JAMES STEWART WITH DONALD CRISP IN 'THE MAN FROM LARAMIE'

<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/AVvXsEizmRCoXCqF_tvhiH-ZKpz0UuoWe-HrEzXi9zSg_7cP2sNDtu5inH4VqyaUsFXQswoizZ0ah9qlDMM1CjNeZ04gUGmulz1KwReqeIyCEf6rAYp5FTNJF9YkQLdIluJGxiIbGP_tB59XP7C-QohBsdiRdbIqd9PmOUXe9DgXkrWeTm6Q_wBxoK_x3-Mrc_6E/s2166/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-25%20at%2011.33.19%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1212" data-original-width="2166" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizmRCoXCqF_tvhiH-ZKpz0UuoWe-HrEzXi9zSg_7cP2sNDtu5inH4VqyaUsFXQswoizZ0ah9qlDMM1CjNeZ04gUGmulz1KwReqeIyCEf6rAYp5FTNJF9YkQLdIluJGxiIbGP_tB59XP7C-QohBsdiRdbIqd9PmOUXe9DgXkrWeTm6Q_wBxoK_x3-Mrc_6E/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-25%20at%2011.33.19%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE MAN FROM LARAMIE Year: 1955 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Within moments of Anthony Mann's THE MAN FROM LARAMIE, the old and new aspects of the beloved genre shift, and progress: opening with an old-fashion crooner singing about the title character and then, once we meet James Stewart's Will Lockhart, it's soon learned he's investigating the sale of repeating rifles to Apache Indians, causing his brother's death and leading to an edgy revenge plot popular in almost any Western to come...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And, although eventually revealed to be a Army officer, his agenda — having traveled from Laramie to the small town of Coronado — is like a film noir detective, making LARAMIE stand out from other Mann/Stewart Westerns along with a cerebral theme from William Shakespeare's fallen-monarch tragedy, King Lear...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, alex nicol, anthony mann, arthur kennedy, cathy o'donnell, donald crisp, jack elam, james stewart, mystery, thriller, wallace ford, western

JAMES STEWART WITH DONALD CRISP IN 'THE MAN FROM LARAMIE'

Title: THE MAN FROM LARAMIE Year: 1955 Rating: ****1/2 Within moments of Anthony Mann's THE MAN FROM LARAMIE, the old and new aspects of...

TOM SMOTHERS & ORSON WELLES IN 'GET TO KNOW YOUR RABBIT'

<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/AVvXsEhIgzzrqSHBJKt1nWyIxzg_So1m6qqh81Og1LerDhU8io6rDbtIP-5kH1rCTwIc0H1fv0MDexDxHa7vmX7bwU6PyZVpUpmr2Vjkd4RXkktudvoGGW5x6WvxusvzcBcic3wUoyHD_S3EJBCCwRabxPn7Yeo2iuZYL1oNHoQPNwGmWohnmD6TntSX0znYEzlo/s2006/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-31%20at%202.13.42%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1084" data-original-width="2006" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIgzzrqSHBJKt1nWyIxzg_So1m6qqh81Og1LerDhU8io6rDbtIP-5kH1rCTwIc0H1fv0MDexDxHa7vmX7bwU6PyZVpUpmr2Vjkd4RXkktudvoGGW5x6WvxusvzcBcic3wUoyHD_S3EJBCCwRabxPn7Yeo2iuZYL1oNHoQPNwGmWohnmD6TntSX0znYEzlo/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-31%20at%202.13.42%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: GET TO KNOW YOUR RABBIT Year: 1972 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Ironically, Brian De Palma's GET TO KNOW YOUR RABBIT... an anti-corporate, counter-culture comedy... is a lot like the previous decade's I'LL NEVER FORGET WHAT'S'ISNAME, and both feature Orson Welles, first as a boss who doesn't want to lose his top young employee and here a magic instructor that this film's star, Tom Smothers of Smothers Brothers fame, takes lessons from after quitting his job as executive John Astin's problem-solving underling...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Welles has a total of ten-minutes screen-time, and upon graduation asks Smothers' Donald Beeman if he had been like a father to him, wherein Tommy's expression... the signature dimwitted naiveté more of an irked, stonewall glib... shakes his head, "No" which is one of several problems since this offbeat character, played by a naturally offbeat comic-actor on his own, doesn't seem game for this particularly strange and completely random road comedy...<br></p><p><span></span></p>

allen garfield, comedy, counter-culture, john astin, katharine ross, m. emmett walsh, orson welles, seventies, tom smothers

TOM SMOTHERS & ORSON WELLES IN 'GET TO KNOW YOUR RABBIT'

Title: GET TO KNOW YOUR RABBIT Year: 1972 Rating: *** Ironically, Brian De Palma's GET TO KNOW YOUR RABBIT... an anti-corporate, counter...

DICK POWELL'S PHILIP MARLOWE TACKLES 'MURDER, MY SWEET'

<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/AVvXsEgkSfS3be_G77a9WHTte2qCAwInUx2lcQXkaoZjSJ9xMPBCQyYZ4G89M6ML-7KoIgiouAAvnUxqlugZeytRKWKHLLMtmjboY2ZKFFkDrDZvczxOIG2tGcJHIhZ-3EJt6Kq5t4PhVvdWgIboFGUEzBheqVQi16cOi9vJ03AA-QhxN2u7TNJ_DHdJKqVDnSwn/s1060/first.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="698" data-original-width="1060" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkSfS3be_G77a9WHTte2qCAwInUx2lcQXkaoZjSJ9xMPBCQyYZ4G89M6ML-7KoIgiouAAvnUxqlugZeytRKWKHLLMtmjboY2ZKFFkDrDZvczxOIG2tGcJHIhZ-3EJt6Kq5t4PhVvdWgIboFGUEzBheqVQi16cOi9vJ03AA-QhxN2u7TNJ_DHdJKqVDnSwn/s16000/first.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Claire Trevor with Dick Powell & Anne Shirley in MURDER, MY SWEET Year: 1944 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>"You go barging around without a clear idea of what you're doing," says MURDER MY SWEET good girl Anne Shirley to Dick Powell's loose, congenial, free-form and not particularly tough version of novelist Raymond Chandler's gumshoe private investigator, Philip Marlowe. "Everybody bats you down, smacks you over the head... fills you full of stuff... and you keep right on hitting between tackle and end..." </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And yet, while most think of strong-willed, fully-controlled, woman-loving Humphrey Bogart in Howard Hawks' THE BIG SLEEP to epitomize Chandler's literary turned cinematic snoop, Edward Dmytryk had already directed former romantic comedy song-and-dance-man Powell as Marlowe, more like a staggering kite skidding just above ground, sporadically raked by unpredictable elements in an intense yet affable manner: initially derived from a police hot-spot interrogation frame story, thinking back on the rudimentary job that ignited the nightmare... <br></p><span></span>

claire trevor, daun kennedy, dick powell, film noir or melodrama, forties, gumshoe, mike mazurski, raymond chandler, suspense, thriller

DICK POWELL'S PHILIP MARLOWE TACKLES 'MURDER, MY SWEET'

Claire Trevor with Dick Powell & Anne Shirley in MURDER, MY SWEET Year: 1944 Rating: ****1/2 "You go barging around without a clear...

