BURT LANCASTER STEALING JOHN FRANKENHEIMER'S 'THE TRAIN'

<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/AVvXsEjS8-mulIS3BqT10g0Ax30bCyPwQSWwVFW0nzyuXb9sR3QZqjolhVbW2IZcsvY5Ori9XZ5y33swU5QLqR5td72rZ8a5Ie6iN1EXo36BaR1S95mya74DQ8Ms1J5zrMIY82mxbQczD6mH-q6zkxmf0ct1Cr0MtEEYMqV24qzMUqfEjKeBjMLlmqZ6bUsmQP-p/s1980/Screen%20Shot%202025-12-14%20at%201.03.35%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="940" data-original-width="1980" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS8-mulIS3BqT10g0Ax30bCyPwQSWwVFW0nzyuXb9sR3QZqjolhVbW2IZcsvY5Ori9XZ5y33swU5QLqR5td72rZ8a5Ie6iN1EXo36BaR1S95mya74DQ8Ms1J5zrMIY82mxbQczD6mH-q6zkxmf0ct1Cr0MtEEYMqV24qzMUqfEjKeBjMLlmqZ6bUsmQP-p/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-12-14%20at%201.03.35%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Lancaster in THE TRAIN Year: 1964 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Not since Jean Renior's French classic LA BÊTE HUMAINE has the rugged, grimy, grungy and grainy B&W workings of freight trains been so up-close and palpable... this an American-made war film about the French, where Burt Lancaster teams with director John Frankenheimer, an auteur inserting documentary-style camerawork into mainstream action...</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>That's not only about particular action-packed scenes but pretty much every movement: Lancaster (doing his own stunts) and fellow train-workers saving famous classic paintings from the Nazis at the tail-end of World War II...  <br></p><p><span></span></p>

action, burt lancaster, heist, jeanne moreau, john frankenheimer, paul scofield, sixties, train, wolfgang preiss, world war II

BURT LANCASTER STEALING JOHN FRANKENHEIMER'S 'THE TRAIN'

Burt Lancaster in THE TRAIN Year: 1964 Rating: ***1/2 Not since Jean Renior's French classic LA BÊTE HUMAINE has the rugged, grimy, grun...

MEGUMI ODAKA & ANNA NAKAGAWA 'GODZILLA VS. KING GHIDORAH'

<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/AVvXsEjAUPIwJc7iib8-MX-g4dt8esbVAAXPHJPT7xNVApP5fbwHwdBujH8mlycQ6IOv1EdhzNA-j2P3dHDpCoHatRw1qdhKhCKryJHA1EATnjvvp80WiFiAxRagKjSFnMnacHOfc1dQ2f8c5PhSOuG06BHAjeQidaSNiTsJb8SfSJXatOp1awp8lPsjuX1XNYet/s1130/Screen%20Shot%202025-03-22%20at%2011.54.02%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="656" data-original-width="1130" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAUPIwJc7iib8-MX-g4dt8esbVAAXPHJPT7xNVApP5fbwHwdBujH8mlycQ6IOv1EdhzNA-j2P3dHDpCoHatRw1qdhKhCKryJHA1EATnjvvp80WiFiAxRagKjSFnMnacHOfc1dQ2f8c5PhSOuG06BHAjeQidaSNiTsJb8SfSJXatOp1awp8lPsjuX1XNYet/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-03-22%20at%2011.54.02%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title; GODZILLA VS. KING GHIDORAH Year: 1991 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Before Toho's comeback <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2023/07/toho-goes-speilbergian-for-godzilla.html">GODZILLA MINUS ONE</a>, which was an all-out tribute to American filmmaker Steven Spielberg's JAWS, the late 1980's/1990's Godzilla franchise was paying him tribute as well...<br><br>In GODZILLA VS. MOTHRA: THE BATTLE FOR EARTH it's an Indiana Jones inspired archeologist, and before that GODZILLA VS. KING GHIDORAH uses time-travel straight from BACK TO THE FUTURE where a group of 23rd Century envoys wind up in modern day Japan, including gorgeous Anna Nakagawa as Emmy... <br></p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

action, anna nakagawa, dinosaur, franchise, godzilla, heisei era, japanese, megumi odaka, nineties, robert scott field, science-fiction, time travel, world war II

MEGUMI ODAKA & ANNA NAKAGAWA 'GODZILLA VS. KING GHIDORAH'

Title; GODZILLA VS. KING GHIDORAH Year: 1991 Rating: **** Before Toho's comeback GODZILLA MINUS ONE , which was an all-out tribute to Am...

