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Written by James M. Tate / 12/08/2019 / No comments / 2019 , action , adventure , depression-era , gangster , kevin costner , netflix , new , road movie , thriller , william sadler , woody harrelson

KEVIN COSTNER & WOODY HARRELSON PLAY 'THE HIGHWAYMEN'

2019, action, adventure, depression-era, gangster, kevin costner, netflix, new, road movie, thriller, william sadler, woody harrelson

KEVIN COSTNER & WOODY HARRELSON PLAY 'THE HIGHWAYMEN'

Kevin Costner as a straight-shooter in THE HIGHWAYMEN Year: 2019 Arthur Penn's BONNIE AND CLYDE hasn't really aged all that well...

BEWARE OF 'BLOOD BEACH' W/ DARRELL FETTY & LENA POUSETTE

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BLOOD BEACH is an inspired, intentionally campy Jaws-clone that intentionally never reaches the water, and with a few payoffs, including each death scene, ranging from BIG WEDNESDAY party dude Darrell Fetty as a deputy/musician  to a few doomed locals sucked into the sand...<br>
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And then investigated by some great actors not only wasted, but marring the horror element including old school drably dressed Burt Young, Otis Young (no relation... Otis is the tall black dude from THE LAST DETAIL who looks nothing like Rocky Balboa's sloppy brother-in-law) and John Saxon in an investigation phase that, sadly, not only takes over the fun but practically smothers it... Basically, too much discussion on what already happened and not enough things happening makes for a rather dull beach... <br>

beach, body count, burt young, darrell fetty, eighties, horror, jaws-clone, john saxon, lena pousette, marianna hill, otis young, thriller

BEWARE OF 'BLOOD BEACH' W/ DARRELL FETTY & LENA POUSETTE

Darrell Fetty as Hoagy in BLOOD BEACH Year: 1981 BLOOD BEACH is an inspired, intentionally campy Jaws-clone that intentionally never rea...

GENE TIERNEY & DANA ANDREWS IN OTTO PREMINGER'S 'LAURA'

classic, clifton webb, cop, crime, dana andrews, film noir, forties, gene tierney, mystery, otto preminger, vincent price

GENE TIERNEY & DANA ANDREWS IN OTTO PREMINGER'S 'LAURA'

Nothing like a spoiler built into a poster for LAURA Year: 1944 Dana Andrews as Det. Lt. Mark McPherson has fallen in love with a ghost...

