PAMELA DUNCAN, RICHARD GARLAND & ALLISON HAYES 'THE UNDEAD'

<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/AVvXsEgWB0POnyqRnS6kkuxD4ZozzbCeuz-GfGxM7UPatus5671F5XN3px9YYL0IaoD98tKCN05o4rD__1UB5X-v11l2D2_cl4kI03WGBYkRA047AUBbmm-LFMxiZRJtwcnd7zdaKMl5gPtKwYsaQt1uCeWmxJ98ofLq_5ZBOCzXqNEpvMUbCPXshBZNmsmQ2ynW/s1674/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="966" data-original-width="1674" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWB0POnyqRnS6kkuxD4ZozzbCeuz-GfGxM7UPatus5671F5XN3px9YYL0IaoD98tKCN05o4rD__1UB5X-v11l2D2_cl4kI03WGBYkRA047AUBbmm-LFMxiZRJtwcnd7zdaKMl5gPtKwYsaQt1uCeWmxJ98ofLq_5ZBOCzXqNEpvMUbCPXshBZNmsmQ2ynW/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Pamela Duncan in THE UNDEAD Year: 1957 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The same year that Pamela Duncan and Richard Garland starred in <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/roger%20corman">Roger Corman'</a>s limp creature-feature <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2026/04/AOTCM.html">ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS</a> they were paired in one of the low-budget director's most ambitious, THE UNDEAD, with a modern frame-story of a prostitute hypnotized back into <span class="duration-200" lang="en-US"><span>medieval times where she's falsely accused of being a witch... <br></span></span></p><p></p><p><span class="duration-200" lang="en-US"><span>But it's actually shape-shifting sorceress in ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMAN Allison Hayes who wants the stalwart knight Garland (looking like a handsome diesel truck mechanic in ancient knight's clothing) for herself... putting poor Pamela's character through the kind of on-the-run ringer that never lets up...</span></span></p><p><span class="duration-200" lang="en-US"><span><span></span></span></span></p>

adventure, allison hayes, billy barty, bruno vesota, dick miller, dorothy neumann, fantasy, fifties, horror, mel welles, pamela duncan, richard devon, richard garland, roger corman, val dufour

PAMELA DUNCAN, RICHARD GARLAND & ALLISON HAYES 'THE UNDEAD'

Pamela Duncan in THE UNDEAD Year: 1957 Rating: **** The same year that Pamela Duncan and Richard Garland starred in Roger Corman' s limp...

RICHARD DEVON ORBITS DICK MILLER IN 'WAR OF THE SATELLITES'

<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/AVvXsEiJdXjtw6jDnSntPxClsOPFAjCjwd7HQZUd9G4Z9N9uUpInxmnXlqv4iNuo8zwZHGbIzKbOKbUBZBiE-qm-gy19TCMZflLCIOx9BjQLSpMUefRA8uQdE0zijAUdLho6nvn7iHYaoEEvAVRiqpnk8mQmMnhvZVrVMi_UU_u2adjlziEawvTGxeiy3UqNMD4P/s1738/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-16%20at%205.44.38%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1106" data-original-width="1738" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJdXjtw6jDnSntPxClsOPFAjCjwd7HQZUd9G4Z9N9uUpInxmnXlqv4iNuo8zwZHGbIzKbOKbUBZBiE-qm-gy19TCMZflLCIOx9BjQLSpMUefRA8uQdE0zijAUdLho6nvn7iHYaoEEvAVRiqpnk8mQmMnhvZVrVMi_UU_u2adjlziEawvTGxeiy3UqNMD4P/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-16%20at%205.44.38%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Dick Miller & Richard Devon in WAR OF THE SATELLITES Year: 1958 Rates: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Roger Corman's cold-war science-fiction thriller WAR OF THE SATELLITES puts two of his otherwise most intense actors in somewhat innocuous leading roles, thrust into space within the titular rocketship-like satellite where another Corman actor is used to his full potential...</p><p></p><p>Enter one-dimensionally-heroic Dick Miller and Susan Cabot: he was the murderous sociopath from A BUCKET OF BLOOD while she was the ferocious WASP WOMAN, the gun-moll from MACHINE-GUN KELLY and the manipulative SORORITY GIRL... both literally passengers in a vehicle belonging almost completely to tall/swarthy Richard Devon...</p><p><span></span></p>

dick miller, eric sinclair, fifties, jared barclay, michael fox, richard devon, roger corman, science-fiction, susan cabot

RICHARD DEVON ORBITS DICK MILLER IN 'WAR OF THE SATELLITES'

Dick Miller & Richard Devon in WAR OF THE SATELLITES Year: 1958 Rates: **** Roger Corman's cold-war science-fiction thriller WAR OF ...

