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...

BURT REYNOLDS ANTAGONIZES 'THE FBI: ALL THE STREETS ARE SILENT'

<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/AVvXsEhToHN_TxK60pp9w8W8L3LGpoLeRVjZKeUaX-oAC1j4EKafLVI7GAT0z23VjU48kU7YAU7j6AM7wxD6anKRCfSEd3sqYrkIfCOtRxeb0B8xOH-Cp9XewAxF_M1ajHrS3XQKiIAp2LoZ8N-ncyAKn38Kj99kUEwahbhztlL0kxzuwFNK6Z2c8ZD615mvsa4X/s1060/Screen%20Shot%202024-08-24%20at%209.14.23%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="620" data-original-width="1060" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhToHN_TxK60pp9w8W8L3LGpoLeRVjZKeUaX-oAC1j4EKafLVI7GAT0z23VjU48kU7YAU7j6AM7wxD6anKRCfSEd3sqYrkIfCOtRxeb0B8xOH-Cp9XewAxF_M1ajHrS3XQKiIAp2LoZ8N-ncyAKn38Kj99kUEwahbhztlL0kxzuwFNK6Z2c8ZD615mvsa4X/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-08-24%20at%209.14.23%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds on FBI: ALL THE STREETS ARE SILENT Year: 1965 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>It's unlikely that Quentin Tarantino's fictional once-famous Rick Dalton from <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/07/in-hollywood.html">ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD</a>... played by Leonardo DiCaprio digitally altered to replace the villain role of Burt Reynolds from THE FBI episode ALL THE STREETS ARE SILENT... would have even taken the part since it's not very big beyond a terrific opening, where Burt (along with offbeat weasel Rex Holman) follows an army jeep onto an open field marine base, killing two soldiers and taking their weapons... <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>Yet the rest of the episode mostly entails Efrem Zimbalist Jr working on former boxer/current cabbie James Francsiscus who, with a melodramatic pregnant wife subplot, is reluctant to out the killers but eventually pulls through: leading to an intense tommygun fight to a courtroom hearing to a much too rushed finale and, ironically, three seasons later, for <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2024/08/burtFBI.html">ACT OF MURDER</a>, Burt returned as another gunman involved with a military outpost murder. <br></p><p><span></span></p>

burt reynolds, crime, efrem zimbalist jr., FBI, james francsiscus, joe maross, norman fell, rex holman, sixties, tv series, wesley addy

BURT REYNOLDS ANTAGONIZES 'THE FBI: ALL THE STREETS ARE SILENT'

Burt Reynolds on FBI: ALL THE STREETS ARE SILENT Year: 1965 Rating: *** It's unlikely that Quentin Tarantino's fictional once-famous...

DON SIEGEL'S VERSION OF ERNEST HEMINGWAY'S 'THE KILLERS'

<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/AVvXsEgb2c7L1CNGSRYClg2aosrvnBJASPWmgmQcSyBhOaC4BCIE6piQZeNDfy_5F8K5IP5fQpv2jxMrBqNrK5c4BwyLfm3KZ5ti44hyYAh0h8aWVuRiGq97i_irJoLWueYF9WZRu4Rot8YA2pFGd9gvMfOZiu0gaP2t5udYmJNhoIJqwL_5F_HINI-IDLWeMw/s1233/2.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="652" data-original-width="1233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb2c7L1CNGSRYClg2aosrvnBJASPWmgmQcSyBhOaC4BCIE6piQZeNDfy_5F8K5IP5fQpv2jxMrBqNrK5c4BwyLfm3KZ5ti44hyYAh0h8aWVuRiGq97i_irJoLWueYF9WZRu4Rot8YA2pFGd9gvMfOZiu0gaP2t5udYmJNhoIJqwL_5F_HINI-IDLWeMw/s16000/2.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE KILLERS Year: 1964 Rating: **** </u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Ernest Hemingway's 1927 short-story THE KILLERS is indeed quite short, mostly taking place in a diner where two hit men are looking for a renegade who that tale's protagonist, Nick Adams, works with at the small town's gas station... also the prologue to the 1946 Film Noir introducing Burt Lancaster... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>This 1964 Don Siegel version couldn't be more different, deleting the central diner scene (from the book and previous film) and was originally intended for television: no surprise given the somewhat mundane framing, noticeable studio sets (more inexpensive than stylized), soapy dialogue and lack of blood — THE KILLERS is not violent enough a theatrical thriller and too intensely lethal for the small screen... <br></p><span></span>

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DON SIEGEL'S VERSION OF ERNEST HEMINGWAY'S 'THE KILLERS'

Title: THE KILLERS Year: 1964 Rating: **** Ernest Hemingway's 1927 short-story THE KILLERS is indeed quite short, mostly taking place i...

