cult film freak: sylvia syms

Showing posts with label sylvia syms. Show all posts

Written by James M. Tate / 6/23/2023 / No comments / anthony quayle , british tv , jane asher , neo noir , roger moore , sixties , sylvia syms , the saint

JANE ASHER IN 'THE SAINT' DOUBLE FEATURE WITH ROGER MOORE

<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/AVvXsEikixz1Y8VD_2XJW6-SQSzOwWhCpUt24VBDQREdRaJDh9W3avf6-Xcq1U-A5UZCYrm798yQkMNDlv2O-TCgk-Txo1h9suFv5pVzk5iGIxkO-vUZZRyW1sZxfYRpAYa54xlDUD0kXPRsBKqGavllIbsoHZOkedAzZXixQ58R9UKwiAcy7BZFWcurZ14AuoHM/s1982/00.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1278" data-original-width="1982" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikixz1Y8VD_2XJW6-SQSzOwWhCpUt24VBDQREdRaJDh9W3avf6-Xcq1U-A5UZCYrm798yQkMNDlv2O-TCgk-Txo1h9suFv5pVzk5iGIxkO-vUZZRyW1sZxfYRpAYa54xlDUD0kXPRsBKqGavllIbsoHZOkedAzZXixQ58R9UKwiAcy7BZFWcurZ14AuoHM/s16000/00.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jane Asher in THE SAINT episode The Noble Sportsman from 1963</td></tr></tbody></table>Classy, sexy, gorgeous yet equally quirky-cute, girl-next-door British child turned teen turned adult starlet <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/jane%20asher">JANE ASHER</a>, right before her big break in Roger Corman's <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2023/06/great-asher.html">MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH</a> and when she was just seventeen on the verge of a long relationship with The Beatles' Paul McCartney, appeared in two second-season episodes of the Roger Moore investigatory British TV-series THE SAINT where in both she plays the daughter of extremely wealthy real estate-dealing moguls...The latter titled THE INVISIBLE MILLIONAIRE as a step-daughter whose dad's fully bandaged from an auto accident after THE NOBLE SPORTSMAN where Asher and another rich dad, Anthony Quayle, both almost die in an their own car crash: each patriarch with lovely yet enigmatic wives surrounded by mysterious scoundrels, and it's the lovely young Jane Asher bringing both someone's-after-dad cases to Moore as Simon Templar, making her technically the most important characters in what are filler episodes of an eclectic hit-or-miss syndicated series.

anthony quayle, british tv, jane asher, neo noir, roger moore, sixties, sylvia syms, the saint

JANE ASHER IN 'THE SAINT' DOUBLE FEATURE WITH ROGER MOORE

Jane Asher in THE SAINT episode The Noble Sportsman from 1963 Classy, sexy, gorgeous yet equally quirky-cute, girl-next-door British child t...

ORSON WELLES IN 'FERRY TO HONG KONG' WITH SYLVIA SYMS

<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/AVvXsEhaWcVRKD2i1toiHdHbC0jf6y-6hqN41GYD9yxPip8UORrbM8vwc9RYmZHmBrSFO2AVQiBNyqvX7sSa-cTd0ASKGKMY8PM3SN_Gb12qGvwGS_-euiZJk-WwydWpsH-9i6wv-qu2e8VWTK4cw2Bk-3TPkNE7UMa7dqz590ANt1w3ZaooV93CfrwaUsFN8g/s1600/Screen+Shot+2020-03-11+at+4.23.12+AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="715" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaWcVRKD2i1toiHdHbC0jf6y-6hqN41GYD9yxPip8UORrbM8vwc9RYmZHmBrSFO2AVQiBNyqvX7sSa-cTd0ASKGKMY8PM3SN_Gb12qGvwGS_-euiZJk-WwydWpsH-9i6wv-qu2e8VWTK4cw2Bk-3TPkNE7UMa7dqz590ANt1w3ZaooV93CfrwaUsFN8g/s16000/Screen+Shot+2020-03-11+at+4.23.12+AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Closeup of the dragon around the disc menu for FERRY TO HONG KONG Year: 1959</td></tr></tbody></table>British director Lewis Gilbert's FERRY TO HONG KONG could have made a great pilot for a TV series: The premise has 
maverick loafer Mark Conrad, played by  Curd Jürgens, winding up on a 
Ferry from Hong Kong to Macao. Officials at either port won’t let him on
 land so he has to remain a passenger on the Ferry... thus becoming a not-so-accidental, omnipresent tourist...Now for the antagonist: Orson Welles as Captain Hart, an uptight, 
prissy, anal retentive, control freak Captain who runs the boat with a 
iron fist despite his passive/aggressive composure...

adventure, comedy, curt jurgens, fifties, lewis gilbert, milton reid, orson welles, sylvia syms

ORSON WELLES IN 'FERRY TO HONG KONG' WITH SYLVIA SYMS

Closeup of the dragon around the disc menu for FERRY TO HONG KONG Year: 1959 British director Lewis Gilbert's FERRY TO HONG KONG could ...

