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Written by James M. Tate / 6/13/2025 / No comments / blake edwards , body count , bryan forbes , comedy , david lodge , elke sommer , george sanders , herbert lom , mystery , peter sellers , pink panther , sixties , vanda godsell

PETER SELLERS TAKES 'A SHOT IN THE DARK' WITH ELKE SOMMER

<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/AVvXsEhpU4m0d1C-2dTSYR7ihfRIKU8oinM_cASIJGdraZkAIixqVShOkmEG2pyZahY924JnrCo0ezyg2Zio18r_XuoHnDC2YCarLM5YsEJrkycY4h9rcLOQFXMb52jV3b4-icy274P_KiOlxgizwRKJh6yoED5l5FAQMSrpXv25h-q1K8EX7v8aYSArAuW5NXre/s2060/Screen%20Shot%202025-06-19%20at%206.34.09%20AM%202%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1174" data-original-width="2060" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpU4m0d1C-2dTSYR7ihfRIKU8oinM_cASIJGdraZkAIixqVShOkmEG2pyZahY924JnrCo0ezyg2Zio18r_XuoHnDC2YCarLM5YsEJrkycY4h9rcLOQFXMb52jV3b4-icy274P_KiOlxgizwRKJh6yoED5l5FAQMSrpXv25h-q1K8EX7v8aYSArAuW5NXre/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-06-19%20at%206.34.09%20AM%202%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: A SHOT IN THE DARK Year: 1964 Rating: ***1/2</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p>While Inspector Clouseau was dropped into the romantic-comedy-heist <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2025/06/OGPP.html">THE PINK PANTHER</a> with Peter Sellers stealing the movie from lead actor David Niven, the sequel...where he's finally the central character... has him crashing what's an otherwise serious stage-adapted murder-mystery/whodunnit... <br><br>Yet there's a romantic-comedy element here too, with Sellers helping adorable millionaire's maid, Elke Sommer, seeming guilty beyond belief in the classic noir fashion: not only winding up with a smoking gun and a dead body, but with another dead body and a bloody knife... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

blake edwards, body count, bryan forbes, comedy, david lodge, elke sommer, george sanders, herbert lom, mystery, peter sellers, pink panther, sixties, vanda godsell

PETER SELLERS TAKES 'A SHOT IN THE DARK' WITH ELKE SOMMER

Title: A SHOT IN THE DARK Year: 1964 Rating: ***1/2 While Inspector Clouseau was dropped into the romantic-comedy-heist THE PINK PANTHER wi...

VAL GUEST DIRECTS HAMMER'S 'QUATERMASS 2' WITH BRIAN DONLEVY

<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/AVvXsEioyZg0Kx1EyTtRn5bpUU8Xh6ITNHLx_qI0nhdoPrk46sD2XSytSao061EtYHGqNkRAqYiAU5Di_qOpuTlhx0xJA-x47LxqozMN7Eg4aCjvWIE9TWCTXIxJSeuP_5j58bmDP0amPjNybHt0TB9n8dGLEBu0RXiHWPqTYh5VA5Cm8nJ5OqDgo4PGeo6l3zWl/s2226/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-16%20at%205.46.55%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1184" data-original-width="2226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioyZg0Kx1EyTtRn5bpUU8Xh6ITNHLx_qI0nhdoPrk46sD2XSytSao061EtYHGqNkRAqYiAU5Di_qOpuTlhx0xJA-x47LxqozMN7Eg4aCjvWIE9TWCTXIxJSeuP_5j58bmDP0amPjNybHt0TB9n8dGLEBu0RXiHWPqTYh5VA5Cm8nJ5OqDgo4PGeo6l3zWl/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-16%20at%205.46.55%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Original British Title: QUATERMASS 2 American: ENEMY FROM SPACE Year: 1957 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Both of Val Guest's 1950's <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/04/qmass1.html">Hammer QUATERMASS</a> vehicles rely on different science-fiction scenarios, so you don't have to watch one to enjoy the other: starting with a Frankenstein story involving the titular scientist's funded return-space-flight gone awry, and the second has aliens behind a project meant to send rockets <i>back up</i> into space (while some kind of comet dust is randomly burning people's skin)... </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>Condensed into a 90-minute programmer involving an enigmatic town, created within a power plant to supposedly make food for humans to live on a moon colony (borrowed from Quatermass's abandoned project), then engulfing one man with a tar-like substance: a horrifying image that this particular Hammer's best remembered...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, brian donlevy, bryan forbes, fifties, hammer films, john van eyssen, percy herbert, science-fiction, sequel, sidney james, thriller, val guest, vera day

