CHARLES BRONSON'S LAST CANNON 'KINJITE: FORBIDDEN SECRETS'

<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/AVvXsEjP_ueo47qC0tLC3nXtxNp_UFoPtS-V79vCCUZMsBoYMWad8kvA_KvJkq4wP9aqxiUhNuZPQUQQ2ul4aUKqZdjubYsQuM_r4g8ISlIx0zXbWKjRxWResSLYBU3heT0vGUXU_GO1neFKhaXWSv45dtGMya5dx-JSc67lSSTXt0scsx6aGbzCjFML9d_eJnZR/s1608/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-29%20at%202.32.07%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1014" data-original-width="1608" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP_ueo47qC0tLC3nXtxNp_UFoPtS-V79vCCUZMsBoYMWad8kvA_KvJkq4wP9aqxiUhNuZPQUQQ2ul4aUKqZdjubYsQuM_r4g8ISlIx0zXbWKjRxWResSLYBU3heT0vGUXU_GO1neFKhaXWSv45dtGMya5dx-JSc67lSSTXt0scsx6aGbzCjFML9d_eJnZR/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-29%20at%202.32.07%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Charles Bronson in KINJITE: FORBIDDEN SECRETS Year: 1989 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The final Cannon production starring Charles Bronson (and director J. Lee Thompson) couldn't be more of an exploitation flick (surpassing even DEATH WISH 2), spending more time on the underage girls of a sleazy pimp than Bronson and detective partner Perry Lopez are trying to figure things out...<br><br>In KINJITE: FORBIDDEN SECRETS, initially/ironically involving a sex-obsessed Japanese father whose daughter (Kumiko Hayakawa) winds up one the youngest, most vulnerable victims of an underground sex-slave market...</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/AVvXsEg1slfyP935-EK7xsjbuXVlt3fPXG-CwooMAYmHTRTevvv9sOsGP0pKEkARIObu9ROvICIBtCHUxVfE9OeN7fQVTCqmDY1k6rmF8cyzR96TUBdInVKdiPLCx9EFF-DfUFFPQorUV5wfmI41GuqttEBGyw8kuPQfCv1gmwDKjoxdI60fsCw01629YefmcTPa/s1724/2.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="904" data-original-width="1724" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1slfyP935-EK7xsjbuXVlt3fPXG-CwooMAYmHTRTevvv9sOsGP0pKEkARIObu9ROvICIBtCHUxVfE9OeN7fQVTCqmDY1k6rmF8cyzR96TUBdInVKdiPLCx9EFF-DfUFFPQorUV5wfmI41GuqttEBGyw8kuPQfCv1gmwDKjoxdI60fsCw01629YefmcTPa/s16000/2.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Charles Bronson in KINJITE: FORBIDDEN SECRETS</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Opening with blonde starlet Nicole Eggert as the most experienced, the actual leading young-lady's Amy Hathaway, even blonder, cuter and who just so happens to be Bronson's daughter, on the verge of the neon-noir-inspired criminal web led by CROCODILE DUNDEE II villain Juan Fernández... <br><br>Perhaps one of the sleaziest villains in Bronson cinema... providing the usual gun-blasting DEATH WISH-style vengeance that happens far too late to matter: overall making KINJITE more glossy expose than edgy crime-thriller. <br></p><p><span></span></p>

action, amy hathaway, bill mckinney, cannon, charles bronson, eighties, juan fernandez, neo noir, peggy lipton, perry lopez, sy richardson

CHARLES BRONSON'S LAST CANNON 'KINJITE: FORBIDDEN SECRETS'

Charles Bronson in KINJITE: FORBIDDEN SECRETS Year: 1989 Rating: ***1/2 The final Cannon production starring Charles Bronson (and director J...

