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Written by James M. Tate / 4/22/2018 / No comments / action , allen garfield , cop , elliott gould , exploitation , robert blake , sid haig , william sylvester

ROBERT BLAKE & ELLIOTT GOULD 'BUSTING' CORNELIA SHARPE

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Cornelia Sharpe gets the title treatment YEAR: 1974</u></td></tr>
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Starring Elliott Gould and Robert
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high price call  girl: Enter the insanely gorgeous Cornelia Sharpe (who played Al Pacino's girl in SERPICO the same year)...<br />
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Liken to a mazy Film Noir, the proverbial shoes stick on her, and eventually stumble upon a monopolizing, untouchable mega-pimp 
played by underrated  Allen Garfield backed by henchman Sid Haig who, it 
turns out, doesn't  have much to do since his boss owns the courts <i>and</i> 
the cops (Sid stated in our podcast interview that the script was being rewritten the entire time). There should/could have been more off-course scenes establishing our dusty heroes against lesser villains in the dark city. Instead, the second act wields a rogue-cop sub-genre times two as Gould and  Blake go on their own to nab Garfield, which is highlighted by an adventurous climb to the top by 
hanging around (after being punished) at the bottom... like going on pervert-detail, waiting around inside a public restroom... Showing the kind of torturous meantime cops go through that most movies leave out, or edit down to a springboard for an upcoming action sequence...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Blake, Gould & R.X. Slattery in BUSTINGScore: ***1/2</u></td></tr>
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But casual viewers, don't despair — there's more than a touch of mainstream thrown in as a long FRENCH 
CONNECTION-style chase (here on foot) takes place in a large outdoor  bazaar, which helps make BUSTING... within future CAPRICORN ONE director Peter Hyams's grungy exploitation... an addictive pleasure, but not a guilty one — while far from sublime, like, say, BULLITT, or MAGNUM FORCE, it's still a decent entry...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Gould reads Marvel's Ant-Man</u></td></tr>
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Robert Blake, especially mesmerizing in IN COLD BLOOD several years earlier, plays the epitome of a second-banana... sans the usual sidekick comic relief since both he and Gould have similarly caustic, world-weary attitudes, with just-enough chemistry to seem more than two actors thrown together as, for a device/activity, Blake holds an omnipresent unlit cigarette — warming up for an upcoming cop TV-series featuring a cockatoo? Only it's Gould who dons the schlocky costume/fake accent gag. Overall, his performance is natural and 
easy with some fourth gear intensity when needed: imagine his LONG GOODBYE role after a couple shots of adrenaline... <br />
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And, as usual, maybe wanting to appeal to younger (stoned) audiences who weren't big law enforcement buffs, Gould holds onto 1960's-era hippie residual spite, at one point actually referring to two uniformed street cops as "Pigs!" And of course the partners work for an irritable, lecturing police chief (although desk sergeant Richard X. Slattery has more screen time as a befuddled patsy). Also, for fans of 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (Peter Hyams would direct the sequel, 2010), there's a rare glimpse at that film's cerebral centerpiece, Dr. Heywood Floyd: No not Roy Scheider but character-actor William Sylvester plays a paid-off lawyer in a court scene displaying all of that decade's cinematic dregs: from junkies to whores to pimps and, in the previous scene, a hopped-up, sexually-charged homosexual in a gay bar, seeming intentionally overplayed by Cult Film Freak's "Rolling Stones Soul Brother," Antonio "Huggy Bear" Fargas, making a lusty, physical pass at Blake as if political-correctness would never take over Hollywood — and such "stereotyping" would not be allowed. Who knows, maybe that kinda thing kept this buried treasure buried for so long.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px; text-align: center;"><u>Cornelia Sharpe Busting Cornelia Stone Busting Elliott Gould Busting Robert Blake Busting... take that Google!</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Cornelia Sharpe looking sharp in the dentist's office where the doctor's first name is "John"</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Before that Cornelia Sharpe even turns teenager heads because she's damn hot dammit</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Baretta and Philip Marlowe preparing to get chewed out at the police station</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>For 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY Dr. Floyd, underused actor William Sylvester Busting is slumming, but it's work</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>During what's probably the best scene is the off-time for the cops in this public restroom perdition</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Elliott Gould waits for a pervert to show his face, or whatever, in Busting</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Fellow cops get to work together as Robert Blake takes the other side of this crappy detail</u></td></tr>
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ROBERT BLAKE & ELLIOTT GOULD 'BUSTING' CORNELIA SHARPE

