VINCE EDWARDS WITH JUDY GEESON & DIANA DORS IN 'HAMMERHEAD'

<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/AVvXsEiuytAqQXeWwxyhYDNS9vu6FDbA1C69hKCVyg6hwn5IfHYQvQi9qYhGPyvLh_zm2zMX7UKBLVWc3ddTSF1tVfCZztDNmZKMmcngsMuzVl4hmgNghybdeLVFo4JqhfhDfXAhRYLp5pm-KMDOvHJ82z6A2MLcPlGAL18E7F7tyo111uU38iAXZqeKqWFhGxQl/s2090/DD.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="964" data-original-width="2090" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuytAqQXeWwxyhYDNS9vu6FDbA1C69hKCVyg6hwn5IfHYQvQi9qYhGPyvLh_zm2zMX7UKBLVWc3ddTSF1tVfCZztDNmZKMmcngsMuzVl4hmgNghybdeLVFo4JqhfhDfXAhRYLp5pm-KMDOvHJ82z6A2MLcPlGAL18E7F7tyo111uU38iAXZqeKqWFhGxQl/s16000/DD.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Vince Edwards and Judy Geeson in HAMMERHEAD Year: 1968 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Irwin Allen's production HAMMERHEAD is yet another James Bond clone, released at the peak of the jazz-driven, horn-blasting, colorfully-vibrant, boisterously-flamboyant, dancing-girl Swinging-60's...<br><br>Where a swarthy sex symbol from the previous decade lethargically jaunts from a British nightclub to a plush yacht to canvas-decorated castle interiors to a street party in Lisbon, Portugal... <br></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/AVvXsEhdlZ2V9h0arvCOeZcwlHkIY21BZLpZtiED2UUm8Qx2RxQmyS9lGmDt1g4gZejgD2cyIG9UdvkaH7a1rh5Pr6-CsXecflgnaF_qUfzhhKRN_BFTF2dVbQ0bp8NIf5AdsI3BmftdPEEQuMFqf9yF5rzZeYUkWwrIZKgwIN8XJc6QBn-6f2p37QiEqwZmf1bj/s2092/Screen%20Shot%202025-12-01%20at%2011.52.46%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="770" data-original-width="2092" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdlZ2V9h0arvCOeZcwlHkIY21BZLpZtiED2UUm8Qx2RxQmyS9lGmDt1g4gZejgD2cyIG9UdvkaH7a1rh5Pr6-CsXecflgnaF_qUfzhhKRN_BFTF2dVbQ0bp8NIf5AdsI3BmftdPEEQuMFqf9yF5rzZeYUkWwrIZKgwIN8XJc6QBn-6f2p37QiEqwZmf1bj/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-12-01%20at%2011.52.46%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>From Irwin Allen's HAMMERHEAD</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>While the only intriguing aspect that keeps American Vince Edwards' undercover agent Charles Hood interested is British blonde beauty Judy Geeson, who flirtatiously frolics around (competing with lanky Dorothy Adams and voluptuous Diana Dors) as he investigates the titular HAMMERHEAD... <br><br>Who, played by character-actor Peter Vaughan (guarded by future Darth Vader David Prowse), is an art-collecting billionaire with the usual cliche agenda on controlling the world — but it's never quite clear exactly how, or why.  </p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, beverly adams, david prowse, diana dors, irwin allen, jazz-score, judy geeson, kenneth cope, patrick cargill, peter vaughan, sixties, spy, vince edwards

VINCE EDWARDS WITH JUDY GEESON & DIANA DORS IN 'HAMMERHEAD'

Vince Edwards and Judy Geeson in HAMMERHEAD Year: 1968 Rating: **1/2 Irwin Allen's production HAMMERHEAD is yet another James Bond clone...

TERENCE FISHER DIRECTS DIANA DORS IN HAMMER'S 'MAN BAIT'

<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/AVvXsEg1SuOytRPDlSILJhEvueNk1-I93rnyL42ebSQ4ASQlvrKC6XcXmV3Q81zgnowN9D5CTfeD5wRolR4wlF2d2CfYVthOw8MEH3jSFHzFK0QG9pwSSkNuSWt2nHLH3y1XTiUaSmym2beSzkQJhTVEyD2aIyDeo_Y8U-LJqGmf7oS5nLn8pEBQhQyQdxX_9AGd/s2138/Screen%20Shot%202025-01-15%20at%209.21.32%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1238" data-original-width="2138" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1SuOytRPDlSILJhEvueNk1-I93rnyL42ebSQ4ASQlvrKC6XcXmV3Q81zgnowN9D5CTfeD5wRolR4wlF2d2CfYVthOw8MEH3jSFHzFK0QG9pwSSkNuSWt2nHLH3y1XTiUaSmym2beSzkQJhTVEyD2aIyDeo_Y8U-LJqGmf7oS5nLn8pEBQhQyQdxX_9AGd/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-01-15%20at%209.21.32%20PM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: MAN BAIT aka THE LAST PAGE Year: 1952 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Following <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/05/BadBlonde.html">BAD BLONDE</a>, here's another Hammer British Film Noir dealing with a blonde: in this case, beautiful Diana Dors, where any expression wields not only a full-lipped pout, but a seductively vicious pout as the story, centering on blackmail at a high-end English bookstore, slowly... through chatty exposition dialogue... unfolds...<br><br>Dors plays Ruby Bruce, whose stunning appearance alone turns men into jelly. Although her rich boss, with a lucrative insurance policy, is tougher than most pawns: So Ruby teams with ex-convict con man Jeffrey Hart to collect the money as the slow, meticulous nature in which the plot pans out is intriguing... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