DECADE-SPANNING BLOODY BAGFUL OF ARCHIVE MOVIE REVIEWS

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<u>title: THE BETSY</u>
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<u>year: 1978</u></div>
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<u>cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Lawrence Olivier, Kathleen Beller, Robert Duvall</u></div>
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<u>rating: **1/2</u></div>
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Like something off TV from the late seventies/early eighties night soaps
 ala "Dallas" or "Dynasty" but centering on a car company and with curse
 words and full-frontal nudity (the Kathleen Beller pool scene is quite a
 nice surprise). Tommy Lee Jones is a race car driver/designer hired by a
 rich family to make a new affordable fuel efficient car and gets tangled in 
the web that always permeates the rich and powerful in literature and 
films. This is just fluff, but sometimes entertaining fluff. Robert 
Duvall is surprisingly dull as the somewhat villainous grandson of 
Lawrence Olivier, Olivier who plays wholeheartedly a Henry Ford meets 
Darth Vadar type matriarch of a powerful family that's falling apart at 
the seams.<br />
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<u>title: THE AMAZING HOWARD HUGHES</u><br />
<u>year: 1977
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<u>cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Ed Flanders, Lee Purcell</u></div>
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<u>rating: **1/2</u></div>
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Okay so this was edited from a longer version and comes off as a 
greatest hits of Howard Hughes. The story merely glosses through 
different aspects of his life without much detail.  Tommy Lee Jones was 
good... but at the end you're not sure what made him driven, or crazy, 
in the first place.<br />
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<u>title: FLIGHT OF THE INTRUDER </u></div>
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<u>year: 1991<br />
cast: Brad Johnson, Willem Defoe <br />
director: John Milius<br />
rating: *</u><br />
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This John Milius Vietnam flick has low-budget written all over it, 
especially when it counts. The talented actors are wasted, and a 
romantic subplot that borders on ludicrious helps waste them, and action
 scenes that leave the viewer wondering not only "What's going on?" but 
"When it gonna end?" Perhaps Milius, who wrote a good percentage of 
"Apocolypse Now", in trying for another Vietnam epic, ends up with a 
"G.I. Joe" meets "Top Gun" in the process. This isn't even corny in an 
endearing sense, it's just plain bad.  </div>
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<u>title: MOTORCYCLE GANG</u><br />
<u>year: 1994</u></div>
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<u>cast: Carla Gugino, Gerald McRaney, Jake Busey, Richard Edson, Julia Mueller </u></div>
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<u>rating: **</u><br />
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This is a bad made-for-TV film that's not so bad, at least the first 
half centering on a family consisting of a father, a mother, and a 
teenager daughter who - during the 1950s - move from Texas to 
California. On the way they run into the element that ruins the flow of 
the movie, and ironically it's the Motorcycle Gang, led by Jake Busey 
who resembles a flaky nineties surfer more than a fifties gang member 
and is about an intimidating as a housefly. This is where the movie hits
 a wall, and explodes. Sadly, once-great John Milius directed this. </div>
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<u>title: CONVOY</u><br />
<u>Year: 1978 </u><br />
<u>cast: Kris Kristofferson, Ali McGraw, Ernest Borgnine </u></div>
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<u>rating: *</u></div>
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After directing the brilliant anti-war film <i>Cross of Iron</i>, Sam 
Peckinpah went into a dizzy retirement, and here's what he made at his 
dizziest. Truckers on CB radios versus a crooked cop. This should be 
called "BJ and the Billy the Kid", as Kris Kristofferson stars as the 
rebel trucker, and his usually dependable laidback personality is 
boring. Ali McGraw, who was pretty bad in the brilliant Peckinpah film <i>The Getaway</i>,
 is just as bad here, but without a good story to lift her above the 
fray. Burt Young and Ernest Borgnine are lackluster, as is Peckinpah's 
signature style... full of slow-motion action and snappy edits... which 
is hardly visible at all.<br />
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<u>title: THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD </u></div>
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<u>year: 1951</u>
<u>cast: James Arness</u>
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<u>director: Christian Nyby </u><br />
<u>rating: *1/2</u><br />
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The John Carpenter version has a relatively small number of men trapped 
in an Arctic outpost, and you get to know them all by name, personality,
 share their claustrophobic frenzy and follow their fates accordingly. 
In this movie there's two main characters, a woman who is totally 
misplaced, and about a dozen nameless men who walk from room to room 
talking about a spaceship. John Carpenter told the story in a far better
 fashion... where you can at least follow each character through the 
nightmare as opposed to watching a dated stage play with too many 
