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Written by James M. Tate / 8/26/2022 / No comments / action , charles bronson , crime , dana elcar , gumshoe , harry guardino , j. lee thompson , jacqueline bisset , jeff goldblum , john houseman , lynn borden , neo noir , seventies , thriller

CHARLES BRONSON IN THE MODERN NOIR TEMPLATE OF 'ST. IVES'

<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/AVvXsEi5fCtZxuQvtwKMcPRhz2fSO8uHNEyhlNcZXjtKzw4R0y02CTzc0-odA4uBDi57agFdzk3V3rRLhjwJCUGTbmmFVmJBl-bo9ZpzZrtnj3t9fOucytX7KyOtMD-SoxePFIZV1KRudZ1XLwboGSe29wva77xXMtbQW2qh49qepVU7kAf1-gYgjwu3RCM9gA/s962/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-25%20at%2010.23.50%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="474" data-original-width="962" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5fCtZxuQvtwKMcPRhz2fSO8uHNEyhlNcZXjtKzw4R0y02CTzc0-odA4uBDi57agFdzk3V3rRLhjwJCUGTbmmFVmJBl-bo9ZpzZrtnj3t9fOucytX7KyOtMD-SoxePFIZV1KRudZ1XLwboGSe29wva77xXMtbQW2qh49qepVU7kAf1-gYgjwu3RCM9gA/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-25%20at%2010.23.50%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>ST. IVES Stars: Charles Bronson, John Houseman, Jacqueline Bisset Year: 1976 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The second of two Charles Bronson vehicles after DEATH WISH where Jeff Goldblum plays a member of a gang trio, this time as Hood #3 instead of Freak #1 for ST. IVES, a deliberately nostalgic gumshoe throwback liken to THE BIG SLEEP (ignited by the popularity of CHINATOWN) with Bronson as the snoopy, rough yet vulnerable Humphrey Bogart type, only a crime writer instead of private eye...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And, given a broad task by millionaire John Houseman to find some important papers within 1970's Downtown Los Angeles, Bronson's titular Ives roams from one location to another in the typical Noir fashion...<br></p><p><span></span></p>

action, charles bronson, crime, dana elcar, gumshoe, harry guardino, j. lee thompson, jacqueline bisset, jeff goldblum, john houseman, lynn borden, neo noir, seventies, thriller

CHARLES BRONSON IN THE MODERN NOIR TEMPLATE OF 'ST. IVES'

ST. IVES Stars: Charles Bronson, John Houseman, Jacqueline Bisset Year: 1976 Rating: ***1/2 The second of two Charles Bronson vehicles after...

ROBERT MORSE, STEFANIE POWERS & PHIL SILVERS 'THE BOATNIKS'

<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/AVvXsEh2FcK2myU-t6zS85KQ-pH_fE6L8uWQeksyjgIPa6vXp33iDuLh5mZDsQOQzDuk-QbwGcMxlKeFmtdF7D0SYi95s2jzUpzWJf90G1D01qFdZKiQrpzDWF43QxFPdQ2BFNVzbA4a_gYgrxwS/s1751/Screen+Shot+2021-08-22+at+11.52.15+PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="973" data-original-width="1751" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2FcK2myU-t6zS85KQ-pH_fE6L8uWQeksyjgIPa6vXp33iDuLh5mZDsQOQzDuk-QbwGcMxlKeFmtdF7D0SYi95s2jzUpzWJf90G1D01qFdZKiQrpzDWF43QxFPdQ2BFNVzbA4a_gYgrxwS/s16000/Screen+Shot+2021-08-22+at+11.52.15+PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Opening Credits for THE BOATNIKS Year: 1970 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Like THE APPLE DUMPLING GANG five-years later, Disney juggles two stories in one with wacky villains and a kindhearted underdog in a World War II hero's son taking over a West Coast/Coast Guard headed by strict Don Ameche bossing the short, pudgy, gap-toothed Robert Morse...</p><p></p><p>Way too quickly hooked up with gorgeous sailing instructor Stefanie Powers, who rents vessels to three bumbling jewel thieves headed by Phil Silvers flanked by a cautious Norman Fell and dimwitted Mickey Shaughnessy...</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/AVvXsEi0wwngl2ik4hsJpo3l8KFuw-F7E-Lr0EjXSpT3FctmbVCumVAphBIcKjhA839Ua_AmXNLXCFvew4WDPRTWfwwzbnPOvQhL7WwEkNYa_Ctr5qaZtdA8Caqk4gHslzkYPXS5HU25G6gI_ZUf/s1767/Screen+Shot+2021-08-22+at+11.53.45+PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="866" data-original-width="1767" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0wwngl2ik4hsJpo3l8KFuw-F7E-Lr0EjXSpT3FctmbVCumVAphBIcKjhA839Ua_AmXNLXCFvew4WDPRTWfwwzbnPOvQhL7WwEkNYa_Ctr5qaZtdA8Caqk4gHslzkYPXS5HU25G6gI_ZUf/s16000/Screen+Shot+2021-08-22+at+11.53.45+PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Phil Silvers, Kelly Thorsden and Robert Morse in THE BOATNIKS</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Who take up most of the film, NOT in trying to sail to Mexico but attempting to recover the treasure where they accidentally dropped it in the bay, providing Morse a chance to prove he's isn't a flake, which is strange since, as the film's "jinxed" lead, he's really not all that clumsy or unlucky... </p><p></p><p>Meanwhile the best scenes ultimately become the slowest as the crooks keep ahead of their pursuers using a stolen mini submarine in a 100-minute comedy that should've been a sparse 80. But, overall, the most enjoyable aspect is visual as in bikinis and tan shirtless souls on yachts and sailboats under So Cal's groovy 1970's sunshine: A freedom long gone. <br></p><p><span></span></p>

