HENRY WINKLER & SALLY FIELD IN 'HEROES' WITH HARRISON FORD

<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/AVvXsEja2dbcvMmDKd-Z5Zq7l6C9sZBe1_kKRS4zc254jnbwKKbcYoiMl6Ud2LCtFlbDnk9XkHOCrvv_IISVSp9mpL9kq4_ymPNstFsTdkeQoJqlSVG-g7MtRphqAcmF24PBiX9vfwLdHJngz_ThSZizMMXogkRIsaOw4cg4Z_k2BNQyfA8Ogs1KNJRrCXOzs1mq/s1274/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="687" data-original-width="1274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja2dbcvMmDKd-Z5Zq7l6C9sZBe1_kKRS4zc254jnbwKKbcYoiMl6Ud2LCtFlbDnk9XkHOCrvv_IISVSp9mpL9kq4_ymPNstFsTdkeQoJqlSVG-g7MtRphqAcmF24PBiX9vfwLdHJngz_ThSZizMMXogkRIsaOw4cg4Z_k2BNQyfA8Ogs1KNJRrCXOzs1mq/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Harrison Ford in HEROES Year: 1977 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Wanna see Henry Winkler beat up a barroom full of bikers without the use of his magical leather jacket? In HEROES he plays a goofy, manic, troubled Vietnam Vet who, after escaping from a mental institution in New York City, travels across country, energized by bizarre plans to build a worm farm in Eureka, California, with the (hopeful) help of his fellow vets... <br> <br> Along the way, via bus, while pestering put-upon driver Val Avery, Winkler's Jack Dunne meets lonely, single, soon-to-be-wed Sally Field as Carol (the same year she'd be a reluctant fiance in SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT), and the first of his "Nam " cronies played by soon-to-be-famous Harrison Ford, the same year he'd help The Rebel Alliance rescue a princess, here basically rehashing his AMERICAN GRAFFITI "Bob Falfa" character: but with issues, and zero backbone...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><span></span>

al rubin, dennis burkley, harrison ford, henry winkler, john cassavetes, road movie, sally field, seventies, val avery, vietnam

HENRY WINKLER & SALLY FIELD IN 'HEROES' WITH HARRISON FORD

Harrison Ford in HEROES Year: 1977 Rating: *** Wanna see Henry Winkler beat up a barroom full of bikers without the use of his magical leat...

CYNDI LAUPER & JEFF GOLBLUM 'VIBES' PETER FALK & JULIAN SANDS

<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/AVvXsEjq2vWk51Szpap0pLdKzKQCbdm7KbcEP-Kw8Kfi6z10tLyXMQ846gUjsbkUaLp1BiYT-V5MLLlHL3DBs-L-YJ7uCJnVDkWmPoSdLUd7MVCE2JWYSqUUizAqdnZLog-cIbunqNvQHZosMRJV5DLA8h29TnvORMLkF5E9mnAXxJmy8qq9SFNCg3Y5cRUHnOzH/s2128/Screen%20Shot%202023-06-28%20at%2012.02.59%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1274" data-original-width="2128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq2vWk51Szpap0pLdKzKQCbdm7KbcEP-Kw8Kfi6z10tLyXMQ846gUjsbkUaLp1BiYT-V5MLLlHL3DBs-L-YJ7uCJnVDkWmPoSdLUd7MVCE2JWYSqUUizAqdnZLog-cIbunqNvQHZosMRJV5DLA8h29TnvORMLkF5E9mnAXxJmy8qq9SFNCg3Y5cRUHnOzH/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-06-28%20at%2012.02.59%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: VIBES Year: 1988 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>It's a shame this comedy/adventure, about two slacker city folk with psychic powers, bombed so hard in  theaters because Cyndi Lauper – the 1980's icon who sang about girls wanting to have fun – is a pretty good actress, sharing the right amount of lightweight chemistry with fellow psychic (and really nice guy) Jeff Goldblum and rogue con-artist Peter Falk, who tricks the duo into finding his kidnapped son when he's actually seeking a mysterious pyramid of light on a mountaintop... </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>Here's where the film, after establishing the likable characters in New York and then their hijinx in a small Ecuador town, goes downhill: once they reach the destination, there's nothing more to build: But Lauper's presence alone making the decent parts, and even the boring ones, somewhat worthwhile. And it's no surprise that WARLOCK actor Julian Sands is a worthy adversary...</p><p><span></span></p>

cyndi lauper, eighties, jeff goldblum, julian sands, michael lerner, peter falk, peter jason, romantic comedy

CYNDI LAUPER & JEFF GOLBLUM 'VIBES' PETER FALK & JULIAN SANDS

Title: VIBES Year: 1988 Rating: *** It's a shame this comedy/adventure, about two slacker city folk with psychic powers, bombed so har...

JACK NICHOLSON WITH OTIS YOUNG TAKING ON 'THE LAST DETAIL'

<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/AVvXsEgOBS57UT-Kx4MRV9iGVHvAEWRmAespguMpXgTbXVdZgg7stjQ0r96_ROhGF4aqE8gxLYhO0lra09lKBXzVaNakUdInoAuJuOg2-tLbPXlpm3yjY39qhW5zlQaGl-8ys05KZxR5509rkhkzybQMXSelKEhMwIeRJwAlYZPQ5QCHVkTLbLWmW3ynYU5hboc3/s2048/AVvXsEjGdJGvt5d_ROQYPZ7l5NnIHrXhi5PMDTs31Svth1LOqHHmhV_Y70T4kAZ8dFpLQPtK8UECJT19Y1zKu8Xv760e_gQz7hh31cQGwy5Jh6A-wylbe8hgCBnIZF22F2l-nc6dfn7kDTpYkh_XFFFO0BMjQUE8FxCHJl39PTOZerrOi7psWsejPojTkFJ90A=s16000.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1160" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOBS57UT-Kx4MRV9iGVHvAEWRmAespguMpXgTbXVdZgg7stjQ0r96_ROhGF4aqE8gxLYhO0lra09lKBXzVaNakUdInoAuJuOg2-tLbPXlpm3yjY39qhW5zlQaGl-8ys05KZxR5509rkhkzybQMXSelKEhMwIeRJwAlYZPQ5QCHVkTLbLWmW3ynYU5hboc3/s16000/AVvXsEjGdJGvt5d_ROQYPZ7l5NnIHrXhi5PMDTs31Svth1LOqHHmhV_Y70T4kAZ8dFpLQPtK8UECJT19Y1zKu8Xv760e_gQz7hh31cQGwy5Jh6A-wylbe8hgCBnIZF22F2l-nc6dfn7kDTpYkh_XFFFO0BMjQUE8FxCHJl39PTOZerrOi7psWsejPojTkFJ90A=s16000.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jack Nicholson and Otis Young in THE LAST DETAIL Year: 1973 Rating: *****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>What makes THE LAST DETAIL as much comedy as drama is the brilliant use of quick editing, like whenever Navy lifer Jack Nicholson gets too drunk and boisterous, turning a would-be fight into just another time-filling tantrum... </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>Cutting to the next scene before what seems important rolls into the overall road trip journey from New York to Boston on buses and trains, throughout in the snowy East Coast in what's very often regarded (by both critics and fans) as Jack Nicholson's greatest performance...</p><p><span></span></p>

comedy, counter culture, cult, drama, hal ashby, indie, jack nicholson, luana anders, military, nancy allen, otis young, randy quaid, road movie, seventies

JACK NICHOLSON WITH OTIS YOUNG TAKING ON 'THE LAST DETAIL'

Jack Nicholson and Otis Young in THE LAST DETAIL Year: 1973 Rating: ***** What makes THE LAST DETAIL as much comedy as drama is the brillian...

