WILLIAM LUCAS NEO NOIR THUGS ROGER MOORE IN 'THE SAINT'

<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/AVvXsEgZUb5-7kjchkWtIb9QTTEB1dz9FvHESUx2UngvOPaY8TnRg1ms0rFLTT4zibYqDA9GsTkVnceSPBn95SKh45qqXx2DIbbUgRHESwvaOG3UNB1EFcf1i2e_tXKS-6ZlZ3p-5IDdlaoNF_1l-mPBetD2cMJUQ6Oz8cQtAMjmui-bPSmzTukQQXYaOPPwNQ/s1230/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-01%20at%201.54.06%20AM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="830" data-original-width="1230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZUb5-7kjchkWtIb9QTTEB1dz9FvHESUx2UngvOPaY8TnRg1ms0rFLTT4zibYqDA9GsTkVnceSPBn95SKh45qqXx2DIbbUgRHESwvaOG3UNB1EFcf1i2e_tXKS-6ZlZ3p-5IDdlaoNF_1l-mPBetD2cMJUQ6Oz8cQtAMjmui-bPSmzTukQQXYaOPPwNQ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-01%20at%201.54.06%20AM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Peter Jeffreys with William Lucas and Roger Moore on The Saint from 1965</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>British crime-genre actor William Lucas, star of neo noirs <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/02/gimme-a.html">THE BREAK</a>, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/03/payrollers.html">PAYROLL</a> and <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/09/freeze.html">CALCULATED RISK</a>, as one of two sophisticated thugs flanking a sophisticated scientist/villain planning to heist forgery plates (same McGuffin from another Reynolds vehicle <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2022/09/wlucas.html">THE MARKED ONE</a>) for what's to become THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY: and these cocky antagonists have only future James Bond icon Roger Moore to stop them... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Meanwhile, the primary guest spot's for beautiful, resilient ingenue Sarah Lawson, seeking to reunite with her kidnapped husband while Moore' Simon Templar, as usual, gets in disguise... herein as an undercover safe cracker watched by Lucas and co-thug Peter Jeffreys... and yet he never feels in that much danger, making this particular episode more action than thriller, and for an otherwise great series, mostly filler.  </p><p><span></span></p>

action, andre morell, caper, heist, peter jeffrey, roger moore, sarah lawson, sixties, spy, the saint, thriller, william lucas

WILLIAM LUCAS NEO NOIR THUGS ROGER MOORE IN 'THE SAINT'

Peter Jeffreys with William Lucas and Roger Moore on The Saint from 1965 British crime-genre actor William Lucas, star of neo noirs THE BREA...

WILLIAM LUCAS & JOHN RUTLAND WEATHER 'CALCULATED RISK'

<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/AVvXsEgxOiKr5iZKVCfke243dJUBlNVeJBmqw_I4WXsNTQ8SCXgw_K1WnFMoImQIR9k9QJRZhuvs12kdYFKJqecMylAzZqXYIIVdKOLaXcqhxTVJrhNf4CCef-YHFH8bWESukDBGMUARN2WIYo-Pl2VvAIgchdPnn6R9xOG_Ba1mVtpklnfa94udDxCbxC6l3w/s2122/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-27%20at%204.59.37%20AM-1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1203" data-original-width="2122" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxOiKr5iZKVCfke243dJUBlNVeJBmqw_I4WXsNTQ8SCXgw_K1WnFMoImQIR9k9QJRZhuvs12kdYFKJqecMylAzZqXYIIVdKOLaXcqhxTVJrhNf4CCef-YHFH8bWESukDBGMUARN2WIYo-Pl2VvAIgchdPnn6R9xOG_Ba1mVtpklnfa94udDxCbxC6l3w/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-27%20at%204.59.37%20AM-1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>William Lucas in CALCULATED RISK Year: 1963 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Low-budget thriller has <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/02/gimme-a.html">THE BREAK</a> baddie and overall capable <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/british%20new%20wave">British New Wave</a> actor William Lucas in CALCULATED RISK, a hybrid of THE ASPHALT JUNGLE as a newly-released older short guy has big plans for a big heist (John Rutland doing Sam Jaffe) and LARCENY INC since they must dig through a pair of locations to reach the targeted goal... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Which aren't stores but bombed-out houses from twenty-years past, leading to a lucrative bank vault while Lucas, as a sophisticated yet crooked businessman (like ASPHALT backer Louis Calhern), who really doesn't need the bread (unlike Calhern and more like shifty Marc Lawrence), heads up a group of thugs resembling dockyard barflies...<br> </p>

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WILLIAM LUCAS & JOHN RUTLAND WEATHER 'CALCULATED RISK'

William Lucas in CALCULATED RISK Year: 1963 Rating: ***1/2 Low-budget thriller has THE BREAK baddie and overall capable British New Wave a...

WILLIAM LUCAS MAKING 'THE BREAK' WITH CHRISTINA GREGG

<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://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxo3yMVLt5wle6NlH_OLAWA__6LJ0vj8R8VGWla-UJbLQy3ufi3oxk5_9XYSgyVNdqg-_8gcO2jVsfp7AEWk-AlMdVHAwByA9atzp9c3Lqy8D7R3P9fh0T957E5cmsGMGyVnhqVt-GVfrC0G5t4fNMEH_bxqQquUVk31ZCXPCi1lq5calDSAmA9XGRAQ/s2051/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-30%20at%2012.04.00%20AM.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1395" data-original-width="2051" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxo3yMVLt5wle6NlH_OLAWA__6LJ0vj8R8VGWla-UJbLQy3ufi3oxk5_9XYSgyVNdqg-_8gcO2jVsfp7AEWk-AlMdVHAwByA9atzp9c3Lqy8D7R3P9fh0T957E5cmsGMGyVnhqVt-GVfrC0G5t4fNMEH_bxqQquUVk31ZCXPCi1lq5calDSAmA9XGRAQ/w400-h272/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-30%20at%2012.04.00%20AM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Christina Gregg & William Lucas THE BREAK Year: 1962</u></td></tr></tbody></table>The same year British beauty Christina Gregg played a schoolgirl told <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/08/catfone.html">DON'T TALK TO STRANGE MEN</a>, she was the twenty-something sister of a convict who made THE BREAK from a train...<br> <br> And winds up with handful of eclectic characters that... as Quentin Tarantino attempted in HATEFUL EIGHT inspired by John Carpenter's classic THE THING... are all stuck together, here within a rural hotel: all with not only different personalities and perspectives but purpose, motivation and temperaments... Meanwhile the leading man is a sophisticated type: here a blocked author and, on the upside he quickly yet slowly finds kinship with the gorgeous Christina Gregg, but he's also being surreptitiously eyed by the most intriguing and perhaps crooked person onboard in CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN tutor Robert Urquhart as a wily-charming gumshoe insurance investigator...<br>

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WILLIAM LUCAS MAKING 'THE BREAK' WITH CHRISTINA GREGG

Christina Gregg & William Lucas THE BREAK Year: 1962 The same year British beauty Christina Gregg played a schoolgirl told DON'T TAL...

