GORDON SCOTT VS JOCK MAHONEY 'TARZAN THE MAGNIFICENT'

<p></p><p> </p><p></p><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/AVvXsEhXL1onM9d5ymbkQjaYGtAKogGuO3mECjMijeVE_H2Dp2_lLtqtYoxLlDg1ZRY_wDmdaVvKHxlqMcWf-HWHVZyfL2093wDYz3kqW_3X6lfkKGC8MCw9oLL3Zhtrr8bBqZGiyp4h2x3tec1SU0F7G49M3tcilZgLhTekHiShwtV-B6yYXXg1tQHL3al4oWyM/s1502/Screen%20Shot%202024-09-30%20at%2010.51.42%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1145" data-original-width="1502" height="305" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXL1onM9d5ymbkQjaYGtAKogGuO3mECjMijeVE_H2Dp2_lLtqtYoxLlDg1ZRY_wDmdaVvKHxlqMcWf-HWHVZyfL2093wDYz3kqW_3X6lfkKGC8MCw9oLL3Zhtrr8bBqZGiyp4h2x3tec1SU0F7G49M3tcilZgLhTekHiShwtV-B6yYXXg1tQHL3al4oWyM/w400-h305/Screen%20Shot%202024-09-30%20at%2010.51.42%20AM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1960 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>TARZAN THE MAGNIFICENT is mostly known for, in the following film, having the villain, Jock Mahoney, replace Gordon Scott in the Tarzan role... but it's really a cross between the John Ford Western STAGECOACH... with Tarzan traveling with a group of bickering characters... and William Shakespeare's family-quarrel saga KING LEAR... <br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Enter the criminal clan, with patriarch John Carradine but it's oldest son Mahoney really in charge: he led a local store robbery and, captured by Tarzan, is being brought to authorities for the reward money to help a native village... All while his vengeful father and brooding brothers (including LOLITA actor Gary Cockrell) are on their trail and, along with Tarzan's group there's a great cast including Lionel Jeffries as a jealous husband, whose wife has a thing for the captured heavy yet MAGNIFICENT is a mostly hi/miss adventure that relies on random bursts of action while the characters (far too many here) never really gel... Leaving Scott's final TARZAN role more a whimper than bang until a QUIET MAN style fist-fight with Mahoney that should have not only happened sooner... but a lot more throughout. </p><span></span>

action, adventure, alexandra stewart, earl cameron, franchise, gary cockrell, gordon scott, harry baird, jock mahoney, john carradine, lionel jeffries, scott tarzan, sixties, tarzan, warner archives

GORDON SCOTT VS JOCK MAHONEY 'TARZAN THE MAGNIFICENT'

Year: 1960 Rating: **1/2 TARZAN THE MAGNIFICENT is mostly known for, in the following film, having the villain, Jock Mahoney, replace Gordo...

MENAHEM GOLAN'S 'LEPKE' WITH TONY CURTIS & ANJANETTE COMER

<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/AVvXsEhVtna58Hp7gESf_DRS_EdXMrcUSluOhL0sL3PRoUx7Rs_nQWMt814v4d-CX090FvrGGC5TXFonV6BYd9o3OBjh_wLLnfDz0cWQuR5ZZWUIlvn9iatqamUegcs_yjCnaKzni-dwEbYZki0GcnD7IxFYNG-tp7rRVCPGV6chbTIWyAjfZawanMSbks_xjqch/s1388/Screen%20Shot%202024-08-14%20at%202.23.09%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="892" data-original-width="1388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVtna58Hp7gESf_DRS_EdXMrcUSluOhL0sL3PRoUx7Rs_nQWMt814v4d-CX090FvrGGC5TXFonV6BYd9o3OBjh_wLLnfDz0cWQuR5ZZWUIlvn9iatqamUegcs_yjCnaKzni-dwEbYZki0GcnD7IxFYNG-tp7rRVCPGV6chbTIWyAjfZawanMSbks_xjqch/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-08-14%20at%202.23.09%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: LEPKE Year: 1975 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>A cross between yet another 1970's THE GODFATHER clone and a drive-in exploitation with sex and violence, future Cannon Films co-owner Menahem Golan directs Tony Curtis as LEPKE... beginning with a younger version with an intense Barry Miller in turn-of-the-century America, committing a crime and about to be locked up... a shame since more time should have been spent on those youthful years...</p><p></p><p></p><p>Instead, right when the titular Jewish mobster gets out, he's already a 50-something miscast Tony Curtis, who at one point talks Milton Berle into marrying docile daughter Anjanette Comer... and about thirty-minutes later, when the detectives start knocking, she's supposed to have realized her mistake at marrying a lethal crime boss...</p><p><span></span></p>

anjanette comer, barry miller, biopic, cannon, gianni russo, michael callan, milton berle, mobster, seventies, simmy bow, tony curtis, vic tayback, warner archives

MENAHEM GOLAN'S 'LEPKE' WITH TONY CURTIS & ANJANETTE COMER

Title: LEPKE Year: 1975 Rating: **1/2 A cross between yet another 1970's THE GODFATHER clone and a drive-in exploitation with sex and vi...

LORI NELSON, JOHN RUSSELL & MAMIE VAN DOREN 'UNTAMED YOUTH'

<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/AVvXsEjbL8faQqwVhFg8x1sgk6Q9vF_-u3EFjQ05tyYvTYDEroA-s01QyBpiHs4xaGfGmbUBhYp3fMOCL49RU8FGyGRCTyYS-RDxXjVnjDE0mWhHF5YVLIMfgtoUO-nsDF3rcpQfeIlxJWzmJxGwc7Eaw7tbyarwgFZmuP8c5gOUFE3kTT3dqxUMU7n46WSnx4O0/s1712/Screen%20Shot%202024-08-05%20at%2011.45.07%20AM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1073" data-original-width="1712" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbL8faQqwVhFg8x1sgk6Q9vF_-u3EFjQ05tyYvTYDEroA-s01QyBpiHs4xaGfGmbUBhYp3fMOCL49RU8FGyGRCTyYS-RDxXjVnjDE0mWhHF5YVLIMfgtoUO-nsDF3rcpQfeIlxJWzmJxGwc7Eaw7tbyarwgFZmuP8c5gOUFE3kTT3dqxUMU7n46WSnx4O0/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-08-05%20at%2011.45.07%20AM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>title: UNTAMED YOUTH year: 1957 rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In a creatively low-budget twist of the prison genre, by the time bad lockup girl Jeanne Carmen fights friendly newcomer Lori Nelson, who's defending blonde bombshell singing sister Mamie Van Doren, she soon becomes their friend... because in this particular work-farm, square-jawed big boss John Russell's practically the sole antagonist, a hybrid of warden and cheating businessman...<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></p><p></p><p>Connected with by being secreted married to an older woman, who just happens to be the small town ranch-owning judge that winds up intentionally sentencing outsiders to her man's makeshift hoosegow, and whose son, fresh from the Navy, is as heroic as Russell is (with trained dobermans) borderline deadly...</p><p><span></span></p>

bel air productions, drama, eddie cochran, fifties, howard w. koch, john russell, lori nelson, lurene tuttle, mamie van doren, music, warner archives, wayne nelson, women in prison, yvonne lime

LORI NELSON, JOHN RUSSELL & MAMIE VAN DOREN 'UNTAMED YOUTH'

title: UNTAMED YOUTH year: 1957 rating: **** In a creatively low-budget twist of the prison genre, by the time bad lockup girl Jeanne Carmen...

