cult film freak: April 2021

Written by James M. Tate / 4/24/2021 / No comments / beach , comedy , james stacy , lili kardell , mary mitchel , music , quinn o'hara , raquel welch , sixties , william wellman jr.

MARY MITCHEL & RAQUEL WELCH DIGGING 'A SWINGIN' SUMMER'

<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/-DUS3MzcDpjQ/YIxcJF4tt5I/AAAAAAABf7U/ZWwoMrF001UTMs6DXJmjNzRQZi_GSJmygCLcBGAsYHQ/s391/swingin-summer-japanese-b2-movie-poster-raquel-welch-bikini-1966-nm.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="326" data-original-width="391" height="334" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DUS3MzcDpjQ/YIxcJF4tt5I/AAAAAAABf7U/ZWwoMrF001UTMs6DXJmjNzRQZi_GSJmygCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h334/swingin-summer-japanese-b2-movie-poster-raquel-welch-bikini-1966-nm.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Raquel Welch in A Swingin' Summer 1965 Rates: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>This forgotten, parenthetical beach bikini movie actually takes place on a lake... Arrowhead, to be exact... where two guys and a girl run an abandoned low-rent dance-festival...</p><p>Which is pretty easy given that pretty redhead Quinn O'Hara has her rich father secretly funding the operation... A secret since her great-looking boyfriend William Wellman Jr. has too much pride to want/need anyone's help...</p><p></p><p>Well that's the plot, with hardly any urgency except a quick breakup as a local jerk eyes the girl while a sexy scheming cougar nabs the guy — plus there's a water-skiing bully and a few 11th hour thugs... </p><p>But with girl-next-door b-starlet Mary Mitchel as O'Hara's flirtatious, junk-food consuming friend and future iconic bombshell Ra<span><span>quel</span></span> Welch initially wearing geeky glasses, progressively revealing her perfect body while (for reasons unexplained) jotting notes about the main character's affably attractive sidekick James Stacy, A SWINGIN' SUMMER is more about the good times than those attempting to ruin them... A fairly decent time-filler balanced between the glossy Frankie/Annette flicks and that, despite the misleading title, came out right before hippies were too damn hip for this kind of lightweight, old fashioned (even then) entertainment.<br></p><p><span></span></p>

beach, comedy, james stacy, lili kardell, mary mitchel, music, quinn o'hara, raquel welch, sixties, william wellman jr.

MARY MITCHEL & RAQUEL WELCH DIGGING 'A SWINGIN' SUMMER'

Raquel Welch in A Swingin' Summer 1965 Rates: ***1/2 This forgotten, parenthetical beach bikini movie actually takes place on a lake... ...

PILOT EPISODE OF THE TELEVISION SERIES 'BEYOND WESTWORLD'

<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/-WXUzxXQSa-Y/YNhhnPjIEUI/AAAAAAABin0/YnYK9N63CKULevDksMB4FkvQaIU3MbHbwCLcBGAsYHQ/s793/202780506_1266257087136798_8297373154980892146_n.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="793" height="323" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WXUzxXQSa-Y/YNhhnPjIEUI/AAAAAAABin0/YnYK9N63CKULevDksMB4FkvQaIU3MbHbwCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h323/202780506_1266257087136798_8297373154980892146_n.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Nancy Harewood in Beyond Westworld 1980 Rates: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Unfairly maligned, BEYOND WESTWORLD was a pretty great short-lived series, lasting only five episodes but starting off strong with a pilot that's a kind of hour-long TV-movie following the WESTWORLD robots (including bar girl Cassandra Peterson) killing the customers...</p><p>Followed by an expository explanation not in the ambiguous Michael Crichton cult classic: The man behind the massacre was the assistant to that world's creator, and is played by puma-faced James Wainwright who, with gorgeous assistant Nancy Harewood at the controls, attempts to kill agents Jim McMullan and Judith Chapman (soon replaced by Connie Seleca), and the action's pretty great... </p><p>Especially a battle against a bionic, spring-loaded, venomous rattlesnake with infrared vision followed by a few intentional accidents and a nostalgic bout with a gunslinger. All this between the main plot of a nuclear submarine wherein one of the crew members is a robotic spy, and that's basically the plot of each episode: to find the sole android that will cause havoc unless stopped on time, making this series go well BEYOND science-fiction and into the realm of mystery... WHO'S THE BOT? would have been a more befitting... and in later episodes range from professional football teams to cheesy rock bands. <br></p><p><span></span></p>

action, cassandra peterson, james wainwright, jim mcmullan, morgan paull, mystery, nancy harewood, science-fiction, tv series

PILOT EPISODE OF THE TELEVISION SERIES 'BEYOND WESTWORLD'

Nancy Harewood in Beyond Westworld 1980 Rates: ***1/2 Unfairly maligned, BEYOND WESTWORLD was a pretty great short-lived series, lasting onl...

