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Written by James M. Tate / 6/05/2025 / No comments / anthony booth , british , british neo noir , british new wave , crime , david gregory , derek francis , glynn edwards , jacqueline ellis , jazz-score , jim o'connolly , marianne stone , ronald hines , sixties

JACQUELINE ELLIS HITCHES JIM O'CONNOLLY'S 'THE HI-JACKERS'

<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/AVvXsEhkUyJxDz-nWmKEVmKAVXwwmmHpsLuga0zc9o-FvOu8eQVQG2ZIKK7nmgTW7tWAhOEEZ1Hn4sJvxCx2fT-eIeRAkzqNaP29-DPY70br56HK1YmI1Gw23rl_v0CSkNebPdMaAK4-UtQC3kXfEZSju6opD7tlhHbLMqcOISYH4NewX_cMZs3-KRJBMbUw2hUz/s1406/Screen%20Shot%202025-06-08%20at%2012.52.05%20AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="826" data-original-width="1406" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkUyJxDz-nWmKEVmKAVXwwmmHpsLuga0zc9o-FvOu8eQVQG2ZIKK7nmgTW7tWAhOEEZ1Hn4sJvxCx2fT-eIeRAkzqNaP29-DPY70br56HK1YmI1Gw23rl_v0CSkNebPdMaAK4-UtQC3kXfEZSju6opD7tlhHbLMqcOISYH4NewX_cMZs3-KRJBMbUw2hUz/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-06-08%20at%2012.52.05%20AM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Title: THE HI-JACKERSYear: 1963 Rating: ****</td></tr></tbody></table>Writer/director Jim O'Connolly should be well known for two films where the cult status went to someone else: In BERSERK, Joan Crawford gets credit while stop-motion guru Ray Harryhausen and his dinosaurs ruled THE VALLEY OF GWANGI. But O'Connolly's by himself in creating two neat, tight and entertaining B&W post-noir crime flicks derived from the British b-picture company, Butcher's, in the early/mid 1960's... 
 
The first being THE HI-JACKERS starring Anthony Booth as an independent truck/lorry driver: victim of the titular gang faking accident scenes on the rural roadside and then stealing the cargo: in his case, cases of Johnnie Walker Red...

anthony booth, british, british neo noir, british new wave, crime, david gregory, derek francis, glynn edwards, jacqueline ellis, jazz-score, jim o'connolly, marianne stone, ronald hines, sixties

JACQUELINE ELLIS HITCHES JIM O'CONNOLLY'S 'THE HI-JACKERS'

Title: THE HI-JACKERSYear: 1963 Rating: **** Writer/director Jim O'Connolly should be well known for two films where the cult status we...

ENLARGING BERT I. GORDON'S CULT CLASSIC 'EMPIRE OF THE ANTS'

<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/AVvXsEh6wjwLvUVNmupYHRE9FUJwHokZdBCwe-WVj_Nys5urRl4rISPIdyvfjLyjEMPkyeaoumgjZg6sTRlooxgJjZh8uByzgOTpN1i2kIJXGusEHD6eOGPZNKo1z0nuo6shJ5yw7kC4lMOwrlgYRjreQftUuSki99N5DGp1H8QUsVNy9ErmfU-heiLtGjSShw/s1304/Screen%20Shot%202023-03-08%20at%2011.24.44%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="802" data-original-width="1304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6wjwLvUVNmupYHRE9FUJwHokZdBCwe-WVj_Nys5urRl4rISPIdyvfjLyjEMPkyeaoumgjZg6sTRlooxgJjZh8uByzgOTpN1i2kIJXGusEHD6eOGPZNKo1z0nuo6shJ5yw7kC4lMOwrlgYRjreQftUuSki99N5DGp1H8QUsVNy9ErmfU-heiLtGjSShw/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-03-08%20at%2011.24.44%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: EMPIRE OF THE ANTS Year: 1977 Rating: ****</td></tr></tbody></table>Cult director Bert I. Young peaked during the 1970's, bringing his previous two decades of signature normal creatures superimposed to look gigantic around their hunted prey humans, with both rats and ants... the first being FOOD OF THE GODS and the second, and best, is EMPIRE OF THE ANTS...Although infamously campy, there's a good cast playing eclectic characters and a good reason for them to be gathered together... in this case on an island where real estate con-artist Joan Collins is trying to sell bogus dream property...

albert salmi, ants, bert i. gordon, body count, brooke palance, creature, jacqueline ellis, joan collins, john david carson, robert lansing, robert pine, seventies

ENLARGING BERT I. GORDON'S CULT CLASSIC 'EMPIRE OF THE ANTS'

Title: EMPIRE OF THE ANTS Year: 1977 Rating: **** Cult director Bert I. Young peaked during the 1970's, bringing his previous two decade...

