CHRISTINA GREGG RIDING ROGER CORMAN'S 'THE YOUNG RACERS'

<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/AVvXsEhskYDTYU1LHatBfFbs_yFBBsY-IEHHQhptfDyj1eA_jN8IcOSPut72ukEUH1zim2_68l0xhMGdOXg6HogTN-JRrwVIz9-qOUVLbwy9fHWLR9SLKIMBxB4JC4vcskqXIfj5Iq7MabW6inoHo-k8JiksjwVSVPWaREp_2MzGNAwCIRfspzwXvU5vhL-KjZ2E/s1612/Screen%20Shot%202025-01-13%20at%2011.04.54%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="838" data-original-width="1612" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhskYDTYU1LHatBfFbs_yFBBsY-IEHHQhptfDyj1eA_jN8IcOSPut72ukEUH1zim2_68l0xhMGdOXg6HogTN-JRrwVIz9-qOUVLbwy9fHWLR9SLKIMBxB4JC4vcskqXIfj5Iq7MabW6inoHo-k8JiksjwVSVPWaREp_2MzGNAwCIRfspzwXvU5vhL-KjZ2E/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-01-13%20at%2011.04.54%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Christina Gregg with Mark Damon in THE YOUNG RACERS Year: 1963 Rates: ** </u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>There are bad b-movies that are still entertaining, and then there are those that simply don't work — as is the case of Roger Corman's THE YOUNG RACERS,<i> that does use</i> genuine European Monte Carlo Grand Prix racing locations that don't resemble stock footage thrown into the melodramatic romance sequences, which this has far too much of...</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>Howard Hawks fared much better (though not financially) with what this picture seems a precursor of, RED LINE 7000, following womanizing racers and their female conquests, some stronger than others, in particular Luana Anders as the central ingenue, stuck between THE YOUNG RACERS... </p><p><span></span></p>

action, christina gregg, exploitation, luana anders, marie versini, mark damon, melodrama, race car, roger corman, romance, sixties, sport, william campbell, william shatner

CHRISTINA GREGG RIDING ROGER CORMAN'S 'THE YOUNG RACERS'

Christina Gregg with Mark Damon in THE YOUNG RACERS Year: 1963 Rates: ** There are bad b-movies that are still entertaining, and then there ...

WILLIAM LUCAS MAKING 'THE BREAK' WITH CHRISTINA GREGG

<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/AVvXsEjP11Rqcn79bgZ3GBm28SrGDV8S9CZjweRVpxdm0xCxHeuO8Y1k_Qdxhg2JN9UnmrqllrVL-r-lwJrLdUNdGySlV41UdL2LkaMUMVdCIPcenCWT9PhrPVM4rT8cpRff9w4Aced44eC-BzvA2Cq9CzlWXogtYStK4lSDd3GbPXwXSs431RaLJElOAXvjMNdd/s1630/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-31%20at%201.54.19%20PM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1092" data-original-width="1630" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP11Rqcn79bgZ3GBm28SrGDV8S9CZjweRVpxdm0xCxHeuO8Y1k_Qdxhg2JN9UnmrqllrVL-r-lwJrLdUNdGySlV41UdL2LkaMUMVdCIPcenCWT9PhrPVM4rT8cpRff9w4Aced44eC-BzvA2Cq9CzlWXogtYStK4lSDd3GbPXwXSs431RaLJElOAXvjMNdd/w400-h268/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-31%20at%201.54.19%20PM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Christina Gregg & William Lucas THE BREAK Year: 1962</u></td></tr></tbody></table>The same year British beauty Christina Gregg played a schoolgirl told <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/08/catfone.html">DON'T TALK TO STRANGE MEN</a>, she was the twenty-something sister of a convict who made THE BREAK from a train...<br> <br> And winds up with handful of eclectic characters that... as Quentin Tarantino attempted in HATEFUL EIGHT inspired by John Carpenter's classic THE THING... are all stuck together, here within a rural Bed and Breakfast: all with not only different personalities and perspectives but purpose, motivation and temperaments... Meanwhile the leading man is a sophisticated type: here a blocked author and, on the upside he quickly yet slowly finds kinship with the gorgeous Christina Gregg, but he's also being surreptitiously eyed by the most intriguing and perhaps crooked person onboard in CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN tutor Robert Urquhart as a wily-charming gumshoe insurance investigator...<br>

action, british neo noir, british new wave, christina gregg, eddie byrne, gene anderson, lance comfort, robert urquhart, sixties, thriller, tony britton, william lucas

WILLIAM LUCAS MAKING 'THE BREAK' WITH CHRISTINA GREGG

Christina Gregg & William Lucas THE BREAK Year: 1962 The same year British beauty Christina Gregg played a schoolgirl told DON'T TAL...

CHRISTINA GREGG PLAYS VICTIM FOR THE 'COVER GIRL KILLER'

<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/AVvXsEgSvhI_aVSQYxrd2l9L3Wmr0zvodQxTVr8Yzrmu-FgEGoPlvOeSGyKeIhET9Lv0PEnCMatJE6cCtbEf0DUEMWRv3NHQVi7r0pNZSnfypAxTD79HE9K1bwbxl-yDD-5jU-BeT_BC53BIHFQccItx5KxdDvHM6ZRKjt7dE9HT64Te7LbN5P9ajJ9K75g_EQdo/s1230/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-31%20at%201.36.11%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="760" data-original-width="1230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSvhI_aVSQYxrd2l9L3Wmr0zvodQxTVr8Yzrmu-FgEGoPlvOeSGyKeIhET9Lv0PEnCMatJE6cCtbEf0DUEMWRv3NHQVi7r0pNZSnfypAxTD79HE9K1bwbxl-yDD-5jU-BeT_BC53BIHFQccItx5KxdDvHM6ZRKjt7dE9HT64Te7LbN5P9ajJ9K75g_EQdo/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-31%20at%201.36.11%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Christina Gregg faces death in THE COVER GIRL KILLER Year: 1959 Rating: **</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Any chance to see model-turned-actress Christina Gregg is worthwhile, no matter how disappointing this particular British New Wave crime thriller is despite the cool title of COVER GIRL KILLER, supposedly the inspiration for PEEPING TOM. Gregg would later play a 15-year-old virgin stalked by a psychotic phone caller, while here she's an older yet equally shy, innocent and naïve victim of a spectacle-wearing photographer who kills cover girls, as the tile implies...</p><p>Sadly, most of the film has two cops blandly discussing the murders when there could have been more British beauties taken out in a body count fashion, mixing horror within the pulpy police procedural that's not very intriguing. Although lead ingenue Felicity Young, as the girl/friend of a flaky magazine owner no one takes seriously, is also worth the watch. You'll hope she fares better than poor Christina.<br></p><p><span></span></p>

body count, british neo noir, british new wave, christina gregg, crime, julie shearing, sixties

CHRISTINA GREGG PLAYS VICTIM FOR THE 'COVER GIRL KILLER'

Christina Gregg faces death in THE COVER GIRL KILLER Year: 1959 Rating: ** Any chance to see model-turned-actress Christina Gregg is worthwh...

DAVID MCCALLUM, BRIAN WESKE & JILL IRELAND IN 'JUNGLE STREET'

<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/AVvXsEju-4Wb6dz-Claf4T-QGMDuK-YLOjWlYlHGOCxanTGHiK_hLY0S54tKkPNdyT7LDLo2xfrg6juUGkXg6wkRWhht2_tD5vvxJ70Ba75P-X9aCwtO_qeE5HhL4h3F_NUqdcGyJiuQ9GRffGkqEj3vD9H2k47yMwgHfDLmCGB9EhtriZVmAOx5C9lOmNkqEh-a/s1896/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-25%20at%2010.10.36%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1008" data-original-width="1896" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju-4Wb6dz-Claf4T-QGMDuK-YLOjWlYlHGOCxanTGHiK_hLY0S54tKkPNdyT7LDLo2xfrg6juUGkXg6wkRWhht2_tD5vvxJ70Ba75P-X9aCwtO_qeE5HhL4h3F_NUqdcGyJiuQ9GRffGkqEj3vD9H2k47yMwgHfDLmCGB9EhtriZVmAOx5C9lOmNkqEh-a/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-25%20at%2010.10.36%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>David McCallum and Gillian Watt with Anne Scott in JUNGLE STREET (Jungle Street Girls) Year: 1960 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>After having met and married after working together in <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/09/HellDrivers.html">HELL DRIVERS</a> where they were basically glorified cameos, three years later David McCallum and Jill Ireland — as an aimless <i>still at home</i> loser hanging around a strip joint to catch that joint's top stripper — actually <i>starred in</i> another B&W British flick that's far superior: a heist thriller that takes an entire film to reach that heist with creative twisty avenues, and our two stars aren't alone...<br> <br> The third lead in the triangle is freshly-sprung convict Kenneth Cope, a handsome and experienced lad with a romantic background with Ireland (one scene as he charmingly converses with McCallum's kitchen sink mother is a standout); he also wants payback from former partner McCallum, who <i>didn't</i> get caught from what landed him in prison... </p><p></p>

brian weske, british neo noir, charles saunders, david mccallum, faye craig, gillian watt, guido coen, howard pays, jill ireland, joy webster, julie shearing, kenneth cope, marian collins, sixties, vanda hudson

DAVID MCCALLUM, BRIAN WESKE & JILL IRELAND IN 'JUNGLE STREET'

David McCallum and Gillian Watt with Anne Scott in JUNGLE STREET (Jungle Street Girls) Year: 1960 Rating: ****1/2 After having met and marri...

