SHARON GURNEY WITH YVONNE MITCHELL IN 'CRUCIBLE OF HORROR'

<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/AVvXsEi3yeY6zXy_NBcKCZEFlKvCHISEh_NBLohowL3mV-meEA0waRoq4KrHU58VeIxDCnqnlrM7vhJ9yuNk6Py8bj-ASspDuC_fSagkI0AgJh4TRQjouRX64SrFraIJqSCkJn-EBHKKFoEReXkLLdsBxT90v6UMiQvzMutfPq8RuvJp2BGC_7pLKcUSYiebPKDg/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-09-17%20at%2010.12.44%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="878" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3yeY6zXy_NBcKCZEFlKvCHISEh_NBLohowL3mV-meEA0waRoq4KrHU58VeIxDCnqnlrM7vhJ9yuNk6Py8bj-ASspDuC_fSagkI0AgJh4TRQjouRX64SrFraIJqSCkJn-EBHKKFoEReXkLLdsBxT90v6UMiQvzMutfPq8RuvJp2BGC_7pLKcUSYiebPKDg/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-09-17%20at%2010.12.44%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sharon Gurney</u><u> </u><u>in CRUCIBLE OF HORROR/THE CORPSE Year: 1971 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>It's been said that Viktors Ritelis was a British television director with the eye of a cinematic filmmaker, and his only feature, CRUCIBLE OF HORROR (originally THE CORPSE), is a creatively-shot thriller in the vein of Alfred Hitchcock... <br><br>Helping to develop a wave of rural-set psychological horrors of the 1960's/1970's, from England's SHUTTERED ROOM to America's LET'S SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH to Hammer's DEMONS OF THE MIND... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

british, cannon, horror, michael gough, seventies, sharon gurney, simon gough, thriller, yvonne mitchell

SHARON GURNEY WITH YVONNE MITCHELL IN 'CRUCIBLE OF HORROR'

Sharon Gurney in CRUCIBLE OF HORROR/THE CORPSE Year: 1971 Rating: ***1/2 It's been said that Viktors Ritelis was a British television d...

SHARON GURNEY IN GARY SHERMAN'S CULT SLASHER 'DEATH LINE'

<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/AVvXsEj6_h7VJh9NBg1174f7YjoMRM8_2VI9uyl7yO5K5bSdSc0D0GXKjjlKeLL75L8C1yrE0uUesLnwXhMj_E1z1krWQENgYFN1BGnk5kBhjTPMWbLnA5KMhSxEgLreh2Vimb5xuc8xoPKlosU1bozdIqQV4uwF9w7FGdHo9EmlHPGkwTwb0JhfankiWio-GRmA/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-09-15%20at%2010.51.10%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="937" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6_h7VJh9NBg1174f7YjoMRM8_2VI9uyl7yO5K5bSdSc0D0GXKjjlKeLL75L8C1yrE0uUesLnwXhMj_E1z1krWQENgYFN1BGnk5kBhjTPMWbLnA5KMhSxEgLreh2Vimb5xuc8xoPKlosU1bozdIqQV4uwF9w7FGdHo9EmlHPGkwTwb0JhfankiWio-GRmA/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-09-15%20at%2010.51.10%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sharon Gurney in DEATH LINE Year: 1972 Rating: **</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>There's a point in future <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2010/11/dead-buried.html">DEAD & BURIED</a>, V<a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2025/03/vsquad.html">ICE SQUAD</a> and <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2018/12/reevaluating-eternal-damnation-of.html">POLTERGEIST III</a> director Gary Sherman's 1972 proto-slasher DEATH LINE where blunt detectives Donald Pleasence and Norman Rossington are discussing the hippie couple they're separately questioning: and only David Ladd (playboy son of iconic Alan Ladd) is shown... <br><br>Merely part of the problem in what's an otherwise groundbreaking horror involving a cannibal, before even TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, taking place in a dark and spooky-looking location, including an extremely long maneuvering crane shot of the lead killer in his underground fortress...</p><p><span></span></p>

british, christopher lee, david ladd, donald pleasence, horror, norman rossington, seventies, sharon gurney, slasher

SHARON GURNEY IN GARY SHERMAN'S CULT SLASHER 'DEATH LINE'

Sharon Gurney in DEATH LINE Year: 1972 Rating: ** There's a point in future DEAD & BURIED , V ICE SQUAD and POLTERGEIST III direct...

ALAIN DELON & BURT LANCASTER IN MICHAEL WINNER'S 'SCORPIO'

<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/AVvXsEiORJdxJ8JOXVvCvrd-7kYYyVh9HEfCS0TrOMUsfqaN4iVt-Go_2B-_YXUxM2-bKv_a9LXvETnr8UT_SV7SpfoqxerrHS1cQgcbUtxQJGgvfqjAtbbGaYFRtjDvCqmFVTraQYa_0FoigAIunE8k2alJhamH0s1RV4LUwIErJEoKalCf6-afy34mxddYXgCf/s1842/111%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1172" data-original-width="1842" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiORJdxJ8JOXVvCvrd-7kYYyVh9HEfCS0TrOMUsfqaN4iVt-Go_2B-_YXUxM2-bKv_a9LXvETnr8UT_SV7SpfoqxerrHS1cQgcbUtxQJGgvfqjAtbbGaYFRtjDvCqmFVTraQYa_0FoigAIunE8k2alJhamH0s1RV4LUwIErJEoKalCf6-afy34mxddYXgCf/s1600/111%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: SCORPIO Year: 1973 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>During the final act of Michael Winner's 1972 crime-thriller <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2023/12/mechanics.html">THE MECHANIC</a>, veteran hit-man Charles Bronson is targeted by his own young assassin student Jan-Michael Vincent... <br><br>And a year later, in Winner's espionage-thriller SCORPIO, this same exact ironical setup is already happening (has already happened), right when the movie begins...</p>

action, alain delon, espionage, gayle hunnicutt, james b. sikking, jerry fielding, joanne linville, john colicos, mary maude, michael winner, neo noir, paul scofield, seventies, thriller, william smithers

ALAIN DELON & BURT LANCASTER IN MICHAEL WINNER'S 'SCORPIO'

Title: SCORPIO Year: 1973 Rating: **1/2 During the final act of Michael Winner's 1972 crime-thriller THE MECHANIC , veteran hit-man Char...

