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Written by James M. Tate / 9/20/2020 / No comments / alex rocco , crime , heist , neo noir , peter boyle , peter yates , richard jordan , robert mitchum , seventies , steven keats

PETER YATES DIRECTS A SLOWBURN 'THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ddyLa33l_1Q/X2g58hD2hzI/AAAAAAABYaQ/WBM_FbUUNbw-eyGB16kD5yBt4XWb7mT4gCLcBGAsYHQ/s1427/0.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1106" data-original-width="1427" height="310" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ddyLa33l_1Q/X2g58hD2hzI/AAAAAAABYaQ/WBM_FbUUNbw-eyGB16kD5yBt4XWb7mT4gCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h310/0.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Steven Keats in EDDIE COYLE Year: 1973 Rates: ****1/2</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The miracle of Peter Yates's Crime Thriller THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE is how interesting an entire movie full of long conversations can be, especially when the title character is played by an aged and experienced Robert Mitchum... </p><p>Turning in a natural, low key yet still tightly-wound performance as a Boston career-criminal who knows more last names than it's usual to get lost in within any Noir-style flick where a bunch of them are spouted left and right, and it takes several viewings to know exactly who's who... </p><p></p><p>While poor Eddie tries getting manipulative cop Richard Jordan to squash an approaching sentence, there's a trio of dispersed bank robberies led by a masked, business-like Alex Rocco (kidnapping vault key-holding bank managers while their families wait home at gunpoint) while hot rod driving Steven Keats as "Jackie Brown" cautiously runs guns throughout the surrounding rural landscape... and his story seems like a movie all its own. Meanwhile, the weak spot is Peter Boyle as a bartender ex-con who gets around too easily, making Mitchum's plight as useless as he himself had made all of Keats's busy-work via double-cross... then again this <i>is</i> the purpose of a group of eclectic crooks pushing each other out of a losing game (hence the irony of FRIENDS), making this Peter Yates's return to the more cerebral, existential heist template of <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/09/AR.html">ROBBERY</a> but with a groovy Dave Grusin soundtrack that blows away both that and the dated hippie-jazz BULLITT score. <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://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7K2miBVK6kU/X2fL2uLUyJI/AAAAAAABYXM/7k6Sb21FcUMf4HfX3BB876RIeLu_pzkpgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1266" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7K2miBVK6kU/X2fL2uLUyJI/AAAAAAABYXM/7k6Sb21FcUMf4HfX3BB876RIeLu_pzkpgCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert Mitchum in THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE</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://1.bp.blogspot.com/-20KNPKl2cxM/X2fL2txVisI/AAAAAAABYXQ/GIt3zv2JE5Eg1NJ8F_vxnYRS9J2PSuyBgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-09-10%2Bat%2B1.00.10%2BAM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1089" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-20KNPKl2cxM/X2fL2txVisI/AAAAAAABYXQ/GIt3zv2JE5Eg1NJ8F_vxnYRS9J2PSuyBgCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-09-10%2Bat%2B1.00.10%2BAM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Steven Keats in THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE</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://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qO4gqcJK3Fc/X2fL3hUUEJI/AAAAAAABYXU/CA2ajrWrLsUhi2_Zy9rM-tBvAsnBXtRPQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-09-10%2Bat%2B1.09.39%2BAM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1118" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qO4gqcJK3Fc/X2fL3hUUEJI/AAAAAAABYXU/CA2ajrWrLsUhi2_Zy9rM-tBvAsnBXtRPQCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-09-10%2Bat%2B1.09.39%2BAM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Alex Rocco in THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE</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://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ntwG3P1SBhI/X2fL4M472YI/AAAAAAABYXY/uCEF4qPTun4LN3JCkQbzfffe8Q_vqaIbQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-09-10%2Bat%2B1.11.38%2BAM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1116" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ntwG3P1SBhI/X2fL4M472YI/AAAAAAABYXY/uCEF4qPTun4LN3JCkQbzfffe8Q_vqaIbQCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-09-10%2Bat%2B1.11.38%2BAM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Carolyn Pickman in THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE</u><br></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://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cdiTo7zLXCw/X2fL4REjD2I/AAAAAAABYXc/89yDBm1Lc1sJ1cmGWgM6NfChNZhbl8qXwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-09-10%2Bat%2B12.03.32%2BAM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1029" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cdiTo7zLXCw/X2fL4REjD2I/AAAAAAABYXc/89yDBm1Lc1sJ1cmGWgM6NfChNZhbl8qXwCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-09-10%2Bat%2B12.03.32%2BAM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Steven Keats in THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE</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://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pkzg2NSbwOY/X2fL4_cWOCI/AAAAAAABYXg/YtzpZlg_CQQAtS6uglf9W1Qg1k76EAKlwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-09-10%2Bat%2B12.04.03%2BAM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1108" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pkzg2NSbwOY/X2fL4_cWOCI/AAAAAAABYXg/YtzpZlg_CQQAtS6uglf9W1Qg1k76EAKlwCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-09-10%2Bat%2B12.04.03%2BAM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Steven