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Written by James M. Tate / 12/02/2022 / No comments / action , blaxploitation , cop , crime , fred williamson , isaac hayes , italian-import , lino ventura , neo noir , paula kelly , seventies , team-up

ISAAC HAYES, FRED WILLIAMSON & LINO VENTURA IN 'TOUGH GUYS'

<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/AVvXsEhThNnsUWx5z8yD44mdch8FGVBPNY6S-t8ONzAS0QLNYLGgJa4sBZO6Pic7YNBdYBP45GKeSCM_uADRoC8oVc82yIaKzXRN89Tpc2dERpZbYduJTkIK34JMWJeDahgYhFoAtrn33vvK246Jy-mf2lWf5HQTJtB2AeLqmj9jBWUA-ba1t5iNairbR0OOs1yc/s2250/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-11%20at%205.01.08%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1386" data-original-width="2250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhThNnsUWx5z8yD44mdch8FGVBPNY6S-t8ONzAS0QLNYLGgJa4sBZO6Pic7YNBdYBP45GKeSCM_uADRoC8oVc82yIaKzXRN89Tpc2dERpZbYduJTkIK34JMWJeDahgYhFoAtrn33vvK246Jy-mf2lWf5HQTJtB2AeLqmj9jBWUA-ba1t5iNairbR0OOs1yc/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-11%20at%205.01.08%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: TOUGH GUYS Year: 1974 Pictured: Paula Kelly Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The actual title is  TOUGH GUYS and was then changed to THREE TOUGH GUYS after Fred  Williamson, who plays a small but important role as the villain, gained  popularity and the title song mentions TWO TOUGH GUYS, being that the  film centers mainly on imported Italian star (and this movie's starring lead) Lino Ventura as a renegade,  revenge-seeking, ten-speed riding priest who teams with rogue cop Isaac  Hayes...</p><p></p><p>First first twenty-five minutes has the priest fighting various local crime joints (including crooked bartender Jess Hahn); then Hayes enters as a kind of guardian angel cop, wherein the strange pair hop from arcade to bar to empty warehouse  beating up baddies or getting beat up, even kidnapped...</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/AVvXsEhfeunhrrCT5q7sb01DI7FRBetpDMt67qV4PQVhHesvtth_GrzraL5T7_T8Uqj417NSquFCJWUqIpyiULiIo5YTvwNz0rUMzbw9LMb6muNfBxvbcrJXaqTZqPE0NktGNToS0zhQ2A4CeWcwLI5XjYE2edczcsO8v4kPHG7M6gYZBwQh4RjCbqIpiD4UuqTo/s2250/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-11%20at%204.58.55%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="896" data-original-width="2250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfeunhrrCT5q7sb01DI7FRBetpDMt67qV4PQVhHesvtth_GrzraL5T7_T8Uqj417NSquFCJWUqIpyiULiIo5YTvwNz0rUMzbw9LMb6muNfBxvbcrJXaqTZqPE0NktGNToS0zhQ2A4CeWcwLI5XjYE2edczcsO8v4kPHG7M6gYZBwQh4RjCbqIpiD4UuqTo/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-11%20at%204.58.55%20PM.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Isaac Hayes in TOUGH GUYS</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Or trying to outwit a terrific street fatale in Paula Kelly where the lightweight  find-the-killer plot blends neatly with sporadic, swift-paced action  occurring between unimportant bouts of dubbed, but somewhat involving,  dialogue...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And fans of Hayes the composer: if you want some superb instrumental music, check out Isaac's DOUBLE FEATURE: TRUCK TURNER AND THREE TOUGH GUYS, both albums  full of soulful/jazzy/funky/rocking orchestrations far superior than the  generic versions within either film.</p><div><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/AVvXsEgLnyg9tLPHDtNkCBDwvPcJnsw3-RWMtSqJ0ogPzG-t9XEqdqDIZhJDJpkiZJBdULX92qE5i0L5xyhufBHePeVoc0TX9n1AijsBwtQAyydAhaNUkjjHmoY0FLgvyUZSvUWsS1WrFDxR64yf0O2J0FsG_mCp2SSuy1s8eQXQeYQuhRqnd9N5Pk8mcbZmROzr/s1248/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-11%20at%204.41.45%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="708" data-original-width="1248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLnyg9tLPHDtNkCBDwvPcJnsw3-RWMtSqJ0ogPzG-t9XEqdqDIZhJDJpkiZJBdULX92qE5i0L5xyhufBHePeVoc0TX9n1AijsBwtQAyydAhaNUkjjHmoY0FLgvyUZSvUWsS1WrFDxR64yf0O2J0FsG_mCp2SSuy1s8eQXQeYQuhRqnd9N5Pk8mcbZmROzr/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-11%20at%204.41.45%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Paula Kelly in TOUGH GUYS</u><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><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/AVvXsEh9JbM96I1eaP-L5kQVbJhf8XHUmB_uisXp_LSd31ooQSjD9UrwchDsKwZon2PxD-POgJ_hgasFsv14WrjgyzEptB3VCLtxq2VjnBaAh2k64m1rSrE0vJRpqfO_98dbarBTp65Rz51kg2n09KroMc6wT7HF-XN_UO5J0YySyOp2aX9we7u61CMa4iFghwbp/s1458/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-11%20at%204.42.02%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1090" data-original-width="1458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9JbM96I1eaP-L5kQVbJhf8XHUmB_uisXp_LSd31ooQSjD9UrwchDsKwZon2PxD-POgJ_hgasFsv14WrjgyzEptB3VCLtxq2VjnBaAh2k64m1rSrE0vJRpqfO_98dbarBTp65Rz51kg2n09KroMc6wT7HF-XN_UO5J0YySyOp2aX9we7u61CMa4iFghwbp/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-11%20at%204.42.02%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Fred Williamson in TOUGH GUYS</u></td></tr></tbody></table><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/AVvXsEgB8Lw9_Rqu9I7VEN3AY5mWvMiED-WxKypkLD6bzd0MykdngWfkmaXBvIjJFN3lropq2yfMDfeY0i3LdhoKnHYho7OlZo-xVIyu8l1YoQex4uNNdKuxGUshJAQsNvJMGTOvaDkjcKsJrhfh3uv6wKwodrIB1WrXlUmFfBHvHdnMrbqIRS3jWd3L2poNyLga/s1496/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-11%20at%204.40.40%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1136" data-original-width="1496" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB8Lw9_Rqu9I7VEN3AY5mWvMiED-WxKypkLD6bzd0MykdngWfkmaXBvIjJFN3lropq2yfMDfeY0i3LdhoKnHYho7OlZo-xVIyu8l1YoQex4uNNdKuxGUshJAQsNvJMGTOvaDkjcKsJrhfh3uv6wKwodrIB1WrXlUmFfBHvHdnMrbqIRS3jWd3L2poNyLga/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-11%20at%204.40.40%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Isaac Hayes in TOUGH GUYS and Lino Ventura<br /></u></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> </div><br />

