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Written by James M. Tate / 8/24/2026 / No comments / action , alain delon , espionage , gayle hunnicutt , james b. sikking , jerry fielding , joanne linville , john colicos , mary maude , michael winner , neo noir , paul scofield , seventies , thriller , william smithers

ALAIN DELON & BURT LANCASTER IN MICHAEL WINNER'S 'SCORPIO'

<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/AVvXsEiORJdxJ8JOXVvCvrd-7kYYyVh9HEfCS0TrOMUsfqaN4iVt-Go_2B-_YXUxM2-bKv_a9LXvETnr8UT_SV7SpfoqxerrHS1cQgcbUtxQJGgvfqjAtbbGaYFRtjDvCqmFVTraQYa_0FoigAIunE8k2alJhamH0s1RV4LUwIErJEoKalCf6-afy34mxddYXgCf/s1842/111%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1172" data-original-width="1842" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiORJdxJ8JOXVvCvrd-7kYYyVh9HEfCS0TrOMUsfqaN4iVt-Go_2B-_YXUxM2-bKv_a9LXvETnr8UT_SV7SpfoqxerrHS1cQgcbUtxQJGgvfqjAtbbGaYFRtjDvCqmFVTraQYa_0FoigAIunE8k2alJhamH0s1RV4LUwIErJEoKalCf6-afy34mxddYXgCf/s1600/111%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: SCORPIO Year: 1973 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>During the final act of Michael Winner's 1972 crime-thriller <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2023/12/mechanics.html">THE MECHANIC</a>, veteran hit-man Charles Bronson is targeted by his own young assassin student Jan-Michael Vincent... <br><br>And a year later, in Winner's espionage-thriller SCORPIO, this same exact ironical setup is already happening (has already happened), right when the movie begins...</p>

action, alain delon, espionage, gayle hunnicutt, james b. sikking, jerry fielding, joanne linville, john colicos, mary maude, michael winner, neo noir, paul scofield, seventies, thriller, william smithers

ALAIN DELON & BURT LANCASTER IN MICHAEL WINNER'S 'SCORPIO'

Title: SCORPIO Year: 1973 Rating: **1/2 During the final act of Michael Winner's 1972 crime-thriller THE MECHANIC , veteran hit-man Char...

JENNIFER RUNYON AND TIM MATHESON ARE GOING 'UP THE CREEK'

<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/AVvXsEhbtMlk38LVC2UluxkzhCPNuoBc8cgdpuE5sgJnHbKuYQ4uwMdm49XwsYorczldVm3qfcr-csPh7e2m5Uz9b4VJqXj5T8bThY3cDakhth8xZ9YJRRer5chXIyaM9yBS0Cf-pmRC7gdbJuoQ1ex-bejywWzuzP5T8NDIJrDj0tCLYXsqBYfgMc8oop6Ri2Xb/s2104/Screen%20Shot%202026-03-08%20at%206.25.22%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1044" data-original-width="2104" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbtMlk38LVC2UluxkzhCPNuoBc8cgdpuE5sgJnHbKuYQ4uwMdm49XwsYorczldVm3qfcr-csPh7e2m5Uz9b4VJqXj5T8bThY3cDakhth8xZ9YJRRer5chXIyaM9yBS0Cf-pmRC7gdbJuoQ1ex-bejywWzuzP5T8NDIJrDj0tCLYXsqBYfgMc8oop6Ri2Xb/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-03-08%20at%206.25.22%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jennifer Runyon in UP THE CREEK Year: 1984 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>A year following this neglected outdoor comedy, Tim Matheson would ask Chevy Chase to kill him in FLETCH. Chase was originally designed for OTTER in ANIMAL HOUSE, a part that made Matheson, a former child actor who was growing into various roles like a bad cop in MAGNUM FORCE, a household name... but only where cool people live...<br>
<br>
In FLETCH, Matheson looked somewhere in 
his late thirties, playing an established businessman.  Here he's a broke, grungy college slacker 
and actually looks much younger than in  FLETCH but way too old to be a 
student. But that's probably intentional...</p><p><span></span></p>

adventure, college, comedy, dan monohan, eighties, james b. sikking, jeff east, jennifer runyon, john hillerman, julia montgomery, stephen furst, tim matheson

JENNIFER RUNYON AND TIM MATHESON ARE GOING 'UP THE CREEK'

Jennifer Runyon in UP THE CREEK Year: 1984 Rating: ***1/2 A year following this neglected outdoor comedy, Tim Matheson would ask Chevy Chase...

