PAMELA DUNCAN, RICHARD GARLAND & ALLISON HAYES 'THE UNDEAD'

<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/AVvXsEgWB0POnyqRnS6kkuxD4ZozzbCeuz-GfGxM7UPatus5671F5XN3px9YYL0IaoD98tKCN05o4rD__1UB5X-v11l2D2_cl4kI03WGBYkRA047AUBbmm-LFMxiZRJtwcnd7zdaKMl5gPtKwYsaQt1uCeWmxJ98ofLq_5ZBOCzXqNEpvMUbCPXshBZNmsmQ2ynW/s1674/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="966" data-original-width="1674" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWB0POnyqRnS6kkuxD4ZozzbCeuz-GfGxM7UPatus5671F5XN3px9YYL0IaoD98tKCN05o4rD__1UB5X-v11l2D2_cl4kI03WGBYkRA047AUBbmm-LFMxiZRJtwcnd7zdaKMl5gPtKwYsaQt1uCeWmxJ98ofLq_5ZBOCzXqNEpvMUbCPXshBZNmsmQ2ynW/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Pamela Duncan in THE UNDEAD Year: 1957 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The same year that Pamela Duncan and Richard Garland starred in <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/roger%20corman">Roger Corman'</a>s limp creature-feature <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2026/04/AOTCM.html">ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS</a> they were paired in one of the low-budget director's most ambitious, THE UNDEAD, with a modern frame-story of a prostitute hypnotized back into <span class="duration-200" lang="en-US"><span>medieval times where she's falsely accused of being a witch... <br></span></span></p><p></p><p><span class="duration-200" lang="en-US"><span>But it's actually shape-shifting sorceress in ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMAN Allison Hayes who wants the stalwart knight Garland (looking like a handsome diesel truck mechanic in ancient knight's clothing) for herself... putting poor Pamela's character through the kind of on-the-run ringer that never lets up...</span></span></p><p><span class="duration-200" lang="en-US"><span><span></span></span></span></p>

adventure, allison hayes, billy barty, bruno vesota, dick miller, dorothy neumann, fantasy, fifties, horror, mel welles, pamela duncan, richard devon, richard garland, roger corman, val dufour

PAMELA DUNCAN, RICHARD GARLAND & ALLISON HAYES 'THE UNDEAD'

Pamela Duncan in THE UNDEAD Year: 1957 Rating: **** The same year that Pamela Duncan and Richard Garland starred in Roger Corman' s limp...

BRUCE LEE IN 'ENTER THE DRAGON' WITH JOHN SAXON & JIM KELLY

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><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/AVvXsEiPaI469nA88IHOfjCYerBlmsZGJXOZu_PMSyKoBSEsXn2qfqlgon6jaSnWtTSj0ZAdVp3sikNmXAL5VBG_R9MveVWqYEj4Jh7gaunyCHAzMZ7Qf0Jvk4uhje71kqEfgyqPKulpQCmsoOd-3eGEhTDTRTxEXul1-nohTotDRJsh61qvK2mzuT2f26tJPZ4d/s1896/Screen%20Shot%202026-03-30%20at%2011.45.20%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1896" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPaI469nA88IHOfjCYerBlmsZGJXOZu_PMSyKoBSEsXn2qfqlgon6jaSnWtTSj0ZAdVp3sikNmXAL5VBG_R9MveVWqYEj4Jh7gaunyCHAzMZ7Qf0Jvk4uhje71kqEfgyqPKulpQCmsoOd-3eGEhTDTRTxEXul1-nohTotDRJsh61qvK2mzuT2f26tJPZ4d/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-03-30%20at%2011.45.20%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Bruce Lee in ENTER THE DRAGON Year: 1973 Rates: *****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>By the time Bruce Lee, starring in his first and last American produced motion picture, squares off against island-ruling heavy Han in ENTER THE DRAGON, one important thing is crystal clear... <br><br>Nobody, from henchmen <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2024/11/tconnection.html">Bolo Young</a> to Robert Wall, or co-stars John Saxon or <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/jim%20kelly">Jim Kelly</a>, could have taken him on and so, liken to a James Bond franchise villain, the seedy-smiling, slave-owning, harem-surrounded Kien Shih has a glove with knife-fingers to give him that needed/necessary edge...<br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

adventure, ahna capri, bolo yeung, bruce lee, jim kelly, john saxon, karate, robert clouse, seventies, spy

BRUCE LEE IN 'ENTER THE DRAGON' WITH JOHN SAXON & JIM KELLY

Bruce Lee in ENTER THE DRAGON Year: 1973 Rates: ***** By the time Bruce Lee, starring in his first and last American produced motion picture...

