BRUCE WILLIS IN M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN'S 'GLASS' W/ SAM JACKSON

<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://3.bp.blogspot.com/-n5oOnATH8no/XGLBTl4OWtI/AAAAAAAA_jc/bvrl-iQLTBU7xBMoTdeQqi3R3qCQg6bdQCLcBGAs/s1600/https---blogs-images.forbes.com-scottmendelson-files-2018-11-GLASS-1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="845" data-original-width="1280" height="263" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-n5oOnATH8no/XGLBTl4OWtI/AAAAAAAA_jc/bvrl-iQLTBU7xBMoTdeQqi3R3qCQg6bdQCLcBGAs/s400/https---blogs-images.forbes.com-scottmendelson-files-2018-11-GLASS-1.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>The poster shows the main problem... way too much McAvoy  2019</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> M. Night Shyamalan never needs to provide a director commentary track for GLASS since the actors do it for him. A two-tier sequel, one for the subtle classic UNBREAKABLE starring Bruce Willis as a security guard who can't be injured, manipulated by title character Mr. Glass, played by Samuel L. Jackson; the other SPLIT, the recent thriller/horror with James McAvoy as a zoo employee serial killer of young girls...<br> <br> Unfortunately, and despite the title, this is <i>not </i>an UNBREAKABLE sequel. Having AMERICAN HORROR STORY actress Sarah Paulson play a psych-ward shrink with a three-day pass (using two unrealistically inept security guards) to cure this eclectic trio of their supposed hyperactive fantasies, it's really about sustaining SPLIT. And for the audience, having to deal with a killer with multiple personalities is one thing... Being stuck with a hammy British actor showing how damned talented he is, is, well.. hell on Earth... and slowly...<br>

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BRUCE WILLIS IN M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN'S 'GLASS' W/ SAM JACKSON

The poster shows the main problem... way too much McAvoy  2019 M. Night Shyamalan never needs to provide a director commentary track for...

DANA ANDREWS SOARING IN 'AIRPLANE' ORIGIN 'ZERO HOUR!'

<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://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3IKafj8kl2o/XFr88iRoPnI/AAAAAAAA_fw/du6ChlY8KmYTMmjW0aJC_vKU2h-zUQecwCLcBGAs/s1600/51251561_648692405559939_252258332830597120_n.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="725" data-original-width="960" height="301" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3IKafj8kl2o/XFr88iRoPnI/AAAAAAAA_fw/du6ChlY8KmYTMmjW0aJC_vKU2h-zUQecwCLcBGAs/s400/51251561_648692405559939_252258332830597120_n.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Fallen Angel couple Linda Darnell & Dana Andrews year: 1957</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> "It's an entirely different kind of flying" albeit not "altogether" and/or entirely since that famous AIRPLANE line came from the 1957 Airline Disaster flick ZERO HOUR!, starring Dana Andrews as haunted war vet Ted Striker and, like Robert Hays as Ted <i>Striker</i>, suffers a load of trauma, but for more reasons than one flyer's death, opening the movie with archive WWII footage with an ultra-serious, melodramatic narration... <br> <br> But still not that funny since six of Ted's men went down after he had okayed a bombing on a particular ground target during heavy fog and, not seeing their way clearly, all six hit the ground, one after the other, exploding in deadly flames. With this genuinely tragic catapult we cut to the low-budget reality at a military hospital, as every ZERO HOUR! location epitomizes the sparse, thrown-together B-movie set-dressing, resembling used furniture most likely rolled into the studio for a quick day's shoot...<br>

action, dana andrews, disaster, fifties, linda darnell, melodrama, peggy king, sterling hayden, suspense, thriller

DANA ANDREWS SOARING IN 'AIRPLANE' ORIGIN 'ZERO HOUR!'

Fallen Angel couple Linda Darnell & Dana Andrews year: 1957 "It's an entirely different kind of flying" albeit not &q...

WILLIAM KATT & REB BROWN TOGETHER AGAIN IN 'WHITE GHOST'

<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://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9rtFd0RjN5Q/XFe2zp3ZfwI/AAAAAAAA_XI/7HSbzDhhSe0WSrZwaQs54UaU5wP8NbULgCLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2019-02-03%2Bat%2B7.47.36%2BPM.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1123" data-original-width="1383" height="323" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9rtFd0RjN5Q/XFe2zp3ZfwI/AAAAAAAA_XI/7HSbzDhhSe0WSrZwaQs54UaU5wP8NbULgCLcBGAs/s400/Screen%2BShot%2B2019-02-03%2Bat%2B7.47.36%2BPM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Reb Brown blasts away the 11th hour of White Ghost YEAR: 1988</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Actor/Producer Wayne Crawford plays a grouchy commando common enough to have a line that finishes with "Cap in your ass!"<br> <br> And with WHITE GHOST there's a lesson on how to use William Katt's BIG WEDNESDAY pal, Reb Brown (who had resembled a skinny and large version of each other), the right and wrong way — starting with what <i>not</i> to do...<br> <br> The mission to "rescue" and/or "recover" Katt's titular rogue from the jungle, where he's existed, obscured behind a phantom legacy (ala Tarzan) since the unpopular war's closure almost twenty years earlier, is headed by Reb Brown, portraying a very serious, seemingly passive major, addressing a round table of grimacing politicians wanting nothing to do with the near-historic error called Vietnam...<br>

action, adventure, eighties, exploitation, martin hewitt, reb brown, rosalind chao, vietnam, war, wayne crawford, william katt

WILLIAM KATT & REB BROWN TOGETHER AGAIN IN 'WHITE GHOST'

Reb Brown blasts away the 11th hour of White Ghost YEAR: 1988 Actor/Producer Wayne Crawford plays a grouchy commando common enough to h...

ROGER CORMAN'S 'A BUCKET OF BLOOD' STARS DICK MILLER

<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://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gTeLB648lzE/XFOdhhi0DqI/AAAAAAAA_To/XaIHGnWu2tY4QPJmr5ez6Rud6xg0PRMugCLcBGAs/s1600/latest.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="376" data-original-width="509" height="295" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gTeLB648lzE/XFOdhhi0DqI/AAAAAAAA_To/XaIHGnWu2tY4QPJmr5ez6Rud6xg0PRMugCLcBGAs/s400/latest.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Dick Miller and Judy Bamber in A Bucket of Blood YEAR: 1959</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> This is a classic and timeless Roger Corman film about a tortured yet contentedly hollow busboy at a coffee shop, Walter Paisley, who quotes the pretentious "house poet" (Maxwell H. Brock), and, guided by memorized verse, isn't yet qualified to <i>reveal</i> his own talents...<br> <br> This is the iconic Dick Miller at his very best; especially since he'd become a staple side-character or cameo and, as he got older, a consummate tough guy after his square jaw turned to blue-collar steel: Yet here in his vulnerable youth, he shapes perfectly into the put-upon, simpleminded zero who accidentally "finds himself" as A BUCKET OF BLOOD is a dark comedy way ahead of its time: saying something about wannabe artists who live their lives worshiping other so-called geniuses... <br>

anthony carbone, barboura morris, bert convy, body count, dark comedy, dick miller, ed nelson, judy bamber, lynn storey, maxwell h. block, roger corman, thriller

ROGER CORMAN'S 'A BUCKET OF BLOOD' STARS DICK MILLER

Dick Miller and Judy Bamber in A Bucket of Blood YEAR: 1959 This is a classic and timeless Roger Corman film about a tortured yet conten...