Cornelia Sharpe gets the title treatment YEAR: 1974 Starring Elliott Gould and Robert Blake as unruly yet eventually determined vice c...

Written by James M. Tate / 4/20/2018 / No comments / claire trevor , elisha cook jr. , film noir or melodrama , forties , lawrence tierney

LAWRENCE TIERNEY CINEMA PRESENTS 'BORN TO KILL'

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LAWRENCE TIERNEY CINEMA PRESENTS 'BORN TO KILL'

Year of Release: 1947 For better or worse, BORN TO KILL is the epitome of Film Noir. All to love and hate about the genre is here: the ...

CLIMBING TO THE EPIC TELEVISION MINISERIES OF 'MASADA'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Clive Francis orders his men 'round YEAR: 1981</u></td></tr>
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It doesn't get much better than suffering along with Peter O'Toole as a vulnerable Roman general weeding out a small yet tight band of Jewish rebels that, because of the nature in which this true life story winds up, are <i>still</i> considered Zealots, a label usually only pinned on Christians... in Hollywood, that is...<br>
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As the leader of that group, TV miniseries staple Peter Strauss uses a booming Shakespearian stage voice, seeming more driven on behalf of history than the story at hand — and not <i>only </i>while yelling down to the five-thousand-strong Roman army waiting beneath he and his 900 followers' mountaintop fortress of... MASADA — which is, like anything lasting six-plus-hours, a hit and miss venture...<br>
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The hits have mostly to do with O'Toole's Cornelius Flavius Silva, making judgments outside his tent or philosophizing inside with either sneaky friend-turned-foe David Warner or sexy slave love-interest Barbara Carrera. The latter, while nice to look at, seems exactly what her character is — fiction placed within a biopic, and that even includes Strauss's Eleazar ben Yair — only God knows who led these particular Israelites to hold their ground while <i>antagonizing </i>the opponents below (the teleplay's based on a historical novel titled THE ANTAGONISTS)...<br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lawrence of Arabia castmates O'Toole and Quayle return to the desert</u></td></tr>
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For example, in one scene, the rebels splash loudly in a pool within their unreachable haven — of endless food and water — while the beleaguered Romans are allowed only three drinks per day...<br>
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Meanwhile, Strauss's guttural rants are narrowed into clever (yet sometimes unrealistically fathomed) mind-game tactics...<br>
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A good thing because not only does O'Toole... a veteran of LAWRENCE OF ARABIA... fit the desert terrain, he can handle the stage-like dialogue naturally while another ARABIA veteran, Anthony Quayle, is a wise and patient Roman engineer, progressively building an earth-massed ramp to reach the fortress where a monstrous construction, looking like a Trojan Horse with a ram's head, awaits to finish the job.<br>

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Clive Francis orders his men 'round YEAR: 1981 It doesn't get much better than suffering along with Peter O'Toole as a vulne...

STACY KEACH & SCOTT WILSON IN 'THE NINTH CONFIGURATION'

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STACY KEACH & SCOTT WILSON IN 'THE NINTH CONFIGURATION'

Good guy, Bad guys, and Linda Blatty YEAR OF RELEASE: 1980 Writer/Director William Peter Blatty, whose novel THE EXORCIST was made into ...

WONDERMENT OF 'ROLLER BOOGIE' STARRING LINDA BLAIR

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WONDERMENT OF 'ROLLER BOOGIE' STARRING LINDA BLAIR

Our very own screen-capture YEAR of Release: 1979 B-movie/drive-in director Mark L. Lester takes a simple script and throws in enough di...