JENNIFER RUNYON AND TIM MATHESON ARE GOING 'UP THE CREEK'

<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/AVvXsEhbtMlk38LVC2UluxkzhCPNuoBc8cgdpuE5sgJnHbKuYQ4uwMdm49XwsYorczldVm3qfcr-csPh7e2m5Uz9b4VJqXj5T8bThY3cDakhth8xZ9YJRRer5chXIyaM9yBS0Cf-pmRC7gdbJuoQ1ex-bejywWzuzP5T8NDIJrDj0tCLYXsqBYfgMc8oop6Ri2Xb/s2104/Screen%20Shot%202026-03-08%20at%206.25.22%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1044" data-original-width="2104" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbtMlk38LVC2UluxkzhCPNuoBc8cgdpuE5sgJnHbKuYQ4uwMdm49XwsYorczldVm3qfcr-csPh7e2m5Uz9b4VJqXj5T8bThY3cDakhth8xZ9YJRRer5chXIyaM9yBS0Cf-pmRC7gdbJuoQ1ex-bejywWzuzP5T8NDIJrDj0tCLYXsqBYfgMc8oop6Ri2Xb/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-03-08%20at%206.25.22%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jennifer Runyon in UP THE CREEK Year: 1984 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>A year following this neglected outdoor comedy, Tim Matheson would ask Chevy Chase to kill him in FLETCH. Chase was originally designed for OTTER in ANIMAL HOUSE, a part that made Matheson, a former child actor who was growing into various roles like a bad cop in MAGNUM FORCE, a household name... but only where cool people live...<br> <br> In FLETCH, Matheson looked somewhere in his late thirties, playing an established businessman. Here he's a broke, grungy college slacker and actually looks much younger than in FLETCH but way too old to be a student. But that's probably intentional...</p><p><span></span></p>

adventure, college, comedy, dan monohan, eighties, james b. sikking, jeff east, jennifer runyon, john hillerman, julia montgomery, stephen furst, tim matheson

JENNIFER RUNYON AND TIM MATHESON ARE GOING 'UP THE CREEK'

Jennifer Runyon in UP THE CREEK Year: 1984 Rating: ***1/2 A year following this neglected outdoor comedy, Tim Matheson would ask Chevy Chase...

MERCEDES MOLINA & PAUL NASCHY 'NIGHT OF THE HOWLING BEAST'

<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/AVvXsEgD3vwi8XRxi_6dNm3Mfkp5O4tJfz53ownpW2UcU9xBqqJ8aZH4UJdukZLomzdhX7jKYM7bQpG7yN6lvlGWO2e1ls1_2CznEa3z5qn0OnBn14PRSQfWc-jlcqn_MBITdrTSHiSZAwCeiF-Xoz2MSjvTJ4Af5q3ShRTys_w2pRwzKtzotpAsIGnp5IaKaq0i/s1504/Screen%20Shot%202026-02-08%20at%209.59.39%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="766" data-original-width="1504" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD3vwi8XRxi_6dNm3Mfkp5O4tJfz53ownpW2UcU9xBqqJ8aZH4UJdukZLomzdhX7jKYM7bQpG7yN6lvlGWO2e1ls1_2CznEa3z5qn0OnBn14PRSQfWc-jlcqn_MBITdrTSHiSZAwCeiF-Xoz2MSjvTJ4Af5q3ShRTys_w2pRwzKtzotpAsIGnp5IaKaq0i/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-02-08%20at%209.59.39%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: NIGHT OF THE HOWLING BEAST/La maldición de la bestia Year: 1975 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>In the 1975 exploitation/horror <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2026/02/exorcyst.html">EXORCISM</a>, tall beauty Mercedes Molina gets possessed by a demon, and priest Paul Naschy has to help... while in the same year's NIGHT OF THE HOWLING BEAST aka THE WEREWOLF AND THE YETI, she has to help him after a monstrous transformation...<br><br>How it happens is rather complicated, all during a snowy expedition to a hidden cavern where the legendary Yeti (Abominable Snowman) dwells... as Naschy's rogue adventurer is trapped in a cavern with two gorgeous nymphs, which sounds like a problem you want to have... but he winds up turning into a familiar monster for the Spanish actor that's played them all...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, anna maria mauri, luis induni, mercedes molina, paul naschy, pepa ferrer, seventies, silvia solar, spanish horror, verónica miriel, werewolf

MERCEDES MOLINA & PAUL NASCHY 'NIGHT OF THE HOWLING BEAST'

Title: NIGHT OF THE HOWLING BEAST/La maldición de la bestia Year: 1975 Rating: ***1/2 In the 1975 exploitation/horror EXORCISM , tall beauty...

