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Written by James M. Tate / 9/20/2023 / No comments / action , bruce dern , car , crime , edward walsh , felice orlandi , getaway driver , isabelle adjani , matt clark , neo noir , rudy ramos , ryan o'neal , seventies , suspense , thriller , twilight time , walter hill

BRUCE DERN TAILING RYAN O'NEAL IN WALTER HILL'S 'THE DRIVER'

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</div>As each character is sparsely named after what they are within a pulpy yet stark, slowburn template as no one means anything beyond what they're doing, who they're after or protecting, The Player in particular, Isabelle Adjani caught in-between as... speaking in monotone like everyone else except Dern... her best moments occur while listening...<br>
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Scenes when Dern questions her or THE DRIVER or a more honest detective in Matt Clark are even better than the chase scenes: Which, of course, directed by future WARRIORS and SOUTHERN COMFORT icon Walter Hill, are topnotch suspenseful and easy to follow – either dodging police prowlers or one of the bad guys who winds up after the titular bad guy we're rooting for. And the most intense screeching tires occur as THE DRIVER shows his stuff inside a parking garage, with no one chasing behind: deliberate car-porn at its finest.<br>

action, bruce dern, car, crime, edward walsh, felice orlandi, getaway driver, isabelle adjani, matt clark, neo noir, rudy ramos, ryan o'neal, seventies, suspense, thriller, twilight time, walter hill

BRUCE DERN TAILING RYAN O'NEAL IN WALTER HILL'S 'THE DRIVER'

Title: THE DRIVER Year: 1978 Rates: **** An action vehicle but not entirely, Walter Hill's THE DRIVER is more a meticulous, character-dr...

JOHN WAYNE CRASHES LONDON FOR THE COP FLICK 'BRANNIGAN'

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<span class="_mh6 _wsc" id="cch_f18e85997ba47bc"><span class="_3oh- _58nk">Though more along the lines of BULLITT than either of the two HARRY flicks, BRANNIGAN isn't as much a police procedural, instead mostly centering on the <i>stranger in a strange land</i> premise, but without following the usual fish-outta-water tropes since he gets adjusted to this new country's rules... like no handguns... by simply not following them... and he's never really effected by the colorful foreign surroundings visible from riding shotgun in an unmarked vehicle driven by pretty female sidekick Judy Geeson...</span></span><br>
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action, barry dennen, cop, del henney, douglas hickox, england, james booth, john vernon, john wayne, judy geeson, kathryn leigh scott, mel ferrer, richard attenborough, seventies, thriller, twilight time

JOHN WAYNE CRASHES LONDON FOR THE COP FLICK 'BRANNIGAN'

John Wayne in BRANNIGAN Year: 1975 Rating: **** After supposedly passing up DIRTY HARRY, John Wayne made two tough cop films (tough films a...

RICHARD LESTER RETURNS TO THE SWORD FOR 'ROYAL FLASH'

action, adaptation, adventure, alan bates, bob hoskins, caper, history, malcolm mcdowell, oliver reed, richard lester, seventies, time period, twilight time

RICHARD LESTER RETURNS TO THE SWORD FOR 'ROYAL FLASH'

Year: 1975 Rating: **** There were only three actors Stanley Kubrick had to give little direction to: Peter Sellers from DR. STRANGELOVE and...

CHARLES BRONSON CANNON ERA CONTINUES WITH '10 TO MIDNIGHT'

<p></p><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/AVvXsEi_ZA3lpMjJS1oT8DmxECnrRY_bumTrVNTuzGOSfCwt83eAYxsYt3u5HbSzWIvkoyM8u1EnimWFn_be6rkirWfEWyOdKVVXMHiGc-QoOMt226nhqThO5GQZE8DZ9VoqPUm3fgrSBcSNIDPc/s1246/Screen+Shot+2021-07-17+at+2.50.43+AM.png" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1246" data-original-width="1048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_ZA3lpMjJS1oT8DmxECnrRY_bumTrVNTuzGOSfCwt83eAYxsYt3u5HbSzWIvkoyM8u1EnimWFn_be6rkirWfEWyOdKVVXMHiGc-QoOMt226nhqThO5GQZE8DZ9VoqPUm3fgrSBcSNIDPc/w336-h400/Screen+Shot+2021-07-17+at+2.50.43+AM.png" width="336"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: 10 to Midnight Year: 1983 Rates: ***1/2</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Charles Bronson's Cannon Films were a total nightmare for those politically-correct critics who graded on their own flat curves, and 10 TO MIDNIGHT is surely no different... In fact it's probably the most hated of all... <br></p><p></p><p>That being a pure exploitation-driven nightmarish body count horror (during the Slasher genre craze) masquerading as a cop thriller about a young, mostly naked serial killer who, a hybrid of Ted Bundy and Richard Speck, kills sexy young girls and eventually sexy young nurses... </p><p>Making Bronson's Detective Leo Kessler, fitfully morphed from a cop to some kind of DEATH WISH style lawman-vigilante, not only do his usual trope-laden questioning of the liberal court system ("giving more rights to the criminals than their victims") but taking matters into his own hands in order to, you guessed it, "save the taxpayers money."  </p><p>And as they say/so the cliche saying/excuse goes... that cops can't be everywhere at once... </p><p>But that's not true for the second half of 10 TO MIDNIGHT, infamously bearing a title that supposedly has nothing to do with the plot: Then again, while there's never an actual clock beginning at 11:50 pm and striking at 12 sharp, Bronson winds up in a short-spanned race-against-time urgency (midnight representing time running out) since his daughter, played by super-cute near-future BEVERLY HILLS COP starlet Lisa Eilbacher, is one of several nurses... including the late gorgeous Kelly Preston... who Brad Davis's younger brother Gene Nelson eventually sets his creepy lusts on...<br>
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andrew stevens, body count, cannon, charles bronson, cop, crime, eighties, exploitation, gene davis, horror, kelly preston, Lisa Eilbacher, serial killer, thriller, twilight time