MARK DANA AND ZIVA RODANN STARRING IN 'PHARAOH'S CURSE'

<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/-izU1xVwNVBE/YH_iVxXntII/AAAAAAABfjo/kVRElDT5YhEp2208p97itLLA5fsPuQ1EwCLcBGAsYHQ/s812/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-04-21%2Bat%2B12.04.16%2BAM.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="541" data-original-width="812" height="266" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-izU1xVwNVBE/YH_iVxXntII/AAAAAAABfjo/kVRElDT5YhEp2208p97itLLA5fsPuQ1EwCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h266/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-04-21%2Bat%2B12.04.16%2BAM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Ziva Rodann in Pharaoh's Curse Year: 1957 Rates: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Infamously shot in six days, mostly in Death Valley, the Bel Air Production PHARAOH'S CURSE stars their next years' <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2018/12/Hot-Cars.html">HOT CARS</a> villain Mark Dana... </p><p>Here in the square-jawed lead, awkwardly juggling a British and American accent while subtly romancing a greedy archeologist's wife, Diane Brewster, during the initial twenty-minute trek through the desert where gorgeous Israeli bombshell Ziva Rodann appears with the usual "turn back or die" warning...</p><p></p><p>But none heed her call, as the journey winds up at a pharaoh's tomb, which is actually a pretty neat-looking set full of secret doors and shadowy corridors, but the body count deaths from a <i>cursed</i> local, morphed into an ancient unbandaged mummy, sucking the blood of horses and humans, trudges along as clumsily as the monster... A shame since the rudimentary aura is spooky enough, making this CURSE a let-down of ungodly proportions... but the ladies are great to look at. It's a b-movie after all. <br></p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, bel air productions, body count, cult, diane brewster, exploitation, fifties, horror, mark dana, thriller, ziva rodann

MARK DANA AND ZIVA RODANN STARRING IN 'PHARAOH'S CURSE'

Ziva Rodann in Pharaoh's Curse Year: 1957 Rates: **1/2 Infamously shot in six days, mostly in Death Valley, the Bel Air Production PHARA...

VAL GUEST DIRECTS HAMMER'S THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN'

<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/-HWjg_5ZpHl4/YH7ogIjVEbI/AAAAAAABfgc/iO_-uNkrs68f_O_Ub5LCnD_0L4zh2tjvQCLcBGAsYHQ/s722/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-04-19%2Bat%2B10.21.15%2BPM.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="591" data-original-width="722" height="328" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HWjg_5ZpHl4/YH7ogIjVEbI/AAAAAAABfgc/iO_-uNkrs68f_O_Ub5LCnD_0L4zh2tjvQCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h328/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-04-19%2Bat%2B10.21.15%2BPM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>If only it were only this exciting Year: 1956 Rates: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>When Hammer's thriller director Val Guest made a creature feature, it was the kind of mind-game-in-the-snow motion picture that might have influenced John Carpenter's THE THING... <br></p><p>And with selfish American entrepreneur Forrest Tucker barking orders at the assorted team of hiking researchers out to discover the legendary Himalayan Yeti, i.e. THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN OF THE HIMALAYAS, there's a patient British Peter Cushing to add an intriguing scientific spin because he plays a scientist so well...</p><p>The main problem is the initial setting at a Buddhist monastery. The wise shaman raises too many vague questions that needed answering through action instead of dialogue...</p><p>What should've been a more terrorizing journey becomes predictably doomed in that "Don't mess with nature" fashion. Liken to the anticipation of KING KONG, with men exploiting the unknown wilds, if that had played as cautiously there wouldn't be any story at all: Making SNOWMAN a kind of half-adventure relying more on intermittent suspense than a revealing payoff. Ultimately, ABOMINABLE wields a hoarse roar. </p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, creature, fifties, forrest tucker, hammer films, monster, peter cushing, thriller, val guest

VAL GUEST DIRECTS HAMMER'S THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN'

If only it were only this exciting Year: 1956 Rates: *** When Hammer's thriller director Val Guest made a creature feature, it was the k...