TERENCE YOUNG'S 'SAFARI' WITH VICTOR MATURE & JANET LEIGH

<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/AVvXsEiEXa3gipR3Moalve1GiLlM8_pB_aeEguiuXV9oHi71rtja_fuYFErwqyelGY3VS_LgQWzdmpmIy9unpa05_bHbjBJ8ZqZT_gQXwvFfw1VlcfB7PZIXLQwjTO8RcVuG5wsAfgv18h_aX44VUai8kZUWc_cyGlrYdbhZYhedCTFkWSWTvEnN98ggCNBcOfzW/s2042/SS.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1050" data-original-width="2042" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEXa3gipR3Moalve1GiLlM8_pB_aeEguiuXV9oHi71rtja_fuYFErwqyelGY3VS_LgQWzdmpmIy9unpa05_bHbjBJ8ZqZT_gQXwvFfw1VlcfB7PZIXLQwjTO8RcVuG5wsAfgv18h_aX44VUai8kZUWc_cyGlrYdbhZYhedCTFkWSWTvEnN98ggCNBcOfzW/s16000/SS.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: SAFARI Year: 1956 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In 1956, future James Bond franchise director Terence Young had Victor Mature playing a charming kind of scoundrel, twice... in <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2025/11/zarak.html">ZARAK</a> his title character's an Arab bandit, and in SAFARI he's a kind of AFRICAN QUEEN Humphrey Bogart had he been in a revenge-driven b-adventure flick...<br><br>As the worst parts occur before he's hired to be a lion-hunting guide for old rich jerk Roland Culver, engaged to one of the most gorgeous actresses of all time, looking possibly her most gorgeous here... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, british, fifties, janet leigh, john justin, jungle, liam redmond, roland vulver, terence young, victor mature

TERENCE YOUNG'S 'SAFARI' WITH VICTOR MATURE & JANET LEIGH

Title: SAFARI Year: 1956 Rating: *** In 1956, future James Bond franchise director Terence Young had Victor Mature playing a charming kind o...

LOLA ALBRIGHT & GRANT WILLIAMS IN 'THE MONOLITH MONSTERS'

<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/AVvXsEicQluAMPYhiUtc0yN4v-QBm2A9DxHT3xChZ0v-RrnlCs0d1Dg5-t2Y4qRsx34RjkEqn2fkob6aXvTPW5XAAVimEntudzmACTwJHOQrx9EUguXxPUOy85JxjlegD5VDguEdXmS1Z3hdWdyLaEU6ikNVHK7RvzeQy1ZY9NOQBt_XgROV6M-0Re-szKIBH-QO/s2794/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-30%20at%207.51.08%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1374" data-original-width="2794" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicQluAMPYhiUtc0yN4v-QBm2A9DxHT3xChZ0v-RrnlCs0d1Dg5-t2Y4qRsx34RjkEqn2fkob6aXvTPW5XAAVimEntudzmACTwJHOQrx9EUguXxPUOy85JxjlegD5VDguEdXmS1Z3hdWdyLaEU6ikNVHK7RvzeQy1ZY9NOQBt_XgROV6M-0Re-szKIBH-QO/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-30%20at%207.51.08%20PM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lola Albright in THE MONOLITH MONSTERS Year: 1957 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Grant Williams, with an unassumingly skinny frame, All-American blond hair and soft voice, is perfect for science-fiction as he passively allows strange things to happen around him... even when vanishing into thin air for <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2023/05/shrinkwrapup.html">THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN</a>, and, here as a small town cop, he's partnered with a old scientist to figure out how giant monoliths are growing out of the earth...</p><p></p><p>Which eventually look fantastic as they crash into a raging river... but these titular MONOLITH MONSTERS never seem that formidable, and are more dangerous in semi-suspenseful scenes leading up... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

fifties, grant williams, horror, jack arnold, les tremayne, lola albright, paul frees, science-fiction, thriller, troy donahue

LOLA ALBRIGHT & GRANT WILLIAMS IN 'THE MONOLITH MONSTERS'

Lola Albright in THE MONOLITH MONSTERS Year: 1957 Rating: **1/2 Grant Williams, with an unassumingly skinny frame, All-American blond hair a...

PHILIP CAREY WITH AARON SPELLING IN 'WYOMING RENEGADES'

<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/AVvXsEhxApTo5udlQXGTsvD2kBAFYYks2ZnoVSfBGXLblU7kXTzWWlX5Z0bJnonemQFEZLjqbf4ChuIhMzGdEpT7vWRafQboSO9DA-Syuqf2pGeDFmJYrcpnw1bxpIa0taTSSeyqGmL0aRdYuBEd4_sGyGALrNo6tsVpzh4tssmwhe0CgGrzv-0fqq0UOd1ovzG8/s2002/fff%202%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1026" data-original-width="2002" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxApTo5udlQXGTsvD2kBAFYYks2ZnoVSfBGXLblU7kXTzWWlX5Z0bJnonemQFEZLjqbf4ChuIhMzGdEpT7vWRafQboSO9DA-Syuqf2pGeDFmJYrcpnw1bxpIa0taTSSeyqGmL0aRdYuBEd4_sGyGALrNo6tsVpzh4tssmwhe0CgGrzv-0fqq0UOd1ovzG8/s16000/fff%202%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Philip Carey and Martha Hyer in WYOMING RENEGADES Year: 1956 Rating; ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>It's impossible to hear about Butch Cassidy and Sundance without thinking of Paul Newman and Robert Redford... but a decade earlier, more regular-looking Gene Evans and William Bishop played the cowboy outlaws but are secondary to Philip Carey's Brady Sutton, one of their fictional gang members who splits early on...<br><br>The main problem with so many low-budget western-potboilers is expository dialogue explaining what could have been compelling/entertaining actual content as, three years later, Carey, having been imprisoned, turns up completely unwelcome in the small town he had come from...</p><p><span></span></p>