INFAMOUS CRIMSON CRUSADER EPISODE FROM 'DRAGNET 1969'

<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/AVvXsEhTOjM16rbSdsfZDAmfGsiGDRZ3tmrc_rXj24Wf854AGzj_U0hoNHvdTExTurcDBxj49Rx8rms3pOhp8yG3AncGfcqgl_znDfyGkOYAqY3GqL-rtJeTYEQCn1EHZmVikVNHvIbfJy10AzPAu0tzA7u5qWkSuJD9b91lEfI67X64e4A6930C3DBk8ouYLrqw/s1414/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-23%20at%203.25.40%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="814" data-original-width="1414" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTOjM16rbSdsfZDAmfGsiGDRZ3tmrc_rXj24Wf854AGzj_U0hoNHvdTExTurcDBxj49Rx8rms3pOhp8yG3AncGfcqgl_znDfyGkOYAqY3GqL-rtJeTYEQCn1EHZmVikVNHvIbfJy10AzPAu0tzA7u5qWkSuJD9b91lEfI67X64e4A6930C3DBk8ouYLrqw/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-23%20at%203.25.40%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Tittle: GOLIATH AWAITS 1981 Emma Samms, Mark Harmon, Robert Forster Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Here's proof that young people worshiping comic book movies is nothing new: from one of the silliest yet entertaining episodes of the 1950's-born DRAGNET rebooted into the late-1960's... titled DRAGNET 1968: BULGLARY: DR-31 where Jack Webb's Joe Friday and Harry Morgan as partner Bill Gannon traipse from one movie theater to another, investigating stolen/looted movie posters and lobby cards advertising a brand new comic book adaptation...<br><br>Turns out being the most bizarre and surreal of the show's villains in a pudgy, mustached, monotone twenty-something donning a cape and costume, deeming himself The Crimson Crusader played by a frumpy, drowsy, future EMERGENCY actor Tim Donnelly who, in one soft-interrogation sequence, provides a dirge-like, melancholy monologue about being fat and bullied in school, and how this drove him headlong into a fantastical world to find a safe place within it... thus making this eclectic fan-favorite episode practically all his own.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>

comic book, cop, crime, dragnet, exploitation, harry morgan, jack webb, sixties, tv series

INFAMOUS CRIMSON CRUSADER EPISODE FROM 'DRAGNET 1969'

Tittle: GOLIATH AWAITS 1981 Emma Samms, Mark Harmon, Robert Forster Rating: ***1/2 Here's proof that young people worshiping comic book ...

LANCE HENRIKSEN & ERIC ROBERTS IN 'THE NATURE OF THE BEAST'

<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/AVvXsEj5evglfBmE6u8d2gsY1Ck7OsEvHL79pDobyMZJweBX_io0Db9QTjMTSjzNhDmSPT2hL8JSLEYrKsj6JO4xmMRbYR_XbV_LYvbe2e4EoLEs-k7wTUQSe9hFzVCHwyw2W8eHeUix_nHCRkQtJvo1ibfJxnSx9Q9nyFJUgpNReNHgi24Kcv_8mBANauG9KcAi/s900/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-21%20at%2012.31.59%20AM%202%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="538" data-original-width="900" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5evglfBmE6u8d2gsY1Ck7OsEvHL79pDobyMZJweBX_io0Db9QTjMTSjzNhDmSPT2hL8JSLEYrKsj6JO4xmMRbYR_XbV_LYvbe2e4EoLEs-k7wTUQSe9hFzVCHwyw2W8eHeUix_nHCRkQtJvo1ibfJxnSx9Q9nyFJUgpNReNHgi24Kcv_8mBANauG9KcAi/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-21%20at%2012.31.59%20AM%202%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Eric Roberts & Lance Henriksen in THE NATURE OF THE BEAST Year: 1995 Rates: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>An exploitation Oscar and Felix casts Eric Roberts as Adrian, a dirty piece of human driftwood hitchhiking the lonesome desert highway where, in random stopovers, people are massacred by a phantom called THE HATCHET MAN...<br> <br> Also, a local bank was robbed of a million bucks and uptight traveling salesman Jack, played by a subdued Lance Henriksen, reluctantly gives Adrian rides throughout the scorched purgatory... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><span></span>

ana gabriel, brion james, eric roberts, lance henriksen, neo noir, nineties, road movie, rural, serial killer, suspense

LANCE HENRIKSEN & ERIC ROBERTS IN 'THE NATURE OF THE BEAST'

Eric Roberts & Lance Henriksen in THE NATURE OF THE BEAST Year: 1995 Rates: ***1/2 An exploitation Oscar and Felix casts Eric Roberts a...

YVONNE LIME IN 'HIGH SCHOOL HELLCATS' WITH SUSANNE SIDNEY

<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/AVvXsEgzhDZsVBVc8JdLU5v1Wf2vAS2yRR0KzO40S3UeLkdz7ziS85rKcro8rVH_CI5g3fePF7S3IhenJyF4N9rExPT8N0VxeEc2B5xOS0oLs18oTPoL6KfJNFTynggH-5_PxTfDdDWxvhBsakdV9GdFcr8uLO5PIZ2vElIa9YLsY83ks1civkzFYuG1PHE6AIFM/s2078/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1312" data-original-width="2078" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzhDZsVBVc8JdLU5v1Wf2vAS2yRR0KzO40S3UeLkdz7ziS85rKcro8rVH_CI5g3fePF7S3IhenJyF4N9rExPT8N0VxeEc2B5xOS0oLs18oTPoL6KfJNFTynggH-5_PxTfDdDWxvhBsakdV9GdFcr8uLO5PIZ2vElIa9YLsY83ks1civkzFYuG1PHE6AIFM/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: HIGH SCHOOL HELLCATS Year: 1958 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>HIGH SCHOOL HELLCATS seems like three movies in one, and the titular tale... about a gang of tough girl bullies playing tricks on beautiful blonde new girl Yvonne Lime... is not only the best, but should have been everything... <br></p><p></p><p></p><p>What a shame that a breezy, completely filler romance with Lime's Joyce Martin with local diner waiter Brett Halsey blandly intrudes... along with scenes involving Joyce's crummy parents... because the downright stunning yet still equally doe-eyed, girl-next-door vulnerable I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF starlet is far more interesting with the female antagonists her age...</p><span></span>

brett halsley, dana lund, exploitation, fifties, gang, high school, teen, yvonne lime

YVONNE LIME IN 'HIGH SCHOOL HELLCATS' WITH SUSANNE SIDNEY

Title: HIGH SCHOOL HELLCATS Year: 1958 Rating: ***1/2 HIGH SCHOOL HELLCATS seems like three movies in one, and the titular tale... about a g...

MILTON BERLE & VIRGINIA MAYO IN 'ALWAYS LEAVE THEM LAUGHING'

<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/AVvXsEgRfsCmOx8TGwlg9bNsRPduYDL54o7kU4GV6jHJrtfwgr2-YvUFkUBOc9mfR_z3G6aEfgjg70q2zXAL955Q8Fh7Mtibng3jb74V-foUbIpkAl3rsQojDWWgY_ZJ7n9LSBW_qoEroITZ_kF3kQKGySwB7m5FwkoLL3O4QuEt4ZMbeBIKBzZPwxIlU61vkHUi/s960/OLD%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="621" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRfsCmOx8TGwlg9bNsRPduYDL54o7kU4GV6jHJrtfwgr2-YvUFkUBOc9mfR_z3G6aEfgjg70q2zXAL955Q8Fh7Mtibng3jb74V-foUbIpkAl3rsQojDWWgY_ZJ7n9LSBW_qoEroITZ_kF3kQKGySwB7m5FwkoLL3O4QuEt4ZMbeBIKBzZPwxIlU61vkHUi/s16000/OLD%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: ALWAYS LEAVE THEM LAUGHING Year: 1949 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In the frame story of the first television star Milton Berle's 1949 big screen debut ALWAYS LEAVE THEM LAUGHING, a young comic watches Milton as fictional-self Kipling "Kip" Cooper filming his own successful TV-variety show... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Which is supposed to be what Berle's Kip worked so hard to perfect: a vaudeville-trained standup comedian's hyperactive struggle to reach the point of being, basically, TV's beloved Milton Berle... </p><p><span></span></p>

alan hale sr, bert lahr, comedy, forties, lloyd gough, max showalter, milton berle, ruth roman, virginia mayo, warner archives

MILTON BERLE & VIRGINIA MAYO IN 'ALWAYS LEAVE THEM LAUGHING'

Title: ALWAYS LEAVE THEM LAUGHING Year: 1949 Rating: **** In the frame story of the first television star Milton Berle's 1949 big screen...