DERREN NESBITT STALKS A DARING BRITISH NEW WAVE 'VICTIM'

<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/AVvXsEijwaBYxFeolIcQn5D4gHz1VFhdZqiZHQ7aLd_HMQRa7rHING4WlHouDK99_kj0YHPjlc5yaxWmdDpz1r97ol76QfvleehVOW35g5-4pxte0ro6r4uTtSV7fl7_z0kJYP8sdqC8jSdrUhew/s737/image-asset+2.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="489" data-original-width="737" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijwaBYxFeolIcQn5D4gHz1VFhdZqiZHQ7aLd_HMQRa7rHING4WlHouDK99_kj0YHPjlc5yaxWmdDpz1r97ol76QfvleehVOW35g5-4pxte0ro6r4uTtSV7fl7_z0kJYP8sdqC8jSdrUhew/w400-h265/image-asset+2.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Year: 1961 Rating: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>If watching the 1961 British crime film VICTIM with no idea about the plot, the spooked young "Boy Barrett" seems like he owes money to the mob as the creatively filmed, suspense-driven direction... moving from busy backrooms to dark shadow-filled alleyways... nicely suits a B&W thriller until, through Dirk Bogarde as barrister Melvin Farr, seemingly contented with beautiful blond wife Sylvia Syms, we learn that doomed kid was not only a homosexual but both are blackmailed from a law against sodomy... Including a random group of Londoners ranging from a barber to stage actor, and during the best moments classy lawyer Bogarde turns Bogart-style investigative Noir gumshoe. And in one scene the lethal collecting thug's played by Darren Nesbitt, old school gangster-flashy and baring what'd become his signature devious grin. Then there's what would today be a standard melodramatic "coming out" confession from husband to wife, Bogarde to Syms, but VICTIM can't be viewed through anything less than a historic view of what's many decades ahead of its time. And for entertainment's sake it's a nice little British crime flick to boot.

british neo noir, british new wave, crime, dennis cole, derren nesbitt, dirk bogarde, homosexual, sixties, sylvia koscina, sylvia syms, thriller

DERREN NESBITT STALKS A DARING BRITISH NEW WAVE 'VICTIM'

Year: 1961 Rating: ***1/2 If watching the 1961 British crime film VICTIM with no idea about the plot, the spooked young "Boy Barrett...

FAVORITES SHORTLIST

1)OTLEY 2)ROBBERY 3)HELL IS A CITY 4)THE FEARMAKERS 5)CANYON PASSAGE 6)HOT CARS 7)VIOLENT SATURDAY 8)THE BREAK 9)THE CROWDED SKY 10)THE ROARING TWENTIES 11) ANATOMY OF A MURDER 12)CALCULATED RISK 13)SWEENEY TWO 14)RAIDERS FROM BENEATH THE SEA 15)HARDCORE 16)JUNGLE STREET 17)WHITE HEAT 18)FALLEN ANGEL 19)A PRIZE OF ARMS 20)THE BIG HEAT 21)SHARKS' TREASURE 22)THE MARKED ONES 23)THE DRIVER 24)THE SYSTEM 25)AIR PATROL 26)THE STONE KILLER 27)JOURNEY INTO FEAR 28)WILLIAM CONRAD'S BRAINSTORM 29)FRENZY 30)THE MAN FROM LARAMIE FAVORITE ACTORS 1)DANA ANDREWS 2)JAMES CAGNEY 3)STANLEY BAKER 4)MARLON BRANDO 5)JACK NICHOLSON 6)CHARLES BRONSON 7)BURT REYNOLDS 8)WILLIAM LUCAS 9)TOM COURTENAY 10)GENE HACKMAN DIRECTORS 1)JACQUES TOURNEUR 2)RICHARD FLEISCHER 3)VAL GUEST 4)STANLEY KUBRICK 5)OTTO PREMINGER 6)ORSON WELLES 7)JOHN GUILLERMAN 8)JOHN LANDIS 9)SAM PECKINPAH 10)MICHAEL WINNER