JACK HILL'S 'PIT STOP' AKA 'THE WINNER' FEATURING SID HAIG

<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/-O3Tis_rgqjU/XFAMj6BoR2I/AAAAAAAA_NE/0WNTbq0l6gA2MSxFVzmr-UJ1RykLoKU2gCLcBGAs/s1600/77.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1523" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O3Tis_rgqjU/XFAMj6BoR2I/AAAAAAAA_NE/0WNTbq0l6gA2MSxFVzmr-UJ1RykLoKU2gCLcBGAs/s400/77.jpeg" width="315"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Arrow Blu Ray signed by Sid Haig YEAR: 1967</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> PIT STOP is actually/technically THE WINNER since not only is that the exact title on the screen during the opening credits, but there's only one pit stop — where villain turned strategic wild card Sid Haig stops for half a second during the last race. Which isn't your usual climax since the movie continuously peaks throughout. Backed by tough instrumental rock — the fat, crunchy guitar sounding more 1950's than 1967 — this low-budget curio's directed by b-movie icon Jack Hill, before his signature women-in-prison and/or urban blaxploitation flicks...<br> <br> Filmed around Los Angeles in sparse, bleak B&W from city streets to a steely-dusk junkyard  to the noisy tracks, where the style of racing is mostly Figure 8, which is practically suicide even for the most intrepid hot dogs: In each smash em' up bout, always ending in a loud, boisterous, go-go barroom, Hill clearly lets you know what driver's behind the wheel, and when: Either Sid Haig's rowdy, cocky Hawk Sidney or main character Dick Davalos as Rick Bowman, both working for Grant Willard, played by veteran actor Brian Donlevy, who's cooler and colder than the drivers he subtly <i>pits</i> against each other. And there's always a reason for the racing around, established within lean exposition that stretches PIT STOP beyond that era's hot rod exploitation fare — but it's <i>all that</i>, too... <br>

beverly washburn, brian donlevy, ellen burstyn, exploitation, jack hill, race car, richard davalos, sid haig, sixties

JACK HILL'S 'PIT STOP' AKA 'THE WINNER' FEATURING SID HAIG

Arrow Blu Ray signed by Sid Haig YEAR: 1967 PIT STOP is actually/technically THE WINNER since not only is that the exact title on the sc...

TV-MOVIE EXPLOITATION OF 'SINGLE BARS, SINGLE WOMEN'

<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://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dkXd0YvIGE8/XE1BN-p3ZYI/AAAAAAAA_HE/QlOLv2F2axIDB3vaOTL3iMjLOaNZ5bPtQCLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2019-01-26%2Bat%2B8.12.53%2BPM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1291" data-original-width="1600" height="322" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dkXd0YvIGE8/XE1BN-p3ZYI/AAAAAAAA_HE/QlOLv2F2axIDB3vaOTL3iMjLOaNZ5bPtQCLcBGAs/s400/Screen%2BShot%2B2019-01-26%2Bat%2B8.12.53%2BPM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Christine Lahti takes a shot in Single Bars, Single Women YEAR: 1984</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> SINGLE BARS, SINGLE WOMEN could've been titled THE LAST DAYS AFTER THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO, centering on the notorious 1980's Single Bar scene as the title, based on a Dolly Parton song, depicts the Waterloo of that particular pre-AIDS scenario, and is dated but almost intentionally since the subject, too, was going out of style, fast... <br> <br> The setup is the most interesting, getting to know the characters ranging from a recently-dumped Shelley Hack, who, despite having gone round-for-round with Robert DeNiro in Martin Scorsese's THE KING OF COMEDY, never got her due as an actress. After a one-night-stand at the central bar, Bandini's, she's haunted by her ex, played by the (at that time) most famous cast member, Paul Michael Glaser (adding to the usual "former TV stars in a TV movie" template): Making Hack and Glaser the Ron Howard/Cindy Williams ala AMERICAN GRAFFITI, and too much time's centered on their working-things-out when more fun's had back at the club, where most of the picture takes place in a single "singles" night...<br>

brett cullen, christine lahti, dolly parton, eighties, ensemble, exploitation, jessica nelson, kathleen wilhoite, mare winningham, paul michael glaser, rick rossovitch, shelley hack, tony danza

TV-MOVIE EXPLOITATION OF 'SINGLE BARS, SINGLE WOMEN'

Christine Lahti takes a shot in Single Bars, Single Women YEAR: 1984 SINGLE BARS, SINGLE WOMEN could've been titled THE LAST DAYS AF...

ROD TAYLOR IN 'HOTEL' W/ CATHERINE SPAAK & KEVIN MCCARTHY

<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://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9pB6edFXzdM/XD9rke3oSMI/AAAAAAAA-v0/bYc0SLayfegE-OJPur7scFJCS0UHrhNfgCLcBGAs/s1600/50022168_637087933387053_6907806772166131712_n.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="582" data-original-width="856" height="271" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9pB6edFXzdM/XD9rke3oSMI/AAAAAAAA-v0/bYc0SLayfegE-OJPur7scFJCS0UHrhNfgCLcBGAs/s400/50022168_637087933387053_6907806772166131712_n.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Catherine Spaak loathes lover Kevin McCarthy in HOTEL Year: 1967</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> The 1967 film, HOTEL, that later spawned a 1980's television series, was at a contradictory crossroads for women: While Catherine Spaak plays the typical young and complacent, older rich man's trophy girlfriend, she can't stand him — and even tells him such. That being Kevin McCarthy, whose Curtis O'Keefe represents two things Hollywood despises...<br> <br> He's supposedly a Christian, leading a bizarre prayer ritual that sounds as if God were his own personal accountant; and he's a corporate raider who's actually pretty sharp, knowledgeable and experienced: Yet we're not supposed to appreciate (or even notice) these things because no one in the movie does: As a phony-polite, suit-and-tie villain, McCarthy plays the kind of boss even his closest, well-paid employees roll their eyes at. And yet, at least initially, he's the most interesting character — especially when opening-up to Spaak's Jeanne about how he was once young, broke, and denied a job as assistant desk clerk at the St. Gregory i.e. our titular HOTEL... <br>

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ROD TAYLOR IN 'HOTEL' W/ CATHERINE SPAAK & KEVIN MCCARTHY

Catherine Spaak loathes lover Kevin McCarthy in HOTEL Year: 1967 The 1967 film, HOTEL, that later spawned a 1980's television series...

