MIMSY FARMER 'HOT RODS TO HELL' TO 'RIOT ON SUNSET STRIP'

<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/-nzMz685kwlw/XMfoEzJy65I/AAAAAAABDWk/h7JIL9o7FLUzS6q_656VE4NMIMPFIsD1gCLcBGAs/s1600/2.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="516" data-original-width="890" height="231" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nzMz685kwlw/XMfoEzJy65I/AAAAAAABDWk/h7JIL9o7FLUzS6q_656VE4NMIMPFIsD1gCLcBGAs/s400/2.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>from Hot Rods from Hell review of Riot on Sunset Strip both 1967</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> In HOT RODS FROM HELL, the headliners are Dana Andrews and Jeanne Crain as two marrieds with a small boy and a teenage girl who get harassed by young punks in a speedster, and the daughter's played by brunette actress Laurie Mock while the bad girl holding onto the roll-bar is blonde cult starlet Mimsy Farmer...<br> <br> The same year, 1967, in RIOT ON SUNSET STRIP, Farmer is the good girl, and like Laurie Mock has a veteran actor as a dad (Andrews), Farmer has Aldo Ray. But let's not forget Gene Kirkwood, the future ROCKY producer who was Mimsy Farmer's third-wheel buddy in HOT RODS and is Laurie Mock's pal in RIOT. Basically, the teenage girls are in reverse. Add to that Mickey Rooney's son, Tim, rounding out the rebellious teens while in HOT RODS, Mickey Rooney Jr.'s band plays in the third act...<br>

aldo ray, counter-culture, drama, drive-in, drug culture, drugs, exploitation, gene kirkwood, laurie mock, melodrama, mimsy farmer, music, sixties

MIMSY FARMER 'HOT RODS TO HELL' TO 'RIOT ON SUNSET STRIP'

from Hot Rods from Hell review of Riot on Sunset Strip both 1967 In HOT RODS FROM HELL, the headliners are Dana Andrews and Jeanne Crain...

DOUGLAS SIRK SERVES 'MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION' W/ ROCK HUDSON

<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/-nF-qNdEKbR4/XMFFr91z8dI/AAAAAAABDEo/lYcavBwJah0CHDdv-sIRTgVNcty8jnv5QCLcBGAs/s1600/58708073_2363459443698322_8993373608986279936_o.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="1165" height="198" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nF-qNdEKbR4/XMFFr91z8dI/AAAAAAABDEo/lYcavBwJah0CHDdv-sIRTgVNcty8jnv5QCLcBGAs/s400/58708073_2363459443698322_8993373608986279936_o.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Rock Hudson you like a Hurricane IV Speedboat YEAR: 1954</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> By far one of the strangest 1950's Technicolor melodramas ever made, MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION put Rock Hudson on the map, and he's the best thing going here...<br> <br> Especially since his character — a rich, spoiled young man who races a futuristic space shuttle-shaped racing boat — seems not only against the vapid premise, but justifiably fights back when he's blamed for — after suffering a horrible accident — being revived by use of a neighbor's defibrillator that winds absent to help said neighbor who, married to a brooding Jane Wyman, is some kind of New Age Messianic figure before Hollywood pushed such a thing...<br>

barbara rush, douglas sirk, fifties, jane wyman, melodrama, new age, rock hudson, romance

DOUGLAS SIRK SERVES 'MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION' W/ ROCK HUDSON

Rock Hudson you like a Hurricane IV Speedboat YEAR: 1954 By far one of the strangest 1950's Technicolor melodramas ever made, MAGNIF...

AWESOMELY RADICAL ANIMATION OF 'PINOCCHIO IN OUTER SPACE'

