÉRONIQUE VENDELL IN 'CODE 7, VICTIM 5'

Title: CODE 7, VICTIM 5 Alternate Title: VICTIM FIVE Year: 1964 Rating: ***1/2 With a title that sounds more like the final score of a compu...

GLENN FORD, LEE MARVIN & GLORIA GRAHAME IN 'THE BIG HEAT'

<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/AVvXsEjb-lFXZTduUiqdF3fnGWYpfG_u63EdvKtR7Vmj_MS_ONhkDvg4DfUb6h9IrdovA5yfUxlm86laqp11_eGUY93Vt2N1EUokLg0L7DEt5NINtNz_TeXaXOP2nPZD4t9Rh1Xw5TVaLsECx3ieGN1xWIlVIQjecCpmDU4UZMYhtYe890zHULsu_vLenLtALnyC/s968/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="638" data-original-width="968" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb-lFXZTduUiqdF3fnGWYpfG_u63EdvKtR7Vmj_MS_ONhkDvg4DfUb6h9IrdovA5yfUxlm86laqp11_eGUY93Vt2N1EUokLg0L7DEt5NINtNz_TeXaXOP2nPZD4t9Rh1Xw5TVaLsECx3ieGN1xWIlVIQjecCpmDU4UZMYhtYe890zHULsu_vLenLtALnyC/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE BIG HEAT Shown: Glenn Ford Year: 1953 Rating: *****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>On posters for Fritz Lang's classic film noir THE BIG HEAT there's what looks like an impassioned couple raging with sensuality in Glenn Ford and Gloria Grahame, which is misleading since neither care about each other within most of the story, and yet, perhaps no other actor and actress have ultimately shared so much energy and chemistry on screen... </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>She's the beautiful, animated moll of chief gangster's thug Vince, played by Lee Marvin, who, before his days of tough anti-heroes, played neurotic, borderline sociopath hoods: and literally sizzles here as the title becomes too real for scene-stealing Graham, getting scalding coffee thrown on her face, punishment for having visited Ford's hidden cove apartment behind his back...</p><p><span></span></p>

alexander scourby, andy williams, cop, fifties, film noir or melodrama, fritz lang, glenn ford, gloria grahame, jeanette nolan, jocelyn brando, john crawford, lee marvin, peter whitney, revenge

GLENN FORD, LEE MARVIN & GLORIA GRAHAME IN 'THE BIG HEAT'

Title: THE BIG HEAT Shown: Glenn Ford Year: 1953 Rating: ***** On posters for Fritz Lang's classic film noir THE BIG HEAT there's wh...

BRODERICK CRAWFORD, NEVILLE BRAND & RICHARD KILEY 'THE MOB'

<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/AVvXsEimn1AJq9VekXaZx_cNcVAKhiTfN6RBvnOC4TdycYZkNVBRyf_JsZv-LKTE83hoDxC_ghmjuldUigkGDWh_SR12I3rXSvAKdDkYX1M0s6awIA5g8Nma8bulcTMkbDtZIv4gMlqxFlOwvhSU0A-rRvIBZw9JQKNF1U9LaQBrNuGI4KPSE_6ezBLvVcAdvRji/s1768/Screen%20Shot%202024-05-07%20at%2010.23.56%20PM%202%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1086" data-original-width="1768" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimn1AJq9VekXaZx_cNcVAKhiTfN6RBvnOC4TdycYZkNVBRyf_JsZv-LKTE83hoDxC_ghmjuldUigkGDWh_SR12I3rXSvAKdDkYX1M0s6awIA5g8Nma8bulcTMkbDtZIv4gMlqxFlOwvhSU0A-rRvIBZw9JQKNF1U9LaQBrNuGI4KPSE_6ezBLvVcAdvRji/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-05-07%20at%2010.23.56%20PM%202%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1951 Cast: Broderick Crawford, Ernest Borgnine, John Marley, Neville Brand, Richard Kiley  Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In 1955, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/charles%20bronson">Charles Bronson</a> played a cellmate to Broderick Crawford in <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/06/BHUSA.html">BIG HOUSE USA</a> — and only four-years earlier, Bronson (known as Charles Buchinsky), had a quick yet important part in the Waterfront film noir THE MOB...</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>Where Crawford's an undercover cop (after the opening theme later used for THE BIG HEAT) seeking the leader/boss of a crime-syndicate screwing around the workers by choosing only their own...  and Bronson's the one guy complaining during his single scene where they're calling out rigged names for work (overseen by future GODFATHER horse-head victim John Marley), while Crawford and his newfound working-class buddy Richard Kiley look on...</p><p><span></span></p>

broderick crawford, charles bronson, emile meyer, ernest borgnine, fifties, film noir or melodrama, john marley, lynn baggett, mobster, neville brand, richard kiley, thriller

BRODERICK CRAWFORD, NEVILLE BRAND & RICHARD KILEY 'THE MOB'

Year: 1951 Cast: Broderick Crawford, Ernest Borgnine, John Marley, Neville Brand, Richard Kiley  Rating: ***1/2 In 1955, Charles Bronson pl...