WILLIAM LUCAS, ZENA WALKER & DAVID GREGORY 'THE MARKED ONE'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/william%20lucas"></a></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/AVvXsEhgXIEGzkk8v57VVnaTJsBU0Q_SC8n7UlurEg7NDdix_aHmvFSuiO6vJLsU29psib0yWzXwGnMu8wUVt_7_0ZmARf-HF2z7YZHzDbMsC2ZzPYyFeaWpFv6F8zRSm4Mk3vUIS2pEzoAy1YK-LBWKh8MMzK5WXPQGqvH2EmGs2syXKQdc0suidYtyr32dkQ/s848/309880813_1573334216429082_7080461565533358315_n.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="456" data-original-width="848" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgXIEGzkk8v57VVnaTJsBU0Q_SC8n7UlurEg7NDdix_aHmvFSuiO6vJLsU29psib0yWzXwGnMu8wUVt_7_0ZmARf-HF2z7YZHzDbMsC2ZzPYyFeaWpFv6F8zRSm4Mk3vUIS2pEzoAy1YK-LBWKh8MMzK5WXPQGqvH2EmGs2syXKQdc0suidYtyr32dkQ/s16000/309880813_1573334216429082_7080461565533358315_n.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE MARKED ONE Year: 1963 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Obscure British actor <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/william%20lucas">William Lucas</a> gained niche fame as the father from the 1970's BLACK BEAUTY, no longer the Bogart-looking tough guy from a string of early-1960's b-crimes as leading bad guys (<a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/02/gimme-a.html">THE BREAK</a>), sketchy middlemen (<a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/03/payrollers.html">PAYROLL</a>) or criminals in-between (CALCULATED RISK, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/03/breakOUT.html">BREAKOUT</a>)...<br><br>And THE MARKED ONE also leans to that midpoint... an ex convict who, with a divorced wife, young daughter, dotting landlady (Laurie Leigh) and a factory job, is threatened by enigmatic goons to retrieve forgery plates that he might or might not have, providing more mystery to the character than his dire circumstance...</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><span></span></p>

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WILLIAM LUCAS, ZENA WALKER & DAVID GREGORY 'THE MARKED ONE'

Title: THE MARKED ONE Year: 1963 Rating: *** Obscure British actor William Lucas gained niche fame as the father from the 1970's BLACK ...

WILLIAM LUCAS, HAZEL COURT & BILLIE WHITELAW IN 'BREAKOUT'

<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/AVvXsEh2vjRs34orSNOOqWuwckflaW-31YwMrAC4y47v-1NOzMPy75uyyrtUJTcW9q6xB8XnzBN3r3J_0knN5wobtnbvzAl18LPZtUHJKJTpIjwx6N1ltzFlAvOg534b3CXZh5Ml_ZIkCn7VRD3kVjcVcF4lHXxVXqTKFqUASNkidi__1Z6WsnBfqhyf-a9Taw/s2367/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-30%20at%2012.56.03%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1363" data-original-width="2367" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2vjRs34orSNOOqWuwckflaW-31YwMrAC4y47v-1NOzMPy75uyyrtUJTcW9q6xB8XnzBN3r3J_0knN5wobtnbvzAl18LPZtUHJKJTpIjwx6N1ltzFlAvOg534b3CXZh5Ml_ZIkCn7VRD3kVjcVcF4lHXxVXqTKFqUASNkidi__1Z6WsnBfqhyf-a9Taw/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-30%20at%2012.56.03%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>William Lucas in BREAKOUT Year: 1959 Rates: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Yet another cautious, severely unpretentious British heist flick where tight calculation and timing are everything, and, directed by Peter Graham Scott... who'd soon make Hammer's splendid NIGHT CREATURES... this is a Post Noir where the characters discuss more than they actually do while their conversations have a page-turning cadence sans the b-movie pulp... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Making BREAKOUT not very fun but there's another slowburn role for underrated English actor <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/william%20lucas">William Lucas</a> (<a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/02/gimme-a.html">THE BREAK</a>) as a cool, classy and crooked businessman... paired with a spectacle-wearing wolf, seducing the gorgeous wife of the man they're hired to BREAKOUT... </p><span></span>

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WILLIAM LUCAS, HAZEL COURT & BILLIE WHITELAW IN 'BREAKOUT'

William Lucas in BREAKOUT Year: 1959 Rates: *** Yet another cautious, severely unpretentious British heist flick where tight calculation and...

NEO NOIR GUMSHOE BURT REYNOLDS BOOKS KAY FRYE IN 'SHAMUS'

<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/AVvXsEgvtBRX1lzz8w_REFch7HOE42Vt0njqST4KvyNJI1FIBYwMg8caC0OaKd_iL-HK9tqIbGkxjxMj5a1SyM_aojZzNEyKrbYW3jDCbMOvTfpd3MYTct46SYuLQYBdZmr0YbeNuGIDbaUTur7j1tHVu6SISBfP_jl2_QrRMLfO43iSMS43n67ZfZgoBZCv9g/s1135/0.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="714" data-original-width="1135" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvtBRX1lzz8w_REFch7HOE42Vt0njqST4KvyNJI1FIBYwMg8caC0OaKd_iL-HK9tqIbGkxjxMj5a1SyM_aojZzNEyKrbYW3jDCbMOvTfpd3MYTct46SYuLQYBdZmr0YbeNuGIDbaUTur7j1tHVu6SISBfP_jl2_QrRMLfO43iSMS43n67ZfZgoBZCv9g/s16000/0.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: SHAMUS Year: 1973 Grade: C</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>While Burt Reynolds is mostly known for car chase comedies, his deepest niche were neo noir flicks, and SHAMUS centers on modern gumshoe Shamus McCoy, breezily played by Burt in a semi-decent ride that puts the viewer in a seedy city that would have also worked as a dramatic thriller but Reynolds, even after his incredibly dramatic breakthrough in DELIVERANCE, wanted to lighten-up the sleaze...<br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>In one of those last-name-spouting, location-to-location cases... to find diamonds... here alongside ingenue Dyan Cannon yet the best scene features a classy, beautiful and wonderfully stacked bookstore clerk, paying deliberate tribute to THE BIG SLEEP, providing Burt a turn at Humphrey Bogart when, in reality, he got the job done fine... but might not have realized his strengths just yet, and, God knows, the unknown bookworm Kay Frye was a much bigger blast than Cannon, and would have made a far superior love interest too. <br></p><p><span></span></p>

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NEO NOIR GUMSHOE BURT REYNOLDS BOOKS KAY FRYE IN 'SHAMUS'

Title: SHAMUS Year: 1973 Grade: C While Burt Reynolds is mostly known for car chase comedies, his deepest niche were neo noir flicks, and SH...