aaron spelling, douglas kennedy, fifties, fred f. sears, gene evans, george keymas, martha hyer, philip carey, western, william bishop

PHILIP CAREY WITH AARON SPELLING IN 'WYOMING RENEGADES'

Philip Carey and Martha Hyer in WYOMING RENEGADES Year: 1956 Rating; *** It's impossible to hear about Butch Cassidy and Sundance withou...

CORNEL WILDE, DONNA REED & CHRISTOPHER LEE 'BEYOND MOMBASA'

<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/AVvXsEg6OQskJD0q_Hc1Z6Oic6wkY7icnRlk35O2HySQpyI8rN2S88lSUCg7JPnBG1c5NsbDqf0tXS1AyctUNhKaYP-osT-958UeTdOYGxbcysamaGHZctrsStSsdKJLE005ghNWTQer53VKt7qplaOg-fkYfSRaK3D2AWXa611OG5IdZVUSH6kdkFFVm1pOW-L9/s1218/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-27%20at%201.35.12%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="672" data-original-width="1218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6OQskJD0q_Hc1Z6Oic6wkY7icnRlk35O2HySQpyI8rN2S88lSUCg7JPnBG1c5NsbDqf0tXS1AyctUNhKaYP-osT-958UeTdOYGxbcysamaGHZctrsStSsdKJLE005ghNWTQer53VKt7qplaOg-fkYfSRaK3D2AWXa611OG5IdZVUSH6kdkFFVm1pOW-L9/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-27%20at%201.35.12%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: BEYOND MOMBASA Year: 1956 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The same year and basically the same plot-line of <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2025/11/safari.html">Terence Young's SAFARI</a>,, where a scoundrel safari guide romances a lovely sophisticated woman by having nothing in common but both being attractive... <br></p><p><br>And the fact he also has a revenge-driven ulterior motive, in this case his brother having been murdered, BEYOND MOMBASA is slightly edgier since Cornel Wilde's overall rogue attitude are far more intriguing than Victor Mature's...  <br></p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, british, christopher lee, cornel wilde, fifties, george marshall, jungle, leo genn, ron randell

CORNEL WILDE, DONNA REED & CHRISTOPHER LEE 'BEYOND MOMBASA'

Title: BEYOND MOMBASA Year: 1956 Rating: *** The same year and basically the same plot-line of  Terence Young's SAFARI ,, where a scound...

TERENCE YOUNG'S 'ZARAK' WITH VICTOR MATURE & EUNICE GAYSON

<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/AVvXsEgPbdhyX3Cs3MWxMHThwMC1uDy9pHS_aweGJagSCD0YVMLe1VfDsLN3_o_-GY5YyxKJKEzgcGNEXmag1_PEkZsrGne3v5Q-2VvNOu8jmfQXwmjDFW2BW62ZN_7wC7Zx0FmlzamRpJqizj9aJ379dmyeQ6PnHtsqtYDHfTIU1jQBvL8VEaf-Hrknn5W4VRuv/s1510/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-26%20at%201.40.43%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="622" data-original-width="1510" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPbdhyX3Cs3MWxMHThwMC1uDy9pHS_aweGJagSCD0YVMLe1VfDsLN3_o_-GY5YyxKJKEzgcGNEXmag1_PEkZsrGne3v5Q-2VvNOu8jmfQXwmjDFW2BW62ZN_7wC7Zx0FmlzamRpJqizj9aJ379dmyeQ6PnHtsqtYDHfTIU1jQBvL8VEaf-Hrknn5W4VRuv/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-26%20at%201.40.43%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: ZARAK Year: 1956 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Future James Bond directing icon Terence Young made the Arabic Adventure ZARAK so full of bright 1950's technicolor, it's only when the matte paintings of lush background sunsets and deserts are too obvious is it apparent this is basically yet another low-budget British potboiler... but those matte paintings are painted beautifully...<br><br>And with the kind of setup for what would seem a pre LAWRENCE OF ARABIA epic, where a powerful Arab leader father banishes his son Cain-style into the endless sandy wilderness for having an affair with his prettiest of many wives, Anita Ekberg, American import Victor Mature's title character is really a charming anti-heroic bandit straight from any American-shot b-Western...</p><p><span></span></p>

adventure, anita ekberg, bonar colleano, british, eddie byrne, eunice gayson, fifties, patrick mcgoohan, terence young, victor mature

