MARILYN HAMLIN & CHRISTOPHER ALLPORT IN 'SAVAGE WEEKEND'

<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/AVvXsEjREOSE9LeBOgZ12pyISoMCJ72FiMI2UAep2LXwYkIPJlXTa_am1L1Chh7diZvLt4TMc30xVe57eqslZm2H4r6jspTbzrEh5tb5OkfeMjVYpIyE8XEz8T7iWoZ5YWwoJT9erAIw5NV4Fah7wOYKFu-5ZaU4JDtvxduu0k43F0Sw83EJ4OrL9oaKRCqyIS44/s1750/redder.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="932" data-original-width="1750" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjREOSE9LeBOgZ12pyISoMCJ72FiMI2UAep2LXwYkIPJlXTa_am1L1Chh7diZvLt4TMc30xVe57eqslZm2H4r6jspTbzrEh5tb5OkfeMjVYpIyE8XEz8T7iWoZ5YWwoJT9erAIw5NV4Fah7wOYKFu-5ZaU4JDtvxduu0k43F0Sw83EJ4OrL9oaKRCqyIS44/s16000/redder.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: SAVAGE WEEKEND Year Released: 1979 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Shot in 1976 under the name THE MAN BEHIND THE MASK, when acquired by Cannon Films in 1979 the title was changed to SAVAGE WEEKEND and yet, no matter which date, there's a deliberately intentional homage to 1974's game-changing slasher THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE as future hillbilly icon William Sanderson faces Gothic brunette-beauty Marilyn Hamlin with, well, a chainsaw... moving in slowly for the kill...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Which turns out misleading, as the plot actually involves big city visitors to a rural town to see a boat being built... or something... and includes Christopher Allport as a flamboyant gay dude who still winds up beating-up local barroom rednecks... plus there's another ingenue in classy Caitlin O'Heaney, inevitably served-up as slasher flick victims...</p><p><span></span></p>

body count, caitlin o'heaney, christopher allport, cult, exploitation, horror, indie, marilyn hamlin, seventies, slasher, william sanderson

MARILYN HAMLIN & CHRISTOPHER ALLPORT IN 'SAVAGE WEEKEND'

Title: SAVAGE WEEKEND Year Released: 1979 Rating: *** Shot in 1976 under the name THE MAN BEHIND THE MASK, when acquired by Cannon Films in ...

RICHARD FLEISCHER'S 'VIOLENT SATURDAY' WITH VICTOR MATURE

<p></p><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/AVvXsEgzJ_3GkjBNChIBTBABOAThxnDtaWxRtCCx-1dfRY-hxS_zbv-qXzEIzzenFuACFnb-6Fdqit95DPegi1nJ1UYxLOS4t5IIvwIZbXg0Uvpeh1c5CRaz5spN3fMifw34DxYHooQRcMYpgPBsy0Tr9-mYd4KooBdt-Fv9ns9gptlotO7whBJ_uW3-lYgeNfxb/s2246/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-07%20at%204.05.04%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1252" data-original-width="2246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzJ_3GkjBNChIBTBABOAThxnDtaWxRtCCx-1dfRY-hxS_zbv-qXzEIzzenFuACFnb-6Fdqit95DPegi1nJ1UYxLOS4t5IIvwIZbXg0Uvpeh1c5CRaz5spN3fMifw34DxYHooQRcMYpgPBsy0Tr9-mYd4KooBdt-Fv9ns9gptlotO7whBJ_uW3-lYgeNfxb/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-07%20at%204.05.04%20PM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: VIOLENT SATURDAY Year: 1955 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Director Richard Fleischer crafted a tight, sparse, edgy noir also replete with enough paperback melodrama for a dozen Douglas Sirk features, which <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/05/V-sat.html">VIOLENT SATURDAY</a> resembles but only from either close-up or afar...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The first because of the soapy situations, like a cheating wife or a father whose son seems to hate him... and the latter from the vibrant technicolor cinematography of an Arizona small town, richly contrasting from Fleischer's previous B&W city-set thrillers ARMORED CAR ROBBERY,  FOLLOW ME QUIETLY and THE CLAY PIGEON...</p><p><span></span></p>

dorothy patrick, fifties, film noir or melodrama, heist, j. carrol naish, lee marvin, love triangle, margaret hayes, richard egan, richard fleischer, stephen mcnally, victor mature, virginia leith

RICHARD FLEISCHER'S 'VIOLENT SATURDAY' WITH VICTOR MATURE

Title: VIOLENT SATURDAY Year: 1955 Rating: ****1/2 Director Richard Fleischer crafted a tight, sparse, edgy noir also replete with enough pa...

