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Written by James M. Tate / 2/26/2026 / No comments / andrew dice clay , billy barty , comedy , cop , cult , eighties , jack riley , jackie kong , jaye p. morgan , linda blair , lori sutton , lou mulford , michelle johnson , murray langston , parody , pat morita , pat paulsen

MURRAY LANGSTON UNKNOWN TRILOGY INCLUDING 'NIGHT PATROL'

<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/AVvXsEg9-8W7qnc96S79clT44fiVOCjtmuEhW0zkzGvVII6XfCNG_yQIsm_77bzuQcESnkljXPu1Wuzd8WTTVqHzWxVuKq1EP4TFbzTd0xypEwIEoeWmGfCxU-jP0_Nh7AUfNBto6vzGwpzuhLrX02c6r3THpGgmL7UpVcSFwOsRFYdGxEStlf_SZiygUrIdKxqb/s852/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="344" data-original-width="852" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9-8W7qnc96S79clT44fiVOCjtmuEhW0zkzGvVII6XfCNG_yQIsm_77bzuQcESnkljXPu1Wuzd8WTTVqHzWxVuKq1EP4TFbzTd0xypEwIEoeWmGfCxU-jP0_Nh7AUfNBto6vzGwpzuhLrX02c6r3THpGgmL7UpVcSFwOsRFYdGxEStlf_SZiygUrIdKxqb/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: NIGHT PATROL Year: 1984 Camp Value: ***<br></u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Murray Langston is not a hack comedian. Well actually, he is, deliberately... but when he appeared on stage for THE GONG SHOW, he was really a sack comedian: covering his face with a generic paper bag with poked holes for eyes and one for the mouth: And thus all those corny jokes became funnier, and with a skinny body nervously meandering around the stage, a cult star was born...<br><br>And eventually, finally unmasked, it was time for a motion picture... despite the fact that low-rent director Jackie Kong's NIGHT PATROL (written by Langston and GONG SHOW co-star Jaye P. Morgan) plays out like exactly what it has become: a straight-to-video train-wreck that only appears on cable stations well past midnight... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

andrew dice clay, billy barty, comedy, cop, cult, eighties, jack riley, jackie kong, jaye p. morgan, linda blair, lori sutton, lou mulford, michelle johnson, murray langston, parody, pat morita, pat paulsen

MURRAY LANGSTON UNKNOWN TRILOGY INCLUDING 'NIGHT PATROL'

Title: NIGHT PATROL Year: 1984 Camp Value: *** Murray Langston is not a hack comedian. Well actually, he is, deliberately... but when he app...

RICK MORANIS & DAVE THOMAS AS BOB & DOUG IN 'STRANGE BREW'

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angus macInnes, comedy, dave thomas, eighties, lynne griffin, max von sydow, parody, paul dooley, rick moranis

RICK MORANIS & DAVE THOMAS AS BOB & DOUG IN 'STRANGE BREW'

Title: STRANGE BREW Year: 1983 Rating: ** There's a moment in THE ADVENTURES OF BOB AND DOUG MCKENZIE: STRANGE BREW where supervillain M...

PETER SELLERS ENDS WITH 'THE FIENDISH PLOT OF DR. FU MANCHU'

comedy, david tomlinson, eighties, helen mirren, lynne frederick, parody, peter sellers, sid caesar, steve franken

PETER SELLERS ENDS WITH 'THE FIENDISH PLOT OF DR. FU MANCHU'

Year: 1980 Rating: **1/2 What Peter Sellers' final motion picture, THE FIENDISH PLOT OF DR. FU MANCHU, has in common with his most popul...

SERVING NORMAN LEAR'S 'COLD TURKEY' FOR THANKSGIVING

<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/a/AVvXsEgJw8C2vFW5S7YKPcNDv0dA73r3qgmcHiTz8LaVcp0epEdoloyFRT-ajsReKylWl0LwR8zDnfZTFZKgK8pAvMl1gSDGgCrEYjeQj76pxhmyXBhdnf48rolVRXjBu4lAQJIHDSsMi75yt_rqFbLugZcnQTmVxnWu-BufZPJeZT9kYOQS50idl91IOyU3Pw=s2048" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1042" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgJw8C2vFW5S7YKPcNDv0dA73r3qgmcHiTz8LaVcp0epEdoloyFRT-ajsReKylWl0LwR8zDnfZTFZKgK8pAvMl1gSDGgCrEYjeQj76pxhmyXBhdnf48rolVRXjBu4lAQJIHDSsMi75yt_rqFbLugZcnQTmVxnWu-BufZPJeZT9kYOQS50idl91IOyU3Pw=s16000"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Dick Van Dyke preaches in Norman Lear's COLD TURKEY Year: 1971 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>While Halloween and Christmas themes/names are easy to find, Thanksgiving is more difficult unless just happening upon the one and only feature film that TV-producing icon Norman Lear ever directed, fitfully titled COLD TURKEY and, with the abundance of extreme facial close-ups by a barrage of actors and actresses mostly known either then or later for the small screen, it's more of a TV-movie in nature...<br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The plot is simple, silly and farfetched, and a bit too complicated for its own good, taking over halfway through to pick up: A billion dollar Tobacco company's willing to pay $25 million to any town that quits smoking for a month... </p><p><span></span></p>

