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 , pat renella , sixties

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

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<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>
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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>
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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>

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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'

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'

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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>

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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...

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/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>

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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...

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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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Epitomizes the Haves Haves Not of Breaking Away YEAR: 1979</u></td></tr>
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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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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Breaking Score: ***1/2</u></td></tr>
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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>Dennis Quaid shows his stuff in BREAKING AWAY</u></td></tr>
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