Keats in THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE</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://1.bp.blogspot.com/-04lvPfIl_xY/X2fL5h85CbI/AAAAAAABYXk/s7IFJmzt8WA5Thc0PGbWd2wx_IIVWWfggCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-09-10%2Bat%2B12.06.52%2BAM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1176" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-04lvPfIl_xY/X2fL5h85CbI/AAAAAAABYXk/s7IFJmzt8WA5Thc0PGbWd2wx_IIVWWfggCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-09-10%2Bat%2B12.06.52%2BAM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Steven Keats in THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE w/ Margaret Ladd<br></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://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oDPzQVqUjbM/X2fL6ZCYXhI/AAAAAAABYXo/8G7rnG7SEaEWtBQb4zYm_21IhF-BGwJDACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-09-10%2Bat%2B12.08.02%2BAM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1092" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oDPzQVqUjbM/X2fL6ZCYXhI/AAAAAAABYXo/8G7rnG7SEaEWtBQb4zYm_21IhF-BGwJDACLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-09-10%2Bat%2B12.08.02%2BAM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Steven Keats in THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE</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://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_uXav-mWt3M/X2fL6zFXZdI/AAAAAAABYXs/0kRmb8VpC24IWPOgJZu5Ka8lcNgD3KRewCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-09-10%2Bat%2B12.10.23%2BAM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1124" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_uXav-mWt3M/X2fL6zFXZdI/AAAAAAABYXs/0kRmb8VpC24IWPOgJZu5Ka8lcNgD3KRewCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-09-10%2Bat%2B12.10.23%2BAM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jane House in THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE</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://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wwLOrpxcYR0/X2fMEUhLRmI/AAAAAAABYX0/bRaG6zO5Cd02epG4j8sQOY_gBGS3LW30ACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-09-10%2Bat%2B12.11.01%2BAM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1123" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wwLOrpxcYR0/X2fMEUhLRmI/AAAAAAABYX0/bRaG6zO5Cd02epG4j8sQOY_gBGS3LW30ACLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-09-10%2Bat%2B12.11.01%2BAM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert Mitchum in THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE w/ Alex Rocco<br></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://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NmcZUpbX39k/X2fMEQ6dGXI/AAAAAAABYXw/MMGvTY8LnDIFM5Cm9zm7S5Hn55ULVvVggCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-09-10%2Bat%2B12.12.26%2BAM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1116" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NmcZUpbX39k/X2fMEQ6dGXI/AAAAAAABYXw/MMGvTY8LnDIFM5Cm9zm7S5Hn55ULVvVggCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-09-10%2Bat%2B12.12.26%2BAM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert Mitchum in THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE w/ Alex Rocco</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://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rOcuxiiG5jw/X2fMEjzPkdI/AAAAAAABYX4/TtonyF_ESGcS-sRdKIabLY9k5JR2eCB4ACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-09-10%2Bat%2B12.13.02%2BAM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1135" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rOcuxiiG5jw/X2fMEjzPkdI/AAAAAAABYX4/TtonyF_ESGcS-sRdKIabLY9k5JR2eCB4ACLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-09-10%2Bat%2B12.13.02%2BAM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jane House in THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE</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://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2N2FosuUZqM/X2fMFCwGRPI/AAAAAAABYX8/JpqH79gcVpUiYZA-h9SOC9cy6rsvxrUpQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-09-10%2Bat%2B12.27.00%2BAM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1119" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2N2FosuUZqM/X2fMFCwGRPI/AAAAAAABYX8/JpqH79gcVpUiYZA-h9SOC9cy6rsvxrUpQCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-09-10%2Bat%2B12.27.00%2BAM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Steven Keats in THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE</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://1.bp.blogspot.com/-POeqTlA6cR4/X2fMFrz9D6I/AAAAAAABYYA/RrOtAP7S8IAgqJzZCO3XXZNmyFgnRFizgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1974/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-09-10%2Bat%2B12.28.56%2BAM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1225" data-original-width="1974" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-POeqTlA6cR4/X2fMFrz9D6I/AAAAAAABYYA/RrOtAP7S8IAgqJzZCO3XXZNmyFgnRFizgCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-09-10%2Bat%2B12.28.56%2BAM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Steven Keats in THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE w/ Jack Kehoe<br></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://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BFMRoLp8yJY/X2fMGXb1agI/AAAAAAABYYE/kONPGzOru8U-B4hHz3YtmP0My6czz5yKACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-09-10%2Bat%2B12.39.54%2BAM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1139" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BFMRoLp8yJY/X2fMGXb1agI/AAAAAAABYYE/kONPGzOru8U-B4hHz3YtmP0My6czz5yKACLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-09-10%2Bat%2B12.39.54%2BAM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mad Men daughter lookalike in THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE</u></td></tr></tbody></table>

