HUMPHREY BOGART STEALS 'THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE'

<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/AVvXsEiP05Q8k_mlvuts-jyov1Z6DOnr8ww2uPaRmLd5zdhsdXcp_13WWyOpr2BfDy-m3Z1qnvQ9OVKtKkcB3P9tfCLOoVuhupGTpGa3uMVyiDFKoeXpyzNUL-slTraGByf1pmuZNbPBTp5uTr_WKc40lL5Y3I5_W_iBVHy6JMDFmKJPoZKMv6w7XQSl8G193ox2/s1888/Screen%20Shot%202023-11-15%20at%204.08.19%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="931" data-original-width="1888" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP05Q8k_mlvuts-jyov1Z6DOnr8ww2uPaRmLd5zdhsdXcp_13WWyOpr2BfDy-m3Z1qnvQ9OVKtKkcB3P9tfCLOoVuhupGTpGa3uMVyiDFKoeXpyzNUL-slTraGByf1pmuZNbPBTp5uTr_WKc40lL5Y3I5_W_iBVHy6JMDFmKJPoZKMv6w7XQSl8G193ox2/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-11-15%20at%204.08.19%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE Year: 1948 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>By the time TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE came out, Humphrey Bogart was already a big star, having began (over a decade earlier) as unknown dressed-up dandies to successfully portraying cutthroat villains soon morphed into likeable scoundrels... and then outright heroes...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>So for MADRE it was back to the heavy... yet his Fred C. Dobbs is initially more lightweight and affable, homeless and bumming throughout the crowded purgatory of 1920's Mexico with a new friend in perfect sidekick Tim Holt, both meeting an old yet energetic, experienced, tale-spinning and much-deserved Oscar-winning Walter Huston, director John Huston's father and the reason Bogart agreed playing another dark, sinister role: so that the veteran actor could intensely perform against such formidable, uncompromising tyranny...</p><p><span></span></p>

adventure, barton maclane, bruce bennett, forties, humphrey bogart, john huston, mexico, robert blake, thriller, tim holt, treasure, walter huston

HUMPHREY BOGART STEALS 'THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE'

Title: THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE Year: 1948 Rating: **** By the time TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE came out, Humphrey Bogart was alrea...

WILLIAM DEVANE RIDES 'ROLLING THUNDER' WITH LINDA HAYNES

<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/AVvXsEjUbmKaqrp6EempFei2d6ta_zA6MXOYNQT5vg1PTaBLgMkDr0os0as_Ia2l3D_6aCbBa41i37AmSK_vEclS7QeDyZfaYJkSSqAuqYbsOo3h8o0ElCS7e_QTvRGnxf-9xafaclx6Frh95SkSWrGejjVgK-914AR5O0e8A6XbYlNAz9zHjGtbug3VdTfObNmJ/s2048/366739460_1783667722062396_7626234333727578591_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1217" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUbmKaqrp6EempFei2d6ta_zA6MXOYNQT5vg1PTaBLgMkDr0os0as_Ia2l3D_6aCbBa41i37AmSK_vEclS7QeDyZfaYJkSSqAuqYbsOo3h8o0ElCS7e_QTvRGnxf-9xafaclx6Frh95SkSWrGejjVgK-914AR5O0e8A6XbYlNAz9zHjGtbug3VdTfObNmJ/s16000/366739460_1783667722062396_7626234333727578591_n.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: ROLLING THUNDER Year: 1977 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The low-budget production company American International got themselves a movie with a then-groundbreaking post-Vietnam War plot <i>and</i> message that deserved a far superior studio...<br></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>And that's because important subjects can be costly — yet thanks to creative and economical director John Flynn, ROLLING THUNDER becomes an entertaining road movie on an exploitation vengeance trail...<br></p><span></span>

exploitation, john flynn, lawrason driscoll, linda haynes, luke askew, mexico, neo noir, paul schrader, revenge, road movie, seventies, tommy lee jones, vietnam, william devane

WILLIAM DEVANE RIDES 'ROLLING THUNDER' WITH LINDA HAYNES

Title: ROLLING THUNDER Year: 1977 Rating: ***1/2 The low-budget production company American International got themselves a movie with a then...

