FORGOTTEN TRIUMPH OF 'RAMBO' W/ BONUS 'RAMBO III' REVIEW

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-53NENHGoYxQ/XYb-vJrSWHI/AAAAAAABH1E/h2UBPni1FHsL-SMB7QApD-Zmf8F1IdqWACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/70470802_788604361568742_5020931590679691264_o.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="487" data-original-width="769" height="253" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-53NENHGoYxQ/XYb-vJrSWHI/AAAAAAABH1E/h2UBPni1FHsL-SMB7QApD-Zmf8F1IdqWACLcBGAsYHQ/s400/70470802_788604361568742_5020931590679691264_o.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sylvester Stallone as RAMBO not Cobra circa 2008</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <u>RAMBO</u>: An eighty-minute film, while quite rare, is a perfect running-time for action, especially one as ultra-violent since the high definition CGI massacres can only be "enjoyed" so much...<br> <br> And this forgotten modern sequel of the iconic franchise is a sparse, solidly entertaining blood & guts "get the job done quick" flick where John Rambo, along with a group of eclectic (and enjoyably whiny) mercenaries, are hired to save a group of do-gooders including Julie Benz wielding a quaint, genuine chemistry with Stallone. They're kidnapped by "Burmese Pirates" and all in Vietnam, where it all began even before FIRST BLOOD — and John J. goes in, kills the bad guys and leaves, so, in this case, less is not only more, it's <i>just </i>enough. And should have ended right here.<br>

action, eighties, exploitation, franchise, julie benz, ken howard, richard crenna, sequel, sylvester stallone, vietnam, zeroes

FORGOTTEN TRIUMPH OF 'RAMBO' W/ BONUS 'RAMBO III' REVIEW

Sylvester Stallone as RAMBO not Cobra circa 2008 RAMBO : An eighty-minute film, while quite rare, is a perfect running-time for action,...

SYLVESTER STALLONE RETURNS FOR 'RAMBO: LAST BLOOD'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8s1F-3EHh1s/XYXg7OXZC8I/AAAAAAABHxc/r8Kk73-IOvMPCgFvWQVMsok9E5xX_5EIQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2019-09-20%2Bat%2B11.39.36%2BPM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="590" data-original-width="753" height="312" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8s1F-3EHh1s/XYXg7OXZC8I/AAAAAAABHxc/r8Kk73-IOvMPCgFvWQVMsok9E5xX_5EIQCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/Screen%2BShot%2B2019-09-20%2Bat%2B11.39.36%2BPM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sylvester Stallone in Rambo: Last Blood YEAR: 2019 </u></td></tr> </tbody></table> So far we've learned that RAMBO: LAST BLOOD has a lot in common with HOME ALONE since John J. defends his ranch using various booby traps. Which is nothing new — FIRST BLOOD had the Vietnam Vet/Green Beret luring antagonists into "familiar territory" with a hostile edge and stealthily prowess. The only difference now is he pays property tax... <br> <br> And some critics are blaming a certain public figure for the choice of villain... But most people probably don't care for a Mexican Drug Cartel that enslaves young girls: One in particular who's pretty much everything, and boy is she pretty. Making this 90-minute action melodrama more similar to DEATH WISH 4: THE CRACKDOWN in which, for completely different reasons, the aged main hero's daughter-like ingenue overdoses on drugs, and from that point it's all about revenge, revenge, and more revenge... <br>

2019, action, franchise, melodrama, new, sequel, sylvester stallone

SYLVESTER STALLONE RETURNS FOR 'RAMBO: LAST BLOOD'

Sylvester Stallone in Rambo: Last Blood YEAR: 2019 So far we've learned that RAMBO: LAST BLOOD has a lot in common with HOME ALONE s...

CROWN INTERNATIONAL PICTURES EXPLOITATION OF 'THE VAN'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FQpcc4mASPk/XYSiinNFu8I/AAAAAAABHvI/UwfY3IgOquMYUCXPjpVUVYi8mJpZ6VjJQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2019-09-20%2Bat%2B12.21.45%2BAM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="918" data-original-width="1384" height="265" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FQpcc4mASPk/XYSiinNFu8I/AAAAAAABHvI/UwfY3IgOquMYUCXPjpVUVYi8mJpZ6VjJQCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/Screen%2BShot%2B2019-09-20%2Bat%2B12.21.45%2BAM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>One of the coolest title fonts in the seventies for THE VAN Year: 1977</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> For a couple of guys who seem like Black Sabbath or Blue Öyster Cult fans, the bad country music never stops playing, but that's THE VAN by Crown International Pictures, a wall-to-wall goofy soundtrack of one young geek's journey into loose sex and vehicular savvy, as the main song croons of a Chevy Van, which his isn't: but the yellow color stands out, and the water bed breaks after one lucky screw that may not have even happened...<br> <br> As much of the film has creatively shot daydream sequences of our underdog hero Stuart Goetz, the same kid that Marcia Brady didn't date when jock Nicholas Hammond told her "Something suddenly came up" on THE BRADY BUNCH. Here he's a car washer (another CAR WASH influence) under a sporadically cast Danny DeVito, one year before playing grouchy dispatcher Louie DePalma on TAXI. Funny thing, DeVito's character sits in just as tight a space, giving orders, although he's an affable (if crooked) fellow here.<br> <br> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eSaCyhaoaZ8/XYS1Xd6NycI/AAAAAAABHwU/WwlGpRHKGxMKAw7lh3cleZl-VmR65c4XwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2019-09-20%2Bat%2B12.26.37%2BAM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1274" data-original-width="1600" height="317" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eSaCyhaoaZ8/XYS1Xd6NycI/AAAAAAABHwU/WwlGpRHKGxMKAw7lh3cleZl-VmR65c4XwCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/Screen%2BShot%2B2019-09-20%2Bat%2B12.26.37%2BAM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Pinball girl Jane Mudrick with Stuart Goetz in THE VAN Rates: ***1/2</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> Most of the picture takes place around the suburbs and outskirts of the L.A. Valley that includes the beach where a gathering of vans are shown for the mere exploitation of those vehicles, which this drive-in flick's not only named after but is exploiting from its popularity in an era of hot rods and scantily clad summer girls, including hot blonde Connie Hoffman hooked with a token muscular bully (who drives a fitfully dark van). <br> <br> But the ingenue here's an uptight girl-next-door played by Deborah White, and yet her quirky friend, FADE TO BLACK quirky friend Marcie Barkin, is even more cute and effective: the girl of our guy's best friend Harry Moses, who doesn't do much but hear about his buddy's misadventurous conquests that, unfortunately, are spoken of more than actually experienced. For what THE VAN is in <i>droves</i>, it also misses out on: A circular road movie where the sky could have been the limit but is, for the most part, just a another backdrop. Still though, Quentin Tarantino is a VAN addict, and it <i>is</i> an addictive little ride.<br>

comedy, connie hoffman, cult, danny devito, deborah white, drive-in, exploitation, marcie barkin, raunchy, seventies, stuart goetz