WILLIAM LUCAS, ZENA WALKER & DAVID GREGORY 'THE MARKED ONE'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/william%20lucas"></a></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/AVvXsEgqWlqhNBW53SMywUPaBGKvTAAm0GE3XnFuRr6zJRwAEYeVj_a4oFBaQIyMugN5mN7vmUppaAJq8u4E0Nf0LalB_uk8lue3B91c6PhFC8qK332_8ANut387eW_2PsGXrHNvIrSK3G7wQCsqrqNve-9Z63T2VvHfKdtZAIO7TWk9tu8JA3cZLe7WBJIjmWc3/s1774/Screen%20Shot%202025-06-08%20at%2012.13.09%20AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="844" data-original-width="1774" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqWlqhNBW53SMywUPaBGKvTAAm0GE3XnFuRr6zJRwAEYeVj_a4oFBaQIyMugN5mN7vmUppaAJq8u4E0Nf0LalB_uk8lue3B91c6PhFC8qK332_8ANut387eW_2PsGXrHNvIrSK3G7wQCsqrqNve-9Z63T2VvHfKdtZAIO7TWk9tu8JA3cZLe7WBJIjmWc3/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-06-08%20at%2012.13.09%20AM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE MARKED ONE Year: 1963 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Obscure British actor <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/william%20lucas">William Lucas</a> gained niche fame as the father from the 1970's BLACK BEAUTY, no longer the Bogart-looking tough guy from a string of early-1960's b-crimes as leading bad guys (<a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/02/gimme-a.html">THE BREAK</a>), sketchy middlemen (<a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/03/payrollers.html">PAYROLL</a>) or criminals in-between (CALCULATED RISK, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/03/breakOUT.html">BREAKOUT</a>)...<br><br>And THE MARKED ONE also leans to that midpoint... an ex convict who, with a divorced wife, young daughter, dotting landlady (Laurie Leigh) and a factory job, is threatened by enigmatic goons to retrieve forgery plates that he might or might not have, providing more mystery to the character than his dire circumstance...</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></span></p>

british neo noir, british new wave, crime, david gregory, gillian watt, kidnapping, kim tracy, laura leigh, marianne stone, post-heist, sixties, thriller, william lucas, wrong man, zena walker

WILLIAM LUCAS, ZENA WALKER & DAVID GREGORY 'THE MARKED ONE'

Title: THE MARKED ONE Year: 1963 Rating: ***1/2 Obscure British actor William Lucas gained niche fame as the father from the 1970's BLA...

WILLIAM LUCAS & JOHN RUTLAND WEATHERING 'CALCULATED RISK'

<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/AVvXsEiYHRU7OaVKlLY96mUGH78mkarDQs6TTzgmdORuZrWAfTfgVMy2P48P-72YEFr-WRLbiZETvPVDjatgBbVNCl9vrMzGlYxbn5LoZFWQpTk9cZWr6vFDVxABtNYeTVSpy9BQJ_P07oc4h_t2NxGp39G3GJeo7epT1YWyHheKdVLnVU-ExISjMusScEiUvP6o/s1742/Screen%20Shot%202025-06-08%20at%206.15.02%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1742" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYHRU7OaVKlLY96mUGH78mkarDQs6TTzgmdORuZrWAfTfgVMy2P48P-72YEFr-WRLbiZETvPVDjatgBbVNCl9vrMzGlYxbn5LoZFWQpTk9cZWr6vFDVxABtNYeTVSpy9BQJ_P07oc4h_t2NxGp39G3GJeo7epT1YWyHheKdVLnVU-ExISjMusScEiUvP6o/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-06-08%20at%206.15.02%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>William Lucas in CALCULATED RISK Year: 1963 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Low-budget thriller has <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/02/gimme-a.html">THE BREAK</a> baddie and overall capable <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/british%20new%20wave">British New Wave</a> actor William Lucas in CALCULATED RISK, a hybrid of THE ASPHALT JUNGLE as a newly-released older short guy has big plans for a big heist (John Rutland doing Sam Jaffe) and LARCENY INC since they must dig through a pair of locations to reach the targeted goal... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Which aren't stores but bombed-out houses from twenty-years past, leading to a lucrative bank vault while Lucas, as a sophisticated yet crooked businessman (like ASPHALT backer Louis Calhern), who really doesn't need the bread (unlike Calhern and more like shifty Marc Lawrence), heads up a group of thugs resembling dockyard barflies...<br> </p>

british neo noir, british new wave, caper, dilys watling, george martin, heist, john rutland, shay gorman, sixties, suspense, terence cooper, thriller, warren mitchell, william lucas

WILLIAM LUCAS & JOHN RUTLAND WEATHERING 'CALCULATED RISK'

William Lucas in CALCULATED RISK Year: 1963 Rating: ***1/2 Low-budget thriller has THE BREAK baddie and overall capable British New Wave a...

JILL IRELAND IN THE GIRLS-BEHIND-BARS DRAMA 'SO EVIL, SO YOUNG'

<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/AVvXsEhkFx8rfRcnVLhzKHzXTR4Jbbl0dO9WfhDXlIHpHoZW6gEzVgtJEDMeKWlFBiTMXTx5tt4VKH7SuFsa2d60wFCA-k-jSplLNIo0kzaSGNVKXDSivRiY5rVyqIj2G1YhhbGxP62bAx2B4p46w2Fz0z-pL2AQ6Fh6_KkZ-vtzGUd7Xu1bFm8FSdjS8GaZvlPy/s1320/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-25%20at%207.18.41%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="856" data-original-width="1320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkFx8rfRcnVLhzKHzXTR4Jbbl0dO9WfhDXlIHpHoZW6gEzVgtJEDMeKWlFBiTMXTx5tt4VKH7SuFsa2d60wFCA-k-jSplLNIo0kzaSGNVKXDSivRiY5rVyqIj2G1YhhbGxP62bAx2B4p46w2Fz0z-pL2AQ6Fh6_KkZ-vtzGUd7Xu1bFm8FSdjS8GaZvlPy/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-25%20at%207.18.41%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jill Ireland in SO EVIL, SO YOUNG Year: 1961 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>When framed-for-burglary good girl Jill Ireland is put into isolation in an all-girls reformatory, the already unfitting mellow jazz soundtrack suddenly explodes into a bedlam of vibes and horns, almost seeming like that very music's being pumped into the room to drive her crazy, as she starts grabbing the bars, desperately wanting to get out... <br><br>Contrasting to what begins as a rather tame earlier version of THE LONELINESS OF THE LONG DISTANCE RUNNER but involving girls... and yes, SO EVIL SO YOUNG is a women's prison movie taking place in more of a boarding bunkhouse... and there are some pretty ingenues including Ireland's JUNGLE STREET co-starlet Gillian Watts: But one scene-stealing inmate gains much-needed momentum during the third act... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

british, colin tapley, ellen pollock, jocelyn britton, john longden, olive mcfarland, sixties, women in prison

JILL IRELAND IN THE GIRLS-BEHIND-BARS DRAMA 'SO EVIL, SO YOUNG'

Jill Ireland in SO EVIL, SO YOUNG Year: 1961 Rating: *** When framed-for-burglary good girl Jill Ireland is put into isolation in an all-gir...

CAROL WHITE, DAVID GREGORY & PETER REYNOLDS IN 'GAOLBREAK'

<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/AVvXsEjFi62zVDagV5OKbNqNZgE4DVlvklCOp-CPedGO5TZtGkZMibJtzHRRCZtLDfMTCdGvGnly9rSm4kMhyphenhyphen14zsi6jSKyedRBHrMUTSvgqiu-8-a7JWg9Z_eIzDHTX1maV6zZHd11ZSoY0sZxd8p4q9AbtvJhxbGDXpzyTn8_ZQ8aVjOlyO1oYbQx3ohSYV4U-/s1892/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-25%20at%2012.11.49%20PM%203%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="996" data-original-width="1892" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFi62zVDagV5OKbNqNZgE4DVlvklCOp-CPedGO5TZtGkZMibJtzHRRCZtLDfMTCdGvGnly9rSm4kMhyphenhyphen14zsi6jSKyedRBHrMUTSvgqiu-8-a7JWg9Z_eIzDHTX1maV6zZHd11ZSoY0sZxd8p4q9AbtvJhxbGDXpzyTn8_ZQ8aVjOlyO1oYbQx3ohSYV4U-/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-25%20at%2012.11.49%20PM%203%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Carol White in GAOLBREAK AKA JAILBREAK Year: 1962 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In the Swinging-Sixties, full-lipped blonde starlets were the thing in British cinema, from Julie Christie to Susannah York to Judy Geeson... but it started with Carol White, who appeared way back into the early-1960's, from a small part in BEAT GIRL to a co-starring turn in one of many Butcher's Film Group B&W crime-programmers, GAOLBREAK... <br><br>She's the girlfriend of the only kind-hearted member of a Ma Barker-style family of crooks led by oldest brother (and crime flick regular) Peter Reynolds, who conspires with surreptitiously resilient mother Avice Landone to knockoff a building with the contents of art auction proceeds... but there's a problem...</p><p><span></span></p>

british neo noir, carol white, david gregory, heist, laura leigh, marianne stone, peter reynolds, sixties

CAROL WHITE, DAVID GREGORY & PETER REYNOLDS IN 'GAOLBREAK'

Carol White in GAOLBREAK AKA JAILBREAK Year: 1962 Rating: **1/2 In the Swinging-Sixties, full-lipped blonde starlets were the thing in Briti...