HOWARD HAWKS DIRECTS JAMES CAAN FOR 'RED LINE 7000'

<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/AVvXsEgy3DAx-V521h0sF1O2ZOW1W-gkbTpc6J-QSfWHkgZuefOZ-_Jt91hct7HcAU7DQrcyoAtzNfZnHBGgqBlwZrQkHyLTIqiobkvRbcZENApWC_1i41LvP5L4XhxoSXyLxYb0_mMqSp7WE8faZ5n7L9emmjNWWhqNw4cPtJyXisgqCn12ukGqjjh5OIDgGqcV/s2018/Screen%20Shot%202023-06-25%20at%207.13.07%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1026" data-original-width="2018" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy3DAx-V521h0sF1O2ZOW1W-gkbTpc6J-QSfWHkgZuefOZ-_Jt91hct7HcAU7DQrcyoAtzNfZnHBGgqBlwZrQkHyLTIqiobkvRbcZENApWC_1i41LvP5L4XhxoSXyLxYb0_mMqSp7WE8faZ5n7L9emmjNWWhqNw4cPtJyXisgqCn12ukGqjjh5OIDgGqcV/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-06-25%20at%207.13.07%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: RED LINE 7000 Stars: James Caan Director: Howard Hawks Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>One of the strangest race car movies of all time is also the most grounded, deliberately mundane, and, directed by an old Howard Hawks starring a young James Caan, its worth both watching and re-watching since there's so much going on... yet hardly on the actual racetrack...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>In which Caan's one of several racers though mostly holed-up at a Holiday Inn and partaking in various affairs while driving for Norman Aldan, whose pretty tomboy sister Laura Devon winds up quickly bedded with the film's buried lead in muscular bore John Robert Crawford, whose rushed backstory of a farm boy wanting to be the fastest takes away from an against-the-odds story that should have been Caan's instead... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

gail hire, george takei, howard hawks, james caan, laura devon, marianna hill, norman aldan, race car, sixties, skip ward, sport

HOWARD HAWKS DIRECTS JAMES CAAN FOR 'RED LINE 7000'

Title: RED LINE 7000 Stars: James Caan Director: Howard Hawks Rating: ***1/2 One of the strangest race car movies of all time is also the mo...

JAMES CAAN & SHIRLEY KNIGHT IN COPPOLA'S 'THE RAIN PEOPLE'

<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/AVvXsEhqteCI_vAFl7jCD-pL2OkJn_d4WWRSC3dK02TD4XHZnQVtqx9efoe5NfEC4pWDK5nWvWyLDJDuhNV_DBDEIUShp0rBgE80H3JkUYesJkF57tPxCNWtR8R_4xo8e0HAh7kprJLwe4Oij1gAJt2Ir4w-RJbAWWgwGqHIskikGEV5t7_SVFlqmwuGTf_tkaQx/s1600/25.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="890" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqteCI_vAFl7jCD-pL2OkJn_d4WWRSC3dK02TD4XHZnQVtqx9efoe5NfEC4pWDK5nWvWyLDJDuhNV_DBDEIUShp0rBgE80H3JkUYesJkF57tPxCNWtR8R_4xo8e0HAh7kprJLwe4Oij1gAJt2Ir4w-RJbAWWgwGqHIskikGEV5t7_SVFlqmwuGTf_tkaQx/s16000/25.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE RAIN PEOPLE Year: 1969 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>While his PATTON Oscar-winning screenplay gave Francis Ford Coppola the power and clout to direct two of the greatest (or perhaps <i>the greatest</i>) motion pictures ever made... both GODFATHER films... it was THE RAIN PEOPLE that proved he could invest worthy meantime depicting flawed human beings in an independent state-hopping road movie starring Shirley Knight as a married, newly-pregnant woman haunted with frantic memories...<br> <br> And hitchhiking James Caan as a man-child who, once a star college football player having suffered a severe head injury, passively relies on Knight as a kind of mother figure — protecting him from various small town residents (from a college girlfriend's family to a shady roadside wild animal exploiter) when she can hardly take care of herself.<br> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>

drama, francis ford coppola, independent, james caan, road movie, robert duvall, shirley knight, sixties

JAMES CAAN & SHIRLEY KNIGHT IN COPPOLA'S 'THE RAIN PEOPLE'

Title: THE RAIN PEOPLE Year: 1969 Rating: **** While his PATTON Oscar-winning screenplay gave Francis Ford Coppola the power and clout to d...

MEMORIAL FOR 'APOCALYPSE NOW' LEGEND FREDERIC FORREST

<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/AVvXsEhw3UeBvtDfWDNUtL7i0YWsYVPe5l17pz2A-Xa2o7CO0mr249sUIzb1ZXau6CDydm8HUC-KmEnyjeGimJnNEBMLOtfmGQpWqNQBC9q9-A9s3xoKwbGHE7hoOsGlwRFZLsrOx4esoMB_-sPiEpk_0S7To5YTp7JJWLp02CZEfrK5uoo209dH9M3qc_SPxyOf/s2380/Screen%20Shot%202023-06-24%20at%202.47.36%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1010" data-original-width="2380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw3UeBvtDfWDNUtL7i0YWsYVPe5l17pz2A-Xa2o7CO0mr249sUIzb1ZXau6CDydm8HUC-KmEnyjeGimJnNEBMLOtfmGQpWqNQBC9q9-A9s3xoKwbGHE7hoOsGlwRFZLsrOx4esoMB_-sPiEpk_0S7To5YTp7JJWLp02CZEfrK5uoo209dH9M3qc_SPxyOf/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-06-24%20at%202.47.36%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Memorial for Frederic Forrest as Chef in Apocalypse Now</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 Vietnam epic APOCALYPSE NOW, by the time Martin Sheen's Captain Willard reveals to one of two surviving PBR-boat crewman about his secret mission to kill Marlon Brando's rogue American Colonel Kurtz, Coppola's THE CONVERSATION actor Frederic Forrest loudly rails against the insane irony of risking <i>and losing</i> lives to "kill one of our own guys"...<br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And yet this imperative dialogue is heard either off-screen or in a peripheral wide-shot as, from beginning to end, Forrest's Jay "Chef" Hicks provides a foreboding backbone to each intense scene like, earlier on, when he and Sheen are chased by a jungle tiger, leading to Chef's explosive breakdown that soon fades out with the scene...<br></p><p><span></span></p>

2023, dennis hopper, francis ford coppola, frederic forrest, martin sheen, memorial, sam bottoms, seventies, vietnam, war

MEMORIAL FOR 'APOCALYPSE NOW' LEGEND FREDERIC FORREST

Memorial for Frederic Forrest as Chef in Apocalypse Now In Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 Vietnam epic APOCALYPSE NOW, by the time Martin S...

