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Written by James M. Tate / 9/01/2023 / No comments / action , adam roarke , allen garfield , barbara hershey , charles bail , eighties , hollywood satire , peter o'toole , richard rush , steve railsback

PETER O'TOOLE DIRECTING STEVE RAILSBACK AS 'THE STUNT MAN'

<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/AVvXsEjM6o3dZkypjlho0RUMVh2I1_g0UPLeg9ksAVBbNr1nFwrDoUoF_Gpv2Xw-0d-3bosnPZPOlZMvU4n5olLqk1YKJUYCPsgw3ezPIEVE8hAbgtPAa03NrCiWyKYEjZQs-lyNsGBKLKHIJydb2uqblogO-H0uolCpSqZIQxsn6piTPxnToHzPIhh7-bMbYEA1/s1465/lighter.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="702" data-original-width="1465" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM6o3dZkypjlho0RUMVh2I1_g0UPLeg9ksAVBbNr1nFwrDoUoF_Gpv2Xw-0d-3bosnPZPOlZMvU4n5olLqk1YKJUYCPsgw3ezPIEVE8hAbgtPAa03NrCiWyKYEjZQs-lyNsGBKLKHIJydb2uqblogO-H0uolCpSqZIQxsn6piTPxnToHzPIhh7-bMbYEA1/s16000/lighter.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Iconic devilish imagery of Peter O'Toole from THE STUNT MAN Year: 1980 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>It's no surprise director Richard Rush took a decade to make THE STUNT MAN since it adheres to his early creatively-maneuvered camerawork — visually making every scene matter and every moment count... </p><p>Only in this case, instead of 90-minute drive-in flicks, it's an epic labor-of-love Hollywood satire starring Peter O'Toole as a flamboyant, borderline psychotic director who desperately hires a Vietnam-vet criminal as his titular STUNT MAN...</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/AVvXsEgZkKNoFCgpiVgJyEgd8RqovVMIUCEg1ITHB-ZYjw_DzVqDIKhpK3y6_LlphqpbzsHi4fcGlhH6h4AeJ-ZpyJkhFVdLlE50wZo_WH6pgeH2mNFqj_Wn1W2GeS2TLoO-I8YxJg6ktwe2dDS0EUtBaXIJPW2CmWiEiqJFxC_TwQICOkUV4Frp_lNa4079TqnB/s2174/Screen%20Shot%202023-09-01%20at%201.37.01%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1034" data-original-width="2174" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZkKNoFCgpiVgJyEgd8RqovVMIUCEg1ITHB-ZYjw_DzVqDIKhpK3y6_LlphqpbzsHi4fcGlhH6h4AeJ-ZpyJkhFVdLlE50wZo_WH6pgeH2mNFqj_Wn1W2GeS2TLoO-I8YxJg6ktwe2dDS0EUtBaXIJPW2CmWiEiqJFxC_TwQICOkUV4Frp_lNa4079TqnB/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-09-01%20at%201.37.01%20PM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Peter O'Toole in THE STUNT MAN</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Herein second-billed Steve Railsback is the true lead, which is good and bad since, during the more dramatic, expository sequences mostly involving vulnerable ingenue (as a vulnerable actress) Barbara Hershey, he still bares campy residual from playing Charles Manson in HELTER SKELTER... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And is far more naturally-suited to intense physical action, either by his character Cameron, initially chased by cops in a fast-paced prologue — or taking on the spontaneous fall guy gig...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, adam roarke, allen garfield, barbara hershey, charles bail, eighties, hollywood satire, peter o'toole, richard rush, steve railsback

PETER O'TOOLE DIRECTING STEVE RAILSBACK AS 'THE STUNT MAN'

Iconic devilish imagery of Peter O'Toole from THE STUNT MAN Year: 1980 Rating: **** It's no surprise director Richard Rush took a de...

JAMES CAAN AND ALAN ARKIN ARE 'FREEBIE AND THE BEAN'