TIM CONWAY IN 'THEY WENT THAT-A-WAY & THAT-A-WAY'

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<span style="font-size: large;">Back in the days of movie tie-ins, or what was mostly referred to as novelizations, the rural buddy comedy THEY WENT THAT-A-WAY & THAT-A-WAY made for good reading since the story, much like the Dana Andrews' courtroom thriller BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT before and Sylvester Stallone's ESCAPE PLAN after, used the same primary template...</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In this case, two guys are sent to prison undercover and only one person... the governor... knows about it and, when said sole witness dies, the boys are completely screwed: locked-up possibly for good, and, strangely enough, the dullest scenes take place there in lockup, with character-actors such as Lenny Montana, Dub Taylor and "Jaws" from THE SPY WHO LOVED ME, Richard Kiel, as the big, tall, scary tough guy...</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here it's an old school Southern CHAIN GANG setting while the team is Tim Conway, only given first billing for his popularity and the fact he wrote the story... </span><br>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Meanwhile, like when opposite Tom Bosley in GUS, the alpha male has more lines and overall input, as in recently departed Chuck McCann, more of a bully to Conway's usual deadpan idiot: the latter with the expression of a loyal dog waiting for scraps from the table that never come...</span><br>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br></span><span style="font-size: large;">The boys are hick town policeman who don't know their "asses from their elbows" in a setting popular during the 1970's with cars kicking up dirt </span>—<span style="font-size: large;"> and eventually, during the final act, there's an all-out chase scene that the title gives away: Here's IT'S A MAD MAD (etc.) WORLD styling that keeps the entire ride entertaining enough to where you may not have to suffer-through with the queasy feeling, "What was I thinking for ever liking this movie?" Time's spent (served) well enough here. </span><br>

chase, chuck mccann, comedy, prison, richard kiel, seventies, tim conway

TIM CONWAY IN 'THEY WENT THAT-A-WAY & THAT-A-WAY'

Year of Release: 1978 Back in the days of movie tie-ins, or what was mostly referred to as novelizations, the rural buddy comedy THEY WE...

LESLIE MANN & JOHN CENA GET CAUGHT INSIDE 'BLOCKERS'

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In BLOCKERS, three parents try messing up... or attempt to <i>block.</i>.. each daughter from partaking in the plot of almost every 80's sex comedy, especially LITTLE DARLINGS since this particular "lose our virginity by the end of the movie" movie is about the girls, who all act in what's usually the cinematic "guy minded mode," wanting it more than their dull, reluctant dates and especially (and of course) their parents...<br>
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Never has a comic-relief-within-a-comedy been as horrendously ineffective as screwy-toothed Ike Barinholtz, whose five-o'clock shadow hardly covers up the fact he's also terribly miscast — resembling more of a college fraternity clown, which doesn't make it all that ironic when he crashes a high school prom, and then a few parties: Though he's not alone as muscular "White Dwayne Johnson" John Cena<i> is</i> a realistic looking parental, getting more emotional than expected of such a giant, while mom, played by the usually-hilarious Leslie Mann, leads this complete disaster where instead of cocks being blocked... due to an awkward pace, stilted one-liners and a horrible lack of chemistry between actors... the <i>laughter </i>is, again and again: So avoid this Rooster — it's a real Turkey!<br>

2018, comedy, john cena, leslie mann, new, sex comedy

LESLIE MANN & JOHN CENA GET CAUGHT INSIDE 'BLOCKERS'

Year of Release: 2018 CockADoodyScore: * In BLOCKERS, three parents try messing up... or attempt to block. .. each daughter from partaki...

