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Written by James M. Tate / 5/24/2024 / No comments / action , adventure , ann smyrner , espionage , harry alan towers , lex barker , neo noir , nicolas roeg , robert lynn , ronald fraser , sixties , spy , veronique vendell , walter rilla

LEX BARKER WITH VÉRONIQUE VENDELL IN 'CODE 7, VICTIM 5'

<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/AVvXsEjR5OtiCI30X-r-YSN2mSh09_FF4rmoYjw-X10uLh85wUkxAStnpJU82k7RkdpdM51XYFqi-GTJaPHrROLwHgNL1IZsTY4LtYs5MgUIy89Y2JwNjDMQMshL27DuREwvUtJ1iCES1tPGUudDKDQvbXw7poaoGgo4zhhJ_TB5hy8xAgzoHvcnYUoFZ71lCJ4T/s2068/Screen%20Shot%202024-05-24%20at%205.08.14%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1174" data-original-width="2068" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR5OtiCI30X-r-YSN2mSh09_FF4rmoYjw-X10uLh85wUkxAStnpJU82k7RkdpdM51XYFqi-GTJaPHrROLwHgNL1IZsTY4LtYs5MgUIy89Y2JwNjDMQMshL27DuREwvUtJ1iCES1tPGUudDKDQvbXw7poaoGgo4zhhJ_TB5hy8xAgzoHvcnYUoFZ71lCJ4T/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-05-24%20at%205.08.14%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: CODE 7, VICTIM 5 Alternate Title: VICTIM FIVE Year: 1964 Rating: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>With a title that sounds more like the final score of a computer corporation's soccer match than a spy movie, CODE 7, VICTIM 5 takes the then-Sean Connery/James Bond blueprint into b-movie territory under flowing direction from Robert Lynn but more importantly with creatively maneuvered and vibrantly colored cinematography by future legendary auteur Nicolas Roeg, providing former Tarzan (Johnny Weissmuller's  replacement) actor Lex Barker on a case to discover who murdered a millionaire's servant at a bizarre parade... But Barker's character Steve Martin (also Raymond Burr's name in GODZILLA before THE JERK comic became famous) is more busy with two lovely dames, equally alluring in their own right while following neo-noir cinema tropes...

action, adventure, ann smyrner, espionage, harry alan towers, lex barker, neo noir, nicolas roeg, robert lynn, ronald fraser, sixties, spy, veronique vendell, walter rilla

LEX BARKER WITH VÉRONIQUE VENDELL IN 'CODE 7, VICTIM 5'

Title: CODE 7, VICTIM 5 Alternate Title: VICTIM FIVE Year: 1964 Rating: ***1/2 With a title that sounds more like the final score of a compu...

LEX BARKER, MALA POWERS & LEO GORDON 'THE YELLOW MOUNTAIN'

<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/AVvXsEi8kag3IvxoGjSCD6PWefbfb766MyLBaZ7fEhSmQAPGwEMFmSBxGYZJ5it9GxujVl92gyBmk_w9T-VF-wt_Z-5L3Rab5noRadFyqFYmMGxbdq3JHZgHBv7BIdbWd6g_i-us2kPoaGNkTfj5HWC8169R3HP8dKdxH4j7yZOFjueunAtltRu4NERsQiSt8mng/s2448/1%202%202.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1460" data-original-width="2448" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8kag3IvxoGjSCD6PWefbfb766MyLBaZ7fEhSmQAPGwEMFmSBxGYZJ5it9GxujVl92gyBmk_w9T-VF-wt_Z-5L3Rab5noRadFyqFYmMGxbdq3JHZgHBv7BIdbWd6g_i-us2kPoaGNkTfj5HWC8169R3HP8dKdxH4j7yZOFjueunAtltRu4NERsQiSt8mng/s16000/1%202%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lex Barker & Leo Gordon in THE YELLOW MOUNTAIN Year: 1954 Rating: ****1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>Any movie about mining for gold will eventually include double-crossing con artists, and THE YELLOW MOUNTAIN starts right off with honest hero Lex Barker punching his former backstabbing friend in the office of a saloon that's the central location: until they venture into the titular mine with two different names on the claims...There's the shifty fella Barker fought with in charming, unpredictable Howard Duff, with his eyes on the gorgeous daughter of unlucky lifelong gambling miner William Demarest, a kind of passive version of <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2023/11/bogartgold.html">Walter Huston</a>...

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LEX BARKER, MALA POWERS & LEO GORDON 'THE YELLOW MOUNTAIN'

Lex Barker & Leo Gordon in THE YELLOW MOUNTAIN Year: 1954 Rating: ****1/2 Any movie about mining for gold will eventually include double...