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Despite these spitfire insults and fast-paced comebacks, it's obvious Freebie and Bean are very close. Maybe too much since the audience never really learns about the guys before both explode with perpetual arguments, tirades, monologues...</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/AVvXsEhI_na2P31dL_8xNtdU1-I6Vti7qJte3NuIZKuWuy2thDy2uVKK59VXGheYEdkJl8gfPDxGeOJCUdOQyCsTFNg1-I8QaQglmtJtSxNqbVfAgRDvfY2E4IjEMN0_6PpjzIhXnofPP-BwLHKtYPz4qzJISCmFwLrkFU8cdmqZoh8h5Uvh1nZDQUZcStj4sQ/s1876/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-07%20at%207.37.29%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="707" data-original-width="1876" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI_na2P31dL_8xNtdU1-I6Vti7qJte3NuIZKuWuy2thDy2uVKK59VXGheYEdkJl8gfPDxGeOJCUdOQyCsTFNg1-I8QaQglmtJtSxNqbVfAgRDvfY2E4IjEMN0_6PpjzIhXnofPP-BwLHKtYPz4qzJISCmFwLrkFU8cdmqZoh8h5Uvh1nZDQUZcStj4sQ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-07%20at%207.37.29%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Alan Arkin and James Caan in FREEBIE AND THE BEAN </u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Like an old married couple's screaming (more than even Alan Arkin and his sexy cheating wife played by Valerie Harper) heard from the apartment next door, most of the picture has that edgy element up-close, but never too personal...</p><p></p><p>And the bad guys they beat up or bully aren't known for how bad they are for their punishment to be rooted for. Yet despite all the frantic running around, the quirky undercover recreants don't beat around the bush when it comes to their mission...</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/AVvXsEiTfqtA95zKns1fuzA9zHbXO9WYidrRPg9mYx_LQRrSb_mvgAQyeDq1Xcfei4O8dxOEuUBspAXJ0fOsiYZ1H8vLEkDqr5AkU599on7KBvES6Y08qxupnaoKDzQG3pH_dgl1p4sejx_yAMvWxLsANSzGaL2R-gpviHCU7_0V3IbI6gxJcf1OK4I4kguJDQ/s1611/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-07%20at%207.39.52%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="619" data-original-width="1611" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTfqtA95zKns1fuzA9zHbXO9WYidrRPg9mYx_LQRrSb_mvgAQyeDq1Xcfei4O8dxOEuUBspAXJ0fOsiYZ1H8vLEkDqr5AkU599on7KBvES6Y08qxupnaoKDzQG3pH_dgl1p4sejx_yAMvWxLsANSzGaL2R-gpviHCU7_0V3IbI6gxJcf1OK4I4kguJDQ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-07%20at%207.39.52%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Alan Arkin and James Caan in FREEBIE AND THE BEAN </u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>While THE FRENCH CONNECTION — then the gold standard for partnered-up cop films — provided a rudimentary glimpse into how the detectives work, separate from the mainline plot,  FREEBIE (that has almost the same exact plot of another buddy-cop-riling-a-fat-mafioso flick BUSTING the same year) begins like watching a TV show's first episode after having missed the pilot, or as if you'd walked into the theater fifteen-minutes late...</p><p>Our timid staked-out anti-heroes watching an alley cat invade a trashcan full of (what we soon learn are) possible clues. And yet the plot, to bust a fancy, upper-class crime boss while at the same time protecting him from hit men, takes backseat to the shenanigans derived from behind the wheel...<br></p>

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Meanwhile, some of the comedic frenzy is hit or miss but there's enough purpose and reason to make each demolished location more than just a result from the ongoing gratuitous bedlam: But there's a lot of that too, and not without a price...<br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Alan Arkin, Paul Koslo and James Caan in FREEBIE AND THE BEAN</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>James Caan, Paul Koslo and Alan Arkin in FREEBIE AND THE BEAN (and Whitey)</u></td></tr>
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action, alan arkin, buddy, charles bail, christopher morley, comedy, cop, james caan, paul koslo, richard rush, seventies, valerie harper

JAMES CAAN AND ALAN ARKIN ARE 'FREEBIE AND THE BEAN'

Alan Arkin and James Caan in FREEBIE AND THE BEAN Year: 1974 Rating: ***1/2 FREEBIE AND THE BEAN was very popular upon release, which is un...

JACK NICHOLSON PEAKS WITH SUSAN STRASBERG IN 'PSYCH-OUT'

<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/AVvXsEjVB-owo9AFIwj1DMoKoiNrPRNIhUvQaVeKMcMoFDoUb6uQXi1dO_QVaRZ8QGBFPiF5LQCN0JQjcAcqdKJ2eDfa5L0kU0EQxKtioWLKzjcY-IIoOL8D_6wrX5cI2SdWlxhxxnqfS3a1tt2vwgVujDDpMKygT0tSJEesYWuar3E9GNVosOQQ_33UzDQ7HWW0/s1549/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="1549" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVB-owo9AFIwj1DMoKoiNrPRNIhUvQaVeKMcMoFDoUb6uQXi1dO_QVaRZ8QGBFPiF5LQCN0JQjcAcqdKJ2eDfa5L0kU0EQxKtioWLKzjcY-IIoOL8D_6wrX5cI2SdWlxhxxnqfS3a1tt2vwgVujDDpMKygT0tSJEesYWuar3E9GNVosOQQ_33UzDQ7HWW0/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jack Nicholson and Susan Strasberg in PSYCH-OUT Year: 1968 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In 1968, Susan Strasberg, a passive deaf girl hiding out in San Fransisco, 
happens upon members of a hopeful rock band consisting of a completely miscast Jack
 Nicholson and Adam Roarke, looking more like blue collar roughnecks 
than guitar-slinging hippies, and Max Julien, far more aligned with the 
drugged-out, passive aesthetic...</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>Other young future-classic actors include Bruce Dern 
as Strasberg's troubled brother, the movie's McGuffin that little sister's seeking, fitfully named The 
Seeker, and Dean Stockwell as a "wise" hippie, reminding Jack, who wants
 his group to make it big, how shallow money and success are...</p><p><span></span></p>

adam roarke, bruce dern, dean stockwell, drug culture, garry marshall, gary kent, henry jaglom, jack nicholson, max julien, richard rush, sixties, susan strasberg

JACK NICHOLSON PEAKS WITH SUSAN STRASBERG IN 'PSYCH-OUT'

Jack Nicholson and Susan Strasberg in PSYCH-OUT Year: 1968 Rating: ***1/2 In 1968, Susan Strasberg, a passive deaf girl hiding out in San Fr...