<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/-q8zBJBDmiXM/XL670uqg0QI/AAAAAAABDAs/Ei5RJf7PNGkKHwXFL2y7ORWpNei0O2L9ACLcBGAs/s1600/58543047_689754004787112_617991475443007488_n.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="523" data-original-width="686" height="303" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-q8zBJBDmiXM/XL670uqg0QI/AAAAAAABDAs/Ei5RJf7PNGkKHwXFL2y7ORWpNei0O2L9ACLcBGAs/s400/58543047_689754004787112_617991475443007488_n.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year of Arrival: 1965 Pinocchio in Outer Space Scores: ****</u></td></tr> </tbody></table><p>Take away a dingy song during the first half-hour dealing with our main character at home, who's a puppet again after a naughty montage of ditching school, bullying a dog and getting bad grades, and you have relatively frightening scenes that are, or seem, surprisingly aimed at adult audiences: including a shadow appearing over our famously phony boy's head, and chasing him around a field with a fitfully suspenseful, formidable score...<br> <br> Turns out to be a spaceship manned by a friendly turtle-creature (voiced by Arnold <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Stang</span> in the expository <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Jiminy</span> Cricket mantle) who takes Pinicchio up to outer space to seek a flying, planet-destroying whale. They land on Mars and are attacked by mysteriously derived giant sand crabs that resemble cartoon versions of something Ray <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Harryhausen</span> would devise. Followed by the best scenes where the duo investigate the Red Planet's desolate domed city, holding many secrets and more aggressive foes. And then, back in outer space: the discovery of, capture from, battle with, and eventual taming of Orbit the Whale is quite intense. All making for a bizarre cartoon experience <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">definitely</span> worth the watch. Again and again and again some more. <br> </p>

action, adventure, animation, arnold stang, cartoon, cult, exploitation, fantasy, kids, science-fiction, sixties

AWESOMELY RADICAL ANIMATION OF 'PINOCCHIO IN OUTER SPACE'

Year of Arrival: 1965 Pinocchio in Outer Space Scores: **** Take away a dingy song during the first half-hour dealing with our main ch...

JESSIE LA RIVE MAPES ON PLAYING HERSELF IN 'URBAN COWBOY'

<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/-SSj7fjt2lrY/XLPrlox07KI/AAAAAAABCsc/-zpXVnlucsQtAY7HBWiltGeC7X8LMViaQCLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2019-04-14%2Bat%2B7.23.17%2BPM.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1156" data-original-width="1600" height="288" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SSj7fjt2lrY/XLPrlox07KI/AAAAAAABCsc/-zpXVnlucsQtAY7HBWiltGeC7X8LMViaQCLcBGAs/s400/Screen%2BShot%2B2019-04-14%2Bat%2B7.23.17%2BPM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Interview with Urban Cowboy's Jessie La Rive Mapes</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <span style="font-family: "calibri" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>"Hold my beer, Jessie," Debra Winger's character, Sissy, tells real life cowgirl Jessie La Rive Mapes, then billed as Jessie La Rive, in the  popular 1980 John Travolta feature <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/04/urban-cowboy.html">URBAN COWBOY</a>, in which the former disco king, trading polyester for chaps, rides a mechanical bull in the gigantic Gilley's Bar in Houston, Texas, where, on film and real life, Jessie was right at home...</i></span><br> <u><br></u> <span style="font-family: "calibri" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>How did you first get involved with URBAN COWBOY?</u> The original story was written by Aaron Latham of Esquire magazine. He did a story about my best friend, Betty Jones, her ex-husband and myself along with my daddy, Steve Strange. Then director Jim Bridges with Paramount Pictures decided that the love triangle around the bull would make for a great movie.</span><br>

country music, debra winger, eighties, interview, james bridges, james gammon, jessie la rive, john travolta, love triangle, scott glenn, sport

JESSIE LA RIVE MAPES ON PLAYING HERSELF IN 'URBAN COWBOY'

Interview with Urban Cowboy's Jessie La Rive Mapes "Hold my beer, Jessie," Debra Winger's character, Sissy, tells real...

DUSTIN HOFFMAN & WARREN BEATTY FAMOUSLY BOMB IN 'ISHTAR'

<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/-Y-adoLK2dBI/XLJdlz_TY2I/AAAAAAABCrA/EmaeiI5CyjgblYJzhAapZKsJyMhp9WxjACLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%252BShot%252B2019-04-12%252Bat%252B7.10.19%252BAM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="853" height="295" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Y-adoLK2dBI/XLJdlz_TY2I/AAAAAAABCrA/EmaeiI5CyjgblYJzhAapZKsJyMhp9WxjACLcBGAs/s400/Screen%252BShot%252B2019-04-12%252Bat%252B7.10.19%252BAM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year of Defeat: 1987</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> In one scene from the famously infamous 1987 mega-flop ISHTAR, a shy and introverted Warren Beatty admits that, in order to get women, he wished he looked more like Dustin Hoffman: which is funnier than anything else in the movie... <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> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> Both are straight men without comic relief, and there isn't a touch of humor to be found: Especially not in the muddled screenplay written by director Elaine May and centering on two awful lounge singers, Lyle Rogers and Chuck Clark, who don’t seem realistic enough to be genuine failures: Hoffman’s Clark is the most confident and intrepid, and gullible. Once the duo are sent to Ishtar for a few low-rent gigs, he quickly gets in hot water, falling for a burqa-clad yet still noticeably hot Isabelle Adjani as Shirra, who wants to free her people from tyranny, and is basically using Clark for her own needs, transporting an important map that everyone wants: Especially Charles Grodin’s nefariously polite Jim Harrison, a CIA Agent pulling Clark in another direction…<br>

