Written by James M. Tate / 3/24/2023 / No comments / charles bronson , david mccallum , donald pleasence , ensemble , escape , james coburn , james garner , prison , richard attenborough , sixties , steve mcqueen , world war II
STEVE MCQUEEN AND JAMES GARNER MAKE 'THE GREAT ESCAPE'

Title: THE GREAT ESCAPE Year: 1963 Rating: ***1/2 While the World War II German-set Prison-of-War movie THE GREAT ESCAPE was being filmed, a...
Written by James M. Tate / 3/23/2023 / No comments / adventure , bill mumy , biopic , don gordon , drama , dustin hoffman , francis j. schaffner , henri charrière , john quade , prison , seventies , steve mcqueen , woodrow palfrey
STEVE MCQUEEN & DUSTIN HOFFMAN IN THE ORIGINAL 'PAPILLON'

Title: PAPILLON Year: 1973 Rating: ***1/2 Director Francis J. Schaffner and scriptwriter Dalton Trumbo convert Henri Charrière's riveti...
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 neo noir , 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 / clancy cooper , film noir or melodrama , forties , gangster , george meeker , jan wiley , paul maxey , philip van zandt , ramsay ames , warner archives , warren douglas
WARREN DOUGLAS IN THE GANGSTER NOIR 'BELOW THE DEADLINE'

Warren Douglas, Ramsay Ames & George Meeker in Below the Deadline Year: 1946 Rating: ***1/2 Little known or discussed Gangster Film No...
Written by James M. Tate / 3/04/2023 / 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...
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GEORGE MAHARIS SABOTAGES THE TV-MOVIE 'DEATH FLIGHT'
George Maharis up to no good for DEATH FLIGHT Year: 1977 Rates: ***1/2 Let's quickly kill two birds with one stone... the death of ROUTE...