CROWN INTERNATIONAL PICTURES EXPLOITATION OF 'THE VAN'

One of the coolest title fonts in the seventies for THE VAN Year: 1977 For a couple of guys who seem like Black Sabbath or Blue Öyster C...

DANA ANDREWS LEADS THE NOIR THRILLER 'WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QE228bolNAE/XYLKQPXnJNI/AAAAAAABHr0/GWfApXFxgLAgw1dXOo5WOeN31n_6bMofQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/61822894_714346332327879_3385776917629108224_n.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="547" data-original-width="791" height="276" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QE228bolNAE/XYLKQPXnJNI/AAAAAAABHr0/GWfApXFxgLAgw1dXOo5WOeN31n_6bMofQCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/61822894_714346332327879_3385776917629108224_n.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Dana Andrews in While the City Sleeps YEAR: 1956</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Imagine Orson Welles's Charles Foster Kane inheriting a news outlet as opposed to inheriting a goldmine to buy one, and there you have Vincent Price's not so kind Walter Kyne, who, after his father's death, takes over Kyne Enterprises — with a familiar "K" symbol ala CITIZEN KANE — and sets the employees against each other...<br> <br> The goal is to find out who's the psychopath slaying women and writing messages with their lipstick: making WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS both a Film Noir and occasional horror, and it needs more of the latter from having too much of the first, with an over-abundance of characters including whiskey-drinking career-newsman Thomas Mitchell; sharp and flirtatious George Saunders; and the main star Andrews, surprisingly the least important and/or complicated character as the figure-head newscaster...<br> <br>

british film noir/melodrama, dana andrews, fifties, howard duff, ida lupino, sally forrest, serial killer, thomas mitchell, thriller, vincent price

DANA ANDREWS LEADS THE NOIR THRILLER 'WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS'

Dana Andrews in While the City Sleeps YEAR: 1956 Imagine Orson Welles's Charles Foster Kane inheriting a news outlet as opposed to i...

ENZO G. CASTELLARI DIRECTS FABIO TESTI IN 'THE HEROIN BUSTERS'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vmpMrnMWMRc/XX9Z8PIk1ZI/AAAAAAABHmw/b-Y3HkWu_IgVUz0EOh94NIn_dw5AlnJMgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2019-09-15%2Bat%2B9.58.17%2BAM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1094" data-original-width="1600" height="272" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vmpMrnMWMRc/XX9Z8PIk1ZI/AAAAAAABHmw/b-Y3HkWu_IgVUz0EOh94NIn_dw5AlnJMgCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/Screen%2BShot%2B2019-09-15%2Bat%2B9.58.17%2BAM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>David Hemmings y Fabio Testi di LA VIA DELLA DROGA Year: 1977 </u></td></tr> </tbody></table> It's distracting that, in the first twenty minutes of THE HEROIN BUSTERS, handsome Italian actor Fabio Testi just doesn't look right. As if a similar yet grungy, emaciated actor with the same semi-beard took his place during scenes where he's busted at an airport, and then helps a junky escape from jail...<br> <br> The junky, played by Wolfango Soldati, who, to further complicate matters, resembles Fabian, initially seems like an important side-character, as does gorgeous TENTACLES starlet Sherry Buchanan as a bisexual model wielding much appreciated gratuitous nudity. But soon enough this FRENCH CONNECTION inspired programmer turns into a simple and singular action/chase flick (undercover cop Testi being chased by a mob of spurned/betrayed dealers) ranging from a rural, broken-down-factory shootout; speeding cars getting rammed and smashed; motorbikes zipping down escalators then zooming through futuristic-looking subway tunnels; and a zigzagging, nail-biting, bombastic airplane sequence that, before you know it, concludes this drug-bust exploitation that seemed like it was just getting started...<br>

action, chase, cop, crime, david hemmings, drugs, enzo g. castellari, exploitation, fabio testi, italian import, lesbian, massimo vanni, sherry buchanan, wolfango soldati

ENZO G. CASTELLARI DIRECTS FABIO TESTI IN 'THE HEROIN BUSTERS'

David Hemmings y Fabio Testi di LA VIA DELLA DROGA Year: 1977 It's distracting that, in the first twenty minutes of THE HEROIN BUSTE...

SARAH PATTERSON IN NEIL JORDAN'S 'THE COMPANY OF WOLVES'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5d-ybEfphEA/XX7WOvTZLGI/AAAAAAABHgs/GAxJdvbadbwyqOySUOnjd5oKfZteg1vIgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/0.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1012" data-original-width="1600" height="252" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5d-ybEfphEA/XX7WOvTZLGI/AAAAAAABHgs/GAxJdvbadbwyqOySUOnjd5oKfZteg1vIgCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/0.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sarah Patterson in A COMPANY OF WOLVES Year: 1984 Rates: ***1/2</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Not just another werewolf story and with the true darkness of a fairy tale, THE COMPANY OF WOLVES gets the illogical "logic of a dream" just right as Sarah Patterson's Rosaleen is lost "in the woods" (she'd fallen asleep reading) with many twisty, nightmarish avenues: an entertaining ride for both the dreamer and the audience...<br> <br> Ranging from seemingly naive cottage-dwelling marrieds to a dream-within-a-dream of a sinister Victorian wedding party, the only downfall is the casting of a much too old Prince Charming of sorts: not just for the age, but, until he shows his true colors, he's a bit dull, miscast. Which doesn't mean Neil Jordan's Gothic fantasy/horror ever slows down. Timeless, classic young beauty Sarah Patterson wields the perfect amount of fertile innocence and roving curiosity. And there's a wolf-morphing sequence that, even after AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON set the stage, is still downright sinister, formidable, eerie and original, like the movie.<br> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pbVE0kfA4RE/XX7uelYxH-I/AAAAAAABHhM/Ewo2dZx2UxQSDoqQjnEsM4TTW7Cwl2nYgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="834" data-original-width="1600" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pbVE0kfA4RE/XX7uelYxH-I/AAAAAAABHhM/Ewo2dZx2UxQSDoqQjnEsM4TTW7Cwl2nYgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Opening credit font for THE COMPANY OF WOLVES</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GDw-2a6_u1Y/XX7ueqYq05I/AAAAAAABHhQ/hbjhxtj9exMRTTcir5tWQWwkdICHnIplwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/15.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="915" data-original-width="1600" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GDw-2a6_u1Y/XX7ueqYq05I/AAAAAAABHhQ/hbjhxtj9exMRTTcir5tWQWwkdICHnIplwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/15.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sarah Patterson sees red and cries wolf in THE COMPANY OF WOLVES</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div>

