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Written by James M. Tate / 4/09/2026 / No comments / albert dekker , cloris leachman , fifties , film noir or melodrama , gumshoe , jack elam , jack lambert , leigh snowden , marian carr , maxine cooper , paul stewart , ralph meeker , robert aldrich , wesley addy

RALPH MEEKER HAMMERS ROBERT ALDRICH'S 'KISS ME DEADLY'

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 hitchhiking damsel-in-distress Cloris Leachman is picked up by 
convertible driving private-eye rogue Mike Hammer in Robert Aldrich's noir classic 
KISS ME DEADLY, actor Ralph Meeker epitomizes the role without 
uttering a single word... <br></p><p></p><p>After she asks if he likes poetry, his manly/glib shrug speaks volumes in what's a gumshoe thriller that plays out like a tapestry of vignettes... thrust into a cautionary tale
involving the most important of three ingenues that Meeker's Hammer uses 
to figure out what/who killed first-girl Leachman, and why... </p><p><span></span></p>

albert dekker, cloris leachman, fifties, film noir or melodrama, gumshoe, jack elam, jack lambert, leigh snowden, marian carr, maxine cooper, paul stewart, ralph meeker, robert aldrich, wesley addy

RALPH MEEKER HAMMERS ROBERT ALDRICH'S 'KISS ME DEADLY'

Wesley Addy & Ralph Meeker in KISS ME DEADLY Year: 1955 Rating: ***** When hitchhiking damsel-in-distress Cloris Leachman is picked up ...

ELYSSA DAVALOS RIDING DISNEY'S 'HERBIE GOES BANANAS'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Elyssa Davalos is downright gorgeous in Disney's HERBIE GOES BANANAS circa 1980</u></td></tr>
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The
 first two of Disney's Bueno Vista Herbie films, THE LOVE BUG and HERBIE GOES TO MONTE CARLO, 
center on the little car involved in big races; the ultimate underdog 
stories wherein Herbie is the focal point...<br />
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In the third installment, 
HERBIE RIDES AGAIN, the cute lil' V-dub's merely used as a vehicle for a
 plot centering on humans while the final sequel does the same thing but in a much 
more entertaining story and better characters, including a wily Charles 
Martin-Smith (AMERICAN GRAFFITI) and his handsome buddy Stephen W. Burns as heirs to 
the love bug, picking Herbie up in South America and then being chased 
around by mobsters.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Herbie in Herbie Goes Bananas directed by both Star Trek and Disney go-to Vincent McEveety</u></td></tr>
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The good guys meet a pickpocket orphan who becomes 
Herbie's best pal, and along the way journey on a cruise ship and even 
take part in a bullfight. Meanwhile, Burns falls in love with freespirited socialite Cloris Leachman's 
daughter, the beautiful Elyssa Davalos, doing the cliché <i>girl wearing glasses with real beauty soon to unveal </i>(although she's cute either way), while Martin 
insists they run a con job, giving a little edge to the romance.<br />
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HERBIE GOES BANANAS is an enjoyable romp from beginning to end, with 
many different locations 
and sticky situations for the characters (including Harvey Korman as a 
cranky ship captain joining Leachman) and our titular bug to sneak 
out of, dodging seedy villains John Vernon, Alex Rocco and Richard Jaeckel. But they're no match for Herbie, who,
 though taking back seat a lot of the time, winds up stealing the show.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Opening credits with Mexican Blanket font for HERBIE GOES BANANAS</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Elyssa Davalos as Melissa Louise in HERBIE GOES BANANAS Rates: ***1/2</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Elyssa Davalos as Melissa Louise in HERBIE GOES BANANAS</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Elyssa Davalos as Melissa Louise in HERBIE GOES BANANAS</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Villainous duo John Vernon and Richard Jaekel in Herbie Goes Bananas</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Stephen W. Burns and Charles Martin Smith in Herbie Goes Bananas</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Herbie in Herbie Goes Bananas with child actor Joaquin Garay III as Paco</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Elyssa Davalos in HERBIE GOES BANANAS with Stephen W. Burns (later died of AIDS) and Charles Martin Smith</u></td></tr>
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ELYSSA DAVALOS RIDING DISNEY'S 'HERBIE GOES BANANAS'

Elyssa Davalos is downright gorgeous in Disney's HERBIE GOES BANANAS circa 1980 The first two of Disney's Bueno Vista Herbie fi...

Written by James M. Tate / 2/26/2015 / No comments / bill paxton , chicks with guns , cloris leachman , dennis quaid , dick miller , donny most , exploitation , fifties-era , gangster , harry northup , jonathan demme , road movie , roger corman , seventies

CRAZY MAMA WITH CLORIS LEACHMAN

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Not to be confused with the Roger Corman production BLOODY MAMA where Shelly Winters, with sons Robert DeNiro and Don Stroud, roll the countryside robbing banks: a depression era, sometimes heavy-handed exploitation, differing from this mellow jaunt set in the fifties with a rockin' and rollin' wall-to-wall era soundtrack.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Year: 1975 CrazyScore: ***1/2</td></tr>
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Adding to that is Donny Most, best known as "Ralph Malph" from HAPPY DAYS, as the surfer boyfriend of sexy vixen Linda Purl, the daughter of title character Cloris Leachman who, along with her chattering mother, and Purl's granny, Ann Southern, cruise around robbing just about anyone and anything and then, aided by millionaire Stuart Whitman and Leachman's real life son Bryan Englund, attempt an ingrown kidnapping plot. The ragtag bunch, despite being against the odds... cops out to kill them... have a laidback, frolicking fun time. Director Jonathan Demme keeps things moving smoothly. And keep an eye out from first-timer's Dennis Quaid, as a bellboy, and Bill Paxton, as a rookie cop.

