ANNE FRANCIS, DANA ANDREWS & GEORGE MAHARIS 'THE SATAN BUG'

<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/AVvXsEiHZxwLmSUlwbSnQ5T_f8jTL0Q1avLUu1n5L8M97BuLyoCQQCuDLlhhIXMvJ30aLcUFf8VsqYRAamfWMnxrU0gL91arVqd_dU9w8_Asek5a0bFvOs-qJlJYl5RuFm45gFcYCiNDjXv_wlX3u_x-C947DWX98usxCjXxJ0Yc49YORVgNYmjTLyo1lafvMBSV/s1866/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1082" data-original-width="1866" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHZxwLmSUlwbSnQ5T_f8jTL0Q1avLUu1n5L8M97BuLyoCQQCuDLlhhIXMvJ30aLcUFf8VsqYRAamfWMnxrU0gL91arVqd_dU9w8_Asek5a0bFvOs-qJlJYl5RuFm45gFcYCiNDjXv_wlX3u_x-C947DWX98usxCjXxJ0Yc49YORVgNYmjTLyo1lafvMBSV/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>George Maharis and Anne Francis in THE SATAN BUG Year: 1965 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>On the television series ROUTE 66, Martin Milner played a preppy college graduate traveling America with no-nonsense, ultra-intense Hell's Kitchen-born/street-wise George Maharis... and while both are good guys, Maharis is a comparable antagonist by his edgy attitude, and that persona eventually made a far better TV-episodic villain than the few attempts as a big screen leading man...<br><br>The first being a lethargic neo-noir <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2023/06/citizen-sleep.html">SYLVIA</a>, contrasting from his famous ROUTE character that practically burst through the small screen... and THE SATAN BUG, originally offered to Charlton Heston, whose overboard style might have worked more effectively against what's director John Sturges's slow-moving/slowburn thriller with even higher technical stakes than the then-popular world-dominating James Bond franchise... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

anne francis, dana andrews, ed asner, espionage, frank sutton, george maharis, heist, john sturges, lee remick, richard basehart, richard bull, sixties, thriller, virus

ANNE FRANCIS, DANA ANDREWS & GEORGE MAHARIS 'THE SATAN BUG'

George Maharis and Anne Francis in THE SATAN BUG Year: 1965 Rating: **1/2 On the television series ROUTE 66, Martin Milner played a preppy c...

DANA ANDREWS AND GENE TIERNEY IN OTTO PREMINGER'S 'LAURA'

<table align="center" 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/AVvXsEimd-Hf86aZKkNUPDYRjFrE9YcsaKCFHfoEmcjk94MGlr4L5d2eNFPD_H-O6g0TFh-yHnxwQqdmgtc8jzW2W4aywHTNBKimwKjuCy6Ig0z8Wp3_IAz-O5QUH7DAaVV4ieiYCwP0oXpmlqGiRmGizGrewO2nhti3iYbN7abBfaD4FdSHpbmL9dNpP2ntJI98/s1846/Screen%20Shot%202025-02-24%20at%2010.06.02%20PM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1364" data-original-width="1846" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimd-Hf86aZKkNUPDYRjFrE9YcsaKCFHfoEmcjk94MGlr4L5d2eNFPD_H-O6g0TFh-yHnxwQqdmgtc8jzW2W4aywHTNBKimwKjuCy6Ig0z8Wp3_IAz-O5QUH7DAaVV4ieiYCwP0oXpmlqGiRmGizGrewO2nhti3iYbN7abBfaD4FdSHpbmL9dNpP2ntJI98/w400-h295/Screen%20Shot%202025-02-24%20at%2010.06.02%20PM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1944 Rating: *****</u></td></tr></tbody></table>Dana Andrews as Det. Lt. Mark McPherson has fallen in love with a ghost, kind of, and that's not to be spoiled for anyone who hasn't seen LAURA with its particular dreamlike camera panning from a sleeping McPherson, and we get the murderous yarn, spun all over again in a different fashion and with a twist that could be something else entirely as our hero deals with two creeps connected with the ingenue: especially a cerebral "sugar daddy" in a sophisticated Clifton Webb...<br> <div style="text-align: right;"> </div> <br> Word is the producer frowned on this important casting because of... well... what's pretty apparent about the futzy fella, and he can't shake that aspect from his character of a character, Waldo Lydecker. But Webb is perfect as LAURA seems to be the only girl who can rid the sophisticated and manipulative Lydecker from his daily uptight uptown lunch, all by himself with a contented life all mapped-out...<br>

classic, clifton webb, cop, crime, dana andrews, film noir, forties, gene tierney, mystery, otto preminger, vincent price

DANA ANDREWS AND GENE TIERNEY IN OTTO PREMINGER'S 'LAURA'

Year: 1944 Rating: ***** Dana Andrews as Det. Lt. Mark McPherson has fallen in love with a ghost, kind of, and that's not to be spoile...

DANA ANDREWS & ALICE FAYE IN OTTO PREMINGER'S 'FALLEN ANGEL'

