ELIZABETH TAYLOR AND DANA ANDREWS IN 'ELEPHANT WALK'

<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/-QZ7P4MFntX8/XvhbxJ9pUiI/AAAAAAABVkM/-Dd1NUS-N6UusPwj5ovE0-IueMdvSMQ_ACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-06-28%2Bat%2B1.50.40%2BAM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="893" data-original-width="1600" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QZ7P4MFntX8/XvhbxJ9pUiI/AAAAAAABVkM/-Dd1NUS-N6UusPwj5ovE0-IueMdvSMQ_ACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-06-28%2Bat%2B1.50.40%2BAM.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Poster artwork for ELEPHANT WALK Year: 1954</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Elephants are beautiful, majestic, powerful and... potentially dangerous — not man-eaters but could easily become human-stompers if something got in their way...<br> <br> So in ELEPHANT WALK the gallant gray beasts provide a suspenseful element of doom... which takes an entire brooding melodrama to pan out... and yet, it's not all their fault..<br>

dana andrews, drama, elizabeth taylor, fifties, melodrama, peter finch, romance

ELIZABETH TAYLOR AND DANA ANDREWS IN 'ELEPHANT WALK'

Poster artwork for ELEPHANT WALK Year: 1954 Elephants are beautiful, majestic, powerful and... potentially dangerous — not man-eaters b...

ALFRED WERKER DIRECTS DANA ANDREWS IN 'SEALED CARGO'

<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/-AAy8aU66Axg/XvQiW-OWiDI/AAAAAAABVbY/pioWrOI4EzMVd00pa2HZSEzgFuSY8l17wCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/cargo1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="670" data-original-width="925" height="288" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AAy8aU66Axg/XvQiW-OWiDI/AAAAAAABVbY/pioWrOI4EzMVd00pa2HZSEzgFuSY8l17wCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/cargo1.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Pirate-like poster art for SEALED CARGO Year: 1951 Rating: ****</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Alfred Werker's atmospheric SEALED CARGO initially plays like a Ghost Ship mystery/thriller as fisherman Dana Andrews climbs aboard what seems an abandoned larger vessel where Claude Rains, as an enigmatic sea captain, is met with the kind of cautionary distrust that owns this wartime espionage, ultimately shaping into a heist/caper: but instead of stealing money it's about blowing up the titular contraband... or else...<br> <br> Leaving little time for romance between Andrews and Carla Balenda, hitching a ride with Dana to his reluctant chagrin. But the camaraderie between Andrews and who seems like a Nazi spy in Danish seaman Philip Dorn makes this more liken to a buddy flick within the pulpy, tightly-wound mystique — also involving a race-against-time mission that just happens to take place during the Second World War. Replace the murky and haunting, fog-shrouded oceanic/coastal template with dark-lit alleyways and SEALED CARGO is as Film Noir as they come. Just call it a War Noir — and a damn good one.<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/-_O-QWJMkuMY/XvQ67sW1VZI/AAAAAAABVco/Kyr5Jz9erAsfKhSAy0Dho21YfvW1dz-6wCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Screen%252BShot%252B2020-06-24%252Bat%252B7.42.25%252BPM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="996" data-original-width="1268" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_O-QWJMkuMY/XvQ67sW1VZI/AAAAAAABVco/Kyr5Jz9erAsfKhSAy0Dho21YfvW1dz-6wCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Screen%252BShot%252B2020-06-24%252Bat%252B7.42.25%252BPM.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Dana Andrews and Carla Balenda in Alfred Werker's War-Noir Thriller SEALED CARGO </u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div>

alfred werker, caper, carla balenda, claude rains, dana andrews, espionage, fifties, ghost ship, mystery, race against time, steve forrest, suspense, thriller, war, world war II

ALFRED WERKER DIRECTS DANA ANDREWS IN 'SEALED CARGO'

Pirate-like poster art for SEALED CARGO Year: 1951 Rating: **** Alfred Werker's atmospheric SEALED CARGO initially plays like a Ghos...

