RALPH BAKSHI BLAXPLOITATION-ANIMATION OF 'COONSKIN'

<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/AVvXsEhNboiGSYBo9CItym2nA3XC4Zjmq90WfY9PCPSMDZHfqX7UwyEHmwoX1RA1DoUPXwisNrnQOXR3MLgDyF0fL2ipalo4Ct3yqxF93kSPpJEweOl5IMBQiZ1OY56pvHPyw_hrytfaORAnB2xcLxwFC-Mg39CcXuGr9jYpcjBIIspSJSq9-KSrkusYmfdVNCOW/s2134/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-13%20at%208.30.51%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1086" data-original-width="2134" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNboiGSYBo9CItym2nA3XC4Zjmq90WfY9PCPSMDZHfqX7UwyEHmwoX1RA1DoUPXwisNrnQOXR3MLgDyF0fL2ipalo4Ct3yqxF93kSPpJEweOl5IMBQiZ1OY56pvHPyw_hrytfaORAnB2xcLxwFC-Mg39CcXuGr9jYpcjBIIspSJSq9-KSrkusYmfdVNCOW/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-13%20at%208.30.51%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: COONSKIN aka STREET FIGHT Director: Ralph Bakshi Year: 1975 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>After <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2024/10/htraffic.html">HEAVY TRAFFIC</a> where cult director Ralph Bakshi inserted cartoon characters with actual urban backdrops, he went to the next level, combining character-driven live-action in what begins a super-low-budget blaxploitation prison-break that just might've been something on its own... <br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>As hidden escapees Philip Michael Thomas and the narrating Scatman Crothers await friends Barry White and Charles Gordone to pick them up, Crothers tells a story based on SONG OF THE SOUTH: transforming into a symbolic cartoon with Thomas as a skinny/slinky Rabbit; Barry White a gigantic Bear; and Gordone a preaching Fox...</p><p><span></span></p>

animation, barry white, blaxploitation, cult, philip michael thomas, scatman crothers, seventies

RALPH BAKSHI BLAXPLOITATION-ANIMATION OF 'COONSKIN'

Title: COONSKIN aka STREET FIGHT Director: Ralph Bakshi Year: 1975 Rating: **1/2 After HEAVY TRAFFIC where cult director Ralph Bakshi inser...

RALPH BAKSHI COUNTER-CULTURE ANIMATION 'HEAVY TRAFFIC'

<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/AVvXsEhVeNZJxi6vzm7B3a6f7nqLy_XyfnWH2nJy-zHJzps95dLmExCT3LryqZ4v4RaGAzC67k9zCFfneUqBB2h3nghp-0lU5TQ8o6cDvQaIcSXOFDtwiFThBve_OFvw9RbrRPZt5bBIn1YcasE1JOM2gPg4I6XceBZFnXDPVrC5XJcYfvA7mpDNx2xek7YCQY50/s2141/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-13%20at%202.15.59%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1062" data-original-width="2141" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVeNZJxi6vzm7B3a6f7nqLy_XyfnWH2nJy-zHJzps95dLmExCT3LryqZ4v4RaGAzC67k9zCFfneUqBB2h3nghp-0lU5TQ8o6cDvQaIcSXOFDtwiFThBve_OFvw9RbrRPZt5bBIn1YcasE1JOM2gPg4I6XceBZFnXDPVrC5XJcYfvA7mpDNx2xek7YCQY50/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-13%20at%202.15.59%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: HEAVY TRAFFIC Director: Ralph Bakshi Year: 1973 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Double-irony of Ralph Bashki's urban-animated HEAVY TRAFFIC in that he turned down making the sequel to his previous years' surprise blockbuster FRITZ THE CAT, based on Robert Crumb's underground comic, and chose to do a story that actually involves a young underground comic, who's not even known enough to be unknown, or even underground... and both the style of this very feature and the fictional artist's work is also very similar to Crumb's...<br><br>That aside, HEAVY solely belongs to Bakshi, who began his process of combining live-action footage along with animation... framed by a sporadic pinball game in process, representing the downtown world where characters bounce around spontaneously...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

animation, counter-culture, cult, ralph bakshi, seventies

RALPH BAKSHI COUNTER-CULTURE ANIMATION 'HEAVY TRAFFIC'

Title: HEAVY TRAFFIC Director: Ralph Bakshi Year: 1973 Rating: **** Double-irony of Ralph Bashki's urban-animated HEAVY TRAFFIC in that ...

RALPH BAKSHI ANIMATED MEAN STREETS 'HEY GOOD LOOKIN'

<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/AVvXsEhATx_YOFWuDMTKoKM42rVd36MKiapvDylupzgRlBE7rMkQ74TMlKnIL__h0Ux3WiOebBpQubkkeasDMyxfv9qnOdqtFmvJ8u1XrFQJe__0diDTxJWAPAR_1puPxh7vgEp1m7SPqslE_xeHq9GBqoy_XQhxe62am8ym7RqOVBXLSDEBuALnbxHy9hs0V23C/s2012/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-11%20at%2010.15.34%20PM-1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1082" data-original-width="2012" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhATx_YOFWuDMTKoKM42rVd36MKiapvDylupzgRlBE7rMkQ74TMlKnIL__h0Ux3WiOebBpQubkkeasDMyxfv9qnOdqtFmvJ8u1XrFQJe__0diDTxJWAPAR_1puPxh7vgEp1m7SPqslE_xeHq9GBqoy_XQhxe62am8ym7RqOVBXLSDEBuALnbxHy9hs0V23C/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-11%20at%2010.15.34%20PM-1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Richard Romanus in HEY GOOD LOOKIN' Year: 1983 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Despite being compared to <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2013/09/grease-revisited.html">GREASE</a>, being that the main character... a suave/strutting New York City hood... resembles John Travolt, it seems animation icon Ralph Bashki's HEY GOOD LOOKIN' is more Martin Scorsese's <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/08/goodstreets.html">MEAN STREETS</a> as an adult-oriented cartoon, and for two good reasons...<br><br>The first is that the script and some of the artwork were created in the mid-70's, right after STREETS came out and where Bashki was to originally combine animated and live-action characters... leaving only a few genuine locations, from a dingy poolhall to Coney Island... <br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

action, cartoon, david proval, eighties, exploitation, fifties-era, gang, ralph bakshi, richard romanus

RALPH BAKSHI ANIMATED MEAN STREETS 'HEY GOOD LOOKIN'

Richard Romanus in HEY GOOD LOOKIN' Year: 1983 Rating: *** Despite being compared to GREASE , being that the main character... a suave/s...

