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Written by James M. Tate / 12/27/2025 / No comments / anne francis , anne jackson , catherine mcleod , enid rudd , exploitation , fifties , lesbian , melodrama , mike kellin , paul henreid , rita moreno , women in prison

ANNE FRANCIS AND ANNE JACKSON BREAKOUT IN 'SO YOUNG, SO BAD'

<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/AVvXsEjL0_bq7yAzh9XW39mI3TT3RwQXAHNjPHRsiD8VDIENfVCM0Ju3XwmESY4IV5sJnl8tEXCoIKYOu5G4R66AYxC1ArJvjQFdqXR-XtM0djdAC_bDIGG-08_XUXo8Iv12zBVnWkBbtQICSyV5lbxS_Rf6915pt5tw6DBt2XOs88jWWOj1ZXZKSbKTJMeITRi3/s2086/Screen%20Shot%202025-12-27%20at%2010.27.38%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1238" data-original-width="2086" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL0_bq7yAzh9XW39mI3TT3RwQXAHNjPHRsiD8VDIENfVCM0Ju3XwmESY4IV5sJnl8tEXCoIKYOu5G4R66AYxC1ArJvjQFdqXR-XtM0djdAC_bDIGG-08_XUXo8Iv12zBVnWkBbtQICSyV5lbxS_Rf6915pt5tw6DBt2XOs88jWWOj1ZXZKSbKTJMeITRi3/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-12-27%20at%2010.27.38%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Anne Francis in SO YOUNG, SO BAD Year: 1950 Rating: ****</td></tr></tbody></table>A decade after CASABLANCA, nice guy Paul Henreid was still somewhat of a box office draw, or at least a recognizable name... and he took a risk to work for a low-budget production company that, yet another decade past, made the British teenage-girl-reform-school vehicle <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2025/10/evilyoung.html">SO EVIL, SO YOUNG</a>, basically a remake of the American SO YOUNG, SO BAD that's far superior, particularly since Henreid's psychologist character is pushed up front... In most teen-prison programmers, the friendly shrink contrasting to the abusive warden/guards is peripheral: as most of the action takes place with the girls and their captors... which still happens here, but since the motivating plight's in check with Henreid (alongside pretty/uptight social-worker Catherine McLeod), there are less soapy elements and more character-driven suspense relying on how to stop the in-house tyranny...

anne francis, anne jackson, catherine mcleod, enid rudd, exploitation, fifties, lesbian, melodrama, mike kellin, paul henreid, rita moreno, women in prison

ANNE FRANCIS AND ANNE JACKSON BREAKOUT IN 'SO YOUNG, SO BAD'

Anne Francis in SO YOUNG, SO BAD Year: 1950 Rating: **** A decade after CASABLANCA, nice guy Paul Henreid was still somewhat of a box office...

ROBERT WAGNER IN THE OBSCURE GOLF PRO CURIO 'BANNING'

<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/AVvXsEgmyTGELiBS2F6ba2pS3dnU4zWVFPf26G63I7b7knyuF4ToYvmv5GxLJJDJQa1KdhSTcvww0x8Ywt6Bfht8QMs-LRhYLUytv1wRQiMnySbSrTsXjx8zo49ogmcCHQik1ZkuGdy68oTW1DMswu41Bo5bkYOELdQu9740poDfntU7BM258bFmex1zH4Jh5HtR/s2280/Z.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1310" data-original-width="2280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmyTGELiBS2F6ba2pS3dnU4zWVFPf26G63I7b7knyuF4ToYvmv5GxLJJDJQa1KdhSTcvww0x8Ywt6Bfht8QMs-LRhYLUytv1wRQiMnySbSrTsXjx8zo49ogmcCHQik1ZkuGdy68oTW1DMswu41Bo5bkYOELdQu9740poDfntU7BM258bFmex1zH4Jh5HtR/s16000/Z.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Robert Wagner and Mike Kellin from BANNING Year: 1967 Rating: ****</td></tr></tbody></table>The extremely elusive and rare BANNING is a 1967 film about former golf pro Robert Wagner as the title character... coolly rolling into an exclusive Arizona golf course like an enigmatic rider from a spaghetti western... Full of secrets and suave blackmailing that it takes half the movie to figure out, mostly through exposition from characters ranging from Guy Stockwell as the crooked son-in-law (married to Susan Clark) of super-rich Howard St. John, who practically owns the joint while Jill St. John is a rich fatale type with her hooks in Banning... but his own vulnerable heart's aimed at the golf course's seemingly chaste working-girl Anjanette Comer...

anjanette comer, drama, golf, guy stockwell, howard st. john, james farentino, jill st. john, mike kellin, robert wagner, sport

ROBERT WAGNER IN THE OBSCURE GOLF PRO CURIO 'BANNING'

Robert Wagner and Mike Kellin from BANNING Year: 1967 Rating: **** The extremely elusive and rare BANNING is a 1967 film about former golf p...

