Written by James M. Tate / 3/22/2023 / No comments / action , bel air productions , carolyn jones , claude akins , cop , crime , edmond o'brien , emile meyer , fifties , film noir or melodrama , john agar , marla english
EDMOND O'BRIEN KILLS THE BAD COP NOIR 'SHIELD FOR MURDER'

Title: SHIELD FOR MURDERYear of Capture & Release: 1954 Bullet Holes: **** By the time this SHIELD FOR MURDER hit theaters, Edmond O...
CHARLES BRONSON IN 'LOVE AND BULLETS' FEATURING PAUL KOSLO

Charles Bronson in LOVE AND BULLETS Year: 1979 Rating: *** For some, during Charles Bronson's Cannon era, sadly gone felt the MGM days. ...
Written by James M. Tate / 3/21/2023 / No comments / alun armstrong , british neo noir , british new wave , exploitation , george sewell , godfrey quigley , ian hendry , john bindon , michael caine , mike hodges , petra markham , seventies , thriller , tony beckley
MIKE HODGES DIRECTS A KILLER MICHAEL CAINE IN 'GET CARTER'

Title: GET CARTER Year: 1971 Rating: ***** The plot of director Mike Hodges' GET CARTER is simple enough: London-based gangster Michael ...
Written by James M. Tate / 3/20/2023 / No comments / al lettieri , amerigo tot , british new wave , cult , dark comedy , lionel stander , lizabeth scott , michael caine , mickey rooney , mike hodges , neo noir , seventies , thriller
DIRECTOR MIKE HODGES BEATS MICHAEL CAINE TO A BREEZY 'PULP'

Michael Caine gets fiction in PULP Year: 1972 Rates: ** * * Director Mike Hodges and his GET CARTER anti-hero Michael Caine found the perfe...
Written by James M. Tate / 3/19/2023 / No comments / arthur kennedy , cornel wilde , crime , film noir or melodrama , forties , heist , humphrey bogart , ida lupino , joan leslie , john huston , raoul walsh , rural
HUMPHREY BOGART'S CAREER SKYROCKETS FROM 'HIGH SIERRA'

title: HIGH SIERRA year: 1941 cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino, Alan Curtis, Joan Leslie, Arthur Kennedy rating: **** There's ...
Written by James M. Tate / 3/18/2023 / No comments / dennis hopper , earl holliman , fifties , film noir or melodrama , heist , jack palance , lee marvin , lon chaney jr. , lori nelson , perry lopez , remake , richard davalos , shelley winters , warner archives
TECHNICOLOR 'HIGH SIERRA' REMAKE 'I DIED A THOUSAND TIMES'

Title: I DIED A THOUSAND TIMES Year: 1955 Rating: ***1/2 It's strange that I DIED A THOUSAND TIMES, the 1955 practically scene-for-scene...
Written by James M. Tate / 3/17/2023 / No comments / exploitation , joanna miles , kim hunter , linda blair , melodrama , richard jaekal , seventies , teen , tv movie , women in prison
LINDA BLAIR LOCKED IN THE TELEVISION MOVIE 'BORN INNOCENT'

Linda Blair in BORN INNOCENT Year: 1974 Rating: ***1/2 This TV-Movie warning the dangers of being an incorrigible runaway titled BORN INNOC...
Written by James M. Tate / 3/16/2023 / No comments / action , adventure , belinda balaski , creature , eco-horror , exploitatio , ida lupino , marjoe gortner , pamela franklin , ralph meeker , seventies
BERT I. GORDON DIRECTS 'FOOD OF THE GODS' WITH RALPH MEEKER