STANLEY KUBRICK'S NOIR 'THE KILLING' WITH STERLING HAYDEN

<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/AVvXsEjIxp1F60j_-Tr6L-v4m5bpaeFHNCMl6i1vGyhezFzijxZKU1NWBgTU1U_tF7OC2VXhsbk557NJEYELm-XB34tpi3qmvDsIzM7CmHbBFkKl3WKoyRNV9OYgjJSAh1oIQw066TVJSbCvy4RfAp9Xh0fsEBxQohsol4qbuZOIB237Q9Hmi5-FfqsjEP1fWEsN/s2026/Screen%20Shot%202024-05-06%20at%204.52.06%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1354" data-original-width="2026" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIxp1F60j_-Tr6L-v4m5bpaeFHNCMl6i1vGyhezFzijxZKU1NWBgTU1U_tF7OC2VXhsbk557NJEYELm-XB34tpi3qmvDsIzM7CmHbBFkKl3WKoyRNV9OYgjJSAh1oIQw066TVJSbCvy4RfAp9Xh0fsEBxQohsol4qbuZOIB237Q9Hmi5-FfqsjEP1fWEsN/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-05-06%20at%204.52.06%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE KILLING Year: 1956 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Following what's more an art-house crime melodrama in <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2018/03/KKiss.html">KILLER'S KISS</a>, young photographer turned director Stanley Kubrick created a more polished, genuine film noir that — using a then-rare, non-linear structure — is also far more complicated... so much that the studio forced one of those docudrama-style narrations throughout...</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>Working best to map-out the ensemble of criminals who are otherwise everyday workers at the targeted racetrack along with a crooked cop, a wrestler and last but not least, a bonafide hoodlum to shoot a running horse...<br></p><p><span></span></p>

coleen gray, elisha cook jr., film noir or melodrama, heist, joe sawyer, joe turkel, marie windsor, stanley kubrick, sterling hayden, ted decorsia, timothy carey, vince edwards

STANLEY KUBRICK'S NOIR 'THE KILLING' WITH STERLING HAYDEN

Title: THE KILLING Year: 1956 Rating: ****1/2 Following what's more an art-house crime melodrama in KILLER'S KISS , young photograph...

STANLEY KUBRICK'S RUDIMENTARY FILM NOIR OF 'KILLER'S KISS'

<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><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/AVvXsEhnxacvx1OGHKutZmjhLccTP7wJ4FHdYKn4EmGSkamaeK-rspzSl75vDfeJ08ajYU5AhhX-xYGFjrWiPGdvQY3SoAO0NLnnJw9VKPdkw2xxhvZ4RemsnIUzmt51N8VckiAWdVYP3lal7YRitFYFC4ZQyxPcjqNPz5_alIRVNtCbBM3Ta_Jce7GsTlnbEfGW/s2456/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-25%20at%209.35.08%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2456" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnxacvx1OGHKutZmjhLccTP7wJ4FHdYKn4EmGSkamaeK-rspzSl75vDfeJ08ajYU5AhhX-xYGFjrWiPGdvQY3SoAO0NLnnJw9VKPdkw2xxhvZ4RemsnIUzmt51N8VckiAWdVYP3lal7YRitFYFC4ZQyxPcjqNPz5_alIRVNtCbBM3Ta_Jce7GsTlnbEfGW/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-25%20at%209.35.08%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: Stanley Kubrick's KILLER'S KISS Year: 1955 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>When it's not a primal, jazz piano, mamba-like rhythm as gangster/dance club owner Frank Silvera tries keeping his trophy girl from being romanced by someone truly deserving, the deepest, more soulful orchestration is very reminiscent of (years later) THE GODFATHER score...<br> <br> Despite director Stanley Kubrick referring to KILLER'S KISS as a student film, his rudimentary Noir is a beautiful, intentionally-simplistic tale with the auteur's metronomic, haunting rhythm intact, and, harboring such a flowing, naturally offbeat groove throughout, it's hard to fathom that, at this point, with only an even more low-budget (and unreleased) movie under his belt, he already possessed a vibe and structure all his own... </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></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

boxing, felice orlandi, fifties, film noir or melodrama, frank silvera, irene kane, jamie smith, jazz-score, mobster, stanley kubrick, thriller

STANLEY KUBRICK'S RUDIMENTARY FILM NOIR OF 'KILLER'S KISS'

Title: Stanley Kubrick's KILLER'S KISS Year: 1955 Rating: **** When it's not a primal, jazz piano, mamba-like rhythm as gangste...