adventure, eighties, fantasy, horror, neil jordan, sarah patterson, werewolf

SARAH PATTERSON IN NEIL JORDAN'S 'THE COMPANY OF WOLVES'

Sarah Patterson in A COMPANY OF WOLVES Year: 1984 Rates: ***1/2 Not just another werewolf story and with the true darkness of a fairy ta...

LEONARD NIMOY TEAMS WITH SUSAN HAMPSHIRE IN 'BAFFLED!'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sOvnq5Ze3eU/XXxbnj7_WWI/AAAAAAABHRg/Zugfk7AwxrI-GRfKDhZvZCYoqNGmNQlYACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/0.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1199" data-original-width="1600" height="298" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sOvnq5Ze3eU/XXxbnj7_WWI/AAAAAAABHRg/Zugfk7AwxrI-GRfKDhZvZCYoqNGmNQlYACLcBGAsYHQ/s400/0.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Susan Hampshire aids Leonard Nimoy YEAR: 1972 Score: ***</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> In between his iconic small screen and big screen STAR TREK career, Leonard Nimoy headlined this television movie that was really an intented pilot for a British series co-starring sophisticated blonde beauty Susan Hamphire: an ESP expert aiding Nimoy's famous race car driver to channel visions of a veteran actress murdered in a castle where he, reluctantly at first, takes on the case...  <br> <br> BAFFLED! has all the elements of a good mystery but without enough doomed tension. And yet it works from the affable chemistry between Nimoy and Hampshire, brightening up the surrounding ensemble of Agatha Christie-like suspects including a tempestuous Rachel Roberts; Vera Miles as the possibly doomed starlet; and scene-stealing Jewel Blanch as a childlike pre-teen whose personality morphs into a creepy, possessed teenager. Making the best scenes a "Spock verses THE EXORCIST" kind of thing, and a year earlier. But it's really Susan Hampshire's ride. She energetically tackles the part as if it were truly the beginning of an assured series. In fact this "movie" ends with their next case shaping up. Sadly, it was her show to lose.<br>

british, england, ensemble, horror, jewel blanch, leonard nimoy, mystery, rachel roberts, seventies, susan hampshire, team-up, thriller, tv movie, vera miles

LEONARD NIMOY TEAMS WITH SUSAN HAMPSHIRE IN 'BAFFLED!'

Susan Hampshire aids Leonard Nimoy YEAR: 1972 Score: *** In between his iconic small screen and big screen STAR TREK career, Leonard Nim...

ELKE SOMMER IS 'DEADLIER THAN THE MALE' W/ VIRGINIA NORTH

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8XPKLRPCIzs/XXkA2j7NfcI/AAAAAAABHNw/S8IvBY1sVIQPVgO3znMD8-T2Mhp5GEBMQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2019-09-11%2Bat%2B6.05.24%2BAM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1007" data-original-width="1589" height="251" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8XPKLRPCIzs/XXkA2j7NfcI/AAAAAAABHNw/S8IvBY1sVIQPVgO3znMD8-T2Mhp5GEBMQCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/Screen%2BShot%2B2019-09-11%2Bat%2B6.05.24%2BAM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Virginia North in DEADLIER THAN THE MALE Year: 1967</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> With the same peacock strutting trumpet and the stealthily baritone guitar, DEADLIER THAN THE MALE is a James Bond clone during the end of Sean Connery's reign as lookalike Richard Johnson plays a pulp hero even older than Ian Fleming's spy, and his Bulldog Drummond's out to find the button-pushing villain behind two gorgeous female assassins who make the title make sense...<br> <br> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> And these starlets make the movie, and needed much more screentime since the first act provides killer potential as Elke Sommer and Sylvia Koscina go on a body count spree before vanishing for a while, leaving things to Drummond's investigation as he too-quickly finds the evil mastermind living in the usual fortress-palace with even more lethal dames but, at this point, they don't do much but explain their prior action-packed actions... <br> <br> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DF_4RsxDrec/XXm213fn6eI/AAAAAAABHRU/cfmp8qtsjVwt854stP-dFSXsZJiUH7JDgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2019-09-11%2Bat%2B6.03.46%2BAM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1050" data-original-width="1070" height="392" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DF_4RsxDrec/XXm213fn6eI/AAAAAAABHRU/cfmp8qtsjVwt854stP-dFSXsZJiUH7JDgCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/Screen%2BShot%2B2019-09-11%2Bat%2B6.03.46%2BAM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Virginia North as Brenda in Deadlier Than The Male SCORES: ***</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Earlier on, Virginia North, as Drummond's young nephew's young would-be girlfriend, with a penchant for his titular, handsome uncle, really stands out... <br> <br> She's now most recognizable for her last movie as this was her first following a modelling career — forever known as Vincent Price's gorgeous and mysteriously mute moll in THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES, Vulnavia... <br> <br> And speaking of the James Bond franchise: in a few years North would appear opposite one-time 007 George Lazenby in ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE as Olympe (as well as playing another character in the DEADLIER THAN THE MALE sequel, SOME GIRLS DO): notice her names are often as exotic as she is? But she's only a Brenda here (although that is a royal nickname), and who knows: Had she been added to the three dames (including sexy brunette Kitty Swan), this might be more a cult classic instead of a hidden diamond in some pretty rough/violent yet only semi-entertaining spy exploitation.<br>

action, body count, elke sommer, exploitation, kitty swan, leonard rossiter, mystery, richard johnson, sixties, spy, steve carlson, sylvia koscina, thriller, virginia north

ELKE SOMMER IS 'DEADLIER THAN THE MALE' W/ VIRGINIA NORTH

Virginia North in DEADLIER THAN THE MALE Year: 1967 With the same peacock strutting trumpet and the stealthily baritone guitar, DEADLIER...

