cult film freak: herbert lom

Showing posts with label herbert lom. Show all posts

Written by James M. Tate / 9/09/2026 / No comments / hammer films , heather sears , herbert lom , horror , monster , music , sixties , terence fisher , thorley walters

HEATHER SEARS CROONS HAMMER'S 'THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA'

<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/AVvXsEi3fVfFgB1lP_vkhA9gRpn-UpglfUwFoJEG3wPUd-Yh9JA-OBReObEK-6Ws4PDXi4mD0xXYmQ2i7HfFHyIGKp-aLB60VOlnBHIhGc7K6A6t5TQOn7KuqYnIU6QkN4KpOvI-PaD2Kc_1rkzs8M1IL5kO5qY3mSFFhLEi1QjU-xN2xHv3oWEqOG3YsaE0sOl8" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="850" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi3fVfFgB1lP_vkhA9gRpn-UpglfUwFoJEG3wPUd-Yh9JA-OBReObEK-6Ws4PDXi4mD0xXYmQ2i7HfFHyIGKp-aLB60VOlnBHIhGc7K6A6t5TQOn7KuqYnIU6QkN4KpOvI-PaD2Kc_1rkzs8M1IL5kO5qY3mSFFhLEi1QjU-xN2xHv3oWEqOG3YsaE0sOl8=s1600"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Heather Sears in THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA Year: 1964 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Both Oliver Reed and Herbert Lom have played similar types of villains, with wide dead-eyes and a cold/calculating reserve, and not without exceeding passion... yet neither have all that much to do with their titular monster Hammer features, both directed by Hammer regular Terence Fisher... <br></p><p></p><p>In Reed's CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF, he shows up after forty-five minutes, with little to do with the most surrealistically nightmarish aspects leading up while in Lom's THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, besides being fitfully hidden behind strategically-cut corners of the central opera house, he basically gives his own personal Igor all the rafter-crashing violence... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

hammer films, heather sears, herbert lom, horror, monster, music, sixties, terence fisher, thorley walters

HEATHER SEARS CROONS HAMMER'S 'THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA'

Heather Sears in THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA Year: 1964 Rating: ***1/2 Both Oliver Reed and Herbert Lom have played similar types of villains, ...

BLAKE EDWARDS RETURNS WITH 'CURSE OF THE PINK PANTHER'

blake edwards, comedy, david niven, denise crosby, eighties, franchise, harvey korman, herbert lom, pink panther, robert loggia, robert wagner, ted wass

BLAKE EDWARDS RETURNS WITH 'CURSE OF THE PINK PANTHER'

Title: CURSE OF THE PINK PANTHER Year: 1983 Rating: *** Blake Edwards held onto the Peter Sellers legacy for two entire films, beginning wi...

PETER SELLERS STRIKES IN 'THE PINK PANTHER STRIKES AGAIN'

<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/AVvXsEilqmhOlrToY8b1RM0ykwjVn95wYlkafCXT0qQP28jiA-drdhk1UIeXIFHO04orSuY_pU8XZHNdR_IQAfNEZVHgG0AZvD5QiTGv4SB-arKsqDtIiE_bbtGqNNRWQ9iLI8iB0P5AHbaSgXgIX3Y5Ev0e0or17mVdtvcim3zM8zq77syH-MvLOkZFVRn8dqTp/s1696/Screen%20Shot%202025-06-19%20at%206.50.03%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="866" data-original-width="1696" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilqmhOlrToY8b1RM0ykwjVn95wYlkafCXT0qQP28jiA-drdhk1UIeXIFHO04orSuY_pU8XZHNdR_IQAfNEZVHgG0AZvD5QiTGv4SB-arKsqDtIiE_bbtGqNNRWQ9iLI8iB0P5AHbaSgXgIX3Y5Ev0e0or17mVdtvcim3zM8zq77syH-MvLOkZFVRn8dqTp/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-06-19%20at%206.50.03%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u> Title: THE PINK PANTHER STRIKES AGAIN from 1976 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>There’s a pivotal sequence where Herbert Lom’s Inspector Dreyfus — having just broke out of an insane asylum — helps a nefarious villain escape from a train by use of a helicopter, followed by several more breakouts and a kidnapping...<br>
<br>
It seems writer/director Blake Edwards got an itch to make something beyond a slapstick comedy, but Peter Sellers, as the new Chief Inspector Clouseau, won’t let that happen... at least not entirely...<br>
</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>

action, blake edwards, burt kwouk, franchise, herbert lom, lesley-anne down, leslie anne-down, peter sellers, pink panther, sequel, seventies, spy

PETER SELLERS STRIKES IN 'THE PINK PANTHER STRIKES AGAIN'

Title: THE PINK PANTHER STRIKES AGAIN from 1976 Rating: *** There’s a pivotal sequence where Herbert Lom’s Inspector Dreyfus — having just ...

