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Written by James M. Tate / 6/20/2025 / No comments / angela scoular , barbara bouchet , british , comedy , david niven , deborah kerr , james bond , joanna pettet , john huston , orson welles , peter sellers , spoof , spy , ursula andress , val guest , woody allen

DAVID NIVEN, PETER SELLERS & ORSON WELLES IN 'CASINO ROYALE'

<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/AVvXsEgyuyN-zlYMgY67mWigqqMci60-QtXedCh54-nVdPB9ik5Dx53yrCYEDy88v9cJZyum8S0LmwS7L4XIT5GARSriQE_ux-ImQneBCdOLHL9YdPRjecU9LcYh6C9P0Ox6EEJqWjzqraIETHxKWdrVVuy8vX_k29EI9HcyxxcriDuFLyUtFAzf8kM_8agULEop/s2758/Screen%20Shot%202025-06-29%20at%209.04.23%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1218" data-original-width="2758" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyuyN-zlYMgY67mWigqqMci60-QtXedCh54-nVdPB9ik5Dx53yrCYEDy88v9cJZyum8S0LmwS7L4XIT5GARSriQE_ux-ImQneBCdOLHL9YdPRjecU9LcYh6C9P0Ox6EEJqWjzqraIETHxKWdrVVuy8vX_k29EI9HcyxxcriDuFLyUtFAzf8kM_8agULEop/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-06-29%20at%209.04.23%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">ORSON WELLES from CASINO ROYALE Year: 1967 Rating: *1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>The infamous James Bond Spy Spoof CASINO ROYALE from the much-too-colorful 1960's could be deemed unbelievably awful but with a collection of writers and directors (including <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/val%20guest">Val Guest</a> and John Huston) desperately herding their all-star cast into what wound up resembling a high-priced TV variety show, it IS believable to have turned out so... well... unbelievably awful...Chopped into vignettes, by far the most awkward has David Niven's retired/reserved James Bond in Scotland (some kind of homage to Sean Connery) being tempted by a castle of gorgeous "daughters" of John Huston's newly-killed M...

angela scoular, barbara bouchet, british, comedy, david niven, deborah kerr, james bond, joanna pettet, john huston, orson welles, peter sellers, spoof, spy, ursula andress, val guest, woody allen

DAVID NIVEN, PETER SELLERS & ORSON WELLES IN 'CASINO ROYALE'

ORSON WELLES from CASINO ROYALE Year: 1967 Rating: *1/2 The infamous James Bond Spy Spoof CASINO ROYALE from the much-too-colorful 1960'...

BARBARA BOUCHET STARS IN 'THE RED QUEEN KILLS SEVEN TIMES'

<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/AVvXsEjeMdmv_RwD2n3cUP_iOVdE8gOP6iBubdzg9Bb91H60CdmI9SRoU7jdIvSiPRlL8UyyNycEP5Xm5HRCkladVa5Zm3dQnxIBP8SJRmolv-tXcl6kPvrBC7QhF4KuDmpaRpOKZXNa4HpaU_E6KOQ35aSJFM8-W8NaQ3aklHQh8C76-yK5ztmCOTvu4FTufno_/s1274/Screen%20Shot%202025-03-27%20at%2010.19.35%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="732" data-original-width="1274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeMdmv_RwD2n3cUP_iOVdE8gOP6iBubdzg9Bb91H60CdmI9SRoU7jdIvSiPRlL8UyyNycEP5Xm5HRCkladVa5Zm3dQnxIBP8SJRmolv-tXcl6kPvrBC7QhF4KuDmpaRpOKZXNa4HpaU_E6KOQ35aSJFM8-W8NaQ3aklHQh8C76-yK5ztmCOTvu4FTufno_/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-03-27%20at%2010.19.35%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: THE RED QUEEN KILLS SEVEN TIMES Year: 1972 Rating: ****</td></tr></tbody></table>Italian giallo director Emilio Miraglia created the gothic thriller THE RED QUEEN KILLS SEVEN TIMES where the title anticipates the body-count horror aspect of sporadic victims surrounded by insanely gorgeous Barbara Bouchet as troubled rich girl Kitty Wildenbrück...She's the affable blonde of a bullying brunette sister only seen in the youthful prologue... traipsing around a castle while their passive father watches the bad daughter insanely shredding the good daughter's cherished doll...

barbara bouchet, barbara magnolfi, body-count, emilio miraglia, giallo, horror, marina malfatti, marino mas, mirella d'angelo, pia giancaro, seventies, sybil danning

BARBARA BOUCHET STARS IN 'THE RED QUEEN KILLS SEVEN TIMES'

Title: THE RED QUEEN KILLS SEVEN TIMES Year: 1972 Rating: **** Italian giallo director Emilio Miraglia created the gothic thriller THE RED Q...