ALAIN DELON WITH CHARLES BRONSON IN 'FAREWELL, FRIEND'

<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/AVvXsEjr_-31b4KOwIYtc8boMIiREqcabWNd08wmN_oPfFBWlAMUUPWf4j040-MnR7szF6socpk4hariW4s_td_l1QqFd5BNvicPBfCSf-tklf5WSYkhmR6pzwh-PmLhi6j-LhyphenhyphenVN5sLcfKQSaQV0RF0Q-hAsElRYBfIER5LahlyQXIk890E5DaE-6KWVetSqGY_/s2112/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-22%20at%201.58.46%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1400" data-original-width="2112" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr_-31b4KOwIYtc8boMIiREqcabWNd08wmN_oPfFBWlAMUUPWf4j040-MnR7szF6socpk4hariW4s_td_l1QqFd5BNvicPBfCSf-tklf5WSYkhmR6pzwh-PmLhi6j-LhyphenhyphenVN5sLcfKQSaQV0RF0Q-hAsElRYBfIER5LahlyQXIk890E5DaE-6KWVetSqGY_/w400-h265/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-22%20at%201.58.46%20PM.png" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>FAREWELL, FRIEND Year: 1968 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The title FAREWELL, FRIEND makes no sense yet are actual words spoken by one of two anti-buddy buddies who'd spent years in the Foreign Legion without knowing each other, but they get off the same boat with a load of expository dialogue that you best keep a scorecard to follow the shoddy pulp-inspired plot as, basically and ultimately, this odd couple... one a French medic, the other a crooked American... attempt to crack a big safe in a large, well-armed, multi-guarded building... And why the title's nonsensical is that Bronson's pimp character says things for no apparent reason, especially "Yeah!" whenever something happens that makes him feel like saying... "Yeah!" </p><p></p><p>But Alain Delon is the tough silent type, and this film's obvious lead, actually having hand-picked Bronson from admiring his zesty performance as <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2018/08/early-chuck.html">MACHINE GUN KELLY</a> eight-years earlier... What's ironic is Delon keeps Bronson from reaching equally ferocious heights by either a punch in the nose or a macho wrestling match, especially in a painfully overlong sequence where, during that epic second-act heist, both get locked inside a strongroom, close to death, followed by Bronson being beaten/interrogated and Delon beating-up the film's nice girl Brigitte Fossey while having initially fallen sap to sneaky double-crossing femme fatalle Olga Georges-Picot... Perhaps if FAREWELL, FRIEND was a dark comedy, and didn't take itself so seriously, it'd have a more even-keeled groove... And get this... Bronson <i>wouldn't </i>be the straight man!</p><span></span>

alain delon, brigitte fossey, buddy, charles bronson, crime, exploitation, french, heist, mob, olga georges-picot, seventies

ALAIN DELON WITH CHARLES BRONSON IN 'FAREWELL, FRIEND'

FAREWELL, FRIEND Year: 1968 Rating: *** The title FAREWELL, FRIEND makes no sense yet are actual words spoken by one of two anti-buddy buddi...

LARA WENDEL GETTING DEMON POSSESSED IN 'RING OF DARKNESS'

<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/AVvXsEgjLcQedOC6zYeBT2JkBfQ_T05GWodceFv1PEkEZF9VE4Ls935aJshqQDLinY-omkr7WmHNYImuyVHYENul_SmQhSMUTYKSOufilY_64TfKnJyZ5JtPyFMDks64G5qpCnGXUY8OerEYlPyq8tnK22eOhMktoYKbi7IS7FBP_UP-txb3lTO6tHHjSGnu0XyB/s1300/unnamed.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjLcQedOC6zYeBT2JkBfQ_T05GWodceFv1PEkEZF9VE4Ls935aJshqQDLinY-omkr7WmHNYImuyVHYENul_SmQhSMUTYKSOufilY_64TfKnJyZ5JtPyFMDks64G5qpCnGXUY8OerEYlPyq8tnK22eOhMktoYKbi7IS7FBP_UP-txb3lTO6tHHjSGnu0XyB/s1600/unnamed.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lara Wendel in RING OF DARKNESS Year: 1979 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The bizarre sacrificial-naked-girls-dancing intro to the Italian low-budget EXORCIST clone RING OF DARKNESS has techno-wizard Stelvio Cipriani making Mike Oldfield's <i>Tubular Bells</i> (or John Carpenter's HALLOWEEN theme) sounding like music blasting from a discotheque nightclub... <br><br>Leading to Satan-worshiping mom Anne Heywood already in the frustrated process of dealing with her very evil child... as if RING OF DARKNESS (aka SATAN'S WIFE) were more of its own sequel than a classic horror film money-grab homage... perfectly suited for controversial child starlet Lara Wendel in that she actually resembles Linda Blair...</p><p><span></span></p>

anne heywood, horror, irene papas, italian, john phillip law, lara wendel, marisa mell, seventies, stelvio cipriani, valentina cortese

LARA WENDEL GETTING DEMON POSSESSED IN 'RING OF DARKNESS'

Lara Wendel in RING OF DARKNESS Year: 1979 Rating: *** The bizarre sacrificial-naked-girls-dancing intro to the Italian low-budget EXORCIST ...