VAL GUEST DIRECTS HAMMER'S 'QUATERMASS 2' WITH BRIAN DONLEVY

Original British Title: QUATERMASS 2 American: ENEMY FROM SPACE Year: 1957 Rating: **** Both of Val Guest's 1950's Hammer QUATERMASS...

STANLEY BAKER BATTLES THROUGH HAMMER'S 'YESTERDAY'S ENEMY'

<table 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/AVvXsEgUwF8tR9_JTPpGSvo80p62QcyHEXhEHb9y-jJvV1JwJrI_AHIydZgecwfp-C5mc1FAq1vjPNBAeMDETlFy72dKFsBxgBUmi6GU6GrPu4elNw3Xk9KgjdukkDJ6IN8UXUataTAaFuLB-g7v/s2048/lf.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2044" data-original-width="2048" height="399" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUwF8tR9_JTPpGSvo80p62QcyHEXhEHb9y-jJvV1JwJrI_AHIydZgecwfp-C5mc1FAq1vjPNBAeMDETlFy72dKFsBxgBUmi6GU6GrPu4elNw3Xk9KgjdukkDJ6IN8UXUataTAaFuLB-g7v/w400-h399/lf.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Stanley Baker in Edwina Carroll Year: 1959 Rates: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>This Hammer WWII b-movie was originally a stage-play, and with the contained setting and tons of dialog it's apparent.. but Stanley Baker turns in his greatest performance... a one-man show despite being surrounded by character-actors like faithful sergeant Gordon Jackson countered by idealistic reporter Leo McKern and priest Guy Rolfe, driving the central moral-quandary plot-line...<br></p><p></p><p>Beginning with their troop of disheveled British soldiers, lost and trudging through the Burmese jungle, happening upon a two-hut village where Baker's no-nonsense captain figures he MUST scare an informer by killing two elderly locals... </p><p>The best scenes occur during this first half when Baker's lethal, cold-blooded methods start becoming more clear and, because of the vital information gained, somewhat logical, and he never wavers to the ethical humanity in a village foreshadowing future Vietnam films (and their tropes) about murderous white soldiers...  </p><p>These include Brian De Palma's CASUALTIES OF WAR and Oliver Stone's Oscar-winning PLATOON, each paling to this low budget, obscure gem mostly thanks to Stanley Baker, keeping up the same stubborn, determined intensity when the Japanese — led by a philosophizing Philip Ahn — turns the tables, and the adaptation becomes even more stagey and yet with tight, edgy suspense by Val Guest, one of Hammer's best directors, YESTERDAY'S ENEMY keeps the audience as locked-in and tightly-wound as its unflappable leading man.  </p><span></span>

action, adventure, bryan forbes, burt kwouk, edwina carroll, fifties, gordon jackson, guy rolfe, hammer films, leo mckern, philip ahn, stanley baker, val guest, war

STANLEY BAKER BATTLES THROUGH HAMMER'S 'YESTERDAY'S ENEMY'

Stanley Baker in Edwina Carroll Year: 1959 Rates: **** This Hammer WWII b-movie was originally a stage-play, and with the contained setting ...