characters parading before a stagnate camera. And the famous line, 
"Watch The Skies," is uttered by a lanky scientist. Which makes sense 
since there's nothing to see on the ground. </div>
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<u>title: BLOODY MAMA</u></div>
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<u>year: 1970</u></div>
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<u>cast: Shelley Winters </u></div>
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<u>rating: *1/2</u></div>
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How
 can a movie directed by Roger Corman and starring Shelley Winters as a 
bank robber with sons played by Don Stroud, Robert Walden and last but 
not least Robert DeNiro not be great? Judging Corman films can be 
difficult since they don't aspire for much, but this is a lazy exercise 
in a filmmaker pushing an envelope with nothing inside. For DeNiro fans 
there's not much here. His character just stands around with a dumb look
 and every once in a while says something in an over-the-top hillbilly 
accent. Don Stroud is really the focal point as "Herman", the psychotic 
eldest son, but his performance does nothing but grate on the nerves. 
And Shelley Winters collects a paycheck. Corman produced BOXCAR BERTHA 
and CRAZY MAMA are much better.<br />
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<u>title: STUNTS </u><br />
<u>year: 1977</u></div>
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<u>cast: Robert Forster, Fiona Lewis</u><br />
<u>rating: ***1/2 </u><br />
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Mark L. Lester rules. STUNTS involves stuntmen getting picked off by a 
mysterious killer. Robert Forster's little brother is one of them, and 
he investigates. Darrell Fetty, Joanna Cassidy, Fiona Lewis, Bruce 
Glover and the late Ray Sharky round out the cast. The acting is 
wonderful and the action is bar none. The stuntmen are killed off like 
campers in a slasher flick, and the tension mounts with precision. 
Lester is a miracle worker. He takes low budget movies and turns them 
into gold. Or at least, silver. And with Robert Forster at the helm: 
this one shines. </div>
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<u>title: THE FURY </u></div>
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<u>year: 1978 </u><br />
<u>cast: Amy Irving, Kirk Douglas </u><br />
<u>rating: **1/2<br />
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This is a pretty bad movie, but oh how it delivers. Not quite sure what it 
wants to be, it aspires for action/adventure, a little horror, 
psychological drama, and of course tons of Hitchcockesque suspense. One 
story centers on Kirk Douglas who is supposedly killed by terrorists in 
front of his son, played by Andrew Stevens, a psychic boy-wonder under 
the care of evil John Cassavetes, wants to use his "powers" for the 
military, or something. And Douglas has to avoid the evil agents and try
 finding his son again. The initial action scenes involving Douglas are 
well-done. But the real star is Amy Irving as a young high school girl 
with even more psychic powers than Stevens, and she ends up at a home 
for "gifted children" that becomes CARRIE on the Hallmark Channel.<br />
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<u>title: GHOST TOWN</u><br />
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<u>year: 2007</u></div>
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<u>cast: Ricky Gervais, Greg Kinnear</u></div>
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<u>rating: ***1/2</u></div>
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Written
 and directed by David Koepp, this gives the wry-guy Ricky Gervais a 
decent showcase. Plot centers on a grumpy dentist who goes in for 
surgery and then finds out later he died for six minutes, and as a 
result he can see ghosts... much like that kid in "The Sixth Sense", but
 this ghost-spotter is more annoyed than frightened of the pursuing 
spectors. Greg Kinnear, as the most charming and most persistant of the 
ghosts tailing our anti-charm hero, "hires" him to thwart his wife from 
marrying "the wrong guy". It then turns into a fun love story: although it's much <i>more funny</i> when the good guy is sarcastic and bitter i.e. himself. <br />
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<u>title: TROPIC THUNDER</u><br />
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<u>year: 2008</u></div>
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<u>cast: Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr., Jack Black</u></div>
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<u>rating: *</u></div>
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"The
 Three Amigos" centers on three dim-bulb actors who go to Mexico 
thinking they're filming a movie and end up in a real situation battling
 bad guys who want to kill them. "Tropic Thunder" centers on three 
dim-bulb actors who think they're filming a movie and end up... doing 
"Three Amigos" all over again, but very badly. This could have been an 
at least halfway decent bad movie if there wasn't the sidestory about 
Ben Stiller's character's fading career, which makes it horrificly 
horribly awful. Ben Stiller goes over the top and isn't funny, Jack 
Black is totally wasted, and Robert Downey Jr. as a pretentious 
Australian actor playing a black army officer is somewhat impressive but
 gets annoying, fast.</div>
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action, amy irving, bagful, brian de palma, comedy, eighties, fifties, horror, john milius, kirk douglas, kris kristofferson, nineties, sam peckinpah, seventies, thriller, tommy lee jones, zeroes

