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Presented by James M. Tate / 10/13/2017 / No comments / 2017 , action , jackie chan , karate , pierce bronsan

JACKIE CHAN & PIERCE BROSNAN IN THE FOREIGNER

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u> A Reservoir Doggy Style Poster for Foreigner Year: 2017</u></td></tr>
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The Bruce Willis remake of the Charles Bronson cult classic DEATH WISH was pushed to next year, and it was originally intended to star and be directed by Sylvester Stallone — yet it's pretty much out now and is also, ironically, a lot like FIRST BLOOD...<br>
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Those are during the surprisingly few scenes centering on the film's lead, Jackie Chan, looking like a tired, somber, swollen Panda Bear, perfectly fitting the overall mood after his daughter's death from a possible IRA-backed terrorist attack on a London street. Nothing but a blank expression and mostly dead silence makes up for the kind of tireless melodrama usually needed to ignite a high-octane "They'll Get Theirs" action flick, but... here's a double-edged warning for RUMBLE IN THE BRONX (etc.) fans...
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2017, action, jackie chan, karate, pierce bronsan

JACKIE CHAN & PIERCE BROSNAN IN THE FOREIGNER

A Reservoir Doggy Style Poster for Foreigner Year: 2017 The Bruce Willis remake of the Charles Bronson cult classic DEATH WISH was push...

HATFUL OF FRUIT MUSICAL 'THE GANG'S ALL HERE'

alice faye, aloysio de oliveira, benny goodman, carmen miranda, charlotte greenwood, forties, musical

HATFUL OF FRUIT MUSICAL 'THE GANG'S ALL HERE'

One of the most bizarre moments in film's history YEAR: 1943 Not a huge fan of musicals but anything featuring Carmen Miranda is int...

ROBYN HILTON BEGINS IN THE EXPLOITATION WONDER WOMEN

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robyn Hilton enters into an eclectic exploitation comedy career in Wonder Women circa 1973</u></td></tr>
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As mentioned a few posts ago, ROBYN HILTON, best known as Mel Brooks's Governor's red-haired bimbo in his best and her first feature, BLAZING SADDLES, is the Queen of Cult Film Freak, gaining more and more hits on the few posts she's appeared in: beginning with only a few screen-captures from a cameo on STARSKY & HUTCH; that post which is the number three all-time popular here...<br>
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Meanwhile, the review of  the campy and awesome DOC SAVAGE featuring Robyn alongside former Tarzan Rod Ely is ranking at number 9 all-time, and in the last writeup we covered her final appearance in the late eighties and now, at the other side of the spectrum, are some sexy shots of Robyn Hilton in her rudimentary role... an exploitation/chicks-with-guns doozy titled WONDER WOMEN (plural) opposite Ross Hagen: Her character, at the tail-end of the movie, unfairly <i>uncredited</i> as Girl in White Bikini, enters the leading man's cabana to play a dirty game of chess and, before they hit the sack the title tough-babes appear, including Nancy Kwan and Roberta Collins...<br>

exploitation, robyn hilton, ross hagen, seventies

ROBYN HILTON BEGINS IN THE EXPLOITATION WONDER WOMEN

Robyn Hilton enters into an eclectic exploitation comedy career in Wonder Women circa 1973 As mentioned a few posts ago, ROBYN HILTON, b...

THURSDAY NIGHT REVIEW OF BLADE RUNNER 2049

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 2016</u></td></tr>
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There were actually defenders of INDIANA JONES AND THE CRYSTAL SKULL, saying the computerized monkeys and the nuked refrigerator (that just happened to land in the radiation safety zone) were par for the course... "After all, in the other movies he climbed under a truck and..." so on and so forth: But when something looks and feels legit, it's completely plausible for the viewer...<br>
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Like in the original BLADE RUNNER where an opiate haze shrouds a corporate, commercialized yet doomed, dystopian future where rain falls on flying-cars jetting through an eternal night sky of bleak neon, resembling Shanghai in an arcade purgatory: Yet all this visual glory served as a backdrop for the job of Harrison Ford's Rick Deckard, a Cop/Bounty Hunter Assassin aka "Blade Runner," whose assignment was to find and "retire" five Replicants (androids) that are "More Human Than Human." Most have already seen the classic 1982 science fiction Film Noir directed by Ridley Scott, and anyone defending this sequel will probably say, "Well the first one is long and slow too..."<br>

2017, harrison ford, ryan gosling, sequel

THURSDAY NIGHT REVIEW OF BLADE RUNNER 2049

Year: 2016 There were actually defenders of INDIANA JONES AND THE CRYSTAL SKULL, saying the computerized monkeys and the nuked refrigera...

