PETER SELLERS FINISHING ON 'REVENGE OF THE PINK PANTHER'

<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/AVvXsEijT09xht5Do2Xn8PGYnSs6SEpC7tIFN6VJje9YmfoTTWOAmJCvsIS6K_TmdSzmi9BSMkPTinmEXT2IEK6AD0Qmo9vm8guAf3-BOXfPuDQO8u3ARc_FHJsZS4iX92x5ar403XloVwOoo97gLbLIjh6OD6mvNh4oBvvXp8ta-VIrfESeZMll4MsphbD7s3n4/s1676/Screen%20Shot%202025-06-21%20at%201.08.00%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1014" data-original-width="1676" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijT09xht5Do2Xn8PGYnSs6SEpC7tIFN6VJje9YmfoTTWOAmJCvsIS6K_TmdSzmi9BSMkPTinmEXT2IEK6AD0Qmo9vm8guAf3-BOXfPuDQO8u3ARc_FHJsZS4iX92x5ar403XloVwOoo97gLbLIjh6OD6mvNh4oBvvXp8ta-VIrfESeZMll4MsphbD7s3n4/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-06-21%20at%201.08.00%20PM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: REVENGE OF THE PINK PANTHER Year: 1978 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The last PINK PANTHER movie starring Peter Sellers was the first time he was completely invested with director Blake Edwards as co-producer, and the epic espionage of the previous STRIKES AGAIN is replaced with a somewhat contained GODFATHER homage/mafia story in which Robert Webber, threatened by Robert Loggia, has to kill Clouseau...<br><br>As this REVENGE (which is actually against Clouseau) also borrows from Sellers' best turn as the inspector from SHOT IN THE DARK... involving a pretty blonde attached to a shady rich criminal... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

blake edwards, comedy, dyan cannon, franchise, mafia, peter sellers, pink panther, robert loggia, robert webber, seventies, sue lloyd

PETER SELLERS FINISHING ON 'REVENGE OF THE PINK PANTHER'

Title: REVENGE OF THE PINK PANTHER Year: 1978 Rating: **1/2 The last PINK PANTHER movie starring Peter Sellers was the first time he was com...

JIM KELLY KICKS FRONT IN ROBERT CLOUSE'S 'BLACK BELT JONES'

<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/AVvXsEhb_ZyctjLulHuxom7SCmwbLpaEv2HXGhPZq-ZwJZGX1ZvkklKji3g026I0RbRhCAfGpAY1ouXldaW0QUl7wa-aljy-bCqkTlytW0lvIYdIOdlOl7opQ1UwLpUcT6VotT-fJY3UWoZIZ8cA3lhleZ25WWtC4Ruyo7N0oSa6OE2zOLyLOu4j8y_0ioQFMTBw/s1570/Screen%20Shot%202024-11-29%20at%206.48.03%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="799" data-original-width="1570" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb_ZyctjLulHuxom7SCmwbLpaEv2HXGhPZq-ZwJZGX1ZvkklKji3g026I0RbRhCAfGpAY1ouXldaW0QUl7wa-aljy-bCqkTlytW0lvIYdIOdlOl7opQ1UwLpUcT6VotT-fJY3UWoZIZ8cA3lhleZ25WWtC4Ruyo7N0oSa6OE2zOLyLOu4j8y_0ioQFMTBw/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-11-29%20at%206.48.03%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Poster deliberately transforming Bruce Lee into Jim Kelly for BLACK BELT JONES Year: 1974 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Anyone thinking ENTER THE DRAGON director Robert Clouse simply got lucky need only experience BLACK BELT JONES starring Bruce Lee's cocky black rival and overall fan-favorite Jim Kelly who, giant afro and all, takes on the mafia in what Clouse neatly balances as part martial arts, part gritty downtown-blaxploitation and part GODFATHER-inspired mafia crime flick...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The latter serves the plot as Jones's friend Scatman Crothers owns an urban karate studio, and the mob needs the land... eventually inherited by the first James Bond girl in Gloria Hendry as Crothers' daughter, who winds up both Jones's love interest and a practically equal karate partner...</p><p><span></span></p>

alan weeks, blaxploitation, eric laneuville, exploitation, gloria hendry, jim kelly, karate, mafia, malik carter, marla gibbs, scatman crothers, seventies, spy, ted lange, vince barbi

JIM KELLY KICKS FRONT IN ROBERT CLOUSE'S 'BLACK BELT JONES'

Poster deliberately transforming Bruce Lee into Jim Kelly for BLACK BELT JONES Year: 1974 Rating: **** Anyone thinking ENTER THE DRAGON dire...