alex rocco, crime, heist, neo noir, peter boyle, peter yates, richard jordan, robert mitchum, seventies, steven keats

PETER YATES DIRECTS A SLOWBURN 'THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE'

Steven Keats in EDDIE COYLE Year: 1973 Rates: ****1/2 The miracle of Peter Yates's Crime Thriller THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE is how inte...

BEFORE TAKING A BULLITT PETER YATES STAGED THIS 'ROBBERY'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vguw7-G2N5E/X2iq7veqsbI/AAAAAAABYbE/pMOCwLBzjPIvZW_i24OcvYC1Xw_vvQ8yACLcBGAsYHQ/s501/00387645.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="501" data-original-width="466" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vguw7-G2N5E/X2iq7veqsbI/AAAAAAABYbE/pMOCwLBzjPIvZW_i24OcvYC1Xw_vvQ8yACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/00387645.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>ROBBERY Year: 1967 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p> Best known as the little crime film that gave British director Peter Yates his big game-changing opportunity to make BULLITT since Steve McQueen had witnessed the rudimentary car chase from ROBBERY, an extremely sparse and intentionally uncaring English Neo Noir Heist Thriller... </p><p>And it's not just the chase that Yates carried over to the McQueen classic but the meticulous and metronomic moments leading to it...</p><p></p><p>Starring extremely square-jawed Stanley Baker but only because he's in charge, ROBBERY makes pretty much equal use of the male leads including James Booth as the trailing cop, William Marlowe as Baker's strong-silent second, Barry Forster as his strong-silent third while Frank Finlay, as a meek banker easily broken from prison, is the most sympathetic...</p><p>But there's very little sympathy for these particularly professional devils, whose only flaw is how long and tediously methodical it takes for the train heist (based on The Great Train Robbery), not always considering the audience. But, like real life crimes, and even the McQueen ultra-realistic documentary-like police-procedure about the other side of the law, Yates showcases the slowburn reality like being right there, for better or worse since it's not always extremely exciting, and that's the point. Just don't let the casting of beautiful Joanne Pettit fool you. ROBBERY cares neither about romance or the human condition. <br /></p>

action, barry foster, british neo noir, british new wave, frank finlay, heist, james booth, joanne pettit, peter yates, sixties, stanley baker, william marlowe

BEFORE TAKING A BULLITT PETER YATES STAGED THIS 'ROBBERY'

ROBBERY Year: 1967 Rating: **** Best known as the little crime film that gave British director Peter Yates his big game-changing opportunit...

