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Written by James M. Tate / 5/01/2024 / No comments / adventure , epic , godfrey quigley , hardy kruger , john bindon , lenoard rossiter , leon vitale , liam redmond , marisa berenson , melodrama , patrick magee , romance , ryan o'neal , seventies , stanley kubrick

STANLEY KUBRICK'S CLASSIC SCOUNDREL EPIC OF 'BARRY LYNDON'

<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/AVvXsEiA5XWRs4fqdGqjnSKPOAZr8xISDm8N478UswCFSOA-OH5k99LinAoyBVD9ZIk8kZF-AytzfAXGP-6AW4s_WNg9CTgiRU8FsxT61AC5Gup0OcSSF2vaexMsb2hrK0WnmFilgQjDOgUE5oAkYlbFomTBUSWJutT08ETYcEz8eyOLdRw9Ayj2Pk5EXYrzQJEy/s2026/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1160" data-original-width="2026" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA5XWRs4fqdGqjnSKPOAZr8xISDm8N478UswCFSOA-OH5k99LinAoyBVD9ZIk8kZF-AytzfAXGP-6AW4s_WNg9CTgiRU8FsxT61AC5Gup0OcSSF2vaexMsb2hrK0WnmFilgQjDOgUE5oAkYlbFomTBUSWJutT08ETYcEz8eyOLdRw9Ayj2Pk5EXYrzQJEy/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: BARRY LYNDON Year: 1975 Rating: ****1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>In the mid-to-late 1700's Europe, by the time Ryan O'Neal's BARRY LYNDON has fled from his small hometown village in Ireland... then becomes a soldier at war and then a war-deserter and then a captured-deserter throughout several countries... ninety-minutes have passed... Which is the length of an average film, and with so much literal ground covered, director Stanley Kubrick provides more an episodic journey than adventure since every location is its own thematic vignette with a beginning, middle and end...

adventure, epic, godfrey quigley, hardy kruger, john bindon, lenoard rossiter, leon vitale, liam redmond, marisa berenson, melodrama, patrick magee, romance, ryan o'neal, seventies, stanley kubrick

STANLEY KUBRICK'S CLASSIC SCOUNDREL EPIC OF 'BARRY LYNDON'

Title: BARRY LYNDON Year: 1975 Rating: ****1/2 In the mid-to-late 1700's Europe, by the time Ryan O'Neal's BARRY LYNDON has fled...

STANLEY BAKER AND TOM BELL SNEAK THROUGH 'A PRIZE OF ARMS'

<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/AVvXsEh7RUcjfPowY5kNMV_rlEaVifubAOaxqbRx6RMUNEBePOYeKEUDEWAsXPoTooXd_MxhztxXNRtznJB0y4IdpBuQXDjWs2cn7JDtqSpiMWwon-2WOlLUB3SK4iTdi8hv4EFTiPiZeOHCOkyus00U1PAMA6irtvK-coFAWZ3QYN8jZvh31CJ7ydArFC0oNLB6/s2058/Screen%20Shot%202026-09-29%20at%2011.07.31%20AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1352" data-original-width="2058" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7RUcjfPowY5kNMV_rlEaVifubAOaxqbRx6RMUNEBePOYeKEUDEWAsXPoTooXd_MxhztxXNRtznJB0y4IdpBuQXDjWs2cn7JDtqSpiMWwon-2WOlLUB3SK4iTdi8hv4EFTiPiZeOHCOkyus00U1PAMA6irtvK-coFAWZ3QYN8jZvh31CJ7ydArFC0oNLB6/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-09-29%20at%2011.07.31%20AM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stanley Baker in A PRIZE OF ARMS Year: 1963 Rating: ****1/2 </td></tr></tbody></table>The most suspenseful parts from the final act of THE GREAT ESCAPE a year after A PRIZE OF ARMS and the middle of the original decade-later STAR WARS entails hiding in plain site, behind enemy lines while wearing their uniforms and keeping everything in perfect surreptitious motion, without getting noticed and thus, caught and captured... Which ARMS is, practically from beginning to end, epitomizing the sparse heist thriller where two British crooks with one German go undercover to politely infiltrate a British military compound before an overseas mission, since the armory will be loaded with cash... all for the taking...

anthony bate, british, british new wave, caper, heist, helmut schmid, michael ripper, military, patrick magee, roddy mcmillan, sixties, stanley baker, suspense, thriller, tom bell

STANLEY BAKER AND TOM BELL SNEAK THROUGH 'A PRIZE OF ARMS'

Stanley Baker in A PRIZE OF ARMS Year: 1963 Rating: ****1/2 The most suspenseful parts from the final act of THE GREAT ESCAPE a year after A...