STEVE MCQUEEN STARS IN DONALD SIEGEL'S 'HELL IS FOR HEROES'

<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/AVvXsEj1FQdGv77u3lnVLrbn92l7zIrDX6W019CK_icomnfi5HqUq0Diz3GYfwHIaB4IehfIkbKMiOrhdpOZwtgD_GrtMQczeRNVYfgMXtCO1Sru4VGOjEXTMTyAVE9ygcVtrg0G3dREjuCdFuQZtR9A9-MiHcEMe32KjqE9Xp_Tru1NDQfN9fQmdZzHJ9n-Domc/s2048/367404449_1785533148542520_1594276651702841283_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="904" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1FQdGv77u3lnVLrbn92l7zIrDX6W019CK_icomnfi5HqUq0Diz3GYfwHIaB4IehfIkbKMiOrhdpOZwtgD_GrtMQczeRNVYfgMXtCO1Sru4VGOjEXTMTyAVE9ygcVtrg0G3dREjuCdFuQZtR9A9-MiHcEMe32KjqE9Xp_Tru1NDQfN9fQmdZzHJ9n-Domc/s16000/367404449_1785533148542520_1594276651702841283_n.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: HELL IS FOR HEROES Year: 1962 Rating: ***</td></tr></tbody></table>When Bob Newhart is doing the same one-way-telephone bit that made him famous enough to have a comic relief role in director Don Siegel's otherwise intense World War II flick HELL IS FOR HEROES, he actually surprisingly fits since there's a reason behind that call... Otherwise HELL is one of those sparse, brooding and melancholy vehicles... involving a meager troop of eclectic American soldiers, ironically having to do what the anemic production was actually saddled with — stretch a little into a lot, herein providing only a few men to do the job of an entire platoon, and with very limited special effects or extras...

action, bob newhart, bobby darin, don siegel, harry guardino, james coburn, mike kellin, nick adams, steve mcqueen, world war II

STEVE MCQUEEN STARS IN DONALD SIEGEL'S 'HELL IS FOR HEROES'

Title: HELL IS FOR HEROES Year: 1962 Rating: *** When Bob Newhart is doing the same one-way-telephone bit that made him famous enough to hav...

JIM BROWN WITH GENE HACKMAN ESCAPE THE CELL BLOCK 'RIOT'

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action, buzz, clifford david, drama, escape, gene hackman, gerald s. o'loughlin, jim brown, mike kellin, prison, sixties, suspense, thriller, william castle

JIM BROWN WITH GENE HACKMAN ESCAPE THE CELL BLOCK 'RIOT'

Jim Brown and Gene Hackman in RIOT Year: 1969 Rating: **** Basically a remake of Don Siegel's docudrama noir RIOT IN CELL BLOCK 11 , Buz...

ROBYN HILTON AS LINDA LOVEMAN IN 'THE LAST PORNO FLICK'

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Robyn Hilton, the BLAZING SADDLES redhead, co-starred in THE LAST PORNO FLICK (aka THOSE MAD, MAD, MAD MOVIEMAKERS), which is as bad as it gets: yet the actors are... pretty decent... 
 
Another alternate title is CABBIES as bickering blue collar buddies Michael Pataki and  Frank Calcanini team up with their cab company boss Mike Kellin to produce a porno, which could really lead viewers to think there's some nudity. That'd be too good a thing as Hilton's a satirical take on Linda Lovelace, named Linda Loveman as Sinthia as in "The Seduction of Sinthia." Tom Signorelli as that film's spaced-out hippie director nicknamed O.D. is about the only partially funny character while another backer, an extremely Catholic Italian mom, is by far the worst. But it's Hilton in her usual airhead role who stands out, and not only for the obvious reasons. She's the only person who fits the bubbly mold: but with a price. In practically every shot she's standing beside mackerel-faced character-actor Kellin, pretending to be a famous acting coach and she's really nuts about him — proving that she can act after all.

comedy, exploitation, michael pataki, mike kellin, robyn hilton, satire, seventies