cult film freak: April 2019

Written by James M. Tate / 4/28/2019 / No comments / 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'

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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

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'

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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 c...

CHARLES BRONSON JAWS-LIKE WESTERN 'THE WHITE BUFFALO'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Charles Bronson ducks for cover in The White Buffalo YEAR: 1976</u></td></tr>
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A Charles Bronson cult film that, without the hilariously dated and contrived title creature, is a surprisingly decent Western in its own right...<br>
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Haunted by nightmares of THE WHITE BUFFALO, Bronson, as a retired, inconspicuous Wild Bill Hickok, wakes up with guns blazing, all
 his own — first on a train and then inside a gold mining town's hotel run by a gracious Kim Novak...<br>
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In-between we learn of the giant beast through the frantic, personal rage 
of the most sympathetic character, Will Sampson's Crazy Horse, who must go by the name 'Worm' until he avenges his family's death and, by
 the end, a stretch of terrain that resembles a neatly cut, treeless 
landing strip provides a showdown location for the killer Buff's
 three hunters — so let's cover the main JAWS similarities through the 
main characters...<br>

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CHARLES BRONSON JAWS-LIKE WESTERN 'THE WHITE BUFFALO'

Charles Bronson ducks for cover in The White Buffalo YEAR: 1976 A Charles Bronson cult film that, without the hilariously dated and cont...

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

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Interview with Urban Cowboy's Jessie La Rive Mapes</u></td></tr>
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<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>
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<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'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year of Defeat: 1987</u></td></tr>
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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>
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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

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Opening credit sequence for FRENZY Year: 1972</u></td></tr>
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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>
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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 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>

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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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title Sequence for Someone's Watching Me YEAR: 1978</u></td></tr>
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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>
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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'

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GEORGE MONTGOMERY IN 'CANYON RIVER'

CANYON RIVER HAS MOVED HERE Original Warner Archive DVD

DENNIS CHRISTOPHER RIDES 'BREAKING AWAY' W/ DENNIS QUAID

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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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<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>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Riding against the Italian Bike Company truck in BREAKING AWAY</u></td></tr>
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EDMOND O'BRIEN WEARS A 'SHIELD FOR MURDER' W/ JOHN AGAR

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><u>Year of Capture & Release: 1954</u></span></td></tr>
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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, who got away with it.<br>

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