Written by James M. Tate / 9/15/2020 / No comments / brian weske , british neo noir , british new wave , david mccallum , heist , jill ireland , kenneth cope , marian collins , sixties , suspense , vanda hudson

BRITISH NEO NOIR 'JUNGLE STREET' AKA 'JUNGLE STREET GIRLS'

brian weske, british neo noir, british new wave, david mccallum, heist, jill ireland, kenneth cope, marian collins, sixties, suspense, vanda hudson

BRITISH NEO NOIR 'JUNGLE STREET' AKA 'JUNGLE STREET GIRLS'

David McCallum and Gillian Watt with Anne Scott in JUNGLE STREET aka JUNGLE STREET GIRLS Year: 1960 After having met and married from HE...

WILLIAM LUCAS MAKES 'THE BREAK' WITH CHRISTINA GREGG

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The same year British beauty Christina Gregg played a schoolgirl told <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/08/catfone.html">DON'T TALK TO STRANGE MEN</a>, she was the twenty-something sister of a convict who made THE BREAK from a train...<br>
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And winds up with handful of eclectic characters that... as Quentin Tarantino attempted in HATEFUL EIGHT inspired by John Carpenter's classic THE THING... are all stuck together, here within a rural hotel: all with not only different personalities and perspectives but purpose, motivation and temperaments... Meanwhile the leading man is a sophisticated type: here a blocked author and, on the upside he quickly yet slowly finds kinship with the gorgeous Christina Gregg, but he's also being surreptitiously eyed by the most intriguing and perhaps crooked person onboard in CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN tutor Robert Urquhart as a wily-charming gumshoe insurance investigator...<br>

action, british neo noir, british new wave, christina gregg, eddie byrne, lance comfort, robert urquhart, sixties, thriller, tony britton, william lucas

WILLIAM LUCAS MAKES 'THE BREAK' WITH CHRISTINA GREGG

Christina Gregg and William Lucas in THE BREAK Year: 1962 The same year British beauty Christina Gregg played a schoolgirl told DON'...

WILLIAM LUCAS RISKS ENGLAND'S BIG FREEZE IN 'CALCULATED RISK'

british neo noir, british new wave, caper, dilys watling, george martin, heist, john rutland, sixties, terence cooper, warren mitchell, william lucas

WILLIAM LUCAS RISKS ENGLAND'S BIG FREEZE IN 'CALCULATED RISK'

William Lucas smokes in the real cold England for CALCULATED RISK during Big Freeze of 1963 Continuing our wave of Noir/Crime BRITISH NE...

STANLEY BAKER TRUCKIN' WITH PEGGY CUMMINS IN 'HELL DRIVERS'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Stanley Baker leads THE HELL DRIVERS Year: 1957 </u></td></tr>
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With the cheating aid of that kind of sped-up effect used long ago on Keystone Cop shorts, the work trucks for HELL DRIVERS picks up granite and races it back to the factory as quickly as possible... at breakneck speed taking neck-breaking curves... and newly hired ex con Stanley Baker catches on that he's not very wanted... That is, the boss wants him fast, but not <i>too</i> fast... <br>
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In particular, to never beat the high score of antagonist Patrick McGoohan, looking like a severe pirate with a cocky grin behind the wheel, and this whole lot is a truly wild bunch that includes a young Sean Connery... and the only friend of Baker's square-jawed strong-silent-type is Italian romantic Herbert Lom, smitten with secretary Peggy Cummins, who's into the new guy instead.<br>

action, british film noir/melodrama, david mccallum, fifties, herbert lom, jill ireland, patrick mcgoohan, peggy cummins, sean connery, stanley baker

STANLEY BAKER TRUCKIN' WITH PEGGY CUMMINS IN 'HELL DRIVERS'

Stanley Baker leads THE HELL DRIVERS Year: 1957 With the cheating aid of that kind of sped-up effect used long ago on Keystone Cop short...

LANCE COMFORT DIRECTS WILLIAM SYLVESTER IN 'BLIND CORNER'

british neo noir, british new wave, lance comfort, mark eden, perfect murder, sixties, thriller, william sylvester

LANCE COMFORT DIRECTS WILLIAM SYLVESTER IN 'BLIND CORNER'

Barbara Shelley (the cheater) and William Sylvester (the cheated) in BLIND CORNER Year: 1964 Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY...