KATHARINE ROSS IN 'THE STEPFORD WIVES' W/ NANETTE NEWMAN

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>year: 1975 cast: Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Nanette Newman (above), Tina Louise rating: ***</u></td></tr>
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THE STEPFORD WIVES isn’t much different from another Ira Levin adaptation, ROSEMARY’S BABY. Only you turn a struggling actor’s naïve wife into a savvy feminist-leaning photographer married to a contented lawyer, both ditching city life for a quaint Connecticut town called Stepford.<br />
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Like Mia Farrow’s Rosemary, Katharine Ross is a natural beauty and, as Joanna Eberhart, she gets lost in a mysterious predicament –  but she catches on pretty quick. Unlike Rosemary, Joanna already has two kids and her life pretty much mapped out… Actually, her stale, plain-looking husband Walter has done that already…<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Katharine Ross takes one more shot at city life... Ironically it's of a man carrying a female mannequin</u></td></tr>
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Within minutes upon entering the pearly Stepford gates, our heroine has doubts about this rural location, especially after realizing how strange the residents are. And that’s the first of several problems…<br />
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The supposed perfection of the community is hindered within the first ten minutes after Walter meets the most surreal wife of the lot – the rabbit of this Pollyanna/Wonderland. Nanette Newman as Carol Van Sant, with ghostly hollowed eyes and steely countenance, both steals and epitomizes the movie and its ironic theme... <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>An overworking Paula Prentiss facing a wet and wounded Katharine Ross</u></td></tr>
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To counterbalance the kitchen-set wives, all seeming straight out of a detergent ad, is intentional "scene-stealer" Paula Prentiss as Joanna’s sidekick, Bobbie, a cool, down-to-earth smart aleck providing bubbly and downright forced insight and exposition. Sadly, she gives Joanna, who should have had more of a roguish desperation throughout, a much too cushy safety net. In her own way, like the conservative Stepford Wives, her spunk and liberalism is just <i>too</i> perfect (<i>and </i>she's never established with a husband... sometimes it's like she's Joanna's helpful hallucination... or a reverse android to make our heroine feel she's not alone).<br />
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The best scenes occur within the introduction of the housewives. Although they’re quite similar, each is unique and gorgeous in their own way, married to dull, plain looking husbands, part of a makeshift Men’s Club that doesn’t allow women...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Ross with Mary Stuart Masterson, real life daughter of Peter Masterson, who plays Katherine's husband </u></td></tr>
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This sparks subtle outrage within Joanna and, at the point where she investigates possible reasons for the town’s strange behavior, the film seems like it’s rushing for a conclusion, albeit a predictable (and at this point, famously iconic) one…<br />
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The Noirish nighttime climax, when Joanna finally invades the “hornet’s nest,” is fitfully spooky, reminiscent of THE TWILIGHT ZONE. But it's the eerie epilogue – as each lady strolls through a bright lit supermarket – that truly defines THE STEPFORD WIVES: perhaps more time should have been spent there.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>"She cooks as good as she looks, Ted," about Nanette Newman in The Stepford Wives</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>"Bye mom... I hate this town... It's not any kind of wonderful... Thanks a bunch."</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>"Why wasn't I cast as the leading lady?" Carole Mallory in The Stepford Wives</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Nanette Newman breaks down, again, w/ Carole Mallory and Woody Allen's longtime stand-in</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>"In ten years time, this pout will become my signature."</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>"I'll just be gone for a little while... They say it's only a three hour tour."</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Nanette Newman as Carol Van Sant in THE STEPFORD WIVES Nanette Newman The Stepford Wives</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Nanette Newman in THE STEPFORD WIVES "I'll have to get the recipe for that"</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Katharine Ross in THE STEPFORD WIVES Katharine Ross The Stepford Wives</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss more than more than catching on to Nanette Newman The Stepford Wives</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>And one of our favs, Dee Wallace as Nettie The Maid The Stepford Wives Dee Wallace</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Tina Louise after her alteration in The Stepford Wives Tina Louise The Stepford Wives</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Katharine Ross looking like a pose in The Stepford Wives Katherine Ross</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Speaking of pose, here we get the artist's sketching established which makes sense at the end</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Tina Louise, Katharine Ross and Paula Prentiss watch Franklin Cover in The Stepford Wives</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>The iconic supermarket Stepford Wives scene w/ Katharine Ross and a blurry Paula Prentiss</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Opening credit sequence with a fancy title for THE STEPFORD WIVES reviewed by James M. Tate at Cult Film Freak</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Nanette Newman in THE STEPFORD WIVES</u></td></tr>
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