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Written by James M. Tate / 8/04/2026 / No comments / aldo ray , counter culture , gene kirkwood , laurie mock , mimsy farmer , pat renella , sixties

MIMSY FARMER, ALDO RAY & LAURIE MOCK IN 'RIOT ON SUNSET STRIP'

<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/AVvXsEiFPQ9sDdu9ecjbTyDHAAWVpKz5DslBhZhyphenhyphenCm6WWgIMdGDq79PCcoKNUZv4tA4CA1ox4phHKkN7GYnZBMsmCS2WLaZBz5jY2o4-o6PomdQQBR-U_f2fNYo6RuTdaaAtau1e3fA4CbZDB1hcCAFoQY8bwPrZldJZOhWwkld3PD09qMFrQ1Yqh9jPlClKHKWG/s2070/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-01%20at%2012.21.30%20AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1214" data-original-width="2070" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFPQ9sDdu9ecjbTyDHAAWVpKz5DslBhZhyphenhyphenCm6WWgIMdGDq79PCcoKNUZv4tA4CA1ox4phHKkN7GYnZBMsmCS2WLaZBz5jY2o4-o6PomdQQBR-U_f2fNYo6RuTdaaAtau1e3fA4CbZDB1hcCAFoQY8bwPrZldJZOhWwkld3PD09qMFrQ1Yqh9jPlClKHKWG/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-01%20at%2012.21.30%20AM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mimsy Farmer in RIOT ON SUNSET STRIP Year: 1967 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Artistic blonde beauty Mimsy Farmer played the bad girl in <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/12/hotRods.html">HOT RODS IN HELL</a> more effectively than the good girl in the following years' counter-culture melodrama <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/04/hot-rods-to-sunset-strip.html">RIOT ON SUNSET STRIP</a>, returning with young HELL co-stars Laurie Mock and Gene Kirkwood...<br><br>But instead of the open road, SUNSET is mostly at a nightclub in the titular Los Angeles STRIP where there's not much going save a few protests that includes fist fights liken to Western genre saloon brawls (while local bands The Chocolate Watchband, The Standells and The Enemys provide sporadic tunes)...</p><p><span></span></p>

aldo ray, counter culture, gene kirkwood, laurie mock, mimsy farmer, pat renella, sixties

MIMSY FARMER, ALDO RAY & LAURIE MOCK IN 'RIOT ON SUNSET STRIP'

Mimsy Farmer in RIOT ON SUNSET STRIP Year: 1967 Rating: ***1/2 Artistic blonde beauty Mimsy Farmer played the bad girl in HOT RODS IN HELL ...

NOIRISH JOHN SAXON FINGERS ROSEY GRIER WEARING 'THE GLOVE'

<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/AVvXsEgQRPgFap32KeVfLLgEk8cQQ2B541pzYCUy8Sp8IlxmrDGi_XzHRgNWLnnEVacv-B88m2yw3r2SkEFSPFUbza4mfza_AqA12jpR8TZo4vra5iDDrASgL81OW881jBuJ3TnmxP-y9cApr2J6BIQjGGQIEzUf_i_z9qIbYvYp_b9TZyE65bwqSJvJwihQMytG/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-09%20at%2010.53.51%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="938" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQRPgFap32KeVfLLgEk8cQQ2B541pzYCUy8Sp8IlxmrDGi_XzHRgNWLnnEVacv-B88m2yw3r2SkEFSPFUbza4mfza_AqA12jpR8TZo4vra5iDDrASgL81OW881jBuJ3TnmxP-y9cApr2J6BIQjGGQIEzUf_i_z9qIbYvYp_b9TZyE65bwqSJvJwihQMytG/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-09%20at%2010.53.51%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE GLOVE Year: 1979 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Ross Hagen's THE GLOVE seems like a latter blaxploitation that got away, opening with a song crooned in a bluesy/somber voice... and then opening with muscular white veteran actor Aldo Ray... <br><br>Who's just off work as prison guard, soon attacked in a parked car while a giant black man beats him to a bloody pulp with that titular riot glove... a steely device that can even punch through metal...  <br></p><p><span></span></p>

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NOIRISH JOHN SAXON FINGERS ROSEY GRIER WEARING 'THE GLOVE'

Title: THE GLOVE Year: 1979 Rating: **** Ross Hagen's THE GLOVE seems like a latter blaxploitation that got away, opening with a song cr...

JACQUES TOURNEUR'S 'NIGHTFALL' WITH ALDO RAY & BRIAN KEITH

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aldo ray, anne bancroft, brian keith, fifties, film noir or melodrama, frank albertson, jacques tourneur, james gregory, jocelyn brando, post-heist, rudy bond

JACQUES TOURNEUR'S 'NIGHTFALL' WITH ALDO RAY & BRIAN KEITH

Title: NIGHTFALL Director: Jacques Tourneur Year: 1956 Rating: *** Perhaps one of the strangest film noirs anchored by a frame story, taking...

JIM KELLY VS HAROLD SAKATA IN AL ADAMSON'S 'DEATH DIMENSION'

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action, adventure, al adamson, aldo ray, bob minor, george lazenby, harold sakata, jim kelly, karate, linda lawrence, seventies, spy, terry moore

JIM KELLY VS HAROLD SAKATA IN AL ADAMSON'S 'DEATH DIMENSION'

Jim Kelly in Al Adamson's DEATH DIMENSION Year: 1978 Rating: *** Any movie featuring Jim Kelly is an unrelated homage to ENTER THE DRAGO...