STANLEY KUBRICK'S CLASSIC SCOUNDREL EPIC OF 'BARRY LYNDON'

<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 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/AVvXsEiA5XWRs4fqdGqjnSKPOAZr8xISDm8N478UswCFSOA-OH5k99LinAoyBVD9ZIk8kZF-AytzfAXGP-6AW4s_WNg9CTgiRU8FsxT61AC5Gup0OcSSF2vaexMsb2hrK0WnmFilgQjDOgUE5oAkYlbFomTBUSWJutT08ETYcEz8eyOLdRw9Ayj2Pk5EXYrzQJEy/s2026/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1160" data-original-width="2026" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA5XWRs4fqdGqjnSKPOAZr8xISDm8N478UswCFSOA-OH5k99LinAoyBVD9ZIk8kZF-AytzfAXGP-6AW4s_WNg9CTgiRU8FsxT61AC5Gup0OcSSF2vaexMsb2hrK0WnmFilgQjDOgUE5oAkYlbFomTBUSWJutT08ETYcEz8eyOLdRw9Ayj2Pk5EXYrzQJEy/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: BARRY LYNDON Year: 1975 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In the mid-to-late 1700's Europe, by the time Ryan O'Neal's BARRY LYNDON has fled from his small hometown village in Ireland... then becomes a soldier at war and then a war-deserter and then a captured-deserter throughout several countries... ninety-minutes have passed... </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>Which is the length of an average film, and with so much literal ground covered, director Stanley Kubrick provides more an episodic journey than adventure since every location is its own thematic vignette with a beginning, middle and end...</p><p><span></span></p>

adventure, epic, godfrey quigley, hardy kruger, john bindon, lenoard rossiter, leon vitale, liam redmond, marisa berenson, melodrama, patrick magee, romance, ryan o'neal, seventies, stanley kubrick

STANLEY KUBRICK'S CLASSIC SCOUNDREL EPIC OF 'BARRY LYNDON'

Title: BARRY LYNDON Year: 1975 Rating: ****1/2 In the mid-to-late 1700's Europe, by the time Ryan O'Neal's BARRY LYNDON has fled...

RODDY MCDOWALL WAGES 'BATTLE FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES'

<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/AVvXsEgMS6H8hqt8hcQ9T0TrAzXDoITFP2zn2ofQ_aaOygv79SQqkq38r6QNrTnMup5sZ29FAf9IG7P5vWsuGX-S6A7wi0irFeHm31-kKoHc1Jtfk6_YGJmdaj4sur-OFSEK0EJVwO2LPdcCX_KcgiXVDz_rZ_2dCjsrfdL0KuoxziRLU-Qb3NkGT0o0dK0A-hFG/s1776/Screen%20Shot%202024-04-30%20at%204.54.34%20AM%203.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="896" data-original-width="1776" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMS6H8hqt8hcQ9T0TrAzXDoITFP2zn2ofQ_aaOygv79SQqkq38r6QNrTnMup5sZ29FAf9IG7P5vWsuGX-S6A7wi0irFeHm31-kKoHc1Jtfk6_YGJmdaj4sur-OFSEK0EJVwO2LPdcCX_KcgiXVDz_rZ_2dCjsrfdL0KuoxziRLU-Qb3NkGT0o0dK0A-hFG/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-04-30%20at%204.54.34%20AM%203.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Roddy McDowall in Conquest of the Planet of the Apes Year: 1972 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Like RETURN OF THE JEDI would a decade later, ending the original STAR WARS franchise with a more accessible forest location along with big-budget science-fiction style lighted-corridors throughout dark steely fortresses, so the original ape series concluded with BATTLE FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES costing the least amount of money... only you wouldn't know since the new exterior locale (where both apes and humans can speak) takes place in what seems like something from a sparsely affordable Robinson Caruso production...</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 not entirely since at the end of the previous film, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2024/04/conquest.html">CONQUEST OF THE PLANET OF THE APES</a>, there was an unseen and, herein, narrated-about (by John Huston) nuclear war after Roddy McDowall's Caesar took over... so the wilderness setting has a built-in explanation of the world going back to scratch... but there's also an underground compound of the previous formidable city after the holocaust: where the slain governor's main interrogator Severn Darden, with eerie post-nuke fallout garb, is now the main baddie...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, austin stoker, bobby porter, claude akins, france nuyen, john huston, natalie trundy, paul williams, planet apes, post-apocalyptic, roddy mcdowall, science-fiction, severn darden

RODDY MCDOWALL WAGES 'BATTLE FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES'

Roddy McDowall in Conquest of the Planet of the Apes Year: 1972 Rating: ****1/2 Like RETURN OF THE JEDI would a decade later, ending the ori...

