MICHAEL CAINE IN 'SOLO FOR SPARROW' STARRING GLYN HOUSTON

<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/AVvXsEgQTcdn7KBJm8B8aefg4f21wNk5Oktc4CwQnBLstW1fFoNqL8LmSF1eM0cK3pGrKF1NnnlIhvljq_l7-bRm10Br9M73sHL5vAk-hlPN7WuCx9M5WSynoqVt6X2Dj6Eq4QXI4v6S2m9NFs1c70h8zebyGYciwtdloflimReXPApsLT4quWBEPTJTO6GuZlXW/s1244/image_3f3465eb.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="848" data-original-width="1244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQTcdn7KBJm8B8aefg4f21wNk5Oktc4CwQnBLstW1fFoNqL8LmSF1eM0cK3pGrKF1NnnlIhvljq_l7-bRm10Br9M73sHL5vAk-hlPN7WuCx9M5WSynoqVt6X2Dj6Eq4QXI4v6S2m9NFs1c70h8zebyGYciwtdloflimReXPApsLT4quWBEPTJTO6GuZlXW/s1600/image_3f3465eb.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Michael Caine in SOLO FOR SPARROW Year: 1962 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Most of the early/mid 1960's crime b-movies from England that wound up on the television anthology EDGAR WALLACE MYSTERIES feels like their own stories with a beginning, middle and end while SOLO FOR SPARROW feels like a pilot for a rather unique kind of police detective...<br><br>Played by sturdily stocky British character-actor Glynn Houson, whose manliness allowed a few glimpses into semi leading man status, bringing a cute bartender chick on a stakeout for the rich owner of a jewelry store, robbed by a gang that includes Michael Boles, who could play both robbers and cops with equal offbeat intensity, and young no-name Michael Caine... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

anthony newlands, british neo noir, edgar wallace, glyn houston, jerry stovin, michael caine, michael coles, murray melvin, nadja regin, neil mccarthy, sixties, wanda ventham, yvonne buckingham

MICHAEL CAINE IN 'SOLO FOR SPARROW' STARRING GLYN HOUSTON

Michael Caine in SOLO FOR SPARROW Year: 1962 Rating: *** Most of the early/mid 1960's crime b-movies from England that wound up on the t...

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/AVvXsEhkZi7CvDXoiY5oLNlbgW6NwQ4ChXi8vR66NiWg3KaVejSeyX1serUne6A1Kcxcd8K3IT8yZF2PYekvpZIH897inp-p-i08Xuxr9T1KPePStTsE5J3cf5mHA39mcdtKH0EANtQnp_eie1ywx5ISSB_Xj43ra5WsSWsA-YGTzW1DIRgq8fDmX07EEcltxJQm/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-10-02%20at%2012.09.56%20AM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="851" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkZi7CvDXoiY5oLNlbgW6NwQ4ChXi8vR66NiWg3KaVejSeyX1serUne6A1Kcxcd8K3IT8yZF2PYekvpZIH897inp-p-i08Xuxr9T1KPePStTsE5J3cf5mHA39mcdtKH0EANtQnp_eie1ywx5ISSB_Xj43ra5WsSWsA-YGTzW1DIRgq8fDmX07EEcltxJQm/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-10-02%20at%2012.09.56%20AM%202.jpeg"></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...

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...

ZENA WALKER WITH KENNETH COPE IN 'CHANGE PARTNERS'

<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/AVvXsEj0zkaMxFUxsLzkKsfbU9QBSNpsBG4nIMUDF7Y9W8z-_O8UbWS77FAb_BQ7bGIaPJy12ZnUSJdQDtoQ9Y6rq8BcR93rH5lw2qMKl6sMW_cWNm74WBTaFsOtqcaLBybhhQq-Grhh3I3SFRBEAzj44TmfcAteP9tmqxOdC0r18Q1LtHrd_bGzgzl3d0M9REJY/s1600/1%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="923" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0zkaMxFUxsLzkKsfbU9QBSNpsBG4nIMUDF7Y9W8z-_O8UbWS77FAb_BQ7bGIaPJy12ZnUSJdQDtoQ9Y6rq8BcR93rH5lw2qMKl6sMW_cWNm74WBTaFsOtqcaLBybhhQq-Grhh3I3SFRBEAzj44TmfcAteP9tmqxOdC0r18Q1LtHrd_bGzgzl3d0M9REJY/s1600/1%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Zena Walker in CHANGE PARTNERS Year: 1965 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>Zena Walker is one of the most underrated British actresses from the 1960's, specializing in natural-looking good girls in kitchen sink crime films, like <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2022/09/wlucas.html">THE MARKED ONES</a>, but in CHANGE PARTNERS she's anything but... <br><br>And in this hour-long programmer that became part of THE EDGAR WALLACE MYSTERIES, Zena plays the coolest and coldest, most calculating femme fatales around...</p><p><span></span></p>

anthony dawson, basil henson, british neo noir, edgar wallace, kenneth cope, pamela ann davy, sixties, zena walker

ZENA WALKER WITH KENNETH COPE IN 'CHANGE PARTNERS'

Zena Walker in CHANGE PARTNERS Year: 1965 Rating: ***1/2 Zena Walker is one of the most underrated British actresses from the 1960's, sp...

PAUL CARPENTER AND HAZEL COURT IN 'THE NARROWING CIRCLE'

<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/AVvXsEh1RIjKAfW4lCqAZI9QFMO2lYpDhUQKFTO4PR57fTgxmuXwTO2AuoZJ4-A2jUB3-6xVKMgDcQJvsIe1SVZy8s7yMjhtyjS6f9IEoSwU1Ex4qgIN5mN5q13RJB087xi4yU0Bhc8TPjE9JwyqfzlqWiD47oJV8xRw2-MTG8q7JRPBTIlcHxxLPtXd_GwuHpPI/s1560/Screen%20Shot%202026-09-28%20at%2010.02.01%20PM-1%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1028" data-original-width="1560" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1RIjKAfW4lCqAZI9QFMO2lYpDhUQKFTO4PR57fTgxmuXwTO2AuoZJ4-A2jUB3-6xVKMgDcQJvsIe1SVZy8s7yMjhtyjS6f9IEoSwU1Ex4qgIN5mN5q13RJB087xi4yU0Bhc8TPjE9JwyqfzlqWiD47oJV8xRw2-MTG8q7JRPBTIlcHxxLPtXd_GwuHpPI/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-09-28%20at%2010.02.01%20PM-1%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Hazel Court and Paul Carpenter in THE NARROWING CIRCLE  Year: 1957 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>Canadian actor Paul Carpenter, when he's not providing his smooth voice for the usual roles as announcers or broadcasters, has a charmingly affable manner in which, for 1950's British Noirs <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2025/05/stockcar.html">STOCK CAR</a> and THE NARROWING CIRCLE, he seems to be a replacement for what aspires to be a more standard-leading-man type of picture...<br><br>But he's still fairly intriguing: here as a true crime journalist falling into the usual wrong-man trope of not only being falsely accused for one murder... of a fellow writer who took both his job and his fiance... but he's always around when random dead bodies keep turning up...</p><p><span></span></p>

british film noir, charles saunders, ferdy mayne, fifties, hazel court, hugh latimer, michael standing, paul carpenter, wrong man

PAUL CARPENTER AND HAZEL COURT IN 'THE NARROWING CIRCLE'

Hazel Court and Paul Carpenter in THE NARROWING CIRCLE  Year: 1957 Rating: ***1/2 Canadian actor Paul Carpenter, when he's not providing...