VAL GUEST DIRECTS DISASTER IN 'THE DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE'

<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/-_j5CK33-Tt8/YHd1WE0XXFI/AAAAAAABfXU/8M_s93fJyEwPe08USCBLn06K0819VsaYQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1903/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-04-13%2Bat%2B5.59.47%2BAM.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1415" data-original-width="1903" height="297" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_j5CK33-Tt8/YHd1WE0XXFI/AAAAAAABfXU/8M_s93fJyEwPe08USCBLn06K0819VsaYQCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h297/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-04-13%2Bat%2B5.59.47%2BAM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>THE DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE Released in 1961</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>A rat-a-tat dialog hybrid of THE FRONT PAGE and the doomsday-anticipation of THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, Val Guest's disaster opus THE DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE has ice caps melting decades before the standard trend...<br></p><p>And there's a fair amount of preaching (albeit far ahead of its time) like any cautionary science-fiction... but everything flows not only with the dire situation at hand but the hustle and bustle of a hustling/bustling newspaper office... </p><p>Where boozy yet intellectual veteran reporter Leo McKern and tattered, has-been, single father Edward Judd are in the nervy dilemma of figuring exactly what to write about — despite the fact both America <i>and</i> Russia tested nuclear weapons not only one day apart, but an entire week earlier, so, with <i>that </i>important game-changing aspect out of the way, the story begins as if the viewer arrived fifteen-minutes late as Judd's snarky, sarcastic reporter is a bit much to take so soon, all at once: Yet his obnoxious persona makes more sense the closer the slow-burn, possibly-apocalyptic future nears...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, bernard braden, british, cult, disaster, edward judd, gene anderson, geoffrey frederick, janet munro, julie samuel, leo mckern, michael caine, nuclear, sixties, val guest

VAL GUEST DIRECTS DISASTER IN 'THE DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE'

THE DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE Released in 1961 A rat-a-tat dialog hybrid of THE FRONT PAGE and the doomsday-anticipation of THE DAY THE EART...

VAL GUEST DIRECTS HAMMER'S 'THE QUATERMASS XPERIMENT'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl_bOwILteQDeybuULSP-bni1R1WtSW9xHGrtY19G3OTxh_0OgkNjNFf4hg01huKqXWkLN7fODIXBCQ_Fpz3RozMilWmfQgBNAzVbt387HRQK0GfSqZCLpjRoA7pbtMj6So90yvsj-YuFAf1akqpltsFJ4YdTGa5KRW2kF1R6k_Rh3XFkZMEtVRIzjuEA6/s2250/Screen%20Shot%202023-10-10%20at%203.05.49%20AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1238" data-original-width="2250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl_bOwILteQDeybuULSP-bni1R1WtSW9xHGrtY19G3OTxh_0OgkNjNFf4hg01huKqXWkLN7fODIXBCQ_Fpz3RozMilWmfQgBNAzVbt387HRQK0GfSqZCLpjRoA7pbtMj6So90yvsj-YuFAf1akqpltsFJ4YdTGa5KRW2kF1R6k_Rh3XFkZMEtVRIzjuEA6/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-10-10%20at%203.05.49%20AM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Richard Wordsworth in QUARTERMASS XPERIMENT Year: 1955 Rates: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Very much like an astronaut's return episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE four years before THE TWILIGHT ZONE, Hammer went from Noir to Sci-Fi with Val Guest's THE QUATERMASS XPERIMENT before their groundbreaking Classic Monster outing THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And, right down to a little girl (Jane Asher) befriending a surreptitiously monstrous beast close to water, this XPERIMENT is basically James Whale's FRANKENSTEIN had he returned from a rocket ship sent up prematurely by our more impatient than mad scientist in title character Quatermass, played by American import Brian Donlevy, letting all the intrigue swirl around his usual narrowed cadence... </p><p><span></span></p>

body count, brian donlevy, creature, fifties, gordon jackson, hammer films, harold lang, horror, jack warner, jane asher, richard wordsworth, science-fiction, val guest

VAL GUEST DIRECTS HAMMER'S 'THE QUATERMASS XPERIMENT'

Richard Wordsworth in QUARTERMASS XPERIMENT Year: 1955 Rates: **** Very much like an astronaut's return episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE fou...