GARY LOCKWOOD IN ANTONIO ISASI'S 'THEY CAME TO ROB LAS VEGAS'

<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/AVvXsEhHkvaoBwXYs_raeoK7gnr2dFgIPc940R3ky3qUoaHGDfS00ucqmRup_7a5-WOuP2rJvteMIjM3RJyNxiz4SZwrrVjiGeSSGBlCeuoxwkz8oO-ScsvaY4WdCA7EbQDjqie9_LR-miHK5jKBbEiZ74Hqh32xS_1Wl4hyLbSpJktKlRZJPQ_9QBNpTsu1nzSe/s1226/Screen%20Shot%202024-04-14%20at%207.17.05%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="514" data-original-width="1226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHkvaoBwXYs_raeoK7gnr2dFgIPc940R3ky3qUoaHGDfS00ucqmRup_7a5-WOuP2rJvteMIjM3RJyNxiz4SZwrrVjiGeSSGBlCeuoxwkz8oO-ScsvaY4WdCA7EbQDjqie9_LR-miHK5jKBbEiZ74Hqh32xS_1Wl4hyLbSpJktKlRZJPQ_9QBNpTsu1nzSe/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-04-14%20at%207.17.05%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>From THEY CAME TO ROB LAS VEGAS </u><u>aka LAS VEGAS, 500 MILLONES Rating: ***1/2<br></u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Spanish auteur Antonio Isasi was definitely a fan of gangster films since almost every single shot of his heist-caper THEY CAME TO ROB LAS VEGAS epitomizes the classic crime genre's style and structure, making this a combination of steely homage and groovy/fast-paced 1960's kitsch, jazzy soundtrack and all... <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></p><p></p><p>Starring American import Gary Lockwood the same year he'd soar through Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, the biggest flaw is the budget spent on two other name-actors, Lee J. Cobb as the targeted armored car company owner, and Jack Palance as an insurance investigator with eyes on both Cobb and Lockwood...</p><p><span></span></p>

antonio isasi, armored car, caper, crime, elke sommer, exploitation, gary lockwood, heist, jack palance, jazz-score, jean servais, lee j. cobb, mobster, neo noir, post-heist, spanish, warner archives

GARY LOCKWOOD IN ANTONIO ISASI'S 'THEY CAME TO ROB LAS VEGAS'

From THEY CAME TO ROB LAS VEGAS aka LAS VEGAS, 500 MILLONES Rating: ***1/2 Spanish auteur Antonio Isasi was definitely a fan of gangster fil...

GLENN FORD RIDING 'THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE'

<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><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/AVvXsEgAxHke9w3hHFoNQBmvCYNC45N48OH2erVtckNOpvgge6icq37xGsuVisliI4PsWfTN7hbPLgVzkDJ6nWX9CkEhArY-aupbZJwoJ5SXIwibPSsVKYh7Lk8nADBw9nQLpv1Ym5ecPNQsatQO8RgBgT0YD2nv8jaRZq8d2zPcdJRplzEtAvXm2fNEg5CiNQW9/s1866/Screen%20Shot%202024-01-13%20at%201.46.46%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="908" data-original-width="1866" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAxHke9w3hHFoNQBmvCYNC45N48OH2erVtckNOpvgge6icq37xGsuVisliI4PsWfTN7hbPLgVzkDJ6nWX9CkEhArY-aupbZJwoJ5SXIwibPSsVKYh7Lk8nADBw9nQLpv1Ym5ecPNQsatQO8RgBgT0YD2nv8jaRZq8d2zPcdJRplzEtAvXm2fNEg5CiNQW9/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-01-13%20at%201.46.46%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE  Year: 1962 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In Argentina, at the heels of the Second World War, lusty family patriarch Lee J. Cobb — after an all-night celebration with favorite grandson Glenn Ford — gathers his entire family at a grand dinner party consisting of his two daughters... one married to a German (an intense Paul Lukas), the other a Frenchman (a regal Charles Boyer)... and their offspring: all soon divided by borders and ideology...<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></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>So by the time Cobb's grandfather <i>checks out </i>of the picture, an entire first act is done: and with so much over-the-top energy, the remaining characters can only reveal themselves in a comparably subtle fashion...</p><p><span></span></p>

charles boyer, glenn ford, ingrid thulin, karlheinz böhm, lee j. cobb, paul henreid, paul lukas, remake, sixties, warner archives, world war II, yvette mimieux

GLENN FORD RIDING 'THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE'

Title: THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE  Year: 1962 Rating: **** In Argentina, at the heels of the Second World War, lusty family patriar...

MILTON BERLE & VIRGINIA MAYO IN 'ALWAYS LEAVE THEM LAUGHING'

<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/AVvXsEgRfsCmOx8TGwlg9bNsRPduYDL54o7kU4GV6jHJrtfwgr2-YvUFkUBOc9mfR_z3G6aEfgjg70q2zXAL955Q8Fh7Mtibng3jb74V-foUbIpkAl3rsQojDWWgY_ZJ7n9LSBW_qoEroITZ_kF3kQKGySwB7m5FwkoLL3O4QuEt4ZMbeBIKBzZPwxIlU61vkHUi/s960/OLD%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="621" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRfsCmOx8TGwlg9bNsRPduYDL54o7kU4GV6jHJrtfwgr2-YvUFkUBOc9mfR_z3G6aEfgjg70q2zXAL955Q8Fh7Mtibng3jb74V-foUbIpkAl3rsQojDWWgY_ZJ7n9LSBW_qoEroITZ_kF3kQKGySwB7m5FwkoLL3O4QuEt4ZMbeBIKBzZPwxIlU61vkHUi/s16000/OLD%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: ALWAYS LEAVE THEM LAUGHING Year: 1949 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In the frame story of the first television star Milton Berle's 1949 big screen debut ALWAYS LEAVE THEM LAUGHING, a young comic watches Milton as fictional-self Kipling "Kip" Cooper filming his own successful TV-variety show... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Which is supposed to be what Berle's Kip worked so hard to perfect: a vaudeville-trained standup comedian's hyperactive struggle to reach the point of being, basically, TV's beloved Milton Berle... </p><p><span></span></p>

alan hale sr, bert lahr, comedy, forties, lloyd gough, max showalter, milton berle, ruth roman, virginia mayo, warner archives

MILTON BERLE & VIRGINIA MAYO IN 'ALWAYS LEAVE THEM LAUGHING'

Title: ALWAYS LEAVE THEM LAUGHING Year: 1949 Rating: **** In the frame story of the first television star Milton Berle's 1949 big screen...