LEE MAJORS, MARGAUX HEMINGWAY & KAREN BLACK IN 'KILLER FISH'

<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><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/AVvXsEiXgP6YLTe-d2h6vgYhpJFbjTkMfpIDJQHMN3d1-9ME-cUtuw6t9KYKvA4vmlZ2dI7eDChB2ht644z9J_AIipjSbZ_O0BUxNFzKkqS8HN-OpMDCvpZj6HS8VUhpulVx5vkEVWSZHYO_FC7ymfPcOnByRjKpjxKH7MRtIgvYGe7YLGQLBdqdYY5x7aJZfA/s2035/Screen%20Shot%202022-12-11%20at%204.54.18%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1387" data-original-width="2035" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXgP6YLTe-d2h6vgYhpJFbjTkMfpIDJQHMN3d1-9ME-cUtuw6t9KYKvA4vmlZ2dI7eDChB2ht644z9J_AIipjSbZ_O0BUxNFzKkqS8HN-OpMDCvpZj6HS8VUhpulVx5vkEVWSZHYO_FC7ymfPcOnByRjKpjxKH7MRtIgvYGe7YLGQLBdqdYY5x7aJZfA/w400-h272/Screen%20Shot%202022-12-11%20at%204.54.18%20AM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><u>The Naked Sun poster aka KILLER FISH Year: 1979</u></span></td></tr></tbody></table>This infamous low-budget Brazilian import isn't so bad: Centering on a group of diamond thieves in South America who, after blowing up a big outpost during the opening credits and nabbing a cache of jewels, hide the goods in a lake they don't know's inhabited by killer fish i.e. piranha...</span><br> <br> <span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">All pets of millionaire James Franciscus (or more like his weapons, so they're not the central and/or focal point like Joe Dante's PIRANHA the previous year)... Deadly insurance to weed-out any takers, and </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">a couple of the thieves (including a scene-stealing Frank Pesce) are gobbled up attempting a premature recovery in the lake... Because of this, Lee Majors and Karen Black are pitted against each other in a double-crossing Film Noir fashion: Black joins with Fransiscus and beautiful Margaux Hemingway, as a model on a location-shoot, beds the Bionic Man.</span><br>

antonio margheriti, exploitation, frank pesce, heist, james francsiscus, jaws-clone, karen black, karen black interviews, lee majors, margaux hemingway, marisa berenson, neo noir, piranha, seventies

LEE MAJORS, MARGAUX HEMINGWAY & KAREN BLACK IN 'KILLER FISH'

The Naked Sun poster aka KILLER FISH Year: 1979 This infamous low-budget Brazilian import isn't so bad: Centering on a group of diamond...

BEFORE 'EASY RIDER' WAS ROGER CORMAN'S 'THE WILD ANGELS'

<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/AVvXsEhOIPPjT5bA4XIzjPkGrrYjbWRbA8pWVIeuukvG4xQdzGP6dIeoYjNk69Bve9R_4Qm5RnpTPa-wda6AXNFIbq9Vh0Z5Rt5U2JsLwAzld3RN7nNMHLpPKSIR0iJOu_w7iZYPCng14Bh75U5j6OT0Mkf6mjEgfgvAFc6nahHi5SZS0ufHmIZWyEhmRtlPMGNr/s2018/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-12%20at%207.52.07%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1046" data-original-width="2018" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOIPPjT5bA4XIzjPkGrrYjbWRbA8pWVIeuukvG4xQdzGP6dIeoYjNk69Bve9R_4Qm5RnpTPa-wda6AXNFIbq9Vh0Z5Rt5U2JsLwAzld3RN7nNMHLpPKSIR0iJOu_w7iZYPCng14Bh75U5j6OT0Mkf6mjEgfgvAFc6nahHi5SZS0ufHmIZWyEhmRtlPMGNr/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-12%20at%207.52.07%20PM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Peter Fonda and Nancy Sinatra in THE WILD ANGELS Year: 1966 Rating: **** </u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Roger Corman's THE WILD ANGELS was the most significant precursor and overall impetus for EASY RIDER even beyond starring this film's star Peter Fonda... herein with born-to-lose <i>Loser</i> Bruce Dern foreshadowing Dennis Hopper as the faithful shaggy sidekick, and — like the 1969 cult classic that changed how studios backed avante-garde, independent directors — supped-up motorcycles were in the forefront... <br></p><p></p><p></p><p>As WILD begins with Fonda, his bike parked, aimed at the open road that, soon enough during the opening credits, he's smoothy cruising down, even before his gang — also including Michael J. Pollard, Fonda's love-interest Nancy Sinatra and Dern's scene-stealing fictional and non-fictional wife Diane Ladd — join in on the ride... but only <i>after </i>picking Dern up from a rugged rigging job that coincidentally resembles the EASY RIDER followup FIVE EASY PIECES (with Corman stock-favorite Dick Miller as a bickering boss)... </p><span></span>

action, adventure, biker, bruce dern, counter-culture, diane ladd, dick miller, drama, frank maxwell, michael j. pollard, nancy sinatra, peter fonda, sixties

BEFORE 'EASY RIDER' WAS ROGER CORMAN'S 'THE WILD ANGELS'

Peter Fonda and Nancy Sinatra in THE WILD ANGELS Year: 1966 Rating: **** Roger Corman's THE WILD ANGELS was the most significant precurs...

CHARLES BRONSON WITH JILL IRELAND IN 'BREAKHEART PASS'

<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/AVvXsEj47WLsuSa_j2WwCGqbfwrwJvmr1rz_7F2l_-hn_hQpqxYsgxA-2WuPcihuhwoY4CE7HN5VPq-GhyEo5RCwwBo-u5Zpxj7ccUmrvUMzyevDoB_grsEhb9jFmTdQ-j0HVpHPza8KyT43ugFiFXYxdUDi40dsKMpP582Ve4JYKiq250Bh4WktLQVV7fV3-Ybn/s1256/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-08%20at%208.22.21%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="586" data-original-width="1256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj47WLsuSa_j2WwCGqbfwrwJvmr1rz_7F2l_-hn_hQpqxYsgxA-2WuPcihuhwoY4CE7HN5VPq-GhyEo5RCwwBo-u5Zpxj7ccUmrvUMzyevDoB_grsEhb9jFmTdQ-j0HVpHPza8KyT43ugFiFXYxdUDi40dsKMpP582Ve4JYKiq250Bh4WktLQVV7fV3-Ybn/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-08%20at%208.22.21%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Charles Bronson in BREAKHEART PASS Year: 1975 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>British actress Jill Ireland sporadically appearing in husband Charles Bronson's films was really a matter of convenience, providing the family a kind of busman's holiday that was great for them, but not always the audience since her overacting often clashed with the comparably slow-burn cadence of vehicles like THE MECHANIC or HARD TIMES: the latter making an enemy out of writer/director Walter Hill, shooting as few scenes with Ireland as possible, so he never worked with a perturbed Bronson again...</p><p></p><p>But in the case of (the same years') BREAKOUT director Tom Gries's Mystery/Western BREAKHEART PASS, Jill Ireland fit perfectly since her character... the daughter of a post-Civil War Northern General... is fitfully classy and sophisticated, making one particular opposites-attract scene really spark while helping Bronson's supposedly captured-outlaw Deakin, tied uncomfortably inside an otherwise fancy train car and... although he's the central lead, PASS is mainly an ensemble, equally balancing the other characters, all suspects...<br></p><p><span></span></p>

ben johnson, bill mckinney, charles bronson, ed lauter, jill ireland, mystery, rayford barnes, richard crenna, sally kirkland, thriller, tom gries, western

CHARLES BRONSON WITH JILL IRELAND IN 'BREAKHEART PASS'

Charles Bronson in BREAKHEART PASS Year: 1975 Rating: ****1/2 British actress Jill Ireland sporadically appearing in husband Charles Bronson...

