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Written by James M. Tate / 6/01/2025 / No comments / airplane , british , cy endfield , diane cilento , disaster , elizabeth sellars , fifties , jocelyn lane , mai zetterling , patrick allen , paul carpenter , richard attenborough , stanley baker , thriller , virginia maskell

STANLEY BAKER IN CY ENDFIELD'S AIRLINE DISASTER 'JET STORM'

<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/AVvXsEi6PsOtZW51zPCP_5z-l-EmTH93d0Xi_r6tT2f6rMDafTPIXkIIwVoslFW2OsEJ812wF_8_7sy27fyzLVrYcTJoEY6dy8nIKPQaYiIJGmyXb1ldE1XaLg9Vf5l8IGAK64c192d-aUGeG72TvjyFK5mNs5gDRCt6LpEdTAO17be-W3dUHZSHR-mBgt5TdHVv/s1702/Screen%20Shot%202025-06-01%20at%201.12.07%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1018" data-original-width="1702" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6PsOtZW51zPCP_5z-l-EmTH93d0Xi_r6tT2f6rMDafTPIXkIIwVoslFW2OsEJ812wF_8_7sy27fyzLVrYcTJoEY6dy8nIKPQaYiIJGmyXb1ldE1XaLg9Vf5l8IGAK64c192d-aUGeG72TvjyFK5mNs5gDRCt6LpEdTAO17be-W3dUHZSHR-mBgt5TdHVv/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-06-01%20at%201.12.07%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stanley Baker in JET STORM Year: 1959 Rating: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>The Pink Floyd lyric "Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way" could have summed up the entire undercurrent of the British airline-disaster JET STORM, the second collaboration of Blacklisted American director Cy Endfield and Welsh actor Stanley Baker... who became a bonafide movie star the previous year in their action/noir HELL DRIVERS...Yet here, Baker is second-billed in what's mostly an equal ensemble of passengers that he's the stalwart pilot of, trying to talk down psychotically hardboiled (first-billed) Richard Attenborough, who planted a bomb somewhere that could go off, sometime, because someone on board had killed his daughter in a hit-and-run accident years earlier...

airplane, british, cy endfield, diane cilento, disaster, elizabeth sellars, fifties, jocelyn lane, mai zetterling, patrick allen, paul carpenter, richard attenborough, stanley baker, thriller, virginia maskell

STANLEY BAKER IN CY ENDFIELD'S AIRLINE DISASTER 'JET STORM'

Stanley Baker in JET STORM Year: 1959 Rating: ***1/2 The Pink Floyd lyric "Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way" cou...

Written by James M. Tate / 11/26/2021 / No comments / bernard braden , claude dauphin , diane cilento , hammer films , jack hedley , neo noir , race car , ronald lewis , sixties , thriller , val guest

HAMMER'S 'STOP ME BEFORE I KILL' AKA 'THE FULL TREATMENT'

<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/a/AVvXsEgo7ZuzJwwtQWo9V1CvjRWVhbmY9hCRGGSg_EaDBx7ORSOF3_B_Fgrjp17ZHs34Dty-3C4HT0fU7blVxbtxnIJQzPlFwNMXHJKdpmH98b8xQR5Bhw3JNw_JA7zSvbN9j9B7fhyX1j_LlLPYi9nzPI-BlSago96MKQuVWRmf8tFkctYXm6YcucSZfF48Jw=s1006" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="593" data-original-width="1006" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgo7ZuzJwwtQWo9V1CvjRWVhbmY9hCRGGSg_EaDBx7ORSOF3_B_Fgrjp17ZHs34Dty-3C4HT0fU7blVxbtxnIJQzPlFwNMXHJKdpmH98b8xQR5Bhw3JNw_JA7zSvbN9j9B7fhyX1j_LlLPYi9nzPI-BlSago96MKQuVWRmf8tFkctYXm6YcucSZfF48Jw=s16000"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Claude Dauphin and Ronald Lewis in THE FULL TREATMENT Year: 1960 Rates: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>For a lovely, talented Australian actress (who worked mostly in England), Diane Cilento made a horribly annoying French girl in an otherwise edgy, deliberately nervewracking film by director Val Guest working again for Hammer...And THE FULL TREATMENT was retitled STOP ME BEFORE I KILL probably because it didn't sound... Hammery enough... but like Guest's HELL IS A CITY, it's not horror but neo noir...

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HAMMER'S 'STOP ME BEFORE I KILL' AKA 'THE FULL TREATMENT'

Claude Dauphin and Ronald Lewis in THE FULL TREATMENT Year: 1960 Rates: ***1/2 For a lovely, talented Australian actress (who worked mostly ...

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