CRISTINA FERRARE VAMPING OUT IN 'MARY, MARY, BLOODY MARY'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hZ6or6GFf8s/XXee8LXDWOI/AAAAAAABHJ8/aajU8rAEZYweLZYg8bbhOEzpgVtj27ndACLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2019-09-10%2Bat%2B4.02.34%2BAM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="978" data-original-width="1600" height="243" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hZ6or6GFf8s/XXee8LXDWOI/AAAAAAABHJ8/aajU8rAEZYweLZYg8bbhOEzpgVtj27ndACLcBGAs/s400/Screen%2BShot%2B2019-09-10%2Bat%2B4.02.34%2BAM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Cristina Ferrare in Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary YEAR: 1975</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> More exploitation than horror, MARY, MARY, BLOODY MARY is a visual treat, not only because the leading lady, Cristina Ferrare, is gorgeous but the Mexico location offer a myriad of settings to keep the viewer interested while the characters always have something to do, and somewhere to go: with little chance of getting away...<br> <br> From beaches to highways, villas and art galleries, it's a low-budget flick that, despite the wooden, looped dialogue, will keep you in intrigued, entranced. Mary is a surreal artist about to enjoy a show displaying her strange artwork. When not painting, she hangs around with a handsome drifter, who becomes the only person she doesn’t sink her teeth into…<br>

cristina ferrare, david young, exploitation, helen rojo, horror, john carradine, lesbian, mexico, seventies, susana kamini, vampire

CRISTINA FERRARE VAMPING OUT IN 'MARY, MARY, BLOODY MARY'

Cristina Ferrare in Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary YEAR: 1975 More exploitation than horror, MARY, MARY, BLOODY MARY is a visual treat, not onl...

SUE LYON RIDES WITH GEORGE HAMILTON PLAYING 'EVEL KNIEVEL'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5MPwc3gKdac/XXaUnm_doYI/AAAAAAABHCs/_9dMaQJps7ULpT6hLoH2Mdkc3rdWqs-MACLcBGAs/s1600/0.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="288" data-original-width="378" height="303" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5MPwc3gKdac/XXaUnm_doYI/AAAAAAABHCs/_9dMaQJps7ULpT6hLoH2Mdkc3rdWqs-MACLcBGAs/s400/0.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sue Lyon sits by her man George Hamilton as Evel Knievel YEAR: 1970</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> It's hard to believe that tan man George Hamilton playing Evel Knievel would turn out working pretty good, and, despite the sub-par quality releases — from an online stream where every frame looks like a last known photo, or a myriad of public domain discs in bargain bins — this simple and sparse biopic tells its story quite well, beginning with the titular motorcycle stunt king about to make the jump of his career...<br> <br> We see Knievel's life in several long flashbacks, creatively weaving (upon narration) from the central venue's groovy waiting room where Sue Lyon as wife Linda waits faithfully and patiently by his side, and somehow this makes their initial schoolgirl-meets-leather-jacket-hood courtship seem more important: even though we know she'll eventually melt to his coolness, they have warm and relaxing chemistry with each other <i>and</i> the audience. Neither try too hard to play their real life counterparts: not an easy task when the subjects are still alive, and relevant. <br>

action, biker, biopic, exploitation, george hamilton, marvin j. chomsky, ron masak, seventies, sport, sue lyon

SUE LYON RIDES WITH GEORGE HAMILTON PLAYING 'EVEL KNIEVEL'

Sue Lyon sits by her man George Hamilton as Evel Knievel YEAR: 1970 It's hard to believe that tan man George Hamilton playing Evel K...

LATER 'ALLIGATOR' SUE LYON & OTHER CAREER SCREEN CAPTURES

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Cyk3V2lHgmU/XXd2-XHxo8I/AAAAAAABHFc/aYaBNR-U9aQTZO8kVH1kYcxdTZARqdmXACLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2019-09-07%2Bat%2B1.15.25%2BPM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1140" data-original-width="1354" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Cyk3V2lHgmU/XXd2-XHxo8I/AAAAAAABHFc/aYaBNR-U9aQTZO8kVH1kYcxdTZARqdmXACLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2019-09-07%2Bat%2B1.15.25%2BPM.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sue Lyon as an NBC Newscaster in Lewis Teague's cult classic ALLIGATOR Year: 1980</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <span style="color: #0c343d;">The lovely Sue Lyon, famous for playing the steamy teen in Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of LOLITA, turns up as a newscaster along with Henry Silva, who tells her "You're very pretty" in the creature-feature classic ALLIGATOR in 1980, which was her last role. So let's take a look at some of her other roles...</span><br>

actress, creature, eighties, exploitation, henry silva, seventies, sixties, sue lyon

LATER 'ALLIGATOR' SUE LYON & OTHER CAREER SCREEN CAPTURES

Sue Lyon as an NBC Newscaster in Lewis Teague's cult classic ALLIGATOR Year: 1980 The lovely Sue Lyon, famous for playing the steam...

