SUE LYON IN STANLEY KUBRICK'S 'LOLITA' WITH JAMES MASON

<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/AVvXsEjGUf3zkX7S6hWRTiVXI36Vv792O1AB3QO7XuNS20rC8zvtcimMd36j6OoX57qPLe12u1dEnzILK20anUmvirhUU-lKgPEb-Ri-hsQ8lWxWAA5aWeMgLAmYvdv5zxqprI83Okm-puM4WhLbnEOC18qbE8vfEHSVqRzssW-FBwF6UFCiPHzUy5BE2nVJ9fwe/s1616/Screen%20Shot%202025-06-22%20at%204.10.49%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="918" data-original-width="1616" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGUf3zkX7S6hWRTiVXI36Vv792O1AB3QO7XuNS20rC8zvtcimMd36j6OoX57qPLe12u1dEnzILK20anUmvirhUU-lKgPEb-Ri-hsQ8lWxWAA5aWeMgLAmYvdv5zxqprI83Okm-puM4WhLbnEOC18qbE8vfEHSVqRzssW-FBwF6UFCiPHzUy5BE2nVJ9fwe/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-06-22%20at%204.10.49%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Peter Sellers with Marianne Stone and Sue Lyon in Stanley Kubrick's LOLITA Year: 1962 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Between Stanley Kubrick's financial gig on Kirk Douglas's epic SPARTACUS and the immense Cold War dark comedy DR. STRANGELOVE is the subtle yet brilliant LOLITA, perhaps his most conventionally filmed and least visually offbeat since the storyline takes care of all that... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Middle-aged British college professor James Mason falls for the titular Sue Lyon, whose mom, Shelley Winters, bounces around a suburban East Coast dream house, stealing all the first act scenes in what feels like a short film in itself... </p><p><span></span></p>

dark comedy, exploitation, james mason, jazz score, jerry stovin, marianne stone, peter sellers, road movie, shelley winters, sixties, stanley kubrick, sue lyon

SUE LYON IN STANLEY KUBRICK'S 'LOLITA' WITH JAMES MASON

Peter Sellers with Marianne Stone and Sue Lyon in Stanley Kubrick's LOLITA Year: 1962 Rating: **** Between Stanley Kubrick's financi...

SUE LYON KILLING STANLEY KUBRICK FOR 'MURDER IN A BLUE WORLD'

<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/AVvXsEjot_Odp27lljTweiXqTMtjblemU53eYGW3wN0GVVJ2P9ITMvBqg1ClpzDlgatF6M3qrAN5CeyY82F51omFOwh45KtVl4OAFvz9EK7EQpkuveEo749H3m-sBfZRm8M3jvYzqVRMtJAxWCyCSbBsknzxjJcRCdCWgTRDbP7_MWT-uaa5ncCBsIxojuo8GDvy/s1476/Screen%20Shot%202025-03-27%20at%2012.43.56%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="812" data-original-width="1476" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjot_Odp27lljTweiXqTMtjblemU53eYGW3wN0GVVJ2P9ITMvBqg1ClpzDlgatF6M3qrAN5CeyY82F51omFOwh45KtVl4OAFvz9EK7EQpkuveEo749H3m-sBfZRm8M3jvYzqVRMtJAxWCyCSbBsknzxjJcRCdCWgTRDbP7_MWT-uaa5ncCBsIxojuo8GDvy/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-03-27%20at%2012.43.56%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sue Lyon in MURDER IN A BLUE WORLD Year: 1973 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>On the surface, Spanish low-budget director Eloy de la Iglesia's MURDER IN A BLUE WORLD is set in a future where young gangs are directly influenced by Stanley Kubrick's A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, and speed around pulling off home invasions almost exactly like that movie, banned in Europe during this time...</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>Meanwhile, handsome doctor Jean Sorel is experimenting on a way to shock criminals into submission to become normal citizens, also like the Kubrick classic, one of his most controversial since LOLITA...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, alfredo alba, charly bravo, christopher mitchum, exploitation, import, jean sorel, ramón pons, seventies, spanish, sue lyon

SUE LYON KILLING STANLEY KUBRICK FOR 'MURDER IN A BLUE WORLD'

Sue Lyon in MURDER IN A BLUE WORLD Year: 1973 Rating: *** On the surface, Spanish low-budget director Eloy de la Iglesia's MURDER IN A ...

