MIMSY FARMER, JEAN GABIN & ALAIN DELON 'TWO MEN IN TOWN'

<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/AVvXsEjPOMl_uTuRbK9LUhuRXUAoY7Axx9HVDw0SUqjsrbLy8rXY0x3wiDb2ytos4pNkdOQoIFtAnnNWiPeYFchzMHn_gPK6S_fDlIGrEr7j_GzOsFNysqajkswnt4Z4apFal64HUBLBhTK3zKfuh5QwxzVfsjR3lA_2hbCVb9xTE8wk2SeuJPq0kVwb2TSjUyXu/s2164/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-11%20at%201.04.45%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1480" data-original-width="2164" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPOMl_uTuRbK9LUhuRXUAoY7Axx9HVDw0SUqjsrbLy8rXY0x3wiDb2ytos4pNkdOQoIFtAnnNWiPeYFchzMHn_gPK6S_fDlIGrEr7j_GzOsFNysqajkswnt4Z4apFal64HUBLBhTK3zKfuh5QwxzVfsjR3lA_2hbCVb9xTE8wk2SeuJPq0kVwb2TSjUyXu/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-11%20at%201.04.45%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mimsy Farmer and Michel Bouquet in TWO MEN IN TOWN Year: 1973 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>French New Wave director José Giovanni's TWO MEN IN TOWN is obviously inspired by Victor Hugo's LES MISÉRABLES, but for a 1970's crime fan it will be most reminiscent of the late-seventies STRAIGHT TIME starring Dustin Hoffman... <br><br>Based on a 1973 novel NO BEAST SO FIERCE (same year as this feature) by Edward Bunker, particularly the second-act plot-line involving a badgering police inspector, who had originally arrested bank robber Alain Delon for the ten years that social worker Jean Gabin gets him out early from in the film's semi-optimistic prelude...</p><p><span></span></p>

alain delon, crime, french, gérard depardieu, ilaria ccchini, jean gabin, josé giovanni, malka ribowska, michel bouquet, mimsy farmer, neo noir, seventies, thriller

MIMSY FARMER, JEAN GABIN & ALAIN DELON 'TWO MEN IN TOWN'

Mimsy Farmer and Michel Bouquet in TWO MEN IN TOWN Year: 1973 Rating: ***1/2 French New Wave director José Giovanni's TWO MEN IN TOWN is...

MIMSY FARMER IN RUGGERO DEODATO'S 'CONCORDE AFFAIRE '79'

<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/AVvXsEiQcMQZhiIuybr52zVWczuCfFvqSwviaeRvaWYGl4MQc4IN5XNfO9ZBCnhGzJgGmbM2S_Se26zCbm22Iuljo9mw3ZRYI87eSho1b4FB6jPhb4O8YDRXv-anHztcp3iIiTCl0fas_F03eE6CnGMj6vn99EIOglH5r_0wnpoHoWRb8qcABFY8254RBgOtcKlR/s1390/image_cf96a5c0.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="752" data-original-width="1390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQcMQZhiIuybr52zVWczuCfFvqSwviaeRvaWYGl4MQc4IN5XNfO9ZBCnhGzJgGmbM2S_Se26zCbm22Iuljo9mw3ZRYI87eSho1b4FB6jPhb4O8YDRXv-anHztcp3iIiTCl0fas_F03eE6CnGMj6vn99EIOglH5r_0wnpoHoWRb8qcABFY8254RBgOtcKlR/s1600/image_cf96a5c0.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mimsy Farmer in CONCORDE AFFAIRE '79 Year: 1979 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>A year before Italian auteur Ruggero Deodato invented the found-footage horror-genre with CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST, he directed the mainstream CONCORDE AFFAIRE '79, a slight-of-hand effort deliberately mirroring THE CONCORD: AIRPORT '79, the last AIRPORT outing before the blockbuster spoof AIRPLANE killed the franchise by spoofing it... <br><br>Both are basically crime-thrillers combining the usual airline disaster melodrama... but Deodato's Italian import spends the entire first two acts hardly involving the record-breaking passenger-jet-plane: other than an opening scene where it crashes into the ocean...</p><p><span></span></p>

airplane, disaster, edmund purdom, espionage, james francsiscus, joseph cotten, maria d'incoronato, mimsy farmer, ruggero deodato, seventies, thriller, van johnson, venantino venantini

MIMSY FARMER IN RUGGERO DEODATO'S 'CONCORDE AFFAIRE '79'

Mimsy Farmer in CONCORDE AFFAIRE '79 Year: 1979 Rating: ***1/2 A year before Italian auteur Ruggero Deodato invented the found-footage h...

MIMSY FARMER MOTHERING RUGGERO DEODATO'S 'BODY COUNT'

<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/AVvXsEiucXnLwLx14FIS3ZFQKmBjLnTdF_XybzV9CH8N8YG1zrM2HRW0cNAKGCOBxMb2I-ZHw7l1P-Yvids4XTiaBa40Ohv9AJSkNhTeKAqqXSfHVPa4t57_jDngRt0wl6zOJxGDpN3fAWQd_elqjDSvSr2mSGROq7t3qApjXBEKulh0kz6ngdIDmYvyhuJtfqJg/s1600/image1786329455.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="951" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiucXnLwLx14FIS3ZFQKmBjLnTdF_XybzV9CH8N8YG1zrM2HRW0cNAKGCOBxMb2I-ZHw7l1P-Yvids4XTiaBa40Ohv9AJSkNhTeKAqqXSfHVPa4t57_jDngRt0wl6zOJxGDpN3fAWQd_elqjDSvSr2mSGROq7t3qApjXBEKulh0kz6ngdIDmYvyhuJtfqJg/s1600/image1786329455.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mimsy Farmer in BODY COUNT Year: 1988 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>With CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST, groundbreaking Italian auteur Ruggero Deodato invented the found-footage horror sub-genre that THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT reinvented decades later, so it's no real sin that he ripped off American slasher franchise FRIDAY THE 13TH: which already had about six films by 1988...<br><br>Both involving teenagers who get picked off in the woods by a masked menace... the supposed spirit of an Indian Shaman from long ago... making this a genuine BODY COUNT horror, built right into the title...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, body count, charles narpier, david hess, eighties, horror, john steiner, luisa maneri, mimsy farmer, ruggero deodato, slasher

MIMSY FARMER MOTHERING RUGGERO DEODATO'S 'BODY COUNT'

Mimsy Farmer in BODY COUNT Year: 1988 Rating: *** With CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST, groundbreaking Italian auteur Ruggero Deodato invented the found-...

MIMSY FARMER IN 'DEVIL'S ANGELS' STARRING JOHN CASSAVETES

<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/AVvXsEghrHWOud5PICWAdhUD24uSeF2286DputYrX7saQddpuqzDlKn_UWK7vlHKftvJxR3bHmOOTq8RpSaOo13DYqNMmwcS6tSrfP61qzPpDFB3FOKFKgFtkYTVI854a4hwGR-nNqn9ZR1a88pLvWFvQqDkypKi-Yj4mpNINvsmNYabX1_-1Tu27z18i3L7-Z__/s1600/image1786250348.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1056" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghrHWOud5PICWAdhUD24uSeF2286DputYrX7saQddpuqzDlKn_UWK7vlHKftvJxR3bHmOOTq8RpSaOo13DYqNMmwcS6tSrfP61qzPpDFB3FOKFKgFtkYTVI854a4hwGR-nNqn9ZR1a88pLvWFvQqDkypKi-Yj4mpNINvsmNYabX1_-1Tu27z18i3L7-Z__/s1600/image1786250348.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mimsy Farmer in DEVIL'S ANGELS Year: 1967 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In the same year, the peak of the hippie counter-culture, 1967, American blonde starlet Mimsy Farmer plays a vulnerable young ladies attacked/sexually-assaulted by a group of drugged-up men in both <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2026/07/stripmimsy.html">RIOT ON SUNSET STRIP</a> and DEVIL'S ANGELS... <br><br>Only here, based on the Hell's Angels court-case documented in Hunter Thompson's novel, the titular DEVIL'S ANGELS only brutally attack the poor girl, not actually raping her (or having enough time to since she gets away)... and this movie wants that gross distinction to be completely clear...</p><p><span></span></p>

beverly adams, biker, counter-culture, exploitation, john cassavetes, leo gordon, mimsy farmer, roger corman, sixties

MIMSY FARMER IN 'DEVIL'S ANGELS' STARRING JOHN CASSAVETES

Mimsy Farmer in DEVIL'S ANGELS Year: 1967 Rating: **1/2 In the same year, the peak of the hippie counter-culture, 1967, American blonde ...

MIMSY FARMER AND RITA HAYWORTH TAKING 'THE ROAD TO SALINA'

<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/AVvXsEjFTps3WDI1dHVKE_2EAfE1M15MV86RCjP6A6T-gPniyqXxZqT1NPa9hUj2_bFMxhpuzd2yQ4OL6DZHOGuK_ECUIS2wF9daGBh0uY_q6xz_QZUOFMxL7BzsDVPbyNbNt8xugRpMRy1Wc4mnDiNvbZRSfnY_pETmgNuNrrQVD_c4kh2I6VYJyWCAH8YGBzCa/s1455/image1786179090.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="736" data-original-width="1455" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFTps3WDI1dHVKE_2EAfE1M15MV86RCjP6A6T-gPniyqXxZqT1NPa9hUj2_bFMxhpuzd2yQ4OL6DZHOGuK_ECUIS2wF9daGBh0uY_q6xz_QZUOFMxL7BzsDVPbyNbNt8xugRpMRy1Wc4mnDiNvbZRSfnY_pETmgNuNrrQVD_c4kh2I6VYJyWCAH8YGBzCa/s1600/image1786179090.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mimsy Farmer in THE ROAD TO SALINA Year: 1970 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>At the end of Quentin Tarantino's KILL BILL VOLUME 2, a cascading prog-rock instrumental backs a beautiful American blonde, driving through rural Mexico, for the conclusion of her revenge-epic mission... <br><br>As both the song and situation were lifted from French auteur Georges Lautner's Spanish-shot/set 1970 giallo/noir THE ROAD TO SALINA when a gorgeous car-driving American blonde is instead <i>just arriving</i>... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

ed begley, georges lautner, mimsy farmer, neo noir, rita hayworth, robert walker jr., sophie hardy, spanish, thriller

MIMSY FARMER AND RITA HAYWORTH TAKING 'THE ROAD TO SALINA'

Mimsy Farmer in THE ROAD TO SALINA Year: 1970 Rating: ****1/2 At the end of Quentin Tarantino's KILL BILL VOLUME 2, a cascading prog-roc...