DECADE-SPANNING BLOODY BAGFUL OF ARCHIVE MOVIE REVIEWS

title: THE BETSY year: 1978 cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Lawrence Olivier, Kathleen Beller, Robert Duvall rating: **1/2 Like some...

Written by James M. Tate / 12/02/2019 / No comments / action , article , irvin kershner , james drury , mystery , nick adams , patricia medina , quentin tarantino , sixties , thriller , TV , western

HATEFUL SIX BEFORE THEY EIGHT 'THE REBEL' WITH NICK ADAMS

action, article, irvin kershner, james drury, mystery, nick adams, patricia medina, quentin tarantino, sixties, thriller, TV, western

HATEFUL SIX BEFORE THEY EIGHT 'THE REBEL' WITH NICK ADAMS

Nick Adams heads up THE REBEL television Western 1959-1961 It's usually fair game that homage-driven auteur Quentin Tarantino pays t...

YAPHET KOTTO ON THE 'DIRECTOR PROOF' SET OF 'BLUE COLLAR'

drama, harvey keitel, interview, paul schrader, richard pryor, seventies, yaphet kotto

YAPHET KOTTO ON THE 'DIRECTOR PROOF' SET OF 'BLUE COLLAR'

Yaphet Kotto and Harvey Keitel in BLUE COLLAR circa 1978 Paul Schrader's BLUE COLLAR is a really good film with a really great cast:...

YAPHET KOTTO REFLECTS 'ALIEN' AND DIRECTOR RIDLEY SCOTT

horror, interview, ridley scott, science-fiction, seventies, sigourney weaver, yaphet kotto

YAPHET KOTTO REFLECTS 'ALIEN' AND DIRECTOR RIDLEY SCOTT

Yaphet Kotto serves up intensity as Parker in ALIENS circa 1979 "All of the scenes were challenging," said Yaphet Kotto in a C...

JUDD NELSON & ALLY SHEEDY IN THE BRAT PACK NOIR 'BLUE CITY'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Ally Sheedy facing fellow Brat Packer Judd Nelson in the Neo Noir Action flick Blu City Year: 1986</u></td></tr>
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This dark horse Brat Pack outing was up for a few Razzie Awards, but 
for what exactly? BLUE CITY is actually a decent action/thriller about 
the son of a beloved slain mayor returning to a Florida town, Blue City,
 now run (from inside a roadhouse bar) by seedy Scott Wilson...<br />
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Seeking
 clues, Nelson gets back in touch with his old drinking buddy David 
Caruso, who is sober, paranoid, and running a fishing boat. And what 
makes this Brat a Pack in our love interest: Caruso's pretty sister, 
Ally Sheedy, who becomes smitten with Judd... a former crush resurfaced.
 She works at the local jail he was thrown into after a brawling bar 
fight.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Walter Hill presents Judd Nelson in Blue City directed by Breakfast Club producer Michelle Manning</u></td></tr>
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The best scenes are his gun-toting revenge against a 
bevy of Wilson's thugs. In the usual action flick fashion, the underdog 
is in over his head, and yet his lack of experience makes him cocky, 
reckless and assertive.<br />
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"I'm new at this," Judd quips after kicking in 
the door of a racetrack office during a heist. And he soon learns how to
 get around, eventually finding out who killed his father... which isn't
 such a shocker... but there's always a cost.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>An angry and wonderfully overacting Scott Wilson in Blue City RATES: ***1/2</u></td></tr>
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BLUE CITY
 is colorful action Neo Noir directed by Michelle Manning, who makes 
this a Brat Pack trifecta being she produced both SIXTEEN CANDLES and THE BREAKFAST CLUB for John Hughes.<br />
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And in this departure from teen 
melodrama are plenty of old school cinema stuff to keep you entertained 
like fist fights, gun fights, explosions, and a nifty side cast 
including sexy Anita Morris as his lush stepmother and the always 
watchable Paul Winfield.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Judd Nelson in Blue City aka Laiton Kaupunki aka Vromiki politeia</u></td></tr>
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But it's Scott Wilson's grimacing villain who 
really stands out like bad guys often do in Walter Hill films, this one 
produced and co-written, not directed by...<br />
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In many ways,  CITY feels 
like his project, although more STREETS OF FIRE than 48 HRS. Even his 
stock musician Ry Cooder provides a beach-breezy score with more synth 
than slide.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>David Caruso in Blue City aka </u><u>Staden bortom lagen aka Блу-сити </u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Judd Nelson in BLUE CITY aka Cidade Corrupta aka Ciudad corrompida</u></td></tr>
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JUDD NELSON & ALLY SHEEDY IN THE BRAT PACK NOIR 'BLUE CITY'

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REVIEW OF MARTIN SCORSESE'S ANTICIPATED 'THE IRISHMAN'