PETER MAXWELL'S 'IMPACT' WITH CONRAD PHILLIPS & ANITA WEST

<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/AVvXsEg-JMpKxh-Kv9FaDfYljrsDLfF4qc1xyneZ8ummhF4U2O0yeIfd8bUgEP3nGDbOHQwaF7il-J0tlJfZHNa_iCd9xtoujAB0AXa_zay-mW-NEwtDJNJAlBwL-HSF_e8nVokFwyZcNGaCQqA3lISMq0-a6EwGbHik6-hqsWopuKJYiev0q6KooP68BflnNWrl/s1896/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-24%20at%2011.04.51%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1104" data-original-width="1896" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-JMpKxh-Kv9FaDfYljrsDLfF4qc1xyneZ8ummhF4U2O0yeIfd8bUgEP3nGDbOHQwaF7il-J0tlJfZHNa_iCd9xtoujAB0AXa_zay-mW-NEwtDJNJAlBwL-HSF_e8nVokFwyZcNGaCQqA3lISMq0-a6EwGbHik6-hqsWopuKJYiev0q6KooP68BflnNWrl/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-24%20at%2011.04.51%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Conrad Phillips in IMPACT Year: 1963 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The low-budget British studio Butchers turned out film noir-type crime-dramas like they were television episodes, playing out like something more from the small screen than big...<br><br>And that's not a negative critique since they almost always pay off with good stories and great actors, in this case an equally edgy and severe wrong-man/good guy and nightclub-owning villain...</p><p><span></span></p>

anita west, ballard berkeley, british neo noir, conrad phillips, george pastell, john rees, linda marlowe, peter maxwell, sixties, wrong man

PETER MAXWELL'S 'IMPACT' WITH CONRAD PHILLIPS & ANITA WEST

Conrad Phillips in IMPACT Year: 1963 Rating: *** The low-budget British studio Butchers turned out film noir-type crime-dramas like they wer...

PETER MAXWELL'S 'BLIND SPOT' ROBERT MACKENZIE & MICHAEL CAINE

<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/AVvXsEg0oIJXUqjA_oXHwfV5eLvajPy1NYJby2NNpRn5kOA5QJ3w1lqv7yp-wPfM4hLgC3sabpH1Gf5E0FVp69EvqZ4QV62PMyUfjwbI7tucLv917lYcNn6rXn416Reqt5G2zGgLbFiu2ju7dhEt7_xbyhyrX0Y2UMxjA-J3FIqPOKPE2MczexXw2TftXnZdUSyy/s1884/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-23%20at%2011.47.59%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1096" data-original-width="1884" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0oIJXUqjA_oXHwfV5eLvajPy1NYJby2NNpRn5kOA5QJ3w1lqv7yp-wPfM4hLgC3sabpH1Gf5E0FVp69EvqZ4QV62PMyUfjwbI7tucLv917lYcNn6rXn416Reqt5G2zGgLbFiu2ju7dhEt7_xbyhyrX0Y2UMxjA-J3FIqPOKPE2MczexXw2TftXnZdUSyy/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-23%20at%2011.47.59%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert MacKenzie in BLIND SPOT Year: 1958 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>By the time a young Michael Caine's much anticipated wild-card-airplane-pilot character's revealed with a gun drawn to his own sister, BLIND SPOT has one quick car chase and it's over... </p><p>Leaving most of the gumshoe-inspired/traipsing-from-interior-to-interior screen-time to military man Robert MacKenzie, who's blind when he literally knocks into two killers after being dropped off in the wrong house, and then, after his sight's back, he investigates what's behind the murder... <br></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/AVvXsEj7jrH6UCqOCKpGiEY9cw8qOld2Zyp4PF7YMevho0Z0Q_LH0izKxOe8mWAv9u151fkGyYILh_abQ7bmO2K8jWng_8ILtRPo67m3AM7BiB0GfV6eoQwyDxCFmuJydIq0XuapCZj5NC1EHrtah_HG9XzMa4HOj8NQjBju9EtN-bOrV7fXS15JcHKix2tW5C52/s1736/1.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="902" data-original-width="1736" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7jrH6UCqOCKpGiEY9cw8qOld2Zyp4PF7YMevho0Z0Q_LH0izKxOe8mWAv9u151fkGyYILh_abQ7bmO2K8jWng_8ILtRPo67m3AM7BiB0GfV6eoQwyDxCFmuJydIq0XuapCZj5NC1EHrtah_HG9XzMa4HOj8NQjBju9EtN-bOrV7fXS15JcHKix2tW5C52/s16000/1.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert MacKenzie in BLIND SPOT with Ann Sharp</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>A remake of the 1950 British Film Noir BLACKOUT, seeming like a made-for-TV vehicle in the deliberately sparse camera style of merely facing the actors spouting loads of exposition... </p><p></p><p>But what makes this subtle thriller work is MacKenzie's affably cool yet randomly urgent aura, a hybrid of American-working-in-England b-crime regular William Sylvester and legendary American noir actor Sterling Hayden... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

andrew faulds, ann sharp, british film noir, delphi lawrence, fifties, george pastell, john crawford, leigh madison, michael caine, mystery, peter maxwell, robert mackenzie, ronan o'casey

PETER MAXWELL'S 'BLIND SPOT' ROBERT MACKENZIE & MICHAEL CAINE

Robert MacKenzie in BLIND SPOT Year: 1958 Rating: ***1/2 By the time a young Michael Caine's much anticipated wild-card-airplane-pilot c...

EUGÉNE LOURIÈ DIRECTS THE BRITISH 'BEHEMOTH THE SEA MONSTER'

<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/AVvXsEjDci9rOOUuNLadl0LKiOW_cFx3dQZYct_0KJdvI9V1g4Oz187gcwoUhDhSWCLnjvlPoev9JOm5RhHcNshyphenhyphen33EvLti6A_bSgylRwjSc6hJidPRQp_A_smMOG6f037BSdiB4doVTHqAqtU5i9W2Sh-gtZz1T2IN4GBlfxdaBm7RiOxbArDswvqq2pZhh5NvC/s1478/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="850" data-original-width="1478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDci9rOOUuNLadl0LKiOW_cFx3dQZYct_0KJdvI9V1g4Oz187gcwoUhDhSWCLnjvlPoev9JOm5RhHcNshyphenhyphen33EvLti6A_bSgylRwjSc6hJidPRQp_A_smMOG6f037BSdiB4doVTHqAqtU5i9W2Sh-gtZz1T2IN4GBlfxdaBm7RiOxbArDswvqq2pZhh5NvC/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: BEHEMOTH THE SEA MONSTER Year: 1959 Rating: ****<br></u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The British creature-feature BEHEMOTH THE SEA MONSTER is said to be England's answer to the GODZILLA franchise... when in fact it's a reboot of the same director's THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS that had actually inspired Japan's now legendary GODZILLA/GOJIRA... </p><p></p><p>And while nothing touches the Japanese classic, an unpopular opinion is that Eugène Lourié SEA MONSTER (redundantly re-titled THE GIANT BEHEMOTH for America) is actually miles better than its groundbreaking FATHOMS predecessor... which had three scientists chasing an enigmatic sea-beast from the arctic into New York with very little character-development along the way... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

andré morell, creature feature, douglas hickox, eugène lourié, fifties, gene evans, jack macgowran, john turner, leigh madison, maurice kaufmann, monster, willis h. o'brien

EUGÉNE LOURIÈ DIRECTS THE BRITISH 'BEHEMOTH THE SEA MONSTER'

Title: BEHEMOTH THE SEA MONSTER Year: 1959 Rating: **** The British creature-feature BEHEMOTH THE SEA MONSTER is said to be England's an...

EUGÉNE LOURIÈ DIRECTS WILLIAM SYLVESTER IN BRITAIN'S 'GORGO'

<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/AVvXsEgOCb012SNM_ZOUG1AaaD27e7QLiUtxbZJRLAuDPOrfmGZKCxpXy8ES3aBde0E1MYDDwvkHmrlWo9Z471a_0mncoo-IByiKCdJBhVluV2N8Vbj4WOt2wG6f1qMMgkyRZROfCvHmq5WljD2jMlEJEk_yN2U81GouFkeI9RSLB9LGvTm237xYLlaVzQJhyphenhyphen_ff/s1138/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-24%20at%206.32.30%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="644" data-original-width="1138" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOCb012SNM_ZOUG1AaaD27e7QLiUtxbZJRLAuDPOrfmGZKCxpXy8ES3aBde0E1MYDDwvkHmrlWo9Z471a_0mncoo-IByiKCdJBhVluV2N8Vbj4WOt2wG6f1qMMgkyRZROfCvHmq5WljD2jMlEJEk_yN2U81GouFkeI9RSLB9LGvTm237xYLlaVzQJhyphenhyphen_ff/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-24%20at%206.32.30%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: GORGO Year: 1961 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>While GORGO seems like an unapologetic GODZILLA ripoff, director Eugène Lourié had already made BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS, which, released a year before the Japanese GODZILLA/GOJIRA, was a direct inspiration... </p><p></p><p>However, the movie that inspired both creature-features, RKO's classic KING KONG, is what GORGO is primarily based on: a gigantic beast is taken from its remote sea-surrounding-island home, and turned into a corporate carnival attraction... breaking free at one point from a banal photographer's intrusive flashbulb... </p><p><span></span></p>

bill travers, british, creature feature, eugène lourié, martin benson, maurice kaufmann, monster, sixties, william sylvester

EUGÉNE LOURIÈ DIRECTS WILLIAM SYLVESTER IN BRITAIN'S 'GORGO'

Title: GORGO Year: 1961 Rating: *** While GORGO seems like an unapologetic GODZILLA ripoff, director Eugène Lourié had already made BEAST FR...

