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Written by James M. Tate / 2/23/2020 / No comments / brooke bundy , gary lockwood , henry fonda , inger stevens , jack elam , jacqueline scott , james best , james stewart , louise latham , morgan woodward , robert porter , sixties , thriller , western

GARY LOCKWOOD VERSES JAMES STEWART IN 'FIRECREEK'

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GARY LOCKWOOD VERSES JAMES STEWART IN 'FIRECREEK'

Brooke Bundy with James Best, Morgan Woodward, Gary Lockwood, Jack Elam and Henry Fonda in FIRECREEK Year: 1968 With raging killer biker...

PETER FALK IN 'COLUMBO CRIES WOLF' WITH REBECCA STAAB

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PETER FALK IN 'COLUMBO CRIES WOLF' WITH REBECCA STAAB

year: 1990 cast: Peter Falk, Ian Buchanan, Rebecca Staab rating: **** If every COLUMBO episode can be judged upon how conceited and pros...

ELYSSA DAVALOS IN 'HOW THE WEST WAS WON' TELEVISION SERIES

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ELYSSA DAVALOS IN 'HOW THE WEST WAS WON' TELEVISION SERIES

Elyssa Davalos in HOW THE WEST WAS WON Years from 1976 to 1979 After twenty years of GUNSMOKE, James Arness was ready to be a character-...

ELYSSA DAVALOS IN 'HAWAII FIVE-O: THOUGH THE HEAVENS FALL'

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ELYSSA DAVALOS IN 'HAWAII FIVE-O: THOUGH THE HEAVENS FALL'

Elyssa Davalos and William Smith on Hawaii Five-0 episode THOUGH THE HEAVENS FALL Year: 1979 The best episode of the maligned final seas...

ELYSSA DAVALOS IN 'THE APPLE DUMPLING GANG RIDES AGAIN'

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ELYSSA DAVALOS IN 'THE APPLE DUMPLING GANG RIDES AGAIN'

Eylssa Davalos and Robert Pine in THE APPLE DUMPLING GANG RIDES AGAIN Year: 1979 The original APPLE DUMPLING GANG is one of those experi...

ELYSSA DAVALOS RIDING DISNEY'S 'HERBIE GOES BANANAS'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Elyssa Davalos is downright gorgeous in Disney's HERBIE GOES BANANAS circa 1980</u></td></tr>
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 first two of Disney's Bueno Vista Herbie films, THE LOVE BUG and HERBIE GOES TO MONTE CARLO, 
center on the little car involved in big races; the ultimate underdog 
stories wherein Herbie is the focal point...<br />
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In the third installment, 
HERBIE RIDES AGAIN, the cute lil' V-dub's merely used as a vehicle for a
 plot centering on humans while the final sequel does the same thing but in a much 
more entertaining story and better characters, including a wily Charles 
Martin-Smith (AMERICAN GRAFFITI) and his handsome buddy Stephen W. Burns as heirs to 
the love bug, picking Herbie up in South America and then being chased 
around by mobsters.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Herbie in Herbie Goes Bananas directed by both Star Trek and Disney go-to Vincent McEveety</u></td></tr>
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The good guys meet a pickpocket orphan who becomes 
Herbie's best pal, and along the way journey on a cruise ship and even 
take part in a bullfight. Meanwhile, Burns falls in love with freespirited socialite Cloris Leachman's 
daughter, the beautiful Elyssa Davalos, doing the cliché <i>girl wearing glasses with real beauty soon to unveal </i>(although she's cute either way), while Martin 
insists they run a con job, giving a little edge to the romance.<br />
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HERBIE GOES BANANAS is an enjoyable romp from beginning to end, with 
many different locations 
and sticky situations for the characters (including Harvey Korman as a 
cranky ship captain joining Leachman) and our titular bug to sneak 
out of, dodging seedy villains John Vernon, Alex Rocco and Richard Jaeckel. But they're no match for Herbie, who,
 though taking back seat a lot of the time, winds up stealing the show.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Opening credits with Mexican Blanket font for HERBIE GOES BANANAS</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Elyssa Davalos as Melissa Louise in HERBIE GOES BANANAS Rates: ***1/2</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Elyssa Davalos as Melissa Louise in HERBIE GOES BANANAS</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Elyssa Davalos as Melissa Louise in HERBIE GOES BANANAS</u></td></tr>
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ELYSSA DAVALOS RIDING DISNEY'S 'HERBIE GOES BANANAS'

Elyssa Davalos is downright gorgeous in Disney's HERBIE GOES BANANAS circa 1980 The first two of Disney's Bueno Vista Herbie fi...

