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Written by James M. Tate / 4/29/2024 / No comments / action , asa maynor , don murray , exploitation , gordon jump , hari rhodes , j. lee thompson , natalie trundy , planet apes , ricardo montalban , roddy mcdowall , science-fiction , seventies , severn darden

RODDY MCDOWALL RULES 'CONQUEST OF THE PLANET OF THE APES'

<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/AVvXsEgEL7FMJ6Zkjrjm9iRswqd76Rvs3RqkvWbUlqxj8VSNoKtEeJLpaLtnhaIUWke1lekx_LGaqlxgs0qSykhmat2KxXxhUHqSPIGSW3okQpLg2yWAXgaGSux56DbhpN4ttxJt6U9paIYNP255BNMIYYAKH4zvtTkLo1G5v0LkewQ8ST9NzRBXOI4awnXF0jfh/s1422/Screen%20Shot%202024-04-30%20at%204.37.30%20AM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="704" data-original-width="1422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEL7FMJ6Zkjrjm9iRswqd76Rvs3RqkvWbUlqxj8VSNoKtEeJLpaLtnhaIUWke1lekx_LGaqlxgs0qSykhmat2KxXxhUHqSPIGSW3okQpLg2yWAXgaGSux56DbhpN4ttxJt6U9paIYNP255BNMIYYAKH4zvtTkLo1G5v0LkewQ8ST9NzRBXOI4awnXF0jfh/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-04-30%20at%204.37.30%20AM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roddy McDowall in Conquest of the Planet of the Apes Year: 1972 Rating: ****1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>Taking place twenty-years after the previous/third film of the franchise, ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES, which was set in the then-modern/groovy 1970's and hardly resembled a science-fiction film except the two talking chimps, Roddy McDowall and Kim Hunter as scientist couple Cornelius and Kira, dying violently at the end but, in a surprise twist, their talking baby chimp was saved by traveling circus owner Ricardo Montalban as Armando...Who for some reason, as CONQUEST OF THE PLANET OF THE APES begins, makes a rather idiotic decision to visit the primary police-state location shot at the University of Irvine in California, resembling a sparse, steely fortress/city ruled by a firm futuristic government, casting a daunting shadow over its inhabitants...

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RODDY MCDOWALL RULES 'CONQUEST OF THE PLANET OF THE APES'

Roddy McDowall in Conquest of the Planet of the Apes Year: 1972 Rating: ****1/2 Taking place twenty-years after the previous/third film of t...

ROBERT MORSE, ROD STEIGER & ANJANETTE COMER 'THE LOVED ONE'

<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/AVvXsEicnigBVbzATSPW-tZ87cuH4mDX5ADwO8x6X35vdblt5zC1JQPTQd_p5bwrxmT3AKVj5ZXTthR1cwAVaGAKZLcydZNmUl4eY7i64Uo3oDX23rgtlOmWHXweKcPa711JtWsMozMjlq-cJktkKGvK1nbJaTLwgRR1Ne3aDNZonffjYX_JB1TIc2qx6rhzuwrK/s1462/Screen%20Shot%202024-04-09%20at%206.09.46%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="860" data-original-width="1462" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicnigBVbzATSPW-tZ87cuH4mDX5ADwO8x6X35vdblt5zC1JQPTQd_p5bwrxmT3AKVj5ZXTthR1cwAVaGAKZLcydZNmUl4eY7i64Uo3oDX23rgtlOmWHXweKcPa711JtWsMozMjlq-cJktkKGvK1nbJaTLwgRR1Ne3aDNZonffjYX_JB1TIc2qx6rhzuwrK/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-04-09%20at%206.09.46%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pamela Curran and Robert Morse in Tony Richardson's THE LOVED ONE Year: 1965 Rating: **1/2 Grade: C+</td></tr></tbody></table>After American director Stanley Kubrick made DR. STRANGELOVE in England, British director Tony Richardson attempted his own offbeat dark comedy in Los Angeles... with Jonathan Winters replacing the Peter Sellers multi-role device as the owner of a plush cemetery catered to the rich, and a dodgy pet cemetery for just about anyone... Where offbeat Robert Morse ends up working after his Hollywood producer uncle (John Geilgud) hangs himself, bringing the audience into Whispering Glades Funeral Parlor that (with Haskell Wexler cinematography) grounds the most intriguing and creatively shot B&W sequences...

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ROBERT MORSE, ROD STEIGER & ANJANETTE COMER 'THE LOVED ONE'

Pamela Curran and Robert Morse in Tony Richardson's THE LOVED ONE Year: 1965 Rating: **1/2 Grade: C+ After American director Stanley Kub...

