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Written by James M. Tate / 11/20/2024 / No comments / action , blaxploitation , cameron mitchell , jack starrett , jim brown , mafia , marlene clark , revenge , rip torn , robert phillips , seventies , stella stevens

JACK STARRETT DIRECTS JIM BROWN VS RIP TORN IN 'SLAUGHTER'

<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/AVvXsEinAiW_G1OWdOEotTh_2-ZhNSeZPUA11D5f2NyUpjAj_V5okzvMB2GlC7GV0_qjqwi28tp2i4-ZbEk76Hq7_zKHlPO-zH-dobT2lkUhJoDOqOPl3JyBqdE5jHNMF-Uff7TA4orIq6HdFqV79Q9O4mrxF_PLTc4hyEDlp_P-88auXfzM1dpTI9E6fmWcJtOR/s2679/1111%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1296" data-original-width="2679" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinAiW_G1OWdOEotTh_2-ZhNSeZPUA11D5f2NyUpjAj_V5okzvMB2GlC7GV0_qjqwi28tp2i4-ZbEk76Hq7_zKHlPO-zH-dobT2lkUhJoDOqOPl3JyBqdE5jHNMF-Uff7TA4orIq6HdFqV79Q9O4mrxF_PLTc4hyEDlp_P-88auXfzM1dpTI9E6fmWcJtOR/s16000/1111%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: SLAUGHTER Director: Jack Starrett Year: 1972 Rating: ****1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>By the time Rip Torn as a mobster's main hit-man kills the very boss who hired him to kill Jim Brown's titular black tough guy SLAUGHTER... seeking revenge for his father's mob-ordered death... the 1972 anything-goes/gun-blasting extravaganza is only halfway through...And has already featured some worthwhile actors including Cameron Mitchell and sidekick's sidekick Don Gordon, right at home in a b-movie that passes for mainstream... like something from the Bond franchise as Jim Brown, wearing a dapper tuxedo, walks coolly into the antagonist's crooked casino, winning money and even landing a sexy moll, who at least three of the uncompromisingly racist mafiosos are after...

action, blaxploitation, cameron mitchell, jack starrett, jim brown, mafia, marlene clark, revenge, rip torn, robert phillips, seventies, stella stevens

JACK STARRETT DIRECTS JIM BROWN VS RIP TORN IN 'SLAUGHTER'

Title: SLAUGHTER Director: Jack Starrett Year: 1972 Rating: ****1/2 By the time Rip Torn as a mobster's main hit-man kills the very boss...

JIM BROWN'S PAPILLON CLONE 'I ESCAPED FROM DEVIL'S ISLAND'

<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/AVvXsEhaGTCLGrosJZtERIkaAn3I6NwqX1ArIq7uXR9oAezX7KfyDYtb1Xc0j5yqjJXxsMsn01exxP0Fii1HkJAVCnd0yRC3L94GR_Jb4n1kW8faJBlFHf5myFa9UtZen2heD7pjpOEcR2jDAJxDbIH5IJ2dkvX6pXaRkD3Jc2wE3VYLhBaH5GKDKfYjmZSl1Q/s1152/Screen%20Shot%202023-05-30%20at%2012.22.45%20AM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="626" data-original-width="1152" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaGTCLGrosJZtERIkaAn3I6NwqX1ArIq7uXR9oAezX7KfyDYtb1Xc0j5yqjJXxsMsn01exxP0Fii1HkJAVCnd0yRC3L94GR_Jb4n1kW8faJBlFHf5myFa9UtZen2heD7pjpOEcR2jDAJxDbIH5IJ2dkvX6pXaRkD3Jc2wE3VYLhBaH5GKDKfYjmZSl1Q/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-05-30%20at%2012.22.45%20AM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jim Brown in I ESCAPED FROM DEVIL'S ISLAND Year: 1973 Rating: ***</td></tr></tbody></table>Straying from his usual racially-charged blaxploitation cinema, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/jim%20brown">Jim Brown</a> in I ESCAPED FROM DEVIL'S ISLAND is not only pure exploitation, attempting to bank on the popularity of the novel turned adapted motion picture <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2018/03/pap.html">PAPILLON</a> about a French prisoner who escapes this movie's titular island, but it's practically an outright remake... Jim Brown has the strong escape-minded Steve McQueen part while the vulnerable Dustin Hoffman sidekick role's for Christopher George, a passive progressive that Brown has to carry (while roughnecks Robert Phillips and James Luisi both fill Woodrow Palfrey's shoes), and, starting from a beach-set bamboo-scattered makeshift prison, brutal guard <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/05/underw.html">Richard Rust</a> reigns — and there's even a helpful homosexual convict along with a neighboring leper colony...