SUSAN GEORGE AND FIONA LEWIS IN 'TINTORERA: KILLER SHARK'

<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/AVvXsEhsXoq2hcJw2-pWxJv5RhRxvML7zIoNDYa0a2Z4JeH_5iAp8PyZ5RHwlxIU3mRgHcvHIbyv8FMxZeUMkfYV30eSZIgz-rHoGO9a9I6c0CB9lgqcz4dodxzOAqTZnOStwR2_ckcEdbFm6LtENC-kc-wYZf51FbMtC_PSh6T43aoZwgmsSMe2o0-HMknqQe0O/s1443/Screen%20Shot%202021-12-15%20at%205.17.43%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="678" data-original-width="1443" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsXoq2hcJw2-pWxJv5RhRxvML7zIoNDYa0a2Z4JeH_5iAp8PyZ5RHwlxIU3mRgHcvHIbyv8FMxZeUMkfYV30eSZIgz-rHoGO9a9I6c0CB9lgqcz4dodxzOAqTZnOStwR2_ckcEdbFm6LtENC-kc-wYZf51FbMtC_PSh6T43aoZwgmsSMe2o0-HMknqQe0O/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202021-12-15%20at%205.17.43%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jennifer Ashley's climactic scene image for TINTORERA: KILLER SHARK Year: 1977 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>If the sexually-driven/dream-vacationing ménage à trois of the 1980's SUMMER LOVERS were a 1970's JAWS-clone then you'd have the extremely bizarre Mexican exploitation TINTORERA: KILLER SHARK where, in familiar form, one character complains that the beaches should have been closed...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>But by that time it's almost over, before which two Mexican playboys... one a vulnerable blond millionaire with a yacht and the other a shallow dark-haired womanizing shark hunter... have two consecutive affairs with two different sexy British babes played by Fiona Lewis and Susan George respectively; and the first vanishes, mysteriously to the boys, but the audience had seen her eaten by not only a shark (Chrissie Watkins anyone?) but THE shark...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, andrés garcía, exploitation, fiona george, jaws-clone, jennifer ashley, mexico, priscilla barnes, romance, seventies, shark, susan george

SUSAN GEORGE AND FIONA LEWIS IN 'TINTORERA: KILLER SHARK'

Jennifer Ashley's climactic scene image for TINTORERA: KILLER SHARK Year: 1977 Rating: **1/2 If the sexually-driven/dream-vacationing mé...

CHARLES BRONSON & ROBERT DUVALL BAND APART FOR 'BREAKOUT'

<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/AVvXsEgEhvd0Sb_UlVtNIuL63ZQOfL81SqBuBygSDz1JTK1ukn63MWGpGT5WAnnmPIqSvDQ1tgOhFDw3GSbju3ss6EQTBxhF5xEfrc14PuDtwQm06WKkDO9wAUzNfAkYptgNHbGnYIB4hEoVULKiQxGMOZKtCfOFhyreqzWr7cOlSa3CFML6vUoewq8OST7WCw/s2182/2.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1114" data-original-width="2182" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEhvd0Sb_UlVtNIuL63ZQOfL81SqBuBygSDz1JTK1ukn63MWGpGT5WAnnmPIqSvDQ1tgOhFDw3GSbju3ss6EQTBxhF5xEfrc14PuDtwQm06WKkDO9wAUzNfAkYptgNHbGnYIB4hEoVULKiQxGMOZKtCfOFhyreqzWr7cOlSa3CFML6vUoewq8OST7WCw/s16000/2.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Charles Bronson in BREAKOUT Year: 1975 Rates: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The violent prologue of the 1975 Tom Gries jailbreak flick is so Sam Peckinpah you could call it BRING ME THE HEAD OF ROBERT DUVALL, and the Bloody Sam similarities include echoed gunshots under the hot Mexico sun; a white shirt soaked with gory, bright red blood; a slow-motion body falling to the ground as the opening credits appear across  paused-images as Jerry Goldsmith's score opens with soft, skeletal vibes into a Spanish groove... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And even beyond all that, BREAKOUT is a modern Spaghetti Western (released the same year as Gries/Bronson's actual Western BREAKHEART PASS) wherein action hero Charles Bronson is similar to his colorful MR. MAJESTYK character, only even more playfully cocky and wisecracking... </p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, alan vint, charles bronson, escape, jailbreak, jill ireland, john huston, mexico, prison, randy quaid, robert duvall, roy jenson, rural, seventies, sheree north, tom gries

CHARLES BRONSON & ROBERT DUVALL BAND APART FOR 'BREAKOUT'

Charles Bronson in BREAKOUT Year: 1975 Rates: ***1/2 The violent prologue of the 1975 Tom Gries jailbreak flick is so Sam Peckinpah you cou...