BURT REYNOLDS IN THE SLOWBURN COP SERIES 'DAN AUGUST'

<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/AVvXsEh1buRYc5mPcxbTZXaMEqeIcCkyDwhuxbX3QVv0vk2Zf76ueYUBVSWVadTXeFfX4bJtTfwSwvo1LIM29c81iTS1KrEbqvQ0hwqOUvkCpey3iBSy7uK6ot81DFN9gLD6E4AmdWHnAdzt5rczrKA_5lmPIYlMAPEjRp7PQbUcewTfBdSLCF0QZd9bNnom5LPC/s1336/0.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="801" data-original-width="1336" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1buRYc5mPcxbTZXaMEqeIcCkyDwhuxbX3QVv0vk2Zf76ueYUBVSWVadTXeFfX4bJtTfwSwvo1LIM29c81iTS1KrEbqvQ0hwqOUvkCpey3iBSy7uK6ot81DFN9gLD6E4AmdWHnAdzt5rczrKA_5lmPIYlMAPEjRp7PQbUcewTfBdSLCF0QZd9bNnom5LPC/s16000/0.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds on the series DAN AUGUST Years: 1970-1971 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In two decades, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/burt%20reynolds">Burt Reynolds</a> went from being a TV actor to a movie star, and following both GUNSMOKE and HAWK, a Western and a cop series playing part Indian, he's in the latter's genre as pure white guy DAN AUGUST, a Southern California cop who seems to know everyone he's investigating...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Except a ragged, wrongly-accused hippie in Harrison Ford, featured here from THE MANUFACTURED MAN where his future STAR WARS co-scoundrel, Billy Dee Williams, is an idealistic reporter trying to convince Reynolds' Lt. August into blaming a governor and his flaky, boozing son (David Soul), blocked by token stern chief Richard Anderson while Burt's partnered with a mellow Norman Fell, later co-starring in <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/04/thend.html">THE END</a> and <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/04/paternity.html">PATERNITY</a>... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

billy dee williams, burt reynolds, cop, crime, gary busey, harrison ford, john ritter, mike henry, neo noir, norman fell, richard anderson, seventies, tv series

BURT REYNOLDS IN THE SLOWBURN COP SERIES 'DAN AUGUST'

Burt Reynolds on the series DAN AUGUST Years: 1970-1971 Rating: ***1/2 In two decades, Burt Reynolds went from being a TV actor to a movie ...

BURT REYNOLDS WANTS TO HAVE YOUR BABY IN 'PATERNITY'

<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/AVvXsEjPyixHR9sk8JPDglJ9JQJqAkRiq3Km4yvHjfaLCJKoxp022l8rgvucUj9az6YUWld3qLUrhYjS8lC894rf5a31VkXg1EpFvD2WQFCNvBflPBKq02wp21V_1BM7ShMYcluzrjuUhzUP3ka42SizNJW9j0wXOs9FQ64hqQXjcGsorWvb3_MzjRIxc707t9rU/s1379/12.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="871" data-original-width="1379" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPyixHR9sk8JPDglJ9JQJqAkRiq3Km4yvHjfaLCJKoxp022l8rgvucUj9az6YUWld3qLUrhYjS8lC894rf5a31VkXg1EpFvD2WQFCNvBflPBKq02wp21V_1BM7ShMYcluzrjuUhzUP3ka42SizNJW9j0wXOs9FQ64hqQXjcGsorWvb3_MzjRIxc707t9rU/s16000/12.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds in PATERNITY with Aileen Quinn  </u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In his string of romantic comedy films, and even his car chase flicks, Burt Reynolds is never alone. There's always an eclectic cast of characters supporting him along the process...<br> <br> But here’s a movie where Burt, playing extremely subtle as a single successful guy who yearns to have a baby, seems completely isolated, at first, and not only because he wants the child born through a surrogate mother...<br> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p>

aileen quinn, alfie wise, beverly d'angelo, burt reynolds, comedy, david steinberg, eighties, lauren hutton, norman fell, paul dooley, toni kalem

BURT REYNOLDS WANTS TO HAVE YOUR BABY IN 'PATERNITY'

Burt Reynolds in PATERNITY with Aileen Quinn  In his string of romantic comedy films, and even his car chase flicks, Burt Reynolds is never...