action, comedy disney, denise lynn, disney, don ameche, kelly thorsden, lynn borden, mickey shaughnessy, norman fell, phil silvers, robert morse, seventies, stefanie powers, wally cox

ROBERT MORSE, STEFANIE POWERS & PHIL SILVERS 'THE BOATNIKS'

Opening Credits for THE BOATNIKS Year: 1970 Rating: ***1/2 Like THE APPLE DUMPLING GANG five-years later, Disney juggles two stories in one ...

LYNN BORDEN INTERVIEW: 'FROGS' & EXPLOITATION CINEMA

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A lovely and talented actress has left us, and her name was Lynn Borden… Known by some as the suburban wife from the last season of HAZEL, cult cinema fans remember her as Jenny Crockett, the beautifully bitter wife of Adam Roarke’s mischievous Clint in the eco-horror FROGS, which, made in 1972, is actually pretty great...</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lynn Borden... and a Frog</td></tr>
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Taking place at a rural mansion within the murky swamps, Ray Milland stars as a greedy capitalist who isn’t very environmentally conscious...<br>
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And so, long story short, a magazine photographer, played by Sam Elliott, winds up amongst the bickering clan, experiencing their eccentric behavior as a horde of reptiles slowly move in.<br>
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So here's a transcribed interview from a Cult Film Freak/Skull Island Surfer archive with actress Lynn Borden, who also shares about appearing with the late cult actor Adam Roarke in two other motion pictures, THIS IS A HIJACK and DIRTY MARY CRAZY LARRY...</div>

adam roarke, eco-horror, exploitation, lynn borden, ray milland, sam elliott

LYNN BORDEN INTERVIEW: 'FROGS' & EXPLOITATION CINEMA

Original Artwork A lovely and talented actress has left us, and her name was Lynn Borden… Known by some as the suburban wife from the...

SAM ELLIOTT & RAY MILLAND IN 'FROGS' WITH LYNN BORDEN

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">year: 1972 cast: Ray Milland, Sam Elliott, Lynn Borden rating: ****</td></tr>
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"We’d all be scared," according to the late actress Lynn Borden in an interview about her work on FROGS, and the director, George McCowan.<br />
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"We didn’t know exactly how we were going to die… We knew we were going to somehow, but he would scare us." And though more suspenseful and creative than scary, this underrated 1970’s eco-horror has somewhat of a misleading title...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px; text-align: center;">Lynn Borden & Adam Roarke</td></tr>
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While the frogs are the instigating generals who take their time to become formidable aggressors, there're also a bevy of lizards, snakes, and gators that encroach upon a mansion in New Orleans owned by greedy industrialist Ray Milland, countered by a young Sam Elliott as a nature-friendly photographer, who happens upon Ray and his pompous clan, including cute and helpful daughter Joan Van Ark, most of whom get picked-off during a traditional holiday gathering.<br />
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Adam Roarke is a standout as Milland's playboy/jock son, as is Lynn Borden as his frustrated wife (both worked together on THIS IS A HIJACK and DIRTY MARY CRAZY LARRY). Overall, FROGS is a very well photographed film that, lacking in expensive special effects, shows the reptiles in their natural poses and then, with creatively strategic editing, makes it seem like their curiosity's aimed towards the doomed humans: With a Tennessee Williams aura of the snobby Southern rich given their comeuppance, FROGS is loaded with terrific dialog, fantastic acting, and a first half setting up the characters so when they <span style="font-style: italic;">croak</span>, it matters. This isn’t the cheesy B-movie as the trailers and posters imply, but it'll work either way.