RODDY MCDOWALL RULES 'CONQUEST OF THE PLANET OF THE APES'

<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/AVvXsEgEL7FMJ6Zkjrjm9iRswqd76Rvs3RqkvWbUlqxj8VSNoKtEeJLpaLtnhaIUWke1lekx_LGaqlxgs0qSykhmat2KxXxhUHqSPIGSW3okQpLg2yWAXgaGSux56DbhpN4ttxJt6U9paIYNP255BNMIYYAKH4zvtTkLo1G5v0LkewQ8ST9NzRBXOI4awnXF0jfh/s1422/Screen%20Shot%202024-04-30%20at%204.37.30%20AM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="704" data-original-width="1422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEL7FMJ6Zkjrjm9iRswqd76Rvs3RqkvWbUlqxj8VSNoKtEeJLpaLtnhaIUWke1lekx_LGaqlxgs0qSykhmat2KxXxhUHqSPIGSW3okQpLg2yWAXgaGSux56DbhpN4ttxJt6U9paIYNP255BNMIYYAKH4zvtTkLo1G5v0LkewQ8ST9NzRBXOI4awnXF0jfh/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-04-30%20at%204.37.30%20AM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Roddy McDowall in Conquest of the Planet of the Apes Year: 1972 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Taking place twenty-years after the previous/third film of the franchise, ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES, which was set in the then-modern/groovy 1970's and hardly resembled a science-fiction film except the two talking chimps, Roddy McDowall and Kim Hunter as scientist couple Cornelius and Kira, dying violently at the end but, in a surprise twist, their talking baby chimp was saved by traveling circus owner Ricardo Montalban as Armando...</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>Who for some reason, as CONQUEST OF THE PLANET OF THE APES begins, makes a rather idiotic decision to visit the primary police-state location shot at the University of Irvine in California, resembling a sparse, steely fortress/city ruled by a firm futuristic government, casting a daunting shadow over its inhabitants...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, asa maynor, don murray, exploitation, gordon jump, hari rhodes, j. lee thompson, natalie trundy, planet apes, ricardo montalban, roddy mcdowall, science-fiction, seventies, severn darden

RODDY MCDOWALL RULES 'CONQUEST OF THE PLANET OF THE APES'

Roddy McDowall in Conquest of the Planet of the Apes Year: 1972 Rating: ****1/2 Taking place twenty-years after the previous/third film of t...

RODDY MCDOWALL IN 'ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES'

<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/AVvXsEgJ1EZyXc2cBY6tsQpnfKp0F9UNP06nVHzUOGLdQ8cEfSsPJAQYabVVW1RooNn41gtFdTZi6rrH5z1WoJaYS7zDD1aqnBxtgbP1KYONKOVLavPWUszyFUgg6X3i_DIjCUwkDj1rDGeHOELvRnWBwOMrb9RZUgjHxKjh1NI4YRmuqzbFkE0dGLHQaBn3cGQI/s2584/23%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1182" data-original-width="2584" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ1EZyXc2cBY6tsQpnfKp0F9UNP06nVHzUOGLdQ8cEfSsPJAQYabVVW1RooNn41gtFdTZi6rrH5z1WoJaYS7zDD1aqnBxtgbP1KYONKOVLavPWUszyFUgg6X3i_DIjCUwkDj1rDGeHOELvRnWBwOMrb9RZUgjHxKjh1NI4YRmuqzbFkE0dGLHQaBn3cGQI/s16000/23%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Roddy McDowall in Escape from the Planet of the Apes Year: 1971 Score for ESCAPE: ***** Score for BENEATH: *<br></u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The title ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES hardly fits the actual original third APES vehicle since we begin with them having already landed in the current earth's 1973 ocean/beach, so there's no actual literal escape except what's explained later... and really, what this is an escape from is Charlton Heston's ludicrous demand to — in the second feature BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES not worthy enough to even be reviewed — have the world blow up from a worshiped nuclear warhead, mounted by a cult of zombie-like humans while the b-story above involves warring gorillas as the chimpanzees remain neutral...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Well actually, they were also pretty busy since franchise stars Roddy McDowall and Kim Hunter as Cornelius and Zira with an even smarter scientist in Sal Mineo's Dr. Milo had rebuilt Heston as Taylor's original spaceship, thus explaining how they arrived to present-day Earth... a brilliant idea to restart the series from scratch as ESCAPE is the original 1968 classic in reverse...</p><p><span></span></p>

albert salmi, bradford dillman, don taylor, eric braeden, harry lauter, kim hunter, m. emmett walsh, natalie trundy, planet apes, roddy mcdowall, sal mineo, science-fiction, seventies, william windom

RODDY MCDOWALL IN 'ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES'

Roddy McDowall in Escape from the Planet of the Apes Year: 1971 Score for ESCAPE: ***** Score for BENEATH: * The title ESCAPE FROM THE PLANE...