PETER CUSHING AND CHRISTOPHER LEE RIDING 'HORROR EXPRESS'

<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/AVvXsEiAVKl-t9sIBucE82vHgdG3WR35-2WzQi7goMrM-aotKZergo-_YWaTUNIeGmhhkLVUe341AGgmRhzFwCsE0nf9HZr4oVE4RVdWytz_eE4nXNXb2s_thEiquHdZmRF0Q7cDMrVKFziaXcDY-GJavigInQUm28XRf3dOLMuMsbbFSk33M_jyVVm8AwQi6I2E/s2002/1%20he.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1036" data-original-width="2002" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAVKl-t9sIBucE82vHgdG3WR35-2WzQi7goMrM-aotKZergo-_YWaTUNIeGmhhkLVUe341AGgmRhzFwCsE0nf9HZr4oVE4RVdWytz_eE4nXNXb2s_thEiquHdZmRF0Q7cDMrVKFziaXcDY-GJavigInQUm28XRf3dOLMuMsbbFSk33M_jyVVm8AwQi6I2E/s16000/1%20he.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Helga Liné painted into HORROR EXPRESS/PÁNICO EN EL TRANSIBERIANO Year: 1972 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In-between the original THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD and John Carpenter's remake THE THING is HORROR EXPRESS, initially seeming like another period-piece Hammer film starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing — when it's really a low-budget Spanish studio's adaptation of John W. Campbell's THING-based short story <i>Who Goes There?</i></p><p></p><p>Beginning with Lee's brooding archeologist, having discovered a man-ape fossil that he cages into the titular snowbound train... joined by Cushing's affable surgeon, part of the crowded coach including beautiful countess Silvia Tortosa; psychotic monk Alberto de Mendoza; seductive stowaway Helga Liné; Miss Marples-style snoop Alice Reinheart; and Julio Peña as the intense onboard lawman who, with a lean build and brooding mustache, looks way too similar to Christopher Lee... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

adventure, alberto de mendoza, body count, christopher lee, faith clift, helga liné, julio peña, peter cushing, science-fiction, seventies, silvia tortosa, spanish horror, telly savalas, train

PETER CUSHING AND CHRISTOPHER LEE RIDING 'HORROR EXPRESS'

Helga Liné painted into HORROR EXPRESS/PÁNICO EN EL TRANSIBERIANO Year: 1972 Rating: **** In-between the original THE THING FROM ANOTHER WOR...

ERNEST SCHOEDSACK SHRINKS 'DR. CYCLOPS' WITH ALBERT DEKKER

<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/AVvXsEg1Jo9lUq-xqocSa4_gyLhj5RPRiTiD5bVNBOEFn2O6iOVGysUoRH7xtJxckpE5ldxmCQ8I-zF7ej78KVAIcH45CTNz0UAZdnewbk-qHfkPPoh1Kls-EI5CBh4CLMeeL2vBAjpPHLBBTsF32Ll2AWxVolW6ffCjMAHXeNVhsWCRyuRx3FA365Jvk_lU4PmC/s1646/Screen%20Shot%202025-12-25%20at%201.20.14%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1112" data-original-width="1646" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1Jo9lUq-xqocSa4_gyLhj5RPRiTiD5bVNBOEFn2O6iOVGysUoRH7xtJxckpE5ldxmCQ8I-zF7ej78KVAIcH45CTNz0UAZdnewbk-qHfkPPoh1Kls-EI5CBh4CLMeeL2vBAjpPHLBBTsF32Ll2AWxVolW6ffCjMAHXeNVhsWCRyuRx3FA365Jvk_lU4PmC/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-12-25%20at%201.20.14%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: DR. CYCLOPS Director: Ernest B. Schoedsack Year: 1940 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Merian C. Cooper, the executive producer and co-director of KING KONG, considered Ernest B. Schoedsack his "cameraman" when he was really not only co-director, but, while Cooper oversaw the special effects, much of the human element from performances to overall character-movement is all his own... </p><p></p><p>Deliberately slowing things down for the first science-fiction/horror in color, DR. CYCLOPS, that also begins a jungle-traipsing, matte-painted adventure including a gorgeous woman, her handsome boyfriend, a comic relief, a curious doctor, and an eccentric old-timer, all winding up in the compound of Albert Dekker's titular mad scientist...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, charles halton, cult, ernest schoedsack, forties, horror, janice logan, science-fiction, thomas coley