TERENCE YOUNG'S 'ZARAK' WITH VICTOR MATURE & EUNICE GAYSON

Title: ZARAK Year: 1956 Rating: ***1/2 Future James Bond directing icon Terence Young made the Arabic Adventure ZARAK so full of bright 1950...

STEPHEN BOYD & CAMILLA SPARV IN VAL GUEST'S 'ASSIGNMENT K'

<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/AVvXsEiWncnPrmIqJQ1OJhSaBD88KoopMduGHQtP1ieklFozBps5uvCQ0lgdKu8pOetkC5QpznoJnlKYrZCXA_w21QCU3GtrUUmgsEQZhW0ZqribFhKC5kJeYxq4u5E8l18JpyDM-U8InyWAVEDifDS39ps7fgnbr8Rqivp6Q66i2eieur3wytRKD71QuA7mcvy5/s1800/0.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWncnPrmIqJQ1OJhSaBD88KoopMduGHQtP1ieklFozBps5uvCQ0lgdKu8pOetkC5QpznoJnlKYrZCXA_w21QCU3GtrUUmgsEQZhW0ZqribFhKC5kJeYxq4u5E8l18JpyDM-U8InyWAVEDifDS39ps7fgnbr8Rqivp6Q66i2eieur3wytRKD71QuA7mcvy5/s16000/0.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: ASSIGNMENT K Year: 1968 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>British director <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/val%20guest">Val Guest</a> and Irish actor Stephen Boyd are both underrated and only known by film buffs: Boyd the super-handsome, square-jawed, cleft-chin villain in BEN-HUR while Guest directed the more suspenseful Hammer entries including non-scary crime flicks... <br><br>Here both converging into what's basically a James Bond spy movie the same year Sean Connery replacement George Lazenby took to the snowy alps in <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2012/04/on-her-majestys-secret-service.html">ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE</a>... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

andrea allan, british neo noir, catherine schell, espionage, jane merrow, john alderton, leo mckern, michael redgrave, robert hoffman, sixties, sport, ursula howells, val guest, vivi bach

STEPHEN BOYD & CAMILLA SPARV IN VAL GUEST'S 'ASSIGNMENT K'

Title: ASSIGNMENT K Year: 1968 Rating: ***1/2 British director Val Guest and Irish actor Stephen Boyd are both underrated and only known by...

PETER LORRE WITH ROBERT WILCOX IN 'ISLAND OF DOOMED MEN'

<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/AVvXsEi63qaa0xiIctbqdopb0jHwTW48cGiHlbKfsNogToqQnktHRhkTmLAaWw881aY3RyCoS-XyMXTK_rQfXLZz3GrvQyD55RCkiDVgkwynHbSmtbRUd0ddzqczxOS8_qCwB78SiG6B6Ydj8X-G6JGOw6b8qzHWmNXGWldTImlrrITUmx-3jfC32IH36tt4-RPS/s1892/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-19%20at%206.59.45%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1090" data-original-width="1892" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi63qaa0xiIctbqdopb0jHwTW48cGiHlbKfsNogToqQnktHRhkTmLAaWw881aY3RyCoS-XyMXTK_rQfXLZz3GrvQyD55RCkiDVgkwynHbSmtbRUd0ddzqczxOS8_qCwB78SiG6B6Ydj8X-G6JGOw6b8qzHWmNXGWldTImlrrITUmx-3jfC32IH36tt4-RPS/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-19%20at%206.59.45%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: ISLAND OF DOOMED MEN Year: 1940 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The pulpy tagline to the 1940 thriller ISLAND OF DOOMED MEN is "Women shuddering at his cruel caress" despite the fact only one woman, the wife of evil slave-master Peter Lorre, is on the titular island: and within their balmy plantation villa interior, he hardly touches or even speaks to her at all...<br><br>As classic beauty Rochelle Hudson quickly and understandably falls for handsome, dark-haired buried-lead Robert Wilcox, whose initial wrong-man story-line fits more into a deliberately-complicated film-noir beyond what's often mistaken as a horror flick (the plot heavily infused into Lawrence Tierney's jungle-traipsing <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/06/KOBK.html">KILL OR BE KILLED</a>)... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

forties, george e. stone, kenneth macdonald, peter lorre, prison, robert wilcox, rochelle hudson, thriller

PETER LORRE WITH ROBERT WILCOX IN 'ISLAND OF DOOMED MEN'

Title: ISLAND OF DOOMED MEN Year: 1940 Rating: ***1/2 The pulpy tagline to the 1940 thriller ISLAND OF DOOMED MEN is "Women shuddering ...