BURT REYNOLDS IN 'BOOGIE NIGHTS' STARRING MARK WAHLBERG

<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/AVvXsEhqQeDkkZXn6ENCiCorQMfu7jfAs3ZQ2xOUPbZODF1FbC3BTeP2j8uy9kOBgFy-mhU1B_1OXfX5NK9TGEUXr_fW-J63ISobUu2JJx42Ud0GeJctkzw4gLCyV6QW2MqC4iBD0uSBhVSupdpD4vpodoawobD3FyXY5sAmBJEVXGDl_MR0lZZzA1UH3Sb88Q/s1173/0.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="647" data-original-width="1173" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqQeDkkZXn6ENCiCorQMfu7jfAs3ZQ2xOUPbZODF1FbC3BTeP2j8uy9kOBgFy-mhU1B_1OXfX5NK9TGEUXr_fW-J63ISobUu2JJx42Ud0GeJctkzw4gLCyV6QW2MqC4iBD0uSBhVSupdpD4vpodoawobD3FyXY5sAmBJEVXGDl_MR0lZZzA1UH3Sb88Q/s16000/0.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds & Mark Wahlberg from BOOGIE NIGHTS Year: 1997 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Basically the GOODFELLAS of the 1970's porn industry, Paul Thomas Anderson's BOOGIE NIGHTS mirrors Martin Scorsese's mob classic from similarities such as wall-to-wall groovy tunes to deliberate homages like an end-of-the-second-act death (Joe Pesci to William H. Macy) that leads to a morbidly cascading downfall of all remaining characters, suddenly thrust and exposed into the bright-lit 1980's...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Of course NIGHTS is a classic all its own — both the celebration of a porn star's life and a cautionary tale of the decadent lifestyle to get and remain there: with budding star Mark Wahlberg as porn climber Dirk Diggler... </p><p><span></span></p>

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BURT REYNOLDS IN 'BOOGIE NIGHTS' STARRING MARK WAHLBERG

Burt Reynolds & Mark Wahlberg from BOOGIE NIGHTS Year: 1997 Rating: ****1/2 Basically the GOODFELLAS of the 1970's porn industry, Pa...

BURT REYNOLDS AND KRIS KRISTOFFERSON ARE 'SEMI-TOUGH'

<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/AVvXsEiLDaNPfvwD4fGSodpDeuuVMUryxdiU2CLAzNipgxKvjKfPKlQC3D0UBTlJQ-TjBz-Me77_rh1jrhRwPZn_9UeDw0euvag0LGB0SdzMWvc_SrcGsK8CEVB-GhK24cR-Fu4yddUO2Hd8_gxNjIEFsn_xfRQGazXWywj87OvDLn7GEX7y3MVjMMRYcMG0Tw/s2198/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-25%20at%2010.41.43%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1235" data-original-width="2198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLDaNPfvwD4fGSodpDeuuVMUryxdiU2CLAzNipgxKvjKfPKlQC3D0UBTlJQ-TjBz-Me77_rh1jrhRwPZn_9UeDw0euvag0LGB0SdzMWvc_SrcGsK8CEVB-GhK24cR-Fu4yddUO2Hd8_gxNjIEFsn_xfRQGazXWywj87OvDLn7GEX7y3MVjMMRYcMG0Tw/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-25%20at%2010.41.43%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds in SEMI-TOUGH Year: 1977 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The second mainstream football flick for one-time college star turned cinematic superstar Burt Reynolds isn't as gritty as THE LONGEST YARD, which took place in prison involving prisoners vs guards...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>But SEMI-TOUGH centers on a professional team where the most famous and beloved players, odd couple Reynolds and Kris Kristofferson (flanked by muscular loon Brian Dennehy and a stable Roger E. Mosely), hardly compete on the field but, as a romantic comedy, seek a relationship with the team owner's progressive daughter, Jill Clayburgh...</p><p><span></span></p>

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BURT REYNOLDS AND KRIS KRISTOFFERSON ARE 'SEMI-TOUGH'

Burt Reynolds in SEMI-TOUGH Year: 1977 Rating: *** The second mainstream football flick for one-time college star turned cinematic superstar...

BURT REYNOLDS DRIVING HAL NEEDHAM'S 'THE CANNONBALL RUN'

<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/AVvXsEjq1WmjGKS1Cs1V0_Pswj9GoW7M-2pD9_ocAFhgn6H578BWQN3enIHoiLgBAMGCzIMlGMu0DAVnuO7MtmnHwSmrD3Emxjr3eVsSwpAy1P9UqhwmRHsmrcC50nQbQwzOVdyZU6Cd6WuAolGQyhM79zzDlNNkIqfgann2jHGvmZaZK_u9dM_AzpsvplKCOQ/s919/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="451" data-original-width="919" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq1WmjGKS1Cs1V0_Pswj9GoW7M-2pD9_ocAFhgn6H578BWQN3enIHoiLgBAMGCzIMlGMu0DAVnuO7MtmnHwSmrD3Emxjr3eVsSwpAy1P9UqhwmRHsmrcC50nQbQwzOVdyZU6Cd6WuAolGQyhM79zzDlNNkIqfgann2jHGvmZaZK_u9dM_AzpsvplKCOQ/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds in THE CANNONBALL RUN Year: 1981 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>After SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT, director Hal Needham and actor Burt Reynolds had the car chase comedy down — actually more of a romantic adventure with humor derived from the situation effecting the characters... wherein THE CANNONBALL RUN is more of an intentional slapdash smashup where laughs happen at every turn (somewhat like the game-changing blockbuster AIRPLANE sans the genre-parody aspect)... </p><p>Fully-loaded with an all-star cast ranging from Roger Moore pretending to be a guy pretending to be Moore as James Bond... to a Kung Fu fighting/biker-brawling Jackie Chan, an Arab Sheikh, two hot-rod hotties and...</p><p><span></span></p>

adrienne barbeau, burt reynolds, dean martin, dom deluise, ensemble, farrah fawcett, hal needham, jackie chan, race car, road movie, roger moore, sammy davis jr.

