Written by James M. Tate / 1/29/2022 / No comments / addison powell , british , drama , french , jack hedley , james leo herlihy , jean seberg , melodrama , romance , sixties , stanley baker
JEAN SEBERG & STANLEY BAKER ROMANCE 'IN THE FRENCH STYLE'
Title: IN THE FRENCH STYLE Year: 1963 Rating: *** Adapted by Irwin Shaw based on two of his novels, Robert Parrish's vehicle for America...
MICHAEL WINNER DIRECTS STANLEY BAKER IN 'THE GAMES'
Title: THE GAMES Pictured: Stanley Baker, Michael Crawford Year: 1970 Rating: ***1/2 In 1970, between working with Oliver Reed in Swinging S...
Written by James M. Tate / 1/28/2022 / No comments / adventure , claudia cardinale , french , heist , henri charrière , import , indie , italian , seventies , spanish , stanley baker
STANLEY BAKER & CLAUDIA CARDINALE IN 'THE BUTTERFLY AFFAIR'
Title: THE BUTTERFLY AFFAIR Year: 1971 Rating: ***1.2 When PAPILLON author Henri Charrière shares a long passionate kiss with Italian bombsh...
BRITISH STANLEY BAKER JUNGLES THROUGH 'THE LAST GRENADE'
Alex Cord with Stanley Baker and Honor Blackman in THE LAST GRENADE Year: 1970 Rates: **1/2 While THE LAST GRENADE is perhaps the longest 90...
Written by James M. Tate / 1/26/2022 / No comments / adventure , british , cy endfield , fifties , luciana paluzzi , robert shaw , stanley baker , victor mclaglen
CY ENDFIELD DIRECTS STANLEY BAKER AGAIN FOR 'SEA FURY'
Year: 1958 Rating: ** Future ZULU collaborators American blacklisted turned British-film director Cy Endfield and his previous years' HE...
Written by James M. Tate / 1/25/2022 / No comments / action , alfred lynch , british , comedy , gary cockrell , george chakiris , janette scott , jocelyn lane , romance , sixties
JOCELYN LANE & JANETTE SCOTT ARE HOT IN 'THE GIRL SWAPPERS'
Jocelyn Lane and Alfred Lynch in THE GIRL SWAPPERS aka TWO AND TWO MAKE SIX Year: 1962 Rates: *** American playing Canadian military rogue...
Written by James M. Tate / 1/23/2022 / No comments / bradford dillman , british , espionage , harry andrews , robert stephens , sixties , spy , suzy parker , world war II
BRADFORD DILLMAN & SUZY PARKER IN 'CIRCLE OF DECEPTION'
Title: CIRCLE OF DECEPTION Year: 1960 Rating: *** Alternate titles for the British WWII Thriller CIRCLE OF DECEPTION starring two imported a...
Written by James M. Tate / 1/22/2022 / No comments / british , claire bloom , cyril cusack , disease , kim tracy , melodrama , richard johnson , sixties , val guest , vanda godsell
VAL GUEST DIRECTS THE DISEASE MELODRAMA '80,000 SUSPECTS'
Title: 80,000 SUSPECTS Director: Val Guest Year: 1963 Rating: ** Even for an epidemic drama, Val Guest's 80,000 SUSPECTS is extremely gr...
Written by James M. Tate / 1/21/2022 / No comments / barry kelley , charles korvin , crime , disease , evelyn keyes , fifties , film noir or melodrama , harry shannon , jim backus , lola albright , thriller , william bishop
FILM NOIR MELODRAMA 'THE KILLER THAT STALKED NEW YORK'
THE KILLER THAT STALKED NEW YORK Year: 1950 Rating: **** THE KILLER THAT STALKED NEW YORK is a that not a who , and two movies in one: the f...
Written by James M. Tate / 1/19/2022 / No comments / actress , carol white , crime , hawaii , jack lord , james maccarthur , seventies , TV
BRITISH STARLET CAROL WHITE WASHES UP ON 'HAWAII FIVE-0'
Carol White on Hawaii Five-O from 1974 British actress Carol White randomly turned up on the small screen after her 1960's movie career ...
Written by James M. Tate / 1/18/2022 / No comments / actress , british , carol white , conrad bain , eighties , gary coleman , todd bridges , TV
BRITISH STARLET CAROL WHITE TURNS UP ON 'DIFF'RENT STROKES'
Carol White & Gary Coleman on Diff'rent Strokes in 1980 In 1980, former British sexpot Carol White, who started the wave of full-lip...