JACK STARRETT DIRECTS JIM BROWN VS RIP TORN IN 'SLAUGHTER'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></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/AVvXsEinAiW_G1OWdOEotTh_2-ZhNSeZPUA11D5f2NyUpjAj_V5okzvMB2GlC7GV0_qjqwi28tp2i4-ZbEk76Hq7_zKHlPO-zH-dobT2lkUhJoDOqOPl3JyBqdE5jHNMF-Uff7TA4orIq6HdFqV79Q9O4mrxF_PLTc4hyEDlp_P-88auXfzM1dpTI9E6fmWcJtOR/s2679/1111%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1296" data-original-width="2679" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinAiW_G1OWdOEotTh_2-ZhNSeZPUA11D5f2NyUpjAj_V5okzvMB2GlC7GV0_qjqwi28tp2i4-ZbEk76Hq7_zKHlPO-zH-dobT2lkUhJoDOqOPl3JyBqdE5jHNMF-Uff7TA4orIq6HdFqV79Q9O4mrxF_PLTc4hyEDlp_P-88auXfzM1dpTI9E6fmWcJtOR/s16000/1111%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: SLAUGHTER Director: Jack Starrett Year: 1972 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>By the time Rip Torn as a mobster's main hit-man kills the very boss who hired him to kill Jim Brown's titular black tough guy SLAUGHTER... seeking revenge for his father's mob-ordered death... the 1972 anything-goes/gun-blasting extravaganza is only halfway through...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And has already featured some worthwhile actors including Cameron Mitchell and sidekick's sidekick Don Gordon, right at home in a b-movie that passes for mainstream... like something from the Bond franchise as Jim Brown, wearing a dapper tuxedo, walks coolly into the antagonist's crooked casino, winning money and even landing a sexy moll, who at least three of the uncompromisingly racist mafiosos are after...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, blaxploitation, cameron mitchell, jack starrett, jim brown, mafia, marlene clark, revenge, rip torn, robert phillips, seventies, stella stevens

JACK STARRETT DIRECTS JIM BROWN VS RIP TORN IN 'SLAUGHTER'

Title: SLAUGHTER Director: Jack Starrett Year: 1972 Rating: ****1/2 By the time Rip Torn as a mobster's main hit-man kills the very boss...

IAN HENDRY VS ROGER MOORE IN 'VENDETTA FOR THE SAINT'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></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/AVvXsEjyo1l4DsMZybJoPlVtYte0-pfZVqOcuiWuSpffJCT-gDoIjleA36gj-aiokuzPu4YijNYkzXp2pVt4rw1YbVZkyiggzVF_SrGFNuR8XQ0R7YabCDPLSi06YpoGHgO9D1vJ0hbc77s7YBCnWah50xi1EtezDZ4rAYAKl9Ob6RDFLcCgKYF6WeWVy8RFTYzw/s2168/Screen%20Shot%202025-01-09%20at%202.51.32%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1464" data-original-width="2168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyo1l4DsMZybJoPlVtYte0-pfZVqOcuiWuSpffJCT-gDoIjleA36gj-aiokuzPu4YijNYkzXp2pVt4rw1YbVZkyiggzVF_SrGFNuR8XQ0R7YabCDPLSi06YpoGHgO9D1vJ0hbc77s7YBCnWah50xi1EtezDZ4rAYAKl9Ob6RDFLcCgKYF6WeWVy8RFTYzw/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-01-09%20at%202.51.32%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u> Ian  Hendry in VENDETTA FOR THE SAINT Year: 1969 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>When television shows becomes theatrical features, it's usually a cheat like in the case of THE SAINT two-part episode VENDETTA FOR THE SAINT, which, pieced together, becomes a 90-minute movie...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Although herein, there <i>is</i> a kind of theatrical touch, for two reasons: villain Ian Hendry, as a mobster who was once someone else and now goes by a fake name while working as an aging/dying mob boss's sophisticated, falsely-related henchman, is always great on both the big (<a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/12/getCarter.html">GET CARTER</a>) and small (THE AVENGERS to <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2022/04/ian-hendry-jill-townsend-christen.html">THE SWEENEY</a>) screen...  </p><p><span></span></p>

action, aimi macdonald, ian hendry, jim o'connolly, mafia, neo noir, roger moore, rosemary dexter, sixites, tv-series

IAN HENDRY VS ROGER MOORE IN 'VENDETTA FOR THE SAINT'

Ian  Hendry in VENDETTA FOR THE SAINT Year: 1969 Rating: ***1/2 When television shows becomes theatrical features, it's usually a cheat...