BURT REYNOLDS DRIVING HAL NEEDHAM'S 'THE CANNONBALL RUN'

Burt Reynolds in THE CANNONBALL RUN Year: 1981 Rating: ****1/2 After SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT, director Hal Needham and actor Burt Reynolds had...

BURT REYNOLDS & JON VOIGHT VENTURE THROUGH 'DELIVERANCE'

<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/AVvXsEgeqaQhQE-Y3gh8Wzx-77045UDvzqPnqme0bw1hEISMywJUHl98qbZmTEqmThABnG30q8fZf0SZxUBE_f5dSPmQOdNPkveAy_hepPbc-tF9AS1Ai2MfuksgW4uKTn1I5h36-i00Hmo-jxqYkS3DG9EC6yjZCcR-Cj3OOch3yLJMiTfZYEf9zH1cMLnH8w/s1839/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="933" data-original-width="1839" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeqaQhQE-Y3gh8Wzx-77045UDvzqPnqme0bw1hEISMywJUHl98qbZmTEqmThABnG30q8fZf0SZxUBE_f5dSPmQOdNPkveAy_hepPbc-tF9AS1Ai2MfuksgW4uKTn1I5h36-i00Hmo-jxqYkS3DG9EC6yjZCcR-Cj3OOch3yLJMiTfZYEf9zH1cMLnH8w/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds in DELIVERANCE Year: 1972 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Going backwards, many fans of Burt Reynolds happened upon DELIVERANCE later on, and the biggest difference between that and even his better-than-car-chase movies is the ensemble of four characters who get almost equal story-time and importance to the plot...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>A would-be vacationing adventure of businessmen taking to the white water rapids, led by a confident and gusty survivalist-type Reynolds as Lewis, good friend of polar opposite Jon Voight, the actual main character, who, as Ed, can hardly sling a bow-and-arrow while Burt leads one of the all-time great bow-and-arrow rescues...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, bill mckinney, burt reynolds, cult, john boorman, ned beatty, ronny cox, rural, seventies, suspense, thriller

BURT REYNOLDS & JON VOIGHT VENTURE THROUGH 'DELIVERANCE'

Burt Reynolds in DELIVERANCE Year: 1972 Rating: ****1/2 Going backwards, many fans of Burt Reynolds happened upon DELIVERANCE later on, and ...

BURT REYNOLDS STARS IN 'THE MAN WHO LOVED CAT DANCING'

<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/AVvXsEiteOLm8zp9pTYX4aXJ-NTpP_dShnPhzMRPj19pGg9thod1P_MZ1vIKwvRvsZoLF4PKPZiOi3wXYE_Cj3fBITVttmKe1-xRF38f2lcSVI62V4qe4dJL2VHFE2JptUtCTJjGkscVdy6fv-eptzoJhmsvkpkYGzleo_f9yG_PaKbZ0uw8TirdpVlmFeiSjQ/s1129/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="1129" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiteOLm8zp9pTYX4aXJ-NTpP_dShnPhzMRPj19pGg9thod1P_MZ1vIKwvRvsZoLF4PKPZiOi3wXYE_Cj3fBITVttmKe1-xRF38f2lcSVI62V4qe4dJL2VHFE2JptUtCTJjGkscVdy6fv-eptzoJhmsvkpkYGzleo_f9yG_PaKbZ0uw8TirdpVlmFeiSjQ/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE MAN WHO LOVED CAT DANCING Year: 1973 Rating: **</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>VANISHING POINT director Richard C. Sarafian and budding superstar Burt Reynolds teamed for THE MAN WHO LOVED CAT DANCING, based on a then-popular Gothic Western novel and almost the kind of horsepower road movie that Sarafian already had down pat... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>But more a deliberate adventure in reverse, beginning with a train robbery introduction to a bank robbing gang led by a quiet-silent Renyolds; a tough-as-nails Jack Warden; a passive Indian and Bo Hopkins, again playing an unpredictable, hopped-up hillbilly ala Sam Peckinpah cinema...</p><p><span></span></p>

adventure, bo hopkins, burt reynolds, jack warden, revenge, romance, sarah miles, western

BURT REYNOLDS STARS IN 'THE MAN WHO LOVED CAT DANCING'

Title: THE MAN WHO LOVED CAT DANCING Year: 1973 Rating: ** VANISHING POINT director Richard C. Sarafian and budding superstar Burt Reynolds ...

BURT REYNOLDS DRIVES 'HOOPER' WITH JAN-MICHAEL VINCENT

<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/AVvXsEhUs5o3Ov_wtQzeFl3a7D3bjVZFmstyAegVDzN5jUVDBN04NSd0BYOnTMXtCzGRjWrI5dYaXfJIplp8rY2cjLZGuJ5fDRlt1kZuY84-_tnJiNOzdbY0OsGX0LnSv3iufnt76jtNgo0AWkMcYBAk9VP4FTLaSe7Rr_j4sszGDM_PwwwYdyuI6rT6q2mI5Q/s1769/1%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1123" data-original-width="1769" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUs5o3Ov_wtQzeFl3a7D3bjVZFmstyAegVDzN5jUVDBN04NSd0BYOnTMXtCzGRjWrI5dYaXfJIplp8rY2cjLZGuJ5fDRlt1kZuY84-_tnJiNOzdbY0OsGX0LnSv3iufnt76jtNgo0AWkMcYBAk9VP4FTLaSe7Rr_j4sszGDM_PwwwYdyuI6rT6q2mI5Q/s16000/1%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds and Jan-Michael Vincent in HOOPER Year: 1978 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>By the time HOOPER hit theaters, star Burt Reynolds and director Hal Needham were already reeling from the blockbuster success of SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT, a car-chase movie with a lot of stunts — so it made sense to have their next literal vehicle be a tribute to stuntmen...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Plus the fact Burt liked doing his own, and Needham was a genuine Hollywood fall guy for decades, making this a doubled-down labor-of-love that mostly strays from the intentional silliness of SMOKEY, but with a few exceptions...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, adam west, brian keith, burt reynolds, car, hal needham, hollywood satire, james best, jan-michael vincent, sally field, seventies

BURT REYNOLDS DRIVES 'HOOPER' WITH JAN-MICHAEL VINCENT

Burt Reynolds and Jan-Michael Vincent in HOOPER Year: 1978 Rating: ***1/2 By the time HOOPER hit theaters, star Burt Reynolds and director H...