JOHN GUILLERMIN'S 'THE BRIDGE AT REMAGEN' WITH BEN GAZARRA

<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/AVvXsEhGzNP0XqbXX9lYFs7JEbEOsq4bs8SI9AQuBjBkNNqkLS6N1A6zYDVmDpBXi7S_Jd4URsKbjKMzwLSXQuvhwGGD84mEAMBjtRyC9XmOZVTT6YKUqistWW-9HYrJ6AGEwsUXNmwvAFChM4X4JV7mGX3cvQDaCHDRHu10T7nf1YAs7vwFywV9TpOx_zdpyS_B/s1554/Screen%20Shot%202025-01-30%20at%2011.06.04%20PM%203%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="770" data-original-width="1554" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGzNP0XqbXX9lYFs7JEbEOsq4bs8SI9AQuBjBkNNqkLS6N1A6zYDVmDpBXi7S_Jd4URsKbjKMzwLSXQuvhwGGD84mEAMBjtRyC9XmOZVTT6YKUqistWW-9HYrJ6AGEwsUXNmwvAFChM4X4JV7mGX3cvQDaCHDRHu10T7nf1YAs7vwFywV9TpOx_zdpyS_B/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-01-30%20at%2011.06.04%20PM%203%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>George Segal and Ben Gazzara in The Bridge at Remagen Year: 1969 Rates: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>George Segal had already played a resilient soldier in a World War II movie, KING RAT, who scrounges off the dead and unlucky to make money from the living...<br><br>Which is Ben Gazarra's scene-stealing maverick role in British director John Guillermin's THE BRIDGE AT REMAGEN as secondary-lead to Segal's authority-hating, war-weary lieutenant...</p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

anna gaël, ben gazzara, bo hopkins, bradford dillman, e.g. marshall, george segal, hans christian blech, john guillermin, matt clark, robert logan, sixties, steve sandor, world war II

JOHN GUILLERMIN'S 'THE BRIDGE AT REMAGEN' WITH BEN GAZARRA

George Segal and Ben Gazzara in The Bridge at Remagen Year: 1969 Rates: *** George Segal had already played a resilient soldier in a World W...

WILLIAM HOLDEN AND NANCY OLSON IN 'SUBMARINE COMMAND'

<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/AVvXsEgX97R_krL4-Ym-uKwEVch7H4ccl18ox8mLLI4JNdgtYNPeJ17pIstm8Sx1gdpDj8y1RuvoWL26V8XCAVfMnbMhdEhXyGlfzeE-rsUdGlTZDUzXiiIPq0TsFVrJxLBlbEpn8XehMi-LEt2hAWz3LXsiC5vyIrFFoCJWJIe9AtT5DPWwqDIH7-LVkVcLzjQ2/s1253/2%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="927" data-original-width="1253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX97R_krL4-Ym-uKwEVch7H4ccl18ox8mLLI4JNdgtYNPeJ17pIstm8Sx1gdpDj8y1RuvoWL26V8XCAVfMnbMhdEhXyGlfzeE-rsUdGlTZDUzXiiIPq0TsFVrJxLBlbEpn8XehMi-LEt2hAWz3LXsiC5vyIrFFoCJWJIe9AtT5DPWwqDIH7-LVkVcLzjQ2/s16000/2%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: SUBMARINE COMMAND Year: 1951 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Imagine THE CAINE MUTINY, without a mutiny, and you might have the William Holden vehicle SUBMARINE COMMAND (actually more like THE FROGMEN) co-starring SUNSET BOULEVARD girl-next-door Nancy Olson as the wife of Holden's Lt. Commander Ken White, who, initially second-in-charge within the titular vessel, makes a quick decision to submerge when the stalwart/popular captain's still outside...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The audience can see he's been hit by a Japanese zero but the drama relies on Holden's character not knowing if the death was by gunfire or drowning, the latter to save the crew... yet what really matters is stocky CPO Boyer's opinion, and, played by always reliable William Bendix, he doesn't like Holden's guilt-ridden second-guessing lieutenant one bit...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, arthur franz, don taylor, drama, fifties, nancy olson, william bendix, william holden, world war II

WILLIAM HOLDEN AND NANCY OLSON IN 'SUBMARINE COMMAND'

Title: SUBMARINE COMMAND Year: 1951 Rating: *** Imagine THE CAINE MUTINY, without a mutiny, and you might have the William Holden vehicle SU...

JAMES CAGNEY WITH RICHARD CONTE IN '13 RUE MADELEINE'

<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/AVvXsEiquXOAZXdln2FZLBqKH_mmuUBVI3i5PM8P2uSEEP24zuPyOTDpmHwmBq41GIzTEi_tpgGUTHZURBDI5py8HzzIvnkUgN5x0SxS6JyU-h8Bpt8Ifs4BGlGAg7T8niX1Cvq0TKcMUGitUut6RTCGZv15UrV8Xyp0nqDcZ5HLsk9z4f7KnU1FT9Qzub9okWPl/s1346/Screen%20Shot%202025-08-02%20at%207.34.27%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiquXOAZXdln2FZLBqKH_mmuUBVI3i5PM8P2uSEEP24zuPyOTDpmHwmBq41GIzTEi_tpgGUTHZURBDI5py8HzzIvnkUgN5x0SxS6JyU-h8Bpt8Ifs4BGlGAg7T8niX1Cvq0TKcMUGitUut6RTCGZv15UrV8Xyp0nqDcZ5HLsk9z4f7KnU1FT9Qzub9okWPl/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-08-02%20at%207.34.27%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>James Cagney and Richard Conte in RUE MADELEINE Year: 1947 Rating: ***1/2 </u></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p></p><p>In the 1940's, James Cagney went to war... well, not literally... but at forty-years old and already an iconic movie star, once WW2 began, he put away his wise-guy garb and did only patriotic features...</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>Which is unfortunate, as the soldiers overseas would probably rather cheer Cagney on in another ROARING TWENTIES-style vehicle to get their minds off reality... But maybe these features were for American audiences to see what sacrifices were going on overseas... </p><span></span>

espionage, forties, frank latimore, henry hathaway, james cagney, karl malden, richard conte, sam jaffe, spy, thriller, world war II

JAMES CAGNEY WITH RICHARD CONTE IN '13 RUE MADELEINE'

James Cagney and Richard Conte in RUE MADELEINE Year: 1947 Rating: ***1/2 In the 1940's, James Cagney went to war... well, not literally...