Written by James M. Tate / 2/12/2020 / No comments / dack rambo , elyssa davalos , horror , kim cattrall , occult , richard lynch , richard stahl , seventies , thriller , tv movie

ELYSSA DAVALOS IN THE TV HORROR MOVIE 'GOOD AGAINST EVIL'

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ELYSSA DAVALOS IN THE TV HORROR MOVIE 'GOOD AGAINST EVIL'

Elyssa Davalos as in GOOD AGAINST EVIL Year: 1977 This proposed TV pilot that's almost a TV-movie isn’t quite sure who the main char...

KIRK DOUGLAS IN HIS PERSONAL FAV OF 'LONELY ARE THE BRAVE'

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KIRK DOUGLAS IN HIS PERSONAL FAV OF 'LONELY ARE THE BRAVE'

Kirk Douglas is a cowboy battling copters in LONELY ARE THE BRAVE Year: 1962 The late Kirk Douglas's favorite movie, that he starred...

JOHN WAYNE & KIRK DOUGLAS IN PREMINGER'S 'IN HARM'S WAY'

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JOHN WAYNE & KIRK DOUGLAS IN PREMINGER'S 'IN HARM'S WAY'

Kirk Douglas with Jill Haworth and John Wayne in the poster for IN HARM'S WAY Year: 1965 In 1965, the same year stylistic and artist...

COOLLY CRUISING THROUGH DISNEY'S OFFBEAT 'SUPERDAD'

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COOLLY CRUISING THROUGH DISNEY'S OFFBEAT 'SUPERDAD'

Kurt Russell kicking back in SUPERDAD Year: 1973 A bizarre Disney film called SUPERDAD starring HOGAN’S HEROES star Bob Crane who, at ...

NORMAN FOSTER'S FIRST TWO PETER LORRE 'MR. MOTTO' FILMS

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NORMAN FOSTER'S FIRST TWO PETER LORRE 'MR. MOTTO' FILMS

year: 1937 cast: Peter Lorre, Virginia Field, Thomas Beck rating: ***1/2 THINK FAST, MR. MOTO : Peter Lorre is Mr. Moto, a Japanese secr...

KURT RUSSELL AS 'CAPTAIN RON' FEATURING MEADOW SISTO

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KURT RUSSELL AS 'CAPTAIN RON' FEATURING MEADOW SISTO

Kurt Russell, Martin Short and the beautiful Meadow Sisto in CAPTAIN RON Year: 1992 Martin Short's greatest role was in THREE AMIGOS...

CATHY PODEWELL IN THE UNDERRATED 'NIGHT OF THE DEMONS'

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CATHY PODEWELL IN THE UNDERRATED 'NIGHT OF THE DEMONS'

Night of the Demons spooky-cool opening credit sequence in the year 1988 “Not tonight,” explains Cathy Podewell’s innocent girl Judy, dr...

REVIEW OF 'NIGHT TIDE' WITH DENNIS HOPPER & LINDA LAWSON

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Many early-1960's films had a million dissolves, and didn't always know where they were going. But this low-budget arthouse knows exactly 
what it is, even if the audience is never quite sure: Taking place in the early, sparse days of Venice Beach, California, a sailor 
meets an exotic woman who works at a carnival as a mermaid... and a few men she's dated have turned/washed up dead...<br>
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A young cherubic-faced Dennis Hopper is fun to watch as the gullible love-sick sailor. He won't
 listen to all the warning about her track record. Let's 
face it, the guy is <i>hooked</i>... And it's nice seeing Hopper as a normal person, 
not a burn-out, weirdo or psychopath, in a movie with gorgeous B&W cinematography and a jazz score, and club...<br>
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The other performances are also good, including and especially the lovely Linda Lawson as our seductive vixen who might
 be a water nymph, or murderess, or both, captured in director Curtis Harrington's bizarre labor of love curio, which is sometimes too talky...<br>
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Especially conversations with Mora's founder, an old sailor, made up for by far more intriguing dialogue with young carousel-worker Luana Anders, who'd work again with Hopper as Peter Fonda's hippie commune girl in EASY RIDER. And there's a foreboding old lady seer... all reminiscent of the spooky and offbeat Val Lewton/Jacques Tourneur RKO noir-horrors, NIGHT TIDE is to mermaids what CAT PEOPLE is to felines. Yet the strangest aspect has Dennis Hopper as the most normal, sane and grounded character throughout. Now <i>that's </i>something completely different.<br>
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REVIEW OF 'NIGHT TIDE' WITH DENNIS HOPPER & LINDA LAWSON

Curtis Harrington's NIGHT TIDE Year: 1961 Rating: ***1/2 Many early-1960's films had a million dissolves, and didn't always ...

