cult film freak: May 2020

Written by James M. Tate / 5/29/2020 / No comments / 3D , adventure , byron haskin , import , joanne dru , mark stevens , neo noir , robert strauss , shark , sixties , treasure

MARK STEVENS & JOANNE DRU IN THE NEO NOIR 'SEPTEMBER STORM'

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MARK STEVENS & JOANNE DRU IN THE NEO NOIR 'SEPTEMBER STORM'

Pulpy poster featuring a lovely painted lovely actress Joanne Dru for SEPTEMBER STORM Year: 1960 Rating: *** Directed by underrated WAR ...

JAMES CAGNEY HIDES OUT IN 'HE WAS HER MAN' W/ JOAN BLONDELL

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lobby Card for HE WAS HER MAN Year: 1934</u></td></tr>
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James Cagney dime-novel-style programmer has his character Flicker Hayes, newly released from prison, 
dangerously double-crossing the hoods who'd double-crossed him as two more goons plan to keep on 
his trail...<br>
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Beginning in San Fransisco where he meets Joan Blondell, as a prostitute 
setting her mind on marrying a simple fisherman in a John Steinbeck 
Monterrey style seaside town. She has a seemingly benign passenger
 in Cagney's Hayes, both hiding out in completely different ways. Cagney's surprisingly soft-spoken here, but not nearly as much as dutiful
 Victor Jory as the fisherman who doesn't 
care about Blondell's racy past. This is merely a distraction to Cagney's 
story that, in itself, distracts from what the movie, HE WAS HER MAN, is
 leading to — with armed goons on the way, it doesn't look likely he'll 
survive...<br>

crime, film noir or melodrama, james cagney, joan blondell, mob, romance, thirties, victor jory

JAMES CAGNEY HIDES OUT IN 'HE WAS HER MAN' W/ JOAN BLONDELL

Lobby Card for HE WAS HER MAN Year: 1934 James Cagney dime-novel-style programmer has his character Flicker Hayes, newly released from p...

PENNY EDWARDS IN 'THE DALTON GIRLS' WITH MERRY ANDERS

action, bel air productions, fifties, john russell, lisa davis, merry anders, penny edwards, sue george, western

PENNY EDWARDS IN 'THE DALTON GIRLS' WITH MERRY ANDERS

Penny Edwards (mother of actress Deborah Winters) and John Russell in THE DALTON GIRLS Year: 1957 Rating: **** Bel Air Productions' ...

JOHN HUSTON DIRECTS SUE LYON IN 'THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA'

ava gardner, based-on-play, deborah kerr, drama, exploitation, grayson hall, john huston, mexico, richard burton, skip ward, sue lyon, tennessee williams

JOHN HUSTON DIRECTS SUE LYON IN 'THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA'

Skip Ward aka James Ward with Sue Lyon in THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA Year: 1964 Rating: *** "I'm sick of dark old churches... I li...

SUE LYON IN STANLEY KUBRICK'S 'LOLITA' WITH JAMES MASON

british new wave, dark comedy, exploitation, james mason, jazz score, peter sellers, road movie, shelley winters, sixties, stanley kubrick, sue lyon

SUE LYON IN STANLEY KUBRICK'S 'LOLITA' WITH JAMES MASON

Sue Lyon as Lolita in Stanley Kubrick's classy classic exploitation of LOLITA Year: 1962 Between Stanley Kubrick's financial gig...

NICOLAS CAGE & MATTHEW MODINE IN ALAN PARKER'S 'BIRDY'

alan parker, arthouse, buddy, coming-of-age, eighties, elizabeth whitcraft, matthew modine, nicolas cage, vietnam

NICOLAS CAGE & MATTHEW MODINE IN ALAN PARKER'S 'BIRDY'

Nicolas Cage looking a hybrid of middle eighties and early sixties in Alan Parker's BIRDY Year: 1984 Rating: **** Alan Parker was an...

