PETER SELLERS AND LYNNE FREDERICK IN 'THE PRISONER OF ZENDA'

<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/AVvXsEh1jx1bOiwLlwzgLlBJaFm1HGMy57bM1Iy4GT7Bu1esMNCr-KYYosbYJFTawRVcddR7Gt9A4xHudvPvk07tSz1DTcVjTOlpEHwMVf_vWumoRU8VhgH81WaLbgvhl_QL0BfoWOWgMAp8_hIdEAORxAfm7KSsAB0r-mG2mDXLVa3hILrRM7Kt9rpqEnv_wapU/s2734/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-03%20at%207.57.37%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1394" data-original-width="2734" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1jx1bOiwLlwzgLlBJaFm1HGMy57bM1Iy4GT7Bu1esMNCr-KYYosbYJFTawRVcddR7Gt9A4xHudvPvk07tSz1DTcVjTOlpEHwMVf_vWumoRU8VhgH81WaLbgvhl_QL0BfoWOWgMAp8_hIdEAORxAfm7KSsAB0r-mG2mDXLVa3hILrRM7Kt9rpqEnv_wapU/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-03%20at%207.57.37%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lynne Frederick in THE PRISONER OF ZENDA Year: 1979 Rating: **</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>While it had been decades since the two Golden Age adaptations of the literary classic THE PRISONER OF ZENDA, it had only been four-years since the otherwise unrelated ROYAL FLASH borrowed the exact same plot-line, with Malcolm McDowell as a prince's lookalike marrying a gorgeous princess played by Britt Ekland...<br><br>Who was Peter Sellers' second wife, and his first Hollywood trophy wife while Lynne Frederick, his third (and final) marriage, plays the exact same role as the chastely oblivious royal bride...  <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><span></span></p>

adaptation, adventure, catherine schell, comedy, elke sommer, graham stark, lionel jeffries, lynne frederick, peter sellers, seventies, stuart wilson, time-period

PETER SELLERS AND LYNNE FREDERICK IN 'THE PRISONER OF ZENDA'

Lynne Frederick in THE PRISONER OF ZENDA Year: 1979 Rating: ** While it had been decades since the two Golden Age adaptations of the literar...

JOHN THAW IN 'THE SWEENEY: ABDUCTION" WITH STUART WILSON

<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/AVvXsEilIGKWnY8SOzb8DjrvPwtvqFOPJalpH1VbPDXejrznsm7rx1c9qXvuTYG6jKSuzv2faMm-jDZGIYYfrNjxieVlIuqDNIb-rSQhU7ewjspUgLvgbnC0vVU4n3iH50w3oGodQwAQIjoWn-72-NCtWlv54-bW8pKewnN1Flk4lv37QyOYqth9CIc2LNLGuJUq/s1395/Screen%20Shot%202023-10-11%20at%201.16.16%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="762" data-original-width="1395" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilIGKWnY8SOzb8DjrvPwtvqFOPJalpH1VbPDXejrznsm7rx1c9qXvuTYG6jKSuzv2faMm-jDZGIYYfrNjxieVlIuqDNIb-rSQhU7ewjspUgLvgbnC0vVU4n3iH50w3oGodQwAQIjoWn-72-NCtWlv54-bW8pKewnN1Flk4lv37QyOYqth9CIc2LNLGuJUq/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-10-11%20at%201.16.16%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Stuart Wilson and Janet Key in THE SWEENEY: ABDUCTION Year: 1975 Rates: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>John Thaw's Inspector Regan is the kind of sex symbol that could only derive from the British 1970's... and while resembling the devil-head from the William Shatner roadside-cafe fortune-machine TWILIGHT ZONE, he's never at a loss for sexy birds, who usually simply throw themselves at him... </p><p></p><p></p><p>Yet sometimes settling for somewhat plain ones, that actually fit him aesthetically and realistically over the bombshells... so here's a middle-ground in ABDUCTION as we meet his first wife, having been divorced before the series began, and young daughter, befitting the titular plot-line of kidnapping...<br></p><p><span></span></p>

action, british, cop, dennis waterman, janet key, john thaw, kidnapping, seventies, stuart wilson, sweeney

JOHN THAW IN 'THE SWEENEY: ABDUCTION" WITH STUART WILSON

Stuart Wilson and Janet Key in THE SWEENEY: ABDUCTION Year: 1975 Rates: ***1/2 John Thaw's Inspector Regan is the kind of sex symbol tha...