CHARLES BRONSON'S 'MAN WITH A CAMERA' WITH YVONNE CRAIG

<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/AVvXsEiQ5WoXTFB1jWAKKvw6DmRU50GTniBnUxu3SeoO-m2Rm2nGl3UkOinxkAjGfGHSQ2FyNPhyphenhyphenYKqsPAc4p7PsSmHNXHBQdTsZ_hyBXMe1xDheFOMlH3l45fy6S3qhxZ-eXdts0tKFBQRzDV1qqPR3nZm5lrnLPucPS5qTEvD5zz6IkgLmaNwuTBcJX1Le2QU9/s2040/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1224" data-original-width="2040" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ5WoXTFB1jWAKKvw6DmRU50GTniBnUxu3SeoO-m2Rm2nGl3UkOinxkAjGfGHSQ2FyNPhyphenhyphenYKqsPAc4p7PsSmHNXHBQdTsZ_hyBXMe1xDheFOMlH3l45fy6S3qhxZ-eXdts0tKFBQRzDV1qqPR3nZm5lrnLPucPS5qTEvD5zz6IkgLmaNwuTBcJX1Le2QU9/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Yvonne Craig & Charles Bronson in Man With A Camera: Hot Ice Cream 1960 Rates: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>At the end of Lawrence Tierney's career's first stretch, of playing menacing heavies on the big screen, which includes central bad guys from DILLINGER and THE HOODLUM to tough heroes in BODYGUARD, STEP BY STEP and KILL OR BE KILLED, Tierney — resembling an older version of his original self instead of a young Joe Cabot from RESERVOIR DOGS — appeared on the TV-series MAN WITH A CAMERA starring Charles Bronson... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>In what's the best (and highest rated) episode of a nifty noirish two-season show where Bronson plays Mike Kovac, THE MAN WITH A CAMERA who’s either hired by friends or the law to solve crimes... and he even has a semi-famous crime-photographer reputation, thus providing a young fan for HOT ICE CREAM...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, charles bronson, crime, film noir or melodrama, howard mcnear, lawrence tierney, sixties, thriller, tv series, yvonne craig

CHARLES BRONSON'S 'MAN WITH A CAMERA' WITH YVONNE CRAIG

Yvonne Craig & Charles Bronson in Man With A Camera: Hot Ice Cream 1960 Rates: ****1/2 At the end of Lawrence Tierney's career's...

PARENTHETICAL ANALYSIS OF MICHAEL WINNER'S 'THE MECHANIC'

<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><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/AVvXsEiiQnU2bx_YCFrvPb8mMfT4TbbRkBsl_UMhyphenhyphennCbrX2YuvweEB1sIbW6B3h3HcOk92LUh45Y3udDeH_6UH2A_HF7uedKyowPojpOyvLRY5Ru9DZyQS5-yMLAzCxz2Crgi3WZsWMmQCiXBmHLbhcfbASobVLOuyo5DQinKn9zj6rWBlZSFeqJXbzrDtX9wO7K/s1939/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-02%20at%208.08.56%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1010" data-original-width="1939" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiQnU2bx_YCFrvPb8mMfT4TbbRkBsl_UMhyphenhyphennCbrX2YuvweEB1sIbW6B3h3HcOk92LUh45Y3udDeH_6UH2A_HF7uedKyowPojpOyvLRY5Ru9DZyQS5-yMLAzCxz2Crgi3WZsWMmQCiXBmHLbhcfbASobVLOuyo5DQinKn9zj6rWBlZSFeqJXbzrDtX9wO7K/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-02%20at%208.08.56%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Charles Bronson in THE MECHANIC from 1974 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>By the time professional hit-man Arthur Bishop, skillfully underplayed by Charles Bronson... starring in the first of the 1972-1974 unconnected crime trilogy under the creative direction of eclectic British auteur Michael Winner... meets his match in young upstart Jan-Michael Vincent, the best part of <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/05/BW2-MECH.html">THE MECHANIC</a> had already occurred...  <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>Centering on the titular eccentric hired-killer slumming in a shabby Los Angeles motel, strategically rented across the street from his human target's non-rented room... providing a smooth, menial, fifteen-minute killer-at-work sequence that, given his narrowed, exacting professionalism, deliberately lacks suspense while replete with Winner's signature camera movements, from dramatic zooms to quick cuts, and herein, most importantly, no dialogue...</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/AVvXsEjtfF4YXy6iB31ckrPPXZIHJBZdeOY2fN_WZSE_ljHVBc_7sfYypRbDgVy4E_Z6c4z9ZyYzFAOsZFaKMNPKWzGcq3eO3xICz2RCqX1-2kpjricHQ-iaNBwTXBDZ53y1b-XF2i-z1Rf0oU_rN6vtmS_iJ0daqeTEoG-KWly0STxq1_stBOjim_Oq3jNuS-s1/s2260/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-02%20at%208.21.08%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1116" data-original-width="2260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtfF4YXy6iB31ckrPPXZIHJBZdeOY2fN_WZSE_ljHVBc_7sfYypRbDgVy4E_Z6c4z9ZyYzFAOsZFaKMNPKWzGcq3eO3xICz2RCqX1-2kpjricHQ-iaNBwTXBDZ53y1b-XF2i-z1Rf0oU_rN6vtmS_iJ0daqeTEoG-KWly0STxq1_stBOjim_Oq3jNuS-s1/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-02%20at%208.21.08%20PM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jerry Fielding credit from THE MECHANIC</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Instead filled with underrated composer Jerry Fielding's rich and cerebral, classically orchestrated yet equally jazz-induced score that also worked for Dustin Hoffman's mind-game marriage from Sam Peckpinpah's<a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2022/11/peckinpahdogs.html"> STRAW DOGS</a> (after having successfully tracked Peckinpah's blockbuster THE WILD BUNCH); Warren Oates's exhausted contemplation in the same director's BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA; or building tension for Clint Eastwood in either THE ENFORCER or <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2023/11/clintclimbs.html">THE EIGER SANCTION</a>... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>A few examples of how and where Jerry Fielding's music fits tough and paranoiac, melancholy souls suffering personal battles so that the inevitable violence remains on the verge of eruption, even during meditative downtime — providing brooding overtures <i>inside</i> as well as <i>about</i> the characters...<br></p><p><span></span></p>

action, article, charles bronson, crime, hit-man, jan-michael vincent, jerry fielding, jill ireland, michael winner, neo noir, seventies, team-up, thriller

PARENTHETICAL ANALYSIS OF MICHAEL WINNER'S 'THE MECHANIC'

Charles Bronson in THE MECHANIC from 1974 Rating: **** By the time professional hit-man Arthur Bishop, skillfully underplayed by Charles Bro...