action, adventure, buddy, charles grodin, comedy, dustin hoffman, eighties, elaine may, espionage, jack weston, warren beatty

DUSTIN HOFFMAN & WARREN BEATTY FAMOUSLY BOMB IN 'ISHTAR'

Year of Defeat: 1987 In one scene from the famously infamous 1987 mega-flop ISHTAR, a shy and introverted Warren Beatty admits that, i...

ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S 'FRENZY' WITH JON FINCH & BARRY FOSTER

<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/-PuByxE3pq1I/XLAWdeROR0I/AAAAAAABCiU/e51Wde3fpQQLaWXk3TXh5cCzu6QMBwcDgCLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2019-04-11%2Bat%2B9.29.41%2BPM.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1062" data-original-width="1600" height="265" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PuByxE3pq1I/XLAWdeROR0I/AAAAAAABCiU/e51Wde3fpQQLaWXk3TXh5cCzu6QMBwcDgCLcBGAs/s400/Screen%2BShot%2B2019-04-11%2Bat%2B9.29.41%2BPM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Opening credit sequence for FRENZY Year: 1972</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> After a dry-spell with melodramas and big budget espionage films, Alfred Hitchock had an artistic comeback with FRENZY: Also serving as a grand return to England where Piccadilly Circus feels like its own busy character while the main protagonist, an antagonistic former RAF hero, gets embroiled in what Hitchcock perfected early on...<br> <br> The Wrong Man theme, and it's an avalanche here, bordering on satire and with some of the coldest dark-humor sprinkled in. Yet FRENZY is no laughing matter, being perhaps the darkest and definitely most <i>modern</i> Hitchcock vehicle: and not just because people use swear words, or the nudity in one of the rape/murder sequences: The most shocking and in-your-face involves Barbara Leigh-Hunt followed by Anna Massey's off-screen demise, in which one of Hitchcock's greatest shots makes for that <i>key signature moment</i> (the shower in PSYCHO; the umbrellas in FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT, etc.) that all his films rely on and/or are best remembered for. <br>

alec mccowen, alfred hitchcock, anna massey, barbara leigh-hunt, barry foster, body count, dark comedy, exploitation, jon finch, neo noir, seventies, suspense, thriller, wrong man

ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S 'FRENZY' WITH JON FINCH & BARRY FOSTER

Opening credit sequence for FRENZY Year: 1972 After a dry-spell with melodramas and big budget espionage films, Alfred Hitchock had an a...

JOHN TRAVOLTA RIDES 'URBAN COWBOY' VERSES SCOTT GLENN

<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/-vp_xiL0hrH8/XK8i6gtiUxI/AAAAAAABCgk/IM5aNn4PyHgiwolv8qN-04gU4Yn72HdXwCLcBGAs/s1600/urban-cowboy-john-travolta.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="658" height="341" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vp_xiL0hrH8/XK8i6gtiUxI/AAAAAAABCgk/IM5aNn4PyHgiwolv8qN-04gU4Yn72HdXwCLcBGAs/s400/urban-cowboy-john-travolta.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>John Travolta in Urban Cowboy YEAR: 1980</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Another soundtrack film with John Travolta after disco and 1950's rock paid off, James Bridges' URBAN COWBOY is a character-driven, intentionally plotless melodrama with a ripped-muscular Scott Glenn as an ex-con who winds up Travolta’s rival: adding Pseudo-Sport to the genre involving a mechanical bull, bumping and grinding inside an immense Texas barroom where the title's first half derives throughout a beer-soaked, Country Music blaring, wooden-neon interior.<br> <br> Before the opening credits, Travolta’s a small town guy with a nice suburban family, a cowboy hat, an unfitting beard: And thanks to his uncle, after landing a Houston-set tough guy oil rig gig and bedding down two models at the hot-spot, Gilley's, he’s quickly married to pretty barfly Debra Winger who's really more a bickering best friend, providing the two affable leads an old fashion chemistry that’s bound to fall apart at the seams... <br>

debra winger, drama, eighties, james bridges, jessie la rive, john travolta, madolyn smith, melodrama, romance, scott glenn, sport

JOHN TRAVOLTA RIDES 'URBAN COWBOY' VERSES SCOTT GLENN

John Travolta in Urban Cowboy YEAR: 1980 Another soundtrack film with John Travolta after disco and 1950's rock paid off, James Brid...