VINCENT PRICE & JANE ASHER IN 'THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH'

<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/AVvXsEiluIah5E-5qLAvPRY6zH_6w13Qs-Ehvp-n6qNT_aT07Px609nICXwny2UNkZcZI-KlDRx5s8x1gebWY1WFPZE-s6I2KCiqjdNZcauRv9-Wh0xVmWjb-EnDW7A9GP58pZ7conxwG2keyEJJ4baRd-LcVYZLcnm1z0gYI64Tjp_3MWlo6lUGlMFoA7EUU4UV/s1598/354593695_1748974838865018_7069470018568829689_n.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="905" data-original-width="1598" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiluIah5E-5qLAvPRY6zH_6w13Qs-Ehvp-n6qNT_aT07Px609nICXwny2UNkZcZI-KlDRx5s8x1gebWY1WFPZE-s6I2KCiqjdNZcauRv9-Wh0xVmWjb-EnDW7A9GP58pZ7conxwG2keyEJJ4baRd-LcVYZLcnm1z0gYI64Tjp_3MWlo6lUGlMFoA7EUU4UV/s16000/354593695_1748974838865018_7069470018568829689_n.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jane Asher guides through THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH Year: 1964 Rating: ****1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>In the Edgar Allen Poe adaptation of THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH, low-budget director Roger Corman goes all-out in a gorgeously-shot hybrid of Ingmar Bergman's philosophically death-obsessed SEVENTH SEAL, and especially a Victorian-era Hammer horror film... Particularly the striking bright colors of the central castle, run by Vincent Price as menacing sadist Prince Prospero, the luckiest man in 1600's Europe not only for owning a castle in the first place, but remaining safe and healthy while everyone outside's dying from a plague called THE RED DEATH...

british, cult, disease, edgar allan poe, hazel court, horror, jane asher, mystery, patrick magee, roger corman, sixties, victorian, vincent prince

VINCENT PRICE & JANE ASHER IN 'THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH'

Jane Asher guides through THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH Year: 1964 Rating: ****1/2 In the Edgar Allen Poe adaptation of THE MASQUE OF THE RED ...

CHARLES BRONSON RUSSIAN THROUGH DON SIEGEL'S 'TELEFON'

<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/AVvXsEgQ0wPk2F3UiXPMSEYZa4jOtRgDMKlKM5nzrGSJxxwLGu1KEehOEWWzUMrQY6PngvaBqltQFTRfDl4fafN88zL_bIa2nCMllFO7WHgWrsELj4hQq7zCvO8J_8VVTPX8SwYyRBVmphYa9BJVnaaAMzjbTtuW6rRDyAiid6NUcyGX8sn_LuLadGiSAXalew/s1624/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="862" data-original-width="1624" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ0wPk2F3UiXPMSEYZa4jOtRgDMKlKM5nzrGSJxxwLGu1KEehOEWWzUMrQY6PngvaBqltQFTRfDl4fafN88zL_bIa2nCMllFO7WHgWrsELj4hQq7zCvO8J_8VVTPX8SwYyRBVmphYa9BJVnaaAMzjbTtuW6rRDyAiid6NUcyGX8sn_LuLadGiSAXalew/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Charles Bronson in TELEFON Year: 1977 Rating: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>With a plot-device highly influenced by THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE before and spoofed later in THE NAKED GUN, a string of random telephone calls to ordinary Americans, with a monotone voice reciting a Robert Frost poem to hypnotize each target... from a gas station owner to a charter pilot to a bathrobe-donning housewife... is causing plenty of explosive mayhem to various military installations... And for a spy movie, Donald Pleasence fits perfectly as the villain: he's the one making those calls and then, from a station wagon, watches the suicide-bombing destruction first hand...

alan badel, charles bronson, cold war, donald pleasence, hit-man, lee remick, patrick magee, seventies, spy, thriller, tyne daley

CHARLES BRONSON RUSSIAN THROUGH DON SIEGEL'S 'TELEFON'

Charles Bronson in TELEFON Year: 1977 Rating: ***1/2 With a plot-device highly influenced by THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE before and spoofed lat...