RICHARD RUSH DIRECTS ADAM ROARKE IN 'THE SAVAGE SEVEN'

<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/AVvXsEiUsPXRFQOGdvc7k8ZCXhmgEqO-M8qWVwLWoMnrTTGlXdWHZ1UnF6zFtFfn1bsoQtdUHLPanCLVQc-hdccDB-tQG3zeHNqdlEopQkCPJ9Iwb2kZvaBNng5Mli2HVG7mVNSkcYJVvlR3ANJt1rs79tsDSW3crSa-FSsW3PPu5_Bm39oDRz0CDZ5ma924Pg/s2642/0.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1197" data-original-width="2642" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUsPXRFQOGdvc7k8ZCXhmgEqO-M8qWVwLWoMnrTTGlXdWHZ1UnF6zFtFfn1bsoQtdUHLPanCLVQc-hdccDB-tQG3zeHNqdlEopQkCPJ9Iwb2kZvaBNng5Mli2HVG7mVNSkcYJVvlR3ANJt1rs79tsDSW3crSa-FSsW3PPu5_Bm39oDRz0CDZ5ma924Pg/s16000/0.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE SAVAGE SEVEN Director: Richard Rush Year: 1968 Score: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Perhaps the reason most 1970's Westerns played like violently marauding, town-taking-over biker flicks is that biker flicks from the <i>1960's</i> were in fact fully-charged/revved-up modern Westerns... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Especially with Richard Rush's THE SAVAGE SEVEN about a rural, dilapidated Indian Reservation resembling a ghost town slum where white actors Robert Walker Jr and John Cardos, along with half-black Max Julien, play the Indian residents, initially dealing with that titular gang led by an otherwise polite, handsome and helpful Adam Roarke... </p><p><span></span></p>

action, adam roarke, biker, charles bail, exploitation, gary kent, larry bishop, max julien, modern western, penny marshall, richard rush, sixties

RICHARD RUSH DIRECTS ADAM ROARKE IN 'THE SAVAGE SEVEN'

Title: THE SAVAGE SEVEN Director: Richard Rush Year: 1968 Score: ***1/2 Perhaps the reason most 1970's Westerns played like violently ma...

JACK NICHOLSON & ADAM ROARKE IN 'HELLS ANGELS ON WHEELS'

<span style="font-weight: bold;"><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/AVvXsEgIeKodolQHUIbjGexnEQWOadzLa-WhVM6gY9i8cqm3YYr_M7QrYX-s9rblAutL4zpDiOmn9qYfWs0uXdesD3NclgSBv9Rubrkz4AZmZmZQtit7m8ooWt8aENDiBHKaeD9xKCOrxUR27v6QMhWR1DQCxk6AgiUQtgQMsOn7nvlcVpOpIxr-FPIfHc9jJYnJ/s616/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-13%20at%2012.49.35%20AM.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="616" data-original-width="382" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIeKodolQHUIbjGexnEQWOadzLa-WhVM6gY9i8cqm3YYr_M7QrYX-s9rblAutL4zpDiOmn9qYfWs0uXdesD3NclgSBv9Rubrkz4AZmZmZQtit7m8ooWt8aENDiBHKaeD9xKCOrxUR27v6QMhWR1DQCxk6AgiUQtgQMsOn7nvlcVpOpIxr-FPIfHc9jJYnJ/s320/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-13%20at%2012.49.35%20AM.png" width="198" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><u>1967 <span>rating: </span>***1/2</u></i></td></tr></tbody></table></span>A young pre-EASY RIDER Jack Nicholson delivers a terrifically subtle performance as a passive gas station attendant joining ranks with the Hell's Angels, but the real credit goes to Adam Roarke, a cult actor who appeared in other underdog classics such as FROGS and DIRTY LARRY CRAZY MARY, and how natural he is on screen. While he's not big and burly, his slowburn, devil-may-care attitude is just right here: a wily cockiness making him the perfect centerpiece of a biker movie that delivers much more (thanks to director Richard Rush and cinematographer Laslo Kovacs) than you'd expect from the usually vapid genre. After a beautifully shot opening credit sequence involving the hogs cruising down the open highway, and then barraging into a small town, the real story develops through Nicholson's character getting more involved with the nefarious rollers. A developing romance between Jack and free-loving Sabrina Scharf adds a legitimate love story that doesn't slow down the pace. And the fact she still digs Roarke, no matter how many other chicks he enjoys on the side, makes our vulnerable protagonist realize how the biker life might not be for him. This is the epitome of a low-budget drive-in flick with everything: including some pretty risque scenes (and situations) for the time which, although was quite normal in the biker culture, still had a few years to catch up on screen.

adam roarke, biker, exploitation, jack nicholson, jack starrett, richard rush, sixties