PETER SELLERS RETURNS IN 'THE RETURN OF THE PINK PANTHER'

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<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/AVvXsEgV3-7_hA4DKGjPILmWcXx0LQhxveS8mh7uOkPVRGb5o08KN-MAAFBQpgjIm-LNo7Fl-KcWgmuovnoTtQrqX5JU7eYSh-fKphhMXYYoCmnvSPt1dP8Z3XYTmlFCmkEiSS5DCqkCgngREAye8WZpPjwdhMkvfEfm2KobZSRxBjYtmQYoqOmG8oONlJW2kpoO/s1748/Screen%20Shot%202025-06-19%20at%201.11.53%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="990" data-original-width="1748" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV3-7_hA4DKGjPILmWcXx0LQhxveS8mh7uOkPVRGb5o08KN-MAAFBQpgjIm-LNo7Fl-KcWgmuovnoTtQrqX5JU7eYSh-fKphhMXYYoCmnvSPt1dP8Z3XYTmlFCmkEiSS5DCqkCgngREAye8WZpPjwdhMkvfEfm2KobZSRxBjYtmQYoqOmG8oONlJW2kpoO/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-06-19%20at%201.11.53%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE RETURN OF THE PINK PANTHER Year: 1975 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Sir Charles Litton in the original 1964 classic THE PINK PANTHER was a 
sophisticated womanizing jewel thief played by David Niven, who, along 
with his nephew and girlfriend, kept one step ahead of Inspector Jacques
 Clouseau...<br>
<br>
Skip ten years: Litton has morphed into a younger, cagier, 
more stealthily and adventurous fortune hunting maverick played by 
Christopher Plummer, lifting the priceless Pink Panther jewel from a 
supposedly theft-proof museum in an exciting prologue involving a 
nail-biting getaway: which is the set-up for Litton, bringing the titular PINK PANTHER name back with purpose, but where’s 
Clouseau?<br>
</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>

action, andré maranne, blake edwards, burt kwouk, catherine schell, christopher plummer, comedy, david lodge, franchise, herbert lom, peter sellers, pink panther, post-heist, seventies

PETER SELLERS RETURNS IN 'THE RETURN OF THE PINK PANTHER'

Title: THE RETURN OF THE PINK PANTHER Year: 1975 Rating: *** Sir Charles Litton in the original 1964 classic THE PINK PANTHER was a soph...

PETER SELLERS TAKES 'A SHOT IN THE DARK' WITH ELKE SOMMER

blake edwards, body count, bryan forbes, comedy, david lodge, elke sommer, george sanders, herbert lom, mystery, peter sellers, pink panther, sixties, vanda godsell

PETER SELLERS TAKES 'A SHOT IN THE DARK' WITH ELKE SOMMER

Title: A SHOT IN THE DARK Year: 1964 Rating: ***1/2 While Inspector Clouseau was dropped into the romantic-comedy-heist THE PINK PANTHER wi...

STANLEY BAKER TRUCKS WITH PEGGY CUMMINS IN 'HELL DRIVERS'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><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/AVvXsEg8N6sx3lBySCRJll6wj47bkTMR8Nps5QxkLJs3OeRK8Fvuf9o-ufrLfw-oW3Fz7g3zShCLS-9Jd77cPa0i6hylzhCG4B3BW-jOmPRPkeqH3zGBFbJ0tIElupFswoysdHOJZJLLJv0zMrER95YvIp59do0UCOzIJzsdlTH0NLd7v0-gnLWXCLeUxipzksXK/s1502/Screen%20Shot%202023-02-25%20at%204.21.31%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="856" data-original-width="1502" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8N6sx3lBySCRJll6wj47bkTMR8Nps5QxkLJs3OeRK8Fvuf9o-ufrLfw-oW3Fz7g3zShCLS-9Jd77cPa0i6hylzhCG4B3BW-jOmPRPkeqH3zGBFbJ0tIElupFswoysdHOJZJLLJv0zMrER95YvIp59do0UCOzIJzsdlTH0NLd7v0-gnLWXCLeUxipzksXK/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-02-25%20at%204.21.31%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: HELL DRIVERS Year: 1957 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Cheating with the sped-up effect ala Keystone Cops, the hauling-trucks for HELL DRIVERS picks up granite and races it back to the factory as quickly as possible... at breakneck speed taking neck-breaking curves... and newly hired honest ex-con Stanley Baker catches on that he's not very wanted... that is, the boss wants him driving fast, but not <i>too</i> fast... <br>
<br>
And if you like breathing, you can NEVER beat the high score of antagonist Patrick McGoohan, looking like a severe, battered, modern-day pirate with a cocky grin behind the dangerous, risk-taking wheel... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

action, british film noir, british new wave, cy endfield, david mccallum, fifties, herbert lom, jerry stovin, jill ireland, patrick mcgoohan, peggy cummins, sean connery, sidney james, stanley baker, vera day

