STANLEY BAKER TRUCKS WITH PEGGY CUMMINS IN 'HELL DRIVERS'

<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><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/AVvXsEg8N6sx3lBySCRJll6wj47bkTMR8Nps5QxkLJs3OeRK8Fvuf9o-ufrLfw-oW3Fz7g3zShCLS-9Jd77cPa0i6hylzhCG4B3BW-jOmPRPkeqH3zGBFbJ0tIElupFswoysdHOJZJLLJv0zMrER95YvIp59do0UCOzIJzsdlTH0NLd7v0-gnLWXCLeUxipzksXK/s1502/Screen%20Shot%202023-02-25%20at%204.21.31%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="856" data-original-width="1502" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8N6sx3lBySCRJll6wj47bkTMR8Nps5QxkLJs3OeRK8Fvuf9o-ufrLfw-oW3Fz7g3zShCLS-9Jd77cPa0i6hylzhCG4B3BW-jOmPRPkeqH3zGBFbJ0tIElupFswoysdHOJZJLLJv0zMrER95YvIp59do0UCOzIJzsdlTH0NLd7v0-gnLWXCLeUxipzksXK/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-02-25%20at%204.21.31%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: HELL DRIVERS Year: 1957 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Cheating with the sped-up effect ala Keystone Cops, the hauling-trucks for HELL DRIVERS picks up granite and races it back to the factory as quickly as possible... at breakneck speed taking neck-breaking curves... and newly hired honest ex-con Stanley Baker catches on that he's not very wanted... that is, the boss wants him driving fast, but not <i>too</i> fast... <br> <br> And if you like breathing, you can NEVER beat the high score of antagonist Patrick McGoohan, looking like a severe, battered, modern-day pirate with a cocky grin behind the dangerous, risk-taking wheel... </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></p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

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STANLEY BAKER TRUCKS WITH PEGGY CUMMINS IN 'HELL DRIVERS'

Title: HELL DRIVERS Year: 1957 Rating: **** Cheating with the sped-up effect ala Keystone Cops, the hauling-trucks for HELL DRIVERS picks up...

PHOTO GALLERY 'CURSE OF THE DEMON' FOR ANOTHER OCTOBRER

<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/AVvXsEizqB7rhKiOybwlWd3JSEed0OEndIcKMTbgbIeCluN6z0DuF3sGNZ8sTZyJUVeuBR2SDSXnAn9Oe3NGfw7n9YpqbLptnAE8rvDcVE8i-XsvS3i3Sd-BfFimchJ-jxvmhq98dwQfIjqHByWU29atpZWGVJGjJArcwiuzZIVOQijA9YyveEYBsFadsEVElw/s1455/1%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="902" data-original-width="1455" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizqB7rhKiOybwlWd3JSEed0OEndIcKMTbgbIeCluN6z0DuF3sGNZ8sTZyJUVeuBR2SDSXnAn9Oe3NGfw7n9YpqbLptnAE8rvDcVE8i-XsvS3i3Sd-BfFimchJ-jxvmhq98dwQfIjqHByWU29atpZWGVJGjJArcwiuzZIVOQijA9YyveEYBsFadsEVElw/s16000/1%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Cover of the British Blu Ray Box Set for NIGHT OF THE DEMON/CURSE OF THE DEMON</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>There have been two reviews on the Jacques Tourneur classic horror <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2018/12/DemonCurse.html">CURSE OF THE DEMON</a>, the American re-release title, and how it differs from the original British <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/10/NightCurse.html">NIGHT OF THE DEMON</a>, which these particular captures, celebrating this years' Halloween, derive...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Our favorite actor is Dana Andrews and favorite director is Jacques Tourneur, making either DEMON a favorite horror that combines American cinema thrills and leading man, a French auteur and everything else belongs to the British including locations (including Stonehenge), character-actors and leading lady, Peggy Cummins...</p><p><span></span></p>

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PHOTO GALLERY 'CURSE OF THE DEMON' FOR ANOTHER OCTOBRER

Cover of the British Blu Ray Box Set for NIGHT OF THE DEMON/CURSE OF THE DEMON There have been two reviews on the Jacques Tourneur classic h...