WOODY ALLEN'S CINEMATIC FANTASY 'THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GIRE09LCIqQ/YHax-oPLugI/AAAAAAABfXM/lI1uvmzRGcwweEQhRN1YWdmA66WTSznSwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Screen%25252BShot%25252B2021-04-13%25252Bat%25252B3.46.04%25252BAM%25252B2.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1102" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GIRE09LCIqQ/YHax-oPLugI/AAAAAAABfXM/lI1uvmzRGcwweEQhRN1YWdmA66WTSznSwCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Screen%25252BShot%25252B2021-04-13%25252Bat%25252B3.46.04%25252BAM%25252B2.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Juliana Donald plays a theater worker who's very cute in THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO Year: 1985 Rates: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>As creative as PLAY IT AGAIN SAM is, with Humphrey Bogart appearing to 
Woody Allen's movie-buff character with advice on dames, the Depression-era PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO 
goes much further, deeper, with Jeff Daniels as both the actor, Gil 
Shepard, who brought a character, Tom Baxter, to life, literally... </p><p></p><p><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Written for the screen and having walked right through it, not only 
tired of being stuck in the celluloid purgatory and wanting to delve 
into the real world, he's smitten with Farrow's underdog cinefile, who he'd noticed in the audience during matinee 
screenings, again and again: Farrow's Cecelia lost her job  after her husband cheats right in front of her face: the theater is
 her only place to remain safe, and sane...</span></p><span></span>

danny aiello, deborah rush, dianne wiest, edward hermann, eighties, fantasy, jeff daniels, juliana donald, mia farrow, romantic comedy, woody allen

WOODY ALLEN'S CINEMATIC FANTASY 'THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO'

Juliana Donald plays a theater worker who's very cute in THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO Year: 1985 Rates: **** As creative as PLAY IT AGAIN SA...

JON-ERIK HEXUM IN THE TV-MOVIE 'MAKING OF A MALE MODEL'