ALICE KRIGE HAUNTS SLEEPWALKERS & GHOST STORY

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px; text-align: center;"><u>Artwork exceeding Sleepwalkers itself</u></td></tr>
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<u>GHOST STORY</u><b>:</b> Here we'll do a double feature featuring gorgeous British actress Alice Krige, beginning with GHOST STORY that, despite Golden Era classic actors like Fred Astaire and Melvyn Douglas; producer turned ever-monotone veteran performer John Houseman; and dark horse Douglas Fairbanks Jr. headlining a horror movie based on an aptly titled novel by Peter Straub; the buried lead is Craig Wasson, a character-actor who looks like Bill Maher's version of a leading man...<br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px; text-align: center;"><u>year: 1981</u></td></tr>
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And Wasson, other than Brian De Palma's BODY DOUBLE a few years later, would usually be second or third banana, featured in two Vietnam flicks in 1978, the underrated BOYS IN COMPANY C and GO TELL THE SPARTANS and, also remembered as the helpful shrink in a surprisingly decent sequel NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 3: DREAM WARRIORS, he's been around the block...<br>
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But enough of Craig's career... let's center on his character... or rather, <i>characters.</i>.. playing twin brothers Don and David Wanderley whose father, Fairbanks' Edward, is part of a group of four distinquished old men who gather in an annual reunion telling scary tales, and, it turns out, they might be connected to a death after Wasson's Don Wanderley, as a passive college professor, had a too-perfect love affair with a gorgeous, mysterious stranger: Enter Alice Krige, who also plays dual roles, kind of, and neither let their true feelings show. Her progressive Alma Mobley highlights the pivotal backstory along with the four old-timers during their younger preppy high-society days, an aesthetically pleasing time-period production hindered by the fact none look like their younger selves... If you don't remember all the names of the coots from the previous scenes, you might have trouble keeping score on who's exactly who... and that's extremely important!<br>

alice krige, eighties, horror, mark hamill, nineties, peter straub, stephen king

ALICE KRIGE HAUNTS SLEEPWALKERS & GHOST STORY

Artwork exceeding Sleepwalkers itself GHOST STORY : Here we'll do a double feature featuring gorgeous British actress Alice Krige, ...

MARCIA BRADY & GEORGE CLOONEY RETURN TO HORROR HIGH

andy romano, camp, eighties, george clooney, horror, lori lethin, michael kramer, phil mckeon, scott jacoby

MARCIA BRADY & GEORGE CLOONEY RETURN TO HORROR HIGH

A perplexed Maureen McCormick & Pepper Martin YEAR: 1987 Some bad horror movies know exactly what they're after, and RETURN TO H...

LIFE IS A BEACH WITH SAM ELLIOTT AS A CAREER 'LIFEGUARD'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px; text-align: center;"><u>Sam Elliott does some soul searching in LIFEGUARD Year: 1976</u></td></tr>
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A film as laidback as the title and occupation, but for lifeguard Sam Elliott, who seems a part of the beach he protects, there's plenty to do other than "bedding down babes" and looking good shirtless.<br>
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At thirty-three years old, with pressure from friends, family, lovers, and even acquaintances, he's forced to deal with the realization he's not a kid anymore. All this leading to his fifteen-year high school reunion where he gets back in touch with ex-sweetheart and now single mom Anne Archer who runs a successful art gallery, and old buddy Stephen Young, co-owner of a Porsche dealership.<br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px; text-align: center;"><u>With Kathleen Quinlan LifeguardScore: ****</u></td></tr>
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Might Sam be more suited as a husband, stepfather and car salesman than a tan-toned lady-killer lifeguard? This is an entertainment piece mixing comedy, drama, romance, but most of all it's a character-study: each element blending perfectly, mostly thanks to our mustached, deep-voiced star, one of the coolest cats in cinema. Meanwhile, the romance between Sam Elliott and Anne Archer is kindhearted and genuine, but the best scenes have Sam the maverick, not only making it with the ladies but relaxing all alone, watching the beach before anyone else arrives. Meanwhile, a frisky teenage girl, played by a much-older Kathleen Quinlan, adorns all the poster artwork and Parker Stevenson makes a great sidekick for Elliott, who teaches him, and the audience, the job is harder than you'd thin: So BAYWATCH brought lifeguards to a comic book (although very entertaining) status, LIFEGUARD... penned by one of our favorite scriptwriters, Ron Koslow (INTO THE NIGHT, FIRTBORN)... provides a story where the occupation and the man are one in the same.
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anne archer, sam elliott, seventies, stephen young