SUE LYON & JENNIFER ASHLEY IN 'TOWING' WITH JOE MANTENGA

<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/AVvXsEhrETL0QIEGoH2P1wMZjX_GmR4IBZoiiDBInRtBuM64W4xe30JuYkpdMeHi-xXB8YYr8Th_xXiFoOSisr-kV_Ba2qVWRPTjR0dUuXZDc83uZfJWwgqlvvo2fvqQqVr2WaAclPyQs9JTZ6jdMKvGS9fC3xXP3aPWm5acYQgsMxqi64Z5TSmEHFAxbxDBaHoG/s1866/Screen%20Shot%202025-08-07%20at%205.03.22%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1068" data-original-width="1866" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrETL0QIEGoH2P1wMZjX_GmR4IBZoiiDBInRtBuM64W4xe30JuYkpdMeHi-xXB8YYr8Th_xXiFoOSisr-kV_Ba2qVWRPTjR0dUuXZDc83uZfJWwgqlvvo2fvqQqVr2WaAclPyQs9JTZ6jdMKvGS9fC3xXP3aPWm5acYQgsMxqi64Z5TSmEHFAxbxDBaHoG/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-08-07%20at%205.03.22%20PM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jennifer Ashley and Sue Lyon verses J.J. Johnston in TOWING Year: 1978 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>Before calling it quits after <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/09/sue-lyon-swan-song.html">ALLIGATOR</a>, Sue Lyon starred alongside Jennifer Ashley in what was once the Holy Grail of the former Lolita's low-budget 1970's flicks, finally coexisting with <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/09/evelyon.html">EVEL KNIEVEL</a>, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/09/sue-lyon-tarot.html">TAROT</a>, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/09/clockwork-lolita.html">MURDER IN A BLUE WORLD</a>, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/09/sue-lyon-crash.html">CRASH!</a>, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2018/09/AssFactor.html">THE ASTRAL FACTOR</a>, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/09/LYON-i5.html">SMASH-UP ON INTERSTATE  5</a> and <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2015/12/lyon-end-of-world.html">END OF THE WORLD</a>...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Her penultimate feature TOWING is a low-budget street-set sex-comedy influenced by CAR WASH, with a similar funky theme playing from beginning to end, starring Ashley and Lyon as barmaid besties... </p><p><span></span></p>

bobby di cici, cult, drive-in, exploitation, indie, jennifer ashley, joe mantenga, seventies, sue lyon

SUE LYON & JENNIFER ASHLEY IN 'TOWING' WITH JOE MANTENGA

Jennifer Ashley and Sue Lyon verses J.J. Johnston in TOWING Year: 1978 Rating: *** Before calling it quits after ALLIGATOR , Sue Lyon starre...

JOHN HUSTON DIRECTS SUE LYON IN 'THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoOpKaO4LReSnsqVXzmbPkAC6HO3f0wjTk4fk3b3GExTDEWVzlnVn5u_gxoT42jF25iVHC1NmvbRxehEZuaZ0tTv-3AlKXK_LGzaOGG6JkoQNPgHPeYHnEG1_EVkoB-qblvlG0v1EEjr-Y/s1600/zz.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1012" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoOpKaO4LReSnsqVXzmbPkAC6HO3f0wjTk4fk3b3GExTDEWVzlnVn5u_gxoT42jF25iVHC1NmvbRxehEZuaZ0tTv-3AlKXK_LGzaOGG6JkoQNPgHPeYHnEG1_EVkoB-qblvlG0v1EEjr-Y/s1600/zz.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Skip Ward aka James Ward with Sue Lyon in THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA Year: 1964 Rating: ***</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> "I'm sick of dark old churches... I like sunshine," says Sue Lyon to Richard Burton, as a young LOLITA style temptress to a fallen preacher (who keeps falling, and seems content falling), who takes the girl and a group of old ladies — headed by a bitter and vengeful Grayson Hall — on a bus trip to Mexico where, instead of the promised air-conditioned city hotel, they're deliberately derailed to a rural mountainside lodge owned by an independent and experienced Ava Gardner...<br> <span class="caption"><br></span> <span class="caption">This where most of the story takes place after starting out an eclectic road movie </span><span class="caption">as Lyon's flirty tease Charlotte Goodall can't stop getting </span><span class="caption"><span class="caption">Burton's  Rev. Dr. T. Lawrence Shannon</span> in trouble...</span><br>

ava gardner, based-on-play, deborah kerr, drama, exploitation, grayson hall, john huston, mexico, richard burton, skip ward, sue lyon, tennessee williams

JOHN HUSTON DIRECTS SUE LYON IN 'THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA'

Skip Ward aka James Ward with Sue Lyon in THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA Year: 1964 Rating: *** "I'm sick of dark old churches... I li...

