KATHERINE WOODVILLE CLASSING UP 'CLUE OF THE NEW PIN'

<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/AVvXsEhkZi7CvDXoiY5oLNlbgW6NwQ4ChXi8vR66NiWg3KaVejSeyX1serUne6A1Kcxcd8K3IT8yZF2PYekvpZIH897inp-p-i08Xuxr9T1KPePStTsE5J3cf5mHA39mcdtKH0EANtQnp_eie1ywx5ISSB_Xj43ra5WsSWsA-YGTzW1DIRgq8fDmX07EEcltxJQm/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-10-02%20at%2012.09.56%20AM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="851" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkZi7CvDXoiY5oLNlbgW6NwQ4ChXi8vR66NiWg3KaVejSeyX1serUne6A1Kcxcd8K3IT8yZF2PYekvpZIH897inp-p-i08Xuxr9T1KPePStTsE5J3cf5mHA39mcdtKH0EANtQnp_eie1ywx5ISSB_Xj43ra5WsSWsA-YGTzW1DIRgq8fDmX07EEcltxJQm/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-10-02%20at%2012.09.56%20AM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Katherine Woodville in CLUE OF THE NEW PIN Year: 1961 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Katherine Woodville (here billed as Catherine Woodville) is one the most beautiful British actresses of all time, and, with full lips and reddish-dark hair, she also has the cool, laid-back aura like she knows everything...<br><br>Fitfully cast as a gorgeous jewelry-wearing model/actress in the Edgar Wallace episode CLUE OF THE NEW PIN, mostly taking place within an underground room in a rich man's manor, where his seemingly affable nephew Paul Daneman appears to be the most innocent, vulnerable... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

edgar wallace, james villiers, katherine woodville, mystery, paul daneman, sixties, thriller

KATHERINE WOODVILLE CLASSING UP 'CLUE OF THE NEW PIN'

Katherine Woodville in CLUE OF THE NEW PIN Year: 1961 Rating: ***1/2 Katherine Woodville (here billed as Catherine Woodville) is one the mos...

LARA WENDEL GETTING STALKED IN DARIO ARGENO'S 'TENEBRAE'

<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/AVvXsEg2YcxPzyoqgphPPOo46MgISDpisxlhV-2Jy42uWGR5P7GxbCejwtWgdDUkoVzWy4tOBnF2jK0jUPmVtVrTSc7W_9VUepN62voPdKc5CvOvahVvkCmu7IU0YwqTq5IM3zFm7I5cNwOzP_De66U_XZmj3abFtfzn-PeNMbTnd1H8V9x3ZtGmmVadnOEqKiPm/s2134/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-15%20at%205.56.03%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1184" data-original-width="2134" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2YcxPzyoqgphPPOo46MgISDpisxlhV-2Jy42uWGR5P7GxbCejwtWgdDUkoVzWy4tOBnF2jK0jUPmVtVrTSc7W_9VUepN62voPdKc5CvOvahVvkCmu7IU0YwqTq5IM3zFm7I5cNwOzP_De66U_XZmj3abFtfzn-PeNMbTnd1H8V9x3ZtGmmVadnOEqKiPm/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-15%20at%205.56.03%20PM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lara Wendel in TENEBRAE Year: 1982 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Between his most famous, groundbreaking horror flick SUSPERIA from the exploitation 1970's to the less intense genre vehicles of the latter 1980's like PHENOMENA, Italian auteur Dario Argento made his best and by far most conventional slasher in TENEBRAE... <br><br>Using the familiar plot of a horror writer who, in this case, has a desperately faithful fan killing vulnerable women, leaving behind pages of the titular (his latest) novel... </p><p><span></span></p>

anthony franciosa, daria nicolodi, dario argento, horror, italian, john saxon, john steiner, lara wendel, mirella d'angelo, mystery, neo noir, seventies, slasher, veronica lario

LARA WENDEL GETTING STALKED IN DARIO ARGENO'S 'TENEBRAE'

Lara Wendel in TENEBRAE Year: 1982 Rating: **** Between his most famous, groundbreaking horror flick SUSPERIA from the exploitation 1970...

MIMSY FARMER KILLS DARIO ARGENTO'S 'FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET'

<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/AVvXsEjiSlhcIJkzvGhpYdVHbfDfLxicVqUBsdtZYuy_b4dodxg0YVGKk4fraoed2DW5fTVT1IwaaZKH5Hj1OuIr_xLAt3ZEerGGS_rvmgoc4h4bfv48-e1q4_IfOqzD-yYmYYtrV8cCb9bFzzDBIq-0Ushn9MW7yxd3N00h_pij3pkfpqB-UVOwwu9M-1VTWrAn/s1600/image1786217518.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="956" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiSlhcIJkzvGhpYdVHbfDfLxicVqUBsdtZYuy_b4dodxg0YVGKk4fraoed2DW5fTVT1IwaaZKH5Hj1OuIr_xLAt3ZEerGGS_rvmgoc4h4bfv48-e1q4_IfOqzD-yYmYYtrV8cCb9bFzzDBIq-0Ushn9MW7yxd3N00h_pij3pkfpqB-UVOwwu9M-1VTWrAn/s1600/image1786217518.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mimsy Farmer in FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET Year: 1971 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>American actress Mimsy Farmer really went native after moving to France and starring in European horror flicks after merely co-starring in counter-culture melodramas (like HOT RODS TO HELL) stateside... <br><br>That is, in several of the Euro-thrillers, she would have an accent, speaking a kind of broken English, like it's not her original language, sometimes even choosing each word... very... carefully...</p><p><span></span></p>

body count, dario argento, exploitation, francine racette, giallo, horror, jean-pierre marielle, michael brandon, mimsy farmer, mystery, seventies

MIMSY FARMER KILLS DARIO ARGENTO'S 'FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET'

Mimsy Farmer in FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET Year: 1971 Rating: ***1/2 American actress Mimsy Farmer really went native after moving to France ...

ORSON WELLES AND JOSEPH COTTEN SURVIVE 'THE THIRD MAN'

<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><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/AVvXsEh6oCNiwVUAf2-1HtIaI1ebf2ckaOjHaWyP8XeW26P9n2pfT7QMoO8QYxiHeyOXQSea2H4tEkRneaZPBEuFiAKKfWh53RkElWHKZNxxtNtDbtaxLP5OOMtGcWwhrbc00EQpKidd19NIXPHJmjg7or83upEnlgt6RzpdzualfWAPimaV5WSkrkX_ZrYdVaR1/s2094/Screen%20Shot%202026-05-02%20at%201.57.39%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1154" data-original-width="2094" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6oCNiwVUAf2-1HtIaI1ebf2ckaOjHaWyP8XeW26P9n2pfT7QMoO8QYxiHeyOXQSea2H4tEkRneaZPBEuFiAKKfWh53RkElWHKZNxxtNtDbtaxLP5OOMtGcWwhrbc00EQpKidd19NIXPHJmjg7or83upEnlgt6RzpdzualfWAPimaV5WSkrkX_ZrYdVaR1/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-05-02%20at%201.57.39%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jospeh Cotten and Orson Welles in THE THIRD MAN Year: 1949 Rating: *****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>It's not really that big a deal that Orson Welles turns up over fifty-minutes into THE THIRD MAN, being that audiences awaited KING KONG for about the same period of time...<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></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>The term best describing Welles's Harry Lime is <i>anticipated antagonist,</i> and yet all his criminal activity is refuted by best friend Joseph Cotten as <i>cheap novelette</i> Western writer Holly Martins, and especially heartbroken stage-actress-girlfriend Alida Valli, who Cotten attempts subtly romancing... but can't compete with the ghost...</p><p><span></span></p>

alida valli, bernard lee, british film noir, carol reed, forties, joseph cotten, mystery, orson welles, thriller, trevor howard

ORSON WELLES AND JOSEPH COTTEN SURVIVE 'THE THIRD MAN'

Jospeh Cotten and Orson Welles in THE THIRD MAN Year: 1949 Rating: ***** It's not really that big a deal that Orson Welles turns up over...