bob newhart, comedy, dick van dyke, exploitation, jean stapleton, norman lear, parody, paul benedict, pippa scott, seventies, sixties, vincent gardenia

SERVING NORMAN LEAR'S 'COLD TURKEY' FOR THANKSGIVING

Dick Van Dyke preaches in Norman Lear's COLD TURKEY Year: 1971 Rating: **1/2 While Halloween and Christmas themes/names are easy to find...

JUDGEMENT UPON THE BIBLICAL SATIRE OF 'WHOLLY MOSES!'

<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/AVvXsEhgFt-QzxtT7GlkiTI6Ag7tZKj7-QvexLvBSBONEQKv4XOMM4BhHxk7lgzgIJ8unyjJa4oTu0iRJzjG9MwJX20r4-INbL9konEdixASRFU3i3u0ADJQoOhzqFheRDceD_UZcouwpZqY4fBVtXGCgmtOhIsPCffw5rhfF_uDQt0QPpQ4v9ZS0X0mWi_gzY-h/s769/275930%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="534" data-original-width="769" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgFt-QzxtT7GlkiTI6Ag7tZKj7-QvexLvBSBONEQKv4XOMM4BhHxk7lgzgIJ8unyjJa4oTu0iRJzjG9MwJX20r4-INbL9konEdixASRFU3i3u0ADJQoOhzqFheRDceD_UZcouwpZqY4fBVtXGCgmtOhIsPCffw5rhfF_uDQt0QPpQ4v9ZS0X0mWi_gzY-h/s16000/275930%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: WHOLLY MOSES! Year: 1980 AD Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Similar to the following years' Mel Brooks Old Testament spoof, HISTORY OF THE WORLD, Gary Weis's underrated WHOLLY MOSES! has more likable, involving characters led by Dudley Moore as a regular guy on a modern day Israeli tour bus that breaks down long enough for the alternative Biblical backstory to be revealed...<br>
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He and Laraine Newman (the director's SNL alumni) discover a cave with a lost, unknown scroll, and Moore reads about an orphan who, floating downstream, is pushed aside by <i>the </i>legendary basket-floating infant (much like Graham Chapman's title character in this film's muse/inspiration, MONTY PYTHON'S LIFE OF BRIAN, fatefully born in the manger next-door to Christ)... <br>
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dudley moore, eighties, james coco, john ritter, laraine newman, parody, paul sand, religion, richard pryor, road movie, satire

JUDGEMENT UPON THE BIBLICAL SATIRE OF 'WHOLLY MOSES!'

Title: WHOLLY MOSES! Year: 1980 AD Rating: *** Similar to the following years' Mel Brooks Old Testament spoof, HISTORY OF THE WORLD, Gar...

CAROLE LOMBARD AND JACK BENNY STAR IN 'TO BE OR NOT TO BE'

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imposing and formidable to instill enough danger for all the verbal laps to 
matter beyond hitting punchlines at the right moment...<br>
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Although everything does rely on the actors-within-the-movie hitting their own marks for the ruse to work, hence the title taken after a 
pivotal line from William Shakespeare's Hamlet that, if spoken by a novice stage 
performer, can hinder the entire show...<br>
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The fun's watching Benny trying to outdo 
his character's own lack of talent (scenes with German actor Sig Ruman work splendidly, as with Tom Dugan, who plays a fictional Hitler) while Lombard is the real trickster, weaving in and out of both the bad guys and a handsome young lieutenant Robert Stack (whose role is played by Tim Matheson in the Brooks remake, and both starred in another WWII comedy involving romance in a bomber plane, Steven Spielberg''s 1941): If anyone on board has the most work, it's Lombard... in what's sadly, tragically, her last picture. <br>

carole lombard, comedy, ernst lubitsch, espionage, forties, george lynn, jack benny, lionel atwill, nazi, parody, robert stack, romance, sig ruman, stanley ridges, tom dugan, war, world war II

CAROLE LOMBARD AND JACK BENNY STAR IN 'TO BE OR NOT TO BE'

Title: TO BE OR NOT TO BE Year: 1942 Ernst Lubitsch takes a complicated plot and with an easygoing acting style of the performers unde...