MICHAEL WINNER REDIRECTS CHARLES BRONSON IN 'DEATH WISH II'

<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/AVvXsEijfDfMBrLwkZFwN8GLTiXp1uksU1XHj9AvRBSAlCtOnEMhpvoJ9qyYpyfxEL4DvnRjYtUzE4IkxS6bhsaNBPmPyJFFaOEAOmJnY8Gsq8vtPmcSfugRpq1RvgPv-GBSxlos0tGo6vnX53UDlcHLhKGuwfCpX3bIY34ultGOJpygbM06mIsr0A6QHvv9M4lW/s1785/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-04%20at%205.07.42%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="975" data-original-width="1785" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijfDfMBrLwkZFwN8GLTiXp1uksU1XHj9AvRBSAlCtOnEMhpvoJ9qyYpyfxEL4DvnRjYtUzE4IkxS6bhsaNBPmPyJFFaOEAOmJnY8Gsq8vtPmcSfugRpq1RvgPv-GBSxlos0tGo6vnX53UDlcHLhKGuwfCpX3bIY34ultGOJpygbM06mIsr0A6QHvv9M4lW/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-04%20at%205.07.42%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: DEATH WISH II Year: 1982 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Losing his wife entirely and daughter mentally to lethal hoods from the first movie had aged Charles Bronson's Paul Kersey eight-years when it's only supposed to be two.... which is how long it'd been since DEATH WISH made the already popular cult actor Charles Bronson a superstar... and now, in his last stretch at 60 years old, having joined the ranks of ambitious low-budget Cannon Films, the safest bet was a sequel... </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>Along with Bronson, cinema had also changed from the early 1970's crime exploitation into the early 1980's horror/terror element, which is what Kersey... still a successful architect but now in Los Angeles instead of New York... is up against in the form of an ultra-violent gang as opposed to, from the original, random criminals coaxed from the streets (after the initial trio, led by Jeff Goldblum, were never heard of since) or saving innocent people from them... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

body count, cannon, charles bronson, eighties, exploitation, franchise, gang, jimmy page, laurence fishburne, michael winner, sequel

MICHAEL WINNER REDIRECTS CHARLES BRONSON IN 'DEATH WISH II'

Title: DEATH WISH II Year: 1982 Rating: **** Losing his wife entirely and daughter mentally to lethal hoods from the first movie had aged Ch...

MICHAEL WINNER DIRECTS CHARLES BRONSON IN 'DEATH WISH'

<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><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/AVvXsEiiYbaChH4HKKV2DsEUgSfKBKg2dORohHbuqSTpqvl5hjwznWcvqAHoItyiAyBK8dJPRo4Fn7egyuhpfsSLsJ1xBT7HqL-1k-8WMxQlR7Nr4-uRb37XKk-sm23oZW_fTbYVZIYmNMypTx2QC-yE9PkZD-FxGbiRYtogbQvpehLu3kJrJcH8jh-dwyFCO4_n/s1092/later%202%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="654" data-original-width="1092" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiYbaChH4HKKV2DsEUgSfKBKg2dORohHbuqSTpqvl5hjwznWcvqAHoItyiAyBK8dJPRo4Fn7egyuhpfsSLsJ1xBT7HqL-1k-8WMxQlR7Nr4-uRb37XKk-sm23oZW_fTbYVZIYmNMypTx2QC-yE9PkZD-FxGbiRYtogbQvpehLu3kJrJcH8jh-dwyFCO4_n/s16000/later%202%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: DEATH WISH Year: 1974 Rating: *****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Of director Michael Winner and actor Charles Bronson's crime-trilogy spanning three consecutive years from 1972 to 1974... centering on hit-men for THE MECHANIC and cops in THE STONE KILLER... the most popular was saved for last as DEATH WISH centers on a vigilante — ironically a cross between lawman and assassin... </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></p><p></p><p></p><p>It's also more skillfully directed and acted: specifically providing tough guy Charles Bronson... also a former character-actor dating back to the 1950's... a comparably grounded and vulnerable (starring) role...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, body count, charles bronson, christopher guest, death wish, edward grover, exploitation, hope lange, jeff goldblum, michael winner, seventies, steven keats, stuart margolin

MICHAEL WINNER DIRECTS CHARLES BRONSON IN 'DEATH WISH'

Title: DEATH WISH Year: 1974 Rating: ***** Of director Michael Winner and actor Charles Bronson's crime-trilogy spanning three consecuti...

JEFF HUNTER & DANA ANDREWS IN WILLIAM CONRAD'S 'BRAINSTORM'

<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/AVvXsEifJnk1uYRrv2R7CcEIl-djFMXPzYGtB6qJ-LqnnI1Mn6Lxp-aex6I19q_VWhV0ab-zaAW4Tbnx3rEPPRw027Do1x7MfKG6-fbolJBNrUynjz501BN2ZN7peKosn1JMMXSZL5Thi8CECdnhI3rHKiE97vnDZl6ny9YTC55xSs6MRbkAK7wuvYAtj6KLWWdv/s1896/Screen%20Shot%202023-11-19%20at%206.39.24%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="998" data-original-width="1896" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifJnk1uYRrv2R7CcEIl-djFMXPzYGtB6qJ-LqnnI1Mn6Lxp-aex6I19q_VWhV0ab-zaAW4Tbnx3rEPPRw027Do1x7MfKG6-fbolJBNrUynjz501BN2ZN7peKosn1JMMXSZL5Thi8CECdnhI3rHKiE97vnDZl6ny9YTC55xSs6MRbkAK7wuvYAtj6KLWWdv/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-11-19%20at%206.39.24%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: BRAINSTORM Director: William Conrad Year: 1965 Rates: ****1/2 </u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In 1965, veteran actor Dana Andrews was busier acting than his BRAINSTORM director William Conrad was directing: making three movies (including <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2023/11/filldonahue.html">MY BLOOD RUNS COLD</a>) the same year that Andrews appeared in eight...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>As characters ranging from cameos to leads, heroes to heavies... in BRAINSTORM Dana's deep, smooth voice suited a corporate (space age computer) tycoon that winds-up in a love triangle after his sharpest employee saves the life of — before falling in love with — young trophy-wife Anne Francis...</p><p><span></span></p>

dana andrews, jeffrey hunter, kathie browne, neo noir, sixties, thriller, viveca lindfors, warner archives, william conrad

JEFF HUNTER & DANA ANDREWS IN WILLIAM CONRAD'S 'BRAINSTORM'

Title: BRAINSTORM Director: William Conrad Year: 1965 Rates: ****1/2 In 1965, veteran actor Dana Andrews was busier acting than his BRAINSTO...

WILLAM CONRAD REINCARNATES NOIR WITH 'MY BLOOD RUNS COLD'

<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/AVvXsEgpdZ_MgKiqEEUF1c6luN7nunit1uV-jXGdXgDbOQZIiNm85j85m6lq-AK0mkIR0nCN22W6_V3XthzfpSwBs7NsHQ7eU1reoGqhhLQC1PAoXpNn3BbSfGA2pUZgrAWNu2kYEHXVnnn0ia41NufpmFmPM81eR3gnrg-u0ak9vk_iff2qYF-boc2Jl7CTAKlv/s1082/Screen%20Shot%202023-11-17%20at%204.55.44%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="1082" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpdZ_MgKiqEEUF1c6luN7nunit1uV-jXGdXgDbOQZIiNm85j85m6lq-AK0mkIR0nCN22W6_V3XthzfpSwBs7NsHQ7eU1reoGqhhLQC1PAoXpNn3BbSfGA2pUZgrAWNu2kYEHXVnnn0ia41NufpmFmPM81eR3gnrg-u0ak9vk_iff2qYF-boc2Jl7CTAKlv/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-11-17%20at%204.55.44%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: MY BLOOD RUNS COLD Cast: Troy Donahue, Joey Heatherton  Year: 1965 Year: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Along with a throwaway horror flick in an extremely busy three-picture-year of 1965, the best-known-for-television actor William Conrad directed an unintentional neo-noir double-feature, BRAINSTORM and MY BLOOD RUNS COLD, both unique, creative and eclectic while the latter provided limited-rage Troy Donahue a surprisingly intense performance... with layers...</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>Albeit most of them intentionally hidden since his character is deeply enigmatic from the start, <i>and</i> desperately vulnerable — literally when he's almost killed by spoiled, fitfully gorgeous rich girl Joey Heatherton...</p><p><span></span></p>

barry sullivan, jazz-score, jeanette nolan, joey heatherton, melodrama, neo noir, nicolas coster, romance, sixties, thriller, troy donahue, william conrad

WILLAM CONRAD REINCARNATES NOIR WITH 'MY BLOOD RUNS COLD'

Title: MY BLOOD RUNS COLD Cast: Troy Donahue, Joey Heatherton  Year: 1965 Year: **** Along with a throwaway horror flick in an extremely bu...