LARA WENDEL GETTING STALKED IN DARIO ARGENO'S 'TENEBRAE'

<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/AVvXsEg2YcxPzyoqgphPPOo46MgISDpisxlhV-2Jy42uWGR5P7GxbCejwtWgdDUkoVzWy4tOBnF2jK0jUPmVtVrTSc7W_9VUepN62voPdKc5CvOvahVvkCmu7IU0YwqTq5IM3zFm7I5cNwOzP_De66U_XZmj3abFtfzn-PeNMbTnd1H8V9x3ZtGmmVadnOEqKiPm/s2134/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-15%20at%205.56.03%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1184" data-original-width="2134" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2YcxPzyoqgphPPOo46MgISDpisxlhV-2Jy42uWGR5P7GxbCejwtWgdDUkoVzWy4tOBnF2jK0jUPmVtVrTSc7W_9VUepN62voPdKc5CvOvahVvkCmu7IU0YwqTq5IM3zFm7I5cNwOzP_De66U_XZmj3abFtfzn-PeNMbTnd1H8V9x3ZtGmmVadnOEqKiPm/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-15%20at%205.56.03%20PM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lara Wendel in TENEBRAE Year: 1982 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Between his most famous, groundbreaking horror flick SUSPERIA from the exploitation 1970's to the less intense genre vehicles of the latter 1980's like PHENOMENA, Italian auteur Dario Argento made his best and by far most conventional slasher in TENEBRAE... <br><br>Using the familiar plot of a horror writer who, in this case, has a desperately faithful fan killing vulnerable women, leaving behind pages of the titular (his latest) novel... </p><p><span></span></p>

anthony franciosa, daria nicolodi, dario argento, horror, italian, john saxon, john steiner, lara wendel, mirella d'angelo, mystery, neo noir, seventies, slasher, veronica lario

LARA WENDEL GETTING STALKED IN DARIO ARGENO'S 'TENEBRAE'

Lara Wendel in TENEBRAE Year: 1982 Rating: **** Between his most famous, groundbreaking horror flick SUSPERIA from the exploitation 1970...

LARA WENDEL IS MIMSY FARMER 'PERFUME OF THE LADY IN BLACK'

<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/AVvXsEh5FxDUyM3zHgGSLlFWkl3-IabMZdOLRWSewBrLrdkVKtUsdJJHLoZPBrGUBq1Y2lPS7O8NHassOD3CK7kXaX5DquJ7n-yZLIMHsCuijlgyKKARAZzGS5AHXmVhwCbBqyARVZ-EYvoeqsTpWYTdDyq7gbrw8MzYPUW0kaqO-j-uYZ20qgq2BJr7rIYQSvSg/s1696/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-15%20at%207.44.22%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="914" data-original-width="1696" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5FxDUyM3zHgGSLlFWkl3-IabMZdOLRWSewBrLrdkVKtUsdJJHLoZPBrGUBq1Y2lPS7O8NHassOD3CK7kXaX5DquJ7n-yZLIMHsCuijlgyKKARAZzGS5AHXmVhwCbBqyARVZ-EYvoeqsTpWYTdDyq7gbrw8MzYPUW0kaqO-j-uYZ20qgq2BJr7rIYQSvSg/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-15%20at%207.44.22%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>LARA WENDEL in THE PERFUME OF THE LADY IN BLACK Year: 1974 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Ultimately paying third-act homage to ROSEMARY'S BABY while plot-proceeding John Cassavetes's OPENING NIGHT... an indie-drama version of an Italian Giallo where Gena Rowlands hallucinates a beautiful young girl... Italian auteur Francesco Barilli's THE PERFUME OF THE LADY IN BLACK has long-haired blonde American ingenue turned European short-cropped blonde starlet Mimsy Farmer seeing her dead mother, guided around by her younger self in scream-queen Lara Wendel...<br><br>Which all ends up inspiring another future horror flick, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME... not to be spoiled since Farmer's "Industrial Scientist" character Silvia Hacherman spends most of the time like a deer-in-headlights, perfect for an actress possessing a unique kind of powerfully magnetic vulnerability: able to speak volumes without saying very much, and she's rarely been more beautiful  — and she's always really beautiful...  </p><p><span></span></p>

exploitation, francesco barilli, giallo, horror, italian, lara wendel, maurizio bonuglia, mimsy farmer, nike arrighi, seventies, thriller

LARA WENDEL IS MIMSY FARMER 'PERFUME OF THE LADY IN BLACK'

LARA WENDEL in THE PERFUME OF THE LADY IN BLACK Year: 1974 Rating: **** Ultimately paying third-act homage to ROSEMARY'S BABY while plot...