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Here's
 proof that the term "Cougar" wasn't invented to mean what it does now, 
back in the 1983 television movie when Joan Collins, famously considered the iconic DYNASTY 
Cougar i.e. seducer of younger men, describes how she sees Jon-Erik 
Hexum's would-be model, who she'd talked into going from a manly Texas rancher to a New York model...<br>
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"A cougar," she cries out in victorious delight, describing what she plans to eventually make of him, "ready to 
pounce!"<br>
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And also dated is when Hexum's Tyler Burnett complains about 
gay hairdressers when Collins, as successful agent Kay Dillon, points out that they
 go with the show-biz territory: one that Hexum is able to 
realistically combat, and with enough reluctance to not seem awkward that 
such a perfect-looking guy wouldn't have considered modelling in the 
first place: and he'd soon meet a cool, unpretentious gay guy that'd become his best friend...<br>
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That being the just-left-TAXI Jeff Conaway as a has-been model roommate for 
Shakespearean-delivered advice while hitting auditions and strategic 
disco nightspots. But MAKING fails with another hard if impossible device to
 grasp (or recover from): That Hexum, star of the series VOYAGERS and 
soon cast in COVER-UP before his accidental death, would fall 
so pathetically hard for Joan: The rest of the Movie-of-the-Week melts 
into a sappy Lifestyle Channel romance, in reverse...<br>
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Here
 it's a guy that... despite quickly hitting it off with gorgeous 
girl-next-door Tamara Stafford (the next year's scream queen in THE 
HILLS HAVE EYES PART II) trades sappy, love-crushed seats in a role 
usually written for the ingenue: "Turned around," Joan says, "with an 
accent on you men!" And in that, it would have given the actress an 
interesting performance rather than Joan simply floating down river 
while Hexum, by wielding his laidback, humble persona, keeps from 
drowning in it. <br><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-f8OncCz-GNs/YDooTa59pCI/AAAAAAABdQU/oaR7vflUeb8IC7K1U-zxvBwCnBHzw4IcACLcBGAsYHQ/s948/155466357_1188215024941005_2846640148929094379_n.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="758" data-original-width="948" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-f8OncCz-GNs/YDooTa59pCI/AAAAAAABdQU/oaR7vflUeb8IC7K1U-zxvBwCnBHzw4IcACLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/155466357_1188215024941005_2846640148929094379_n.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jeff Conaway in The Making of a Male Model</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-T9sJixAAqHQ/YDosD4BYJlI/AAAAAAABdQc/9uq5WlxHrDoImwPIXAXX4b0grxGWge6rgCLcBGAsYHQ/s922/155350226_1188222148273626_5322859524050403744_n.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="776" data-original-width="922" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-T9sJixAAqHQ/YDosD4BYJlI/AAAAAAABdQc/9uq5WlxHrDoImwPIXAXX4b0grxGWge6rgCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/155350226_1188222148273626_5322859524050403744_n.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Tamara Stafford in THE MAKING OF A MALE MODEL</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hGvw0Rq8l9M/YDrG3cGF6vI/AAAAAAABdQo/ho4wXGjNxW0wN_QJ_byUp3aO453AAll4gCLcBGAsYHQ/s960/154386003_1188539861575188_3031555372309659932_n.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="791" data-original-width="960" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hGvw0Rq8l9M/YDrG3cGF6vI/AAAAAAABdQo/ho4wXGjNxW0wN_QJ_byUp3aO453AAll4gCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/154386003_1188539861575188_3031555372309659932_n.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert Walker Jr. in Making of a Male Model</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6XhG1BlbrXc/YDrG3B6asKI/AAAAAAABdQk/UzozFf0NLGM7KmGRrLWVayRd4a4XrEM2QCLcBGAsYHQ/s960/154547296_1188539854908522_8640667918437180008_n.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="739" data-original-width="960" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6XhG1BlbrXc/YDrG3B6asKI/AAAAAAABdQk/UzozFf0NLGM7KmGRrLWVayRd4a4XrEM2QCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/154547296_1188539854908522_8640667918437180008_n.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jon-Erik Hexum in Making of a Male Model with Greta Blackburn<br></u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-r5BVAFi22NQ/YDrG3ZiixmI/AAAAAAABdQs/8bIN_g0TcfgPfgiGxjKfeNbPzuqyuxKpwCLcBGAsYHQ/s960/155189715_1188539858241855_3059415646265227222_n.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="718" data-original-width="960" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-r5BVAFi22NQ/YDrG3ZiixmI/AAAAAAABdQs/8bIN_g0TcfgPfgiGxjKfeNbPzuqyuxKpwCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/155189715_1188539858241855_3059415646265227222_n.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jon-Erik Hexum in Making of a Male Model with Joan Collins<br></u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uKcbgWslw3I/YDrG3yfQI4I/AAAAAAABdQw/eL_6flhHvaAPFm2qM5PYFONR0Ld14E9nwCLcBGAsYHQ/s960/155382924_1188539848241856_7820810654014436939_n.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="693" data-original-width="960" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uKcbgWslw3I/YDrG3yfQI4I/AAAAAAABdQw/eL_6flhHvaAPFm2qM5PYFONR0Ld14E9nwCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/155382924_1188539848241856_7820810654014436939_n.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jon-Erik Hexum in Making of a Male Model with Heather McNair<br></u></td></tr></tbody></table><span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg16TQk0EjgWLytZDy251t9udzj0rqSPQkPtxVc2uDKT8erDokc9gMm0B5jPHvag8zhWbrErUrQZkeni4M2kCT6qFwWSsIS6h5l7uGfEOD0PMkNXyyq3iprdn0rxiUOSVWx2tqt1BkpzX0d1rJA3kgyvS6rwr3z5thsjh4VDh1aMiRMV-v2C83K3gIMTw=s960" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="644" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg16TQk0EjgWLytZDy251t9udzj0rqSPQkPtxVc2uDKT8erDokc9gMm0B5jPHvag8zhWbrErUrQZkeni4M2kCT6qFwWSsIS6h5l7uGfEOD0PMkNXyyq3iprdn0rxiUOSVWx2tqt1BkpzX0d1rJA3kgyvS6rwr3z5thsjh4VDh1aMiRMV-v2C83K3gIMTw=s16000"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Joan Collins and Jon Erik Hexum in MAKING OF A MALE MODEL</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiecr4-NjgxmY6v7oxxbOXOVuFaQ7_fLahInIwWujOHvOmsK-yYyb_HJo75WOEyN7pl6lT9mkhYNf4AD9U51-3Y9I2kl5aGfsexOS31fx00x7ptMLrYqqEotCpG49FQhb471DVqz9e0BeOVMAMp4Q-b-C8hPagUVWT_zzyuhcp5gSH223YrhJ8MWDlw0w=s960" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="725" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiecr4-NjgxmY6v7oxxbOXOVuFaQ7_fLahInIwWujOHvOmsK-yYyb_HJo75WOEyN7pl6lT9mkhYNf4AD9U51-3Y9I2kl5aGfsexOS31fx00x7ptMLrYqqEotCpG49FQhb471DVqz9e0BeOVMAMp4Q-b-C8hPagUVWT_zzyuhcp5gSH223YrhJ8MWDlw0w=s16000"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span><u>Ted McGinley and Jon Erik Hexum in MAKING OF A MALE MODEL</u></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br></span>

eighties, exploitation, greta blackburn, jeff conaway, joan collins, jon erik hexum, robert walker jr., romance, tamara stafford, ted mcginley

JON-ERIK HEXUM IN THE TV-MOVIE 'MAKING OF A MALE MODEL'

Year: 1983 Rating: ***1/2 Here's proof that the term "Cougar" wasn't invented to mean what it does now, back in th...

