cult film freak: harlan ellison

Written by James M. Tate / 7/22/2023 / No comments / elke sommer , ernest borgnine , harlan ellison , hollywood satire , jean hale , jill st john , joseph cotten , melodrama , milton berle , rex holman , sixties , stephen boyd , tony bennett

STEPHEN BOYD, ELKE SOMMER AND TONY BENNETT IN 'THE OSCAR'

<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/AVvXsEiFz4PUXTiWbz63TnFScznxDXPq1siZkkYBj5X5cpDYU5wCYBkyDSQbI3TzytMU8UEEV-pEzRdOSJMV39dL3V_Pn_dFPB4XOIyQxpXhpVbQ2K_NkjyiKByjoLk33zrYcU4fLjxF5MI6y37uXUz3FhzzcupE2wSCin8JKtzhvDe4ZYQnyPHLchep9U8RXvlq/s871/oldest.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="550" data-original-width="871" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFz4PUXTiWbz63TnFScznxDXPq1siZkkYBj5X5cpDYU5wCYBkyDSQbI3TzytMU8UEEV-pEzRdOSJMV39dL3V_Pn_dFPB4XOIyQxpXhpVbQ2K_NkjyiKByjoLk33zrYcU4fLjxF5MI6y37uXUz3FhzzcupE2wSCin8JKtzhvDe4ZYQnyPHLchep9U8RXvlq/s16000/oldest.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stephen Boyd with Eleanor Parker or Jill St John in THE OSCAR Year: 1966 Rating: ***</td></tr></tbody></table>One of the most gloriously uncompromising Hollywood-set melodramas, THE OSCAR stars real life semi-star Stephen Boyd, whose chiselled looks and menacing countenance — beginning as the cheating gladiator in BEN HUR — made him more a leading villain than hero, and he plays both here...Starting as a backroom lowlife alongside passive yet equally-tough sidekick Tony Bennett and lush Jill St. John, he sneakily becomes an actor by manipulating the likes of New York stage director Eleanor Parker connected with Hollywood agent Milton Berle and studio chief Joseph Cotten...

elke sommer, ernest borgnine, harlan ellison, hollywood satire, jean hale, jill st john, joseph cotten, melodrama, milton berle, rex holman, sixties, stephen boyd, tony bennett

STEPHEN BOYD, ELKE SOMMER AND TONY BENNETT IN 'THE OSCAR'

Stephen Boyd with Eleanor Parker or Jill St John in THE OSCAR Year: 1966 Rating: *** One of the most gloriously uncompromising Hollywood-set...

Written by James M. Tate / 7/13/2022 / No comments / adventure , cult , don johnson , hal baylor , harlan ellison , horror , jason robards , l.q. jones , post-apocalyptic , science-fiction , seventies , susanne benton

DON JOHNSON WITH SUSANNE BENTON IN 'A BOY AND HIS DOG'

<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/AVvXsEjfjg_i1pAtNZKJeXEawtkGZVOvpgjITb7ETS61uGLkjh8usSipcX7Pbt_ZDNcDPr0Esq6O5KaKDmyVKQDcaPcUBLuIpLviAinwyTmJm-nbdfOEIssE2VJ69fG71oYDvaWsV7ojatAwp_kGuTbEtyLtJoVJWVh6t06EI92HEiF4BkI7IPjIU2Q8NQfP-g/s1803/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-11%20at%202.51.25%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="725" data-original-width="1803" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfjg_i1pAtNZKJeXEawtkGZVOvpgjITb7ETS61uGLkjh8usSipcX7Pbt_ZDNcDPr0Esq6O5KaKDmyVKQDcaPcUBLuIpLviAinwyTmJm-nbdfOEIssE2VJ69fG71oYDvaWsV7ojatAwp_kGuTbEtyLtJoVJWVh6t06EI92HEiF4BkI7IPjIU2Q8NQfP-g/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-11%20at%202.51.25%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: A BOY AND HIS DOG Pictured: Susanne Benton and Don Johnson Director: L.Q. Jones Year: 1975 Rating: ****</td></tr></tbody></table>Actor L.Q. Jones adapted and directed Harlan Ellison's A DOG AND HIS BOY, creating a post-apocalyptic wasteland that influenced the entire MAD MAX template that would inspire countless other scorched earth films, all from Jones's bottom-dollar production company that'd already made two rural super-low-budget horror flicks THE WITCHMAKER and THE BROTHERHOOD OF SATAN... so BOY would finalize and legitimize an unconnected drive-in trilogy... Which wasn't easy, taking him five-years to adapt a script that Ellison basically gave up on, and although it takes most of the dialogue from the source novella, the telepathically-speaking dog, Blood, sounds more like Jones's kind of timeworn Texan than Ellison's snotty New York intellectual, helping the titular BOY in Don Johnson's Vic find women while he helps the dog (handicapped from having the ability to speak) find food...

adventure, cult, don johnson, hal baylor, harlan ellison, horror, jason robards, l.q. jones, post-apocalyptic, science-fiction, seventies, susanne benton

DON JOHNSON WITH SUSANNE BENTON IN 'A BOY AND HIS DOG'

Title: A BOY AND HIS DOG Pictured: Susanne Benton and Don Johnson Director: L.Q. Jones Year: 1975 Rating: **** Actor L.Q. Jones adapted and ...

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