JEFF HUNTER & DANA ANDREWS IN WILLIAM CONRAD'S 'BRAINSTORM'

<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/AVvXsEifJnk1uYRrv2R7CcEIl-djFMXPzYGtB6qJ-LqnnI1Mn6Lxp-aex6I19q_VWhV0ab-zaAW4Tbnx3rEPPRw027Do1x7MfKG6-fbolJBNrUynjz501BN2ZN7peKosn1JMMXSZL5Thi8CECdnhI3rHKiE97vnDZl6ny9YTC55xSs6MRbkAK7wuvYAtj6KLWWdv/s1896/Screen%20Shot%202023-11-19%20at%206.39.24%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="998" data-original-width="1896" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifJnk1uYRrv2R7CcEIl-djFMXPzYGtB6qJ-LqnnI1Mn6Lxp-aex6I19q_VWhV0ab-zaAW4Tbnx3rEPPRw027Do1x7MfKG6-fbolJBNrUynjz501BN2ZN7peKosn1JMMXSZL5Thi8CECdnhI3rHKiE97vnDZl6ny9YTC55xSs6MRbkAK7wuvYAtj6KLWWdv/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-11-19%20at%206.39.24%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: BRAINSTORM Director: William Conrad Year: 1965 Rates: ****1/2 </u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In 1965, veteran actor Dana Andrews was busier acting than his <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/08/citizen-cannon.html">BRAINSTORM</a> director William Conrad was directing: making three movies (including <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2023/11/filldonahue.html">MY BLOOD RUNS COLD</a>) the same year that Andrews appeared in eight...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>As characters ranging from cameos to leads, heroes to heavies... in <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/08/citizen-cannon.html">BRAINSTORM</a> Dana's deep, smooth voice suited a corporate (space age computer) tycoon that winds-up in a love triangle after his sharpest employee saves the life of — before falling in love with — young trophy-wife Anne Francis...</p><p><span></span></p>

dana andrews, jeffrey hunter, kathie browne, neo noir, sixties, thriller, viveca lindfors, warner archives, william conrad

JEFF HUNTER & DANA ANDREWS IN WILLIAM CONRAD'S 'BRAINSTORM'

Title: BRAINSTORM Director: William Conrad Year: 1965 Rates: ****1/2 In 1965, veteran actor Dana Andrews was busier acting than his BRAINSTO...

ROBBIE ROBERTSON IN 'CARNY' WITH GARY BUSEY & JODIE FOSTER

<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"></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></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/AVvXsEjLb3_nuQxdTlVvtYVuEQVlS-Fy6pq_z1tEuzmQJNpVcyufaDiI3q3ZAtnp5fmFB-Rm7bbadMK_yOANWxu-KOo8MsGEA1ZwQrRxwPKA86U3xVPvdZctNjKcht_hsDaBCuyUjEnmxigVwQV_K8tgu-ZljHC891WFr2H4MT9sJVU9gWguR4X8-eXIlAzL7P26/s2048/365839481_1781921938903641_3983541596328265502_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1051" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLb3_nuQxdTlVvtYVuEQVlS-Fy6pq_z1tEuzmQJNpVcyufaDiI3q3ZAtnp5fmFB-Rm7bbadMK_yOANWxu-KOo8MsGEA1ZwQrRxwPKA86U3xVPvdZctNjKcht_hsDaBCuyUjEnmxigVwQV_K8tgu-ZljHC891WFr2H4MT9sJVU9gWguR4X8-eXIlAzL7P26/s16000/365839481_1781921938903641_3983541596328265502_n.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robby Robertson in CARNY Year: 1980 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Be prepared for freaks and frolic, white trash marauders and by far one of the strangest romances ever to be filmed… And if you can handle an over five-minute scene with Gary Busey’s crazy clown-faced Frankie sitting in a dunk booth, yelling taunts at anyone and everyone to take a turn throwing a ball to bring him into the water… all for a price, mind you… then you’ll really enjoy CARNY co-starring teenage Jodie Foster as freespirited Donna...</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></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Saddled with such an uptight and jerky date (Craig Wasson) that anyone would be a better replacement, she takes to Frankie’s charm right away, and soon joins him in the sack and on the road, into the life of the Carnies managed by The Band guitarist Robbie Robertson as Patch, Frankie’s more serious-minded partner: he's the comparably even-keeled metronome that keeps everything under control, distrusting his buddy’s lustful romance with the teenager, who seems to have cursed the outfit by her presence alone...</p><p><span></span></p>

circus, craig wasson, drama, eighties, elisha cook jr., ensemble, exploitation, gary busey, jodie foster, kenneth mcmillan, robbie robertson, warner archives

ROBBIE ROBERTSON IN 'CARNY' WITH GARY BUSEY & JODIE FOSTER

Robby Robertson in CARNY Year: 1980 Rating: ***1/2 Be prepared for freaks and frolic, white trash marauders and by far one of the strangest ...

GEORGE HAMILTON KILLS FOR 'CRIME AND PUNISHMENT U.S.A.'

<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/AVvXsEgcRQoPHyllQWbUPinBppZlPptD_6CWxHmjFf1QvT48dLnYMUmSInUt27h-sH0bEcrdFSQlHVHU0HCeloQiu0TTCjdh7PdDAbbepsNYBoeqcdkLnN6xafF4p1ZWBYqTEUW4id1kg7uOqCFltVgkpzmeUUQAEMJ3y4k-BrVUCphZh5rSk4zF0sOg5lH-TwPi/s2314/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-28%20at%207.41.52%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1490" data-original-width="2314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcRQoPHyllQWbUPinBppZlPptD_6CWxHmjFf1QvT48dLnYMUmSInUt27h-sH0bEcrdFSQlHVHU0HCeloQiu0TTCjdh7PdDAbbepsNYBoeqcdkLnN6xafF4p1ZWBYqTEUW4id1kg7uOqCFltVgkpzmeUUQAEMJ3y4k-BrVUCphZh5rSk4zF0sOg5lH-TwPi/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-28%20at%207.41.52%20PM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT U.S.A. Year: 1959 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Actually more like the previous years' <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/11/stockwell-dillman.html">COMPULSION</a> than a modernization of Fyodor Dostoevsky's CRIME AND PUNISHMENT... although that's exactly what it is, by title, and if Frank Silvera's friendly, complimenting homicide detective is reminiscent of the 1970's TV-cop <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/peter%20falk">COLUMBO</a>, both are based on the same literary character...</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>And ironically, George Hamilton became a victim-of-persuasion from both determined constables and here, resembling Anthony Perkins with the combined personalities of either brainy <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/11/stockwell-dillman.html">COMPULSION</a> killer... heavily into Atheist philosophy while inwardly justifying a <i>necessary murder</i>... he's more aimless than guilt-ridden... </p><span></span>

adaptation, fifties, frank silvera, george hamilton, jazz score, mary murphy, neo noir, warner archives, wayne heffley

GEORGE HAMILTON KILLS FOR 'CRIME AND PUNISHMENT U.S.A.'

