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Written by James M. Tate / 5/06/2025 / No comments / british , fifties , george coulouris , hammer films , james copeland , mari aldon , melodrama , race car , terence fisher

RICHARD CONTE DRIVES HAMMER'S RACE VEHICLE 'MASK OF DUST'

<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/AVvXsEhmko6Wix_HzMS8Atgk6U2frqkZ6RbG87g8rc-1kvaijBMlGSgkY2YIYPfnvGB9EWXGfSPi6x57U1elC4gprihy5TQNIXX2yPeNuVEJ2pNbvpXLXX8N532A5zUYToCrKWVPHvpUrQ_vCtv4DBUBb94YOsyj7eNghldsXAMM4UqRNQE5R69WXA3SkXxKgxRl/s2312/Screen%20Shot%202025-05-16%20at%204.55.03%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1476" data-original-width="2312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmko6Wix_HzMS8Atgk6U2frqkZ6RbG87g8rc-1kvaijBMlGSgkY2YIYPfnvGB9EWXGfSPi6x57U1elC4gprihy5TQNIXX2yPeNuVEJ2pNbvpXLXX8N532A5zUYToCrKWVPHvpUrQ_vCtv4DBUBb94YOsyj7eNghldsXAMM4UqRNQE5R69WXA3SkXxKgxRl/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-05-16%20at%204.55.03%20PM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: MASK OF DUST Year: 1954 Rating: **</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>One of the greatest titles for a race car movie, Terence Fisher's pre-horror Hammer MASK OF DUST settled stateside for the blandly retooled RACE FOR LIFE, and yet, neither really fit the actual movie...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Starring American crime-genre actor Richard Conte, perhaps <i>Interior Conversations of Exterior Driving</i> would fare better to what's a stagey melodrama with real and/or rear-projected racing shots where Grand Prix drivers fight to survive...</p><p><span></span></p>

british, fifties, george coulouris, hammer films, james copeland, mari aldon, melodrama, race car, terence fisher

RICHARD CONTE DRIVES HAMMER'S RACE VEHICLE 'MASK OF DUST'

Title: MASK OF DUST Year: 1954 Rating: ** One of the greatest titles for a race car movie, Terence Fisher's pre-horror Hammer MASK OF DU...

LAWRENCE TIERNEY PLAYS THE WRONG MAN IN 'KILL OR BE KILLED'

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</tbody></table><p>The epitome of a crime programmer with a beginning, middle and end, and plenty in-between which includes deadly piranha, mistreated jungle labor, the beautiful yet put-upon wife of an eccentric German land developer and one of the few things befitting the Noir template...</p><p>Though this is more an action-packed adventure where our hero, Lawrence Tierney, is not his usual DILLINGER vicious (also directed by Max Nosseck), BORN TO KILL sneaky, DEVIL THUMBS A RIDE sociopathic or THE HOODLUM dangerously lethal villain... but in this particular case, as the epitome of a Wrong Man, he's not only wronged but not as angry or cunning as usual: Even after returning to an Opening Soon Nightclub after installing a complicated air conditioning system throughout the two-story joint: which was a bragged-about three month task. He even gets to sing and dance with gorgeous Spanish blonde Leonor Maia, until he learns he ain't getting paid. Of course a loud argument arises – and soon enough the boss is killed by a wraithlike stranger who makes out the window in seconds flat, and it sure seems like  Tierney's Robert Warren is the killer...</p><span></span>

action, adventure, fifties, film noir or melodrama, george coulouris, helga liné, lawrence tierney, leonor maia, max nosseck, piranha, romance, rudolph anders, wrong man

LAWRENCE TIERNEY PLAYS THE WRONG MAN IN 'KILL OR BE KILLED'

Title: KILL OR BE KILLED Year: 1950 Rates: ***1/2 The epitome of a crime programmer with a beginning, middle and end, and plenty in-bet...

VERA DAY 'THE WOMAN EATER' GEORGE VOULOURIS & JOY WEBSTER

<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/AVvXsEiOxQYA_PSwX7E8-KEd_lJDwLv9sdoczOPtNqbF3CZrzkKvEu_Y66SIFgp4p2CAOhyS_Mn2RgXd29yyBIWNRR27oSibiySQxEjlTCAxvcTlRRPxJqJUcXCg8MyjX-_fDbLx0PRh-qgCvt5IJjkC89w1_qWnKKa6kuBStMkVeUEQarFlb5Vc1cD3tEj3oQ/s1704/Screen%20Shot%202023-05-03%20at%2011.49.13%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1250" data-original-width="1704" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOxQYA_PSwX7E8-KEd_lJDwLv9sdoczOPtNqbF3CZrzkKvEu_Y66SIFgp4p2CAOhyS_Mn2RgXd29yyBIWNRR27oSibiySQxEjlTCAxvcTlRRPxJqJUcXCg8MyjX-_fDbLx0PRh-qgCvt5IJjkC89w1_qWnKKa6kuBStMkVeUEQarFlb5Vc1cD3tEj3oQ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-05-03%20at%2011.49.13%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: WOMANEATER aka THE WOMAN EATER Year: 1958 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Producer Guido Coen and director Charles Saunders, the makers of <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/09/jungle.html">JUNGLE STREET</a>, had already created WOMANEATER about a killer African plant that mad scientist George Coulouris takes back to England for a serum to revive the dead...</p><p></p><p></p><p>A plot harboring two suspenseful kills as <i>only beautiful women</i> can be eaten by this lethally hugging tree while an imported native plays bongos, making British scream queen Vera Day the anticipated target while her romance with a mechanic coincides with the scientist's experiments <i>and</i> conflict with his middle-aged secretary's envy about hiring Day, whose spooked innocence the entire story's based around... </p><span></span>

body count, charles saunders, exploitation, fifties, george coulouris, guido coen, horror, joy webster, joyce gregg, robert mackenzie, science-fiction, vera day

VERA DAY 'THE WOMAN EATER' GEORGE VOULOURIS & JOY WEBSTER

Title: WOMANEATER aka THE WOMAN EATER Year: 1958 Rating: **** Producer Guido Coen and director Charles Saunders, the makers of JUNGLE STREET...

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