RALPH BAKSHI & FRANK FRAZETTA'S CULT FANTASY 'FIRE AND ICE'

<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/AVvXsEjNb7s1tQgOKaYMVOeYvsGmkZvu4m1N8nbm1sQPfraLqWcUc9yPE2WcRZ8RqZfRCuOsBNqgS_7HQWd335yUa5rS-QkmI4n9PLCpZsmuU5iz3KB8XRGzbCJiZGRF8V4CG4rhan7u_cj28jdTH9AqZtCR6fE6NgeafQUiX-6CPevLAv7BgfcJoPoHHC4J2NWS/s1670/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-11%20at%2012.19.21%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="898" data-original-width="1670" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNb7s1tQgOKaYMVOeYvsGmkZvu4m1N8nbm1sQPfraLqWcUc9yPE2WcRZ8RqZfRCuOsBNqgS_7HQWd335yUa5rS-QkmI4n9PLCpZsmuU5iz3KB8XRGzbCJiZGRF8V4CG4rhan7u_cj28jdTH9AqZtCR6fE6NgeafQUiX-6CPevLAv7BgfcJoPoHHC4J2NWS/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-11%20at%2012.19.21%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Steve Sandor as Darkwolf in FIRE AND ICE Year: 1983 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Ironic that animation director Ralph Bakshi and fantasy-book-cover illustrating-legend Frank Frazetta's collaboration FIRE AND ICE is narrated by one of the antagonists, witchy mother of an evil ice kingdom ruling son, when the intrepid good guys are the most intriguing, and numerous: three total covering a 90-minute traipsing-adventure where a princess is captured before escaping until she's captured once again... <br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Mostly by primal slave creatures sent by Susan Tyrrell's whiskey-voiced queen, provoking other dangerous obstacles for the jungle-resilient, Tarzan-esque Lark, survivor of a peacefully picturesque woodsy-village encroached by sharp glacier fortresses that open the film as the title literally plays-out... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

adventure, eighties, exploitation, fantasy, leo gordon, ralph bakshi, steve sandor, susan tyrrell, william ostrander

RALPH BAKSHI & FRANK FRAZETTA'S CULT FANTASY 'FIRE AND ICE'

Steve Sandor as Darkwolf in FIRE AND ICE Year: 1983 Rating: ****1/2 Ironic that animation director Ralph Bakshi and fantasy-book-cover illus...

RALPH BAKSHI ANIMATED ADAPTATION 'THE LORD OF THE RINGS'

<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/AVvXsEgeu18gkyCLAnneBTQuDxyX9oXOt4Fg5Bt2eP6lON1Cr4QrWsiqBcBS_E75Dv88SjR1kD3_9Gs_9RwDX8o-39TzWbHrajppHecYbKfnxiyeqog2UGGZPtWxx9PkrpI-HZcqXV0ueujeQSFi1-iPOuPJYNBwnvn-Q4YVUlJKQVux2QHzjX39X0eAapIuZ_i2/s1970/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-10%20at%2010.07.24%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1092" data-original-width="1970" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeu18gkyCLAnneBTQuDxyX9oXOt4Fg5Bt2eP6lON1Cr4QrWsiqBcBS_E75Dv88SjR1kD3_9Gs_9RwDX8o-39TzWbHrajppHecYbKfnxiyeqog2UGGZPtWxx9PkrpI-HZcqXV0ueujeQSFi1-iPOuPJYNBwnvn-Q4YVUlJKQVux2QHzjX39X0eAapIuZ_i2/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-10%20at%2010.07.24%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Ralph Bakshi's THE LORD OF THE RINGS Year: 1978 Rating: **</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>As the Hobbits' legendary adventure begins... in animator Ralph Bashki's mostly maligned albeit cult-appreciated version of J. R. R. Tolkien's iconic fantasy THE LORD OF THE RINGS... it's pretty decent, involving...<br><br>And with vibrant colors more richly deep-toned than the intentionally child-geared storybook-aesthetic of the Rankin/Bass HOBBIT from the previous year, RINGS follows pretty close to the source, in both exteriors and interiors, until those chosen little ones... suddenly without their leader Gandalf the Wizard... arrive at The Prancing Pony...<span></span></p><p></p><p></p>

action, adaptation, adventure, animated, anthony daniels, fantasy, john hurt, jrr tolkien, ralph bakshi, seventies

RALPH BAKSHI ANIMATED ADAPTATION 'THE LORD OF THE RINGS'

Ralph Bakshi's THE LORD OF THE RINGS Year: 1978 Rating: ** As the Hobbits' legendary adventure begins... in animator Ralph Bashki...

NAKEDLY INGITING THE ANIMATED CULT CLASSIC 'HEAVY METAL'

<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/AVvXsEheV5gkvmm7SKxgTNhsioZ_Em5Lb5YruyixUkWho-peYe6hcMbmYDFf_cTPianjNUYuR19Pr1X6dCiDrs1AcPCd7-6clEDce3st3tOT7ejzJmnyr9KklVwsx4Dn1TBBsEigSVNjsSwtVOoDnHxkhg7ZdZkQgfgz-toJgB9kjwJY1n0CYix-VU8zrtMWlZTr/s1664/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-07%20at%2011.43.15%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="898" data-original-width="1664" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheV5gkvmm7SKxgTNhsioZ_Em5Lb5YruyixUkWho-peYe6hcMbmYDFf_cTPianjNUYuR19Pr1X6dCiDrs1AcPCd7-6clEDce3st3tOT7ejzJmnyr9KklVwsx4Dn1TBBsEigSVNjsSwtVOoDnHxkhg7ZdZkQgfgz-toJgB9kjwJY1n0CYix-VU8zrtMWlZTr/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-07%20at%2011.43.15%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: HEAVY METAL Year: 1981 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The best two stories from HEAVY METAL... producer Ivan Reitman's animated/cartoon anthology with a continuously-pulsating soundtrack of acts ranging from Devo to Sammy Hagar to Don Felder to Donald Fagan to Black Sabbath... have a beginning, middle and end, and either could have stretched into full-length features: starting with a futuristic film-noir homage with modernly-grungy cab-driver HARRY CANYON (voiced by <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/08/goodstreets.html">MEAN STREETS</a> actor Richard Romanus) that includes the usual pulp-signature glib narration, chain-smoked cigarettes, crooked cops, flying cars above grounded savage hoodlums and a luscious backstabbing dame...<br></p><p></p><p></p><p>And the last a fantasy... in the mesmerizing otherworld style of Roger Dean's progressive-rock album covers combined with Ralph Bakshi's animated-fantasy-flicks <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2024/10/LOTR78.html">THE LORD OF THE RINGS</a> and WIZARDS (while the urban-noir resembles Bakshi's <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2024/10/htraffic.html">HEAVY TRAFFIC</a>)... that gave this 1981 cult classic its gorgeous flying-avian-riding poster-girl TAARNA who, sword in hand, violently protects a village like an antihero from a Spaghetti Western...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, animation, cult, eighties, exploitation, fantasy, future, harold ramis, ivan reitman, john candy, music, neo noir, richard romanus, science-fiction

NAKEDLY INGITING THE ANIMATED CULT CLASSIC 'HEAVY METAL'

Title: HEAVY METAL Year: 1981 Rating: **** The best two stories from HEAVY METAL... producer Ivan Reitman's animated/cartoon anthology w...

JEREMY PIVEN LITERALLY DRIVING 1994'S RIDE 'JUDGEMENT NIGHT'

<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/AVvXsEin6GkOGa-1ZYurARF2V-9t4uW44R2KDCUG7K6MLuZcYfug2G0WENcP9r-9Mw_4v2DMuhkf5nAHH2MpJSHYNHD1PS5bGXN2ZdzIM-Ex2CjTeVzijUqiPlRA8-M8UC4LnFqkt6jpfeAjMqZpEixIKxKPHBjDC8qGh6vEY6JJU5GNogRAlMkbnLIjfUKZ4M3Z/s1594/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-04%20at%201.54.19%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="728" data-original-width="1594" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin6GkOGa-1ZYurARF2V-9t4uW44R2KDCUG7K6MLuZcYfug2G0WENcP9r-9Mw_4v2DMuhkf5nAHH2MpJSHYNHD1PS5bGXN2ZdzIM-Ex2CjTeVzijUqiPlRA8-M8UC4LnFqkt6jpfeAjMqZpEixIKxKPHBjDC8qGh6vEY6JJU5GNogRAlMkbnLIjfUKZ4M3Z/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-04%20at%201.54.19%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jeremy Piven in JUDGEMENT NIGHT Year: 1994 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In JUDGEMENT NIGHT, token instigating/troublemaking black-sheep of drinking-buddies Jeremy Piven has provided a giant one-night-only RV for buddies Emilio Estevez, his nervous little brother Stephen Dorff and intense yet cool-headed Cuba Gooding Jr to hang out and drink in... all while watching prime night boxing on the way to  front seats for the actual match...<br><br>What's funny is that, while stuck on a very important freeway traffic jam, and with drinks in hand and mobile satellite television, they could have simply cruised around and had a better time than at the place they never reach...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><span></span>

action, cuba gooding jr., denis leary, emilio estevez, gang, jeremy piven, nineties, race against time, stephen dorff

JEREMY PIVEN LITERALLY DRIVING 1994'S RIDE 'JUDGEMENT NIGHT'

Jeremy Piven in JUDGEMENT NIGHT Year: 1994 Rating: **1/2 In JUDGEMENT NIGHT, token instigating/troublemaking black-sheep of drinking-buddies...

KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, KAREN BLACK & GENE HACKMAN 'CISCO PIKE'

<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/AVvXsEjca0OogyxbVy1JWT23-OVMOfUA_T3HQaPFiFbhaiwh0w8f2L2SVRJdO13X81KK0QkGSgj2w3Wr4SnZ2zfBrdji8NrZNrC7OTkpNAbbuNtHWUaVXEawbEjhF7HpDHyp2wpPC094BJ4wN6YMGEX3a-0bIYpai80ZPFIasNOxRYuNzURI2n6TGQ-W0QZBSiCu/s1749/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-04%20at%2012.10.35%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="890" data-original-width="1749" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjca0OogyxbVy1JWT23-OVMOfUA_T3HQaPFiFbhaiwh0w8f2L2SVRJdO13X81KK0QkGSgj2w3Wr4SnZ2zfBrdji8NrZNrC7OTkpNAbbuNtHWUaVXEawbEjhF7HpDHyp2wpPC094BJ4wN6YMGEX3a-0bIYpai80ZPFIasNOxRYuNzURI2n6TGQ-W0QZBSiCu/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-04%20at%2012.10.35%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Kris Kristofferson in CISCO PIKE Year: 1971 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Since EASY RIDER ignited movies by stoners for stoners, CISCO PIKE takes it a step further: while Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda safely sold cocaine in Mexico before riding off into America, CISCO has a different approach...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>By having the title character... a musician fresh outta jail played by acting-newcomer Kris Kristofferson... blackmailed to sell pot by crooked cop Gene Hackman, the crime-thriller genre's mixed into an otherwise spontaneously free-form counter-culture expose...<br></p><p><span></span></p>

cop, counter-culture, exploitation, gene hackman, harry dean stanton, joy bang, karen black, kris kristofferson, music, seventies, viva

KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, KAREN BLACK & GENE HACKMAN 'CISCO PIKE'

Kris Kristofferson in CISCO PIKE Year: 1971 Rating: **** Since EASY RIDER ignited movies by stoners for stoners, CISCO PIKE takes it a step...

GORDON SCOTT VS SEAN CONNERY 'TARZAN'S GREAT ADVENTURE'

<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/AVvXsEgSUbPHlDaXxTujVzTSADv1wiTG01Sxec-BZOd3gKrntP-d6hRJXAG6Cj_-s0hRVSBJdmJBvgUWZ_pr337s1cULcO4YIbP_seAF8TtYcA2v0HIlyid1yAlFi2c15OxbGmP98qdYzueHdCeZEgbNtAOeS6ygfukysLBsd8_mm39_9c0g4gXaZ0igde5i9iF0/s1844/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-03%20at%2011.03.24%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1026" data-original-width="1844" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSUbPHlDaXxTujVzTSADv1wiTG01Sxec-BZOd3gKrntP-d6hRJXAG6Cj_-s0hRVSBJdmJBvgUWZ_pr337s1cULcO4YIbP_seAF8TtYcA2v0HIlyid1yAlFi2c15OxbGmP98qdYzueHdCeZEgbNtAOeS6ygfukysLBsd8_mm39_9c0g4gXaZ0igde5i9iF0/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-03%20at%2011.03.24%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sean Connery in TARZAN'S GREAT ADVENTURE Year: 1959 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>John Guillerman's TARZAN'S GREATEST ADVENTURE has a grainy aesthetic so that, unlike so many of producer Sy Weintraub's 1950's/1960's Tarzan flicks, it seamlessly matches the inserted shots of wildlife stock footage... <br></p><p></p><p></p><p>From Gordon Scott's Tarzan nodding at crocodiles to pointing out a random predator/prey chase to beautiful (crash landed) pilot Sara Shane... then lecturing on how nature only kills for itself while humans kill for other reasons...  </p><span></span>

action, adventure, al mulock, anthony quayle, franchise, john guillerman, niall macginnis, scott tarzan, sean connery, sixties

GORDON SCOTT VS SEAN CONNERY 'TARZAN'S GREAT ADVENTURE'

Sean Connery in TARZAN'S GREAT ADVENTURE Year: 1959 Rating: **** John Guillerman's TARZAN'S GREATEST ADVENTURE has a grainy aest...

GORDON SCOTT VS JOCK MAHONEY 'TARZAN THE MAGNIFICENT'

<p></p><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/AVvXsEhXL1onM9d5ymbkQjaYGtAKogGuO3mECjMijeVE_H2Dp2_lLtqtYoxLlDg1ZRY_wDmdaVvKHxlqMcWf-HWHVZyfL2093wDYz3kqW_3X6lfkKGC8MCw9oLL3Zhtrr8bBqZGiyp4h2x3tec1SU0F7G49M3tcilZgLhTekHiShwtV-B6yYXXg1tQHL3al4oWyM/s1502/Screen%20Shot%202024-09-30%20at%2010.51.42%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1145" data-original-width="1502" height="305" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXL1onM9d5ymbkQjaYGtAKogGuO3mECjMijeVE_H2Dp2_lLtqtYoxLlDg1ZRY_wDmdaVvKHxlqMcWf-HWHVZyfL2093wDYz3kqW_3X6lfkKGC8MCw9oLL3Zhtrr8bBqZGiyp4h2x3tec1SU0F7G49M3tcilZgLhTekHiShwtV-B6yYXXg1tQHL3al4oWyM/w400-h305/Screen%20Shot%202024-09-30%20at%2010.51.42%20AM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1960 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>TARZAN THE MAGNIFICENT is mostly known for, in the following film, having the villain, Jock Mahoney, replace Gordon Scott in the Tarzan role... but it's really a cross between the John Ford Western STAGECOACH... with Tarzan traveling with a group of bickering characters... and William Shakespeare's family-quarrel saga KING LEAR... <br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Enter the criminal clan, with patriarch John Carradine but it's oldest son Mahoney really in charge: he led a local store robbery and, captured by Tarzan, is being brought to authorities for the reward money to help a native village... All while his vengeful father and brooding brothers (including LOLITA actor Gary Cockrell) are on their trail and, along with Tarzan's group there's a great cast including Lionel Jeffries as a jealous husband, whose wife has a thing for the captured heavy yet MAGNIFICENT is a mostly hi/miss adventure that relies on random bursts of action while the characters (far too many here) never really gel... Leaving Scott's final TARZAN role more a whimper than bang until a QUIET MAN style fist-fight with Mahoney that should have not only happened sooner... but a lot more throughout. </p><span></span>

action, adventure, alexandra stewart, earl cameron, franchise, gary cockrell, gordon scott, harry baird, jock mahoney, john carradine, lionel jeffries, scott tarzan, sixties, warner archives

GORDON SCOTT VS JOCK MAHONEY 'TARZAN THE MAGNIFICENT'

Year: 1960 Rating: **1/2 TARZAN THE MAGNIFICENT is mostly known for, in the following film, having the villain, Jock Mahoney, replace Gordo...