Title: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT U.S.A. Year: 1959 Rating: **** Actually more like the previous years' COMPULSION than a modernization of Fy...

TECHNICOLOR 'HIGH SIERRA' REMAKE 'I DIED A THOUSAND TIMES'

<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/AVvXsEjKd88bCz7XOEsSgqNp9evoaY6TSHkFnMWj_A58qh7l_5xNWFytCSLYrHIaf3Z2o7yNQ8zD4LrUPtpNvfOWrdkdmqibkhwuoddj0_A6lCGoKlA25KJk33FBBl2XYg6wBrfnKo14yXXkm4m9ud22uLzVdL2siy6ECzr8qk5QCHJ65qfvReGrtASFPDIg5w/s1409/AVvXsEjGmTMwGvvI4oMjcY7lvRAUg0iR5L-iuIIccMUHnLfgf9IKMmpw9mFUu6QkR3yuHF_l5z6HABbMclWlgkgJXkVxMX3kjctX384lIP9K98z4uLck4wPg02Pgqo1FCYAI--QZBf_z7w4UF06sgDA7lGvRNCMmY1-uw8MpDoy8Q0VJSXAj7DMd6x0VmDLRmA=s16000.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="786" data-original-width="1409" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKd88bCz7XOEsSgqNp9evoaY6TSHkFnMWj_A58qh7l_5xNWFytCSLYrHIaf3Z2o7yNQ8zD4LrUPtpNvfOWrdkdmqibkhwuoddj0_A6lCGoKlA25KJk33FBBl2XYg6wBrfnKo14yXXkm4m9ud22uLzVdL2siy6ECzr8qk5QCHJ65qfvReGrtASFPDIg5w/s16000/AVvXsEjGmTMwGvvI4oMjcY7lvRAUg0iR5L-iuIIccMUHnLfgf9IKMmpw9mFUu6QkR3yuHF_l5z6HABbMclWlgkgJXkVxMX3kjctX384lIP9K98z4uLck4wPg02Pgqo1FCYAI--QZBf_z7w4UF06sgDA7lGvRNCMmY1-uw8MpDoy8Q0VJSXAj7DMd6x0VmDLRmA=s16000.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: I DIED A THOUSAND TIMES Year: 1955 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>It's strange that I DIED A THOUSAND TIMES, the 1955 practically scene-for-scene remake of the Humphrey Bogart noir classic HIGH SIERRA, didn't keep the same title since they moved that mountainous backdrop even closer to the characters, where most of the dialogue-backed action takes place... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>A fishing retreat with Jack Palance in Bogart's shoes, fresh out of prison with a job to knock off a plush hotel full of jewelry; and like Bogart he isn't very thrilled with the gang he's in charge of...<br></p><span></span>

dennis hopper, earl holliman, fifties, film noir or melodrama, heist, jack palance, lee marvin, lon chaney jr., lori nelson, perry lopez, remake, richard davalos, shelley winters, warner archives

TECHNICOLOR 'HIGH SIERRA' REMAKE 'I DIED A THOUSAND TIMES'

Title: I DIED A THOUSAND TIMES Year: 1955 Rating: ***1/2 It's strange that I DIED A THOUSAND TIMES, the 1955 practically scene-for-scene...

ROBERT BLAKE LEADS 'THE PURPLE GANG' WITH JOSEPH TURKEL

<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/AVvXsEhQPqYA8XvGQuzIHBsyG8nfjL-0hyDneGrwhSYe1V0fxOViFXA6a66PNBChATmU9AHGqPgMtov9a0S1IwQDkCOiIVm4UW1YHDRqWLShMN0iKC8CmhbxeLu0_YyC3paDuGF3LvzYNw0FKRklvaQzWIbY0vjJEIrFAlbLkIk9kVek0pCBeyX_ko4khAa8QA/s1598/Screen%20Shot%202023-03-10%20at%203.56.30%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="725" data-original-width="1598" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQPqYA8XvGQuzIHBsyG8nfjL-0hyDneGrwhSYe1V0fxOViFXA6a66PNBChATmU9AHGqPgMtov9a0S1IwQDkCOiIVm4UW1YHDRqWLShMN0iKC8CmhbxeLu0_YyC3paDuGF3LvzYNw0FKRklvaQzWIbY0vjJEIrFAlbLkIk9kVek0pCBeyX_ko4khAa8QA/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-03-10%20at%203.56.30%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert Blake in THE PURPLE GANG Year: 1960 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>“The whole rhythm section was the Purple Gang,” sang Elvis Presley from his JAILHOUSE ROCK… And while roaring loose on the outside, THE PURPLE GANG keep a steady rhythm and wily pace, yet are ultimately a mere cog in a “law propaganda” wheel as an ultra serious cop, in this case Barry Sullivan’s Police Lt. William P. Harley, lets us know, right off the bat, just how bad these bad guys are and that crime doesn’t pay, and there aren’t any benefits, either.<br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p> <div style="text-align: right;"> </div><p> </p><p>Despite the restrictions from the late-50’s channeling 30’s gangster flicks, more than that present time’s more ambiguous Film Noirs, Robert Blake as William Joseph “Honeyboy” Willard packs a genuine machine gun wallop... </p><p><span></span></p>

action, barry sullivan, biopic, gangster, joe turkel, marc cavell, neo noir, robert blake, sixties, warner archives

ROBERT BLAKE LEADS 'THE PURPLE GANG' WITH JOSEPH TURKEL

Robert Blake in THE PURPLE GANG Year: 1960 Rating: **1/2 “The whole rhythm section was the Purple Gang,” sang Elvis Presley from his JAILH...