PAUL CARPENTER AND SUSAN SHAW IN WOLF RILLA'S 'STOCK CAR'

<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/AVvXsEjIyPhYGGgUrEMeKJVS5e1DV8bI_Vg-SCQKa5cwWvnbkpK7FCSiGTawr3eIKtJMeQkn-yunGc7TVBWOa5wBZjaCNYPMxM-Rb16LxoqrlF4QRrqpKoZt06UUomvoYoia4QdbfvFqvpq2Mgh-YCfeGouJN96waTKMU7Xolj-j5WK1mL6YMgICFtQ4sfX16pJG/s1452/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="828" data-original-width="1452" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIyPhYGGgUrEMeKJVS5e1DV8bI_Vg-SCQKa5cwWvnbkpK7FCSiGTawr3eIKtJMeQkn-yunGc7TVBWOa5wBZjaCNYPMxM-Rb16LxoqrlF4QRrqpKoZt06UUomvoYoia4QdbfvFqvpq2Mgh-YCfeGouJN96waTKMU7Xolj-j5WK1mL6YMgICFtQ4sfX16pJG/s1600/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: STOCK CAR Year: 1955 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Canadian actor turned British movie <i>stock American</i> <i>character</i> Paul Carpenter had one of the smoothest voices in the history of cinema, so much that he'd either play random announcers or sometimes co-leads, like in director Wolf Rilla's STOCK CAR...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>By looks he didn't really stand out, yet with a cool enough demeanor suiting the vocal delivery, it's easier to believe that two polar opposite dames (bad blonde and virginal brunette) would be instantly smitten...  <br></p><span></span>

british film noir, fifties, harry fowler, patrick jordan, paul carpenter, race car, robert rietty, rona anderson, sabrina, susan shaw, wolf rilla

PAUL CARPENTER AND SUSAN SHAW IN WOLF RILLA'S 'STOCK CAR'

Title: STOCK CAR Year: 1955 Rating: **** Canadian actor turned British movie stock American character Paul Carpenter had one of the smooth...

DERREN NESBITT & KEITH FAULKNER IN 'THE MAN IN THE BACK SEAT'

<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/AVvXsEgd6OcxPtmXEf88yb860DxA9O3nF7-k-cMJ4uwcGCwAnr7MbQ36rdilvbovfYFxrPSeI1S9RRB1UCqQjjTo6PmxxS9CDcghsjQ9Eji5OaXg4JcF4EGoYPjdK6_grEreAcAckJSmJLJe7ovmkqUdm1d4DB1Pf2Fb0tvJ1g56VFivtt6qs-ltfTef7CQrikMi/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-09-26%20at%209.05.30%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1062" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd6OcxPtmXEf88yb860DxA9O3nF7-k-cMJ4uwcGCwAnr7MbQ36rdilvbovfYFxrPSeI1S9RRB1UCqQjjTo6PmxxS9CDcghsjQ9Eji5OaXg4JcF4EGoYPjdK6_grEreAcAckJSmJLJe7ovmkqUdm1d4DB1Pf2Fb0tvJ1g56VFivtt6qs-ltfTef7CQrikMi/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-09-26%20at%209.05.30%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1961 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The year before Vernon Sewell would direct blond-haired British duo Derren Nesbitt and Keith Faulkner as bank robbers in <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/09/strongroom.html">STRONGROOM</a>, they played another pair of crooks yet far more lowly and desperate: knocking out a bookie chained to a bag of cash... and for a tight 57-minutes, they get tied to both... <br><br>Mostly taking place on the road, driving around in the unconscious man's car while trying to figure out how to dump the poor fella, after having separated his chained arm from the loot much too quickly... <br><span></span></p>

anthony bate, british neo noir, carol white, derren nesbitt, keith faulkner, thriller, vernon sewell

DERREN NESBITT & KEITH FAULKNER IN 'THE MAN IN THE BACK SEAT'

Year: 1961 Rating: ***1/2 The year before Vernon Sewell would direct blond-haired British duo Derren Nesbitt and Keith Faulkner as bank robb...

DERREN NESBITT & KEITH FAULKER IN 'STRONGROOM' WITH ANN LYNN

<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/AVvXsEjQphBCM_PapbWWykd9ZjlnhBXjvvKKW8nqp5Ojr9wTyj-tNmVlltL6hN9BbBnp-U6Mlix6nPqLhXXvfA8T5f_e_wvw3GzDzbGSf_n6hBuPu9krQXFK1BgPwqAFjfwQYnF_yJLBeqq0yKbkZZIleZj3L-BpMrGUuQuqOOuU00RzOgc3FiJ4oIUO5kuglg5z/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-09-26%20at%209.18.34%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1042" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQphBCM_PapbWWykd9ZjlnhBXjvvKKW8nqp5Ojr9wTyj-tNmVlltL6hN9BbBnp-U6Mlix6nPqLhXXvfA8T5f_e_wvw3GzDzbGSf_n6hBuPu9krQXFK1BgPwqAFjfwQYnF_yJLBeqq0yKbkZZIleZj3L-BpMrGUuQuqOOuU00RzOgc3FiJ4oIUO5kuglg5z/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-09-26%20at%209.18.34%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Poster for STRONGROOM Year: 1962 Rates: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>STRONGROOM is an important early-1960's British crime films as it underlines what you won't find Stateside: to be extra cautious to <i>not harm anyone</i> during a heist or your jail sentence lengthens, making British bad guys not only more sympathetic but far more cautious, which includes bank robbers Keith Faulkner and Derren Nesbitt who, after locking the first guy's coworkers in the titular bank vault, is talked into by the more empathetic crook to return to the crime scene to provide some oxygen...<br></p><p></p><p>A twist ignited by the third robber's death... the older brother to the edgy Keith Faulkner, he held the key to the STRONGROOM that the oblivious cops won't let go of, so, what takes up most of the runtime is the bickering boys seeking a way back while, inside, spectacle-wearing bank manager Colin Gordon and subtle beauty Ann Lynn are running out of air, providing more race-against-time suspense than what should be occurring simultaneously outside, including investigating cops...</p><p><span></span></p>

ann lynn, british neo noir, british new wave, colin gordon, crime, derren nesbitt, guido coen, heist, keith faulkner, race against time, suspense

DERREN NESBITT & KEITH FAULKER IN 'STRONGROOM' WITH ANN LYNN

Poster for STRONGROOM Year: 1962 Rates: ***1/2 STRONGROOM is an important early-1960's British crime films as it underlines what you won...

SHARON GURNEY WITH YVONNE MITCHELL IN 'CRUCIBLE OF HORROR'

<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/AVvXsEi3yeY6zXy_NBcKCZEFlKvCHISEh_NBLohowL3mV-meEA0waRoq4KrHU58VeIxDCnqnlrM7vhJ9yuNk6Py8bj-ASspDuC_fSagkI0AgJh4TRQjouRX64SrFraIJqSCkJn-EBHKKFoEReXkLLdsBxT90v6UMiQvzMutfPq8RuvJp2BGC_7pLKcUSYiebPKDg/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-09-17%20at%2010.12.44%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="878" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3yeY6zXy_NBcKCZEFlKvCHISEh_NBLohowL3mV-meEA0waRoq4KrHU58VeIxDCnqnlrM7vhJ9yuNk6Py8bj-ASspDuC_fSagkI0AgJh4TRQjouRX64SrFraIJqSCkJn-EBHKKFoEReXkLLdsBxT90v6UMiQvzMutfPq8RuvJp2BGC_7pLKcUSYiebPKDg/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-09-17%20at%2010.12.44%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sharon Gurney</u><u> </u><u>in CRUCIBLE OF HORROR/THE CORPSE Year: 1971 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>It's been said that Viktors Ritelis was a British television director with the eye of a cinematic filmmaker, and his only feature, CRUCIBLE OF HORROR (originally THE CORPSE), is a creatively-shot thriller in the vein of Alfred Hitchcock... <br><br>Helping to develop a wave of rural-set psychological horrors of the 1960's/1970's, from England's SHUTTERED ROOM to America's LET'S SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH to Hammer's DEMONS OF THE MIND... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

british, cannon, horror, michael gough, seventies, sharon gurney, simon gough, thriller, yvonne mitchell

SHARON GURNEY WITH YVONNE MITCHELL IN 'CRUCIBLE OF HORROR'

Sharon Gurney in CRUCIBLE OF HORROR/THE CORPSE Year: 1971 Rating: ***1/2 It's been said that Viktors Ritelis was a British television d...

