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Written by James M. Tate / 2/20/2023 / No comments / british film noir , drama , fifties , george cole , herbert marshall , jon whiteley , lizabeth scott , mystery , nicole maurey , sally anne field , steve cochran , thriller , val guest , war

STEVE COCHRAN & LIZABETH SCOTT IN VAL GUEST'S 'THE WEAPON'

<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/AVvXsEgRhiCQR7fEp9LGnsbO2JDTe7HktpbZYJyX93yowJZWfphUV-H_aQR-aOv1epz3S622pKqcd1uKr2ggjyOKE0oE07xOcp7U2s9NarGE3gVqNLu2VFIvD3U1gCu7QZ_i3Uy5j6KHBew6XqNzfm7RecrqbERfCIAHkHVc6_oGXIcyjdgFPqy2gD0NBsyDqvY8/s931/81Ba0hrocML._AC_SL1500_.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="931" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRhiCQR7fEp9LGnsbO2JDTe7HktpbZYJyX93yowJZWfphUV-H_aQR-aOv1epz3S622pKqcd1uKr2ggjyOKE0oE07xOcp7U2s9NarGE3gVqNLu2VFIvD3U1gCu7QZ_i3Uy5j6KHBew6XqNzfm7RecrqbERfCIAHkHVc6_oGXIcyjdgFPqy2gD0NBsyDqvY8/s16000/81Ba0hrocML._AC_SL1500_.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE WEAPON Pictured: Steve Cochran and George Cole Year: 1957 Rating: **** </u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Post War British a decade past, hence the genuine bombed-out ruins where a pistol (THE WEAPON) is buried from an unsolved wartime murder, and local little boy Jon Whiteley finds it, accidentally shoots a bully, and runs like hell... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Morphing <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/val%20guest">Val Guest's</a> thriller from war to noir as Whiteley's Erik hits the dark shadowy streets while worried American widow/mom Lizabeth Scott, in her penultimate still-young big screen role, hitting the right emotional marks, is charmed by shady Brit George Cole while putting up with ultra-serious military investigator Steve Cochran... </p><p><span></span></p>

british film noir, drama, fifties, george cole, herbert marshall, jon whiteley, lizabeth scott, mystery, nicole maurey, sally anne field, steve cochran, thriller, val guest, war

STEVE COCHRAN & LIZABETH SCOTT IN VAL GUEST'S 'THE WEAPON'

Title: THE WEAPON Pictured: Steve Cochran and George Cole Year: 1957 Rating: **** Post War British a decade past, hence the genuine bombed-o...

Written by James M. Tate / 11/10/2021 / No comments / action , adventure , charlton heston , glenda farrell , jerry hopper , nicole maurey , thomas mitchell , treasure , yma sumec

CHARLTON HESTON & NICOLE MAUREY IN 'SECRET OF THE INCAS'

<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/AVvXsEhaXnZhmlvK4jWqs3DeajjCltVwRC40yeSeU_M-79C47dcQiTyuddaSIFKAsUsNMWdhFweyUITVWUC2TLLi4L8Rgi9OCUHB-Y4N97yZ1LTelKaE6McQspiaUR5rrxstJC5XC50SR2qJYp68KwublmZUSP9q8G0X0THCluQwwIR9_MthoPUOPfhvSQMI-w=s1111" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="688" data-original-width="1111" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhaXnZhmlvK4jWqs3DeajjCltVwRC40yeSeU_M-79C47dcQiTyuddaSIFKAsUsNMWdhFweyUITVWUC2TLLi4L8Rgi9OCUHB-Y4N97yZ1LTelKaE6McQspiaUR5rrxstJC5XC50SR2qJYp68KwublmZUSP9q8G0X0THCluQwwIR9_MthoPUOPfhvSQMI-w=s16000"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1953 Rates: **1/2</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table>Jerry Hopper's cult film <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2012/06/secret-of-incas_17.html">SECRET OF THE INCAS</a> is already established to have inspired not only the iconic Harrison Ford as <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2018/05/raiders-of-lost-ark.html">Indiana Jones</a> outfit including leather jacket and fedora, but both get reminded how attractive they are... girl student eyelids there and smitten lady tourists Marion Ross and Glenda Farrell here... </p><p></p><p></p><p>More importantly, each adventurous hero... paired with an equally rogue dame... piece together an incomplete curio to find out exactly where the archeological treasure is, and <i>that's</i> the SECRET...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, charlton heston, glenda farrell, jerry hopper, nicole maurey, thomas mitchell, treasure, yma sumec