MICHAEL GREENE TAKES TWO TOP BILLINGS IN 'THE CLONES'

<span style="font-size: large;">Meanwhile, the</span><span style="font-size: large;"> actors seem like they're merely collecting paychecks, sleepwalking through the roles while that same year, serving in heaven as opposed to this scant reign in hell, Sierra would be the hunted in PAPILLON; Otis Young would take THE LAST DETAIL with a never-better Jack Nicholson; and a year earlier, Greene bullied Woody Allen in PLAY IT AGAIN SAM. So they do have merit... The irony is, the paychecks were probably hardly worth slumming down to.  </span><br>
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action, gregory sierra, michael greene, otis young, seventies, thriller, wrong man

MICHAEL GREENE TAKES TWO TOP BILLINGS IN 'THE CLONES'

Year of THE CLONES is 1973 Who knew there was a genre called "Psychedelic Action"... Well there isn't, technically, but t...

DIANE KEATON STARRING IN 'LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR'

diane keaton, drug culture, exploitation, neo noir, richard brooks, richard gere, seventies, thriller, tom berenger

DIANE KEATON STARRING IN 'LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR'

Year: 1977 Cast: Diane Keaton, Richard Gere, Tom Berenger Score: **** A movie that can make even the most jaded viewer dead silent as t...

ORIGINAL ADAPTATION OF 'PAPILLON' W/ STEVE MCQUEEN

adventure, bill mumy, biopic, don gordon, drama, dustin hoffman, francis j. schaffner, prison, seventies, steve mcqueen, woodrow palfrey

ORIGINAL ADAPTATION OF 'PAPILLON' W/ STEVE MCQUEEN

Actually part of the Papillon sequel book cover PAPILLON Film: 1973 Director Francis J. Schaffner and scriptwriter Dalton Trumbo convert...

STEVEN SPIELBERG GOES FUTURE-PAST IN 'READY PLAYER ONE'

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Most films begin slowly, and then open up into an adventurous middle with pockets of character-developing downtime leading to the kind of crescendo that READY PLAYER ONE ignites from the get-go.<br>
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Taking place about fifty years from now in the usual raggedy dystopic future, this particular urban wasteland's known as The Stacks, which the living quarters are, one atop the other. But a virtual reality game-world, Oasis, has become a sparkling haven beyond the squalor, and as people play into the games wearing helmets, walking on treadmills, etc., their avatars fight to stay alive while... and here's the plot... trying to find three keys that Oasis's dead founder left — for then the winner takes over the half-a-trillion dollar company...<br>

2018, new, science-fiction, steven spielberg

STEVEN SPIELBERG GOES FUTURE-PAST IN 'READY PLAYER ONE'

Real of Release: 2018 Years of Celebration: 1980's Most films begin slowly, and then open up into an adventurous middle with pockets...

JACQUES TOURNEUR DIRECTS A WYATT EARP TALE 'WICHITA'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Joel McCrea rides smoothly, coolly into WICHITA Year: 1955</u></td></tr>
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How great thou Western Movie art that — directed by the often dark, Gothic, shady, other times commercial yet always intriguing Jacques Tourneur — is as simple, basic and downright entertaining as they come, centering on what begins as a dot on the horizon upon a distant hill viewed by hardworking cowboys, camped on the plain surrounded by cattle and all on their slow, deliberate pace to the title town of WICHITA, a Promised Land harboring many saloons...<br>
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That dot is buffalo hunter Wyatt Earp, played by Joel McCrea, whose acting had improved throughout the years, his lanky build toned and muscular and a once spry face aged into raw experience, mellowing into a John Wayne meets William Holden countenance — perfectly suited for the real life legendary lawman, at first reluctant to become Wichita's Sheriff until the rowdy cowboys ignite drunken gun-blazing pandemonium.<br>
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It's not a perfect Western as the story is concerned, and hardly works as a genuine biopic, but it's a picture that takes many viewings to grow tired of since the formula keeps paying off with each new sequence...<br>
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Like what would happen in JAWS exactly twenty-years later... the mayor forcing the new Sheriff to ignore a killer shark to keep the paying tourists happily oblivious... as is Wyatt questioned by the very men (including a mayor) who'd initially hired him after a terrific bank robbery turnaround...<br>
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Then, later, realizing the drunken cowpunchers that Earp imprisoned for goading drunkenness all keep the town in a steady flow of cash. Wielding a firm stance and lone wolf determination, McCrae turns in an apt performance eclipsing what one would expect in a 90-minute mainstream, if sometimes cliché, programmer...<br>
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So it's necessary to throw in the usual faithful sidekick (a young future-famous journalist, Bat Masterson: an uncomplicated Robin to McCrea's beyond-capable Bruce Wayne) and a contrived romance with Vera Miles. But what's really needed for the audience flows steadily along with the action, including gun-fights and horse-stomping chaos with one great twist involving Peter Graves in this grand little B-Western that provides a subliminal lesson in the art of concise storytelling, sparse dialogue, headstrong performances (also including the genre's regular heavies, Robert Wilke and Jack Elam — plus Lloyd Bridges along with THE MAN FROM LARAMIE friendly stout old fella, Wallace Ford), all enveloped by tight and precise direction: You can say that the dark horse CAT PEOPLE and OUT OF THE PAST auteur Jacques Tourneur even sells-out majestically.<br>