MIMSY FARMER KILLS DARIO ARGENTO'S 'FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET'

<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/AVvXsEjiSlhcIJkzvGhpYdVHbfDfLxicVqUBsdtZYuy_b4dodxg0YVGKk4fraoed2DW5fTVT1IwaaZKH5Hj1OuIr_xLAt3ZEerGGS_rvmgoc4h4bfv48-e1q4_IfOqzD-yYmYYtrV8cCb9bFzzDBIq-0Ushn9MW7yxd3N00h_pij3pkfpqB-UVOwwu9M-1VTWrAn/s1600/image1786217518.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="956" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiSlhcIJkzvGhpYdVHbfDfLxicVqUBsdtZYuy_b4dodxg0YVGKk4fraoed2DW5fTVT1IwaaZKH5Hj1OuIr_xLAt3ZEerGGS_rvmgoc4h4bfv48-e1q4_IfOqzD-yYmYYtrV8cCb9bFzzDBIq-0Ushn9MW7yxd3N00h_pij3pkfpqB-UVOwwu9M-1VTWrAn/s1600/image1786217518.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mimsy Farmer in FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET Year: 1971 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>American actress Mimsy Farmer really went native after moving to France and starring in European horror flicks after merely co-starring in counter-culture melodramas (like HOT RODS TO HELL) stateside... <br><br>That is, in several of the Euro-thrillers, she would have an accent, speaking a kind of broken English, like it's not her original language, sometimes even choosing each word... very... carefully...</p><p><span></span></p>

body count, dario argento, exploitation, francine racette, giallo, horror, jean-pierre marielle, michael brandon, mimsy farmer, mystery, seventies

MIMSY FARMER KILLS DARIO ARGENTO'S 'FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET'

Mimsy Farmer in FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET Year: 1971 Rating: ***1/2 American actress Mimsy Farmer really went native after moving to France ...

MIMSY FARMER HEADLINES 'THE PERFUME OF THE LADY IN BLACK'

<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/AVvXsEg0NBGeD-LLBSs6pm6cXkoPY1DCpanCu_x1GOG8WoUFZELF7KQjsHdEan19ImPJHSGkeQM0ShFTbv8hs96Fz4Y_BwDQZlf2x7bd8HLHdi8l5DcD73T0M5QJFXrkyTmCln6jbu2t087RuDFOaLjj3TIcIcTEQz6ez_ebpyjCpyxhbxCSspRvn3LIwlUYHuV1/s2148/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1156" data-original-width="2148" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0NBGeD-LLBSs6pm6cXkoPY1DCpanCu_x1GOG8WoUFZELF7KQjsHdEan19ImPJHSGkeQM0ShFTbv8hs96Fz4Y_BwDQZlf2x7bd8HLHdi8l5DcD73T0M5QJFXrkyTmCln6jbu2t087RuDFOaLjj3TIcIcTEQz6ez_ebpyjCpyxhbxCSspRvn3LIwlUYHuV1/s1600/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mimsy Farmer in THE PERFUME OF THE LADY IN BLACK Year: 1974 Rating: ****<br></u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Ultimately paying third-act homage to ROSEMARY'S BABY while plot-proceeding John Cassavetes's OPENING NIGHT... an indie-drama version of an Italian Giallo where Gena Rowlands hallucinates a beautiful young girl... Italian auteur Francesco Barilli's THE PERFUME OF THE LADY IN BLACK has long-haired blonde American ingenue turned European short-cropped blonde starlet Mimsy Farmer seeing her dead mother, guided around by her younger self in scream-queen Lara Wendel...<br><br>Which all ends up inspiring another future horror flick, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME... not to be spoiled since Farmer's "Industrial Scientist" character Silvia Hacherman spends most of the time like a deer-in-headlights, perfect for an actress possessing a unique kind of powerfully magnetic vulnerability: able to speak volumes without saying very much, and she's rarely been more beautiful  — and she's always really beautiful...  </p><p><span></span></p>

exploitation, francesco barilli, giallo, horror, italian, lara wendel, maurizio bonuglia, mimsy farmer, nike arrighi, seventies, thriller

MIMSY FARMER HEADLINES 'THE PERFUME OF THE LADY IN BLACK'

Mimsy Farmer in THE PERFUME OF THE LADY IN BLACK Year: 1974 Rating: **** Ultimately paying third-act homage to ROSEMARY'S BABY while plo...

MIMSY FARMER, ALDO RAY & LAURIE MOCK IN 'RIOT ON SUNSET STRIP'

<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/AVvXsEiFPQ9sDdu9ecjbTyDHAAWVpKz5DslBhZhyphenhyphenCm6WWgIMdGDq79PCcoKNUZv4tA4CA1ox4phHKkN7GYnZBMsmCS2WLaZBz5jY2o4-o6PomdQQBR-U_f2fNYo6RuTdaaAtau1e3fA4CbZDB1hcCAFoQY8bwPrZldJZOhWwkld3PD09qMFrQ1Yqh9jPlClKHKWG/s2070/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-01%20at%2012.21.30%20AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1214" data-original-width="2070" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFPQ9sDdu9ecjbTyDHAAWVpKz5DslBhZhyphenhyphenCm6WWgIMdGDq79PCcoKNUZv4tA4CA1ox4phHKkN7GYnZBMsmCS2WLaZBz5jY2o4-o6PomdQQBR-U_f2fNYo6RuTdaaAtau1e3fA4CbZDB1hcCAFoQY8bwPrZldJZOhWwkld3PD09qMFrQ1Yqh9jPlClKHKWG/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-01%20at%2012.21.30%20AM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mimsy Farmer in RIOT ON SUNSET STRIP Year: 1967 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Artistic blonde beauty Mimsy Farmer played the bad girl in <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/12/hotRods.html">HOT RODS IN HELL</a> more effectively than the good girl in the following years' counter-culture melodrama <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/04/hot-rods-to-sunset-strip.html">RIOT ON SUNSET STRIP</a>, returning with young HELL co-stars Laurie Mock and Gene Kirkwood...<br><br>But instead of the open road, SUNSET is mostly at a nightclub in the titular Los Angeles STRIP where there's not much going save a few protests that includes fist fights liken to Western genre saloon brawls (while local bands The Chocolate Watchband, The Standells and The Enemys provide sporadic tunes)...</p><p><span></span></p>

aldo ray, counter culture, gene kirkwood, laurie mock, mimsy farmer, pat renella, sixties

MIMSY FARMER, ALDO RAY & LAURIE MOCK IN 'RIOT ON SUNSET STRIP'

Mimsy Farmer in RIOT ON SUNSET STRIP Year: 1967 Rating: ***1/2 Artistic blonde beauty Mimsy Farmer played the bad girl in HOT RODS IN HELL ...

MIMSY FARMER BACKED BY PINK FLOYD IN THE DRUG-FUELED 'MORE'

<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/AVvXsEjgFs-UYhVXJSo2TkMqXUzXRZ6r53YLZfvmr0HttCDUuaeIhy10IEZ6WMmw_AxE6f2svi0VkwWAVBpLebqm6pIrMz728rFz85TrR_9LEo5nDQxWH1EfpzZ7k4YlzSBO1yNnqRTxGh2L0FHiKyBhp9D6TGaEMbxX29Wl9OhyxBTFwsxQBfuB_g8hxF63xtRb/s1310/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="816" data-original-width="1310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgFs-UYhVXJSo2TkMqXUzXRZ6r53YLZfvmr0HttCDUuaeIhy10IEZ6WMmw_AxE6f2svi0VkwWAVBpLebqm6pIrMz728rFz85TrR_9LEo5nDQxWH1EfpzZ7k4YlzSBO1yNnqRTxGh2L0FHiKyBhp9D6TGaEMbxX29Wl9OhyxBTFwsxQBfuB_g8hxF63xtRb/s1600/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mimsy Farmer in MORE Year: 1969 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>By the time hitchhiking German college grad Klaus Grünberg crashes a Paris free-for-all and meets breezy American blonde Mimsy Farmer, and the only (and best) Pink Floyd song that's unfortunately <i>not</i> on the soundtrack album MORE is blaring throughout the noisy partying background, he's already sealed his fate... and yet she's not much prettier than the other couch-kicking, pot-smoking hippie-chick harlots...<br><br>But the Jean Seberg-haired Farmer (who started out in American drive-in flicks before becoming a European counter-culture star) always had a unique way of becoming more and more beautiful with an enigmatically intriguing, quietly brooding, mesmerizing persona: making director Barbet Schroeder's MORE more of an exotically European art-house celebration of that particularly alluring female than what's really the central male character's descent into petty crime and heavy drug addiction...</p><p><span></span></p>

barbet schroeder, counter-culture, heinz engelmann, klaus grünberg, michel chanderli, mimsy farmer, pink floyd, sixties

MIMSY FARMER BACKED BY PINK FLOYD IN THE DRUG-FUELED 'MORE'

Mimsy Farmer in MORE Year: 1969 Rating: ***1/2 By the time hitchhiking German college grad Klaus Grünberg crashes a Paris free-for-all and m...

MIMSY FARMER RIDING DANA ANDREWS IN 'HOT RODS TO HELL'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><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/AVvXsEiYo0RjSrJW_f8dAsmObDRI0lS1tdv0UeVXwyAOnTE4bZbNcyHsm3-FiZlhPs5kZk9aO8cp_ewRr4scvYGfRgtbOMzBSgDmwGK_DS18tF9YwQGLuHttMMSNftrxtgoOqIr-WNkQHvos-Gz3O-WxwSjYEcr9_8hRAlI0Z0oy7Wu9TgQl9UE3AWOJMWYrFHZb/s1338/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-10%20at%201.29.33%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="830" data-original-width="1338" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYo0RjSrJW_f8dAsmObDRI0lS1tdv0UeVXwyAOnTE4bZbNcyHsm3-FiZlhPs5kZk9aO8cp_ewRr4scvYGfRgtbOMzBSgDmwGK_DS18tF9YwQGLuHttMMSNftrxtgoOqIr-WNkQHvos-Gz3O-WxwSjYEcr9_8hRAlI0Z0oy7Wu9TgQl9UE3AWOJMWYrFHZb/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-10%20at%201.29.33%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mimy Farmer, Gene Kirkwood and Paul Bertoya in Hot Rods to Hell Year: 1966 Rating: ***1/2 </u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>"The horns blowing, the lights, the brakes," says a jaded and nerve-wracked wreck of a middle-aged former salesman Dana Andrews to wife Jeanne Crain. "Jingle bells (on the radio), the whole thing!" </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></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 HOT RODS TO HELL only <i>begins</i> as a Christmas movie after East Coast traveling-salesman Dana Andrews suffers a major car accident on December 24th, and, after months of traction, winds up with a motel in Arizona... But only IF he and his family can survive the red convertible (titular) menace with only 80 miles left to their new destination...</p><span></span>

action, cult, dana andrews, drive-in, gene kirkwood, george ives, jeanne crain, laurie mock, mimsy farmer, race, road movie, sixties

MIMSY FARMER RIDING DANA ANDREWS IN 'HOT RODS TO HELL'

Mimy Farmer, Gene Kirkwood and Paul Bertoya in Hot Rods to Hell Year: 1966 Rating: ***1/2 "The horns blowing, the lights, the brakes,...