MICHAEL GOUGH CONTROLS 'KONGA' FEATURING CLAIRE GORDON

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Claire Gordon and Michael Gough in KORGA Year: 1961</u></td></tr>
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A movie that finally proves dumb things can sound smart when spoken in an English accent as Michael Gough explains his growth serum, starting out on neat looking Venus Flytraps and then pet chimp KONGA, who eventually grows to the size of KING KONG. By that point, when the superimposed giant ape reaches half as tall as the Big Ben Clock Tower, no one's speaking in any accent so everything falls apart slowly, and stupidly...<br>
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But most of the film has a tall man in a tall gorilla suit, taking out particular strategic enemies of Gough's mad scientist/professor named Dr. Charles Decker in a body count fashion both intriguing and fun. From the snippy dean of the college he works for, after having returned from Africa with a wealth of expository knowledge taking up the first five minutes via media interview, to a handsome male student rightfully smitten with young voluptuous Claire Gordon (as cute Kim Tracy waits in the wings), this movie's bombshell blonde Fay Wray, bitterly jealous of the time and attention teacher spends on his teacher's pet, especially on an outdoor field trip...<br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Michael Gough and Claire Gordon in KONGA Rates: ***1/2</u></td></tr>
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As an audience member you'll root for each and every murder, before, during and after they occur, since each victim threatens to end our mad doctor's climb... that <i>almost reaches</i> somewhere... <br>
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It's a shame they had to inevitably shadow KING KONG at all. As the human-sized ape, KONGA made a perfect killer backed by a menacing yet polite, sophisticated doctor, who, along with his clingy, intellectual female assistant (Margo Johns), blackmailing him into a future engagement, seem part of a semi-decent Hammer 
Film, which is Gough's usual forte and why he's absolutely perfect in an
 infamously bad movie that's shockingly worthwhile... for a while, anyway.  <br>
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body count, british, claire gordon, creature feature, horror, jess conrad, kim tracy, margo johns, michael gough, monster, rupert osborne, waveney lee

MICHAEL GOUGH CONTROLS 'KONGA' FEATURING CLAIRE GORDON

Claire Gordon and Michael Gough in KORGA Year: 1961 A movie that finally proves dumb things can sound smart when spoken in an English ac...

ARCHIVE REVIEW OF LARRY COHEN'S 'GOD TOLD ME TO'

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title: GOD TOLD ME TO<br />
year: 1976<br />
cast: Tony Lo Bianco, Sandy Dennis, Andy Kaufman, Dan Resin, Richard Lynch, Sylvia Sidney<br />
writer/director: Larry Cohen<br />
rating: **<br />
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The first half... as a dedicated Catholic cop played by Tony Lo Bianco (the smooth "kissy devil" patsy in THE FRENCH CONNECTION) investigates random public killings... including Andy Kaufman as a police officer going berserk at the St. Patrick's Day Parade... and each assassin mutters, "God told me to" as their last words... is mysterious and interesting. The last half, as the murders cease and the "God" in question is revealed, is absolutely banal. Larry Cohen's camerawork has its usual artistic grace, with a collection of creative zooms and all that other seventies' stuff, but after the good parts even the cool shots are all dressed up with nothing to show.<br />
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ARCHIVE REVIEW OF LARRY COHEN'S 'GOD TOLD ME TO'

title: GOD TOLD ME TO year: 1976 cast: Tony Lo Bianco, Sandy Dennis, Andy Kaufman, Dan Resin, Richard Lynch, Sylvia Sidney writer/direc...

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JONATHAN DEMME'S QUIRKY ROAD PICTURE 'SOMETHING WILD'

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JONATHAN DEMME'S QUIRKY ROAD PICTURE 'SOMETHING WILD'

Ray Liotta's groupie Kristin Olsen as Tracy running the motel in SOMETHING WILD Year: 1986 Director Jonathan Demme's sexy road-f...

JIM BROWN & FRED WILLIAMSON 'TAKE A HARD RIDE' W/ JIM KELLY

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: Take A Hard Ride Year: 1975 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr>
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Expectations for a Blaxploitation-Western, being that Jim Brown and Fred
 Williamson play the heroes and/or anti-heroes, or a Spaghetti Western, since Lee Van Cleef 
is the bad guy, will be disappointed. While it does have some of the 
(very intentional) Spaghetti elements in style and music, and slick action sequences for 
Blaxploitation fans...<br>
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TAKE A HARD RIDE is actually an old-fashioned cowboy flick 
involving honest man Jim Brown and dishonest gambler Fred Williamson, 
on a quest to deliver money (that Brown made with late boss Dana Andrews) to a small town with cunning and deadly bounty hunter Van 
Cleef on their trail...<br>
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For eye candy there's Catherine Spaak with her very own sidekick Jim Kelly is a mute Indian scout (Williamson said to yours truly that it was because of his pal Kelly's limited vocal-acting abilities), sporadically 
wielding his signature karate moves. And Williamson's ambiguous nature 
adds suspenseful distrust for Brown, also adding to their chemistry in what's more a fun ride than a hard one,
 but a cool flick nonethless. With all the money involved, and an ensemble of non-trusting cowboys, you can say it's a mobile TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE.<br>
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JIM BROWN & FRED WILLIAMSON 'TAKE A HARD RIDE' W/ JIM KELLY

Title: Take A Hard Ride Year: 1975 Rating: ***1/2 Expectations for a Blaxploitation-Western, being that Jim Brown and Fred Williamson p...