SOME JOHN WAYNE ACTION BEFORE IT'S COMPLETELY ILLEGAL

<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/-hCrqQGoOp4E/XwqTCOjQqDI/AAAAAAABWEg/rICdgSpxuxg8R1PJfRo1M4_Vq_oQRTI9ACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Screen%252BShot%252B2020-07-11%252Bat%252B9.23.36%252BPM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="743" data-original-width="1185" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hCrqQGoOp4E/XwqTCOjQqDI/AAAAAAABWEg/rICdgSpxuxg8R1PJfRo1M4_Vq_oQRTI9ACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Screen%252BShot%252B2020-07-11%252Bat%252B9.23.36%252BPM.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>And pretty soon there will be no cops or guns so just watch McQ and remember when times were: 1973</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <u>REVIEW OF McQ</u>: Sounding like an upbeat version of a jazzy New Orleans funeral march or a car honking to a clunky yet catchy rhythm, McQ’s main theme takes our hero, the title character played by John Wayne, through a string of mysterious and dangerous elements that starts out reminiscent of cop thrillers DIRTY HARRY and BULLITT but winds up very Film Noir...<br> <br> Beginning with an unnamed gunman slaying several victims throughout the pre-dawn city streets, we soon realize he’s the partner of a veteran cop named McQ.<br>

action, al lettieri, clu gulager, david huddleston, eddie albert, john wayne, neo noir, roger e. mosley, seventies

SOME JOHN WAYNE ACTION BEFORE IT'S COMPLETELY ILLEGAL

And pretty soon there will be no cops or guns so just watch McQ and remember when times were: 1973 REVIEW OF McQ : Sounding like an upbe...

JACK NICHOLSON 'THE KING OF MARVIN GARDENS' BRUCE DERN

<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/-rfqweZ7-W00/XyCV_t5Nf8I/AAAAAAABWJ0/JYor8L1cQ5UxmzsvDxULkjCVeoPvP6h2gCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-07-28%2Bat%2B5.05.59%2BAM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="730" data-original-width="1075" height="271" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rfqweZ7-W00/XyCV_t5Nf8I/AAAAAAABWJ0/JYor8L1cQ5UxmzsvDxULkjCVeoPvP6h2gCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-07-28%2Bat%2B5.05.59%2BAM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jack Nicholson in THE KING OF MARVIN GARDENS Year: 1972</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Who knows, maybe directors never really outgrow their primal, rudimentary, symbolic, allegorical, idealistically pretentious, metaphysical, narcissistic, nostalgic mindset of film school...<br> <br> And in that, following what would forever remain their collaborative pinnacle, FIVE EASY PIECES director Bob Rafelson gave his close friend and future multi-collaborator Jack Nicholson a break from the (possible) stereotype of being the discontented, blunt, feisty rebel type, which he'd proven to be perfectly suited for: Then again, maybe he should have played Bruce Dern's conniving con-man older brother Jason Staebler, on the stumbling verge of an Atlantic City land deal with a few obstacles including a potentially dangerous kingpin and especially his women...<br>

arthouse, bob rafelson, bruce dern, drama, ellen burstyn, indie, jack nicholson, scatman crothers, seventies

JACK NICHOLSON 'THE KING OF MARVIN GARDENS' BRUCE DERN

Jack Nicholson in THE KING OF MARVIN GARDENS Year: 1972 Who knows, maybe directors never really outgrow their primal, rudimentary, sym...

PRODUCER WILLIAM ALLAND PRESENTS 'THE LAND UNKNOWN'

