Written by James M. Tate / 5/30/2016 / No comments / hal ashby , jack nicholson , otis young , randy quaid , robert towne , seventies
JACK NICHOLSON IN THE LAST DETAIL
Our Official 2016 Memorial Weekend Post will center on a 1973 Navy Film, Kinda, starring Jack Nicholson, never better While Burt Reynold...
Written by James M. Tate / 5/29/2016 / No comments / classic , dana andrews , ensemble , forties , fredrick march , gladys george , harold russell , hoagy carmichael , myrna loy , ray collins , teresa wright , virginia mayo , war
DANA ANDREWS STARRING IN 'THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES'
Dana Andrews and Virginia Mayo in Best Years circa 1946 For a nearly three-hour film, the first hour (fifty-four minutes to be exact) is...
WARTIME JAMES CAGNEY DOUBLE-FEATURE & BEYOND
Memorial Day Post for fans of James Cagney BLOOD ON THE SUN : Put away childish things. That's probably what James Cagney felt. Worl...
Written by James M. Tate / 5/28/2016 / No comments / elia kazan , fifties , marlon brando
BRANDO KAZAN CINEMA TWO: VIVA ZAPATA!
Third of Three Kazan/Brando films Year: 1952 Upon learning that David Lean originally wanted Marlon Brando in the role of LAWRENCE OF AR...
GROOVING WITH 'THE PLEASURE SEEKERS' WITH PAMELA TIFFIN
Lovely young genuine actress Pamela Tiffin in THE PLEASURE SEEKERS Year: 1964 Described as centering on "three American lovelies in Ma...
Written by James M. Tate / 5/26/2016 / No comments / bruce dern , comedy , double-feature , harry morgan , jack elam , james garner , seventies , sixties , western
JAMES GARNER RETURNS IN 'SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL GUNFIGHTER'
Twilight Time Double BluRay SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL GUNFIGHTER : Whew, that was close... A close call... For when a great thing is ruined by ...
Written by James M. Tate / 5/25/2016 / No comments / john hurt , leo mckern , orson welles , paul scofield , sixties
PAUL SCOFIELD & ROBERT SHAW IN A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS
Orson Welles faced by Paul Scofield YEAR: 1966 Orson Welles, years after CITIZEN KANE, said the hardest role to play was probably that o...
Written by James M. Tate / 5/24/2016 / No comments / charlton heston , drama , george chakiris , james darren , melodrama , romance , yvette mimieux
HESTON & MIMIEUX IN DIAMOND HEAD
The Irreplaceable, Gorgeous and... in this, not that Intriguing Yvette Mimieux in DIAMOND HEAD Year: 1962 The story about a man being su...
MOST UNDERRATED FILMS OF 2015 BY MARK SULLIVAN
Tom Hardy plays both Kray brothers in LEGEND in an article by guest contributor Mark Sullivan
Written by James M. Tate / 5/23/2016 / No comments / action , charles bronson , crime , europe , exploitation , frank dekova , hit-man , jan-michael vincent , jerry fielding , jill ireland , keenan wynn , michael winner , neo noir , seventies , team-up , thriller
CHARLES BRONSON IS 'THE MECHANIC' WITH JAN MICHAEL-VINCENT
Title: The Mechanic Year: 1972 Rates: **** Fan-favorite neo noir cult vehicle THE MECHANIC... one of the six collaborations between tough gu...
Written by James M. Tate / 5/21/2016 / No comments / 2016 , action , buddy , crime , dark comedy , genre tarantino , gumshoe , neo noir , russell crowe , ryan gosling , shane black
RUSSELL CROWE & RYAN GOSLING IN 'THE NICE GUYS'
Nice 1970's Neon Font for Shane Black's NICE GUYS with Russell Crowe & Ryan Gosling Year: 2016 It makes complete sense that ...
Written by James M. Tate / 5/20/2016 / No comments / cameron mitchell , color noir , deforest kelley , fifties , film noir or melodrama , gangster , robert ryan , robert stack , twilight time
SAM FULLER TOKYO NOIR 'HOUSE OF BAMBOO' W/ ROBERT STACK
Ryan's on top of the world ma, in Toyko Year: 1952 The writer of HOUSE OF BAMBOO is billed as Harry Kleiner; additional dialogue i...
Written by James M. Tate / 5/19/2016 / No comments / booth colman , disaster , glenn ford , joe patridge , mark stevens , mystery , nancy kwan , nehemiah persoff , neo noir , rod taylor , sixties , thriller
GLENN FORD & ROD TAYLOR CRASH OUT IN 'FATE IS THE HUNTER'
FATE IS THE HUNTER Year: 1964 Remember those one-hour TWILIGHT ZONE episodes? They weren't that quirky and strange, which was the probl...