KATHRYN GRANT 'THE NIGHT THE WORLD EXPLODED' WILLIAM LESLIE

<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="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHxtsevWVxZnYI1rqgFmjukJvXkfVctiKkwSPGP4PgasU3cfPcUFLaMZSGODmaKb_EjwtodC-saEgc1DPaBjyVxm49_xGo_cqNxiTP8kOsArXlWvN5BGx9jBjSEh6JkXJMVYkxhhTUY0OXhB77ha5dSXs4YMNZqrPSIY3gw3TfVnC6CSoGdrMKtPrOoAlU/s1201/Screen%20Shot%202024-09-29%20at%2010.22.05%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="1201" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHxtsevWVxZnYI1rqgFmjukJvXkfVctiKkwSPGP4PgasU3cfPcUFLaMZSGODmaKb_EjwtodC-saEgc1DPaBjyVxm49_xGo_cqNxiTP8kOsArXlWvN5BGx9jBjSEh6JkXJMVYkxhhTUY0OXhB77ha5dSXs4YMNZqrPSIY3gw3TfVnC6CSoGdrMKtPrOoAlU/s320/Screen%20Shot%202024-09-29%20at%2010.22.05%20PM.jpeg" width="320"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1957 Rating: **</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>There's a scene in otherwise underrated b-movie director Fred F. Sear's 1950's science-fiction disaster flick THE NIGHT THE WORLD EXPLODED where lovely actress Kathryn Grant (who he had directed in the film noir biopic <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/04/cell.html">CELL 2455 DEATH ROW</a>), soon to be known as Kathryn Crosby after marrying legendary WHITE CHRISTMAS crooner Bing Crosby, is beautifully pouting with her insanely-gorgeous full lips...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Actually, despite being surprisingly first-billed, that's pretty much every scene she's in in this early "we're to blame for the earth's inevitable demise" melodrama, with only a few exterior shots of archive footage and where most of the time's spent in a clean office or grungy tunnel while blandly-handsome scientist William Leslie's being constantly... pouted at by that gorgeous assistant who silently adores (and is burdened with the desire to connect with) him... only there got an entire WORLD to save and enough lectures to make EXPLODED more drowsy motion than the supposed action built into a misleading title that's (other than Kathryn) the best thing going. <br></p><p><span></span></p>

cult, disaster, fifties, fred f. sears, kathryn grant, melodrama, race against time, william leslie

KATHRYN GRANT 'THE NIGHT THE WORLD EXPLODED' WILLIAM LESLIE

Year: 1957 Rating: ** There's a scene in otherwise underrated b-movie director Fred F. Sear's 1950's science-fiction disaster fl...

CAREN KAYE MAKES FOR AN EXQUISITE 'MY TUTOR' EXPERIENCE

<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/AVvXsEgCsRnTMkY-DFD-Ru3927YwDg_FVlztIpXtuvqbJLgwEWH-PqqguXC9SBtFQQcDMiTk0Ify0avmxNz7yUjmxqwGzHfLIFPDex1cxXir-MO-kxxUNRNvNWbfMM3zpVHX-OWfwltm0clmCGOe95HkKUVQxv-8c-LkOlXJRYZmzi_3SkK0DdsTFM7Qz5D7XzVn/s1234/Screen%20Shot%202024-09-29%20at%2012.21.45%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="692" data-original-width="1234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCsRnTMkY-DFD-Ru3927YwDg_FVlztIpXtuvqbJLgwEWH-PqqguXC9SBtFQQcDMiTk0Ify0avmxNz7yUjmxqwGzHfLIFPDex1cxXir-MO-kxxUNRNvNWbfMM3zpVHX-OWfwltm0clmCGOe95HkKUVQxv-8c-LkOlXJRYZmzi_3SkK0DdsTFM7Qz5D7XzVn/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-09-29%20at%2012.21.45%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Caren Kaye in MY TUTOR Year: 1984 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Another 1980's sex-comedy combining various attempts at awkward teens trying to lose their virginity ala THE LAST AMERICAN VIRGIN, but with THE GRADUATE (or HOMEWORK or LOSIN' IT) theme of a sexy older woman coaching a shy younger man, MY TUTOR has pretty much everything... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Particularly thanks to titular tutor Caren Kaye, actually not that much older than failing student/shy rich kid Matt Lattanzi, who, seeming as if Vincent Spano had missed a few acting lessons, is fitfully vulnerable... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

amber denyse austin, caren kaye, clark brandon, crispin glover, eighties, kevin mccarthy, matt lattanzi, sex comedy

CAREN KAYE MAKES FOR AN EXQUISITE 'MY TUTOR' EXPERIENCE

Caren Kaye in MY TUTOR Year: 1984 Rating: ***1/2 Another 1980's sex-comedy combining various attempts at awkward teens trying to lose th...

REGENERATING THROUGHOUT 'THE TRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE'

<p></p><p></p><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/AVvXsEjAhf-QUzXSTmd3egCt2tDL9JN6GQRPdo3FLWH0HH7gDO0n7PBxrqFDoOET1DTUfAcgDh6DS1BvJ1dmE5CMjG159A6k0bUh7nMDJkzViAL5yAl2Lt6aa6TkQA6cZRRD9P-x_MBYHpHFS9-YfCQsMz03YBbpo7SeoWVuqXwkvbgfmbnbK2B9xXOV_ZDYeQjR/s1620/Screen%20Shot%202024-09-27%20at%204.47.27%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="822" data-original-width="1620" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAhf-QUzXSTmd3egCt2tDL9JN6GQRPdo3FLWH0HH7gDO0n7PBxrqFDoOET1DTUfAcgDh6DS1BvJ1dmE5CMjG159A6k0bUh7nMDJkzViAL5yAl2Lt6aa6TkQA6cZRRD9P-x_MBYHpHFS9-YfCQsMz03YBbpo7SeoWVuqXwkvbgfmbnbK2B9xXOV_ZDYeQjR/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-09-27%20at%204.47.27%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Orson Welles heads THE TRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE Year: 1986 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Critics unfairly blasted THE TRANSFORMERS MOVIE as nothing but a prolonged toy commercial while it's really a collected hybrid of brisk, adult-oriented, ultra-violent HEAVY METAL-inspired animation; stylized Japanese anime; 1970's expository-filled Marvel sci-fi comics; Roger Dean's proggy planets inhabited by those titular robots that turn into motor-vehicles and spaceships or are already (in the best scenes) metallic dinosaurs, lizards and sharks... while a planet-engulfing planet derived from George Lucas's STAR WARS weapon <i>The Death Star</i> and <i>V'Ger</i> from <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2022/07/STMP.html">STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE</a> is the truly formidable antagonist... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>In the budding-hero lead, Judd Nelson turns in a kind of deliberately cornball 1950's throwback, befitting the equally cheesy wall-to-wall 1980's stadium-rock/arcade-jukebox soundtrack... while Orson Welles provided his last professional job, voicing that immense world-engulfing villain, splendidly named Unicron...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, cartoon, david mendenhall, eighties, eric idle, fantasy, judd nelson, leonard nimoy, orson welles, robert stack, science-fiction

REGENERATING THROUGHOUT 'THE TRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE'

Orson Welles heads THE TRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE Year: 1986 Rating: **** Critics unfairly blasted THE TRANSFORMERS MOVIE as nothing but a prol...