FRANK SINATRA WITH RICHARD CONTE & SUE LYON IN 'TONY ROME'

<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/AVvXsEiLOywmxjrBeKdPn4Ckt2WYd9tNI2H2YHD-4V8TRMIwRr5s18So2jYfOaaCQi4aUsXbOHYg8f60FyuMYCqJFIMPgDLHBi-d_YK6L1UVcMsKG3wqcooOltH2-6eRlDemaOT9IRFADIIw79yNCg9rhJk2NbfV5NkXpbAyQjP429eT1t99anBFM6GzRh1lSdnv/s1626/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-15%20at%204.24.04%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="864" data-original-width="1626" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLOywmxjrBeKdPn4Ckt2WYd9tNI2H2YHD-4V8TRMIwRr5s18So2jYfOaaCQi4aUsXbOHYg8f60FyuMYCqJFIMPgDLHBi-d_YK6L1UVcMsKG3wqcooOltH2-6eRlDemaOT9IRFADIIw79yNCg9rhJk2NbfV5NkXpbAyQjP429eT1t99anBFM6GzRh1lSdnv/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-15%20at%204.24.04%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Frank Sinatra with Richard Conte in TONY ROME Year: 1967 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Frank Sinatra's daughter Nancy's bouncy title song for TONY ROME misleadingly promises a character causing mothers to lock up their daughters — when in fact the only dame in danger is heart of gold "slut" Jill St. John, one of the most contrived femme fatale types in the history of Film Noir, or in this case, Neo Noir cinema...<br> <br> Seeming like a sexy daydreamed wraith created solely to share parenthetical scenes with — and pretending to be only somewhat interested in when she's really wildly crazy about — our smug anti-hero private dick, whose gambling addiction is as idle and secondhand as the gumshoe plot with its mazy ups-and-downs while prominently featuring the gorgeous Miami, Florida in its groovy 1960's heyday...<br> </p><p></p>

frank sinatra, gumshoe, jeffrey lynn, jill st. john, neo noir, private eye, richard conte, sixties, sue lyon, thriller, tiffany bolling, tony rome

FRANK SINATRA WITH RICHARD CONTE & SUE LYON IN 'TONY ROME'

Frank Sinatra with Richard Conte in TONY ROME Year: 1967 Rating: ***1/2 Frank Sinatra's daughter Nancy's bouncy title song for TONY...

LOVELY, LYRICAL, LILTING SUE LYON FANTASY MEMORIAL TRIBUTE

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh3Vk0cXbPGqF92k6DrDRVB5aPg1p9lYgm41V1HWva9-ULM1JeQvmgdbjLUwt-EUpNSs11YIfeyuAcmQzRGZS3FkTpAGaSNSQ8ah-jcoGX7_NDREZyzY5AW3E0_9QwoWmWYgaai7ICUw9e/s1600/Screen+Shot+2019-12-28+at+1.25.21+AM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1216" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh3Vk0cXbPGqF92k6DrDRVB5aPg1p9lYgm41V1HWva9-ULM1JeQvmgdbjLUwt-EUpNSs11YIfeyuAcmQzRGZS3FkTpAGaSNSQ8ah-jcoGX7_NDREZyzY5AW3E0_9QwoWmWYgaai7ICUw9e/s1600/Screen+Shot+2019-12-28+at+1.25.21+AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Michele Lee, Sue Lyon and Hilarie Thompson on FANTASY ISLAND Year: 1978</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> We learned about the death of this site's patron starlet SUE LYON only minutes ago: She's an actress featured quite extensively here on Cult Film Freak, and unlike most sites, her later, more obscure drive-in exploitation flicks are what's mostly covered here...<br> <br> As of the tail-end of 2019 (she died December 26th), there isn't even a LOLITA review, the titular role that made her famous, or her other temptress turn in THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA, flirting with another iconic British actor, Richard Burton, after having pretty much killed her faithfully perverse step-dad James Mason in the Stanley Kubrick classic... <br>

drama, fantasy, hilarie thompson, michele lee, pamela franklin, seventies, sue lyon, tribute, TV

LOVELY, LYRICAL, LILTING SUE LYON FANTASY MEMORIAL TRIBUTE

Michele Lee, Sue Lyon and Hilarie Thompson on FANTASY ISLAND Year: 1978 We learned about the death of this site's patron starlet SUE...

