Written by James M. Tate / 8/23/2020 / No comments / brian weske , british new wave , charles saunders , david mccallum , faye craig , guido coen , howard pays , jill ireland , joy webster , julie shearing , kenneth cope , marian collins , sixties , stripper , vanda hudson
DAVID MCCALLUM, BRIAN WESKE & JILL IRELAND IN 'JUNGLE STREET'
David McCallum and Gillian Watt with Anne Scott in JUNGLE STREET aka JUNGLE STREET GIRLS Year: 1960 After having met and married after wo...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/19/2020 / No comments / british film noir/melodrama , carol reed , cyril cusack , dan o'herlihy , drama , forties , IRA , james mason , kathleen ryan , robert beatty , thriller
CAROL REED'S BELFAST NOIR 'ODD MAN OUT' WITH JAMES MASON
Robert Beatty bribes an urchin for help YEAR: 1947 James Mason is always intense, even when he's playing comedy, and this is no com...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/18/2020 / No comments / annette whiteley , british new wave , drama , family , james maxwell , melodrama , rachel roberts , sixties
RACHEL ROBERTS & ANNETTE WHITELEY IN 'GIRL ON APPROVAL'
Annette Whiteley in GIRL ON APPROVAL Year: 1962 If you didn't know the plot going in... that fourteen-year-old Sheila is an unwanted...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/14/2020 / No comments / 2020 , linda manz , tribute
CULT ACTRESS LINDA MANZ IS GONE BUT SHE'S NOT FORGOTTEN
Linda Manz born August 20, 1961 died August 14, 2020 here in THE WANDERERS Rest in Peace to one of the most unique cult actresses of all...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/13/2020 / No comments / adaptation , dana andrews , drama , forties , j.d. salinger , kent smith , mark robson , melodrama , robert keith , romance , susan hayward
SUSAN HAYWARD AND DANA ANDREWS STIR 'MY FOOLISH HEART'
Title: MY FOOLISH HEART Year: 1949 Rating: *** J.D. Salinger's short story "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut" was adapted, to ...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/12/2020 / No comments / adele jergens , dana andrews , farley granger , fifties , film noir or melodrama , mala powers , mark robson , paul stewart , robert keith , thriller
DANA ANDREWS AND FARLEY GRANGER IN 'EDGE OF DOOM'
Title: EDGE OF DOOM aka STRONGER THAN FEAR Year: 1950 Rating: ***1/2 The idea of a Catholic Film Noir isn't so strange being that the &...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/11/2020 / No comments / comedy , david tomlinson , eighties , helen mirren , lynne frederick , parody , peter sellers , sid caesar , steve franken
PETER SELLERS ENDS WITH 'THE FIENDISH PLOT OF DR. FU MANCHU'
Artwork for THE FIENDISH PLOT OF DR. FU MANCHU Year: 1980 What Peter Sellers' final motion picture, THE FIENDISH PLOT OF DR. FU MANC...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/09/2020 / No comments / action , fifties , film noir or melodrama , heist , john dall , peggy cummins , road movie , russ tamblyn
PEGGY CUMMINS & JOHN DALL IN THE NOIR ROAD FLICK 'GUN CRAZY'
Poster with John Dall and Peggy Cummins dead in love for GUN CRAZY Year: 1950 The Femme Fatale, you know, the bad girl with the great fa...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/05/2020 / No comments / action , adventure , alfred hitchcock , carolyn conwell , cold war , espionage , julie andrews , paul newman , russia , science , suspense , thriller , wolfgang kieling
PAUL NEWMAN DEFECTS ALFRED HITCHOCK'S 'TORN CURTAIN'
Paul Newman battling Wolfgang Kieling Year: 1966 Rating: *** Alfred Hitchcock's Cold War Thriller TORN CURTAIN brings back the auteur...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/02/2020 / No comments / ann lynn , british neo noir , british new wave , colin gordon , crime , derren nesbitt , guido coen , heist , keith faulkner , race against time , suspense
ANN LYNN, COLIN GORDON & DERREN NESBITT IN 'STRONGROOM'
Poster for STRONGROOM Year: 1962 Rates: ***1/2 STRONGROOM is an important early-1960's British crime films as it underlines what you won...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK TAKING ON COLD WAR CUBA FOR 'TOPAZ'
Frederick Stafford & Claude Jade 1969 Rating: ***1/2 In Alfred Hitchcock's underrated Cold War Thriller TOPAZ, by the time there&...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/01/2020 / No comments / horror , john schlesinger , matthew modine , melanie griffith , michael keaton , neo noir , nineties , thriller
JOHN SCHLESIGNER'S GLOSSY YUPPIE HORROR 'PACIFIC HEIGHTS'
PACIFIC HEIGHTS Year: 1990 Rates: **1/2 One of those Premise Thrillers: This one about a renter renting from a young couple who bought a Sa...
WES CRAVEN'S ORIGINAL EXPLOITATION 'THE HILLS HAVE EYES'
Not one horror film geek hasn't had a crush on Suze Lanier in THE HILLS HAVE EYES Year: 1977 THE HILLS HAVE EYES is generally regard...
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Robyn Hilton enters into an eclectic exploitation comedy career in Wonder Women circa 1973 As mentioned a few posts ago, ROBYN HILTON, b...
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Kari Michaelsen in Saturday the 14th year: 1982 In LOVE AT FIRST BITE, a popular comedy that took the vampire genre by satire, Richard ...
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Cornelia Sharpe in BUSTING Year: 1974 Rating: **** Starring Elliott Gould and Robert Blake as determined vice cops BUSTING hookers, makin...
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Mary-Louise Weller in NATIONAL LAMPOON'S ANIMAL HOUSE ANIMAL HOUSE, directed by John Landis and produced by Ivan Reitman, stars John Be...
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Kerri Green and John Candy in SUMMER RENTAL Year: 1985 John Candy, in his first leading role, plays a burnt-out air traffic controller ...
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Robyn Hilton on STARSKY AND HUTCH Model/Actress ROBYN HILTON played Mel Brook's secretary in BLAZING SADDLES and turns up in an epis...
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Robyn Hilton in Video Vixens the same year as Blazing Saddles: 1974 The Anthology of Comedic Parodies, already done in several Woody All...
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CADDDYSHACK is best known for the iconic leading actors: Rodney Dangerfield, Chevy Chase, Ted Knight, and Bill Murray, but originally the ...
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Elizabeth James and Tom Laughlin on equal ground YEAR: 1967 THE BORN LOSERS wasn't supposed to happen but thank God it did since BIL...
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RALPH BAKSHI BLAXPLOITATION-ANIMATION OF 'COONSKIN'
Title: COONSKIN aka STREET FIGHT Director: Ralph Bakshi Year: 1975 Rating: **1/2 After HEAVY TRAFFIC where cult director Ralph Bakshi inser...