CHARLES BRONSON IN 'THE FAMILY' THAT IMPROVES 'VIOLENT CITY'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></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/AVvXsEjRe1rPaZE6MzRFpGDTITAGsfP7OJzZMkhSzMpGq0eZZp-sdWxvZDKhiBC6zx0WGFErSi_C2amP5nV9E743MYL-md8dVgczupbw3_2j0Ty13Sd0yt2p5s83OESJ_5HDnL1tN42zpwkTKpz-pg-o3sdmhm8Kgg8by6-YTIZGJvpgJN8KmaQzOzo5Q2G_MVzT/s2080/Screen%20Shot%202024-07-04%20at%2010.16.29%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1144" data-original-width="2080" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRe1rPaZE6MzRFpGDTITAGsfP7OJzZMkhSzMpGq0eZZp-sdWxvZDKhiBC6zx0WGFErSi_C2amP5nV9E743MYL-md8dVgczupbw3_2j0Ty13Sd0yt2p5s83OESJ_5HDnL1tN42zpwkTKpz-pg-o3sdmhm8Kgg8by6-YTIZGJvpgJN8KmaQzOzo5Q2G_MVzT/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-07-04%20at%2010.16.29%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Charles Bronson in THE FAMILY (Improved English-Only Version of VIOLENT CITY) Year: 1970 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Sergio Sollima's Italian-crime thriller VIOLENT CITY starring Charles Bronson, Telly Savalas and Jill Ireland is a bizarre cinematic tragedy being a worthwhile neo-noir on the one hand — while the other awkwardly serves the main problem...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Right when the audience settles into a romance between Bronson's hit-man character Jeff Heston during a tropical vacation, opening with Sollima filming Ireland's body like he would a pristine statue, Heston's shot, nearly killed and, now in prison, the inmates suddenly... without any explanation (and without subtitles)... speak Italian: wherein Bronson's low-dubbed voice sounds nothing like his own...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, charles bronson, crime, hit man, italian, jill ireland, mafia, michel constantin, neo noir, prison, sergio sollima, seventies, telly savalas, thriller, umberto orsini

CHARLES BRONSON IN 'THE FAMILY' THAT IMPROVES 'VIOLENT CITY'

Charles Bronson in THE FAMILY (Improved English-Only Version of VIOLENT CITY) Year: 1970 Rating: **** Sergio Sollima's Italian-crime thr...

ROBERT DENIRO TEAMS WITH CHARLES GRODIN IN 'MIDNIGHT RUN'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></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/AVvXsEgqnz3Md6RmEoU-gwyFQby5uY2JM4GbUoP0lmOZWyvSk9U1VSgDajli08VS7KqmwvupnfxQPt1sjgN57lg6MKw5eHmBqGHvWL32ipOWzreRehzjr5tnifVAJlDEhnKj9evOTNXJpUASHQ8GLFUjVxcfdUcDw4YXNTAfs0VwZTVSxiQq8g5hWoK9GvOyMlhX/s1598/376234605_1800061767089658_5522927381893661311_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="784" data-original-width="1598" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqnz3Md6RmEoU-gwyFQby5uY2JM4GbUoP0lmOZWyvSk9U1VSgDajli08VS7KqmwvupnfxQPt1sjgN57lg6MKw5eHmBqGHvWL32ipOWzreRehzjr5tnifVAJlDEhnKj9evOTNXJpUASHQ8GLFUjVxcfdUcDw4YXNTAfs0VwZTVSxiQq8g5hWoK9GvOyMlhX/s16000/376234605_1800061767089658_5522927381893661311_n.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert DeNiro in MIDNIGHT RUN Year: 1988 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Director Martin Brest's action/comedy MIDNIGHT RUN is a double-edged sword for Robert De Niro: while it moved him from the cult into the mainstream, he's been continuously selling-out (with the exception of GOODFELLAS and JACKIE BROWN) and cashing-in ever since... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>But not like here, keeping his unique edge as tough yet vulnerable bounty-hunting Jack Walsh, partnered with mob accountant turned mob-targeted Charles Grodin, nicknamed Duke but more of an uptight Felix to Jack's mangy Oscar, their bickering dialogue between action sequences providing the best moments in a terrific non-stop ride...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, bounty hunter, buddy, charles grodin, comedy, crime, dennis farina, eighties, FBI, joe pantoliano, john ashton, mafia, martin brest, road movie, robert deniro, yaphet kotto

ROBERT DENIRO TEAMS WITH CHARLES GRODIN IN 'MIDNIGHT RUN'

Robert DeNiro in MIDNIGHT RUN Year: 1988 Rating: ****1/2 Director Martin Brest's action/comedy MIDNIGHT RUN is a double-edged sword for...