FRANCES RAINES IS BEAUTIFUL IN 'RYDER P.I.' W/ HOWARD STERN

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Frances Raines will be subject for other reviews YEAR: 1986</u></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Suffering an awful weeklong cold when awful movies seem good, let's veer back to Really Bad Movie basics with a vehicle created on a shoestring budget featuring an obscure gathering of Long Island comics and a future shock jock icon...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Up front is fat comic David Hawthorne, the sleepy-eyed "moron" who, a decade later, as a restaurant bartender, served a heartbroken Jack Nicholson a glass of "the last free drug" in AS GOOD AS IT GETS: he throws in a Jack imitation along with a bagful of quick quips and a thin plot-line for RYDER P.I., a Humphrey Bogart Era Film Noir parody that, surprisingly, keeps up the entertainment value alongside the feeling of, "How much worse can this get?"</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Frances Raines dries off with a smile</u></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hawthorne is comfortable in front of the camera despite being uncomfortable to look at — but that seems an intentional thread of the overall punchline: he's the antithesis of any sort of leading man on-screen persona. So some local help was obviously needed...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">At that time, in 1986, Howard Stern was climbing as a New York morning radio talkshow host.  Random scenes as a television newscaster aren't that funny because Howard's not doing his own thing, or poking fun at his crew. And yet the aggression and annoyance does feel genuine: his character, Ben Wah, can't stand the network he's on, and obviously Stern felt the same about this project. And he's not alone. Not completely...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">His writer, Jackie "The Joke Man" Martling, provides the voice of a "Fat Eddie" doll that, when Hawthorne's P.I. character, Skylar Ryder, pulls a string, it unloads insults, each ending with Martling's chortle that'd soon become famous within the Stern universe... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But what makes RYDER easy viewing on the eye is b-starlet Frances Raines, who isn't blood related-to but is technically a relative of THE INVISIBLE MAN Claude Raines. Her vulnerable, girl-next-door beauty, seeking the titular snoop for protection from a woodwork of goons, makes this trainwreck worth watching. Plus, she appears during the midway point when desperately needed...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The worst of the cast is Ryder's hairbrained partner, overacting "the retard" to the hilt and almost forcing the viewer to either change the channel or destroy their television... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For those brave or patient enough, or in this case, who pay by the month, Amazon Prime members can stream this extremely low budget comedy. And for fans of the classic era Howard Stern it's a rare gem to behold, or rather, to survive: There's a feeling of bizarre accomplishment lasting through these kind of movies that aren't really movies. Added to that, RYDER doesn't have a cult following to join the ranks of worthy Camp Schlock unlike a couple others we'll review in the future starring</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Frances Raines... Stay tuned. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Frances Raines and a monkey in RYDER P.I.</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Frances Raines in RYDER P.I. </u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Frances Raines dries off in RYDER PI</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Frances Raines in RYDER PI</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Hell, might as well get at least one picture of the film's star, Bob Hawthorne</u></td></tr>
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FRANCES RAINES IS BEAUTIFUL IN 'RYDER P.I.' W/ HOWARD STERN

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MEL BROOKS GREATEST IN BLAZING SADDLES

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MEL BROOKS GREATEST IN BLAZING SADDLES

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INDIE CORNER: A SHOCKED GLIMPSE INTO T.S. SLAUGHTER'S 'THE GAYS'

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It’s a blanket term, “The Gays,” referring to an entire unseen lifestyle, usually spoken by an uptight straight person who thinks they’re far away from such people… Used in a sentence, “What are ‘The Gays’ protesting now?” or something of that nature… <br />
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But now, thanks (or no thanks, depending on the viewer) to writer/director T.S. Slaughter... obviously influenced by and even referencing indie auteur John Waters... THE GAYS can be lifted of its quotes: They are a now an actual suburban family residing in Pasadena, California.  <br />
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Two homosexual parents have proudly raised their sons… Alex, our story-weaving barfly, in particular… to be gay from the very <i>beginning</i> – in this case, of the movie itself: The first three minutes provide bizarre imagery purposely crossing the jagged line, with a child’s-eye view of a mobile with… not the typical objects “hung” from strings... This the unique perspective of infant Alex, lying in a crib and facing his not so typical mother, Bob: the film’s very own Divine, providing some of the best one-liners throughout... None that can or will or should be divulged here.<br />
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Like in any super low budget indie venture, the acting is not always terrific… mother and Alex, thankfully the main players, are the most comfortable in front of the camera. Meanwhile, certain porno-bordering moments try too hard for shock value, deviating from a plot needing a bit more... nurturing. Yet throughout the often chaotic madness – more thematic than linear – there’s something of a wickedly deranged heart beating here. <br />
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Intentionally pushing (and licking and sealing) the envelope, THE GAYS is a fast-paced parody of the 1950’s FATHER KNOWS BEST style “nuclear family” in hard reverse: providing a twist on every piece of parental advice in a genuinely risqué vehicle that might not be up everyone’s alley, but if you dare to “go there,” hold on to your hat – it’s quite a ride.