EUGÉNE LOURIÈ'S PRE-GODZILLA 'THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS'

<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/AVvXsEgOGACTJk9Jb0_uuImDEUb5hVbU3AIZ_tfDcCaYZowkOWV19_SwJ5MqZ0txSh5vqUvoni_CKeHOJe4DFzrF3HT4arE_UqjmxKUaGpRIPX7ksm5S_8iHdlTvfF-l8ml7yJUsjHngy7oRVWXIW46xCifnaNRIRPQEAkBwRcHf2uwYxohtvQOgfgzC5qjr9HCn/s1892/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-22%20at%2012.08.19%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1160" data-original-width="1892" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOGACTJk9Jb0_uuImDEUb5hVbU3AIZ_tfDcCaYZowkOWV19_SwJ5MqZ0txSh5vqUvoni_CKeHOJe4DFzrF3HT4arE_UqjmxKUaGpRIPX7ksm5S_8iHdlTvfF-l8ml7yJUsjHngy7oRVWXIW46xCifnaNRIRPQEAkBwRcHf2uwYxohtvQOgfgzC5qjr9HCn/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-22%20at%2012.08.19%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1953 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Eugène Lourié's THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS was what actually inspired Japan's year-later GODZILLA... other than the legendary GOJIRA creature representing American nuclear bombs that destroyed their country (and lost them the war)... making the second radioactive-dinosaur-flick much deeper and far more coherent than this literally groundbreaking predecessor to all sizzling-lizard creature-features... <br><br>At one point, when scientific leads Paul Hubschmid and Paula Raymond wind up in KING KONG-inspired New York City after following the beast (resembling a T-Rex's walking-on-all-fours feisty pet) from the arctic underseas, it never feels like we actually struggled with them throughout any truly adventurous danger within a surprisingly bland monster movie that, other than Ray Harryhausen's terrific 11th hour stop-motion effects, feels like two disconnected stories that never quite meshes into one. <br></p><p><span></span></p>

adventure, creature feature, eugène lourié, fifties, horror, kenneth tobey, lee van cleef, monster, paula raymond, science-fiction

EUGÉNE LOURIÈ'S PRE-GODZILLA 'THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS'

Year: 1953 Rating: **1/2 Eugène Lourié's THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS was what actually inspired Japan's year-later GODZILLA... oth...

LIZA GREER & ROBIN GREER IN GREYDON CLARK'S 'ANGELS' BRIGADE'

<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/AVvXsEj1mc7Xm9YingPhDDvUf4nTsSp8ny9m1wd_nzkE8WGb9UFtBLzS205f5ka8SfrkKG-xCEzBu7ADX9j5KCgDl1LI1nC18UIYAJWdlhABrueQlXWNjXa6JBFAOYs7IQhVAwQu-pvibfHl4Qud93gNuW8sLOxbBZKD954xL0oYO-iOwUGEPl9Oj_r4YkTCJlMO/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-21%20at%209.08.15%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1008" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1mc7Xm9YingPhDDvUf4nTsSp8ny9m1wd_nzkE8WGb9UFtBLzS205f5ka8SfrkKG-xCEzBu7ADX9j5KCgDl1LI1nC18UIYAJWdlhABrueQlXWNjXa6JBFAOYs7IQhVAwQu-pvibfHl4Qud93gNuW8sLOxbBZKD954xL0oYO-iOwUGEPl9Oj_r4YkTCJlMO/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-21%20at%209.08.15%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Liza Greer in ANGELS' BRIGADE Year: 1979 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Thank goodness that in 1979, no one told low-budget director Greydon Clark that this kind of crime-centered, revenge-driven, van-cruising exploitation had gone out of style since blaxploitation and kung fu flicks waned in popularity, but, with the then-popularity of CHARLIE'S ANGELS on television, Clark's ANGEL'S BRIGADE really hit the spot... and with more than three beautiful women... <br><br>One a lanky-cute, pig-tailed teenager, played by Liza Greer (seeming primed for her own movie), trained by real life sister Robin Greer, a cop who also helps shape tough black chick Sylvia Anderson, athletic Asian Lieu Chinh, tall blonde showgirl (and technically leading actress) Susan Kiger, spicy Latina Noela Velasco and Clark's wife Jacquelin Cole, an idealistic high school school teacher who has, not surprisingly, the best part herein...</p><p><span></span></p>

alan hale jr., exploitation, greydon clark, jack palance, jacqulin cole, jim backus, liza greer, neville brand, peter lawford, robin greer, seventies, susan kiger, sylvia anderson

LIZA GREER & ROBIN GREER IN GREYDON CLARK'S 'ANGELS' BRIGADE'

Liza Greer in ANGELS' BRIGADE Year: 1979 Rating: ***1/2 Thank goodness that in 1979, no one told low-budget director Greydon Clark that ...

DEFENDING THE INFFAMOUS CAMP OF 'THE HORROR OF PARTY BEACH'

<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/AVvXsEi1G48r4kEzhKfVFyXv8UkDplCXhcaOGMw9igjiCvwuGBg-0zdjkWSj2l75C-iTJ92ibZLv4uWYzByqxzi8wlOHYx7u4DlLpJ41WFbIuARv4hUGyBhilZzRHFgyGDgbzQliafOdmiuNJt_EuFpEIC2B9RmQFa5GueBmgiJ0QjEhPNPEWLLFi-H_wmpSI4-Z/s1886/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-20%20at%208.37.55%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1106" data-original-width="1886" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1G48r4kEzhKfVFyXv8UkDplCXhcaOGMw9igjiCvwuGBg-0zdjkWSj2l75C-iTJ92ibZLv4uWYzByqxzi8wlOHYx7u4DlLpJ41WFbIuARv4hUGyBhilZzRHFgyGDgbzQliafOdmiuNJt_EuFpEIC2B9RmQFa5GueBmgiJ0QjEhPNPEWLLFi-H_wmpSI4-Z/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-20%20at%208.37.55%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE HORROR OF BLOOD BEACH Year: 1964 Camp Value: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Starting out one of those town-crashing 1960's biker flicks, quickly transforming into a WEST SIDE STORY rumble before blasting into a BEACH BLANKET BINGO musical, the camp-driven drive-in HORROR AT PARTY BEACH has flirtatious brunette Marilyn Clarke causing good guy local John Lyon and angry biker Agustin Mayor to fight... </p><p></p><p>She's like Janet Leigh from PSYCHO, seeming like the main character before foreshadowing Crissie Watkins in JAWS, quickly murdered in the water (actually a rocky atoll) by one of the goofiest looking monster-costume-antagonists ever...</p><p><span></span></p>

cult, del tenney, exploitation, horror, music, science-fiction, sixties, slasher, surf, thriller, wayne tippit

DEFENDING THE INFFAMOUS CAMP OF 'THE HORROR OF PARTY BEACH'

Title: THE HORROR OF BLOOD BEACH Year: 1964 Camp Value: ***1/2 Starting out one of those town-crashing 1960's biker flicks, quickly tran...

MARA CORDAY AND JEFF MORROW GROUNDING 'THE GIANT CLAW'

<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/AVvXsEj-Vj7yOcTFUxeYz73F15y6cG8ysD0tqXJ3GrB2-7X0iKAQOaWh6OnIhe4_SRjh9zPeXzm02VVR_2vTEGvt0Ql5BqgbiFmkSxfKXNk266OhoVdJsCq0yZCpNwGkhieqCjVrB0bjmSaurLb98yI4v8jCdMVGbR7cjP1P-0kGl6o4VVvcY6H_dGPJtMiClYyr/s1838/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1116" data-original-width="1838" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-Vj7yOcTFUxeYz73F15y6cG8ysD0tqXJ3GrB2-7X0iKAQOaWh6OnIhe4_SRjh9zPeXzm02VVR_2vTEGvt0Ql5BqgbiFmkSxfKXNk266OhoVdJsCq0yZCpNwGkhieqCjVrB0bjmSaurLb98yI4v8jCdMVGbR7cjP1P-0kGl6o4VVvcY6H_dGPJtMiClYyr/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE GIANT CLAW Translated: ATTACK OF THE GIANT CLAW Year: 1957 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The first half's one of those paranoid thrillers where, in this case, b-movie actor Jeff Morrow, all furrowed brow and timid countenance, thinks he sees a "bird the size of a battleship" while flying his jet fighter plane... causing another crash that makes him targeted by staunch military higher-ups since no one believes him...<br><br>Quickly paired with mathematical-strategist Mara Corday, fresh from battling a giant <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/09/TARANTULAlland.html">TARANTULA</a> and now a winged creature that, once revealed, turns THE GIANT CLAW into one of the lowest-rated monster movies ever...</p><p><span></span></p>

creature, edgar barrier, fifties, fred f. sears, jeff morrow, louis merrill, mara corday, monster, morris ankrum, robert shayne

MARA CORDAY AND JEFF MORROW GROUNDING 'THE GIANT CLAW'

Title: THE GIANT CLAW Translated: ATTACK OF THE GIANT CLAW Year: 1957 Rating: ***1/2 The first half's one of those paranoid thrillers wh...