JACQUELINE ELLIS AND JACK HEDLEY IN 'NEVER BACK LOSERS'

<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/AVvXsEinwG1S4DrMxaw55d2vdne8qN4aKfHhzAdLiWaxuNDUcqECd9ug3LSxCI4RehW9W1rkXgkJz3uzk68kIOnAMVLQaWwmiy72G0S0-pY5EX6DuRGmTHxsNT3SLA73x2kAVEHnw0ThJH9DVfquQhGkSBxT1STWewiIGRvO5ssUEiVC0OndWOsvmVsGwwD1nQ/s1594/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-17%20at%206.20.50%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="698" data-original-width="1594" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinwG1S4DrMxaw55d2vdne8qN4aKfHhzAdLiWaxuNDUcqECd9ug3LSxCI4RehW9W1rkXgkJz3uzk68kIOnAMVLQaWwmiy72G0S0-pY5EX6DuRGmTHxsNT3SLA73x2kAVEHnw0ThJH9DVfquQhGkSBxT1STWewiIGRvO5ssUEiVC0OndWOsvmVsGwwD1nQ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-17%20at%206.20.50%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jacqueline Ellis in NEVER BACK LOSERS Year: 1961 Rating: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>Another b-crime programmer from the early 1960's that was originally an episode of the British anthology <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/08/AOM.html">EDGAR WALLACE MYSTERY THEATER</a>, and Jack Hedley, who we follow from a boring desk job at an insurance company, becomes their mobile investigator...  And with an hour runtime, it's not long until he finds not only the villain in a slithering Patrick Magee, but ingenue <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/jacqueline%20ellis">Jacqueline Ellis</a>, a bad girl initially, visiting Jack's home with an angry pistol drawn...

british neo noir, british tv, edgar wallace, howard pays, jack hedley, jacqueline ellis, mystery, patrick magee, sixties

JACQUELINE ELLIS AND JACK HEDLEY IN 'NEVER BACK LOSERS'

Jacqueline Ellis in NEVER BACK LOSERS Year: 1961 Rating: ***1/2 Another b-crime programmer from the early 1960's that was originally an ...

GILLIAN HILLS STARRING IN HAMMER'S 'DEMONS OF THE MIND'

<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/AVvXsEhOh2BmxoIF6dnAzQqePCMDqGHe3BuqpJMrpA6WLA0Vqxus3ND8OiopDHtdQrAJp6FamyG6j9SL7Ywq3kYa26IJGKzGF8-f6z25FvfWxf9NgNB6k5Mj-ES4F7ypnmmKI39bWmBqQAtrXODT/s1785/2.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1370" data-original-width="1785" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOh2BmxoIF6dnAzQqePCMDqGHe3BuqpJMrpA6WLA0Vqxus3ND8OiopDHtdQrAJp6FamyG6j9SL7Ywq3kYa26IJGKzGF8-f6z25FvfWxf9NgNB6k5Mj-ES4F7ypnmmKI39bWmBqQAtrXODT/w400-h308/2.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gillian Hills in Demons of the Mind Year: 1972 Rates: ** </td></tr></tbody></table>It was inevitable to become a disappointing spooky-titled horror flick since DEMONS OF THE MIND means that there are none... No demons, and for one of Hammer's last psychological thrillers, no monsters at all, unless you count a young man slaying young ladies along the countryside, not far from a Gothic castle where a manipulative father attempts keeping his children locked up, believing they're cursed...Hammer wanted James Mason in this patriarchal role, and it would have made a huge difference since Robert Hardy seems too young and lacks magnetism in controlling his bed-ridden daughter Gillian Hills and especially the beastly son, who share an incestual lust between killings... Random violence which there needed much more of to counter nowhere subplots and ultimately wasted side-characters (like nice guy med-student Paul Jones and his mad scientist mentor Patrick Magee), who take time away from Hills' victimized ingenue, a Hammer scream queen with very little to scream about: Damn shame since she alone, with such intense, bewildered beauty, had the most potential to really possess this thing!