STANLEY BAKER TRUCKS WITH PEGGY CUMMINS IN 'HELL DRIVERS'

Title: HELL DRIVERS Year: 1957 Rating: **** Cheating with the sped-up effect ala Keystone Cops, the hauling-trucks for HELL DRIVERS picks up...

STANLEY BAKER AND GINGER ROGERS IN 'BEAUTIFUL STRANGER'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><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/AVvXsEinaOC6UDKwRKstnr6Pie2Rf7WMC_oyrlpkvsvOnldCrGxMA6bj_-lQwp8cADxuUzbswDFOIilHi303wRQhF2hz5StIseZyJIMfY3h_9om_fpCPLFc9kmG-JKsb6HE21okpcm75gsIz-1_Ej1MEjviU8hJ9qDeIteg3x-pMxrDROhcACjz_GU4qwUxCO-WQ/s1669/AVvXsEgGxO5W6-TK8mxde3v9S0uy-KfTW-jR8k_4Y_Mg09KDzg3FEZoaerBZQA8zOLDpsUIhIlgPTWPXV24nLGgUNFCNcHQ2oZbJOw-CcV3vf8h6P2uqnOeODmMxRllpY_MvUS6HDK2yh-wIHQhvvMVe4hoYkcyWe-PU4raaUWxCnIK1EluVCpY6ZSMueS_MEQ=s16000.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1072" data-original-width="1669" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinaOC6UDKwRKstnr6Pie2Rf7WMC_oyrlpkvsvOnldCrGxMA6bj_-lQwp8cADxuUzbswDFOIilHi303wRQhF2hz5StIseZyJIMfY3h_9om_fpCPLFc9kmG-JKsb6HE21okpcm75gsIz-1_Ej1MEjviU8hJ9qDeIteg3x-pMxrDROhcACjz_GU4qwUxCO-WQ/s16000/AVvXsEgGxO5W6-TK8mxde3v9S0uy-KfTW-jR8k_4Y_Mg09KDzg3FEZoaerBZQA8zOLDpsUIhIlgPTWPXV24nLGgUNFCNcHQ2oZbJOw-CcV3vf8h6P2uqnOeODmMxRllpY_MvUS6HDK2yh-wIHQhvvMVe4hoYkcyWe-PU4raaUWxCnIK1EluVCpY6ZSMueS_MEQ=s16000.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: BEAUTIFUL STRANGER AKA TWIST OF FATE Year: 1954 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>"I stole it... I am innocent," Herbert Lom says to <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/stanley%20baker">Stanley Baker</a>... One's a gambling con artist and the other a rich businessman/secret criminal, both connected to central star Ginger Rogers... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Baker's her supposedly single fiance and Lom a friend that bums money <i>and steals </i>jewelry, specifically a bracelet that ignites the alternate-titled TWIST OF FATE involving Rogers's real life husband <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/07/anders1-HYP-EYE.html">Jacques Bergerac</a> as not only a proud-poor artist but a different kind of Wrong Man, more a Mistaken Man...</p><span></span>

british film noir, con man, eddie byrne, fifties, ginger rogers, heist, herbert lom, jacques bergerac, melodrama, romance, stanley baker

STANLEY BAKER AND GINGER ROGERS IN 'BEAUTIFUL STRANGER'

Title: BEAUTIFUL STRANGER AKA TWIST OF FATE Year: 1954 Rating: ***1/2 "I stole it... I am innocent," Herbert Lom says to Stanley B...

SEAN CONNERY & YVONNE ROMAIN IN 'THE FRIGHTENED CITY'