VICTOR MATURE AND TREVOR HOWARD BATTLE IN 'PICKUP ALLEY'

<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/AVvXsEgy33Rr1Ww_apBeyTbSElQCojWQrDdRSEHxpOPdw6wfZJiXNrz3wL4aPtPqLCX1DHQaoY78iMaQ-tMIhHqmUdEmGPsQnn3XuVw6mAr3LDWyGkDoYwwHCy4cfcph7u7SJFHJF53wu4jxZDpLRYx7fxFv0bhpAg6xlVokiuzOzFIrn5KOv2SPna3MhbCEQ4Ki/s1858/369792540_1791421271287041_2486943400021753132_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1082" data-original-width="1858" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy33Rr1Ww_apBeyTbSElQCojWQrDdRSEHxpOPdw6wfZJiXNrz3wL4aPtPqLCX1DHQaoY78iMaQ-tMIhHqmUdEmGPsQnn3XuVw6mAr3LDWyGkDoYwwHCy4cfcph7u7SJFHJF53wu4jxZDpLRYx7fxFv0bhpAg6xlVokiuzOzFIrn5KOv2SPna3MhbCEQ4Ki/s16000/369792540_1791421271287041_2486943400021753132_n.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Poster art for Pickup Alley Year: 1957 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Sometimes those late 1950's anti-drug, jazz-soaked neo noirs feature shaky method actors mimicking shaky legend James Dean, and for a reason... they're coming off heroin... and preachy melodrama ensues. But this British import starring American actor Victor Mature only begins that way... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>What everything narrows down to is Mature, a U.S. drug enforcement agent, going after classy drug-smuggling kingpin Trevor Howard, himself after an eventual load of heroin in a port among various countries, from England to Greece to France, yet this was all filmed in Italy while making terrific use of their iconic Roman ruins...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, alec mango, anita ekberg, brian wilde, british film noir, drugs, fifties, film noir or melodrama, jazz score, john gilling, maurice browning, trevor howard, victor mature

VICTOR MATURE AND TREVOR HOWARD BATTLE IN 'PICKUP ALLEY'

Poster art for Pickup Alley Year: 1957 Rating: **** Sometimes those late 1950's anti-drug, jazz-soaked neo noirs feature shaky method ac...

VICTOR MATURE WITH DIANA DORS TRUCKING IN 'THE LONG HAUL'

<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/AVvXsEhds55toXEPVh93M7s_m1hwQIvZ0gsZe_ioJVC2oqlcangr_0lmx5FfQRUOmoH9CNWjbSXj6cr8D_xGNyYs8zeTUjSgqJGNyUqqgelZDh-aH2Hi8oLN0JKpjdCdyVC2SYWGlvThb6R2LcZGhpbC61luLbXGjD1tNBV5IoMZrMlkmEA0DNuaQDCFjoy0nA7X/s1584/370584764_1791579744604527_233743414952011159_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1078" data-original-width="1584" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhds55toXEPVh93M7s_m1hwQIvZ0gsZe_ioJVC2oqlcangr_0lmx5FfQRUOmoH9CNWjbSXj6cr8D_xGNyYs8zeTUjSgqJGNyUqqgelZDh-aH2Hi8oLN0JKpjdCdyVC2SYWGlvThb6R2LcZGhpbC61luLbXGjD1tNBV5IoMZrMlkmEA0DNuaQDCFjoy0nA7X/s16000/370584764_1791579744604527_233743414952011159_n.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE LONG HAUL Year: 1957 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>What begins as a kind of lightweight <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/09/HellDrivers.html">HELL DRIVERS</a> with token Yankee Victor Mature joining a breakneck trucking company, having to drive as quickly and dangerously as possible, far too quickly turns into an ON THE WATERFRONT of crooked British hauling... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Where a time-worn yet leathery-tough Mature... sprung from Army life and stuck in Liverpool with a wife who wants to stay put (plus a young son)... screws up company mob boss Patrick Allen's caper of robbing his own business: Thus making both the verbal and physical altercations between Mature (with plucky sidekick Liam Redmond) and Allen... equally square-jawed, stubborn and no-nonsense... fairly entertaining Noir... </p><p><span></span></p>

british film noir/melodrama, caper, diana dors, fifties, gene anderson, liam redmond, patrick allen, truck, victor mature

VICTOR MATURE WITH DIANA DORS TRUCKING IN 'THE LONG HAUL'

Title: THE LONG HAUL Year: 1957 Rating: ***1/2 What begins as a kind of lightweight HELL DRIVERS with token Yankee Victor Mature joining a ...