<table align="center" 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/AVvXsEgTWpLk2K0he59eAcyZzeXtL6cO56fog-X9GPxGlJ0xBlK70cuigd4MstArYkOdDhciSLaFjg7XMTPHZATxSXIvqkR_kgULb4xpNyuRVxN58_puPD5IR2dD5GZY-lgbH-EM-BLbVO_5CTNc01pgUgBVQAeTahU4UMWBHxX-GLYhOin4sd8EVsL5rKAyiTrR/s1372/Screen%20Shot%202024-08-06%20at%2011.49.47%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1062" data-original-width="1372" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTWpLk2K0he59eAcyZzeXtL6cO56fog-X9GPxGlJ0xBlK70cuigd4MstArYkOdDhciSLaFjg7XMTPHZATxSXIvqkR_kgULb4xpNyuRVxN58_puPD5IR2dD5GZY-lgbH-EM-BLbVO_5CTNc01pgUgBVQAeTahU4UMWBHxX-GLYhOin4sd8EVsL5rKAyiTrR/w400-h310/Screen%20Shot%202024-08-06%20at%2011.49.47%20AM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1945 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table>If you look at the filmography of two actresses who play sisters in the Otto Preminger Film Noir FALLEN ANGEL, Alice Faye, as naive June Mills, who's mentored by an older, wiser, more cautious Ann Revere as Clara: Both had prosperous careers in that decade, the 1940's, and then their 50's resume reads like a clean slate...<br> <br> Sadly, more of a <i>Black</i>list for the NATIONAL VELVET Oscar-Winning Revere (who co-starred with Andrews in the lobster-diver drama DEEP WATERS)... But the 20th Century Fox starlet Faye basically quit acting for a long while... Ironically, till she was old enough to be a teenage girl's mother in the remake of STATE FAIR, the original co-starring Andrews... And her career's demise was all because of Otto Preminger's underrated and mostly obscure/unknown Dana Andrews (with Gene Tierney) Film Noir FALLEN ANGEL in-between classics LAURA and  WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS... <br>

alice faye, ann revere, bruce cabot, dana andrews, film noir, film noir or melodrama, forties, linda darnell, otto preminger

DANA ANDREWS & ALICE FAYE IN OTTO PREMINGER'S 'FALLEN ANGEL'

Year: 1945 Rating: ****1/2 If you look at the filmography of two actresses who play sisters in the Otto Preminger Film Noir FALLEN ANGEL, Al...

DANA ANDREWS & GENE TIERNEY IN 'WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS'

<table align="center" 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/AVvXsEgJhPb8JjRRH1wWt-iiX7FYG10-nzeRLO8EErcY5OVLHm6Cx7A09fIsAMDqJaGjP7rFsUpKG6V4hzwku6nWNYwKWUAjyLP5cCaXulAmaqn5QhZwvwexT3oKaoEHFX9v8ft1uGBpVPgDzMLzv_9qg9KkC0f5a9XRzOcLIkzOE3WKZVtI3oaUUeJbyFQoZFy0/s1270/Screen%20Shot%202024-08-02%20at%202.50.48%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="972" data-original-width="1270" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJhPb8JjRRH1wWt-iiX7FYG10-nzeRLO8EErcY5OVLHm6Cx7A09fIsAMDqJaGjP7rFsUpKG6V4hzwku6nWNYwKWUAjyLP5cCaXulAmaqn5QhZwvwexT3oKaoEHFX9v8ft1uGBpVPgDzMLzv_9qg9KkC0f5a9XRzOcLIkzOE3WKZVtI3oaUUeJbyFQoZFy0/w400-h306/Screen%20Shot%202024-08-02%20at%202.50.48%20AM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Dana and Gene a third time YEAR: 1950</u></td></tr></tbody></table>A sort of Film Noir in reverse as a downright bad and brutal cop does something accidental and pretty awful, covers it up and then, a bit later, gets half-a-heart, which is how Noir leading men usually start: this after he falls for the Falsely Accused Wrong Man's daughter in Gene Tierney's gorgeous, as usual, Morgan Taylor... Even her name is lovely...<br> <br> Dana Andrews, who resembled a hybrid Sean Connery before there was one famous enough to resemble, and Steve Martin had he been a tough and tall leading man type, stole scenes in the post World War Two classic, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/05/BYOOurLIVES.html">THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES,</a> and, brother of Steve Forrest, has the same square-jaw and no-nonsense style, and is a lot more edgy and desperate than his snoopy cop in the previous, more lavish and high-budgeted crime melodrama, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/05/Loir.html">LAURA</a>, with the same director and gorgeous co-star...<br>

bert freed, british film noir/melodrama, cop, craig stevens, dana andrews, fifties, gary merrill, gene tierney, karl malden, otto preminger, suspense

DANA ANDREWS & GENE TIERNEY IN 'WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS'

Dana and Gene a third time YEAR: 1950 A sort of Film Noir in reverse as a downright bad and brutal cop does something accidental and pretty ...

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

<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/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;"><u>Pamela Curran and Robert Morse in Tony Richardson's THE LOVED ONE Year: 1965 Rating: **1/2 Grade: C+</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>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... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>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...  </p><p><span></span></p>

anjanette comer, asa maynor, dana andrews, ensemble, john geilgud, jonathan winters, margaret leighton, milton berle, paul williams, robert morse, roddy mcdowall, roxanne arlen, sixties, tony richardson

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...

STANLEY BAKER BONDING ESPIONAGE FOR 'INNOCENT BYSTANDERS'

<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><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/AVvXsEjP1QPSgODcxadGDLzACTN7avqjTe-9fMYXLdq9tHg1LKypZMxOJT4rHRwIvIWJb16jI99ISbK2PoQDVfwtr1gGZjRG9pZyz2mY0eCeLkKgnXmuGhhSOcENijPY94dknq1oaW_iVSlCQBXR0Zr6jrHA6HhNEyw1NZLJZLzSIYV0NA2uOcAcaJUdM6JPDfd8/s1998/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-31%20at%201.29.44%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1050" data-original-width="1998" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP1QPSgODcxadGDLzACTN7avqjTe-9fMYXLdq9tHg1LKypZMxOJT4rHRwIvIWJb16jI99ISbK2PoQDVfwtr1gGZjRG9pZyz2mY0eCeLkKgnXmuGhhSOcENijPY94dknq1oaW_iVSlCQBXR0Zr6jrHA6HhNEyw1NZLJZLzSIYV0NA2uOcAcaJUdM6JPDfd8/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-31%20at%201.29.44%20PM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: INNOCENT BYSTANDERS Cast: Stanley Baker, Darren Nesbitt 1972 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>Tough, sturdy, square-jawed British actor Stanley Baker was considered for James Bond... ironically he looks like Sean Connery (or vice versa) and <i>starred</i> in <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/09/HellDrivers.html">HELL DRIVERS</a> where a young Connery began... </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></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Then, skip 15-years later after super-star Connery left the iconic spy role, Baker starred in a movie so Bondish that... just hearing the flaunting, jazzy, repetitive score, you'd think INNOCENT BYSTANDERS was yet another 007 entry, including power-hungry villains, led by the most famous of Bond foes, Donald Pleasence, danging a carrot to lesser corporate heavy Dana Andrews...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, dana andrews, derren nesbitt, donald pleasence, espionage, geraldine chaplin, jazz-score, pauline chamberlain, peter collinson, seventies, spy, stanley baker, sue lloyd, warren mitchell