PEGGY CUMMINS & JOHN DALL IN THE NOIR ROAD FLICK 'GUN CRAZY'

<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/AVvXsEjv0d9SLqKvoldw_I7veNgVk4EY_Aya_lyKwsoZz4RH7IhLqKw_Z9cNNXqyaMG5_UtrqbMVuQVaXv3LGzRNhekGrDiVpWqWPGqpSTopqUsv4Ky3lbO8yFFWX4mDwVTjNiN-vU5lJyK4uK6F/s1600/upload-2Nikos-work_poster-gun-crazy64ssed.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="741" data-original-width="1113" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv0d9SLqKvoldw_I7veNgVk4EY_Aya_lyKwsoZz4RH7IhLqKw_Z9cNNXqyaMG5_UtrqbMVuQVaXv3LGzRNhekGrDiVpWqWPGqpSTopqUsv4Ky3lbO8yFFWX4mDwVTjNiN-vU5lJyK4uK6F/s1600/upload-2Nikos-work_poster-gun-crazy64ssed.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Poster with John Dall and Peggy Cummins dead in love for GUN CRAZY Year: 1950</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> The Femme Fatale, you know, the bad girl with the great face... the soulless dame with the fantastic body... Well she's just about everything in GUN CRAZY despite the lengthy prologue about the doomed young man as a precocious kid, initially played by Russ Tamblyn, with a penchant for guns who winds up in reform school...<br> <br> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> And it's not long after getting out... now a twenty-something John Dall... when he and his childhood buddies go to a sideshow where Peggy Cummins' Annie Laurie Starr steals his heart — but only after he beats her at a shooting contest i.e. her very own game. The next scene, Dall's Bart Tare has a job there too, and not long after he's fired by jealous barker Berry Kroeger, smitten with the girl who gets away...</div> <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/AVvXsEgfuVRU1RfL-W_NVsNSU0XtfhwI5uCMFjBHRQHkRzq4jFrja_4W5G9nGipeRVGavGo0utF91ZDYhiMNBdluhr8s0Xr6UZUrdiB39eU20NruqkYJ2v3TNBtDRVzbw2gstOrHdxfH9J0nnLkd/s1600/15564.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="582" data-original-width="786" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfuVRU1RfL-W_NVsNSU0XtfhwI5uCMFjBHRQHkRzq4jFrja_4W5G9nGipeRVGavGo0utF91ZDYhiMNBdluhr8s0Xr6UZUrdiB39eU20NruqkYJ2v3TNBtDRVzbw2gstOrHdxfH9J0nnLkd/s1600/15564.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>The other title for GUN CRAZY is DEADLY IS THE FEMALE Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> The second act has a lot of bombastic action up front but the usual Noirish guilt, here involving Dall's brooding Bart, not only happens much too quick but is intrusive and annoying, not allowing him (or the audience) to enjoy the rural Bonnie & Clyde town-hopping robberies: But there's no such cloying guilt from Annie...<br> <br> And with sparse, finely-tuned direction by Joseph H. Lewis... visually and rhythmically foreshadowing French New Wave cinema with a kind of naked/barren aesthetic... this is Peggy Cummins picture; and she had no backstory at all. Then again, do deadly dames (aka DEADLY IS THE FEMALE) even have a past? Usually theirs' is a quick shoot-em-up future. If only she had a less reluctant/whiny partner-in-crime. Mr. Dall needed a little of that ROPE gusto here! <br>

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PEGGY CUMMINS & JOHN DALL IN THE NOIR ROAD FLICK 'GUN CRAZY'

Poster with John Dall and Peggy Cummins dead in love for GUN CRAZY Year: 1950 The Femme Fatale, you know, the bad girl with the great fa...