SHARON GURNEY IN GARY SHERMAN'S CULT SLASHER 'DEATH LINE'

<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/AVvXsEj6_h7VJh9NBg1174f7YjoMRM8_2VI9uyl7yO5K5bSdSc0D0GXKjjlKeLL75L8C1yrE0uUesLnwXhMj_E1z1krWQENgYFN1BGnk5kBhjTPMWbLnA5KMhSxEgLreh2Vimb5xuc8xoPKlosU1bozdIqQV4uwF9w7FGdHo9EmlHPGkwTwb0JhfankiWio-GRmA/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-09-15%20at%2010.51.10%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="937" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6_h7VJh9NBg1174f7YjoMRM8_2VI9uyl7yO5K5bSdSc0D0GXKjjlKeLL75L8C1yrE0uUesLnwXhMj_E1z1krWQENgYFN1BGnk5kBhjTPMWbLnA5KMhSxEgLreh2Vimb5xuc8xoPKlosU1bozdIqQV4uwF9w7FGdHo9EmlHPGkwTwb0JhfankiWio-GRmA/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-09-15%20at%2010.51.10%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sharon Gurney in DEATH LINE Year: 1972 Rating: **</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>There's a point in future <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2010/11/dead-buried.html">DEAD & BURIED</a>, V<a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2025/03/vsquad.html">ICE SQUAD</a> and <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2018/12/reevaluating-eternal-damnation-of.html">POLTERGEIST III</a> director Gary Sherman's 1972 proto-slasher DEATH LINE where blunt detectives Donald Pleasence and Norman Rossington are discussing the hippie couple they're separately questioning: and only David Ladd (playboy son of iconic Alan Ladd) is shown... <br><br>Merely part of the problem in what's an otherwise groundbreaking horror involving a cannibal, before even TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, taking place in a dark and spooky-looking location, including an extremely long maneuvering crane shot of the lead killer in his underground fortress...</p><p><span></span></p>

british, christopher lee, david ladd, donald pleasence, horror, norman rossington, seventies, sharon gurney, slasher

SHARON GURNEY IN GARY SHERMAN'S CULT SLASHER 'DEATH LINE'

Sharon Gurney in DEATH LINE Year: 1972 Rating: ** There's a point in future DEAD & BURIED , V ICE SQUAD and POLTERGEIST III direct...

HEATHER SEARS CROONS HAMMER'S 'THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA'

<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/a/AVvXsEi3fVfFgB1lP_vkhA9gRpn-UpglfUwFoJEG3wPUd-Yh9JA-OBReObEK-6Ws4PDXi4mD0xXYmQ2i7HfFHyIGKp-aLB60VOlnBHIhGc7K6A6t5TQOn7KuqYnIU6QkN4KpOvI-PaD2Kc_1rkzs8M1IL5kO5qY3mSFFhLEi1QjU-xN2xHv3oWEqOG3YsaE0sOl8" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="850" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi3fVfFgB1lP_vkhA9gRpn-UpglfUwFoJEG3wPUd-Yh9JA-OBReObEK-6Ws4PDXi4mD0xXYmQ2i7HfFHyIGKp-aLB60VOlnBHIhGc7K6A6t5TQOn7KuqYnIU6QkN4KpOvI-PaD2Kc_1rkzs8M1IL5kO5qY3mSFFhLEi1QjU-xN2xHv3oWEqOG3YsaE0sOl8=s1600"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Heather Sears in THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA Year: 1964 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Both Oliver Reed and Herbert Lom have played similar types of villains, with wide dead-eyes and a cold/calculating reserve, and not without exceeding passion... yet neither have all that much to do with their titular monster Hammer features, both directed by Hammer regular Terence Fisher... <br></p><p></p><p>In Reed's CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF, he shows up after forty-five minutes, with little to do with the most surrealistically nightmarish aspects leading up while in Lom's THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, besides being fitfully hidden behind strategically-cut corners of the central opera house, he basically gives his own personal Igor all the rafter-crashing violence... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

hammer films, heather sears, herbert lom, horror, monster, music, sixties, terence fisher, thorley walters

HEATHER SEARS CROONS HAMMER'S 'THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA'

Heather Sears in THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA Year: 1964 Rating: ***1/2 Both Oliver Reed and Herbert Lom have played similar types of villains, ...

HEATHER SEARS WITH ANNETTE WHITELEY IN 'THE BLACK TORMENT'

<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/AVvXsEga4habL-HxQmztWm4Nbc4V-LIFKw3Q0CMZnWnbyfdiWu736xJnMHeYG-lP391rgDCGWoCzVHHjw3BhUjSXj48L3SZ_ZnEaeSpTkOVfQvAcJrG5lEYJuq9MCjAKvT_MAwZ6-tMswG9uG1ckFGxLfZj1p3qQ3xG9MtuegIvbCZNT_ubk_tpBAAeu5c7_O3nV/s1600/image1788936022.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1082" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga4habL-HxQmztWm4Nbc4V-LIFKw3Q0CMZnWnbyfdiWu736xJnMHeYG-lP391rgDCGWoCzVHHjw3BhUjSXj48L3SZ_ZnEaeSpTkOVfQvAcJrG5lEYJuq9MCjAKvT_MAwZ6-tMswG9uG1ckFGxLfZj1p3qQ3xG9MtuegIvbCZNT_ubk_tpBAAeu5c7_O3nV/s1600/image1788936022.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Heather Sears and John Turner in THE BLACK TORMENT Year: 1964 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Since THE ROOM WITH A VIEW, when social-climbing rascal Laurence Harvey stares at Heather Sears, he mentions out loud how incredibly perfect a young woman she is... <br><br>Which became her niche: the upturned nosed, round-faced, always-smiling cutie that turns the heads of both men and monsters in Hammer's PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, and once again epitomizes girl-next-door allure as the new wife of a returning English lord in THE BLACK TORMENT...</p><p><span></span></p>

ann lynn, annette whiteley, edina ronay, francis de wolff, gothic, heather sears, horror, john turner, joseph tomelty, peter arne, sixties

HEATHER SEARS WITH ANNETTE WHITELEY IN 'THE BLACK TORMENT'

Heather Sears and John Turner in THE BLACK TORMENT Year: 1964 Rating: ***1/2 Since THE ROOM WITH A VIEW, when social-climbing rascal Laurenc...

JUDD NELSON IS 'RELENTLESS' WITH LEO ROSSI & ROBERT LOGGIA

<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/a/AVvXsEjvkXIJmOu6Ar1krsooooS46LJsy8mrJ1btppf9LhwopkEnAJWlslcKgHQ4jTWdKq3R-olhKY2KF0Y4LqlRQ1IrSojONKVqVBzl_tKYDQaFo8wDYQMOnDgYnRv0JBABZXDh8llID7NNfBcbnBhxR_UHw6Q7dyQP69IRjb2WhCR6yMHmVmOiczFpmmmyJAK9" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1056" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjvkXIJmOu6Ar1krsooooS46LJsy8mrJ1btppf9LhwopkEnAJWlslcKgHQ4jTWdKq3R-olhKY2KF0Y4LqlRQ1IrSojONKVqVBzl_tKYDQaFo8wDYQMOnDgYnRv0JBABZXDh8llID7NNfBcbnBhxR_UHw6Q7dyQP69IRjb2WhCR6yMHmVmOiczFpmmmyJAK9=s1600"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1989 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In the mid-1980's, starting out with famously low-budget Cannon Films in MAKING THE GRADE before breaking into Universal stardom for THE BREAKFAST CLUB, by 1989, Judd Nelson was back in the little leagues...</p><p>Getting first-billed in exploitation drive-in maestro William Lustig's RELENTLESS, a kind of revamp of WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS involving Nelson as a man-child serial killer, motivated by the media's goading perception of his ultra-violent actions based on lonely loser motivations... <br></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

angel tompkins, body count, cop, eddie bunker, eighties, frank pesce, judd nelson, leo rossi, meg foster, neo noir, robert loggia, william lustig

JUDD NELSON IS 'RELENTLESS' WITH LEO ROSSI & ROBERT LOGGIA

Year: 1989 Rating: ***1/2 In the mid-1980's, starting out with famously low-budget Cannon Films in MAKING THE GRADE before breaking into...