SUE LYON JOINS GEORGE C. SCOTT IN 'THE FLIM-FLAM MAN'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-S8lQFes7N5k/XXQLPnLJsqI/AAAAAAABHAQ/dxGmPEUcoxwvpFlVYAdDneHlzFue3BS0ACLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2019-09-07%2Bat%2B6.16.25%2BAM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1082" data-original-width="1235" height="350" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-S8lQFes7N5k/XXQLPnLJsqI/AAAAAAABHAQ/dxGmPEUcoxwvpFlVYAdDneHlzFue3BS0ACLcBGAs/s400/Screen%2BShot%2B2019-09-07%2Bat%2B6.16.25%2BAM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sue Lyon in The Flim-Flam Man Year: 1967 Rating: ***</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Fun, frolicking depression-era adventure about a famous (or infamous) charlatan who travels around conning people along the way...<br> <br> He meets young naive drifter Michael Sarrazin, who learns the ins-and-outs of rambling-trickery and being one step ahead of the law: which includes Harry Morgan and Albert Salmi as frustrated backwoods cops.<br> <div> <br> The somewhat contrived, stagey dialogue can be corny, the jovial music a bit intrusive and forboding but because of Irwin Kershner's action-paced direction, the characters, and storyline, are delivered smoothly from one location to the next. LOLITA Sue Lyon has a small but significant role as one of the victims who turns into a love interest for Sarrazin, as he realizes the fleeting life might not be for him. And George C. Scott, constantly jutting his chin, seems to be doing an old man imitation, but its an endearingly memorable character no less.<br> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-I9XVlNMBp_w/XXQPD5X6UJI/AAAAAAABHAo/sfHedstY-PEi5ZnXg8jYU24LyN_W2yRvQCLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2019-09-07%2Bat%2B5.31.07%2BAM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1048" data-original-width="1600" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-I9XVlNMBp_w/XXQPD5X6UJI/AAAAAAABHAo/sfHedstY-PEi5ZnXg8jYU24LyN_W2yRvQCLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2019-09-07%2Bat%2B5.31.07%2BAM.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sue Lyon and Alice Ghostly in THE FLIM-FLAM MAN</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> </div>

adventure, con man, depression-era, george c. scott, irvin kershner, michael sarrazin, road movie, sixties, sue lyon

SUE LYON JOINS GEORGE C. SCOTT IN 'THE FLIM-FLAM MAN'

Sue Lyon in The Flim-Flam Man Year: 1967 Rating: *** Fun, frolicking depression-era adventure about a famous (or infamous) charlatan w...

SUE LYON 'MURDER IN A BLUE WORLD' AKA 'CLOCKWORK TERROR'

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-b7TkyN-kOPc/XXOqpDeKI4I/AAAAAAABG7c/ApoKn2XZZ-YFgD6jwxsp8BECqr1CBGzsQCLcBGAs/s1600/70690590_778636325898879_842140394077552640_n.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="535" data-original-width="894" height="238" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-b7TkyN-kOPc/XXOqpDeKI4I/AAAAAAABG7c/ApoKn2XZZ-YFgD6jwxsp8BECqr1CBGzsQCLcBGAs/s400/70690590_778636325898879_842140394077552640_n.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sue Lyon goes deadly in CLOCKWORK TERROR Year: 1973</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Beware of this film that considers itself an Italian A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, ironically starring Stanley Kubrick's LOLITA, Sue Lyon, as an enigmatic, bizarre yet seemingly classy nurse set in the future where young people drink a blue liquid and go on killing sprees (Robert's son Christopher Mitchum is amongst the bedlam)...<br> <br> The film itself mentions A CLOCKWORK ORANGE on a news story, which is supposed to make it seem as if the violent society of the film itself is so into the controversial cult phenomenon that they're imitating it. A weak yet creative enough ploy to make it seem as if it's not a blatant ripoff. It's bad, bad, bad, and then some. Also known as TO LOVE, PERHAPS TO DIE or CLOCKWORK TERROR, DEAD ANGEL and in Germany, SATANSBRUT, which sounds like what Lucifer wears on first dates. it's best to instead check out END OF THE WORLD co-starring Christopher Lee for better Sue Lyon futuristic science-fiction thriller exploitation flick. It's bad, but at least, original.<br> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XoTGc71EQAs/XXOqzNySuNI/AAAAAAABG70/sAtluDreQC0XHyeOvb0C5UkXV2PlDTQ6ACLcBGAs/s1600/70625744_778636202565558_5037809523662782464_n.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="560" data-original-width="938" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XoTGc71EQAs/XXOqzNySuNI/AAAAAAABG70/sAtluDreQC0XHyeOvb0C5UkXV2PlDTQ6ACLcBGAs/s1600/70625744_778636202565558_5037809523662782464_n.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sue Lyon in Murder in a Blue World i.e. Clockwork Terror i.e. To Love, Perhaps to Die</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1DiXPXbsLLs/XXOqyCvOI2I/AAAAAAABG7o/_spbrrTlRMIkONwHX3J1IDuZxqlitv4sgCLcBGAs/s1600/69701425_778636209232224_4267049239776854016_n.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="508" data-original-width="849" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1DiXPXbsLLs/XXOqyCvOI2I/AAAAAAABG7o/_spbrrTlRMIkONwHX3J1IDuZxqlitv4sgCLcBGAs/s1600/69701425_778636209232224_4267049239776854016_n.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sue Lyon in Murder in a Blue World i.e. Clockwork Terror i.e. To Love, Perhaps to Die</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div>

christopher mitchum, cult, exploitation, import, science-fiction, seventies, sue lyon, thriller

SUE LYON 'MURDER IN A BLUE WORLD' AKA 'CLOCKWORK TERROR'

Sue Lyon goes deadly in CLOCKWORK TERROR Year: 1973 Beware of this film that considers itself an Italian A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, ironical...

SUE LYON AND ROBERT CONRAD IN 'SMASH-UP ON INTERSTATE 5'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YRlvmwQLtDg/XXFIsDL-dLI/AAAAAAABG5M/xZVowDMN9fIYCZScC3HcCFPstpRRTjB-ACLcBGAs/s1600/s11.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="740" data-original-width="989" height="298" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YRlvmwQLtDg/XXFIsDL-dLI/AAAAAAABG5M/xZVowDMN9fIYCZScC3HcCFPstpRRTjB-ACLcBGAs/s400/s11.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sue Lyon has a king of beer on Interstate 5 in 1978</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> The TV Movie SMASH-UP ON INTERSTATE 5 is groundbreaking for one reason: it beat SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER to the double boogie perspective by one full year; the camera spinning around while two people dance. To disco, no less: Enter PSYCHO co-star Vera Miles as Erica, newly divorced and reluctantly part of the singles nightlife, being romanced by creepy Herb Edelman and she wants none of it.<br> <br> Other stories evolve from and head towards that inevitable crash on the mountainous region of (Southern) California's Interstate 5: Starting out with the catastrophe's onset as the rest of the movie, dictated by typed title cards beginning 24 hours earlier, follow various plotlines – many, like the one just mentioned involving Miles and an eventual romance with a younger man, David Groh, are of the soap operatic nature...<br>

biker, buddy ebsen, cindy daly, cop, disaster, donna miles, ensemble, robert conrad, ronald jacoby, seventies, sue lyon, tommy lee jones, tv movie, vera miles

SUE LYON AND ROBERT CONRAD IN 'SMASH-UP ON INTERSTATE 5'

Sue Lyon has a king of beer on Interstate 5 in 1978 The TV Movie SMASH-UP ON INTERSTATE 5 is groundbreaking for one reason: it beat SATU...