CHARLES BRONSON IN 'THE STONE KILLER' FEATURING PAUL KOSLO

<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://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9_W8dUtJETE/XD0_5349FnI/AAAAAAAA-qw/Ceggwj-7Dfw_Pp-FsDL52J9VIPg3yANSgCLcBGAs/s1600/7.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="414" data-original-width="638" height="258" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9_W8dUtJETE/XD0_5349FnI/AAAAAAAA-qw/Ceggwj-7Dfw_Pp-FsDL52J9VIPg3yANSgCLcBGAs/s400/7.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year of Release: 1973</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Michael Winner's 1970's crime trilogy starring Charles Bronson made the tough guy actor as famous as Sergio Leone's Man With No Name trilogy put Clint Eastwood on the map... And the Bronson flicks <i>are</i> modern, asphalt Westerns about a hit man; a vigilante...<br> <br> And between THE MECHANIC and DEATH WISH is the most obscure: centering on an unpopular, shoot-first cop the likes of... back to the Eastwood similarity... DIRTY HARRY himself, only Bronson's Lou Torry is more subdued and realistic since THE STONE KILLER is a visually-stylistic throwback/Neo Noir as our man dons a gumshoe trench coat; investigates a list of repeatedly-spoken culprit last names; and uses sparse, rat-a-tat dialogue with hardly any conversation lasting longer than it takes to move the story from one scene to the next; and there are plenty...<br>

action, charles bronson, cop, crime, exploitation, jack colvin, john ritter, michael winner, neo noir, norman fell, paul koslo, ralph waite, seventies, thriller

CHARLES BRONSON IN 'THE STONE KILLER' FEATURING PAUL KOSLO

Year of Release: 1973 Michael Winner's 1970's crime trilogy starring Charles Bronson made the tough guy actor as famous as Sergi...

CHARLES BRONSON IN 'MR. MAJESTYK' FEATURING PAUL KOSLO

<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://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MH4NFczmdZo/XF9ieZV8GFI/AAAAAAAA_hs/8ZNTaS6g2uMgq3W59aqijbv-i5THSi3QwCLcBGAs/s1600/tumblr_nhl5wesBRs1u7sdeeo1_1280.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="580" data-original-width="845" height="273" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MH4NFczmdZo/XF9ieZV8GFI/AAAAAAAA_hs/8ZNTaS6g2uMgq3W59aqijbv-i5THSi3QwCLcBGAs/s400/tumblr_nhl5wesBRs1u7sdeeo1_1280.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Charles Bronson goes balls out against Paul Koslo YEAR: 1974</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Charles Bronson's different in Richard Fleischer's MR. MAJESTYK than in the early-seventies' Michael Winner crime trilogy because, for one, unlike THE MECHANIC, THE STONE KILLER and DEATH WISH, Vince Majestyk, a hardworking watermelon farmer, is somewhat of a smart-ass, and, written by Elmore Leonard, there's a little more breathing-room for the character and his situation/predicament...<br> <br> A lethal hit man, played by villain's villain Al Lettieri, wants Majestyk very dead as Paul Koslo's initially antagonistic Bobby Kopas is more of a talker than a doer. In fact, both Bronson and Lettieri point this out: The first before hitting the goading blond-haired punk in the balls with a shotgun (after having attempted to pawn off cheap labor to his farm), while the latter tries keeping him in line...<br>

action, al lettieri, charles bronson, crime, elmore leonard, lee purcell, paul koslo, richard fleischer, seventies, taylor lacher, thriller

CHARLES BRONSON IN 'MR. MAJESTYK' FEATURING PAUL KOSLO

Charles Bronson goes balls out against Paul Koslo YEAR: 1974 Charles Bronson's different in Richard Fleischer's MR. MAJESTYK tha...

JEFFREY LYNN STRANDED IN 'LOST LAGOON' WITH LEILA BARRY

<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://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iI2WgOYoj3w/XDKafXQitqI/AAAAAAAA-fk/KXP_XKKEcq0NdqzxmUca0M3ApNvYP5xtQCLcBGAs/s1600/lost-lagoon-movie-poster-1958-1020702827.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="476" height="356" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iI2WgOYoj3w/XDKafXQitqI/AAAAAAAA-fk/KXP_XKKEcq0NdqzxmUca0M3ApNvYP5xtQCLcBGAs/s400/lost-lagoon-movie-poster-1958-1020702827.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">LOST LAGOON</span></b></span> officially released in 1958</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Of the three World War I returning veterans in Raoul Walsh's prohibition-era gangster classic THE ROARING TWENTIES, two roared like lions while one purred like a kitten...<br> <br> The latter being Jeffrey Lynn, who played the third banana that James Cagney liked (even after snaking his dame) and Humphrey Bogart despised: Of course these two became huge stars and eventually legends while Lynn remained a lanky, sophisticated character-actor who never reached genuine leading man status...<br> <br> Though decades later he'd make an attempt in a very low-budget, Bahamas set, Calypso-exploitation romance melodrama centering on an unhappily married middle-aged father of two, Lynn's Charlie Walker, and for the record: Neither Bogart or Cagney had a calypso song named after and sung about any of their characters: one of a small handful of natives on a small Bahamas island provides a sporadic Roman Chorus, just in case we get lost within the extremely simple plot... <br>

calypso, exploitation, fifties, island, jeffrey lynn, leila barry, melodrama, peter donat, romance

JEFFREY LYNN STRANDED IN 'LOST LAGOON' WITH LEILA BARRY

LOST LAGOON officially released in 1958 Of the three World War I returning veterans in Raoul Walsh's prohibition-era gangster class...