JOI LANSING STEALS 'HOT CARS' STARRING JOHN BROMFIELD

<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/AVvXsEgh-Fhh42mH5Pixsu1SHF84aJaKA19_LFxq0Bjr38vE96NyBi0UZwNqlZbSjYWHj3dnmzAsnIhBsQ9sCARAguTH25-_1XqU19QHnHJvdr6Qz-whU-fW7bOWlWgNRNGzbKX1BvrcHemH26v2jDvk7CqOub-m8uVQX1_F25skUsUD2o_KIBngcoAurKpPAFHy/s2084/1%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1150" data-original-width="2084" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh-Fhh42mH5Pixsu1SHF84aJaKA19_LFxq0Bjr38vE96NyBi0UZwNqlZbSjYWHj3dnmzAsnIhBsQ9sCARAguTH25-_1XqU19QHnHJvdr6Qz-whU-fW7bOWlWgNRNGzbKX1BvrcHemH26v2jDvk7CqOub-m8uVQX1_F25skUsUD2o_KIBngcoAurKpPAFHy/s16000/1%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Joi Lansing, John Bromfield, Carol Shanno & Mark Dana in HOT CARS Year: 1956 Rates: ****</u><u>*</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Despite not making any Film Noir lists, HOT CARS is the epitome of the seedy side of crime cinema led by an otherwise honest guy who, in this case, is ironically a used car salesman in John Bromfield, married to the perfect suburban wife and father of a sick child: thus needing extra money, and quick...</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 the best scenes occur in the first act when Bromfield's Nick can't catch a break, mainly from bullying boss Robert Osterloh, who both sophisticated desk-set villain Ralph Clanton and handsome killer henchman Mark Dano... eventually targeting token snoopy cop Dabs Greer... are initially a nice break from...</p><p><span></span></p>

bel air productions, fifties, film noir or melodrama, jazz-score, john bromfield, joi lansing, mark dana, robert osterloh, thriller

JOI LANSING STEALS 'HOT CARS' STARRING JOHN BROMFIELD

Joi Lansing, John Bromfield, Carol Shanno & Mark Dana in HOT CARS Year: 1956 Rates: **** * Despite not making any Film Noir lists, HOT C...

LEX BARKER, MALA POWERS & LEO GORDON 'THE YELLOW MOUNTAIN'

<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/AVvXsEi8kag3IvxoGjSCD6PWefbfb766MyLBaZ7fEhSmQAPGwEMFmSBxGYZJ5it9GxujVl92gyBmk_w9T-VF-wt_Z-5L3Rab5noRadFyqFYmMGxbdq3JHZgHBv7BIdbWd6g_i-us2kPoaGNkTfj5HWC8169R3HP8dKdxH4j7yZOFjueunAtltRu4NERsQiSt8mng/s2448/1%202%202.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1460" data-original-width="2448" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8kag3IvxoGjSCD6PWefbfb766MyLBaZ7fEhSmQAPGwEMFmSBxGYZJ5it9GxujVl92gyBmk_w9T-VF-wt_Z-5L3Rab5noRadFyqFYmMGxbdq3JHZgHBv7BIdbWd6g_i-us2kPoaGNkTfj5HWC8169R3HP8dKdxH4j7yZOFjueunAtltRu4NERsQiSt8mng/s16000/1%202%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lex Barker & Leo Gordon in THE YELLOW MOUNTAIN Year: 1954 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table>Any movie about mining for gold will eventually include double-crossing con artists, and THE YELLOW MOUNTAIN starts right off with honest hero Lex Barker punching his former backstabbing friend in the office of a saloon that's the central location: until they venture into the titular mine with two different names on the claims...</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>There's the shifty fella Barker fought with in charming, unpredictable Howard Duff, with his eyes on the gorgeous daughter of unlucky lifelong gambling miner William Demarest, a kind of passive version of <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2023/11/bogartgold.html">Walter Huston</a>...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, denver pyle, fifties, howard duff, john mcintire, leo gordon, lex barker, mala powers, treasure, western, william demarest

LEX BARKER, MALA POWERS & LEO GORDON 'THE YELLOW MOUNTAIN'

Lex Barker & Leo Gordon in THE YELLOW MOUNTAIN Year: 1954 Rating: ****1/2 Any movie about mining for gold will eventually include double...

HUMPHREY BOGART STEALS 'THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE'

<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/AVvXsEiP05Q8k_mlvuts-jyov1Z6DOnr8ww2uPaRmLd5zdhsdXcp_13WWyOpr2BfDy-m3Z1qnvQ9OVKtKkcB3P9tfCLOoVuhupGTpGa3uMVyiDFKoeXpyzNUL-slTraGByf1pmuZNbPBTp5uTr_WKc40lL5Y3I5_W_iBVHy6JMDFmKJPoZKMv6w7XQSl8G193ox2/s1888/Screen%20Shot%202023-11-15%20at%204.08.19%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="931" data-original-width="1888" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP05Q8k_mlvuts-jyov1Z6DOnr8ww2uPaRmLd5zdhsdXcp_13WWyOpr2BfDy-m3Z1qnvQ9OVKtKkcB3P9tfCLOoVuhupGTpGa3uMVyiDFKoeXpyzNUL-slTraGByf1pmuZNbPBTp5uTr_WKc40lL5Y3I5_W_iBVHy6JMDFmKJPoZKMv6w7XQSl8G193ox2/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-11-15%20at%204.08.19%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE Year: 1948 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>By the time TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE came out, Humphrey Bogart was already a big star, having began (over a decade earlier) as unknown dressed-up dandies to successfully portraying cutthroat villains soon morphed into likeable scoundrels... and then outright heroes...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>So for MADRE it was back to the heavy... yet his Fred C. Dobbs is initially more lightweight and affable, homeless and bumming throughout the crowded purgatory of 1920's Mexico with a new friend in perfect sidekick Tim Holt, both meeting an old yet energetic, experienced, tale-spinning and much-deserved Oscar-winning Walter Huston, director John Huston's father and the reason Bogart agreed playing another dark, sinister role: so that the veteran actor could intensely perform against such formidable, uncompromising tyranny...</p><p><span></span></p>

adventure, barton maclane, bruce bennett, forties, humphrey bogart, john huston, mexico, robert blake, thriller, tim holt, treasure, walter huston

HUMPHREY BOGART STEALS 'THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE'

Title: THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE Year: 1948 Rating: **** By the time TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE came out, Humphrey Bogart was alrea...