OLIVER REED EPISODES OF THE BRITISH CLASSIC 'THE SAINT'

british, british new wave, crime, heist, imogen hassal, oliver reed, roger moore, sixties, TV, yvonne romain

OLIVER REED EPISODES OF THE BRITISH CLASSIC 'THE SAINT'

Oliver Reed on THE SAINT episode SOPHIA from the year 1963 In his early troubled-youth pictures THE SYSTEM and THE PARTY'S OVER, Bri...

CHRISTINA GREGG STALKED IN 'DON'T TALK TO STRANGE MEN'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Christina Gregg in DON'T TALK TO STRANGERS Year: 1962</u></td></tr>
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With shows like CATFISH it may seem somewhat new: grown men soliciting and seducing young naïve  girls into their clutches, online, but in the 1961 British New Wave Thriller, it happened pretty much the same way, via payphone...<br>
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And while a title like DON'T TALK TO STRANGE MEN sounds like a public service announcement, it's ironic that the stranger on the phone is the one advising this to his target, the maybe too pretty and perhaps slightly too old for the pathetically desperate, lonely, needy role as gorgeous girl-next-door Christina Gregg, a bybrid of two babyface starlets, Diane Baker (before) and Jennifer Jason Leigh (after): she's part of what's more a teenage crush movie than a serial killer suspense, and it's not a one way street despite her doing all the acting facially...<br>

british new wave, christina gregg, crime, janina faye, serial killer, suspense, thriller

CHRISTINA GREGG STALKED IN 'DON'T TALK TO STRANGE MEN'

Christina Gregg in DON'T TALK TO STRANGERS Year: 1962 With shows like CATFISH it may seem somewhat new: grown men soliciting and sed...

PETER VAUGHAN IN 'SMOKESCREEN' WITH YVONNE ROMAIN

british neo noir, british new wave, david gregory, glynn edwards, jill curzon, jim o'connolly, john carson, peter vaughan, sixties, yvonne romain

PETER VAUGHAN IN 'SMOKESCREEN' WITH YVONNE ROMAIN

Peter Vaughan & Yvonne Romain in SMOKESCREEN Year: 1964 The biggest shame about Jim O'Connelly's quirky low-budget British p...

KATHERINE WOODVILLE & CLIFFORD DAVID IN 'THE PARTY'S OVER'

beatnik, british, british new wave, clifford david, counter-culture, crime, eddie albert, jazz score, katherine woodville, louise sorel, maurice browning, mystery, oliver reed, romance, sixties

KATHERINE WOODVILLE & CLIFFORD DAVID IN 'THE PARTY'S OVER'

Katherine Woodville in THE PARTY'S OVER Year: 1965 Executive Producer Peter O'Toole and Jack Hawkins along with director Guy Ha...

YOUNG BRITISH BLONDE BEAUTY GILLAN HILLS AS 'BEAT GIRL'

beatnik, british new wave, christopher lee, claire gordon, david farrar, delphi lawrence, exploitation, gillan hills, jazz score, melodrama, noëlle adam, oliver reed, peter mcenery, shirley anne field, sixties

YOUNG BRITISH BLONDE BEAUTY GILLAN HILLS AS 'BEAT GIRL'

Groovy jazz-soaked title sequence with Gillan Hills as BEAT GIRL Year: 1960 BEAT GIRL is kind of like two movies in one, and both are pr...

JIM O'CONNOLLY DIRECTS JACQUELINE ELLIS IN 'THE HI-JACKERS'

anthony booth, british, british neo noir, british new wave, crime, david gregory, derek francis, glynn edwards, jacqueline ellis, jazz score, jim o'connolly, sixties

JIM O'CONNOLLY DIRECTS JACQUELINE ELLIS IN 'THE HI-JACKERS'

Opening title sequence for THE HI-JACKERS circa 1963 Writer/director Jim O'Connolly should be well known for two films where the cul...