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At a run-time of over three hours, you'd think director Martin Scorsese would make something more liken to an addictive limited cable series than an epic about absolutely nothing. It is, however, about <i>someone</i>; and that's Jimmy Hoffa played by a CGI-youthful Al Pacino, who, with Robert De Niro as sidekick "house painter" i.e. assassin Frank Sheeran, are involved in endless dialogue leading absolutely nowhere...<br>
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Unlike Scorsese's mob classic GOODFELLAS, ironically playing-out like binge crime serials do now — with something to anticipate around every suspenseful corner — there's nothing to look forward to here except more and more conversations with De Niro on cruise control and Pacino using a fake accent that's not only distracting, but completely unnecessary.<br>

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REVIEW OF MARTIN SCORSESE'S ANTICIPATED 'THE IRISHMAN'

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CANVASING THE PICTURESQUE 'THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHTFOOT'

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CANVASING THE PICTURESQUE 'THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHTFOOT'

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ROD STEIGER PLAYS 'THE SERGEANT' WITH JOHN PHILLIP LAW

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ROD STEIGER PLAYS 'THE SERGEANT' WITH JOHN PHILLIP LAW

Poster Artwork for THE SERGEANT Year: 1968 It's not just what THE SERGEANT is about, or even who it's about: An American Secon...

MARILEE EARLE IN 'STREET OF SINNERS' W/ GEORGE MONTGOMERY

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With Dana Andrews as Cult Film Freak's all-time favorite actor, and <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/08/feardemon.html">THE FEARMAKERS</a> the favorite movie, it's hard not to fall hard for obscure ingenue/bombshell Marilee Earle, whose deep, dark, narrowed, penetrating eyes are reminiscent of Elizabeth Short i.e. The Black Dahlia — yet with a sweet voice she'd often play vulnerable characters: alongside Dana she's a kindhearted secretary and a meek pregnant wife in the cold war thriller THE LOST MISSILE...<br>
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So she really gets to shine in STREET OF SINNERS, a stage play type of B&W melodrama where everything is pushed into one setting, basically: a restaurant run by shady and not very mysteriously nefarious Nehemiah Persoff, who plays a different kind of crime boss who "runs the entire street" since he fully admits and even brags about his crooked reign, even to a much-too-old rookie cop played by George Montgomery as Johnny...<br>

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MARILEE EARLE IN 'STREET OF SINNERS' W/ GEORGE MONTGOMERY

Marilee Earle and George Montgomery in Street of Sinners Year: 1957 With Dana Andrews as Cult Film Freak's all-time favorite actor, ...

PETER VAUGHAN IN 'SMOKESCREEN' WITH YVONNE ROMAIN

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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...

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

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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...

LISA LANGLOIS IN THE ROGER CORMAN JAWS-CLONE 'THE NEST'

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LISA LANGLOIS IN THE ROGER CORMAN JAWS-CLONE 'THE NEST'

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TRACKING THE JAWS-CLONE OF NEW WORLD PICTURES 'SLUGS'

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TRACKING THE JAWS-CLONE OF NEW WORLD PICTURES 'SLUGS'

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MERRY ANDERS IN 'THE TIME TRAVELERS' WITH PRESTON FOSTER

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MERRY ANDERS IN 'THE TIME TRAVELERS' WITH PRESTON FOSTER

Dennis Patrick scowls in The Time Travelers Year: 1964 Rating: ***1/2 Takes place mainly within a technically-streamlined underground ca...

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PAUL LEMAT CRUISES DIANNE HULL IN 'ALOHA BOBBY AND ROSE'

The Aloha Bobby and Rose vehicle cruising Graffiti style in 1974 When we learn at the close of AMERICAN GRAFFITI that a drunk driver w...

STOMPING THROUGH THE LEGENDARY ORIGINAL 'KING KONG'