WARREN DOUGLAS IN THE GANGSTER NOIR 'BELOW THE DEADLINE'

<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/AVvXsEg2R24ces8ECVz7Ju6gUllJtXnKvSpk8T4zMsb30T2T85S4E0RZOr_ntQE5c17i-ELBIp51ABfgNYwrgH2v6604ROyUcsZ7OZZIUlYmbYUpq-nvFmb3Ln63dPRUmD7Sc_ljBCvZlCs0lZe24G543uUx_SKzJkbXmiDfCiCxgKvyS9Tvtj0XueGliWpq_w/s1606/Screen%20Shot%202023-04-27%20at%2012.34.03%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="956" data-original-width="1606" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2R24ces8ECVz7Ju6gUllJtXnKvSpk8T4zMsb30T2T85S4E0RZOr_ntQE5c17i-ELBIp51ABfgNYwrgH2v6604ROyUcsZ7OZZIUlYmbYUpq-nvFmb3Ln63dPRUmD7Sc_ljBCvZlCs0lZe24G543uUx_SKzJkbXmiDfCiCxgKvyS9Tvtj0XueGliWpq_w/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-04-27%20at%2012.34.03%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Warren Douglas, </u><u>Ramsay Ames</u><u> & George Meeker in Below the Deadline Year: 1946 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Little known or discussed Gangster Film Noir where our main man "Jumpin' Joe" Hilton is just that... And in the role, Warren Douglas is perfect. He seems ready for anything and yet is cool as that proverbial cucumber... in an ice box: Just returned from World War II, having inherited his slain, more proper and distinguished (and pretentious) older brother's gambling outfit, he's got just about everything, literally...<br> <br> Including a beautiful young dame in Ramsay Ames's Lynn, going from a roulette wheel worker to the girl who chips at his icy heart... Which is what makes Joe a worthy Noir persona, initially moving forward like a shark: But as cold-blooded as he may be, his recent-past... which had lasted five grueling years... provides a light at the end of the tunnel...<br> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p>

clancy cooper, film noir or melodrama, forties, gangster, george meeker, jan wiley, paul maxey, philip van zandt, ramsay ames, warner archives, warren douglas

WARREN DOUGLAS IN THE GANGSTER NOIR 'BELOW THE DEADLINE'

Warren Douglas, Ramsay Ames & George Meeker in Below the Deadline Year: 1946 Rating: ***1/2 Little known or discussed Gangster Film No...

RYAN O'NEAL WITH JACK WARDEN AND RICHARD KIEL IN 'SO FINE'

<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/AVvXsEjxvi3L9p5KzqhZWsFT2AimSDLKKTdbOGlQNVekIiLAMuoF_YACxByg7T9988nV6KyXKZ6t_BpzEAYXKgGeSYCP6pWsMU2CECVlc0iktYmNbY3wpIQiFa8CQMmo_mzedCibxZRGlb07Tik8lvQYm_Hykk4up44hKfFiOVk5RzvKiPg0gIxBugK1itTwV8um/s1485/Screen%20Shot%202022-03-14%20at%209.14.58%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="987" data-original-width="1485" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxvi3L9p5KzqhZWsFT2AimSDLKKTdbOGlQNVekIiLAMuoF_YACxByg7T9988nV6KyXKZ6t_BpzEAYXKgGeSYCP6pWsMU2CECVlc0iktYmNbY3wpIQiFa8CQMmo_mzedCibxZRGlb07Tik8lvQYm_Hykk4up44hKfFiOVk5RzvKiPg0gIxBugK1itTwV8um/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-03-14%20at%209.14.58%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: SO FINE Year: 1981 Rating: ^^^</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>There were comedies not that funny yet still provided a fair amount of entertainment. And in some cases, the actual plot took place halfway in and wound up not meaning a lot to the actual structure of the film, story, or characters...  <br> <br> One such vehicle is the semi-slapstick SO FINE by first time director and usual Hollywood writer Andrew Bergman, in which Ryan O'Neal plays a semi-stuffy college professor up for tenure...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

comedy, eighties, exploitation, fashion, gangster, jack warden, john stockwell, richard kiel, ryan o'neal, warner archives

RYAN O'NEAL WITH JACK WARDEN AND RICHARD KIEL IN 'SO FINE'

Title: SO FINE Year: 1981 Rating: ^^^ There were comedies not that funny yet still provided a fair amount of entertainment. And in some cas...

ROD STEIGER COMMANDS 'THE SERGEANT' WITH JOHN PHILLIP LAW

<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><p></p><p></p><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/AVvXsEhSc4_ix08RGWWjEjiNTtMyoegbGtX0-CRzPH7Vk78cUfzLpmMco3cK15XCAk116vxFKrugb4F-axvt3QQIkQfh4z_qnceEn_V-qT4ZQASiqiX3OUy5lntBpKnCqXS2hPNanj8AikeTWJoLgLnT7OghVMqpyes1lzlMaQPDmMHrzDIr-yPGjOefWwKfdQ/s992/Screen%20Shot%202023-05-15%20at%204.28.33%20AM.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="699" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSc4_ix08RGWWjEjiNTtMyoegbGtX0-CRzPH7Vk78cUfzLpmMco3cK15XCAk116vxFKrugb4F-axvt3QQIkQfh4z_qnceEn_V-qT4ZQASiqiX3OUy5lntBpKnCqXS2hPNanj8AikeTWJoLgLnT7OghVMqpyes1lzlMaQPDmMHrzDIr-yPGjOefWwKfdQ/w225-h320/Screen%20Shot%202023-05-15%20at%204.28.33%20AM.jpeg" width="225"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1968 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>It's not just <i>what</i> THE SERGEANT is about, or even <i>who</i> it's about: An American World War II hero returned to France ten years later for an otherwise breezy peacetime gig not as risky or daring...</p><p>This Army Sergeant of military construction laborers wielding old-school brass tactics to shape things up... until both someone <i>and</i> something distracts him... because MSgt. Albert Callan is a closet homosexual, and on the surface, Rod Steiger portrays a lonesome Army lifer who finally finds a true friend he can mentor and/or simply hang around with...</p><p></p><p></p><p>Of course it's deeper than that... but as a film from 1968 <i>about</i> 1952, John Flynn directs with a unique, strategic, cautious approach aptly suited for and catered to Steiger's creepy-harsh yet desperately sympathetic performance...</p><p></p><p>And on the other side is tall, handsome John Phillip Law, who often plays calm wooden types but he plays them well... His targeted Pfc. Swanson to Steiger's subtle style of persuasive bullying... after being shifted to his personal office clerk... is, in its own way, equal to the intense title role...<br> </p><p>Law's oblivious reactions to the passive/aggressive action that only an offbeat genius like Steiger could effectively pull off within this sparse, subtle maze countered by French starlet Ludmila Mikaël as Law's gorgeous town-next-door girlfriend (who he's captivated with like Steiger is to him), caught in the middle of something that would not only be considered completely impossible back then, but never fathomed in the first place: And yet, putting the controversial theme aside, THE SERGEANT is an outright buddy flick bromance coinciding with the gentle male/female love story. Surprisingly, it's the latter that comparably lacks conviction and seduction.</p><p><span></span></p>

controversial, drama, exploitation, frank latimore, homosexual, john flynn, john phillip law, ludmila mikaël, military, rod steiger, sixties, warner archives

ROD STEIGER COMMANDS 'THE SERGEANT' WITH JOHN PHILLIP LAW

Year: 1968 Rating: ****1/2 It's not just what THE SERGEANT is about, or even who it's about: An American World War II hero return...

