MEMORIAL POST OF ROBERT DUVALL IN 'ROUTE 66: THE NEWBORN'

<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/AVvXsEj883IzC-EiXGj4ZzV7YyjpxTJcteW9oIncE51x1ddnxlzKmiFkYcztvb8f1Ob6NwsIwnOwzejzoH8CahLGPIL0ULBAW7Vn3RwQb_0YgrFK7LXrJnnp3fgra5SagkrhXDdSBK8F_eQD7lKpKgFcQ6o1aQp22BNZEGPr4DbzEUn6D5oXFsFS0gFNL7CniBK4/s2472/Screen%20Shot%202026-02-21%20at%206.54.12%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1534" data-original-width="2472" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj883IzC-EiXGj4ZzV7YyjpxTJcteW9oIncE51x1ddnxlzKmiFkYcztvb8f1Ob6NwsIwnOwzejzoH8CahLGPIL0ULBAW7Vn3RwQb_0YgrFK7LXrJnnp3fgra5SagkrhXDdSBK8F_eQD7lKpKgFcQ6o1aQp22BNZEGPr4DbzEUn6D5oXFsFS0gFNL7CniBK4/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-02-21%20at%206.54.12%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert Duvall in ROUTE 66: THE NEWBORN Year: 1961 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In two episodes of ROUTE 66 featuring Robert Duvall that starred both lead actors Martin Milner and George Maharis, someone winds up very physically ill and the boys have to stick around to help...<br><br>The episode where Duvall's most known is BIRDCAGE ON MY FOOT, as a heroin addict suffering violent withdrawals, using his intense method-acting realism that'd become his signature legacy... supported in a dingy apartment mainly by Maharis, who, a bad boy from the slums of New York, knows not only about addiction but the consequences... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

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MEMORIAL POST OF ROBERT DUVALL IN 'ROUTE 66: THE NEWBORN'

Robert Duvall in ROUTE 66: THE NEWBORN Year: 1961 Rating: **1/2 In two episodes of ROUTE 66 featuring Robert Duvall that starred both lead a...

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>

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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...

CARROLL BAKER'S 'SYLVIA' INVESTIGATED BY GEORGE MAHARIS

<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/AVvXsEimET0B6Y_u80rfvvkEx1oZVlDy4FWhMHsntQ8gbLgq-Uv8hwVqSrwf68vQ4HEEixmf-binpPu-5cCbJPK9oB1Use5y3GjbolGfuJa4wuNeq_QyreccEW1P_wxO5FubD_8my_Wm9NXNDO9ax_jmHVLFbe9h0cpQNOZlAvm6npRAtkdGBQX-8QxfbCnm3A/s1518/Screen%20Shot%202023-06-14%20at%202.40.31%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1146" data-original-width="1518" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimET0B6Y_u80rfvvkEx1oZVlDy4FWhMHsntQ8gbLgq-Uv8hwVqSrwf68vQ4HEEixmf-binpPu-5cCbJPK9oB1Use5y3GjbolGfuJa4wuNeq_QyreccEW1P_wxO5FubD_8my_Wm9NXNDO9ax_jmHVLFbe9h0cpQNOZlAvm6npRAtkdGBQX-8QxfbCnm3A/w400-h303/Screen%20Shot%202023-06-14%20at%202.40.31%20AM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: SYLVIA Year: 1965 Rating: **</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Beginning as a new take on the classic film noir THE BIG SLEEP, where a comfortably stricken rich man hires a streetwise private eye to investigate his missing daughter: well it's a fiance this time, here played by the lovely yet moodily enigmatic Carroll Baker, morphing from an older street-urchin to a younger well-read lush, and, in-place of a slowburn crime thriller is a jigsaw-puzzle study of a then-modern woman, pieced together by Maharis like the reporter in CITIZEN KANE...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>So half of SYLVIA are flashbacks consisting of the title character, a runaway who grew up in a poor, abusive family, wandering from various homes, mostly man to man, as the kind of prostitute you've probably never of since she doesn't seem to actually <i>sleep</i> with anyone while Maharis, surprisingly subdued in weary cruise-control compared to his edgy persona from TV's ROUTE 66, falls in love with this lovely phantom LAURA-style in Gordon Douglas's theatrical yet episodically-paced neo noir that... since 1965 was too progressive for subtlety and too regressed for daring exploitation... would have been far better either twenty-years earlier or ten years ahead. </p><span></span>

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CARROLL BAKER'S 'SYLVIA' INVESTIGATED BY GEORGE MAHARIS

Title: SYLVIA Year: 1965 Rating: ** Beginning as a new take on the classic film noir THE BIG SLEEP, where a comfortably stricken rich man hi...