CHARLES BRONSON IN THE SLEEPY CRIME THRILLER 'BORDERLINE'

<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/AVvXsEgx30gY_lYEktEuHIAP_SWvkFK0rgMQmBDY_p9acxg4dGaOWnhRUJxIDRiymb4x53vnUW1381vBd_xPFTQNHEZYKierW5ObINr8PBjCpdl_8p0gQ4z7ZusWw6SlpdVgXPP3lH7CjlcY948wleBT1D0M4P8CgEZhkccWkVHXI3eqigKpJlg2fSN7UPHccA/s1553/Screen%20Shot%202023-05-08%20at%2010.42.44%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="909" data-original-width="1553" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx30gY_lYEktEuHIAP_SWvkFK0rgMQmBDY_p9acxg4dGaOWnhRUJxIDRiymb4x53vnUW1381vBd_xPFTQNHEZYKierW5ObINr8PBjCpdl_8p0gQ4z7ZusWw6SlpdVgXPP3lH7CjlcY948wleBT1D0M4P8CgEZhkccWkVHXI3eqigKpJlg2fSN7UPHccA/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-05-08%20at%2010.42.44%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>title: BORDERLINE year: 1980 stars: Charles Bronson rating: *</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Before Charles Bronson spent the 1980's working with Cannon Films, usually noted as his worst period, he starred in a few ITC productions that make Cannon seem like MGM, including the neo noir road picture LOVE & BULLETS, the intentional CASABLANCA knockoff CABOBLANCO and, before the limp exploitation THE EVIL THAT MEN DO is his worst latter film <i>and </i>performance in BORDERLINE...</p><p></p><p></p><p>It's actually more of a non-performance of a mild-mannered Border cop investigating the murder of another agent, played by Wilford Brimley in a scene where a young "Introducing" Ed Harris proves himself a cunning villain, only he's hardly in the picture at all, and never really goes head-to-head with Bronson... at least not all that intensely...<br></p><p><span></span></p>

bert remsen, bruno kirby, charles bronson, crime, ed harris, eighties, john ashton, mexico, wilford brimley

CHARLES BRONSON IN THE SLEEPY CRIME THRILLER 'BORDERLINE'

title: BORDERLINE year: 1980 stars: Charles Bronson rating: * Before Charles Bronson spent the 1980's working with Cannon Films, usually...

PAUL MUNI & BETTE DAVIS IN THE PRE-NOIR OF 'BORDERTOWN'

<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/a/AVvXsEiU_vmpAz5esDOdEq79i7Zb0NEe2qri_2C69tpBgwmc69P_ETNNpqurCpJxTMgZyalINw3pEDax0VRlr1zn4mNLzLLEtQTuL_XiENSqkPOyKCIyLiVSwUiCDg1KkN64bV9Y7LWB-uL6bxXij6Zg45UXtmr5fYmQuczM1wwvua2A4YEin2Dc8w2Jjc-WQw=s1426" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="961" data-original-width="1426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiU_vmpAz5esDOdEq79i7Zb0NEe2qri_2C69tpBgwmc69P_ETNNpqurCpJxTMgZyalINw3pEDax0VRlr1zn4mNLzLLEtQTuL_XiENSqkPOyKCIyLiVSwUiCDg1KkN64bV9Y7LWB-uL6bxXij6Zg45UXtmr5fYmQuczM1wwvua2A4YEin2Dc8w2Jjc-WQw=s16000"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: BORDERTOWN Year: 1935 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The early Noir THEY DRIVE BY NIGHT starring George Raft and Humphrey Bogart was a remake of the earlier Noir BORDERTOWN starring SCARFACE actor and Gangster-genre pioneer Paul Muni, starting out as a poor lawyer so overly-idealistic he's bound to fail in business, and love...<br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Herein classy-rich, out-of-his league Margaret Lindsay is the roundabout reason Muni's forced to retire his law practice and, like I AM A FUGITIVE OF A CHAIN-GANG, he wanders montage-style by foot, winding up where most of the programmer's action takes place...</p><p><span></span></p>

bette davis, film noir or melodrama, gangster, margaret lindsay, mexico, paul muni, thirties, warner archives, wrong man

PAUL MUNI & BETTE DAVIS IN THE PRE-NOIR OF 'BORDERTOWN'

Title: BORDERTOWN Year: 1935 Rating: *** The early Noir THEY DRIVE BY NIGHT starring George Raft and Humphrey Bogart was a remake of the ear...