OLIVER REED DOUBLE FEATURE ON 'THE SAINT' WITH ROGER MOORE

<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/AVvXsEhsICp65heiiAXpRg50-K5oGk1Q2DMH-fW2t5ZHPTNdQd8yB9-rTsFZ_b-JYlkvnCCrRbkDcSxczvUgTnToG5l3tqTKcY0xYCr61Xv5F5SAWFwq6dgkmqgWghZG-07gYGPfo3XbslKN4_f4JJebG4MnwLeuSFiNKp3O3IGtZzrVcfk8uQrrWq2RZcpDZpoO/s2008/Screen%20Shot%202023-06-23%20at%209.55.23%20AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1224" data-original-width="2008" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsICp65heiiAXpRg50-K5oGk1Q2DMH-fW2t5ZHPTNdQd8yB9-rTsFZ_b-JYlkvnCCrRbkDcSxczvUgTnToG5l3tqTKcY0xYCr61Xv5F5SAWFwq6dgkmqgWghZG-07gYGPfo3XbslKN4_f4JJebG4MnwLeuSFiNKp3O3IGtZzrVcfk8uQrrWq2RZcpDZpoO/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-06-23%20at%209.55.23%20AM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Oliver Reed on two 1963 episodes of THE SAINT starring Roger Moore</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In his early troubled-youth pictures THE SYSTEM and THE PARTY'S OVER, British actor Oliver Reed gave his future roles away with imitations that are, in those cases, poking fun of either Americans or the typical cinematic Gangster...<br> <br> The latter being used in the episode SOPHIA where Roger Moore's THE SAINT finds himself in rural Greece where the episode's titular character (played by a gorgeous Imogen Hassall)... the daughter of a stubborn, old-fashioned pub owner... is anticipating her supposedly rich New Yorker cousin...<br> </p><p></p><p></p>

british, british new wave, crime, heist, imogen hassal, oliver reed, roger moore, sixties, the saint, TV, yvonne romain

OLIVER REED DOUBLE FEATURE ON 'THE SAINT' WITH ROGER MOORE

Oliver Reed on two 1963 episodes of THE SAINT starring Roger Moore In his early troubled-youth pictures THE SYSTEM and THE PARTY'S OVER...

JANE ASHER IN 'THE SAINT' DOUBLE FEATURE WITH ROGER MOORE

<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/AVvXsEikixz1Y8VD_2XJW6-SQSzOwWhCpUt24VBDQREdRaJDh9W3avf6-Xcq1U-A5UZCYrm798yQkMNDlv2O-TCgk-Txo1h9suFv5pVzk5iGIxkO-vUZZRyW1sZxfYRpAYa54xlDUD0kXPRsBKqGavllIbsoHZOkedAzZXixQ58R9UKwiAcy7BZFWcurZ14AuoHM/s1982/00.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1278" data-original-width="1982" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikixz1Y8VD_2XJW6-SQSzOwWhCpUt24VBDQREdRaJDh9W3avf6-Xcq1U-A5UZCYrm798yQkMNDlv2O-TCgk-Txo1h9suFv5pVzk5iGIxkO-vUZZRyW1sZxfYRpAYa54xlDUD0kXPRsBKqGavllIbsoHZOkedAzZXixQ58R9UKwiAcy7BZFWcurZ14AuoHM/s16000/00.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jane Asher in THE SAINT episode The Noble Sportsman from 1963</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Classy, sexy, gorgeous yet equally quirky-cute, girl-next-door British child turned teen turned adult starlet <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/jane%20asher">JANE ASHER</a>, right before her big break in Roger Corman's <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2023/06/great-asher.html">MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH</a> and when<i> she was just seventeen</i> on the verge of a long relationship with The Beatles' Paul McCartney, appeared in two second-season episodes of the Roger Moore investigatory British TV-series THE SAINT where in both she plays the daughter of extremely wealthy real estate-dealing moguls...</p><p></p><p>The latter titled THE INVISIBLE MILLIONAIRE as a step-daughter whose dad's fully bandaged from an auto accident after THE NOBLE SPORTSMAN where Asher and another rich dad, Anthony Quayle, both almost die in an their own car crash: each patriarch with lovely yet enigmatic wives surrounded by mysterious scoundrels, and it's the lovely young Jane Asher bringing both someone's-after-dad cases to Moore as Simon Templar, making her technically the most important characters in what are filler episodes of an eclectic hit-or-miss syndicated series. <br></p><p><span></span></p>

anthony quayle, british tv, jane asher, neo noir, roger moore, sixties, sylvia syms, the saint

JANE ASHER IN 'THE SAINT' DOUBLE FEATURE WITH ROGER MOORE

Jane Asher in THE SAINT episode The Noble Sportsman from 1963 Classy, sexy, gorgeous yet equally quirky-cute, girl-next-door British child t...

JANE ASHER & IAN HENDRY RELATE WITH 'GIRL IN THE HEADLINES'

<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/AVvXsEhiLgWK5vEAxLSUY1iUmsYSxZwcuL-k5R_B5PxThQ4qbLLVexYVeNXrj_WTH2XIhl2bnDQB4sDYTaThPsu6kD_hcDCx6xbVn3w9iESEGXQjgo8oA6Sfw1VzoAqMv2uTu7GPxTd0IsWzxOBtvbYC8kRmY_UnMToidhKpuNA33o92payFgqSVjIZVeZjkMmfF/s2514/Screen%20Shot%202023-06-23%20at%203.25.28%20AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1464" data-original-width="2514" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiLgWK5vEAxLSUY1iUmsYSxZwcuL-k5R_B5PxThQ4qbLLVexYVeNXrj_WTH2XIhl2bnDQB4sDYTaThPsu6kD_hcDCx6xbVn3w9iESEGXQjgo8oA6Sfw1VzoAqMv2uTu7GPxTd0IsWzxOBtvbYC8kRmY_UnMToidhKpuNA33o92payFgqSVjIZVeZjkMmfF/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-06-23%20at%203.25.28%20AM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jane Asher from GIRL IN THE HEADLINES Year: 1963 Rating: **1/2</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Also known as THE MODEL MURDER CASE, this British Neo Noir has a perfectly cast Ian Hendry with Ronald Fraser as cop partners (Inspector and Sergeant) with such terrific chemistry it's a shame there weren't more films, or perhaps a television series where GIRL IN THE HEADLINES would be a merely passable episode... albeit filled with fantastic looking sets showcasing pallid wealth in a mystery thriller that needed not only more thrills but far more action...</p><p></p><p>A shame the titular model, shown all through the opening credits and even the first several minutes (seated dead in someone else's living room), isn't credited anywhere: Her character is quite something, making this a kind of <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/12/the-laura.html">LAURA</a> where the corpse has a life all her own, albeit not through any flashbacks. The suspects/her friends though are very similar... </p><p><span></span></p>

british neo noir, british new wave, ian hendry, james villiers, jane asher, jeremy brett, kieron moore, mystery, natasha parry, peter arne, ronald fraser, sixties, thriller