CHARLTON HESTON & RODDY MCDOWALL IN 'PLANET OF THE APES'

<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/AVvXsEgk3W5WKurc1z5WX6kkKp1EDn2QZBMi-5hUoHg8G7k0dkqoobMEXT9fIkzWqbrOVBhNVprHLixJYRs1tHmU2iiMFZgbzaLxW6DPSUT1lqP62PH4VjhT_kCFRDHvdUmjVA_uai283gLgHZy_6RRBzX27VhL_PkdS-QGpgFcfUdXKNWNu4b3IxRijMB9kw2B6/s2236/Screen%20Shot%202024-04-29%20at%201.32.03%20AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1244" data-original-width="2236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk3W5WKurc1z5WX6kkKp1EDn2QZBMi-5hUoHg8G7k0dkqoobMEXT9fIkzWqbrOVBhNVprHLixJYRs1tHmU2iiMFZgbzaLxW6DPSUT1lqP62PH4VjhT_kCFRDHvdUmjVA_uai283gLgHZy_6RRBzX27VhL_PkdS-QGpgFcfUdXKNWNu4b3IxRijMB9kw2B6/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-04-29%20at%201.32.03%20AM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Maurice Evans in PLANET OF THE APES Year: 1968 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>With a built-in spoiler title such as PLANET OF THE APES, the fact the apes don't appear, riding like lethal humans on horseback, until 32-minutes in isn't because the first act's created to simply lead into that important moment... instead, the three American astronauts Taylor, Landon and Dodge played by Charlton Heston, Robert Gunner and Jeff Burton, have their very own seemingly separate short film/prologue...<br></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>Crash landing on a mysterious planet from an outer-space mission, they search throughout initially lifeless scorched terrain where the characters are economically fleshed-out, particularly Heston's Taylor, poking fun at (or as black astronaut Dodge says, "riding") Landon for still being patriotic... so basically, the shocking and violent ape-hunting-party's more of an interruption of the astronauts' rudimentary journey than their own first act predictably leading to the inevitable reverse-evolution reality...<br></p><span></span>

charlton heston, francis j. schaffner, kim hunter, maurice evans, planet apes, roddy mcdowall, science-fiction, sixties

CHARLTON HESTON & RODDY MCDOWALL IN 'PLANET OF THE APES'

Maurice Evans in PLANET OF THE APES Year: 1968 Rating: ****1/2 With a built-in spoiler title such as PLANET OF THE APES, the fact the apes d...

TV SERIES 'PLANET OF THE APES' FIRST & ONLY SEASON REVIEWS

<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/AVvXsEggP9BW5Gku-dDDm3xCdrgcCqcai35C6mX3bsqdgdXyLhQrsOtzo1NOAHEf_VgSZl-gKqYwumGe_6wkhiQps_XvnLHhSXnQiK0I9z-hrtX2BeiuCQoRvgQHMUjoQSdXN-YHwZ8WQV2WC5wWSnE9FMY3Ji0aQ4iRuc9IhETIw0vyg90WGYHYchHd6mzbBzot/s1736/Screen%20Shot%202024-05-01%20at%2012.16.58%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="766" data-original-width="1736" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggP9BW5Gku-dDDm3xCdrgcCqcai35C6mX3bsqdgdXyLhQrsOtzo1NOAHEf_VgSZl-gKqYwumGe_6wkhiQps_XvnLHhSXnQiK0I9z-hrtX2BeiuCQoRvgQHMUjoQSdXN-YHwZ8WQV2WC5wWSnE9FMY3Ji0aQ4iRuc9IhETIw0vyg90WGYHYchHd6mzbBzot/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-05-01%20at%2012.16.58%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Planet of the Apes 1974 Television Series Episode Reviews</u></td></tr></tbody></table>When <u>THE PLANET OF THE APES</u> movies were all finished, fans of the franchise wanted more, so, with no more money for movies, the producers set their sites on television...<br> <br> <div style="text-align: left;"> </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="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz9hvjT4WywItFT4AduLqfjw28dgiZxxDI-trtPfChlGqQKvQMc1AnjftYTaMpVe5JMt6ETHoSVJRSG4MkIy_9plXvekNODXUgxwIjpVEJcB-gyLrZ73TqHqNyA_IN9Do_7f5wLrA1cZ47/s1600/Screen+Shot+2018-12-13+at+8.16.19+PM.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1116" data-original-width="1324" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz9hvjT4WywItFT4AduLqfjw28dgiZxxDI-trtPfChlGqQKvQMc1AnjftYTaMpVe5JMt6ETHoSVJRSG4MkIy_9plXvekNODXUgxwIjpVEJcB-gyLrZ73TqHqNyA_IN9Do_7f5wLrA1cZ47/s320/Screen+Shot+2018-12-13+at+8.16.19+PM.jpeg" width="320"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sondra Locke guest stars in episode The Cure</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> And after one season, there was no more of the Apes canon...<br> <br> That's if you don't count the one-season cartoon titled RETURN TO THE PLANET OF THE APES: fans got the same plot as the 1968 Pierre Boulle novel, which involved apes in modern cities, driving cars, jeeps and flying airplanes. Meanwhile, this live-action cult series was inspired by and modeled after the blockbuster Charlton Heston loosely-adapted motion picture where the simians live in caves while caging humans: And replacing Heston are two astronauts who resemble that world's very own Starskey and Hutch... <br> <br> <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://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYhuTWCqkcYqF4-UqfYlWZMuCudROqjq3O25l_8JkvjYLoE8Np2kDed9hglisqLjjHAuncwVPM8349DBac4TlaLc7E1K1pTnNI8KwjFfvbRUNuvYKLcKkUQPN78PQr56XEWg2lXzmwbysd/s1600/lost74c+2.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="424" data-original-width="577" height="293" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYhuTWCqkcYqF4-UqfYlWZMuCudROqjq3O25l_8JkvjYLoE8Np2kDed9hglisqLjjHAuncwVPM8349DBac4TlaLc7E1K1pTnNI8KwjFfvbRUNuvYKLcKkUQPN78PQr56XEWg2lXzmwbysd/s400/lost74c+2.jpg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Left astronaut is dead: Ron Harper & James Naughton, alive</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <u>Episode One: ESCAPE FROM TOMORROW:</u> Pilot episode of the television series based on the franchise of motion pictures involving two astronauts: older blond-haired Ron Harper and cool young dark-haired James Naughton aka Virdon and Burke, who land on a planet ruled by… you got it… talking apes. The beleaguered astronauts meet Roddy McDowall as Galen, a friendly chimp (Cornelius with a new name...<br> <br> Galen was actually an assistant chimp in the original movie) helping them dodge gun-totting militaristic Gorillas while a local, Royal Dano, provides shelter and exposition about their situation. The suspenseful plot involves straight-line survival, setting up the series’ template: Virdon, Burke and Galen are known fugitives who must be caught and it’s General Urko, played by a fitfully hammy Mark Lenard, who heads up the chase – although it’s the scientific orangutan, Zaius, who wants them alive: but for scientific reasons, which would lead to the same lethal conclusion.<br>