MARK HAMILL VS KIM MILFORD THROUGHOUT 'CORVETTE SUMMER'

<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/AVvXsEjBWlu8RARC289WTHtGb9gwWk46qJHYvN9ztVl0lSFbRo6SmQ49xK_rdVgohmOywwBQjh4zx4LyxPPrCX26aufMAHeNqncBnoYNAXDSm3hsho55Ki_XvBPW0k-MZrBUGnXDMqAoY7d_f3iF2-DLIEUTxCsxW3YB41d344Bb9fVA6CnwSbmG3ZaNpl7YGphU/s1714/Screen%20Shot%202024-09-22%20at%209.07.47%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="786" data-original-width="1714" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBWlu8RARC289WTHtGb9gwWk46qJHYvN9ztVl0lSFbRo6SmQ49xK_rdVgohmOywwBQjh4zx4LyxPPrCX26aufMAHeNqncBnoYNAXDSm3hsho55Ki_XvBPW0k-MZrBUGnXDMqAoY7d_f3iF2-DLIEUTxCsxW3YB41d344Bb9fVA6CnwSbmG3ZaNpl7YGphU/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-09-22%20at%209.07.47%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: CORVETTE SUMMER aka AMOR SOBRE RUEDAS translated LOVE ON WHEELS Year: 1978 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Too mainstream for drive-in/exploitation and too risque for younger audiences seeking more Mark Hamill after the previous years' blockbuster STAR WARS, Matthew Robbins' <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/05/C-SUMMER.html">CORVETTE SUMMER</a> is a lot of movies rolled into one extremely entertaining time-filler...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Beginning with Hamill as lonely high-school student Kenny Dantley, who... on an auto shop junkyard field-trip (with teacher Eugene Roche) not long before graduation... initially discovers one piece of a corvette: and eventually builds the titular dream-car from scratch in a nifty montage revealing the most important aspect of his entire life...</p><span></span>

action, adventure, annie potts, e, eugene roche, exploitation, kim milford, las vegas, mark hamill, road movie, seventies

MARK HAMILL VS KIM MILFORD THROUGHOUT 'CORVETTE SUMMER'

Title: CORVETTE SUMMER aka AMOR SOBRE RUEDAS translated LOVE ON WHEELS Year: 1978 Rating: **** Too mainstream for drive-in/exploitation and ...

KATHRYN GRANT & RICHARD KILEY GAMBLE 'THE PHENIX CITY STORY'

<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/AVvXsEjlCwPOMBqtWnJhwUNPet-hYLMWYaqauez3P0WJUN9SK9ewYB0KI4w3tZtj6X3N8kCNblTAh0G75x4DWBKWa2F472Qr_ugZDIDLNw7KFtE48hafUhxQrckJfi38jzkzrW4uDVSFKf2pGfhtILC7uE2PqhgLqG9IlUbDU0AN5LLKOhoNbhU8LZVNogtHemup/s902/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="549" data-original-width="902" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlCwPOMBqtWnJhwUNPet-hYLMWYaqauez3P0WJUN9SK9ewYB0KI4w3tZtj6X3N8kCNblTAh0G75x4DWBKWa2F472Qr_ugZDIDLNw7KFtE48hafUhxQrckJfi38jzkzrW4uDVSFKf2pGfhtILC7uE2PqhgLqG9IlUbDU0AN5LLKOhoNbhU8LZVNogtHemup/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE PHENIX CITY STORY Year: 1955 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Since the entire first act of the film noir docudrama THE PHENIX CITY STORY consists of interviews with actual citizens recalling when one seedy downtown street of vice and gambling ruled the otherwise peaceful and rural titular Alabama town, when the second act rolls in, we get right to dirty business...<br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>With actors now, beginning with good girl Kathyrn Grant dealing the central casino's marked cards to losing-streak boyfriend Biff McGuire... at which point everything's literally on the table since the joint's not only wholly dishonest, but bare-knuckle dangerous...</p><p><span></span></p>

biff mcguire, docudrama, edward andrews, expose, fifties, film noir or melodrama, gambling, jean carson, john larch, john mcintire, kathryn grant, meg myles, mobster, phil karlson, richard kiley

KATHRYN GRANT & RICHARD KILEY GAMBLE 'THE PHENIX CITY STORY'

Title: THE PHENIX CITY STORY Year: 1955 Rating: ***1/2 Since the entire first act of the film noir docudrama THE PHENIX CITY STORY consists ...

BURT REYNOLDS, CANDACE BERGEN, JILL CLAYBURGH 'STARTING OVER'

<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/AVvXsEgwAboAIlPhoDL6kIV9BijDFmw4FoGPTR917hj5QeCD6WpSIhSXmMwb1Q1S-o1zjM6w-MDVQnRaVzNQ9uuCEn-tTjW2wdGk_BlHy5HmcyKaRYxGZzkBARNizbAUgZi1Dt1CjUorXZugI1JwZbQ3DyBweUhCO4-pLTTey7r_JMW85A8dl87nGzigSNc3ZNCJ/s928/Screen%20Shot%202024-09-15%20at%205.53.15%20PM%203.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="504" data-original-width="928" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwAboAIlPhoDL6kIV9BijDFmw4FoGPTR917hj5QeCD6WpSIhSXmMwb1Q1S-o1zjM6w-MDVQnRaVzNQ9uuCEn-tTjW2wdGk_BlHy5HmcyKaRYxGZzkBARNizbAUgZi1Dt1CjUorXZugI1JwZbQ3DyBweUhCO4-pLTTey7r_JMW85A8dl87nGzigSNc3ZNCJ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-09-15%20at%205.53.15%20PM%203.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds in WHITE LIGHTNING (Reassessment Review) Year: 1973 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>There are two things that connect the romantic-comedy STARTING OVER with Burt Reynolds' career breakthrough DELIVERANCE: he doesn't have the defining mustache, and it's not a "Burt Reynolds Movie" but a movie he co-stars in with other people...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Successful TV-writer and future mogul James L. Brooks' original script is directed by Alan J. Pakula, more prone to political thrillers... and he's about as comfortable here directing as Burt is being basically stuck in a vehicle that would have far better suited an Alan Alda, Henry Winkler or Charles Grodin type...<br></p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

alan j. pakula, burt reynolds, candace bergen, charles durning, james l. brooks, jill clayburgh, love triangle, romantic comedy, seventies

BURT REYNOLDS, CANDACE BERGEN, JILL CLAYBURGH 'STARTING OVER'

Burt Reynolds in WHITE LIGHTNING (Reassessment Review) Year: 1973 Rating: **** There are two things that connect the romantic-comedy STARTIN...