CORNEL WILDE & YAPHET KOTTO SEEK THE 'SHARKS' TREASURE'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>There's not one bikini babe in all of SHARK'S TREASURE Year: 1975</u></td></tr>
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Cornel Wilde's SHARKS' TREASURE, a Neo Noir in the 
Ernest Hemingway tradition of the TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT style, centers on
 machismo verses elements of the sea...<br>
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The title 
killer fish seems to be intentionally guarding a treasure of golden 
coins at a location that takes over half the film led by Wilde's 
semi-famous fortune hunter boatsman, Jim Carnahan, along with the map's 
bearer, a young man played by TERROR HOUSE actor John Neilson. Although
 Wilde had been a very good actor since playing the talky inside-man to 
Humphrey Bogart's in HIGH SIERRA followed by the likes of LEAVE HER TO 
HEAVEN, ROAD HOUSE and THE DEVIL'S HAIRPIN, it takes a talented Yaphet Kotto, as Ben, along with his Vietnam vet buddy Larry, played
 by sporadic BONANZA guest star David Canary, to make the picture more 
believable and intense...<br>

action, adventure, cliff osmond, cornel wilde, david canary, david gilliam, exploitation, homosexual, hostage, john neilson, nature, neo noir, seventies, shark, thriller, treasure, yaphet kotto

CORNEL WILDE & YAPHET KOTTO SEEK THE 'SHARKS' TREASURE'

There's not one bikini babe in all of SHARK'S TREASURE Year: 1975 Cornel Wilde's SHARKS' TREASURE, a Neo Noir in the Er...

DEFINITIVE STREAMLINE REVIEW FOR 'KING OF THE MOUNTAIN'

dan haggerty, deborah van valkenburgh, dennis hopper, drama, eighties, harry hamlin, joseph bottoms, lillian müller, race car

DEFINITIVE STREAMLINE REVIEW FOR 'KING OF THE MOUNTAIN'

Harry Hamlin feeling out an uneasy road in KING OF THE MOUNTAIN Year: 1981 Rates: ***1/2 As the obscure early-eighties action/melodrama ...

MICHAEL CRICHTON DIRECTS 'COMA' WITH MICHAEL DOUGLAS

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Geneviève Bujold investigates in Michael Crichton's COMA Year: 1978 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr>
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The best damsels-in-distress are those tough cookies in complete denial of being damsels, and you can take your distress and shove it because they don't need help from anyone, especially not males, and especially in the 1970's... <br />
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Enter Geneviève Bujold as Dr. Susan Wheeler who, with a chip on her shoulder about being the only female doctor in an old school men's club type of hospital, has a kneejerk reaction for anything easygoing boyfriend Dr. Mark Bellows, played by Michael Douglas, has to say; particularly “Can you get me a beer?” <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lois Chiles as a gorgeous Patient X in COMA</u></td></tr>
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Her feelings of insecurity are shielded with a narrowed countenance — the pushy and contrived feminist viewpoint making it difficult to root for her character... It's almost as if she's bitching out the <i>entire</i> audience...<br />
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But she's <i>really</i> onto something as patients at the hospital, including her best friend (a perfect looking Lois Chiles followed by a perfect looking Tom Selleck), are slipping into comas following routine procedures...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jefferson Institute is the Death Star of comatose patients from COMA</u></td></tr>
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Here’s where the intentionally overbearing anti-heroine becomes more relatable as the investigation kicks into gear. And novelist turned director Michael Crichton has a mechanical approach to directing films that, whether written by himself or in this case, source author Robin Cook, are intentionally farfetched...<br />
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But when Susan gets in over her head, searching through files in the hospital and eventually finding the place where the patients are being sent, the mystery/suspense peaks too easily, and conveniently...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Geneviève Bujold and a dead ringer for Data from Star Trek years earlier in a deep COMA</u></td></tr>
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In one scene she overhears two maintenance men discussing everything needing to know i.e. what the comatose bodies... suspended in a spooky warehouse within a formidable white building while overseen by monotone and robotic, steely-eyed Elizabeth Ashley... are being used for...<br />
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With thirty-minutes left it’s all about Susan escaping with her life in scenes liken to a TV crime series. It’s when she goes under the knife of villainous surgeon Richard Widmark that the fingernails are worth biting. This also provides the backseat Douglas a chance to possibly save his once stubborn, reluctant girlfriend who finally needs saving.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Geneviève Bujold investigates in Michael Crichton's COMA</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Tom Selleck would star in Michael Crichton's Runaway here a cameo in COMA</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Tom Selleck as Sean Murphy the Comatose Adam to Lois Chile's Eve in COMA</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Geneviève Bujold starring in COMA </u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Geneviève Bujold starring in COMA </u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Geneviève Bujold COMA with Michael Douglas</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>A cold Elizabeth Ashley with a Yoda mouth in COMA </u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lance LeGalt is the bad guy's henchman in COMA</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Michael Douglas first billed yet backseat w/ Genevieve Bujold in COMA</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lois Chiles with Geneviève Bujold in COMA with who looks like Leigh-Taylor Young</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>The perfect Lois Chiles is put into a not-so-perfect coma in Michael Crichton's COMA</u></td></tr>
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