JOHN CARPENTER DIRECTS TV-MOVIE 'SOMEONE'S WATCHING ME!'

<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/-Gqj-UJue0SA/XKq6JP7wSGI/AAAAAAABCbE/06rk6I-diqoOCxhLG8wRSeXlPISmIaipACLcBGAs/s1600/someone%2527s%252Bwatching%252Bme.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="465" data-original-width="612" height="302" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Gqj-UJue0SA/XKq6JP7wSGI/AAAAAAABCbE/06rk6I-diqoOCxhLG8wRSeXlPISmIaipACLcBGAs/s400/someone%2527s%252Bwatching%252Bme.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title Sequence for Someone's Watching Me YEAR: 1978</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> After John Carpenter hit big with the horror film HALLOWEEN, a made-for-TV movie as the next step is a big strange, but it's not bad: Plot centers on a director played by Lauren Hutton who is, as the title implies, being watched by someone in the building across from her own... <br> <br> Some of the dialogue is silly and the characters aren't fleshed out, but the pace keeps flowing, the tension mounts well, and there's that neat Carpenter steady-cam throughout despite the lack of spooky-synth Carpenter score. At times this feels like a theatrical thriller edited-for-television; other times it's like watching a TV movie that, with more work, could have made it to the big screen. All in all it's a Hitchcock homage, but looks more like a Brian DePalma-doing-Hitchock. Either way it's not too shabby for a small screen effort. Carpenter fans shouldn't be disappointed; just don't grade on a curve.<br>

horror, john carpenter, lauren becall, suspense, thriller, tv movie

JOHN CARPENTER DIRECTS TV-MOVIE 'SOMEONE'S WATCHING ME!'

Title Sequence for Someone's Watching Me YEAR: 1978 After John Carpenter hit big with the horror film HALLOWEEN, a made-for-TV movie...

GEORGE MONTGOMERY IN 'CANYON RIVER'

<div style="text-align: right;"> </div> <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/04/CRIVER.html">CANYON RIVER HAS MOVED HERE</a><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://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bGiJzM8KFEw/XKfq3zVUd_I/AAAAAAABCWo/qIbXse11XY0unifzGBcnxglIfrg5c16lQCLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2019-04-05%2Bat%2B3.16.35%2BPM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="770" data-original-width="506" height="320" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bGiJzM8KFEw/XKfq3zVUd_I/AAAAAAABCWo/qIbXse11XY0unifzGBcnxglIfrg5c16lQCLcBGAs/s320/Screen%2BShot%2B2019-04-05%2Bat%2B3.16.35%2BPM.jpeg" width="209"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Original Warner Archive DVD</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> <br>

GEORGE MONTGOMERY IN 'CANYON RIVER'