ROBERT MONTGOMERY'S 'RIDE THE PINK HORSE' WANDA HENDRIX

<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/AVvXsEhNekp1faeqQA1MOXppz9-FhQfB6ID44qpkFuG_HSHfewtF9Ae55u09Opf_pzj4s_4bxoYcd-Hr2x77lvq-qj05PlmsysM3dhOyk44v23M96bsm3uvnrBnabYnIc_JMh-RwrCsiJy_cFalI7399Da_NUX7Q3UtqQ4n2VBjv0p4qpIKf-HumqdTx9j1scKAU/s1207/436367341_1094778905501776_8254241899528071062_n.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="701" data-original-width="1207" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNekp1faeqQA1MOXppz9-FhQfB6ID44qpkFuG_HSHfewtF9Ae55u09Opf_pzj4s_4bxoYcd-Hr2x77lvq-qj05PlmsysM3dhOyk44v23M96bsm3uvnrBnabYnIc_JMh-RwrCsiJy_cFalI7399Da_NUX7Q3UtqQ4n2VBjv0p4qpIKf-HumqdTx9j1scKAU/s16000/436367341_1094778905501776_8254241899528071062_n.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: RIDE THE PINK HORSE Year: 1947 Director/Star: Robert Montgomery Rates: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>One of the biggest flaws of Robert Montgomery's Mexico-set film noir RIDE THE PINK HORSE is pretty much flawless, and that's Wanda Hendrix as Pila, a different kind of ingenue...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And if Montgomery... a vengeful rogue named Lucky Gagin who turns up in a one-street carnival-fiesta Mexican town to blackmail criminal tycoon Fred Clark for having killed his war buddy... well let's just say if our roving hero's eyes were open, he'd have noticed that this "too skinny" peasant girl resembles an even prettier Gene Tierney...</p><p><span></span></p>

andrea king, art smith, film noir or melodrama, forties, fred clark, mexico, revenge, robert montgomery, thomas gomez, thriller, wanda hendrix

ROBERT MONTGOMERY'S 'RIDE THE PINK HORSE' WANDA HENDRIX

Title: RIDE THE PINK HORSE Year: 1947 Director/Star: Robert Montgomery Rates: ***1/2 One of the biggest flaws of Robert Montgomery's Mex...

ROBERT MITCHUM IN 'THE WRATH OF GOD' WITH KEN HUTCHISON

<table 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/AVvXsEgVNrt6a2udwOZKXljjU4056YgEPo4uSQTs6NViNoVkOHqdx6rj9FHM0umJeTJwica_fus4xXjsIiCJTvwkcr71VzXXvwW0l9gIXUwtswY3oh0VIYr6TJwm3jKbiM2UlW7Ht1P0PyRGtEAz/s923/Screen+Shot+2021-06-17+at+6.22.27+AM.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="715" data-original-width="923" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVNrt6a2udwOZKXljjU4056YgEPo4uSQTs6NViNoVkOHqdx6rj9FHM0umJeTJwica_fus4xXjsIiCJTvwkcr71VzXXvwW0l9gIXUwtswY3oh0VIYr6TJwm3jKbiM2UlW7Ht1P0PyRGtEAz/w400-h310/Screen+Shot+2021-06-17+at+6.22.27+AM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: The Wrath of God Year: 1972 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>British actor <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2017/11/SWEENEY2.html">Ken Hutchison</a>, from intimidating Dustin Hoffman in STRAW DOGS to beating up GANDHI, played mostly villains except THE WRATH OF GOD opposite Robert Mitchum; the latter a foul-mouthed <i>priest </i>to Hutchison's feisty/fun Irish rogue, all taking place in Central America. And the best scenes have the trio, including likable con man Victor Buono, pursued by antique cop cars, involved in various shoot-outs and almost getting executed, right down to the black eye-mask... Then given a mission to kill dictator Frank Langella, a role he underplays... </p><p>Split by Catholic mom Rita Hayworth and a personal hatred of religion, especially priest Mitchum, he's not evil enough for our heroes to spend so much time preparing a revolution by training ill-prepared townspeople for battle. So what works AND fails are the sub-genres ranging from Spaghetti Western Revenge; Classic Gangster involving Mitchum, a Tommy-gun and an attempt to smuggle prohibited booze; and a barrage of Sam Peckinpah style slow-motion firing squad deaths in the opening credits. And since a world-weary Mitchum and rambunctious Hutchison (the latter romancing gorgeous mute local Paula Pritchett) are always game to either fight or run away, it's a shame things got so serious halfway through.  </p><p><span></span></p>

