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Written by James M. Tate / 6/22/2023 / No comments / british neo noir , british new wave , ian hendry , james villiers , jane asher , jeremy brett , kieron moore , mystery , natasha parry , peter arne , ronald fraser , sixties , thriller

JANE ASHER & IAN HENDRY RELATE WITH 'GIRL IN THE HEADLINES'

<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/AVvXsEhiLgWK5vEAxLSUY1iUmsYSxZwcuL-k5R_B5PxThQ4qbLLVexYVeNXrj_WTH2XIhl2bnDQB4sDYTaThPsu6kD_hcDCx6xbVn3w9iESEGXQjgo8oA6Sfw1VzoAqMv2uTu7GPxTd0IsWzxOBtvbYC8kRmY_UnMToidhKpuNA33o92payFgqSVjIZVeZjkMmfF/s2514/Screen%20Shot%202023-06-23%20at%203.25.28%20AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1464" data-original-width="2514" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiLgWK5vEAxLSUY1iUmsYSxZwcuL-k5R_B5PxThQ4qbLLVexYVeNXrj_WTH2XIhl2bnDQB4sDYTaThPsu6kD_hcDCx6xbVn3w9iESEGXQjgo8oA6Sfw1VzoAqMv2uTu7GPxTd0IsWzxOBtvbYC8kRmY_UnMToidhKpuNA33o92payFgqSVjIZVeZjkMmfF/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-06-23%20at%203.25.28%20AM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jane Asher from GIRL IN THE HEADLINES Year: 1963 Rating: **1/2</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Also known as THE MODEL MURDER CASE, this British Neo Noir has a perfectly cast Ian Hendry with Ronald Fraser as cop partners (Inspector and Sergeant) with such terrific chemistry it's a shame there weren't more films, or perhaps a television series where GIRL IN THE HEADLINES would be a merely passable episode... albeit filled with fantastic looking sets showcasing pallid wealth in a mystery thriller that needed not only more thrills but far more action...</p><p></p><p>A shame the titular model, shown all through the opening credits and even the first several minutes (seated dead in someone else's living room), isn't credited anywhere: Her character is quite something, making this a kind of <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/12/the-laura.html">LAURA</a> where the corpse has a life all her own, albeit not through any flashbacks. The suspects/her friends though are very similar... </p><p><span></span></p>

british neo noir, british new wave, ian hendry, james villiers, jane asher, jeremy brett, kieron moore, mystery, natasha parry, peter arne, ronald fraser, sixties, thriller

JANE ASHER & IAN HENDRY RELATE WITH 'GIRL IN THE HEADLINES'

Jane Asher from GIRL IN THE HEADLINES Year: 1963 Rating: **1/2 Also known as THE MODEL MURDER CASE, this British Neo Noir has a perfectly ca...

DANA ANDREWS ATOMIC UNDERGROUND 'CRACK IN THE WORLD'

<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/AVvXsEiBuAeIkJd-5Lqk7eAq7N2SBYP36Z7UBRC9F6bSvfm73KyhCaZ-oZg7H0sadb8ZM_eya5goUOls0mk-1XkSVSnBm8zvh1XhXR_eAfOCslYzE_jqDgaoJSwmgNC8jNt_qZpxP1_Jiw4JD-3VbwPtoLF8JXR4LarE5ntFGFqsvuiJCJAPRSMkzKwJNJY-2Q/s1686/Screen%20Shot%202023-05-22%20at%201.07.46%20AM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="833" data-original-width="1686" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBuAeIkJd-5Lqk7eAq7N2SBYP36Z7UBRC9F6bSvfm73KyhCaZ-oZg7H0sadb8ZM_eya5goUOls0mk-1XkSVSnBm8zvh1XhXR_eAfOCslYzE_jqDgaoJSwmgNC8jNt_qZpxP1_Jiw4JD-3VbwPtoLF8JXR4LarE5ntFGFqsvuiJCJAPRSMkzKwJNJY-2Q/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-05-22%20at%201.07.46%20AM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Dana Andrews in CRACK IN THE WORLD Year: 1965 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Not really a mad scientist but more an 
impatient one, with a soft yet distinguished voice, Dana Andrews is surprisingly 
secure and relaxed... And perhaps that fits, since brilliant, hard-driven, stubborn, important men don't know they're going a little off-kilter, and his Dr. Stephen 
Sorenson is only driven by a lack of time...<br>
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Dying of a blood disease, he 
wants to put his experiment beyond the testing stage, a great 
risk in the eyes of younger British scientist Kieron Moore as Dr. Ted 
Rampion, the older doc's student turned antithesis who'd actually make a better fit
 for Dana's young trophy wife – another scientist, Maggie, played by gorgeous
blond-haired  b-starlet Janette Scott (Moore and Scott <i>did</i> play husband and 
wife in THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS, and she's the real life wife of Dana's THE FEARMAKERS co-star, Mel Torme)...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

alexander knox, dana andrews, disaster, janette scott, kieron moore, nuclear, race against time, science-fiction, sixties

