PETER MAXWELL'S 'IMPACT' WITH CONRAD PHILLIPS & ANITA WEST

<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/AVvXsEg-JMpKxh-Kv9FaDfYljrsDLfF4qc1xyneZ8ummhF4U2O0yeIfd8bUgEP3nGDbOHQwaF7il-J0tlJfZHNa_iCd9xtoujAB0AXa_zay-mW-NEwtDJNJAlBwL-HSF_e8nVokFwyZcNGaCQqA3lISMq0-a6EwGbHik6-hqsWopuKJYiev0q6KooP68BflnNWrl/s1896/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-24%20at%2011.04.51%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1104" data-original-width="1896" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-JMpKxh-Kv9FaDfYljrsDLfF4qc1xyneZ8ummhF4U2O0yeIfd8bUgEP3nGDbOHQwaF7il-J0tlJfZHNa_iCd9xtoujAB0AXa_zay-mW-NEwtDJNJAlBwL-HSF_e8nVokFwyZcNGaCQqA3lISMq0-a6EwGbHik6-hqsWopuKJYiev0q6KooP68BflnNWrl/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-24%20at%2011.04.51%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Conrad Phillips in IMPACT Year: 1963 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The low-budget British studio Butchers turned out film noir-type crime-dramas like they were television episodes, playing out like something more from the small screen than big...<br><br>And that's not a negative critique since they almost always pay off with good stories and great actors, in this case an equally edgy and severe wrong-man/good guy and nightclub-owning villain...</p><p><span></span></p>

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PETER MAXWELL'S 'IMPACT' WITH CONRAD PHILLIPS & ANITA WEST

Conrad Phillips in IMPACT Year: 1963 Rating: *** The low-budget British studio Butchers turned out film noir-type crime-dramas like they wer...

PETER MAXWELL'S 'BLIND SPOT' ROBERT MACKENZIE & MICHAEL CAINE

<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/AVvXsEg0oIJXUqjA_oXHwfV5eLvajPy1NYJby2NNpRn5kOA5QJ3w1lqv7yp-wPfM4hLgC3sabpH1Gf5E0FVp69EvqZ4QV62PMyUfjwbI7tucLv917lYcNn6rXn416Reqt5G2zGgLbFiu2ju7dhEt7_xbyhyrX0Y2UMxjA-J3FIqPOKPE2MczexXw2TftXnZdUSyy/s1884/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-23%20at%2011.47.59%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1096" data-original-width="1884" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0oIJXUqjA_oXHwfV5eLvajPy1NYJby2NNpRn5kOA5QJ3w1lqv7yp-wPfM4hLgC3sabpH1Gf5E0FVp69EvqZ4QV62PMyUfjwbI7tucLv917lYcNn6rXn416Reqt5G2zGgLbFiu2ju7dhEt7_xbyhyrX0Y2UMxjA-J3FIqPOKPE2MczexXw2TftXnZdUSyy/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-23%20at%2011.47.59%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert MacKenzie in BLIND SPOT Year: 1958 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>By the time a young Michael Caine's much anticipated wild-card-airplane-pilot character's revealed with a gun drawn to his own sister, BLIND SPOT has one quick car chase and it's over... </p><p>Leaving most of the gumshoe-inspired/traipsing-from-interior-to-interior screen-time to military man Robert MacKenzie, who's blind when he literally knocks into two killers after being dropped off in the wrong house, and then, after his sight's back, he investigates what's behind the murder... <br></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/AVvXsEj7jrH6UCqOCKpGiEY9cw8qOld2Zyp4PF7YMevho0Z0Q_LH0izKxOe8mWAv9u151fkGyYILh_abQ7bmO2K8jWng_8ILtRPo67m3AM7BiB0GfV6eoQwyDxCFmuJydIq0XuapCZj5NC1EHrtah_HG9XzMa4HOj8NQjBju9EtN-bOrV7fXS15JcHKix2tW5C52/s1736/1.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="902" data-original-width="1736" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7jrH6UCqOCKpGiEY9cw8qOld2Zyp4PF7YMevho0Z0Q_LH0izKxOe8mWAv9u151fkGyYILh_abQ7bmO2K8jWng_8ILtRPo67m3AM7BiB0GfV6eoQwyDxCFmuJydIq0XuapCZj5NC1EHrtah_HG9XzMa4HOj8NQjBju9EtN-bOrV7fXS15JcHKix2tW5C52/s16000/1.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert MacKenzie in BLIND SPOT with Ann Sharp</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>A remake of the 1950 British Film Noir BLACKOUT, seeming like a made-for-TV vehicle in the deliberately sparse camera style of merely facing the actors spouting loads of exposition... </p><p></p><p>But what makes this subtle thriller work is MacKenzie's affably cool yet randomly urgent aura, a hybrid of American-working-in-England b-crime regular William Sylvester and legendary American noir actor Sterling Hayden... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

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PETER MAXWELL'S 'BLIND SPOT' ROBERT MACKENZIE & MICHAEL CAINE

Robert MacKenzie in BLIND SPOT Year: 1958 Rating: ***1/2 By the time a young Michael Caine's much anticipated wild-card-airplane-pilot c...