JUDD NELSON RULES THE BRAT PACK CLASSIC 'THE BREAKFAST CLUB'

<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/AVvXsEi9axfbyFw3ghrUUEM1I-atl_DiE_yzy95PdK6GDNo4iR1Spq6uSdVb7djvuBbpFNn9jM2PaU746meD37uDjQ_ouKfqWqFxnATbJrAOWm0UYJD5qJYvw0ZYQX_cQbKOgK283dxAT-bdFgO7nwCNgjWo_6EhO380cF4aS8oahqPSxftkWa-hzSvB6OBoFeD0/s1600/unnamed.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="978" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9axfbyFw3ghrUUEM1I-atl_DiE_yzy95PdK6GDNo4iR1Spq6uSdVb7djvuBbpFNn9jM2PaU746meD37uDjQ_ouKfqWqFxnATbJrAOWm0UYJD5qJYvw0ZYQX_cQbKOgK283dxAT-bdFgO7nwCNgjWo_6EhO380cF4aS8oahqPSxftkWa-hzSvB6OBoFeD0/s1600/unnamed.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1985 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In 1985, a year after swaggering onto the big screen in the nearly forgotten con-man caper <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2015/05/judd-nelson-MTG.html">MAKING THE GRADE,</a> Judd Nelson played the biggest post-collegiate geek ever for Kevin Costner's indie breakthrough F<a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2024/07/fandango.html">ANDANGO</a>... before ironically poking fun at high school geek Anthony Michael Hall in John Hughes's THE BREAKFAST CLUB...<br><br>As Nelson's criminal character John Bender isn't anything like the typical BLACKBOARD JUNGLE teen rebel... his <i>cause</i> is basically being a demonic Phil Donahue within an 8-hour Saturday detention, also goading pretty popular Molly Ringwald, handsome jock Emilio Estevez, and neurotic pre-goth Ally Sheedy into eventually seeking their true feelings about topics ranging from homelife parentals to high school popularity...</p><p><span></span></p>

ally sheedy, brat pack, comedy, eighties, emilio estevez, john hughes, judd nelson, molly ringwald, paul gleason

JUDD NELSON RULES THE BRAT PACK CLASSIC 'THE BREAKFAST CLUB'

Year: 1985 Rating: ****1/2 In 1985, a year after swaggering onto the big screen in the nearly forgotten con-man caper MAKING THE GRADE, Jud...

JUDD NELSON IN THE BRAT PACK MELODRAMA 'ST. ELMO'S FIRE'

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><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/AVvXsEg5nN79QoycBGnUFvwjkqwRPDRl-bZ6N_C7Y5v8_iQUadkTzgmI9xpz_OSrAjSVKl0GS6u9S-6XNBccL-X9juDjzxX69CrGXjz-w5ZIQFiZjVOpcnxOuY9BIrd8m2k7E6u5yBgtgghEiOTKa9s8RdZp9-ehZyN42EnxX4AtbCgMM9DgsKBCeQ1BEnuMA7PB/s1644/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-31%20at%2012.06.42%20AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1082" data-original-width="1644" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5nN79QoycBGnUFvwjkqwRPDRl-bZ6N_C7Y5v8_iQUadkTzgmI9xpz_OSrAjSVKl0GS6u9S-6XNBccL-X9juDjzxX69CrGXjz-w5ZIQFiZjVOpcnxOuY9BIrd8m2k7E6u5yBgtgghEiOTKa9s8RdZp9-ehZyN42EnxX4AtbCgMM9DgsKBCeQ1BEnuMA7PB/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-31%20at%2012.06.42%20AM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1985 Rating; ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A group of college graduates, a few months after leaving the cozy nest of dorm life, wind up on their own in the big city yet still have each other to depend on<span style="font-family: inherit;">... </span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thus in 1985, when the so-called “Brat Pack” was in full form, ST. ELMO’S FIRE was the navel-gazing follow-up to THE BREAKFAST CLUB just as CLUB has graduated past SIXTEEN CANDLES (only this has nothing to do with John Hughes, amazingly enough)...</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span></span></span></p></div>

ally sheedy, andie macdowell, andrew mccarthy, brat pack, eighties, emilio estevez, joel schumaker, judd nelson, mare winningham, melodrama, romance

JUDD NELSON IN THE BRAT PACK MELODRAMA 'ST. ELMO'S FIRE'

Year: 1985 Rating; ***1/2 A group of college graduates, a few months after leaving the cozy nest of dorm life, wind up on their own in the...

JUDD NELSON, DANA OLSEN AND JONNA LEE IN 'MAKING THE GRADE'

<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/AVvXsEic2WcRpkqfKLrPmomPi3eb9DJ57D-kJkhyoqUjyQFYRRQHYevkDiBRpB5q6Qjev8h8B5m8HtrjqxaeF7Qlpa7Gn7-cUqeGhEEUzj9EQ4vVbTLp5tJRsE3-IY63Iku2ak7UGd7PTbK8D2ccGzVirB4ML7iw8-foI7qQ09p6lJ1ndRyCPTePknseUMpCYhPx/s1600/unnamed.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="993" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic2WcRpkqfKLrPmomPi3eb9DJ57D-kJkhyoqUjyQFYRRQHYevkDiBRpB5q6Qjev8h8B5m8HtrjqxaeF7Qlpa7Gn7-cUqeGhEEUzj9EQ4vVbTLp5tJRsE3-IY63Iku2ak7UGd7PTbK8D2ccGzVirB4ML7iw8-foI7qQ09p6lJ1ndRyCPTePknseUMpCYhPx/s1600/unnamed.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: MAKING THE GRADE Year: 1984 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>A year before <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2026/08/bclub.html">THE BREAKFAST CLUB</a> made Judd Nelson a star, turning his energetic acting style into a focused study of teenage angst and rebellion, he played a similar character – only his MAKING THE GRADE hero Eddie Keaton break-dances instead of jamming an air guitar Cream riff; in other words, his rebellion is catered strictly for humor. Wild on the streets, he owes a bookie, Dice Man, played by Andrew Clay, and winds up taking the place of a spoiled rich kid: attending a prep school whilst hiding from mobsters. <br> <br> That’s the plot in a nutshell, and GRADE, within this framework, packs a lot of hit and miss humor as well as likable or fitfully unlikable side-characters, throwing everything into the pot: from pratfalls to one-liners to stereotypes to action scenes, and beyond... No surprise Nelson plays the part with gusto – though sometimes too much. Yet where Eddie’s urban-hip con artist stuck in the fledgling Preparatory academy tries stealing every scene on board, he’s given an ultimately thankless lead to people like Dana Olsen as, technically, the most important person herein...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><span></span>

andrew dice clay, cannon, comedy, dana olsen, eighties, gordon jump, jonna lee, judd nelson, ronald lacey, teen, walter olkewicz

JUDD NELSON, DANA OLSEN AND JONNA LEE IN 'MAKING THE GRADE'

Title: MAKING THE GRADE Year: 1984 Rating: ***1/2 A year before THE BREAKFAST CLUB made Judd Nelson a star, turning his energetic acting s...

JUDD NELSON BEING DRIVEN BY KEVIN COSTNER IN 'FANDANGO'

<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/AVvXsEhkxmKpqZkFu4L7hw9_qCG0892H62n83aRtdcSLwgznrh6LoTCWndFUZ2eXWviJalJodmgpbRW2fU6QvGr4VsQmg7DlQk8vcBWrRIe0K8h66aa15-eWVZ1_T8TODBkJ3b425gYJ37PIEXuytEEL5BgTzjmXgSDDEg0AuXYvbE8KJv8htOYqLAL99jfnY4kT/s2282/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-30%20at%2011.45.27%20AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1358" data-original-width="2282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkxmKpqZkFu4L7hw9_qCG0892H62n83aRtdcSLwgznrh6LoTCWndFUZ2eXWviJalJodmgpbRW2fU6QvGr4VsQmg7DlQk8vcBWrRIe0K8h66aa15-eWVZ1_T8TODBkJ3b425gYJ37PIEXuytEEL5BgTzjmXgSDDEg0AuXYvbE8KJv8htOYqLAL99jfnY4kT/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-30%20at%2011.45.27%20AM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1985 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Director Kevin Reynolds didn't know who was in the room when his student film PROOF screened... and it was none other than Steven Spielberg, who'd later hire him to enhance the story about a group of early-1970's Vietnam War-era college students, one a coward forced to prove his worth by parachuting in a rural Texas stopover where the instructor's a burnout hippie, played by scene-stealing Marvin J. McIntyre...</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>Who's the only actor returning for the feature-length version FANDANGO starring newcomer Kevin Costner (in the kind of zesty youthfulness liken to SILVERADO) as the best looking and most confident instigating leader while Judd Nelson... the same year he'd portray an extremely cool high-school student in THE BREAKFAST CLUB... proves his versatility here as the complete opposite...<br></p><p><span></span></p>

eighties, elizabeth daily, judd nelson, kevin costner, kevin reynolds, marvin j. mcintyre, road movie, sam robards, steven spielberg, suzy amis

JUDD NELSON BEING DRIVEN BY KEVIN COSTNER IN 'FANDANGO'

Year: 1985 Rating: **** Director Kevin Reynolds didn't know who was in the room when his student film PROOF screened... and it was none ...