BURT REYNOLDS IN THE SLOWBURN COP SERIES 'DAN AUGUST'

<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/AVvXsEhH_yekySutZ4hA3_wk27YdVXzzrTVIZoznoV1pxSNuFM_VQnnlIRBUuiX6DPnLaBPTofKpM_yPWNKAkVDbe-gFuDwp5n_EtACN23RO2tf_NCEmZBggO5gr8jPdoab4z6MqLz9PB4ipwMZ9L4koYdZa9B1yHcyOCu160IfiFUsfLLMqLs579z1zp9BWfg/s1336/0.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="801" data-original-width="1336" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH_yekySutZ4hA3_wk27YdVXzzrTVIZoznoV1pxSNuFM_VQnnlIRBUuiX6DPnLaBPTofKpM_yPWNKAkVDbe-gFuDwp5n_EtACN23RO2tf_NCEmZBggO5gr8jPdoab4z6MqLz9PB4ipwMZ9L4koYdZa9B1yHcyOCu160IfiFUsfLLMqLs579z1zp9BWfg/s16000/0.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds on the series DAN AUGUST Years: 1970-1971 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In two decades, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/burt%20reynolds">Burt Reynolds</a> went from being a TV actor to a movie star, and following both GUNSMOKE and HAWK, a Western and a cop series playing part Indian, he's in the latter's genre as pure white guy DAN AUGUST, a Southern California cop who seems to know everyone he's investigating...</p><p></p><p></p><p>Except a ragged, wrongly-accused hippie in Harrison Ford, featured here from THE MANUFACTURED MAN where his future STAR WARS co-scoundrel, Billy Dee Williams, is an idealistic reporter trying to convince Reynolds' Lt. August into blaming a governor and his flaky, boozing son (David Soul), blocked by token stern chief Richard Anderson while Burt's partnered with a mellow Norman Fell, later co-starring in <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/04/thend.html">THE END</a> and <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/04/paternity.html">PATERNITY</a>... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

billy dee williams, burt reynolds, cop, crime, gary busey, harrison ford, john ritter, mike henry, neo noir, norman fell, richard anderson, seventies, tv series

BURT REYNOLDS IN THE SLOWBURN COP SERIES 'DAN AUGUST'

Burt Reynolds on the series DAN AUGUST Years: 1970-1971 Rating: ***1/2 In two decades, Burt Reynolds went from being a TV actor to a movie ...

BURT REYNOLDS GETS CAPTURED FOR 'THE LONGEST YARD'

<div> <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/AVvXsEhD2EmKs0xztng9r-jRfc-VVmIS25A8WeCFIwa_yBMoSxzplXOrxTvSs03tZDGLdEZB64abj3LEx75_aKesSR9n1mKMUAdVkHdb8m_4LrFnKIWk7SsYtRrjRvQDrogtfeARbh1C3hPeFeJJUpMfUWQx727zdytJPaIoo9aMVdTMSk-lpPg6ZWhd10v92g/s1037/the_longest_yard__1974__poster_by_a_jaded_smithy_d9qld7i_pre.0%202.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="586" data-original-width="1037" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD2EmKs0xztng9r-jRfc-VVmIS25A8WeCFIwa_yBMoSxzplXOrxTvSs03tZDGLdEZB64abj3LEx75_aKesSR9n1mKMUAdVkHdb8m_4LrFnKIWk7SsYtRrjRvQDrogtfeARbh1C3hPeFeJJUpMfUWQx727zdytJPaIoo9aMVdTMSk-lpPg6ZWhd10v92g/s16000/the_longest_yard__1974__poster_by_a_jaded_smithy_d9qld7i_pre.0%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds in THE LONGEST YARD Director: Robert Aldrich Year: 1974 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table>Having experienced the many Burt Reynolds road flicks throughout the mid/late seventies and early eighties, you'd expect him to, in the very beginning as he's being chased by cops in a stolen hot rod, get away and avoid all punishment... </div><div> </div><div>Nothing doing in THE LONGEST YARD since Burt, playing a has-been football star, is sent to a backwards Florida work-camp where he's called upon by a power hungry warden (Eddie Albert backed by chief guard Ed Lauter) to start a team of convicts: who end up challenging the prison guard semi-pro outfit with a start-up game (fitfully helmed by DIRTY DOZEN prisoners-with-a-purpose director Robert Aldrich) ...</div><p><span></span></p><span></span>

action, bernadette peters, burt reynolds, comedy, drama, ed lauter, football, harry caesar, james hampton, michael conrad, prison, richard kiel, robert aldrich, seventies, sport

BURT REYNOLDS GETS CAPTURED FOR 'THE LONGEST YARD'

Burt Reynolds in THE LONGEST YARD Director: Robert Aldrich Year: 1974 Rating: **** Having experienced the many Burt Reynolds road flicks ...

BURT REYNOLDS AND CASEY SIEMASZKO ARE 'BREAKING IN'

<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/AVvXsEg0ca-h-wV7bKHGGG5Upbvl7SZqUdV2PNO8pbtoncNMiVYbPMG4dTNygpJ_4di-HE3tF3Qqu3YF1KT1Z0_QMdVglC80YexaZGeOGo08kjcRGDsP-BmW2-WAjspxlhl_ygjOXMLasBUFAVNUvPvBlIsTwRip4pg5-Ii5b9cyrNMqZTqpt4U3F_vRqUOmzA/s1497/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1011" data-original-width="1497" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0ca-h-wV7bKHGGG5Upbvl7SZqUdV2PNO8pbtoncNMiVYbPMG4dTNygpJ_4di-HE3tF3Qqu3YF1KT1Z0_QMdVglC80YexaZGeOGo08kjcRGDsP-BmW2-WAjspxlhl_ygjOXMLasBUFAVNUvPvBlIsTwRip4pg5-Ii5b9cyrNMqZTqpt4U3F_vRqUOmzA/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds in BREAKING IN Year: 1989 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>After a string of good but neglected action flicks as a character either a decade younger or else acting that way, Burt Reynolds plays a professional safe cracker at sixty-one while in his early fifties: a smooth, experienced veteran of life, and without a distracting toupee: in fact Burt's Ernie Mullins is both gray-haired <i>and</i> slightly balding...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Overall his performance is a non-performance, natural and laidback, perfect for LOCAL HERO director Bill Forsyth, making another hangout indie: this one written by indie guru John Sayles and co-starring Casey Siemaszko as the young wannabe burglar who meets Ernie in one of many great sequences, seeming like connected short stories, each with a beginning, middle and end...</p><p><span></span></p>

bill forsyth, buddy, burt reynolds, casey siemaszko, comedy, crime, eighties, john sayles, neo noir, sheila kelley

BURT REYNOLDS AND CASEY SIEMASZKO ARE 'BREAKING IN'

Burt Reynolds in BREAKING IN Year: 1989 Rating: ****1/2 After a string of good but neglected action flicks as a character either a decade yo...