CAROLYN KEARNEY & ANDRA MARTIN 'THE THING THAT COULDN'T DIE

<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__1GetCOBkoVOgDzE23ZVpT1wddPgGfpCU3LlXbG6KiU4rot4tL5b7NQRpcle31GReyjInM7BDRzk3B4cSe-cGuJ9mkPgDdPNz_zzV0nRDWJRX-fFIoZLLUXWV0Y3t8-dJ24I3NIrXs2qpF2tvdP0JEtPZtijJT6wZMD40WYmZ1qgpK3nHUeSRew05chw/s1998/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-20%20at%2012.32.01%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1298" data-original-width="1998" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg__1GetCOBkoVOgDzE23ZVpT1wddPgGfpCU3LlXbG6KiU4rot4tL5b7NQRpcle31GReyjInM7BDRzk3B4cSe-cGuJ9mkPgDdPNz_zzV0nRDWJRX-fFIoZLLUXWV0Y3t8-dJ24I3NIrXs2qpF2tvdP0JEtPZtijJT6wZMD40WYmZ1qgpK3nHUeSRew05chw/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-20%20at%2012.32.01%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE THING THAT COULDN'T DIE Year: 1958 Rates: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Several horror tropes work perfectly together in THE THING THAT COULDN'T DIE: the talking/moving severed head, here possessing anyone looking into his eyes, and the sweetly enlightened, strange and beautiful young girl with powers beyond her understanding...<br><br>As chaste blonde Carolyn Kearney is targeted by more experienced and literally entranced/hypnotized brunette Andra Martin: their alluring bedroom scene is sensuously suggestive, especially for the 1950's...<span></span></p>

andra martin, carolyn kearney, charles horvath, fifties, horror, james anderson, jeffrey stone, peggy converse, robin hughes, treasure

CAROLYN KEARNEY & ANDRA MARTIN 'THE THING THAT COULDN'T DIE

Title: THE THING THAT COULDN'T DIE Year: 1958 Rates: **** Several horror tropes work perfectly together in THE THING THAT COULDN'T D...

CHRISTOPHER LEE & MARIA ROHM 'THE VENGEANCE OF FU MANCHU'

<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/AVvXsEiuDa2Gji-gPO_JqJnniTekzHx87_pKUbzAPsqfmbVppTXqYlRPWT8fs9PhYtLYJLsqOkk8l52txA0VsHBkmOuQd-5sdahnKbHHaTC1G1WVmkysOCRtiiq1PktSP9fbTViJoGQfqOq_CA2F13fOdxlX9YZLNtNqyonW-whu0-biNnRJTF6xVqGPCb7Qk2aJ/s1710/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1028" data-original-width="1710" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuDa2Gji-gPO_JqJnniTekzHx87_pKUbzAPsqfmbVppTXqYlRPWT8fs9PhYtLYJLsqOkk8l52txA0VsHBkmOuQd-5sdahnKbHHaTC1G1WVmkysOCRtiiq1PktSP9fbTViJoGQfqOq_CA2F13fOdxlX9YZLNtNqyonW-whu0-biNnRJTF6xVqGPCb7Qk2aJ/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE VENGEANCE OF FU MANCHU Year: 1967 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The last of the Christopher Lee as FU MANCHU movies from the 1960's where sophisticated Brit Douglas Wilmer plays the titular Asian kingpin's main Scotland Yard adversary Nayland Smith, and he gets to work double-time here, kind of...<br><br>But when he's the surgically-altered clone of himself, who murders his lovely Asian secretary, he has hardly any dialogue or expression... staring forward with a vacantly gaunt expression, resembling Peter Sellers if he were deadpan without the humor... not even relying on his own Doctor Watson in sidekick Petrie (who narrates the Sax Rohmer source novels) played by an affable Howard Marion-Crawford...</p><p><span></span></p>

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CHRISTOPHER LEE & MARIA ROHM 'THE VENGEANCE OF FU MANCHU'

Title: THE VENGEANCE OF FU MANCHU Year: 1967 Rating: ***1/2 The last of the Christopher Lee as FU MANCHU movies from the 1960's where so...