SEARCHING FOR A MOVIE IN DENNIS HOPPER'S 'THE LAST MOVIE'

<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/-SaC7pt6IbvA/XCgiEomTHoI/AAAAAAAA-I4/9K52sS6xwborM-Fodhhh-R3GkL4scnQTQCLcBGAs/s1600/0.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="721" data-original-width="939" height="306" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SaC7pt6IbvA/XCgiEomTHoI/AAAAAAAA-I4/9K52sS6xwborM-Fodhhh-R3GkL4scnQTQCLcBGAs/s400/0.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Dennis Hooper resembling his youngest Rumble Fish son YEAR: 1971</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Within Dennis Hopper's infamous post-EASY RIDER flop, THE LAST MOVIE, are several movies with great potential had they been more fleshed-out — or if at least <i>one</i> took center stage...<br> <br> These include an American-made cowboy picture being filmed in the main location of Peru where a stuntman dies, leading Hopper's character, Kansas, an extra and stuntman, caterer and acquirer of horses, to deal with the conscious-brooding aftermath... A psychotic local, after witnessing the Western being made, filming his own makeshift movie with bamboo cameras, actual punches pulled and real gunshots fired without blanks... A melancholy priest dealing with how his small town is altered by the Ugly American production, having come and gone with all its bogus yet influential, shoot-em-up violence... A gold-seeking expedition-plan between Hooper and his scruffy (future OUT OF THE BLUE) sidekick Don Gordon... Or our moping American film-worker falling in love with a beautiful Peruvian prostitute, Maria, played by natural beauty Stella Garcia...<br>

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SEARCHING FOR A MOVIE IN DENNIS HOPPER'S 'THE LAST MOVIE'

Dennis Hooper resembling his youngest Rumble Fish son YEAR: 1971 Within Dennis Hopper's infamous post-EASY RIDER flop, THE LAST MOVI...

MAURY DEXTER'S 'HARBOR LIGHTS' FEATURING MIRIAM COLON

<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://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ldH3PKIPZAI/XCsZ-w8Ah-I/AAAAAAAA-T0/fDFHJ9va5089nXrJb_dx3PNre9kPz4ygACLcBGAs/s1600/57096.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="455" data-original-width="540" height="335" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ldH3PKIPZAI/XCsZ-w8Ah-I/AAAAAAAA-T0/fDFHJ9va5089nXrJb_dx3PNre9kPz4ygACLcBGAs/s400/57096.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u><u>Director: Maury Dexter </u>Year of Release: 1963</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Director Maury Dexter's only lasting Hollywood fingerprint is having been a permanent assistant producer and sporadic director of LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE... <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://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NpypPJFCBZg/XCrA9B-murI/AAAAAAAA-O4/yz0D7ycfK1st1UpH_iQ6VZTYU2eCOpySwCLcBGAs/s1600/2.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1311" data-original-width="587" height="400" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NpypPJFCBZg/XCrA9B-murI/AAAAAAAA-O4/yz0D7ycfK1st1UpH_iQ6VZTYU2eCOpySwCLcBGAs/s400/2.jpeg" width="178"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Miriam Colon</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> But in the early 1960's he turned out a great number of little films with genres ranging from Westerns, Beach comedies, and, as in the case of the very obscure HARBOR LIGHTS, New Noir crime flick starring Kent Taylor, the film begins with a younger man with a similar tiny-mustache that Kent usually dons in Dexter's villainous roles — for instance, the sparse cowboy picture, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/12/WalkTall.html">WALK TALL</a>...<br> <br> And this is one of those waterfront thrillers in the style of TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT. Or any type of balmy Noir; here taking place/filmed at San Jan, Puerto Rico while not making much use of the exterior location despite the deliciously pulpy title with a dime-novel approach, most of the scenes are handed off from interior locations where guns are drawn, fists fly, last names tossed around, and in this case a treasure that Kent's intrepid pawn, Dan Crown, acts like he knows the whereabouts of despite the fact his brother (the mustached guy in the intro) is as estranged from the family as can be... being dead and all, which got the plot rolling... <br> <br> <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/-DnrgXa9Neg4/XCrBcB_7LBI/AAAAAAAA-PA/s85RpG0d9HU-320U13H8bTkj0Z64JTUngCLcBGAs/s1600/3.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="752" data-original-width="762" height="393" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DnrgXa9Neg4/XCrBcB_7LBI/AAAAAAAA-PA/s85RpG0d9HU-320U13H8bTkj0Z64JTUngCLcBGAs/s400/3.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Miriam Colon in Harbor Lights RATES: ***1/2</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="text-align: right;"> </div> And this is really a gambling picture despite only one quick scene involving Jeff Morrow's lead villain in a hotel casino where most of the interior running-around takes place. But our hero does have to desperately venture into the dusty streets lined with old stucco buildings; and he eventually winds up in an oceanic boat chase... <br> <br> <div style="text-align: left;"> <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/-Dcfya6aEA_k/XCsUf06xPoI/AAAAAAAA-Sk/B-xC-C_OXAwAMjqUgDK2U9HVj4_igeqEwCLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2018-12-31%2Bat%2B11.02.06%2BPM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="517" data-original-width="218" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Dcfya6aEA_k/XCsUf06xPoI/AAAAAAAA-Sk/B-xC-C_OXAwAMjqUgDK2U9HVj4_igeqEwCLcBGAs/s200/Screen%2BShot%2B2018-12-31%2Bat%2B11.02.06%2BPM.jpeg" width="83"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Colon on Saul</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> But what makes these HARBOR LIGHTS really shine is Twentieth Century Fox's <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2018/08/makes-jack-a-dull-boy.html">THUNDER ISLAND</a> Spanish fox Miriam Colon as ingenue Gina Rosario...<br> <br> Who'd later play Al Pacino's angry mother in SCARFACE and is more recently known within the BREAKING BAD universe as Tuco's soap opera addicted grandma on the first episode of BETTER CALL SAUL. And here, many decades earlier and quite a beauty, she starts out not trusting Taylor but winds up trying to keep him out of harm's way: in particular, from Jeff Morrow's character, simply referred to as Cardinal and who she had some kind of past with...<br> </div>

action, crime, jeff morrow, kent taylor, maury dexter, miriam colon, neo noir, pulp

MAURY DEXTER'S 'HARBOR LIGHTS' FEATURING MIRIAM COLON

Director: Maury Dexter Year of Release: 1963 Director Maury Dexter's only lasting Hollywood fingerprint is having been a permanent a...

REVIEW OF 'I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG' W/ PAUL MUNI

<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://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wQPjEEaUVnU/XCf9bcxq0OI/AAAAAAAA-Is/IigAHdHb8MkN7CIIdmhVyNZMxiYJqPPhwCLcBGAs/s1600/lf.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="367" data-original-width="459" height="318" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wQPjEEaUVnU/XCf9bcxq0OI/AAAAAAAA-Is/IigAHdHb8MkN7CIIdmhVyNZMxiYJqPPhwCLcBGAs/s400/lf.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lobby Card of the Paul Muni Chain Gang Classic YEAR: 1932</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> A visual masterpiece with Film Noir elements despite being a decade shy of that particular "genre" and/or style of edgy crime thriller led by a flawed yet sympathetic hero (turned anti-hero)...<br> <br> In this case it's James Allen played by Paul Muni, who, with a Noir edge, is discontented after surviving a war and winds up caught between two opposing dames: one good, one bad...<br> <br> And the most Noir-esque is the Wrong Man element — falsely accused of a theft that put him into the titular CHAIN GANG to begin with (later hilariously parodied in Woody Allen's TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN: from a guard whipping what the audience can only see is a prisoner's shadow, right down to a muscular black prisoner helping loosen the shackles so our man can go free)...<br>

action, classic, crime, drama, paul muni, prison, thirties, thriller

REVIEW OF 'I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG' W/ PAUL MUNI

Lobby Card of the Paul Muni Chain Gang Classic YEAR: 1932 A visual masterpiece with Film Noir elements despite being a decade shy of t...