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TV SERIES 'PLANET OF THE APES' FIRST & ONLY SEASON REVIEWS

Planet of the Apes 1974 Television Series Episode Reviews When THE PLANET OF THE APES movies were all finished, fans of the franchise wante...

ANIMATED POTBOILER OF 'RETURN TO THE PLANET OF THE APES'

<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/AVvXsEhFChmkTk5j7XJdQWOE1KhM-lPyCr9TQdQBTADOldr0ZocQFc-NBWYvdEQqkpwRkoETBoVLJCmNBtlERr36EFMFxUx9qsVLhaZRkJoEsgCuHU7vyJzVzsvjwkM2OahllOlzCuw5qXneO5Qskrj8xJUce-NWD-FD8tDxRHazGgFRRpcgeXejXVKXOV4lgERJ/s926/Screen%20Shot%202024-05-01%20at%203.16.21%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="580" data-original-width="926" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFChmkTk5j7XJdQWOE1KhM-lPyCr9TQdQBTADOldr0ZocQFc-NBWYvdEQqkpwRkoETBoVLJCmNBtlERr36EFMFxUx9qsVLhaZRkJoEsgCuHU7vyJzVzsvjwkM2OahllOlzCuw5qXneO5Qskrj8xJUce-NWD-FD8tDxRHazGgFRRpcgeXejXVKXOV4lgERJ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-05-01%20at%203.16.21%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Harry Corden in RETURN TO THE PLANET OF THE APES Year: 1975 Rates: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>With RETURN TO THE PLANET OF THE APES, they finally faithfully covered the titular planet created by source novel author Pierre Boulle, whose evolved apes had everything modern-day humans enjoy (that couldn't be afforded on the big screen): from airplanes to full-fledged military weapons/transports to cities that don't look out of the stone age... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The animation is of the 1970'x cost-cutting low-budget Hanna-Barbara-type, but is also coolly stylized and visually intriguing, including establishing still-shots of the sun or lightning or various character expressions, seeming more like frequently moving matte-paintings than an animated cartoon catered to Saturday morning children... </p><span></span>

action, adventure, animation, austin stoker, cartoon, harry corden, planet apes, post-apocalyptic, science-fiction, seventies, TV

ANIMATED POTBOILER OF 'RETURN TO THE PLANET OF THE APES'

Harry Corden in RETURN TO THE PLANET OF THE APES Year: 1975 Rates: **** With RETURN TO THE PLANET OF THE APES, they finally faithfully cover...

PETER YATES GIVES MORE THAN CHASE IN THE CLASSIC 'BULLITT'