JIM BROWN, MARTIN LANDAU & BRUCE GLOVER IN 'BLACK GUNN'

<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/AVvXsEjhhePez-Wat53pTZI-ZLcrAJoTrbWXEJEksLOxKlElIWpU9NGgEYCl0Epzum0hbj52EBVpjILCzgU9GEw-Q-4j3RY-746u_ZsdNPWAsRwQuAxzjvpiI7pJxVqrJAh4BxjK0W76q6ALHf-JlpY_Nr1fQOlmSaBfUoXYOEKcuOi_hFf1DeAumbrhVNNj0w/s1746/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="875" data-original-width="1746" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhhePez-Wat53pTZI-ZLcrAJoTrbWXEJEksLOxKlElIWpU9NGgEYCl0Epzum0hbj52EBVpjILCzgU9GEw-Q-4j3RY-746u_ZsdNPWAsRwQuAxzjvpiI7pJxVqrJAh4BxjK0W76q6ALHf-JlpY_Nr1fQOlmSaBfUoXYOEKcuOi_hFf1DeAumbrhVNNj0w/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jim Brown in BLACK GUNN Year: 1972 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In 1972, two blaxploitation movies had similar plots: a group of black criminals successfully steal cash from a mafia money-counting outpost, followed by the inevitable thugs hunting them down... but in this case they only want Herbert Jefferson Jr. as Scott Gunn, younger brother of our titular hero in Jim Brown's rich  nightclub owner GUNN...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>For the first half the smooth star's caught in-between a political pickle with the mafia against his hidden-away brother's militant black gang, including another ex-footballer Bernie Casey... </p><p><span></span></p>

action, bernie casey, blaxploitation, brenda sykes, bruce glover, jim brown, katherine woodville, mafia, martin landau, neo noir, seventies, thriller

JIM BROWN, MARTIN LANDAU & BRUCE GLOVER IN 'BLACK GUNN'

Jim Brown in BLACK GUNN Year: 1972 Rating: **** In 1972, two blaxploitation movies had similar plots: a group of black criminals successfull...

CHARLES BRONSON IN 'LOVE AND BULLETS' FEATURING PAUL KOSLO

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></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/AVvXsEiXsSKgj_AJnTU574DcE55pTen_bQ3s6E88AhI9hAAsURHmKjCuPri_DhdS5R-UrbPb23nAqvPq0WZGDC-M0Ni33aXNfNIXACcUnFpPwXx1B8kviTyN-w5S8kSV6P4X5kW-XlCMATmjprFgILWJLuyuZN_-bn9Q-6RbrJ6eIobxnqpRzs1lgHN5S1wOkw/s1777/Screen%20Shot%202021-07-13%20at%205.48.18%20AM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1142" data-original-width="1777" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXsSKgj_AJnTU574DcE55pTen_bQ3s6E88AhI9hAAsURHmKjCuPri_DhdS5R-UrbPb23nAqvPq0WZGDC-M0Ni33aXNfNIXACcUnFpPwXx1B8kviTyN-w5S8kSV6P4X5kW-XlCMATmjprFgILWJLuyuZN_-bn9Q-6RbrJ6eIobxnqpRzs1lgHN5S1wOkw/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202021-07-13%20at%205.48.18%20AM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Charles Bronson in LOVE AND BULLETS Year: 1979 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>For some, during Charles Bronson's Cannon era, sadly gone felt the MGM days. But it was Lew Grade's ITC that bridged the action star in-between, and LOVE AND BULLETS... once again casting Bronson alongside wife Jill Ireland, keeping her protected from killers... makes the similar, decade-later action/adventure ASSASSINATION seem like THE MECHANIC by comparison... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Only instead of the Secret Service protecting the President's wife it's an Arizona cop protecting a gangster's moll from being killed by a hit man hired by said gangster. Providing Henry Silva another coldblooded turn, partnered with Bronson-flick regular Paul Koslo, both working for (or rather getting paid by) a stuttering mobster overacted by Rod Steiger, whose performance still fares better than Ireland's incessant dumb blonde (in a dumb blonde wig)...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, billy gray, bradford dillman, charles bronson, europe, hit-man, jill ireland, mafia, paul koslo, rod steiger, seventies, strother martin