RACHEL ROBERTS & ANNETTE WHITELEY IN 'GIRL ON APPROVAL'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Annette Whiteley in GIRL ON APPROVAL Year: 1962</u></td></tr>
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If you didn't know the plot going in... that fourteen-year-old Sheila is an unwanted orphan who'd gone through a string of foster parents and is now "trying out for" a couple that could be her very last chance... she'd seem like any other girl her age: Bratty. Moody. Angry. Pouting. Shouting... Favoring friendly dad over competitive mom...<br>
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Basically, GIRL ON APPROVAL is about a normal bad girl at this age, and yet the plot (more a situation) adds enough suspense for the outcome to matter, but not only for the kid...<br>
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Parents Rachel Roberts and James Maxwell, who'd lost their daughter and, raising two young boys, wind up at each other's throat when this bad seed makes their domestic suburban life a living hell. From cutting up furniture with scissors to smashing things on the kitchen floor, the acting of young Annette Whiteley is strong and effective if one-note-grouchy: like an owl peaking through a messy nest of hair... <br>

annette whiteley, british new wave, drama, family, james maxwell, melodrama, rachel roberts, sixties

RACHEL ROBERTS & ANNETTE WHITELEY IN 'GIRL ON APPROVAL'

Annette Whiteley in GIRL ON APPROVAL Year: 1962 If you didn't know the plot going in... that fourteen-year-old Sheila is an unwanted...

CAROL REED'S BELFAST NOIR 'ODD MAN OUT' WITH JAMES MASON

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert Beatty bribes adorable urchin to find his friend YEAR: 1947</u></td></tr>
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James Mason is always intense, even when he's 
playing comedy, and this is no comedy: The most riveting scenes seem 
initially very normal and, for this wounded Irish nationalist leader 
left for dead and, in darkened alleys and hidden rooms, constantly 
in-hiding, he seems to come across things that, at first, seem much 
different than they turn out being, making this ODD MAN way, way OUT 
there while at the same time, you feel in the desperate man's perspective...<br>
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So the suspense relies on a fish out of water while perhaps the 
best moments occur for only ten or so minutes in the beginning, as we 
see through what's truly a semi-deranged mind to begin with: having been
 holed-up in prison for many years, even his own "soldiers" don't trust 
his instincts and capabilities to pull off a relatively otherwise 
in-and-out office heist that in fact, Mason's confounded and lost, intrepidly named Johnny McQueen backed by tough, assertive Robert Beatty (who is young and resembles a not yet grown Tom Courtenay); weaselly, gun-toting Cyril Cusack; timid Dan O'Herlihy; and especially the lovely, soulfully sad yet dedicated and stubborn-tough ingenue Kathleen Ryan...<br>

british film noir/melodrama, carol reed, drama, forties, IRA, james mason, robert beatty, thriller

CAROL REED'S BELFAST NOIR 'ODD MAN OUT' WITH JAMES MASON

Robert Beatty bribes adorable urchin to find his friend YEAR: 1947 James Mason is always intense, even when he's playing comedy, an...

PETER O'TOOLE IN 'THE DAY THEY ROBBED THE BANK OF ENGLAND'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1960</u></td></tr>
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In this classy, turn of the Century-set British heist film, Aldo Ray plays an American joining with would-be Irish Revolutionaries to knock off the titular 
location, and the best moments occur in the planning stages as the giant Yank learns the innards of the immense, seemingly impenetrable bank-fortress from a personal tour by Peter O'Toole, playing an extremely nice lieutenant of the bank's troop of marching guards...<br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robbed the Bank of England SCORE: ****</u></td></tr>
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O'Toole's not the main star but has a genuine arc: his affable persona, giving away any 
and all secrets to an all-ears thief feigning style and class, sharpens as he begins to catch on during the crest of the second act, intensifying into a 
more familiar, edgy and intense character for O'Toole to embrace (and that he'd play later on).<br>
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Meanwhile, the
 pace slows during a filler romance between Ray and the only female plotter, and the 
most time's spent during the usual digging of the tunnel — the kind you 
mostly see in prison films breaking out while here they're attempting 
to break in...<br>
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The cast also includes veteran actor Albert Sharpe as a sewer dwelling bum that unknowingly provided the groundwork; Kieron Moore as the mouthiest and youngest Irishman, a thankless role and the only antagonist of sorts; and Elizabeth Sellers as the pouty (and much too old) ingenue in this semi-obscure gem directed by John Guillermin, and that famously laid the 
groundwork for O'Toole's career: After viewing one scene, David Lean knew he had his LAWRENCE OF ARABIA despite the dark features and a
 straight, hawkish nose that would soon be altered.<br>

aldo ray, british new wave, caper, england, heist, john guillermin, kieron moore, peter o'toole, sixties, thriller