PAUL MASSIE STARS IN 'ORDERS TO KILL' FEARTURING EDDIE ALBERT

<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/AVvXsEjGhtsJfXg7oc9uwVABiHbHmGvvWXwURFjk2n2Nc7zqZZ0bNLiMEjuS8uPEfIB-dQgRYiN1pMojBFa7iNlPmhuYp7urJi4NXBnNbDucV3FGWXF_q0GsnU8dJRzPiFiN7XALEUw809_GEBxAS0vZBuSyiR4I3y8BIWp_Fpm-yg2LO0z1cn1thc1_UV6cti2Q/s1850/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-20%20at%202.40.16%20PM-1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="944" data-original-width="1850" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGhtsJfXg7oc9uwVABiHbHmGvvWXwURFjk2n2Nc7zqZZ0bNLiMEjuS8uPEfIB-dQgRYiN1pMojBFa7iNlPmhuYp7urJi4NXBnNbDucV3FGWXF_q0GsnU8dJRzPiFiN7XALEUw809_GEBxAS0vZBuSyiR4I3y8BIWp_Fpm-yg2LO0z1cn1thc1_UV6cti2Q/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-20%20at%202.40.16%20PM-1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: ORDERS TO KILL Year: 1958 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>It's after forty-five minutes when first-billed American actor Eddie Albert sees second-billed Canadian actor <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/07/2F.html">Paul Massie</a> off to France in this British anti-war film that really begins with Massie's Gene Summers on a central mission to kill a French Resistance double-crosser, who had sold out the last five spies to the Germans...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>So after the initial training sessions where a somewhat robotic Massie (originally ordered by <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/03/HellisACity.html">John Crawford</a> with a cameo by Lilian Gish as his mother), trained by Albert to be as cold-blooded as possible (without being too glib about it), ORDERS TO KILL becomes a kind of Hitchcock style suspense flick with mousy Leslie French as the target, so downright friendly and affably neurotic, the inevitable moral dilemma finally kicks into gear...</p><p><span></span></p>

british, edward albert, espionage, fifties, irene worth, john crawford, leslie french, lilian gish, paul massie, world war II

PAUL MASSIE STARS IN 'ORDERS TO KILL' FEARTURING EDDIE ALBERT

Title: ORDERS TO KILL Year: 1958 Rating: **** It's after forty-five minutes when first-billed American actor Eddie Albert sees second-bi...

HARRISON FORD AND ROBERT SHAW ‘FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE’

<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/AVvXsEjod6kTpQwSQjcUq4QAhSzSzeJe3zNpZ7Qv_FVXtqUm2bpwosEA9kuKn9cUb8axQYt58nNtNM05Cu4l3dJpifztslybzY0olLiaGjwvSShPHbBMBJNM8LY0wS0_KAs0WWl5D4EfRZVseDB_q-nPqqL9g5M-NdA6AdCiWL4fu-cTFU-BSytl_ww_HFM4frGO/s1394/3%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="758" data-original-width="1394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjod6kTpQwSQjcUq4QAhSzSzeJe3zNpZ7Qv_FVXtqUm2bpwosEA9kuKn9cUb8axQYt58nNtNM05Cu4l3dJpifztslybzY0olLiaGjwvSShPHbBMBJNM8LY0wS0_KAs0WWl5D4EfRZVseDB_q-nPqqL9g5M-NdA6AdCiWL4fu-cTFU-BSytl_ww_HFM4frGO/s16000/3%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE Year: 1978 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>It was unnecessary starting FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE with an introduction about the original GUNS OF NAVARONE since the two have no important connections with each other, other than the same primary leads — replacing Gregory Peck with Robert Shaw and David Niven with Edward Fox as Mallory and Miller, respectively... <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>While adding the newly-popular Harrison Ford from the previous years' STAR WARS as grouchy yet intrepid, sharp-shooting American Captain Barnsby, who, with his own secret mission, is initially spiteful working alongside the veteran Brits — and as an actor joined the list of scene-stealers from then-current blockbusters, including Shaw himself, the jovially-cantankerous shark-hunter Quint from JAWS, albeit classy and reserved here (playing the central role)...<br></p><p><span></span></p>

action, alan badel, angus macInnes, barbara bach, carl weathers, franco nero, guy hamilton, harrison ford, michael byrne, philip latham, richard kiel, robert shaw, sequel, world war II

HARRISON FORD AND ROBERT SHAW ‘FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE’

Title: FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE Year: 1978 Rating: ****1/2 It was unnecessary starting FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE with an introduction about the o...

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...