STANLEY BAKER BONDING ESPIONAGE FOR 'INNOCENT BYSTANDERS'

Title: INNOCENT BYSTANDERS Cast: Stanley Baker, Darren Nesbitt 1972 Rating: ***1/2 Tough, sturdy, square-jawed British actor Stanley Baker w...

JEFF HUNTER & DANA ANDREWS IN WILLIAM CONRAD'S 'BRAINSTORM'

<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/AVvXsEifJnk1uYRrv2R7CcEIl-djFMXPzYGtB6qJ-LqnnI1Mn6Lxp-aex6I19q_VWhV0ab-zaAW4Tbnx3rEPPRw027Do1x7MfKG6-fbolJBNrUynjz501BN2ZN7peKosn1JMMXSZL5Thi8CECdnhI3rHKiE97vnDZl6ny9YTC55xSs6MRbkAK7wuvYAtj6KLWWdv/s1896/Screen%20Shot%202023-11-19%20at%206.39.24%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="998" data-original-width="1896" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifJnk1uYRrv2R7CcEIl-djFMXPzYGtB6qJ-LqnnI1Mn6Lxp-aex6I19q_VWhV0ab-zaAW4Tbnx3rEPPRw027Do1x7MfKG6-fbolJBNrUynjz501BN2ZN7peKosn1JMMXSZL5Thi8CECdnhI3rHKiE97vnDZl6ny9YTC55xSs6MRbkAK7wuvYAtj6KLWWdv/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-11-19%20at%206.39.24%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: BRAINSTORM Director: William Conrad Year: 1965 Rates: ****1/2 </u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In 1965, veteran actor Dana Andrews was busier acting than his <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/08/citizen-cannon.html">BRAINSTORM</a> director William Conrad was directing: making three movies (including <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2023/11/filldonahue.html">MY BLOOD RUNS COLD</a>) the same year that Andrews appeared in eight...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>As characters ranging from cameos to leads, heroes to heavies... in <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/08/citizen-cannon.html">BRAINSTORM</a> Dana's deep, smooth voice suited a corporate (space age computer) tycoon that winds-up in a love triangle after his sharpest employee saves the life of — before falling in love with — young trophy-wife Anne Francis...</p><p><span></span></p>

dana andrews, jeffrey hunter, kathie browne, mental ward, neo noir, sixties, stacy harris, thriller, viveca lindfors, warner archives, william conrad

JEFF HUNTER & DANA ANDREWS IN WILLIAM CONRAD'S 'BRAINSTORM'

Title: BRAINSTORM Director: William Conrad Year: 1965 Rates: ****1/2 In 1965, veteran actor Dana Andrews was busier acting than his BRAINSTO...

JIM BROWN AND JIM KELLY 'TAKE A HARD RIDE' FRED WILLIAMSON

<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/AVvXsEjvfylsO-AMrVT4MdATJV9_nDjen2IQ1bKykCjc5mRkN6c13zPY9YCQco811-13tiLyq7NAFcfeKAfRVBBG_mRdCOqouKX_v3gZ686FHWLsYkuHXiKIL9LgBrTvwFVw0ch8SWxOhnWird7sL_QhUAh_8DKq9ni3jiSSMJ4FAaannBu60ZaSLLkMdcxAqg/s2206/Screen%20Shot%202023-05-26%20at%208.54.59%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1097" data-original-width="2206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvfylsO-AMrVT4MdATJV9_nDjen2IQ1bKykCjc5mRkN6c13zPY9YCQco811-13tiLyq7NAFcfeKAfRVBBG_mRdCOqouKX_v3gZ686FHWLsYkuHXiKIL9LgBrTvwFVw0ch8SWxOhnWird7sL_QhUAh_8DKq9ni3jiSSMJ4FAaannBu60ZaSLLkMdcxAqg/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-05-26%20at%208.54.59%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: TAKE A HARD RIDE Year: 1975 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Expectations for a Blaxploitation-Western, being that Jim Brown and Fred Williamson play the hero and anti-hero, or a Spaghetti Western, since Lee Van Cleef is the bad guy, will be disappointed. While it does have some of the (very intentional) Spaghetti elements in style and music, and slick action sequences for Blaxploitation fans...<br> <br> TAKE A HARD RIDE is actually an old-fashioned cowboy flick involving honest man Jim Brown and dishonest gambler Fred Williamson, on a quest to deliver money (that Brown made with late boss Dana Andrews, veteran of said classic Westerns) to a small town with cunning and deadly bounty hunter Van Cleef on their trail...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><span></span>

action, catherine spaak, dana andrews, fred williamson, jim brown, jim kelly, karate, lee van cleef, road movie, seventies, western

JIM BROWN AND JIM KELLY 'TAKE A HARD RIDE' FRED WILLIAMSON

Title: TAKE A HARD RIDE Year: 1975 Rating: ***1/2 Expectations for a Blaxploitation-Western, being that Jim Brown and Fred Williamson play...