MARA CORDAY, PAT CONWAY & RALPH CLANTON IN 'UNDERSEA GIRL'

<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/AVvXsEi_LUUuBgKij578TF-9W8JXIsyMAYuPJ9SXFsJnLyt7KIlslPFWjBlNo5usoMiQlnh_zl1hSgbI_oTpGFeOMuRZZKVCmnMCrhANcg64GKhK-2ZbQrBkH0wgLI-4XberFe9ZE7JAquJtRZqHVfd9OBQo1bwDJ1R9l-HuEB1WzuCzpvRgv-3732UWrtZ-QoTa/s1868/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1058" data-original-width="1868" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_LUUuBgKij578TF-9W8JXIsyMAYuPJ9SXFsJnLyt7KIlslPFWjBlNo5usoMiQlnh_zl1hSgbI_oTpGFeOMuRZZKVCmnMCrhANcg64GKhK-2ZbQrBkH0wgLI-4XberFe9ZE7JAquJtRZqHVfd9OBQo1bwDJ1R9l-HuEB1WzuCzpvRgv-3732UWrtZ-QoTa/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Pat Conway and Mara Corday in UNDERWATER GIRL Year: 1957 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>By the ending of UNDERSEA GIRL, Mara Corday's titular character gets kidnapped by <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2023/11/HotCars.html">HOT CARS</a> villain Ralph Clanton, above water, making navy investigator Pat Conway the real underwater star: although it's never that exciting since things are so slowed down down there...<br><br>Making this b-thriller a hybrid of revolving stories: one concerning Corday's feisty Nancy Drew-type reporter wanting the background-scoop on a suspicious dead body she finds while diving... leading to the crime-noirish aspect with Clanton's backstabbing gang slowly recovering their stolen loot...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, crime, dan seymour, fifties, florence marly, heist, mara corday, pat conway, ralph clanton, sue george

MARA CORDAY, PAT CONWAY & RALPH CLANTON IN 'UNDERSEA GIRL'

Pat Conway and Mara Corday in UNDERWATER GIRL Year: 1957 Rating: **1/2 By the ending of UNDERSEA GIRL, Mara Corday's titular character g...

MARA CORDAY AND RICHARD DENNING IN 'THE BLACK SCORPION'

<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/AVvXsEjZOktC0PWUNRvJVxsY_FG9FUU9xMt7S4WhhNiwCrWr5pDVgMee1O938tZqsd8i2H-GyiY8KJp3WjL9C06Rp97ztFKQgXXu77pKDoIra_N0MdAdaJ_GLSOzBDg4tU2YsIvEqq-kmGQFSyaUHZBa8gp_5fpUTG_wGHFsoJxABwe1FbNhCwONlOIUxDt1OIHa/s1110/green%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="674" data-original-width="1110" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZOktC0PWUNRvJVxsY_FG9FUU9xMt7S4WhhNiwCrWr5pDVgMee1O938tZqsd8i2H-GyiY8KJp3WjL9C06Rp97ztFKQgXXu77pKDoIra_N0MdAdaJ_GLSOzBDg4tU2YsIvEqq-kmGQFSyaUHZBa8gp_5fpUTG_wGHFsoJxABwe1FbNhCwONlOIUxDt1OIHa/s16000/green%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mara Corday in THE BLACK SCORPION Year: 1957 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Certainly an inspiration for the 11th hour sculpture transition in BEETLEJUICE and before that, more befitting, the Ray Harryhausen stop-motion creature-feature THE VALLEY OF GWANGI... </p><p></p><p>The first for the nightmarishly creepily-creeping BLACK SCORPION and the second for a climax in a Mexico City outdoors arena, where the crowded town faces formidable danger as literal Armies fight back... </p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, carlos múzquiz, carlos rivas, fifties, mara corday, monster, richard denning, roberto contreras, willis h. o'brien

MARA CORDAY AND RICHARD DENNING IN 'THE BLACK SCORPION'

Mara Corday in THE BLACK SCORPION Year: 1957 Rating: ***1/2 Certainly an inspiration for the 11th hour sculpture transition in BEETLEJUICE a...

MARA CORDAY BOWLING FOR 'PETER GUNN' IN 'KEEP SMILING'

<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/AVvXsEgUYKH75rC-PVv9V9ViKXK4hk42FuVHnEPsmpQtxkPun6MaBXhIpYy9yLpHO4_Or49uJ_8QCzKJnnePAtQghWEJrJe-ynTyXpeb3EiaCdP-sNwe73eCjHOYN-1QMqvEQHhtSwfun3udUKSmHw0FWYixMcifODztJWiTUgNVom9BvLKlqkF0WP7_yzcb5UvT/s1724/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1260" data-original-width="1724" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUYKH75rC-PVv9V9ViKXK4hk42FuVHnEPsmpQtxkPun6MaBXhIpYy9yLpHO4_Or49uJ_8QCzKJnnePAtQghWEJrJe-ynTyXpeb3EiaCdP-sNwe73eCjHOYN-1QMqvEQHhtSwfun3udUKSmHw0FWYixMcifODztJWiTUgNVom9BvLKlqkF0WP7_yzcb5UvT/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mara Corday on PETER GUNN: KEEP SMILING Year: 1959 Grade: B+</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>With a plot right out of the James Cagney flick LADY KILLER, a group of con-artists use a beautiful dame to hook lonely (in this case) bowling alley frequents, take them to an apartment and then rob 'em blind... wherein the usually jazzy-cool titular gumshoe Craig Stevens's PETER GUNN plays the awkward nebbish to vulnerably hook the girl...<br><br>But once at the hot spot, he's made by one of the baddies... making this episode a kind of twenty-minute b-movie, and the gorgeous dame's played by fitfully hot b-movie starlet Mara Corday... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

blake edwards, con man, craig stevens, crime, film noir or melodrama, jack arnold, jackie coogan, mara corday, tv series

MARA CORDAY BOWLING FOR 'PETER GUNN' IN 'KEEP SMILING'

Mara Corday on PETER GUNN: KEEP SMILING Year: 1959 Grade: B+ With a plot right out of the James Cagney flick LADY KILLER, a group of con-art...

MARA CORDAY, WILLARD PARKER & TIMOTHY CAREY 'NAKED GUN'

<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/AVvXsEg7WL1zewqujhkG0f5AQnGewk7_180ykgod6vtGGRXRtX5481JIiWe8carT8ULjxgz1OnxETqu0mJY34euMArdd6N6M5TLb_a_XKFvCw-rZsHpmGurZQdnFYhtxxzwGUN6vM8tBXIfNtpZyWrzc76pSpbNJ79n2iJ80S1sebcIRIRNn9hMDSiE0th69_ofE/s1834/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-16%20at%2011.11.55%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1064" data-original-width="1834" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7WL1zewqujhkG0f5AQnGewk7_180ykgod6vtGGRXRtX5481JIiWe8carT8ULjxgz1OnxETqu0mJY34euMArdd6N6M5TLb_a_XKFvCw-rZsHpmGurZQdnFYhtxxzwGUN6vM8tBXIfNtpZyWrzc76pSpbNJ79n2iJ80S1sebcIRIRNn9hMDSiE0th69_ofE/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-16%20at%2011.11.55%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: NAKED GUN Year: 1956 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Before becoming the theatrical franchise for POLICE SQUAD, the title NAKED GUN referred to a b-Western where the first half sets up expository dialogue involving the characters in a small, dangerous town that mainly consists of a jailhouse and saloon indoors, and a hanging square outside, are part of some kind of curse... <br></p><p></p><p>Involving a plot-line that becomes clear over halfway through: as token stranger Willard Parker was sent to return a stolen chestful of jewels to the rightful owner, a Spanish woman long dead,  survived by an adult daughter...</p><p><span></span></p>

billy house, fifties, jody mccrea, mara corday, post-heist, timothy carey, tom brown, veda ann borg, western, willard parker

MARA CORDAY, WILLARD PARKER & TIMOTHY CAREY 'NAKED GUN'

Title: NAKED GUN Year: 1956 Rating: *** Before becoming the theatrical franchise for POLICE SQUAD, the title NAKED GUN referred to a b-Weste...

RICHARD DEVON ORBITS DICK MILLER IN 'WAR OF THE SATELLITES'

<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/AVvXsEiJdXjtw6jDnSntPxClsOPFAjCjwd7HQZUd9G4Z9N9uUpInxmnXlqv4iNuo8zwZHGbIzKbOKbUBZBiE-qm-gy19TCMZflLCIOx9BjQLSpMUefRA8uQdE0zijAUdLho6nvn7iHYaoEEvAVRiqpnk8mQmMnhvZVrVMi_UU_u2adjlziEawvTGxeiy3UqNMD4P/s1738/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-16%20at%205.44.38%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1106" data-original-width="1738" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJdXjtw6jDnSntPxClsOPFAjCjwd7HQZUd9G4Z9N9uUpInxmnXlqv4iNuo8zwZHGbIzKbOKbUBZBiE-qm-gy19TCMZflLCIOx9BjQLSpMUefRA8uQdE0zijAUdLho6nvn7iHYaoEEvAVRiqpnk8mQmMnhvZVrVMi_UU_u2adjlziEawvTGxeiy3UqNMD4P/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-16%20at%205.44.38%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Dick Miller & Richard Devon in WAR OF THE SATELLITES Year: 1958 Rates: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Roger Corman's cold-war science-fiction thriller WAR OF THE SATELLITES puts two of his otherwise most intense actors in somewhat innocuous leading roles, thrust into space within the titular rocketship-like satellite where another Corman actor is used to his full potential...</p><p></p><p>Enter one-dimensionally-heroic Dick Miller and Susan Cabot: he was the murderous sociopath from A BUCKET OF BLOOD while she was the ferocious WASP WOMAN, the gun-moll from MACHINE-GUN KELLY and the manipulative SORORITY GIRL... both literally passengers in a vehicle belonging almost completely to tall/swarthy Richard Devon...</p><p><span></span></p>

dick miller, eric sinclair, fifties, jared barclay, michael fox, richard devon, roger corman, science-fiction, susan cabot

RICHARD DEVON ORBITS DICK MILLER IN 'WAR OF THE SATELLITES'

Dick Miller & Richard Devon in WAR OF THE SATELLITES Year: 1958 Rates: **** Roger Corman's cold-war science-fiction thriller WAR OF ...