HUMPHREY BOGART & LAUREN BACALL 'TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT'

<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/AVvXsEhhZF2XwOULxq2-7vzidub8EE7pMH7cPRv6rA2x1AErUbBg3aAXikZ0CC6cuDCWzJNY7FgOmbMdWw8zszro5VMZHl2junGIwcSL0dY5Kv_72AOTMgsHwasUk7EQukbSD9sSmA0lifPcua3-KaRhof90JlzE2r2zKHrtis4JwX3Qen2QPCG8y6-y7ExBhAt2/s1086/Screen%20Shot%202023-11-02%20at%204.39.07%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="557" data-original-width="1086" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhZF2XwOULxq2-7vzidub8EE7pMH7cPRv6rA2x1AErUbBg3aAXikZ0CC6cuDCWzJNY7FgOmbMdWw8zszro5VMZHl2junGIwcSL0dY5Kv_72AOTMgsHwasUk7EQukbSD9sSmA0lifPcua3-KaRhof90JlzE2r2zKHrtis4JwX3Qen2QPCG8y6-y7ExBhAt2/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-11-02%20at%204.39.07%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT Year: 1944 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>After Lauren Bacall, in her first feature film, says her iconic line about knowing how to whistle and leaves the room, there's a closeup on American charter boat captain Harry 'Steve' Morgan played by Humphrey Bogart, where he practically looks into the camera while doing a wolf-whistle, giving a knowing grin that seems more like a contrived promotion for the lovely newcomer than part of an action thriller, very loosely based on the novel... originally a magazine serial in pulp fiction style... by Ernest Hemingway...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>However there are a few faithful elements, like the initial fishing trip with irate customer Walter Sande and Bogart's rummy sidekick Walter Brennan, who needs a drink every minute... only this being a movie, the score <i>Mickey Mouses</i> in a dated fashion (mirroring exact character movements), especially with Brennan who, despite being a pathetic lush, is the supposed comic relief in a picture with comedy as one of the genres...</p><span></span>

action, adventure, british film noir/melodrama, ernest hemingway, forties, howard hawks, humphrey bogart, lauren bacall, walter brennan, world war II

HUMPHREY BOGART & LAUREN BACALL 'TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT'

Title: TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT Year: 1944 Rating: ***1/2 After Lauren Bacall, in her first feature film, says her iconic line about knowing how...

MARK HARMON, EMMA SAMMS & ROBERT FORSTER 'GOLIATH AWAITS'

<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/AVvXsEgXB_9JN0FljEoL0ilk6KGFiq0ncKMdfRd3-EhTQGYFU7Utrwu_4PLLbfbAkBIOSGverKtsxqbhmG5TUvIqVfcLr8AHAYXZT3UHy7njppmchZ63YmKPiMIDrH-DzUx8wl4uhH95_Vf8P3uZmd0MAzjlgzc3XySq9ILH1co2YY4iDcstiReCGLMOdTeiXmfO/s2048/more%20yellow%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1191" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXB_9JN0FljEoL0ilk6KGFiq0ncKMdfRd3-EhTQGYFU7Utrwu_4PLLbfbAkBIOSGverKtsxqbhmG5TUvIqVfcLr8AHAYXZT3UHy7njppmchZ63YmKPiMIDrH-DzUx8wl4uhH95_Vf8P3uZmd0MAzjlgzc3XySq9ILH1co2YY4iDcstiReCGLMOdTeiXmfO/s16000/more%20yellow%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Tittle: GOLIATH AWAITS 1981 Emma Samms, Mark Harmon, Robert Forster Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Less than two-hours into the three-plus-hour GOLIATH AWAITS there's an establishing shot of the titular sunken ship that had been torpedoed by Germans at the brink of World War II, 1939... at which point most of the sci-fi mystery-genre-suspense has passively morphed into a kind of comfortably melodramatic TV-series instead of miniseries... which centers on rescuing a group of survivors still existing in the ship after forty years...</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>The reasons for their otherwise impossible survival is told in various tour-guided monologues... either by ship's savior Christopher Lee or his chaste daughter Emma Samms who has — after seeing diver Mark Harmon from a porthole — fallen in love with the salvaging American: himself spending the first forty-five minutes getting into the ship's hull with Robert Forster as a more even-keeled Navy man (also Harmon's ex Navy partner)... seeking an important document for military boss Eddie Albert, who randomly barks orders from above, mirroring a disaster flick inside the airport tower... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

christopher lee, eighties, emma samms, john carradine, mark harmon, robert forster, world war II

MARK HARMON, EMMA SAMMS & ROBERT FORSTER 'GOLIATH AWAITS'

Tittle: GOLIATH AWAITS 1981 Emma Samms, Mark Harmon, Robert Forster Rating: ***1/2 Less than two-hours into the three-plus-hour GOLIATH AWAI...

STEVE MCQUEEN STARS IN DONALD SIEGEL'S 'HELL IS FOR HEROES'

<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/AVvXsEj1FQdGv77u3lnVLrbn92l7zIrDX6W019CK_icomnfi5HqUq0Diz3GYfwHIaB4IehfIkbKMiOrhdpOZwtgD_GrtMQczeRNVYfgMXtCO1Sru4VGOjEXTMTyAVE9ygcVtrg0G3dREjuCdFuQZtR9A9-MiHcEMe32KjqE9Xp_Tru1NDQfN9fQmdZzHJ9n-Domc/s2048/367404449_1785533148542520_1594276651702841283_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="904" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1FQdGv77u3lnVLrbn92l7zIrDX6W019CK_icomnfi5HqUq0Diz3GYfwHIaB4IehfIkbKMiOrhdpOZwtgD_GrtMQczeRNVYfgMXtCO1Sru4VGOjEXTMTyAVE9ygcVtrg0G3dREjuCdFuQZtR9A9-MiHcEMe32KjqE9Xp_Tru1NDQfN9fQmdZzHJ9n-Domc/s16000/367404449_1785533148542520_1594276651702841283_n.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: HELL IS FOR HEROES Year: 1962 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>When Bob Newhart is doing the same one-way-telephone bit that made him famous enough to have a comic relief role in director Don Siegel's otherwise intense World War II flick HELL IS FOR HEROES, he actually surprisingly fits since there's a reason behind that call... <br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Otherwise HELL is one of those sparse, brooding and melancholy vehicles... involving a meager troop of eclectic American soldiers, ironically having to do what the anemic production was actually saddled with — stretch a little into a lot, herein providing only a few men to do the job of an entire platoon, and with very limited special effects or extras...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, bob newhart, bobby darin, don siegel, harry guardino, james coburn, mike kellin, nick adams, steve mcqueen, world war II