VICTOR MATURE AND LAIRD CREGAR IN 'I WAKE UP SCREAMING'

<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/AVvXsEjCWO1np82hbOR9gz4aPJLN1NWqdG5WHRLwMNGPfj9odQY8ab0VlU-jmV_BnIGrwfCgZsv77PRBYZWdvxpV-wZgu6KO6iX6vNuM0c7W7vqyKhvyqRqhijgi_9ENm_M6a-JAFZBywLNCOvYqytinJLH6fIXRnA2UYP5F_MbEp-qEGPxLVdLUfnEPtIeaG2j_/s1957/gggggg.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1360" data-original-width="1957" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCWO1np82hbOR9gz4aPJLN1NWqdG5WHRLwMNGPfj9odQY8ab0VlU-jmV_BnIGrwfCgZsv77PRBYZWdvxpV-wZgu6KO6iX6vNuM0c7W7vqyKhvyqRqhijgi_9ENm_M6a-JAFZBywLNCOvYqytinJLH6fIXRnA2UYP5F_MbEp-qEGPxLVdLUfnEPtIeaG2j_/s16000/gggggg.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: I WAKE UP SCREAMING Year: 1941 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Originally named HOT SPOT since we begin with Victor Mature, noisily and rudely interrogated by detectives and, with that bright light in his eyes, this title describes anyone being heatedly interrogated... </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 while the source novel I WAKE UP SCREAMING might have fit the pulpy page, it has nothing to do with this story involving Mature as a talent promoter who, after attempting to turn a beautiful nowhere waitress into an overnight sensation, is blamed for her murder...</p><p><span></span></p>

betty grable, carole landis, cop, film noir or melodrama, forties, laird cregar, mystery, thriller, victor mature, wrong man

VICTOR MATURE AND LAIRD CREGAR IN 'I WAKE UP SCREAMING'

Title: I WAKE UP SCREAMING Year: 1941 Rating: **** Originally named HOT SPOT since we begin with Victor Mature, noisily and rudely interroga...

VICTOR MATURE WITH RICHARD WIDMARK IN 'KISS OF DEATH'

<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/AVvXsEjUj_MNi9A7VU0w1zgSoj-VXz6jK17ApfyWXn_-XFITWDOUe-HF2EZQ8j9VRDNn2BnxWU19AmtwNfijtyCZ4uEIkylNkulYh_n1uAcGTtj0zjvUt2TUDmms-ulBIkibpn-Gi05vzyGKSjmI4N_ZunVOLYk2EMml8TSf0NeJq7V2EMqLqyLrhGab_VDJSRn_/s1890/367399912_1787890904973411_7469800392131054339_n.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1134" data-original-width="1890" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUj_MNi9A7VU0w1zgSoj-VXz6jK17ApfyWXn_-XFITWDOUe-HF2EZQ8j9VRDNn2BnxWU19AmtwNfijtyCZ4uEIkylNkulYh_n1uAcGTtj0zjvUt2TUDmms-ulBIkibpn-Gi05vzyGKSjmI4N_ZunVOLYk2EMml8TSf0NeJq7V2EMqLqyLrhGab_VDJSRn_/s16000/367399912_1787890904973411_7469800392131054339_n.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: KISS OF DEATH Year: 1947 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The original KISS OF DEATH is several movies in one, beginning as a tension-filled heist flick that quickly leads to a prison melodrama involving the husband/father crook going to jail (refusing to rat on his criminal partners)... and then becomes a thriller about one thing and one thing only  — fear...</p><p></p><p></p><p>And it's no coincidence that this part sets up when central lead Victor Mature meets extremely talky and psychotic gangster Tommy Udo, played by cinema newcomer Richard Widmark... thus kicking into <i>full fear</i> gear during the second and third act, after Mature's failed attempt of turning Udo over to dogged moral conscience D.A. Brian Donlevy...</p><span></span>

brian donlevy, coleen gray, film noir or melodrama, forties, heist, karl malden, suspense, thriller, victor mature

VICTOR MATURE WITH RICHARD WIDMARK IN 'KISS OF DEATH'

Title: KISS OF DEATH Year: 1947 Rating: **** The original KISS OF DEATH is several movies in one, beginning as a tension-filled heist flick ...