DANA ANDREWS AND GENE TIERNEY DEFECT IN 'THE IRON CURTAIN'

<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/AVvXsEjNwjuzN9LFGZnmJc9JFmzn2zN5YpVwyiK7kD02cc5fat09xOHGHdPzy3L1A4driJF2-U-YhDGh-u9ZNaoyRgVp7eNA4sS28Ikxz055wdaub4QzmuKI2XZKgOXZRTrYAgwRl4gMNMGzyyLB_5SY2A7Jf6YvQ2d2sOFUKl3hLq-WtdHHbWaxmS22mtT_-vhZ/s1538/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-18%20at%202.56.45%20AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="870" data-original-width="1538" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNwjuzN9LFGZnmJc9JFmzn2zN5YpVwyiK7kD02cc5fat09xOHGHdPzy3L1A4driJF2-U-YhDGh-u9ZNaoyRgVp7eNA4sS28Ikxz055wdaub4QzmuKI2XZKgOXZRTrYAgwRl4gMNMGzyyLB_5SY2A7Jf6YvQ2d2sOFUKl3hLq-WtdHHbWaxmS22mtT_-vhZ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-18%20at%202.56.45%20AM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Dana Andrews in THE IRON CURTAIN Year: 1947 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Between the famous Otto Preminger Film Noir <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/05/Loir.html">LAURA</a> and <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/05/WTSends.html">WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS</a> and almost a decade past TOBACCO ROAD is the sublime pair-up of Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney under the direction of William A. Wellman in a Cold War Thriller at the rudimentary stages of that very thing... </p><p></p><p>Taking place during and right after The Second World War, and was released only three years after the war ended, based on the "true story of Soviet cypher-clerk Igor Gouzenko, posted to the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa, Canada, 1943... to reveal the extent of Soviet espionage activities directed against Canada," where Dana Andrews takes a reverse risk since nothing's worse than an American actor badly attempting a foreign accent, especially one as thick as Russian...  </p><p><span></span></p>

berry kroeger, biopic, cold war, dana andrews, espionage, film noir or melodrama, gene tierney, june havoc, peter whitney, thriller, war

DANA ANDREWS AND GENE TIERNEY DEFECT IN 'THE IRON CURTAIN'

Dana Andrews in THE IRON CURTAIN Year: 1947 Rating: ***1/2 Between the famous Otto Preminger Film Noir LAURA and WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS  ...

DANA ANDREWS & MÄRTA TORÉN COVER 'ASSIGNMENT: PARIS'

<p></p><p></p><table align="center" 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/AVvXsEhrR1G9Ql10OAVEM60JoGxXjQG5CVyww0DYNPI_qH776Lbe4mM7Mi08H4qekmwNjCsVyOCWyrLWRRqRrygya9nyGZtlZ1HrZEyw54gpcB_cLAbgK9o48V3Q_3pYt28dMnn-m84NscZGI9Obv-FjHO7y3ADJq4T3TefVeyLXzW4cbnMUEQv9DbNaptPD2Q/s400/Screen%20Shot%202021-05-16%20at%204.34.07%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="321" data-original-width="400" height="257" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrR1G9Ql10OAVEM60JoGxXjQG5CVyww0DYNPI_qH776Lbe4mM7Mi08H4qekmwNjCsVyOCWyrLWRRqRrygya9nyGZtlZ1HrZEyw54gpcB_cLAbgK9o48V3Q_3pYt28dMnn-m84NscZGI9Obv-FjHO7y3ADJq4T3TefVeyLXzW4cbnMUEQv9DbNaptPD2Q/s320/Screen%20Shot%202021-05-16%20at%204.34.07%20PM.jpeg" width="320"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Assignment: Paris Year: 1952 Rates: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>George Sanders, the classy, underrated and underused British actor who all but stole Alfred Hitchcock's FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT despite being third billed, is number three again and has plenty of time to stand out in the third act...<br></p><p></p><p></p><p>When mainline Dana Andrews, again playing a reporter like in another correspondent, BERLIN CORRESPONDENT, gets captured illegally, held hostage and whose enemies, in this case communist Yugo, winds up altering his voice, another BERLIN trait only more realistic as it's a far better picture... </p><p></p><p>And while some scenes aren't extremely thrilling for a Cold War thriller, there's good use of suspense, whenever needed... </p><p>Plus romance as Andrews puts on his kind of breezy, second-hand charm from the 1950's when, during this Lost Decade of drinking, he'd phone in some performances, even in decent films, as, for what's really a programmer, ASSIGNMENT: PARIS is... also starring love-interest ingenue Märta Torén, who co-starred with Dana in SWORD IN THE DESERT, and the cult noir starlet Audrey Totter, brooding around the Paris newspaper office jealous about Torén, two-fold. </p><p><span></span></p>

audrey totter, cold war, dana andrews, fifties, film noir or melodrama, george sanders, märta torén, thriller

DANA ANDREWS & MÄRTA TORÉN COVER 'ASSIGNMENT: PARIS'

Assignment: Paris Year: 1952 Rates: ***1/2 George Sanders, the classy, underrated and underused British actor who all but stole Alfred Hitch...

JACQUES TOURNEUR DIRECTS DANA ANDREWS IN 'THE FEARMAKERS'