<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/AVvXsEg4aWom-r5xT4qj3Fi1oOPi_l6oeXRoXeHBtge8kcEF2xZDzRZrv046rAV1X8k8RTJrN_FvWXZ6uQ8Ix2c4CihsfJKVkIPT6BzUFvZRnD_zbsKWuXK2iZPH0s0glkBJXZVYft4_ph9n7syALlY4qB4piayrOphj3oJIkYoTIcp74k4eX7LwB16n6Dugj8E7/s2644/Screen%20Shot%202023-10-07%20at%201.50.31%20AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1370" data-original-width="2644" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4aWom-r5xT4qj3Fi1oOPi_l6oeXRoXeHBtge8kcEF2xZDzRZrv046rAV1X8k8RTJrN_FvWXZ6uQ8Ix2c4CihsfJKVkIPT6BzUFvZRnD_zbsKWuXK2iZPH0s0glkBJXZVYft4_ph9n7syALlY4qB4piayrOphj3oJIkYoTIcp74k4eX7LwB16n6Dugj8E7/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-10-07%20at%201.50.31%20AM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Poster image of Yvonne Romain for THE FRIGHTENED CITY Year: 1961 Rating: **</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>With a terrific title like THE FRIGHTENED CITY, a British Neo Noir that actually goes the 1930's-style Classic Gangster route, you'd think characters would be more... well... frightened... but random bursts of mobsters messing up nightclubs that don't pay for extortion happens so fast there's nothing to really fear but broken glass....</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The plot is simple and straight from the Al Capone playbook of a CITY being divided by gangsters/businessman; that's the idea given by first-billed Herbert Lom as a shady accountant, usually a side-role in these kind of action/dramas, but he was more famous than fellow HELL DRIVERS veteran Sean Connery in the muscular role... </p><p><span></span></p>

alfred marks, british neo noir, crime, gangster, herbert lom, julie shearing, melodrama, sixties

SEAN CONNERY & YVONNE ROMAIN IN 'THE FRIGHTENED CITY'

Poster image of Yvonne Romain for THE FRIGHTENED CITY Year: 1961 Rating: ** With a terrific title like THE FRIGHTENED CITY, a British Neo No...

TREVOR HOWARD AND HERBERT LOM IN 'GOLDEN SALAMANDER'

