Written by James M. Tate / 8/31/2024 / No comments / burt reynolds franchise , colleen camp , cop , eighties , jackie gleason , jerry reed , mike henry , pat mccormick , paul williams , sequel
BURT REYNOLDS MOSTLY AVOIDS 'SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT PART 3'
Burt Reynolds cameo in SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT 3 Year: 1983 Rating: ** The irony of Burt Reynolds and director Hal Needham (mostly) avoiding S...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/30/2024 / No comments / action , adventure , alfie wise , burt reynolds , cop , hal needham , jackie gleason , mike henry , paul williams , road movie , sally field , seventies
BURT REYNOLDS WITH JERRY REED IN 'SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT'
Burt Reynolds in SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT Year: 1977 Rating: **** While SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT has been maligned for not allowing Burt Reynolds ...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/29/2024 / No comments / action , alice ghostly , burt reynolds , burton gilliam , dub taylor , jerry reed , john steadman , lauren hutton , moonshine , remake , seventies
BURT REYNOLDS WITH JERRY REED AND JACK WESTON IN 'GATOR'
Burt Reynolds in GATOR Year: 1976 Rating: **1/2 Burt Reynolds got the directing bug for the WHITE LIGHTNING sequel GATOR, that's really...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/26/2024 / No comments / adventure , alexander knox , burt reynolds , gordon douglas , paul hubschmid , roger c. carmel , seventies , susan clark
BURT REYNOLDS GOES MONKEYING AROUND FOR 'SKULLDUGGERY'
Burt Reynolds in SKULLDUGGERY Director: Gordon Douglas Year: 1970 Rating: **1/2 Between an eclectic television career and hitting big with t...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/25/2024 / No comments / action , adventure , bill catching , burt reynolds , christian nyby , danielle aubry , kieu chinh , sixties , spy , vic diaz , vietnam
BURT REYNOLDS SPYING THROUGH SAIGON FOR 'OPERATION C.I.A.'
Burt Reynolds in Operation C.I.A. Year: 1966 Rating: ***1/2 Although Burt Reynolds detested OPERATION CIA, his first starring turn fresh fro...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/24/2024 / No comments / burt reynolds , cop , crime , marianna hill , neo noir , sixties , tv series
BURT REYNOLDS AS DETECTIVE NAMED 'HAWK' WITH MARIANNA HILL
Burt Reynolds as HAWK: The Hands of Corbin Claybrooke Year: 1966 Rating: ***1/2 Before playing a monotone detective in the 1970 series DAN A...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/23/2024 / No comments / burt reynolds , crime , diana muldaur , efrem zimbalist jr. , sixties , tv series , william reynolds
BURT REYNOLDS RETURNS TO 'THE FBI' EPISODE 'ACT OF VIOLENCE'
Burt Reynolds on FBI: ACT OF VIOLENCE Year: 1967 Rating: *** In Quentin Tarantino's ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD , he had his fictional...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/22/2024 / No comments / burt reynolds , crime , efrem zimbalist jr. , FBI , james francsiscus , joe maross , norman fell , rex holman , sixties , tv series , wesley addy
BURT REYNOLDS ANTAGONIZES 'THE FBI: ALL THE STREETS ARE SILENT'
Burt Reynolds on FBI: ALL THE STREETS ARE SILENT Year: 1965 Rating: *** It's unlikely that Quentin Tarantino's fictional once-famous...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/20/2024 / No comments / action , carol lynley , efrem zimbalist jr. , FBI , peter duel , tv series , william reynolds
CAROL LYNLEY WITH PETER DUEL DRIVING 'THE FBI: FALSE WITNESS'
Peter Duel & Carol Lynley on THE FBI: FALSE WITNESS Year: 1967 Season 3 Rating: **** Sometimes the Quinn Martin production THE FBI would...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/19/2024 / No comments / action , british film noir , fifties , john mills , lionel jeffries , lisa daniely , noelle middleton , wilfrid hyde-white , wrong man
JOHN MILLS IN THE BRITISH WRONG MAN NOIR 'THE VICIOUS CIRCLE'
Title: THE VICIOUS CIRCLE Year: 1957 Rating: **** At one point in the middle of THE VICIOUS CIRCLE, starring John Mills as a doctor falsely ...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/18/2024 / No comments / british film noir , crime , dennis price , duncan lamont , fifties , renee asherson , susan shaw , william franklyn
DENNIS COLE, RENÉE ASHERSON & PATRICK BARR 'TIME IS MY ENEMY'
Title: TIME IS MY ENEMY Year: 1954 Rating: **1/2 British actor Dennis Price made a living as smooth-talking lowlifes in British b-movies, an...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/17/2024 / No comments / british film noir , fifties , james kenney , joan collins , melodrama , teen