ASA MAYNOR IN THE LOW BUDGET CREATURE FEATURE 'MAN 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/AVvXsEgEJbFPH1L-pBqaCsJm6iWpM7taVrdCEAu9sOWWLxgDr38OwaL9Hq18OD8CyT53LWEqWNv5ey2G1y0DJzZ_u8-RkzWSEDNSJRZIuqSY-vzZoA3CfkpVeIU3LHfjZld9f8wAK2X74VL6pENWlnT_9a2wLKJSfpEs-0SnyQP-tF6XKgaEXHavscZMmEfZmA/s2154/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2154" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEJbFPH1L-pBqaCsJm6iWpM7taVrdCEAu9sOWWLxgDr38OwaL9Hq18OD8CyT53LWEqWNv5ey2G1y0DJzZ_u8-RkzWSEDNSJRZIuqSY-vzZoA3CfkpVeIU3LHfjZld9f8wAK2X74VL6pENWlnT_9a2wLKJSfpEs-0SnyQP-tF6XKgaEXHavscZMmEfZmA/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Asa Maynor in MAN BEAST Year: 1956 Rating: **1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>Cherub-cheeked, full-lipped cutie Asa Maynor (billed as Virginia Maynor) had a career bookeneded by cinematic creatures: first here in MAN BEAST who, as he sister of a missing archeologist, is on a hunting trip through the Himalayan mountains... and then a cameo scolding a female chimp in CONQUEST OF THE PLANET OF THE APES...MAN BEAST is a basic journey with Asa and four other climbers... including a doctor who's heard about the titular Yeti aka Abominable Snowman, played by a man in a white gorilla suit turning up in the third act after too much dialogue yet there's just-enough suspense... including an enigmatic local native deadiler than the monsters... alongside closeups or wide-shots of professional mountain climbers mountain-climbing, while the actors spout mostly repeated expository: so the saving grace of this very low-budget, mainly talking-head creature feature is that Asa's is shown the most.

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ASA MAYNOR IN THE LOW BUDGET CREATURE FEATURE 'MAN BEAST'

Asa Maynor in MAN BEAST Year: 1956 Rating: **1/2 Cherub-cheeked, full-lipped cutie Asa Maynor (billed as Virginia Maynor) had a career booke...

BRIAN KEITH AND BEVERLY TYLER IN 'CHICAGO CONFIDENTIAL'

<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/AVvXsEiQEpn791pxrYkuz-s41CaIJTvulsO8Sr2hgCJQNOFt9jFtibDSu1iQZcjOVhzE4TSDDsTgpAyDcJjWfQxw5tIwZ2_KXAQGY9C-6SERSfo26_gcR3XBNjFERTVy249RkKjLnx5CV1mqtbjMM2xSUjdBREtJWP_jHXBc-1ISOvmVjPOiMAj1e6WVOGVSQA/s1061/0.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="663" data-original-width="1061" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQEpn791pxrYkuz-s41CaIJTvulsO8Sr2hgCJQNOFt9jFtibDSu1iQZcjOVhzE4TSDDsTgpAyDcJjWfQxw5tIwZ2_KXAQGY9C-6SERSfo26_gcR3XBNjFERTVy249RkKjLnx5CV1mqtbjMM2xSUjdBREtJWP_jHXBc-1ISOvmVjPOiMAj1e6WVOGVSQA/s16000/0.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: CHICAGO CONFIDENTIAL Shown: Jack Lambert, Beverly Tyler Year: 1957 Rates: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>One of several late-noirs about Union corruption, for a basic seventy-five-minute programmer, CHICAGO CONFIDENTIAL has just about everything... From murderous thugs to their sophisticated bosses to courtroom drama involving a wrong man to all heavies eventually being hunted down, Brian Keith stars as a lawyer fighting to get wrongly-accused union leader Dick Foran off the hook from an ON THE WATERFRONT style stool-pigeon murder (care-of usual Noir torpedo Jack Lambert) that happens right off the bat...<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/AVvXsEg1RsPp-pDIHfXPNfEqjP8CSCviQlIlzOAkzlXKXwRSuoRTDah9UOUKYJ2BLHnna2xp4M-lrEMj84uYGNvN7SRysvIKKyqVlZNtScXIovCbyKUCgSk_AvpbTfPUmnUelw3CIW0ESt9yIq0dCOK-VAXKV-hK3dLlq6xj5Eg7iDEelFbIz83z8WmC91RK4fUK/s1817/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="814" data-original-width="1817" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1RsPp-pDIHfXPNfEqjP8CSCviQlIlzOAkzlXKXwRSuoRTDah9UOUKYJ2BLHnna2xp4M-lrEMj84uYGNvN7SRysvIKKyqVlZNtScXIovCbyKUCgSk_AvpbTfPUmnUelw3CIW0ESt9yIq0dCOK-VAXKV-hK3dLlq6xj5Eg7iDEelFbIz83z8WmC91RK4fUK/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Asa Maynor in CHICAGO CONFIDENTIAL</td></tr></tbody></table>Giving CONFIDENTIAL a tight, edgy and at the same time breezily entertaining pulse where the best sequences take place beyond expository offices and into the shadowy streets... Or else inside a smoky nightclub that harbors sultry and experienced b-girls led by an equally vulnerable Beverly Tyler (along with cute alcoholic Asa Maynor), stealing scenes not only from Keith's picture-pretty housewife and lead ingenue (Foran's secretary) Beverly Garland, but the men as well.