ORSON WELLES AND JOSEPH COTTEN IN 'JOURNEY INTO FEAR'

<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><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/AVvXsEguor00zaLn8rcQF8pCjcOACGQEReXaWzBZ0a3V_jFZ9cSA8qu47pgYhL8pkxqcEX714-nQJw1MNqE8IcCpYP6qbz05xxau_EWS4eFsVKXdp15o9fBY9vTUh-fJ4tk6T7ogivvUpv7LPQ08b31Tyo_yMktiet64bAvcJLuj5rFi8KcSYPoKss0CRMgL8DCc/s1882/Screen%20Shot%202026-05-02%20at%2011.00.48%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1882" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguor00zaLn8rcQF8pCjcOACGQEReXaWzBZ0a3V_jFZ9cSA8qu47pgYhL8pkxqcEX714-nQJw1MNqE8IcCpYP6qbz05xxau_EWS4eFsVKXdp15o9fBY9vTUh-fJ4tk6T7ogivvUpv7LPQ08b31Tyo_yMktiet64bAvcJLuj5rFi8KcSYPoKss0CRMgL8DCc/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-05-02%20at%2011.00.48%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles in JOURNEY INTO FEAR Year: 1943 Rating: ****</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p>An entertaining, lightweight crime yarn about a married and very passive arms dealer... who ironically has never fired a gun... stuck on a cargo ship where there lurks a clandestine Nazi out to kill him...<br> <br> Joseph Cotten stars as the hunted pawn who, having left loyal wife Ruth Warrick ashore, is reluctantly sent aboard with dancer Dolores Del Rio and meets various passengers including a Turkish tobacco dealer, a slick gambler and a German businessman. It's not hard figuring out who the main heavy is, but it doesn't matter...</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></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

agnes moorehead, classic, delores del rio, everette sloane, film noir or melodrama, forties, hit-man, joseph cotten, mystery, nazi, norman foster, orson welles, ruth warrick, suspense

ORSON WELLES AND JOSEPH COTTEN IN 'JOURNEY INTO FEAR'

Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles in JOURNEY INTO FEAR Year: 1943 Rating: **** An entertaining, lightweight crime yarn about a married and ver...

SCOTT BRADY, LISA GAYE & VIRGINIA MAYO IN 'CASTLE OF EVIL'

<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/AVvXsEgj5_i1pDUoxkq7tPzI6ZTJOn9u6p_9q0TBU4iKROVn4ozooHCJ32qQYE88pWolIa27mosU7gn9rrnfoK_y8DxvmH3gN_yS7MtRxo8CyvMhyphenhyphenjHzI0X_PmKRgRU_icwHC1XmlLzQ34gHr9x0SXvguyfB2OMUCXkvpgO77Vi5hXHKxP76cxzO4iH38rppRIaG/s1978/Screen%20Shot%202026-04-04%20at%202.33.06%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1206" data-original-width="1978" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj5_i1pDUoxkq7tPzI6ZTJOn9u6p_9q0TBU4iKROVn4ozooHCJ32qQYE88pWolIa27mosU7gn9rrnfoK_y8DxvmH3gN_yS7MtRxo8CyvMhyphenhyphenjHzI0X_PmKRgRU_icwHC1XmlLzQ34gHr9x0SXvguyfB2OMUCXkvpgO77Vi5hXHKxP76cxzO4iH38rppRIaG/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-04-04%20at%202.33.06%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1966 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The horror/mystery trope of a group of heirs meeting in a spooky location and getting picked off only partially occurs in CASTLE OF EVIL starring terrific b-movie actors led by the always gruffly affable Scott Brady, linked to sexy younger Lisa Gaye while middle-age Virginia Mayo has a terrific line of "I attract bums like park benches..."<br><br>She's played some wild, loose women and could have really shined here, but pretty much all the roles consist of the performers... including Hugh Marlowe as a patient doctor and David Brian an intense lawyer... standing around spouting expository dialogue without fleshing out their potential... as being either would-be killers or victims... <br><span></span></p>

david brian, ernest sarracino, francis d. lyon, horror, hugh marlowe, lisa gaye, mystery, scott brady, shelley morrison, sixties, virginia mayo, william thourlby

SCOTT BRADY, LISA GAYE & VIRGINIA MAYO IN 'CASTLE OF EVIL'

Year: 1966 Rating: **1/2 The horror/mystery trope of a group of heirs meeting in a spooky location and getting picked off only partially occ...

MONTSERRAT PROUS & KALI HANSA IN 'THE SILENCE OF THE TOMB'

<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/AVvXsEghOAsP-KmD-Ze8cqqGA5EdpQv2yMfJD7oRi7HtfnuuB1oYv51j63Wu4STWDvNFigLNRZ8gH7SNIlayt101hfPEpSZxfvPxQX_pq1qjGtviqifXgJbgzOCiZHeb5cCXVkEtsB-54BKHPdMfUSxF2S_6DtqSECHpl-U9LoLtLuwTyO0cc04mJwWxMUOllynt/s2098/Screen%20Shot%202026-02-13%20at%204.58.27%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1134" data-original-width="2098" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghOAsP-KmD-Ze8cqqGA5EdpQv2yMfJD7oRi7HtfnuuB1oYv51j63Wu4STWDvNFigLNRZ8gH7SNIlayt101hfPEpSZxfvPxQX_pq1qjGtviqifXgJbgzOCiZHeb5cCXVkEtsB-54BKHPdMfUSxF2S_6DtqSECHpl-U9LoLtLuwTyO0cc04mJwWxMUOllynt/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-02-13%20at%204.58.27%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Montserrat Prous in The Silence of the Tomb/Un silencio de tumba Year: 1972 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Lina Romay,  Ewa Strömberg, Maria Rohm and especially <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2026/01/lezvamp.html">VAMPYROS LESBOS</a> icon Soledad Miranda are scream-queen movie-household names when it comes to working with Spanish horror auteur Jesús Franco... <br><br>But a personal favorite is wide-eyed brooding brunette Montserrat Prous, starring as the central vulnerable ingenue in two obscure Franco features more thriller than killer, although there are plenty of deaths here in THE SILENCE OF THE TOMB compared to their previous <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2026/02/orloff.html">THE SINISTER EYES OF DR. ORLOFF</a>... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

alberto dalbés, body count, glenda allen, jesús franco, kali hansa, montserrat prous, mystery, seventies, spanish horror, thriller, yelena samarina

MONTSERRAT PROUS & KALI HANSA IN 'THE SILENCE OF THE TOMB'

Montserrat Prous in The Silence of the Tomb/Un silencio de tumba Year: 1972 Rating: *** Lina Romay,  Ewa Strömberg, Maria Rohm and especiall...