<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="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5mRLhaDLJvAJ-ARhW4uiubVRSIdWp_6PWKfjO4isRX_1txDFWB22wpx8qPTvW4w328x_kzLZXNqPEm9VGDLzZJl2G_TT1GgZnsQy1wBhZCdqIy6HVBMkI_h2vWi12HgFerVDlxXOifT8vZqdQQS8QT9PZqX5BJnev0DPuCky95hdmI8YTKe0riki5oA/s320/zzz.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="292" data-original-width="320" height="292" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5mRLhaDLJvAJ-ARhW4uiubVRSIdWp_6PWKfjO4isRX_1txDFWB22wpx8qPTvW4w328x_kzLZXNqPEm9VGDLzZJl2G_TT1GgZnsQy1wBhZCdqIy6HVBMkI_h2vWi12HgFerVDlxXOifT8vZqdQQS8QT9PZqX5BJnev0DPuCky95hdmI8YTKe0riki5oA/s1600/zzz.jpeg" width="320"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: The Fearmakers Year: 1958 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>THE FEARMAKERS is <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/dana%20andrews">Dana Andrews</a>' peak as a dramatic lead, and, circa 1958, is one of the last genuine (albeit disputed) Film Noirs that's more of an early Cold War Political Thriller, directed by his <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2018/03/CPassage.html">CANYON PASSAGE</a> and the previous years' <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2018/12/DemonCurse.html">CURSE OF THE DEMON </a>auteur Jacques Tourneur: a suspenseful programmer where the plot's spelled out quick, economically... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Having been a tortured POW in Communist North Korea, and suffering sporadic fainting spells, Dana's Alan Eaton returns to Washington D.C. where his business partner has died, somewhat suspiciously, and their business is taken over by some "pretty big fish with a bad smell" according to his senator friend, so Dana has to investigate, completely from the inside...</p><p></p><p>Basically providing Tourneur low budget office setting, not counting a few restaurants and a memorable B&B scene, owned by mouthy/muscular thug Kelly Thordsen<u> </u> with a sultry fatale-like wife Veda Ann Borg: And eventually everything falls into b movie place with young and naive, sympathetic love interest Marilee Earle, secretary of main boss Dick Foran, shady and sophisticated, the perfect rival to Dana's completely honest businessman, who had professionally and proficiently ran this same Statistic-Research firm that's since become a hot-bed for political corruption... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2DjJVfGS4Yfv-j7tyHDYh5-iKUuNtpu1Jf5BMMihQuggNNbovDDJzjt0-4cHILSwqHoDXf8EWnjcCx_o9j9g1PkADQ0m176aixjTpf8WToiAkicF_7R-L7E3EW8-CajR_0qOGaHOh5mmjRy1-g-vadtNca7a7oBgqGQqF6bw7aWwQJ1LN2dVHlfUL1w/s398/the-fearmakers-poster-bottom-from-left-mel-torme-dana-andrews-marilee-picture-id1137188281%202.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="196" data-original-width="398" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2DjJVfGS4Yfv-j7tyHDYh5-iKUuNtpu1Jf5BMMihQuggNNbovDDJzjt0-4cHILSwqHoDXf8EWnjcCx_o9j9g1PkADQ0m176aixjTpf8WToiAkicF_7R-L7E3EW8-CajR_0qOGaHOh5mmjRy1-g-vadtNca7a7oBgqGQqF6bw7aWwQJ1LN2dVHlfUL1w/w400-h198/the-fearmakers-poster-bottom-from-left-mel-torme-dana-andrews-marilee-picture-id1137188281%202.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Which isn't entirely clear as the underlying theme is non-political, equally catered to both patriots and those fearing Washington's backroom wheeling/dealing; teased just enough for the plot-line, all part of an efficient Late Noir where Andrews, after basically skating through (while literally drinking through) two Fritz Lang media-centered Noirs, might not look so great physically... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yet Dana's 1950's tense yet understated presence ala LAURA and FALLEN ANGEL is back in gear, tight and calculating as ever, but the real surprise is musician icon Mel Torme as the most ambiguous, perhaps even the most ambitious character: A nerdy, awkward numbers-guy doing "drone" work for the villain, he's smitten with the secretary hence extremely jealous of our hero: caught perfectly in-between as a sublime scene-stealer. </p><span></span>

dana andrews, fifties, film noir or melodrama, jacques tourneur, kelly thordsen, marilee earle, mel torme, political, thriller, veda ann borg

JACQUES TOURNEUR DIRECTS DANA ANDREWS IN 'THE FEARMAKERS'

Title: The Fearmakers Year: 1958 Rating: **** THE FEARMAKERS is Dana Andrews ' peak as a dramatic lead, and, circa 1958, is one of the l...

DANA ANDREWS IN THE WAR NOIR THRILLER OF 'SEALED CARGO'

<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/AVvXsEh1W1rjv86R3ZArQCkZ_JJZFK6rz1YCVD-nFXL2okN6T8ZCXnGWzTYrxB2qH8rIeuVFHRAFc7TX6LohycJbmdWdNTX-I7wB2EUCFatmqUURfZyNIhqzMRT7GjRbcOP-M7SmGlxeakB4OmZQThMGPH2U_2hWpUmnBTkD5mmPb03bd-6UdGQRfndRmNZY_w/s1268/Screen+Shot+2020-06-24+at+7.42.25+PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="809" data-original-width="1268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1W1rjv86R3ZArQCkZ_JJZFK6rz1YCVD-nFXL2okN6T8ZCXnGWzTYrxB2qH8rIeuVFHRAFc7TX6LohycJbmdWdNTX-I7wB2EUCFatmqUURfZyNIhqzMRT7GjRbcOP-M7SmGlxeakB4OmZQThMGPH2U_2hWpUmnBTkD5mmPb03bd-6UdGQRfndRmNZY_w/s16000/Screen+Shot+2020-06-24+at+7.42.25+PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: SEALED CARGO Stars: Dana Andrews, Claude Rains Year: 1951 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Director Alfred Werker's darkly atmospheric potboiler SEALED CARGO initially plays like a Ghost Ship mystery/thriller as fisherman Dana Andrews (sustaining the harsh determination from WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS) climbs aboard what seems an abandoned larger vessel... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Where Claude Rains, as an enigmatic sea captain, is met with the kind of cautionary distrust that owns this wartime espionage, ultimately shaping into a heist/caper: but instead of stealing money it's about blowing up the titular contraband... or else...</p><span></span>

alfred werker, carla balenda, claude rains, dana andrews, fifties, ghost ship, mystery, onslow stevens, philip dorn, race against time, skip homeier, skip homeler, steve forrest, thriller, war, world war II

DANA ANDREWS IN THE WAR NOIR THRILLER OF 'SEALED CARGO'

Title: SEALED CARGO Stars: Dana Andrews, Claude Rains Year: 1951 Rating: **** Director Alfred Werker's darkly atmospheric potboiler SEA...