JANE ASHER & IAN HENDRY RELATE WITH 'GIRL IN THE HEADLINES'

Jane Asher from GIRL IN THE HEADLINES Year: 1963 Rating: **1/2 Also known as THE MODEL MURDER CASE, this British Neo Noir has a perfectly ca...

JANE ASHER HYPNOTICALLY DIVES INTO THE CURIO OF 'DEEP END'

<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/AVvXsEjJqsh6-Kzl6k6IajEEjz3Aini8IEl865Y7UiFlRKfF6R0GTCDKzW6er28VaYWl1NbN36wVvOYFEPjsgyyjzJueEASMpNpgWHdIctwhJJfa81KI4Sg8wjuJQKK9xNwLnsfOAAhRPRPXE47XBc-lntBeauCCOLeuLFkv8aLfyOPVx1URn5LaQ3E498V6fzfP/s2058/1%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1312" data-original-width="2058" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJqsh6-Kzl6k6IajEEjz3Aini8IEl865Y7UiFlRKfF6R0GTCDKzW6er28VaYWl1NbN36wVvOYFEPjsgyyjzJueEASMpNpgWHdIctwhJJfa81KI4Sg8wjuJQKK9xNwLnsfOAAhRPRPXE47XBc-lntBeauCCOLeuLFkv8aLfyOPVx1URn5LaQ3E498V6fzfP/s16000/1%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jane Asher in DEEP END Year: 1971 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Had a more genuinely expressive, professionally-trained young actor starred in Jerzy Skolimowski's DEEP END, about virginal fifteen-year-old John Moulder-Brown working at a fictional English town's Newford Baths, this half British/half German production would be far less an exploitive art-piece and more a PEEPING TOM, TWISTED NERVE or PSYCHO style thriller — but then Jane Asher wouldn't be nearly as important...</p><p></p><p></p><p>She's a glib and worldly, experienced and extremely flirtatious bathhouse employee who shows the new kid around: in one scene failing what seems a rudimentary seduction after he timidly dodges an aggressive (and older) Diana Dors — this is obviously a place to heat-up more than cool-down... </p><span></span>

arthouse, cult, diana dors, drama, exploitation, jane asher, seventies

JANE ASHER HYPNOTICALLY DIVES INTO THE CURIO OF 'DEEP END'

Jane Asher in DEEP END Year: 1971 Rating: ***1/2 Had a more genuinely expressive, professionally-trained young actor starred in Jerzy Skolim...

VINCENT PRICE & JANE ASHER IN 'THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH'

<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/AVvXsEgX2DB3CTvXFglSzARdCzt5iArNG6sc0hudmlaQ6LlpbP3ewv7-gUU3w6Z7Fu8s-szFKPdXUGE2Mi5d5rLY45HRq7Pdza0GAByVC4dDDvEn1dJ6NG20RwuUFCUhe-ttLT74_3r08T8Z852OOm2bpnnAwDc5hXZRSg2KlzHIXqKrWugYJZ7NywgHjDB3XKiq/s1587/355277155_1748974568865045_7408163282548287870_n.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="905" data-original-width="1587" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX2DB3CTvXFglSzARdCzt5iArNG6sc0hudmlaQ6LlpbP3ewv7-gUU3w6Z7Fu8s-szFKPdXUGE2Mi5d5rLY45HRq7Pdza0GAByVC4dDDvEn1dJ6NG20RwuUFCUhe-ttLT74_3r08T8Z852OOm2bpnnAwDc5hXZRSg2KlzHIXqKrWugYJZ7NywgHjDB3XKiq/s16000/355277155_1748974568865045_7408163282548287870_n.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jane Asher guides through THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH Year: 1964 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In the Edgar Allen Poe adaptation of THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH, low-budget director Roger Corman goes all-out in a gorgeously-shot hybrid of Ingmar Bergman's philosophically death-obsessed SEVENTH SEAL, and especially a Victorian-era Hammer horror film...<br><br>Particularly the striking bright colors of the central castle, run by Vincent Price as menacing sadist Prince Prospero, the luckiest man in 1600's Europe not only for owning a castle in the first place, but remaining safe and healthy while everyone outside's dying from a plague called THE RED DEATH...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

british, cult, disease, edgar allan poe, hazel court, horror, jane asher, mystery, patrick magee, roger corman, sixties, victorian, vincent prince

VINCENT PRICE & JANE ASHER IN 'THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH'

Jane Asher guides through THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH Year: 1964 Rating: ****1/2 In the Edgar Allen Poe adaptation of THE MASQUE OF THE RED ...

DIANA DORS IN 'YIELD TO THE NIGHT' WITH MICHAEL CRAIG

<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/AVvXsEgt6hYS4ZBA--eezjO5bkYMg6gFwrG3XkVjz9rzhhaKb9ihVED8DEu2vo4N172gzor9l8rER4it-yix5sGzseed4I4bHhvPtw1hzXeh_neoUB04rinD_SRTHmjif_YJnDHRye4MSJgQLkbqJrelSTIYi8QSmbhixqAPsZf8jBrEr4zsaK6TLUQv_2DD8Dmo/s1060/darker.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="554" data-original-width="1060" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt6hYS4ZBA--eezjO5bkYMg6gFwrG3XkVjz9rzhhaKb9ihVED8DEu2vo4N172gzor9l8rER4it-yix5sGzseed4I4bHhvPtw1hzXeh_neoUB04rinD_SRTHmjif_YJnDHRye4MSJgQLkbqJrelSTIYi8QSmbhixqAPsZf8jBrEr4zsaK6TLUQv_2DD8Dmo/s16000/darker.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Diana Dors in YIELD TO THE NIGHT Year: 1956 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The true life capital punishment expose YIELD TO THE NIGHT had its name changed to BLONDE SINNER, with poster images focusing on a gun-wielding, femme-fatale type in the full-lipped Marilyn Monroe of England, Diana Dors, smitten by her seemingly bad boy boyfriend in lounge piano player Michael Craig...</p><p></p><p></p><p>But this 1950's J. Lee Thompson vehicle is more melodrama than any kind of thriller, mostly taken place inside a death row cell where Dors, as condemned Mary Hilton, strikes up a dialog-filled friendship with lady guard Yvonne Mitchell...</p><p><span></span></p>

biopic, british, british film noir, crime, diana dors, fifties, j. lee thompson, liam redmond, michael craig, michael ripper, prison

DIANA DORS IN 'YIELD TO THE NIGHT' WITH MICHAEL CRAIG

Diana Dors in YIELD TO THE NIGHT Year: 1956 Rating: **1/2 The true life capital punishment expose YIELD TO THE NIGHT had its name changed to...