MARIBEL MARTÍN VAMPING AS 'THE BLOOD SPLATTERED BRIDE'

<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/AVvXsEgbx7qdXTKS9vNmf4YJ7OfnZVzTAF5uIS3AaffbdntkcU1pbkZ3u8SOUT98O54exRXDRX29h6SKFwSGRrbZ0AWLwFpjQ19_K77Wr1vAxyMQkR5yOPOUdRWiYzgMEw_vjONFUYLspkj588fbKNijJTK7aL0m-LNP-8vzKQal_EK5mpDZYlAZlJPN3Z27_V98/s1740/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1064" data-original-width="1740" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbx7qdXTKS9vNmf4YJ7OfnZVzTAF5uIS3AaffbdntkcU1pbkZ3u8SOUT98O54exRXDRX29h6SKFwSGRrbZ0AWLwFpjQ19_K77Wr1vAxyMQkR5yOPOUdRWiYzgMEw_vjONFUYLspkj588fbKNijJTK7aL0m-LNP-8vzKQal_EK5mpDZYlAZlJPN3Z27_V98/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Maribel Martín in THE BLOOD SPLATTERED BRIDE Year: 1972 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Based on the Gothic vampire novel, perhaps second only to Bram Stoker's DRACULA, Sheridan Le Fanu's CARMILA gets adapted into Spanish horror after the British Hammer film <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2024/12/vamplovers.html">VAMPIRE LOVERS</a>...<br><br>Only there's no tangible lesbian element other than a dominating female vampire seducing a young and docile, newly-married wife... making <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2026/01/THTS.html">THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED</a> young-teen actress Maribel Martín (just turned eighteen) the titular BLOOD SPLATTERED BRIDE...</p><p><span></span></p>

alexandra bastedo, lesbian, maribel martín, mystery, rosa m. rodriguez, seventies, simón andreu, spanish horror, thriller, vampire, vicente aranda

MARIBEL MARTÍN VAMPING AS 'THE BLOOD SPLATTERED BRIDE'

Maribel Martín in THE BLOOD SPLATTERED BRIDE Year: 1972 Rating: ***1/2 Based on the Gothic vampire novel, perhaps second only to Bram Stoker...

MARÍA ELENA APRÓN SLASHING 'THE FISH WITH THE EYES OF GOLD'

<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/AVvXsEj5k0jnWkbVqEmzA2VEOxAtQAsv1zF-YVrXDbt1JXS-St1H7J_nJNJKFZat_BkM6STLoNKqwp3ma4T4Un8RO829wXhWik0-nrLYEMgpg51Eh92OxfvTH2cU9_oYqwgw1jRWNkiVYlP4qmaXEvNYe8UnAZyB0j4nrhBx3S1bwb0sNhIAc8qPXoYNFCgu0QU7/s2088/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1438" data-original-width="2088" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5k0jnWkbVqEmzA2VEOxAtQAsv1zF-YVrXDbt1JXS-St1H7J_nJNJKFZat_BkM6STLoNKqwp3ma4T4Un8RO829wXhWik0-nrLYEMgpg51Eh92OxfvTH2cU9_oYqwgw1jRWNkiVYlP4qmaXEvNYe8UnAZyB0j4nrhBx3S1bwb0sNhIAc8qPXoYNFCgu0QU7/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>María Elena Arpón in The Fish With The Eyes Of Gold/ El pez de los ojos de oro Year: 1974 Rates: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The primary cover art for Pedro L. Ramírez's Spanish Giallo THE FISH WITH THE EYES OF GOLD is a composite of two actresses, one killed in the opening, the other towards the conclusion: both by an unseen/unknown man with very large knife, and right on the beach... as he has an obsession with those titular fish... <br><br>The gorgeous round face with full lips belong to Spanish Scream Queen María Elena Arpón, the scene-stealing vampire girl from TOMBS OF THE BLIND DEAD, making her final acting appearance here... and the hair-length/color's for longer-faced Susana Taber, violently kickstarting what's both Thriller and Mystery while using one of the most popular universal Neo-Noir tropes...</p><p><span></span></p>

ada tauler, maría elena arpón, montserrat prous, mystery, neo noir, norma kastel, seventies, slasher, spanish horror, susana taber, thriller, wal davis, wrong man

MARÍA ELENA APRÓN SLASHING 'THE FISH WITH THE EYES OF GOLD'

María Elena Arpón in The Fish With The Eyes Of Gold/ El pez de los ojos de oro Year: 1974 Rates: ***1/2 The primary cover art for Pedro L. R...

CAROLE GRAY IN 'BRIDES OF FU MANCHU' WITH CHRISTOPHER LEE

<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/AVvXsEjCS02BRD6t-mFsb_vBZMpSTPj97OiYVB-M17QiMEBiEIUMM7fwWrZ6aA3moXX8who7316s33L6yDEvZPG-5tzNitosQ4gMFuUXfq4CVNCLhtDI3kNE1YQqvC4Qz0pFlpGsuk3PgGVgCgt_nIE0QOSCt0cpot5bLUMMrvDB6_wpCsrG2oc-LsBO0-cOXCE8/s2222/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-18%20at%207.56.37%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1232" data-original-width="2222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCS02BRD6t-mFsb_vBZMpSTPj97OiYVB-M17QiMEBiEIUMM7fwWrZ6aA3moXX8who7316s33L6yDEvZPG-5tzNitosQ4gMFuUXfq4CVNCLhtDI3kNE1YQqvC4Qz0pFlpGsuk3PgGVgCgt_nIE0QOSCt0cpot5bLUMMrvDB6_wpCsrG2oc-LsBO0-cOXCE8/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-18%20at%207.56.37%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU Year: 1966 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Christopher Lee's version of author Sax Rohmer's nefarious Asian mastermind FU MANCHU makes like a James Bond villain that Lee would become in the next decade... herein seeking to take over the world by kidnapping the daughters of scientists who will help build the weapon to do so...<br><br>It's a shame that this plot-line's given away up front, in every online and video-box description, because the film leads the audience, and their classy Scotland Yard hero Nayland Smith (Douglas Wilmer), into a mystery-genre investigation as to why gorgeous gals Carole Gray and Marie Versini have become the least brain-washed of a dozen of Manchu's titular scantily-clad background BRIDES...<br></p><p><span></span></p>

burt kwouk, carole gray, christopher lee, crime, douglas wilmer, francesca tu, fu manchu, harry alan towers, howard marion-crawford, marie versini, mystery, sally sheridan, sixties, thriller, tsai chin

CAROLE GRAY IN 'BRIDES OF FU MANCHU' WITH CHRISTOPHER LEE

Title: THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU Year: 1966 Rating: ***1/2 Christopher Lee's version of author Sax Rohmer's nefarious Asian mastermind...