CHARLTON HESTON & NICOLE MAUREY IN 'SECRET OF THE INCAS'

Year: 1953 Rates: **1/2 Jerry Hopper's cult film SECRET OF THE INCAS is already established to have inspired not only the iconic Harris...

Written by James M. Tate / 3/02/2014 / No comments / action , adventure , charlton heston , fifties , george lucas , nicole maurey , steven spielberg

CHARLTON HESTON IN SECRET OF THE INCAS

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">year: 1954 rating: **</td></tr>
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Harry Steele, a womanizing adventurer played by Charlton Heston, looks awfully familiar. With a worn brown leather jacket and a fedora hat, he’s a dead ringer for Harrison Ford’s iconic Indiana Jones...<br />
<br />
But wait… 
SECRET OF THE INCAS came out thirty years before the Steven 
Spielberg/George Lucas epic RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK. That’s right, 
Indy’s not entirely original – although this isn’t a big surprise as the
 character’s an intentional composite of serial pulp heroes that Lucas 
grew up worshiping: But enough of the improved 1981 homage, let’s center on 
Heston’s Steele, an American maverick abroad running a tour guide 
service as a front. He’s really into fortune hunting and happens upon lovely Nicole Maurey who needs a plane to escape from Peru. Harry can help 
her but he’s got a trick up his sleeve. But that’s nothing compared to 
his shady counterpart Ed Morgan, an old gruff heavyset con man who’s 
really an adversary – tailing Steele, he wants what his young rival’s 
after: an Incan treasure that, if found and returned to its mountainous 
Peruvian origin The Temple of the Sun, can renew the ancient 
civilization… or something.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Poster Artwork</td></tr>
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There’s not much action other than one scene
 where Harry and Elena wind up stealing the plane. After landing, they 
take a long hike to the temple where the storyline, promising much, 
comes to nothing. Robert Young’s Stanley Moorehead is introduced: a 
gentleman who wants Elana’s hand in marriage. Only she’s fallen for the 
roguish Steele, who should be doing a lot more to live up to his 
adventurous ways.<br />
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Much of the time’s spent on an Indian woman crooning 
an irritating form of tribal scat to the gods – this while Harry, in the
 11th hour, winds up in a cavern where… like the RAIDERS OF THE LOST 
ARK’s Staff or Ra scene… places gems in the wall where a shaft of light 
lead to the next step. Only thing is – there’s no next step... The 
journey, which is anything but perilous, ends right there. <i> ALSO:</i><i> The  tribal chanting main theme is used in THE BIG LEBOWSKI after The Dude is
 drugged by Jackie Treehorn in his Malibu hideaway. And the costume 
designer for RAIDERS has admitted she used Harry Steele as an aesthetic 
template for Indy Jones.</i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Charlton Heston is Harry Steele in SECRET OF THE INCAS</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Harry Steel doing something that will influence...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Staff of Ra sequence in RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Charlton Heston looking very Indy</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hey, yo, Mrs. C? Yes, that's HAPPY DAYS mother Marion Ross flirting with Heston</td></tr>
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action, adventure, charlton heston, fifties, george lucas, nicole maurey, steven spielberg

CHARLTON HESTON IN SECRET OF THE INCAS

year: 1954 rating: ** Harry Steele, a womanizing adventurer played by Charlton Heston, looks awfully familiar. With a worn brown leather...

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