MARK STEVENS & RICHARD WIDMARK 'THE STREET WITH NO NAME'

<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/AVvXsEjXWGzxm087JR3xJaWyaXMzvTRS6OINpETTA2sd1EYmtu-jODWMc5anmjF4idmY_P4nT4M8Z6sVNTozeSQ7IxPkcmhFMbkSbwZ-rG5bSsYiOf0QTlMUqsY8hxzTWzX10AMVzaHEnh0Bd2REAMrDc7PDmHWFJsg9kkrU_qYPTQkfxn-BjuFj6CgP1_ACx-lm/s1264/lighterRED.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="743" data-original-width="1264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXWGzxm087JR3xJaWyaXMzvTRS6OINpETTA2sd1EYmtu-jODWMc5anmjF4idmY_P4nT4M8Z6sVNTozeSQ7IxPkcmhFMbkSbwZ-rG5bSsYiOf0QTlMUqsY8hxzTWzX10AMVzaHEnh0Bd2REAMrDc7PDmHWFJsg9kkrU_qYPTQkfxn-BjuFj6CgP1_ACx-lm/s16000/lighterRED.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE STREET WITH NO NAME Year: 1947 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Like James Cagney's more popular G-MEN, this dusty gem begins as sort of an FBI propaganda film, showing the inner workings of the department with a monotone "facts only" narration, yet soon enough it settles darkly into a mean, lean mobster flick as we follow agent Mark Stevens undercover along the titular urban street...<br> <br> Stevens as Gene Cordell, going by the bogus name of George Manly, then coasts into a boxing syndicate led by the dependably-vile Noir favorite Richard Widmark as Alec Stiles, who has solo time on screen, becoming an equal match of mobster verses undercover agent...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p>

action, crime, donald buka, FBI, film noir or melodrama, gangster, joseph pevney, mark stevens, richard widmark, suspense

MARK STEVENS & RICHARD WIDMARK 'THE STREET WITH NO NAME'

Title: THE STREET WITH NO NAME Year: 1947 Rating: ****1/2 Like James Cagney's more popular G-MEN, this dusty gem begins as sort of an ...

STEVE MCQUEEN STARS IN DONALD SIEGEL'S 'HELL IS FOR HEROES'

<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/AVvXsEj1FQdGv77u3lnVLrbn92l7zIrDX6W019CK_icomnfi5HqUq0Diz3GYfwHIaB4IehfIkbKMiOrhdpOZwtgD_GrtMQczeRNVYfgMXtCO1Sru4VGOjEXTMTyAVE9ygcVtrg0G3dREjuCdFuQZtR9A9-MiHcEMe32KjqE9Xp_Tru1NDQfN9fQmdZzHJ9n-Domc/s2048/367404449_1785533148542520_1594276651702841283_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="904" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1FQdGv77u3lnVLrbn92l7zIrDX6W019CK_icomnfi5HqUq0Diz3GYfwHIaB4IehfIkbKMiOrhdpOZwtgD_GrtMQczeRNVYfgMXtCO1Sru4VGOjEXTMTyAVE9ygcVtrg0G3dREjuCdFuQZtR9A9-MiHcEMe32KjqE9Xp_Tru1NDQfN9fQmdZzHJ9n-Domc/s16000/367404449_1785533148542520_1594276651702841283_n.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: HELL IS FOR HEROES Year: 1962 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>When Bob Newhart is doing the same one-way-telephone bit that made him famous enough to have a comic relief role in director Don Siegel's otherwise intense World War II flick HELL IS FOR HEROES, he actually surprisingly fits since there's a reason behind that call... <br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Otherwise HELL is one of those sparse, brooding and melancholy vehicles... involving a meager troop of eclectic American soldiers, ironically having to do what the anemic production was actually saddled with — stretch a little into a lot, herein providing only a few men to do the job of an entire platoon, and with very limited special effects or extras...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, bob newhart, bobby darin, don siegel, harry guardino, james coburn, mike kellin, nick adams, steve mcqueen, world war II

STEVE MCQUEEN STARS IN DONALD SIEGEL'S 'HELL IS FOR HEROES'

Title: HELL IS FOR HEROES Year: 1962 Rating: *** When Bob Newhart is doing the same one-way-telephone bit that made him famous enough to hav...