JAMES KENNEY & JOAN COLLINS IN 'KOSH BOY' OR 'THE SLASHER'
Title: COSH BOY also THE SLASHER Year: 1954 Rating: **1/2 It's a shame that COSH BOY (strangely re-titled THE SLASHER) is so extremely d...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/14/2024 / No comments / anjanette comer , barry miller , biopic , cannon , gianni russo , michael callan , milton berle , mobster , seventies , simmy bow , tony curtis , vic tayback , warner archives
MENAHEM GOLAN'S 'LEPKE' WITH TONY CURTIS & ANJANETTE COMER
Title: LEPKE Year: 1975 Rating: **1/2 A cross between yet another 1970's THE GODFATHER clone and a drive-in exploitation with sex and vi...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/11/2024 / No comments / body count , dewey robinson , film noir or melodrama , horror , lawrence tierney , mark robson , richard dix , russell wade , skelton knaggs , thriller , val lewton
VAL LEWTON PRESENTS MARK ROBSON'S THRILLER 'THE GHOST SHIP'
Title: THE GHOST SHIP Year: 1943 Rating: ***1/2 A dark, atmospheric Val Lewton production using RKO's fog-shrouded KING KONG ship (liter...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/10/2024 / No comments / adventure , alfred hitchcock , british film noir , john longden , nova pilbeam , road movie , romance , thirties , wrong man
NOVA PILBEAM IN ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S 'YOUNG AND INNOCENT'
Nova Pilbeam and Derrick De Marney in YOUNG AND INNOCENT Year: 1937 Rating: *** Alfred Hitchcock was the master of suspense — and the maste...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/07/2024 / No comments / alfred hitchcock , british film noir , edna best , espionage , kidnapping , leslie banks , nova pilbeam , pierre fresnay , remake , thirties
NOVA PILBEAM KIDNAPPED IN 'THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH'
Leslie Banks, Nova Pilbeam and Pierre Fresnay in THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH When first hearing about Alfred Hitchcock's THE MAN WHO KNEW ...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/06/2024 / No comments / alan ladd , carolyn jones , charles mcgraw , diane brewster , edward binns , fifties , michael mcgreevy , mystery , neo noir , susan gordon , wrong man
ALAD LADD, SUSAN GORDON & CAROLYN JONES 'THE MAN IN THE NET'
Charles McGraw, Edward Binns & Alan Ladd pictured from THE MAN IN THE NET Year: 1959 Rating: ** By 1959, Film Noir had ended, but not of...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/05/2024 / No comments / bel air productions , drama , eddie cochran , fifties , howard w. koch , john russell , lori nelson , lurene tuttle , mamie van doren , music , warner archives , wayne nelson , women in prison , yvonne lime
LORI NELSON, JOHN RUSSELL & MAMIE VAN DOREN 'UNTAMED YOUTH'
title: UNTAMED YOUTH year: 1957 rating: **** In a creatively low-budget twist of the prison genre, by the time bad lockup girl Jeanne Carmen...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/04/2024 / No comments / action , arthur franz , don taylor , drama , fifties , nancy olson , william bendix , william holden , world war II
WILLIAM HOLDEN AND NANCY OLSON IN 'SUBMARINE COMMAND'
Title: SUBMARINE COMMAND Year: 1951 Rating: *** Imagine THE CAINE MUTINY, without a mutiny, and you might have the William Holden vehicle SU...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/03/2024 / No comments / alice faye , ann revere , bruce cabot , dana andrews , film noir , film noir or melodrama , forties , linda darnell , otto preminger
DANA ANDREWS & ALICE FAYE IN OTTO PREMINGER'S 'FALLEN ANGEL'
Year: 1945 Rating: ****1/2 If you look at the filmography of two actresses who play sisters in the Otto Preminger Film Noir FALLEN ANGEL, Al...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/02/2024 / No comments / bert freed , british film noir/melodrama , cop , craig stevens , dana andrews , fifties , gary merill , gene tierney , karl malden , otto preminger , suspense
DANA ANDREWS & GENE TIERNEY IN 'WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS'
Dana and Gene a third time YEAR: 1950 A sort of Film Noir in reverse as a downright bad and brutal cop does something accidental and pretty ...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/01/2024 / No comments / classic , clifton webb , cop , crime , dana andrews , film noir , forties , gene tierney , mystery , otto preminger , vincent price
DANA ANDREWS AND GENE TIERNEY IN OTTO PREMINGER'S 'LAURA'
Title: LAURA Year: 1944 Rates: ***** Dana Andrews as Det. Lt. Mark McPherson has fallen in love with a ghost, kind of, and that's not...
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