SUE LYON IN 'TAROT' AKA 'THE MAGICIAN' WITH FERNANDO REY

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LhqO0tYUbz0/XXEPkQKB2vI/AAAAAAABG34/mE7SLBr65VIKWVSZkQ6DtqHNaCNBPh0SACLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2019-09-05%2Bat%2B6.05.01%2BAM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1206" data-original-width="1590" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LhqO0tYUbz0/XXEPkQKB2vI/AAAAAAABG34/mE7SLBr65VIKWVSZkQ6DtqHNaCNBPh0SACLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2019-09-05%2Bat%2B6.05.01%2BAM.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sue Lyon in TAROT aka AUTOPSY aka GAME OF MURDER from 1973</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Fernando Rey, the suave actor best known for THE FRENCH CONNECTION as the resilient drug lord taking a busman’s holiday in New York City, gets mixed up with LOLITA herself, Sue Lyon, who, over a decade since her star-making role in the Stanley Kubrick classic, had a sexy weathered look with cheap blue eyeliner, glazed/glossy eyes and a personal penchant for dirt bikes...<br> <br> Albeit completely befitting a dusty exploitation from Spain titled TAROT, also known as THE MAGICIAN, ANGELA or AUTOPSY... you choose... Beginning with a semi-psychedelic opening credit sequence related to the film’s title: a collage of those spooky cards, including Death on a Horse, than can foresee the future no matter how bleak…<br>

con man, exploitation, fernando rey, gloria grahame, import, jazz score, neo noir, seventies, sue lyon, thriller

SUE LYON IN 'TAROT' AKA 'THE MAGICIAN' WITH FERNANDO REY

Sue Lyon in TAROT aka AUTOPSY aka GAME OF MURDER from 1973 Fernando Rey, the suave actor best known for THE FRENCH CONNECTION as the re...

SUE LYON CONTROLS THE DRIVE-IN KILLER CAR IN 'CRASH!'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MENR4nCKUk0/XXD2Av6hqJI/AAAAAAABG2U/a7tNjQk_uNM8effw91CsH_SLvLDLIniBwCLcBGAs/s1600/69883890_776901432739035_2064989622735208448_o.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="1290" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MENR4nCKUk0/XXD2Av6hqJI/AAAAAAABG2U/a7tNjQk_uNM8effw91CsH_SLvLDLIniBwCLcBGAs/s1600/69883890_776901432739035_2064989622735208448_o.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sue Lyon in the drive-in exploitation of CRASH! Year: 1978</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Anyone familiar with THE CAR, about a hotrod that runs on the power of demonic overdrive, will learn CHRISTINE wasn’t entirely new: And we can now add the violently guilty pleasure of CRASH! starring LOLITA ingénue Sue Lyon as a rich man’s trophy wife...<br> <br> Her crippled, sinister husband Marc Denne (José Ferrer) is a collector of occult artifacts, bound to a wheelchair because of a car accident when Lyon’s Kim Deane was behind the wheel: And you can say he holds a major grudge, enough to where he provides her an ancient statue/artifact for a short road trip. Then, when she’s driving down a rural highway, a killer dog attacks: The car crashes and something awful happens.<br>

charles band, exploitation, horror, john carradine, john ericson, jose ferrer, killer car, leslie parrish, seventies, sue lyon

SUE LYON CONTROLS THE DRIVE-IN KILLER CAR IN 'CRASH!'

Sue Lyon in the drive-in exploitation of CRASH! Year: 1978 Anyone familiar with THE CAR, about a hotrod that runs on the power of demon...

BARBARA EDEN & LARRY HAGMAN IN 'A HOWLING IN THE WOODS'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7cark83zQpo/XW9lB9stFgI/AAAAAAABGyU/q3-fb-AcClgA-O7iJ9NjEjzYkbJUfhePwCLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2019-09-03%2Bat%2B10.16.09%2BPM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="840" data-original-width="1215" height="276" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7cark83zQpo/XW9lB9stFgI/AAAAAAABGyU/q3-fb-AcClgA-O7iJ9NjEjzYkbJUfhePwCLcBGAs/s400/Screen%2BShot%2B2019-09-03%2Bat%2B10.16.09%2BPM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Great font for A Howling in the Woods YEAR: 1971</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Barbara Eden and Larry Hagman definitely didn't end things on a sour note after I DREAM OF JEANNIE as the next year they starred as a married couple in a mystery-thriller that sounds like a werewolf-horror, the made-for-television A HOWLING IN THE WOODS. Then again, they're hardly on screen together at all. It's mostly Eden's ride, beginning three decades of TV movies...<br> <br> Centers on a rich woman who returns to a woodsy small town where she's given the silent treatment by the locals. Expository from her mother-in-law Vera Miles's wimpy secret lover John Rubinstein teaches us the town's been broke since her currently out-of-town father sold a factory, and only he and his family got rich. Although Eden's character is no spoiled brat since she made her own money as a fashion designer in New York fashion designer while Hagman, a photographer of naked women, wants her to return home via random phone calls...<br>

barbara eden, ford rainey, john rubinstein, larry hagman, made-for-TV, mystery, seventies, small town, thriller, tv movie, vera miles

BARBARA EDEN & LARRY HAGMAN IN 'A HOWLING IN THE WOODS'

Great font for A Howling in the Woods YEAR: 1971 Barbara Eden and Larry Hagman definitely didn't end things on a sour note after I D...