JOHN MILIUS DIRECTS 'RED DAWN' STARRING PATRICK SWAYZE

<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/AVvXsEhiOEEf9-VoH8pGxBqdBaSTog_W0gLDEJd-RPKhwqRhOnq3fmIcLpjobTn1W56UZMu0QR3Y2SYFqB_d4NTVBlG5jYFMeWjLKV8e3RRWW0mTP7fRteyMeMsCxjjx5aPdyoxhZFIOhSl9dH0CmkC7kipwJzJzuX5w0MWUQUcNrNLnX5iHOJEWwDETS2WIZjxG/s2506/366355594_1784408195321682_5276256121142775162_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1190" data-original-width="2506" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiOEEf9-VoH8pGxBqdBaSTog_W0gLDEJd-RPKhwqRhOnq3fmIcLpjobTn1W56UZMu0QR3Y2SYFqB_d4NTVBlG5jYFMeWjLKV8e3RRWW0mTP7fRteyMeMsCxjjx5aPdyoxhZFIOhSl9dH0CmkC7kipwJzJzuX5w0MWUQUcNrNLnX5iHOJEWwDETS2WIZjxG/s16000/366355594_1784408195321682_5276256121142775162_n.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: RED DAWN Year: 1984 Director: John Milius Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>By the time Powers Booth's Air Force Lt. Col. Andy Tanner is found near his crashed jet fighter plane, and then begins helping a band of young rebels fighting against an insanely unanticipated World War III, it seems like John Milius is finally directing the film he wanted to make all along... <br></p><p></p><p></p><p>Which is basically an old-fashion war picture, in this case beginning with a high school's perspective of being attacking by commandos, destroying and ultimately taking over the connected rural small town...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, body count, charlie sheen, frank mcrea, harry dean stanton, jennifer grey, johh milius, lea thompson, powers booth, war, william smith

JOHN MILIUS DIRECTS 'RED DAWN' STARRING PATRICK SWAYZE

Title: RED DAWN Year: 1984 Director: John Milius Rating: ***1/2 By the time Powers Booth's Air Force Lt. Col. Andy Tanner is found near ...

WILLIAM DEVANE RIDES 'ROLLING THUNDER' WITH LINDA HAYNES

<p></p><p></p><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/AVvXsEjUbmKaqrp6EempFei2d6ta_zA6MXOYNQT5vg1PTaBLgMkDr0os0as_Ia2l3D_6aCbBa41i37AmSK_vEclS7QeDyZfaYJkSSqAuqYbsOo3h8o0ElCS7e_QTvRGnxf-9xafaclx6Frh95SkSWrGejjVgK-914AR5O0e8A6XbYlNAz9zHjGtbug3VdTfObNmJ/s2048/366739460_1783667722062396_7626234333727578591_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1217" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUbmKaqrp6EempFei2d6ta_zA6MXOYNQT5vg1PTaBLgMkDr0os0as_Ia2l3D_6aCbBa41i37AmSK_vEclS7QeDyZfaYJkSSqAuqYbsOo3h8o0ElCS7e_QTvRGnxf-9xafaclx6Frh95SkSWrGejjVgK-914AR5O0e8A6XbYlNAz9zHjGtbug3VdTfObNmJ/s16000/366739460_1783667722062396_7626234333727578591_n.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: ROLLING THUNDER Year: 1977 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The low-budget production company American International got themselves a movie with a then-groundbreaking post-Vietnam War plot <i>and</i> message that deserved a far superior studio...<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></p><p>And that's because important subjects can be costly — yet thanks to creative and economical director John Flynn, ROLLING THUNDER becomes an entertaining road movie on an exploitation vengeance trail...<br></p><span></span>

exploitation, john flynn, lawrason driscoll, linda haynes, luke askew, mexico, neo noir, paul schrader, revenge, road movie, seventies, tommy lee jones, vietnam, william devane

WILLIAM DEVANE RIDES 'ROLLING THUNDER' WITH LINDA HAYNES

Title: ROLLING THUNDER Year: 1977 Rating: ***1/2 The low-budget production company American International got themselves a movie with a then...