MIMSY FARMER WITH BARRY PRIMUS INVESTIGATING 'AUTOPSY'

<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/AVvXsEgA0d3IyHvxMxeUN-C40IVxjlUUAnhBAqOxlnftnlxGTf_T3Oxj4yuVlchLYhpCFq8eCtrzGTFgFkGlBYf41EMYcRhzHwK-veMi35Rm8vqmS2Ksku6h_dCb8pmsrzoW8tRmG9XgNz5jkqiRMf9Tfl7yh1xugXhCTBMhJ-ON9ySk0OrYRVxa-p5K_YUPas74/s1600/image1786080059.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="987" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA0d3IyHvxMxeUN-C40IVxjlUUAnhBAqOxlnftnlxGTf_T3Oxj4yuVlchLYhpCFq8eCtrzGTFgFkGlBYf41EMYcRhzHwK-veMi35Rm8vqmS2Ksku6h_dCb8pmsrzoW8tRmG9XgNz5jkqiRMf9Tfl7yh1xugXhCTBMhJ-ON9ySk0OrYRVxa-p5K_YUPas74/s1600/image1786080059.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mimsy Farmer in AUTOPSY Year: 1975 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Unlucky <i>First Gir</i>l (to die)( Gaby Wagner asks Mimsy Farmer if she's American, to which Mimsy's character... a pathology doctor working in a hospital's morgue... answers that she's "half American"...<br><br>Which sums up the blonde starlet's career, starting out as guests on mainstream stateside television (from MY THREE SONS to THE FBI) to co-starring in low-budget counter-culture speeding-car flicks (<a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2024/12/wild-racers.html">THE WILD RACERS</a> to <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/12/hotRods.html">HOT RODS TO HELL</a> to <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2026/07/stripmimsy.html">RIOT ON SUNSET STRIP</a>)... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

angela goodwin, barry primus, gaby wagner, giallo, horror, italian, mimsy farmer, neo noir, ray lovelock, seventies, thriller

MIMSY FARMER WITH BARRY PRIMUS INVESTIGATING 'AUTOPSY'

Mimsy Farmer in AUTOPSY Year: 1975 Rating: *** Unlucky First Gir l (to die)( Gaby Wagner asks Mimsy Farmer if she's American, to which M...

TIM BURTON DIRECTING MICHAEL KEATON AS 'BEETLEJUICE'

<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/AVvXsEhGhg_PPdn9Uyk0DzgKlsWSG_xh-JoE00jtRKD4jn2h58xnnDmLST62IwzuxDyGA8rY1OPl5OPrYDjGJrPGLmGJIqu1qY0bFRT7HOgBqIRzgjphxb0rhfRna_HiKNxONDLbVCUqZmsDVHGkRokvV4_qt0w7NAmDDh_01cDExsPgAeBcPBQ50UgD5EQ83pHP/s2104/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-27%20at%201.19.38%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1146" data-original-width="2104" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGhg_PPdn9Uyk0DzgKlsWSG_xh-JoE00jtRKD4jn2h58xnnDmLST62IwzuxDyGA8rY1OPl5OPrYDjGJrPGLmGJIqu1qY0bFRT7HOgBqIRzgjphxb0rhfRna_HiKNxONDLbVCUqZmsDVHGkRokvV4_qt0w7NAmDDh_01cDExsPgAeBcPBQ50UgD5EQ83pHP/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-27%20at%201.19.38%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: BEETLEJUICE Year: 1988 Rating: ****1/2</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In Tim Burton's BEETLEJUICE, the King King Mark... that point when the titular creature finally shows up, in both cases exactly after forty-five minutes... provides an equal anticipation for the leading characters and the audience... <br><br>The audience is waiting for comic actor Michael Keaton to steal the movie, and the young married couple... who died and have become ghosts... needs him to save their perfect dream house... <br><span></span></p>

alec baldwin, annie mcenroe, catherine o'hara, cindy daly, comedy, dick cavett, eighties, geena davis, horror, jeffrey jones, michael keaton, simmy bow, sylvia sidney, tim burton, winona ryder

TIM BURTON DIRECTING MICHAEL KEATON AS 'BEETLEJUICE'

Title: BEETLEJUICE Year: 1988 Rating: ****1/2 In Tim Burton's BEETLEJUICE, the King King Mark... that point when the titular creature fi...

TIM BURTON DIRECTS PAUL REUBENS IN 'PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE'

<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/AVvXsEiD2HgqgjBzxCbR_DUtxABBSIAEXx8Byb3Ewse2Y7HRznNBI2Ki8H4m4m1ZLFQmagfoa1za_wfBFRr2IAWypt047sfFu8GtNfBvXPTtJlYieuPnl-Kojhyphenhyphen8Dzivw5dMDg1S1D7CO7-AdT6nOdHm_0DcMWxoiS8rIkhIqXoahHZA13cH_muYAg_x9oVzT_DJ/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-27%20at%201.06.12%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="879" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD2HgqgjBzxCbR_DUtxABBSIAEXx8Byb3Ewse2Y7HRznNBI2Ki8H4m4m1ZLFQmagfoa1za_wfBFRr2IAWypt047sfFu8GtNfBvXPTtJlYieuPnl-Kojhyphenhyphen8Dzivw5dMDg1S1D7CO7-AdT6nOdHm_0DcMWxoiS8rIkhIqXoahHZA13cH_muYAg_x9oVzT_DJ/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-27%20at%201.06.12%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE Director: Tim Burton Year: 1985 Rating: *****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Tim Burton's first feature-length movie is a perfect comedy since every part of PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE is like its very own vignette with a beginning, middle and end...<br><br>Beginning with a French bicycle-race dream sequence, introducing not only comedian/actor Paul Reuben's overly-optimistic, spastic man-child, but having him wake up in a prop-laden house that's more like a dream than a dream...</p><p><span></span></p>

comedy, diane salinger, eighties, elizabeth daily, judd omen, paul reubens, road movie, tim burton

TIM BURTON DIRECTS PAUL REUBENS IN 'PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE'

Title: PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE Director: Tim Burton Year: 1985 Rating: ***** Tim Burton's first feature-length movie is a perfect co...

PHILLAN BISHOP SCORING WILLARD HUYCK'S 'MESSIAH OF EVIL'

<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/AVvXsEj5vyhyIkZe03K3Bfp14mfj6c3BClQSrI8yU-2FL6t1N4sFfndwzWoZvzhrm_ol7S6yQI1NeuS4KRB51RXJcNCj9wZwxib2rJsxvZzJLZlO85rjOCynDovpDBL1tdrqhyphenhyphenS4VaO1ZUI0apgKRFgUZhWETIQTu-YRfRJNT93o3Rqz7-jP3Vwt_v6XLhvm8MO2/s1712/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-24%20at%204.47.51%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1082" data-original-width="1712" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5vyhyIkZe03K3Bfp14mfj6c3BClQSrI8yU-2FL6t1N4sFfndwzWoZvzhrm_ol7S6yQI1NeuS4KRB51RXJcNCj9wZwxib2rJsxvZzJLZlO85rjOCynDovpDBL1tdrqhyphenhyphenS4VaO1ZUI0apgKRFgUZhWETIQTu-YRfRJNT93o3Rqz7-jP3Vwt_v6XLhvm8MO2/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-24%20at%204.47.51%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Joy Bang in MESSIAH OF EVIL Year: 1974 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>Married filmmakers (and AMERICAN GRAFFITI co-writers) Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz's arthouse horror MESSIAH OF EVIL has hauntingly gorgeous scream-queen Marianna Hill's narrated story-line about the search for her artist father at a beach community, pieced together in long sequences of gothic dialogue, neatly combined with three of the most eerily suspenseful moments of low-budget exploitation cinema... <br><br>Wherein monotone Michael Greer seems to be the title character, a tall stranger holed-up at her missing father's pad (his journals providing exposition) with two lovely girls, Anitra Ford and Joy Bang, each making their own separate horror-trope mistake of leaving an otherwise safe location to venture out alone... in this case into the small beach town, inland from a wave-lapping, moon-lit beach...</p><p><span></span></p>

anitra ford, body count, charles dierkop, cult, gloria katz, horror, joy bang, marianna hill, michael greer, phillan bishop, seventies, walter hill, williard huyck, zombie

PHILLAN BISHOP SCORING WILLARD HUYCK'S 'MESSIAH OF EVIL'

Joy Bang in MESSIAH OF EVIL Year: 1974 Rating: **** Married filmmakers (and AMERICAN GRAFFITI co-writers) Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz'...