JAMES CAGNEY DRIVES 'THE ST. LOUIS KID' WITH ALLEN JENKINS

<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><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/AVvXsEiyjHtA9kPkv-N-FGuFpvaswDkEkTtIuRtK-X9DUfZ_TqNVHGHT3gYAPkZTTOvvHWyuFPSjtIRjEdYxf5cQ2CM0gd_mEsBpOH7J-rjZ-HUvowjkarHpBxpY6R1wRCxd_H2Dz_ZJWhVRTl0R7bPELoF-YlbXhuWkEEx-AqwZuaiK88Qf1xWsg_O1dauJXz76/s1080/385069195_1812194819209686_2458443501429365532_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="538" data-original-width="1080" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyjHtA9kPkv-N-FGuFpvaswDkEkTtIuRtK-X9DUfZ_TqNVHGHT3gYAPkZTTOvvHWyuFPSjtIRjEdYxf5cQ2CM0gd_mEsBpOH7J-rjZ-HUvowjkarHpBxpY6R1wRCxd_H2Dz_ZJWhVRTl0R7bPELoF-YlbXhuWkEEx-AqwZuaiK88Qf1xWsg_O1dauJXz76/s16000/385069195_1812194819209686_2458443501429365532_n.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE ST. LOUIS KID Year: 1934 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Great early James Cagney romp has he and glass-jaw sidekick Allen Jenkins as truck drivers going from the city into the country to deliver milk... And, troubled by a troubling dame and a group of protesting union farmers, Cagney's Eddie Kennedy wins over the town, mostly from a jail cell... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>He's initially sentenced from a fist-fight turned headbutt, in-between getting chewed out by his truck company boss, pressuring the duo to cross union lines where the only drama's injected, including violence... And residing in that cell (playing checkers with his jailers), he's able to sneak out at night... </p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, allen jenkins, comedy, dorothy dare, gertrude short, james cagney, patricia ellis, thirties, union, warner archives, wrong man

JAMES CAGNEY DRIVES 'THE ST. LOUIS KID' WITH ALLEN JENKINS

Title: THE ST. LOUIS KID Year: 1934 Rating: **** Great early James Cagney romp has he and glass-jaw sidekick Allen Jenkins as truck drivers ...

PETER FALK, LAURENE LANDON & VICKI FREDERICK 'ALL THE MARBLES'

<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><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/AVvXsEjJggmfm1hZ1vY1cgOoHkBtl0eu8bozAY9VUtX7rBJH3ZQ3wlRDFqqnXr_x4OwQyjnQv1TPdV_Oow_l0AVprgVr0wPN-kteclL4cbOfnSfFk_XLe1N-rhbK0r90fCu7pa1gM5vxXMYZnmMfC2l4SHb3vZN1sBUz6hrMyPCb6PiLySiTRpbISspkluQaAA/s1115/Screen%20Shot%202022-03-10%20at%207.16.31%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="616" data-original-width="1115" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJggmfm1hZ1vY1cgOoHkBtl0eu8bozAY9VUtX7rBJH3ZQ3wlRDFqqnXr_x4OwQyjnQv1TPdV_Oow_l0AVprgVr0wPN-kteclL4cbOfnSfFk_XLe1N-rhbK0r90fCu7pa1gM5vxXMYZnmMfC2l4SHb3vZN1sBUz6hrMyPCb6PiLySiTRpbISspkluQaAA/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-03-10%20at%207.16.31%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Vicki Frederick and Laurene Landon in ALL THE MARBLES Year: 1981 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Three dots following a sentence usually means... there's more to come... And when the opposite occurs, that's pretty much that: The first summing up the 1981 Peter Falk road movie …ALL THE MARBLES in which the quirky COLUMBO actor plays Harry, a lowlife manager of a female tag-team wrestling troupe going city to city...<br> <br> And since these ladies are already at the end of their professional ropes when the movie begins, those dots represent all the work we didn't see, and they really just want those damn marbles already...  <i> </i></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><i><span></span></i></p>

angela aames, burt young, eighties, exploitation, laurene landon, lenny montana, mike mazurski, peter falk, road movie, sport, vicki frederick, warner archives

PETER FALK, LAURENE LANDON & VICKI FREDERICK 'ALL THE MARBLES'

Vicki Frederick and Laurene Landon in ALL THE MARBLES Year: 1981 Rating: ***1/2 Three dots following a sentence usually means... there'...

JAMES CAAN AND PETER BOYLE IN THE NOIR ROAD MOVIE 'SLITHER'

<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><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/AVvXsEhmyDSeaQIPnKW9gANDS56ErDzOuoft7m1Ax6u4TNxOrlH53ghAnAZ9LbcbH6wSPwZBXChpAVfpRbNUtFVEi2UTvW-woLwDGjteZJR8_owtxjZ_2X5RcsKM2g_5lHeKMJA5TEYNpTHKvrA-RgqFQCWxZmwVgp0tg6izxQP5hytxJ_XDGWCbSMzZVnkE6FLg/s1798/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-30%20at%209.08.07%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="986" data-original-width="1798" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmyDSeaQIPnKW9gANDS56ErDzOuoft7m1Ax6u4TNxOrlH53ghAnAZ9LbcbH6wSPwZBXChpAVfpRbNUtFVEi2UTvW-woLwDGjteZJR8_owtxjZ_2X5RcsKM2g_5lHeKMJA5TEYNpTHKvrA-RgqFQCWxZmwVgp0tg6izxQP5hytxJ_XDGWCbSMzZVnkE6FLg/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-30%20at%209.08.07%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>James Caan in SLITHER Director: Howard Zieff Year: 1973 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Right after playing the tough, feisty Sonny Corleone in THE GODFATHER, square-jawed James Caan went another direction; but it takes around fifteen minutes into SLITHER to realize this particular hardened criminal (a freshly sprung ex-con) isn't really tough at all...<br> <br> As in, he doesn't prefer fighting, whether offense or defense, seeming dazedly reluctant when a cranky farmer wants to break his arm for hitchhiking... and what Caan holds back provides one of his best performances...<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></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>

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JAMES CAAN AND PETER BOYLE IN THE NOIR ROAD MOVIE 'SLITHER'

James Caan in SLITHER Director: Howard Zieff Year: 1973 Rating: ****1/2 Right after playing the tough, feisty Sonny Corleone in THE GODFATHE...

