KATHERINE WOODVILLE & OLIVER REED 'THE BRIGAND OF KANDAHAR'

<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/AVvXsEhGJgdHTg9jouuDL9LWn2FDTm575jdn136A8qpd2H0YNwOG5cGoQeJgeRv4B1Ek9x0Z1bSlhRvpzBEuVUaqV7HUYxug74go32_LK6VX9yl-_fCGb1Pj5fY5GC2OrZtqNtf5rQIRLut8LsK-EVpJkVTUJr0X31qrg7RXmbX3zP4Om48UqRwSPIQnam2CUjBz/s1700/2%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="612" data-original-width="1700" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGJgdHTg9jouuDL9LWn2FDTm575jdn136A8qpd2H0YNwOG5cGoQeJgeRv4B1Ek9x0Z1bSlhRvpzBEuVUaqV7HUYxug74go32_LK6VX9yl-_fCGb1Pj5fY5GC2OrZtqNtf5rQIRLut8LsK-EVpJkVTUJr0X31qrg7RXmbX3zP4Om48UqRwSPIQnam2CUjBz/s16000/2%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Katherine Woodville in THE BRIGAND OF KANDAHAR Year: 1965 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>With the seven Hammer Films featuring then-rising young star Oliver Reed, sometimes there's a feeling they didn't quite know how great a thing they had... even in his very own titular horror, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/03/reedwolf.html">CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF</a>, he doesn't appear until around forty-five-minutes (although the previous sequences are intensely entertaining)... and in <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/03/land-pirates.html">THE PIRATES OF BLOOD RIVER</a>, he dies way too soon...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Same thing happens here, since, as the leader of a band of holed-up Indian (from India) rebels who kidnap Ronald Lewis... playing a half-Caucasian/Indian treated unfairly by fellow British soldiers led by Duncan Lamont... Reed's not supposed to be the main star, billed second to Hammer's square-jawed <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/03/SOfear.html">SCREAM OF FEAR</a> and <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/11/fullT.html">STOP ME BEFORE I KILL</a> Lewis... </p><p><span></span></p>

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KATHERINE WOODVILLE & OLIVER REED 'THE BRIGAND OF KANDAHAR'

Katherine Woodville in THE BRIGAND OF KANDAHAR Year: 1965 Rating: **1/2 With the seven Hammer Films featuring then-rising young star Oliver ...

HAMMER'S 'STOP ME BEFORE I KILL' AKA 'THE FULL TREATMENT'

<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/a/AVvXsEgo7ZuzJwwtQWo9V1CvjRWVhbmY9hCRGGSg_EaDBx7ORSOF3_B_Fgrjp17ZHs34Dty-3C4HT0fU7blVxbtxnIJQzPlFwNMXHJKdpmH98b8xQR5Bhw3JNw_JA7zSvbN9j9B7fhyX1j_LlLPYi9nzPI-BlSago96MKQuVWRmf8tFkctYXm6YcucSZfF48Jw=s1006" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="593" data-original-width="1006" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgo7ZuzJwwtQWo9V1CvjRWVhbmY9hCRGGSg_EaDBx7ORSOF3_B_Fgrjp17ZHs34Dty-3C4HT0fU7blVxbtxnIJQzPlFwNMXHJKdpmH98b8xQR5Bhw3JNw_JA7zSvbN9j9B7fhyX1j_LlLPYi9nzPI-BlSago96MKQuVWRmf8tFkctYXm6YcucSZfF48Jw=s16000"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Claude Dauphin and Ronald Lewis in THE FULL TREATMENT Year: 1960 Rates: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>For a lovely, talented Australian actress (who worked mostly in England), Diane Cilento made a horribly annoying French girl in an otherwise edgy, deliberately nervewracking film by director Val Guest working again for Hammer...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And THE FULL TREATMENT was retitled STOP ME BEFORE I KILL probably because it didn't sound... Hammery enough... but like Guest's HELL IS A CITY, it's not horror but neo noir... </p><p><span></span></p>

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HAMMER'S 'STOP ME BEFORE I KILL' AKA 'THE FULL TREATMENT'

Claude Dauphin and Ronald Lewis in THE FULL TREATMENT Year: 1960 Rates: ***1/2 For a lovely, talented Australian actress (who worked mostly ...

SUSAN STRASBERG & RONALD LEWIS IN HAMMER'S 'SCREAM OF FEAR'

<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/AVvXsEjIUgABura4ZrdK3J-P5rynIE0ECgMgZxbdCuvPMDVz5571-zdr2c8VeV0ViIsiuqt6AclBsuSw2hhVSE_6g6foaF-kVGdRHJN_8GUbGge4hxFPv5V5JrpxBq88FCM4TD-Yw59eR9gY-J8l/s1740/Screen+Shot+2021-03-08+at+11.57.51+PM.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1498" data-original-width="1740" height="344" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIUgABura4ZrdK3J-P5rynIE0ECgMgZxbdCuvPMDVz5571-zdr2c8VeV0ViIsiuqt6AclBsuSw2hhVSE_6g6foaF-kVGdRHJN_8GUbGge4hxFPv5V5JrpxBq88FCM4TD-Yw59eR9gY-J8l/w400-h344/Screen+Shot+2021-03-08+at+11.57.51+PM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Susan Strasberg in Scream of Fear Year: 1961 Rates: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Hybrid of Alfred Hitchcock's REAR WINDOW about a crippled protagonist stuck in what could be impending danger, and Hammer Films <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/03/ru-from-my-brain.html">PARANOIAC</a>, their second Hitchcock-style thriller after this one, SCREAM OF FEAR... </p><p>Trading in the usual classic monsters building suspense and slowburn thrills with chaste and completely vulnerable Susan Strasberg who, as the daughter of an absent rich man, returns to the family's seaside manor... that sporadically haunts and scares her silly... </p><p></p><p>Yet the surrounding characters are quite friendly: a professional-minded Christopher Lee as a German doctor, handsome Ronald Lewis as a stalwart chauffeur, and a <i>much too</i> friendly and helpful Ann Todd as the relatively new mother-in-law...</p><p>Making FEAR a Mystery <i>only in</i> what Strasberg's wheelchair-bound Penny doesn't know... Is she or isn't she really seeing her dead father turning up within darkened portions of the already dark house? And because it's intentionally upfront/obvious that she's being toyed with, as well as, like in PARANOIAC, goaded into insanity because of a future inheritance, the terrific finale is an unpredictable twist of a twist.<br></p><p><span></span></p>

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SUSAN STRASBERG & RONALD LEWIS IN HAMMER'S 'SCREAM OF FEAR'

Susan Strasberg in Scream of Fear Year: 1961 Rates: ****1/2 Hybrid of Alfred Hitchcock's REAR WINDOW about a crippled protagonist stuck ...