JUDD NELSON & ALLY SHEEDY IN THE BRAT PACK NOIR 'BLUE CITY'

<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/AVvXsEhdDbAPERKVEZzhNEVzh-2CtuEF1TYM-YWsbudtjdLIH4pFXH2Wfz8vC2AlWkkrQULSHcOzsOZMGjknUJ6spVjSXqGTPXRDwL3Dx3IUCJ_Q4q-qwnYiTeKb4UyH0_YabbOcfrTUyk0lbUK1BAGNTzq47g_z8JBzFOr8dT3oiv8a4LyySr3xEcx86kbYlM_7/s1162/image1788044637.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="1162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdDbAPERKVEZzhNEVzh-2CtuEF1TYM-YWsbudtjdLIH4pFXH2Wfz8vC2AlWkkrQULSHcOzsOZMGjknUJ6spVjSXqGTPXRDwL3Dx3IUCJ_Q4q-qwnYiTeKb4UyH0_YabbOcfrTUyk0lbUK1BAGNTzq47g_z8JBzFOr8dT3oiv8a4LyySr3xEcx86kbYlM_7/s1600/image1788044637.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1986 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>This dark horse Brat Pack outing was up for a few Razzie Awards, but for what exactly? BLUE CITY is actually a decent action/thriller about the son of a beloved slain mayor returning to a Florida town, Blue City, now run (from inside a roadhouse bar) by seedy Scott Wilson...<br> <br> Seeking clues, Nelson gets back in touch with his old drinking buddy David Caruso, who is sober, paranoid, and running a fishing boat. And what makes this Brat a Pack in our love interest: Caruso's pretty sister, Ally Sheedy, who becomes smitten with Judd... a former crush resurfaced. She works at the local jail he was thrown into after a brawling bar fight...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><span></span>

action, ally sheedy, anita morris, brat pack, david caruso, eighties, judd nelson, neo noir, scott wilson, walter hill

JUDD NELSON & ALLY SHEEDY IN THE BRAT PACK NOIR 'BLUE CITY'

Year: 1986 Rating: ***1/2 This dark horse Brat Pack outing was up for a few Razzie Awards, but for what exactly? BLUE CITY is actually a d...

TIM CURRY CLOWNING THE TV-MINISERIES OF STEPHEN KING'S 'IT'

<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/AVvXsEgK8n0P2o8D4Xchyphenhypheni3mexDbo1kLLZ7k7QCvtbuUDk1StsfCpZ9Fsi8RrVt4ISo5qJ_vfVbAd90NDDjjh3CdRzCLVqSmVADB68u_Y68jUfRJvhPK3TNZynwIrfI4ZTlWrF8o2DkmNVPnTkA-8H0cX91_sTQpLvwrdnlkfV_oNih0Z9wD_XV123m1UdtxucN0/s1600/unnamed.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="856" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK8n0P2o8D4Xchyphenhypheni3mexDbo1kLLZ7k7QCvtbuUDk1StsfCpZ9Fsi8RrVt4ISo5qJ_vfVbAd90NDDjjh3CdRzCLVqSmVADB68u_Y68jUfRJvhPK3TNZynwIrfI4ZTlWrF8o2DkmNVPnTkA-8H0cX91_sTQpLvwrdnlkfV_oNih0Z9wD_XV123m1UdtxucN0/s1600/unnamed.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Director: Tommy Lee Wallace Year: 1990 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The 1990 Stephen King adapted miniseries IT actually returned the multi-episodic genre to the glorious 1970's, when ROOTS and RICH MAN POOR MAN cast mostly actors and actresses from nearly every former famous television series that still haunted the syndicated airwaves...<br><br>It was usually the character-actors, while IT has the leading players as familiar faces: like a broodingly dramatic John Ritter, who was the hilariously clumsy Jack Tripper on THREE'S COMPANY... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

annette o'toole, harry anderson, horror, john ritter, jonathan brandis, laura harris, miniseries, olivia hussey, richard masur, richard thomas, seth green, stephen king, tim curry, tommy lee wallace

TIM CURRY CLOWNING THE TV-MINISERIES OF STEPHEN KING'S 'IT'

Director: Tommy Lee Wallace Year: 1990 Rating: **** The 1990 Stephen King adapted miniseries IT actually returned the multi-episodic genre t...

DOLLY PARTON, JANE FONDA AND LILY TOMLIN WORKING '9 TO 5'

<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/AVvXsEhrC4PC0Tw3o56IRa-31BqYHd-1pAlHcK6pMbgLIDTQQJioF3yluG3PQvgPi2LpZUCYOBGhjkbqnUiaYww1rEeiig8ONiF1owZ1WHPNj5VjLI3dB9VpZL6QfWxHg8ttm1z6-UNWQwPSekSS-k9VAgbIQt0nygJqwWH6dsSocK8NZL7Bl5fD_8fp_YSGIVhT/s1400/image1787817043.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="752" data-original-width="1400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrC4PC0Tw3o56IRa-31BqYHd-1pAlHcK6pMbgLIDTQQJioF3yluG3PQvgPi2LpZUCYOBGhjkbqnUiaYww1rEeiig8ONiF1owZ1WHPNj5VjLI3dB9VpZL6QfWxHg8ttm1z6-UNWQwPSekSS-k9VAgbIQt0nygJqwWH6dsSocK8NZL7Bl5fD_8fp_YSGIVhT/s1600/image1787817043.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: 9 TO 5 Year: 1980 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Even though country crooning queen Dolly Parton sang the incredibly popular title song 9 TO 5 (a working girl's take on Paul McCartney's alarm-clock section of John Lennon's Beatles opus <i>A Day In The Life</i>), it could have easily seemed like novelty casting, having the blonde bombshell — equally known for her large bosom as her music — in the role as the sexy personal secretary of the most evil of evil movie bosses...<br><br>But she's an absolute natural/scene-stealer alongside professionally-trained actresses Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin... and the literally hands-on employer Dabney Coleman, who for decades, without that sinister mustache, blended into the background of episodic television and b-movies... <br></p><span></span>

dabney coleman, dolly parton, eighties, henry jones, jane fonda, lawrence pressman, lily tomlin, renn woods, roxanna bonilla-giannini, sterling hayden

DOLLY PARTON, JANE FONDA AND LILY TOMLIN WORKING '9 TO 5'

Title: 9 TO 5 Year: 1980 Rating: *** Even though country crooning queen Dolly Parton sang the incredibly popular title song 9 TO 5 (a workin...

ALAIN DELON & BURT LANCASTER IN MICHAEL WINNER'S 'SCORPIO'

<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/AVvXsEiORJdxJ8JOXVvCvrd-7kYYyVh9HEfCS0TrOMUsfqaN4iVt-Go_2B-_YXUxM2-bKv_a9LXvETnr8UT_SV7SpfoqxerrHS1cQgcbUtxQJGgvfqjAtbbGaYFRtjDvCqmFVTraQYa_0FoigAIunE8k2alJhamH0s1RV4LUwIErJEoKalCf6-afy34mxddYXgCf/s1842/111%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1172" data-original-width="1842" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiORJdxJ8JOXVvCvrd-7kYYyVh9HEfCS0TrOMUsfqaN4iVt-Go_2B-_YXUxM2-bKv_a9LXvETnr8UT_SV7SpfoqxerrHS1cQgcbUtxQJGgvfqjAtbbGaYFRtjDvCqmFVTraQYa_0FoigAIunE8k2alJhamH0s1RV4LUwIErJEoKalCf6-afy34mxddYXgCf/s1600/111%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: SCORPIO Year: 1973 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>During the final act of Michael Winner's 1972 crime-thriller <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2023/12/mechanics.html">THE MECHANIC</a>, veteran hit-man Charles Bronson is targeted by his own young assassin student Jan-Michael Vincent... <br><br>And a year later, in Winner's espionage-thriller SCORPIO, this same exact ironical setup is already happening (has already happened), right when the movie begins...</p>

action, alain delon, espionage, gayle hunnicutt, james b. sikking, jerry fielding, joanne linville, john colicos, mary maude, michael winner, neo noir, paul scofield, seventies, thriller, william smithers

ALAIN DELON & BURT LANCASTER IN MICHAEL WINNER'S 'SCORPIO'

Title: SCORPIO Year: 1973 Rating: **1/2 During the final act of Michael Winner's 1972 crime-thriller THE MECHANIC , veteran hit-man Char...