CAROLE GRAY IN 'BRIDES OF FU MANCHU' WITH CHRISTOPHER LEE

<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/AVvXsEjCS02BRD6t-mFsb_vBZMpSTPj97OiYVB-M17QiMEBiEIUMM7fwWrZ6aA3moXX8who7316s33L6yDEvZPG-5tzNitosQ4gMFuUXfq4CVNCLhtDI3kNE1YQqvC4Qz0pFlpGsuk3PgGVgCgt_nIE0QOSCt0cpot5bLUMMrvDB6_wpCsrG2oc-LsBO0-cOXCE8/s2222/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-18%20at%207.56.37%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1232" data-original-width="2222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCS02BRD6t-mFsb_vBZMpSTPj97OiYVB-M17QiMEBiEIUMM7fwWrZ6aA3moXX8who7316s33L6yDEvZPG-5tzNitosQ4gMFuUXfq4CVNCLhtDI3kNE1YQqvC4Qz0pFlpGsuk3PgGVgCgt_nIE0QOSCt0cpot5bLUMMrvDB6_wpCsrG2oc-LsBO0-cOXCE8/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-18%20at%207.56.37%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU Year: 1966 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Christopher Lee's version of author Sax Rohmer's nefarious Asian mastermind FU MANCHU makes like a James Bond villain that Lee would become in the next decade... herein seeking to take over the world by kidnapping the daughters of scientists who will help build the weapon to do so...<br><br>It's a shame that this plot-line's given away up front, in every online and video-box description, because the film leads the audience, and their classy Scotland Yard hero Nayland Smith (Douglas Wilmer), into a mystery-genre investigation as to why gorgeous gals Carole Gray and Marie Versini have become the least brain-washed of a dozen of Manchu's titular scantily-clad background BRIDES...<br></p><p><span></span></p>

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CAROLE GRAY IN 'BRIDES OF FU MANCHU' WITH CHRISTOPHER LEE

Title: THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU Year: 1966 Rating: ***1/2 Christopher Lee's version of author Sax Rohmer's nefarious Asian mastermind...

CAROLE GRAY & GEORGE BAKER BUZZ THROUGH 'CURSE OF THE FLY'

<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/AVvXsEiv4VZfmJIsp9Cili1phZU2SsxLPuMK89v1r8h6tNmH5Uv__W7S7qkCmWmiSBfuo4-ptH8Ndt5vL_JOi-z1Evs8r0nld0VCkYYs4BLNQrEIuSd5FsrRnzBseYuqZgDiIZdQLOUMbwKzOKXWBSSmZjq9ry73nhyphenhyphenLmUThSk9EquSMy2dBHa7aPmvFK2hV0MUL/s1892/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-09%20at%205.43.18%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="820" data-original-width="1892" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv4VZfmJIsp9Cili1phZU2SsxLPuMK89v1r8h6tNmH5Uv__W7S7qkCmWmiSBfuo4-ptH8Ndt5vL_JOi-z1Evs8r0nld0VCkYYs4BLNQrEIuSd5FsrRnzBseYuqZgDiIZdQLOUMbwKzOKXWBSSmZjq9ry73nhyphenhyphenLmUThSk9EquSMy2dBHa7aPmvFK2hV0MUL/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-09%20at%205.43.18%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Carole Gray in CURSE OF THE FLY Year: 1965 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In one of those cinematic examples of problems you want to have, George Baker's Martin Delambre, grandson of the original FLY David Hedison... whose father and brother are still working on a cure for their son/brother turning into the titular insect... is driving into Toronto, Canada when gorgeous brunette <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/carole%20gray">Carole Gray</a>, wearing only sexy undergarments, runs by his vehicle... and within two more scenes they're married... <br><br>In what's more Alfred Hitchcock's REBECCA than a horror-genre continuation, most of the screen-time has the new wife feeling spooked and uncomfortable in the enigmatic family manor, that's also a laboratory... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

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CAROLE GRAY & GEORGE BAKER BUZZ THROUGH 'CURSE OF THE FLY'

Carole Gray in CURSE OF THE FLY Year: 1965 Rating: ***1/2 In one of those cinematic examples of problems you want to have, George Baker'...