<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/AVvXsEjq9ednWXh26qq5RAuYiFe-1sblKyyrkK0_-gdD8d7V2yTCOw4DpZ8tg0FdJsaGTXxB32k6MpNkhkjHrU8cR42XeAyvzPVajQbXXPT79RA6A-revX8hJgbWJkfpePyMYLKjsCGSBgNTjBOVeqciJYNCKT_clfx7p_dzSK4dn1xBaMl2HtmSXc0h5Rw4X2YO/s2060/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1374" data-original-width="2060" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq9ednWXh26qq5RAuYiFe-1sblKyyrkK0_-gdD8d7V2yTCOw4DpZ8tg0FdJsaGTXxB32k6MpNkhkjHrU8cR42XeAyvzPVajQbXXPT79RA6A-revX8hJgbWJkfpePyMYLKjsCGSBgNTjBOVeqciJYNCKT_clfx7p_dzSK4dn1xBaMl2HtmSXc0h5Rw4X2YO/s16000/1.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: GOLDEN SALAMANDER Year: 1950 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>No matter how low budget a British movie is, there's usually great acting being filled with great actors... of the British or neighboring-European kind... here from 1950 with night-passage stranded archaeologist Trevor Howard in a Tunisian town, consisting of a noirish tavern that includes wispy ingenue Anouk Aimée and where usual-lead-villain Herbert Lom only <i>seems </i>in charge of the impending darkness...<br /></p><p></p><p></p><p>Turns out being a more sophisticated, monologue-spouting Walter Rilla while Howard's distracted in a beachy romance with the extremely vulnerable Aimée... while Lom's and handsome partner Jacques Sernas are keeping something chillingly secret: the only real nice person is bartender Wilfrid Hyde-White while Howard, in the midst of a lean, economic thriller without much suspense yet high on atmospheric tension, seems to kind of stand around and... wait for the outcome, which is actually pretty tight and pulpy, and worth rewatching. <br /></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/AVvXsEj2M_NouBaRNMfbfJ7EIGRWs_1PD-q3OHIQe0eQhPjZBnsC5bsbIPsJueATuWmUY2DH7_FT19TldqF0DNmljzvtrlwSjIQ3evn6gLI_J_YxGhigPCvSdG2I7_zJDDFxGWlzp2UCx8tCCiSl5_flPFPGYSGSUwfUbse577QoWG-uarwDqgKeFkxa_OVtr6wp/s1390/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.45.47%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1046" data-original-width="1390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2M_NouBaRNMfbfJ7EIGRWs_1PD-q3OHIQe0eQhPjZBnsC5bsbIPsJueATuWmUY2DH7_FT19TldqF0DNmljzvtrlwSjIQ3evn6gLI_J_YxGhigPCvSdG2I7_zJDDFxGWlzp2UCx8tCCiSl5_flPFPGYSGSUwfUbse577QoWG-uarwDqgKeFkxa_OVtr6wp/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.45.47%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Anouk Aimée in GOLDEN SALAMANDER</u></td></tr></tbody></table><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/AVvXsEhEP466B4Wd586MoUAnKz-FOT7Kb0IcCIiJWTPs8YtLWnP9KiD1CIiQXsu1Sdu749pCUwou0hS-sDnds_ZFiMwZxCU1ZOTTHzM71p8rvTSQffgNUzrpF2aSJVQNtLBmWARVpoHFbIjS5Lkuee936kFMHr0i-Cfe3pZFWvVLlFWUpcJH20WHyZVM5soEOn-e/s1932/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.46.16%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1436" data-original-width="1932" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEP466B4Wd586MoUAnKz-FOT7Kb0IcCIiJWTPs8YtLWnP9KiD1CIiQXsu1Sdu749pCUwou0hS-sDnds_ZFiMwZxCU1ZOTTHzM71p8rvTSQffgNUzrpF2aSJVQNtLBmWARVpoHFbIjS5Lkuee936kFMHr0i-Cfe3pZFWvVLlFWUpcJH20WHyZVM5soEOn-e/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.46.16%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Trevor Howard and Anouk Aimée in GOLDEN SALAMANDER</u></td></tr></tbody></table><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/AVvXsEg0YDuo33U8b8S_4ay4BU12KfOjjL4-yIRBSJ0qEhFsQ5qfFENsI5f1t4RtNJXVM9TA8OWNEt2cJ8N0aBeNYMDFytgqEcyRONpFa9KRrUzx8H7LE4Gf6yHXL8LMqgzZkN_OOKmxQq6QguQbZi25-o2Cdyai_Q9i4iIGCAmQ_dRiOhgXzn0oXTD4XAmr8aZ3/s2046/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.33.19%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1290" data-original-width="2046" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0YDuo33U8b8S_4ay4BU12KfOjjL4-yIRBSJ0qEhFsQ5qfFENsI5f1t4RtNJXVM9TA8OWNEt2cJ8N0aBeNYMDFytgqEcyRONpFa9KRrUzx8H7LE4Gf6yHXL8LMqgzZkN_OOKmxQq6QguQbZi25-o2Cdyai_Q9i4iIGCAmQ_dRiOhgXzn0oXTD4XAmr8aZ3/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.33.19%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jacques Sernas and Herbert Lom in GOLDEN SALAMANDER</u></td></tr></tbody></table><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/AVvXsEgqvPaeoxQVev0fdB7UjdddCPJe3zkZp_PyZR4TTIfqSaTK2Adeg7T7l3uTgFWe6RQxckNLHLnNsha142xA8p2iXJcoo93ToIwgAyQBMhN5fcPfZmspMxXA8Cd5Q-LEBA9foTX9NDoSbfI8simR4CL6zoXxXWylj4j9Edx67xynXCTAmJ4Y0jBM0NEByowM/s2064/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.33.55%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1286" data-original-width="2064" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqvPaeoxQVev0fdB7UjdddCPJe3zkZp_PyZR4TTIfqSaTK2Adeg7T7l3uTgFWe6RQxckNLHLnNsha142xA8p2iXJcoo93ToIwgAyQBMhN5fcPfZmspMxXA8Cd5Q-LEBA9foTX9NDoSbfI8simR4CL6zoXxXWylj4j9Edx67xynXCTAmJ4Y0jBM0NEByowM/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.33.55%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Anouk Aimée in GOLDEN SALAMANDER</u></td></tr></tbody></table><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/AVvXsEh8O4j8BGKNp-70QA05AJkAvk2FUqgkttracyQjFxX9d54vjRMFIvWXFRVPmL8Rly8nq6kPENjFaAmTuKlBGX32bcXrT3znRjvWhLmAxOSwmIOQDuYl7KGIneoXcI0utsjbUG0197sqpqn09ozpZ72VS2RJtTyE-vx7RzQhbrSt5_fSrBpsK8ilnhk_uOh-/s2002/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.34.07%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1294" data-original-width="2002" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8O4j8BGKNp-70QA05AJkAvk2FUqgkttracyQjFxX9d54vjRMFIvWXFRVPmL8Rly8nq6kPENjFaAmTuKlBGX32bcXrT3znRjvWhLmAxOSwmIOQDuYl7KGIneoXcI0utsjbUG0197sqpqn09ozpZ72VS2RJtTyE-vx7RzQhbrSt5_fSrBpsK8ilnhk_uOh-/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.34.07%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Anouk