fifties, jack elam, jacques tourneur, joel mccrea, lloyd bridges, robert wilke, warner archives, western

JACQUES TOURNEUR DIRECTS A WYATT EARP TALE 'WICHITA'

Joel McCrea rides smoothly, coolly into WICHITA Year: 1955 How great thou Western Movie art that — directed by the often dark, Gothic, s...

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

boxing, felice orlandi, fifties, film noir or melodrama, frank silvera, jazz score, mobster, stanley kubrick, thriller

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

Lobby Card for Killer's Kiss YEAR OF RELEASE: 1956 When it's not a primal, jazz piano, mamba-like rhythm as gangster/dance club ...

ROD STEIGER W/ FAY SPAIN IN THE SPARSE & DEADLY 'AL CAPONE'

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Like Jack Nicholson (intentionally or otherwise) displayed a little of pal <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2013/11/the-shining.html">Bruce Dern in THE SHINING</a>, perhaps Marlon Brando was influenced by his ON THE WATERFRONT brother in THE GODFATHER since Rod Steiger had played AL CAPONE with facial contortions that seem so natural that, if done by a lesser talent, it'd look contrived, pretentiously overboard...<br>
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In fact, this biopic is so subtle he seems more a blue collar ruffian than outright gangster, a sort of throwback to the olden days of Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson. Steiger's performance brings the mafia henchman turned head honcho through sparse narration by James Gregory as a trailing cop...<br>
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Although there's never a feeling the man will ever be captured doing what he does best, killing to climb the ladder with a string of eclectic and creative <i>whacks</i> and yet, for him, the most crucial, improbable con is landing the wife of one of his otherwise incidental hits: In that, Fay Spain, who'd be Hyman Roth's obliviously polite retired wife in THE GODFATHER 2, is more than a tacked-on romantic interest since it's extremely interesting how Capone could actually seduce this naturally beautiful mother and widow with the same twisted determination that he takes on his surrounding, paranoid and lethal enemies during the far-superior first half, while the second deals mainly with his waning popularity leading to a rushed exile in Miami. But no matter where and how the film rides out, it's Rod Steiger who is always fun to watch and, unlike brother Brando in the aforementione 1972 Oscar Winning mob classic, it's his and his job alone to make an otherwise pretty-good feature pretty damn fantastic to watch, and keep rewatching. You'll always see something different in his reactions to the spontaneously violent actions: He steals both the movie <i>and the story </i>that it's all loosely yet tightly based upon.<br>

al ruscio, biopic, fifties, gangster, james gregory, martin balsam, mobster, nehemiah persoff, neo noir, rod steiger, warner archives

ROD STEIGER W/ FAY SPAIN IN THE SPARSE & DEADLY 'AL CAPONE'

Year of Release: 1954 Like Jack Nicholson (intentionally or otherwise) displayed a little of pal Bruce Dern in THE SHINING , perhaps Mar...