CAROLE GRAY & BARBARA SHELLEY ON 'THE SAINT' W/ ROGER MOORE

<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/AVvXsEj4LFndYLubeJv7zlktl58WfF3b68k-CPeEQ9jWsRMq6OoOXn9CmyZjZc7XEjADgHwiJCPKPHzFx3ZpQ0hhieRu593VJekUUvxoT-zGrbvgtf_dLzBg8ZGdtqZjZRfxJdH9rxml-4dwz1AtMWWxIXXoOJT5iVVAQIARV6aM6-drWv9942NBrypp7YBAH0Hh/s2110/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-10%20at%2012.16.56%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1306" data-original-width="2110" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4LFndYLubeJv7zlktl58WfF3b68k-CPeEQ9jWsRMq6OoOXn9CmyZjZc7XEjADgHwiJCPKPHzFx3ZpQ0hhieRu593VJekUUvxoT-zGrbvgtf_dLzBg8ZGdtqZjZRfxJdH9rxml-4dwz1AtMWWxIXXoOJT5iVVAQIARV6aM6-drWv9942NBrypp7YBAH0Hh/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-10%20at%2012.16.56%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Carole Gray in THE SAINT: THE COVETOUS HEADSMAN Year: 1962 Grade: C+</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Before playing a vampire's killer moll in the Satan's coven investigatory horror DEVILS OF DARKNESS, and a leading character's rich and resilient girlfriend in the science-fiction creature-feature ISLAND OF TERROR, Carole Gray was the bad of two gorgeous women in Roger Moore's British series THE SAINT...</p><p></p><p>Her character not only danced in DARKNESS (having been a professional dancer way back in THE PRINCESS AND THE SHOWGIRL), but she channeled Valerie Gaunt's lead vamp-girl from Hammer's DRACULA... </p><p><span></span></p>

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CAROLE GRAY & BARBARA SHELLEY ON 'THE SAINT' W/ ROGER MOORE

Carole Gray in THE SAINT: THE COVETOUS HEADSMAN Year: 1962 Grade: C+ Before playing a vampire's killer moll in the Satan's coven inv...

CAROLE GRAY AND WILLIAM SYLVESTER IN 'DEVILS OF DARKNESS'

<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/AVvXsEicX3GlXWdswVqhKJTbvjxpkv76ZC43fCjyN6sk25MGfsj2-Tq9Lbnrq1l6i7fCNt6uQgzjtTfprfQEMHyBUXLEQFpcL2_Fq2pQSE_-Wq4bolIHymw3zDfqsYXFheTgJ2RFDIkVOdquC54VFG9rBOZB-OL2RO7GZxWkjHeuAEoC4tkq54E4KrEK_CDK8qR5/s1498/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-07%20at%2010.50.38%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="870" data-original-width="1498" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicX3GlXWdswVqhKJTbvjxpkv76ZC43fCjyN6sk25MGfsj2-Tq9Lbnrq1l6i7fCNt6uQgzjtTfprfQEMHyBUXLEQFpcL2_Fq2pQSE_-Wq4bolIHymw3zDfqsYXFheTgJ2RFDIkVOdquC54VFG9rBOZB-OL2RO7GZxWkjHeuAEoC4tkq54E4KrEK_CDK8qR5/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-07%20at%2010.50.38%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Carole Gray in DEVILS OF DARKNESS Year: 1965 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Before playing the benign bombshell in Planet Film's ISLAND OF TERROR, raven-haired/full-lipped beauty <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/carole%20gray">Carole Gray</a> had a sensuously demonic/scene-stealing role in DEVILS OF DARKNESS that, shot by veteran crime-genre director Lance Comfort, is a hybrid of Hammer's DRACULA, Universal's THE WOLF MAN (with a harbinger gypsy woman), and the myriad of Satanic Occult Horrors that were gaining traction during the middle-to-late 1960's... <br><br>The first half being in Comfort's comfort zone with gentlemanly American-actor-in-England William Sylvester (later in Stanley Kubrick's 2001) and upper-class girlfriend Diana Decker (previously in Kubrick's LOLITA) figuring out that their idyllic vacation locale is really a demonic cult led by Hubert Noël's Count Sinistre, channeling Christopher Lee's neck-biter but more broodingly asexual and melancholy... <br><span></span></p>

british, carole gray, diana decker, eddie byrne, hubert hoël, lance comfort, marianne stone, rona anderson, sixties, tracy reed, vampire, william sylvester

CAROLE GRAY AND WILLIAM SYLVESTER IN 'DEVILS OF DARKNESS'

Carole Gray in DEVILS OF DARKNESS Year: 1965 Rating: *** Before playing the benign bombshell in Planet Film's ISLAND OF TERROR, raven-ha...