CANYON RIVER HAS MOVED HERE Original Warner Archive DVD

DENNIS CHRISTOPHER RIDES 'BREAKING AWAY' W/ DENNIS QUAID

<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/-9p9y62-arx0/XNON3Ryl9zI/AAAAAAABDzo/rhoaO3hJxK4NHtsuXCF8G4raPJ4OzDpMgCLcBGAs/s1600/59663609_699811683781344_720628592383361024_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="560" data-original-width="560" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9p9y62-arx0/XNON3Ryl9zI/AAAAAAABDzo/rhoaO3hJxK4NHtsuXCF8G4raPJ4OzDpMgCLcBGAs/s400/59663609_699811683781344_720628592383361024_n.jpg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Epitomizes the Haves Haves Not of Breaking Away YEAR: 1979</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Feel good movie about teens from the poor side of the tracks but with a cool rock-diving water hole to hang at, BREAKING AWAY is distinguished by a confidently upbeat, quirky protagonist who, while obsessed with Italy, longs to race bicycles with Italy's visiting team: But when not peddling around town, Dennis Christopher's Dave hangs with local buddies Dennis Quaid, a former football hero; Jackie Earle Haley, the token mascot; and Daniel Stern, the comic relief who's the most soulful and in-tune with our cycling hero...<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> <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://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vQIsDkCZ_Tc/XKeu2bXCnQI/AAAAAAABCUk/SfmHuDJNZOs6mcZwoGcagILYXOitY8lHQCLcBGAs/s1600/56757358_679638052465374_4408572359254999040_n.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="871" data-original-width="474" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vQIsDkCZ_Tc/XKeu2bXCnQI/AAAAAAABCUk/SfmHuDJNZOs6mcZwoGcagILYXOitY8lHQCLcBGAs/s320/56757358_679638052465374_4408572359254999040_n.jpeg" width="174"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Dennis Quaid as Mike</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> To the rich college kids, led by preppie jerk Hart Bochner, the young locals are Townies or Cutters while the University remains an albatross that otherwise humble and poor Bloomington, Indiana can't shake. Our boy Dave's the only one with an angle: Finding the prettiest girl in Robyn Douglass, and faking an Italian accent for a filler romance.<br> <br> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-r0nj2JNdEO4/XKepY84fYnI/AAAAAAABCUE/SAGJ2k4hxL0W0pdSFKKpbSXosYB72ZVugCLcBGAs/s1600/56549480_679656682463511_6128112312059428864_n.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="532" data-original-width="535" height="316" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-r0nj2JNdEO4/XKepY84fYnI/AAAAAAABCUE/SAGJ2k4hxL0W0pdSFKKpbSXosYB72ZVugCLcBGAs/s320/56549480_679656682463511_6128112312059428864_n.jpeg" width="320"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Breaking Score: ***1/2</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Through the much too-written script, where the late-teens talk like they're suffering a mid-life crisis, the bicycling scenes are nicely shot by action director Peter Yates; and though the class envy gets tiresome, and Dave's jovial dialogue with his parents is a tad silly, as the big race between the locals and jocks approaches, each and every character contributes equally to a spirited finale.<br> <br> Before that, when a depressed Dave (suffering one of those cinematic teenage-midlife-crisis's) and endearingly dishonest used car salesman dad Paul Dooley walks through the ruin of a town, sharing about his own faded dreams, it seems like another motion picture altogether: More edgy and realistic, which BREAKING AWAY could have used a few more scenes of. But it's an affable sport film meant to celebrate the energy and momentum of youth, and it does that well.<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/-iF0eZjYDl_8/XNOP6aK1DFI/AAAAAAABDzw/1ib5l-V1CYkxntN8kt0xPk644MlvYdMqQCLcBGAs/s1600/59735660_699814537114392_8102573022151442432_n.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="607" data-original-width="960" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iF0eZjYDl_8/XNOP6aK1DFI/AAAAAAABDzw/1ib5l-V1CYkxntN8kt0xPk644MlvYdMqQCLcBGAs/s1600/59735660_699814537114392_8102573022151442432_n.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Almost sure this is Jennifer K. Mickel as Girl in Breaking Away with Hart Bochner</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/-8v1IcS3KGbA/XKbI2zsydoI/AAAAAAABCQk/yTAhpgs4WtU_909E-JDm-iR9ubzrZqnHACLcBGAs/s1600/56180252_679638039132042_515832036175380480_n.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="960" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8v1IcS3KGbA/XKbI2zsydoI/AAAAAAABCQk/yTAhpgs4WtU_909E-JDm-iR9ubzrZqnHACLcBGAs/s1600/56180252_679638039132042_515832036175380480_n.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Riding against the Italian Bike Company truck in BREAKING AWAY</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/-9LQ4ztMVVyw/XKennuo24NI/AAAAAAABCTs/xT5DbcfTw74mVW5GYr4O7ZDVvM9g4whhQCLcBGAs/s1600/56334648_679639569131889_7425966105090326528_n.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="590" data-original-width="960" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9LQ4ztMVVyw/XKennuo24NI/AAAAAAABCTs/xT5DbcfTw74mVW5GYr4O7ZDVvM9g4whhQCLcBGAs/s1600/56334648_679639569131889_7425966105090326528_n.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Dennis Quaid shows his stuff in BREAKING AWAY</u></td></tr> </tbody></table>

daniel stern, dennis christopher, dennis quaid, hart bochner, jackie earle haley, john ashton, paul dooley, peter yates, robyn douglass, small town, sport, teen

DENNIS CHRISTOPHER RIDES 'BREAKING AWAY' W/ DENNIS QUAID

Epitomizes the Haves Haves Not of Breaking Away YEAR: 1979 Feel good movie about teens from the poor side of the tracks but with a cool ...