STEVE MCQUEEN STARS IN DONALD SIEGEL'S 'HELL IS FOR HEROES'

Title: HELL IS FOR HEROES Year: 1962 Rating: *** When Bob Newhart is doing the same one-way-telephone bit that made him famous enough to hav...

ROBERT ALDRICH'S WAR MISSION ENSEMBLE OF 'THE DIRTY DOZEN'

<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/AVvXsEh4A3mAlkqkzEWXXuE7iD67pT2OI90JhKxiFPx_lKve_b-yiye7g-VQxzZ0RnjcpIPZllqFN6piNJxUjA5YpFqWclE3J951hevwjrPpoM2uaAqIUn7G2o67Anh9P73Xgereg3N4fzDempdGd83nl7jkM5RCvo5TD-u2tDPsfM3B_PqjKVxc_U2pIy4dJQ/s1946/Screen%20Shot%202023-05-29%20at%205.48.43%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="970" data-original-width="1946" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4A3mAlkqkzEWXXuE7iD67pT2OI90JhKxiFPx_lKve_b-yiye7g-VQxzZ0RnjcpIPZllqFN6piNJxUjA5YpFqWclE3J951hevwjrPpoM2uaAqIUn7G2o67Anh9P73Xgereg3N4fzDempdGd83nl7jkM5RCvo5TD-u2tDPsfM3B_PqjKVxc_U2pIy4dJQ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-05-29%20at%205.48.43%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Charles Bronson and Jim Brown in THE DIRTY DOZEN Year: 1967 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Both THE GREAT ESCAPE and THE DIRTY DOZEN have a lot in common yet are completely different as World War II adventure films... the first has a group of POW's escaping from the Germans while the second involves American convicts training to <i>enter</i> Germany, as both somewhat awkwardly balance comedy with drama, and, while entertaining popcorn time-fillers, they're predictably and painfully mainstream...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>While ESCAPE centered on many men hoping to tunnel out, only a handful are centered on, which happens with DOZEN: but THE DIRTY HALF-DOZEN lacks the catchy alliteration... </p><p><span></span></p>

charles bronson, clint walker, donald sutherland, jim brown, john cassavetes, lee marvin, mission, ralph meeker, robert aldrich, telly savalas, war, world war II

ROBERT ALDRICH'S WAR MISSION ENSEMBLE OF 'THE DIRTY DOZEN'

Charles Bronson and Jim Brown in THE DIRTY DOZEN Year: 1967 Rating: ***1/2 Both THE GREAT ESCAPE and THE DIRTY DOZEN have a lot in common ye...

JAMES CAGNEY IN 'CAPTAINS OF THE CLOUDS' WITH DENNIS MORGAN

<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/AVvXsEj12dTqYmLWlzNBb6EOGJKerGXFnvrK7uO5CBURVx1beh2EN4QFtalJc7_mfARJWd7F6EXpVWfq6cJazLN7jQSt2q7WS2_KZJL6lC4gK9dXze4s_sIZYg6UsJiGBZroC4HWGtkPOgp_BpWn0igf8I7tcLSfPBxT97HoAVTa4pELOcr61lliYNRswNXj-w/s1287/s-l1600%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="835" data-original-width="1287" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj12dTqYmLWlzNBb6EOGJKerGXFnvrK7uO5CBURVx1beh2EN4QFtalJc7_mfARJWd7F6EXpVWfq6cJazLN7jQSt2q7WS2_KZJL6lC4gK9dXze4s_sIZYg6UsJiGBZroC4HWGtkPOgp_BpWn0igf8I7tcLSfPBxT97HoAVTa4pELOcr61lliYNRswNXj-w/s16000/s-l1600%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>James Cagney, Brenda Marshall, Dennis Morgan in Captains of the Clouds Year: 1942 Rates: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>James Cagney’s stalwart expression on the poster, and a glorious title like CAPTAINS OF THE CLOUDS involving Canadian Bush Pilots training to fight in World War II, could be misleading for anyone loving the tough, snarky, womanizing Cagney: the persona that built his reputation before venturing into more serious matters – especially after the Second World War broke out...<br> <br> But most of this film has the pint-sized icon of the previous decade, naturally playing a daredevil pilot stealing jobs from his fellow airmen (also including affable Cagney cinema regulars George Tobias and Alan Hale Sr.), using every trick in the book and being shrewder than ever...<br> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><span></span>

action, adventure, airplane, alan hale sr, brenda marshall, buddy, dennis morgan, forties, george tobias, james cagney, michael curtiz, reginald gardiner, romance, war, world war II

JAMES CAGNEY IN 'CAPTAINS OF THE CLOUDS' WITH DENNIS MORGAN

James Cagney, Brenda Marshall, Dennis Morgan in Captains of the Clouds Year: 1942 Rates: ***1/2 James Cagney’s stalwart expression on the p...