DIRECTOR TONINO RICCI'S 'CAVE OF THE SHARKS' WITH JANET AGREN

<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/AVvXsEgN0DgOM1pmWx82llJNMnDV6ZgKE5cPkM_kg2avV-2eby0-qgUP9gk4OwFCgztpzsHitfLMmlgHkbMErQEg3l1yfsXqWZONZeoiY6DI1JJzI3To-XiI5sVWFqRI5jGGAJ0Qrnr25D4G0mqJmMpJzNj_Md9NIs0F4DGCpBkO2wnSrlVX7U5iYg6q1x8PUw/s1662/Screen%20Shot%202023-06-15%20at%201.39.32%20AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="836" data-original-width="1662" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN0DgOM1pmWx82llJNMnDV6ZgKE5cPkM_kg2avV-2eby0-qgUP9gk4OwFCgztpzsHitfLMmlgHkbMErQEg3l1yfsXqWZONZeoiY6DI1JJzI3To-XiI5sVWFqRI5jGGAJ0Qrnr25D4G0mqJmMpJzNj_Md9NIs0F4DGCpBkO2wnSrlVX7U5iYg6q1x8PUw/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-06-15%20at%201.39.32%20AM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: CAVE OF THE SHARK Year: 1978 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Italian director Tonino Ricci's CAVE OF THE SHARKS seems like a JAWS-clone by the title, but most of the sharks here can't move, hypnotically inactive on the sea floor as Stelvio Cipriani's eerie music almost hits its haunting peak... </p><p></p><p>Only getting weirder in a scene where a group of suddenly possessed young boaters passively jump into the ocean along with a floating, blood-vomiting doll, making SHARKS more a freakish underwater hybrid of THE DEEP,  CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND, THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE and THE EXORCIST...</p><p><span></span></p>

adventure, andrés garcía, arthur kennedy, fantasy, janet agren, mystery, shark, stelvio cipriani, thriller, tonino ricci, treasure

DIRECTOR TONINO RICCI'S 'CAVE OF THE SHARKS' WITH JANET AGREN

Title: CAVE OF THE SHARK Year: 1978 Rating: ***1/2 Italian director Tonino Ricci's CAVE OF THE SHARKS seems like a JAWS-clone by the tit...

CARROLL BAKER'S 'SYLVIA' INVESTIGATED BY GEORGE MAHARIS

<p></p><p></p><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/AVvXsEimET0B6Y_u80rfvvkEx1oZVlDy4FWhMHsntQ8gbLgq-Uv8hwVqSrwf68vQ4HEEixmf-binpPu-5cCbJPK9oB1Use5y3GjbolGfuJa4wuNeq_QyreccEW1P_wxO5FubD_8my_Wm9NXNDO9ax_jmHVLFbe9h0cpQNOZlAvm6npRAtkdGBQX-8QxfbCnm3A/s1518/Screen%20Shot%202023-06-14%20at%202.40.31%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1146" data-original-width="1518" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimET0B6Y_u80rfvvkEx1oZVlDy4FWhMHsntQ8gbLgq-Uv8hwVqSrwf68vQ4HEEixmf-binpPu-5cCbJPK9oB1Use5y3GjbolGfuJa4wuNeq_QyreccEW1P_wxO5FubD_8my_Wm9NXNDO9ax_jmHVLFbe9h0cpQNOZlAvm6npRAtkdGBQX-8QxfbCnm3A/w400-h303/Screen%20Shot%202023-06-14%20at%202.40.31%20AM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: SYLVIA Year: 1965 Rating: **</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Beginning as a new take on the classic film noir THE BIG SLEEP, where a comfortably stricken rich man hires a streetwise private eye to investigate his missing daughter: well it's a fiance this time, here played by the lovely yet moodily enigmatic Carroll Baker, morphing from an older street-urchin to a younger well-read lush, and, in-place of a slowburn crime thriller is a jigsaw-puzzle study of a then-modern woman, pieced together by Maharis like the reporter in CITIZEN KANE...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>So half of SYLVIA are flashbacks consisting of the title character, a runaway who grew up in a poor, abusive family, wandering from various homes, mostly man to man, as the kind of prostitute you've probably never of since she doesn't seem to actually <i>sleep</i> with anyone while Maharis, surprisingly subdued in weary cruise-control compared to his edgy persona from TV's ROUTE 66, falls in love with this lovely phantom LAURA-style in Gordon Douglas's theatrical yet episodically-paced neo noir that... since 1965 was too progressive for subtlety and too regressed for daring exploitation... would have been far better either twenty-years earlier or ten years ahead. </p><span></span>

ann southern, carroll baker, edmond o'brien, george maharis, gordon douglas, gumshoe, neo noir, sixties, viveca lindfors

CARROLL BAKER'S 'SYLVIA' INVESTIGATED BY GEORGE MAHARIS

Title: SYLVIA Year: 1965 Rating: ** Beginning as a new take on the classic film noir THE BIG SLEEP, where a comfortably stricken rich man hi...

TREAT WILLIAMS IN THE ITALIAN IMPORT 'NIGHT OF THE SHARKS'

<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/AVvXsEjloxEGwCbjmTpaQflBUfY14etbMfG5UnmugkIC61_syzNALPuLbyDOmyd5Us3oRGCyJzWe1Pq_8LuuUw2oLkFJYLRwUlSbgLBI4jiydlhCMSOYFupTAukaQ29P_gZg5SRa9AO5V8o-WWI7HqJgS8sjKZdeu4ni1KFI08leP93QurxMTceXnNQemzfnGA/s2525/Screen%20Shot%202023-06-13%20at%202.32.13%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1296" data-original-width="2525" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjloxEGwCbjmTpaQflBUfY14etbMfG5UnmugkIC61_syzNALPuLbyDOmyd5Us3oRGCyJzWe1Pq_8LuuUw2oLkFJYLRwUlSbgLBI4jiydlhCMSOYFupTAukaQ29P_gZg5SRa9AO5V8o-WWI7HqJgS8sjKZdeu4ni1KFI08leP93QurxMTceXnNQemzfnGA/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-06-13%20at%202.32.13%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Treat Williams and Janet Agren in NIGHT OF THE SHARKS Year: 1988 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Extremely low-budget imported Italian exploitation involving one of the most familiar potboiler plot-lines: a careless, flaky sibling (in this case younger brother) and their inevitable, semi-deserved death from being involved with the seedy crime world to begin with  — thus dragging their family into a proverbial whirlwind... <br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Herein a vengeful, tropical-shark-hunting older bro Treat Williams (with sidekick Antonio Fargas, priest Christopher Connelly and love-interest Janet Agren), whose balmy turf is encroached by killers... either the dorsal-finned kind (the deadliest shark actually plays intentionally goading mind-games) or those wearing cheap hoodlum suits... providing danger from the blood-soaked ocean into a machine-gunned jungle...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, antonio fargas, christopher connelly, eighties, exploitation, italian import, janet agren, john steiner, mobster, neo noir, nina soldano, sal borgese, shark, stelvio cipriani, thriller, tonino ricci

TREAT WILLIAMS IN THE ITALIAN IMPORT 'NIGHT OF THE SHARKS'

Treat Williams and Janet Agren in NIGHT OF THE SHARKS Year: 1988 Rating: *** Extremely low-budget imported Italian exploitation involving on...