<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><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><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/AVvXsEjqGcowbgZy8_l1GFYTSWL4ZdjJz6ZieNOvvxYkA4dAEPcRDJukjslHkvqW8Nm4xUtljM-Da1jwEwFD1ZOxmCjs0rN1BFJ8ewgaGY0bo0_2-wfdmX66DWqp96oqRIG7tolnRHh9WUJANcZk8kzgzn3DvTwYLMnXa7X0hruRvLHkQGG6w24BDzbwVQwmFdG_/s1512/Screen%20Shot%202024-04-25%20at%202.37.27%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="698" data-original-width="1512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqGcowbgZy8_l1GFYTSWL4ZdjJz6ZieNOvvxYkA4dAEPcRDJukjslHkvqW8Nm4xUtljM-Da1jwEwFD1ZOxmCjs0rN1BFJ8ewgaGY0bo0_2-wfdmX66DWqp96oqRIG7tolnRHh9WUJANcZk8kzgzn3DvTwYLMnXa7X0hruRvLHkQGG6w24BDzbwVQwmFdG_/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-04-25%20at%202.37.27%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Steve McQueen in BULLITT Year: 1968 Rating: *****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The iconic car chase is the only thing that seems to matter in BULLITT, and not just for the media since director Peter Yates's prior chase in his British heist thriller <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/09/AR.html">ROBBERY</a> was so admired by Steve McQueen, Yates got <i>this</i> gig... </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></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>But like there is far more than just action throughout the strategically tempered neo noir cadence of ROBBERY, Yates's cop/crime classic BULLITT is also more about words than wheels...</p><span></span>

action, classic, cop, crime, cult, don gordon, felice orlandi, jacqueline bisset, jazz-score, pat renella, peter yates, robert vaughn, simon oakland, sixties, steve mcqueen, thriller

PETER YATES GIVES MORE THAN CHASE IN THE CLASSIC 'BULLITT'

Steve McQueen in BULLITT Year: 1968 Rating: ***** The iconic car chase is the only thing that seems to matter in BULLITT, and not just for t...

STEVE MCQUEEN LITERALLY STEALS SAM PECKINPAH'S 'THE GETAWAY'

<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><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/AVvXsEgy4b6xpueFjRRCYKM4hojOyL15gAnXgfdmA5WGl-ujZ-Ylwaa9rVFnjGFuiMBw1KCDQein_KffAFx3y801tWF0kl7r9Kcjcv6CtDz_TdfQ6-_UstwLNxQ8vuNgchMkiiF177gEsE9vU8VflrCH-OaULQBMtNwmNGsekcJoShFfg_yiGpLLEoi0IYC2cr35/s1189/Screen%20Shot%202023-04-02%20at%204.13.12%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="567" data-original-width="1189" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy4b6xpueFjRRCYKM4hojOyL15gAnXgfdmA5WGl-ujZ-Ylwaa9rVFnjGFuiMBw1KCDQein_KffAFx3y801tWF0kl7r9Kcjcv6CtDz_TdfQ6-_UstwLNxQ8vuNgchMkiiF177gEsE9vU8VflrCH-OaULQBMtNwmNGsekcJoShFfg_yiGpLLEoi0IYC2cr35/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-04-02%20at%204.13.12%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE GETAWAY Year: 1972 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The machine-pounding prologue/montage of Sam Peckinpah's THE GETAWAY embodies caged hopelessness of prison life better than most <i>entire</i>ly-<i>set-in</i>-<i>prison</i> prison flicks... plus it's the only sequence centered solely on Steve McQueen as career criminal Doc McCoy sans the uninspired acting of ingenue/partner Ali MacGraw...</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></p><p></p><p>During a pivotal meeting — tempted by Texas millionaire Ben Johnson after having sex to get Doc paroled and then tortured with envy — she has a vacant expression as opposed to McQueen's sharpened countenance... </p><p><span></span></p>

action, al bright, al lettieri, ali macgraw, ben johnson, bo hopkins, crime, exploitation, heist, modern western, road movie, sally struthers, sam peckinpah, steve mcqueen

STEVE MCQUEEN LITERALLY STEALS SAM PECKINPAH'S 'THE GETAWAY'

Title: THE GETAWAY Year: 1972 Rating: **** The machine-pounding prologue/montage of Sam Peckinpah's THE GETAWAY embodies caged hopelessn...

JAMES CAGNEY WITH RICHARD CONTE IN '13 RUE MADELEINE'

<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/AVvXsEiVEYsTrKrmKX9MBVmSXZh9RDIFEV0FItSDBJI4UnyOGL81VtuHkwhL8bKd7sMfeX2TyM9BxNAsAqUXMM0XaFUoyUmT1ya14HG8lT5tpUtm5s-gSsrXbLx3FV0x83e0Nbx2WPwOGuiNGVE4iyfU2JLHRlZmsjm5-Aa-OCer7zM_NWKhNjOq8asW974qZ7QJ/s1852/Screen%20Shot%202024-04-21%20at%203.42.06%20AM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1176" data-original-width="1852" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVEYsTrKrmKX9MBVmSXZh9RDIFEV0FItSDBJI4UnyOGL81VtuHkwhL8bKd7sMfeX2TyM9BxNAsAqUXMM0XaFUoyUmT1ya14HG8lT5tpUtm5s-gSsrXbLx3FV0x83e0Nbx2WPwOGuiNGVE4iyfU2JLHRlZmsjm5-Aa-OCer7zM_NWKhNjOq8asW974qZ7QJ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-04-21%20at%203.42.06%20AM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: 13 RUE MADELEINE Year: 1947 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In the 1940's, James Cagney went to war... well, not literally... but at forty-years old and already an iconic movie star, once WW2 began, he put away his wise-guy garb and did only patriotic features...</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>Which is unfortunate, as the soldiers overseas would probably rather cheer Cagney on in another ROARING TWENTIES-style vehicle to get their minds off reality... But maybe these features were for American audiences to see what sacrifices were going on overseas... </p><span></span>

espionage, forties, frank latimore, henry hathaway, james cagney, karl malden, richard conte, sam jaffe, spy, thriller, world war II