SUE LYON RIDES W/ GEORGE HAMILTON PLAYING 'EVEL KNIEVEL'

<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/AVvXsEjsTYl9aszZ-gDXnwTQBcjrvuT5X-CfYxacD9rHo-5FHy5xS3A8t5AQtxmpxplncxNLY-udITyEQfTnb_GFZc0_Tgl53q2qVM2pYcXYec3RXHjXSNyVnRQ_wv8UV6n3oreLUxTQMId1R_WI/s1600/0.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="288" data-original-width="378" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsTYl9aszZ-gDXnwTQBcjrvuT5X-CfYxacD9rHo-5FHy5xS3A8t5AQtxmpxplncxNLY-udITyEQfTnb_GFZc0_Tgl53q2qVM2pYcXYec3RXHjXSNyVnRQ_wv8UV6n3oreLUxTQMId1R_WI/s400/0.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sue Lyon sits by her man George Hamilton as Evel Knievel YEAR: 1970</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> It's hard to believe that tan man George Hamilton playing Evel Knievel would turn out working pretty good, and, despite the sub-par quality releases — from an online stream where every frame looks like a last known photo, or a myriad of public domain discs in bargain bins — this simple and sparse biopic tells its story quite well, beginning with the titular motorcycle stunt king about to make the jump of his career...<br> <br> We see Knievel's life in several long flashbacks, creatively weaving (upon narration) from the central venue's groovy waiting room where Sue Lyon as wife Linda waits faithfully and patiently by his side, and somehow this makes their initial schoolgirl-meets-leather-jacket-hood courtship seem more important: even though we know she'll eventually melt to his coolness, they have warm and relaxing chemistry with each other <i>and</i> the audience. Neither try too hard to play their real life counterparts: not an easy task when the subjects are still alive, and relevant. <br>

action, biker, biopic, exploitation, george hamilton, marvin j. chomsky, ron masak, seventies, sport, sue lyon

SUE LYON RIDES W/ GEORGE HAMILTON PLAYING 'EVEL KNIEVEL'

Sue Lyon sits by her man George Hamilton as Evel Knievel YEAR: 1970 It's hard to believe that tan man George Hamilton playing Evel K...

LATER 'ALLIGATOR' SUE LYON & OTHER CAREER SCREEN CAPTURES

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdurMP-nv1QE_26iYwReiBdJKyVlD2V5Uy2uPK6QOzeCFFCchg4MblZWTJFRXgs4AnkbZq5fSmElWSLCJ7tyx7I_AwidYw8irPBBKsJWs_wvYXovnqan0niVYBhF4HB-dIurisdYBzxjXA/s1600/Screen+Shot+2019-09-07+at+1.15.25+PM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1140" data-original-width="1354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdurMP-nv1QE_26iYwReiBdJKyVlD2V5Uy2uPK6QOzeCFFCchg4MblZWTJFRXgs4AnkbZq5fSmElWSLCJ7tyx7I_AwidYw8irPBBKsJWs_wvYXovnqan0niVYBhF4HB-dIurisdYBzxjXA/s1600/Screen+Shot+2019-09-07+at+1.15.25+PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sue Lyon as an NBC Newscaster in Lewis Teague's cult classic ALLIGATOR Year: 1980</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <span style="color: #0c343d;">The lovely Sue Lyon, famous for playing the steamy teen in Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of LOLITA, turns up as a newscaster along with Henry Silva, who tells her "You're very pretty" in the creature-feature classic ALLIGATOR in 1980, which was her last role. So let's take a look at some of her other roles...</span><br>

actress, creature, eighties, exploitation, henry silva, seventies, sixties, sue lyon

LATER 'ALLIGATOR' SUE LYON & OTHER CAREER SCREEN CAPTURES

Sue Lyon as an NBC Newscaster in Lewis Teague's cult classic ALLIGATOR Year: 1980 The lovely Sue Lyon, famous for playing the steam...

SUE LYON JOINS GEORGE C. SCOTT IN 'THE FLIM-FLAM MAN'