blackmail, british film noir, diana dors, fifties, george brent, hammer films, hammer noir, marguerite chapman, meredith edwards, peter reynolds, terence fisher

TERENCE FISHER DIRECTS DIANA DORS IN HAMMER'S 'MAN BAIT'

Title: MAN BAIT aka THE LAST PAGE Year: 1952 Rating: ***1/2 Following BAD BLONDE , here's another Hammer British Film Noir dealing with ...

VICTOR MATURE WITH DIANA DORS TRUCKING IN 'THE LONG HAUL'

<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/AVvXsEhds55toXEPVh93M7s_m1hwQIvZ0gsZe_ioJVC2oqlcangr_0lmx5FfQRUOmoH9CNWjbSXj6cr8D_xGNyYs8zeTUjSgqJGNyUqqgelZDh-aH2Hi8oLN0JKpjdCdyVC2SYWGlvThb6R2LcZGhpbC61luLbXGjD1tNBV5IoMZrMlkmEA0DNuaQDCFjoy0nA7X/s1584/370584764_1791579744604527_233743414952011159_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1078" data-original-width="1584" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhds55toXEPVh93M7s_m1hwQIvZ0gsZe_ioJVC2oqlcangr_0lmx5FfQRUOmoH9CNWjbSXj6cr8D_xGNyYs8zeTUjSgqJGNyUqqgelZDh-aH2Hi8oLN0JKpjdCdyVC2SYWGlvThb6R2LcZGhpbC61luLbXGjD1tNBV5IoMZrMlkmEA0DNuaQDCFjoy0nA7X/s16000/370584764_1791579744604527_233743414952011159_n.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE LONG HAUL Year: 1957 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>What begins as a kind of lightweight <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/09/HellDrivers.html">HELL DRIVERS</a> with token Yankee Victor Mature joining a breakneck trucking company, having to drive as quickly and dangerously as possible, far too quickly turns into an ON THE WATERFRONT of crooked British hauling... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Where a time-worn yet leathery-tough Mature... sprung from Army life and stuck in Liverpool with a wife who wants to stay put (plus a young son)... screws up company mob boss Patrick Allen's caper of robbing his own business: Thus making both the verbal and physical altercations between Mature (with plucky sidekick Liam Redmond) and Allen... equally square-jawed, stubborn and no-nonsense... fairly entertaining Noir... </p><p><span></span></p>

british film noir/melodrama, caper, diana dors, fifties, gene anderson, liam redmond, patrick allen, truck, victor mature

VICTOR MATURE WITH DIANA DORS TRUCKING IN 'THE LONG HAUL'

Title: THE LONG HAUL Year: 1957 Rating: ***1/2 What begins as a kind of lightweight HELL DRIVERS with token Yankee Victor Mature joining a ...

JANE ASHER HYPNOTICALLY DIVES INTO THE CURIO OF 'DEEP END'

<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/AVvXsEjJqsh6-Kzl6k6IajEEjz3Aini8IEl865Y7UiFlRKfF6R0GTCDKzW6er28VaYWl1NbN36wVvOYFEPjsgyyjzJueEASMpNpgWHdIctwhJJfa81KI4Sg8wjuJQKK9xNwLnsfOAAhRPRPXE47XBc-lntBeauCCOLeuLFkv8aLfyOPVx1URn5LaQ3E498V6fzfP/s2058/1%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1312" data-original-width="2058" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJqsh6-Kzl6k6IajEEjz3Aini8IEl865Y7UiFlRKfF6R0GTCDKzW6er28VaYWl1NbN36wVvOYFEPjsgyyjzJueEASMpNpgWHdIctwhJJfa81KI4Sg8wjuJQKK9xNwLnsfOAAhRPRPXE47XBc-lntBeauCCOLeuLFkv8aLfyOPVx1URn5LaQ3E498V6fzfP/s16000/1%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jane Asher in DEEP END Year: 1971 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Had a more genuinely expressive, professionally-trained young actor starred in Jerzy Skolimowski's DEEP END, about virginal fifteen-year-old John Moulder-Brown working at a fictional English town's Newford Baths, this half British/half German production would be far less an exploitive art-piece and more a PEEPING TOM, TWISTED NERVE or PSYCHO style thriller — but then Jane Asher wouldn't be nearly as important...</p><p></p><p></p><p>She's a glib and worldly, experienced and extremely flirtatious bathhouse employee who shows the new kid around: in one scene failing what seems a rudimentary seduction after he timidly dodges an aggressive (and older) Diana Dors — this is obviously a place to heat-up more than cool-down... </p><span></span>

arthouse, cult, diana dors, drama, exploitation, jane asher, john moulder-brown, seventies

JANE ASHER HYPNOTICALLY DIVES INTO THE CURIO OF 'DEEP END'

Jane Asher in DEEP END Year: 1971 Rating: ***1/2 Had a more genuinely expressive, professionally-trained young actor starred in Jerzy Skolim...