<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/-JRPxqYuMtCk/XvA30-iFmII/AAAAAAABVZ8/eQEyS4A59dI0SIdsumWcZmR6nI1SyI-nQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/affiche-l-oasis-des-tempetes-the-land-unknown-1957-2.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="390" data-original-width="500" height="310" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JRPxqYuMtCk/XvA30-iFmII/AAAAAAABVZ8/eQEyS4A59dI0SIdsumWcZmR6nI1SyI-nQCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/affiche-l-oasis-des-tempetes-the-land-unknown-1957-2.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year of Capture and Release: 1957</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Thinking it would be on par with the aesthetic value of BLACK LAGOON and REVENGE OF THE CREATURE, producer William Alland's topnotch director, Jack Arnold, who also shot TARANTULA, wanted nothing to do with this cheapie that, in the rudimentary stages, was supposed to be colorized with semi-big stars attached...<br> <br> <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://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CipfFL5G1f4/V8ez9pdrhbI/AAAAAAAAuIo/NaX7gVKJfNYfKFBH31kxVKPlCFSEazK-ACLcB/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2016-08-31%2Bat%2B9.50.42%2BPM.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CipfFL5G1f4/V8ez9pdrhbI/AAAAAAAAuIo/NaX7gVKJfNYfKFBH31kxVKPlCFSEazK-ACLcB/s320/Screen%2BShot%2B2016-08-31%2Bat%2B9.50.42%2BPM.jpg" width="217"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u> Paperback-Approach Poster Art</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> But with a nice matte as a primal mileau, it's enough to convince both an audience and a small group of Arctic dwelling researchers, with their military-trained employees including a magazine-handsome helicopter pilot in future FBI television-show regular William Reynolds...<br> <br> Along for the ride is his everyman mechanic; a pretty blond ingenue; and, conveniently enough, a leading man who's more an expert on prehistoric history than the snowy region surrounding this strange and UNKNOWN tropical enigma, partially based on a true story about a mass of warm water discovered strangely in the middle of the frozen Antarctic — and the very same location for that year's b-creature THE DEADLY MANTIS... Indeed, producer Alland was a busy man in 1957...<br> <br> <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/-MvnwdAbvYfs/V8eyzqNgCZI/AAAAAAAAuIc/RtX6mQ3pgRAgoU72dZPaJT-envouMu-QgCLcB/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2016-08-31%2Bat%2B9.33.48%2BPM.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MvnwdAbvYfs/V8eyzqNgCZI/AAAAAAAAuIc/RtX6mQ3pgRAgoU72dZPaJT-envouMu-QgCLcB/s320/Screen%2BShot%2B2016-08-31%2Bat%2B9.33.48%2BPM.jpg" width="170"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>LAND Score: ***1/2</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> The warm water's explained quickly, derived from a volcano, and the Dino-land follows, a hell-hot purgatory the characters are trapped in. The helicopter <i>can</i> start but without taking flight – this following a quick, eerie sighting: the swoop of a pterodactyl starts the ball rolling, or rather, the helicopter falling...<br> <br> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> Then, within this extremely hot and humid valley, resembling the wide-shot background of any Tarzan film, the foursome's hunted by various dinosaurs: The good ones look wonderfully fake, like a water-creature hybrid of The Loch Ness Monster and the aquatic man-eating dino in KING KONG. And especially the T-Rex, with a mouth that opens wide and awkward, like a large parade float or a Halloween mask giving enough room for the person to breath...<br> <br> For it is, like GODZILLA, a man-suited beast instead of the larger budgeted stop-motion. And on the other side of the coin are the lame, cheap Dinosaurs that are, ironically, the most realistic — in fact, they <i>are</i> real: Gila Monsters (or Iguanas) superimposed to look giant in the fashion of, say, Bert I. Gordon. But enlarged rats, ants and humans work better since they become an immense version of a normal size we're already familiar with...<br>

action, adventure, creature, cult, dinosaur, fifties, science-fiction, shirley patterson, william alland, william reynolds

PRODUCER WILLIAM ALLAND PRESENTS 'THE LAND UNKNOWN'

Year of Capture and Release: 1957 Thinking it would be on par with the aesthetic value of BLACK LAGOON and REVENGE OF THE CREATURE, pro...

ALICE FAYE AND CARMEN MIRANDA IN 'THE GANG'S ALL HERE'

<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/-N--EANzAeOY/XwgLtWt2wUI/AAAAAAABV9w/ceMnnj4QZ0cts4PMApJBkGm60H37qwOqgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-07-09%2Bat%2B10.27.12%2BPM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1211" data-original-width="1600" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-N--EANzAeOY/XwgLtWt2wUI/AAAAAAABV9w/ceMnnj4QZ0cts4PMApJBkGm60H37qwOqgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-07-09%2Bat%2B10.27.12%2BPM.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Carmen Miranda as Dorita in the giant fruit dance from THE GANG'S ALL HERE Year: 1943</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> Anything featuring Carmen Miranda is interesting, and when it comes to this particular wartime propaganda by Busby Berkely titled THE GANG'S ALL HERE, it's lightly entertaining as well...<br> <br> Meanwhile, for story's sake, a bland and breezy romance encroaches upon the fantastical, borderline psychedelic (way before there was such a thing) first act combining a popular nightclub run by Phil Baker and where Benny Goodman and his band play, as a show's taking place on stage before a dinner theater crowd...<br>

alice faye, aloysio de oliveira, benny goodman, carmen miranda, charlotte greenwood, forties, musical

ALICE FAYE AND CARMEN MIRANDA IN 'THE GANG'S ALL HERE'

Carmen Miranda as Dorita in the giant fruit dance from THE GANG'S ALL HERE Year: 1943 Anything featuring Carmen Miranda is intere...