JACQUELINE ELLIS WITH PATRICK ALLEN IN 'THE SINISTER MAN'

<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/AVvXsEgM6vcZBsr88JL6qZ9EcoJId_91eqyAwYv7nYAVTIHAe4PxztIBD7qDpbQD-1GZ8yrR0RJ3o825GNMB_WeJwqZGF7xcS-TLlgYW4JfRBhBMio9CC4sneoZtZimHouUFyhW4EhM-emNb2z9hZmZILAglP4Jn3Xpt9cFUHcSxyT77ZtfntC-TBZ9vpzwcgw/s1639/3.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="789" data-original-width="1639" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM6vcZBsr88JL6qZ9EcoJId_91eqyAwYv7nYAVTIHAe4PxztIBD7qDpbQD-1GZ8yrR0RJ3o825GNMB_WeJwqZGF7xcS-TLlgYW4JfRBhBMio9CC4sneoZtZimHouUFyhW4EhM-emNb2z9hZmZILAglP4Jn3Xpt9cFUHcSxyT77ZtfntC-TBZ9vpzwcgw/s16000/3.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jacqueline Ellis in THE SINISTER MAN Year: 1961 Rating: *1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>Another episode of EDGAR WALLACE MYSTERIES that also became a theatrical programmer, which is hard to believe since THE SINISTER MAN, never once living up to its name, is extremely episodic... and if this were a pilot for token constable John Bentley, here investigating a dead body in a river alongside a research center harboring scientist Patrick Allen and girlfriend Jacqueline Ellis, the show would have never been picked up...Because the story never picks up despite being filled with eclectic, random elements... from the overall two dead bodies having been karate-chopped to a falsely accused Asian man, there's no palpable suspense or intrigue in an sixty-minute mystery without thrills, and that feels like three hours... the best thing is seeing Jacqueline Ellis for over half that length, but she, like the plot-line, merely stands around going nowhere.

british neo noir, british tv, edgar wallace, jacqueline ellis, john bentley, mystery, patrick allen, ric young, thriller, yvonne buckingham

JACQUELINE ELLIS WITH PATRICK ALLEN IN 'THE SINISTER MAN'

Jacqueline Ellis in THE SINISTER MAN Year: 1961 Rating: *1/2 Another episode of EDGAR WALLACE MYSTERIES that also became a theatrical progra...

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 ...

JACQUELINE ELLIS IN 'THE TRAITORS' STARRING PATRICK ALLEN

<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/AVvXsEhGR8L5NnOjVdu49fBx7p9c7CISz9X3pivczQucfP5rMqZH_ScFbsvbY3m3RY7EVvxdetONf7THxVZ4FFsIs8J88tJ-Mit68v6rcQ-RO_5dKl4q0HO5bfVupWzVG00ib0buCz7XN8E8QnFYahEIMws45t0ZmGPMMfSEaFBsZAKCvZo7v0BXbTNYJ9Z5Tw/s911/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-16%20at%205.06.11%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="469" data-original-width="911" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGR8L5NnOjVdu49fBx7p9c7CISz9X3pivczQucfP5rMqZH_ScFbsvbY3m3RY7EVvxdetONf7THxVZ4FFsIs8J88tJ-Mit68v6rcQ-RO_5dKl4q0HO5bfVupWzVG00ib0buCz7XN8E8QnFYahEIMws45t0ZmGPMMfSEaFBsZAKCvZo7v0BXbTNYJ9Z5Tw/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-16%20at%205.06.11%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jacqueline Ellis in THE TRAITORS Year: 1962 Rating: ***</td></tr></tbody></table>The second of two British b-crimes pairing lantern-jawed <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/12/peter-cushing-patrick-allen-in-hammers.html">Patrick Allen</a>, honing one of the greatest voices in cinema history, with ingenue <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/jacqueline%20ellis">Jacqueline Ellis</a>, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/jacqueline%20ellis">THE TRAITORS</a>... written by Jim O'Connolly, who'd direct Ellis in <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/11/hijackers.html">THE HI-JACKERS</a> the next year... follows the usual spy template popular in the 1960's... Herein the titular gang of microfilm-carrying turncoats are shadowed by stalwart British agent Allen paired with an American with a British accent in future <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/02/otley.html">OTLEY</a> actor James Maxwell...