PETER O'TOOLE IN 'THE DAY THEY ROBBED THE BANK OF ENGLAND'

Year: 1960 In this classy, turn of the Century-set British heist film, Aldo Ray plays an American joining with would-be Irish Revolution...

CULT ACTRESS LINDA MANZ IS GONE BUT SHE'S NOT FORGOTTEN

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Linda Manz born August 20, 1961 died August 14, 2020 here in THE WANDERERS</u></td></tr>
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Rest in Peace to one of the most unique cult actresses of all time, LINDA MANZ, who started as Richard Gere's narrating little sister in the Depression-era drama DAYS OF HEAVEN, a role that Gere himself said stole the film...<br>
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And she starred in what's her most famous role as Dennis Hoppers troubled daughter in the EASY RIDER auteur's directorial comeback, OUT OF THE BLUE, in which Manz's character worships Elvis and Johnny Rotten; and before that, in THE WANDERERS, she's the "Pee Wee" girlfriend of giant-sized Erland van Lidth.<br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Linda Manz in her final and most iconic roles OUT OF THE BLUE</u></td></tr>
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2020, linda manz, tribute

CULT ACTRESS LINDA MANZ IS GONE BUT SHE'S NOT FORGOTTEN

Linda Manz born August 20, 1961 died August 14, 2020 here in THE WANDERERS Rest in Peace to one of the most unique cult actresses of all...

WILLIAM TALMAN MAKING 'THE RACKET' WITH ROBERT MITCHUM

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>The Racket Year: 1951 stars: Robert Mitchum Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr>
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While
 primarily focusing on the two leads, Robert Mitchum as a determined 
cop, McQuigg, and Robert Ryan as criminal kingpin Nick Scanlon (in 
cahoots with crooked politician Ray Collins), it's William Talman's 
heroic yet idealistically naïve , knee-jerk newbie police officer, ready to take on 
all things villainous, that really drives things along...<br>
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Bookending the 
literally explosive middle is an involving buildup, as nothing can touch
 Robert Ryan and his old-school way of running things. Then, during the 
last half, he realizes his particular kind of shady doesn't quite work 
in the world of ever-growing politics. But he's not going down easy, and
 it takes Mitchum's slowburn patience to wear him down. Throw in sexy 
Lizbeth Scott as the dame caught in the middle and you really have 
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crime, fifties, film noir or melodrama, howard hughes, robert mitchum, robert ryan, suspense, william talman

WILLIAM TALMAN MAKING 'THE RACKET' WITH ROBERT MITCHUM

The Racket Year: 1951 stars: Robert Mitchum Rating: ***1/2 While primarily focusing on the two leads, Robert Mitchum as a determined c...

DANA ANDREWS AND SUSAN HAYWARD IN 'MY FOOLISH HEART'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: MY FOOLISH HEART Year: 1949 Rating: ***</u></td></tr>
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J.D. Salinger's short story "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut" was adapted, to his chagrin; and with Dana Andrews discussing the titular rabbit getting into and out of trouble, it's contrived, cinematic symbolism for Susan Hayward, flashing back and forth from pre-War to post-War; a glib lush unhappily married to Kent Smith (hanging with her best friend and dealing with an introverted daughter) in the present while reminiscing about the nostalgic affair with Andrews...<br>
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The best scenes occur before the before the war; that is, when Dana's dapper, handsome stranger meets our insecure college girl at a dance, defends her against a bullying deb, takes her home for a drink, and later gets her thrown out of college for kissing in the dorm elevator. And just as their romance gets interesting, the next scene Dana's wearing a baggy military uniform, about to fly overseas but before that, meet her parents...<br>

adaptation, dana andrews, drama, forties, j.d. salinger, kent smith, mark robson, melodrama, robert keith, romance, susan hayward

DANA ANDREWS AND SUSAN HAYWARD IN 'MY FOOLISH HEART'

Title: MY FOOLISH HEART Year: 1949 Rating: *** J.D. Salinger's short story "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut" was adapted, to ...