MICHAEL WINNER DIRECTS OLIVER REED IN 'HANNIBAL BROOKS'

<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></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><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/AVvXsEgNOp0MSjHb0QcrIj9pIpQdMlDxOzx46ZSDOp34n_LHmXbjmuHNkg2UCDFccQwgbeeaYgLgNLsv0FEX9pFPL3xTF43OIx9tl3pneSSqky39CDTljNbgduUN2lx9MFvW9VFBNm4vSev6d7QmbjlATrIUxEpuuK8WQoIs1o1YJWBypo_xCwjIEWZuXeuQCNsO/s1936/Screen%20Shot%202024-01-15%20at%205.22.12%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1106" data-original-width="1936" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNOp0MSjHb0QcrIj9pIpQdMlDxOzx46ZSDOp34n_LHmXbjmuHNkg2UCDFccQwgbeeaYgLgNLsv0FEX9pFPL3xTF43OIx9tl3pneSSqky39CDTljNbgduUN2lx9MFvW9VFBNm4vSev6d7QmbjlATrIUxEpuuK8WQoIs1o1YJWBypo_xCwjIEWZuXeuQCNsO/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-01-15%20at%205.22.12%20PM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Oliver Reed in HANNIBAL BROOKS Year: 1969 Rating: ***</u><u>*</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Short, quirky, extremely offbeat Michael J. Pollard is like a novelty song of an actor, with BONNIE AND CLYDE his one big hit while in other movies — like <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/michael%20winner">Michael Winner's</a> fourth collaboration with <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/10/system.html">THE SYSTEM</a> star <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/oliver%20reed">Oliver Reed</a> titled HANNIBAL BROOKS — Pollard doesn't really fit at all... </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><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></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Although he's almost deliberately cast against type as a gung-ho explosives-expert leading partisans around to kill Germans, and since Reed himself hardly seems part of World War II, both work together comfortably enough in a hybrid of road movie, physical comedy and action/adventure where Reed, a POW in Germany... after conveniently working in a German zoo... takes a prized elephant across enemy lines to their long-shot goal of Switzerland... </p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, comedy, helmuth lohner, james donald, john alderton, michael j. pollard, michael winner, nazi, oliver reed, pow, road movie, sixties, terence sewards, wolfgang preiss, world war II

MICHAEL WINNER DIRECTS OLIVER REED IN 'HANNIBAL BROOKS'

Oliver Reed in HANNIBAL BROOKS Year: 1969 Rating: *** * Short, quirky, extremely offbeat Michael J. Pollard is like a novelty song of an act...

STEVE MCQUEEN AND JAMES GARNER MAKE 'THE GREAT ESCAPE'

<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/AVvXsEj8oyNg-8zJuTkddWXiGvHty-UhhMSusP9Ql93nfeMymLAmBCLp0pwflQUmBUuzTS7oaW40S4HzxE_4QluqDK-4W4VFo6l88FSSxW-FUgwErG_Oj8fgSfau-DfliGWCtsIuUOiWBRaq3HMybtlSyMwFns6ZsB2m-1GRrFVi3XoVvG2bwf1UWtNBuCG_DA/s1921/0.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1189" data-original-width="1921" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8oyNg-8zJuTkddWXiGvHty-UhhMSusP9Ql93nfeMymLAmBCLp0pwflQUmBUuzTS7oaW40S4HzxE_4QluqDK-4W4VFo6l88FSSxW-FUgwErG_Oj8fgSfau-DfliGWCtsIuUOiWBRaq3HMybtlSyMwFns6ZsB2m-1GRrFVi3XoVvG2bwf1UWtNBuCG_DA/s16000/0.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE GREAT ESCAPE Year: 1963 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>While the World War II German-set Prison-of-War movie THE GREAT ESCAPE was being filmed, and would eventually make Steve McQueen a superstar, he was doing everything possible to ruin that potential since he wanted as many lines as other cast members, and would often storm off the set and at one point nearly flew back home... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Being especially envious of James Garner as Scrounger, the token sneaky resilient fella who can get anything, and — teamed with Donald Pleasance as a completely vulnerable Forger slowly going blind — he's the most interesting and overall entertaining character, with the right combination of affable humor and focused determination... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

charles bronson, david mccallum, donald pleasence, ensemble, escape, james coburn, james donald, james garner, john leyton, prison, richard attenborough, sixties, steve mcqueen, world war II

STEVE MCQUEEN AND JAMES GARNER MAKE 'THE GREAT ESCAPE'

Title: THE GREAT ESCAPE Year: 1963 Rating: ***1/2 While the World War II German-set Prison-of-War movie THE GREAT ESCAPE was being filmed, a...