MICHAEL CAINE & CHRISTOPHER REEVE PLAY IN 'DEATHTRAP'

<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/-yfSqrw4-pO8/XufRzuxFxfI/AAAAAAABVPY/kfZcBd5_FTUO2M39iOtcM7yh_QX4O9WfACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/0-1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="583" data-original-width="1145" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yfSqrw4-pO8/XufRzuxFxfI/AAAAAAABVPY/kfZcBd5_FTUO2M39iOtcM7yh_QX4O9WfACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/0-1.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Rubik's Cube Poster with Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve & Dyan Cannon in DEATH TRAP Year: 1982</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Collected antique weapons hanging like pictures in a Mystery writer's home; a middle twist more important than the end twist; and a female character with a particularly odd yet important trait that causes her to possibly acquire everything.... Yes, indeed... Rian Johnson's <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/06/rian-johnson-writesdirects-daniel-craig.html">KNIVES OUT</a> owes a lot to Sidney Lumet's DEATHTRAP...<br> <br> Except that one, the latter, here being reviewed, is an actual Mystery and quite a thrilling Thriller. While some scenes feel more like a jarring Exploitation Horror flick....<br>

based-on-play, christopher reeve, dyan cannon, eighties, homosexual, irene worth, michael caine, mystery, sidney lumet, thriller

MICHAEL CAINE & CHRISTOPHER REEVE PLAY IN 'DEATHTRAP'

Rubik's Cube Poster with Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve & Dyan Cannon in DEATH TRAP Year: 1982 Collected antique weapons hangi...

RIAN JOHNSON DIRECTS THE ENSEMBLE MYSTERY 'KNIVES OUT'

<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/-d2fNuHuJ9Es/XucDVXWBnWI/AAAAAAABVMM/R6bKn4KTf2Mb73Qe4maD4uOAW2kZSngggCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/knives_out_ver5_xlg.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="678" data-original-width="1006" height="268" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-d2fNuHuJ9Es/XucDVXWBnWI/AAAAAAABVMM/R6bKn4KTf2Mb73Qe4maD4uOAW2kZSngggCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/knives_out_ver5_xlg.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lakeith Stanfield solo poster for KNIVES OUT Year: 2019</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Rian Johnson must be seething that he didn't make the singular Spanish "Help" a Black woman given that, a year after KNIVES OUT hit theaters, we'd have a pandemic (closing all theaters) followed by a political uprising of African Americans, making the whole "Undocumented Worker" issue — which owns 51% of the story-line here — as dated as the Sony Walkman, Legwarmers and Bellbottoms...<br> <br> And Johnson <i>has</i> successfully resurrected the <i>Ensemble Cast Whodunnit</i>, featuring Jamie Lee Curtis, Don Johnson, Toni Collette and Michael Shannon. But in the past they'd be playing rich, white, crooked culprits who are also eclectic, darkly-humorous, interesting and intriguing enough to create an entire story around. But as noted in, ironically, another review involving Michael Shannon (THE SHAPE OF WATER): <i>Antagonists are no longer people who do bad things, but simply, bad people...</i><br>

2019, anna de armas, christopher plummer, daniel craig, don johnson, ensemble, jamie lee curtis, lakeith stanfield, michael shannon, mystery, new, politics, thriller

RIAN JOHNSON DIRECTS THE ENSEMBLE MYSTERY 'KNIVES OUT'

Lakeith Stanfield solo poster for KNIVES OUT Year: 2019 Rian Johnson must be seething that he didn't make the singular Spanish "...

DELROY LINDO STARS IN 'DA 5 BLOODS' DIRECTED BY SPIKE LEE

<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/-0ShL8TEuppc/Xutmp1rR8JI/AAAAAAABVSQ/LuNpGoXGUhojJBJmJGHKF8Rr9XikMd6QQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Screen%252BShot%252B2020-06-18%252Bat%252B3.36.52%252BAM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="901" data-original-width="1600" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0ShL8TEuppc/Xutmp1rR8JI/AAAAAAABVSQ/LuNpGoXGUhojJBJmJGHKF8Rr9XikMd6QQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Screen%252BShot%252B2020-06-18%252Bat%252B3.36.52%252BAM.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Photo of Delroy Lindo from More American Graffiti used here in Spike Lee's DA 5 BLOODS Year: 2020</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> As shown in an archive photo turning up in DA 5 BLOODS, this isn't the first time Delroy Lindo goes to Vietnam. In <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2013/01/more-american-graffiti.html">MORE AMERICAN GRAFFTI</a> he has a quick cameo (credited as Army Sergeant) and now, forty long years later, he's basically the only character in Spike Lee's current "Joint" that means anything...<br> <br> Consisting of four really old African American Vietnam Vets returning to retrieve their deceased leader's/mentor's remains and many bars of gold, BLOODS is a hybrid of THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE for the hunt; UNCOMMON VALOR about a group of returning vets (ten years later/thirty years younger); and COCOON, where some cranky old-timers get a second wind of sorts...<br>

2020, action, adventure, delroy lindo, ensemble, history, jean reno, new, politics, spike lee, treasure, vietnam, war

DELROY LINDO STARS IN 'DA 5 BLOODS' DIRECTED BY SPIKE LEE

Photo of Delroy Lindo from More American Graffiti used here in Spike Lee's DA 5 BLOODS Year: 2020 As shown in an archive photo turni...

