FLORINDA BOLKAN 'A LIZARD IN A WOMAN'S SKIN' STANLEY BAKER

<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/AVvXsEhryZEwIbOIBinC_dQ2AOYZnQYr__s4KYWeDN6hzZJPGwVM0qPU4yS3wIjN-f-IYYuFTzNv07nBk35UAMX1QHdiblIB8mJX4D-erykx62dgCVBLBi_nzNaQ5bJ1-aOxiZ9S8DGWRZ3C_1SBEKixLGdfKguGVahHBEZEAtZxGhlkeoW_BeSWCUv5neuAIg/s1033/AVvXsEih9iA1hUI3E3jlni9F3mBHYJNmC8Evbmf-Dd81uKw3BbqUdD3g7T3c3B0EP4YiwTBkby6CpW_Bp3MOvtinANr2zh1NbzBYdeHOA6MvlOCNlsa_gLLR27M7qKbsH0IL_2gCfGS7mEraJIHj0wZtxfWm9yIsujY1ftB_aN1Arrooa5-vdizKA4wUivgQ6Q=s16000.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="509" data-original-width="1033" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhryZEwIbOIBinC_dQ2AOYZnQYr__s4KYWeDN6hzZJPGwVM0qPU4yS3wIjN-f-IYYuFTzNv07nBk35UAMX1QHdiblIB8mJX4D-erykx62dgCVBLBi_nzNaQ5bJ1-aOxiZ9S8DGWRZ3C_1SBEKixLGdfKguGVahHBEZEAtZxGhlkeoW_BeSWCUv5neuAIg/s16000/AVvXsEih9iA1hUI3E3jlni9F3mBHYJNmC8Evbmf-Dd81uKw3BbqUdD3g7T3c3B0EP4YiwTBkby6CpW_Bp3MOvtinANr2zh1NbzBYdeHOA6MvlOCNlsa_gLLR27M7qKbsH0IL_2gCfGS7mEraJIHj0wZtxfWm9yIsujY1ftB_aN1Arrooa5-vdizKA4wUivgQ6Q=s16000.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: A LIZARD IN A WOMAN'S SKIN Year: 1971 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Most <i>giallos</i>... offbeat Italian-made b-horror/thrillers.. look great with creative camera angles backed by crisp cinematography where blood is thicker and redder than ever... but the acting, even when filled with terrific actors, can often be lacking, perhaps because all the dialogue is so badly/noticeably dubbed... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>But in the case of Lucio Fulci's A LIZARD IN A WOMAN'S SKIN... where <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/stanley%20baker">Stanley Baker</a> plays the token snoopy cop... it's a whistle, <i>his </i>whistle, that awkwardly coincides with the Ennio Morricone score as if Baker's Inspector Corvin got the actual movie's soundtrack stuck in his head...</p><p><span></span></p>

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FLORINDA BOLKAN 'A LIZARD IN A WOMAN'S SKIN' STANLEY BAKER

Title: A LIZARD IN A WOMAN'S SKIN Year: 1971 Rating: *** Most giallos ... offbeat Italian-made b-horror/thrillers.. look great with crea...

MALCOLM MCDOWELL IN RICHARD LESTER'S 'ROYAL FLASH'

<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/AVvXsEhyo9G4d8pb3AD7lIhAVBISbfUP_H0B68SSLZ5DUgRl7aGoHgN4dgN7etiNGd3F3Rj0jDLtksuy9YfrERCULExbwYbCxTVR2dcH8MthbJKfrttBvZ-E0QBgxQCkFbMSCeaa40d5Ioj3IZRS3frSCdoRLd2EfpwvWqRXadGiZsZlcD876oa0Kk2amIyMUg/s1192/AVvXsEjXFQ0SxL7sgxD2-qvXGrex3S2DD0dijlQsU01JiIFNOXQ8W1q5RC5XIXFFsjqBNdzSAzwqIMiucEdMWpWT01OX7ZFqttp9vV1_3_uXMOnhK8QsEFQGJO53v-wQWC5WuCG59LOV67aQ6FeSa0nPFjEcob0R22cC4BwUMcuktfVF2gzUy3s-36HRD-uvJA=s16000.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="648" data-original-width="1192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyo9G4d8pb3AD7lIhAVBISbfUP_H0B68SSLZ5DUgRl7aGoHgN4dgN7etiNGd3F3Rj0jDLtksuy9YfrERCULExbwYbCxTVR2dcH8MthbJKfrttBvZ-E0QBgxQCkFbMSCeaa40d5Ioj3IZRS3frSCdoRLd2EfpwvWqRXadGiZsZlcD876oa0Kk2amIyMUg/s16000/AVvXsEjXFQ0SxL7sgxD2-qvXGrex3S2DD0dijlQsU01JiIFNOXQ8W1q5RC5XIXFFsjqBNdzSAzwqIMiucEdMWpWT01OX7ZFqttp9vV1_3_uXMOnhK8QsEFQGJO53v-wQWC5WuCG59LOV67aQ6FeSa0nPFjEcob0R22cC4BwUMcuktfVF2gzUy3s-36HRD-uvJA=s16000.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Malcolm McDowell as Harry Flashman in ROYAL FLASH Year: 1975 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Malcolm McDowell himself stated via commentary he was perhaps miscast for the role of Captain Harry Flashman based on the popular British novels by George MacDonald Fraser (inspired by Thomas Hughes), and ironically, judging by the covers, Flashman's depiction is almost a dead-ringer to McDowell's ROYAL FLASH co-star Alan Bates...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Who would have then possibly fared better in the outwardly-perfect/inwardly-cowardice title role, giving his own secondary character to underused villain Oliver Reed, formidably scowling as ever and a solid leftover from director Richard Lester's THREE MUSKETEERS and FOUR MUSKETEERS...</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/a/AVvXsEglJ6rJ-HWX_PQhNmXZr3vCF2z1n4zFT7e8ELVmK_0B91no-P_cxSsv62bf6YMzMywKp9-HqufgdsMawAhLPPSSK5BOjXQevkJZMOb1PSzUlu1J0jt3X3NV10nNa5cnm6PgOakyzRAS_R9FRY9FF6pzhgNHDm-sJp3_cRUS2TH6LI0g3cYW2mzCLNq_Bg=s1354" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="669" data-original-width="1354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEglJ6rJ-HWX_PQhNmXZr3vCF2z1n4zFT7e8ELVmK_0B91no-P_cxSsv62bf6YMzMywKp9-HqufgdsMawAhLPPSSK5BOjXQevkJZMOb1PSzUlu1J0jt3X3NV10nNa5cnm6PgOakyzRAS_R9FRY9FF6pzhgNHDm-sJp3_cRUS2TH6LI0g3cYW2mzCLNq_Bg=s16000"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>ROYAL FLASH co-stars Oliver Reed and Alan Bates</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Successful films that consecutively proceeded this rather forgotten, overlooked anti-epic's epic sharing the same period-genre (herein the crest of the Victorian Era): only this fictional hero's surrounded by actual historic ones...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And IF the <i>Flashy </i>shoe didn't fit McDowell visually, he was, following A CLOCKWORK ORANGE and O LUCKY MAN, the perfect choice for an oblivious pawn thrown from one perilous misadventure into the next, overwhelmed while "riding the whirlwind" yet remaining the same knowingly-crooked scoundrel from beginning to end...</p><p><span></span></p>

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MALCOLM MCDOWELL IN RICHARD LESTER'S 'ROYAL FLASH'

Malcolm McDowell as Harry Flashman in ROYAL FLASH Year: 1975 Rating: ***1/2 Malcolm McDowell himself stated via commentary he was perhaps mi...