CLINT EASTWOOD IN 'THE EIGER SANCTION' WITH GEORGE KENNEDY

<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/AVvXsEidiwvn0rUnrwFPp06oSCfu1F5lsKVbuAHOkbMJiW_h8PwwqcYF79fEisWSvRMVRatpvsUo3X0Q9HUGVPRlYgBFrfyEf1fhLeSg05kJbAdQozKzqUExMJIUvnKeHrxa3IOaeQdGxtK4ev946LhMQ8nEzoDCSWt1Z6XnH3EQ21W0GESQ3v4b0VE-qGdu0Su3/s1602/1%203.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="728" data-original-width="1602" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidiwvn0rUnrwFPp06oSCfu1F5lsKVbuAHOkbMJiW_h8PwwqcYF79fEisWSvRMVRatpvsUo3X0Q9HUGVPRlYgBFrfyEf1fhLeSg05kJbAdQozKzqUExMJIUvnKeHrxa3IOaeQdGxtK4ev946LhMQ8nEzoDCSWt1Z6XnH3EQ21W0GESQ3v4b0VE-qGdu0Su3/s16000/1%203.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE EIGER SANCTION Year: 1975 Rating: *** Grade: C+</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Clint Eastwood's THE EIGER SANCTION foreshadows RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK having an otherwise mild-mannered, seemingly-average college professor with a dangerous side-job... </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>Only here Clint's Jonathan Hemlock is far more dangerous being a hired assassin in what plays like a James Bond vehicle including an enigmatic, monologue-spouting code-name tycoon and several gorgeous, extremely easy women (featuring gorgeous blaxploitation starlet Vonetta McGee) who turn on the central hero...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, candice rialson, clint eastwood, george kennedy, gregory walcott, hit-man, jack cassidy, neo noir, seventies, thayer david, vonetta mcgee

CLINT EASTWOOD IN 'THE EIGER SANCTION' WITH GEORGE KENNEDY

Title: THE EIGER SANCTION Year: 1975 Rating: *** Grade: C+ Clint Eastwood's THE EIGER SANCTION foreshadows RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK havin...

ALEXANDER PAYNE & PAUL GIAMATTI REUNITE FOR 'THE HOLDOVERS'

<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/AVvXsEgGek7Sz7Y0VIBHFoc-XjUJnSO-WL1PIYTjquUqUyW4SVXn3iICoPBCshEJHW2ZtsPhxMuZr62FhmrUa02Eq20K6ubCWf4RlW0CMPWoUQk_AsqM7tQRRDuNDySQEDxnt2CbC0CTpcQgDp4fsUwSCv6EedpRBd7XGtCfQAcnQLwOdwOMoCDHvSKnstMZqXQD/s1703/Screen%20Shot%202024-05-03%20at%2012.20.05%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="978" data-original-width="1703" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGek7Sz7Y0VIBHFoc-XjUJnSO-WL1PIYTjquUqUyW4SVXn3iICoPBCshEJHW2ZtsPhxMuZr62FhmrUa02Eq20K6ubCWf4RlW0CMPWoUQk_AsqM7tQRRDuNDySQEDxnt2CbC0CTpcQgDp4fsUwSCv6EedpRBd7XGtCfQAcnQLwOdwOMoCDHvSKnstMZqXQD/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-05-03%20at%2012.20.05%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE HOLDOVERS Year: 2023 Rating: ** </u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Director Alexander Payne is passive/aggressive when it comes to his previous SIDEWAYS star Paul Giamatti's character Paul Hunham, a stuffy, curmudgeon-like professor at an all-boys boarding school, who in one scene angrily lectures his students while glibly handing-out failing grades, and the next idealistically defends the institution's grieving African-American cook from one of a small-handful of HOLDOVER teens, unable to go home for Christmas and having to spend a melancholy "detention" (like THE BREAKFAST CLUB meets DEAD POET'S SOCIETY meets 1972's CHILD'S PLAY) stuck in an otherwise empty campus...</p><p>Ironically, that particular scolded brat winds up getting a last-minute Christmas vacation reprieve... a shame since he had the kind of antagonistic attitude that would inevitably transition by the end...<br></p><p><span></span></p>

2023, alexander payne, comedy, counter-culture, drama, new, paul giamatti, teen, time period

ALEXANDER PAYNE & PAUL GIAMATTI REUNITE FOR 'THE HOLDOVERS'

Title: THE HOLDOVERS Year: 2023 Rating: ** Director Alexander Payne is passive/aggressive when it comes to his previous SIDEWAYS star Paul G...

DAN AYKROYD WITH HOWARD HESSEMAN IN 'DOCTOR DETROIT'

<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/AVvXsEh_lGXDbmhA9Gy679DyKILCu2e6gyr2156Z8iYnYctyRk7gsQUSAevr8z8bEWVEF2lv2YtJsr4ZMvEQ2ESegbUgUc5AyQq5NybbbHBQT0diLAEQPCxwqsUFs46s0A7eGmAodCGhNjJMJKkWsJKzteI83NF490uRzDS2ExC5cEoTH1Env9xf39Bb-Ad5_4PI/s1474/Screen%20Shot%202023-11-08%20at%201.54.32%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="668" data-original-width="1474" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_lGXDbmhA9Gy679DyKILCu2e6gyr2156Z8iYnYctyRk7gsQUSAevr8z8bEWVEF2lv2YtJsr4ZMvEQ2ESegbUgUc5AyQq5NybbbHBQT0diLAEQPCxwqsUFs46s0A7eGmAodCGhNjJMJKkWsJKzteI83NF490uRzDS2ExC5cEoTH1Env9xf39Bb-Ad5_4PI/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-11-08%20at%201.54.32%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>End Credit Fake Sequel Gag from DOCTOR DETROIT Year: 1982 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>By 1982, Dan Aykroyd wasn't completely into playing a total goofball since, after four gorgeous limo-riding hookers spot his ultra-nerdy college professor Clifford Skridrow power-walking in an obviously rehearsed/notably overboard fashion, they can't quit noting how cute and even sexy he is, thus marking Dan's first stand-alone leading role following the tragic death of legendary comedy-partner John Belushi... </p><p></p><p>Basically a NUTTY PROFESSOR alter-ego theme, foreshadowing Aykroyd's forgettable THE COUCH TRIP in that an otherwise average dolt wields conveniently miraculous traits of an improvisational performer yet here, Clifford feels idealistically motivated to save those hookers (including future trophy wife Donna Dixon and mouthy Fran Drescher) from encroachment by viciously monopolizing Kate Murtaugh after their own flashy pimp Howard Hesseman, owing tons of money and driving the film's entire first act (while literally being driven by T.K. Carter), heads for the hills... </p><p><span></span></p>

andrew duggan, comedy, dan aykroyd, donna dixon, eighties, fran drescher, george furth, hank salas, howard hesseman, lynda lei, prostitute, t.k. carter

DAN AYKROYD WITH HOWARD HESSEMAN IN 'DOCTOR DETROIT'

End Credit Fake Sequel Gag from DOCTOR DETROIT Year: 1982 Rating: ***1/2 By 1982, Dan Aykroyd wasn't completely into playing a total go...

MICHAEL MADSEN AND SCOTT HAMM DUENAS IN 'FINAL WAGER'

<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/AVvXsEigdkzOqtMKw5hMN5keaNjS7UFMcosEetHRO8MVq6DaCsxMb7GD7dsbA5nBiJMTeO1XtlqLQr-dVMYVilgdDUpIBkXCpz6_93wTyfjK339p2r2KZEy9Z2bZ4ZcBkb60yl93TFfxOeMI67YTuCoAoIXOqSAHfun_mbXEx_Q0nBNemTop1kmLZZhrv1tlNbt7/s1606/Screen%20Shot%202024-04-10%20at%2011.14.23%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="822" data-original-width="1606" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigdkzOqtMKw5hMN5keaNjS7UFMcosEetHRO8MVq6DaCsxMb7GD7dsbA5nBiJMTeO1XtlqLQr-dVMYVilgdDUpIBkXCpz6_93wTyfjK339p2r2KZEy9Z2bZ4ZcBkb60yl93TFfxOeMI67YTuCoAoIXOqSAHfun_mbXEx_Q0nBNemTop1kmLZZhrv1tlNbt7/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-04-10%20at%2011.14.23%20PM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Michael Madsen in FINAL WAGER Year: 2024</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Michael Madsen's famous tough guy voice has become even harsher with age, providing an underline crime flick edge to FINAL WAGER, an otherwise tavern-set romantic-comedy with a TWILIGHT ZONE-style twist of an unlucky gambler who realizes he cannot lose a bet on Christmas: so it's also an upbeat Holiday flick... but without getting lost in sentimentalism despite a financial assistance subplot driving our resilient, likeable lead...<br></p><p></p><p>Instead, it's his fiance, played by down-to-earth, light-up-a-room beauty Fernanda Romero... owner of the central bar... who keeps the low-budget yet impressively slick and professional-looking indie not only intriguing, but surprisingly unpredictable despite the firmly established fact this lucky-streak-gambler will <i>always</i> win — because he can possibly lose his girl, and from beginning, middle and end, their relationship is what FINAL WAGER truly relies on. <br></p><p><span></span></p>