action, adventure, christopher george, escape, indie, james luisi, jim brown, jungle, prison, richard rust, robert phillips, roland bob harris, seventies, shark

JIM BROWN'S PAPILLON CLONE 'I ESCAPED FROM DEVIL'S ISLAND'

Jim Brown in I ESCAPED FROM DEVIL'S ISLAND Year: 1973 Rating: *** Straying from his usual racially-charged blaxploitation cinema, Jim Br...

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

<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;">Title: THE KILLERS Year: 1964 Rating: **** </td></tr></tbody></table>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... 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...

angie dickinson, claude akins, clu gulager, crime, don siegel, ernest hemingway, john cassavetes, lee marvin, norman fell, race car, robert phillips, ronald reagan, sixties, thriller

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...

ROD TAYLOR LITERALLY VS WILLIAM SMITH IN 'DARKER THAN AMBER'

<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/AVvXsEiEEmGoMbxTG-unBMqSdpfO5miEVz6yc6_EJKd9NWBNf67uPxm8ZixX1EzcZUjRWQbrfO20cg0kmSab5DVU479Eb8UAgWqPT4s6sm255hh6FnhyU2yIas73cnOK90wGlBux4qAt8M9WxznR/s778/Screen+Shot+2021-06-14+at+10.53.03+AM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="718" data-original-width="778" height="369" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEEmGoMbxTG-unBMqSdpfO5miEVz6yc6_EJKd9NWBNf67uPxm8ZixX1EzcZUjRWQbrfO20cg0kmSab5DVU479Eb8UAgWqPT4s6sm255hh6FnhyU2yIas73cnOK90wGlBux4qAt8M9WxznR/w400-h369/Screen+Shot+2021-06-14+at+10.53.03+AM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Book Cover Darker than Amber Year: 1970 Rates: ***</td></tr></tbody></table>"And speaking of that... What about that?" is some of the clunky dialogue in Robert Clouse's cinematic venture for pulp author John D. McDonald's beach bum/salvage seller Travis McGee, here played by an aged-to-granite Rod Taylor, more befitting a suit during the cruise ship second half than bulky shirtless on his own boat... a balmy Florida Keys Neo Noir during an intriguing set-up when Taylor's McGee rescues a beautiful blonde dumped off a bridge with weighted ankles... The kind of colorfully psychedelic counter-culture clashing an otherwise gray-toned detective-style thriller, and especially vivid is the young girl, all open-minded and groovy in Suzy Kendall, who, pretty enough to fall for quickly, there's not enough romantic chemistry to merit McGee such severe depression after her death... Quickly followed by a contrived resurrection as Kendall plays a different girl, used to trick muscular bleach-blond psycho <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/06/falcon-eddie.html">William Smith</a>: And what DARKER THAN AMBER is known for is the climactic fight between Taylor and Smith that wound up real, captured by director Clouse that landed him Bruce Lee's ENTER THE DRAGON: Which also featured blonde bombshell Ahna Capri who, like Smith and beautiful black actress Janet MacLachlan as well as pinch thug Robert Phillips, isn't given enough screen time in a deliberate b-movie that's more a scattered collection of scenes.