OBSCURE EXPLOITATION OF 'BLOODTIDE' AKA 'BLOOD TIDE'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVrj3g_5Gv_4AFTojbgyyatCR8toh-wbV3huNQvB0F6o19A0VbhOoDWkvRQ7sAcXKQKIf2nf2GEXfwLFspXkOcgZF5DF8ILQ0yT7nlW9AufZvoKe7Gvz2EOht5PtbORNE7svzFFUvVtTXESd12ITiIXgtl68ih9mp_xrVVNhy41i1JMDMH31pN4X77QxI3/s1550/Screen%20Shot%202023-06-29%20at%202.37.47%20AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="850" data-original-width="1550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVrj3g_5Gv_4AFTojbgyyatCR8toh-wbV3huNQvB0F6o19A0VbhOoDWkvRQ7sAcXKQKIf2nf2GEXfwLFspXkOcgZF5DF8ILQ0yT7nlW9AufZvoKe7Gvz2EOht5PtbORNE7svzFFUvVtTXESd12ITiIXgtl68ih9mp_xrVVNhy41i1JMDMH31pN4X77QxI3/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-06-29%20at%202.37.47%20AM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: BLOODTIDE Year: 1982 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Long-neglected and newly-restored BLOODTIDE is a hybrid of several horror/thriller types, from deadly sea creature to underwater treasure hunting to creepy village full of spooked locals (led by Jose Ferrer) with dark secrets...<br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>One involves a cover-up, but only because American couple Martin Kove and Mary-Louise Weller entered the Greek island in the first place, seeking his sister (and plot-McGuffin) Deborah Shelton, an oddball/artistic brunette beauty contrasting the blondes also including Lydia Cornell, girlfriend of James Earl Jones...</p><p><span></span></p>

creature, deborah shelton, eighties, ensemble, exploitation, gothic, horror, island, james earl jones, jaws-clone, jose ferrer, lila kedrova, lydia cornell, martin kove, mary-louise weller, treasure

OBSCURE EXPLOITATION OF 'BLOODTIDE' AKA 'BLOOD TIDE'

Title: BLOODTIDE Year: 1982 Rating: ***1/2 Long-neglected and newly-restored BLOODTIDE is a hybrid of several horror/thriller types, from de...

WILLIAM CAMPBELL & KATHRYN GRANT IN 'CELL 2455, DEATH ROW'

<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/-S7NUBED-9tg/YHw7xUgKn4I/AAAAAAABfe8/I_M0wFS1ZUwGbY52LZbRCTjNlL-lldMsgCLcBGAsYHQ/s974/111.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="856" data-original-width="974" height="351" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-S7NUBED-9tg/YHw7xUgKn4I/AAAAAAABfe8/I_M0wFS1ZUwGbY52LZbRCTjNlL-lldMsgCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h351/111.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Kathryn Grant with Robert Campbell in 1955 Rates: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>William Campbell plays it snarky, sneaky, cocky and blocky enough to be a young James Cagney in a homage of those 1930's gangster flicks... </p><p>And Campbell, as real life death row inmate Caryl Chessman changed to Whit Whittier, has little brother Robert playing his younger self, stealing hot rods for thrill moll Kathryn Grant; eventually switching dame-gears to a faithful Marian Carr, waiting for her grown-up prison-hopping  career criminal boyfriend to come home. <br></p><p>The action-packed bravado flows nicely from one set of scores to the next, and eventually includes future star Vince Edwards as one of many partners-in-crime (also including Joe Turkel)... </p><p>Sometimes b-movie director <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/fred%20f.%20sears">Fred F. Sears</a> rushes through what should be more fleshed-out, like a stint at Folsom using stock footage, but the death row inmate's eclectic (narrated) crimes on the outside is what matters. Too bad the 11th hour mysteriously-shot scenes of a Lover's Lane Killer, who may or may not be our likeable yet cursed, no-good loser, only adds to the now too-obvious agenda to get the real guy (who'd die five years later in 1960) from the gas chamber. Basically, CELL 2455, DEATH ROW is a better action-packed Film Noir than biopic melodrama. </p><span></span>