Written by James M. Tate / 5/17/2016 / No comments / 2016 , george clooney , julia roberts , thriller
CLOONEY & ROBERTS IN MONEY MONSTER
Year: 2016 A sort of 'NETWORK' FOR DUMMIES, this anti-hero is even madder than hell this time, releasing his agenda ten minutes ...
Written by James M. Tate / 5/15/2016 / No comments / dalton trumbo , eva marie saint , jill haworth , paul newman
THE NEGLECTED CATASTROPHE OF EXODUS
Like in Highlights Magazine: See As One Actress is Listening While The Other One is Speaking YEAR: 1960 Yeah, yeah, so with the exceptio...
Written by James M. Tate / 5/14/2016 / No comments / diane baker , fifties , hope lange , joan crawford , june blair , melodrama , robert evans , romance , stephen boyd , suzy parker , twilight time
HOPE LANGE & DIANE BAKER SEEK OUT 'THE BEST OF EVERYTHING'
Twilight Time Blu Ray YEAR: 1959 Right when you think THE BEST OF EVERYTHING is about "The New Girl in The Office", another ar...
Written by James M. Tate / 5/13/2016 / No comments / dean martin , fifties , interview , lee van cleef , marlon brando , maximillian schell , montgomery clift , nazi , war , world war II , yaphet kotto
WAR NOIR IMPRESSION OF MARLON BRANDO IN 'THE YOUNG LIONS'
Brando and Britt in The Young Lions from 1958 Director Edward Dmytryk's War Noir, THE YOUNG LIONS, based on a novel by Irwin Shaw, ...
PENN STUCK IN STONE'S DESERT NOIR U-TURN
Sean Penn phones in Oliver Stone's mindtrip neo noir excursion within a small town purgatory Year Released: 1997 "If I were a b...
Written by James M. Tate / 5/12/2016 / No comments / bob rafelson , debra winger , dennis hopper , diane ladd , eighties , neo noir , rutanya alda , theresa russell
NEO FILM NOIR AUTEUR BOB RAFELSON DIRECTS 'BLACK WIDOW'
Theresa Russell is the title character in BLACK WIDOW along with Debra Winger and Dennis Hopper Year: 1987 Bob Rafelson, best known for ...
Written by James M. Tate / 5/10/2016 / No comments / charlton heston , dalton trumbo , gene hackman , george roy hill , julie andrews , mako , max von sydow , richard harris , sixties , tina chen
GORGEOUS DOUBLE FEATURE OF HAWAII & THE HAWAIIANS
Twilight Time Blu Ray HAWAII Film Original Release: 1966 HAWAII : Max Von Sydow often played old men, even fifty years ago when he was y...
Written by James M. Tate / 5/08/2016 / No comments / 2016 , cable , horror , zombie
FEAR EXCEEDS WALKING WITH PLOTS ABOVE PEOPLE
Promotional Poster for FTWD There has been a problem with THE WALKING DEAD. People have noticed. New fans probably not so much. Old fans...
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Robyn Hilton enters into an eclectic exploitation comedy career in Wonder Women circa 1973 As mentioned a few posts ago, ROBYN HILTON, b...
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year: 1978 cast: Allen Garfield, Leif Garrett, Kathleen Lloyd, Tony Alva, Pam Kenneally rating: ***1/2 Although promoted as a Leif Garr...
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Kari Michaelsen in Saturday the 14th year: 1982 In LOVE AT FIRST BITE, a popular comedy that took the vampire genre by satire, Richard ...
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Cornelia Sharpe in BUSTING Year: 1974 Rating: **** Starring Elliott Gould and Robert Blake as determined vice cops BUSTING hookers, makin...
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Mary-Louise Weller in NATIONAL LAMPOON'S ANIMAL HOUSE ANIMAL HOUSE, directed by John Landis and produced by Ivan Reitman, stars John Be...
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Kerri Green and John Candy in SUMMER RENTAL Year: 1985 John Candy, in his first leading role, plays a burnt-out air traffic controller ...
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Robyn Hilton in Video Vixens the same year as Blazing Saddles: 1974 The Anthology of Comedic Parodies, already done in several Woody All...
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CADDDYSHACK is best known for the iconic leading actors: Rodney Dangerfield, Chevy Chase, Ted Knight, and Bill Murray, but originally the ...
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Elizabeth James and Tom Laughlin on equal ground YEAR: 1967 THE BORN LOSERS wasn't supposed to happen but thank God it did since BIL...
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HARVEY KEITEL & DAVID PROVAL ON 'KOJAK' PILOT 'SIEGE OF TERROR'
Title: KOJAK: SIEGE OF TERROR Year: 1973 Rating: ***1/2 The pilot of the classic series KOJAK is a little different than most of the episode...