LIFE IS A BEACH WITH SAM ELLIOTT AS A CAREER 'LIFEGUARD'

Sam Elliott does some soul searching in LIFEGUARD Year: 1976 A film as laidback as the title and occupation, but for lifeguard Sam Ellio...

BLASTING OFF THE GLOSSY TEEN ORBIT OF SPACECAMP

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Phoenix, Preston, and the rest... here at SpaceCamp YEAR: 1986</u></td></tr>
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In the midst of the bright neon 1980's, two of the most popular theatrical elements combined into the teenage/science-fiction hybrid of SPACE CAMP, which was an obvious inspiration for Clint Eastwood's SPACE COWBOYS years later — only in this one, our crew gets shot into the stars on accident...<br>
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That's the somewhat limp third act as the students, nervously led by trainer Kate Capshaw, are forced to become real astronauts in a contrived crash course: So it's on the ground, at the title location, where the movie shines brightest with a bubbly babe played by Kelly Preston, the proverbial Ginger to a much more serious, hidden-beauty tomboy in Lea Thompson's Mary Ann; the geeky yet smooth token black guy dude, Larry B. Scott; and Leaf (later Joaquin) Phoenix is a brainy kid with a robot, bullied one minute and the next defended by cool cat Tate Donovan, who, cruising his jeep through the opening credits to Eric Clapton's Forever Man, is the true lead (along with Lea) despite Capshaw's top billing: The grownups provide experience and exposition while the kids put a touch of BREAKFAST CLUB into SPACE CAMP.</div>

adventure, eighties, joaquin phoenix, kelly preston, larry b. scott, lea thompson, science-fiction, tate donovan, teen, tom skerritt

BLASTING OFF THE GLOSSY TEEN ORBIT OF SPACECAMP

Phoenix, Preston, and the rest... here at SpaceCamp YEAR: 1986 In the midst of the bright neon 1980's, two of the most popular theat...

ROBYN HILTON BOWS OUT OF CINEMA AFTER 'MALIBU EXPRESS'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Hilton serves Hinton in Andy Sidaris's MALIBU EXPRESS Year: 1985</u></td></tr>
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By the mid-Eighties, the sex-exploitation genre had moved from drive-ins to video. This includes the last movie of Cult Film Freak's most popular actress...<br>
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Two previous reviews featuring Mel Brooks's gun-chewing BLAZING SADDLES Governor's bimbo-redhead... as a guest on STARSKY & HUTCH and the campy Ron Ely picture DOC SAVAGE... has gone through the proverbial roof and today, as our usual 700 daily hits went to 4,000 (for unknown reasons), we'll say goodbye to Robyn Hilton... in a cinematic sense: this was her last picture, a Noir detective spoof with tons of Playboy Playmates, vanilla mustached leading man Darby Hinton, and the kind of light hump wannabe-porn that didn't quite need a curtain in the video rental store, and MALIBU EXPRESS, even for a bad movie, is downright awful, lacking the homage-driven tongue-in-cheek humor, interesting locations, and sporadic gunplay usually given to Bogart-like throwbacks: comedy or otherwise. Besides Hilton's five scenes as the mischievous maid, Marion... Maid Marion... Sybil Danning, in her usual comfortable b-movie groove, provides the only decent performance despite the fact there's no rhyme or rhythm here at all. C'mon, bad cult films are supposed to be fun. But this EXPRESS was made about ten years too late — not the sound of a genuine party, but someone playing their music too loud.<br>

comedy, darby hinton, eighties, exploitation, neo noir, robyn hilton

ROBYN HILTON BOWS OUT OF CINEMA AFTER 'MALIBU EXPRESS'

Hilton serves Hinton in Andy Sidaris's MALIBU EXPRESS Year: 1985 By the mid-Eighties, the sex-exploitation genre had moved from driv...