MATT DILLON'S KILLER ROLE IN 'THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT'

<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://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AsYnbVpzeVU/XCQ91XMXaxI/AAAAAAAA-Cs/SL0gQb9CZ9Ejm5msU0GzVtTJ_6s-T6ZLQCLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2018-12-23%2Bat%2B9.59.08%2BPM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1449" height="273" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AsYnbVpzeVU/XCQ91XMXaxI/AAAAAAAA-Cs/SL0gQb9CZ9Ejm5msU0GzVtTJ_6s-T6ZLQCLcBGAs/s400/Screen%2BShot%2B2018-12-23%2Bat%2B9.59.08%2BPM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year of Capture and Release: 2018</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT isn't quite sure when it's good since the good parts don't last long enough, or connect to the movie as a whole, intruded upon by annoying off-screen conversational narration (i.e. colorless commentary) between Matt Dillon and a mysterious, vocally-grating Bruno Ganz... <br> <br> As a Serial Killer Movie, the most interesting scenes are the deaths, and there are five "situations" in total, warned up front by title cards. But overboard director Lars von Trier throws in so many video clips (Nazis, etc) that in trying to connect with the "ultra violence" on screen, the story and character become secondhand as opposed to second-nature for Matt Dillon's Jack, made up like someone who'd be teased about dressing like "a serial killer" including awkward glasses and uncomfortably looking "nice clothes." In fact, his first victim in Matt's BEAUTIFUL GIRLS co-star Uma Thurman bags on his threads while literally begging to be murdered.  <br>

2018, bruno ganz, crime, lars von trier, matt dillon, new, serial killer, thriller, uma thurman

MATT DILLON'S KILLER ROLE IN 'THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT'

Year of Capture and Release: 2018 THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT isn't quite sure when it's good since the good parts don't last ...

CLINT EASTWOOD STARRING IN 'THE MULE' W/ BRADLEY COOPER

<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://2.bp.blogspot.com/-suhlOvnQoi4/XCCSvqCyOOI/AAAAAAAA-AQ/cbrZ2bzxSDY7O3N8JSVEQ-InwWbJjWyYwCLcBGAs/s1600/Mule-2.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="599" height="300" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-suhlOvnQoi4/XCCSvqCyOOI/AAAAAAAA-AQ/cbrZ2bzxSDY7O3N8JSVEQ-InwWbJjWyYwCLcBGAs/s400/Mule-2.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year of Release and Capture: 2018</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Actor/director Clint Eastwood, using very little action and suspense for a supposed crime thriller, is otherwise fun to watch as a 90-year-old makeshift and initially oblivious drug runner both underrated and untouchable like when, in one scene, a traffic cop with a sniffer dog appears out of nowhere, and another time crossing mellow paths with Clint's AMERICAN SNIPER star, Bradley Cooper...<br> <br> But the DEA agent puzzled by this mysterious phantom running a myriad of successful scores could have been played by anyone, as could his partner, forced ANT-MAN comic relief Michael Pena and Laurence Fishburne as a DEA chief, sitting around within a quiet, practically vacant office building. Everything's so breezy in this Lawman B-Story it hardly matters at all. But they're at least a necessary distraction from Earl's annoying and cliché, semi-estranged family, lifted from the only contrived aspect of GRAN TORINO only this time without a house to inherit, or muscle car...<br>

2018, bradley cooper, clint eastwood, crime, drama, drugs, laurence fishburne, michael peña, new

CLINT EASTWOOD STARRING IN 'THE MULE' W/ BRADLEY COOPER

Year of Release and Capture: 2018 Actor/director Clint Eastwood, using very little action and suspense for a supposed crime thriller, is...

ENZO G. CASTELLARI'S 'THE SHARK HUNTER' W/ FRANCO NERO

<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/-PWvhHT6Hkgs/XB_lVbdx6-I/AAAAAAAA9_g/s_ba2r057J8Fa9caAYl8p372X9zIPcSPwCLcBGAs/s1600/91RQm1S8sjL._SL1500_.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="601" data-original-width="775" height="310" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PWvhHT6Hkgs/XB_lVbdx6-I/AAAAAAAA9_g/s_ba2r057J8Fa9caAYl8p372X9zIPcSPwCLcBGAs/s400/91RQm1S8sjL._SL1500_.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year of Release: 1979</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Actually more similar to Cornel Wilde's <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2017/02/sharksT.html">SHARKS' TREASURE</a> from 1975, the same year as <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2015/06/triad-jaws.html">JAWS</a>, which is literally mentioned in Enzo G. Castellari's THE SHARK HUNTER and that he'd ingloriously rip off in THE LAST SHARK two years later...<br> <br> But this is really a pulpy and hard-driven, treasure-hunting picture: Within a cavern of "resting sharks" is the tail of a plane that fell deeper than the fuselage, holding a hundred-million dollars...<br> <br> So while the caper's described by our "gringo" in Mexico, Franco Nero as Mike, with a long surfer blond wig resembling vanilla seaweed glued on within a tight, omnipresent headband or scuba mask, most of the film has an array of stealthily, espionage-genre assassins trying to jump in on the action (working for a crooked millionaire), which results in tons of just that... <br>

action, crime, enzo g. castellari, exploitation, franco nero, italian import, seventies, shark, treasure

ENZO G. CASTELLARI'S 'THE SHARK HUNTER' W/ FRANCO NERO

Year of Release: 1979 Actually more similar to Cornel Wilde's SHARKS' TREASURE from 1975, the same year as JAWS , which is lite...