MIMSY FARMER WITH BARRY PRIMUS INVESTIGATING 'AUTOPSY'

<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/AVvXsEgA0d3IyHvxMxeUN-C40IVxjlUUAnhBAqOxlnftnlxGTf_T3Oxj4yuVlchLYhpCFq8eCtrzGTFgFkGlBYf41EMYcRhzHwK-veMi35Rm8vqmS2Ksku6h_dCb8pmsrzoW8tRmG9XgNz5jkqiRMf9Tfl7yh1xugXhCTBMhJ-ON9ySk0OrYRVxa-p5K_YUPas74/s1600/image1786080059.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="987" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA0d3IyHvxMxeUN-C40IVxjlUUAnhBAqOxlnftnlxGTf_T3Oxj4yuVlchLYhpCFq8eCtrzGTFgFkGlBYf41EMYcRhzHwK-veMi35Rm8vqmS2Ksku6h_dCb8pmsrzoW8tRmG9XgNz5jkqiRMf9Tfl7yh1xugXhCTBMhJ-ON9ySk0OrYRVxa-p5K_YUPas74/s1600/image1786080059.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mimsy Farmer in AUTOPSY Year: 1975 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Unlucky <i>First Gir</i>l (to die)( Gaby Wagner asks Mimsy Farmer if she's American, to which Mimsy's character... a pathology doctor working in a hospital's morgue... answers that she's "half American"...<br><br>Which sums up the blonde starlet's career, starting out as guests on mainstream stateside television (from MY THREE SONS to THE FBI) to co-starring in low-budget counter-culture speeding-car flicks (<a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2024/12/wild-racers.html">THE WILD RACERS</a> to <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/12/hotRods.html">HOT RODS TO HELL</a> to <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2026/07/stripmimsy.html">RIOT ON SUNSET STRIP</a>)... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

angela goodwin, barry primus, gaby wagner, giallo, horror, italian, mimsy farmer, neo noir, ray lovelock, seventies, thriller

MIMSY FARMER WITH BARRY PRIMUS INVESTIGATING 'AUTOPSY'

Mimsy Farmer in AUTOPSY Year: 1975 Rating: *** Unlucky First Gir l (to die)( Gaby Wagner asks Mimsy Farmer if she's American, to which M...

MIMSY FARMER, JEAN GABIN & ALAIN DELON 'TWO MEN IN TOWN'

<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/AVvXsEjPOMl_uTuRbK9LUhuRXUAoY7Axx9HVDw0SUqjsrbLy8rXY0x3wiDb2ytos4pNkdOQoIFtAnnNWiPeYFchzMHn_gPK6S_fDlIGrEr7j_GzOsFNysqajkswnt4Z4apFal64HUBLBhTK3zKfuh5QwxzVfsjR3lA_2hbCVb9xTE8wk2SeuJPq0kVwb2TSjUyXu/s2164/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-11%20at%201.04.45%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1480" data-original-width="2164" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPOMl_uTuRbK9LUhuRXUAoY7Axx9HVDw0SUqjsrbLy8rXY0x3wiDb2ytos4pNkdOQoIFtAnnNWiPeYFchzMHn_gPK6S_fDlIGrEr7j_GzOsFNysqajkswnt4Z4apFal64HUBLBhTK3zKfuh5QwxzVfsjR3lA_2hbCVb9xTE8wk2SeuJPq0kVwb2TSjUyXu/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-11%20at%201.04.45%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mimsy Farmer and Michel Bouquet in TWO MEN IN TOWN Year: 1973 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>French New Wave director José Giovanni's TWO MEN IN TOWN is obviously inspired by Victor Hugo's LES MISÉRABLES, but for a 1970's crime fan it will be most reminiscent of the late-seventies STRAIGHT TIME starring Dustin Hoffman... <br><br>Based on a 1973 novel NO BEAST SO FIERCE (same year as this feature) by Edward Bunker, particularly the second-act plot-line involving a badgering police inspector, who had originally arrested bank robber Alain Delon for the ten years that social worker Jean Gabin gets him out early from in the film's semi-optimistic prelude...</p><p><span></span></p>

alain delon, crime, french, gérard depardieu, ilaria ccchini, jean gabin, josé giovanni, malka ribowska, michel bouquet, mimsy farmer, neo noir, seventies, thriller

MIMSY FARMER, JEAN GABIN & ALAIN DELON 'TWO MEN IN TOWN'

Mimsy Farmer and Michel Bouquet in TWO MEN IN TOWN Year: 1973 Rating: ***1/2 French New Wave director José Giovanni's TWO MEN IN TOWN is...

MIMSY FARMER IN RUGGERO DEODATO'S 'CONCORDE AFFAIRE '79'

<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/AVvXsEiQcMQZhiIuybr52zVWczuCfFvqSwviaeRvaWYGl4MQc4IN5XNfO9ZBCnhGzJgGmbM2S_Se26zCbm22Iuljo9mw3ZRYI87eSho1b4FB6jPhb4O8YDRXv-anHztcp3iIiTCl0fas_F03eE6CnGMj6vn99EIOglH5r_0wnpoHoWRb8qcABFY8254RBgOtcKlR/s1390/image_cf96a5c0.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="752" data-original-width="1390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQcMQZhiIuybr52zVWczuCfFvqSwviaeRvaWYGl4MQc4IN5XNfO9ZBCnhGzJgGmbM2S_Se26zCbm22Iuljo9mw3ZRYI87eSho1b4FB6jPhb4O8YDRXv-anHztcp3iIiTCl0fas_F03eE6CnGMj6vn99EIOglH5r_0wnpoHoWRb8qcABFY8254RBgOtcKlR/s1600/image_cf96a5c0.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mimsy Farmer in CONCORDE AFFAIRE '79 Year: 1979 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>A year before Italian auteur Ruggero Deodato invented the found-footage horror-genre with CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST, he directed the mainstream CONCORDE AFFAIRE '79, a slight-of-hand effort deliberately mirroring THE CONCORD: AIRPORT '79, the last AIRPORT outing before the blockbuster spoof AIRPLANE killed the franchise by spoofing it... <br><br>Both are basically crime-thrillers combining the usual airline disaster melodrama... but Deodato's Italian import spends the entire first two acts hardly involving the record-breaking passenger-jet-plane: other than an opening scene where it crashes into the ocean...</p><p><span></span></p>

airplane, disaster, edmund purdom, espionage, james francsiscus, joseph cotten, maria d'incoronato, mimsy farmer, ruggero deodato, seventies, thriller, van johnson, venantino venantini

MIMSY FARMER IN RUGGERO DEODATO'S 'CONCORDE AFFAIRE '79'

Mimsy Farmer in CONCORDE AFFAIRE '79 Year: 1979 Rating: ***1/2 A year before Italian auteur Ruggero Deodato invented the found-footage h...