BIRTH OF PETER O'TOOLE: THE FIRST THREE MOTION PICTURES

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Peter O'Toole in THE SAVAGE INNOCENTS Score: *1/2</u></td></tr>
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While KIDNAPPED was the first theatrical movie where audiences saw Peter O'Toole, the first vehicle (of three, all released in 1960) he participated in the filming-of is <u>THE SAVAGE INNOCENTS,</u> directed by veteran auteur Nicholas Ray, who would, a decade later, dry up his Hollywood resources and, for a little while, live in the home of his former REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE actor Dennis Hopper after the success of EASY RIDER...<br>
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So perhaps it's not altogether shocking the man who once contributed to classic cinema was no longer relevant — this motion picture, centering on an Eskimo played by Anthony Quinn, is one of the worst piles of husky dung ever created: seeming as if Jack London wrote a novel on soiled toilet paper, we suffer through an hour of Quinn's lone nomad (in the snow he's a snowmad) hunting cute seals and, after so-much brooding, landing a wife. Though mostly shot in an igloo (a cheap set made up to look like the white-block interior), there's one sequence where Quinn gets drunk at a bar and dances to that era's boogie-woogie. And we've buried the lead because the third act could have been something special since, once our man is falsely accused of cold-blooded murder, two (eventually one) guards take him across the icy landscape to turn him over to the authorities, and it's Peter O'Toole that survives. Scenes where both near-future LAWRENCE OF ARABIA stars (who'd become living legends three-years later) debate race and ethics has real potential — only thing is, O'Toole's voice is dubbed by an American actor who sounds like an easy listening disc jockey. So be incredibly warned — this is <i>not</i> a Peter O'Toole feature for fans for the same reason he insisted his name not appear on the opening credits: despite ultimately providing the secondary leading role. Shame!<br>

adaptation, adventure, aldo ray, anthony quinn, caper, disney, heist, kieron moore, peter o'toole, sixties, warner archives

BIRTH OF PETER O'TOOLE: THE FIRST THREE MOTION PICTURES

Peter O'Toole in THE SAVAGE INNOCENTS Score: *1/2 While KIDNAPPED was the first theatrical movie where audiences saw Peter O'Too...

TWO CUTS OF CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND

bob balaban, carl weathers, melinda dillon, richard dreyfuss, science-fiction, seventies, steven spielberg, teri garr

TWO CUTS OF CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND

Gobi Desert Sand Ship separates the Theatrical and Director's Cut At this point, it seems any movie anticipating extra terrestrials ...

PAIGE CONNER PERFECTLY POSSESSES THE VISITOR AKA STRIDULUM

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>The little girl version of Travis Bickle in Paige Conner YEAR: 1979</u></td></tr>
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THE VISTOR has gone down in cult camp  flames as a one of a kind, terribly low budget, god-awful catastrophe that stands on its own, despite the fact there are many influences throughout. Starting with THE BIRDS since the eight-year-old, blond-haired, blue-eyed girl, possessed by supernatural forces derived from another dimension, has a singular frenzied, peck-happy, fine feathered friend who keeps her safe...<br>
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Especially from a snoopy detective, played by the most famous of the "special guest" stars, Glenn Ford, who provides the audience a rudimentary tether to hold onto but... not for long before a gritty, grainy exploitation element takes charge, pushing the show up a notch or two and providing arguably the most memorable sequence. Still, Ford's presence is apt yet awkward since he's not in the movie long enough to mean more than a contrived appearance...<br>

glenn ford, horror, indie, john huston, lance henriksen, paige conner, science-fiction, seventies, shelley winters

PAIGE CONNER PERFECTLY POSSESSES THE VISITOR AKA STRIDULUM

The little girl version of Travis Bickle in Paige Conner YEAR: 1979 THE VISTOR has gone down in cult camp flames as a one of a kind, te...