JACQUES TOURNEUR FILMS DANA ANDREWS IN 'CANYON PASSAGE'

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Before <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/08/feardemon.html">CURSE OF THE DEMON</a> and <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/08/feardemon.html">THE FEARMAKERS</a>, Jacques Tourneur directed Dana Andrews in a well-dressed & comfortably-paced (North) Western, CANYON PASSAGE, taking place mostly within a small, makeshift town built from — and tucked within the shade of — the surrounding forest, a knee-jerk away from an uneasy peace with brooding Indians. Yet the suspense relies more on how two particular characters develop than the horse-clopping action taking most of the third act...<br>
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In almost every Western with Dana Andrews there's a possible/probable gallows kangaroo court involved (from THE OXBOW INCIDENT to THREE HOURS TO KILL to JOHNNY RENO), and here it's the least important aspect although would-be victim Brian Donlevy, as extremely unlucky, altogether-cursed gambler, George, sharpens Dana's workaholic, mule running/cargo moving entrepreneur, Logan, since he has to keep covering his old pal from gambling debts and other vices (MEAN STREETS in the 1940's). And there's only a hint of romance between Andrews, engaged to a Stepford Prairie Girl, and future MY FOOLISH HEART co-star Susan Hayward as a beautiful tomboy — both share a cool friendship almost too perfect to hinder with complications...<br>
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Actually, she already belongs to the flaky loser/dreamer, Donlevy... kind of... though it's obvious where her heart really is. Meanwhile, the fleshed-out and interesting side-characters include another Dana-cinema regular, Hoagy Carmichael (NIGHT SONG, THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES), as a passive mandolin player and Lloyd Bridges spitefully ruling over a rushed murder trail: But the true antagonist's played with gusto by Ward Bond (Dana's foe in Jean Renoir's SWAMP WATER), who causes all sorts of bruised-up and/or deadly havoc, especially in a better-than-usual saloon fight scene, where director Tourneur's otherwise rich, artistic lens flows with testosterone-fueled bravado.<br>
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brian donlevy, dana andrews, forties, jacques tourneur, lloyd bridges, susan hayward, western

JACQUES TOURNEUR FILMS DANA ANDREWS IN 'CANYON PASSAGE'

Dana rides in from the rain in Canyon Passage YEAR: 1946 Before CURSE OF THE DEMON and THE FEARMAKERS , Jacques Tourneur directed Dana ...

BLOODY REMAKE OF 'DEATH WISH' STARRING BRUCE WILLIS

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<span style="font-size: large;">The difference of the original Charles Bronson crime exploitation classic DEATH WISH and its four sequels is the same between Eli Roth's modernized take with Bruce Willis... </span><br>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Instead of one man becoming a freelance, anything-goes vigilante <i>because of</i> his wife's death and daughter's coma </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">(aided by a young Jeff Goldblum)</span>, he sets out after the real killers. Which makes 2018's DEATH WISH more of a sparse Neo-Noir extension of Denzel Washington's surprisingly good THE EQUALIZER than a high-octane "yippee ki yay" update of the 70's cult classic...</span><br>

2018, action, bruce willis, elizabeth shue, exploitation, new, remake, suspense

BLOODY REMAKE OF 'DEATH WISH' STARRING BRUCE WILLIS

Bruce Willis in what looks like a golf swing follow-thru YEAR: 2018 The difference of the original Charles Bronson crime exploitation cl...

WILLIAM HOLDEN & KIM NOVAK STAR IN A CAMPY 'PICNIC'