MIMSY FARMER KILLS DARIO ARGENTO'S 'FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET'

<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/AVvXsEjiSlhcIJkzvGhpYdVHbfDfLxicVqUBsdtZYuy_b4dodxg0YVGKk4fraoed2DW5fTVT1IwaaZKH5Hj1OuIr_xLAt3ZEerGGS_rvmgoc4h4bfv48-e1q4_IfOqzD-yYmYYtrV8cCb9bFzzDBIq-0Ushn9MW7yxd3N00h_pij3pkfpqB-UVOwwu9M-1VTWrAn/s1600/image1786217518.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="956" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiSlhcIJkzvGhpYdVHbfDfLxicVqUBsdtZYuy_b4dodxg0YVGKk4fraoed2DW5fTVT1IwaaZKH5Hj1OuIr_xLAt3ZEerGGS_rvmgoc4h4bfv48-e1q4_IfOqzD-yYmYYtrV8cCb9bFzzDBIq-0Ushn9MW7yxd3N00h_pij3pkfpqB-UVOwwu9M-1VTWrAn/s1600/image1786217518.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mimsy Farmer in FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET Year: 1971 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>American actress Mimsy Farmer really went native after moving to France and starring in European horror flicks after merely co-starring in counter-culture melodramas (like HOT RODS TO HELL) stateside... <br><br>That is, in several of the Euro-thrillers, she would have an accent, speaking a kind of broken English, like it's not her original language, sometimes even choosing each word... very... carefully...</p><p><span></span></p>

body count, dario argento, exploitation, francine racette, giallo, horror, jean-pierre marielle, michael brandon, mimsy farmer, mystery, seventies

MIMSY FARMER KILLS DARIO ARGENTO'S 'FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET'

Mimsy Farmer in FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET Year: 1971 Rating: ***1/2 American actress Mimsy Farmer really went native after moving to France ...

PHILLAN BISHOP SCORING WILLARD HUYCK'S 'MESSIAH OF EVIL'

<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/AVvXsEj5vyhyIkZe03K3Bfp14mfj6c3BClQSrI8yU-2FL6t1N4sFfndwzWoZvzhrm_ol7S6yQI1NeuS4KRB51RXJcNCj9wZwxib2rJsxvZzJLZlO85rjOCynDovpDBL1tdrqhyphenhyphenS4VaO1ZUI0apgKRFgUZhWETIQTu-YRfRJNT93o3Rqz7-jP3Vwt_v6XLhvm8MO2/s1712/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-24%20at%204.47.51%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1082" data-original-width="1712" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5vyhyIkZe03K3Bfp14mfj6c3BClQSrI8yU-2FL6t1N4sFfndwzWoZvzhrm_ol7S6yQI1NeuS4KRB51RXJcNCj9wZwxib2rJsxvZzJLZlO85rjOCynDovpDBL1tdrqhyphenhyphenS4VaO1ZUI0apgKRFgUZhWETIQTu-YRfRJNT93o3Rqz7-jP3Vwt_v6XLhvm8MO2/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-24%20at%204.47.51%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Joy Bang in MESSIAH OF EVIL Year: 1974 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>Married filmmakers (and AMERICAN GRAFFITI co-writers) Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz's arthouse horror MESSIAH OF EVIL has hauntingly gorgeous scream-queen Marianna Hill's narrated story-line about the search for her artist father at a beach community, pieced together in long sequences of gothic dialogue, neatly combined with three of the most eerily suspenseful moments of low-budget exploitation cinema... <br><br>Wherein monotone Michael Greer seems to be the title character, a tall stranger holed-up at her missing father's pad (his journals providing exposition) with two lovely girls, Anitra Ford and Joy Bang, each making their own separate horror-trope mistake of leaving an otherwise safe location to venture out alone... in this case into the small beach town, inland from a wave-lapping, moon-lit beach...</p><p><span></span></p>

anitra ford, body count, charles dierkop, cult, gloria katz, horror, joy bang, marianna hill, michael greer, phillan bishop, seventies, walter hill, williard huyck, zombie

PHILLAN BISHOP SCORING WILLARD HUYCK'S 'MESSIAH OF EVIL'

Joy Bang in MESSIAH OF EVIL Year: 1974 Rating: **** Married filmmakers (and AMERICAN GRAFFITI co-writers) Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz'...

PHILLAN BISHOP FINISHES SCORING WITH 'KISS OF THE TARANTULA'

<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/AVvXsEhjVsF5fPVImAQsXz_WBlxR7xR1MRgvsPGLlIVlFhUN7MJwcS1ky8XdBP6ow-cj67r9FMOc6-p6tRfLp-kkiMHcXtfcjinWJsIZu96NnC6p9IYmQ5DyMvuAljxKloPrmB6hidnkglA0sqr7SQvRB65sU492vdkqqJlPcJp58x9x9pcYlC7YP2jZhwdTL9n3/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-22%20at%209.24.12%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="859" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjVsF5fPVImAQsXz_WBlxR7xR1MRgvsPGLlIVlFhUN7MJwcS1ky8XdBP6ow-cj67r9FMOc6-p6tRfLp-kkiMHcXtfcjinWJsIZu96NnC6p9IYmQ5DyMvuAljxKloPrmB6hidnkglA0sqr7SQvRB65sU492vdkqqJlPcJp58x9x9pcYlC7YP2jZhwdTL9n3/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-22%20at%209.24.12%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Suzanna Ling in KISS OF THE TARANTULA Year: 1975 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Ironic that murky synthesizer composer Phillan Bishop's last of three horror scores is the most befitting, sounding perfectly synced with the story-at-hand instead of what are his signature arcade-in-purgatory sound effects (preceded only by Les Baxter's more jarring than sinister FROGS music): that seem otherwise randomly layered throughout...<br><br>Beginning with an actual organ in-place of the strange Moog noises, the ongoing thematic melody is a hybrid of children's lullaby and funeral dirge... the latter befitting a troubled, lonely but insanely gorgeous girl named Susan: shown at three different ages, the daughter of a manor-dwelling mortician...</p><p><span></span></p>