TIM BURTON & MICHAEL KEATON ORIGINAL 'BATMAN' REVIEWED

<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/-2OxpVGUHDN4/XKRkKExLn1I/AAAAAAABCLY/7zLSoZD9OK0pAkn-S7w757pag2O7H-FQQCLcBGAs/s1600/56219971_678494642579715_582631048349745152_n%252B2.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="317" data-original-width="361" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2OxpVGUHDN4/XKRkKExLn1I/AAAAAAABCLY/7zLSoZD9OK0pAkn-S7w757pag2O7H-FQQCLcBGAs/s1600/56219971_678494642579715_582631048349745152_n%252B2.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Joker's Commercial Logo from BATMAN Year: 1989</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Since the extremely dark Christopher Nolan DARK KNIGHT trilogy, the original Michael Keaton BATMAN is viewed as too shiny, vapid, dated... for kids and kids only: The campy Adam West television series in theatrical wolves clothing...<br> <br> Which gives former fans of the 1989 Tim Burton vehicle a sort of dizzy amnesia to what was actually a cool-looking, ominous locale for the City of Gotham...<br> <br> A sinister-chrome, matte-painted cross between Film Noir gangland and a spooky children's pop-up book, truly deserving of a vigilante swooping down upon bad guys: Starting out with two kitschy crooks having just robbed a family, reminiscent of our masked hero's own tragic childhood that led Bruce Wayne into the isolated, thankless life of a multimillionaire hybrid of Charles Foster Kane and Charles Bronson.<br>

action, blockbuster, comic book, dc comics, eighties, franchise, jack nicholson, kim basinger, michael keaton, prince, robert wuhl, tim burton, tracey walter

TIM BURTON & MICHAEL KEATON ORIGINAL 'BATMAN' REVIEWED

Joker's Commercial Logo from BATMAN Year: 1989 Since the extremely dark Christopher Nolan DARK KNIGHT trilogy, the original Michael ...

EDMOND O'BRIEN WEARS A 'SHIELD FOR MURDER' W/ JOHN AGAR

<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/-XIITnTnsG20/XKLZ6SmdCeI/AAAAAAABCFc/5vIMfJVwajUbC6MSWZNOOayQ3xGRwNHAQCLcBGAs/s1600/maxresdefault.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="715" data-original-width="870" height="327" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XIITnTnsG20/XKLZ6SmdCeI/AAAAAAABCFc/5vIMfJVwajUbC6MSWZNOOayQ3xGRwNHAQCLcBGAs/s400/maxresdefault.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Year of Capture & Release: 1954</u></span></td></tr> </tbody></table> By the time this SHIELD FOR MURDER hit theaters, Edmond O'Brien had put on a few pounds, resembling Tyrone Power had he eaten Tyrone Power and with the lean, strict, tough years behind he was perfect as a character he'd have, a few years prior, spent an entire movie trying to bust... <br> <br> Starting out with a MURDER where only one hidden witness knows the truth, O'Brien's crooked cop Barney might not have stooped this low... intentionally killing a lowlife criminal who happens to have a ton of cash from the bigwig mobster he ripped off... unless he felt he was above the law since he <i>was</i> the law, and Detective Barney Nolan not only has a bad temper but a reputation that proceeds him – the believers are a young cop he mentored since youth, played by <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/09/TARANTULAlland.html">TARANTULA</a> star John Agar as well as the token ingenue, Marla English (<a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2018/09/3-Bad-Sisters-Crime-Against-Joe.html">THREE BAD SISTERS</a>) as Patty Winters, a nice looking dame he can't trust to work in public yet he dreams of stowing her cozily into a tract house in the budding suburbs with the help of his victim, now donning empty pockets in the morgue and, with the exception of Emile Meyer's quick lecture, and a newspaper reporter morally hounding his cop friend, Barney seems to have gotten away with it.<br>

action, bel air productions, british film noir/melodrama, carolyn jones, cop, crime, edmond o'brien, fifties, john agar, marla english

EDMOND O'BRIEN WEARS A 'SHIELD FOR MURDER' W/ JOHN AGAR

Year of Capture & Release: 1954 By the time this SHIELD FOR MURDER hit theaters, Edmond O'Brien had put on a few pounds, resemb...