BRANDO AND BRYNNER IN THE WARTIME THRILLER OF 'MORITURI'

<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/AVvXsEjyffmQQszDaOIXPSlcDE4g0lg8_ZXatUwhLJeMztXVu3UT45_TObooET7yNsrBJu9U8uNb6E3TP_kMC9Lw26FMXJZ7fjeR5_CES32ArHuwWSMIri5-A_DtCdvrZ5DlvFHKsPB6hvV2X-pbuggf_n8fW7EFzIXhqr-DSMFuZ1C74FZ3cnLn6-1Ps_wWWVIv/s2008/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-21%20at%2010.11.59%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="930" data-original-width="2008" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyffmQQszDaOIXPSlcDE4g0lg8_ZXatUwhLJeMztXVu3UT45_TObooET7yNsrBJu9U8uNb6E3TP_kMC9Lw26FMXJZ7fjeR5_CES32ArHuwWSMIri5-A_DtCdvrZ5DlvFHKsPB6hvV2X-pbuggf_n8fW7EFzIXhqr-DSMFuZ1C74FZ3cnLn6-1Ps_wWWVIv/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-21%20at%2010.11.59%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Marlon Brando and Yul Brynner in MORITURI Year: 1965 Grade: B— upon a **1/2 star rating</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>During Marlon Brando's lost decade — of box office and critical failures in-between ONE-EYED JACKS and THE GODFATHER — he played the unlikeliest of World War II-movie heroes in MORITURI... </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>Which is where Brando's Robert Crain begins... in an expository mission-setup sequence with Trevor Howard, who finds Marlon's pacifist German character hiding out in India before thrusting him into the complicated task...</p><p><span></span></p>

espionage, hans christian blech, janet margolin, marlon brando, nazi, sixties, thriller, trevor howard, william redfield, world war II, yul brynner

BRANDO AND BRYNNER IN THE WARTIME THRILLER OF 'MORITURI'

Marlon Brando and Yul Brynner in MORITURI Year: 1965 Grade: B— upon a **1/2 star rating During Marlon Brando's lost decade — of box offi...

DANA ANDREWS IN THE WAR NOIR THRILLER OF 'SEALED CARGO'

<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/AVvXsEh1W1rjv86R3ZArQCkZ_JJZFK6rz1YCVD-nFXL2okN6T8ZCXnGWzTYrxB2qH8rIeuVFHRAFc7TX6LohycJbmdWdNTX-I7wB2EUCFatmqUURfZyNIhqzMRT7GjRbcOP-M7SmGlxeakB4OmZQThMGPH2U_2hWpUmnBTkD5mmPb03bd-6UdGQRfndRmNZY_w/s1268/Screen+Shot+2020-06-24+at+7.42.25+PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="809" data-original-width="1268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1W1rjv86R3ZArQCkZ_JJZFK6rz1YCVD-nFXL2okN6T8ZCXnGWzTYrxB2qH8rIeuVFHRAFc7TX6LohycJbmdWdNTX-I7wB2EUCFatmqUURfZyNIhqzMRT7GjRbcOP-M7SmGlxeakB4OmZQThMGPH2U_2hWpUmnBTkD5mmPb03bd-6UdGQRfndRmNZY_w/s16000/Screen+Shot+2020-06-24+at+7.42.25+PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: SEALED CARGO Stars: Dana Andrews, Claude Rains Year: 1951 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Director Alfred Werker's darkly atmospheric potboiler SEALED CARGO initially plays like a Ghost Ship mystery/thriller as fisherman Dana Andrews (sustaining the harsh determination from WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS) climbs aboard what seems an abandoned larger vessel... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Where Claude Rains, as an enigmatic sea captain, is met with the kind of cautionary distrust that owns this wartime espionage, ultimately shaping into a heist/caper: but instead of stealing money it's about blowing up the titular contraband... or else...</p><span></span>

alfred werker, carla balenda, claude rains, dana andrews, fifties, ghost ship, mystery, onslow stevens, philip dorn, race against time, skip homeier, skip homeler, steve forrest, thriller, war, world war II

DANA ANDREWS IN THE WAR NOIR THRILLER OF 'SEALED CARGO'

Title: SEALED CARGO Stars: Dana Andrews, Claude Rains Year: 1951 Rating: **** Director Alfred Werker's darkly atmospheric potboiler SEA...

OLIVER REED AND GLENDA JACKSON IN 'THE TRIPLE ECHO'

<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/AVvXsEhX7AfKK4k-2YeVko5zXAXZBi32cEAEmjuKsgJ2wLCHS-pM91fr3i3XWTtG0d6wt3Oo7B40JLfd04AqahZblMf5KIqgPu180eL2VZmd1RD7l2lUElL765OsODut-DMAolpyiiZes0XaZlJyjXJUakSPomOfcRo4C9LtykKqEdjAe0y0Jq2W0NqrAyl43A/s966/71qLtwMalBL._SL1300_.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="660" data-original-width="966" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX7AfKK4k-2YeVko5zXAXZBi32cEAEmjuKsgJ2wLCHS-pM91fr3i3XWTtG0d6wt3Oo7B40JLfd04AqahZblMf5KIqgPu180eL2VZmd1RD7l2lUElL765OsODut-DMAolpyiiZes0XaZlJyjXJUakSPomOfcRo4C9LtykKqEdjAe0y0Jq2W0NqrAyl43A/s16000/71qLtwMalBL._SL1300_.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE TRIPLE ECHO Year: 1972 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In any movie where a man has to dress up like a woman, for whatever reason, there's the one genuine manly male who wants to give that so-called female a test ride wherein the truth will be discovered...  </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><p>So when it's stocky firebrand Oliver Reed as a World War II era tank sergeant, lusting after a deserted soldier hiding out in widowed Glenda Jackson's rural chicken farm while (romancing her and) posing as his sister, this otherwise searing romantic drama turns into a heated, nightmarish thriller...</p><p><span></span></p>

brian deacon, british, drama, exploitation, glenda jackson, michael adpted, oliver reed, romance, rural, thriller, world war II

OLIVER REED AND GLENDA JACKSON IN 'THE TRIPLE ECHO'

Title: THE TRIPLE ECHO Year: 1972 Rating: **** In any movie where a man has to dress up like a woman, for whatever reason, there's the o...