NOT A REVIEW BUT MORE A REMINDER OF 'GONE WITH THE WIND'

<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/-20vmmuUTTh0/XucFSYKPv2I/AAAAAAABVMo/1G7BwH_NwggWD1fYFsuEsFIDIvcDwMB_wCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-06-14%2Bat%2B10.15.30%2BPM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1408" data-original-width="1595" height="352" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-20vmmuUTTh0/XucFSYKPv2I/AAAAAAABVMo/1G7BwH_NwggWD1fYFsuEsFIDIvcDwMB_wCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-06-14%2Bat%2B10.15.30%2BPM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Gone with the Wind from 1939</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> The same industry that's still moaning about the 70-year-old Blacklist is now banning/blacklisting a classic motion picture where the first <i>African American</i> actress/actor ever won an Oscar...<br> <br> Heck, even George Clooney, in his own infamous Oscar Speech, took partial credit for Hattie McDaniel's victory... years before he was born... and now he's probably right on board throwing GONE WITH THE WIND into the cautious, politically-correct wind...<br> <br> And yet, if it must be done, the only reason to ban such a magnificent-looking movie is that it's a tad overrated. Especially since the secondary male lead in Leslie Howard as Ashley Wilkes is so outrageously miscast, fitting his proper wife Olivia de Havilland as Melanie Hamilton but for the wonderfully cute and spunky, timeless beauty Vivian Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara to pathetically hold a torch for this dullard who resembles an anorexic goat is just... too much to fathom...<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/-nQdE40kLpAw/Xu_CKk-jAPI/AAAAAAABVYw/S2ZzmP7ljaYlVyJ5MfkYNmTb_upMzncsACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-06-21%2Bat%2B1.19.07%2BPM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1218" data-original-width="1600" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nQdE40kLpAw/Xu_CKk-jAPI/AAAAAAABVYw/S2ZzmP7ljaYlVyJ5MfkYNmTb_upMzncsACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-06-21%2Bat%2B1.19.07%2BPM.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara in GONE WITH THE WIND</u></td></tr> </tbody></table>

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NOT A REVIEW BUT MORE A REMINDER OF 'GONE WITH THE WIND'

Gone with the Wind from 1939 The same industry that's still moaning about the 70-year-old Blacklist is now banning/blacklisting a cl...

QUICK REVIEW & YAPHET KOTTO REFLECTION OF 'BLUE COLLAR'

<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/-JHCXiZs8T50/XtlLsTAMPbI/AAAAAAABUhg/StzQcJ93RZMH8xCyStSCAFyA8Zvm916HACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-06-04%2Bat%2B10.23.22%2BAM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="882" data-original-width="1600" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JHCXiZs8T50/XtlLsTAMPbI/AAAAAAABUhg/StzQcJ93RZMH8xCyStSCAFyA8Zvm916HACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-06-04%2Bat%2B10.23.22%2BAM.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Yaphet Kotto with Richard Pryor and Harvey Keitel in Paul Schrader's BLUE COLLAR Year: 1978 Rating: ****</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> "The whole thing," shares iconic black actor Yaphet Kotto of BLUE COLLAR, "had become one improvisation after another... But if my memory serves me correct, director Paul Schrader told me, Harvey Keitel and Richard Pryor to improvise because he said we were 'Director Proof' actors and to 'improvise when you feel it’s necessary'; yet when we did as directed, I’m told he was annoyed — but he was lucky to have had us: The movie is a classic."<br> <br> And after writing Martin Scorsese's TAXI DRIVER, it's Paul Schrader's directorial debut: An underrated gem caught between the end of blaxploitation and the beginning of the end for the drug culture during the gloriously gritty 1970's: also the "Renaissance Period" of directors having complete control — and yet <i>the lack of</i> control is what really works...<br>

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QUICK REVIEW & YAPHET KOTTO REFLECTION OF 'BLUE COLLAR'

Yaphet Kotto with Richard Pryor and Harvey Keitel in Paul Schrader's BLUE COLLAR Year: 1978 Rating: **** "The whole thing,"...