Aimée in GOLDEN SALAMANDER</u></td></tr></tbody></table><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/AVvXsEhAirBcUEelwcyZCXg10BLn8wbQjwBiouH1utq0i77UGknZNW7H09Z6kzwLc9oTXoq9C-viqES-M8C2bFLO-Y3soWzNJZr1cgD5GR_vQdjog_d6xNH1m_3mDq8DdUDl4nL1JvkDhk90P6EDtlhCOHf_9L5pBvfTCMCj8hklnYpEjWct9NDloD27dn3QMOjj/s1916/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.34.47%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1362" data-original-width="1916" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAirBcUEelwcyZCXg10BLn8wbQjwBiouH1utq0i77UGknZNW7H09Z6kzwLc9oTXoq9C-viqES-M8C2bFLO-Y3soWzNJZr1cgD5GR_vQdjog_d6xNH1m_3mDq8DdUDl4nL1JvkDhk90P6EDtlhCOHf_9L5pBvfTCMCj8hklnYpEjWct9NDloD27dn3QMOjj/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.34.47%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Anouk Aimée in GOLDEN SALAMANDER</u></td></tr></tbody></table><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/AVvXsEhs7l7q00_hKr8lG0TQ7kc0tr-nSL059hTAwUW9nMyl02gHYieUCntClWBjH9rG8qM82lFOn5lL4Naj6elic-bDBmQi9Tqu6uDUEJtR6Y-njy7igxjVm0fEzyAuS8pb4mVOaKXkuTxHnQfmj94GW4GzOEEzKW7KMbE4Q82rMl3aAKJrS-a-MzNJJKPvawEj/s1910/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.35.01%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1326" data-original-width="1910" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs7l7q00_hKr8lG0TQ7kc0tr-nSL059hTAwUW9nMyl02gHYieUCntClWBjH9rG8qM82lFOn5lL4Naj6elic-bDBmQi9Tqu6uDUEJtR6Y-njy7igxjVm0fEzyAuS8pb4mVOaKXkuTxHnQfmj94GW4GzOEEzKW7KMbE4Q82rMl3aAKJrS-a-MzNJJKPvawEj/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.35.01%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Wilfrid Hyde-White in GOLDEN SALAMANDER</u></td></tr></tbody></table><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/AVvXsEjRIw_tho8lz1Y5apCZbKrP_lfAMgskY0LJWzlvobtrJ2kLz3Y_T5gaqO_mZJchnImXor3Ezd6mwvpbEvPprOqjo8Qxwi1SQp494tXx5ePoqqDiyBhpsI4aufqOYWeslMWdNxojNVFUI4uOTTRSllqvROkHX9FTbuhXjLx9qtqfICgHV-zkX6-LpfFm3sfu/s1296/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.35.24%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="952" data-original-width="1296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRIw_tho8lz1Y5apCZbKrP_lfAMgskY0LJWzlvobtrJ2kLz3Y_T5gaqO_mZJchnImXor3Ezd6mwvpbEvPprOqjo8Qxwi1SQp494tXx5ePoqqDiyBhpsI4aufqOYWeslMWdNxojNVFUI4uOTTRSllqvROkHX9FTbuhXjLx9qtqfICgHV-zkX6-LpfFm3sfu/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.35.24%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Trevor Howard in GOLDEN SALAMANDER</u></td></tr></tbody></table><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/AVvXsEi5cChfC5yYgrkJGxKgEiBvTYk-rOHErAr5AAQFu6e594OUXRmA03YOsaKc7VfQBp794n5J7e1RHahQUQV-bxfd1N2TCNy3rWuGGVORB0j_JktEgSsAa-UhYZmhFIeJZ9pZWEM8h8WEwe_A0ovDksHz2eDAlE36rCnfjAfZaHN88t_ucdtCBca9gdmaHR9D/s1804/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.37.54%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1316" data-original-width="1804" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5cChfC5yYgrkJGxKgEiBvTYk-rOHErAr5AAQFu6e594OUXRmA03YOsaKc7VfQBp794n5J7e1RHahQUQV-bxfd1N2TCNy3rWuGGVORB0j_JktEgSsAa-UhYZmhFIeJZ9pZWEM8h8WEwe_A0ovDksHz2eDAlE36rCnfjAfZaHN88t_ucdtCBca9gdmaHR9D/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.37.54%20PM.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Anouk Aimée in GOLDEN SALAMANDER</u></td></tr></tbody></table><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/AVvXsEjHTo-G244n4oGBBG4HHPc0_IBKuLVW9rDgrSf70wTv0zV5L9SrYXK8nyh87dpOS9QgykTy9hehO-6rSFdQ7VNEXMl0IWHcNwhyLAFmEwlCGvD7AiNqXhV4_KWBPZ4ZG9J5pe9aIwfwmSTGXZ0tg-ZvWajmPB2jz39Pdddr9aDZbLPQbCr287W9Wow6msLD/s2028/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.38.08%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1418" data-original-width="2028" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHTo-G244n4oGBBG4HHPc0_IBKuLVW9rDgrSf70wTv0zV5L9SrYXK8nyh87dpOS9QgykTy9hehO-6rSFdQ7VNEXMl0IWHcNwhyLAFmEwlCGvD7AiNqXhV4_KWBPZ4ZG9J5pe9aIwfwmSTGXZ0tg-ZvWajmPB2jz39Pdddr9aDZbLPQbCr287W9Wow6msLD/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.38.08%20PM.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jacques Sernas in GOLDEN SALAMANDER </u></td></tr></tbody></table><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/AVvXsEgvwOjgCraGxH2hfIoJBtH1_fr-2ej9QLHhalS1z87hd25eQB3egIYSdqwS-Wgrq8ENBD-DBIZ3PMzZQCi4gZBw5F25YXJ8leAgBhvyuDoTpp2ltk7SC8oF5O2XW2tLGCE46JvKlXm9d9F7Q29YEiWNDngkm-ChQfqonyIcudotTFLef8X5ec-mIN96qC2z/s2076/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.33.04%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="2076" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvwOjgCraGxH2hfIoJBtH1_fr-2ej9QLHhalS1z87hd25eQB3egIYSdqwS-Wgrq8ENBD-DBIZ3PMzZQCi4gZBw5F25YXJ8leAgBhvyuDoTpp2ltk7SC8oF5O2XW2tLGCE46JvKlXm9d9F7Q29YEiWNDngkm-ChQfqonyIcudotTFLef8X5ec-mIN96qC2z/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.33.04%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jacques Sernas and Herbert Lom in GOLDEN SALAMANDER with Trevor Howard<br /></u></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p>