CHARLES BRONSON IN 'LOVE AND BULLETS' FEATURING PAUL KOSLO

Charles Bronson in LOVE AND BULLETS Year: 1979 Rating: *** For some, during Charles Bronson's Cannon era, sadly gone felt the MGM days. ...

PETER BOGDANOVICH DIRECTS BEN GAZARRA AS 'SAINT JACK'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXeCYsHagvno8-zR1vL_lCB8S3139pbAQxYPrglH-44MnBjfn6svPeBZA3kkTi1xlaCBM0GhBrNpUF8zuawxgZ_Ij88Hn9YaLaODUG_LVOy6ROWR6rMnMrfhWzNQrTWIBXXYNq1xK0qxwi/s1600/f949264bb3de06fde3d5371d847c9715.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="679" data-original-width="964" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXeCYsHagvno8-zR1vL_lCB8S3139pbAQxYPrglH-44MnBjfn6svPeBZA3kkTi1xlaCBM0GhBrNpUF8zuawxgZ_Ij88Hn9YaLaODUG_LVOy6ROWR6rMnMrfhWzNQrTWIBXXYNq1xK0qxwi/s1600/f949264bb3de06fde3d5371d847c9715.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Hugh Hefner & Roger Corman present Peter Bogdanovich directing Ben Gazzara in SAINT JACK Year: 1979 Rating: ****</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> SAINT JACK is the ironic nickname for Jack Flowers, a resilient American pimp in the late 1960's Singapore trying to run a "house," which isn't so easy with torturous thugs who, at one point when he finally owns his own brothel, doesn't allow it to prosper for very long... <br> <br> All this before we learn about Jack's occupation by basically following him around, from location to location, within the gloriously sinful, uniquely dilapidated, exotically historic Singapore.<br>

ben gazzara, denholm elliott, drama, george lazenby, mafia, neo noir, peter bogdanovich, seventies, suspense

PETER BOGDANOVICH DIRECTS BEN GAZARRA AS 'SAINT JACK'

Hugh Hefner & Roger Corman present Peter Bogdanovich directing Ben Gazzara in SAINT JACK Year: 1979 Rating: **** SAINT JACK is the i...

SIX NON-STEREOTYPICAL GAY CHARACTERS IN 1970'S CRIME FILMS

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-C_pc2VlTRF9t5Q4GNJqm-yaGejJPNr8gldDiK70afvpoUnLhSfDnT0Gl9i10QZLdCRVXTa-qoFHWHMDmDaT_uS1UeCguevhn_vcb8ajp20yx85GFTTVDvX9XRw9Dleo0asdrxaRiQgvC/s1600/roy1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1294" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-C_pc2VlTRF9t5Q4GNJqm-yaGejJPNr8gldDiK70afvpoUnLhSfDnT0Gl9i10QZLdCRVXTa-qoFHWHMDmDaT_uS1UeCguevhn_vcb8ajp20yx85GFTTVDvX9XRw9Dleo0asdrxaRiQgvC/s400/roy1.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Roy Scheider facing Lawrence Olivier, Marathon Man, 1976</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <u>Roy Scheider, Marathon Man</u>: Gay characters from older movies... in this case when cinema became more gritty and realistic... usually acted like the stereotype of how homosexuals sometimes act in real life and simply <i>are </i>on screen...<br> <br> So here's a list of gay men who don't mess around like they usually do in cinema, to this day, and we'll begin with Roy Scheider as Dustin Hoffman's big brother, nicknamed Doc in MARATHON MAN, who is never actually "outed" but his preference is known from the William Goldman novel, <i>and </i>he pleads that his literal agent/partner William Devane's Janey get his "ass over here" to a hotel room, before being attacked the exact same way as Johnny Ola in THE GODFATHER PART II...<br>

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SIX NON-STEREOTYPICAL GAY CHARACTERS IN 1970'S CRIME FILMS

Roy Scheider facing Lawrence Olivier, Marathon Man, 1976 Roy Scheider, Marathon Man : Gay characters from older movies... in this case w...