ARLENE MARTEL IN THE PSYCHO-THRILLER-NOIR 'THE GLASS CAGE'

<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/AVvXsEjNPZB7bqPV1TNSlgK9WH-4t3M4jDBVrxr5SHeM2zeL2vp-5ayBbgLFb-PR-sObqFyLlcn-zq_uPcAAbwNcIw3ySL2jTgSbk9t8KcwVAgYhYZnpe6YxoI8bUUKTHtOMppxR2dRaJO-i6ZLK8nplHBGTlqOMx0waoGPDAu5PExOTtt-5UKBlC6moRakJ9eeA/s1900/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-12%20at%204.23.58%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1038" data-original-width="1900" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNPZB7bqPV1TNSlgK9WH-4t3M4jDBVrxr5SHeM2zeL2vp-5ayBbgLFb-PR-sObqFyLlcn-zq_uPcAAbwNcIw3ySL2jTgSbk9t8KcwVAgYhYZnpe6YxoI8bUUKTHtOMppxR2dRaJO-i6ZLK8nplHBGTlqOMx0waoGPDAu5PExOTtt-5UKBlC6moRakJ9eeA/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-12%20at%204.23.58%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE GLASS CAGE Year: 1961 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Arlene Martel (billed as Arline Sax) is one of the most uniquely beautiful, exotic and intriguing ingenues, able to play nearly any ethnic race and even outer-space Vulcan royalty on STAR TREK in her most important of many television guest spots from THE TWILIGHT ZONE to THE OUTER LIMITS to COLUMBO...<br><br>But she actually headlined a 1961 low-budget theatrical potboiler that's a unique hybrid of pulpy police procedural, shadowy film noir and the kind of creatively-shot PSYCHO-thriller popularized after the Alfred Hitchock classic... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

arlene martel, bob kelljan, cop, elisha cook jr., horror, john hoyt, king moody, mystery, neo noir, sixties, thriller

ARLENE MARTEL IN THE PSYCHO-THRILLER-NOIR 'THE GLASS CAGE'

Title: THE GLASS CAGE Year: 1961 Rating: **** Arlene Martel (billed as Arline Sax) is one of the most uniquely beautiful, exotic and intrigu...

JUNE KENNEY MANIPULATED BY SUSAN CABOT AS 'SORORITY GIRL'

<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/AVvXsEiokiFSdoL344fSw0wLQzDKsGVgCwU7he5gNOUyShAktBQVvQqHtz1lxfX3VhqPYuMiEKzlsnQZPyGsT_zcjlsLAd8Er39qPGr7b1llqy0WA_6QDT3NM_1IYXipkCePrepxi3MvuEOMv9WtybS1_44qh5Bte2O-n3AToIPeOK07Gy8EKNrDBmDEnGZRBjwa/s1696/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-07%20at%205.22.03%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1004" data-original-width="1696" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiokiFSdoL344fSw0wLQzDKsGVgCwU7he5gNOUyShAktBQVvQqHtz1lxfX3VhqPYuMiEKzlsnQZPyGsT_zcjlsLAd8Er39qPGr7b1llqy0WA_6QDT3NM_1IYXipkCePrepxi3MvuEOMv9WtybS1_44qh5Bte2O-n3AToIPeOK07Gy8EKNrDBmDEnGZRBjwa/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-07%20at%205.22.03%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>June Kenney in SORORITY GIRL Year: 1957 Grade: C+</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Whether playing Charles Bronson's tough moll in MACHINE GUN KELLEY or a beauty queen mogul turned monstrous WASP WOMAN, Susan Cabot was b-movie director Roger Corman's greatest leading lady, combining a raw, formidable prowess with brooding melancholy, often within the same character... <br><br>With dark hair and full lips, she was pretty, even beautiful, but only when she needed to be... until morphing into a bitter scowl as intense as any comparably well-known character actress... <br><span></span></p>

barbara cowan, barboura morris, dick miller, drama, exploitation, fifties, joan lora, june kenney, roger corman, susan cabot

JUNE KENNEY MANIPULATED BY SUSAN CABOT AS 'SORORITY GIRL'

June Kenney in SORORITY GIRL Year: 1957 Grade: C+ Whether playing Charles Bronson's tough moll in MACHINE GUN KELLEY or a beauty queen m...

JUNE KENNEY, FAY SPAIN AND JOHN BRINKLEY IN 'TEENAGE DOLL'

<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/AVvXsEhuKOUmVvHuhtFWBTh-BFNIacNwYq22MV23500ZBEHH9EJPffr0sYCmuaFtUYp_DHOsxL5_XyinL0KdS6fncrkKSJuTgOLVg8WJKDd4eGDmy4P5czF-Y-LB_nYM5JRBy0RGiR2v2lKwlkEGgjmQh6vl0yKAnP1vh9NGQ1fa01oiLoeacM4BJZpFoki_Mfrf/s1818/1%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1102" data-original-width="1818" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuKOUmVvHuhtFWBTh-BFNIacNwYq22MV23500ZBEHH9EJPffr0sYCmuaFtUYp_DHOsxL5_XyinL0KdS6fncrkKSJuTgOLVg8WJKDd4eGDmy4P5czF-Y-LB_nYM5JRBy0RGiR2v2lKwlkEGgjmQh6vl0yKAnP1vh9NGQ1fa01oiLoeacM4BJZpFoki_Mfrf/s16000/1%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: TEENAGE DOLL Year: 1957 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The opening scene in Roger Corman's 1957 girl-gang melodrama TEENAGE DOLL feels like you walked in ten minutes late... as The Black Widows leader Fay Spain is explaining to her underlings about what happened to one of their own girls, lying already dead outside a dark warehouse... </p><p></p><p>Turns out it was an uptight goody-goody who somehow committed the murder, and, hiding in the shadows, June Kenney's listening to the conversation, knowing these tough young locals are now after her...  </p><p><span></span></p>

barbara wilson, barboura morris, colette jackson, exploitation, fay spain, fifties, gang, jay sayer, john brinkley, june kenney, richard devon, roger corman, sandra smith, ziva rodann

JUNE KENNEY, FAY SPAIN AND JOHN BRINKLEY IN 'TEENAGE DOLL'

Title: TEENAGE DOLL Year: 1957 Rating: ***1/2 The opening scene in Roger Corman's 1957 girl-gang melodrama TEENAGE DOLL feels like you w...

JUNE KENNEY, ABBY DALTON & SUSAN CABOT ARE 'VIKING WOMEN'

<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/AVvXsEht-yvfZWdGhrdVNqEINs4fGTcs-n6A7ii15r9Ab_2mqcG25NRyApY3NSRDS1t9ga6QXxVC6xHtxgLSb2r2DOEOj2J9WCytl_NDF_pdhV41wegBFZ9rnJvFk89p94jYZ9b0iNaolqUljbtvY1AD266DYOKYhTGqjNqZqpG18qbp3w_eQ3HouaURFolHySQi/s1626/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-10%20at%2010.49.22%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="828" data-original-width="1626" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht-yvfZWdGhrdVNqEINs4fGTcs-n6A7ii15r9Ab_2mqcG25NRyApY3NSRDS1t9ga6QXxVC6xHtxgLSb2r2DOEOj2J9WCytl_NDF_pdhV41wegBFZ9rnJvFk89p94jYZ9b0iNaolqUljbtvY1AD266DYOKYhTGqjNqZqpG18qbp3w_eQ3HouaURFolHySQi/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-10%20at%2010.49.22%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>British Shortened Title: THE VIKING WOMEN Year: 1957 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Director/Producer Roger Corman's b-epic THE SAGA OF THE VIKING WOMEN AND THEIR VOYAGE TO THE WATERS OF THE GREAT SEA SERPENT only follows the title for the first 15-minutes after the titular women, lonely for their men who had left and never returned, take a short voyage, are attacked by the rear-projection of an enlarged sea-serpent puppet, and wind up where most of the surprisingly fulfilling sword-and-sandal adventure takes place...</p><p></p><p>An island ruled by women-less barbarians led by Corman antagonist Richard Devon with flamboyant son Jay Sayer and token henchman Michael Forest... and it's how Corman allows each of the female leads to have a creative purpose directly linked to the action-packed plot-line — of recusing their enslaved men and trying to get off the island...</p><p><span></span></p>

abby dalton, betsy jones-moreland, fantasy, fifties, gary conway, jonathan haze, june kenney, lynette bernay, michael forest, richard devon, roger corman, sally todd, susan cabot

JUNE KENNEY, ABBY DALTON & SUSAN CABOT ARE 'VIKING WOMEN'

British Shortened Title: THE VIKING WOMEN Year: 1957 Rating: ***1/2 Director/Producer Roger Corman's b-epic THE SAGA OF THE VIKING WOMEN...

JUNE KENNEY WITH JOAN LORA AND ROBERT REED IN 'BLOODLUST!'