THURSDAY NIGHT REVIEW OF THE BIG SCREEN 'IT'

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Both the 1990's IT miniseries and the abundance of recent reboot trailers must have left an impression: the now famously established red balloon of Pennywise the Clown flies over the dark blue New Line Cinema logo before even the opening credits are shown...<br>
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Either way, here's a film that, within the first minute, sets up the main teenage boy character during the 1980's. On his bedroom wall is a poster of GREMLINS, and when all his buddies are together they do seem extremely Spielbergian. Meanwhile, this is a Stephen King adaptation, and the last project combining Steven and Stephen was STRANGER THINGS so, who knows, maybe cable binge-viewers will think that show inspired all this — but even they should realize that IT is a lot tighter and has way more rhyme, rhythm and purpose.<br>

2017, adaptation, horror, reboot, stephen king

THURSDAY NIGHT REVIEW OF THE BIG SCREEN 'IT'

Both the 1990's IT miniseries and the abundance of recent reboot trailers must have left an impression: the now famously established r...

STEVE COCHRAN FILM NOIR REVIEW OF HIGHWAY 301

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Steve Cochran walks in smoking in HIGHWAY 301</u></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Steve Cochran will be no stranger in the months to come. From playing heavies in popular Film Noir flicks like THE DAMNED DON'T CRY to heroes in b-pictures like our popular "thiral" review of <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2017/05/qR.html">QUANTRILL'S RAIDERS</a>, and plenty of others spanning two and a half decades...</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Let's begin with a quick summary of one of his more blunt, by-the-numbers Noir movies that features, within his shadowy gang of hat-donning hoods, the actor who'd play Joan Crawford's straitlaced husband in the aforementioned DAMNED, Richard Egan, his character introduced by name through a stern, steady narration following eerie, monotone real life politicians, seated behind their desks, lecturing the audience how <i>Crime Doesn't Pay</i>... </span><br>

fifties, film noir or melodrama, richard egan, steve cochran, warner archives

STEVE COCHRAN FILM NOIR REVIEW OF <span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">HIGHWAY 301</span><br />

STEVE COCHRAN FILM NOIR REVIEW OF HIGHWAY 301

Steve Cochran walks in smoking in HIGHWAY 301 Steve Cochran will be no stranger in the months to come. From playing heavies in popular F...

THE OTHER/FORGOTTEN WESTERNS OF JAMES CAGNEY

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In GOODFELLAS, when Joe Pesci's Tommy asks the group of thugs, gun in hand, poised to shoot the doomed houseboy,  the name of the Western... singular... that James Cagney starred in?<br>
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After a sarcastic answer, "Shane", followed by a burst of rowdy, drunken laughter, someone names what's referred to as the <i>only</i> Cowboy Picture that Cagney, known for ruling gangster/crime flicks, headlined: that being THE OKLAHOMA KID, which came out in his heyday during the 1930's. To film historians it's was a miscast for such an urban wise guy to appear in the time-period, spur-kicking genre at all... But there are two other Cagney Westerns made two decades later during the 1950's: First is Nicolas Ray's RUN FOR COVER but let's start with...<br>

fifties, james cagney, sixties, vic morrow, warner archives, western

THE OTHER/FORGOTTEN WESTERNS OF JAMES CAGNEY

Vic Morrow with James Cagney in TRIBUTE TO A BAD MAN In GOODFELLAS, when Joe Pesci's Tommy asks the group of thugs, gun in hand, poi...

LAST STRETCH & DECLINE OF RODNEY DANGERFIELD CINEMA

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Twelve Year Decline of Rodney Dangerfield Cinema 1992—2004</u></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Rodney Dangerfield was one of the most beloved comedic actors of all time. His edgy persona derived from his origin as a standup comic, for many years. Struggling at first, he found his "No Respect" niche on stage, but still, there was something missing...</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When he turned fifty, the age most comic-actors would be considered has-beens, he was cast in a now classic golf comedy, CADDYSHACK, that was originally written about the caddies, like ANIMAL HOUSE (with the same co-writers, SHACK director Harold Ramis and Doug Kenney) centered on the Delta fraternity house. It's impossible to imagine the evil Dean Wormer (John Vernon) and the hippie professor (Donald Sutherland) as the focal points, leaving all but one rebellious frat boy in the buried lead role, like Michael O'Keefe's Danny Noonan in CADDYSHACK... But sometimes the side-characters shine brighter than the leads...</span><br>

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LAST STRETCH & DECLINE OF RODNEY DANGERFIELD CINEMA

Twelve Year Decline of Rodney Dangerfield Cinema 1992—2004 Rodney Dangerfield was one of the most beloved comedic actors of all time. Hi...