ERNEST SCHOEDSACK SHRINKS 'DR. CYCLOPS' WITH ALBERT DEKKER

Title: DR. CYCLOPS Director: Ernest B. Schoedsack Year: 1940 Rating: ***1/2 Merian C. Cooper, the executive producer and co-director of KING...

VINCE EDWARDS WITH JUDY GEESON & DIANA DORS IN 'HAMMERHEAD'

<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/AVvXsEiuytAqQXeWwxyhYDNS9vu6FDbA1C69hKCVyg6hwn5IfHYQvQi9qYhGPyvLh_zm2zMX7UKBLVWc3ddTSF1tVfCZztDNmZKMmcngsMuzVl4hmgNghybdeLVFo4JqhfhDfXAhRYLp5pm-KMDOvHJ82z6A2MLcPlGAL18E7F7tyo111uU38iAXZqeKqWFhGxQl/s2090/DD.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="964" data-original-width="2090" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuytAqQXeWwxyhYDNS9vu6FDbA1C69hKCVyg6hwn5IfHYQvQi9qYhGPyvLh_zm2zMX7UKBLVWc3ddTSF1tVfCZztDNmZKMmcngsMuzVl4hmgNghybdeLVFo4JqhfhDfXAhRYLp5pm-KMDOvHJ82z6A2MLcPlGAL18E7F7tyo111uU38iAXZqeKqWFhGxQl/s16000/DD.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Vince Edwards and Judy Geeson in HAMMERHEAD Year: 1968 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Irwin Allen's production HAMMERHEAD is yet another James Bond clone, released at the peak of the jazz-driven, horn-blasting, colorfully-vibrant, boisterously-flamboyant, dancing-girl Swinging-60's...<br><br>Where a swarthy sex symbol from the previous decade lethargically jaunts from a British nightclub to a plush yacht to canvas-decorated castle interiors to a street party in Lisbon, Portugal... <br></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdlZ2V9h0arvCOeZcwlHkIY21BZLpZtiED2UUm8Qx2RxQmyS9lGmDt1g4gZejgD2cyIG9UdvkaH7a1rh5Pr6-CsXecflgnaF_qUfzhhKRN_BFTF2dVbQ0bp8NIf5AdsI3BmftdPEEQuMFqf9yF5rzZeYUkWwrIZKgwIN8XJc6QBn-6f2p37QiEqwZmf1bj/s2092/Screen%20Shot%202025-12-01%20at%2011.52.46%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="770" data-original-width="2092" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdlZ2V9h0arvCOeZcwlHkIY21BZLpZtiED2UUm8Qx2RxQmyS9lGmDt1g4gZejgD2cyIG9UdvkaH7a1rh5Pr6-CsXecflgnaF_qUfzhhKRN_BFTF2dVbQ0bp8NIf5AdsI3BmftdPEEQuMFqf9yF5rzZeYUkWwrIZKgwIN8XJc6QBn-6f2p37QiEqwZmf1bj/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-12-01%20at%2011.52.46%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>From Irwin Allen's HAMMERHEAD</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>While the only intriguing aspect that keeps American Vince Edwards' undercover agent Charles Hood interested is British blonde beauty Judy Geeson, who flirtatiously frolics around (competing with lanky Dorothy Adams and voluptuous Diana Dors) as he investigates the titular HAMMERHEAD... <br><br>Who, played by character-actor Peter Vaughan (guarded by future Darth Vader David Prowse), is an art-collecting billionaire with the usual cliche agenda on controlling the world — but it's never quite clear exactly how, or why.  </p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, beverly adams, david prowse, diana dors, irwin allen, jazz-score, judy geeson, kenneth cope, patrick cargill, peter vaughan, sixties, spy, vince edwards

VINCE EDWARDS WITH JUDY GEESON & DIANA DORS IN 'HAMMERHEAD'