PETER MAXWELL'S 'BLIND SPOT' ROBERT MACKENZIE & MICHAEL CAINE

<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/AVvXsEg0oIJXUqjA_oXHwfV5eLvajPy1NYJby2NNpRn5kOA5QJ3w1lqv7yp-wPfM4hLgC3sabpH1Gf5E0FVp69EvqZ4QV62PMyUfjwbI7tucLv917lYcNn6rXn416Reqt5G2zGgLbFiu2ju7dhEt7_xbyhyrX0Y2UMxjA-J3FIqPOKPE2MczexXw2TftXnZdUSyy/s1884/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-23%20at%2011.47.59%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1096" data-original-width="1884" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0oIJXUqjA_oXHwfV5eLvajPy1NYJby2NNpRn5kOA5QJ3w1lqv7yp-wPfM4hLgC3sabpH1Gf5E0FVp69EvqZ4QV62PMyUfjwbI7tucLv917lYcNn6rXn416Reqt5G2zGgLbFiu2ju7dhEt7_xbyhyrX0Y2UMxjA-J3FIqPOKPE2MczexXw2TftXnZdUSyy/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-23%20at%2011.47.59%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert MacKenzie in BLIND SPOT Year: 1958 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>By the time a young Michael Caine's much anticipated wild-card-airplane-pilot character's revealed with a gun drawn to his own sister, BLIND SPOT has one quick car chase and it's over... </p><p>Leaving most of the gumshoe-inspired/traipsing-from-interior-to-interior screen-time to military man Robert MacKenzie, who's blind when he literally knocks into two killers after being dropped off in the wrong house, and then, after his sight's back, he investigates what's behind the murder... <br></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/AVvXsEj7jrH6UCqOCKpGiEY9cw8qOld2Zyp4PF7YMevho0Z0Q_LH0izKxOe8mWAv9u151fkGyYILh_abQ7bmO2K8jWng_8ILtRPo67m3AM7BiB0GfV6eoQwyDxCFmuJydIq0XuapCZj5NC1EHrtah_HG9XzMa4HOj8NQjBju9EtN-bOrV7fXS15JcHKix2tW5C52/s1736/1.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="902" data-original-width="1736" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7jrH6UCqOCKpGiEY9cw8qOld2Zyp4PF7YMevho0Z0Q_LH0izKxOe8mWAv9u151fkGyYILh_abQ7bmO2K8jWng_8ILtRPo67m3AM7BiB0GfV6eoQwyDxCFmuJydIq0XuapCZj5NC1EHrtah_HG9XzMa4HOj8NQjBju9EtN-bOrV7fXS15JcHKix2tW5C52/s16000/1.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert MacKenzie in BLIND SPOT with Ann Sharp</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>A remake of the 1950 British Film Noir BLACKOUT, seeming like a made-for-TV vehicle in the deliberately sparse camera style of merely facing the actors spouting loads of exposition... </p><p></p><p>But what makes this subtle thriller work is MacKenzie's affably cool yet randomly urgent aura, a hybrid of American-working-in-England b-crime regular William Sylvester and legendary American noir actor Sterling Hayden... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

andrew faulds, ann sharp, british film noir, delphi lawrence, fifties, george pastell, john crawford, leigh madison, michael caine, mystery, peter maxwell, robert mackenzie, ronan o'casey

PETER MAXWELL'S 'BLIND SPOT' ROBERT MACKENZIE & MICHAEL CAINE

Robert MacKenzie in BLIND SPOT Year: 1958 Rating: ***1/2 By the time a young Michael Caine's much anticipated wild-card-airplane-pilot c...

ARLENE MARTEL IN THE PSYCHO-THRILLER-NOIR 'THE GLASS CAGE'

<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/AVvXsEjNPZB7bqPV1TNSlgK9WH-4t3M4jDBVrxr5SHeM2zeL2vp-5ayBbgLFb-PR-sObqFyLlcn-zq_uPcAAbwNcIw3ySL2jTgSbk9t8KcwVAgYhYZnpe6YxoI8bUUKTHtOMppxR2dRaJO-i6ZLK8nplHBGTlqOMx0waoGPDAu5PExOTtt-5UKBlC6moRakJ9eeA/s1900/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-12%20at%204.23.58%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1038" data-original-width="1900" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNPZB7bqPV1TNSlgK9WH-4t3M4jDBVrxr5SHeM2zeL2vp-5ayBbgLFb-PR-sObqFyLlcn-zq_uPcAAbwNcIw3ySL2jTgSbk9t8KcwVAgYhYZnpe6YxoI8bUUKTHtOMppxR2dRaJO-i6ZLK8nplHBGTlqOMx0waoGPDAu5PExOTtt-5UKBlC6moRakJ9eeA/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-12%20at%204.23.58%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE GLASS CAGE Year: 1961 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Arlene Martel (billed as Arline Sax) is one of the most uniquely beautiful, exotic and intriguing ingenues, able to play nearly any ethnic race and even outer-space Vulcan royalty on STAR TREK in her most important of many television guest spots from THE TWILIGHT ZONE to THE OUTER LIMITS to COLUMBO...<br><br>But she actually headlined a 1961 low-budget theatrical potboiler that's a unique hybrid of pulpy police procedural, shadowy film noir and the kind of creatively-shot PSYCHO-thriller popularized after the Alfred Hitchock classic... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

arlene martel, bob kelljan, cop, elisha cook jr., horror, john hoyt, king moody, mystery, neo noir, sixties, thriller

ARLENE MARTEL IN THE PSYCHO-THRILLER-NOIR 'THE GLASS CAGE'

Title: THE GLASS CAGE Year: 1961 Rating: **** Arlene Martel (billed as Arline Sax) is one of the most uniquely beautiful, exotic and intrigu...

MARIO BAVA'S GROUNDBREAKING SLASHER FLICK 'A BAY OF BLOOD'