BURT REYNOLDS DIRECTS AND STARS IN TO DIE IN 'THE END'

<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/AVvXsEiIuvPvmKocJKfFhCkZ-E86qoqQwJmlUyGWI_b0FcEutVnSF_3miX_XDbISNaccicr2grIx0OweeMYdfFQhxJkho2DvIijSptsl0lh0hEYHvD5huVDGfriP3bcQ6Sfiw39MydLGGHhR0KUqbqtUxEl6KqZGrDcAnnVkAd3wyMk2x0qHOXWTS0VQsoTmBCSF/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202020-04-20%20at%2010.14.10%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="870" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIuvPvmKocJKfFhCkZ-E86qoqQwJmlUyGWI_b0FcEutVnSF_3miX_XDbISNaccicr2grIx0OweeMYdfFQhxJkho2DvIijSptsl0lh0hEYHvD5huVDGfriP3bcQ6Sfiw39MydLGGHhR0KUqbqtUxEl6KqZGrDcAnnVkAd3wyMk2x0qHOXWTS0VQsoTmBCSF/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202020-04-20%20at%2010.14.10%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds in THE END Year: 1978 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Best remembered for the last half-hour involving Burt Reynolds, as a dying man with less than a year to live, and Dom DeLuise, whom he meets at an insane asylum after an unsuccessful suicide attempt: Crazy Dom's given the personal task to kill Burt so he doesn't have to do it himself...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Before the human cartoon zaniness is a satisfying, darkly comedic hour where Reynold's character, a formerly shady insurance scammer, Sonny, meets with a young priest (Robby Benson, basically playing, Robby Benson as a priest) who's more curious about Sonny's sins than a confession... <br> </p>

burt reynolds, carl reiner, dark comedy, david steinberg, dom deluise, joanne woodward, kristy mcnichol, myrna loy, norman fell, pat o'brien, robby benson, seventies

BURT REYNOLDS DIRECTS AND STARS IN TO DIE IN 'THE END'

Burt Reynolds in THE END Year: 1978 Rating: ***1/2 Best remembered for the last half-hour involving Burt Reynolds, as a dying man with less ...

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

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

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

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

CHARLES BRONSON 'THE STONE KILLER' PAUL KOSLO & JACK COLVIN

<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/AVvXsEjLC0fHIGO5dv4gkcmC2B99K1gvtHDzJfDnXUaiBCk30QiTHso7RVfPpWIri6kJBfXe7ch0sBwxwQyzezg6TMC_cbIuMxft9baDWQepusZcln429W0c4LlIMJAyP0slgK1TtQGkAk9OSrj-/s1600/95682577_964906483938528_5113686872635211776_n.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="673" data-original-width="918" height="292" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLC0fHIGO5dv4gkcmC2B99K1gvtHDzJfDnXUaiBCk30QiTHso7RVfPpWIri6kJBfXe7ch0sBwxwQyzezg6TMC_cbIuMxft9baDWQepusZcln429W0c4LlIMJAyP0slgK1TtQGkAk9OSrj-/s400/95682577_964906483938528_5113686872635211776_n.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Charles Bronson in Michael Winner's THE STONE KILLER Year: 1973</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Michael Winner's 1970's exploitation crime trilogy starring Charles Bronson made the tough guy actor as famous as Sergio Leone's Man With No Name trilogy put Clint Eastwood successfully on the map... And the Bronson flicks <i>are</i> modern asphalt Westerns about a hit man; a vigilante...<br> <br> And between THE MECHANIC and DEATH WISH is his edgiest performance in the shoot-first cop flick the likes of... back to the Eastwood similarity... DIRTY HARRY: Only Bronson's Lou Torry is more realistic since THE STONE KILLER is a visually-stylistic nostalgic Neo Noir as our man dons a gumshoe trench coat; investigates a list of repeatedly-spoken culprit last names; and uses sparse dialogue with hardly any conversation lasting longer than it takes to move the story from one scene to the next, and there are plenty...<br>

action, charles bronson, cop, crime, exploitation, jack colvin, jazz-score, john ritter, kelley miles, michael winner, neo noir, norman fell, paul koslo, ralph waite, seventies, stuart margolin, thriller

CHARLES BRONSON 'THE STONE KILLER' PAUL KOSLO & JACK COLVIN

Charles Bronson in Michael Winner's THE STONE KILLER Year: 1973 Michael Winner's 1970's exploitation crime trilogy starring ...