BURT REYNOLDS, NED BEATTY & BO HOPKINS IN 'WHITE LIGHTNING'

<p></p><p></p><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/AVvXsEgyRAALyT-Ql23lJqBetLYXRwxSbpwWd-x6uiJse6ulunwhep_0_YkGnMFByW6rOKuMZflsFxNdTxH4HshFAD13AF45YzWgo8oItEv31fIAS333o2_kH5PPa7ha_Gg8ttqa_0CTj6JCSgaugcY4WO6wvNMVGiuNABxhnU5TPgBuVBIpgwiPGt-E58aEkPgo/s1096/Screen%20Shot%202024-09-01%20at%209.45.42%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="607" data-original-width="1096" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyRAALyT-Ql23lJqBetLYXRwxSbpwWd-x6uiJse6ulunwhep_0_YkGnMFByW6rOKuMZflsFxNdTxH4HshFAD13AF45YzWgo8oItEv31fIAS333o2_kH5PPa7ha_Gg8ttqa_0CTj6JCSgaugcY4WO6wvNMVGiuNABxhnU5TPgBuVBIpgwiPGt-E58aEkPgo/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-09-01%20at%209.45.42%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds in WHITE LIGHTNING (Reassessment Review) Year: 1973 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>For Burt Reynolds, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2012/06/white-lightning.html">WHITE LIGHTNING</a> was a cross between the previous-years' DELIVERANCE and near-future <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2024/08/bandit1.html">SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT</a> with creative and gritty 1970's-renaissance-era direction of the first and more mainstream good-old-boy muscle car action of the latter...</p><p></p><p></p><p></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 Burt looks as if his manly <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2022/09/deliverance.html">DELIVERANCE</a> character had never been injured and, doing a five-year sentence on a scorching work-farm for moonshine, he learns what the audience witnessed in the dusky prologue, ironically set in an extremely familiar rural river setting...<br></p><span></span>

action, burt reynolds, diane ladd, jennifer billingsley, john steadman, joseph sargent, laura dern, louise latham, matt clark, ned beatty, prison, r.g. armstrong, stephanie burchfield

BURT REYNOLDS, NED BEATTY & BO HOPKINS IN 'WHITE LIGHTNING'

Burt Reynolds in WHITE LIGHTNING (Reassessment Review) Year: 1973 Rating: **** For Burt Reynolds, WHITE LIGHTNING was a cross between the p...

JOCK MAHONEY VS WOODY STRODE 'TARZAN'S THREE CHALLENGES'

<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/AVvXsEiP5KTPwatMdzAC6Ws0OUcZvLO9Kv3oB0m_CbQnhlCO8vQeQrTt0Jypp2-rJL7TzkUn8NpdklYQMliYqybBNQWApijWvTaV_iIe46NwjypQ6WGuZQUTkezB_wdoHUEFx58EOg2UVhSMchzSeH-EW8ERd7CRh3Q5Ba3kc6EXf6zm2CLvRwp1tnn0Gm9AoAmg/s950/Screen%20Shot%202024-09-14%20at%209.46.57%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="515" data-original-width="950" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP5KTPwatMdzAC6Ws0OUcZvLO9Kv3oB0m_CbQnhlCO8vQeQrTt0Jypp2-rJL7TzkUn8NpdklYQMliYqybBNQWApijWvTaV_iIe46NwjypQ6WGuZQUTkezB_wdoHUEFx58EOg2UVhSMchzSeH-EW8ERd7CRh3Q5Ba3kc6EXf6zm2CLvRwp1tnn0Gm9AoAmg/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-09-14%20at%209.46.57%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: TARZAN'S THREE CHALLENGES Year: 1963 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>There's a TARZAN curse when you look into the actors: Johnny Weismuller was golfing in Cuba during the Castro takeover, and decades later ended up doing his Tarzan call throughout the lonely corridors of an old folk's home; Lex Barker died middle-aged before marrying a younger woman; Mike Henry was bitten by a chimp and suffered from monkey fever; and far worst of all, Ron Ely hosted <i>Name That Tune</i> with Kathie Lee Gifford...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>At least Gordon Scott turned out okay, but his replacement in actor/stuntman Jock Mahoney... after getting through TARZAN GOES TO INDIA without trouble... dared to swim across a giant, extremely polluted Thailand river and caught amoebic dysentery, never gaining back complete strength for future stunt or acting roles...</p><p><span></span></p>

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JOCK MAHONEY VS WOODY STRODE 'TARZAN'S THREE CHALLENGES'

Title: TARZAN'S THREE CHALLENGES Year: 1963 Rating: **1/2 There's a TARZAN curse when you look into the actors: Johnny Weismuller wa...

JOCK MAHONEY IN JOHN GUILLERMAN'S 'TARZAN GOES TO INDIA'

<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/AVvXsEgd1QR74OLqHaqDddYTGW88JguHLHWu6LDRc-kvzjMPQtlDssgzWxGoTy6hvPP8EW82hl_AabeJxZjrGH6T3CLO0sM8W9p0JZSBogtGb-AaKWFTWu0rSwhHtJ1BIlq1tp8pVTbzYmsDYHBV1FrHB5Xgr8t5-affbVxB-bsFPjJr2LIhyDAMwozXzIYtmMcN/s1504/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="855" data-original-width="1504" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd1QR74OLqHaqDddYTGW88JguHLHWu6LDRc-kvzjMPQtlDssgzWxGoTy6hvPP8EW82hl_AabeJxZjrGH6T3CLO0sM8W9p0JZSBogtGb-AaKWFTWu0rSwhHtJ1BIlq1tp8pVTbzYmsDYHBV1FrHB5Xgr8t5-affbVxB-bsFPjJr2LIhyDAMwozXzIYtmMcN/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jock Mahoney in TARZAN GOES TO INDIA Year: 1962 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>After actor/stuntman Jock Mahoney played the villain to Gordon Scott's Tarzan in TARZAN THE MAGNIFICENT, he was chosen to portray the swinging ape-man himself, a bit older, more sinewy than muscular and facially resembling former Tarzan (who Scott replaced) Lex Barker...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Here against several villains, beginning with formidable Leo Gordon as a foreman on a vast desert construction site (foreshadowing Tanis from RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK)... An infamous elephant hunter, he threatens to kill any wildlife that could hinder the work — unless Tarzan and his boy sidekick... with a trained pet elephant... saves the day...</p><p><span></span></p>

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JOCK MAHONEY IN JOHN GUILLERMAN'S 'TARZAN GOES TO INDIA'

Jock Mahoney in TARZAN GOES TO INDIA Year: 1962 Rating: *** After actor/stuntman Jock Mahoney played the villain to Gordon Scott's Tarza...

MIKE HENRY IN THE ESPIONAGE 'TARZAN AND THE VALLEY OF GOLD'

<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/AVvXsEio8kOLvAbp-o-FuAb7RBVdq8CgUeuApqGvipLbI63lUxXMHqKJxEBoQrj3xGCE_q0MYpGb-wEonbyet6pjScENMij3YIOkVEGeie8wCxQ0h_dBH7UxaF17WudtxLhxTLrn_EYfjRov1M2oqcZ5I_m8sWnvCQbxlZcA5noh21N-VYKMLzMy3Prl0_h5pPka/s1220/Screen%20Shot%202024-09-08%20at%205.51.28%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="744" data-original-width="1220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio8kOLvAbp-o-FuAb7RBVdq8CgUeuApqGvipLbI63lUxXMHqKJxEBoQrj3xGCE_q0MYpGb-wEonbyet6pjScENMij3YIOkVEGeie8wCxQ0h_dBH7UxaF17WudtxLhxTLrn_EYfjRov1M2oqcZ5I_m8sWnvCQbxlZcA5noh21N-VYKMLzMy3Prl0_h5pPka/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-09-08%20at%205.51.28%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: TARZAN AND THE VALLEY OF GOLD Year: 1966 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>You can tell that TARZAN AND THE VALLEY OF GOLD is imitating/emulating the popular mid-1960's James Bond franchise by the opening credits alone, with a vibrant, jazzy score and psychedelic colors tracing what winds up the opening scene's empty bullfight arena, with Mike Henry's usually scantily-clad hero actually dressed-up in a dapper business suit for a duck-and-cover shootout...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Winding up in another (filmed entirely in) Mexico location full of gorgeous pyramids where David Opatoshu as Vinero attempts taking over, more like a Bond villain than Tarzan's a spy, eventually trading his civilian clothes for the signature loin-cloth framing a ripped/muscular build, the usual Tarzan template from Johnny Weissmuller to Lex Barker to Jock Mahoney leading to the USC Trojan football star's acting breakthrough... <br></p><span></span>

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MIKE HENRY IN THE ESPIONAGE 'TARZAN AND THE VALLEY OF GOLD'

Title: TARZAN AND THE VALLEY OF GOLD Year: 1966 Rating: ***1/2 You can tell that TARZAN AND THE VALLEY OF GOLD is imitating/emulating the po...