<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/AVvXsEj7MJSQHeF0kjZ_84Db6x1tjcXcfLJr0eobdX8JPhuCx8ySIEw-8DXGAFH2G3VEQvyBIyGm286Hzp8Z8EFwd1EfbDlHVF-QdbYX3Po1IahQdwkHjI7DO5RxtnaC3vm9Wv-6z_L7BL1E4JuTVe0KaJCDLnDKm8T1l8r_YMpM8ECVkob7UMQgXOLa-LH3vo4I/s1838/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-08%20at%201.25.55%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1146" data-original-width="1838" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7MJSQHeF0kjZ_84Db6x1tjcXcfLJr0eobdX8JPhuCx8ySIEw-8DXGAFH2G3VEQvyBIyGm286Hzp8Z8EFwd1EfbDlHVF-QdbYX3Po1IahQdwkHjI7DO5RxtnaC3vm9Wv-6z_L7BL1E4JuTVe0KaJCDLnDKm8T1l8r_YMpM8ECVkob7UMQgXOLa-LH3vo4I/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-08%20at%201.25.55%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: BLOODLUST! Year: 1961 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Novelist Richard Connell's THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME has been adapted countless times... about a reclusive island-owning hunter who stalks and kills humans instead of the big game he grew tired of... the best known version filmed alongside the original KING KONG and featuring Fay Wray and Robert Armstrong... <br><br>Unlike 1961's infamous BLOODLUST!, there was creative camerawork built into the suspense, particularly during the action-packed second half... while here the camera's stagnant on the four 20-something's that, having chartered a boat for a sightseeing vacation, decide to venture off onto a nearby island... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, bobby hall, eugene persson, exploitation, joan lora, june kenney, lilyan chauvin, robert reed, sixties, thriller, troy patterson, walter brooke, wilton graff

JUNE KENNEY WITH JOAN LORA AND ROBERT REED IN 'BLOODLUST!'

Title: BLOODLUST! Year: 1961 Rating: *** Novelist Richard Connell's THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME has been adapted countless times... about a ...

JUNE KENNEY, JACK HOGAN & GREG PALMER IN 'THE CAT BURGLER'

<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/AVvXsEhd2foCWQna0b0zKbDvLQK8X6SD-M2A3w0Nt9G8BoF3QxVG9h-3XCwucWh4nrSQDEWeWO63GwB_LbMptpUBlGffw_dxaTwOXnWVg2g0j0-kers1-ToU-pFnrih4nDbdddOoHiWazKlVPqVIPbu4k8gBcRJoAO3eOtUd-sgFK3rkz0RyCO8rIURXyUXxau8K/s1444/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="934" data-original-width="1444" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd2foCWQna0b0zKbDvLQK8X6SD-M2A3w0Nt9G8BoF3QxVG9h-3XCwucWh4nrSQDEWeWO63GwB_LbMptpUBlGffw_dxaTwOXnWVg2g0j0-kers1-ToU-pFnrih4nDbdddOoHiWazKlVPqVIPbu4k8gBcRJoAO3eOtUd-sgFK3rkz0RyCO8rIURXyUXxau8K/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jack Hogan and June Kenney in THE CAT BURGLAR Year: 1961 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>Late film-noir/early-neo-noir often had beatnik-like characters backed by hip jazz scores including sporadic explosions of bongo drums... and the swiftly-directed THE CAT BURGLAR begins with what seems like your average crime flick until Jack Hogan, while robbing an apartment, steals a briefcase... <br><br>Turning a thriller into outright espionage after the apartment's victim June Kenney, known for playing screaming ingenues in monster movies, gets one of her first grownup roles, skinnier and edgier but still insanely gorgeous...</p><p><span></span></p>

beatnik, espionage, gene roth, gregg palmer, jack hogan, jazz-score, june kenney, neo noir, sixties, thriller

JUNE KENNEY, JACK HOGAN & GREG PALMER IN 'THE CAT BURGLER'

Jack Hogan and June Kenney in THE CAT BURGLAR Year: 1961 Rating: *** Late film-noir/early-neo-noir often had beatnik-like characters backed ...

JUNE KENNEY AND JOHN AGAR IN 'ATTACK OF THE PUPPET PEOPLE'

<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/AVvXsEhjErLIp6miW_2uL0Mcb_TE_fmb_7Azuu3FHjMgIbxrOgTyjo1dUXG5ulDkgeZ3qplmF_zzSIu5KxyjECOvc4HVOynsJKC4krhQVpbwXR6qHzJpVp2i7Cyjh_I_0_sjxooVla0yUjXVeqEo98TGYhNFoOOL70CSYbLSTJ91BsOSfZS9HLNaukNbhWYNjRt4/s1160/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-06%20at%209.01.36%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="626" data-original-width="1160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjErLIp6miW_2uL0Mcb_TE_fmb_7Azuu3FHjMgIbxrOgTyjo1dUXG5ulDkgeZ3qplmF_zzSIu5KxyjECOvc4HVOynsJKC4krhQVpbwXR6qHzJpVp2i7Cyjh_I_0_sjxooVla0yUjXVeqEo98TGYhNFoOOL70CSYbLSTJ91BsOSfZS9HLNaukNbhWYNjRt4/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-06%20at%209.01.36%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>June Kenney in Attack of the Puppet People Year: 1958 Rates: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>A better-suited title for ATTACK OF THE PUPPET PEOPLE would be A CASE OF DOLLS and <i>literally</i> as dollmaker John Hoyt places real people, from strangers to former employees to, as tiny hero  John Agar goes, an employee's fiance, into sealed packages, and all with one thing in common...</p><p></p><p></p><p>Their last mistake was entering the dollmarker's backroom where a sci-fi genre laser-cannon awaits; and although director Bert I. Gordon — aptly nicknamed Mr. Big since his forte was either extra large/small protagonists in a normal sized world — is known as being campy and silly, he can tell a pretty decent story, and this is one of his best, save for that vapid title since they're NOT Puppets and never attack anyone, being totally harmless as the best sequence has the passive ensemble realizing they're all stuck together in a world that consists of a huge dial-up telephone and a phonograph... </p><p><span></span></p>

bert i. gordon, cult, exploitation, fifties, horror, jack kosslyn, john agar, john hoyt, june joceyln, june kenney, ken miller, science-fiction

JUNE KENNEY AND JOHN AGAR IN 'ATTACK OF THE PUPPET PEOPLE'

June Kenney in Attack of the Puppet People Year: 1958 Rates: **** A better-suited title for ATTACK OF THE PUPPET PEOPLE would be A CASE OF D...

JUNE KENNEY STARRING IN BERT I. GORDON'S 'EARTH VS THE SPIDER'

<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/AVvXsEhgfXRb4lO7PAIMyWvlY8oMK20ZKJP0zBRsUromh27DIHtrgWDuBhiq76Q1YMvQuw0XflpIw5amtEPZPG6v0GUVzYM4Ul84pTwjdIWO6cU2ZVa2ZZUHZFZT5mfZ-j5Yen6FzngNFCpIfsV4-HROjdMUE4aCYJ2xiZ9EyCcul4mTc83KXLhMxbemsrw7OYjM/s2296/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-06%20at%203.47.39%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1534" data-original-width="2296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgfXRb4lO7PAIMyWvlY8oMK20ZKJP0zBRsUromh27DIHtrgWDuBhiq76Q1YMvQuw0XflpIw5amtEPZPG6v0GUVzYM4Ul84pTwjdIWO6cU2ZVa2ZZUHZFZT5mfZ-j5Yen6FzngNFCpIfsV4-HROjdMUE4aCYJ2xiZ9EyCcul4mTc83KXLhMxbemsrw7OYjM/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-06%20at%203.47.39%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: EARTH VS THE SPIDER Year: 1958 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Bert I. Gordon excelled in camp cinema where small things turn huge, from rats to ants and before that was EARTH VS THE SPIDER, which is actually a <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/09/TARANTULAlland.html">TARANTULA</a>, obviously inspired by the 1955 Jack Arnold classic that took place in a very rural location where the superimposed Aaraneae creeps around mostly at nighttime, adding to the suspense...<br><br>Herein it's mostly a daytime crawler... starting out in a catacomb-filled cavern resembling another planet... initially discovered by young high school couple Eugene Perrson and Gordon's regular ingenue June Kenney, an A-looking starlet known for B-movie programmers...</p><p><span></span></p>

bert i. gordon, ed kemmer, eugene persson, fifties, gene roth, horror, jack kosslyn, june joceyln, june kenney, sally fraser, science-fiction, troy patterson

JUNE KENNEY STARRING IN BERT I. GORDON'S 'EARTH VS THE SPIDER'

Title: EARTH VS THE SPIDER Year: 1958 Rating: *** Bert I. Gordon excelled in camp cinema where small things turn huge, from rats to ants and...

JOHN BROMFIELD, EVE MILLER & ROSEMARY STACK 'THE BIG BLUFF'

<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/AVvXsEjCNmbq23eRk2q-Iq-RItYT7gYMM0aAoR325kJAHQTXwOoHbg42_rETF4Sl0rcG6z9McqylGRETVQQwTpsvRtVqaeLMgd4UqnqXzx7d_xz6mLI_JpHnehrB3NIjWQYRN3QFE8JS1r9D4I2OMkLJMuoHoUHJftaE59g7vreoHSSd7At9z2qn0sILVnuSvp67/s1768/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-04%20at%2010.19.57%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1044" data-original-width="1768" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCNmbq23eRk2q-Iq-RItYT7gYMM0aAoR325kJAHQTXwOoHbg42_rETF4Sl0rcG6z9McqylGRETVQQwTpsvRtVqaeLMgd4UqnqXzx7d_xz6mLI_JpHnehrB3NIjWQYRN3QFE8JS1r9D4I2OMkLJMuoHoUHJftaE59g7vreoHSSd7At9z2qn0sILVnuSvp67/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-04%20at%2010.19.57%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>John Bromfield, Rosemary Stack and Max Palmer in THE BIG BLUFF Year: 1955 Rates: ***1/2<br></u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In the 1956 crime thriller <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2023/11/HotCars.html">HOT CARS</a>, b-movie actor John Bromfield is perfect as a married used car salesman, who, with a sick child, is pushed into a stolen vehicle racket with no way out but his wits, and charm... <br><br>The year before, he starred in another noirish programmer, THE BIG BLUFF, only here he's given the kind of skinny mustache that makes you think of tying a girl to train tracks... making the overall performance too up-front and obvious, clashing with his usual natural under-acting style... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

eve miller, fifties, film noir or melodrama, john bromfield, martha vickers, max palmer, robert hutton, rosemary stack, thriller

JOHN BROMFIELD, EVE MILLER & ROSEMARY STACK 'THE BIG BLUFF'

John Bromfield, Rosemary Stack and Max Palmer in THE BIG BLUFF Year: 1955 Rates: ***1/2 In the 1956 crime thriller HOT CARS , b-movie actor ...