body count, creature, ernesto macias, horror, phillan bishop, revenge, rural, seventies, spiders, thriller

PHILLAN BISHOP FINISHES SCORING WITH 'KISS OF THE TARANTULA'

Suzanna Ling in KISS OF THE TARANTULA Year: 1975 Rating: ***1/2 Ironic that murky synthesizer composer Phillan Bishop's last of three ho...

PHILLAN BISHOP SCORING 1973 PROTO-SLASHER 'THE SEVERED ARM'

<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/AVvXsEgZZPyFchHHYIbEf2jaRDZA0HBm0wX5AyjeibbE7mcb43VzEhL5neHZDKBvQj3AAZoTA0nYp9Gpb7fOm5XT6O4U-klkTwQ607lKU8UavIaOj_DJK-wD4_zoEwRxD8LPOByJlkW3Lqtaf1PDsmlKUXtvdPcV_NeJy_DFYAc57vdRkrLZZ987KDqTz4_lXMjC/s1306/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-22%20at%205.24.40%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="794" data-original-width="1306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZZPyFchHHYIbEf2jaRDZA0HBm0wX5AyjeibbE7mcb43VzEhL5neHZDKBvQj3AAZoTA0nYp9Gpb7fOm5XT6O4U-klkTwQ607lKU8UavIaOj_DJK-wD4_zoEwRxD8LPOByJlkW3Lqtaf1PDsmlKUXtvdPcV_NeJy_DFYAc57vdRkrLZZ987KDqTz4_lXMjC/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-22%20at%205.24.40%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Deborah Walley channeling </u><u>Cynthia Gabrielle</u><u> in THE SEVERED ARM Year: 1973 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>A year before the groundbreaking TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE that ignited the slather genre, a super low-budget drive-in feature aptly titled THE SEVERED ARM came and went... and had actual legitimate actors including GIDGET GOES HAWAIIAN starlet Deborah Whalley, STAR TREK 2nd-pilot lieutenant Paul Carr and <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/03/HellisACity.html">John Crawford</a>, an American bit player who had previously headlined in British b-crimers... <br><br>Then there's the most familiar in comic Marvin Kaplan and semi-familiar character-actor Vince Martorano, who, along with <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/08/AirPATROL.html">Maury Dexter walk-on Ray Dannis</a> and this production's co-producer David G. Cannon, the most ridiculous aspect sets up the entire ultra-violent revenge-driven plot-line...</p><p><span></span></p>

deborah walley, exploitation, john crawford, marvin kaplan, paul carr, phillan bishop, ray dannis, seventies, slasher, vince martorano

PHILLAN BISHOP SCORING 1973 PROTO-SLASHER 'THE SEVERED ARM'

Deborah Walley channeling  Cynthia Gabrielle in THE SEVERED ARM Year: 1973 Rating: **** A year before the groundbreaking TEXAS CHAINSAW MAS...

GREGORY PECK FATHERS DEMONIC HARVEY STEPHENS IN 'THE OMEN'

<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/AVvXsEhsD5-liIPZmdp4k9n7vu6xhmeKg_lC6qBpKFic4zbE_Axk-jph5mISxAeGONXSakd8U4QeyhAcpLfizhvHRuG0-oy5sWDrcli1ibEGAXgtJmuZn3gbIKjXfiVsTNGQw7yLcm8zX4PjoXnTaWZxcC1jJmJHYquS4qK-qEtupJNsLZq0e9-Nk8TAOY4yLY7M/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-16%20at%2012.16.27%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="898" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsD5-liIPZmdp4k9n7vu6xhmeKg_lC6qBpKFic4zbE_Axk-jph5mISxAeGONXSakd8U4QeyhAcpLfizhvHRuG0-oy5sWDrcli1ibEGAXgtJmuZn3gbIKjXfiVsTNGQw7yLcm8zX4PjoXnTaWZxcC1jJmJHYquS4qK-qEtupJNsLZq0e9-Nk8TAOY4yLY7M/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-16%20at%2012.16.27%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE OMEN Year: 1976 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>What's a b-movie in a-list clothing, with fantastic widescreen photography and a cinematic hybrid of THE EXORCIST Cursed American Gothic and Adventurous Iraq sequences, the main problem of Richard Donner's THE OMEN is that legendary actor Gregory Peck is far too important to the story, leaving that demonic son-of-Satan more of a sporadic guest star than the lead of his very own feature...<br><br>While Linda Blair was interrupted by long stretches of dialogue between Ellen Burstyn and Jason Miller, their input served (and was combined with) her own particular situation... meanwhile, devilish-looking Harvey Stephens (hardly paying dues like Linda) is absent for too long a time, particularly as the second act morphs into the third...  <br></p><p><span></span></p>

billie whitelaw, david warner, franchise, gregory peck, holly palance, horror, lee remick, leo mckern, martin benson, patrick troughton, richard donner, seventies, thriller

GREGORY PECK FATHERS DEMONIC HARVEY STEPHENS IN 'THE OMEN'

Title: THE OMEN Year: 1976 Rating: **1/2 What's a b-movie in a-list clothing, with fantastic widescreen photography and a cinematic hybr...