british neo noir, british new wave, espionage, harold goodwin, jacqueline ellis, james maxwell, jim o'connolly, patrick allen, sixties, spy, zena walker

JACQUELINE ELLIS IN 'THE TRAITORS' STARRING PATRICK ALLEN

Jacqueline Ellis in THE TRAITORS Year: 1962 Rating: *** The second of two British b-crimes pairing lantern-jawed Patrick Allen , honing one ...

JACQUELINE ELLIS VACATIONS FOR A NOIRISH 'DANGER MAN'

<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/AVvXsEhl5KGjyK5sjgW3deqQ9N9VM0kyKr1YoTyRhW2C7mtpGtMx7-hBo07d9jRGxDgnxu2NsaXC31N32QQfVCLNMVHaHhkqiNuAEyRSSajAkFQozO3dkYnbAi45WuYxtNaOEu8oGlM4SQ59hkFb3CTYEcWgMJ4lA5VWg-P7SFLq3TFf2CtOiCukNY27KhlFag/s1830/312084886_5796803600363872_3085006816356760227_n%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1155" data-original-width="1830" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl5KGjyK5sjgW3deqQ9N9VM0kyKr1YoTyRhW2C7mtpGtMx7-hBo07d9jRGxDgnxu2NsaXC31N32QQfVCLNMVHaHhkqiNuAEyRSSajAkFQozO3dkYnbAi45WuYxtNaOEu8oGlM4SQ59hkFb3CTYEcWgMJ4lA5VWg-P7SFLq3TFf2CtOiCukNY27KhlFag/s16000/312084886_5796803600363872_3085006816356760227_n%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Patrick McGoohan and Jacqueline Ellis in Danger Man: Vacation Year: 1961 Grade: A+</td></tr></tbody></table>When it comes to 1960's British spy television,  Patrick McGoohan is (and was even then) a legend with DANGER MAN, playing agent John Drake, morphed into SECRET AGENT and then THE PRISONER (more a spiritual than literal continuation): and in the first series, actress Jacqueline Ellis... usually cast as the good girl-next-door type for the overall crime genre... is the... um... well...That's a spoiler because her character... the niece of a very rich fella sought by a professional hit man (Hugh McDermott, who'd play Ellis's husband on <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2022/10/ellisaint2.html">THE SAINT</a>) that Drake's impersonating after recognizing and then knocking him out in an airplane... initially seems like the target, and whether she's practicing tennis or urgently warned by the always-intense McGoohan, she's cuter than ever in an excellently tight-knit, no-nonsense episode.

action, british tv, espionage, hugh mcdermott, jacqueline ellis, mystery, patrick mcgoohan, sixties, spy

JACQUELINE ELLIS VACATIONS FOR A NOIRISH 'DANGER MAN'

Patrick McGoohan and Jacqueline Ellis in Danger Man: Vacation Year: 1961 Grade: A+ When it comes to 1960's British spy television, Patr...