PHILLAN BISHOP FINISHES SCORING WITH 'KISS OF THE TARANTULA'

<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/AVvXsEhE1gXumX_ld-FfZYU0UQoN-8Une7N5n9vRiTfhehmBTqNZ_Z6cYd2V1m-pH7TjQaCtlvbqKxwa7VPWmidGtr3Twny40VcAbYvkcwRdRVNyYlJdeWSQZFgRax5vBxR5WK5jIJI-7uOe8X4trGDukN5AGFNZjj5zVntB6TMH7u1O5dvp0SP3B1NcFBC0siqA/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-22%20at%209.24.12%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="859" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE1gXumX_ld-FfZYU0UQoN-8Une7N5n9vRiTfhehmBTqNZ_Z6cYd2V1m-pH7TjQaCtlvbqKxwa7VPWmidGtr3Twny40VcAbYvkcwRdRVNyYlJdeWSQZFgRax5vBxR5WK5jIJI-7uOe8X4trGDukN5AGFNZjj5zVntB6TMH7u1O5dvp0SP3B1NcFBC0siqA/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-22%20at%209.24.12%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Suzanna Ling in KISS OF THE TARANTULA Year: 1975 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Ironic that murky synthesizer composer Phillan Bishop's last of three horror scores is the most befitting, sounding perfectly synced with the story-at-hand instead of what are his signature arcade-in-purgatory sound effects (preceded only by Les Baxter's more jarring than sinister FROGS music): that seem otherwise sporadically layered throughout...<br><br>Beginning with an actual organ in-place of the strange Moog noises, the ongoing thematic melody is a hybrid of children's lullaby and funeral dirge... the latter befitting a troubled, lonely but insanely gorgeous girl named Susan: shown at three different ages, the daughter of a manor-dwelling mortician...</p><p><span></span></p>

body count, creature, ernesto macias, horror, phillan bishop, revenge, seventies, thriller

PHILLAN BISHOP FINISHES SCORING WITH 'KISS OF THE TARANTULA'

Suzanna Ling in KISS OF THE TARANTULA Year: 1975 Rating: ***1/2 Ironic that murky synthesizer composer Phillan Bishop's last of three ho...

PHILLAN BISHOP SCORING 1973 PROTO-SLASHER 'THE SEVERED ARM'

<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/AVvXsEgZZPyFchHHYIbEf2jaRDZA0HBm0wX5AyjeibbE7mcb43VzEhL5neHZDKBvQj3AAZoTA0nYp9Gpb7fOm5XT6O4U-klkTwQ607lKU8UavIaOj_DJK-wD4_zoEwRxD8LPOByJlkW3Lqtaf1PDsmlKUXtvdPcV_NeJy_DFYAc57vdRkrLZZ987KDqTz4_lXMjC/s1306/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-22%20at%205.24.40%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="794" data-original-width="1306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZZPyFchHHYIbEf2jaRDZA0HBm0wX5AyjeibbE7mcb43VzEhL5neHZDKBvQj3AAZoTA0nYp9Gpb7fOm5XT6O4U-klkTwQ607lKU8UavIaOj_DJK-wD4_zoEwRxD8LPOByJlkW3Lqtaf1PDsmlKUXtvdPcV_NeJy_DFYAc57vdRkrLZZ987KDqTz4_lXMjC/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-22%20at%205.24.40%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Deborah Walley channeling </u><u>Cynthia Gabrielle</u><u> in THE SEVERED ARM Year: 1973 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>A year before the groundbreaking TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE that ignited the slather genre, a super low-budget drive-in feature aptly titled THE SEVERED ARM came and went... and had actual legitimate actors including GIDGET GOES HAWAIIAN starlet Deborah Whalley, STAR TREK 2nd-pilot lieutenant Paul Carr and <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/03/HellisACity.html">John Crawford</a>, an American bit player who had previously headlined in British b-crimers... <br><br>Then there's the most familiar in comic Marvin Kaplan and semi-familiar character-actor Vince Martorano, who, along with <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/08/AirPATROL.html">Maury Dexter walk-on Ray Dannis</a> and this production's co-producer David G. Cannon, the most ridiculous aspect sets up the entire ultra-violent revenge-driven plot-line...</p><p><span></span></p>

deborah walley, exploitation, john crawford, marvin kaplan, paul carr, phillan bishop, ray dannis, seventies, slasher, vince martorano

PHILLAN BISHOP SCORING 1973 PROTO-SLASHER 'THE SEVERED ARM'

Deborah Walley channeling  Cynthia Gabrielle in THE SEVERED ARM Year: 1973 Rating: **** A year before the groundbreaking TEXAS CHAINSAW MAS...

SAM NEILL, NICOLE KIDMAN & BILLY ZANE STORMING 'DEAD CALM'

<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/AVvXsEhpeYQ1ek-nfdTPnHyoap3IQSiyfg97kdqcWwUwoeYgwh285qDMIb3anFzJYYPOCUnKbedKqe_piOYxj6FOEVy7LUjtgz0dEsxROYte6lexhXe7NeVcwTPLA3ZJ7zDuy9slB3ELwKqRyjaM8lO7oaPHmILcPU_KZgT5D-pcniE_wzliexzw3sKzJA6VWVdD/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-18%20at%2011.46.49%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="946" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpeYQ1ek-nfdTPnHyoap3IQSiyfg97kdqcWwUwoeYgwh285qDMIb3anFzJYYPOCUnKbedKqe_piOYxj6FOEVy7LUjtgz0dEsxROYte6lexhXe7NeVcwTPLA3ZJ7zDuy9slB3ELwKqRyjaM8lO7oaPHmILcPU_KZgT5D-pcniE_wzliexzw3sKzJA6VWVdD/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-18%20at%2011.46.49%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sam Neill in DEAD CALM Year: 1989 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Something about the deep ocean makes Billy Zane quite a villain: as DEAD CALM was a decade before being more antagonistic than the iceberg in TITANIC... but he has a lot more menacing fun here in what's basically an oceanic home-invasion thriller following a rather rushed, melodramatic (and somewhat disconnected) set-up where Navy lifer Sam Neill returns home, only to find his wife in the hospital after a car accident killed their child, and his reactions are surprisingly aloof... </p><p>Even when Billy Zane eventually rows over to the couple's literal dream-boat... but Sam has his very own separated Jack London-esque survival tale (directed by producer George Miller instead of Philip Noyce) on the slowly sinking, corpse-filled ghost ship that Zane had abandoned... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

billy zane, eighties, george miller, horror, nicole kidman, philip noyce, sam neill, thriller

SAM NEILL, NICOLE KIDMAN & BILLY ZANE STORMING 'DEAD CALM'

Sam Neill in DEAD CALM Year: 1989 Rating: ***1/2 Something about the deep ocean makes Billy Zane quite a villain: as DEAD CALM was a decade ...

PAUL JONES WITH PINK FLOYD GATHERING FOR 'THE COMMITTEE'

<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/AVvXsEgG3jjZYfg332nCaLpKofjfiho91CT4dfv06Br0oPJRDCyE7ABLgWNR7U-AuCIciW-XAVGN70VVEfBGFxjCOosyWZ8nEaGWTB1Unj_Nu3IVA9ZIg7gRkDV8gzk-k6IKwJe_Tj0AsZe1nWw0x10XlDPjxQz3VD2pg20k_E0p_05h87kiDur9GVLgHP8UkCh-/s1718/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-18%20at%2010.22.06%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1042" data-original-width="1718" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG3jjZYfg332nCaLpKofjfiho91CT4dfv06Br0oPJRDCyE7ABLgWNR7U-AuCIciW-XAVGN70VVEfBGFxjCOosyWZ8nEaGWTB1Unj_Nu3IVA9ZIg7gRkDV8gzk-k6IKwJe_Tj0AsZe1nWw0x10XlDPjxQz3VD2pg20k_E0p_05h87kiDur9GVLgHP8UkCh-/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-18%20at%2010.22.06%20PM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Paul Jones and Robert Langdon Lloyd in THE COMMITTEE</u><u> Year: 1968 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Best known for being the first Pink Floyd soundtrack, director Peter Sykes's surreal British New Wave THE COMMITTEE feels like a ten-minute concept stretched to an hour... but never drags and has some terrific locations ranging from working-class city to gothic-manor rural...<br><br>As Floyd's music, other than sporadic mood-piece fillers (with moments foreshadowing <i>'Careful With That Axe Eugene</i>), consists of one nifty jam at different speeds... the first is faster-paced, inside a run-of-the-mill/mundane corporate filing room (artistic for the sake of being filmed), where former Manfred Mann singer turned actor Paul Jones works...</p><p><span></span></p>

arthouse, british neo noir, jimmy gardner, paul jones, pauline munro, peter sykes, pink floyd, robert langdon lloyd, sixties, tom kempinski

PAUL JONES WITH PINK FLOYD GATHERING FOR 'THE COMMITTEE'

Paul Jones and Robert Langdon Lloyd in THE COMMITTEE Year: 1968 Rating: *** Best known for being the first Pink Floyd soundtrack, director ...

GREGORY PECK FATHERS DEMONIC HARVEY STEPHENS IN 'THE OMEN'

<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/AVvXsEhsD5-liIPZmdp4k9n7vu6xhmeKg_lC6qBpKFic4zbE_Axk-jph5mISxAeGONXSakd8U4QeyhAcpLfizhvHRuG0-oy5sWDrcli1ibEGAXgtJmuZn3gbIKjXfiVsTNGQw7yLcm8zX4PjoXnTaWZxcC1jJmJHYquS4qK-qEtupJNsLZq0e9-Nk8TAOY4yLY7M/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-16%20at%2012.16.27%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="898" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsD5-liIPZmdp4k9n7vu6xhmeKg_lC6qBpKFic4zbE_Axk-jph5mISxAeGONXSakd8U4QeyhAcpLfizhvHRuG0-oy5sWDrcli1ibEGAXgtJmuZn3gbIKjXfiVsTNGQw7yLcm8zX4PjoXnTaWZxcC1jJmJHYquS4qK-qEtupJNsLZq0e9-Nk8TAOY4yLY7M/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-16%20at%2012.16.27%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE OMEN Year: 1976 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>What's a b-movie in a-list clothing, with fantastic widescreen photography and a cinematic hybrid of THE EXORCIST Cursed American Gothic and Adventurous Iraq sequences, the main problem of Richard Donner's THE OMEN is that legendary actor Gregory Peck is far too important to the story, leaving that demonic son-of-Satan more of a sporadic guest star than the lead of his very own feature...<br><br>While Linda Blair was interrupted by long stretches of dialogue between Ellen Burstyn and Jason Miller, their input served (and was combined with) her own particular situation... meanwhile, devilish-looking Harvey Stephens (hardly paying dues like Linda) is absent for too long a time, particularly as the second act morphs into the third...  <br></p><p><span></span></p>

billie whitelaw, david warner, franchise, gregory peck, holly palance, horror, lee remick, leo mckern, martin benson, patrick troughton, richard donner, seventies, thriller

GREGORY PECK FATHERS DEMONIC HARVEY STEPHENS IN 'THE OMEN'

Title: THE OMEN Year: 1976 Rating: **1/2 What's a b-movie in a-list clothing, with fantastic widescreen photography and a cinematic hybr...