frank langella, ken hutchison, mexico, modern western, rita hayworth, robert mitchum, seventies, spaghetti western, victor buono

ROBERT MITCHUM IN 'THE WRATH OF GOD' WITH KEN HUTCHISON

Title: The Wrath of God Year: 1972 Rating: *** British actor Ken Hutchison , from intimidating Dustin Hoffman in STRAW DOGS to beating up GA...

HUBERT CORNFIELD DIRECTS EDMOND O'BRIEN IN 'THE 3RD VOICE'

<table 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/AVvXsEiqjcKVLfpzFDJ0k15RmIEXPFAhya1QQplchZ5cLCK3HnMC3Fwx0FdUX4mf9QxV1IEWhK__BullFOkCBfBYuo8WmBzfvJxbcV3Wqg97Szeck8CRormJgUW0TVzm96RPR5LTVohwMA7iRsBB/s517/3RDVOICE1SHHRws.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="515" data-original-width="517" height="399" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqjcKVLfpzFDJ0k15RmIEXPFAhya1QQplchZ5cLCK3HnMC3Fwx0FdUX4mf9QxV1IEWhK__BullFOkCBfBYuo8WmBzfvJxbcV3Wqg97Szeck8CRormJgUW0TVzm96RPR5LTVohwMA7iRsBB/w400-h399/3RDVOICE1SHHRws.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: The 3rd Voice Year: 1960 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Before <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/01/thetameone.html">THE NIGHT AND THE FOLLOWING DAY</a>, the infamous Neo Noir with a troubled production and problems with star Marlon Brando that ended the Hollywood career of director Hubert Cornfield, it's important to go back and see how Cornfield made his few genuine film noir vehicles, or in this case, post noir, the period before anyone knew exactly what noir was to realize it had ended...<br></p><p></p><p>Enter THE 3RD VOICE, a B&W thriller (produced by Maury Dexter) that plays out like one right up to the casting of Edmond O'Brien as a hired con artist who works very hard to impersonate the voice of a blowhard rich man, hired by his disgruntled secretary, another veteran in an effectively sassy, snarky Lorraine Day, and the set-up about O'Brien learning the man's voice and dealings is covered with more expository polish than the rest of an intriguing yet sporadically unfocused thriller... </p><p>Taking place in Mexico, where O'Brien, now solo, maintains the impersonation, mostly during a string of nervous phone calls (that include Noirish self-narration), and where the typical human "close call" occurs, almost meeting one of the real man's old friends. And it's all suspenseful enough. But how exactly he's decided to get all the money (as the actual con plays out) is confusing... Yet everything becomes more clear when the big twist is revealed, and it's a pretty damn good one. But besides sexy ingenue Julie London and the well-shot wheeling & dealing, this is Edmond O'Brien's energetic one-man-show, playing the hell out of two people at once! <br></p><p><span></span></p>

con man, edmond o'brien, hubert cornfield, julie london, laraine day, maury dexter, mexico, neo noir, sixties, thriller

HUBERT CORNFIELD DIRECTS EDMOND O'BRIEN IN 'THE 3RD VOICE'

Title: The 3rd Voice Year: 1960 Rating: ***1/2 Before THE NIGHT AND THE FOLLOWING DAY , the infamous Neo Noir with a troubled production and...