JACQELINE ELLIS RETURNS ON 'THE SAINT' WITH ROGER MOORE

<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/AVvXsEjKBJkRMVxcld5V526QaqvPPeP5Vm04eJH9JSd2btJVkxNMDmTKS9dLQ_a_SKs6mKOb75xDSfIe7nq8xk-Ivzomy30bFOF7L1G3_xn69e-h-V8hvXoMlG5KswV9PTRIC7YCjIs6UK36gwoLHzzKVviB48gV6Dbk4czkihpHd8bwZVsQHBIhkt1aqw4uXA/s1688/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1025" data-original-width="1688" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKBJkRMVxcld5V526QaqvPPeP5Vm04eJH9JSd2btJVkxNMDmTKS9dLQ_a_SKs6mKOb75xDSfIe7nq8xk-Ivzomy30bFOF7L1G3_xn69e-h-V8hvXoMlG5KswV9PTRIC7YCjIs6UK36gwoLHzzKVviB48gV6Dbk4czkihpHd8bwZVsQHBIhkt1aqw4uXA/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Jacqueline Ellis & Hugh McDermott in The Saint: The Golden Frog Year: 1965 Grade: C—</td></tr></tbody></table>Second episode of <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2022/10/ellisaint.html">THE SAINT</a> where<a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/jacqueline%20ellis"> Jacqueline Ellis</a>... the cute British actress who starred in British Film Noirs ranging from <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/02/ellis.html">ACCIDENTAL DEATH</a>, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2022/10/blog-post.html">THE TRAITORS</a> and THE <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/11/hijackers.html">HI-JACKERS</a>... is teamed with an older man, holed-up in a posh hotel, attempting to con a rich man...  In this case it's Roger Moore's Simon Templar, pretending to be a buyer in search of the titular GOLDEN FROG... and this time the location's South America instead of San Fransisco from an eclectic series that always changed locales...

british neo noir, british tv, con man, crime, hugh mcdermott, jacqueline ellis, roger moore, sixties, the saint

JACQELINE ELLIS RETURNS ON 'THE SAINT' WITH ROGER MOORE

Jacqueline Ellis & Hugh McDermott in The Saint: The Golden Frog Year: 1965 Grade: C— Second episode of THE SAINT where Jacqueline El...

JACQUELINE ELLIS IN 'ACCIDENTAL DEATH' WITH JOHN CARSON

<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/AVvXsEg7rEXfycsoqttSigS3abJoZSYOaY8LbWSwUzWnsHEIAuITV1vsxYvYmwMLBKhMOUg8cxWA7cyt7KMAeiGaYqh7F2BeGT5E_gXlQkeKIcvkAd4mPcJDbcgMnIE71BoSh4vEhCaoziSezEK5UcRQRf9TPt2dIiXKThWWfFpC5OS8lKgS6C14qVacplFCXQ/s2048/35.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1271" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7rEXfycsoqttSigS3abJoZSYOaY8LbWSwUzWnsHEIAuITV1vsxYvYmwMLBKhMOUg8cxWA7cyt7KMAeiGaYqh7F2BeGT5E_gXlQkeKIcvkAd4mPcJDbcgMnIE71BoSh4vEhCaoziSezEK5UcRQRf9TPt2dIiXKThWWfFpC5OS8lKgS6C14qVacplFCXQ/s16000/35.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Jacqueline Ellis in ACCIDENTAL DEATH Year: 1963 Rating: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>Resembling a pretty young school teacher, grown-up girl next door type, who "doesn't look like the teachers I had," <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/11/hijackers.html">Jacqueline Ellis </a>is a different kind of British b-movie starlet...And very important here as a wishbone not just between two men but three including an older rich gent who raised her; a young passive boyfriend; and a new guy in town... or actually, in the house... as flirtatious thirty-something Frenchman John Carson doesn't only have a plot to kill the old-timer for war crimes, he warns him outright so the title ACCIDENTAL DEATH fits what might occur...

british, british neo noir, british new wave, edgar wallace, jacqueline ellis, john carson, melodrama, suspense

JACQUELINE ELLIS IN 'ACCIDENTAL DEATH' WITH JOHN CARSON

Jacqueline Ellis in ACCIDENTAL DEATH Year: 1963 Rating: ***1/2 Resembling a pretty young school teacher, grown-up girl next door type, who ...