JONATHAN SCOTT-TAYLOR DEVILS DESTINY FOR 'DAMIEN: OMEN 2'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwJTIfqT54G_nqT4KOjhM4gp-190HNLVkZFXjExDvUQfo9_3HO62tPuaXwOKoVB0NkFBXxvzFTSAGbdjRVwNSDnJAqp3Z-93xy4UJklDfMLqvK13YZJisUKMKGW7_cKVMQJq0gUgQPSA3krd9tmYa2luC9vXNV0L1OxsEzmN7eBNwTOKwxiPtyEwAuGx7Y/s2018/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-14%20at%2012.38.32%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="888" data-original-width="2018" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwJTIfqT54G_nqT4KOjhM4gp-190HNLVkZFXjExDvUQfo9_3HO62tPuaXwOKoVB0NkFBXxvzFTSAGbdjRVwNSDnJAqp3Z-93xy4UJklDfMLqvK13YZJisUKMKGW7_cKVMQJq0gUgQPSA3krd9tmYa2luC9vXNV0L1OxsEzmN7eBNwTOKwxiPtyEwAuGx7Y/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-14%20at%2012.38.32%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jonathan Scott-Taylor in DAMIEN: OMEN 2 Rates: ****</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Just as pint-sized demonic toddler Damien Thorn from <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2026/07/omen.html">THE OMEN</a> (inspired by Linda Blair from THE EXORCIST) grew up into a young military school teenager for DAMIEN: OMEN 2, the demonic horror genre progresses into a slow-burn body-count thriller, more violently meticulous than suspensefully-spooky, and ultimately pretty satisfying...<br><br>And it's all the work of two directors, initially shot by <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/12/getCarter.html">GET CARTER</a> British auteur Mike Hodges before being replaced (with some scenes reshot) by <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2024/04/escAPE.html">ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES'</a> Don Taylor... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

allan arbus, body count, don taylor, elizabeth sheperd, franchise, horror, lance henriksen, lee grant, lew ayres, mike hodges, robert foxworth, sylvia sidney, thriller, william holden

JONATHAN SCOTT-TAYLOR DEVILS DESTINY FOR 'DAMIEN: OMEN 2'

Jonathan Scott-Taylor in DAMIEN: OMEN 2 Rates: **** Just as pint-sized demonic toddler Damien Thorn from THE OMEN (inspired by Linda Blair ...

SAM NEILL REPOSSESSES DAMIEN THORN IN 'THE FINAL CONFLICT'

<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/AVvXsEgxNp-76CyGBLuViRcxOz89z4ZVuTJ2YHNCqKIc4wKK_Pq_F745cKpXEP80qZDE7LayhztA_Dxhq-Y36FS1UNGN-YRoNGvCTU0DiN-i0cIZKT8Fhcy0thODeWUmLLSp6tWdXtT5LVu0V5YAERLGKtxP-oo1EnNZCipBKy6-NR46gxBPw8OlSFYDtXO9MVCw/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-13%20at%204.20.56%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="947" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxNp-76CyGBLuViRcxOz89z4ZVuTJ2YHNCqKIc4wKK_Pq_F745cKpXEP80qZDE7LayhztA_Dxhq-Y36FS1UNGN-YRoNGvCTU0DiN-i0cIZKT8Fhcy0thODeWUmLLSp6tWdXtT5LVu0V5YAERLGKtxP-oo1EnNZCipBKy6-NR46gxBPw8OlSFYDtXO9MVCw/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-13%20at%204.20.56%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sam Neill in THE FINAL CONFLICT Year: 1981 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Ultimately more of a science-fiction thriller than what began <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2026/07/omen.html">THE OMEN</a> franchise with an EXORCIST-style chiller, THE FINAL CONFLICT is connected tighter with the arguably superior <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2026/07/Omen2.html">OMEN 2</a>, providing murky, ominously-shot, widescreen body-count deaths beyond the rudimentary feature's formidable lurking horror...<br><br>Particularly effective here because of the superior casting of Sam Neill as an older, more experienced, wealthier and deeply possessed Damian Thorn, who... with a haircut hybrid of Adolf Hitler and a Satanic mannequin... runs his titular industry while having meetings with the literal President of the United States... </p><span></span>

body count, don gordon, eighties, franchise, horror, leueen willoughby, lisa harrow, robert arden, sam neill, thriller

SAM NEILL REPOSSESSES DAMIEN THORN IN 'THE FINAL CONFLICT'

Sam Neill in THE FINAL CONFLICT Year: 1981 Rating: ***1/2 Ultimately more of a science-fiction thriller than what began THE OMEN franchise ...

SAM NEILL RETURNING AS ALAN GRANT FOR 'JURASSIC PARK III'

<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/AVvXsEjsCOcfRY_3HJ65n64Yc629qbSxVkakCu8JMqyjYA6XXKDyxDANGHfMVSEEt0WJcc8Wtw_ZkJ5vL_SjfrKtgaor6YWtnDphns6bRDIluB3ZixHkh5sR635PVwXriOi3qaj0dMjXVWnMAgNMN8TY6NYVQVMlUAq1NyhnY0qAXlhwn-64es8CKbBsWZQsHsLB/s1562/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-13%20at%201.33.46%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="926" data-original-width="1562" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsCOcfRY_3HJ65n64Yc629qbSxVkakCu8JMqyjYA6XXKDyxDANGHfMVSEEt0WJcc8Wtw_ZkJ5vL_SjfrKtgaor6YWtnDphns6bRDIluB3ZixHkh5sR635PVwXriOi3qaj0dMjXVWnMAgNMN8TY6NYVQVMlUAq1NyhnY0qAXlhwn-64es8CKbBsWZQsHsLB/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-13%20at%201.33.46%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sam Neill in JURASSIC PARK III Year: 2001 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Everyone remembers that Jeff Goldblum was the scene-stealing comic relief (who could also be pretty serious) in Steven Spielberg's blockbuster comeback JURASSIC PARK... <br><br>But he didn't fare so well in the complicated sequel, because when involving Michael Crichton's dinosaurs being brought back to dangerous life, you need the befitting fedora-wearing dinosaur expert...</p><p><span></span></p>

2001, adventure, body count, bruce a. young, dinosaur, franchise, john diehl, michael jeter, sam neill, trevor morgan, william h. macy, zeroes

SAM NEILL RETURNING AS ALAN GRANT FOR 'JURASSIC PARK III'

Sam Neill in JURASSIC PARK III Year: 2001 Rating: ***1/2 Everyone remembers that Jeff Goldblum was the scene-stealing comic relief (who coul...

ROBERT BLAKE & ROBERT REDFORD 'TELL THEM WILLIE BOY IS HERE'

<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/AVvXsEgqNYw0llRtahY7fLFsOYQRkVo2VtNDVkLYsXUIod1Wsat5Tw9vmMPKXtkpyLn_iogdbbsjwvorUyonUsNaEnuirKyLDGoxkD3SFzvYPWY53CXAPFTcEKuoPGTP9c3C3zqMUhe3Jjp2AvbbyGcx4X6374FY2ZFGv-tMC8xwlCz5s-k40ZyDVpjPRlf9jWhW/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-08%20at%205.36.15%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="774" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqNYw0llRtahY7fLFsOYQRkVo2VtNDVkLYsXUIod1Wsat5Tw9vmMPKXtkpyLn_iogdbbsjwvorUyonUsNaEnuirKyLDGoxkD3SFzvYPWY53CXAPFTcEKuoPGTP9c3C3zqMUhe3Jjp2AvbbyGcx4X6374FY2ZFGv-tMC8xwlCz5s-k40ZyDVpjPRlf9jWhW/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-08%20at%205.36.15%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert Blake in TELL THEM WILLIE BOY IS HERE Year: 1969 Rating: **</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Having literally grew up playing Indian boy Little Beaver for the RED RYDER serial, and then half-Cherokee killer reigniting his adult career in IN COLD BLOOD, Robert Blake displays his usual charismatic gusto, here as a roguish member of the Paiute tribe and the titular character in TELL THEM WILLIE BOY IS HERE, hunted by a posse led by generational Indian-hunter Robert Redford in the early 1900's... <br><br>Had WILLIE pitted only Blake vs Redford, cutting from hunter vs hunted, it might have been the kind of Western road movie like Robert's own posse-hunting game-changer BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID... that also had a lot of characters but only centered on what and who's really important...</p><p><span></span></p>

barry sullivan, indians, john vernon, katharine ross, robert blake, robert redford, sixties, western

ROBERT BLAKE & ROBERT REDFORD 'TELL THEM WILLIE BOY IS HERE'

Robert Blake in TELL THEM WILLIE BOY IS HERE Year: 1969 Rating: ** Having literally grew up playing Indian boy Little Beaver for the RED RYD...

ROBERT BLAKE COPPING THE COP CLASSIC 'ELECTRA GLIDE IN BLUE'

<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/AVvXsEjuk-bDsvzcI9-VPI05Sgzp4niDUp44OIjkOM3LK0NP6_9IsvlzSvUjTJFl3t986lkVzxOFS2pp29E2yQ5cphVqanwWgZH_H1lwFGWatDSpDB4Pr3r5AUZkDBPpKGO1dWonGoKKThnlt-nQcEiJw_UZF1WalMIrWiWEfrUxhGaC-CQgtaV6zvA6YKC_99Dd/s1806/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-07%20at%209.52.51%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="804" data-original-width="1806" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuk-bDsvzcI9-VPI05Sgzp4niDUp44OIjkOM3LK0NP6_9IsvlzSvUjTJFl3t986lkVzxOFS2pp29E2yQ5cphVqanwWgZH_H1lwFGWatDSpDB4Pr3r5AUZkDBPpKGO1dWonGoKKThnlt-nQcEiJw_UZF1WalMIrWiWEfrUxhGaC-CQgtaV6zvA6YKC_99Dd/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-07%20at%209.52.51%20PM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>title: ELECTRA GLIDE IN BLUE year: 1973 rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In 1973, cops got their very own EASY RIDER in ELECTRA GLIDE IN BLUE, both involving gorgeous, travelogue motorcycle rides past canyon horizons while the latter remains in one location — that seems eternal...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>As first-time director and cowboy movie lover James William Guercio... manager of the band Chicago... gets the best from Arizona's Monument Valley, where John Ford shot many John Wayne epics... </p><p><span></span></p>

action, billy green bush, cop, counter-culture, cult, mitchell ryan, modern western, nick nolte, robert blake, seventies

ROBERT BLAKE COPPING THE COP CLASSIC 'ELECTRA GLIDE IN BLUE'

title: ELECTRA GLIDE IN BLUE year: 1973 rating: ****1/2 In 1973, cops got their very own EASY RIDER in ELECTRA GLIDE IN BLUE, both involving...