MIKE HENRY VS RAFER JOHNSON IN 'TARZAN AND THE GREAT RIVER'

<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/AVvXsEiCPCyJN6YJDVQ1o8gysm9mcpskV6NZoHCsCy-2yyKy7ckIL1ctD-Hs4VsGb4RTxR-Q7-imdOtk8IGKXqfVSS0gay8f0T0MPKjQru9eW1x6GNRnzxDFMshHzxSF-UoTpgHmcRdKi0ltuAmeKJwdz8ezLdbJ2iF0GGZPunZCkP712fUcE8yyh_dM0H8xPdsH/s1538/Screen%20Shot%202024-09-10%20at%2010.10.47%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="755" data-original-width="1538" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCPCyJN6YJDVQ1o8gysm9mcpskV6NZoHCsCy-2yyKy7ckIL1ctD-Hs4VsGb4RTxR-Q7-imdOtk8IGKXqfVSS0gay8f0T0MPKjQru9eW1x6GNRnzxDFMshHzxSF-UoTpgHmcRdKi0ltuAmeKJwdz8ezLdbJ2iF0GGZPunZCkP712fUcE8yyh_dM0H8xPdsH/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-09-10%20at%2010.10.47%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: TARZAN AND THE GREAT RIVER Year: 1967 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The previous years' TARZAN AND THE VALLEY OF GOLD had the jungle-traipsing hero in a suit with a handgun, competing with the James Bond franchise and, in TARZAN AND THE GREAT RIVER, supposedly taking place in the Amazon instead of Africa, they're back to the jungle: although there <i>is</i> one rudimentary scene with Mike Henry's muscular yet monotone Tarzan wearing civilian clothes...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Mostly though, the story's centered so much on a maverick boat captain... played by game-show-host Jan Murray with child-actor Manuel Padilla Jr his first-mate sidekick... that GREAT RIVER is more like an attempt to spinoff another franchise from Tarzan... who mostly stands around giving <i>both</i> the captain and kid advice on growing up... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

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MIKE HENRY VS RAFER JOHNSON IN 'TARZAN AND THE GREAT RIVER'

Title: TARZAN AND THE GREAT RIVER Year: 1967 Rating: **1/2 The previous years' TARZAN AND THE VALLEY OF GOLD had the jungle-traipsing he...

MIKE HENRY FINISHING WITH 'TARZAN AND THE JUNGLE BOY'

<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/AVvXsEj4x67yJU2SP0-xXJfCmSKw__UqSQOIb3rcJRzY1XOvuf6r7aRCKTMB7eW9ae8rB6ecnCJ4ZJIbWRdod2pD0n7unY4gf4FjGZ5mLLavXcqBZHtVbVrcE7Ha-AjVEQpX2R42b9U6qhhA789CBpBjivBTu3V9kebdgg-08OcJ9MfMGNCPWi_mxg9JKgH5Mh5a/s1504/Screen%20Shot%202024-09-10%20at%2010.44.27%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="725" data-original-width="1504" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4x67yJU2SP0-xXJfCmSKw__UqSQOIb3rcJRzY1XOvuf6r7aRCKTMB7eW9ae8rB6ecnCJ4ZJIbWRdod2pD0n7unY4gf4FjGZ5mLLavXcqBZHtVbVrcE7Ha-AjVEQpX2R42b9U6qhhA789CBpBjivBTu3V9kebdgg-08OcJ9MfMGNCPWi_mxg9JKgH5Mh5a/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-09-10%20at%2010.44.27%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mike Henry in Aliza Gur in TARZAN AND THE JUNGLE BOY Year: 1968 Rates: **</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>By 1968, when the third and final Mike Henry TARZAN movie hit theaters, the television series starring Ron Ely and Mike's former sidekick Manual Padilla Jr had already almost run its course, because TARZAN AND THE JUNGLE BOY was made in 1965 and shelved for three years...<br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Beginning like Edgar Rice Burroughs' original story since the titular JUNGLE BOY was abandoned and raised there, so Tarzan can surely relate... only it's the villain's brother, literally played by returning actor Rafer Johnson's lookalike sibling Edward Johnson, who searches for and eventually rescues the kid... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

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MIKE HENRY FINISHING WITH 'TARZAN AND THE JUNGLE BOY'

Mike Henry in Aliza Gur in TARZAN AND THE JUNGLE BOY Year: 1968 Rates: ** By 1968, when the third and final Mike Henry TARZAN movie hit thea...

BURT REYNOLDS AND RAQUEL WELCH KIND OF REUNITE IN 'FUZZ'

<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/AVvXsEhnjBF5lAnF_9ae4pTwsXsZAxL8uL5UZQ3KT8Q5laV1wJXuxh58V_d2w9l9Q7Oj8rxDF6VFTaEyEt5MzE8ptHqCJ1u6JBAQ5GJC0AWCpTdsrqzhDUGCFZepgjQOpayNPU_3TRQDDh6Xg1AXJS0ZuU8Thqrn8laxJMYTTmpHwj6rAaVF4hSKIyZvJonrpM_o/s1590/Screen%20Shot%202024-09-09%20at%204.04.32%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="970" data-original-width="1590" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnjBF5lAnF_9ae4pTwsXsZAxL8uL5UZQ3KT8Q5laV1wJXuxh58V_d2w9l9Q7Oj8rxDF6VFTaEyEt5MzE8ptHqCJ1u6JBAQ5GJC0AWCpTdsrqzhDUGCFZepgjQOpayNPU_3TRQDDh6Xg1AXJS0ZuU8Thqrn8laxJMYTTmpHwj6rAaVF4hSKIyZvJonrpM_o/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-09-09%20at%204.04.32%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Pop Culture Explosion Poster for FUZZ Year: 1972 Rating: **</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Since Burt Reynolds and Raquel Welch couldn't stand each other on the set of <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2022/08/100R.html">100 RIFLES</a>, when they wound up in FUZZ... a funky-scored blaxploitation-style wannabe but for mostly white cops... she demanded they share no screen-time together, which <i>almost</i> comes true...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>In one scene inside the usual dingy precinct, a woman tells Welch's newbie detective character about an attack... cutting to Burt and affable sidekick Jack Weston eavesdropping... then when Welch is shown again you can hear an early version of Burt's signature chortle... after which, they're in the same frame: twice, quickly...</p><p><span></span></p>

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BURT REYNOLDS AND RAQUEL WELCH KIND OF REUNITE IN 'FUZZ'

Pop Culture Explosion Poster for FUZZ Year: 1972 Rating: ** Since Burt Reynolds and Raquel Welch couldn't stand each other on the set of...