DANA ANDREWS CAUSES THE MAIN CRASH IN 'AIRPORT 1975'

<div style="text-align: right;"> </div> <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/AVvXsEiKooZKNEAIQGdCi7WTeOGXhEFoRyDRZg8Ri_vPOa-OD-2QOt06hUjBkFGAn8NjSTMEpPO-M9pC18aoPODjGgwiEYIqWCL5tahPwtxtpLrH7Pe_mRNVWiYVOdYbh3gIj1u4fnHt8cbIwM8/s1600/Screen+Shot+2016-07-30+at+4.39.47+PM.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: right;"><img border="0" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKooZKNEAIQGdCi7WTeOGXhEFoRyDRZg8Ri_vPOa-OD-2QOt06hUjBkFGAn8NjSTMEpPO-M9pC18aoPODjGgwiEYIqWCL5tahPwtxtpLrH7Pe_mRNVWiYVOdYbh3gIj1u4fnHt8cbIwM8/s400/Screen+Shot+2016-07-30+at+4.39.47+PM.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Dana Andrews has a sky-high problem in Airport 1975</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Like ZERO HOUR! and unlike AIRPLANE!, things are dead serious but so corny they're just begging to be morphed into punchlines, including a sick young girl played by EXORCIST starlet Linda Blair, who'd become LOVE BOAT kiddo Jill Whelan in AIRPLANE!, being serenaded by a nun (Helen Reddy, whose name is used as a punchline in AIRPLANE!)...<br /> <br /> A stuffy surgeon in an office talking about said girl... And our main couple; one a stewardess in buried lead Karen Black and the first-billed Charlton Heston, mainliner from the original AIRPORT, who, along with another AIRPORT veteran, George Kennedy, plan to rescue the plane that'd been swiped by none other than Dana Andrews, a jet-set businessman with a fatal heart condition...<br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: right;"> </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/AVvXsEgJH_tjjdG81q90W-5YuJAc8-Xpi2H_MVx7NAwJTj-eAfoi-YDkWKFw-8ooE8WtvIKN3HCXtPK9LUQsrMUbCixdtRQBmd39__DOrLK0glXELjxt_yZtzF8liVdPiY9-yPu6CEJfvWn39sw/s1600/Screen+Shot+2016-07-30+at+4.41.07+PM.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJH_tjjdG81q90W-5YuJAc8-Xpi2H_MVx7NAwJTj-eAfoi-YDkWKFw-8ooE8WtvIKN3HCXtPK9LUQsrMUbCixdtRQBmd39__DOrLK0glXELjxt_yZtzF8liVdPiY9-yPu6CEJfvWn39sw/s400/Screen+Shot+2016-07-30+at+4.41.07+PM.jpg" width="155" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Airport 1975</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> <div style="text-align: right;"> </div> The reason the plane starts going down, and why the pilots are killed, is because Dana's Scott Freeman crashes into the (side of the) cockpit, causing the famous (or infamous) visual of our heroic stewardess, Karen Black, sitting at the controls, an iconic moment in camp cinema: with her intense cross-eyes on fire and acting to the hilt, Karen not only steals the show, she practically owns it...<br /> <br /> But the producers still got their money's worth with Heston during the 11th hour when he risks his life in a small rescue plane, eventually flying parallel with a cable "rope" connecting both: attempting to slide over into the cockpit to aid his girlfriend while injecting genuinely palpable suspense.<br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> <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/AVvXsEhazQ6bVzP6FNulBoNr-swuv-QlGNDafqYYUm3IOsvkBuze_KGL7IynU8eBdc1BwUwnhPm67rbELKOwHw7FnAj36I1_pa34XFfUH9mDPirR8hCNyI4GWwpfdQuw9Yl-lIXVW_4NqFkB-34/s1600/43.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhazQ6bVzP6FNulBoNr-swuv-QlGNDafqYYUm3IOsvkBuze_KGL7IynU8eBdc1BwUwnhPm67rbELKOwHw7FnAj36I1_pa34XFfUH9mDPirR8hCNyI4GWwpfdQuw9Yl-lIXVW_4NqFkB-34/s320/43.png" width="284" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>SUNSET BLVD meets EXORCIST Score: ***1/2</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> The passengers are, as is usual with the Disaster Genre, a bevy of semi-famous folk including three drunks, Jerry Stiller, Norman Fell and Conrad Janis and playing herself is SUNSET BLVD's Gloria Swanson. And although they don't share a scene together, that Noir classic's ingenue "girlfriend" of TOWERING INFERNO veteran William Holden... Nancy Olson... plays Linda Blair's mom...<br /> <br /> And of all the AIRPORT flicks, not only does this have the most in common with AIRPLANE!, but it's arguably the most entertaining of the four-film series also including AIRPORT '77 and the franchise-killing <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2012/09/the-concorde-airport-79.html">CONCORDE: AIRPORT '79</a>, which actually isn't altogether horrible... With a spooky harpsichord invading a cliche symphonic soundtrack, there's a bit of strange horror underlining what's considered one of the campiest pictures of all time: And another important bit of trivia that's already covered online, and isn't altogether original here: While Efrem Zimbalist Jr's jet fighter crashed into Dana's commercial airliner in THE CROWDED SKY, Dana gets his revenge... The FBI television actor is the main pilot in this film, and much unluckier than Dana was: In fact, the swarthy actor didn't have it too good in both features, making TV a much safer medium...