GENE RODDENBERRY SCI-FI 70'S PILOT OF THE QUESTOR TAPES

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>We'll take this writeup's main picture literally YEAR: 1974</u></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There are two trivia facts about another Gene Roddenberry science-fiction television pilot during the 1970's as the iconic 1960's STAR TREK was beginning its nostalgic cult climb towards yet another future...</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">First, the android named QUESTOR, played by Robert Foxworth, would extend into Roddenberry's NEXT GENERATION character, Data: right down to the cozy charm mixed with a Vulcan's strict leaning on fact and logic paired-up with </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mike Ferrell, not long before replacing Wayne Rogers on MASH, as a tall and lanky straight man, worrying "his robot" could give them away with a blunt speech pattern and chicken-like head-pecking motions... The latter like Jeff Bridges in STARMAN... Only here it's much more subtle and endearing... </span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Well that's obviously the attempt, which leads to the second piece of trivia: unlike GENESIS II, PLANET EARTH and SPECTRE, this was <i>almost</i> picked-up for a series despite the fact not much happens but a proverbial Oscar and Felix (or really, Felix and Felix) searching for the android's creator while traipsing around a casino, wherein the best moments occur. And yet, this creative, sparse and breezy pilot opens doors for other adventures since it doesn't have a beginning, middle and end. In other words, THE QUESTOR TAPES, being the most incomplete of the batch, succeeds as a would-be catapult. Throw in a few more fish outta water situations and cut back on random scenes with greedy corporate villain John Vernon, there might've been even more reasons for this vessel to actually take flight. </span><br>

gene roddenberry, john vernon, mike farrell, robert foxworth, robot, science-fiction, TV, warner archives

GENE RODDENBERRY SCI-FI 70'S PILOT OF THE QUESTOR TAPES

We'll take this writeup's main picture literally YEAR: 1974 There are two trivia facts about another Gene Roddenberry science-fi...

SCI-FI TV PILOT OF STRANGE NEW WORLD WITH JOHN SAXON

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STRANGE NEW WORLD is a lot like Gene Roddenberry's <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2017/07/ohohhhThisIsPlanetEarth.html">PLANET EARTH</a> also starring John Saxon but a bit more creative, bizarre and twisty: The crew of a floating space station takes a cryogenic freeze nap and, like Saxon on the other show, wakes up 200-years later, only this time on purpose, sort of...<br>
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Turns out the Earth had been destroyed and altered by a meteor storm, so the threesome were preserved up there and now must find the Earthlings, called-upon from a random distress signal, who hid in the mountains and hibernated on their own. Here's where the first of two adventures begins, having to do with a colony of survivors that don't seem like they've survived anything at all...<br>

catherine bach, john saxon, reb brown, science-fiction, seventies, tv movie, warner archives

SCI-FI TV PILOT OF STRANGE NEW WORLD WITH JOHN SAXON

John Saxon, Kathleen Miller & Reb Brown YEAR: 1975 STRANGE NEW WORLD is a lot like Gene Roddenberry's PLANET EARTH also starrin...

ORIGINAL MINISERIES OF "V" WITH THE FINAL BATTLE & TV SHOW

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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><u>V: THE ORIGINAL MINISERIES</u>: About every five years it's time to rediscover the brilliance of a miniseries that, for a number of reasons, has gotten a bad rap on being pure, unapologetic camp, but it's wise not to mistake camp for cult, and to realize that every original vehicle with cheesy followups did begin with something worthy of being followed-up in the first place...</span><br>

eighties, jane badham, miniseries, science-fiction

ORIGINAL MINISERIES OF "V" WITH THE FINAL BATTLE & TV SHOW

Retrospective Review of the entire V Miniseries and Television Series YEARS: 1983-4 V: THE ORIGINAL MINISERIES : About every five years ...