adam roarke, creature, eco-horror, horror, lynn borden, ray milland, sam elliott

SAM ELLIOTT & RAY MILLAND IN 'FROGS' WITH LYNN BORDEN

year: 1972 cast: Ray Milland, Sam Elliott, Lynn Borden rating: **** "We’d all be scared," according to the late actress Lynn B...

Written by James M. Tate / 8/13/2011 / No comments / action , adam roarke , exploitation , lynn borden , neville brand , seventies , suspense

THIS IS A HIJACK AKA HIJACK

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Although it’s the underrated Adam Roarke who, as an unlucky gambler owing bundles to the mob, comes up with the plan to hijack a private jet owned by his ball-busting billionaire employer, it’s the classic heavy Neville Brand who not only steals the show, but heads the hijacking that involves the bullying of rich snobs, and a lot of other sometimes unintentionally hilarious moments taking away from the contained intensity that might have merited a better film.<br />
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Brand makes each hostage sing children songs to make them look idiotic, and forcefully seduces their beautiful girlfriends. All the while, Roarke remains the more calculating hijacker, just wanting the plane, which is sought after by the bullet-giddy FBI down below, to land safely. And Lynn Borden plays Roarke’s girlfriend: it’s great seeing the duo from FROGS and DIRTY MARY CRAZY LARRY together again in a guilty pleasure that gets too sidetracked with eccentric personalities, often putting the titular heist to the background... Yet it’s still entertaining from start to finish, abandoning the mainstream thriller template for that of a gritty exploitation and ultimately synergizing into a combination of both.

action, adam roarke, exploitation, lynn borden, neville brand, seventies, suspense

THIS IS A HIJACK AKA HIJACK

1973 rating: *** Although it’s the underrated Adam Roarke who, as an unlucky gambler owing bundles to the mob, comes up with the plan to...

Written by James M. Tate / 1/27/2011 / No comments / clint eastwood , drama , kay lenz , lynn borden , mid-life crisis , romance , seventies , william holden

BREEZY

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7yylPx38hIGk02ZGH1O3YN_-dbXVHJ04IqKmA4MTyzqjkpZnoBxLeUFO0WBs4MCyyCab9P-A0MVvz414ekZcHqSW9Cp-rBRDmPpgB6VdSzCIHFgSdlrT0iN7v3JrmZFH0YpAbc6fZabo/s1600/kay+lenz.png"><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566957988748210530" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7yylPx38hIGk02ZGH1O3YN_-dbXVHJ04IqKmA4MTyzqjkpZnoBxLeUFO0WBs4MCyyCab9P-A0MVvz414ekZcHqSW9Cp-rBRDmPpgB6VdSzCIHFgSdlrT0iN7v3JrmZFH0YpAbc6fZabo/s200/kay+lenz.png" style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 183px" /></strong></a><strong>title:</strong> BREEZY<br /><div><strong>year:</strong> 1973</div><div><strong>cast:</strong> William Holden, Kay Lenz</div><div><strong>director:</strong> Clint Eastwood</div><div><strong>rating:</strong> *1/2</div><br /><div></div><div>Not sure what’s more unrealistic: a teenage hippie girl instantly falling for an old William Holden, who doesn't resemble his younger self… or even a distinguished version of how he once looked. Or the initial reluctance of Holden to accept this ever-willing free-spirited <em>babe </em>into his house and heart. Directed by Clint Eastwood without any signature style, save for wide-angle landscapes reminiscent of his first directed project, the entertaining PLAY MISTY FOR ME: polar opposite of this pointless male-fantasy melodrama. Kay Lenz, as the title character, looks too old for a teen and William Holden seems far past a midlife crisis. Eastwood himself would have fit better in the role. But the dull script, a <em>breezy</em> ride without any drive, is the real problem. </div>

clint eastwood, drama, kay lenz, lynn borden, mid-life crisis, romance, seventies, william holden