DC PRESENTS 'AQUAMAN' W/ JASON MOMOA & AMBER HEARD

<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://3.bp.blogspot.com/-76_I4N0zp2g/XB5f0gE7vQI/AAAAAAAA9-I/vjaxlyjGgXEfYxHWDrsC_yuCyvkTlVIBgCLcBGAs/s1600/aquaman-sdcc-cover-den-of-geek-header-1123263-1280x0.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="691" data-original-width="760" height="362" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-76_I4N0zp2g/XB5f0gE7vQI/AAAAAAAA9-I/vjaxlyjGgXEfYxHWDrsC_yuCyvkTlVIBgCLcBGAs/s400/aquaman-sdcc-cover-den-of-geek-header-1123263-1280x0.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Yes, that's Dolph Lundgren, who plays Heard's father YEAR: 2018</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Judged upon the comic books and, for this pop culture fanatic, the Ted Knight narrated cartoon of the 1960's, the original Aquaman resembled this movie's blond-haired, war-mongering villain...<br> <br> Half-brother to the "new" JUSTICE LEAGUE established, dark-haired, Hawaiian-looking Jason Momoa, whose power-hungry, utterly Caucasian little brother wants complete control of Atlantis to, of course, destroy the world... <br> <br> Having been born down there, the white boy's not a "half breed," and it's very similar to the sibling rivalry between Marvel's perfect THOR verses the inferior runt, Loki: But AQUAMAN is more precise and straightforward than Marvel's more episodic movies, also borrowing from — and taking the first name of — King <i>Arthur</i>'s Sword in the Stone legend, and is arguably the best comic book outing since the first IRON MAN and X-MEN... Or at least the most entertaining and fun...<br>

action, adventure, amber heard, comic book, dc comics, dolph lundgren, fantasy, jason moma, new, superhero, willem defoe

DC PRESENTS 'AQUAMAN' W/ JASON MOMOA & AMBER HEARD

Yes, that's Dolph Lundgren, who plays Heard's father YEAR: 2018 Judged upon the comic books and, for this pop culture fanatic, t...

REVIVING WOODY ALLEN'S 'A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S SEX COMEDY'

<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://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZeGPChHQq1w/XBweUOppt0I/AAAAAAAA958/mzVzTMlwAoYngNhZXn0Tql3-zWb1v1IhACLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2018-12-19%2Bat%2B2.34.09%2BAM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1287" data-original-width="1598" height="321" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZeGPChHQq1w/XBweUOppt0I/AAAAAAAA958/mzVzTMlwAoYngNhZXn0Tql3-zWb1v1IhACLcBGAs/s400/Screen%2BShot%2B2018-12-19%2Bat%2B2.34.09%2BAM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>The movie didn't initially take flight but has become a classic Year: 1982</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Upon release, Woody Allen's multi homage (Shakespeare to Bergman) A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S SEX COMEDY, was a case of The Emperor's New Clothes. Critics who adored Allen's work leading up, from the joke-a-second "older, funny" satirical films like TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN to more autobiographical, intellectually anti pseudo-intellectual comedies like MANHATTAN and with the exception of the claustrophobic drama INTERIORS or the surreal STARDUST MEMORIES, it seemed Allen could do practically no wrong...<br> <br> Until this quirky and fun, jovial countryside-romping celebration of nature and sunlight that, after (a recommended) multiple viewings, alters from The Emperor being naked to his clothes clashing with his signature wardrobe. And there <i>are</i> similar traits of the adventurous slapstick of SLEEPER where he flies using a futuristic contraption and here, set during the 1900's, Woody's stock broker part-time inventor Andrew hits the skies again on a bicycle helicopter (after failing with a pair of makeshift Icarus wings) that, within the first five minutes, puts the viewer off-balance with a combination of science-fiction and the extremely Earthy, down-home setting...<br>

comedy, eighties, ensemble, jose ferrer, julie hagerty, mia farrow, time period, tony roberts, woody allen

REVIVING WOODY ALLEN'S 'A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S SEX COMEDY'

The movie didn't initially take flight but has become a classic Year: 1982 Upon release, Woody Allen's multi homage (Shakespeare...

PENNY MARSHALL W/ SPINAL TAP ON 'LAVERNE & SHIRLEY'

<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://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0S3fmNgE-cc/XBnRuG5StVI/AAAAAAAA9sE/iSxELcmC9AQ1Q9ogdddCXNiJ-PmsgxsaACLcBGAs/s1600/11.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1160" data-original-width="1600" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0S3fmNgE-cc/XBnRuG5StVI/AAAAAAAA9sE/iSxELcmC9AQ1Q9ogdddCXNiJ-PmsgxsaACLcBGAs/s1600/11.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Penny Marshall with a Richard Nixon voting Christopher Guest on Laverne & Shirley</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> We all know MICHAEL MCKEAN from SPINAL TAP started as Lenny on LAVERNE AND SHIRLEY. But on the third season the other Tappers turned up: HARRY SHEARER as a newscaster and CHRISTOPHER GUEST as a med student supporting Nixon: unlike Laverne (and the show's writers, producers, directors, and Hollywood).<br> <br> Later, Laverne and Shirley meet the boys at a bus stop and find out they're womanizers (like JFK!). And at the end of the episode, the main cast sings a tune with McKean on acoustic guitar. And not "Big Bottom." <br>

christopher guest, david l. lander, michael mckean, penny marshall, seventies, TV

PENNY MARSHALL W/ SPINAL TAP ON 'LAVERNE & SHIRLEY'

Penny Marshall with a Richard Nixon voting Christopher Guest on Laverne & Shirley We all know MICHAEL MCKEAN from SPINAL TAP started...