FRANCES RAINES HELPS MAKE RYDER P.I. WORTHWHILE

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Frances Raines will be subject for other reviews YEAR: 1986</u></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Suffering an awful weeklong cold, and not able to write about anything of importance, let's veer back to Really Bad Movie basics with a vehicle created on a shoestring budget featuring an obscure gathering of Long Island comics and a future shock jock icon...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Up front is hefty comic actor David Hawthorne, the sleepy-eyed "moron" who, a decade later, as a restaurant bartender, served a heartbroken Jack Nicholson a glass of "the last free drug" in AS GOOD AS IT GETS: he throws in a Jack imitation along with a bagful of quick quips and a thin plot-line for RYDER P.I., a Humphrey Bogart Era Film Noir parody that, surprisingly, keeps up the entertainment value alongside the feeling of, "How much worse can this get?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hawthorne is comfortable in front of the camera despite being uncomfortable to look at — but that seems an intentional thread of the overall punchline: he's the antithesis of any sort of leading man on-screen persona. So some local help was obviously needed...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">At that time, in 1986, Howard Stern was climbing as a New York morning radio talkshow host.  Random scenes as a television newscaster aren't that funny because Howard's not doing his own thing, or poking fun at his crew. And yet the aggression and annoyance does feel genuine: his character, Ben Wah, can't stand the network he's on, and obviously Stern felt the same about this project. And he's not alone. Not completely...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">His chief writer, Jackie "The Joke Man" Martling, provides the voice of a "Fat Eddie" doll that, when Hawthorne's private investigator character, Skylar Ryder, pulls a string, it unloads insult after insult, each ending with Martling's chortle that would soon become famous within the Stern universe. But what makes RYDER easy viewing on the eye is b-starlet Frances Raines, who isn't blood related-to but is technically a relative of THE INVISIBLE MAN Claude Raines. Her vulnerable, girl-next-door beauty, seeking the titular snoop for protection from a woodwork of goons, makes this trainwreck worth watching. Plus, she appears during the midway point when desperately needed...</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>A jokey doll voiced by Jackie Martling CAMP VALUE SCORE: ***1/2</u></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The worst of the cast is Ryder's hairbrained partner, overacting "the retard" to the hilt and almost forcing the viewer to either change the channel or destroy their television... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For those brave or patient enough, or in this case, who pay by the month, Amazon Prime members can stream this extremely low budget comedy. And for fans of the classic era Howard Stern it's a rare gem to behold, or rather, to survive: There's a feeling of bizarre accomplishment lasting through these kind of movies that aren't really movies. Added to that, RYDER doesn't have a cult following to join the ranks of worthy Camp Schlock unlike a couple others we'll review in the future starring</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Frances Raines... Stay tuned. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Frances Raines in RYDER P.I. </u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Frances Raines dries off in RYDER PI</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Frances Raines in RYDER PI</u></td></tr>
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FRANCES RAINES HELPS MAKE RYDER P.I. WORTHWHILE

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RICHARD WIDMARK SCORNED IN THE FILM NOIR ROAD HOUSE

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>YEAR OF RELEASE: 1948</u></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">No this doesn't star Patrick Swayze... ROAD HOUSE was originally a Noir title </span>—<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> t</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">he third of Richard Widmark's sleazy villain roles igniting with the staircase-shoving Tommy Udo in KISS OF DEATH followed by a nervous and edgy gang-boss in THE STREET WITH NO NAME...</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Widmark is the guy who, in these early roles, is far from pretty, or even manly, but does have either power or money, or both, and here he's just the rich part, owner of the title location where bowling is the forefront till he brings Ida Lupino to sing in the lounge: starting out, me mostly see her from the perspective of hero Cornel Wilde as Peter, the manager and bouncer who does all the work: one scene taking down a large and lusty drunk equalling two of Patrick Swayze's rowdy opponents. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So Peter has the least amount of fun. That is, until Lupino begins to shun the man who hired her... </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And like in many a Noir, the rich guy practically hands a woman, his woman (in this case, only in his mind) into the arms of the younger, handsome stud, and seems completely puzzled when they turn out falling in love... Although at one point, when Lupino describes her scary boss to Pete, he responds: "You don't understand </span>—<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Jefty just needs to have somebody around." And how!</span><br>
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RICHARD WIDMARK SCORNED IN THE FILM NOIR ROAD HOUSE

YEAR OF RELEASE: 1948 No this doesn't star Patrick Swayze... ROAD HOUSE was originally a Noir title — t he third of Richard Widmar...

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