ALAIN DELON IN THE HIT-MAN NEO-NOIR THRILLER 'LE SAMOURAÏ'

<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/AVvXsEgH9U7AuM0AF-xXh0cFIYvskSH0yU9bJDQbXG_5MIS9M0cMo4ok51mF17m4atk-8ENPsDiRJK4_KLQSBIDTzQ03jow2GmIfWWCRVbc0E445-imwSxnGzsz4UlaSVfleD6dKc_L1UtA_vKfkZxWJXJd7Vav31orRdfeviryIMBXmF2SoirFzK2DkafVWQdmY/s1264/image1787470466.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="845" data-original-width="1264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH9U7AuM0AF-xXh0cFIYvskSH0yU9bJDQbXG_5MIS9M0cMo4ok51mF17m4atk-8ENPsDiRJK4_KLQSBIDTzQ03jow2GmIfWWCRVbc0E445-imwSxnGzsz4UlaSVfleD6dKc_L1UtA_vKfkZxWJXJd7Vav31orRdfeviryIMBXmF2SoirFzK2DkafVWQdmY/s1600/image1787470466.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: LE SAMOURAÏ American Title: THE GODSON Year: 1967 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>It would be almost blasphemous in the crime genre neo-noir circles to say that <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/06/DRIVER.html">Walter Hill's THE DRIVER</a>, which is basically a remake of Jean-Pierre Melville's LE SAMOURAÏ, is superior... but Walter's Hill's THE DRIVER is superior to Jean-Pierre Melville's LE SAMOURAÏ... and vastly so...<br><br>Although looking terrifically cool around sparse settings and harboring an overall slow-burn cadence, Alain Delon's hit-man Jef Costello makes Ryan O'Neal's deliberately sluggish getaway driver seem like the rambling, semi-crooked, stubbornly determined token cop Bruce Dern, who almost single-handedly makes the Hill movie better than it would've been otherwise... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

alain delon, catherine jourdan, cathy rosier, cop, french, hit man, jean-pierre melville, nathalie delon, neo noir, sixties

ALAIN DELON IN THE HIT-MAN NEO-NOIR THRILLER 'LE SAMOURAÏ'

Title: LE SAMOURAÏ American Title: THE GODSON Year: 1967 Rating: **1/2 It would be almost blasphemous in the crime genre neo-noir circles to...

ALAIN DELON, JEAN GABIN AND LINO VENTURA 'THE SICILIAN CLAN'

<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/AVvXsEikaCF2rMPbW1FELmCkP690lEfYh-MCHqHv4bs8mpMBOkMrgZao_cBflN3kmh-aY1bDn4lajf3p-346GsbndMipxsQcWCZeOUBtp5tdgOPl_ydg5pnn6PY74fyj6odD01YnHoqOCK5WhrDeW_x39Bv2tHf0Kxi1njtION2V1ZVyq3TkSHQ40z9Az2dV3g6x/s1360/unnamed.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="954" data-original-width="1360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikaCF2rMPbW1FELmCkP690lEfYh-MCHqHv4bs8mpMBOkMrgZao_cBflN3kmh-aY1bDn4lajf3p-346GsbndMipxsQcWCZeOUBtp5tdgOPl_ydg5pnn6PY74fyj6odD01YnHoqOCK5WhrDeW_x39Bv2tHf0Kxi1njtION2V1ZVyq3TkSHQ40z9Az2dV3g6x/s1600/unnamed.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Alain Delon and Jean Gabin in THE SICILIAN CLAN Year: 1969 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The French/Italian mafia thriller THE SICILIAN CLAN not only stars three famous foreign actors, Alain Delon, Lino Ventura and Jean Gabin, but each character takes up their own part of the three acts...<br><br>Starting out with one of the coolest jailbreaks... actually from a prison bus carrying Delon's career-criminal, given tools to cut a box-shape on the bus's floor, neatly timed against the guard and providing a genuinely nail-biting sequence... soon followed by another breakout: from a hotel window the morning after a hooker hookup... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

alain delon, danielle volle, french, heist, irina demick, italian, jean gabin, lino ventura, neo noir, sixties, sydney chaplin

ALAIN DELON, JEAN GABIN AND LINO VENTURA 'THE SICILIAN CLAN'

Alain Delon and Jean Gabin in THE SICILIAN CLAN Year: 1969 Rating: *** The French/Italian mafia thriller THE SICILIAN CLAN not only stars th...

ALAIN DELON WITH CHARLES BRONSON IN 'FAREWELL, FRIEND'

<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/AVvXsEjr_-31b4KOwIYtc8boMIiREqcabWNd08wmN_oPfFBWlAMUUPWf4j040-MnR7szF6socpk4hariW4s_td_l1QqFd5BNvicPBfCSf-tklf5WSYkhmR6pzwh-PmLhi6j-LhyphenhyphenVN5sLcfKQSaQV0RF0Q-hAsElRYBfIER5LahlyQXIk890E5DaE-6KWVetSqGY_/s2112/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-22%20at%201.58.46%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1400" data-original-width="2112" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr_-31b4KOwIYtc8boMIiREqcabWNd08wmN_oPfFBWlAMUUPWf4j040-MnR7szF6socpk4hariW4s_td_l1QqFd5BNvicPBfCSf-tklf5WSYkhmR6pzwh-PmLhi6j-LhyphenhyphenVN5sLcfKQSaQV0RF0Q-hAsElRYBfIER5LahlyQXIk890E5DaE-6KWVetSqGY_/w400-h265/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-22%20at%201.58.46%20PM.png" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>FAREWELL, FRIEND Year: 1968 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The title FAREWELL, FRIEND makes no sense yet are actual words spoken by one of two anti-buddy buddies who'd spent years in the Foreign Legion without knowing each other, but they get off the same boat with a load of expository dialogue that you best keep a scorecard to follow the shoddy pulp-inspired plot as, basically and ultimately, this odd couple... one a French medic, the other a crooked American... attempt to crack a big safe in a large, well-armed, multi-guarded building... And why the title's nonsensical is that Bronson's pimp character says things for no apparent reason, especially "Yeah!" whenever something happens that makes him feel like saying... "Yeah!" </p><p></p><p>But Alain Delon is the tough silent type, and this film's obvious lead, actually having hand-picked Bronson from admiring his zesty performance as <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2018/08/early-chuck.html">MACHINE GUN KELLY</a> eight-years earlier... What's ironic is Delon keeps Bronson from reaching equally ferocious heights by either a punch in the nose or a macho wrestling match, especially in a painfully overlong sequence where, during that epic second-act heist, both get locked inside a strongroom, close to death, followed by Bronson being beaten/interrogated and Delon beating-up the film's nice girl Brigitte Fossey while having initially fallen sap to sneaky double-crossing femme fatalle Olga Georges-Picot... Perhaps if FAREWELL, FRIEND was a dark comedy, and didn't take itself so seriously, it'd have a more even-keeled groove... And get this... Bronson <i>wouldn't </i>be the straight man!</p><span></span>

alain delon, brigitte fossey, buddy, charles bronson, crime, exploitation, french, heist, mob, olga georges-picot, seventies

ALAIN DELON WITH CHARLES BRONSON IN 'FAREWELL, FRIEND'

FAREWELL, FRIEND Year: 1968 Rating: *** The title FAREWELL, FRIEND makes no sense yet are actual words spoken by one of two anti-buddy buddi...