action, blaxploitation, cop, crime, fred williamson, isaac hayes, italian-import, lino ventura, neo noir, paula kelly, seventies, team-up

ISAAC HAYES, FRED WILLIAMSON & LINO VENTURA IN 'TOUGH GUYS'

Title: TOUGH GUYS Year: 1974 Pictured: Paula Kelly Rating: **** The actual title is TOUGH GUYS and was then changed to THREE TOUGH GUYS af...

Written by James M. Tate / 4/21/2022 / No comments / adventure , bo hopkins , claude akins , exploitation , horror , italian-import , john huston , ovidio g. assonitis , seventies , shelley winters , sherry buchanan , stelvio cipriani

BO HOPKINS IN THE ITALIAN-IMPORT JAWS-TERROR OF 'TENTACLES'

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With creative camera angles, including a ghost boat being towed in to bay while onlookers both move forward and recede slowly from a reverse crane shot, director Ovidio G. Assonitis, who'd produce <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2017/09/TheLittleHeat.html">THE VISITOR</a> two years later and with a list of cult b-flicks under his belt, works stealthily alongside his stock composer to, like the 1975 Steven Spielberg shark <i>summer blockbuster</i>, not spoil the killer octopus all at once, maintaining some good old fashion implied slowburn suspense in an Alfred Hitchcock fashion...<br>

adventure, bo hopkins, claude akins, exploitation, horror, italian-import, john huston, ovidio g. assonitis, seventies, shelley winters, sherry buchanan, stelvio cipriani

BO HOPKINS IN THE ITALIAN-IMPORT JAWS-TERROR OF 'TENTACLES'

Sherry Buchanan in TENTACOLI Year: 1977 Rates: **** The haunting techno keyboard riff by one of Quentin Tarantino's long list of sampled...

THE ITALIAN CONNECTION

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">year: 1972 cast: Mario Adorf, Henry Silva, Woody Strode, Cyril Cusak rating: ***1/2</td></tr>
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Although two New York hit men, Henry Silva and Woody Strode, supposedly templates of Quentin Tarantino’s Jules and Vincent PULP FICTION thugs, are far better villains than blocky local Mario Adorf is a lead-role/antihero, this Italian <i>mobsploitation</i> juggles each character decently enough... and everything narrows down to one thing only: Adorf, as small time pimp Luca Canali, is – if Silva and Strode can help it – a dead man.<br />
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The endearing traits of imported crime movies are here in droves: the wah-wah peddle guitar vibrates through the bursting horn section orchestrating insert-heavy action scenes, naked ladies, and a pivotal car chase as Canali, with a fierce boar-like countenance, seeks the thug who killed his family.<br />
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More attention on Silva, a sly womanizing braggart, and Strode, the brooding baseline, would have been nice – they’re far too cool to serve as an eventual backdrop to Canali’s quest to survive and then seek answers. That is, until the incredible climactic shootout between all three within a junkyard

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THE ITALIAN CONNECTION

year: 1972 cast: Mario Adorf, Henry Silva, Woody Strode, Cyril Cusak rating: ***1/2 Although two New York hit men, Henry Silva and Woo...

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