BURT REYNOLDS IN THE ROBERT ALDRICH NEO NOIR 'HUSTLE'

<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/AVvXsEiTuIA-FWcxw2RqgumYpd6hoEeJHdRn_J1vH0a0-_EIPkGe88KqPqd67STusHlQFM2IyKM69_o6otytun718CXRh50UR0h0qYjJQYIh-scYfG1efH8ZdfhTN3RJLTK2L6DNYUpxic4uNdpcEVv4qArPVDlcVUd6LyH_9lElupyKNVYYoceubPCHl67qvg/s2010/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-03%20at%2011.22.19%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1140" data-original-width="2010" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTuIA-FWcxw2RqgumYpd6hoEeJHdRn_J1vH0a0-_EIPkGe88KqPqd67STusHlQFM2IyKM69_o6otytun718CXRh50UR0h0qYjJQYIh-scYfG1efH8ZdfhTN3RJLTK2L6DNYUpxic4uNdpcEVv4qArPVDlcVUd6LyH_9lElupyKNVYYoceubPCHl67qvg/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-03%20at%2011.22.19%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds and Paul Winfield in HUSTLE Year: 1975 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>One of those “stick with it” kind of movies, after the success of the universally entertaining THE LONGEST YARD, director Robert Aldrich reunites with Burt Reynolds in a noirish cop melodrama that takes some time to get going...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Reynolds is Phil Gaines, a bitter, world-weary detective (with a monotone seriousness reminiscent of his detective TV-series DAN AUGUST) who, living with a high priced prostitute, doesn’t represent the typical law and order existence. After the dead body of a drugged young girl turns up on the beach, Gaines and his partner, Paul Winfield’s Belgrave, write it off as suicide...</p><span></span>

ben johnson, burt reynolds, catherine bach, catherine deneuve, cop, crime, eddie albert, ernest borgnine, neo noir, paul winfield, robert aldrich, seventies

BURT REYNOLDS IN THE ROBERT ALDRICH NEO NOIR 'HUSTLE'

Burt Reynolds and Paul Winfield in HUSTLE Year: 1975 Rating: *** One of those “stick with it” kind of movies, after the success of the univ...

PULP NOVEL 'HIS BONES ARE CORAL' BECOMES THE CHOPPY 'SHARK'

<div style="text-align: left;"> </div><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/AVvXsEhevdp2PcYkTSBPxAkDpyYPZErHlK--ZpGP62KWIhs00QzEUG6h-PR7EZBxdBBewhA1Dair_DS3NPY6GOfgG6ecOQ5ZlwTopWjjTWgFY5Vk4MZ9EbTZ9fna2iUgPyuH4Lm3KuS5gDxR2KVdcvhjnhUAAy8T6lED012_lWsY2Hbr1uDhT-tsmZwVG77Mmg/s473/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-04%20at%2010.12.31%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="473" data-original-width="471" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhevdp2PcYkTSBPxAkDpyYPZErHlK--ZpGP62KWIhs00QzEUG6h-PR7EZBxdBBewhA1Dair_DS3NPY6GOfgG6ecOQ5ZlwTopWjjTWgFY5Vk4MZ9EbTZ9fna2iUgPyuH4Lm3KuS5gDxR2KVdcvhjnhUAAy8T6lED012_lWsY2Hbr1uDhT-tsmZwVG77Mmg/w319-h320/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-04%20at%2010.12.31%20PM.jpeg" width="319"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: SHARK Year: 1969 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table>Sometimes you run into a terrific pulp novel watching an old bad movie: In this case the Samuel Fuller sea noir SHARK came out in 1969 and starred a then mostly unknown <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/burt%20reynolds">Burt Reynolds</a> as a drug runner, who actually mentions that he's only heard of that occupation, "drug runner," in the movies... His maverick, footloose, hunted character is used by a supposed father/daughter team to dive for gold in shark-infested waters. This was based on the book HIS BONES ARE CORAL by British author Victor Canning, and with a pulpy title like that, it was well worth finding after searching a few used bookstores...<br> <br> <div style="text-align: right;"> </div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht3m2V7SMuk1AlaaPGVUVetLDM0cwvhzz4OqJ3bCNfhe1ilNEfz39D82mxq8NvpHCZBYWkIU_wPdavVsoknSau7m6Z2WtDHu_X4fL7uGKuzdezYvvmtHJOEOy7x8tiZUjJpK-xccHHREQ/s1600/url.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht3m2V7SMuk1AlaaPGVUVetLDM0cwvhzz4OqJ3bCNfhe1ilNEfz39D82mxq8NvpHCZBYWkIU_wPdavVsoknSau7m6Z2WtDHu_X4fL7uGKuzdezYvvmtHJOEOy7x8tiZUjJpK-xccHHREQ/s1600/url.jpg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px; text-align: center;"><u>Novel Published: 1954</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> With a terrific Hemingway TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT-style fishing boat rocking through stormy waters: Wherein the film begins with a choppily-edited shark attack, the book opens with a plane crash, and he soon meets a pretty girl who introduces him to her father, and, like the movie, is hired to captain a charter where dad can dive for gold in a location guarded by sharks. Our ragged lead winds up fighting for his life to win the girl, and to come out of the situation without getting stabbed by human goons...<br> <br> <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/AVvXsEjJtKQ5X0q7n6NHylEzTJ3CTBVwNWAR_6m2DjcBUIDwqz2V42troZu7WjODNQFaWJcgMMxCOsbaGrWY6X34fCKM8TFFOCvuDAPMfm_nOmgrQCRIkLLbyvgiIQqNC3hrQdcFZrknbhBI-LJUe0d_noKeDe9UqKktADZZs5I7IdMBP-qpo15dd7MCpHEvV7_U/s1336/Screen%20Shot%202024-08-31%20at%202.06.27%20AM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1336" data-original-width="843" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJtKQ5X0q7n6NHylEzTJ3CTBVwNWAR_6m2DjcBUIDwqz2V42troZu7WjODNQFaWJcgMMxCOsbaGrWY6X34fCKM8TFFOCvuDAPMfm_nOmgrQCRIkLLbyvgiIQqNC3hrQdcFZrknbhBI-LJUe0d_noKeDe9UqKktADZZs5I7IdMBP-qpo15dd7MCpHEvV7_U/s320/Screen%20Shot%202024-08-31%20at%202.06.27%20AM.jpeg" width="202"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt in Shark</u></td></tr></tbody></table>The first-person narrative is pulpy, poetic, corny, lovely; the action flows and the dialogue is dreamy and yet tough and uncompromising at the same time. The only downside is the second half doesn't live up to the first, being that, like many dime novels of the crime nature, the born loser main character gets too weepy and whipped by the backstabbing dame... but no matter... CORAL was a fantastic read that wouldn't have been discovered by Cult Film Freak without that maligned Sam Fuller flick, ruined by studio henchman, which is not only difficult to understand in the dialogue department, taking place in Cairo where the actors seem like the real thing and thus, dubbed horribly. Even Americans like Arthur Kennedy (playing a Walter Brennan style rummy sidekick from the theatrical TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT directed by Howard Hawks and starring Humphrey Bogart) and Barry Sullivan rush through their lines: providing what feels like a film noir collage of sneaky conversations with brief bouts of jumbled action. Although, technically, if you center on individual shots, creative camera angles, and a few neatly-flowing non-cut performances by a genuinely cool Bogart-style Burt Reynolds, Mr. Fuller's poetic signature is visible, somewhat, within those murky, muddied waters.<i></i>