MARLON BRANDO STARRED IN AND DIRECTED 'ONE-EYED JACKS'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OYE1AIgnpAM/XW42m5jxKZI/AAAAAAABGuU/silftsEHk3MaUIjjh2Cq7RBbZ1gh4iu_gCLcBGAs/s1600/69870789_775810796181432_3529528661277409280_n.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="428" data-original-width="503" height="340" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OYE1AIgnpAM/XW42m5jxKZI/AAAAAAABGuU/silftsEHk3MaUIjjh2Cq7RBbZ1gh4iu_gCLcBGAs/s400/69870789_775810796181432_3529528661277409280_n.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Marlon Brando aims at Timothy Carey in ONE-EYED JACKS</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> There's an obscure, now forgotten cult of Marlon Brando fans, or Western fans or both, who found their copy of ONE-EYED JACKS in any drugstore's bargain basement, and before the incredibly remastered Criterion Blu Ray, we lived on this overlong mess of a wonderfully-flawed epic that's only problem was being an epic in the first place...<br> <br> That said, anyone who actually believes there was a five-hour cut/version that director and star Marlon Brando wanted to hit theaters must be crazy. Not even a David Lean historical drama is three-hours for then a Western with a forty-five minute revenge plot to actually take this long. But all forms of creating art, from music to novels to film, start out as proverbial blocks of stone that are then sculpted down to an actual framework that works for an intended audience, and people seem to want that big blockey mass instead of this two-hour plus tale that, although flawed, has its own slowburn precision and sporadic genius within...<br>

adventure, ben johnson, cult, elijah cook jr., karl malden, larry duran, marlon brando, miriam colon, sam gillman, sixties, slim pickens, timothy carey, western

MARLON BRANDO STARRED IN AND DIRECTED 'ONE-EYED JACKS'

Marlon Brando aims at Timothy Carey in ONE-EYED JACKS There's an obscure, now forgotten cult of Marlon Brando fans, or Western fans ...

ANNE ARCHER HIRES RYAN O'NEAL IN THE NEO-NOIR 'GREEN ICE'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DWhUBiV2F8E/XWp3duIf6RI/AAAAAAABGj4/yYZJVoi3pYgVTR3LdCJW-kRi6pJDS-8ogCLcBGAs/s1600/1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="517" data-original-width="830" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DWhUBiV2F8E/XWp3duIf6RI/AAAAAAABGj4/yYZJVoi3pYgVTR3LdCJW-kRi6pJDS-8ogCLcBGAs/s1600/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Anne Archer takes aim at her most beautiful in GREEN ICE Year Filmed: 1977 Year Released: 1981</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Following a James Bond style opening (created by Bond opener Maurice Binder while directed by Bond franchise Second Unit Director Ernest Day), with sexy emeralds in place of women, GREEN ICE is a breezy seventies Neo-Noir starring Ryan O'Neal as a New York transplant in Mexico who meets his damsel in distress, rich girl Anne Archer...<br> <br> Her hippie sister (Tara Fellner) had been slain by the same crooked third world officials she and her gang were hiding emeralds from, and so big sis uses O'Neal to find out what happened: Which turns out it has to do with... guess what? GREEN ICE, which millionaire Omar Sharif collects like loose change while exploiting the locals.<br>

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ANNE ARCHER HIRES RYAN O'NEAL IN THE NEO-NOIR 'GREEN ICE'

Anne Archer takes aim at her most beautiful in GREEN ICE Year Filmed: 1977 Year Released: 1981 Following a James Bond style opening (cre...

THE FORGOTTEN RIBBITING CULT OF 'HELL COMES TO FROGTOWN'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-I8tR6-GqDPg/XWjbmsiA0aI/AAAAAAABGe0/gBKdtd10VPghgGSatsAjiJdZqo4atC0GwCLcBGAs/s1600/69430728_773217406440771_3048696966432161792_n.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="715" data-original-width="960" height="297" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-I8tR6-GqDPg/XWjbmsiA0aI/AAAAAAABGe0/gBKdtd10VPghgGSatsAjiJdZqo4atC0GwCLcBGAs/s400/69430728_773217406440771_3048696966432161792_n.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Cec Verrell as Centinella in HELL COMES TO FROGTOWN Year: 1988</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Insanely gorgeous Cec Verrell doing a RAT PATROL imitation with a mounted gun on a desert-roaming vehicle in a picture obviously made to be a cult film, which in itself goes against the term of something that gains a following later: But HELL COMES TO FROGTOWN has all the right elements taking its own post-apocalyptic future very seriously, including the titular town filmed in a giant steel mill where most of the story takes place...<br> <br> By that time Verrell's gunner-moll Centinella is off-screen and it's all up to Roddy Piper, who made THEY LIVE under John Carpenter the very same year, and CONAN THE BARBARIAN starlet Sandahl Bergman, ultimately forced to do "the dance of the three snakes," perfectly befitting an actress who started out a dancer. And although not as visually stunning as Verrell or even Danelle Hand as one of several "Passives" kidnapped by a reptilian overlord within the villainous cantina/warehouse, Bergman steals the show with a sympathetic aura, falling in love with Piper's semi-title character Sam Hell, who, kind of like Don Johnson a decade earlier in A BOY AND HIS DOG, is geared-up to impregnate women in order to multiply more humans that <i>aren't </i>formidable froggies... or "Greenies" as they're called...<br>

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THE FORGOTTEN RIBBITING CULT OF 'HELL COMES TO FROGTOWN'

Cec Verrell as Centinella in HELL COMES TO FROGTOWN Year: 1988 Insanely gorgeous Cec Verrell doing a RAT PATROL imitation with a mounted...