<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/AVvXsEi1u0aYAe41rTt83ZH-soxMSaj-k9jmQic8f4YpoYbv2ijIuLqEhgeHA-t0xYDBx2RTmOqwfYzW4_bXEgYIQCXnEg-8cw_h93aAkYtjsV6mvUTUonWAk005Wmo9LG96fqm1bfICSrws-8CC/s1600/Screen+Shot+2019-09-07+at+6.16.25+AM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1082" data-original-width="1235" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1u0aYAe41rTt83ZH-soxMSaj-k9jmQic8f4YpoYbv2ijIuLqEhgeHA-t0xYDBx2RTmOqwfYzW4_bXEgYIQCXnEg-8cw_h93aAkYtjsV6mvUTUonWAk005Wmo9LG96fqm1bfICSrws-8CC/s400/Screen+Shot+2019-09-07+at+6.16.25+AM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sue Lyon in The Flim-Flam Man Year: 1967 Rating: ***</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Fun, frolicking depression-era adventure about a famous (or infamous) charlatan who travels around conning people along the way...<br> <br> He meets young naive drifter Michael Sarrazin, who learns the ins-and-outs of rambling-trickery and being one step ahead of the law: which includes Harry Morgan and Albert Salmi as frustrated backwoods cops.<br> <div> <br> The somewhat contrived, stagey dialogue can be corny, the jovial music a bit intrusive and forboding but because of Irwin Kershner's action-paced direction, the characters, and storyline, are delivered smoothly from one location to the next. LOLITA Sue Lyon has a small but significant role as one of the victims who turns into a love interest for Sarrazin, as he realizes the fleeting life might not be for him. And George C. Scott, constantly jutting his chin, seems to be doing an old man imitation, but its an endearingly memorable character no less.<br> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzv0ENvABYHWL7WuTWtFX8y7OaeS2eyjh1RxHriFgtZzYG9-8aQoXy7fmUDJ9N0_niP2Psk4fOEBj3028DLP9wdKsU-QllLtge_BvFbJ0KGMoWzYOqTm1BHSjkF77FxmN_EZLZO5ZBEJvm/s1600/Screen+Shot+2019-09-07+at+5.31.07+AM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1048" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzv0ENvABYHWL7WuTWtFX8y7OaeS2eyjh1RxHriFgtZzYG9-8aQoXy7fmUDJ9N0_niP2Psk4fOEBj3028DLP9wdKsU-QllLtge_BvFbJ0KGMoWzYOqTm1BHSjkF77FxmN_EZLZO5ZBEJvm/s1600/Screen+Shot+2019-09-07+at+5.31.07+AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sue Lyon and Alice Ghostly in THE FLIM-FLAM MAN</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> </div>

adventure, con man, depression-era, george c. scott, irvin kershner, michael sarrazin, road movie, sixties, sue lyon

SUE LYON JOINS GEORGE C. SCOTT IN 'THE FLIM-FLAM MAN'

Sue Lyon in The Flim-Flam Man Year: 1967 Rating: *** Fun, frolicking depression-era adventure about a famous (or infamous) charlatan w...

SUE LYON 'MURDER IN A BLUE WORLD' AKA 'CLOCKWORK TERROR'

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <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/AVvXsEhPGq70QKaqie7kuiA0PsEzf0x9oX4rDH0bUusAsJWfkJLgTm666YN5Xz2tfpD6uckR55XqpoF71vrQOU_wIdxI2MTjkZC0kzHDSYpt5dTH_N7t8bi4NAnbaLOMHA0SUt-BizDfs_8iHBHQ/s1600/70690590_778636325898879_842140394077552640_n.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="535" data-original-width="894" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPGq70QKaqie7kuiA0PsEzf0x9oX4rDH0bUusAsJWfkJLgTm666YN5Xz2tfpD6uckR55XqpoF71vrQOU_wIdxI2MTjkZC0kzHDSYpt5dTH_N7t8bi4NAnbaLOMHA0SUt-BizDfs_8iHBHQ/s400/70690590_778636325898879_842140394077552640_n.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sue Lyon goes deadly in CLOCKWORK TERROR Year: 1973</u></td></tr> </tbody></table><p>Beware of this film that considers itself an Italian A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, ironically starring Stanley Kubrick's LOLITA, Sue Lyon, as an enigmatic, bizarre yet seemingly classy nurse set in the future where young people drink a blue liquid and go on killing sprees (Robert's son Christopher Mitchum is amongst the bedlam)...<br> <br> The film itself mentions A CLOCKWORK ORANGE on a news story, which is supposed to make it seem as if the violent society of the film itself is so into the controversial cult phenomenon that they're imitating it. A weak yet creative enough ploy to make it seem as if it's not a blatant ripoff. It's bad, bad, bad, and then some. Also known as TO LOVE, PERHAPS TO DIE or CLOCKWORK TERROR, DEAD ANGEL and in Germany, SATANSBRUT, which sounds like what Lucifer wears on first dates. it's best to instead check out END OF THE WORLD co-starring Christopher Lee for better Sue Lyon futuristic science-fiction thriller exploitation flick. It's bad, but at least, original.<br> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_Mq_AyG8L2-TvAJGoRNwZgKxzQCozv7HhUFlmS7sft6RojO2t6mbvO-Bdy-xDyeUUEPBZ__xwgz50aFfPSVzNkBygBjao2oGMrDSD74lACsEU31EIdbwMKO7Bq5lb71jVe5biATl_msFt/s1600/70625744_778636202565558_5037809523662782464_n.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="560" data-original-width="938" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_Mq_AyG8L2-TvAJGoRNwZgKxzQCozv7HhUFlmS7sft6RojO2t6mbvO-Bdy-xDyeUUEPBZ__xwgz50aFfPSVzNkBygBjao2oGMrDSD74lACsEU31EIdbwMKO7Bq5lb71jVe5biATl_msFt/s1600/70625744_778636202565558_5037809523662782464_n.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sue Lyon in Murder in a Blue World i.e. Clockwork Terror i.e. To Love, Perhaps to Die</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDCdCr5lh_fxRCQ6lnqL3qzJ7wgeYLz0Sjpuagedrd-QIkDHa0sRpGJq6n8vZzzL7tJr5YHAR5jJ_EnFLI7bvFvm0gTa-w9pDqas8LiwS469QfZvD7jAKmL-DOmC5EASsSuwna2YRjM5G8/s1600/69701425_778636209232224_4267049239776854016_n.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="508" data-original-width="849" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDCdCr5lh_fxRCQ6lnqL3qzJ7wgeYLz0Sjpuagedrd-QIkDHa0sRpGJq6n8vZzzL7tJr5YHAR5jJ_EnFLI7bvFvm0gTa-w9pDqas8LiwS469QfZvD7jAKmL-DOmC5EASsSuwna2YRjM5G8/s1600/69701425_778636209232224_4267049239776854016_n.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sue Lyon in Murder in a Blue World i.e. Clockwork Terror i.e. To Love, Perhaps to Die</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div>