action, adventure, arthur kennedy, barry sullivan, book review, burt reynolds, exploitation, neo noir, samuel fuller, shark, silvia pinal, sixties, thriller, treasure

PULP NOVEL 'HIS BONES ARE CORAL' BECOMES THE CHOPPY 'SHARK'

Title: SHARK Year: 1969 Rating: *** Sometimes you run into a terrific pulp novel watching an old bad movie: In this case the Samuel Fuller ...

BURT REYNOLDS IN THE HEIST COMEDY WESTERN 'SAM WHISKEY'

<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/AVvXsEjI8VOq9wL8QiXP8J4RgtmUwIpXFGmBxoQ7AvZ3VBuMr1PGTWCNjKsla5rRAVXZZUgTXuIOpi6qL_nsiSeiEA0IojTWMgLwljTNkaEvzWFno8nzkVNCKlPI27eZxW1dhhU_WqijFLuKfz_uwsFQFgaHfem4pzaqp3GxDVf6RcGhZgycOD-LQfVe6SiyOg/s1922/Screen%20Shot%202023-06-10%20at%2012.21.41%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="924" data-original-width="1922" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI8VOq9wL8QiXP8J4RgtmUwIpXFGmBxoQ7AvZ3VBuMr1PGTWCNjKsla5rRAVXZZUgTXuIOpi6qL_nsiSeiEA0IojTWMgLwljTNkaEvzWFno8nzkVNCKlPI27eZxW1dhhU_WqijFLuKfz_uwsFQFgaHfem4pzaqp3GxDVf6RcGhZgycOD-LQfVe6SiyOg/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-06-10%20at%2012.21.41%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds in SAM WHISKEY Year: 1969 Grade: C+</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>It's said Burt Reynolds stopped taking acting seriously when he started doing more lightweight comedies than dramatic films, or when he'd attempt combining both with the zaniness upfront...<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>But he actually found that perfectly loose, likeable timing in what's otherwise his dramatic peak, DELIVERANCE, when a local he's asking to drive their vehicles down river says, "You're crazy," as Burt quickly replies, "No sh-t", which even gets a laugh from his buddies and seems wonderfully effortless...<br></p><span></span>

action, angie dickinson, burt reynolds, clint walker, comedy, heist, ossie davis, western

BURT REYNOLDS IN THE HEIST COMEDY WESTERN 'SAM WHISKEY'

Burt Reynolds in SAM WHISKEY Year: 1969 Grade: C+ It's said Burt Reynolds stopped taking acting seriously when he started doing more lig...

ASA MAYNOR IN THE LOW BUDGET CREATURE FEATURE 'MAN BEAST'

<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/AVvXsEgEJbFPH1L-pBqaCsJm6iWpM7taVrdCEAu9sOWWLxgDr38OwaL9Hq18OD8CyT53LWEqWNv5ey2G1y0DJzZ_u8-RkzWSEDNSJRZIuqSY-vzZoA3CfkpVeIU3LHfjZld9f8wAK2X74VL6pENWlnT_9a2wLKJSfpEs-0SnyQP-tF6XKgaEXHavscZMmEfZmA/s2154/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2154" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEJbFPH1L-pBqaCsJm6iWpM7taVrdCEAu9sOWWLxgDr38OwaL9Hq18OD8CyT53LWEqWNv5ey2G1y0DJzZ_u8-RkzWSEDNSJRZIuqSY-vzZoA3CfkpVeIU3LHfjZld9f8wAK2X74VL6pENWlnT_9a2wLKJSfpEs-0SnyQP-tF6XKgaEXHavscZMmEfZmA/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Asa Maynor in MAN BEAST Year: 1956 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Cherub-cheeked, full-lipped cutie Asa Maynor (billed as Virginia Maynor) had a career bookeneded by cinematic creatures: first here in MAN BEAST who, as he sister of a missing archeologist, is on a hunting trip through the Himalayan mountains... and then a cameo scolding a female chimp in CONQUEST OF THE PLANET OF THE APES...</p><p></p><p></p><p>MAN BEAST is a basic journey with Asa and four other climbers... including a doctor who's heard about the titular Yeti aka Abominable Snowman, played by a man in a white gorilla suit turning up in the third act after too much dialogue yet there's just-enough suspense... including an enigmatic local native deadiler than the monsters... alongside closeups or wide-shots of professional mountain climbers mountain-climbing, while the actors spout mostly repeated expository: so the saving grace of this very low-budget, mainly talking-head creature feature is that Asa's is shown the most.</p><p><span></span></p>

asa maynor, creature, cult, fifties, hike, horror, indie, monster, thriller

ASA MAYNOR IN THE LOW BUDGET CREATURE FEATURE 'MAN BEAST'

Asa Maynor in MAN BEAST Year: 1956 Rating: **1/2 Cherub-cheeked, full-lipped cutie Asa Maynor (billed as Virginia Maynor) had a career booke...