CONNIE STEVENS & WILLIAM SMITH CONNECTING FOR 'SCORCHY'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><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/AVvXsEg96DS_VE4J7Vf_IP44nDWRWCUZdcDZxrTUW6JQlBKID5sd0R8f4YNDJvcIrPuRfJ38gMRHGTY2UcIWII33N3VuLrS0Vs_JjoXhTriQ9bmPH9CejUJZwz9vnsKC6DOwK9iGlv5ZnCg3wOeg5IS3BcziTXxeHgacYoFRsIdgirLWf2Vj2GckFHeHBVM85tny/s1360/newer.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="713" data-original-width="1360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg96DS_VE4J7Vf_IP44nDWRWCUZdcDZxrTUW6JQlBKID5sd0R8f4YNDJvcIrPuRfJ38gMRHGTY2UcIWII33N3VuLrS0Vs_JjoXhTriQ9bmPH9CejUJZwz9vnsKC6DOwK9iGlv5ZnCg3wOeg5IS3BcziTXxeHgacYoFRsIdgirLWf2Vj2GckFHeHBVM85tny/s16000/newer.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Connie Stevens in SCORCHY Year: 1976 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The cult exploitation SCORCHY is actually a b-movie revamp of THE FRENCH CONNECTION about undercover cops hiding in plain sight while both outwardly and secretly trailing a rich, handsome, sophisticated gangster planning a massive heroin deal from overseas, backed by a deadly henchman... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The latter played by ever-menacing William Smith, part of a central chase scene against our female Gene Hackman in Connie Stevens, initially watching from a taxi as he escapes by tram-car above until he nabs a dirt-bike, providing Connie's SCORCHY a reason to steal a dune buggy with keys conveniently inside... and what a chase it is, going from city streets to upper and lower construction site outskirts... even more entertaining than its Oscar-winning muse...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, caesar danova, connie stevens, cop, crime, drugs, exploitation, hit-man, john davis chandler, seventies, smuggling, william smith

CONNIE STEVENS & WILLIAM SMITH CONNECTING FOR 'SCORCHY'

Connie Stevens in SCORCHY Year: 1976 Rating: **** The cult exploitation SCORCHY is actually a b-movie revamp of THE FRENCH CONNECTION about ...

ROBBIE ROBERTSON IN 'CARNY' WITH GARY BUSEY & JODIE FOSTER

<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><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/AVvXsEjLb3_nuQxdTlVvtYVuEQVlS-Fy6pq_z1tEuzmQJNpVcyufaDiI3q3ZAtnp5fmFB-Rm7bbadMK_yOANWxu-KOo8MsGEA1ZwQrRxwPKA86U3xVPvdZctNjKcht_hsDaBCuyUjEnmxigVwQV_K8tgu-ZljHC891WFr2H4MT9sJVU9gWguR4X8-eXIlAzL7P26/s2048/365839481_1781921938903641_3983541596328265502_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1051" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLb3_nuQxdTlVvtYVuEQVlS-Fy6pq_z1tEuzmQJNpVcyufaDiI3q3ZAtnp5fmFB-Rm7bbadMK_yOANWxu-KOo8MsGEA1ZwQrRxwPKA86U3xVPvdZctNjKcht_hsDaBCuyUjEnmxigVwQV_K8tgu-ZljHC891WFr2H4MT9sJVU9gWguR4X8-eXIlAzL7P26/s16000/365839481_1781921938903641_3983541596328265502_n.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robby Robertson in CARNY Year: 1980 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Be prepared for freaks and frolic, white trash marauders and by far one of the strangest romances ever to be filmed… And if you can handle an over five-minute scene with Gary Busey’s crazy clown-faced Frankie sitting in a dunk booth, yelling taunts at anyone and everyone to take a turn throwing a ball to bring him into the water… all for a price, mind you… then you’ll really enjoy CARNY co-starring teenage Jodie Foster as freespirited Donna...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Saddled with such an uptight and jerky date (Craig Wasson) that anyone would be a better replacement, she takes to Frankie’s charm right away, and soon joins him in the sack and on the road, into the life of the Carnies managed by The Band guitarist Robbie Robertson as Patch, Frankie’s more serious-minded partner: he's the comparably even-keeled metronome that keeps everything under control, distrusting his buddy’s lustful romance with the teenager, who seems to have cursed the outfit by her presence alone...</p><p><span></span></p>

circus, craig wasson, drama, eighties, elisha cook jr., ensemble, exploitation, gary busey, jodie foster, kenneth mcmillan, robbie robertson, warner archives

ROBBIE ROBERTSON IN 'CARNY' WITH GARY BUSEY & JODIE FOSTER

Robby Robertson in CARNY Year: 1980 Rating: ***1/2 Be prepared for freaks and frolic, white trash marauders and by far one of the strangest ...