christopher mitchum, cult, exploitation, import, science-fiction, seventies, sue lyon, thriller

SUE LYON 'MURDER IN A BLUE WORLD' AKA 'CLOCKWORK TERROR'

Sue Lyon goes deadly in CLOCKWORK TERROR Year: 1973 Beware of this film that considers itself an Italian A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, ironicall...

SUE LYON AND ROBERT CONRAD IN 'SMASH-UP ON INTERSTATE 5'

<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/AVvXsEg2BR5qmbSriMDGrEy2lPvR3kpTl2zHncpU8Pe7QpObUw_LMGaF5sP4wNxIDRD3Rm8oMue6tDDeHxI67u1BqyOrrY5tkxA2AjLnypGPpwNeB9Soi9ycmnsUIQtqZC03-t0FByBkf5ZMKwrW1BP9EI9lbbW4xIEFtHBHoTp-Qvz5CB_su93k4zxEQ32NXg/s769/Screen%20Shot%202023-02-19%20at%206.15.21%20AM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="511" data-original-width="769" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2BR5qmbSriMDGrEy2lPvR3kpTl2zHncpU8Pe7QpObUw_LMGaF5sP4wNxIDRD3Rm8oMue6tDDeHxI67u1BqyOrrY5tkxA2AjLnypGPpwNeB9Soi9ycmnsUIQtqZC03-t0FByBkf5ZMKwrW1BP9EI9lbbW4xIEFtHBHoTp-Qvz5CB_su93k4zxEQ32NXg/w400-h266/Screen%20Shot%202023-02-19%20at%206.15.21%20AM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sue Lyon has a king of beer on Interstate 5 in 1978</u></td></tr></tbody></table>The TV-Movie SMASH-UP ON INTERSTATE 5 beat SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER to the double boogie perspective by one full year; the camera spinning around while two people dance. To disco, no less: Enter PSYCHO co-star Vera Miles as Erica, newly divorced and reluctantly part of the singles nightlife, being romanced by creepy Herb Edelman and she wants none of it...<br> <br> Other stories evolve from and head towards that inevitable crash on the mountainous region of (Southern) California's Interstate 5: Starting out with the catastrophe's onset as the rest of the movie, dictated by typed title cards beginning 24 hours earlier, follow various plotlines – many, like the one just mentioned involving Miles and an eventual romance with a younger man, David Groh, are of the soap operatic nature...<br>

biker, buddy ebsen, cindy daly, cop, disaster, donna miles, ensemble, robert conrad, ronald jacoby, seventies, sue lyon, tommy lee jones, tv movie, vera miles

SUE LYON AND ROBERT CONRAD IN 'SMASH-UP ON INTERSTATE 5'

Sue Lyon has a king of beer on Interstate 5 in 1978 The TV-Movie SMASH-UP ON INTERSTATE 5 beat SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER to the double boogie per...