CHARLES BRONSON CANNON ERA CONTINUES WITH '10 TO MIDNIGHT'

Title: 10 to Midnight Year: 1983 Rates: ***1/2 Charles Bronson's Cannon Films were a total nightmare for those politically-correct criti...

SAM FULLER TOKYO NOIR 'HOUSE OF BAMBOO' W/ ROBERT STACK

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The writer of <span style="color: #0c343d;">HOUSE OF BAMBOO</span> is billed as Harry Kleiner; <i>additional dialogue</i> is credited to director Samuel Fuller... 
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Turns out Kleiner wrote 1946's THE STREET WITH NO NAME, and what's said to be "additional" could possibly refer to the entire script in remaking Kleiser's source material, but instead of that nameless American boulevard we journey to the gorgeous region of Tokyo (and other nearby locales) where the city and its backdrops are a character all its own, inhabited by these shady human "characters" who, whether armed with a pistol or not, get wonderfully lost in the maze-like backdrop...<br>
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This includes a wandering Robert Stack as Eddie Spanner, with a name so smooth and cool he's gotta be cool and crooked as hell. Bullying local stores out of small wads of cash, he's asking for... exactly what he gets in a scolding Robert Ryan, who winds up hiring the failed maverick as one of his own goons. Ryan's Sandy Dawson already has his heels dug so far into the post-War location there's no room for two people "running things," or even having a sole opinion. Leading the viewer into smoky backrooms and dingy apartments, where the gangsters plot their schemes.<br>
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And at first, from when he wanders in a criminal shrug off the boat to the real locale full of floating slums clashed with vivid and vibrant, beautiful colors, Stack really seems like a man on his own; but with that voice, even for those not familiar with the original, he's obviously snooping around for some reason... For the Military Police, actually... Sent by Noir stock actor Brad Dexter to find out who killed a local during a rushed prelude. Sure this is a spoiler but anyone familiar with the original sees it coming. Although it must be said, Stack does a pretty good job playing slimy and shady... while it lasts...<br>

cameron mitchell, color noir, deforest kelley, fifties, film noir or melodrama, gangster, robert ryan, robert stack, twilight time

SAM FULLER TOKYO NOIR 'HOUSE OF BAMBOO' W/ ROBERT STACK

Ryan's on top of the world ma, in Toyko Year: 1952 The writer of HOUSE OF BAMBOO is billed as Harry Kleiner; additional dialogue i...

HOPE LANGE & DIANE BAKER SEEK OUT 'THE BEST OF EVERYTHING'

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Right when you think THE BEST OF EVERYTHING is about "The New Girl in The Office", another arrives much quicker, more naive, awkward, sweet and gentle; so basically, Diane Baker makes Hope Lange seem cool as a cucumber on her, or rather, their first day...<br>
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Our leading lady is fresh from a side role as Montgomery Clift's girl next door fiancee in THE YOUNG LIONS, and later, following TV's romantic comedy sitcom THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR, she'd kickstart the vigilante DEATH WISH franchise by dying violently under the unrelenting fervor of Jeff Goldblum (who hates "rich c--ts!"). But this particular Hope isn't without a snag: contending with Joan Crawford, who plays the bitch boss, and quite naturally, too...<br>
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So with all that pop culture aside, we'll now settle down into this particularly breezy melodrama THE BEST OF EVERYTHING, one of those deliciously dated 1950's soap operatic motion pictures that, filmed in glorious Cinemascope and looking like a heavenly palette of vibrant colors, people resemble those bright, fantastical creatures of old Encyclopedias... And yet, throughout a still uptight era in post-War America, these girls aren't altogether prudish...<br>