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Written by James M. Tate / 6/01/2023 / No comments / action , charles bronson , depression-era , gerald s. o'loughlin , italian , jill ireland , joseph wiseman , lino ventura , mobster , seventies , terence young

CHARLES BRONSON IN TERENCE YOUNG'S 'THE VALACHI PAPERS'

<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/AVvXsEhGSpFOXXwlggHMeqznOQnygZ_m8BtigJ8l2JIcdq_eC8cfnLlFENXJB3HMOsZ6e64M7Luzxkb0uDQQmULabcIu03F44z5nhDLvLXALWcqHuYRn-_LX3M5SioReRGi1eDw8gNyU5JZrwUTC/s1137/s-l1600.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1137" data-original-width="1104" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGSpFOXXwlggHMeqznOQnygZ_m8BtigJ8l2JIcdq_eC8cfnLlFENXJB3HMOsZ6e64M7Luzxkb0uDQQmULabcIu03F44z5nhDLvLXALWcqHuYRn-_LX3M5SioReRGi1eDw8gNyU5JZrwUTC/w389-h400/s-l1600.jpeg" width="389"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Valachi Papers Year: 1972 Rating: **1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>One of the last Charles Bronson roles as a moody and irritable, tempermental character, soon mellowing int strong-silent types after DEATH WISH while director Terence Young follows along the exploitation crime template of their European venture <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/12/bronson70.html">COLD SWEAT</a> (before RED SUN); yet THE VALACHI PAPERS is an American-backed feature that had to be shot in Italy, thus resembling Bronson's European phase and, like THE GODFATHER the same year, two main time periods are used: back when gangster's reigned and later as they're being gathered up and thrown away... Beginning with Bronson's gray-haired Valachi in prison, surviving various shiv-driven attempts and ending up seated in a tape-recorded backroom telling cop's cop IN COLD BLOOD actor Gerald S. O'Loughlin his story as a mob driver seen in flashbacks while randomly (and intrusively) heard narrating throughout the action... A sparse, violent tale with Classic Gangster Cinema cliches from loaded cement dumped in the ocean to Tommy Guns blasting, there's enough antique visual style even during overlong detours and a convoluted plot involving Valachi forced to end the career of mob boss Lino Ventura. But the Italian veteran actor's underused, not as important as need be given the primary task; Valachi's initial boss Joseph Wiseman is far more interesting as overall PAPERS has an unfocused story eventually marred by forced ingenue Jill Ireland in another dull performance, which isn't entirely her fault since this particular tough guy flick needn't an ingenue at all.

action, charles bronson, depression-era, gerald s. o'loughlin, italian, jill ireland, joseph wiseman, lino ventura, mobster, seventies, terence young

CHARLES BRONSON IN TERENCE YOUNG'S 'THE VALACHI PAPERS'

The Valachi Papers Year: 1972 Rating: **1/2 One of the last Charles Bronson roles as a moody and irritable, tempermental characte r, soon me...

JIM BROWN WITH GENE HACKMAN ESCAPE THE CELL BLOCK 'RIOT'

<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/AVvXsEhw-heW70nO9dEuixq3RwLARtEsslCY0GdciTkPIFKgdw_gNaUVjxIwz76jzqzgTTpdetOwIAjwRsNKUAHn897TnileyKJu6qLtCwHZB50pqaPlaVPkJfqYKvP7Iar59yxaJgu8DGPo3T43QNtPwxTFsBsA-AKS8RySSweUGSUYqJgBA7M_lhGbADrMUYQu/s2258/Screen%20Shot%202025-03-03%20at%204.20.12%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1218" data-original-width="2258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw-heW70nO9dEuixq3RwLARtEsslCY0GdciTkPIFKgdw_gNaUVjxIwz76jzqzgTTpdetOwIAjwRsNKUAHn897TnileyKJu6qLtCwHZB50pqaPlaVPkJfqYKvP7Iar59yxaJgu8DGPo3T43QNtPwxTFsBsA-AKS8RySSweUGSUYqJgBA7M_lhGbADrMUYQu/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-03-03%20at%204.20.12%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jim Brown and Gene Hackman in RIOT Year: 1969 Rating: **** </td></tr></tbody></table>Basically a remake of Don Siegel's docudrama noir <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/12/block11.html">RIOT IN CELL BLOCK 11</a>, Buzz Kulick's RIOT follows its muse by having the titular convict pandemonium — after capturing the guards — not matter beyond a strategic distraction...Instead centering on a few clever inmates' feigning an attempt for a media-led change of inhumane prison conditions — but this RIOT goes one step beyond Siegel's CELL BLOCK political expose...

action, buzz, clifford david, drama, escape, gene hackman, gerald s. o'loughlin, jim brown, mike kellin, prison, sixties, suspense, thriller, william castle

JIM BROWN WITH GENE HACKMAN ESCAPE THE CELL BLOCK 'RIOT'

Jim Brown and Gene Hackman in RIOT Year: 1969 Rating: **** Basically a remake of Don Siegel's docudrama noir RIOT IN CELL BLOCK 11 , Buz...

ROBERT BLAKE & SCOTT WILSON BREAKTHROUGH 'IN COLD BLOOD'

<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/AVvXsEjSkZWYOuVMgVfu7D-CYzlXLUfdOjffQkvII_XPwEphtYHXdvk7IYZZzocFfSPOSOcV7eGW8Z2enyWzvUpGt9n27B7qOwFJ9K_a_iMhqyyeECHT60fYCyPiIrPr4bZVPV_Hs3kkSLTyA_rMbBrHaSUXomwpdSvOMu9PmBXRk-GCBzGcJkiWyerz0KO43OLK/s1652/Screen%20Shot%202025-06-18%20at%2010.35.47%20AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="746" data-original-width="1652" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSkZWYOuVMgVfu7D-CYzlXLUfdOjffQkvII_XPwEphtYHXdvk7IYZZzocFfSPOSOcV7eGW8Z2enyWzvUpGt9n27B7qOwFJ9K_a_iMhqyyeECHT60fYCyPiIrPr4bZVPV_Hs3kkSLTyA_rMbBrHaSUXomwpdSvOMu9PmBXRk-GCBzGcJkiWyerz0KO43OLK/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-06-18%20at%2010.35.47%20AM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: IN COLD BLOOD Director: Richard Brooks Year: 1967 Rating: *****</td></tr></tbody></table>Made in the late-1960's leading to the early-1970's American Renaissance, Richard Brooks's theatrical adaptation of Truman Capote's non-fiction bestseller IN COLD BLOOD, taking place in the late 1950's, is a sublime combination of the then-budding style of modern-method/character-driven performances and the more polished and studied throwback to Hollywood's Golden Age (including hard-boiled documentary-style narration)... And as real-life killers Perry Smith and Dick Hickcok, Robert Blake and Scott Wilson hand-off individual importance: Wilson during the first half as a cocky conman instigating the heist of a supposed Kansas farmer's lucrative safe, and, following their Nevada capture, the previously brooding, strong-silent Blake drives the story home, right down to the inevitable hangman's noose...

biopic, brenda currin, charles mcgraw, crime, gerald s. o'loughlin, james flavin, jazz-score, jeff corey, john forsythe, john mcliam, paul stewart, richard brooks, robert blake, scott wilson, sixties, will geer

ROBERT BLAKE & SCOTT WILSON BREAKTHROUGH 'IN COLD BLOOD'

Title: IN COLD BLOOD Director: Richard Brooks Year: 1967 Rating: ***** Made in the late-1960's leading to the early-1970's American ...

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