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"At a PICNIC, everybody disappears." This line from one of the creepiest-of-schlock, unintentionally strange and eerie motion pictures ever, proving that, in many cases, Film Noir or Science-Fiction are the purest, safest forms of cinema when delving into the 1950's...<br>
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Starring William Holden, ten years too old for the part of a grownup-kid-type, about a decade out of college visiting the small town where old pal Cliff Robertson romances local beauty Kim Novak, whose little sister, played by future PSYCH-OUT starlet Susan Strasberg, innocently flirts with Holden's mysterious gentleman nomad who's been around the block more than anyone in the conservative setting: where the titular PICNIC is the centerpiece including Novak being worshiped in a swan boat while the town sings a dirge-paced "Ain't She Sweet" along with a barber shop quartet lined across, before and beyond a storybook bridge...<br>
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The stagey (clumsily based on a play) dialogue is godawful, including a description of dusk being clouds having one last "scrap" in the sky, or when Holden — after his (as seen in every poster) shirt's torn to partially display his famously muscular SUNSET BLVD bod (itself looking decades younger than his handsomely devilish, timeworn mug) — says, "She saw through me like an X-Ray machine," or, to Novak, about to wait beneath her window till the promise of a technicolor dawn, "You make me feel important... No! You make me feel... Patient!"<br>
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And right beforehand: "I'm getting tired of... just being told I'm... pretty," complains Novak as she's deliberately driven off from the PICNIC by Holden's primal beast, resembling more of an insurance salesman on a frantic bender than an ex-convict back on the run from the law, and this time for basically... kissing the prettiest girl in town in front of his rich buddy/her pseudo boyfriend, Robertson, whose incessant whine, along with Holden's monotone delivery when he's not feigning drunken youth in an awkward, goofy fashion, makes mincemeat of two otherwise great actors. "Let me go, you bum," Robertson shouts to his rougher/tougher ex-crony: "You no good... hobo!" All to the sound of that decade's type of fiercely melodramatic score locked inside of haunting reverberation. That is, until an occasional waist-up-lustful samba-beat ensues as the dames become sporadically mesmerized by Holden's boisterous yet enigmatic persona like daft, dizzy schoolgirls to a flashing image on a picture show screen. Which could be the intention all along. The characters are both the performers and audience.
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cliff robertson, fifties, kim novak, romance, susan strasberg, william holden

WILLIAM HOLDEN & KIM NOVAK STAR IN A CAMPY 'PICNIC'

Year of Release: 1955 "At a PICNIC, everybody disappears." This line from one of the creepiest-of-schlock, unintentionally s...

REBOOT NOT REMAKE PSEUDO SEQUEL OF 'JUMANJI 2'

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A hybrid of TRON (humans inside a video game), RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (a pulpy jungle mainline) and... well... JUMANJI... that ironically has the least to do with its sequel tag-titled WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE...<br>
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Which can't be held in our usual 80's-kid contempt of using CGI as opposed to classic practical effects since the original Robin Williams comedy adventure rode the wave of JURASSIC PARK's amazing computer technology, with rhinos, monkeys and other creatures replacing dinosaurs, only this time, instead of the jungle encroaching upon reality, four eclectic teens get pulsated inside of a JUMANJI video (as opposed to board) game...<br>

2018, action, adventure, dwayne johnson, jack black, karen gillan, kevin hart, reboot, sequel

REBOOT NOT REMAKE PSEUDO SEQUEL OF 'JUMANJI 2'

Apocalypse Now homage poster RELEASED: 2017 A hybrid of TRON (humans inside a video game), RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (a pulpy jungle mainl...

ROBYN HILTON BLAZES A STRANGE TRAIL IN 'VIDEO VIXENS'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robyn Hilton in Video Vixens the same year as Blazing Saddles: 1974</u></td></tr>
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The Anthology of Comedic Parodies, already done in several Woody Allen "old funny movies" and tackled later in KENTUCKY FRIED MOVIE, revels with exceptionally bad taste in VIDEO VIXENS, centering on an award show co-hosted by cult starlet Robyn Hilton, best known as the Governor's bimbo i.e. the bubbly blonde "bitch" at actor/director Mel Brooks's side in BLAZING SADDLES...<br>
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It's impossible to say which character came first since, while Hilton is no method actress otherwise, her high-pitched, airhead-bubbly voice is exactly the same as the comedy Western satire, only here she's the star VIXEN despite the fact her role is eventually limited to introducing each vingette, along with a porn director played by John Carpenter's future regular's regular George "Buck" Flower, whose producer wants their maligned and far-from-mainstream industry to be respected, thus forcing an uppity Felix Unger type critic to serve as the Master of Ceremonies, reacting woefully to each skit/sketch that are all tortuously unfunny, un-sexy, and unbelievably awful — yet it's great seeing Robyn Hilton in what might have landed her her BLAZING role. With an (opening) line from another actress, irritated at the director before a pornographic scene, shouting, "Easy on the beaver, you toilet pole!" it's a no-brainer it took no brains for the infamously awful Troma to make VIDEO VIXENS, and it takes even less to watch.  <br>