JOHN BROMFIELD SELLS 'HOT CARS' FOR BEL-AIR PRODUCTIONS

<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://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_JLzsmM6g1U/XBjHkXUrOfI/AAAAAAAA9rA/QW3Y60bxR9YbLkr3YT3Qkv-dtd5MlCYbgCLcBGAs/s1600/61Slds5BDeL._RI_SX300_.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="300" height="400" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_JLzsmM6g1U/XBjHkXUrOfI/AAAAAAAA9rA/QW3Y60bxR9YbLkr3YT3Qkv-dtd5MlCYbgCLcBGAs/s400/61Slds5BDeL._RI_SX300_.jpeg" width="266" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Joi Lansing & Carol Shannon YEAR: 1956</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> A hybrid of lounge lizard and game show jazz plays during the opening where a quiet Los Angeles main street's lined with outlet stores across from a used car lot, and John Bromfield's Nick Dunn is so honest, he ironically passed the acid test for crooks: That is, the main (though polite and unassuming) heavy, rolling stolen vehicles through his own larger lot, sees that Nick is the man to trust...<br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"> </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/-QYU91ff2PtU/XBitk9UD9-I/AAAAAAAA9qI/EDGJAMTaRsMouQkLdY1zs4t9BDS_hwQHgCLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2018-12-18%2Bat%2B12.16.16%2BAM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1312" data-original-width="529" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QYU91ff2PtU/XBitk9UD9-I/AAAAAAAA9qI/EDGJAMTaRsMouQkLdY1zs4t9BDS_hwQHgCLcBGAs/s400/Screen%2BShot%2B2018-12-18%2Bat%2B12.16.16%2BAM.jpeg" width="161" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Joi Lansing as Karen Winter</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Not trusted to be dishonest but to remain faithful and, like any Film Noir outing, it takes something desperate and personal for a good man to cross the line...<br /> <br /> In this case, his child needing surgery causes Nick do what Joi Lansing and her incredible body couldn't initially persuade. And by the time our husband/dad's up to his neck in HOT CARS, delivered to the illegal, seemingly untouchable operation where Nick is stuck as middleman, he's the sole target of a determined police investigator, with no way out... Or is there? And does freedom have a price? And who's gonna pay? <br /> <br /> The best scenes occur <i>before</i> he gets hounded and <i>right after</i> he's on board the seemingly perfect, well-paying gig as the fitfully cool, underrated movie and TV actor John Bromfield, with all the ingredients of a casual b-actor, nails the put-upon working man persona, with class to boot: A nice fit for caustic, melodramatic lines like: "That's the problem with dopes like us," to his incredibly-trusting wife, without sounding corny, or cliché: "Too much month at the end of our money."<br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: right;"> </div> <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://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5N3EGe_X17w/XBd2MaMS_FI/AAAAAAAA9ks/DNASzXlvB4Mq1LUJ3z3uzrsEOz4TrA6cwCLcBGAs/s1600/2.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1170" data-original-width="1600" height="290" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5N3EGe_X17w/XBd2MaMS_FI/AAAAAAAA9ks/DNASzXlvB4Mq1LUJ3z3uzrsEOz4TrA6cwCLcBGAs/s400/2.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Bel Air Productions Presents HOT CARS Rates: ****1/2</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> In cult movie retrospect, Bromfield played the flirtatious scuba diver (targeting pretty Lori Nelson who prefers humble John Agar) in REVENGE OF THE CREATURE. Though he wasn't able to "reign in heaven" as a leading man in mainstream features, he's a sublime b-leading man and does a particularly fine job here, looking handsome and boxy-muscular under well-suited work clothes... <br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> <div style="text-align: right;"> </div> Set in the cut-and-dry mid-1950's, the vacant, bare-boned, industrial locations, shot in fitfully sparse B&W, lends to the overall purgatory aesthetic as our sexy, full-breasted, manipulative "femme fatale" in Joi Lansing lights up every room. Meanwhile, her boss, Ralph Clayton as Mr. Markel... with Mark Dana's tall, square-jawed and very lethal Smiley Ward at his beckon call... make for a solid if subtle, professionally villainous trio... <br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: left;"> </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://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Rz1nsglbzIY/XBisixBAu3I/AAAAAAAA9p8/B22APZxh8yM_DfK485-axEROqIeViIrqwCLcBGAs/s1600/7.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1065" data-original-width="1283" height="265" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Rz1nsglbzIY/XBisixBAu3I/AAAAAAAA9p8/B22APZxh8yM_DfK485-axEROqIeViIrqwCLcBGAs/s320/7.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>John Bromfield as Nick Dunn in Hot Cars</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Within Bel-Air Productions' Film Noir template, using more plot-points and character motivations than cinematography and lighting, instead of being an otherwise kindhearted anti-hero, Nick's a solid clean slate, working for the wrong side while that extremely pestering cop (Dabbs Greer) is the main "antagonist" albeit in protagonist's clothes: most of the second act suspense occurs between these two proverbial "good guys," one masked with an effective, royal flush poker face...<br /> <br /> And after a slight twist, there's an intense HOUSE OF BAMBOO style action climax with Nick and an armed Smiley battling-it-out on a fast-moving, rickety rollercoaster (in Ocean Park Pier, Santa Monica). Meanwhile, an 11th hour stampede of cops move in on "poor little me" Joi Lansing and her gentleman boss, who can't flirt <i>or</i> pay their way out of how these kind of movies all wind down and end up: Learning that harsh, inevitable lesson that crime doesn't pay... at least, not for very long.<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/-osder8cQPmI/XCnKP3FR32I/AAAAAAAA-MM/i0gvCnEXDiA6DRPLvHaauwa1KUOPGyoHgCLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2018-12-30%2Bat%2B11.45.30%2BPM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="759" data-original-width="1223" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-osder8cQPmI/XCnKP3FR32I/AAAAAAAA-MM/i0gvCnEXDiA6DRPLvHaauwa1KUOPGyoHgCLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2018-12-30%2Bat%2B11.45.30%2BPM.jpeg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jacks at the Beach, Santa Monica, Southern California inside and out</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/-7cHzo8675fU/XBjM5LPamSI/AAAAAAAA9rM/uZnEWQM3HpAolRiD6rdz0UvI3C25hc3awCLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2018-12-18%2Bat%2B2.26.32%2BAM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1091" data-original-width="1600" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7cHzo8675fU/XBjM5LPamSI/AAAAAAAA9rM/uZnEWQM3HpAolRiD6rdz0UvI3C25hc3awCLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2018-12-18%2Bat%2B2.26.32%2BAM.jpeg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mark Dana and John Bromfield in HOT CARS</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> <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/-ALlpotejk8U/XBeWAShOJgI/AAAAAAAA9mQ/5pFOxjf0x5gdOZADccmThRoz3wFi0UnQgCLcBGAs/s1600/1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1022" data-original-width="1600" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ALlpotejk8U/XBeWAShOJgI/AAAAAAAA9mQ/5pFOxjf0x5gdOZADccmThRoz3wFi0UnQgCLcBGAs/s1600/1.jpeg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>John Bromfield w/ his first boss played by Robert Osterloh: Cagney's partner in WHITE HEAT</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://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZxeCLbshTKU/XBeWBP6qwuI/AAAAAAAA9mY/UXi1TSOImR0M4tMVPYuC297RBK5RMae-gCLcBGAs/s1600/2.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1285" data-original-width="1600" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZxeCLbshTKU/XBeWBP6qwuI/AAAAAAAA9mY/UXi1TSOImR0M4tMVPYuC297RBK5RMae-gCLcBGAs/s1600/2.jpeg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>John Bromfield and Joi Lansing in HOT CARS</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://2.bp.blogspot.com/-h2bM876m3kU/XBeWBWdqL8I/AAAAAAAA9mc/9EQTkuWFIoUJSbPODtB4Vhf7rnydK_aywCLcBGAs/s1600/3.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1230" data-original-width="1600" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-h2bM876m3kU/XBeWBWdqL8I/AAAAAAAA9mc/9EQTkuWFIoUJSbPODtB4Vhf7rnydK_aywCLcBGAs/s1600/3.jpeg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>John Bromfield and some HOT CARS in HOT CARS</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://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oWbOkh-UVpc/XBeWB2xhubI/AAAAAAAA9mg/BYiVNJJkD3k20P0zOCqO4lywsoapEq9ngCLcBGAs/s1600/4.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1109" data-original-width="1600" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oWbOkh-UVpc/XBeWB2xhubI/AAAAAAAA9mg/BYiVNJJkD3k20P0zOCqO4lywsoapEq9ngCLcBGAs/s1600/4.jpeg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>John Bromfield and Joi Lansing in HOT CARS</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/-pP9cGNkADxY/XBeWCTyuNyI/AAAAAAAA9mk/FMeL0nRMPfIf8YlwWeT95iLti9bGSQ5OgCLcBGAs/s1600/5.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1188" data-original-width="1600" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pP9cGNkADxY/XBeWCTyuNyI/AAAAAAAA9mk/FMeL0nRMPfIf8YlwWeT95iLti9bGSQ5OgCLcBGAs/s1600/5.jpeg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Classy head villain Ralph Clanton with employee Nick Dunn (John Bromfield) HOT CARS</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://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8TcXWSTTSEc/XBeWC2xnt3I/AAAAAAAA9mo/SApFfycXawgtwtexQIaI_e0CDLnmfLGBACLcBGAs/s1600/6.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1167" data-original-width="1600" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8TcXWSTTSEc/XBeWC2xnt3I/AAAAAAAA9mo/SApFfycXawgtwtexQIaI_e0CDLnmfLGBACLcBGAs/s1600/6.jpeg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Joi's the bad girl and Carol Shannon is the good girl aka John Bromfield's perfect wife</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <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://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Uo080hhcnsk/XBeWDzSbGxI/AAAAAAAA9mw/IFmD8rCNBZU8vbVlxrR2zM7Cu_scXLJsgCLcBGAs/s1600/8.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1154" data-original-width="1600" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Uo080hhcnsk/XBeWDzSbGxI/AAAAAAAA9mw/IFmD8rCNBZU8vbVlxrR2zM7Cu_scXLJsgCLcBGAs/s1600/8.jpeg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Gunsmoke and Little House actor Dabbs Greer plays cop to John Bromfield HOT CARS</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://4.bp.blogspot.com/-REnv9VpzAh4/XBeWAf-Xl2I/AAAAAAAA9mM/unZE-5x6PzI9gp8Sw0JVrqN93DzqJAVzACLcBGAs/s1600/12.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1186" data-original-width="1600" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-REnv9VpzAh4/XBeWAf-Xl2I/AAAAAAAA9mM/unZE-5x6PzI9gp8Sw0JVrqN93DzqJAVzACLcBGAs/s1600/12.jpeg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>B-Movie actor John Bromfield winds up with C-movie actor Mark Dana as Smiley Ward</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <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://2.bp.blogspot.com/--84WNV84JaM/V0dkuEo4vdI/AAAAAAAAsxo/22VYrS_B9fI3Fy75hr9rYLRmWiDP0T-NwCLcB/s1600/hotcars2.png" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/--84WNV84JaM/V0dkuEo4vdI/AAAAAAAAsxo/22VYrS_B9fI3Fy75hr9rYLRmWiDP0T-NwCLcB/s1600/hotcars2.png" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Pay to play Joi Lansing lays in bed and dreams of fur coats in HOT CARS</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/-r-AXpKoVmVM/XBjNIAuwHII/AAAAAAAA9rQ/kLsNbnRXqJ01XPig8r1PRgTVVW3uylwJgCLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2018-12-18%2Bat%2B2.27.37%2BAM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1079" data-original-width="1600" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-r-AXpKoVmVM/XBjNIAuwHII/AAAAAAAA9rQ/kLsNbnRXqJ01XPig8r1PRgTVVW3uylwJgCLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2018-12-18%2Bat%2B2.27.37%2BAM.jpeg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Bel-Air Productions includes producer Howard W. Koch</u></td></tr> </tbody></table>