BURT REYNOLDS RETURNING FOR 'SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT 2'

<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/AVvXsEjpf6RN8SGp3BVTRStuHqwyZE7oBTnu3IzDgjqqJLQgI7DRuBxnM5olWZfoLxB9z_mG3L044PURzWoCE7HOpIVJF2aSX2HNXlZv74lyjqLE5eQ4SOFWCGdr7C-qVWiWFRFfBv0BeG6JMQ0KOvUdMLxZEP5Ms_n40SVecMBJUHhSo7CrbLeydUFTSokXXg/s1818/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1039" data-original-width="1818" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpf6RN8SGp3BVTRStuHqwyZE7oBTnu3IzDgjqqJLQgI7DRuBxnM5olWZfoLxB9z_mG3L044PURzWoCE7HOpIVJF2aSX2HNXlZv74lyjqLE5eQ4SOFWCGdr7C-qVWiWFRFfBv0BeG6JMQ0KOvUdMLxZEP5Ms_n40SVecMBJUHhSo7CrbLeydUFTSokXXg/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT 2 Year: 1980 Rating: ***</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p>One scene in this sequel to SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT has Burt Reynolds and Sally Field, playing Bo The Bandit and his reluctant road moll Frog, joking around with each other in the proverbial cockpit of the cross country vehicle...</p><p>And instead of hearing their inane banter... liken to the superior first movie that's pretty fun with an exception of their insane banter... easygoing country music plays over the scene...</p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

burt reynolds, comedy. sequel, eighties, franchise, jackie gleason, jerry reed, race against time, road movie, sally field

BURT REYNOLDS RETURNING FOR 'SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT 2'

Title: SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT 2 Year: 1980 Rating: *** One scene in this sequel to SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT has Burt Reynolds and Sally Field, ...

BURT REYNOLDS WANTS TO HAVE YOUR BABY IN 'PATERNITY'

<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/AVvXsEgTQRyl3Ur72kdBJj2a8aGg_JOjkoEUAzcalZifSuItIxSCHuDSevniRL_8Ivq-61lrzf514F57-K_4UI42wzNwj77ootZ-J-PiGykZqDYISjvklMfhyoe8sx7Fz_C2O8AznhumD-cy9ubQg2KecuedORVdXb66xaSsh3ECibpPaVsQ4cM6wFTAVxqNQg/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202020-04-20%20at%207.53.29%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="887" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTQRyl3Ur72kdBJj2a8aGg_JOjkoEUAzcalZifSuItIxSCHuDSevniRL_8Ivq-61lrzf514F57-K_4UI42wzNwj77ootZ-J-PiGykZqDYISjvklMfhyoe8sx7Fz_C2O8AznhumD-cy9ubQg2KecuedORVdXb66xaSsh3ECibpPaVsQ4cM6wFTAVxqNQg/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202020-04-20%20at%207.53.29%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds and Lee Ann Duffield  in PATERNITY Year: 1981 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In his string of romantic comedy films, and even his car chase flicks, Burt Reynolds is never alone. There's always an eclectic cast of characters supporting him along the process...<br> <br> But here’s a movie where Burt, playing extremely subtle as a single successful guy who yearns to have a baby, seems completely isolated, at first, and not only because he wants the child born through a surrogate mother...<br> </p><p></p><p></p>

aileen quinn, beverly d'angelo, burt reynolds, comedy, eighties, lauren hutton, norman fell, paul dooley, toni kalem

BURT REYNOLDS WANTS TO HAVE YOUR BABY IN 'PATERNITY'

Burt Reynolds and Lee Ann Duffield  in PATERNITY Year: 1981 Rating: ***1/2 In his string of romantic comedy films, and even his car chase f...

BURT REYNOLDS DRIVES MOONSHINE FOR 'WHITE LIGHTNING'

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><p> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></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/AVvXsEh6TTj3ok08rJpWCPAr2kuG8nDsCtGtUDn893Mcf6QmhvpUtzcf58cjwvhxIGWPtoz_hu2dnRJYRF2CnQjlOEpRBewbkJkdiwjVqUxyJehtNuZiCaizCj5PGh_-Ydm3GOsJ9X57emb-EeoZIGcDw8NCPOBreAYVfmruhsVDJ1zJMrMLWXCpA6Tj6Mhzvw/s1132/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-05%20at%202.21.02%20AM%203.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="742" data-original-width="1132" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6TTj3ok08rJpWCPAr2kuG8nDsCtGtUDn893Mcf6QmhvpUtzcf58cjwvhxIGWPtoz_hu2dnRJYRF2CnQjlOEpRBewbkJkdiwjVqUxyJehtNuZiCaizCj5PGh_-Ydm3GOsJ9X57emb-EeoZIGcDw8NCPOBreAYVfmruhsVDJ1zJMrMLWXCpA6Tj6Mhzvw/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-05%20at%202.21.02%20AM%203.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u>Burt Reynolds in WHITE LIGHTING Year: 1973 Rating: ***</u></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">After a star-making turn in the groundbreaking DELIVERANCE, this is Burt Reynold's first of many car chase movies. While there are a few cars, there’s only one worthy chas<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">e...</span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Plot centers on a convict whose hippie brother was killed by a crooked small town Sheriff… that’s what everyone suspects including government agents who free Burt’s "Gator McKlusky" from a work camp to go undercover as a freelance moonshiner...</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span></span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><span></span>

action, bo hopkins, burt reynolds, jennifer billingly, matt clark, moonshine, ned beatty, seventies

BURT REYNOLDS DRIVES MOONSHINE FOR 'WHITE LIGHTNING'

Burt Reynolds in WHITE LIGHTING Year: 1973 Rating: *** After a star-making turn in the groundbreaking DELIVERANCE, this is Burt Reynold&#...