JOE PATRIDGE STARRING IN THE B-WESTERN 'CONVICT STAGE'

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Most
 Westerns rely on the glorious good guy or the even more glorious, 
teeth-grinding heavy – this does the latter, and he's a she: Like James 
Cagney's Ma Jarrett in WHITE HEAT, Hungarian-born actress Hanna 
Herfelendy, then using the much easier to remember and pronounce name of
 Hanna Landy, may be a rotten soul but she's sure a faithful and 
determined mother: Her two sons held up a stage coach and the youngest 
killed a young women trying to escape and, thoroughly guilt-ridden, the 
kid provides a sort of "Spur Noir" ambiguity, especially against his 
coldblooded older sibling...<br>
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Enter <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/07/anders1-HYP-EYE.html">HYPNOTIC EYE</a>
 b-actor Joe Patridge with a plan that's nothing without ol' Ma. In fact
 it's mostly her own.. Going undercover, acting the prissy puritan, 
riding in (or rather, on top of) the same titular CONVICT STAGE her boys
 are handcuffed inside of, gun-hidden ready to set them free. Along the 
way we cut back and forth to several characters, including a beautiful 
stock ingenue who wants revenge for her sister and her brother wants... 
uh... more revenge, and so on.<br>
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Details matter little in this sparse, tight Western 
relying on contained, suspenseful atmosphere over wide-lens landscapes 
that the genre revels in and often relies upon – but only if that kind 
of exterior is in the budget, or is necessary to the plot. Instead, the 
hemmed-in canyon walls keep the locale dark and shadowy even in the 
daylight – leading to a two-story spread where the characters all wind 
up:<br>
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Ma comes alive, showing her nefarious zest and is 
no stranger to a pistol, while her boys have other loaded guns to tangle
 with – making it a rather complicated job for the lawman caught 
in-between in this slightly above-average Western that will pass the 
time fine, preferably after midnight, where b-movies (no matter the 
genre) make the most sense.<br>

action, don red barry, hanna landy, harry lauter, heist, joe patridge, sixties, thriller, western

JOE PATRIDGE STARRING IN THE B-WESTERN 'CONVICT STAGE'

year of capture and release: 1965 Most Westerns rely on the glorious good guy or the even more glorious, teeth-grinding heavy – this d...

KUNG FU ESCAPISM OF 'MASTER OF THE FLYING GUILLOTINE'

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KUNG FU ESCAPISM OF 'MASTER OF THE FLYING GUILLOTINE'

Master of the Flying Guillotine Year: 1976 Rating: **** About the only downside is there's not enough of that radical red beanie tak...

DAVID CARRADINE DIRECTS 'AMERICANA' AKA 'AROUND'

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DAVID CARRADINE DIRECTS 'AMERICANA' AKA 'AROUND'

David Carradine's AMERICANA Filmed: 1973 Released: 1983 Started in 1973 and released a decade later, AMERICANA is a nice-looking low...

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PERRY KING FIGHTS IN 'SEARCH AND DESTORY' WITH DON STROUD

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In Vietnam a company of American soldiers try saving a South Vietnamese 
man from "Charlie" and fail. He is captured by the enemy and now we cut 
five years later and the Vietnamese man is back in the States for 
revenge...<br>
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He kills one of the vets and this peaks the attention of Perry 
King, an auto shop worker, as he is next in line...<br>
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Along with fellow vet 
Don Stroud, a happy-go-unlucky drunkard boat captain in Niagara Falls inspired by Hemingway Noir tales, 
they try first finding who the killer is, and then stopping him. But 
he's trained in killing and is almost unstoppable. Great action scenes 
all set in the gorgeous Niagara Falls area, and lots of violence makes 
this a real treat: a fun ride that never derails. George Kennedy adds a 
little something as a small town cop who winds up allowing Perry King to
 take care of matters his own way.<br>

actopm. don stroud, george kennedy, neo noir, perry king, seventies, vigilante

PERRY KING FIGHTS IN 'SEARCH AND DESTORY' WITH DON STROUD

Year: 1979 Rates: ***1/2 In Vietnam a company of American soldiers try saving a South Vietnamese man from "Charlie" and fail....

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