ROBERT BLAKE COPPING THE COP CLASSIC 'ELECTRA GLIDE IN BLUE'

<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/AVvXsEjuk-bDsvzcI9-VPI05Sgzp4niDUp44OIjkOM3LK0NP6_9IsvlzSvUjTJFl3t986lkVzxOFS2pp29E2yQ5cphVqanwWgZH_H1lwFGWatDSpDB4Pr3r5AUZkDBPpKGO1dWonGoKKThnlt-nQcEiJw_UZF1WalMIrWiWEfrUxhGaC-CQgtaV6zvA6YKC_99Dd/s1806/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-07%20at%209.52.51%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="804" data-original-width="1806" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuk-bDsvzcI9-VPI05Sgzp4niDUp44OIjkOM3LK0NP6_9IsvlzSvUjTJFl3t986lkVzxOFS2pp29E2yQ5cphVqanwWgZH_H1lwFGWatDSpDB4Pr3r5AUZkDBPpKGO1dWonGoKKThnlt-nQcEiJw_UZF1WalMIrWiWEfrUxhGaC-CQgtaV6zvA6YKC_99Dd/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-07%20at%209.52.51%20PM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>title: ELECTRA GLIDE IN BLUE year: 1973 rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In 1973, cops got their very own EASY RIDER in ELECTRA GLIDE IN BLUE, both involving gorgeous, travelogue motorcycle rides past canyon horizons while the latter remains in one location — that seems eternal...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>As first-time director and cowboy movie lover James William Guercio... manager of the band Chicago... gets the best from Arizona's Monument Valley, where John Ford shot many John Wayne epics... </p><p><span></span></p>

action, billy green bush, cop, counter-culture, cult, mitchell ryan, modern western, nick nolte, robert blake, seventies

ROBERT BLAKE COPPING THE COP CLASSIC 'ELECTRA GLIDE IN BLUE'

title: ELECTRA GLIDE IN BLUE year: 1973 rating: ****1/2 In 1973, cops got their very own EASY RIDER in ELECTRA GLIDE IN BLUE, both involving...

ROBERT BLAKE CRASHING 'CORKY' WITH CHARLOTTE RAMPLING

<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/AVvXsEj7lgxk0T-1tTzi2tHTxWCNhvGgovy6-orNwAq4L5oB2hr8M9NWtJ6MkZUsX_dRqB_EMcPtMm5-VjIQFifs0G7-SEROyV-BEZmbwqj_CALmH9no5ZSc0oIoM4GmdDFwe_QaUc_VitrSp5RnpNN-7jVauAJlxtLeUNNP1UtdmHfIff0Ln4XEr-6y4j-bxuB0/s1556/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-06%20at%204.35.40%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="964" data-original-width="1556" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7lgxk0T-1tTzi2tHTxWCNhvGgovy6-orNwAq4L5oB2hr8M9NWtJ6MkZUsX_dRqB_EMcPtMm5-VjIQFifs0G7-SEROyV-BEZmbwqj_CALmH9no5ZSc0oIoM4GmdDFwe_QaUc_VitrSp5RnpNN-7jVauAJlxtLeUNNP1UtdmHfIff0Ln4XEr-6y4j-bxuB0/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-06%20at%204.35.40%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert Blake in CORKY Year: 1973 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>An early 1970's hybrid of small-town-dragster TWO LANE BLACKTOP, centering on two young motorheads rolling in a souped-up hot rod, and the exposition-through-flashback IN COLD BLOOD: as CORKY also stars Robert Blake, here as a spitfire Southerner yearning to become a stock car driving champion, before eventually getting lethal... <br><br>Which occurs in the last ten minutes, feeling more like the beginning of the final act instead of the entire movie's violent conclusion in what's an otherwise creatively-shot, open road exploitation where an intense and free-wheeling, strangely optimistic yet equally brooding Blake is surrounded by some topnotch actors...</p><p><span></span></p>

ben johnson, charlotte rampling, christopher connelly, exploitation, john gruber, laurence luckinbill, pamela payton-wright, patrick o'neal, race car, road movie, robert blake, seventies

ROBERT BLAKE CRASHING 'CORKY' WITH CHARLOTTE RAMPLING

Robert Blake in CORKY Year: 1973 Rating: ***1/2 An early 1970's hybrid of small-town-dragster TWO LANE BLACKTOP, centering on two young ...

NOIRISH JOHN SAXON FINGERS ROSEY GRIER WEARING 'THE GLOVE'

<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/AVvXsEgQRPgFap32KeVfLLgEk8cQQ2B541pzYCUy8Sp8IlxmrDGi_XzHRgNWLnnEVacv-B88m2yw3r2SkEFSPFUbza4mfza_AqA12jpR8TZo4vra5iDDrASgL81OW881jBuJ3TnmxP-y9cApr2J6BIQjGGQIEzUf_i_z9qIbYvYp_b9TZyE65bwqSJvJwihQMytG/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-09%20at%2010.53.51%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="938" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQRPgFap32KeVfLLgEk8cQQ2B541pzYCUy8Sp8IlxmrDGi_XzHRgNWLnnEVacv-B88m2yw3r2SkEFSPFUbza4mfza_AqA12jpR8TZo4vra5iDDrASgL81OW881jBuJ3TnmxP-y9cApr2J6BIQjGGQIEzUf_i_z9qIbYvYp_b9TZyE65bwqSJvJwihQMytG/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-09%20at%2010.53.51%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE GLOVE Year: 1979 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Ross Hagen's THE GLOVE seems like a latter blaxploitation that got away, opening with a song crooned in a bluesy/somber voice... and then opening with muscular white veteran actor Aldo Ray... <br><br>Who's just off work as prison guard, soon attacked in a parked car while a giant black man beats him to a bloody pulp with that titular riot glove... a steely device that can even punch through metal...  <br></p><p><span></span></p>

aldo ray, blaxploitation, bounty hunter, candace bowen, howard honig, jack carter, joan blondell, joanna cassidy, john saxon, michael pataki, neo noir, rosey grier, ross hagen, seventies