BURT REYNOLDS ROLLING IN 'W.W. AND THE DIXIE DANCEKINGS'

<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://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqpb7nptvgZaaBGJHO1rLnromntsWl4ATh_6bemYoXb2UzairNYabIB-68E_dCrIWpnB0WleBYMxAW0nmFftYP_Qrp2taaboOmFlqfv6ciAxlWeiSByvvORmeLBsi-9TFlMGobt8om9Q3xoq7HR6hTc_SqOTr49Rn-klDaf6EPcppZM0vhe4NCKMDVfw/s1103/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-04%20at%209.37.22%20PM.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1103" data-original-width="910" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqpb7nptvgZaaBGJHO1rLnromntsWl4ATh_6bemYoXb2UzairNYabIB-68E_dCrIWpnB0WleBYMxAW0nmFftYP_Qrp2taaboOmFlqfv6ciAxlWeiSByvvORmeLBsi-9TFlMGobt8om9Q3xoq7HR6hTc_SqOTr49Rn-klDaf6EPcppZM0vhe4NCKMDVfw/s320/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-04%20at%209.37.22%20PM.jpeg" width="264"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Year: 1975 Rating: ***</td></tr></tbody></table>Orson Welles once stated that fame was the worst thing to happen to Burt Reynolds… And Burt liked this comment enough to place it at the forefront of his now defunct official website…<br> <br> Well in 1975, it would be a few years... and a few more eclectic films... until Burt became the biggest star in the world after SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT, and the obscure W.W. AND THE DIXIE DANCEKINGS is the necessary cog in that inevitable game-changing wheel…<br> <br> <div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTKwwQio_FcxRw8-teUdTRb-ZxJv0sAjPffnQrDfocmnqbjUcWIPFr-4xl9KcgEyhRbiTbHd3WqIhZssC_tqrPBM5ZsvqhCXySdI4prfXOh7MqAux4tYZ2a1ERXzhfmp3DUDFnSUS1SjPHsDyzTEioAO4XK_qSmGG-7u0Qt0Zb0jbWRNimsy0bNjYiMA/s1242/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-04%20at%209.43.44%20PM.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1242" data-original-width="464" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTKwwQio_FcxRw8-teUdTRb-ZxJv0sAjPffnQrDfocmnqbjUcWIPFr-4xl9KcgEyhRbiTbHd3WqIhZssC_tqrPBM5ZsvqhCXySdI4prfXOh7MqAux4tYZ2a1ERXzhfmp3DUDFnSUS1SjPHsDyzTEioAO4XK_qSmGG-7u0Qt0Zb0jbWRNimsy0bNjYiMA/w150-h400/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-04%20at%209.43.44%20PM.png" width="150"></a></div>BANDIT connections include future director Hal Needham as stunt coordinator, and real life musician Jerry Reed is introduced as Wayne, an uptight guitarist for a band led by cute blond Dixie, who meets Burt's roving conman W.W. by accident – of his own making... After politely robbing two gas stations, and being tracked by a cop, the clean-shaven Reynolds doesn’t drive off for the chase like the mustached icon would in years to come – instead, Burt's chortling W.W. stealthily ducks into a cowboy bar where Dixie and company are playing an extremely low rent gig, and, using wily charm and spontaneous rambling, he pretends to be their manager, later promising the outfit a “lucrative” concert in Nashville while distancing himself from the law...<br> <br> Set in the 1950’s, the main vehicle is neat looking but the action scenes are minimal. This is really about W.W. keeping up his perpetual ruse while the band, also including Burt’s LONGEST YARD buddy James Hampton, depends on this convenient stranger to keep them rolling. The only bulwark is an evangelical corporate grump named Deacon, played by Art Carney who, compared to his HONEYMOONERS crony Jackie Gleason as the future SMOKEY antagonist, isn’t much of a threat till the 11th hour. <i></i>

art carney, burt reynolds, connie van dyke, fifties-era, heist, import, james hampton, jerry reed, john g. avildsen, ned beatty, road movie, seventies

BURT REYNOLDS ROLLING IN 'W.W. AND THE DIXIE DANCEKINGS'

Year: 1975 Rating: *** Orson Welles once stated that fame was the worst thing to happen to Burt Reynolds… And Burt liked this comment enoug...

BURT REYNOLDS STARS AS/DIRECTS THE ACTION NEO NOIR 'STICK'

<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/AVvXsEiRNFhVnM4R3EXDiHByS197OQfPQES0JBRP_BZr21AqINVu_EhvtQn8k7gnkzjKZ1sRkOCiHc-ln3YlziKO0J8qEg2Gw3JRDufTbgLKhN6fH0Iw_FjaAY5NIBaNXs-LnAbC2l7iywoOs4WbyC5hyOxBJtg-9zABuaKZi_TSy0vjyDiSTaece7OP8JeCeA/s1395/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-03%20at%208.52.49%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="728" data-original-width="1395" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRNFhVnM4R3EXDiHByS197OQfPQES0JBRP_BZr21AqINVu_EhvtQn8k7gnkzjKZ1sRkOCiHc-ln3YlziKO0J8qEg2Gw3JRDufTbgLKhN6fH0Iw_FjaAY5NIBaNXs-LnAbC2l7iywoOs4WbyC5hyOxBJtg-9zABuaKZi_TSy0vjyDiSTaece7OP8JeCeA/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-03%20at%208.52.49%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds in STICK Year: 1985 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Elmore Leonard's yarn about an ex-con named STICK is brought to the big screen by actor/director Burt Reynolds, who doesn't ruin Leonard's staple brainy dialog by adding plenty of mainstream action, an over-synthesized score, predictable moments (you know who's gonna die and when) and undeveloped characters.</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>Yet none of the flaws matter since the character doesn't take his situation... revenge for his buddy's death (Jose Perez from SHORT EYES)... all that seriously: floating in-and-out of trouble with ease...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, burt reynolds, candace bergen, charles durning, eighties, elmore leonard, jose perez, neo noir

BURT REYNOLDS STARS AS/DIRECTS THE ACTION NEO NOIR 'STICK'

Burt Reynolds in STICK Year: 1985 Rating: ***1/2 Elmore Leonard's yarn about an ex-con named STICK is brought to the big screen by actor...