Written by James M. Tate / 1/17/2022 / No comments / action , blake edwards , craig stevens , ed asner , franchise , gumshoe , mob , neo noir , sherry jackson , sixties
BLAKE EDWARDS REDIRECTS 'GUNN' STARRING CRAIG STEVENS
Title: GUNN Year: 1967 Rating: ***1/2 A womanizing 1950's playboy (who does little work for ladies to throw themselves his way) in the l...
Written by James M. Tate / 1/13/2022 / No comments / 2021 , action , adventure , bill murray , carrie coon , comedy , dan aykroyd , ernie hudson , finn wolfhard , franchise , mckenna grace , new , paul rudd , science-fiction , sequel
JASON REITMAN'S NOSTALGIC 'GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE'
Title: GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE Year: 2021 Rating: **1/2 The whole "Mary Sue" comparison is dated... a talented youngster with a bu...
Written by James M. Tate / 1/10/2022 / No comments / barry gordon , bobby darin , hubert cornfield , melodrama , noir noir , peter falk , prison , sidney poitier , sixties , stanley kramer
HUBERT CORNFIELD DIRECTS SIDNEY POITIER IN 'PRESSURE POINT'
Sidney Poitier in PRESSURE POINT Year: 1962 Rating: *** Produced by Stanley Kramer and directed by Hubert Cornfield, the recently-departed a...
Written by James M. Tate / 1/09/2022 / No comments / brian weske , british neo noir , british new wave , charles saunders , crime , ensemble , guido coen , gwenda wilson , howard pays , joanna dunham , nora nicholson , ruth dunning , sixties
CHARLES SAUNDERS & GUIDO COEN'S 'DANGEROUS AFTERNOON'
Joanna Dunham and Jackie Noble in DANGEROUS AFTERNOON Year: 1961 Rates: *** Another nifty crime programmer from the team of director Charles...
Written by James M. Tate / 1/08/2022 / No comments / anthony steel , british neo noir , british new wave , ensemble , jazz score , jeanne moody , lisa peake , malcolm gerard , marie noël , melodrama , penny morrell , sixties
BRITISH NEW WAVE CRIME MELODRAMA OF 'A MATTER OF CHOICE'
Penny Morrell in A MATTER OF CHOICE Year: 1963 Rating: ***1/2 If A MATTER OF CHOICE didn't rely on the titular melodramatic fateful inev...
Written by James M. Tate / 1/07/2022 / No comments / boris karloff , memorial , peter bogdanovich , seventies , sixties
RIP THE FIRST TRUE MOVIE GEEK DIRECTOR PETER BOGDANOVICH
Peter Bogdanovich directs himself in SAINT JACK circa 1979 The late PETER BOGDANOVICH started out writing about films before making them, ...
Written by James M. Tate / 1/03/2022 / No comments / action , adventure , british , comedy , dick clement , garfield morgan , john thaw , kirk douglas , marlene jobert , seventies , spoof , spy , tom courtenay , trevor howard
KIRK DOUGLAS IN 'CATCH ME A SPY' WITH TOM COURTENAY
Marlène Jobert with Kirk Douglas and Trevor Howard in CATCH ME A SPY Year: 1971 Rating: **1/2 In one scene where French starlet Marlène Jobe...
Written by James M. Tate / 1/01/2022 / No comments / dana andrews , dianne foster , fifties , forties , holiday , marilee earle , sixties , teresa wright
HAPPY BIRTHDAY FOR DANA ANDREWS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR
Dana Andrews from SPY IN YOUR EYE Birthday of DANA ANDREWS as the new year begins; our personal favorite actor here, we cover just about ev...
STANLEY BAKER AND STUART WHITMAN IN 'SANDS OF THE KALAHARI'
Title: SANDS OF THE KALAHARI Year: 1965 Rating: *** Supposedly this was the movie that pushed square-jawed British superstar Stanley Baker —...
DOUGLAS HICKOX SHOOTING OLIVER REED FOR 'SITTING TARGET'
Oliver Reed in SITTING TARGET Year: 1972 Rating: ****1/2 When long-time locked-up convict Oliver Reed breaks out of prison to kill wife Jill...
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