Title: FOOD OF THE GODS Year: 1976 Rating: ***1/2 When cult director Bert I. Gordon was a forgotten legend of 1950's and 1960's driv...
Written by James M. Tate / 3/15/2023 / No comments / action , billy green bush , cop , counter-culture , cult , mitchell ryan , modern western , nick nolte , robert blake , seventies
ROBERT BLAKE TRIBUTE OF CULT CLASSIC 'ELECTRA GLIDE IN BLUE'

title: ELECTRA GLIDE IN BLUE year: 1973 rating: ****1/2 In 1973, cops got their very own EASY RIDER in ELECTRA GLIDE IN BLUE, both involving...
Written by James M. Tate / 3/14/2023 / No comments / barry sullivan , biopic , gangster , joe turkel , neo noir , robert blake , sixties , warner archive
ROBERT BLAKE LEADS 'THE PURPLE GANG' WITH JOSEPH TURKEL

Robert Blake in THE PURPLE GANG Year: 1960 Rating: **1/2 “The whole rhythm section was the Purple Gang,” sang Elvis Presley from his JAILH...
Written by James M. Tate / 3/13/2023 / No comments / action , emile meyer , exploitation , fifties , film noir or melodrama , gene evans , prison , robert blake , timothy carey , walter barnes
ROBERT BLAKE AND TIMOTHY CAREY 'REVOLT IN THE BIG HOUSE'

Title: REVOLT IN THE BIG HOUSE Year: 1958 Rating: **** In most prison flicks, whenever a convict returns from solitary confinement... a week...
Written by James M. Tate / 3/12/2023 / No comments / action , boxing , catherine spaak , crime , ernest borgnine , import , italian import , neo noir , robert blake , seventies , sport , tomas milian
ROBERT BLAKE 'RIPPED-OFF' AS 'THE BOXER' IN 'COUNTER PUNCH'

Robert Blake in Ripped-Off YEAR: 1972 Released: 1975 Rates: ***1/2 In RIPPED-OFF, originally titled THE BOXER and also going by COUNTER P...
Written by James M. Tate / 3/11/2023 / No comments / biopic , brenda currin , charles mcgraw , crime , gerald s. o'loughlin , james flavin , jeff corey , john forsythe , john mcliam , neo noir , paul stewart , richard brooks , robert blake , scott wilson , sixties , will geer
ROBERT BLAKE & SCOTT WILSON BREAKTHROUGH 'IN COLD BLOOD'

Title: IN COLD BLOOD Director: Richard Brooks Year: 1967 Rating: ***** Made in the late-1960's leading to the early-1970's American ...
Written by James M. Tate / 3/07/2023 / No comments / albert salmi , bert i. gordon , body count , brooke palance , creature , jacqueline ellis , joan collins , john david carson , robert lansing , robert pine , seventies
ENLARGING BERT I. GORDON'S CULT CLASSIC 'EMPIRE OF THE ANTS'

Title: EMPIRE OF THE ANTS Year: 1977 Rating: **** Cult director Bert I. Young peaked during the 1970's, bringing his previous two decade...
Written by James M. Tate / 3/06/2023 / No comments / boxing , british , british film noir/melodrama , fifties , gloria grahame , heist , joan collins , john ireland , laurence harvey , lewis gilbert , richard basehart , romance , stanley baker
STANLEY BAKER AND LAURENCE HARVEY IN 'THE GOOD DIE YOUNG'

Title: THE GOOD DIE YOUNG Year: 1954 Rating: ***1/2 Lewis Gilbert's London-set Noir/Melodrama would lack some of the Melodrama without t...
Written by James M. Tate / 3/03/2023 / No comments / angie dickinson , claude akins , clu gulager , crime , don siegel , ernest hemingway , john cassavetes , lee marvin , norman fell , race car , robert phillips , ronald reagan , sixties , thriller
DON SIEGEL'S VERSION OF ERNEST HEMINGWAY'S 'THE KILLERS'

Title: THE KILLERS Year: 1964 Rating: **** Ernest Hemingway's 1927 short-story THE KILLERS is indeed quite short, mostly taking place i...
Written by James M. Tate / 3/02/2023 / No comments / albert dekker , ava gardner , burt lancaster , edmond o'brien , ernest hemingway , film noir or melodrama , forties , jack lambert , jeff corey , phil brown , thriller
BURT LANCASTER IN HEMINGWAY'S PULP FICTION 'THE KILLERS'