EDGAR WRIGHT & SIMON PEGG'S BUDDY COP HOMAGE 'HOT FUZZ'

<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/AVvXsEjInrVZYBgF3BsIazIaIM8lMo5_PEAE_qyA7tlQxYczAKPJnSKUi4_9FyB6FehAQVbWdjJgjYi75T4gfRhljNu4Wy6BnQsb9LdI5cTGe0S_MEt9LB7MYviGEZYldGqOA8ammYtkMSm3WJofUIqhbPyRJv27CiTG_Zq4Yp8atTKIMlAlE_qp0hSUfcksyA/s1713/0.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="737" data-original-width="1713" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjInrVZYBgF3BsIazIaIM8lMo5_PEAE_qyA7tlQxYczAKPJnSKUi4_9FyB6FehAQVbWdjJgjYi75T4gfRhljNu4Wy6BnQsb9LdI5cTGe0S_MEt9LB7MYviGEZYldGqOA8ammYtkMSm3WJofUIqhbPyRJv27CiTG_Zq4Yp8atTKIMlAlE_qp0hSUfcksyA/s16000/0.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Simon Pegg and Nick Frost in Edgar Wright's HOT FUZZ Year: 2007 Rating: *****</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p>After British director Edgar Wright and his leading man and writing partner Simon Pegg scored with the zombie comedy SHAUN OF THE DEAD, it was time for straight-out action that, while also loaded with hijinks, takes the cop genre more seriously, especially Pegg's against-type performance as a tough guy instead of the usual shrugging slacker from DEAD and before that he and Wright's pop-culture-referencing sit-com, SPACED...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And there are even more nostalgic homages here as HOT FUZZ is a mega-satire on mainstream American buddy-cop flicks ranging from LETHAL WEAPON to POINT BREAK... and for the British it's loaded with iconic cult actors of that country's more cerebral crime genre past...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, bill nighy, billie whitelaw, buddy, cop, cornetto trilogy, edgar wright, edward woodward, nick frost, rural, satire, simon pegg, stuart wilson, timothy dalton, zeroes

EDGAR WRIGHT & SIMON PEGG'S BUDDY COP HOMAGE 'HOT FUZZ'

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost in Edgar Wright's HOT FUZZ Year: 2007 Rating: ***** After British director Edgar Wright and his leading man an...

RAY LIOTTA VS STUART WILSON IN 'NO ESCAPE' WITH ERNIE HUDSON

<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/AVvXsEh70fXoT4QMcnRii_a3Eb_hDbXhf1tumHHpn4gIyQtsvY_PTpcLZlfnHTzPbn82LHRU1KvUzMCZ9Urnnf06HVp7ETYoLW6Kv9P3o8AKiySuz1TXw9fvca6dA0wnplSC1VNY7bhtCmP7dEp8AAHgEozhOaJwOJb7Vtdek_yTiFefBSbcFbDqwU0sQw8qHry6/s2634/Screen%20Shot%202025-08-30%20at%2010.44.08%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1154" data-original-width="2634" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh70fXoT4QMcnRii_a3Eb_hDbXhf1tumHHpn4gIyQtsvY_PTpcLZlfnHTzPbn82LHRU1KvUzMCZ9Urnnf06HVp7ETYoLW6Kv9P3o8AKiySuz1TXw9fvca6dA0wnplSC1VNY7bhtCmP7dEp8AAHgEozhOaJwOJb7Vtdek_yTiFefBSbcFbDqwU0sQw8qHry6/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-08-30%20at%2010.44.08%20PM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: NO ESCAPE Year: 1994 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>An action-packed b-movie that takes itself way too seriously, which is what makes NO ESCAPE great fun as Ray Liotta's only in an actual Fascist-future prison for a brief time, ironic since it's a prison-genre flick but taking place on a penal island like PAPILLON following the survival rules and ragged costume design of THE ROAD WARRIOR...<br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Genuinely cool and fit, Liotta is, of course, the toughest and strongest and a completely handy stranger in a fortress world run by a passive yet formidable Lance Henriksen, polar opposite of British actor Stuart Wilson ruling the woodsy outskirts, whose insanely overboard, monologue-spouting dictator makes Dennis Hopper's WATERWORLD performance seem tame (and all but drowns out the prison's computer-monitor-monitoring warden Michael Lerner)... </p><p><span></span></p>

action, ernie hudson, escape, ian mcneice, kevin dillon, lance henriksen, nineties, prison, ray liotta, stuart wilson

RAY LIOTTA VS STUART WILSON IN 'NO ESCAPE' WITH ERNIE HUDSON

Title: NO ESCAPE Year: 1994 Rating: ***1/2 An action-packed b-movie that takes itself way too seriously, which is what makes NO ESCAPE great...