GEORGE MAHARIS SABOTAGES THE TV-MOVIE 'DEATH FLIGHT'

<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/AVvXsEgFg-ldcKkLlNWd_mYrnF9-mEDBZXD9pbwNeZByDyASctUqdWbq46kGMPDYHeXYkObaurEUViZBCBWYnpu91MGA-mpG73mo0wSNaUvZjhErhzIGrwdATD4at7kD5aRnlnugbF2tRdTsj3GhnIMsQCcyQ6u5bhDDLpGBE7idZgJoUECqYe_4_FOqaQasPQ/s1840/Screen%20Shot%202023-06-01%20at%203.45.19%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1106" data-original-width="1840" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFg-ldcKkLlNWd_mYrnF9-mEDBZXD9pbwNeZByDyASctUqdWbq46kGMPDYHeXYkObaurEUViZBCBWYnpu91MGA-mpG73mo0wSNaUvZjhErhzIGrwdATD4at7kD5aRnlnugbF2tRdTsj3GhnIMsQCcyQ6u5bhDDLpGBE7idZgJoUECqYe_4_FOqaQasPQ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-06-01%20at%203.45.19%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>George Maharis up to no good for DEATH FLIGHT Year: 1977 Rates: ***1/2<br></u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Killing two birds with one stone... the death of ROUTE 66 star George Maharis, where two young men travel throughout various cities and towns of early-sixties America, and are actually filmed in each: this Corvette-driving combo of regular guy Martin Milner and intense guy Maharis had terrific chemistry, which it lasted, which wasn't long enough... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Because Maharis left towards the end of Season 3 of 4 seasons, replaced by dumb-jock actor Glenn Corbett, and, either way, it's a creative, sometimes bizarre pseudo-anthology, feeling like a hybrid of Jack Kerouac (who Maharis resembles, and whose novel ON THE ROAD was an inspiration) and Tennessee Williams: but is actually constructed by famous scriptwriter Stirling Silliphant, and featuring a host of future stars from Gene Hackman to Robert Duvall...</p><span></span>

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GEORGE MAHARIS SABOTAGES THE TV-MOVIE 'DEATH FLIGHT'

George Maharis up to no good for DEATH FLIGHT Year: 1977 Rates: ***1/2 Killing two birds with one stone... the death of ROUTE 66 star George...

FARRAH FAWCETT SERVES AIRLINE MYSTERY 'MURDER ON FLIGHT 502'

<p></p><p></p><table align="center" 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/AVvXsEhIVwr8ThObhvKnAFV3EYZcpjxzu_r2T9TOwrhku1JJGSF_HTZayUheymSqJ_KL38VuwL8oif1gHorBvtVWvUZCPZd8c8q01KYCAfOkGgiudmu_AYteuy6pe9QqIPCAwONJKHDCKsxBWSrRqqVwywhS6AsLD_C0sSPK2T0ZzHsuaUlqnlX95Jfz-JQ-pg/s1206/Screen%20Shot%202023-06-14%20at%202.02.32%20AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="940" data-original-width="1206" height="311" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIVwr8ThObhvKnAFV3EYZcpjxzu_r2T9TOwrhku1JJGSF_HTZayUheymSqJ_KL38VuwL8oif1gHorBvtVWvUZCPZd8c8q01KYCAfOkGgiudmu_AYteuy6pe9QqIPCAwONJKHDCKsxBWSrRqqVwywhS6AsLD_C0sSPK2T0ZzHsuaUlqnlX95Jfz-JQ-pg/w400-h311/Screen%20Shot%202023-06-14%20at%202.02.32%20AM.png" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Farrah Fawcett in Murder on Flight 502 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Different than most airline disaster flicks in that a gun's drawn literally minutes before the New York to England 747 makes a landing...</p><p>But MURDER ON FLIGHT 502 is really a whodunnit, and for a mystery it's pretty great; for a thriller it's surprisingly taut; as a TV movie it's creatively shot by <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/01/borden-frogs.html">FROGS</a> director George McCowan and, like the AIRPORT franchise, there's a B-list of ensemble actors ranging from Laraine Day to Dane Clark to Fernando Lamas, Danny Bonaduce, Hugh O'Brien, Theodore Bikel, Walter Pigeon, and Sonny Bono, a has-been rocker romancing the girl-next-door... </p><p></p><p></p><p>While the plane itself provides an intriguing set including a plush First Class section up to the cockpit where pilot Robert Stack stands between a doctor saving the life of one of several culprits, investigates the plane and passengers along with cop Hugh O'Brien as his co-pilot does the work. Meanwhile Farrah Fawcett... alone on the DVD cover as if this AIRLINE were her very own vehicle (three years before CHARLIE'S ANGELS, sharing producer Aaron Spelling)... is the perfect eye-candy stewardess, and able to actually act a few times since there's an ongoing tension. Even providing George Maharis some nice edgy scenes back at the tower, where most plane-in-peril thrillers remain on cruise control. </p><span></span>

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FARRAH FAWCETT SERVES AIRLINE MYSTERY 'MURDER ON FLIGHT 502'

Farrah Fawcett in Murder on Flight 502 Rating: **** Different than most airline disaster flicks in that a gun's drawn literally minutes ...