WILLIAM CONRAD PRESENTS 'FIRST TO FIGHT' WITH CHAD EVERETT

<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/AVvXsEju2lIuHvMK8MdJNWNnU17mt6G_IaItjKyDmtXvibfxexF0jqSNpH-yJedY_HVmQ_VB-47OnKuW9gh1nHVq5zYfnavQQsscwSlkoKsFS2Gb_Q3q_3eNLMpIoD8pgVdpoAqvGyYYsp_o6Std7Cagtf2M1VT_lZJCNjXHGerzps5EbRNOnEPxxDk1J4PLREqp/s1936/Screen%20Shot%202025-02-28%20at%2010.27.43%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="938" data-original-width="1936" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju2lIuHvMK8MdJNWNnU17mt6G_IaItjKyDmtXvibfxexF0jqSNpH-yJedY_HVmQ_VB-47OnKuW9gh1nHVq5zYfnavQQsscwSlkoKsFS2Gb_Q3q_3eNLMpIoD8pgVdpoAqvGyYYsp_o6Std7Cagtf2M1VT_lZJCNjXHGerzps5EbRNOnEPxxDk1J4PLREqp/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-02-28%20at%2010.27.43%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Chad Everett in FIRST TO FIGHT Year: 1967 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Starting out an old school hunkered-in-the-trenches World War II action flick with heroic Chad Everett holding off approaching Japanese soldiers in an off-river jungle setting, FIRST TO FIGHT... produced and narrated by William Conrad with direction by Christian Nyby... makes an abrupt shift into a budding Stateside romance...</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>Progressively ignited between Everett's surviving and returning Sgt. Jack Connell and the lovely, classy and hard-to-get war bond touring chief Marilyn Devin; yet the best scenes have our true blue veteran competing with cocky cad Bobby Troup, who's not good enough to win this lady over...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, bobby troup, chad everett, claude akins, dean jagger, gene hackman, james best, marilyn devin, norman alden, romance, warner archives, wings hauser, world war II

WILLIAM CONRAD PRESENTS 'FIRST TO FIGHT' WITH CHAD EVERETT

Chad Everett in FIRST TO FIGHT Year: 1967 Rating: ***1/2 Starting out an old school hunkered-in-the-trenches World War II action flick with ...

BRADFORD DILLMAN & SUZY PARKER IN 'CIRCLE OF DECEPTION'

<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/AVvXsEibtfjVkHLgCOPvn4GJsZ_YtD6vTIdj4KP_1Y1zYlAgpM4S6BiYl9FLetz4fYX-3wwNdJdTFRmct7J60zdxMaCvAQCyLHoaEGptOZKb3gzg0l0pA5OVHO9WsqNgn4TmWE1ygDKCKj0xSSiOSusX0_0ilCsXHT03dbogcRWqNJFGf_4uHNc5bAItMGhkikh3/s1978/Screen%20Shot%202023-10-28%20at%202.58.21%20AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1140" data-original-width="1978" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibtfjVkHLgCOPvn4GJsZ_YtD6vTIdj4KP_1Y1zYlAgpM4S6BiYl9FLetz4fYX-3wwNdJdTFRmct7J60zdxMaCvAQCyLHoaEGptOZKb3gzg0l0pA5OVHO9WsqNgn4TmWE1ygDKCKj0xSSiOSusX0_0ilCsXHT03dbogcRWqNJFGf_4uHNc5bAItMGhkikh3/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-10-28%20at%202.58.21%20AM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: CIRCLE OF DECEPTION Year: 1960 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Alternate titles for the British WWII Thriller CIRCLE OF DECEPTION starring two imported and thereafter married American actors Bradford Dillman and Suzy Parker, could be <i>He Was Expendable</i> or <i>Hell Is For Cowards</i> as the deliberately telegraphed twist has British Intel chief Harry Andrews seeking the wrong man for the job, who must fold under questioning/torture with bogus information that <i>he thinks</i> is right...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>In the intentionally undependable role is Bradford Dillman, newly famous for brilliantly playing a murderous brat in <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/11/stockwell-dillman.html">COMPULSION</a>, seeming a bit too young here, his uniform loose on a skinny frame while Parker, a former model turned actress ala <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/05/TBOE.html">THE BEST OF EVERYTHING</a>, is mostly relied upon for looks and exposition while predictably falling in love with the sympathetic, vulnerable pawn...</p><p><span></span></p>

bradford dillman, british, espionage, harry andrews, robert stephens, sixties, spy, suzy parker, world war II

BRADFORD DILLMAN & SUZY PARKER IN 'CIRCLE OF DECEPTION'

Title: CIRCLE OF DECEPTION Year: 1960 Rating: *** Alternate titles for the British WWII Thriller CIRCLE OF DECEPTION starring two imported a...