cheryl smith, exploitation, george buck flower, robyn hilton, seventies, troma

ROBYN HILTON BLAZES A STRANGE TRAIL IN 'VIDEO VIXENS'

Robyn Hilton in Video Vixens the same year as Blazing Saddles: 1974 The Anthology of Comedic Parodies, already done in several Woody All...

MICHAEL O'KEEFE SURROUNDED BY COMIC GODS IN 'CADDYSHACK'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Michael O'Keefe as Danny Noonan YEAR: 1980 </u></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Originally an ANIMAL HOUSE of golf, directed by its co-writer, Harold Ramis, CADDYSHACK morphed into an eclectic comedy starring four comic actors that </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">—</span> had the rudimentary vision sustained </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">—</span> probably would have been random guest appearances amid the shack-dwelling youngsters... </span><br>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Although a 'teen' is still the main character </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">—</span></span> the straight-man pawn, Michael O'Keefe, with one of the best natural golf swings recorded on film, as he, after an opening credit bicycle ride from a low class home, passing a strip of mansions to classy Bushwood Country Club with Kenny Loggin's smooth party anthem <i>I'm Alright </i>(as if playing in his head)... bridging a grainy late-70's yacht rock groove into the preppy vs anti-preppy decade to come... winds in and out of misadventures including an attempt to appeal to Ted Knight's stuffy Judge Smails for a possible college scholarship while faithfully caddying his mentor in Chevy Chase's quirky millionaire Ty Webb, sharing the most subtle yet hilarious moments in-between butting heads with cool cat Italian bully Scott Colomby, the other "kid" whose role wasn't diminished to a cameo. </span><br>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The R-Rating is earned between our caddy and one of the hottest of underrated and underused starlets, Cindy Morgan, far more beautiful and interesting than Laurie Metcalf as Danny's knocked-up girlfriend (using a bad accent of some kind), whose bland romantic melodrama should've been left on the cutting room floor... </span><br>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Meanwhile, Bill Murray, despite the overall popularity of his character, isn't at his best here, chasing a stuffed gopher that, getting around cooler and funnier than CGI, seems a nod to b-movies that can't afford any better... </span><br>
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<span style="font-size: large;">With his bottom lip hanging to pilot a contrived manner of speech, in place of his MEATBALLS (and future STRIPES and GHOSTBUSTERS) glib confidence, Murray's assistant groundskeeper, Carl, borders on mental retardation, seeming part of an SNL skit stretched too long. Leaving ultimate fan-favorite Rodney Dangerfield as a condo developer who insults anyone within verbal/audible reach </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">—</span></span></span> the epitome of a scene-stealer. While we <i>see</i> Bushwood through the vulnerable young eyes of O'Keefe's Danny Noonan, it's Dangerfield's cocky Al Czervik who provides both the Roman Chorus and an unintentional narration, from start to finish, in a perfectly timed 97-minute ride. </span><br>

bill murray, chevy chase, cindy morgan, comedy, cult, eighties, ensemble, harold ramis, michael o'keefe, rodney dangerfield, sport, ted knight

MICHAEL O'KEEFE SURROUNDED BY COMIC GODS IN 'CADDYSHACK'

Michael O'Keefe as Danny Noonan YEAR: 1980 Originally an ANIMAL HOUSE of golf, directed by its co-writer, Harold Ramis, CADDYSHACK m...

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