cult film freak: October 2026

Written by James M. Tate / 10/02/2026 / No comments / edgar wallace , james villiers , katherine woodville , mystery , paul daneman , sixties , thriller

KATHERINE WOODVILLE CLASSING UP 'CLUE OF THE NEW PIN'

<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/AVvXsEin_JegpofRuthd6dcZGacYxpWWnm70JbppDPqCqznZB7n4_3kBxMMJCum5ZBZYYHdNWRDq7jXSU2MREibg1jRWYsuKPdKsznaGqtf8RLmnsxCFZHfbXnTfqolLybc_xLBb0pSTcXpmIzIdZ8rGu0Ka_MuprvlpvUZTRrskLcPv69FBJgiX5mpgjjpMfEUn/s2176/Screen%20Shot%202026-10-02%20at%2012.09.56%20AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1158" data-original-width="2176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin_JegpofRuthd6dcZGacYxpWWnm70JbppDPqCqznZB7n4_3kBxMMJCum5ZBZYYHdNWRDq7jXSU2MREibg1jRWYsuKPdKsznaGqtf8RLmnsxCFZHfbXnTfqolLybc_xLBb0pSTcXpmIzIdZ8rGu0Ka_MuprvlpvUZTRrskLcPv69FBJgiX5mpgjjpMfEUn/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-10-02%20at%2012.09.56%20AM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Katherine Woodville in CLUE OF THE NEW PIN Year: 1961 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Katherine Woodville (here billed as Catherine Woodville) is one the most beautiful British actresses of all time, and, with full lips and reddish-dark hair, she also has the cool, laid-back aura like she knows everything...<br><br>Fitfully cast as a gorgeous jewelry-wearing model/actress in the Edgar Wallace episode CLUE OF THE NEW PIN, mostly taking place within an underground room in a rich man's manor, where his seemingly affable nephew Paul Daneman appears to be the most innocent, vulnerable... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

edgar wallace, james villiers, katherine woodville, mystery, paul daneman, sixties, thriller

KATHERINE WOODVILLE CLASSING UP 'CLUE OF THE NEW PIN'

Katherine Woodville in CLUE OF THE NEW PIN Year: 1961 Rating: ***1/2 Katherine Woodville (here billed as Catherine Woodville) is one the mos...

Written by James M. Tate / 10/01/2026 / No comments / british neo noir , don sharp , ed begley , ireland , sixties , susan hampshire , thriller , tom bell

SUSAN HAMPSHIRE IN 'THE VIOLENT ENEMY' STARRING TOM BELL

<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/AVvXsEjrdENIYVoXq1YO0WPAYErEKUg_QVpbig7nklYeXaSjbFNoep9iENzZdDn3HKFILDUAR2jQTYx0PwsM6HVAJvKoEi7I7-lob5ruYJ90VAGCexTRaXUPzREQ1xwGuHiPETm-gU61NMaoXLtg0LYWXSqKMGwIiGKjLd2eAWwwV4m-sRKRs4tQS71RRvJD4yTA/s2020/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1120" data-original-width="2020" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrdENIYVoXq1YO0WPAYErEKUg_QVpbig7nklYeXaSjbFNoep9iENzZdDn3HKFILDUAR2jQTYx0PwsM6HVAJvKoEi7I7-lob5ruYJ90VAGCexTRaXUPzREQ1xwGuHiPETm-gU61NMaoXLtg0LYWXSqKMGwIiGKjLd2eAWwwV4m-sRKRs4tQS71RRvJD4yTA/s1600/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Susan Hampshire in THE VIOLENT ENEMY Year: 1967 Rating: **1/2</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Before infamously heckling Prince Philip while seated next to very nervous future knighted actors, sharp-faced dark-horse Tom Bell would often play unpredictably argumentative henchmen of the crime boss... a kind of villain's villain... so in one of his few starring roles, he seems more befitting one of several edgy side-characters...<br><br>Who are actually Irish performers... the plot involving the IRA breaking Bell's former iconic patriot Sean Rogan from a British prison: returned to Ireland where most of the expository-plotline takes place within a tight-knit tavern... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

british neo noir, don sharp, ed begley, ireland, sixties, susan hampshire, thriller, tom bell

SUSAN HAMPSHIRE IN 'THE VIOLENT ENEMY' STARRING TOM BELL

Susan Hampshire in THE VIOLENT ENEMY Year: 1967 Rating: **1/2 Before infamously heckling Prince Philip while seated next to very nervous fut...

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