FRITZ LANG DIRECTING DANA ANDREWS 'WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS'

<p></p><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/a/AVvXsEj05KOdd2289pTyLxt7moyYh-uGbFIRge14RxXraKFvfL9phUmTXRS2LjGzg8nn-pblpfnFCWK83DNVECw16__Mlh7M4oKXNTOpz7maY0jQVuXly6n-Ctja6djxAO1L12vKhD_ygoHiDU9MD9kVCbl_hlLTVgMZFKadjBi0Gpo0CYJ1uLD5V0CIgFZiUw=s1082" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="813" data-original-width="1082" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj05KOdd2289pTyLxt7moyYh-uGbFIRge14RxXraKFvfL9phUmTXRS2LjGzg8nn-pblpfnFCWK83DNVECw16__Mlh7M4oKXNTOpz7maY0jQVuXly6n-Ctja6djxAO1L12vKhD_ygoHiDU9MD9kVCbl_hlLTVgMZFKadjBi0Gpo0CYJ1uLD5V0CIgFZiUw=w400-h300" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS Year: 1956 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Imagine Orson Welles's Charles Foster Kane inheriting a news outlet instead of a goldmine to buy one, and there you have Vincent Price's not so kind Walter Kyne, who, after his powerful but honest father dies, takes over Kyne Enterprises — with a familiar "K" symbol ala CITIZEN KANE — and sets the employees against each other...<br> <br> The winner must name a violent serial killer killing single women, making WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS part Film Noir and occasional Horror... </p><p></p><p>And it needs more of the latter from perhaps having too much of the first, character-wise: the overcrowded Kyne Corporation office ensemble includes whiskey-drinking career-newsroom chief Thomas Mitchell; sharp/flirtatious wire-service runner George Saunders; beyond flirtatious one-woman-womanizer James Craig; and star Andrews, surprisingly the least interesting character as the central newscaster... Although his scenes collaborating with token cop Howard Duff from THE NAKED CITY makes for worthy B&W crime scene Noir elements while a young, gnarly-looking John Barrymore Jr. takes the villain role albeit lacking motivation save the usual mommy issues: and even that's not really clarified...</p><span></span>

dana andrews, ensemble, fifties, film noir or melodrama, fritz lang, howard duff, ida lupino, rhonda fleming, sally forrest, serial killer, thomas mitchell, thriller, vincent price

FRITZ LANG DIRECTING DANA ANDREWS 'WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS'

Title: WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS Year: 1956 Rating: ***1/2 Imagine Orson Welles's Charles Foster Kane inheriting a news outlet instead of a ...

PHOTO GALLERY 'CURSE OF THE DEMON' FOR ANOTHER OCTOBRER

<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/AVvXsEizqB7rhKiOybwlWd3JSEed0OEndIcKMTbgbIeCluN6z0DuF3sGNZ8sTZyJUVeuBR2SDSXnAn9Oe3NGfw7n9YpqbLptnAE8rvDcVE8i-XsvS3i3Sd-BfFimchJ-jxvmhq98dwQfIjqHByWU29atpZWGVJGjJArcwiuzZIVOQijA9YyveEYBsFadsEVElw/s1455/1%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="902" data-original-width="1455" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizqB7rhKiOybwlWd3JSEed0OEndIcKMTbgbIeCluN6z0DuF3sGNZ8sTZyJUVeuBR2SDSXnAn9Oe3NGfw7n9YpqbLptnAE8rvDcVE8i-XsvS3i3Sd-BfFimchJ-jxvmhq98dwQfIjqHByWU29atpZWGVJGjJArcwiuzZIVOQijA9YyveEYBsFadsEVElw/s16000/1%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Cover of the British Blu Ray Box Set for NIGHT OF THE DEMON/CURSE OF THE DEMON</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>There have been two reviews on the Jacques Tourneur classic horror <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2018/12/DemonCurse.html">CURSE OF THE DEMON</a>, the American re-release title, and how it differs from the original British <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/10/NightCurse.html">NIGHT OF THE DEMON</a>, which these particular captures, celebrating this years' Halloween, derive...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Our favorite actor is Dana Andrews and favorite director is Jacques Tourneur, making either DEMON a favorite horror that combines American cinema thrills and leading man, a French auteur and everything else belongs to the British including locations (including Stonehenge), character-actors and leading lady, Peggy Cummins...</p><p><span></span></p>

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PHOTO GALLERY 'CURSE OF THE DEMON' FOR ANOTHER OCTOBRER

Cover of the British Blu Ray Box Set for NIGHT OF THE DEMON/CURSE OF THE DEMON There have been two reviews on the Jacques Tourneur classic h...

DANA ANDREWS BREAKS INTO 'FAMILY AFFAIR' WITH BRIAN KEITH

<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/AVvXsEg_k1ylqTYa8ByuND2Mat6CyrvVA-VoFyqqRDRrH6TXHPe6KT1fjPkBLk18pNJ5DlG3bgarlOrQXUFQBFxNPCBoTad0_zI5kCIXx7Ftl6m8dEEB_naMZKO092YcCsq1czZM53r-BmzCXiMtd7zDzDyMaT0t-ZTA-WZiqu0nl1PiQXA9N3UeX52_KVPAjw/s1390/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="890" data-original-width="1390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_k1ylqTYa8ByuND2Mat6CyrvVA-VoFyqqRDRrH6TXHPe6KT1fjPkBLk18pNJ5DlG3bgarlOrQXUFQBFxNPCBoTad0_zI5kCIXx7Ftl6m8dEEB_naMZKO092YcCsq1czZM53r-BmzCXiMtd7zDzDyMaT0t-ZTA-WZiqu0nl1PiQXA9N3UeX52_KVPAjw/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Dana Andrews on FAMILY AFFAIR: THE WINGS OF AN ANGEL Year: 1969 Grade: A </u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>By 1969, former Hollywood star <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/dana%20andrews">Dana Andrews</a> was bridging villain parts in big-budget movies, hero parts in low-budget movies, and random television guest spots, like on FAMILY AFFAIR Season 4's THE WINGS OF AN ANGEL opposite Brian Keith (right before Dana landed his own soap opera BRIGHT FUTURE), whose father Robert Keith played his would-be father-in-law in <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/08/wigg.html">MY FOOLISH HEART</a>...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Here, as a white collar ex-con fresh out of prison, Dana's Harv Mullen stays at the Davis apartment, but soon Buffy and Jodie get paranoid: he hides his piggy-bank, she hides her doll's mock-jewelry while progressive Sissy gives Harv a scholastic interview about prison life, eventually making the poor guy so overwhelmed he almost leaves... until, like all classic sitcoms, everything's resolved by a soft fatherly lecture about how prisoners are people too. <br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