<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/AVvXsEgZU6-RynkSyFhrEM_a0zKhneqExDUljl6yL-oSJMO2aP4ZDXVvEFxiaxXMz_caxAuefeNSSkakBREhwK1G6nyYGkzqu6R1F6JnfJXSq_OdvkSs3_Uhau5r99F5VgKnbCz9tTOIcCEtORrQbIQo5q60EtYGc1mBx7XCZVBz2dBtHp-Cv9oR2K7-P1SBSeOt/s1678/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-26%20at%201.00.38%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="882" data-original-width="1678" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZU6-RynkSyFhrEM_a0zKhneqExDUljl6yL-oSJMO2aP4ZDXVvEFxiaxXMz_caxAuefeNSSkakBREhwK1G6nyYGkzqu6R1F6JnfJXSq_OdvkSs3_Uhau5r99F5VgKnbCz9tTOIcCEtORrQbIQo5q60EtYGc1mBx7XCZVBz2dBtHp-Cv9oR2K7-P1SBSeOt/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-26%20at%201.00.38%20AM.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Brigitte Skay in A BAY OF BLOOD Year: 1971 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Italian director Mario Bava's A BAY OF BLOOD is groundbreaking in the slasher-horror genre in an aspect that's almost parenthetical since the young doomed teenagers aren't really part of the complicated plot of a group of people wanting to bank on the titular rural-bay location, opening with the brutal murder of an old rich lady that's an exploitation version of what would begin an otherwise mainstream Agatha Christie adaptation...<br /><br />This element actually bookends all of BLOOD, wherein the coolest parts occur in-between... when the young hippies, holed-up in an empty mansion, get violently picked-off... including a couple having steamy sex before being shish-kabobed together for eternity...</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/AVvXsEi-uMiXA-QMiaLoPC3mHYwrQ0ottYlZ1HhaTu06tghzSwHlKFzu3i6RjbXm1zNT6mBAC7uZZ-HluW45_5qBdHOLRit_qGRnXf4BDoIHNk9TA1BvVPI6UIYO0Qj8UhYnXDxq3N4F-y-CwAUtGjKd3SDvKb8MioDpjd36EWDTYbblvT22Qc1OHxK279vXM9Mb/s2380/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-26%20at%201.04.29%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1114" data-original-width="2380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-uMiXA-QMiaLoPC3mHYwrQ0ottYlZ1HhaTu06tghzSwHlKFzu3i6RjbXm1zNT6mBAC7uZZ-HluW45_5qBdHOLRit_qGRnXf4BDoIHNk9TA1BvVPI6UIYO0Qj8UhYnXDxq3N4F-y-CwAUtGjKd3SDvKb8MioDpjd36EWDTYbblvT22Qc1OHxK279vXM9Mb/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-26%20at%201.04.29%20PM.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Friday the 13th scene originally in Mario Bava's A BAY OF BLOOD</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>If this sounds familiar, b-movie director Sean S. Cunningham's FRIDAY THE 13TH was deliberately inspired in the famous scene where Kevin Bacon and his girlfriend literally come-and-go simultaneously...<br /></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yet you hardly get to know these young characters beyond cliche party-speak and their ultimate demise... particularly scene-stealing voluptuous blonde Brigitte Skay, the hatchet-necked ingenue providing the iconic poster image...</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/AVvXsEhIphc0FxNk_4j5_RXXnj3U-RhxcuIuFOTWg4SrW3kNdEJYiuE9VKJcnwBeeCcQHW2lh7p9s9A0eWP7Baypkr-5OO8Mz9U9i3wHq9U-C7DYxHj7tSq09NKgFDgKVd6W-iXVG_Ky6MKaY8jWgci5eo1p98xMPESssV1airYIi_ixLP9PHuD59N0QbbKOJJA7/s1598/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-26%20at%201.03.25%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="676" data-original-width="1598" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIphc0FxNk_4j5_RXXnj3U-RhxcuIuFOTWg4SrW3kNdEJYiuE9VKJcnwBeeCcQHW2lh7p9s9A0eWP7Baypkr-5OO8Mz9U9i3wHq9U-C7DYxHj7tSq09NKgFDgKVd6W-iXVG_Ky6MKaY8jWgci5eo1p98xMPESssV1airYIi_ixLP9PHuD59N0QbbKOJJA7/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-26%20at%201.03.25%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Claudine Auger in A BAY OF BLOOD</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Meanwhile, the two main/first-billed characters show up forty-minutes in... so THUNDERBALL beauty and GOOD BAD UGLY priest Claudine Auger and Luigi Pistilli, not the likely heroes they initially appear, are two cunning heirs sustaining the body-count bloodshed...<br /><br />Unfortunately, the final act piles in way too much exposition involving three of the male leads, who look far too similar... as sophisticated-beauty Anna Maria Rosati is (like Auger) misleadingly primed for <i>final girl</i> status...</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/AVvXsEi3TCKgrVjGXtwHwb51UrI687_SSvr2V5T8Iz5NOLR-dliowE1ZX-ct9UoytmwAUKhQxUQHKsc54VxRvAGCVpTS_T3tfzBoxnFYuBlDHE2RwCiKNjhOT47x2xsBLdJx-sxCRbgELHRTyL7tlW0D_-QcTBl7QfiDBBj-ZW6UwDnCqiWjsIQr9Y3F2vBjoECH/s1582/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-26%20at%201.06.57%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="612" data-original-width="1582" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3TCKgrVjGXtwHwb51UrI687_SSvr2V5T8Iz5NOLR-dliowE1ZX-ct9UoytmwAUKhQxUQHKsc54VxRvAGCVpTS_T3tfzBoxnFYuBlDHE2RwCiKNjhOT47x2xsBLdJx-sxCRbgELHRTyL7tlW0D_-QcTBl7QfiDBBj-ZW6UwDnCqiWjsIQr9Y3F2vBjoECH/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-26%20at%201.06.57%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mario Bava's A BAY OF BLOOD</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>It's the earlier BAY OF BLOOD sequences that are the most fun, getting to know the eclectic characters including an offbeat medium with her scientific bug-inspecting husband (perhaps the reason for the original title ECOLOGY OF CRIME)... all inevitably butchered in creatively violent methods within a frantic inheritance-battling plot... <br /><br />Making director/cinematographer Mario Bava's BAY OF BLOOD the most accidental horror-genre muse for 1970's/1980's teen-in-peril slasher flicks.. which is how directors like Tobe Hooper, John Carpenter and Sean S. Cunnigham wound up getting all of his credit. <br /></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/AVvXsEjduncinKgseBs-DM-0TKxgqCgJsACdwMV6lkgnl9YERCiWZGTCIXrrTtSo3i5kl1Umdwr-152NjyXO6nNdkSiq2WQU7SGR5wgUqn3zJCrf4GMqhyphenhyphenk3B25cjgXDCSbkwUXQNM6nPSgvz5JufKckP6r_ZFoLuFVQ6mkm1Up1Vz3f8fcguWgs6YznvpQ6NH1w/s1590/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-26%20at%201.07.43%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="806" data-original-width="1590" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjduncinKgseBs-DM-0TKxgqCgJsACdwMV6lkgnl9YERCiWZGTCIXrrTtSo3i5kl1Umdwr-152NjyXO6nNdkSiq2WQU7SGR5wgUqn3zJCrf4GMqhyphenhyphenk3B25cjgXDCSbkwUXQNM6nPSgvz5JufKckP6r_ZFoLuFVQ6mkm1Up1Vz3f8fcguWgs6YznvpQ6NH1w/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-26%20at%201.07.43%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Brigitte Skay in A BAY OF