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Written by James M. Tate / 10/17/2022 / No comments / british neo noir , british tv , edgar wallace , howard pays , jack hedley , jacqueline ellis , mystery , patrick magee , sixties

JACQUELINE ELLIS AND JACK HEDLEY IN 'NEVER BACK LOSERS'

<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/AVvXsEinwG1S4DrMxaw55d2vdne8qN4aKfHhzAdLiWaxuNDUcqECd9ug3LSxCI4RehW9W1rkXgkJz3uzk68kIOnAMVLQaWwmiy72G0S0-pY5EX6DuRGmTHxsNT3SLA73x2kAVEHnw0ThJH9DVfquQhGkSBxT1STWewiIGRvO5ssUEiVC0OndWOsvmVsGwwD1nQ/s1594/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-17%20at%206.20.50%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="698" data-original-width="1594" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinwG1S4DrMxaw55d2vdne8qN4aKfHhzAdLiWaxuNDUcqECd9ug3LSxCI4RehW9W1rkXgkJz3uzk68kIOnAMVLQaWwmiy72G0S0-pY5EX6DuRGmTHxsNT3SLA73x2kAVEHnw0ThJH9DVfquQhGkSBxT1STWewiIGRvO5ssUEiVC0OndWOsvmVsGwwD1nQ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-17%20at%206.20.50%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jacqueline Ellis in NEVER BACK LOSERS Year: 1961 Rating: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>Another b-crime programmer from the early 1960's that was originally an episode of the British anthology <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/08/AOM.html">EDGAR WALLACE MYSTERY THEATER</a>, and Jack Hedley, who we follow from a boring desk job at an insurance company, becomes their mobile investigator...  And with an hour runtime, it's not long until he finds not only the villain in a slithering Patrick Magee, but ingenue <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/jacqueline%20ellis">Jacqueline Ellis</a>, a bad girl initially, visiting Jack's home with an angry pistol drawn...

british neo noir, british tv, edgar wallace, howard pays, jack hedley, jacqueline ellis, mystery, patrick magee, sixties

JACQUELINE ELLIS AND JACK HEDLEY IN 'NEVER BACK LOSERS'

Jacqueline Ellis in NEVER BACK LOSERS Year: 1961 Rating: ***1/2 Another b-crime programmer from the early 1960's that was originally an ...

JEAN SEBERG & STANLEY BAKER ROMANCE 'IN THE FRENCH STYLE'

<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/AVvXsEiP3ViM9fL85udSCYvryLtf3YS5u-YvEdsRfl0UVoRbcUDDSobnNNslNGiGskjbpa_JTezAQFpGLHpw5-IfiSotampL5rTKtZRGPWSn7QDVWzfZ4XR-OXDClhoen5uHHV3jOrSEBXGEskpVjV87P-oxuOpFCpIHDy_KVmE1QnmUaz9LhysvKxZglkM0ow/s1348/AVvXsEiIDvDJK-RLmWFxXCXwaWm2BSoul4AEGR2q8GiJAmg3UXSJOF1-BCwzdkVnrIlTfzl-wC2W6Q9S5UoC1bfHE6qyA5iYhhwJjiu8N0WTovXx_dp1WiquB1rWgeqpK-DCl9Yhi3bvU3w7aQ4rx6v5RNf7kPMD2V3etrihm8d8UkCM1krLpQs0bou9KxuGKA=s16000.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1348" data-original-width="1235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP3ViM9fL85udSCYvryLtf3YS5u-YvEdsRfl0UVoRbcUDDSobnNNslNGiGskjbpa_JTezAQFpGLHpw5-IfiSotampL5rTKtZRGPWSn7QDVWzfZ4XR-OXDClhoen5uHHV3jOrSEBXGEskpVjV87P-oxuOpFCpIHDy_KVmE1QnmUaz9LhysvKxZglkM0ow/s16000/AVvXsEiIDvDJK-RLmWFxXCXwaWm2BSoul4AEGR2q8GiJAmg3UXSJOF1-BCwzdkVnrIlTfzl-wC2W6Q9S5UoC1bfHE6qyA5iYhhwJjiu8N0WTovXx_dp1WiquB1rWgeqpK-DCl9Yhi3bvU3w7aQ4rx6v5RNf7kPMD2V3etrihm8d8UkCM1krLpQs0bou9KxuGKA=s16000.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: IN THE FRENCH STYLE Year: 1963 Rating: ***</td></tr></tbody></table>Adapted by Irwin Shaw based on two of his novels, Robert Parrish's vehicle for American actress famous for French films Jean Seberg in IN THE FRENCH STYLE also feels like two movies in one involving two polar opposite romances...The first with a young and opinionated French local Phillipe Forquet whose uptight, idealistic persona contrasts his innocent boyish looks, and it's unbelievable that Seberg's Christina James... an American on perma-vacation in Paris to become an artist... would have lasted in this relationship for a narrated three months, wherein the best aspects are the actual Paris exterior locations...

addison powell, british, drama, french, jack hedley, james leo herlihy, jean seberg, melodrama, romance, sixties, stanley baker

JEAN SEBERG & STANLEY BAKER ROMANCE 'IN THE FRENCH STYLE'

Title: IN THE FRENCH STYLE Year: 1963 Rating: *** Adapted by Irwin Shaw based on two of his novels, Robert Parrish's vehicle for America...

HAMMER'S 'STOP ME BEFORE I KILL' AKA 'THE FULL TREATMENT'

<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/a/AVvXsEgo7ZuzJwwtQWo9V1CvjRWVhbmY9hCRGGSg_EaDBx7ORSOF3_B_Fgrjp17ZHs34Dty-3C4HT0fU7blVxbtxnIJQzPlFwNMXHJKdpmH98b8xQR5Bhw3JNw_JA7zSvbN9j9B7fhyX1j_LlLPYi9nzPI-BlSago96MKQuVWRmf8tFkctYXm6YcucSZfF48Jw=s1006" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="593" data-original-width="1006" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgo7ZuzJwwtQWo9V1CvjRWVhbmY9hCRGGSg_EaDBx7ORSOF3_B_Fgrjp17ZHs34Dty-3C4HT0fU7blVxbtxnIJQzPlFwNMXHJKdpmH98b8xQR5Bhw3JNw_JA7zSvbN9j9B7fhyX1j_LlLPYi9nzPI-BlSago96MKQuVWRmf8tFkctYXm6YcucSZfF48Jw=s16000"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Claude Dauphin and Ronald Lewis in THE FULL TREATMENT Year: 1960 Rates: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>For a lovely, talented Australian actress (who worked mostly in England), Diane Cilento made a horribly annoying French girl in an otherwise edgy, deliberately nervewracking film by director Val Guest working again for Hammer...And THE FULL TREATMENT was retitled STOP ME BEFORE I KILL probably because it didn't sound... Hammery enough... but like Guest's HELL IS A CITY, it's not horror but neo noir...

bernard braden, claude dauphin, diane cilento, hammer films, jack hedley, neo noir, race car, ronald lewis, sixties, thriller, val guest

HAMMER'S 'STOP ME BEFORE I KILL' AKA 'THE FULL TREATMENT'

Claude Dauphin and Ronald Lewis in THE FULL TREATMENT Year: 1960 Rates: ***1/2 For a lovely, talented Australian actress (who worked mostly ...

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