anissa jones, brian keith, dana andrews, johnny whitaker, kathy garver, prison, sebastian cabot, sixties, tv series

DANA ANDREWS BREAKS INTO 'FAMILY AFFAIR' WITH BRIAN KEITH

Dana Andrews on FAMILY AFFAIR: THE WINGS OF AN ANGEL Year: 1969 Grade: A By 1969, former Hollywood star Dana Andrews was bridging villain p...

DANA ANDREWS IN 'THE FROZEN DEAD' FEATURING ANNA PALK

<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/AVvXsEjEu1ZC-M1cf58b0Dk324pZkIxNQIR3CgX0iUOPVSK69HynUyU1OFnDH8bJ-h6keeCHxChw94QcDgSjY3l7LedYy9msDKD3SMmgYMTgO6mqvR_fLQ7ngqPBvjUNBvIGQUCjN5uZO6Lfi7wknft2wuw-eqAZty7BM_lOTN_1GHBP55Y9K0FxQ9mT_LjZlw/s1685/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-27%20at%2011.14.27%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="827" data-original-width="1685" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEu1ZC-M1cf58b0Dk324pZkIxNQIR3CgX0iUOPVSK69HynUyU1OFnDH8bJ-h6keeCHxChw94QcDgSjY3l7LedYy9msDKD3SMmgYMTgO6mqvR_fLQ7ngqPBvjUNBvIGQUCjN5uZO6Lfi7wknft2wuw-eqAZty7BM_lOTN_1GHBP55Y9K0FxQ9mT_LjZlw/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-27%20at%2011.14.27%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Dana Andrews with Anna Palk in THE FROZEN DEAD Year: 1966 Rating: **</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Dana Andrews plays a German Nazi scientist in the modern era (1966) while his gorgeous niece, played by Anna Palk, who initially visited her father's manor with a friend, who quickly vanishes by morning... and both ingenues makes this almost worth the price of admission and the torture of sitting through... almost... <br> <br> The previous year Andrews played another... well not a mad scientist but more an impatient one from CRACK IN THE WORLD while his time, Dana's Dr. Norberg keeps his cool, acting gentlemanly...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><span></span>

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DANA ANDREWS IN 'THE FROZEN DEAD' FEATURING ANNA PALK

Dana Andrews with Anna Palk in THE FROZEN DEAD Year: 1966 Rating: ** Dana Andrews plays a German Nazi scientist in the modern era (1966) wh...

DANA ANDREWS AND JANE POWELL IN 'ENCHANTED ISLAND'

<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/AVvXsEjWgNdFxPP-xyRYWjY4RAxZ68SrdD_mvzzEdANqDutd5UBMz7MzpRb0br9KO5TXqKYph_OUg1B46cG_EzIzd26tGT9IrlJ0l1qcw6h8V1BADpviXHvdF7LhSPkkjs2tsfFDmz36Kx-ZV4rBZ3MOqWsnRM7v3ziQv9Lr9f6Oljq2aXFXUIWPbdYa0_STfQ/s1484/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="852" data-original-width="1484" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWgNdFxPP-xyRYWjY4RAxZ68SrdD_mvzzEdANqDutd5UBMz7MzpRb0br9KO5TXqKYph_OUg1B46cG_EzIzd26tGT9IrlJ0l1qcw6h8V1BADpviXHvdF7LhSPkkjs2tsfFDmz36Kx-ZV4rBZ3MOqWsnRM7v3ziQv9Lr9f6Oljq2aXFXUIWPbdYa0_STfQ/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: ENCHANTED ISLAND Year: 1958 Rating: **</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In the 1940's, minimalist Dana Andrews seemed like a real person in movies surrounded by actors... but by the mid-to-late 1950's he sometimes looked like a hired stock actor completely misplaced, especially for the Hermann Melville adaptation of Typee titled ENCHANTED ISLAND...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Where he and equally miscast Don Dubbins are two sailors from a late 9th Century ship (captained by a grouchy Ted de Corsia) that lands on the titular South Pacific location, and they aren't allowed to have fun with the loose native girls...</p><p><span></span></p>

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DANA ANDREWS AND JANE POWELL IN 'ENCHANTED ISLAND'

Title: ENCHANTED ISLAND Year: 1958 Rating: ** In the 1940's, minimalist Dana Andrews seemed like a real person in movies surrounded by a...