BURT REYNOLDS AND DAVID NIVEN IN DON SIEGEL'S 'ROUGH CUT'

<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><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/AVvXsEjWSlt0hUJfUFHuavutZlH4Oat0Rvrrp30b_z0myehRtE5eRUlXRO-5R6JjEymQzvE7IxVP8FDG1440I7FqcER5CgiVKmskF8ZYR2v0gfQTURlcVN7xqXDB59bfetR3xGu8vj68n9wYMlmTVdPqIsKIPk1ArE213nC3rc6w676Vcli_cHd9Ain3VjSmjw/s1962/Screen%20Shot%202023-06-04%20at%208.13.12%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1060" data-original-width="1962" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWSlt0hUJfUFHuavutZlH4Oat0Rvrrp30b_z0myehRtE5eRUlXRO-5R6JjEymQzvE7IxVP8FDG1440I7FqcER5CgiVKmskF8ZYR2v0gfQTURlcVN7xqXDB59bfetR3xGu8vj68n9wYMlmTVdPqIsKIPk1ArE213nC3rc6w676Vcli_cHd9Ain3VjSmjw/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-06-04%20at%208.13.12%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Asa Maynor in MAN BEAST Year: 1956 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>For poor David Niven, ROUGH CUT turned out to be the second heist comedy centering on diamond thieves where he gets lost in the mix: First of course was THE PINK PANTHER as the charming, sophisticated criminal with lawman Peter Sellers historically stealing the show, and here Niven himself is the dogged constable yet the entire picture belongs to Burt Reynolds and Lesley-Anne Down playing the suave burglars...</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>And although <i>mostly</i> directed by American edgy auteur Don Siegel and starring the American box office champ Reynolds, this British-set CUT has the witty pace and polished style of that country's crime-comedy genre including polite expository banter, lavish interior sets and plenty of champagne...</p><p><span></span></p>

andrew ray, british, burt reynolds, caper, con man, david niven, don siegel, heist, lesley-anne down, sue lloyd, susan littler, wolf kahler

BURT REYNOLDS AND DAVID NIVEN IN DON SIEGEL'S 'ROUGH CUT'

Asa Maynor in MAN BEAST Year: 1956 Rating: **1/2 For poor David Niven, ROUGH CUT turned out to be the second heist comedy centering on diamo...

ROBERT URICH IN WES CRAVEN'S TV-MOVIE 'INVITATION TO HELL'

<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/AVvXsEg4WZ6UGhEDoFG1Rwnj2kSN3l5d-Mdf1FYRCeAzXLEDrW3_d6m_3sacd1r1LVHpTIr833VCoTWUXU4GK8KYW0sLwI8MP3wfFVNqvpco9gJwHyl64c8HBCFXepl8ixeJT22uCyPOlxi6a9uEzeHF50FJJglD_h0p1ujeyYFsn9xya1igmC6T1gMwrtRcJw/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202020-04-12%20at%2010.37.39%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1128" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4WZ6UGhEDoFG1Rwnj2kSN3l5d-Mdf1FYRCeAzXLEDrW3_d6m_3sacd1r1LVHpTIr833VCoTWUXU4GK8KYW0sLwI8MP3wfFVNqvpco9gJwHyl64c8HBCFXepl8ixeJT22uCyPOlxi6a9uEzeHF50FJJglD_h0p1ujeyYFsn9xya1igmC6T1gMwrtRcJw/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202020-04-12%20at%2010.37.39%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert Urich as Matt Winslow in Wes Craven's INVITATION TO HELL Year: 1984</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Being hassled to join the local gym can be downright annoying. They’ll say you need exercise, or that you should get out of your comfortable routine to meet people. Or both. But you want nothing to do with exercising or socializing or, in this particular case, climbing the corporate ladder...<br> <br> Thus the dilemma for scientific researcher Robert Urich who, along with his wife Joanna Cassidy and kids — played by THE NEVER ENDING STORY actor Barret Oliver and PUNKY BREWSTER child starlet Soleil Moon Frye — moves to a small suburban town where a posh spa is the epicenter...<br> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p>

barrett oliver, eighties, horror, joanna cassidy, patty mccormack, robert urich, science-fiction, soleil moon frye, susan lucci, tv movie, wes craven

ROBERT URICH IN WES CRAVEN'S TV-MOVIE 'INVITATION TO HELL'

Robert Urich as Matt Winslow in Wes Craven's INVITATION TO HELL Year: 1984 Being hassled to join the local gym can be downright annoyin...

CHARLES BRONSON IN TERENCE YOUNG'S 'THE VALACHI PAPERS'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><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/AVvXsEhGSpFOXXwlggHMeqznOQnygZ_m8BtigJ8l2JIcdq_eC8cfnLlFENXJB3HMOsZ6e64M7Luzxkb0uDQQmULabcIu03F44z5nhDLvLXALWcqHuYRn-_LX3M5SioReRGi1eDw8gNyU5JZrwUTC/s1137/s-l1600.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1137" data-original-width="1104" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGSpFOXXwlggHMeqznOQnygZ_m8BtigJ8l2JIcdq_eC8cfnLlFENXJB3HMOsZ6e64M7Luzxkb0uDQQmULabcIu03F44z5nhDLvLXALWcqHuYRn-_LX3M5SioReRGi1eDw8gNyU5JZrwUTC/w389-h400/s-l1600.jpeg" width="389"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>The Valachi Papers Year: 1972 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>One of the last Charles Bronson roles as a moody and irritable, tempermental <i>characte</i>r, soon mellowing int strong-silent types after DEATH WISH while director Terence Young follows along the exploitation crime template of their European venture <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/12/bronson70.html">COLD SWEAT</a> (before RED SUN); yet THE VALACHI PAPERS is an American-backed feature that <i>had to be</i> shot in Italy, thus resembling Bronson's European phase and, like THE GODFATHER the same year, two main time periods are used: back when gangster's reigned and later as they're being gathered up and thrown away... </p><p></p><p></p><p>Beginning with Bronson's gray-haired Valachi in prison, surviving various shiv-driven attempts and ending up seated in a tape-recorded backroom telling cop's cop IN COLD BLOOD actor Gerald S. O'Loughlin his story as a mob driver seen in flashbacks while randomly (and intrusively) heard narrating throughout the action... </p><p>A sparse, violent tale with Classic Gangster Cinema cliches from loaded cement dumped in the ocean to Tommy Guns blasting, there's enough antique visual style even during overlong detours and a convoluted plot involving Valachi forced to end the career of mob boss Lino Ventura. But the Italian veteran actor's underused, not as important as need be given the primary task; Valachi's initial boss Joseph Wiseman is far more interesting as overall PAPERS has an unfocused story eventually marred by forced ingenue Jill Ireland in another dull performance, which isn't entirely her fault since this particular tough guy flick needn't an ingenue at all. </p><p><span></span></p>

action, charles bronson, depression-era, gerald s. o'loughlin, italian, jill ireland, joseph wiseman, lino ventura, mobster, seventies, terence young

CHARLES BRONSON IN TERENCE YOUNG'S 'THE VALACHI PAPERS'

The Valachi Papers Year: 1972 Rating: **1/2 One of the last Charles Bronson roles as a moody and irritable, tempermental characte r, soon me...