THREE ACTRESSES REFLECT THE CULT CLASSIC 'NIGHT OF THE COMET'

<p> </p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i></i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i></i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i></i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i></i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i></i></span></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i></i></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDwtYOH-bH6T_TMRk8Wq2LxBf-6t98mRKMXODzbIykAxZEIE0LeGOzhZ5rHCq9H9YzAA1fGzMqABVLAkG2RQWwAjPa9WUvNOQKe73BNkx4L08CW5q6OhdqAGLY3deqQSAuGgpZQPDcIqllZqDuNHYQxqTjzLZx-PrOaBlSOEIn4IXlDsj27VETl7Mu8mV5/s1078/364803141_1780865825675919_2498355596382289158_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="677" data-original-width="1078" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDwtYOH-bH6T_TMRk8Wq2LxBf-6t98mRKMXODzbIykAxZEIE0LeGOzhZ5rHCq9H9YzAA1fGzMqABVLAkG2RQWwAjPa9WUvNOQKe73BNkx4L08CW5q6OhdqAGLY3deqQSAuGgpZQPDcIqllZqDuNHYQxqTjzLZx-PrOaBlSOEIn4IXlDsj27VETl7Mu8mV5/s16000/364803141_1780865825675919_2498355596382289158_n.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Interview selections with Catherine Mary Stewart, Kelli Maroney and Sharon Farrell from Night of the Comet</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>“At the time that we were shooting it and when it was released, I didn’t really think a lot about its popularity or longevity. I knew it was a quirky little film," Catherine Mary Stewart wrote in a Cult Film Freak Interview. "Even the producers weren’t sure exactly what to do with it. Thom Eberhardt, the writer/director, had always intended it to be tongue in cheek – a kind of salute to the old-fashioned horror genre with a twist of wry humor... </i></span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>"The producers looked at it in terms of being a serious horror film, perhaps knowing that there was a more solid market for that sort of thing... Fortunately, it ended up the way Thom had envisioned, which of course makes it stand out and adds some sort of weird validity to it."</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span></span></i></span></p>

action, catherine mary stewart, eighties, geoffrey lewis, horror, interview, kelli maroney, robert beltran, sharon farrell, thriller, zombie

THREE ACTRESSES REFLECT THE CULT CLASSIC 'NIGHT OF THE COMET'

Interview selections with Catherine Mary Stewart, Kelli Maroney and Sharon Farrell from Night of the Comet “At the time that we were shoot...

STEVE MCQUEEN, SHARON FARRELL & RUPERT CROSSE 'THE REIVERS'

<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/AVvXsEjEemZ80vJt6JFM5ax0j8aEunEfLf7C3iOL_dYo5FiLtwY1W9RM0_NbozMsOimuKWT5o68rE0AA-hpiD7P4s9cqWmF6M_mXQeMaFUTDs4S8X1TqdbU_VPa7H1LZtvrXUd73bVIAnZfo0QMohF3v8z9fMrbCDCwQ1FnJIIIT3j-035PX7SEskEkvPuuXj5aW/s1540/1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="789" data-original-width="1540" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEemZ80vJt6JFM5ax0j8aEunEfLf7C3iOL_dYo5FiLtwY1W9RM0_NbozMsOimuKWT5o68rE0AA-hpiD7P4s9cqWmF6M_mXQeMaFUTDs4S8X1TqdbU_VPa7H1LZtvrXUd73bVIAnZfo0QMohF3v8z9fMrbCDCwQ1FnJIIIT3j-035PX7SEskEkvPuuXj5aW/s16000/1.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Reactivated Summary Review for Sharon Farrell in THE REIVERS Year: 1969 Rating: ***1/2</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p>This entertaining little gem, based on a novel by William Faulker, featuring Steve McQueen as a young man's mentor during a road trip to a brothel, is quite racy, literally, the third act centering on a suspenseful horse race (two, actually) and much of the plot anticipating it...</p><p></p><p>Set in the turn of the century, the odyssey consists of McQueen, his best friend, an eleven year old boy, and a "horseless carriage" i.e. automobile, a character in itself along with grownup narration by Burgess Meredith...</p><p><span></span></p>

adventure, based on literature, burgess meredith, coming-of-age, mark rydell, mitch vogel, rupert crosse, sharon farrell, sixties, steve mcqueen, will geer, william faulkner

STEVE MCQUEEN, SHARON FARRELL & RUPERT CROSSE 'THE REIVERS'

Reactivated Summary Review for Sharon Farrell in THE REIVERS Year: 1969 Rating: ***1/2 This entertaining little gem, based on a novel by Wil...