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DANA ANDREWS CAUSES THE MAIN CRASH IN 'AIRPORT 1975'

Dana Andrews has a sky-high problem in Airport 1975 Like ZERO HOUR! and unlike AIRPLANE!, things are dead serious but so corny they...

GARY COLEMAN IS ON THE RIGHT TRACK

<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/AVvXsEgiukRCWV1i-9uXb-i_c5psl5_UNmpK8Imz7gyO8uJ5cmslBDa0PHLIAZ0OPDQahJ7I1U7rYlDGnSGmhgEa8idIwBaEyg_fUTUDPrEMSAVNeoQui1yc5Q4b4_811g0c0mSvm9X-t9VHZj8/s1600/gal_coleman_14.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiukRCWV1i-9uXb-i_c5psl5_UNmpK8Imz7gyO8uJ5cmslBDa0PHLIAZ0OPDQahJ7I1U7rYlDGnSGmhgEa8idIwBaEyg_fUTUDPrEMSAVNeoQui1yc5Q4b4_811g0c0mSvm9X-t9VHZj8/s200/gal_coleman_14.jpg" width="179" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">year: 1981 rating: **1/2</td></tr> </tbody></table> Orson Welles looked upon the set of CITIZEN KANE and referred to it as the biggest train set in the world. Perhaps Gary Coleman felt the same way here, literally: As a real life Lionel Train collector, the young DIFF’RENT STROKES star must have been in heaven as a pint-sized homeless kid living inside a train station locker.<br /> <br /> Each morning he wakes up and shines shoes, much to the chagrin of a fat jerk store owner who calls Michael Lembeck, a friendly officer in the Juvenile Court division, quickly and quite understandably falling in love with Coleman’s big sister of sorts, played by the gorgeous and likable <u> Lisa Eilbacher </u> a wannabe singer working at an arcade.<br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: right;"> </div> <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/AVvXsEhxa0wG5H6rRrtG9sFiKsFBDuHusFHb5w_ZRp0MpoLf2CNlXBQ1wakhUKmSNswB5QFDJg8u8S6enoQDUcwm1UGj7EzGilxByUYhzKk8j6Obaruiiwnq_JfbLkH5i7a7Wj76i69Ti64hbv0/s1600/ontherighttrack.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxa0wG5H6rRrtG9sFiKsFBDuHusFHb5w_ZRp0MpoLf2CNlXBQ1wakhUKmSNswB5QFDJg8u8S6enoQDUcwm1UGj7EzGilxByUYhzKk8j6Obaruiiwnq_JfbLkH5i7a7Wj76i69Ti64hbv0/s1600/ontherighttrack.jpg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px; text-align: center;">Remember VHS?</td></tr> </tbody></table> Lembeck wants to take the young hobo in, and for one reason only: the spunky phenom has a way of picking triples in the horse game. This brings that element needed in any film: the characters, having gained something, now have everything to lose. But it's also when the plot (or <i>plots</i>) get dizzying. Seeing more of Coleman running around the station, playing con-games and avoiding capture, would have made a better film. Pointless perhaps, but far more entertaining than this soup with too many cooks including Norman Fell as a perplexed mayor and Maureen Stapleton as an annoying bag lady... All falling to the charms of our young hero, who eventually finds happiness money can’t buy.<br /> <br /> This earned two Razzie nominations but it isn't completely awful. And there's an abundance of sex jokes, some uttered by Coleman himself, giving it a somewhat creepy vibe.

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GARY COLEMAN IS ON THE RIGHT TRACK

year: 1981 rating: **1/2 Orson Welles looked upon the set of CITIZEN KANE and referred to it as the biggest train set in the world. Perh...