ROBERT BLAKE CRASHING 'CORKY' WITH CHARLOTTE RAMPLING

<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/AVvXsEj7lgxk0T-1tTzi2tHTxWCNhvGgovy6-orNwAq4L5oB2hr8M9NWtJ6MkZUsX_dRqB_EMcPtMm5-VjIQFifs0G7-SEROyV-BEZmbwqj_CALmH9no5ZSc0oIoM4GmdDFwe_QaUc_VitrSp5RnpNN-7jVauAJlxtLeUNNP1UtdmHfIff0Ln4XEr-6y4j-bxuB0/s1556/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-06%20at%204.35.40%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="964" data-original-width="1556" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7lgxk0T-1tTzi2tHTxWCNhvGgovy6-orNwAq4L5oB2hr8M9NWtJ6MkZUsX_dRqB_EMcPtMm5-VjIQFifs0G7-SEROyV-BEZmbwqj_CALmH9no5ZSc0oIoM4GmdDFwe_QaUc_VitrSp5RnpNN-7jVauAJlxtLeUNNP1UtdmHfIff0Ln4XEr-6y4j-bxuB0/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-06%20at%204.35.40%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert Blake in CORKY Year: 1973 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>An early 1970's hybrid of small-town-dragster TWO LANE BLACKTOP, centering on two young motorheads rolling in a souped-up hot rod, and the exposition-through-flashback IN COLD BLOOD: as CORKY also stars Robert Blake, here as a spitfire Southerner yearning to become a stock car driving champion, before eventually getting lethal... <br><br>Which occurs in the last ten minutes, feeling more like the beginning of the final act instead of the entire movie's violent conclusion in what's an otherwise creatively-shot, open road exploitation where an intense and free-wheeling, strangely optimistic yet equally brooding Blake is surrounded by some topnotch actors...</p><p><span></span></p>

ben johnson, charlotte rampling, christopher connelly, exploitation, john gruber, laurence luckinbill, pamela payton-wright, patrick o'neal, race car, road movie, robert blake, seventies

ROBERT BLAKE CRASHING 'CORKY' WITH CHARLOTTE RAMPLING

Robert Blake in CORKY Year: 1973 Rating: ***1/2 An early 1970's hybrid of small-town-dragster TWO LANE BLACKTOP, centering on two young ...

NOIRISH JOHN SAXON FINGERS ROSEY GRIER WEARING 'THE GLOVE'

<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/AVvXsEgQRPgFap32KeVfLLgEk8cQQ2B541pzYCUy8Sp8IlxmrDGi_XzHRgNWLnnEVacv-B88m2yw3r2SkEFSPFUbza4mfza_AqA12jpR8TZo4vra5iDDrASgL81OW881jBuJ3TnmxP-y9cApr2J6BIQjGGQIEzUf_i_z9qIbYvYp_b9TZyE65bwqSJvJwihQMytG/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-09%20at%2010.53.51%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="938" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQRPgFap32KeVfLLgEk8cQQ2B541pzYCUy8Sp8IlxmrDGi_XzHRgNWLnnEVacv-B88m2yw3r2SkEFSPFUbza4mfza_AqA12jpR8TZo4vra5iDDrASgL81OW881jBuJ3TnmxP-y9cApr2J6BIQjGGQIEzUf_i_z9qIbYvYp_b9TZyE65bwqSJvJwihQMytG/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-09%20at%2010.53.51%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE GLOVE Year: 1979 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Ross Hagen's THE GLOVE seems like a latter blaxploitation that got away, opening with a song crooned in a bluesy/somber voice... and then opening with muscular white veteran actor Aldo Ray... <br><br>Who's just off work as prison guard, soon attacked in a parked car while a giant black man beats him to a bloody pulp with that titular riot glove... a steely device that can even punch through metal...  <br></p><p><span></span></p>

aldo ray, blaxploitation, bounty hunter, candace bowen, howard honig, jack carter, joan blondell, joanna cassidy, john saxon, michael pataki, neo noir, rosey grier, ross hagen, seventies

NOIRISH JOHN SAXON FINGERS ROSEY GRIER WEARING 'THE GLOVE'

Title: THE GLOVE Year: 1979 Rating: **** Ross Hagen's THE GLOVE seems like a latter blaxploitation that got away, opening with a song cr...

JEAN GILLIE ALMOST REVIVING ROBERT ARMSTRONG IN 'DECOY'

<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/AVvXsEgskYcimO7ZyXrHvV5IdaA1A5l6IQM7m5-2T9jT2qCBRQatoppwuxodH3VibJDsMpRosMRnICwxg8q5Jp_T1Sd21z6Wpcim9ztQ-1lutpcUGApC5cAnEpoWbE2aMuIQbsaQlVto4NfGS1UzDPZva8BbGlxYXer54fHFi5zlDDP0aALsodHcLeakMZIHc_6b/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-20%20at%2012.59.37%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1137" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgskYcimO7ZyXrHvV5IdaA1A5l6IQM7m5-2T9jT2qCBRQatoppwuxodH3VibJDsMpRosMRnICwxg8q5Jp_T1Sd21z6Wpcim9ztQ-1lutpcUGApC5cAnEpoWbE2aMuIQbsaQlVto4NfGS1UzDPZva8BbGlxYXer54fHFi5zlDDP0aALsodHcLeakMZIHc_6b/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-20%20at%2012.59.37%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1946 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>There's a kind of unwritten law in movies, that when a character gets extremely physically injured, and recovers, they most likely won't wind up dying later... since the audience already went through the ringer, their death would be both anticlimactic and tedious: which has never been truer than the bizarre film noir thriller DECOY that's equally science-fiction: involving a chemical that can bring someone back from being executed in the gas chamber...<br><br>An antidote that makes fourth-billed doctor Robert Hudley the male lead, despite two other fellas looking (and acting) too much alike: so weaselly crook Edward Norris and deceptively-tricky detective Sheldon Leonard really get in the way of who the ambiguously-driven doctor should have dealt with alone...</p><p><span></span></p>

edward norris, film noir or melodrama, forties, heist, herbert rudley, jean gillie, marjorie woodworth, robert armstrong, sheldon leonard

JEAN GILLIE ALMOST REVIVING ROBERT ARMSTRONG IN 'DECOY'

Year: 1946 Rating: **1/2 There's a kind of unwritten law in movies, that when a character gets extremely physically injured, and recover...

ALAN LADD, VERONICA LAKE & LAIRD CREGAR 'THIS GUN FOR HIRE'

<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/AVvXsEh2kyy0jHVzTtRKPd3pGNWyadyz5rOxSFOOCIvi41wTZOAW7EXjCk8nRN3D_uWkr0ZLrJo4NCzxoCwF_q6hjW1wOxe3pzqft1fsU0DUxIddig4XjCQZ_B44qGJInV7GtTAEOtUOTkKd1eiSH3Li-wrrisuf3PhJxqsQUNsJokMq3kMSIMpnQ_4L4fPTw1Ml/s1532/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-03%20at%2012.40.27%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1532" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2kyy0jHVzTtRKPd3pGNWyadyz5rOxSFOOCIvi41wTZOAW7EXjCk8nRN3D_uWkr0ZLrJo4NCzxoCwF_q6hjW1wOxe3pzqft1fsU0DUxIddig4XjCQZ_B44qGJInV7GtTAEOtUOTkKd1eiSH3Li-wrrisuf3PhJxqsQUNsJokMq3kMSIMpnQ_4L4fPTw1Ml/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-03%20at%2012.40.27%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1942 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Then-newcomer Alan Ladd's first and best collaboration with equally diminutive and great-looking Veronica Lake, in THIS GUN'S FOR HIRE he hardly speaks a word... the characterization of paid hit-man Philip Raven's etched upon a narrowed, coolly serious expression while he murders crooked targets while protecting a crippled girl and a kitten...<br><br>That alone providing what's a proto-noir ambiguous-criminal template for a bad guy's who's really not that bad... especially compared to genuine antagonist Laird Cregar's scene-stealing overweight middleman Willard Gates, an American traitor assisted by more creatively hands-on-ruthless Marc Lawrence...</p><p><span></span></p>

film noir or melodrama, forties, harry shannon, laird cregar, marc lawrence, pamela blake, robert preston, veronica lake

ALAN LADD, VERONICA LAKE & LAIRD CREGAR 'THIS GUN FOR HIRE'

Year: 1942 Rating: **** Then-newcomer Alan Ladd's first and best collaboration with equally diminutive and great-looking Veronica Lake, ...

RICARDO MONTALBAN WITH BRUCE BENNETT IN 'MYSTERY STREET'

<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/AVvXsEgQPxLjvir6Sq6o-SK6TtFlXAyg6AL1rdpHl7Zo5xOMnKwmBn9cTLtF2R8EwI7ghp96FLx_efNt822exRJePQntBGQTzP2KiYCEHDEnWFYmyUIyVIGTsN-PZ6j4eVMUfGFkQ28syTGj1bDxMqSFqs-WuKZJUSmOlU3kSD7YAzBg0xvaG8ozXHnRf1T2imPt/s2078/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-18%20at%201.15.28%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1222" data-original-width="2078" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQPxLjvir6Sq6o-SK6TtFlXAyg6AL1rdpHl7Zo5xOMnKwmBn9cTLtF2R8EwI7ghp96FLx_efNt822exRJePQntBGQTzP2KiYCEHDEnWFYmyUIyVIGTsN-PZ6j4eVMUfGFkQ28syTGj1bDxMqSFqs-WuKZJUSmOlU3kSD7YAzBg0xvaG8ozXHnRf1T2imPt/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-18%20at%201.15.28%20PM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1950 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>When debt-ridden Jan Sterling... in an apartment complex where lovely single ladies exist under the bickering rule of middle-aged Elsa Lanchester... walks down the stairs to make an enigmatic phone call, not only does MYSTERY STREET begin, but it could have been another movie entirely...<br><br>After Sterling meets up with drunken married Marshall Thompson, driving him through rural back-roads before stealing the car and getting murdered, what follows is tighter and meticulously by-the-book...</p><p><span></span></p>

besty blair, bruce bennett, cop, edmon ryan, elsa lanchester, fifties, film noir or melodrama, jan sterling, marshall thompson, ricardo montalban, sally forrest, wrong man

RICARDO MONTALBAN WITH BRUCE BENNETT IN 'MYSTERY STREET'

Year: 1950 Rating: **** When debt-ridden Jan Sterling... in an apartment complex where lovely single ladies exist under the bickering rule o...