GLENN FORD IN 'THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE'

<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><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/AVvXsEj2WpAcgQ1EW290ypOs8CJiUws2wLFVw9E3WwkeTilOufLg3Ekuotism34PWOIsdF-ETK8NPuxRhSY9T6PsWG-vybGcX3xTJrmN9vX4FPy_fdYqWZn21JgBYvEPPvlT5_96X_A5U9-YCKrVgjbxHsb0KFTCF12ki4mglORwmhMr3dlHne9a4WSmrfJIsQ/s1170/Screen%20Shot%202022-03-27%20at%204.49.20%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="777" data-original-width="1170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2WpAcgQ1EW290ypOs8CJiUws2wLFVw9E3WwkeTilOufLg3Ekuotism34PWOIsdF-ETK8NPuxRhSY9T6PsWG-vybGcX3xTJrmN9vX4FPy_fdYqWZn21JgBYvEPPvlT5_96X_A5U9-YCKrVgjbxHsb0KFTCF12ki4mglORwmhMr3dlHne9a4WSmrfJIsQ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-03-27%20at%204.49.20%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>YEAR: 1962</u></td></tr></tbody></table>In GET SHORTY, John Travolta's movie fanatic gangster brags about going to see "Charlton Heston playing a Mexican" on the big screen, a pop culture punchline for the classic border killing Film Noir TOUCH OF EVIL, probably since there wasn't anywhere to go from that point... I</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">n actuality, Heston, known for chewing up intentionally overboard roles (many based on Biblical stories) is at his most subtle and genuine, turning in a surprisingly realistic and earthy performance while the likes of, "You damn dirty gringo!" is nowhere to be heard... </span><br> <br> <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/AVvXsEg67bdGiuiIoBoJWxt9tV1LvHQghEOA9Hw0rcgxWX66eL3zK15ND8_wI19WgVU1WywqTh3WHIY9P1LgHQz61pwygoI9ba6P_MjFcn5yjopmg27srYGFq2P3kmWohbqz0YEQgzLiE4DGdmlX/s1600/%2524%2528KGrHqV%252C%2521nsFJv%2529qWSH4BSeCeuekbg--60_1.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg67bdGiuiIoBoJWxt9tV1LvHQghEOA9Hw0rcgxWX66eL3zK15ND8_wI19WgVU1WywqTh3WHIY9P1LgHQz61pwygoI9ba6P_MjFcn5yjopmg27srYGFq2P3kmWohbqz0YEQgzLiE4DGdmlX/s400/%2524%2528KGrHqV%252C%2521nsFJv%2529qWSH4BSeCeuekbg--60_1.jpg" width="277"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Warner Archive Original Blue Cover</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> The same goes for Glenn Ford, a much more subtle and overall dependable actor to begin with, as the rich grandson of boisterous old-timer Lee J. Cobb; both are from Argentina; Ford a flaky, would-be painter hanging around Paris during the late 1930's without a care in the world — other than seducing a classy married French society dame played to perfection by Ingrid Thulin, whose husband is sent overseas to fight the Nazis: Those infamous devils being all too human here, including Ford's own cousin who was a med student in Germany before joining the Third Reich. This soft-spoken yet proud and intense young man is also the grandson of the family patriarch, Lee J. Cobb, who stretches a small amount of time onscreen to the hilt, and beyond...<br> <br> Leading to the most intense, memorable and important scene, and (arguably) the campiest. Cobb, who, along with grandson Ford, both bear the name of Julio (while looking entirely Caucasian), loses his mind after finding out, at a dinner party reunion, that one-third of his clan serve proudly under Adolf Hitler, making Cobb's Julio Sr. suffer a panic attack followed by a heart attack. Before which, he hallucinates the four title horsemen from the Bible's book of Revelations: a creepy and sinister vision riding the darkened clouds. This catapults a two-hour-plus soap operatic melodrama separating those against the Nazi takeover of France, like Julio's sister, a young idealistic college beauty, Yvette Mimieux, who tries to get her brother to stop having so much fun and to join the cause.<br>

charles boyer, epic, glenn ford, karlheinz böhm, lee j. cobb, melodrama, nazi, romance, sixties, war, warner archives, yvette mimieux

GLENN FORD IN 'THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE'

YEAR: 1962 In GET SHORTY, John Travolta's movie fanatic gangster brags about going to see "Charlton Heston playing a Mexican" ...