JAMES CAGNEY DRIVES 'THE ST. LOUIS KID' WITH ALLEN JENKINS

<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/AVvXsEiyjHtA9kPkv-N-FGuFpvaswDkEkTtIuRtK-X9DUfZ_TqNVHGHT3gYAPkZTTOvvHWyuFPSjtIRjEdYxf5cQ2CM0gd_mEsBpOH7J-rjZ-HUvowjkarHpBxpY6R1wRCxd_H2Dz_ZJWhVRTl0R7bPELoF-YlbXhuWkEEx-AqwZuaiK88Qf1xWsg_O1dauJXz76/s1080/385069195_1812194819209686_2458443501429365532_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="538" data-original-width="1080" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyjHtA9kPkv-N-FGuFpvaswDkEkTtIuRtK-X9DUfZ_TqNVHGHT3gYAPkZTTOvvHWyuFPSjtIRjEdYxf5cQ2CM0gd_mEsBpOH7J-rjZ-HUvowjkarHpBxpY6R1wRCxd_H2Dz_ZJWhVRTl0R7bPELoF-YlbXhuWkEEx-AqwZuaiK88Qf1xWsg_O1dauJXz76/s16000/385069195_1812194819209686_2458443501429365532_n.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE ST. LOUIS KID Year: 1934 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Great early James Cagney romp has he and glass-jaw sidekick Allen Jenkins as truck drivers going from the city into the country to deliver milk... And, troubled by a troubling dame and a group of protesting union farmers, Cagney's Eddie Kennedy wins over the town, mostly from a jail cell... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>He's initially sentenced from a fist-fight turned headbutt, in-between getting chewed out by his truck company boss, pressuring the duo to cross union lines where the only drama's injected, including violence... And residing in that cell (playing checkers with his jailers), he's able to sneak out at night... </p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, allen jenkins, comedy, dorothy dare, gertrude short, james cagney, patricia ellis, thirties, union, warner archives, wrong man

JAMES CAGNEY DRIVES 'THE ST. LOUIS KID' WITH ALLEN JENKINS

Title: THE ST. LOUIS KID Year: 1934 Rating: **** Great early James Cagney romp has he and glass-jaw sidekick Allen Jenkins as truck drivers ...

CHARLES BRONSON IN 'MR. MAJESTYK' FEATURING PAUL KOSLO

<table align="center" 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://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_qABRZW_Ze28hbR_fdTvUFjgzyL_MQIppYTMRMut_E092-lLWj9cCvGBG9RGLAie2E6NG-rqUGGozHvr0ysK6QfeYXP2rrzoOE8Xrdqq9viN5fmOq4ZeZ7juJ7RDhL-ictZpZI9JjYd-yjpOOG2JbIDFLwsSfJZu6FtrB6-IH-Z1t4DZqtxg0Cw5U6A/s1979/Screen%20Shot%202023-05-30%20at%203.20.58%20AM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1363" data-original-width="1979" height="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_qABRZW_Ze28hbR_fdTvUFjgzyL_MQIppYTMRMut_E092-lLWj9cCvGBG9RGLAie2E6NG-rqUGGozHvr0ysK6QfeYXP2rrzoOE8Xrdqq9viN5fmOq4ZeZ7juJ7RDhL-ictZpZI9JjYd-yjpOOG2JbIDFLwsSfJZu6FtrB6-IH-Z1t4DZqtxg0Cw5U6A/w400-h275/Screen%20Shot%202023-05-30%20at%203.20.58%20AM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">MAJESTYK<u> YEAR: 1974 </u><u>SCORE: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table>Charles Bronson's different in Richard Fleischer's MR. MAJESTYK than in the early-seventies' Michael Winner crime trilogy because, for one, unlike THE MECHANIC, THE STONE KILLER and DEATH WISH, Vince Majestyk, a hardworking watermelon farmer, is somewhat of a smart-ass, and, written by Elmore Leonard, there's a little more breathing-room for the character and his situation/predicament...<br> <br> A lethal hit man, played by villain's villain Al Lettieri, wants Majestyk very dead as Paul Koslo's initially antagonistic Bobby Kopas is more of a talker than a doer. In fact, both Bronson and Lettieri point this out: The first before hitting the goading blond-haired punk in the balls with a shotgun (after having attempted to pawn off cheap labor to his farm), while the latter tries keeping him in line...<br>

action, al lettieri, charles bronson, crime, elmore leonard, lee purcell, paul koslo, richard fleischer, seventies, taylor lacher, thriller

CHARLES BRONSON IN 'MR. MAJESTYK' FEATURING PAUL KOSLO

MAJESTYK YEAR: 1974 SCORE: **** Charles Bronson's different in Richard Fleischer's MR. MAJESTYK than in the early-seventies' M...

BURT REYNOLDS STARS/DIRECTS THE NEO NOIR 'SHARKY'S MACHINE'

<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/AVvXsEgMlaofIDe4aDQMdUaKLJCjXudFb1rkRnjIrUc_JKp5KDw5dLqghO-syxw0iskVdaJ6JLAnWwYYc4-yPFdYP2ZZIvdtt3467sn_JxD9ZnuvSHTnFO2XVeUzRXmTBnN56JB0SSJ0LMI3CYrvOkOIE6Zw028_ruPaT07W6Ykx19wchlS3ig4ytvAywnURMQ/s2101/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-01%20at%202.27.27%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1176" data-original-width="2101" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMlaofIDe4aDQMdUaKLJCjXudFb1rkRnjIrUc_JKp5KDw5dLqghO-syxw0iskVdaJ6JLAnWwYYc4-yPFdYP2ZZIvdtt3467sn_JxD9ZnuvSHTnFO2XVeUzRXmTBnN56JB0SSJ0LMI3CYrvOkOIE6Zw028_ruPaT07W6Ykx19wchlS3ig4ytvAywnURMQ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-01%20at%202.27.27%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: SHARKY'S MACHINE Year: 1981 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Although Burt Reynolds' box office rival Clint Eastwood deemed SHARKY'S MACHINE "Dirty Harry in Georgia," it's actually a spiritual remake of the film noir LAURA where a cop falls for a mysterious woman who was supposedly murdered by a killer using a shotgun at her apartment door — but turns out being another dame entirely...</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>And before all that, Reynolds goes from a risky narc officer... whose opening drug deal turns into a solid city shootout... to one of several vice squad members in the shabby and neglected police headquarters-basement; and their first gig busting whores at a political rally with the two coolest characters, not including Burt, also the director... and with a skin-diver's cut instead of his usual distracting toupee, he hasn't been this legit since DELIVERANCE... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

action, bernie casey, brian keith, burt reynolds, charles durning, cop, earl holliman, eighties, henry silva, neo noir, rachel ward, vice, vittorio gassman

BURT REYNOLDS STARS/DIRECTS THE NEO NOIR 'SHARKY'S MACHINE'

Title: SHARKY'S MACHINE Year: 1981 Rating: **** Although Burt Reynolds' box office rival Clint Eastwood deemed SHARKY'S MACHINE ...