Vince Edwards and Judy Geeson in HAMMERHEAD Year: 1968 Rating: **1/2 Irwin Allen's production HAMMERHEAD is yet another James Bond clone...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

MARA CORDAY AND RICHARD DENNING IN 'THE BLACK SCORPION'

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

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

MARA CORDAY AND RICHARD DENNING IN 'THE BLACK SCORPION'

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

LINDSAY BLOOM AND PAT ANDERSON ARE 'COVER GIRL MODELS'

<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/AVvXsEjWn5Vmh8Am9QjBxlsYD_RIDmS2xJ6SawpQtlOe7jA0ERjyn2aKuEViQiUEES5Pi-VCtjsbiIVnnpK3yTSShW-9e5PnecO8mDi1t9kdaPXx4dZEEYohewiDbn2exvu855guaHxrxTRTK6HEb6LlTPMuMWciQ7PVpHHvTmQO1E7yc7baqHlR3DSYz9qCYji7/s1994/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1994" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWn5Vmh8Am9QjBxlsYD_RIDmS2xJ6SawpQtlOe7jA0ERjyn2aKuEViQiUEES5Pi-VCtjsbiIVnnpK3yTSShW-9e5PnecO8mDi1t9kdaPXx4dZEEYohewiDbn2exvu855guaHxrxTRTK6HEb6LlTPMuMWciQ7PVpHHvTmQO1E7yc7baqHlR3DSYz9qCYji7/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: COVER GIRL MODELS Year: 1975 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Before Roger and wife Julie Corman's full-fledged New World production <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2025/09/ssteachers.html">SUMMER SCHOOL TEACHERS</a>, tall blonde beauty Pat Anderson and intense brunette Rhonda Hopkins played COVER GIRL MODELS... <br><br>Which wasn't made but distributed by Corman, who sent many production companies (including his own) to the Philippines for low-budget exploitation ranging from female prison flicks to what COVER GIRL MODELS shapes into... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

adventure, crime, john kramer, karate, lindsay bloom, mary woronov, pat anderson, rhonda hopkins, roger corman, seventies, tara strohmeier, vic diaz

LINDSAY BLOOM AND PAT ANDERSON ARE 'COVER GIRL MODELS'

Title: COVER GIRL MODELS Year: 1975 Rating: ***1/2 Before Roger and wife Julie Corman's full-fledged New World production SUMMER SCHOOL ...

DAVID CARRADINE WITH CLAUDIA JENNINGS IN 'DEATHSPORT'

<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/AVvXsEgn6sxwfw2CTTnfaMoY9LVfgrKYVLxU5tgO0nBJCQBTCAHqTQYisGN7F33-1BJ2ng7AaGBm49m3VTpxIZdjvO_Q9IuW918Bo-g8fgxvpW99OF4JZcAwOs-xboLBtkC-vIWaBoz-h11CgEL1znWaE5UNsTSg4XmD4Y0Qul4cVvOmQf7GfGEVL1IA2GjfKYp3/s1486/Screen%20Shot%202025-08-26%20at%203.30.37%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1006" data-original-width="1486" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn6sxwfw2CTTnfaMoY9LVfgrKYVLxU5tgO0nBJCQBTCAHqTQYisGN7F33-1BJ2ng7AaGBm49m3VTpxIZdjvO_Q9IuW918Bo-g8fgxvpW99OF4JZcAwOs-xboLBtkC-vIWaBoz-h11CgEL1znWaE5UNsTSg4XmD4Y0Qul4cVvOmQf7GfGEVL1IA2GjfKYp3/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-08-26%20at%203.30.37%20PM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: DEATHSPORT Year: 1978 Rating: **1/2  Grade: C—</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In the Roger Corman production DEATHSPORT, featuring a matte-painting used in the Corman-produced hit <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2025/08/DR2000.html">DEATH RACE 2000</a> now representing a Roman Colosseum facing the titular dirt-bike battle straight from the gladiator sub-genre... but that only happens for a relatively short time...<br><br>What this super-low-budget post-apocalyptic science-fiction adventure really entails... beyond caveman-clad David Carradine and sporadically-naked Claudia Jennings as primitively-enlightened heroes battling both Fascist upstart Richard Lynch and various desert-dwelling cannibals... are sound effects seeming straight out of the previous years' blockbuster STAR WARS...</p><p><span></span></p>

adventure, allan arkush, claudia jennings, david carradine, david mclean, exploitation, post-apocalyptic, richard lynch, roger corman, seventies, will walker, william smithers

DAVID CARRADINE WITH CLAUDIA JENNINGS IN 'DEATHSPORT'

Title: DEATHSPORT Year: 1978 Rating: **1/2  Grade: C— In the Roger Corman production DEATHSPORT, featuring a matte-painting used in the Corm...