2024, christmas, comedy, fernanda romano, gambling, michael madsen, romantic comedy, scott hamm duenas

MICHAEL MADSEN AND SCOTT HAMM DUENAS IN 'FINAL WAGER'

Michael Madsen in FINAL WAGER Year: 2024 Michael Madsen's famous tough guy voice has become even harsher with age, providing an underlin...

CHRISTINA GREGG IN ROGER CORMAN'S 'THE YOUNG RACERS'

<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/AVvXsEjBesT6guVerp3AFTeMdA_0xE35S4vImVUDq4E3KsPqVg0il0WgMWrlScytSfFSILxUXCy4hbWyNZy-B4XYqjrtV_RhpqDjfhEo6xfKZqDibC4AGva-1C0WHQX40I2hcYY-SPven0F4g3SScEnr95d66798EoGx6d59LO_e7pejMad5yNcM2m-QAoAebEOq/s1762/1%202-1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1048" data-original-width="1762" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBesT6guVerp3AFTeMdA_0xE35S4vImVUDq4E3KsPqVg0il0WgMWrlScytSfFSILxUXCy4hbWyNZy-B4XYqjrtV_RhpqDjfhEo6xfKZqDibC4AGva-1C0WHQX40I2hcYY-SPven0F4g3SScEnr95d66798EoGx6d59LO_e7pejMad5yNcM2m-QAoAebEOq/s16000/1%202-1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Christina Gregg with Mark Damon in THE YOUNG RACERS Year: 1963 Rates: ** </u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>There are bad b-movies that are still entertaining, and then there are those that simply don't work — as is the case of Roger Corman's THE YOUNG RACERS,<i> that does use</i> genuine European Monte Carlo Grand Prix racing locations that don't resemble stock footage thrown into the melodramatic romance sequences, which this has far too much of...</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>Howard Hawks fared much better (though not financially) with what this picture seems a precursor of, RED LINE 7000, following womanizing racers and their female conquests, some stronger than others, in particular Luana Anders as the central ingenue, stuck between THE YOUNG RACERS... </p><p><span></span></p>

action, christina gregg, exploitation, luana anders, mark damon, melodrama, race car, roger corman, romance, sixties, sport, william campbell, william shatner

CHRISTINA GREGG IN ROGER CORMAN'S 'THE YOUNG RACERS'

Christina Gregg with Mark Damon in THE YOUNG RACERS Year: 1963 Rates: ** There are bad b-movies that are still entertaining, and then there ...

HUMPHREY BOGART WITH LAUREN BACALL IN 'THE BIG SLEEP'

<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/AVvXsEjs4JR8kyc0_q1TlH_SucuKQDIEg7asFj0b_amfpQDYUX1Z0z0yQU9Aqd6gMngGNsAdZ4Z3IArT8REYNfWIElfnzsIwnTQ9rKMk6VNQqkO6pF1ukBUos8nowbpV6KCmDo4QW9swAfmyV5FY6BuktNu9kIrEzw9O4Vr9EEkmCSQHM2NiUIvhF-rOHqUqlwFH/s2066/Screen%20Shot%202023-11-01%20at%205.45.14%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1158" data-original-width="2066" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs4JR8kyc0_q1TlH_SucuKQDIEg7asFj0b_amfpQDYUX1Z0z0yQU9Aqd6gMngGNsAdZ4Z3IArT8REYNfWIElfnzsIwnTQ9rKMk6VNQqkO6pF1ukBUos8nowbpV6KCmDo4QW9swAfmyV5FY6BuktNu9kIrEzw9O4Vr9EEkmCSQHM2NiUIvhF-rOHqUqlwFH/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-11-01%20at%205.45.14%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE BIG SLEEP Year: 1946 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>One of the most important agendas director Howard Hawks had for Humphrey Bogart in THE BIG SLEEP — following his breakthrough in HIGH SIERRA followed by THE MALTESE FALCON and CASABLANCA — was to not only sustain his snowballing stardom, but to make him a ravaging sex symbol...</p><p></p><p>Because every woman here wants him... needs him, even... from a sexy librarian, a sexier bookstore employee (Dorothy Malone)... and even a hot female cab driver gets his number, literally, for a possible nighttime tryst... </p><p><span></span></p>

dorothy malone, film noir or melodrama, gumshoe, howard hawks, humphrey bogart, lauren bacall, martha vickers, mystery, raymond chandler

HUMPHREY BOGART WITH LAUREN BACALL IN 'THE BIG SLEEP'

Title: THE BIG SLEEP Year: 1946 Rating: ***1/2 One of the most important agendas director Howard Hawks had for Humphrey Bogart in THE BIG SL...

HUMPHREY BOGART & LAUREN BACALL 'TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT'

<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/AVvXsEhhZF2XwOULxq2-7vzidub8EE7pMH7cPRv6rA2x1AErUbBg3aAXikZ0CC6cuDCWzJNY7FgOmbMdWw8zszro5VMZHl2junGIwcSL0dY5Kv_72AOTMgsHwasUk7EQukbSD9sSmA0lifPcua3-KaRhof90JlzE2r2zKHrtis4JwX3Qen2QPCG8y6-y7ExBhAt2/s1086/Screen%20Shot%202023-11-02%20at%204.39.07%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="557" data-original-width="1086" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhZF2XwOULxq2-7vzidub8EE7pMH7cPRv6rA2x1AErUbBg3aAXikZ0CC6cuDCWzJNY7FgOmbMdWw8zszro5VMZHl2junGIwcSL0dY5Kv_72AOTMgsHwasUk7EQukbSD9sSmA0lifPcua3-KaRhof90JlzE2r2zKHrtis4JwX3Qen2QPCG8y6-y7ExBhAt2/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-11-02%20at%204.39.07%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT Year: 1944 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>After Lauren Bacall, in her first feature film, says her iconic line about knowing how to whistle and leaves the room, there's a closeup on American charter boat captain Harry 'Steve' Morgan played by Humphrey Bogart, where he practically looks into the camera while doing a wolf-whistle, giving a knowing grin that seems more like a contrived promotion for the lovely newcomer than part of an action thriller, very loosely based on the novel... originally a magazine serial in pulp fiction style... by Ernest Hemingway...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>However there are a few faithful elements, like the initial fishing trip with irate customer Walter Sande and Bogart's rummy sidekick Walter Brennan, who needs a drink every minute... only this being a movie, the score <i>Mickey Mouses</i> in a dated fashion (mirroring exact character movements), especially with Brennan who, despite being a pathetic lush, is the supposed comic relief in a picture with comedy as one of the genres...</p><span></span>

action, adventure, british film noir/melodrama, ernest hemingway, forties, howard hawks, humphrey bogart, lauren bacall, walter brennan, world war II

HUMPHREY BOGART & LAUREN BACALL 'TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT'

Title: TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT Year: 1944 Rating: ***1/2 After Lauren Bacall, in her first feature film, says her iconic line about knowing how...