BLOOD</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/AVvXsEj_oGfoizFEPO_-G3ZPMaxO2soMhU3mLM-HPKNDipIpKA80rJ_CfAlBO5hGB2goq2vn8ikhyphenhyphenHFxAla2TMb-W9tQg4hhmZf6yen2UxkMZWJ5sS1P0L47FOg45tRKgVmNSF4bpv0aiia1f2zbFMzOR5Lq58optZ8mfBTV57VUeL4t0RbfG5Ji-rQYqIi70Q9h/s1586/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-26%20at%201.07.58%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="836" data-original-width="1586" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_oGfoizFEPO_-G3ZPMaxO2soMhU3mLM-HPKNDipIpKA80rJ_CfAlBO5hGB2goq2vn8ikhyphenhyphenHFxAla2TMb-W9tQg4hhmZf6yen2UxkMZWJ5sS1P0L47FOg45tRKgVmNSF4bpv0aiia1f2zbFMzOR5Lq58optZ8mfBTV57VUeL4t0RbfG5Ji-rQYqIi70Q9h/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-26%20at%201.07.58%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Claudine Auger in A BAY OF BLOOD</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/AVvXsEg04htoDklvKRtyFjx7B_40nZuPhoC2LE6W4byvY_tiapbRH_VBmLHI4IcpqFrItpuVz74JAMOyiqDtV4U6mgG-kvIfqf_X_2c3f44g3-xfFSUs4AMQah1CfKFr-w6dlJZvt22SymVZ8h6djODenp2t5v3_iOOtKkMphQzMqxQOMGzB9qmoTTdtHVVGaUUr/s1574/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-26%20at%201.08.06%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="842" data-original-width="1574" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg04htoDklvKRtyFjx7B_40nZuPhoC2LE6W4byvY_tiapbRH_VBmLHI4IcpqFrItpuVz74JAMOyiqDtV4U6mgG-kvIfqf_X_2c3f44g3-xfFSUs4AMQah1CfKFr-w6dlJZvt22SymVZ8h6djODenp2t5v3_iOOtKkMphQzMqxQOMGzB9qmoTTdtHVVGaUUr/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-26%20at%201.08.06%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Laura Betti in A BAY OF BLOOD</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/AVvXsEgAF5wEenUf9gf5Hz0dBPErzyKLSuBoQW7CkGYCG6FVBB3JVO8sgcQy7_NW7EIOAR84VdwhC-8rkltUae1GDOwYPvJv5j_rjMzaobYyscCSGvg_apKofZtm2O9HUJaHdL-quBKztTk2AMLFYeIM6gFZBGQ9mtU6IPRyV4eZj01hp2UmyIzFLxq2mG4ZNzcA/s1526/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-26%20at%201.08.19%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="846" data-original-width="1526" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAF5wEenUf9gf5Hz0dBPErzyKLSuBoQW7CkGYCG6FVBB3JVO8sgcQy7_NW7EIOAR84VdwhC-8rkltUae1GDOwYPvJv5j_rjMzaobYyscCSGvg_apKofZtm2O9HUJaHdL-quBKztTk2AMLFYeIM6gFZBGQ9mtU6IPRyV4eZj01hp2UmyIzFLxq2mG4ZNzcA/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-26%20at%201.08.19%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Anna Maria Rosati in A BAY OF BLOOD</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/AVvXsEiZuH3Oeq17YJ4dz0lZrHRmMwgQ2LWolC6i55mQN4y-0f9uwrlh-FLfzAWtNBug_DnnMgYoQOUDU4ORqsD23ErNP3nAGHBfyiHAln99E-FkSH1XVIZaVITgJ80EnqubBl_oT5m1pY1UGG2LGmLP0DGhdHt0IkAKdDtqt0BV4ulysSKqQL3i6p67boRqiTgQ/s1558/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-26%20at%201.08.36%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="840" data-original-width="1558" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZuH3Oeq17YJ4dz0lZrHRmMwgQ2LWolC6i55mQN4y-0f9uwrlh-FLfzAWtNBug_DnnMgYoQOUDU4ORqsD23ErNP3nAGHBfyiHAln99E-FkSH1XVIZaVITgJ80EnqubBl_oT5m1pY1UGG2LGmLP0DGhdHt0IkAKdDtqt0BV4ulysSKqQL3i6p67boRqiTgQ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-26%20at%201.08.36%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Anna Maria Rosati in A BAY OF BLOOD</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/AVvXsEiGxnOYCMAGkR5WHC0g914aj6SMEy0ATw1pDj-KHo1CxRRbRYZ3bQNEjkf2sOWTw4S0Y805s4489SFjAT1nacX6HQfvd4lfiegGitgWr5_8mzuqMtBs21BLbeZIUd4STgaqFMCW2LJ4Si4T7LSw3wJXi9Opnv6ErDaML_AUi_eXpqsbIAgHDQn99qPPpcjt/s1570/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-26%20at%201.08.50%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="818" data-original-width="1570" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGxnOYCMAGkR5WHC0g914aj6SMEy0ATw1pDj-KHo1CxRRbRYZ3bQNEjkf2sOWTw4S0Y805s4489SFjAT1nacX6HQfvd4lfiegGitgWr5_8mzuqMtBs21BLbeZIUd4STgaqFMCW2LJ4Si4T7LSw3wJXi9Opnv6ErDaML_AUi_eXpqsbIAgHDQn99qPPpcjt/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-26%20at%201.08.50%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Brigitte Skay in A BAY OF BLOOD</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/AVvXsEiZ2Ct0W8LkzczRwBstFtAeSHjPIzioztCmgFdvrCYhnz4EIF8GwRG45cmDUahur3yskeVVFY05lb1nj216OuXzz4FTyiXiU_rmHzjZGvNFowmZDe1_wBoepf-aKA1gEQtlugtVG5qMQghsx4UixVj9IreX1txJ18D8knoInUnUHKLM0gmYssw9fN5J_8TN/s1584/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-26%20at%201.13.02%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="840" data-original-width="1584" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ2Ct0W8LkzczRwBstFtAeSHjPIzioztCmgFdvrCYhnz4EIF8GwRG45cmDUahur3yskeVVFY05lb1nj216OuXzz4FTyiXiU_rmHzjZGvNFowmZDe1_wBoepf-aKA1gEQtlugtVG5qMQghsx4UixVj9IreX1txJ18D8knoInUnUHKLM0gmYssw9fN5J_8TN/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-26%20at%201.13.02%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Claudine Auger in A BAY OF BLOOD with Leopoldo Trieste</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/AVvXsEg85yHj_0s7v7Vve3iYEKjdktndAafFdKhdSiKmtlUZi01Ap3ZVtkibaQ6qJmxt117lK7ev_g6npdCpTqFeStcPkTFmWR9UwtAMTrpaeJD5jULFQDEq9jMFXMmytz1RENFNRhMjO4ChN36oM5p-f8vYy4DW550zKcSRcfUCCkPWPFJ4D524wZEgogEiJH_P/s1484/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-26%20at%201.13.11%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="844" data-original-width="1484" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg85yHj_0s7v7Vve3iYEKjdktndAafFdKhdSiKmtlUZi01Ap3ZVtkibaQ6qJmxt117lK7ev_g6npdCpTqFeStcPkTFmWR9UwtAMTrpaeJD5jULFQDEq9jMFXMmytz1RENFNRhMjO4ChN36oM5p-f8vYy4DW550zKcSRcfUCCkPWPFJ4D524wZEgogEiJH_P/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-26%20at%201.13.11%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Claudine Auger in A BAY OF BLOOD</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/AVvXsEjlkdKRNBPFnvkdlC77ejwHTzVxj02gEKH6d9fZv57nObl-THU4yY0IoH6mMEcxtzxzSZbTHyfvu3FFCJjV1x_eJXV2QbCkI7HMfcNapj4IpSk5tQFgJVwTyxJ38ngN0TqI0ARzqoU87rgEOTKgHKNM4EknhVmRouepYj8MPpWzOdy8npb9Yuh_qZwpyP4O/s1580/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-26%20at%201.13.20%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="850" data-original-width="1580" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlkdKRNBPFnvkdlC77ejwHTzVxj02gEKH6d9fZv57nObl-THU4yY0IoH6mMEcxtzxzSZbTHyfvu3FFCJjV1x_eJXV2QbCkI7HMfcNapj4IpSk5tQFgJVwTyxJ38ngN0TqI0ARzqoU87rgEOTKgHKNM4EknhVmRouepYj8MPpWzOdy8npb9Yuh_qZwpyP4O/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-26%20at%201.13.20%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Claudine Auger in A BAY OF BLOOD</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/AVvXsEg0da7sSuhw2naVSyqsP9Qq72dowYjJCvo1VNn7kmsN-vC5De3X5InGzNETukQv4DOZXeW1pNYe8RHzwOCfVDjR6mH2X6MVbPuciM-vjA-h2ROQBQkCitZ5IXPpMGZHIXDj4OxGy2pPNMG31_vcj3Vq5FyBMSO8hNIuFs3iVHmcb50Vq3iSVe_8eqSrOoq7/s1562/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-26%20at%201.13.27%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="840" data-original-width="1562" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0da7sSuhw2naVSyqsP9Qq72dowYjJCvo1VNn7kmsN-vC5De3X5InGzNETukQv4DOZXeW1pNYe8RHzwOCfVDjR6mH2X6MVbPuciM-vjA-h2ROQBQkCitZ5IXPpMGZHIXDj4OxGy2pPNMG31_vcj3Vq5FyBMSO8hNIuFs3iVHmcb50Vq3iSVe_8eqSrOoq7/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-26%20at%201.13.27%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Claudine Auger in A BAY OF BLOOD</u></td></tr></tbody></table><br />