LARA WENDEL AND MALISA LONGO HAUNTING 'THE RED MONKS'

<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/AVvXsEj6fpfwc2Gufp5LRfymdVDQdEAAMJA15rqHuAgyk0lG0bihx9uavn3kAKv6dIDKaRm1NHUKg0JVWilcpJHhDqXZx9GD6IaGsXs-vWSC-t1XkvnbQAEuh0TrcME3jajM_oF_JzyTuC9oKJjYfiXpFyjkGFKqUQyvTkzYcL6_CsBU7HKcBV-yncsZViDydAYD/s1902/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-20%20at%2012.09.07%20AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1224" data-original-width="1902" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6fpfwc2Gufp5LRfymdVDQdEAAMJA15rqHuAgyk0lG0bihx9uavn3kAKv6dIDKaRm1NHUKg0JVWilcpJHhDqXZx9GD6IaGsXs-vWSC-t1XkvnbQAEuh0TrcME3jajM_oF_JzyTuC9oKJjYfiXpFyjkGFKqUQyvTkzYcL6_CsBU7HKcBV-yncsZViDydAYD/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-20%20at%2012.09.07%20AM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lara Wendel in THE RED MONKS Year: 1988 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Since low-budget horror movies began, there's always been certain locations where it's obvious the entire script was based around — find the place first and write the script later... </p><p></p><p>Which has never been as impressive as the otherwise mostly unimpressive Gothic horror THE RED MONKS, where two generations of dark-haired men inherit a castle where the interior is an almost endless maze of Medieval corridors... </p><p><span></span></p>

body count, eighties, gothic, horror, italian, lara wendel, malisa longo

LARA WENDEL AND MALISA LONGO HAUNTING 'THE RED MONKS'

Lara Wendel in THE RED MONKS Year: 1988 Rating: *** Since low-budget horror movies began, there's always been certain locations where it...

LARA WENDEL GETTING DEMON POSSESSED IN 'RING 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/AVvXsEgjLcQedOC6zYeBT2JkBfQ_T05GWodceFv1PEkEZF9VE4Ls935aJshqQDLinY-omkr7WmHNYImuyVHYENul_SmQhSMUTYKSOufilY_64TfKnJyZ5JtPyFMDks64G5qpCnGXUY8OerEYlPyq8tnK22eOhMktoYKbi7IS7FBP_UP-txb3lTO6tHHjSGnu0XyB/s1300/unnamed.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjLcQedOC6zYeBT2JkBfQ_T05GWodceFv1PEkEZF9VE4Ls935aJshqQDLinY-omkr7WmHNYImuyVHYENul_SmQhSMUTYKSOufilY_64TfKnJyZ5JtPyFMDks64G5qpCnGXUY8OerEYlPyq8tnK22eOhMktoYKbi7IS7FBP_UP-txb3lTO6tHHjSGnu0XyB/s1600/unnamed.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lara Wendel in RING OF DARKNESS Year: 1979 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The bizarre sacrificial-naked-girls-dancing intro to the Italian low-budget EXORCIST clone RING OF DARKNESS has techno-wizard Stelvio Cipriani making Mike Oldfield's <i>Tubular Bells</i> (or John Carpenter's HALLOWEEN theme) sounding like music blasting from a discotheque nightclub... <br><br>Leading to Satan-worshiping mom Anne Heywood already in the frustrated process of dealing with her very evil child... as if RING OF DARKNESS (aka SATAN'S WIFE) were more of its own sequel than a classic horror film money-grab homage... perfectly suited for controversial child starlet Lara Wendel in that she actually resembles Linda Blair...</p><p><span></span></p>

anne heywood, horror, irene papas, italian, john phillip law, lara wendel, marisa mell, seventies, stelvio cipriani, valentina cortese

LARA WENDEL GETTING DEMON POSSESSED IN 'RING OF DARKNESS'

Lara Wendel in RING OF DARKNESS Year: 1979 Rating: *** The bizarre sacrificial-naked-girls-dancing intro to the Italian low-budget EXORCIST ...

LARA WENDEL & STEFANIA SANDRELLI 'DESIDERIA: LA VITA INTERIORE'

<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/AVvXsEh-s90weqzsIH2OYkIqZnkdW-PsQItWaLIfnEDVbY9RL5Htlgmz0QgreDN1q_mA96lPy04-PV24GiWgJ8ZWy4T8t0WQNNZ9Q90mR8cuUFBHnr4K_9RoTguSlLI7lYUhRyInf_FHAjDLw7N_INPWNuY1inMRweHEdLAX7g3Ym4t58v9nUiHsDChuRJufntXJ/s1328/unnamed.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-s90weqzsIH2OYkIqZnkdW-PsQItWaLIfnEDVbY9RL5Htlgmz0QgreDN1q_mA96lPy04-PV24GiWgJ8ZWy4T8t0WQNNZ9Q90mR8cuUFBHnr4K_9RoTguSlLI7lYUhRyInf_FHAjDLw7N_INPWNuY1inMRweHEdLAX7g3Ym4t58v9nUiHsDChuRJufntXJ/s1600/unnamed.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lara Wendel in DESIDERIA aka DESIDERIA: LA VITA INTERIORE Year: 1980 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Three years after playing a knife-wielding child-wraith in the giallo horror THE PERFUME OF THE LADY IN BLACK, and when German-born/Italian-cinema scream-queen Lisa Wendel was a pretty preteen, she appeared in two extremely controversial exploitation films... <br><br>The first, PLAYING WITH LOVE, was almost instantly banned worldwide, and LITTLE GIRL IN BLUE VELVET was another take on Stanley Kubrick's LOLITA (including Wendel getting her toenails painted by a middle-aged man)... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

eighties, italian, klaus löwitsch, lara wendel, neo noir, orso maria guerrini, stefania sandrelli, vittorio mezzogiorno

LARA WENDEL & STEFANIA SANDRELLI 'DESIDERIA: LA VITA INTERIORE'

Lara Wendel in DESIDERIA aka DESIDERIA: LA VITA INTERIORE Year: 1980 Rating: ***1/2 Three years after playing a knife-wielding child-wraith ...

LARA WENDEL WINGING THROUGH 'ZOMBIE 5: KILLING BIRDS'

<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/AVvXsEjlVxC-xOzkvG1ApzImRQWz41CexzSBUPGmRcKoX-SL5_NVvbdZVqmM-sCyB3fZwN9QAg7BClQefYew7Jt3VyyD0mNpnEFjWksqE3WyGkmwqNB6oXScBFmC35etY2NfrKNhkZTLWzu-2I_jA36s2k_8qE6WCJLdPzAHDhTvg8Bp7c_hW6cxdhdD6PIo6VO7/s1600/image1786949103.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="927" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlVxC-xOzkvG1ApzImRQWz41CexzSBUPGmRcKoX-SL5_NVvbdZVqmM-sCyB3fZwN9QAg7BClQefYew7Jt3VyyD0mNpnEFjWksqE3WyGkmwqNB6oXScBFmC35etY2NfrKNhkZTLWzu-2I_jA36s2k_8qE6WCJLdPzAHDhTvg8Bp7c_hW6cxdhdD6PIo6VO7/s1600/image1786949103.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lara Wendel in ZOMBIE 5: KILLING BIRDS Year: 1988 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Jeff Goldbum's JURASSIC PARK scene-stealer Ian Malcolm would have noted, had he watched ZOMBIE 5: KILLING BIRDS for over thirty-minutes, "You DO plan to have zombies in your zombie movie?" <br><br>But right at the <i>King Kong Mark</i> of exactly 45-minutes, a sinewy menace finally appears within one of two central-interior manors, where the usual group of young victims are unwisely camped out... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

eighties, exploitation, haunted house, horror, italian, joe d'amato, lara wendel, robert vaughn, slasher, zombie

LARA WENDEL WINGING THROUGH 'ZOMBIE 5: KILLING BIRDS'

Lara Wendel in ZOMBIE 5: KILLING BIRDS Year: 1988 Rating: *** Jeff Goldbum's JURASSIC PARK scene-stealer Ian Malcolm would have noted, h...