bel air productions, crime, dabbs greer, drama, fifties, film noir or melodrama, howard w. koch, jazz score, john bromfield, joi lansing, mark dana, suspense

JOHN BROMFIELD SELLS 'HOT CARS' FOR BEL-AIR PRODUCTIONS

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HARRISON FORD & TOMMY LEE JONES STAR IN 'THE FUGITIVE'

<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://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ezt57li7W1s/XBXLr8Ms19I/AAAAAAAA9gY/hJwXhQnj66MvLY27yq46dHfPq3RuRLf_QCLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2018-12-15%2Bat%2B3.36.32%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="1600" height="270" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ezt57li7W1s/XBXLr8Ms19I/AAAAAAAA9gY/hJwXhQnj66MvLY27yq46dHfPq3RuRLf_QCLcBGAs/s400/Screen%2BShot%2B2018-12-15%2Bat%2B3.36.32%2BAM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Harrison Ford lays low in THE FUGITIVE Year: 1993</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> The coolest scene of this popular and successful, multi Oscar nominated and in one case, Oscar winning big screen adaptation of the classic David Janssen TV-series is when supporting actor champ Tommy Lee Jones is by himself, looking straight ahead but at nothing, really — then cutting to where Harrison Ford's title character is seeking refuge.<br> <br> Tommy Lee Jones, practically a veteran actor who hadn't reached mainstream success, is downright fantastic: he deserved the A-list promotion but should <i>not </i>have won the award far more deserving of Ralph Fiennes, who turned in a more difficult and less natural performance as a loathsome Nazi's Nazi in SCHINDLER'S LIST, and his <i>was actually a</i> <i>Supporting Role</i>, and not one of two equal co-leads: Which is what Ford and Jones are... In fact, the latter has even more scenes, overall input, and, obviously, dialogue...<br>

action, adventure, crime, drama, harrison ford, joe pantoliano, nineties, remake, tommy lee jones

HARRISON FORD & TOMMY LEE JONES STAR IN 'THE FUGITIVE'

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JACQUES TOURNEUR'S 'CURSE OF THE DEMON' W/ DANA ANDREWS

<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://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Qbe1YCqzIoc/XA6rfp45r2I/AAAAAAAA9D0/s1-lI8b6GLQUQun73a1g6h2LCTyzWK6kwCLcBGAs/s1600/20399.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="416" data-original-width="585" height="283" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Qbe1YCqzIoc/XA6rfp45r2I/AAAAAAAA9D0/s1-lI8b6GLQUQun73a1g6h2LCTyzWK6kwCLcBGAs/s400/20399.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Curse of the Demon YEAR of RELEASE: 1957</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Director Jacques Tourneur, in the first of two 1950's collaborations with actor Dana Andrews followed by THE FEARMAKERS and a decade after CANYON PASSAGE — wanted the CURSE OF THE DEMON demon — resembling a grizzly bear mated with an irate buffalo — to be revealed later on instead of the first ten minutes...<br> <br> During an investigation by Dana Andrews as John Holden, a scientist who debunks a powerful occult/cult leader and is simply begging to learn his lesson the hard way, it's obviously less mysterious since we know exactly what kind of monster he'll wind up dealing with, as opposed to the audience being in-the-dark along with the main character... Kind of an implied and ambiguous gumshoe Film Noir approach within a supernatural horror picture...<br>

british, cult, dana andrews, fifties, horror, jacques tourneur, niall macginnis, occult, peggy cummins, supernatural, thriller

JACQUES TOURNEUR'S 'CURSE OF THE DEMON' W/ DANA ANDREWS

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