SEAN CONNERY LEADS PETER HYAM'S SCI-FI THRILLER 'OUTLAND'

<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/AVvXsEhTvRhG4IvVt2VIthUQHw8Diq0oZQDK0YPykskeRlEIcQRhooM9tOfhCufnkRKFtMGpZVIyEbWJeYxMwWUGUJccUl-LgVLKH50oj0Bd-Zoui8ihBmf4iiNCHpOmzBQr6bueGOVFEzAmk_-8-JHs5dOg46fu64JJDWHA84KF9hRDOU3HAkomLBeXGoiWBvNn/s1898/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-05%20at%204.06.40%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="982" data-original-width="1898" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTvRhG4IvVt2VIthUQHw8Diq0oZQDK0YPykskeRlEIcQRhooM9tOfhCufnkRKFtMGpZVIyEbWJeYxMwWUGUJccUl-LgVLKH50oj0Bd-Zoui8ihBmf4iiNCHpOmzBQr6bueGOVFEzAmk_-8-JHs5dOg46fu64JJDWHA84KF9hRDOU3HAkomLBeXGoiWBvNn/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-05%20at%204.06.40%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: OUTLAND Year: 1981 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Known as a science-fiction version of HIGH NOON, Peter Hyam's OUTLAND... bringing the CAPRICORN ONE director from conspiracy-contrived outer-space into the real thing... is more like the galactic working-class origins of ALIEN, looking straight from the same universe with claustrophobic corridors and steely space-station interiors where a matte-painted planet... in this case Jupiter's moon Ion... looms formidably outside...<br><br>Where you could imagine disgruntled ALIEN union-types Yaphet Kotto and Harry Dean Stanton working... as random likewise miners are mysteriously/violently dying like in a body-count horror flick: either by an unknown head-exploding factor or apparent suicides having to do with possible stir-craziness within the crowded off-white bunkhouse interiors, or the raunchy and pulsating, proto-BLADE RUNNER neon nightclubs...</p><p><span></span></p>

drugs, eighties, frances sternhagen, james b. sikking, john ratzenberger, peter boyle, science-fiction, sean connery, steven berkoff, thriller

SEAN CONNERY LEADS PETER HYAM'S SCI-FI THRILLER 'OUTLAND'

Title: OUTLAND Year: 1981 Rating: ***1/2 Known as a science-fiction version of HIGH NOON, Peter Hyam's OUTLAND... bringing the CAPRICORN...

PAMELA SUE MARTIN POSSESSES 'BAY COVE' WITH TIM MATHESON

<span style="font-size: 100%;"><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/AVvXsEgVvHEbew72cCzvwnfJqTdk_pMfP_mxYsdvSthYFczVDhTnCeeh0_ZTjzu9oRnAI0He1o8Uw7k5JwzusO5-lzLOXV5ngsMGotFsomdD-yIFzEkh2CWhrwfPZdbspvdQEmgyZsi9tIg4fKcNtN1qM1DwWJ0tWClRz6SXIOeNOzTuXjED_i0WTFXbwA7LIp4q/s1536/Screen%20Shot%202023-08-21%20at%204.24.46%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1232" data-original-width="1536" height="321" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVvHEbew72cCzvwnfJqTdk_pMfP_mxYsdvSthYFczVDhTnCeeh0_ZTjzu9oRnAI0He1o8Uw7k5JwzusO5-lzLOXV5ngsMGotFsomdD-yIFzEkh2CWhrwfPZdbspvdQEmgyZsi9tIg4fKcNtN1qM1DwWJ0tWClRz6SXIOeNOzTuXjED_i0WTFXbwA7LIp4q/w400-h321/Screen%20Shot%202023-08-21%20at%204.24.46%20AM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><u>Pamela Sue Martin in BAY COVE Year: 1987 Rates: ***1/2<br></u></span></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table>Occasionally, made-for-television horror movies are surprisingly good, like GARGOYLES, SALEM'S LOT, or </span><span style="font-size: 100%;">Pamela Sue Martin and Tim Matheson as a big city couple
 who decide to move to the nearby old-fashioned island of BAY COVE, 
which, it turns out, has some strange content...</span><br>
<br>
<span style="font-size: 100%;">Including an eerie old 
man who stares out a window SENTINEL style; neighbors who hatefully fear dogs like STRANGE INVADERS; and a 
cemetery that's most recent headstone dates back to the 1700's, possibly making the middle-aged residents a couple hundred years old as Pamela Sue's our investigative Mia Farrow ala ROSEMARY’S BABY (sans impregnation) while in-denial Matheson adheres quickly to the weird locals, taking the John Cassavetes soulless husband mantel; and Woody Harrelson's the heroine's best friend who, like Maurice Evans, gets a piece of clothing stolen before buying the farm... </span><br>