anna maria rosati, body count, brigitte skay, claudine auger, giallo, horror, isa miranda, italian, laura betti, leopoldo trieste, luigi pistilli, mario bava, mystery, seventies, slasher

MARIO BAVA'S GROUNDBREAKING SLASHER FLICK 'A BAY OF BLOOD'

Brigitte Skay in A BAY OF BLOOD Year: 1971 Rating: **** Italian director Mario Bava's A BAY OF BLOOD is groundbreaking in the slasher-ho...

PETER SELLERS IN THE CLASSIC MYSTERY SPOOF 'MURDER BY DEATH'

<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/AVvXsEikNz9c-2NPf_-AvpFmBGpC5FVd6nXRm_uBZ1hgUWFRYOVVVuh75CZDgZZumbYcHFllvAtMeqxX1aXSweK-kW0xYR5R8_o-cpRCdlDncb0fwteYLvoLAwJQzIMbqWj8-fzPPxLcYGsr5r2shmyqVocoCuz7jYTgow0Oq8coi2m1gAq1UhOKVWBjjriacsOj/s1744/Screen%20Shot%202025-06-25%20at%2010.49.17%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="920" data-original-width="1744" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikNz9c-2NPf_-AvpFmBGpC5FVd6nXRm_uBZ1hgUWFRYOVVVuh75CZDgZZumbYcHFllvAtMeqxX1aXSweK-kW0xYR5R8_o-cpRCdlDncb0fwteYLvoLAwJQzIMbqWj8-fzPPxLcYGsr5r2shmyqVocoCuz7jYTgow0Oq8coi2m1gAq1UhOKVWBjjriacsOj/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-06-25%20at%2010.49.17%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Peter Sellers & Richard Narita in MURDER BY DEATH Year: 1976 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In the final season of COLUMBO, when MURDER BY DEATH was filming, Peter Falk almost sounded like he was doing a Humphrey Bogart imitation... so obviously his role as Sam Spade-like Sam Diamond was infectious, and he had plenty of dialogue here to get that character in his head...<br><br>Meanwhile Peter Sellers, in the midst of the latter PINK PANTHER films, speaks very little, and practically steals the movie... especially when his Charlie Chan-esque Sidney Wang responds smugly to naive adopted Japanese son Richard Narita: their scenes driving to the central mansion, where an eccentric millionaire has gathered all the iconic mystery sleuths to solve a million dollar crime, are some of the funniest... <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><span></span></p>

alec guinness, comedy, david niven, elsa lanchaster, estelle winwood, james cromwell, mystery, nancy walker, neil simon, peter falk, seventies, spoof

PETER SELLERS IN THE CLASSIC MYSTERY SPOOF 'MURDER BY DEATH'

Peter Sellers & Richard Narita in MURDER BY DEATH Year: 1976 Rating: **** In the final season of COLUMBO, when MURDER BY DEATH was filmi...

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

<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/AVvXsEhpU4m0d1C-2dTSYR7ihfRIKU8oinM_cASIJGdraZkAIixqVShOkmEG2pyZahY924JnrCo0ezyg2Zio18r_XuoHnDC2YCarLM5YsEJrkycY4h9rcLOQFXMb52jV3b4-icy274P_KiOlxgizwRKJh6yoED5l5FAQMSrpXv25h-q1K8EX7v8aYSArAuW5NXre/s2060/Screen%20Shot%202025-06-19%20at%206.34.09%20AM%202%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1174" data-original-width="2060" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpU4m0d1C-2dTSYR7ihfRIKU8oinM_cASIJGdraZkAIixqVShOkmEG2pyZahY924JnrCo0ezyg2Zio18r_XuoHnDC2YCarLM5YsEJrkycY4h9rcLOQFXMb52jV3b4-icy274P_KiOlxgizwRKJh6yoED5l5FAQMSrpXv25h-q1K8EX7v8aYSArAuW5NXre/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-06-19%20at%206.34.09%20AM%202%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: A SHOT IN THE DARK Year: 1964 Rating: ***1/2</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p>While Inspector Clouseau was dropped into the romantic-comedy-heist <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2025/06/OGPP.html">THE PINK PANTHER</a> with Peter Sellers stealing the movie from lead actor David Niven, the sequel...where he's finally the central character... has him crashing what's an otherwise serious stage-adapted murder-mystery/whodunnit... <br><br>Yet there's a romantic-comedy element here too, with Sellers helping adorable millionaire's maid, Elke Sommer, seeming guilty beyond belief in the classic noir fashion: not only winding up with a smoking gun and a dead body, but with another dead body and a bloody knife... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

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...

SUSAN SHAW & DONALD HOUSTON IN WOLF RILLA'S 'THE LARGE ROPE'

<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/AVvXsEgeGka0QbVYPZILYNZtnZ5zyUrMvMQiJUX6hRtZYD_5KmnvpnGtbj6WrO24sD0M9KuMlXpYX6BaFPVyEZ7PmAMIjhdbWmqfxtfsP6_vmvCIMSFQqYX3ikLjBUWv0hTS0SNShudzg7KTflM6kBU_-ougua4fRPSH6lByuig5aUmr7VHS7WtMhxKTUbOtProb/s1380/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="776" data-original-width="1380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeGka0QbVYPZILYNZtnZ5zyUrMvMQiJUX6hRtZYD_5KmnvpnGtbj6WrO24sD0M9KuMlXpYX6BaFPVyEZ7PmAMIjhdbWmqfxtfsP6_vmvCIMSFQqYX3ikLjBUWv0hTS0SNShudzg7KTflM6kBU_-ougua4fRPSH6lByuig5aUmr7VHS7WtMhxKTUbOtProb/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Donald Houston and Peter Byrne in THE LARGE ROPE Year: 1953 Rating: ***1/2</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Before becoming known as THE LONG ROPE, director Wolf Rilla's THE LARGE ROPE meant that Donald Houston's central character, a young man released from jail and returning to his small hometown village, is basically caught right in the <i>thick</i> of it...</p><p></p><p>Not only does no one want him around, especially ex-girlfriend Susan Shaw and his former best friend she's marrying, but he winds up accused of murdering a flirtatious older woman played by an actress who made a living brilliantly playing them... </p><span></span>

british film noir, christine finn, donald houston, edward judd, fifties, mystery, robert brown, susan shaw, vanda godsell, wolf rilla, wrong man

SUSAN SHAW & DONALD HOUSTON IN WOLF RILLA'S 'THE LARGE ROPE'

Donald Houston and Peter Byrne in THE LARGE ROPE Year: 1953 Rating: ***1/2 Before becoming known as THE LONG ROPE, director Wolf Rilla's...

DANA ANDREWS AND GENE TIERNEY IN OTTO PREMINGER'S 'LAURA'

<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/AVvXsEimd-Hf86aZKkNUPDYRjFrE9YcsaKCFHfoEmcjk94MGlr4L5d2eNFPD_H-O6g0TFh-yHnxwQqdmgtc8jzW2W4aywHTNBKimwKjuCy6Ig0z8Wp3_IAz-O5QUH7DAaVV4ieiYCwP0oXpmlqGiRmGizGrewO2nhti3iYbN7abBfaD4FdSHpbmL9dNpP2ntJI98/s1846/Screen%20Shot%202025-02-24%20at%2010.06.02%20PM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1364" data-original-width="1846" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimd-Hf86aZKkNUPDYRjFrE9YcsaKCFHfoEmcjk94MGlr4L5d2eNFPD_H-O6g0TFh-yHnxwQqdmgtc8jzW2W4aywHTNBKimwKjuCy6Ig0z8Wp3_IAz-O5QUH7DAaVV4ieiYCwP0oXpmlqGiRmGizGrewO2nhti3iYbN7abBfaD4FdSHpbmL9dNpP2ntJI98/w400-h295/Screen%20Shot%202025-02-24%20at%2010.06.02%20PM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1944 Rating: *****</u></td></tr></tbody></table>Dana Andrews as Det. Lt. Mark McPherson has fallen in love with a ghost, kind of, and that's not to be spoiled for anyone who hasn't seen LAURA with its particular dreamlike camera panning from a sleeping McPherson, and we get the murderous yarn, spun all over again in a different fashion and with a twist that could be something else entirely as our hero deals with two creeps connected with the ingenue: especially a cerebral "sugar daddy" in a sophisticated Clifton Webb...<br> <div style="text-align: right;"> </div> <br> Word is the producer frowned on this important casting because of... well... what's pretty apparent about the futzy fella, and he can't shake that aspect from his character of a character, Waldo Lydecker. But Webb is perfect as LAURA seems to be the only girl who can rid the sophisticated and manipulative Lydecker from his daily uptight uptown lunch, all by himself with a contented life all mapped-out...<br>

classic, clifton webb, cop, crime, dana andrews, film noir, forties, gene tierney, mystery, otto preminger, vincent price

DANA ANDREWS AND GENE TIERNEY IN OTTO PREMINGER'S 'LAURA'

Year: 1944 Rating: ***** Dana Andrews as Det. Lt. Mark McPherson has fallen in love with a ghost, kind of, and that's not to be spoile...