DANA ANDREWS AND FARLEY GRANGER IN 'EDGE OF DOOM'

adele jergens, dana andrews, farley granger, fifties, film noir or melodrama, mala powers, mark robson, paul stewart, robert keith, thriller

DANA ANDREWS AND FARLEY GRANGER IN 'EDGE OF DOOM'

Adele Jergens, Mala Powers, Farley Granger & Dana Andrews in EDGE OF DOOM aka STRONGER THAN FEAR Year: 1950 The idea of a Catholic F...

PETER SELLERS ENDS WITH 'THE FIENDISH PLOT OF DR. FU MANCHU'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Artwork for THE FIENDISH PLOT OF DR. FU MANCHU Year: 1980</u></td></tr>
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What Peter Sellers' final motion picture, THE FIENDISH PLOT OF DR. FU MANCHU, has in common with his most popular franchise, THE PINK PANTHER, is that both parody James Bond: Especially 1976's <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/04/StrikesAgain.html">PINK PANTHER STRIKES AGAIN</a>, so over-the-top similar to the Roger Moore outings that MANCHU feels like a homage of a homage. But there's also the Christopher Lee MANCHU b-flicks and before that, Boris Karloff...<br>
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Sellers was obviously a fan of both as this was he and trophy wife Lynne Frederick's labor-of-love going through several directors, which shows since many overlong scenes lack any direction at all wherein, as usual, Sellers plays several roles, particularly pulp author Sax Rohmer's Tong-lord supervillain and his dogged Scotland Yard investigator Nayland Smith. In both parts, Sellers, who died not long after production wrapped, seems too old and tired to not only pull off genuinely humorous performances but to move along an already convoluted and sometimes downright confusing story (one particular scheme involving an obese guard of a British diamond is a time-wasting mess)...<br>

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Artwork for THE FIENDISH PLOT OF DR. FU MANCHU Year: 1980 What Peter Sellers' final motion picture, THE FIENDISH PLOT OF DR. FU MANC...

PEGGY CUMMINS & JOHN DALL IN THE NOIR CLASSIC 'GUN CRAZY'

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The Femme Fatale, you know, the bad girl with the great face... the soulless dame with the fantastic body... Well she's just about everything in GUN CRAZY despite the lengthy prologue about the doomed young man as a precocious kid, initially played by Russ Tamblyn, with a penchant for guns who winds up in reform school...<br>
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And it's not long after getting out... now a twenty-something John Dall... when he and his childhood buddies go to a sideshow where Peggy Cummins' Annie Laurie Starr steals his heart — but only after he beats her at a shooting contest i.e. her very own game. The next scene, Dall's Bart Tare has a job there too, and not long after he's fired by jealous barker Berry Kroeger, smitten with the girl who gets away...</div>
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The second act has a lot of bombastic action up front but the usual Noirish guilt, here involving Dall's brooding Bart, not only happens much too quick but is intrusive and annoying, not allowing him (or the audience) to enjoy the rural Bonnie & Clyde town-hopping robberies: But there's no such cloying guilt from Annie...<br>
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And with sparse, finely-tuned direction by Joseph H. Lewis... visually and rhythmically foreshadowing French New Wave cinema with a kind of naked/barren aesthetic... this is Peggy Cummins picture; and she had no backstory at all. Then again, do deadly dames (aka DEADLY IS THE FEMALE) even have a past? Usually theirs' is a quick shoot-em-up future. If only she had a less reluctant/whiny partner-in-crime. Mr. Dall needed a little of that ROPE gusto here! <br>

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PEGGY CUMMINS & JOHN DALL IN THE NOIR CLASSIC 'GUN CRAZY'

Poster with John Dall and Peggy Cummins dead in love for GUN CRAZY Year: 1950 The Femme Fatale, you know, the bad girl with the great fa...

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