LEX BARKER & BRENDA JOYCE IN 'TARZAN'S MAGIC FOUNTAIN'

<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/AVvXsEiyvaxXCIJUVg3jrb16SxAV7EVVl8JHkZ57JCf2nrnjnSoSMh031mUvQ0n5eF1iWtLwxPFNIYMcVuRtYEL3RY5LYPC0Q52abhof-V0XEiE61qdCqizoL_LJDU7UNUzoDD6a5_tHQssh_qCc4OtqUyi5FLoInCQTr_JDJEnhmBSYinHlCIoHwoi5dIK1LQ=s774" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="519" data-original-width="774" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiyvaxXCIJUVg3jrb16SxAV7EVVl8JHkZ57JCf2nrnjnSoSMh031mUvQ0n5eF1iWtLwxPFNIYMcVuRtYEL3RY5LYPC0Q52abhof-V0XEiE61qdCqizoL_LJDU7UNUzoDD6a5_tHQssh_qCc4OtqUyi5FLoInCQTr_JDJEnhmBSYinHlCIoHwoi5dIK1LQ=s16000"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: TARZAN'S MAGIC FOUNTAIN Year: 1949 Rating: **1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>Johnny Weissmuller's replacement was Lex Barker, and his first turn as the King of the Jungle, TARZAN'S MAGIC FOUNTAIN, is a sleight-of-hand, keeping the same actress for Jane, who was a replacement for Maureen O'Sullivan in a wide-smiled Brenda Joyce, so the viewer could close their eyes and imagine Johnny's still in the role...However Lex was a good fit despite MAGIC FOUNTAIN dragging after the most intriguing aspects in the first half, where a female aviator turns up after having vanished for decades, and is still a beautiful twenty instead of fifty...

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LEX BARKER & BRENDA JOYCE IN 'TARZAN'S MAGIC FOUNTAIN'

Title: TARZAN'S MAGIC FOUNTAIN Year: 1949 Rating: **1/2 Johnny Weissmuller's replacement was Lex Barker, and his first turn as the K...

LEX BARKER IN 'TARZAN AND THE SHE-DEVIL' W/ RAYMOND BURR

<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/AVvXsEg4BeNtJKg-9EANNHu7z5XC1fLeywKPPHhd2DXVP9z3f9I4fbKF1zEWz_KiW1oC8CTanemN4ryy4ABsT408m9Dq7v8TqYm5gwb67Eca7zpKIg-bIkyX7w6sLlQofkXXQP4CTJFgpv4HKHEZ2GEiFrnYzaQ1Js5pCcCTtYTJpXCluXm7cF2ErapZ9PPZkw=s886" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="567" data-original-width="886" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg4BeNtJKg-9EANNHu7z5XC1fLeywKPPHhd2DXVP9z3f9I4fbKF1zEWz_KiW1oC8CTanemN4ryy4ABsT408m9Dq7v8TqYm5gwb67Eca7zpKIg-bIkyX7w6sLlQofkXXQP4CTJFgpv4HKHEZ2GEiFrnYzaQ1Js5pCcCTtYTJpXCluXm7cF2ErapZ9PPZkw=s16000"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Year: 1953 Rating: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>TARZAN AND THE SHE-DEVIL is both the last and best of the Lex Barker as Tarzan RKO programmers, but the title is misleading since would-be titular fatale Monique van Vooren as Lyra is actually/ultimately nice and helpful, and for only an instant gives Jane, here played by bombshell-next-door Joyce Mackenzie, some competition, after Jane strikes back by telling Tarzan that she found Lyra's employee, Vargo, attractive... Enter Raymond Burr as an elephant-hunting ivory merchant, who, with the help thug Michael Granger and aided by Lyra's partner in classy, morally ambiguous Tom Conway, captures Tarzan while making him think Jane's dead... all for his skills for calling elephants so they don't have to hunt them...<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/AVvXsEhdyrrCqIMqq-L9pDR16EhI9FDDAxuO7II8F_UJ5mZ9qSYC-VOu0A0zCsTBtQSUhqfy_KqNDjXRY96HAz2waVi6J8sFm6OsQcWRtXMXSSfVNLFXqfuueMj2PR3n9IjbqQ86GdNSYtCJ-YmswF9smCv-9QofA-d4zCP9xtPbgqTTHaTAb4OHMmmdx8D5vA=s1548" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="854" data-original-width="1548" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhdyrrCqIMqq-L9pDR16EhI9FDDAxuO7II8F_UJ5mZ9qSYC-VOu0A0zCsTBtQSUhqfy_KqNDjXRY96HAz2waVi6J8sFm6OsQcWRtXMXSSfVNLFXqfuueMj2PR3n9IjbqQ86GdNSYtCJ-YmswF9smCv-9QofA-d4zCP9xtPbgqTTHaTAb4OHMmmdx8D5vA=s16000"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Monique van Vooren as Lyra in Tarzan and the She-Devil with Raymond Burr</td></tr></tbody></table>The plot's simple and the action occurs in effective pockets in-between, with very little downtime (Cheetah, meanwhile, steals the show when traipsing alone through the jungle); which is an added bonus given that Barker Tarzan flicks can both drag and get overly complicated, plot-wise...But what makes this one tick is how evil Burr is in jungle-occupying scenes countered by the heartbroken Tarzan... If only Brussels beauty van Vorren would only live up to the kind of seduction an actress of her type's born to do. Either way, overall, SHE-DEVIL would've been more properly named HE-POACHER.