ROBERT MITCHUM FOLLOWS JANE GREER THROUGH 'OUT OF THE PAST'

<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/AVvXsEg8tZp-qryGySgdE4HxTTQEfZlFZ1ferJnbO1YzYzvx6CV07OCNII83pIuaGUN8GOCqw7geZbKxDYcUwbAUCLUh_EmOx9v0pRvMvQjJnWaak4jwHpjkZMzarMf45cPMFFC8AIN78y3aKUh8H_mh5H95lQ26fpH9oPBkF1nD1tcztHxJh2kvarmlFJmcvdE5/s2104/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-13%20at%2012.51.40%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1308" data-original-width="2104" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8tZp-qryGySgdE4HxTTQEfZlFZ1ferJnbO1YzYzvx6CV07OCNII83pIuaGUN8GOCqw7geZbKxDYcUwbAUCLUh_EmOx9v0pRvMvQjJnWaak4jwHpjkZMzarMf45cPMFFC8AIN78y3aKUh8H_mh5H95lQ26fpH9oPBkF1nD1tcztHxJh2kvarmlFJmcvdE5/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-13%20at%2012.51.40%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1948 Rating: ***1/2</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In Robert Siodmak's multi-tier film noir THE KILLERS, city-dwelling crime boss Albert Dekker recognizes former crooked colleague Burt Lancaster working in a rural, woodsy-located gas station, pulling the handsome <i>femme-fatale-smitten</i> anti-hero back into danger throughout a series of expository flashbacks... </p><p></p><p>Exactly what ignites Jacques Tourneur's tour-de-force crime-melodrama OUT OF THE PAST, only it's towering goon Paul Valentine who finds Robert Mitchum, who is — unlike Lancaster — very much alive throughout... </p><p><span></span></p>

film noir or melodrama, forties, jacques tourneur, jane greer, kirk douglas, paul valentine, rhonda fleming, robert mitchum, steve brodie, virginia huston

ROBERT MITCHUM FOLLOWS JANE GREER THROUGH 'OUT OF THE PAST'

Year: 1948 Rating: ***1/2 In Robert Siodmak's multi-tier film noir THE KILLERS, city-dwelling crime boss Albert Dekker recognizes former...

ROBERT MITCHUM, JANE GREER & WILLIAM BENDIX 'THE BIG STEAL'

<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/AVvXsEj3fcUyEfvqI1EwtS8me7iMjiKICH4cp6mAYgy1LiQmGPPR4uHIqtpGX9OGe38WnYMOQ_QBM310XuLI6eNtVi3URa7ru5aBA_HJ0sqCirSPzbkqk_X93eWO3FNogj3LFocvwTewMH4CTBKfdgLBSrZCvAuxdCgWWAhyphenhyphenGybAYmQoPDSrIMGE0drABk2wG5XB/s2070/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-12%20at%203.06.46%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1330" data-original-width="2070" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3fcUyEfvqI1EwtS8me7iMjiKICH4cp6mAYgy1LiQmGPPR4uHIqtpGX9OGe38WnYMOQ_QBM310XuLI6eNtVi3URa7ru5aBA_HJ0sqCirSPzbkqk_X93eWO3FNogj3LFocvwTewMH4CTBKfdgLBSrZCvAuxdCgWWAhyphenhyphenGybAYmQoPDSrIMGE0drABk2wG5XB/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-12%20at%203.06.46%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1949 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In one scene towards the end of director Don Siegel's THE BIG STEAL, Robert Mitchum and reunited OUT OF THE PAST starlet Jane Greer are pulled over in their Mexico-traipsing vehicle, and have some involving dialogue with some Spanish locales... and there's finally some chemistry between the two leads... <br><br>Otherwise it's more of an action crime caper that, while semi-decently flowing from one fast-paced scene to the next... and featuring William Bendix as a cop following Mitchum's cop... there's way too many distracting (and cheap-looking) rear-projected scenes during perpetual car chases... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

action, don siegel, film noir or melodrama, forties, howard hughes, jane greer, patric knowles, ramon navarro, robert mitchum, william bendix, wrong man

ROBERT MITCHUM, JANE GREER & WILLIAM BENDIX 'THE BIG STEAL'

Year: 1949 Rating: **1/2 In one scene towards the end of director Don Siegel's THE BIG STEAL, Robert Mitchum and reunited OUT OF THE PAS...

ROBERT MITCHUM BUSTING ROBERT RYAN THROUGH 'THE RACKET'