JOHN HUSTON DIRECTS SUE LYON IN 'THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA'

<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/AVvXsEgoOpKaO4LReSnsqVXzmbPkAC6HO3f0wjTk4fk3b3GExTDEWVzlnVn5u_gxoT42jF25iVHC1NmvbRxehEZuaZ0tTv-3AlKXK_LGzaOGG6JkoQNPgHPeYHnEG1_EVkoB-qblvlG0v1EEjr-Y/s1600/zz.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1012" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoOpKaO4LReSnsqVXzmbPkAC6HO3f0wjTk4fk3b3GExTDEWVzlnVn5u_gxoT42jF25iVHC1NmvbRxehEZuaZ0tTv-3AlKXK_LGzaOGG6JkoQNPgHPeYHnEG1_EVkoB-qblvlG0v1EEjr-Y/s1600/zz.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Skip Ward aka James Ward with Sue Lyon in THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA Year: 1964 Rating: ***</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> "I'm sick of dark old churches... I like sunshine," says Sue Lyon to Richard Burton, as a young LOLITA style temptress to a fallen preacher (who keeps falling, and seems content falling), who takes the girl and a group of old ladies — headed by a bitter and vengeful Grayson Hall — on a bus trip to Mexico where, instead of the promised air-conditioned city hotel, they're deliberately derailed to a rural mountainside lodge owned by an independent and experienced Ava Gardner...<br> <span class="caption"><br></span> <span class="caption">This where most of the story takes place after starting out an eclectic road movie </span><span class="caption">as Lyon's flirty tease Charlotte Goodall can't stop getting </span><span class="caption"><span class="caption">Burton's  Rev. Dr. T. Lawrence Shannon</span> in trouble...</span><br>

ava gardner, based-on-play, deborah kerr, drama, exploitation, grayson hall, john huston, mexico, richard burton, skip ward, sue lyon, tennessee williams

JOHN HUSTON DIRECTS SUE LYON IN 'THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA'

Skip Ward aka James Ward with Sue Lyon in THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA Year: 1964 Rating: *** "I'm sick of dark old churches... I li...

COOPER & WIDMARK RIDE IN GARDEN OF EVIL

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <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/AVvXsEi2OdA7_fImKNnaqJpsYc-VMvJi23JW4pdoFBy5UDzup_-BBOejnrFxihNVBXvJCjNkI95kRkjZDgYMqgkzK8FQae3M7FmoimPNRdnDqNJEPErKplDW_PtF6ogYiW8UMZeMhCwHk-akgL8/s1600/Screen+Shot+2016-07-15+at+4.15.30+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2OdA7_fImKNnaqJpsYc-VMvJi23JW4pdoFBy5UDzup_-BBOejnrFxihNVBXvJCjNkI95kRkjZDgYMqgkzK8FQae3M7FmoimPNRdnDqNJEPErKplDW_PtF6ogYiW8UMZeMhCwHk-akgL8/s400/Screen+Shot+2016-07-15+at+4.15.30+PM.png" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Gorgeous wideshot of Hayward and Cooper YEAR: 1954</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> A year before GARDEN OF EVIL, an adventurous Cowboy Film Noir taking place in Mexico starring, primarily, Gary Cooper and Susan Hayward, the wonderfully sinister Ralph Meeker kidnaps, or rather, hijacks or you can even say, <i>bums</i> a pistol-pointed ride off Barbara Stanwyck, whose husband is buried beneath a piece of a dilapidated pier and as the tide rises, time runs out...<br> <br> That was the underrated JEOPARDY, and in GARDEN OF EVIL, the urgent <i>drive</i> is not that much different. Only Susan Hayward isn't being taken. Instead, her red-haired beauty with a load of cash persuades a group of basically strangers, who "washed-up" (boat broke down) in a Mexican town so rural not even good time gambler Richard Widmark can have any fun. Enter the "friendly antagonist," our third banana who's the most like Meeker. That being the usually-villainous, explosive human bobcat, Cameron Mitchell, going bonkers when his lusting testosterone gets the best of him: His postman only rings once...<br>

cameron mitchell, fifties, film noir, mexico, richard widmark, susan hayward, treasure, western

COOPER & WIDMARK RIDE IN GARDEN OF EVIL

Gorgeous wideshot of Hayward and Cooper YEAR: 1954 A year before GARDEN OF EVIL, an adventurous Cowboy Film Noir taking place in Mexic...