REVITALIZED ARCHIVE INTERVIEW WITH ACTRESS SHARON FARRELL

<p><span></span></p><p><span></span></p><p><span></span></p><p><span></span></p><p><span></span></p><p><span></span></p><p><span></span></p><p><span></span></p><p><span></span></p><p><span></span></p><p><span></span></p><p><span></span></p><p><span></span></p><p><span></span></p><p><span></span></p><p><span></span></p><p><span></span></p><p><span></span></p><p><span></span></p><p><span></span></p><p><span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEime8RAzzMh59UoUa59ahandKaMYd7UMPDZ8QTDPJV1rq6GKMt2j6VpUONn4E3vMAy7dPmcsBureDgbB7k7KGpnpu2ZXew4lGv3968pep0lsxUPu_BCgfGNHHynUKNgYBST_JKYETiUhtLHAeqqnrsEyOEgDBcpCjohNpVom5GaZCW9y1Vitb-WOB0dNHWD/s1849/365804646_1780311252398043_1185671985948330595_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1020" data-original-width="1849" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEime8RAzzMh59UoUa59ahandKaMYd7UMPDZ8QTDPJV1rq6GKMt2j6VpUONn4E3vMAy7dPmcsBureDgbB7k7KGpnpu2ZXew4lGv3968pep0lsxUPu_BCgfGNHHynUKNgYBST_JKYETiUhtLHAeqqnrsEyOEgDBcpCjohNpVom5GaZCW9y1Vitb-WOB0dNHWD/s16000/365804646_1780311252398043_1185671985948330595_n.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Interview with the late Sharon Farrell from 2010 here in the 1976 thriller The Premonition</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span>The following interview will cover SHARON FARRELL and her work in THE REIVERS, IT'S ALIVE, OUT OF THE BLUE, THE PREMONITION and NIGHT OF THE COMET, beginning with Sharon, after working in Hollywood for over ten years, getting a chance for the love interest in THE REIVERS... </span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span>A coming-of-age time-period story has comedy mixed with drama, based on a novel by William Faulker and starring the biggest movie star at that time, Steve McQueen, with whom she's the romantic interest...</span></p>

cult, dennis hopper, don gordon, eighties, horror, interview, linda manz, seventies, sharon farrell

REVITALIZED ARCHIVE INTERVIEW WITH ACTRESS SHARON FARRELL

Interview with the late Sharon Farrell from 2010 here in the 1976 thriller The Premonition The following interview will cover SHARON FARRELL...

MICHAEL LAUGHLIN'S 'STRANGE INVADERS' STARRING PAUL LE MAT

<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/AVvXsEjxv7gb1H4lh4Ws8z5TKWl7-T0mgfnsFhq67jWaRQ0aXh2ebP3ExMnqRJ-mKaSPn8E_HHaZADfCsmp5tFvydX_XLab151gt0e3mt8v53j1zupGBTFcdj5Y44jeSr4WEdcz4_cD9u2-goNfBwuAi1kJcZ1YL772kAo9ptbvW69pNAHds5BAdsoN3P911z4mU/s1884/365680579_1779003759195459_4872153497581153184_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="986" data-original-width="1884" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxv7gb1H4lh4Ws8z5TKWl7-T0mgfnsFhq67jWaRQ0aXh2ebP3ExMnqRJ-mKaSPn8E_HHaZADfCsmp5tFvydX_XLab151gt0e3mt8v53j1zupGBTFcdj5Y44jeSr4WEdcz4_cD9u2-goNfBwuAi1kJcZ1YL772kAo9ptbvW69pNAHds5BAdsoN3P911z4mU/s16000/365680579_1779003759195459_4872153497581153184_n.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: STRANGE INVADERS Year: 1983 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>It's said director Michael Laughlin and co-writer Bill Condon were headed for a titular STRANGE Trilogy after STRANGE BEHAVIOR and STRANGE INVADERS, which was financially scrapped — yet for vehicles both celebrating and intentionally duplicating nostalgic science-fiction/horror, a STRANGE Double-Feature is actually more proper... <br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>So following BEHAVIOR... a mesmerizing, slowburn horror also inspired by then-recent teenage slasher flicks... STRANGE INVADERS is a full-blown 1950's sci-fi homage, right down to throwback Technicolor-style soft focus and beginning with aliens encroaching a rural Eisenhower-era town, where an opening scrawl reads how America had only Elvis's pelvis and Communism to fear...<br></p><p><span></span></p>

action, bill condon, diana scarwid, eighties, fiona lewis, louise fletcher, michael laughlin, nancy allen, paul lemat, science-fiction

MICHAEL LAUGHLIN'S 'STRANGE INVADERS' STARRING PAUL LE MAT

Title: STRANGE INVADERS Year: 1983 Rating: ***1/2 It's said director Michael Laughlin and co-writer Bill Condon were headed for a titula...