DANA ANDREWS ATOMIC UNDERGROUND 'CRACK IN THE WORLD'

Dana Andrews in CRACK IN THE WORLD Year: 1965 Rating: **** Not really a mad scientist but more an impatient one, with a soft yet distingui...

PETER O'TOOLE IN 'THE DAY THEY ROBBED THE BANK OF ENGLAND'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1960</u></td></tr>
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In this classy, turn of the Century-set British heist film, Aldo Ray plays an American joining with would-be Irish Revolutionaries to knock off the titular 
location, and the best moments occur in the planning stages as the giant Yank learns the innards of the immense, seemingly impenetrable bank-fortress from a personal tour by Peter O'Toole, playing an extremely nice lieutenant of the bank's troop of marching guards...<br>
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O'Toole's not the main star but has a genuine arc: his affable persona, giving away any 
and all secrets to an all-ears thief feigning style and class, sharpens as he begins to catch on during the crest of the second act, intensifying into a 
more familiar, edgy and intense character for O'Toole to embrace (and that he'd play later on).<br>
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Meanwhile, the
 pace slows during a filler romance between Ray and the only female plotter, and the 
most time's spent during the usual digging of the tunnel — the kind you 
mostly see in prison films breaking out while here they're attempting 
to break in: And the cast also includes veteran actor Albert Sharpe as a sewer dwelling bum that unknowingly provided the groundwork; Kieron Moore as the mouthiest and youngest Irishman, a thankless role and the only antagonist of sorts; and Elizabeth Sellers as the pouty (and much too old) ingenue in this semi-obscure gem directed by John Guillermin, and that famously laid the 
groundwork for O'Toole's career: After viewing one scene, David Lean knew he had his LAWRENCE OF ARABIA despite the dark features and a
 straight, hawkish nose that would soon be altered.<br>

aldo ray, british new wave, caper, elizabeth sellars, england, heist, john guillermin, kieron moore, peter o'toole, sixties, thriller

PETER O'TOOLE IN 'THE DAY THEY ROBBED THE BANK OF ENGLAND'

Year: 1960 In this classy, turn of the Century-set British heist film, Aldo Ray plays an American joining with would-be Irish Revolution...

TWO PETER O'TOOLE CAMEOS BEFORE LAWRENCE OF ARABIA

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<u>THE SAVAGE INNOCENTS,</u> directed by veteran auteur Nicholas Ray, who would, a decade later, dry up his Hollywood resources and, for a little while, live in the home of his former REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE actor Dennis Hopper after the success of EASY RIDER...<br>
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So perhaps it's not altogether shocking the man who once contributed to classic cinema was no longer relevant — this motion picture, centering on an Eskimo played by Anthony Quinn, is one of the worst piles of husky dung ever created: seeming as if Jack London wrote a novel on soiled toilet paper, we suffer through an hour of Quinn's lone nomad (in the snow he's a snowmad) hunting cute seals and, after so-much brooding, landing a wife... <br>
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Though mostly shot in an igloo (a cheap set made up to look like the white-block interior), there's one sequence where Quinn gets drunk at a bar and dances to that era's boogie-woogie.<br>
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And we've buried the lead because the third act could have been something special since, once our man is falsely accused of cold-blooded murder, two (eventually one) guards take him across the icy landscape to turn him over to the authorities, and it's Peter O'Toole that survives. Scenes where both near-future LAWRENCE OF ARABIA stars (who'd become living legends three-years later) debate race and ethics has real potential — only thing is, O'Toole's voice is dubbed by an American actor who sounds like an easy listening disc jockey. So be incredibly warned — this is <i>not</i> a Peter O'Toole feature for fans for the same reason he insisted his name not appear on the opening credits: despite ultimately providing the secondary leading role. Shame!<br>