TANDRA QUINN WITH PAULA HILL IN 'MESA OF LOST WOMEN'

<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/AVvXsEjFTCrfP5ApCnj2Lu2F2dQIJ05wDNIG_gMRxS68_gHPxbPczkl7GTxtYpVWRjo9lRSsX3r5CAP35t0iO5SpjlyZGW5t3kpKTtrO9rLu08AKjJVSj4RiylyxPGbawhb-8eUEjSEvRcTA0sw6AaOMQo570NDo0WQ4baXVRAbD-HEdqb7Pu69rO54ofbU15h5Z/s1868/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-04%20at%2012.33.36%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1116" data-original-width="1868" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFTCrfP5ApCnj2Lu2F2dQIJ05wDNIG_gMRxS68_gHPxbPczkl7GTxtYpVWRjo9lRSsX3r5CAP35t0iO5SpjlyZGW5t3kpKTtrO9rLu08AKjJVSj4RiylyxPGbawhb-8eUEjSEvRcTA0sw6AaOMQo570NDo0WQ4baXVRAbD-HEdqb7Pu69rO54ofbU15h5Z/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-04%20at%2012.33.36%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Tandra Quinn in MESA OF LOST WOMAN Year: 1953 Rating: **1/2 Camp Value: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Sometimes really, really bad, really, really low-budget movies almost have to be commended for having been completed at all... and MESA OF LOST WOMEN is one of the very worst, with an annoying soundtrack consisting of a flamenco guitar lunging into those peak dramatic chords that would usually end a song, stuck in a nightmarish never-ending loop... but there's also one of the most effectively gorgeous starlets here, and she should have been used a lot more...<br><br>By the time Tandra Quinn's perfectly-named tarantula-woman Tarantella does a sexy dance to actual flamenco players in a seedy little tavern, there's already been a few plot-lines, and timelines, awkwardly established... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

adventure, airplane, fifties, george barrows, harmon stevens, horror, jackie coogan, paula hill, robert knapp, science-fiction, tandra quinn

TANDRA QUINN WITH PAULA HILL IN 'MESA OF LOST WOMEN'

Tandra Quinn in MESA OF LOST WOMAN Year: 1953 Rating: **1/2 Camp Value: ***1/2 Sometimes really, really bad, really, really low-budget movie...

RICHARD EGAN AND CONSTANCE DOWLING BATTLE ROBOTS IN 'GOG'

<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/AVvXsEgmux9ftvVJ7rtpwpfa1vvRUOqyI6Z4f_BxeWXXWO121Ek3u7rTbYs0aFknoCLknnrRvZCslV0dCMZIkFgJ_YoJGtB1vUGYOpO01hyIokUFBVbbYLYyRPEEHA_nXIdiA0O2D5HJVXQMLZsimLIxY_O69hdcMogDxhHpMm_hooDFsJCQxpInlwpCbe3w_iXl/s2136/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-04%20at%207.54.34%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1470" data-original-width="2136" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmux9ftvVJ7rtpwpfa1vvRUOqyI6Z4f_BxeWXXWO121Ek3u7rTbYs0aFknoCLknnrRvZCslV0dCMZIkFgJ_YoJGtB1vUGYOpO01hyIokUFBVbbYLYyRPEEHA_nXIdiA0O2D5HJVXQMLZsimLIxY_O69hdcMogDxhHpMm_hooDFsJCQxpInlwpCbe3w_iXl/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-04%20at%207.54.34%20PM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Constance Dowling and Richard Egan in GOG </u><u>Year: 1954 Grade: C—</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>There's nothing cooler than taking a flamethrower to killer robots... unless it's the 1950's, during the peak of the pulpy-magazine-inspired b-movies where GOG plays out like what's referred to as real science-fiction as opposed to fantastical programmers involving laser pistols... <br><br>Herein mostly entailing scientists inside a multi-room laboratory explaining various gadgets and theories on space travel... which would be semi-intriguing if the action weren't at a snail's pace...<span></span></p>

byron kane, constance dowling, fifties, herbert marshall, john wengraf, michael fox, philip van zandt, richard egan, science-fiction, stephen roberts, william schallert

RICHARD EGAN AND CONSTANCE DOWLING BATTLE ROBOTS IN 'GOG'

Constance Dowling and Richard Egan in GOG Year: 1954 Grade: C— There's nothing cooler than taking a flamethrower to killer robots... unl...

JUNE VINCENT AS THE FEMME FATALE BLONDE IN 'SHED NO TEARS'

<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/AVvXsEhnLXWc4UOqT7Pmu7RKtTZyQL0yyIbDY-zBzSCiUc5IiAUAff-KEVyML70JQgjbTGIxA1QlC-3O56I4r9FIGS7kmO0lcofx0cTObry4xTtSRQh46HqMDZhxcmZuQIa9dWvTQ85CqPYH0l3GQf254YgwA4lOfvAszAMlHM2uM1T86GpoMQq7qxXgaDFUUyn8/s1946/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-01%20at%208.44.01%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1270" data-original-width="1946" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnLXWc4UOqT7Pmu7RKtTZyQL0yyIbDY-zBzSCiUc5IiAUAff-KEVyML70JQgjbTGIxA1QlC-3O56I4r9FIGS7kmO0lcofx0cTObry4xTtSRQh46HqMDZhxcmZuQIa9dWvTQ85CqPYH0l3GQf254YgwA4lOfvAszAMlHM2uM1T86GpoMQq7qxXgaDFUUyn8/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-01%20at%208.44.01%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: SHED NO TEARS Year: 1948 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Imagine Virginia Mayo with a crookedly wicked smile that visciously smooths into an entitled-pouting menace, and you have 1940's b-movie starlet June Vincent in what's yet another take on DOUBLE INDEMNITY: only this time the wife's bland older husband doesn't get killed by a handsome lover...<br><br>The poor dolt actually kills himself... or rather, they both do... as in, faking his murder in a rushed opening shot of a burning hotel room and, within minutes, as Vincent's driving with Wallace Ford, we learned everything through even more rushed expository dialogue... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

dick hogan, elena verdugo, film noir or melodrama, forties, johnstone white, june vincent, mark roberts, wallace ford

JUNE VINCENT AS THE FEMME FATALE BLONDE IN 'SHED NO TEARS'

Title: SHED NO TEARS Year: 1948 Rating: ***1/2 Imagine Virginia Mayo with a crookedly wicked smile that visciously smooths into an entitled-...

JUNE VINCENT, DAN DURYEA AND PETER LORRE IN 'BLACK ANGEL'

<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/AVvXsEihHE0C3QhacLtmgWaEUiwvqxVW-7ezrV1zj1LY5ISEmwM5fnq83pqT6mfQBNxvr9JsXQeUt_GL-8QsOejHZy3DEVQ0qYXH6JHEBi3Yr8CxV37d5MaqhOKPRjpJL6610IMLfu7OSsgMq_QPsAQIABJQggYSZ-x_EIg_5jCLsVIcCGR43ZlsMBLNXrL6FZN4/s1614/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-02%20at%209.07.39%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1030" data-original-width="1614" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihHE0C3QhacLtmgWaEUiwvqxVW-7ezrV1zj1LY5ISEmwM5fnq83pqT6mfQBNxvr9JsXQeUt_GL-8QsOejHZy3DEVQ0qYXH6JHEBi3Yr8CxV37d5MaqhOKPRjpJL6610IMLfu7OSsgMq_QPsAQIABJQggYSZ-x_EIg_5jCLsVIcCGR43ZlsMBLNXrL6FZN4/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-02%20at%209.07.39%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Dan Duryea and June Vincent in BLACK ANGEL Year: 1946 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Supposedly Dan Duryea, a leading man/antagonist hybrid from the Hollywood Golden Age... who excelled in multilayered lowlifes... never played piano before portraying pianist/songwriter Martin Blair: and yet the way he effortlessly pounces his fingers across all the right keys, you wouldn't know he wasn't a professional musician outright...<br><br>Handsomely paired with June Vincent, the intensely faithful blonde spouse of a falsely-accused-of-murder lover of even more gorgeous blonde Constance Dowling... and both the victim and accused needed a longer setup for the rest of BLACK ANGEL to make more sense, twofold...</p><p><span></span></p>

broderick crawford, constance dowling, dan duryea, film noir or melodrama, forties, freddie steele, june vincent, music, peter lorre

JUNE VINCENT, DAN DURYEA AND PETER LORRE IN 'BLACK ANGEL'

Dan Duryea and June Vincent in BLACK ANGEL Year: 1946 Rating: ***1/2 Supposedly Dan Duryea, a leading man/antagonist hybrid from the Hollywo...