LARA WENDEL SPOOKED THROUGH UMBERTO LENZI'S 'GHOSTHOUSE'

<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/AVvXsEjZSQb9Xy4hX8SSdiChtaXYTeodOfJiej4EXg8suK8kcaYGTtXuXNFtoIPJwvYkSkQ6lXoFNSmc2e-XHjirUvxQOgNISgV7p_zqoGlYdcHdyeTZmuLTShsbZjHlW96db58tY2gXEJ5ls87K8TwY528BnsLJ3P4JjkRU80T1nxjtwGvbKq6Qpo8y8vC7LP6o/s1400/image1786921192.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZSQb9Xy4hX8SSdiChtaXYTeodOfJiej4EXg8suK8kcaYGTtXuXNFtoIPJwvYkSkQ6lXoFNSmc2e-XHjirUvxQOgNISgV7p_zqoGlYdcHdyeTZmuLTShsbZjHlW96db58tY2gXEJ5ls87K8TwY528BnsLJ3P4JjkRU80T1nxjtwGvbKq6Qpo8y8vC7LP6o/s1600/image1786921192.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lara Wendel in GHOSTHOUSE AKA LA CASA 3 Year: 1988 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>At nine-years-old, German scream-queen Lara Wendel played the young ghostly version of <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/mimsy%20farmer">Mimsy Farmer</a> in giallo Italian director Francesco Barilli's <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2026/08/perfume.html">THE PERFUME OF THE LADY IN BLACK</a>, wielding a knife and creepy to the hilt... <br><br>Over a decade later, as a cute teenager, she's one of several slain ingenues in Dario Argento's body count classic <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2026/08/10ebrae.html">TENEBRAE</a>... eventually leading to a starring role in Umberto Lenzi's GHOSTHOUSE, ironically running into another creepy little demonic child with a deadly weapon of her own...  <br></p><span></span>

body count, eighties, haunted house, horror, italian, lara wendel, slasher, thriller

LARA WENDEL SPOOKED THROUGH UMBERTO LENZI'S 'GHOSTHOUSE'

Lara Wendel in GHOSTHOUSE AKA LA CASA 3 Year: 1988 Rating: ***1/2 At nine-years-old, German scream-queen Lara Wendel played the young ghostl...

LARA WENDEL GETTING STALKED IN DARIO ARGENO'S 'TENEBRAE'

<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/AVvXsEg2YcxPzyoqgphPPOo46MgISDpisxlhV-2Jy42uWGR5P7GxbCejwtWgdDUkoVzWy4tOBnF2jK0jUPmVtVrTSc7W_9VUepN62voPdKc5CvOvahVvkCmu7IU0YwqTq5IM3zFm7I5cNwOzP_De66U_XZmj3abFtfzn-PeNMbTnd1H8V9x3ZtGmmVadnOEqKiPm/s2134/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-15%20at%205.56.03%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1184" data-original-width="2134" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2YcxPzyoqgphPPOo46MgISDpisxlhV-2Jy42uWGR5P7GxbCejwtWgdDUkoVzWy4tOBnF2jK0jUPmVtVrTSc7W_9VUepN62voPdKc5CvOvahVvkCmu7IU0YwqTq5IM3zFm7I5cNwOzP_De66U_XZmj3abFtfzn-PeNMbTnd1H8V9x3ZtGmmVadnOEqKiPm/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-15%20at%205.56.03%20PM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lara Wendel in TENEBRAE Year: 1982 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Between his most famous, groundbreaking horror flick SUSPERIA from the exploitation 1970's to the less intense genre vehicles of the latter 1980's like PHENOMENA, Italian auteur Dario Argento made his best and by far most conventional slasher in TENEBRAE... <br><br>Using the familiar plot of a horror writer who, in this case, has a desperately faithful fan killing vulnerable women, leaving behind pages of the titular (his latest) novel... </p><p><span></span></p>

anthony franciosa, daria nicolodi, dario argento, horror, italian, john saxon, john steiner, lara wendel, mirella d'angelo, mystery, neo noir, seventies, slasher, veronica lario

LARA WENDEL GETTING STALKED IN DARIO ARGENO'S 'TENEBRAE'

Lara Wendel in TENEBRAE Year: 1982 Rating: **** Between his most famous, groundbreaking horror flick SUSPERIA from the exploitation 1970...

LARA WENDEL IS MIMSY FARMER 'PERFUME OF THE LADY IN BLACK'

<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/AVvXsEh5FxDUyM3zHgGSLlFWkl3-IabMZdOLRWSewBrLrdkVKtUsdJJHLoZPBrGUBq1Y2lPS7O8NHassOD3CK7kXaX5DquJ7n-yZLIMHsCuijlgyKKARAZzGS5AHXmVhwCbBqyARVZ-EYvoeqsTpWYTdDyq7gbrw8MzYPUW0kaqO-j-uYZ20qgq2BJr7rIYQSvSg/s1696/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-15%20at%207.44.22%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="914" data-original-width="1696" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5FxDUyM3zHgGSLlFWkl3-IabMZdOLRWSewBrLrdkVKtUsdJJHLoZPBrGUBq1Y2lPS7O8NHassOD3CK7kXaX5DquJ7n-yZLIMHsCuijlgyKKARAZzGS5AHXmVhwCbBqyARVZ-EYvoeqsTpWYTdDyq7gbrw8MzYPUW0kaqO-j-uYZ20qgq2BJr7rIYQSvSg/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-15%20at%207.44.22%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>LARA WENDEL in THE PERFUME OF THE LADY IN BLACK Year: 1974 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Ultimately paying third-act homage to ROSEMARY'S BABY while plot-proceeding John Cassavetes's OPENING NIGHT... an indie-drama version of an Italian Giallo where Gena Rowlands hallucinates a beautiful young girl... Italian auteur Francesco Barilli's THE PERFUME OF THE LADY IN BLACK has long-haired blonde American ingenue turned European short-cropped blonde starlet Mimsy Farmer seeing her dead mother, guided around by her younger self in scream-queen Lara Wendel...<br><br>Which all ends up inspiring another future horror flick, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME... not to be spoiled since Farmer's "Industrial Scientist" character Silvia Hacherman spends most of the time like a deer-in-headlights, perfect for an actress possessing a unique kind of powerfully magnetic vulnerability: able to speak volumes without saying very much, and she's rarely been more beautiful  — and she's always really beautiful...  </p><p><span></span></p>

exploitation, francesco barilli, giallo, horror, italian, lara wendel, maurizio bonuglia, mimsy farmer, nike arrighi, seventies, thriller

LARA WENDEL IS MIMSY FARMER 'PERFUME OF THE LADY IN BLACK'

LARA WENDEL in THE PERFUME OF THE LADY IN BLACK Year: 1974 Rating: **** Ultimately paying third-act homage to ROSEMARY'S BABY while plot...

MIMSY FARMER WITH BARRY PRIMUS INVESTIGATING 'AUTOPSY'

<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/AVvXsEgA0d3IyHvxMxeUN-C40IVxjlUUAnhBAqOxlnftnlxGTf_T3Oxj4yuVlchLYhpCFq8eCtrzGTFgFkGlBYf41EMYcRhzHwK-veMi35Rm8vqmS2Ksku6h_dCb8pmsrzoW8tRmG9XgNz5jkqiRMf9Tfl7yh1xugXhCTBMhJ-ON9ySk0OrYRVxa-p5K_YUPas74/s1600/image1786080059.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="987" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA0d3IyHvxMxeUN-C40IVxjlUUAnhBAqOxlnftnlxGTf_T3Oxj4yuVlchLYhpCFq8eCtrzGTFgFkGlBYf41EMYcRhzHwK-veMi35Rm8vqmS2Ksku6h_dCb8pmsrzoW8tRmG9XgNz5jkqiRMf9Tfl7yh1xugXhCTBMhJ-ON9ySk0OrYRVxa-p5K_YUPas74/s1600/image1786080059.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mimsy Farmer in AUTOPSY Year: 1975 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Unlucky <i>First Gir</i>l (to die)( Gaby Wagner asks Mimsy Farmer if she's American, to which Mimsy's character... a pathology doctor working in a hospital's morgue... answers that she's "half American"...<br><br>Which sums up the blonde starlet's career, starting out as guests on mainstream stateside television (from MY THREE SONS to THE FBI) to co-starring in low-budget counter-culture speeding-car flicks (<a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2024/12/wild-racers.html">THE WILD RACERS</a> to <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/12/hotRods.html">HOT RODS TO HELL</a> to <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2026/07/stripmimsy.html">RIOT ON SUNSET STRIP</a>)... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

angela goodwin, barry primus, gaby wagner, giallo, horror, italian, mimsy farmer, neo noir, ray lovelock, seventies, thriller

MIMSY FARMER WITH BARRY PRIMUS INVESTIGATING 'AUTOPSY'

Mimsy Farmer in AUTOPSY Year: 1975 Rating: *** Unlucky First Gir l (to die)( Gaby Wagner asks Mimsy Farmer if she's American, to which M...