DIANA DORS IN 'YIELD TO THE NIGHT' WITH MICHAEL CRAIG

<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/AVvXsEgt6hYS4ZBA--eezjO5bkYMg6gFwrG3XkVjz9rzhhaKb9ihVED8DEu2vo4N172gzor9l8rER4it-yix5sGzseed4I4bHhvPtw1hzXeh_neoUB04rinD_SRTHmjif_YJnDHRye4MSJgQLkbqJrelSTIYi8QSmbhixqAPsZf8jBrEr4zsaK6TLUQv_2DD8Dmo/s1060/darker.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="554" data-original-width="1060" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt6hYS4ZBA--eezjO5bkYMg6gFwrG3XkVjz9rzhhaKb9ihVED8DEu2vo4N172gzor9l8rER4it-yix5sGzseed4I4bHhvPtw1hzXeh_neoUB04rinD_SRTHmjif_YJnDHRye4MSJgQLkbqJrelSTIYi8QSmbhixqAPsZf8jBrEr4zsaK6TLUQv_2DD8Dmo/s16000/darker.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Diana Dors in YIELD TO THE NIGHT Year: 1956 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The true life capital punishment expose YIELD TO THE NIGHT had its name changed to BLONDE SINNER, with poster images focusing on a gun-wielding, femme-fatale type in the full-lipped Marilyn Monroe of England, Diana Dors, smitten by her seemingly bad boy boyfriend in lounge piano player Michael Craig...</p><p></p><p></p><p>But this 1950's J. Lee Thompson vehicle is more melodrama than any kind of thriller, mostly taken place inside a death row cell where Dors, as condemned Mary Hilton, strikes up a dialog-filled friendship with lady guard Yvonne Mitchell...</p><p><span></span></p>

biopic, british, british film noir, crime, diana dors, fifties, j. lee thompson, liam redmond, michael craig, michael ripper, prison

DIANA DORS IN 'YIELD TO THE NIGHT' WITH MICHAEL CRAIG

Diana Dors in YIELD TO THE NIGHT Year: 1956 Rating: **1/2 The true life capital punishment expose YIELD TO THE NIGHT had its name changed to...

FINAL SEASON KICKOFF 'THE SWEENEY: MESSENGER OF THE GODS'

<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/AVvXsEi-yZwVuz_MND3XvaSQmr__-VqhgiqtxMal9dgSaO_KAQiavzDq4Y_EOTkNePuq_pstKx9SjcHGPvPJ6KEGcqMihWLw0AE8964X_LXqj0MP53BAwbJoOssKTKqhBSyGzaDhKUT9dfmMglWSdWwMmGkdOMvVBRVTrMn0VotGvNtpNE5LivAGf_PfHzIW0g/s2002/Screen%20Shot%202022-03-28%20at%208.58.16%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1230" data-original-width="2002" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-yZwVuz_MND3XvaSQmr__-VqhgiqtxMal9dgSaO_KAQiavzDq4Y_EOTkNePuq_pstKx9SjcHGPvPJ6KEGcqMihWLw0AE8964X_LXqj0MP53BAwbJoOssKTKqhBSyGzaDhKUT9dfmMglWSdWwMmGkdOMvVBRVTrMn0VotGvNtpNE5LivAGf_PfHzIW0g/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-03-28%20at%208.58.16%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>John Thaw and Michael Tarn in The Sweeney: Messenger of the Gods Year: 1978 Rates: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Although THE SWEENEY final season's kickoff episode MESSENGER OF THE GODS is basically an outlet for former <i>British Marilyn Monroe </i>blonde-bombshell Diana Dors to guest star in her middle-age overweight boisterous persona, and the central guest star looks like a brat teenager who'd hang out with Leif Garrett in a disco, it's probably the best episode from the final run that had pretty much run its course...<br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Following two feature films after season/series three, by four THE SWEENEY got noticeably cheaper, taking place mostly indoors compared to the authentic exterior action of the earlier seasons... but despite some overboard comedic aspects, MESSENGER still belonged to the gritty streets, and of John Thaw's Inspector Regan and his young protege Sergeant Carter played by Dennis Waterman, the latter takes the most risks...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, british, crime, dennis waterman, diana dors, john thaw, michael tarn, sweeney

FINAL SEASON KICKOFF 'THE SWEENEY: MESSENGER OF THE GODS'

John Thaw and Michael Tarn in The Sweeney: Messenger of the Gods Year: 1978 Rates: **** Although THE SWEENEY final season's kickoff epis...