BURT REYNOLDS SPYING THROUGH SAIGON FOR 'OPERATION C.I.A.'

<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/AVvXsEhnHG3YboJ9LoJ_ybjAvM_40vM7DHYQarIeqWyfB0SSC1mEvHUqUi25cqvrmUY50mqPyX4kMFOJFLXDzKgh1o0ycCiWkSkRkYMZiTKnt0Auu3FAxS6sGMfAUxQ1pMZAI36TtAhhhQ_2AJqKWm3MqT1afaPCnTHjWgvSaO6Ye50VbS9k9vf1qUybMlO-e-Di/s2052/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-11%20at%208.49.42%20AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1098" data-original-width="2052" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnHG3YboJ9LoJ_ybjAvM_40vM7DHYQarIeqWyfB0SSC1mEvHUqUi25cqvrmUY50mqPyX4kMFOJFLXDzKgh1o0ycCiWkSkRkYMZiTKnt0Auu3FAxS6sGMfAUxQ1pMZAI36TtAhhhQ_2AJqKWm3MqT1afaPCnTHjWgvSaO6Ye50VbS9k9vf1qUybMlO-e-Di/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-11%20at%208.49.42%20AM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds in OPERATION C.I.A. Year: 1966 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Although Burt Reynolds detested OPERATION CIA, his first starring turn fresh from sidekick TV-roles on RIVERBOAT and GUNSMOKE, he would often brag more about his past stuntwork than any recent acting, so there's actually a lot to be proud of in this B&W programmer miraculously filmed right in Saigon, Vietnam, right before the real life war... <br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Replacing a slain agent, something straight from the James Bond universe, Burt's CIA-operative Mark Andrews is either fighting woodwork villains, from exploitation regular Vic Diaz to karate-chopping massage girls, or dodging main baddie (bonafide stuntman) Bill Catching...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, bill catching, burt reynolds, christian nyby, danielle aubry, kieu chinh, sixties, spy, vic diaz, vietnam

BURT REYNOLDS SPYING THROUGH SAIGON FOR 'OPERATION C.I.A.'

Burt Reynolds in OPERATION C.I.A. Year: 1966 Rating: ***1/2 Although Burt Reynolds detested OPERATION CIA, his first starring turn fresh fro...

PETER SELLERS AND LYNNE FREDERICK IN 'THE PRISONER OF ZENDA'

<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/AVvXsEh1jx1bOiwLlwzgLlBJaFm1HGMy57bM1Iy4GT7Bu1esMNCr-KYYosbYJFTawRVcddR7Gt9A4xHudvPvk07tSz1DTcVjTOlpEHwMVf_vWumoRU8VhgH81WaLbgvhl_QL0BfoWOWgMAp8_hIdEAORxAfm7KSsAB0r-mG2mDXLVa3hILrRM7Kt9rpqEnv_wapU/s2734/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-03%20at%207.57.37%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1394" data-original-width="2734" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1jx1bOiwLlwzgLlBJaFm1HGMy57bM1Iy4GT7Bu1esMNCr-KYYosbYJFTawRVcddR7Gt9A4xHudvPvk07tSz1DTcVjTOlpEHwMVf_vWumoRU8VhgH81WaLbgvhl_QL0BfoWOWgMAp8_hIdEAORxAfm7KSsAB0r-mG2mDXLVa3hILrRM7Kt9rpqEnv_wapU/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-03%20at%207.57.37%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lynne Frederick in THE PRISONER OF ZENDA Year: 1979 Rating: **</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>While it had been decades since the two Golden Age adaptations of the literary classic THE PRISONER OF ZENDA, it had only been four-years since the otherwise unrelated ROYAL FLASH borrowed the exact same plot-line, with Malcolm McDowell as a prince's lookalike marrying a gorgeous princess played by Britt Ekland...<br><br>Who was Peter Sellers' second wife, and his first Hollywood trophy wife while Lynne Frederick, his third (and final) marriage, plays the exact same role as the chastely oblivious royal bride...  <br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

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PETER SELLERS AND LYNNE FREDERICK IN 'THE PRISONER OF ZENDA'

Lynne Frederick in THE PRISONER OF ZENDA Year: 1979 Rating: ** While it had been decades since the two Golden Age adaptations of the literar...