BURT REYNOLDS IN 'IMPASSE' WITH ANNE FRANCIS & MIKO MAYAMA

<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/AVvXsEiEW36b9GWU1IVX1oXdEsas5QZnpgAOVZk93nB9nZaWnZNBZR5JJqY3y14935wD1-JUSXIJ_B9PypvCtqG2SODB9uIzvJMu5itCooIOBEsNpahqBt2CvoTnaQ68m7Djw_swDGJNgvAmM4aDfO5iD7DO6u2CVR7xkoGnMD6bIFZYP27r6vpuCLrmiu6HLW6N/s1304/1%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="771" data-original-width="1304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEW36b9GWU1IVX1oXdEsas5QZnpgAOVZk93nB9nZaWnZNBZR5JJqY3y14935wD1-JUSXIJ_B9PypvCtqG2SODB9uIzvJMu5itCooIOBEsNpahqBt2CvoTnaQ68m7Djw_swDGJNgvAmM4aDfO5iD7DO6u2CVR7xkoGnMD6bIFZYP27r6vpuCLrmiu6HLW6N/s16000/1%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds in IMPASSE Year: 1969 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In Burt Reynolds' first starring role, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2024/08/burtCIA.html">OPERATION CIA</a>, he ran and leapt throughout Saigon, Vietnam and a few years later, in another low budget exploitation flick only in the Philippines, he does pretty much the same thing... at least the best parts providing tons of action including his own stunts...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That's after a rather clunky yet still somewhat intriguingly offbeat set-up of Burt gathering a band of renegade army veteran misfits of all races and ages: from old tough white guy Lyle Bettger to equally tough old Indian Rodolfo Acosta to Burt's former OPERATION co-star Vic Diaz... and of course a pretty ingenue's always needed... </p><p><span></span></p>

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BURT REYNOLDS IN 'IMPASSE' WITH ANNE FRANCIS & MIKO MAYAMA

Burt Reynolds in IMPASSE Year: 1969 Rating: **** In Burt Reynolds' first starring role, OPERATION CIA , he ran and leapt throughout Saig...

FRANK CONVERSE IN 'CORONET BLUE' WITH SUSAN HAMPSHIRE

<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/AVvXsEhgQdEoAlRJZk8LPTFDbUEzeGuJQ5cdx_hf5aWZzyM8lK2vuyrHFIoTyE4tKWtuMUCAyq3CZITChy1UAft7KbuCJ8YtHmLvUa39jSYVccGx8suAsZpk5d0aikyOjPbeOrbjN3Tga4Gu3r89Dc5RIG6crpr3teD4yHT68p2RunP-iwJABbDfWxs9GWWAaO-j/s908/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="554" data-original-width="908" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgQdEoAlRJZk8LPTFDbUEzeGuJQ5cdx_hf5aWZzyM8lK2vuyrHFIoTyE4tKWtuMUCAyq3CZITChy1UAft7KbuCJ8YtHmLvUa39jSYVccGx8suAsZpk5d0aikyOjPbeOrbjN3Tga4Gu3r89Dc5RIG6crpr3teD4yHT68p2RunP-iwJABbDfWxs9GWWAaO-j/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Susan Hampshire and Frank Converse in CORONET BLUE: A Time To Be Born Year: 1967 Rating: ***1/2 </u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Before the BOURNE franchise of amnesiac espionage where a man without any memory gathers info along the way, trying not to be killed while investigating who's trying to kill him, and why, there was Larry Cohen's CORONET BLUE from1967 filled with that decade's bright colors, groovy sounds, creative camera angles and a beatnik coffee shop...<br><br>Starring Frank Converse, who only remembers the strange title, <i>Coronet Blue</i>, upon waking up from a blackout caused by (what we see) being knocked-out and thrown into the ocean: yet the pilot's outright stolen by ingenue Susan Hamphire, a classy British actress playing a classy American rich girl who makes such a worthy love interest and helpful partner, she's missed for the rest of the series since, after all, CORONET BLUE was a one-man show and yet, never as solid as this pilot... Hampshire's absence being the sole reason why.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

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FRANK CONVERSE IN 'CORONET BLUE' WITH SUSAN HAMPSHIRE

Susan Hampshire and Frank Converse in CORONET BLUE: A Time To Be Born Year: 1967 Rating: ***1/2 Before the BOURNE franchise of amnesiac espi...

BURT REYNOLDS IN SERGIO CORBUCCI'S WESTERN 'NAVAJO JOE'

<p></p><p></p><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/AVvXsEgltjXkiFpIiCSlyjP8Frs4eGgNN7l3lIaLnKv9mST6k3jiCdeD2IWDCGxrIltJT5EtnpLLnflWF5gxkLp1JAn2tBvZ5S0UV2mgqlICVSAc0ilkRhvs7QRwMyDNbjUYrrUyX5FRrb0jM_4R1hM6SNTmn-qqGvlFCKq_ewkvyvlQkMRPxTbovzDJ0hKE5iqO/s1970/Screen%20Shot%202024-08-26%20at%2010.50.26%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="848" data-original-width="1970" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgltjXkiFpIiCSlyjP8Frs4eGgNN7l3lIaLnKv9mST6k3jiCdeD2IWDCGxrIltJT5EtnpLLnflWF5gxkLp1JAn2tBvZ5S0UV2mgqlICVSAc0ilkRhvs7QRwMyDNbjUYrrUyX5FRrb0jM_4R1hM6SNTmn-qqGvlFCKq_ewkvyvlQkMRPxTbovzDJ0hKE5iqO/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-08-26%20at%2010.50.26%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds and Nicoletta Machiavelli in NAVAJO JOE Year: 1966 Grade: C+</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Other than Italian composer Ennio Morricone's foreboding five-note score, that Quentin Tarantino used memorably for a climactic standoff in KILL BILL, there's a crooning/vocalizing of title character NAVAJO JOE...<br><br>An energetic and resilient half-Indian warrior played by Burt Reynolds, whose personal theme is actually more majestic than the character: Not given much for Reynolds other than some tremendous stuntwork within Spaghetti Western b-auteur Sergio Corbucci's visually creative/action-packed direction...<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><span></span></p>

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BURT REYNOLDS IN SERGIO CORBUCCI'S WESTERN 'NAVAJO JOE'

Burt Reynolds and Nicoletta Machiavelli in NAVAJO JOE Year: 1966 Grade: C+ Other than Italian composer Ennio Morricone's foreboding five...

BURT REYNOLDS WITH AHNA CAPRI & NORMAL FELL ON 'DAN AUGUST'

<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/AVvXsEhmO5erNdc2sQSnKdhIiM09fMAE4xP6gvrizoUuvItMKvgikMkhLvGcbx1JoS-nLA1khyACFR1zJeoJrVDpB0pd-loRdoMDfdm0W4rnzdouOtjefE6B_Oymb6yIt3Q_pUijeBYbIPWByTWpjh96Dw0JwlK4DiMFQXR6QpbxiQG-H6gY5jPEd6t4COfEgOW9/s1208/z.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="798" data-original-width="1208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmO5erNdc2sQSnKdhIiM09fMAE4xP6gvrizoUuvItMKvgikMkhLvGcbx1JoS-nLA1khyACFR1zJeoJrVDpB0pd-loRdoMDfdm0W4rnzdouOtjefE6B_Oymb6yIt3Q_pUijeBYbIPWByTWpjh96Dw0JwlK4DiMFQXR6QpbxiQG-H6gY5jPEd6t4COfEgOW9/s16000/z.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds on DAN AUGUST Prognosis: Homicide Year: 1971 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>One of the better episodes of the Burt Reynolds detective series DAN AUGUST has a flowing handing-off plot, beginning with a bum who finds a free bottle of whiskey, is poisoned and dies, which leads Burt's titular character and partner Norman Fell into seeking three beautiful blondes connected to an unpopular surgeon played by Fritz Weaver...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The most important in ENTER THE DRAGON dragonlady Ahna Capri, who might have the doctor's baby... and Ena Hartman, girlfriend of a lower surgeon who, along with hook-handed Ken Scott, has it in for the womanizing doc...</p><p><span></span></p>

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BURT REYNOLDS WITH AHNA CAPRI & NORMAL FELL ON 'DAN AUGUST'

Burt Reynolds on DAN AUGUST Prognosis: Homicide Year: 1971 Rating: **** One of the better episodes of the Burt Reynolds detective series DAN...