DANA ANDREWS, LINDA CRISTAL AND KENT SMITH IN 'COMANCHE'

<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/AVvXsEh50RN9_4HD-itz4TngFI69vkcTRLpEeM9SeU54NG86OAQWRkOm3IStvUE_rSy1g1hp8nng9ptWG-3V2q3zIXZObtDdgxcHVZI-sMseZZ1UFAu3MgFJQRqfsPxUtBaRwQz90lpy3U-mefNtYVnIpfge9xwI2JjJ3PPjx3DjHpagmn4t4waWPBRbOjBEDg/s1039/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="652" data-original-width="1039" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh50RN9_4HD-itz4TngFI69vkcTRLpEeM9SeU54NG86OAQWRkOm3IStvUE_rSy1g1hp8nng9ptWG-3V2q3zIXZObtDdgxcHVZI-sMseZZ1UFAu3MgFJQRqfsPxUtBaRwQz90lpy3U-mefNtYVnIpfge9xwI2JjJ3PPjx3DjHpagmn4t4waWPBRbOjBEDg/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Dana Andrews in COMANCHE Year: 1966 Rating: 1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Many Westerns, started around this time, the mid-to-late 1950's, will have a white character more compassionate to the Indians and for <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/dana%20andrews">Dana Andrews</a>, as a scout named Jim Read, this was familiar territory since he'd recently played a similar character in <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/07/rapids.html">SMOKE SIGNAL</a>, which had enough action to make up for all the preaching... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And the latter is about all COMANCHE has within a series of meetings between the hilariously miscast blond-haired Kent Smith as, of all things, an Indian Chief of the titular tribe, about to do battle with... not white men this time but Mexicans who've been exploiting Indians and their scalps...</p><p><span></span></p>

adventure, dana andrews, fifties, harry brandon, kent smith, linda cristal, melodrama, western

DANA ANDREWS, LINDA CRISTAL AND KENT SMITH IN 'COMANCHE'

Dana Andrews in COMANCHE Year: 1966 Rating: 1/2 Many Westerns, started around this time, the mid-to-late 1950's, will have a white chara...

DANA ANDREWS, JEANNE CRAIN & MIMSY FARMER 'HOT RODS TO HELL'

<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/AVvXsEiDyYtW48spn5qEdB8uaBZliUw_TFn3yA2ugIXnzxQlqEcCd-YhjhEKPCgMfYjMaua3rxodUPYo0kTgx4U73JkcvoG0JTkdKLsovLV2wOJmQ5F91iA9MoeReNSAY3ekq5hQq8jbSVP-evL4H4EFUTUXfQ4zuEk6FvWlIEovKz-iNTPQoD0jaum9a9N-LynG/s1733/12%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="921" data-original-width="1733" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDyYtW48spn5qEdB8uaBZliUw_TFn3yA2ugIXnzxQlqEcCd-YhjhEKPCgMfYjMaua3rxodUPYo0kTgx4U73JkcvoG0JTkdKLsovLV2wOJmQ5F91iA9MoeReNSAY3ekq5hQq8jbSVP-evL4H4EFUTUXfQ4zuEk6FvWlIEovKz-iNTPQoD0jaum9a9N-LynG/s16000/12%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: HOT RODS TO HELL Year: 1966 Rating: ***1/2 Camp Score: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>"The horns blowing, the lights, the brakes," says a jaded and nerve-wracked wreck of a middle-aged former salesman Dana Andrews to wife Jeanne Crain. "Jingle bells (on the radio), the whole thing!" </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>Yet HOT RODS TO HELL only <i>begins</i> as a Christmas movie after East Coast traveling-salesman Dana Andrews suffers a major car accident on December 24th, and, after months of traction, winds up with a motel in Arizona... But only IF he and his family can survive the red convertible (titular) menace with only 80 miles left to their new destination...</p><span></span>

action, cult, dana andrews, drive-in, gene kirkwood, george ives, jeanne crain, laurie mock, mimsy farmer, race, road movie, sixties

DANA ANDREWS, JEANNE CRAIN & MIMSY FARMER 'HOT RODS TO HELL'

Title: HOT RODS TO HELL Year: 1966 Rating: ***1/2 Camp Score: **** "The horns blowing, the lights, the brakes," says a jaded and n...

FLASHBACK TO WARNER'S AIRLINE DISASTER 'THE CROWDED SKY'

<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><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/AVvXsEiX5ZJ3ao4Dfm4pGM80mvNxFMzK8UFc6gfO2vPSBTpOqRjKKEjgG1lcELZ-Oqd2FTutG90oOFfwa3d2Eh6FV2hC2Z4PJL-dyT57Tq448OdWiJ9HUK8a_HfBW-uKo7rFGm89LJW9AfrXFlHxzkZm_Or-FGGZpQzJ2sG4JqN2iskGtlWOOROux8AGTGAkCCGQ/s2246/Screen%20Shot%202024-01-27%20at%201.20.06%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1172" data-original-width="2246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX5ZJ3ao4Dfm4pGM80mvNxFMzK8UFc6gfO2vPSBTpOqRjKKEjgG1lcELZ-Oqd2FTutG90oOFfwa3d2Eh6FV2hC2Z4PJL-dyT57Tq448OdWiJ9HUK8a_HfBW-uKo7rFGm89LJW9AfrXFlHxzkZm_Or-FGGZpQzJ2sG4JqN2iskGtlWOOROux8AGTGAkCCGQ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-01-27%20at%201.20.06%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>John Kerr with Joe Mantell & Dana Andrews in THE CROWDED SKY Year: 1960 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In one of the most bizarre airplane disaster films, Dana Andrews, fresh from playing the original Ted Stryker in ZERO HOUR that, decades later, became AIRPLANE, flies again, only this time on purpose as his commercial jet and its passengers are juxtaposed by two Navy men on a peace-time 1960 jet-fighter mission to Washington D. C. simply because the youngest, Troy Donahue, needs to see his girl... <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></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>Meanwhile Navy lifer Efrem Zimbalist Jr is tumbling from a bad marriage with Technicolor Queen Rhonda Fleming, second-billed despite never boarding either the big or small destined-to-collide vehicle but given sporadic flashbacks (featuring sulky daughter Karen Green) from her husband's winsome reveries...</p><p><span></span></p>

anne francis, dana andrews, disaster, efrem zimbalist jr., joe mantell, john kerr, joseph pevney, karen green, keenan wynn, rhonda fleming, romance, sixties, troy donahue, warner archives

FLASHBACK TO WARNER'S AIRLINE DISASTER 'THE CROWDED SKY'

John Kerr with Joe Mantell & Dana Andrews in THE CROWDED SKY Year: 1960 Rating: ***1/2 In one of the most bizarre airplane disaster film...