JAMES CAGNEY WITH RICHARD CONTE IN '13 RUE MADELEINE'

Title: 13 RUE MADELEINE Year: 1947 Rating: ***1/2 In the 1940's, James Cagney went to war... well, not literally... but at forty-years o...

GARY LOCKWOOD PROTESTS 'R.P.M.' STARRING ANTHONY QUINN

<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/AVvXsEiUx2bAVJWw_Wg2HkGJl4KhDddzmXr061sVf-6TKg9CJAASgE4aUtXVfaPG2tSos2VoGYIWbGLIFU5kvRFTA81u4bBOijTaluZonxnF5fSW7FPUP3eKpbZVzbF8ZY5u-6sASSD8XluM2coTiWj5crpsV7c3PB9ZSYf7UnRsqAjgUBILN8ENvaMhz6hh_SxP/s1120/Screen%20Shot%202024-04-17%20at%203.24.22%20AM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="686" data-original-width="1120" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUx2bAVJWw_Wg2HkGJl4KhDddzmXr061sVf-6TKg9CJAASgE4aUtXVfaPG2tSos2VoGYIWbGLIFU5kvRFTA81u4bBOijTaluZonxnF5fSW7FPUP3eKpbZVzbF8ZY5u-6sASSD8XluM2coTiWj5crpsV7c3PB9ZSYf7UnRsqAjgUBILN8ENvaMhz6hh_SxP/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-04-17%20at%203.24.22%20AM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Gary Lockwood in R.P.M. Year: 1970 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>A year after Gary Lockwood was slightly too old to play a hapless hippie about to go to Vietnam, cruising around L. A. with nothing to do but get stoned in MODEL SHOP, he played an even younger hippie and is<i> completely</i> miscast... especially since he's also balding... but this rebel at least has a cause...</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>Leader of a student group taking over a university's computer center, Lockwood (along with fellow thirty-something Paul Winfield) have demands for a liberal sociology professor they once really dug...</p><p><span></span></p>

ann-margret, anthony quinn, college, counter-culture, don keefer, donald moffat, gary lockwood, john mcliam, joseph bernard, paul winfield, ramon bieri, seventies, stanley kramer

GARY LOCKWOOD PROTESTS 'R.P.M.' STARRING ANTHONY QUINN

Gary Lockwood in R.P.M. Year: 1970 Rating: **1/2 A year after Gary Lockwood was slightly too old to play a hapless hippie about to go to Vie...

GLOSSING THROUGH STANLEY KUBRICK'S '2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY'

<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><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/AVvXsEiw72kkWRpCI2LOmwTfbfKbxwPfCGEXFzDLuao-Y-4WwMz3V2v8jrHyKlh2QPF7sovsL8fI8HbeVuB6-pSumuNJ8oNPmubmMSziY3KvRYPA0bqYx32PJu0qB53xHZ1jvOVQ0zK9E9dMlNICOchyphenhyphengDa7UCqpRYHekvzlEVTVP6kx2_QVzlwaG4oYxFYKav5H/s1710/Screen%20Shot%202024-04-15%20at%2011.08.02%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="828" data-original-width="1710" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw72kkWRpCI2LOmwTfbfKbxwPfCGEXFzDLuao-Y-4WwMz3V2v8jrHyKlh2QPF7sovsL8fI8HbeVuB6-pSumuNJ8oNPmubmMSziY3KvRYPA0bqYx32PJu0qB53xHZ1jvOVQ0zK9E9dMlNICOchyphenhyphengDa7UCqpRYHekvzlEVTVP6kx2_QVzlwaG4oYxFYKav5H/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-04-15%20at%2011.08.02%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Gary Lockwood in 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY Year: 1968 Rating: *****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The greatest cinema epics (from LAWRENCE OF ARABIA before to GOODFELLAS after) have various sequences that feel like their own separate short films that ultimately connect as a whole...</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 in that, Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY is a perfectly multi-tiered vehicle, showcasing both the advanced pioneering of space exploration through orbital technology with the formidable perils of its mere existence... </p><span></span>

gary lockwood, keir dullea, robert beatty, science-fiction, sean sullivan, sixties, stanley kubrick, william sylvester

GLOSSING THROUGH STANLEY KUBRICK'S '2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY'

Gary Lockwood in 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY Year: 1968 Rating: ***** The greatest cinema epics (from LAWRENCE OF ARABIA before to GOODFELLAS afte...