GASTON MOSCHIN IN 'CALIBER 9' ORIGINALLY 'MILANO CALIBRO 9'

<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/AVvXsEh1btOZ7NGFS8fyqLJz-L6QwgJtqb_8ABTTXgUY0JQPKS7YgUgGqve1tiYaFUs9F_MZ0hxthKvxgdCM8m5XJLJO5cdC2brypDVxUGKK8T31UFo0WheuCGP92hJzhZrVB-QAL9_lM_MBdSNEZ7_Q82_IXQH-ZQjcYkVDHs2fBz1SGk8xXv4c2ZO3afkgCMGm/s2190/Screen%20Shot%202024-01-15%20at%208.41.24%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1172" data-original-width="2190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1btOZ7NGFS8fyqLJz-L6QwgJtqb_8ABTTXgUY0JQPKS7YgUgGqve1tiYaFUs9F_MZ0hxthKvxgdCM8m5XJLJO5cdC2brypDVxUGKK8T31UFo0WheuCGP92hJzhZrVB-QAL9_lM_MBdSNEZ7_Q82_IXQH-ZQjcYkVDHs2fBz1SGk8xXv4c2ZO3afkgCMGm/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-01-15%20at%208.41.24%20PM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: CAIBER 9 Year: 1972 Rating: ****</td></tr></tbody></table>Gravelly-voiced, physically-imposing Italian actor Gastone Moschin made the greatest villain in THE GODFATHER franchise as Fanucci aka The Black Hand in Part II, a monopolizing bully that Robert DeNiro's young Vito Corleone had to kill, but, two years earlier, Gastone gets more bullied than perhaps anyone in crime cinema history... Freed on parole and still blamed for stealing then hiding 300K meant for a powerful mob boss, he's followed and beaten by thugs of "L'Americano" Lionel Stander, whose chief gangster Rocco... played by a fat and feisty, thin-mustached Mario Adorf... is the deadliest and noisiest in an extremely deadly/noisy Italian crime flick by Fernando Di Leo...

barbara bouchet, crime, exploitation, gastone moschin, italian, lionel stander, mario adorf, seventies

GASTON MOSCHIN IN 'CALIBER 9' ORIGINALLY 'MILANO CALIBRO 9'

Title: CAIBER 9 Year: 1972 Rating: **** Gravelly-voiced, physically-imposing Italian actor Gastone Moschin made the greatest villain in THE ...

JOHN WAYNE & KIRK DOUGLAS IN PREMINGER'S 'IN HARM'S WAY'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kirk Douglas with Jill Haworth and John Wayne in the poster for IN HARM'S WAY Year: 1965</td></tr>
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In 1965, the same year stylistic and artistic director Otto Preminger would provide a stylistically artistic comeback with the B&W mystery BUNNY LAKE IS MISSING, he directed an anti-war film starring John Wayne and the recently-departed Kirk Douglas, which is one of the few movies not a John Wayne or Kirk Douglas Picture but a Preminger Film they happened to star in... 
 
Very different for The Duke in that, set in Pearl Harbor, beginning with the last jazz-soaked night of oblivious peace, when the wife of yet unseen Kirk Douglas and her lover (a sexy Barbara Bouchet and Air Force stud Hugh O'Brian) are frolicking at the beach, IN HARM'S WAY is not gung-ho or overly patriotic but more cerebral and cautious in tone, which fits Douglas's forte after PATHS OF GLORY late in the previous decade... 
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hugh O'Brian and Barbara Bouchet in IN HARM'S WAY</td></tr>
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The camera glides around a slew of characters in various scenes where eventually Wayne, who was blamed for the sake of the Pearl Harbor attack needing scapegoats, later has a chance for a comeback — despite the fact he did nothing wrong in the first place... 
 
Meanwhile, during the attack are random scenes on the harbor, and while bombs splash the surrounding sea, we never do see, only hear, the attacking planes. Making this one of the more low budget war pictures featuring The Duke, and Douglas.