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If
 you discovered prehistoric/extremely instinct dinosaurs roaming on an uncharted island, would
 a giant gorilla really matter? Well in this case it’s personal as the 
legendary simian is ticked off with brutal fists flying, razor-sharp
 teeth, and he’s captured Ann Darrow, the street girl turned makeshift 
actress hired by maverick cinema auteur Carl Denham to star in his next 
picture shot entirely at Skull Island, a location that doesn’t even 
appear on the map and, shrouded by a wall of thick, ominous, forboding fog, it's 
place you don’t want to spend your vacation…<br>
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Natives dot the shoreline and 
reside mostly behind a giant fortress protected from the unseen god they
 live to fear… And King Kong Kong might not be 
impressively aesthetic to today’s standards. His hair moves with each movement, but we can suspend cinema disbelief by blaming wind. In reality, Willis O’Brien moved Kong by hand, and those are their very own imprints.<br>
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As later on, the famously fake looking shark in JAWS 
didn’t matter or distract from the well-told story, either does a 
model-clay gorilla... There's enough build-up to get to know the 
characters, beginning with a middleman telling Robert Armstrong’s 
headstrong director no studio will allow an actress to risk such a 
venture: So Denhman hits the New York Depression-era streets and finds 
his dame in the form of Faye Wray’s Darrow…<br>
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With pale 
skin, longing eyes, a windswept countenance and an almost primal, 
haunting beauty, Wray, who even at the time was no stranger to horror 
film roles, was given her big break – she's the perfectly suited scream 
queen and boy can she holler… After the forty-five minute mark, when 
she’s kidnapped by the natives and sacrificed to a giddy Kong, her 
wailing never really ceases and, unlike the two remakes, the human 
ingénue doesn’t fall in subliminal love with her giant captor… It’s an 
unrequited, one-sided obsession, and that makes the titular ape even 
more formidable and sinister. <br>
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As Kong battles a giant snake, a menacing pterodactyl
 and a  romping and raging, tail-wagging T-Rex to protect his new 
discovery, he becomes a savior/bodyguard, but most likely for 
territorial reasons...<br>
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Although, Bruce Cabot’s John 
Driscoll is perpetually shadowing Kong to get his lady back... One great
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safety as an unseen Kong approaches... And although Cabot is the heroic 
lead, Armstrong’s Denham is the main male character...<br>
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In the modern era, never would a man responsible for 
capturing and exploiting an extremely rare species be considered a hero 
of any kind… In fact, Charles Grodin and Jack Black, basically playing 
the same guy in both sequels, were villains and/or jerks. Either way, 
“It was beauty that killed the beast" lends more cruel irony than 
anything else. But perhaps this line can be explained when, on the 
Island, Kong breaks down the native's wall that, most likely, couldn't 
be 
penetrated under normal circumstances...<br>
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It took Darrow
 to give him the 
extra strength to fulfill his tragic destiny. And despite ravaging the 
native village and following the Americans to shore with loathsome 
vengeance, Kong is no match against gas bombs being hurled at his feet, 
cutting quickly from Skull Island back to New York, where Kong’s on 
display for a theater of impatient sophisticates, resulting in a barrage
 of the city leading to the famous Empire State Building standoff where 
Kong battles airplanes with machine guns, the unfair slaying of an 
iconic creature beloved by audiences, still, even though, in the 
original movie and in his original form, KING KONG was a lethal monster 
to both respect and fear.<br>

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STOMPING THROUGH THE LEGENDARY ORIGINAL 'KING KONG'

Fay Wray as Ann Darrow in KING KONG Year: 1933 If you discovered prehistoric/extremely instinct dinosaurs roaming on an uncharted islan...

THOR MARVELS THE HULK IN 'THE INCREDIBLE HULK RETURNS'

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THOR MARVELS THE HULK IN 'THE INCREDIBLE HULK RETURNS'

Jack Colvin wouldn't like Eric Allan Kramer angry either YEAR: 1988 The first and best of three post series Bill Bixby/Lou Ferrigno ...

ROBERT ARMSTRONG RETURNS IN 'SON OF KONG' WITH HELEN MACK

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ROBERT ARMSTRONG RETURNS IN 'SON OF KONG' WITH HELEN MACK

Artwork for SON OF KONG Year of Release and Capture: 1933 Just when you thought it was safe to go back to Skull Island… But why return t...

HELEN MACK BACK WITH SON OF KONG'S MERIAN COOPER FOR 'SHE'

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HELEN MACK BACK WITH SON OF KONG'S MERIAN COOPER FOR 'SHE'

Nigel Bruce, Randolph Scott & Helen Mack in SHE Year: 1935 H. Rider Haggard's immortal book SHE was produced by RKO under the le...

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