TED KOTCHEFF DIRECTS SYLVESTER STALLONE IN 'FIRST BLOOD'

<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/AVvXsEj4k6I5Ri_zC2G-ajOoG-XqdfqzYhdZ1P4sEjPPLoyUKINd2AqyXfMCbrfq_fWqPgTyPGkdHrYmaA9XgRTT0UjEWAovNGB0m5annKbvQpG-3uQqGi5KgEjCNq7mQ3sZjzXki-xrWecVizRrD4KHZr0eMovosl1GhtNzsmAZNq78Rsln5s5YuwT9WkYhW17L/s1940/Screen%20Shot%202025-04-16%20at%2010.35.41%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1110" data-original-width="1940" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4k6I5Ri_zC2G-ajOoG-XqdfqzYhdZ1P4sEjPPLoyUKINd2AqyXfMCbrfq_fWqPgTyPGkdHrYmaA9XgRTT0UjEWAovNGB0m5annKbvQpG-3uQqGi5KgEjCNq7mQ3sZjzXki-xrWecVizRrD4KHZr0eMovosl1GhtNzsmAZNq78Rsln5s5YuwT9WkYhW17L/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-04-16%20at%2010.35.41%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: FIRST BLOOD Year: 1982 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>When rural sheriff Brian Dennehy drives ragged drifter Sylvester Stallone from one side of a one-mile town to the next, he mentions several times how <i>that long hair</i> wouldn't fit into such a peaceful community...</p><p></p><p></p><p>Yet it wouldn't take until the third film where Stallone's former green-beret/Vietnam-vet character would have the hair-length to matter... which is kind of a symbolic microcosm of how FIRST BLOOD differs from the now-legendary franchise, centering on an actual human being named John instead of an all-powerful warrior named RAMBO... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

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TED KOTCHEFF DIRECTS SYLVESTER STALLONE IN 'FIRST BLOOD'

Title: FIRST BLOOD Year: 1982 Rating: ****1/2 When rural sheriff Brian Dennehy drives ragged drifter Sylvester Stallone from one side of a o...

GENE HACKMAN COMMANDS TED KOTCHEFF'S 'UNCOMMON VALOR'

<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/AVvXsEg_iuyoT90Q0AFhlHAsFRV03yfRoakpJGgXee9oH3nt53BXcMAtNYYIuRlLR38ZH5JcwBj6BiwRadR17Ag-1hiV8_QYupzbggupDPF5FE7gvB15iQdFgELNbGBU_S394ljp6Pvcpzfp_oUJPLdzTPXLfQ9nfkm9i4l78mjyhARKOPH1ktZKilNXfyd2kJpd/s2046/Screen%20Shot%202025-04-17%20at%206.07.38%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1026" data-original-width="2046" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_iuyoT90Q0AFhlHAsFRV03yfRoakpJGgXee9oH3nt53BXcMAtNYYIuRlLR38ZH5JcwBj6BiwRadR17Ag-1hiV8_QYupzbggupDPF5FE7gvB15iQdFgELNbGBU_S394ljp6Pvcpzfp_oUJPLdzTPXLfQ9nfkm9i4l78mjyhARKOPH1ktZKilNXfyd2kJpd/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-04-17%20at%206.07.38%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Randall Tex Cobb & Kelly Junkerman in UNCOMMON VALOR Year: 1983 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Recently, three important people connected to 1983's UNCOMMON VALOR have died: the most significant being the legendary Gene Hackman, who stars as Colonel Jason Rhodes, gathering a group of Vietnam veterans who served with his captured son — training them to bring his boy back home a decade later... <br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Then there's director Ted Kotcheff, who had already tackled a similar subject in FIRST BLOOD (also featuring a kind of lonesome French horn soundtrack albeit by different composers); and actor Wings Hauser, who hasn't a part here, and isn't credited as writer, but his original screenplay (formerly titled <i>Youth in Asia</i>) became what's now a somewhat forgotten, equally cult-and-mainstream post-war action/thriller... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

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GENE HACKMAN COMMANDS TED KOTCHEFF'S 'UNCOMMON VALOR'

Randall Tex Cobb & Kelly Junkerman in UNCOMMON VALOR Year: 1983 Rating: **** Recently, three important people connected to 1983's UN...