anouk aimée, british, british film noir, europe, fifties, herbert lom, thriller, trevor howard, walter rilla, wilfrid hyde-white

TREVOR HOWARD AND HERBERT LOM IN 'GOLDEN SALAMANDER'

Title: GOLDEN SALAMANDER Year: 1950 Rating: ***1/2 No matter how low budget a British movie is, there's usually great acting being fille...

Written by James M. Tate / 9/26/2012 / No comments / action , con man , crime , fifties , film noir or melodrama , herbert lom , richard widmark , sport , suspense

NIGHT AND THE CITY (1950)

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK6GJQULtyR4fKSR6hZvM-mr_pOom4rFI8XgABFd01fQvo6vUnjAgwg26XNzb-YbMnRYpZlrnPIaASVOLH6VC_73SkY7n61eSuRret-CNOVEESPLjSDFZuHZGcX_9rGprwinWrCf3Iub0l/s1600/title03_071123148.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="490" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK6GJQULtyR4fKSR6hZvM-mr_pOom4rFI8XgABFd01fQvo6vUnjAgwg26XNzb-YbMnRYpZlrnPIaASVOLH6VC_73SkY7n61eSuRret-CNOVEESPLjSDFZuHZGcX_9rGprwinWrCf3Iub0l/s640/title03_071123148.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2014/01/more-film-noir.html">THIS REVIEW HAS BEEN MOVED TO THIS BAGFUL OF FILM NOIR REVIEWS...</a><br />
</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>

action, con man, crime, fifties, film noir or melodrama, herbert lom, richard widmark, sport, suspense

NIGHT AND THE CITY (1950)

THIS REVIEW HAS BEEN MOVED TO THIS BAGFUL OF FILM NOIR REVIEWS...

Written by James M. Tate / 6/05/2012 / No comments / action , adventure , eighties , herbert lom , j. lee thompson , john ryhs-davies , richard chamberlain , sharon stone

RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN IN KING SOLOMON'S MINES

<table 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/AVvXsEglHFzZ3oEq-TEmvLVmzzjIJdngNASAESXEEn424gm3Zd2dIrIt5h3WZsnZzqJG_QePi-z30bCKLkh8fAQr_vE6ZZI9zCfP8YdqfbakxnhzApNECsHaWJapJdv5VCEcgIuJ026c5HG01CCf/s1600/King_Solomons_mines_Vinilio1016.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglHFzZ3oEq-TEmvLVmzzjIJdngNASAESXEEn424gm3Zd2dIrIt5h3WZsnZzqJG_QePi-z30bCKLkh8fAQr_vE6ZZI9zCfP8YdqfbakxnhzApNECsHaWJapJdv5VCEcgIuJ026c5HG01CCf/s320/King_Solomons_mines_Vinilio1016.jpg" width="274" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">year: 1985 rating: ***</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
Since Indiana Jones was based on literary pulp heroes such as Allan Quatermain, would this movie about the original daring hero's quest to find a Biblically-based goldmine a complete rip-off?<br />
<br />
It sure is... Yet with J. Lee Thomson directing an energetic Richard Chamberlain and a beautiful pre-fame Sharon Stone, it’s a worthy trip beginning with a foot chase through sandy city streets as Stone’s Jesse Huston is rolled up in a carpet and Quatermain must save her <i>just</i> in time, which is lifted straight from the basket chase in RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK. But it's such an obvious homage one can’t help but to forgive and forget from the very start: The plot having Jesse’s father hiding the map of King Solomon’s mines. Kidnapped by a goofball Nazi (Herbert Lom) and a boastful Turk (RAIDERS co-star John Rhys-Davies), Allan must save him before the wrong people find all that gold. Most of the film has Allan and Jesse either chasing or being chased by their adversaries. The story hits a wall once everyone arrives at the mines, loaded with an overabundance of dated special effects. It’s the prior chain of events, like Allan leaping across train cars to save his damsel or both almost getting cooked by cannibals, where the real fun occurs.<br />
<br />
Director Thomson keeps everything moving and even the overly silly stuff… like a tribe of natives who live by hanging upside-down on vines… doesn’t matter. And although Chamberlain lacks Harrison Ford’s larger-than-life screen presence and Sharon Stone is more Kate Capshaw than Karen Allen, together they're a decent team-up. Not only that, but this exceeds TEMPLE OF DOOM and especially THE CRYSTAL SKULL... so there, nay-sayers!

action, adventure, eighties, herbert lom, j. lee thompson, john ryhs-davies, richard chamberlain, sharon stone

RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN IN KING SOLOMON'S MINES

year: 1985 rating: *** Since Indiana Jones was based on literary pulp heroes such as Allan Quatermain, would this movie about the origin...

JMT

Written by James M. Tate / 9/09/2026 / No comments / hammer films , heather sears , herbert lom , horror , monster , music , sixties , terence fisher , thorley walters

Written by James M. Tate / 6/17/2025 / No comments / blake edwards , comedy , david niven , denise crosby , eighties , franchise , harvey korman , herbert lom , pink panther , robert loggia , robert wagner , ted wass

Written by James M. Tate / 6/15/2025 / No comments / action , blake edwards , burt kwouk , franchise , herbert lom , lesley-anne down , leslie anne-down , peter sellers , pink panther , sequel , seventies , spy

Written by James M. Tate / 6/14/2025 / No comments / action , andré maranne , blake edwards , burt kwouk , catherine schell , christopher plummer , comedy , david lodge , franchise , herbert lom , peter sellers , pink panther , post-heist , seventies

Written by James M. Tate / 6/13/2025 / No comments / blake edwards , body count , bryan forbes , comedy , david lodge , elke sommer , george sanders , herbert lom , mystery , peter sellers , pink panther , sixties , vanda godsell

Written by James M. Tate / 2/01/2024 / No comments / action , british film noir , british new wave , cy endfield , david mccallum , fifties , herbert lom , jerry stovin , jill ireland , patrick mcgoohan , peggy cummins , sean connery , sidney james , stanley baker , vera day

Written by James M. Tate / 1/25/2024 / No comments / british film noir , con man , eddie byrne , fifties , ginger rogers , heist , herbert lom , jacques bergerac , melodrama , romance , stanley baker

Written by James M. Tate / 10/09/2023 / No comments / alfred marks , british neo noir , crime , gangster , herbert lom , julie shearing , melodrama , sixties

Written by James M. Tate / 7/06/2023 / No comments / anouk aimée , british , british film noir , europe , fifties , herbert lom , thriller , trevor howard , walter rilla , wilfrid hyde-white

Written by James M. Tate / 9/26/2012 / No comments / action , con man , crime , fifties , film noir or melodrama , herbert lom , richard widmark , sport , suspense

Written by James M. Tate / 6/05/2012 / No comments / action , adventure , eighties , herbert lom , j. lee thompson , john ryhs-davies , richard chamberlain , sharon stone

All Time Popular

Featured Post

WWW.CULTFILMFREAKS.COM

RIP ACTOR KEN HUTCHISON

TOTAL HITS

Popular Trending

FOUNDED BY JAMES M. TATE

FILM NOIR & NEO NOIR CRIME

FAVORITES SHORTLIST

BRITISH NEW WAVE CINEMA

RARITIES AND EXPLOITATION

HAMMER HORROR & THRILLER

Popular This Month

CHARLES BRONSON CINEMA

PEAKING INTO THE SIXTIES

KICKING IN THE EIGHTIES

TALES AND REFLECTIONS

REVVING THE SEVENTIES

Most Popular Last Year