ROD STEIGER STARRING AS 'AL CAPONE' FEATURING FAY SPAIN

<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/AVvXsEiSUHQ-ROHfRSEMHYItdbj0IegmSYi-0HXz4JeTkUH_RhXgQsTdwsy4By_CNReGATLzrJ5hrCLmldIgs7wEk6k7WUZMkrfyLHOUyk0pSHX-HiffInZPzKsEWB2zS3D-wpmpNxfr97UpzK3xaVJqZepHgK_BcLawLmCtv5XY1BC1Aw1714ebJNING_PYfA/s399/Screen%20Shot%202022-03-24%20at%208.21.40%20PM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="261" data-original-width="399" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSUHQ-ROHfRSEMHYItdbj0IegmSYi-0HXz4JeTkUH_RhXgQsTdwsy4By_CNReGATLzrJ5hrCLmldIgs7wEk6k7WUZMkrfyLHOUyk0pSHX-HiffInZPzKsEWB2zS3D-wpmpNxfr97UpzK3xaVJqZepHgK_BcLawLmCtv5XY1BC1Aw1714ebJNING_PYfA/w400-h261/Screen%20Shot%202022-03-24%20at%208.21.40%20PM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>AL CAPONE Year of Release: 1959</u></td></tr></tbody></table>Like Jack Nicholson (intentionally or otherwise) displayed a little of pal <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2013/11/the-shining.html">Bruce Dern in THE SHINING</a>, perhaps Marlon Brando was influenced by his ON THE WATERFRONT brother in THE GODFATHER since Rod Steiger had played AL CAPONE with facial contortions that seem so natural that, if done by a lesser talent, would look contrived and pretentiously overboard...<br> <br> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhfuL1aSiO_Lks15ZNCdXaPtnWM3Hxssi0o0y_fyh-t0ShqhF-4_05wRfmy9hNfzO_KWKAq5uOuBMztI4sTFtoDF33MIxCwbO-pL8sdcJ9A7sctyY-0H5qy5FdVjgB2iq2EEoiukG93Ykq/s1600/77.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="551" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhfuL1aSiO_Lks15ZNCdXaPtnWM3Hxssi0o0y_fyh-t0ShqhF-4_05wRfmy9hNfzO_KWKAq5uOuBMztI4sTFtoDF33MIxCwbO-pL8sdcJ9A7sctyY-0H5qy5FdVjgB2iq2EEoiukG93Ykq/s320/77.jpg" width="182"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Capone Scores **** Bulletholes</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> In fact, this biopic is so subtle he seems more a blue collar ruffian than outright gangster: A sort of throwback to the olden days of Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson, Steiger's performance brings the mafia henchman turned head honcho through sparse narration by James Gregory as a trailing cop...<br> <br> <div style="text-align: right;"> </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/AVvXsEhb7acn5aWhszJx1JZyxdcrpM-PgS4DCdN42NtfearJ1p9A0esb2ht4u9iAiy0TweHSeT6L2FS4TKvWJiOQbqlgOac0Qkm0pmka_MCkz4iMnMUNXJwLiTuYPokx9r-pkSiFSv4XaYAq8iOU/s1600/Screen+Shot+2019-11-21+at+4.54.34+AM.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="853" data-original-width="586" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb7acn5aWhszJx1JZyxdcrpM-PgS4DCdN42NtfearJ1p9A0esb2ht4u9iAiy0TweHSeT6L2FS4TKvWJiOQbqlgOac0Qkm0pmka_MCkz4iMnMUNXJwLiTuYPokx9r-pkSiFSv4XaYAq8iOU/s400/Screen+Shot+2019-11-21+at+4.54.34+AM.jpeg" width="273"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Warner Archive Blue Cover</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Although there's no suspense that he might be kept from doing what he does best: killing to climb the ladder with a string of creative <i>whacks</i>, and yet the most improbable con is landing the wife of one of his otherwise incidental hits: And in that, Fay Spain, who'd be Hyman Roth's walk-on yet memorable wife in THE GODFATHER 2, is beyond a common love interest since it <i>is extremely</i> interesting how he seduces this beautiful mother and widow with the same determination that he takes on surrounding, paranoid and lethal enemies during the superior first half while the second deals mainly with his waning popularity leading to a rushed exile in Miami...<br> <br> But no matter where and how the film rides out, and along with crooked reporter Martin Balsam who verbally toys with Capone as if he were the moll instead of Fay, it's Steiger's his job alone to make an otherwise pretty-good feature pretty damn fantastic to watch, and keep rewatching again and again. You'll always see something different in his reactions to the spontaneously violent actions: He steals both the movie <i>and the story </i>that it's all loosely based upon. Forget the overrated Robert DeNiro UNTOUCHABLES Capone. It's Steiger's that can't be touched. <br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <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/AVvXsEj42djV8O1R2DnnO0QVje370RFfb6MQ_o5z31Dz_dNDDtiFknzOoayrVMI87yXueSvasiBbu7iW8qj0Vkrx1uwwg554wdH_SeZEteUVqSDaJGMrs8oTkx3Q6jItu0-gu2HrSuGkmkbPPGcU/s1600/1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="567" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj42djV8O1R2DnnO0QVje370RFfb6MQ_o5z31Dz_dNDDtiFknzOoayrVMI87yXueSvasiBbu7iW8qj0Vkrx1uwwg554wdH_SeZEteUVqSDaJGMrs8oTkx3Q6jItu0-gu2HrSuGkmkbPPGcU/s1600/1.jpg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Photos Screen Captures of the Warner Bros Neo Classic Gangster Rod Steiger starring AL CAPONE</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <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/AVvXsEhbWxx0QGaUmLpZcZu6ym5JOOCjVJyAv9q366_SftIUn1mmXnTYvN-JGJVs3A4fNSwtuASCT-yaMtBiMERK0GOpyD1o4tQ3e3SzxdKXhVhmosLKtJLr5CVVW5-uv9Nv9Url3NuaR1XS6s72/s1600/39799746_557813174647863_3919669737960767488_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="606" data-original-width="933" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbWxx0QGaUmLpZcZu6ym5JOOCjVJyAv9q366_SftIUn1mmXnTYvN-JGJVs3A4fNSwtuASCT-yaMtBiMERK0GOpyD1o4tQ3e3SzxdKXhVhmosLKtJLr5CVVW5-uv9Nv9Url3NuaR1XS6s72/s1600/39799746_557813174647863_3919669737960767488_n.jpg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Murvyn Vye as Bugs Moran and company give quite a blasting to Al Capone</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>

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ROD STEIGER STARRING AS 'AL CAPONE' FEATURING FAY SPAIN

AL CAPONE Year of Release: 1959 Like Jack Nicholson (intentionally or otherwise) displayed a little of pal Bruce Dern in THE SHINING , perh...

GLENN FORD IN GEORGE MARSHALL'S WESTERN 'THE SHEEPMAN'

<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/AVvXsEgEXNQ8CKMx0Yr5N8Fk0lF6F8km9hhtZrqDWGN4GpKvZk9b1PxJ3K_gstDt212cII61YNBtLpnn5f8QD-_yuzGwtj85-xYk6rm9vjBJ_FB2lhXwXI0436FSDtKyhi4sx_qzlqXVfs4PwQ5N1jtJEZ1QQIqvZs3rEQ4FDDdJUMYUOwhSMaDzdVouicFpXg/s1115/Screen%20Shot%202022-03-26%20at%201.35.44%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="738" data-original-width="1115" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEXNQ8CKMx0Yr5N8Fk0lF6F8km9hhtZrqDWGN4GpKvZk9b1PxJ3K_gstDt212cII61YNBtLpnn5f8QD-_yuzGwtj85-xYk6rm9vjBJ_FB2lhXwXI0436FSDtKyhi4sx_qzlqXVfs4PwQ5N1jtJEZ1QQIqvZs3rEQ4FDDdJUMYUOwhSMaDzdVouicFpXg/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-03-26%20at%201.35.44%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE SHEEPMAN Year: 1958 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>George Marshall's THE SHEEPMAN could have been a genuine satire, deliberately playing upon Western tropes as "stranger in town" Glenn Ford knows there's always the expository-spouting "cracker barrel philosopher" (Edgar Buchanan); the brawling bully everyone fears (Mickey Shaughnessy); and Leslie Neilsen as the powerful yet sophisticated villain, an old acquaintance of Ford's Jason Sweet about to marry local tomboy Shirley MacClaine.<br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Co-written by William Bowers, THE SHEEPMAN resembles his later <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/03/support1.html">SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SHERIFF</a> with a resilient sharpshooter who, no matter what's thrown at him, from fists to bullets, deals with cowboys protecting their cattle with the prospect of sheep... </p><p><span></span></p>

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GLENN FORD IN GEORGE MARSHALL'S WESTERN 'THE SHEEPMAN'

Title: THE SHEEPMAN Year: 1958 Rating: **** George Marshall's THE SHEEPMAN could have been a genuine satire, deliberately playing upon W...