<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/AVvXsEiN_MwZkYPi3o1d3NfCNCWtpJqRfdhzHR9Zouri9kYQarZOcb-iJybj1A10UaaO2h05KypREwsvWNfv64s-w20G4g0k65kS7aq9GbDHxAGcM6JJQsAw6ueaKC1irb5VA2UptOVxS1UMSHepXizDBogiUfCM-NplLy9BPZZsbf4b79IfQg7Bkdktdohb4510/s1486/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.54.39%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1032" data-original-width="1486" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN_MwZkYPi3o1d3NfCNCWtpJqRfdhzHR9Zouri9kYQarZOcb-iJybj1A10UaaO2h05KypREwsvWNfv64s-w20G4g0k65kS7aq9GbDHxAGcM6JJQsAw6ueaKC1irb5VA2UptOVxS1UMSHepXizDBogiUfCM-NplLy9BPZZsbf4b79IfQg7Bkdktdohb4510/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.54.39%20PM.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Joyce Mackenzie and Robert Mitchum in THE RACKET Year: 1951 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p></p><p>Based on a let's-fight-city-corruption picture from 1928, and remade to center on a then-current anti-mafia-probe, it's no wonder that RKO's THE RACKET plays out so deliberately over-the-top, where Robert Ryan not only openly admits to being the head of an illegal/totally corrupt syndicate, but shoots and kills an honest lawman right inside a police station... with a cub reporter witness only inches away...<br /><br />In that, Ryan gets most of the praise for a performance that's more 1930's teeth-clenching gangbusters than subtle 1950's noir, which, for the lack of alleyway shadows and femme fatales, many claim this feature as being something other than... <br /></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/AVvXsEgZJPXYN0Tfu2zScGp59R0YYNB_OVF2twXyCrld1tTbkSXthSvojmDbRAmZ1Bhyphenhyphen-ga5NyESJ8kPp6JaNvavNtGZ2FnIGf9OqgTvMC89f_xgHN0wO2A-xZZfzjy3T-qMXkMYHQBEc86an_YUKYigvxz_kP_952H2CUz5zl6LZyk49xNpMTGJ96fF1S-oIDEZ/s1128/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.33.40%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="666" data-original-width="1128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZJPXYN0Tfu2zScGp59R0YYNB_OVF2twXyCrld1tTbkSXthSvojmDbRAmZ1Bhyphenhyphen-ga5NyESJ8kPp6JaNvavNtGZ2FnIGf9OqgTvMC89f_xgHN0wO2A-xZZfzjy3T-qMXkMYHQBEc86an_YUKYigvxz_kP_952H2CUz5zl6LZyk49xNpMTGJ96fF1S-oIDEZ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.33.40%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert Mitchum and Robert Ryan in THE RACKET</u><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Which is an ongoing/never-ending debate on any b-crimer that isn't dreamily melodramatic the likes of OUT OF THE PAST... segwaying into the other Robert here in Robert Mitchum, the star of several Howard Hughes productions, where, on the heels of playing likable losers in THIS KIND OF WOMAN and THE BIG STEAL, this is his most solidly straightforward performance... <br /><br />As a police chief the syndicate moves around in order to never press permanent charges, and with scene-stealing/ideal-driven good cop William Talman by his side, Mitchum doesn't simply breeze around with his handsome slow-burn cool, but really fits the part with both feet planted firmly on the ground...  </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/AVvXsEiYr3JQVCeCOLim5s1d9fJ3V_XHcxgnKzRzkKv62HNg9kjZw51DMcmCNExC74cV4VA_KXb4SNr3sSX0OT4mMMw8SlJKgtGL3Hp_fBICplJL75kov754bRmv9jJ6ZQpckAyeHEGJNm56wink2Nj_oLHRGOOBE-ftqytGrtR_SmsFNaXTnowYQ5Y1gIyzuu_P/s1428/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.35.28%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="760" data-original-width="1428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYr3JQVCeCOLim5s1d9fJ3V_XHcxgnKzRzkKv62HNg9kjZw51DMcmCNExC74cV4VA_KXb4SNr3sSX0OT4mMMw8SlJKgtGL3Hp_fBICplJL75kov754bRmv9jJ6ZQpckAyeHEGJNm56wink2Nj_oLHRGOOBE-ftqytGrtR_SmsFNaXTnowYQ5Y1gIyzuu_P/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.35.28%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert Mitchum and Robert Ryan in THE RACKET</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The biggest problem (besides pretty Lizabeth Scott in a throwaway nightclub canary/dame role) is that everything's too up-front, particularly with Ryan's scrunched-up mug exploding into temper-tantrums.... <br /><br />In one reaction shot, Mitchum seems to intentionally smirk at Ryan's overacting: playing more of a head gangster's viciously lethal thug than any kind of realistic big boss, making THE RACKET more a good vs evil fable than either noir or your typical standard detective story. <br /></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/AVvXsEjgUDk0PshNV3iwPnV0vusOVjeg_W47qEl0VTlceP-Z4vWrLUsADoxhvVyxEJZLt-2nt3Hg5iBEwtnAhKSpjwfHUSHj7T1RLq_yDkz6fUvC1PQxtZOIhKGlGhvG5BkFdKtr9ppv0SlR_-oLPgRyM3TItzC_8JtcHo6nJeHgSIUKTeKqwAQ6XyX9iUZXzUE3/s1110/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.29.37%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="636" data-original-width="1110" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgUDk0PshNV3iwPnV0vusOVjeg_W47qEl0VTlceP-Z4vWrLUsADoxhvVyxEJZLt-2nt3Hg5iBEwtnAhKSpjwfHUSHj7T1RLq_yDkz6fUvC1PQxtZOIhKGlGhvG5BkFdKtr9ppv0SlR_-oLPgRyM3TItzC_8JtcHo6nJeHgSIUKTeKqwAQ6XyX9iUZXzUE3/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.29.37%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert Mitchum and Robert Ryan in THE RACKET</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXBbYSCSQDg33oGhBZ21z6A3BoO8cuSxpJNOg9Dc-NVrcLPhZ29q_O5wbSr6Z0Yogo48pHzeyTYoT2Fh6GHX3fET3gQFSGXDrS81elr7cS0-3eVwd3aYuBIGRlbIFdQkAIx3WAfpx6jc3HXPt6vq1wx4dyWk9Q10vZIZGs98XeQ0LiEF45f3uSooHbvMQZ/s1026/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.29.45%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="782" data-original-width="1026" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXBbYSCSQDg33oGhBZ21z6A3BoO8cuSxpJNOg9Dc-NVrcLPhZ29q_O5wbSr6Z0Yogo48pHzeyTYoT2Fh6GHX3fET3gQFSGXDrS81elr7cS0-3eVwd3aYuBIGRlbIFdQkAIx3WAfpx6jc3HXPt6vq1wx4dyWk9Q10vZIZGs98XeQ0LiEF45f3uSooHbvMQZ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.29.45%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Ray Collins in THE RACKET</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnyK_eSCd6nA_iTar0lOCOBUIGrFNNmbpa829i1SlBVo2H1dxGK7aSRXYbP6bNEdwAQN5jfLnaRoptcKRyvbsUjVsVECD3fEmA1hTvq4mC1LRRwj-ov_h9C91sshVSqiZBH_7zKE8fat170ykBPf91fG0yBrzEVQ8Qgi99tFppt4MscjiVrYSJ2mURhd5K/s1032/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.29.59%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1032" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnyK_eSCd6nA_iTar0lOCOBUIGrFNNmbpa829i1SlBVo2H1dxGK7aSRXYbP6bNEdwAQN5jfLnaRoptcKRyvbsUjVsVECD3fEmA1hTvq4mC1LRRwj-ov_h9C91sshVSqiZBH_7zKE8fat170ykBPf91fG0yBrzEVQ8Qgi99tFppt4MscjiVrYSJ2mURhd5K/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.29.59%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert Ryan in THE RACKET</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwYKZnG2xMyFoJNVwsL1g4BCYjSODePH7mGV7SoLwH19nFddIpbudevFuaHZahkqwR0j5qGL7wY5W2pueB_LwNb4gpCQe_dFEo14XARW4pcsOB7rH4eeSd05qGR8ydSjMlnvZeJRVB73acsImZ04-dSC-G48pup_E0RMABNuWBu8HQ6Z6C86FMBipKhWzU/s1080/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.30.48%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="816" data-original-width="1080" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwYKZnG2xMyFoJNVwsL1g4BCYjSODePH7mGV7SoLwH19nFddIpbudevFuaHZahkqwR0j5qGL7wY5W2pueB_LwNb4gpCQe_dFEo14XARW4pcsOB7rH4eeSd05qGR8ydSjMlnvZeJRVB73acsImZ04-dSC-G48pup_E0RMABNuWBu8HQ6Z6C86FMBipKhWzU/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.30.48%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>William Talman and Virginia Huston in THE RACKET</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbIJxtz4FJiTjw_OrcDetQ1S4w_MYg2Bp4iFIOTN3sx1quq23VmLxiTKGg_zbafKr3OhG876HsklinmznEr7iyByhyuqTjNem2hv_fjfnAnSdRfjA_N5gdyiaBx3vJJwJNBRxSzfQsp6Sew_oKe1MqFjkpnxInXFJ2kqrxq2yh0PhpXlzGL9WbAMurCa0Q/s1256/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.30.57%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbIJxtz4FJiTjw_OrcDetQ1S4w_MYg2Bp4iFIOTN3sx1quq23VmLxiTKGg_zbafKr3OhG876HsklinmznEr7iyByhyuqTjNem2hv_fjfnAnSdRfjA_N5gdyiaBx3vJJwJNBRxSzfQsp6Sew_oKe1MqFjkpnxInXFJ2kqrxq2yh0PhpXlzGL9WbAMurCa0Q/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.30.57%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Virginia Huston in THE RACKET</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwsjTMWqFvHAoojyrqwnZTD8lc9S1tEIqeRZPwy_ajJUTPQjpAUVOJ4ncyWP85gQUJTWZoX5tSpwfkIBS0RGWpsVFZ47a4TkHgOG_ObXKFCSJl7VAPYewWsY20Q0Ym6d4GfkY8sOVdLc1c3IvRtAS2_rKp7eN5Dpq2PJzSsGV56J4H3NGBxGn8L7n_dK9b/s902/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.31.18%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="474" data-original-width="902" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwsjTMWqFvHAoojyrqwnZTD8lc9S1tEIqeRZPwy_ajJUTPQjpAUVOJ4ncyWP85gQUJTWZoX5tSpwfkIBS0RGWpsVFZ47a4TkHgOG_ObXKFCSJl7VAPYewWsY20Q0Ym6d4GfkY8sOVdLc1c3IvRtAS2_rKp7eN5Dpq2PJzSsGV56J4H3NGBxGn8L7n_dK9b/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.31.18%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>From THE RACKET</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdOp-aRtqZxSikROH4ceskc39jYQz4EtgF9ajX9YiQtIPdKTtYoCEWT6R6cC4cs3x5qzyAX84N2t2kBF-AsCyI4sIwQYOwpE_-0zVSl2IlNM25K43BIvi78IssI8Emo5kmiErOZFfjeJWQ-3fl6dvcV3uGW9s6ztROYfd7KjMQqRQt8qrcX4oEvr-liBjy/s942/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.31.27%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="594" data-original-width="942" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdOp-aRtqZxSikROH4ceskc39jYQz4EtgF9ajX9YiQtIPdKTtYoCEWT6R6cC4cs3x5qzyAX84N2t2kBF-AsCyI4sIwQYOwpE_-0zVSl2IlNM25K43BIvi78IssI8Emo5kmiErOZFfjeJWQ-3fl6dvcV3uGW9s6ztROYfd7KjMQqRQt8qrcX4oEvr-liBjy/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.31.27%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>William Conrad in THE RACKET</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhicwM7vQ4gM62JEkkexYqRs6FoWcYhQ9ADBhx3F4wHywvg6hdpND2__9QhMI-FzN8QkXzmVS9jL48W4CH-XVvRuYHbAzv9XSoTthzchAlqQCzOdxvWHxn79IZKJ7b6hSPk6FwAaAehYvZ61rYAa6KLJo60MPncX-mScCiUuJibTkSbNoykPbZE1GtyBXJK/s1186/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.31.35%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="742" data-original-width="1186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhicwM7vQ4gM62JEkkexYqRs6FoWcYhQ9ADBhx3F4wHywvg6hdpND2__9QhMI-FzN8QkXzmVS9jL48W4CH-XVvRuYHbAzv9XSoTthzchAlqQCzOdxvWHxn79IZKJ7b6hSPk6FwAaAehYvZ61rYAa6KLJo60MPncX-mScCiUuJibTkSbNoykPbZE1GtyBXJK/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.31.35%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>William Talman in THE RACKET</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWV7UxVVnXQI7i6W-mvLFz8gWEksD8DCOuV5zEDcZ-7RI0ys9xwiw-Sv_0Tjm3u9ekxVaN_yfPZhS2GADO_gi35syshgC9_u_3qpzKAsKpYQ0DXTVEGPv-dzZn7j9V1v_kpeqkEVJ3zw-4uZ2fzmwsanpQEZ30EX7Z74ynzmC95JXBcMgB3ER0FvmMn006/s1312/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.31.43%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="820" data-original-width="1312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWV7UxVVnXQI7i6W-mvLFz8gWEksD8DCOuV5zEDcZ-7RI0ys9xwiw-Sv_0Tjm3u9ekxVaN_yfPZhS2GADO_gi35syshgC9_u_3qpzKAsKpYQ0DXTVEGPv-dzZn7j9V1v_kpeqkEVJ3zw-4uZ2fzmwsanpQEZ30EX7Z74ynzmC95JXBcMgB3ER0FvmMn006/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.31.43%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>William Conrad in THE RACKET</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghwRaSQMHgcu23jiiJSRwW56Quaq90T0CcuJQyVAr9-ZDVv1CEfDF2DeetfaLcAG6D0X2q5TfK6b_l9iaatxgeFsoY6HomXGrmo4qhsuXcEBmbiyxNssAap5rpSjUhqpsdJnzoBhMkAaAZwXVJi6W1yH2QeToIon0NV0KSy5WO4M6GUT_jt4PkjFkLcZz_/s1278/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.31.51%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="804" data-original-width="1278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghwRaSQMHgcu23jiiJSRwW56Quaq90T0CcuJQyVAr9-ZDVv1CEfDF2DeetfaLcAG6D0X2q5TfK6b_l9iaatxgeFsoY6HomXGrmo4qhsuXcEBmbiyxNssAap5rpSjUhqpsdJnzoBhMkAaAZwXVJi6W1yH2QeToIon0NV0KSy5WO4M6GUT_jt4PkjFkLcZz_/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.31.51%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lizabeth Scott and Robert Hutton in THE RACKET</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinS_R03nwaqK4XZZdmxiRM8Mp-apraT9vBNOeAfZhuA0YU4HFDW9x_69UsJeqeGSoHJfMZAzaKCtem8dQvkH_1lerLREc_b8p4KhXWssfQWrLQL_5npKxenzd_agbACYKGv6h-PXE-j8qkLuy9LHE2smXMt4AlSKQojoxRSnc6HNIFpezK2WRK616TsTSn/s1830/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%201.04.40%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1284" data-original-width="1830" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinS_R03nwaqK4XZZdmxiRM8Mp-apraT9vBNOeAfZhuA0YU4HFDW9x_69UsJeqeGSoHJfMZAzaKCtem8dQvkH_1lerLREc_b8p4KhXWssfQWrLQL_5npKxenzd_agbACYKGv6h-PXE-j8qkLuy9LHE2smXMt4AlSKQojoxRSnc6HNIFpezK2WRK616TsTSn/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%201.04.40%20PM.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Joyce Mackenzie and Robert Mitchum in THE RACKET</u></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br /><br />

fifties, film noir or melodrama, howard hughes, joyce mackenzie, mob, ray collins, robert mitchum, robert ryan, virginia huston, william conrad, william talman

ROBERT MITCHUM BUSTING ROBERT RYAN THROUGH 'THE RACKET'

Joyce Mackenzie and Robert Mitchum in THE RACKET Year: 1951 Rating: ***1/2 Based on a let's-fight-city-corruption picture from 1928, an...