2014, exploitation, indie, indie corner, parody

INDIE CORNER: A SHOCKED GLIMPSE INTO T.S. SLAUGHTER'S 'THE GAYS'

Click For THE GAYS It’s a blanket term, “The Gays,” referring to an entire unseen lifestyle, usually spoken by an uptight straight perso...

Written by James M. Tate / 1/08/2012 / No comments / action , blaxploitation , comedy , michael jai white , parody , zeroes

BLACK DYNAMITE

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDojZZSdsiJ7D9szc1UXa4RyHV-Dr6IbRU6hbzfR0n7IDvGLx9r1TDwtlfE9yZlZvwFFxbOLvBdY55a6jh_zZ02V8y7n3q6zsG1eThyphenhyphenW1mTAZd0DoK0WTDPEvbHXx2aqbHH76ugSYroLYH/s1600/Black-Dynamite-006.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5695433523355483490" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDojZZSdsiJ7D9szc1UXa4RyHV-Dr6IbRU6hbzfR0n7IDvGLx9r1TDwtlfE9yZlZvwFFxbOLvBdY55a6jh_zZ02V8y7n3q6zsG1eThyphenhyphenW1mTAZd0DoK0WTDPEvbHXx2aqbHH76ugSYroLYH/s320/Black-Dynamite-006.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 263px; margin: 0 0 10px 10px; width: 320px;" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">title:</span> BLACK DYNAMITE<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">year:</span> 2009<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">cast:</span> Michael Jai White<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">rating: </span>**<br />
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In a Cult Film Freak interview with actress <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/cultfilmfreak/2010/12/11/gloria-hendry-live-and-let-die">Gloria Hendry</a>, who co-starred in classic Blaxploitation films BLACK BELT JONES, BLACK CAESAR, HELL UP IN HARLEM, ACROSS 110th STREET, and SLAUGHTER’S BIG RIPOFF, she said the demise of that particular genre, immensely popular in the early seventies and putting talented black actors and actresses to work, had to do with <span style="font-style: italic;">groups </span>that felt Blaxplotation films catered to, and lionized, clichéd stereotypes of the black community. Well here, thirty years later, a movie pokes fun at these traits more than celebrates them. Blaxploitations were low-budget movies that wielded quick zooms and shaky-camera techniques, funky music and piles of melodrama, and not a second goes by in BLACK DYNAMITE that we’re reminded of these particularities: the actors go overboard on purpose, as does the music while the camera struggles to zero in on the action or characters. Musclebound hero Michael Jai White looks great in the role, and there are times, especially during the karate scenes as he takes down every goon in his path… seeking the bad guys who killed his little brother in a drug deal… that it could have easily turned into a genuine action film instead of grasping too tight on the parody template. What the audience, and <span style="font-style: italic;">especially</span> the underrated Michael Jai White, truly deserved was what Quentin Tarantino provided with JACKIE BROWN: a loving homage to the works of groundbreaking directors like Jack Hill and Larry Cohen… and <span style="font-style: italic;">blaxpl-icons</span> like Pam Grier, Fred Williamson, Jim Kelly and Jim Brown… instead of an overlong comedy skit that tries too hard for laughs, forgetting what those movies were<span style="font-style: italic;"> really </span>about: great actors, great music, great action, and creative storylines.The bottom line is: BLACK DYNAMITE is a movie that doesn't have a real identity... It's not funny enough to be an AIRPLANE or NAKED GUN, and not interesting enough to be a TRUCK TURNER or... you name it.

action, blaxploitation, comedy, michael jai white, parody, zeroes

BLACK DYNAMITE

title: BLACK DYNAMITE year: 2009 cast: Michael Jai White rating: ** In a Cult Film Freak interview with actress Gloria Hendry , who ...

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