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Written by James M. Tate / 2/10/2025 / No comments / action , adventure , brian kelly , david mccallum , gary merrill , keenan wynn , lloyd bridges , marshall thompson , science-fiction , shirley eaton , sixties , underwater

BRIAN KELLY & LLOYD BRIDGES 'AROUND THE WORLD UNDER THE SEA'

<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/AVvXsEg86oQmLHt8QovRaAY4Bxpc4WYVTtbOqUU8CBm9X_5FhltSOa42cYKkFZM7OqJjwa4W0eidckBS4Kh7vg4dYSZcFfEm-g7slHKkzCw7DAlN4OOh3yJv1BByXKhDrwXWUAH5ByrV4kC-E5nbm6bak8N4toNlk1YJWILIGpedOsSd_F5bRBDI-fp3SZQshRGl/s1704/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1092" data-original-width="1704" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg86oQmLHt8QovRaAY4Bxpc4WYVTtbOqUU8CBm9X_5FhltSOa42cYKkFZM7OqJjwa4W0eidckBS4Kh7vg4dYSZcFfEm-g7slHKkzCw7DAlN4OOh3yJv1BByXKhDrwXWUAH5ByrV4kC-E5nbm6bak8N4toNlk1YJWILIGpedOsSd_F5bRBDI-fp3SZQshRGl/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: AROUND THE WORLD UNDER THE SEA Year: 1966 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>It takes exactly forty-minutes before the entire crew's aboard a relatively small submarine that's to drop sonar sensors to predict earthquakes in AROUND THE WORLD UNDER THE SEA...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That being SEA HUNT star Lloyd Bridges, FLIPPER dad Brian Kelly, beautiful scientist Shirley Eaton, old oddball specialist Keenan Wynn, and just like he was on THE MAN FROM UNCLE has David McCallum as a Russian... with the motivation to make a terrific villain since he wants to score hefty salvage, and the fact that affable Marshall Thompson's pseudo-girlfriend Eaton used his be his own...<br></p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, brian kelly, david mccallum, gary merrill, keenan wynn, lloyd bridges, marshall thompson, science-fiction, shirley eaton, sixties, underwater

BRIAN KELLY & LLOYD BRIDGES 'AROUND THE WORLD UNDER THE SEA'

Title: AROUND THE WORLD UNDER THE SEA Year: 1966 Rating: ***1/2 It takes exactly forty-minutes before the entire crew's aboard a relativ...

RICHARD FLEISCHER'S T-MEN HEIST FILM NOIR OF 'TRAPPED'

<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/AVvXsEjxCUStevh1W1gt55njlib2n66MQrsISLXKHCGk9v6e-h2vuqck8xbNDuclbv2Ob4k9wpZc2amwmrXPip-gkezWMvFIUgW-lizueH24mOwX6qY7kPDyK3tBPB-yGhYYQRrdWGKeME0YF4Tyn9cGYzS4_B_0xhG8YP3XbCtnI108KBBeGX_2QizFpbrxAxDR/s2138/ORIG%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1198" data-original-width="2138" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxCUStevh1W1gt55njlib2n66MQrsISLXKHCGk9v6e-h2vuqck8xbNDuclbv2Ob4k9wpZc2amwmrXPip-gkezWMvFIUgW-lizueH24mOwX6qY7kPDyK3tBPB-yGhYYQRrdWGKeME0YF4Tyn9cGYzS4_B_0xhG8YP3XbCtnI108KBBeGX_2QizFpbrxAxDR/s16000/ORIG%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: TRAPPED Year: 1949 Rating: **</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>It's a shame that director Richard Fleischer didn't realize how good the usual good guy Lloyd Bridges was at playing bad... in this case a counterfeiter in prison, given a deal to get out but only if he rats on past associates for the cops...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>After which the best moments occur, leading to the first 30-minutes of the T-MEN style noir of TRAPPED in which several twists occur that makes Bridges a free man, quickly holed-up with former girlfriend Barbara Payton, a dive bar waitress with the potential of a femme fatale but playing a rather pathetic lovelorn starlet... </p><p><span></span></p>

action, barbara payton, escape, film noir or melodrama, heist, john hoyt, lloyd bridges, richard fleischer

RICHARD FLEISCHER'S T-MEN HEIST FILM NOIR OF 'TRAPPED'

Title: TRAPPED Year: 1949 Rating: ** It's a shame that director Richard Fleischer didn't realize how good the usual good guy Lloyd B...

DIRECTOR JACQUES TOURNEUR'S 'WITCHITA' STARRING JOEL MCCREA

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That dot nears, and turns out being buffalo hunter Wyatt Earp, played by Joel McCrea, visually perfectly suited (though too old) for the real life legendary lawman, at first reluctant to become Wichita's Sheriff until the rowdy cowboys ignite drunken gun-blazing pandemonium...</p><span></span>

edgar buchanan, fifties, jack elam, jacques tourneur, joel mccrea, john smith, lloyd bridges, peter graves, robert wilke, sam peckinpah, wallace ford, warner archives, western

DIRECTOR JACQUES TOURNEUR'S 'WITCHITA' STARRING JOEL MCCREA

Title: WICHITA Year: 1955 Rating: **** This Jacques Tourneur's Western is as basic and entertaining as they come, centering on what beg...

JACQUES TOURNEUR DIRECTS DANA ANDREWS IN 'CANYON PASSAGE'

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Over a decade before <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/08/feardemon.html">CURSE OF THE DEMON</a> and <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/08/feardemon.html">THE FEARMAKERS</a>, Jacques Tourneur directed Dana Andrews in a well-dressed, comfortably-paced North Western, CANYON PASSAGE, taking place mostly within a small, makeshift town built from — and tucked within the shade of — the surrounding forest, a knee-jerk away from an uneasy peace with brooding Indians... <br>
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Yet the suspense relies more on how two particular characters develop 
than the horse-clopping action taking most of the third act: In almost every Western with Dana Andrews there's an edgy gallows kangaroo court involved, and here it's the least important aspect although would-be victim Brian Donlevy, as extremely unlucky, altogether-cursed gambler, George, sharpens Dana's workaholic, mule running/cargo moving entrepreneur, Logan, since he has to keep covering his old pal from gambling debts and other vices: including a possible murder. This is really a tale on how far a friendship can bend... <br>
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And there's only a hint of romance between Andrews... engaged to a Stepford Prairie Girl played by British import Patricia Roc... and future MY FOOLISH HEART co-star Susan Hayward as a beautiful tomboy — both share a cool friendship almost too perfect to hinder with complications: Actually, she already belongs to the flaky loser/dreamer, Donlevy... kind of... though it's obvious where her heart <i>really </i>is...<br>
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Meanwhile, interesting side-characters include another frequent Dana co-star, musician Hoagy Carmichael (<a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/05/stinking-at-butches.html">NIGHT SONG</a>, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/05/BYOOurLIVES.html">BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES</a>), as a mandolin-playing expository moral conscious, and Lloyd Bridges (later in Tourneur's Western <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2018/03/W-stands-for-Witchia.html">WICHITA</a>) spitefully ruling the kangaroo court: But the true antagonist's played with gusto by Ward Bond (Dana's <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2018/08/SwampWater.html">SWAMP WATER</a> foe), who causes all sorts of bruised-up and/or deadly havoc, especially in a sublimely choreographed saloon fight scene, where director Tourneur's otherwise rich, artistic lens flows with testosterone-fueled bravado.<br>
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