COMPARING 'CURSE OF THE DEMON' WITH 'NIGHT OF THE DEMON'

<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/AVvXsEixmnBz87SFC2xZFbkxZYDwbAeI9YCbtMy0T2A2Y7JCSpgtXmjApjG0HpWdTGFQZaXvpC0r92SNtswSZz2o7N9Zwjd30GamsYFNqJDkgqEZcm_gLsNZNdZ3JlxJLeYxkeg23o8YxXRkgyO8/s1600/night-of-the-demon.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1057" data-original-width="1315" height="321" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixmnBz87SFC2xZFbkxZYDwbAeI9YCbtMy0T2A2Y7JCSpgtXmjApjG0HpWdTGFQZaXvpC0r92SNtswSZz2o7N9Zwjd30GamsYFNqJDkgqEZcm_gLsNZNdZ3JlxJLeYxkeg23o8YxXRkgyO8/s400/night-of-the-demon.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Art for NIGHT OF THE DEMON with Dana Andrews<br></u></td></tr> </tbody></table><i>NOTE: Just learned it turns out that both CURSE OF THE DEMON and NIGHT OF THE DEMON, the American version and the original British cut, were the same length and version before BOTH were cut to a shorter length: however, now only CURSE is shorter/edited and so, here are some differences...</i><br> <br> As said, NIGHT is the original British cut while CURSE was edited for American audiences. But that doesn't mean CURSE is just a chopped version of NIGHT as each film has its own order, aura, and fans who decide which one they prefer. So perhaps this reexamination rundown will help with that decision, or even change it... And on the airplane, following the demon-killing intro that's the same in both versions, in NIGHT OF THE DEMON Peggy asks the stewardess is she can move seats because she bothered Dr. Holden. He's trying to sleep and she's writing a letter to the kids in her classroom. Also in NIGHT, Holden speaks longer to the professors greeting him into the airport baggage claim and then walking out the door. CURSE cuts from him going down the escalator to being right outside the airport...<br>

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COMPARING 'CURSE OF THE DEMON' WITH 'NIGHT OF THE DEMON'

Art for NIGHT OF THE DEMON with Dana Andrews NOTE: Just learned it turns out that both CURSE OF THE DEMON and NIGHT OF THE DEMON, the Ame...

JACQUES TOURNEUR'S 'CURSE OF THE DEMON' W/ DANA ANDREWS

<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/AVvXsEjkuCPhga75gLyG78E0wJSgY8v8RnIt1z4RvWehbuYVMMIED4k4lYLWXmTF1kise5h3d8e-INr-h2B4Z4NzA9lF_-yqEpAgilv_-ztcvQ05HCP_fT0iCh4MB3NBSG33p5Q58gcvxSdPQzHB/s1600/20399.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="416" data-original-width="585" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkuCPhga75gLyG78E0wJSgY8v8RnIt1z4RvWehbuYVMMIED4k4lYLWXmTF1kise5h3d8e-INr-h2B4Z4NzA9lF_-yqEpAgilv_-ztcvQ05HCP_fT0iCh4MB3NBSG33p5Q58gcvxSdPQzHB/s400/20399.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Curse of the Demon YEAR of RELEASE: 1957</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Director Jacques Tourneur, in the first of two 1950's collaborations with actor Dana Andrews followed by THE FEARMAKERS and a decade after CANYON PASSAGE — wanted the CURSE OF THE DEMON demon — resembling a grizzly bear mated with an irate buffalo — to be revealed later on instead of the first ten minutes...<br> <br> During an investigation by Dana Andrews as John Holden, a scientist who debunks a powerful occult/cult leader and is simply begging to learn his lesson the hard way, it's obviously far less of a mystery since we know exactly what kind of monster he'll wind up dealing with, as opposed to the audience being in-the-dark along with the main character... Kind of an implied and ambiguous gumshoe Film Noir approach within a supernatural horror picture...<br>

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JACQUES TOURNEUR'S 'CURSE OF THE DEMON' W/ DANA ANDREWS

Curse of the Demon YEAR of RELEASE: 1957 Director Jacques Tourneur, in the first of two 1950's collaborations with actor Dana Andre...