SUE LYON IN 'TAROT' AKA 'THE MAGICIAN' WITH FERNANDO REY

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNaMeTObpLc744-OMdDO1qfbh7RuRxBO9igBzZFAlYud0J73jGPtVC98YvCOngQMctQ8UVWn8JnEixNaZ5F4tXJ5uyYm8GIlT0dCzdLA5_r-cFiQO2vYcU2mzAJk21AmTj6zMYPiBvphM8/s1600/Screen%252BShot%252B2019-09-05%252Bat%252B6.04.07%252BAM%252B2.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1158" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNaMeTObpLc744-OMdDO1qfbh7RuRxBO9igBzZFAlYud0J73jGPtVC98YvCOngQMctQ8UVWn8JnEixNaZ5F4tXJ5uyYm8GIlT0dCzdLA5_r-cFiQO2vYcU2mzAJk21AmTj6zMYPiBvphM8/s1600/Screen%252BShot%252B2019-09-05%252Bat%252B6.04.07%252BAM%252B2.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sue Lyon in TAROT aka AUTOPSY aka GAME OF MURDER from 1973</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Fernando Rey, the suave actor best known for THE FRENCH CONNECTION as the resilient drug lord taking a busman’s holiday in New York City, gets mixed up with LOLITA herself, Sue Lyon, who, over a decade since her star-making role in the Stanley Kubrick classic, had a sexy weathered look with cheap blue eyeliner, glazed/glossy eyes and a personal penchant for dirt bikes...<br> <br> Albeit completely befitting a dusty exploitation from Spain titled TAROT, also known as THE MAGICIAN, ANGELA or AUTOPSY... you choose... Beginning with a semi-psychedelic opening credit sequence related to the film’s title: a collage of those spooky cards, including Death on a Horse, than can foresee the future no matter how bleak…<br>

con man, exploitation, fernando rey, gloria grahame, import, jazz score, neo noir, seventies, sue lyon, thriller

SUE LYON IN 'TAROT' AKA 'THE MAGICIAN' WITH FERNANDO REY

Sue Lyon in TAROT aka AUTOPSY aka GAME OF MURDER from 1973 Fernando Rey, the suave actor best known for THE FRENCH CONNECTION as the re...

SUE LYON CONTROLS THE DRIVE-IN KILLER CAR IN 'CRASH!'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzZBNN0WGNuMF1m0Sr-0mhKsZwhmG7SOx4LWH-BBejJz80WI_R50OQEVFTdMuwVdGex1NOZYbCawPEulC-EzPLRMKUNYeth-XBUqEizAY0ewz3nnlVF8KUt-W1l8RmmIVLol6RU4rRlxQW/s1600/69883890_776901432739035_2064989622735208448_o.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="1290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzZBNN0WGNuMF1m0Sr-0mhKsZwhmG7SOx4LWH-BBejJz80WI_R50OQEVFTdMuwVdGex1NOZYbCawPEulC-EzPLRMKUNYeth-XBUqEizAY0ewz3nnlVF8KUt-W1l8RmmIVLol6RU4rRlxQW/s1600/69883890_776901432739035_2064989622735208448_o.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sue Lyon in the drive-in exploitation of CRASH! Year: 1978</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Anyone familiar with THE CAR, about a hotrod that runs on the power of demonic overdrive, will learn CHRISTINE wasn’t entirely new: And we can now add the violently guilty pleasure of CRASH! starring LOLITA ingénue Sue Lyon as a rich man’s trophy wife, that proceeded both...<br> <br>Lyon's crippled, sinister husband Marc Denne, played by José Ferrer), is a collector of occult artifacts, bound to a wheelchair because of a car accident when Lyon’s Kim Deane was behind the wheel: And you can say he holds a major grudge, enough to where he provides her an ancient statue/artifact for a short road trip. Then, when she’s driving down a rural highway, a killer dog attacks: The car crashes and something awful happens.<br>

charles band, exploitation, horror, john carradine, john ericson, jose ferrer, killer car, leslie parrish, seventies, sue lyon

SUE LYON CONTROLS THE DRIVE-IN KILLER CAR IN 'CRASH!'

Sue Lyon in the drive-in exploitation of CRASH! Year: 1978 Anyone familiar with THE CAR, about a hotrod that runs on the power of demon...