MARY MAUDE WITH JUDY MATHESON IN 'CRUCIBLE OF TERROR'

<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/AVvXsEhkLtdcs-KbUeL7Te_r4KkjY0WlBVbA7JCxq0yC3mjjvEkyL7n9-MtmEnPFaBhzSKtTwMawsw1DDNgoE-uuAUKnkxirJCslFqnWRXg_rk9ykXsp6eD4c4htEHIXTLPIGY5gfsVCQO_y1iloBtEDP933qo0bNi_2JQzjFngkCOi2Yb103hidI-efr2kh8Ody/s2072/Screen%20Shot%202024-12-29%20at%207.09.18%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1086" data-original-width="2072" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkLtdcs-KbUeL7Te_r4KkjY0WlBVbA7JCxq0yC3mjjvEkyL7n9-MtmEnPFaBhzSKtTwMawsw1DDNgoE-uuAUKnkxirJCslFqnWRXg_rk9ykXsp6eD4c4htEHIXTLPIGY5gfsVCQO_y1iloBtEDP933qo0bNi_2JQzjFngkCOi2Yb103hidI-efr2kh8Ody/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-12-29%20at%207.09.18%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mary Maude in CRUCIBLE OF TERROR Year: 1971 Rates: ***1/2<br></u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Fair and sophisticated, lithe and docile, straight-long-haired classic British beauty Mary Maude was as perfect a vulnerable ingenue in CRUCIBLE OF TERROR (an obvious muse for <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2024/04/moevil.html">MESSIAH OF EVIL</a>) as she's the sublime target for who seems to be a serial killing sculptor in <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2024/12/lustvamp.html">LUST OF THE VAMPIRE</a> antagonist Mike Raven, looking fitfully wicked enough to provide Mary's character Millie an inevitably nightmarish 11th hour chase...<br><br>Which does occur, kind of... but with a twist... beforehand spending most of the screen-time in an artistically Gothic beachside house where various beauties are either posing or being murdered, ranging from scream queen Judy Matheson as the artist's more faithful yet seductive, devilish (and possibly bisexual) moll to Raven's daughter-in-law Beth Morris, as sexy a blonde as Matheson's a deeply gorgeous brunette...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

beth morris, body count, british, horror, james bolam, john arnatt, judy matheson, mary maude, me me lai, melissa stribling, mike raven, mystery, ronald lacey, seventies, thriller

MARY MAUDE WITH JUDY MATHESON IN 'CRUCIBLE OF TERROR'

Mary Maude in CRUCIBLE OF TERROR Year: 1971 Rates: ***1/2 Fair and sophisticated, lithe and docile, straight-long-haired classic British bea...

FRANK SINATRA RETURNING AS TONY ROME IN 'LADY IN CEMENT'

<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/AVvXsEjsIYtJRllfexjYwxcmIhV8B8K6DY0zGtijnWCOfW8KIkueUYY7agnvU4en-oWRaG3uQEjhLbcGsMhfmxIKS4-Dwcy3iI-O2nk3fNU7V765PhetyFSDNa227Mf1kNm7UsC0Wok4vkCkjTpPWrdq93QAKXcl53fA2CDhjrfBRZ7pUwMBM4sA5a4bN7EtKyS-/s1878/Screen%20Shot%202024-12-14%20at%207.13.52%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1124" data-original-width="1878" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsIYtJRllfexjYwxcmIhV8B8K6DY0zGtijnWCOfW8KIkueUYY7agnvU4en-oWRaG3uQEjhLbcGsMhfmxIKS4-Dwcy3iI-O2nk3fNU7V765PhetyFSDNa227Mf1kNm7UsC0Wok4vkCkjTpPWrdq93QAKXcl53fA2CDhjrfBRZ7pUwMBM4sA5a4bN7EtKyS-/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-12-14%20at%207.13.52%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>In LADY IN CEMENT Year: 1967 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In the sequel to the neo-noir <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/04/lyon-of-rome.html">TONY ROME</a>, with legendary cool crooner Frank Sinatra in the lead role during the colorful late 1960's... while deep sea diving he literally sees the LADY IN CEMENT at the bottom of the ocean...<br><br>Her naked, otherwise model-looking corpse surrounded by a guardian shark (that would have probably stripped her to the bone) as the original film's otherwise capable director Gordon Douglas (KISS TOMORROW GOODBYE), who filmed several other of Frank's crime/heist vehicles, doesn't get a lot of tension out of what should be an extremely suspenseful situation: as Rome (actually the stunt diver) merely brushes off the killer fish as if they were nothing... <br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>

action, chris robinson, dan blocker, exploitation, frank sinatra, gumshoe, jazz-score, lainie kazan, mystery, neo noir, raquel welch, richard conte, shark, sixties, tony rome

FRANK SINATRA RETURNING AS TONY ROME IN 'LADY IN CEMENT'

In LADY IN CEMENT Year: 1967 Rating: *** In the sequel to the neo-noir TONY ROME , with legendary cool crooner Frank Sinatra in the lead rol...

BURT REYNOLDS WITH AHNA CAPRI & NORMAL FELL ON 'DAN AUGUST'

<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/AVvXsEhmO5erNdc2sQSnKdhIiM09fMAE4xP6gvrizoUuvItMKvgikMkhLvGcbx1JoS-nLA1khyACFR1zJeoJrVDpB0pd-loRdoMDfdm0W4rnzdouOtjefE6B_Oymb6yIt3Q_pUijeBYbIPWByTWpjh96Dw0JwlK4DiMFQXR6QpbxiQG-H6gY5jPEd6t4COfEgOW9/s1208/z.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="798" data-original-width="1208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmO5erNdc2sQSnKdhIiM09fMAE4xP6gvrizoUuvItMKvgikMkhLvGcbx1JoS-nLA1khyACFR1zJeoJrVDpB0pd-loRdoMDfdm0W4rnzdouOtjefE6B_Oymb6yIt3Q_pUijeBYbIPWByTWpjh96Dw0JwlK4DiMFQXR6QpbxiQG-H6gY5jPEd6t4COfEgOW9/s16000/z.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds on DAN AUGUST Prognosis: Homicide Year: 1971 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>One of the better episodes of the Burt Reynolds detective series DAN AUGUST has a flowing handing-off plot, beginning with a bum who finds a free bottle of whiskey, is poisoned and dies, which leads Burt's titular character and partner Norman Fell into seeking three beautiful blondes connected to an unpopular surgeon played by Fritz Weaver...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The most important in ENTER THE DRAGON dragonlady Ahna Capri, who might have the doctor's baby... and Ena Hartman, girlfriend of a lower surgeon who, along with hook-handed Ken Scott, has it in for the womanizing doc...</p><p><span></span></p>

ahna capri, burt reynolds, cop, fritz weaver, ken scott, mystery, neo noir, norman fell, seventies, tv series

BURT REYNOLDS WITH AHNA CAPRI & NORMAL FELL ON 'DAN AUGUST'

Burt Reynolds on DAN AUGUST Prognosis: Homicide Year: 1971 Rating: **** One of the better episodes of the Burt Reynolds detective series DAN...