CAROLE GRAY, EDWARD JUDD & PETER CUSHING 'ISLAND OF TERROR'

<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/AVvXsEj6uUe9AI9XfzyEDX_gG2ajcd1KmfAhTPqFhWGKByuaVX9G3GJvWrmd5a9FeYMQURGXqs8t4Yl7k_n0vFhs_tnRjVsJj-1u4MMI1mTIt6MDyzJF6RGLiRML024OMQwUgvJ9WjaJm7IajIdSZTqaLq-v4Zj46zjHtCO_gKMbPQ4lsVe4NqdLYQzuZGtdZ6_U/s1250/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-06%20at%2011.10.55%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="1250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6uUe9AI9XfzyEDX_gG2ajcd1KmfAhTPqFhWGKByuaVX9G3GJvWrmd5a9FeYMQURGXqs8t4Yl7k_n0vFhs_tnRjVsJj-1u4MMI1mTIt6MDyzJF6RGLiRML024OMQwUgvJ9WjaJm7IajIdSZTqaLq-v4Zj46zjHtCO_gKMbPQ4lsVe4NqdLYQzuZGtdZ6_U/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-06%20at%2011.10.55%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1966 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Two horror-genre leading men star in the scientific creature-feature ISLAND OF TERROR, which is normal for British b-movies to pair up equally-important male characters, and a gorgeous woman in-between...<br><br>Full-lipped bombshell <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/carole%20gray">Carole Gray's</a> the affable rich girl girlfriend of Edward Judd, the second bone-doctor sought out by the first of three medical experts in British character-actor (and future STAR WARS general) Eddie Byrne, who, after bluntly glib college professor Peter Cushing has no answers, they all seek Judd (for the solution) and Gray (for daddy's helicopter) to head-off for the titular Irish ISLAND...</p><p><span></span></p>

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CAROLE GRAY, EDWARD JUDD & PETER CUSHING 'ISLAND OF TERROR'

Year: 1966 Rating: **** Two horror-genre leading men star in the scientific creature-feature ISLAND OF TERROR, which is normal for British b...

SEAN CONNERY LEADS PETER HYAM'S SCI-FI THRILLER 'OUTLAND'

<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/AVvXsEhTvRhG4IvVt2VIthUQHw8Diq0oZQDK0YPykskeRlEIcQRhooM9tOfhCufnkRKFtMGpZVIyEbWJeYxMwWUGUJccUl-LgVLKH50oj0Bd-Zoui8ihBmf4iiNCHpOmzBQr6bueGOVFEzAmk_-8-JHs5dOg46fu64JJDWHA84KF9hRDOU3HAkomLBeXGoiWBvNn/s1898/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-05%20at%204.06.40%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="982" data-original-width="1898" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTvRhG4IvVt2VIthUQHw8Diq0oZQDK0YPykskeRlEIcQRhooM9tOfhCufnkRKFtMGpZVIyEbWJeYxMwWUGUJccUl-LgVLKH50oj0Bd-Zoui8ihBmf4iiNCHpOmzBQr6bueGOVFEzAmk_-8-JHs5dOg46fu64JJDWHA84KF9hRDOU3HAkomLBeXGoiWBvNn/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-05%20at%204.06.40%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: OUTLAND Year: 1981 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Known as a science-fiction version of HIGH NOON, Peter Hyam's OUTLAND... bringing the CAPRICORN ONE director from conspiracy-contrived outer-space into the real thing... is more like the galactic working-class origins of ALIEN, looking straight from the same universe with claustrophobic corridors and steely space-station interiors where a matte-painted planet... in this case Jupiter's moon Ion... looms formidably outside...<br><br>Where you could imagine disgruntled ALIEN union-types Yaphet Kotto and Harry Dean Stanton working... as random likewise miners are mysteriously/violently dying like in a body-count horror flick: either by an unknown head-exploding factor or apparent suicides having to do with possible stir-craziness within the crowded off-white bunkhouse interiors, or the raunchy and pulsating, proto-BLADE RUNNER neon nightclubs...</p><p><span></span></p>

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SEAN CONNERY LEADS PETER HYAM'S SCI-FI THRILLER 'OUTLAND'

Title: OUTLAND Year: 1981 Rating: ***1/2 Known as a science-fiction version of HIGH NOON, Peter Hyam's OUTLAND... bringing the CAPRICORN...