JACQUELINE ELLIS, JEANNE MOODY & ROGER MOORE 'THE SAINT'

<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/AVvXsEihNuwuQVFdmAL2ExjjQq5IOcbMDsFngDnun4CUsLupc_-CaRm6CoaaGkafbqD0XO9qSe7nIWrsBsyBb6IrWK-NgEHvKAhCU_v-WS1cj9WrygTa5S2R_2Gf1dwMFC_Lg2pLA28Fhqfa9DYYGwoEKTnajrMmLDWhAVk7al7qw-UmZ60fbGNI1XTz_lyr-Q/s1838/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-13%20at%201.44.22%20AM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1172" data-original-width="1838" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihNuwuQVFdmAL2ExjjQq5IOcbMDsFngDnun4CUsLupc_-CaRm6CoaaGkafbqD0XO9qSe7nIWrsBsyBb6IrWK-NgEHvKAhCU_v-WS1cj9WrygTa5S2R_2Gf1dwMFC_Lg2pLA28Fhqfa9DYYGwoEKTnajrMmLDWhAVk7al7qw-UmZ60fbGNI1XTz_lyr-Q/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-13%20at%201.44.22%20AM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jacqueline Ellis & Roger Moore in The Saint: The Ever-Loving Spouse Year: 1964 Grade: B—</td></tr></tbody></table>British actress Jacqueline Ellis was a girl-next-door beauty with vulnerability and strength battling for a kind of spoiled girl's spunky attempt to better herself out of dire circumstance, usually of the crime nature as she appeared in several British New Wave Noirs like ACCIDENTAL DEATH and THE HI-JACKERS, and two episodes of THE SAINT...In THE EVER-LOVING SPOUSE, Jacqueline's busy at a San Fransisco hotel, that's holding a rowdy convention of businessmen where she's teamed-up to blackmail a candy company mogul with a contrived-suggestive photograph she rushed him into, posing in scantily-clad clothes for the snap...

british neo noir, british tv, crime, jacqueline ellis, jeanne moody, robert arden, roger moore, sixties, the saint

JACQUELINE ELLIS, JEANNE MOODY & ROGER MOORE 'THE SAINT'

Jacqueline Ellis & Roger Moore in The Saint: The Ever-Loving Spouse Year: 1964 Grade: B— British actress Jacqueline Ellis was a girl-nex...

JACQUELINE ELLIS 'THE YELLOW TEDDY BEARS' ANNETTE WHITELEY

<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/AVvXsEhHo7yofs5U66Y46U8ca266XNQaRofUhCI928wjjuttdO4yoBV-jJ7ClI5Lu3CvX6d2c38oMX6GWZnJ0b-FfaMnsRdNrhj9FVcy6cSTlb3ki7m6x5gOVpTK6WTXq3l9KWvmraM5OhFiuDJGPa9PmyL8KZ_sQCfZ6olVKVEucg_5xBaD34dwYoyte6w1UQ/s2056/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-15%20at%2012.41.07%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1159" data-original-width="2056" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHo7yofs5U66Y46U8ca266XNQaRofUhCI928wjjuttdO4yoBV-jJ7ClI5Lu3CvX6d2c38oMX6GWZnJ0b-FfaMnsRdNrhj9FVcy6cSTlb3ki7m6x5gOVpTK6WTXq3l9KWvmraM5OhFiuDJGPa9PmyL8KZ_sQCfZ6olVKVEucg_5xBaD34dwYoyte6w1UQ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-15%20at%2012.41.07%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jacqueline Ellis in THE YELLOW TEDDY BEARS Year: 1963 Rating: **1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>With alternate titles THE THRILL SEEKERS and GUTTER GIRLS, even the 
actual name THE YELLOW TEDDY BEARS... pins that female students wear 
meaning they've been devirginized... is very misleading, and, what 
initially plays out a sexual cautionary tale for teenagers turns into a 
third-act lecture for adults about these kids... So while ahead of its time, not only addressing abortion but showing <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/08/GOA.html">GIRL ON APPROVAL</a> rebel chick Annette Whiteley about to have one, the pace is uneven while progressively sympathetic teacher <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/jacqueline%20ellis">Jacqueline Ellis</a><a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/jacqueline%20ellis"> (</a><a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/11/hijackers.html">THE HI-JACKERS</a>)... who winds up in the same kind of "why even discuss such a thing with students?" predicament William Shatner landed in in THE EXPLOSIVE YEARS... seems more a guest star than lead...