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CRAZY MAMA WITH CLORIS LEACHMAN

Bill Paxton in CRAZY MAMA Not to be confused with the Roger Corman production BLOODY MAMA where Shelly Winters, with sons Robert DeNiro...

Written by James M. Tate / 3/22/2013 / No comments / 2013 , action , adventure , cloris leachman , computer animated , emma stone , fantasy , nicolas cage , road movie , ryan reynolds , science-fiction

THE CROODS

2013, action, adventure, cloris leachman, computer animated, emma stone, fantasy, nicolas cage, road movie, ryan reynolds, science-fiction

THE CROODS

year: 2013 voices: Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone, Ryan Reynolds rating: ***1/2 Grug is a caveman who successfully protects his family in a ca...

Written by James M. Tate / 7/24/2012 / No comments / action , charles martin smith , cloris leachman , comedy , disney , eighties , elyssa davalos , franchise , harvey korman , sequel

ELYSSA DAVALOS IS GORGEOUS IN 'HERBIE GOES BANANAS'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">year: 1980 cast: Charles Martin Smith, Elyssa Davalos rating: ***1/2</td></tr>
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The
 first two Herbie films, THE LOVE BUG and HERBIE GOES TO MONTE CARLO, 
center on the little car involved in big races; the ultimate underdog 
stories wherein Herbie is the focal point.<br />
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In the third installment, 
HERBIE RIDES AGAIN, the cute lil' V-dub's merely used as a vehicle for a
 plot centering on humans. This sequel does the same thing but in a much 
more entertaining story with better characters, including wily geek Charles 
Martin-Smith and his buddy Stephen W. Burns as heirs to 
the love bug, picking Herbie up in South America and then being chased 
around by mobsters.<br />
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The good guys meet a pickpocket orphan who becomes 
Herbie's best pal, and along the way journey on a cruise ship and even 
take part in a bullfight. Burns falls in love with freespirited socialite Cloris Leachman's 
daughter, the beautiful Elyssa Davalos, while Martin 
insists they run a con job, giving a little edge to the romance.<br />
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HERBIE GOES BANANAS is an enjoyable romp from beginning to end, with many different locations 
and sticky situations for the characters (including Harvey Korman's cranky ship captain joining Leachman) and our titular bug to sneak 
out of. Villains John Vernon, Alex Rocco and Richard Jaeckel are both seedy 
and spooky for a Disney film, but they're no match for Herbie, who,
 though taking back seat a lot of the time, winds up stealing the show.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Elyssa Davalos in HERBIE GOES BANANAS</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Those wistful eyes behind the usual obstructing glasses...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ah yes, the inevitable lifting of the lenses, thus revealing...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">That "ugly duckling" is a now a gorgeous swan...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oh and how she uses this new look... </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John Vernon and Richard Jaeckel as the villains... </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Charles Martin Smith and Stephen Burns are the good guys</td></tr>
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ELYSSA DAVALOS IS GORGEOUS IN 'HERBIE GOES BANANAS'

year: 1980 cast: Charles Martin Smith, Elyssa Davalos rating: ***1/2 The first two Herbie films, THE LOVE BUG and HERBIE GOES TO MONTE ...

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MEL BROOKS STARS IN AND DIRECTS 'HIGH ANXIETY'

<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/AVvXsEi775qpNfwmtOg2999bIS6psw-Rf7W7hYyd2nIx6EvAA81sxPMAWEr1IzayqBNPxlpSsXeW8pJ5YPCKluxlMOl3XCwv-QeRU_DdES3C6-p2d1y6A0JDpRZShuBnP0Z2gkibpOBw4_f9dpmkDLTYuzIr4GIvKq2Pc4PEh-d6Jl9SY3EWv1pmXmf-MQmgHaNR/s1618/Screen%20Shot%202024-04-30%20at%203.38.37%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="712" data-original-width="1618" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi775qpNfwmtOg2999bIS6psw-Rf7W7hYyd2nIx6EvAA81sxPMAWEr1IzayqBNPxlpSsXeW8pJ5YPCKluxlMOl3XCwv-QeRU_DdES3C6-p2d1y6A0JDpRZShuBnP0Z2gkibpOBw4_f9dpmkDLTYuzIr4GIvKq2Pc4PEh-d6Jl9SY3EWv1pmXmf-MQmgHaNR/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-04-30%20at%203.38.37%20AM.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: HIGH ANXIETY Year: 1977 Rating: ***</u><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Mel Brooks sends-up all things Hitchcock in a film that's more entertaining than funny. You can't help but to get involved in the story of a new head shrink (Brooks) of a crooked insane asylum who has an extreme fear of heights: From one situation to the next, this parody encompasses "Vertigo", "Psycho", "The Birds", "Frenzy", and all the (other) Hitch-flicks that has the main character being falsely accused of murder...</p><p></p><p>Homage-driven jabs at Alfred H's signature camera shots and dramatic musical scores are the funniest. Somewhere between "Blazing Saddles" (as the high-point) and "History of the World" (as a semi low-point), this movie has a cozy place within the Mel Brooks canon. Nothing gained, nothing lost. But you'll enjoy the ride, especially with Cloris Leachman and Harvey Korman going over-the-top, on purpose, like only they can. <br /></p>

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