Title: THE KILLERS Year: 1946 Rating: **** Little did Ernest Hemingway know, when he created the very short short-story THE KILLERS, that he...
Written by James M. Tate / 2/27/2023 / No comments / british film noir , con man , eddie byrne , fifties , ginger rogers , heist , herbert lom , jacques bergerac , melodrama , romance , stanley baker
STANLEY BAKER AND GINGER ROGERS IN 'BEAUTIFUL STRANGER'

Title: BEAUTIFUL STRANGER AKA TWIST OF FATE Year: 1954 Rating: ***1/2 "I stole it... I am innocent," Herbert Lom says to Stanley B...
Written by James M. Tate / 2/25/2023 / No comments / anne heywood , david mccallum , fifties , film noir or melodrama , music , peter cushing , stanley baker
STANLEY BAKER IN 'VIOLENT PLAYGROUND' WITH PETER CUSHING

Title: VIOLENT PLAYGROUND Year: 1958 Rates: **** A year after playing brothers in HELL DRIVERS , making Stanley Baker famous and putting cam...
STANLEY BAKER TRUCKS WITH PEGGY CUMMINS IN 'HELL DRIVERS'

Title: HELL DRIVERS Year: 1957 Rating: **** Cheating with the sped-up effect ala Keystone Cop films, the hauling-trucks for HELL DRIVERS pic...
Written by James M. Tate / 2/24/2023 / No comments / british new wave , cult , drama , frank finlay , indie , james bolam , jazz score , julia foster , michael redgrave , prison , sixties , sport , tom courtenay , tony richardson , topsy jane
TOM COURTENAY 'THE LONELINESS OF THE LONG DISTANCE RUNNER'

Title: THE LONELINESS OF THE LONG DISTANCE RUNNER Year: 1962 Rating: ***** Although SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING gets credit for igniti...
Written by James M. Tate / 2/23/2023 / No comments / british new wave , daphne anderson , dennis waterman , gordon jackson , kenneth griffith , melodrama , roddy mcmillan , sixties , zena walker
ZENA WALKER & DENNIS WATERMAN IN THE DRAMA 'SNOWBALL'

Zena Walker in SNOWBALL Year: 1960 Rating: *** A unique British New Wave/Kitchen Sink melodrama involving how fate works... not the first ...
Written by James M. Tate / 2/22/2023 / No comments / billie whitelaw , british neo noir , british new wave , donald pleasence , geoffrey frederick , hammer films , jazz score , john crawford , lois daine , sarah branch , sixties , stanley baker , val guest , vanda godsell
VAL GUEST DIRECTS STANLEY BAKER IN HAMMER'S 'HELL IS A CITY'

Poster Art of John Crawford & Lois Daine for HELL IS A CITY Year: 1960 Rates: *** * * The second and final Hammer feature with Val Guest...
Written by James M. Tate / 2/21/2023 / No comments / action , darlanne fluegel , donald sutherland , eighties , frank mcrea , john ams , john flynn , prison , sonny landham , sylvester stallone , tom sizemore
SYLVESTER STALLONE & TOM SIZEMORE IN JOHN FLYNN'S 'LOCK UP'

title: LOCK UP year: 1989 cast: Sylvester Stallone, Donald Sutherland, Tom Sizemore rating: ***1/2 Somewhere within the corny, bombas...
Written by James M. Tate / 2/20/2023 / No comments / british film noir , drama , fifties , george cole , herbert marshall , jon whiteley , lizabeth scott , mystery , nicole maurey , sally anne field , steve cochran , thriller , val guest , war
STEVE COCHRAN & LIZABETH SCOTT IN VAL GUEST'S 'THE WEAPON'

Title: THE WEAPON Year: 1957 Rating: **** Post War British a decade past, hence the genuine bombed-out ruins where a pistol (THE WEAPON) is ...
BURT REYNOLDS AND CLINT EASTWOOD TEAM FOR 'CITY HEAT'

Title: City Heat Stars: Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds Year: 1984 Rating: *** Remembering the time, as a young action movie fan, when realiz...