SUE LYON TAKES AN EXPLOITATION BATH IN 'THE ASTRAL FACTOR'

<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/AVvXsEgoa0Lg95RiUzW2L0yhtd9tq5yPWQTMRs10Nb9qe7lACds7kZK8TYPlNqYEYS4TBuJtvTOE6yr8Bmpts45PXZ6maW4tUo6BfDYbT5BENgY1XDdF494y0BffNignk0We-jXJIHDqkOJCSX1Brat7ZJObYRElWVimfLXMLVl8UdxIEI29vZQ-9WvHVlBNOXj9/s1556/Screen%20Shot%202024-12-20%20at%204.00.18%20PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1032" data-original-width="1556" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoa0Lg95RiUzW2L0yhtd9tq5yPWQTMRs10Nb9qe7lACds7kZK8TYPlNqYEYS4TBuJtvTOE6yr8Bmpts45PXZ6maW4tUo6BfDYbT5BENgY1XDdF494y0BffNignk0We-jXJIHDqkOJCSX1Brat7ZJObYRElWVimfLXMLVl8UdxIEI29vZQ-9WvHVlBNOXj9/w400-h265/Screen%20Shot%202024-12-20%20at%204.00.18%20PM.png" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>THE ASTRAL FACTOR Year: 1977 Rates: ***<br></u></td></tr></tbody></table>One of those bad movies that isn't so bad since it tries to be so many things at once. When you think a good deal of time's gone by given all the eclectic content — in this case from primal slayings to boat chases — there's still a lot to go... despite the overall run-time being just over 90-minutes... <br> <br> And yet everything here is, for the most part, scattered in a brisk, even pace throughout a partial investigative Neo Noir, with cop Robert Foxworth on the trail of an escaped psychopath who, through that decade's popular exercises like Transcendental Meditation, learned the art of disappearing and reappearing at will aka THE ASTRAL FACTOR... This followed by the usual "police procedure" jazz of gathering crime-scene clues after the murder — only here dealing with stuff that isn't entirely... visible... <br>

body count, elke sommer, exploitation, frank ashmore, horror, leslie parrish, robert foxworth, science-fiction, seventies, stefanie powers, sue lyon, supernatural

SUE LYON TAKES AN EXPLOITATION BATH IN 'THE ASTRAL FACTOR'

THE ASTRAL FACTOR Year: 1977 Rates: *** One of those bad movies that isn't so bad since it tries to be so many things at once. When you ...

LARGE EARTH DISRUPTION FOR SUE LYON IN 'END OF THE WORLD'

<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/AVvXsEiM3Z-h-y0bsH3b5-dMPKylVJzmsBN5-FnzAJE-qEyRJqBfFVzYX9Fo4zByCA6zXSVWTB-b3asiLI-GGviSbHyzdyMaNwsg1DzL_Q5fpGrVr0mmFgOnmd-eoVm3Dz73Hoqk2f6SVOorU2s/s1600/ee2.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM3Z-h-y0bsH3b5-dMPKylVJzmsBN5-FnzAJE-qEyRJqBfFVzYX9Fo4zByCA6zXSVWTB-b3asiLI-GGviSbHyzdyMaNwsg1DzL_Q5fpGrVr0mmFgOnmd-eoVm3Dz73Hoqk2f6SVOorU2s/s320/ee2.png" width="320"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Kathe Cunha as Nun in END OF THE WORLD Year: 1977</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">There’s something utterly bizarre and eerily realistic about the films of producer Charles Band, each and every grainy frame resembling a last known photograph. And despite the title and possible turnout, <u>END OF THE WORLD</u> is a science-fiction exploitation not fitting into the disaster genre...</span><br> <span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br></span> <span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Instead centered on an excruciatingly mellow, deliberately slow-paced, investigative journey as the buried lead is, despite headlining Christopher Lee as a mysterious Father Pergado at a rural convent, obscure character-actor/b-movie leading man Kirk Scott as brilliant scientist Andrew Boran. Receiving random computerized signals that could be extremely bad (with green words reading "LARGE EARTH DISRUPTION" on an old black computer screen), he ventures into desert towns with his loyal and equally intrepid wife, Sylvia…</span><br>

charles band, christopher lee, cult, dean jagger, kirk scott, lew ayres, macdonald carey, science-fiction, simmy bow, sue lyon

LARGE EARTH DISRUPTION FOR SUE LYON IN 'END OF THE WORLD'

Kathe Cunha as Nun in END OF THE WORLD Year: 1977 There’s something utterly bizarre and eerily realistic about the films of producer Cha...