NOIRISH JOHN SAXON FINGERS ROSEY GRIER WEARING 'THE GLOVE'

Title: THE GLOVE Year: 1979 Rating: **** Ross Hagen's THE GLOVE seems like a latter blaxploitation that got away, opening with a song cr...

NORA MIAO, MING LIU AND JACKIE CHAN IN 'NEW FIST OF FURY'

<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/AVvXsEgGO00m2UyWfScVFGC0IS7ds4nyhzoiJ40mHPHxBvKJr8Q-wWzUiH8P5B6sc6CGv1XVlLmZmIR5jlESd3MhLjbmU3ROBt4Q8DtwVxF9swKaOfRBLOeudUqWWTgBr32stVM5w-NOBiY1YCj28qvrEIBFbZgApgiqaWtSn-vNDeOgVMtvI-iq-9b9MnX7ukie/s1638/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="936" data-original-width="1638" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGO00m2UyWfScVFGC0IS7ds4nyhzoiJ40mHPHxBvKJr8Q-wWzUiH8P5B6sc6CGv1XVlLmZmIR5jlESd3MhLjbmU3ROBt4Q8DtwVxF9swKaOfRBLOeudUqWWTgBr32stVM5w-NOBiY1YCj28qvrEIBFbZgApgiqaWtSn-vNDeOgVMtvI-iq-9b9MnX7ukie/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Nora Miao in NEW FIST OF FURY Year: 1976 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Adorable wide-eyed Asian beauty <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/nora%20miao">Nora Miao</a> appeared in all of Bruce Lee's Hong Kong movies before <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2024/12/enterdragon.html">ENTER THE DRAGON</a>... as a drink-stand owner in <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2026/03/bboss.html">THE BIG BOSS</a> progressed to a love interest in FIST OF FURY to an exposition-spouting ingenue in <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2026/03/rdragon.html">THE WAY OF THE DRAGON</a>, and she was even slated for a cameo in Lee's original concept of THE GAME OF DEATH... <br><br>Ironically, not only does she have a far more important part in what's basically a remake in THE NEW FIST OF FURY starring upcoming-fighter Jackie Chan, but she's actually the main character with the most overall screen-time, basically overseeing the familiar plot-line of a Chinese karate school's possible downfall after The Japanese take over Shanghai before the Second World War... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

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NORA MIAO, MING LIU AND JACKIE CHAN IN 'NEW FIST OF FURY'

Nora Miao in NEW FIST OF FURY Year: 1976 Rating: *** Adorable wide-eyed Asian beauty Nora Miao appeared in all of Bruce Lee's Hong Kong...

BRUCE LEE & NORA MIAO 'FIST OF FURY/THE CHINESE CONNECTION'

<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/AVvXsEh-PMHIYFlgYTmsRfI4ncsPGgCNTULtCgTUU6iWSsuKJnH_uANJiVL7OouQIZtuxoH7SUjh4CPE4hXe0iAohX7UF9rULb-UqNLHVvss9pfYOVjpygyT4McKk7TaA5R09Q-1NIK_TUeKSpvjf9hq_dSb-g3ZtU5E2rzmMEBe9eSiHGAWAWhmP0lY9zNYBQYn/s2036/Screen%20Shot%202026-03-30%20at%2011.42.22%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1028" data-original-width="2036" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-PMHIYFlgYTmsRfI4ncsPGgCNTULtCgTUU6iWSsuKJnH_uANJiVL7OouQIZtuxoH7SUjh4CPE4hXe0iAohX7UF9rULb-UqNLHVvss9pfYOVjpygyT4McKk7TaA5R09Q-1NIK_TUeKSpvjf9hq_dSb-g3ZtU5E2rzmMEBe9eSiHGAWAWhmP0lY9zNYBQYn/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-03-30%20at%2011.42.22%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Bruce Lee in FIST OF FURY/THE CHINESE CONNECTION Year: 1972 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In FIST OF FURY aka THE CHINESE CONNECTION, composer Richard Loo's Spaghetti Western style chanting soundtrack (with tense cues from Johnny Keating's <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/09/AR.html">ROBBERY</a>) leads to the polar opposite of Bruce Lee's first feature <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2026/03/bboss.html">THE BIG BOSS</a> (ironically re-titled FIST OF FURY in America): there he's calm and passive until being pushed into fighting while here, right off the bat, he feverishly attacks a coffin...<br><br>There's also a tremendous progression of aesthetics: the previous vehicle's a shoddy/rural low-budget modern-western while FURY is both plushly stylistic and genre stylized, taking place within either cool Asian-designed interiors or the kind of nighttime film-noir atmosphere when Lee's sneaking around, attempting to keep Japanese gangsters (having just occupied pre-WW2 Shanghai) from shutting down his master's multi-tiered dojo...</p>

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BRUCE LEE & NORA MIAO 'FIST OF FURY/THE CHINESE CONNECTION'

Bruce Lee in FIST OF FURY/THE CHINESE CONNECTION Year: 1972 Rating: ****1/2 In FIST OF FURY aka THE CHINESE CONNECTION, composer Richard Loo...