RITA HAYWORTH IS 'MISS SADIE THOMPSON' W/ CHARLES BRONSON

aldo ray, charles bronson, drama, fifties, jose ferrer, melodrama, military, religion, rita hayworth, romance, rudy bond

RITA HAYWORTH IS 'MISS SADIE THOMPSON' W/ CHARLES BRONSON

Charles Bronson and Henry Slate Year: 1953 Rates: *** 1/2 This adaptation of Somerset Maugham's sordid tale about an alluring woman who ...

PETER O'TOOLE IN 'THE DAY THEY ROBBED THE BANK OF ENGLAND'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1960</u></td></tr>
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In this classy, turn of the Century-set British heist film, Aldo Ray plays an American joining with would-be Irish Revolutionaries to knock off the titular 
location, and the best moments occur in the planning stages as the giant Yank learns the innards of the immense, seemingly impenetrable bank-fortress from a personal tour by Peter O'Toole, playing an extremely nice lieutenant of the bank's troop of marching guards...<br>
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O'Toole's not the main star but has a genuine arc: his affable persona, giving away any 
and all secrets to an all-ears thief feigning style and class, sharpens as he begins to catch on during the crest of the second act, intensifying into a 
more familiar, edgy and intense character for O'Toole to embrace (and that he'd play later on).<br>
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most time's spent during the usual digging of the tunnel — the kind you 
mostly see in prison films breaking out while here they're attempting 
to break in: And the cast also includes veteran actor Albert Sharpe as a sewer dwelling bum that unknowingly provided the groundwork; Kieron Moore as the mouthiest and youngest Irishman, a thankless role and the only antagonist of sorts; and Elizabeth Sellers as the pouty (and much too old) ingenue in this semi-obscure gem directed by John Guillermin, and that famously laid the 
groundwork for O'Toole's career: After viewing one scene, David Lean knew he had his LAWRENCE OF ARABIA despite the dark features and a
 straight, hawkish nose that would soon be altered.<br>

aldo ray, british new wave, caper, elizabeth sellars, england, heist, john guillermin, kieron moore, peter o'toole, sixties, thriller

PETER O'TOOLE IN 'THE DAY THEY ROBBED THE BANK OF ENGLAND'

Year: 1960 In this classy, turn of the Century-set British heist film, Aldo Ray plays an American joining with would-be Irish Revolution...

MIMSY FARMER 'HOT RODS TO HELL' TO 'RIOT ON SUNSET STRIP'

aldo ray, counter-culture, drama, drive-in, drug culture, drugs, exploitation, gene kirkwood, laurie mock, melodrama, mimsy farmer, music, pat renella, sixties

MIMSY FARMER 'HOT RODS TO HELL' TO 'RIOT ON SUNSET STRIP'

from Hot Rods from Hell review of Riot on Sunset Strip both 1967 In HOT RODS FROM HELL, the headliners are Dana Andrews and Jeanne Crain...

TWO PETER O'TOOLE CAMEOS BEFORE LAWRENCE OF ARABIA

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>THE SAVAGE INNOCENTS Score: *1/2</u></td></tr>
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<u>THE SAVAGE INNOCENTS,</u> directed by veteran auteur Nicholas Ray, who would, a decade later, dry up his Hollywood resources and, for a little while, live in the home of his former REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE actor Dennis Hopper after the success of EASY RIDER...<br>
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So perhaps it's not altogether shocking the man who once contributed to classic cinema was no longer relevant — this motion picture, centering on an Eskimo played by Anthony Quinn, is one of the worst piles of husky dung ever created: seeming as if Jack London wrote a novel on soiled toilet paper, we suffer through an hour of Quinn's lone nomad (in the snow he's a snowmad) hunting cute seals and, after so-much brooding, landing a wife... <br>
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Though mostly shot in an igloo (a cheap set made up to look like the white-block interior), there's one sequence where Quinn gets drunk at a bar and dances to that era's boogie-woogie.<br>
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And we've buried the lead because the third act could have been something special since, once our man is falsely accused of cold-blooded murder, two (eventually one) guards take him across the icy landscape to turn him over to the authorities, and it's Peter O'Toole that survives. Scenes where both near-future LAWRENCE OF ARABIA stars (who'd become living legends three-years later) debate race and ethics has real potential — only thing is, O'Toole's voice is dubbed by an American actor who sounds like an easy listening disc jockey. So be incredibly warned — this is <i>not</i> a Peter O'Toole feature for fans for the same reason he insisted his name not appear on the opening credits: despite ultimately providing the secondary leading role. Shame!<br>

adaptation, adventure, aldo ray, anthony quinn, caper, disney, heist, john guillermin, kieron moore, peter o'toole, sixties, warner archives

TWO PETER O'TOOLE CAMEOS BEFORE LAWRENCE OF ARABIA

THE SAVAGE INNOCENTS Score: *1/2 THE SAVAGE INNOCENTS, directed by veteran auteur Nicholas Ray, who would, a decade later, dry up his H...

RITA HAYWORTH & ALDO RAY IN 'MISS SADIE THOMPSON'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Charles Bronson looks over Rita Hayworth YEAR: 1954</u></td></tr>
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While almost too old for this kind of sexually-driven role, she's actually the perfect age given the world-weary experience </blockquote>
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Whether he hypnotizes Gene Tierney right up front or rapes Peter O'Toole off-screen, from WHIRLPOOL to LAWRENCE ARABIA to playing the scholarly buzzkill in Woody Allen's MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S SEX COMEDY while frowning-around in pretty much everything in-between, Jose Ferrer is known for his creepy characters driven by lust, greed, and in this case, what Hollywood considers worse than both, hypocritical Christianity...</span><br>

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