BLOODY BAGFUL OF MOSTLY UNNECESSARY JOHN CARPENTER FILMS

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ejmylzPhniw/XWe2iPSlylI/AAAAAAABGbs/YORn5tPnzCsozIyfG4Vb35sacNL93sgcwCLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2019-08-29%2Bat%2B4.16.49%2BAM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="875" data-original-width="1480" height="236" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ejmylzPhniw/XWe2iPSlylI/AAAAAAABGbs/YORn5tPnzCsozIyfG4Vb35sacNL93sgcwCLcBGAs/s400/Screen%2BShot%2B2019-08-29%2Bat%2B4.16.49%2BAM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Kurt Russell surfing L.A. vs a shifty Steve Buscemi Year: 1996</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <u>ESCAPE FROM L.A</u>: "I was a Muslim in South Dakota," a beautiful Los Angeles prisoner tells Snake Plissken. And that's why she's considered a criminal in the new United States, which makes the famously infamous, horrendously awful ESCAPE FROM L.A. not altogether dated: released in 1996 while taking place in a "futuristic" 2013, Hollywood would proudly write a line like this today.<br>   <br> The set-up has our ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK anti-hero Plissken, played by Kurt Russell returning as Carpenter's very own Sergio Leone era Clint Eastwood, now delivered in chains to the former City of Angels, which has become an island to itself after an immense earthquake predicted by a Commander-in-Chief so Right Wing he's more of an underline villain... Even compared to prison ruler Cuervo Jones, a Playboy Che Guevara type about to... take over the world, somehow, with the help of the President's daughter, caught awestruck under his revolutionary spell and, once again, Snake has a certain amount of digitally run-down time to find a particular gadget that, whether in the hands of the equally evil Far Left or Far Right leader, wouldn't be a good thing.<br> <div style="text-align: right;"> </div> <span id="goog_850212217"></span><span id="goog_850212218"></span><br> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JDTxUEv9xFA/XWe9-GkA1UI/AAAAAAABGck/XtqcHnCJc7AC_tcKarme17otY6d12kH9gCLcBGAs/s1600/39179.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="464" data-original-width="356" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JDTxUEv9xFA/XWe9-GkA1UI/AAAAAAABGck/XtqcHnCJc7AC_tcKarme17otY6d12kH9gCLcBGAs/s320/39179.jpeg" width="245"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>ESCAPE FROM LA Score: *1/2</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> Stacy Keach is the narrow-eyed Lee Van Cleef, and wields an expository cool edge over Cliff Robertson's eventually weak-kneed, zealot stooge. And Carpenter brings Plissken through the same basic roaming journey template only with horrible results this time around...<br> <br> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> First blasting off in a mini submarine underwater to reach the island; overall, while the embarrassing special effects and forced political undertones hinder what the original's beautifully basic Spaghetti Western Science Fiction romp had going for it, there<i> is</i> actually enough banal action to keep the viewer, well, kind of entertained.<br> <br> In place of Ernest Borgnine's resilient guide Cabbie is Steve Buscemi, fitting within the retro styling during the crest of the Tarantino craze. One scene in particular, using some of that revitalized PULP FICTION guitar vibrato groove, Snake and hippie-dude Peter Fonda (doing a rambling druggie impersonation of his EASY RIDER co-star Dennis Hopper) actually surf a tsunami, which, faker looking than a Frankie and Annette picture, is unbelievable to witness, trumping even a scene involving Bruce Campbell as a mutant plastic surgeon.  <br> <br> <div style="text-align: right;"> </div> <div style="text-align: right;"> </div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6hGXh_P-0kc/XWe3gMlOBYI/AAAAAAABGb8/r-4GxMUOMYI_5AFqXCun7y1KxqMUzjL7gCLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2019-08-29%2Bat%2B3.47.11%2BAM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="508" data-original-width="805" height="251" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6hGXh_P-0kc/XWe3gMlOBYI/AAAAAAABGb8/r-4GxMUOMYI_5AFqXCun7y1KxqMUzjL7gCLcBGAs/s400/Screen%2BShot%2B2019-08-29%2Bat%2B3.47.11%2BAM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Kurt Russell and Peter Fonda in Escape from LA</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="text-align: right;"> </div> <div style="text-align: right;"> </div> <div style="text-align: right;"> </div> In the form of Harry Dean Stanton's Brain is another ex-partner of Snake: Pam Grier plays a former man (with a horrendously dubbed voice), resulting in a high-flying finale with more bullets than logic. But the worst sequence mirrors in desperation what could be the best part of the original: when Snake fought the muscular gladiator in the pivotal cage match surrounded by cheering hordes... <br> <br> Well this time around, Snake has to... get this... shoot hoops in an outdoor basketball court to save his skin... Making him not only an iconic criminal but both a champion NBA star and surfer in what has to be John Carpenter's worst venture; one that he never recovered from. Hell, compared to this, the maligned GHOST OF MARS and VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED is THE THING, or... ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK. <br>

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BLOODY BAGFUL OF MOSTLY UNNECESSARY JOHN CARPENTER FILMS

Kurt Russell surfing L.A. vs a shifty Steve Buscemi Year: 1996 ESCAPE FROM L.A : "I was a Muslim in South Dakota," a beautiful...

HOW 'HELL RIVER' CONNECTS 'ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4rJTqOkZTAw/XWOAWBB2L2I/AAAAAAABGQc/a--Ot1MWPfgWdOxoFCP0fbj6b6JEIJ1kQCLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2019-08-25%2Bat%2B11.06.11%2BPM%2B2.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1066" data-original-width="1600" height="266" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4rJTqOkZTAw/XWOAWBB2L2I/AAAAAAABGQc/a--Ot1MWPfgWdOxoFCP0fbj6b6JEIJ1kQCLcBGAs/s400/Screen%2BShot%2B2019-08-25%2Bat%2B11.06.11%2BPM%2B2.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Brioni Farrell with Rod Taylor in HELL RIVER Year: 1974 </u></td></tr> </tbody></table> In Quentin Tarantino's ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD, Leonardo DiCaprio plays an actor named Rick Dalton who, in 1969, is already a washed-up, has-been former Western television series star with a number of forgotten Western and War Movies under his belt...<br> <br> Including and especially "The 14 Fists of McCluskey" that shows quick footage from this film, HELL RIVER, which is technically impossible since the low-budget Yugoslavian WWII exploitation came out five years after Dalton's time in the Tarantino universe: Then again this obscure Rod Taylor curio, originally and more fitfully titled Partizani aka Partisans (there are only two rivers shown, and neither are hellish), doesn't really exist in HOLLYWOOD since it's become a fictional movie for its fictional star...<br>

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HOW 'HELL RIVER' CONNECTS 'ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD'

Brioni Farrell with Rod Taylor in HELL RIVER Year: 1974 In Quentin Tarantino's ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD, Leonardo DiCaprio pla...