JUNE KENNEY, FAY SPAIN AND JOHN BRINKLEY IN 'TEENAGE DOLL'

<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/AVvXsEhuKOUmVvHuhtFWBTh-BFNIacNwYq22MV23500ZBEHH9EJPffr0sYCmuaFtUYp_DHOsxL5_XyinL0KdS6fncrkKSJuTgOLVg8WJKDd4eGDmy4P5czF-Y-LB_nYM5JRBy0RGiR2v2lKwlkEGgjmQh6vl0yKAnP1vh9NGQ1fa01oiLoeacM4BJZpFoki_Mfrf/s1818/1%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1102" data-original-width="1818" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuKOUmVvHuhtFWBTh-BFNIacNwYq22MV23500ZBEHH9EJPffr0sYCmuaFtUYp_DHOsxL5_XyinL0KdS6fncrkKSJuTgOLVg8WJKDd4eGDmy4P5czF-Y-LB_nYM5JRBy0RGiR2v2lKwlkEGgjmQh6vl0yKAnP1vh9NGQ1fa01oiLoeacM4BJZpFoki_Mfrf/s16000/1%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: TEENAGE DOLL Year: 1957 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The opening scene in Roger Corman's 1957 girl-gang melodrama TEENAGE DOLL feels like you walked in ten minutes late... as The Black Widows leader Fay Spain is explaining to her underlings about what happened to one of their own girls, lying already dead outside a dark warehouse... </p><p></p><p>Turns out it was an uptight goody-goody who somehow committed the murder, and, hiding in the shadows, June Kenney's listening to the conversation, knowing these tough young locals are now after her...  </p><p><span></span></p>

barbara wilson, barboura morris, colette jackson, exploitation, fay spain, fifties, gang, jay sayer, john brinkley, june kenney, richard devon, roger corman, sandra smith, ziva rodann

JUNE KENNEY, FAY SPAIN AND JOHN BRINKLEY IN 'TEENAGE DOLL'

Title: TEENAGE DOLL Year: 1957 Rating: ***1/2 The opening scene in Roger Corman's 1957 girl-gang melodrama TEENAGE DOLL feels like you w...

JUNE KENNEY, ABBY DALTON & SUSAN CABOT ARE 'VIKING WOMEN'

<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/AVvXsEht-yvfZWdGhrdVNqEINs4fGTcs-n6A7ii15r9Ab_2mqcG25NRyApY3NSRDS1t9ga6QXxVC6xHtxgLSb2r2DOEOj2J9WCytl_NDF_pdhV41wegBFZ9rnJvFk89p94jYZ9b0iNaolqUljbtvY1AD266DYOKYhTGqjNqZqpG18qbp3w_eQ3HouaURFolHySQi/s1626/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-10%20at%2010.49.22%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="828" data-original-width="1626" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht-yvfZWdGhrdVNqEINs4fGTcs-n6A7ii15r9Ab_2mqcG25NRyApY3NSRDS1t9ga6QXxVC6xHtxgLSb2r2DOEOj2J9WCytl_NDF_pdhV41wegBFZ9rnJvFk89p94jYZ9b0iNaolqUljbtvY1AD266DYOKYhTGqjNqZqpG18qbp3w_eQ3HouaURFolHySQi/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-10%20at%2010.49.22%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>British Shortened Title: THE VIKING WOMEN Year: 1957 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Director/Producer Roger Corman's b-epic THE SAGA OF THE VIKING WOMEN AND THEIR VOYAGE TO THE WATERS OF THE GREAT SEA SERPENT only follows the title for the first 15-minutes after the titular women, lonely for their men who had left and never returned, take a short voyage, are attacked by the rear-projection of an enlarged sea-serpent puppet, and wind up where most of the surprisingly fulfilling sword-and-sandal adventure takes place...</p><p></p><p>An island ruled by women-less barbarians led by Corman antagonist Richard Devon with flamboyant son Jay Sayer and token henchman Michael Forest... and it's how Corman allows each of the female leads to have a creative purpose directly linked to the action-packed plot-line — of recusing their enslaved men and trying to get off the island...</p><p><span></span></p>

abby dalton, betsy jones-moreland, fantasy, fifties, gary conway, jonathan haze, june kenney, lynette bernay, michael forest, richard devon, roger corman, sally todd, susan cabot

JUNE KENNEY, ABBY DALTON & SUSAN CABOT ARE 'VIKING WOMEN'

British Shortened Title: THE VIKING WOMEN Year: 1957 Rating: ***1/2 Director/Producer Roger Corman's b-epic THE SAGA OF THE VIKING WOMEN...

CLINT EASTWOOD AS DIRTY HARRY VS DAVID SOUL 'MAGNUM FORCE'

<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/AVvXsEggddRaxfTZWmxM0fRmOcq_dQH6yyUtPhdz2zBbVyBJMPjkpwaoNYi6PSa9yorfjFWgF2yNK2kYGTkULjoIzcfwUPuBc9ePT0Dd0OTVyeW7kIdyA0Z8sTTzoZgPik9qz_ap6SyVg1D2ELWvTuX-i4CQQaxShQ2AZEeudzOVeavohhR3Zp0MFxAVz8nnzNQg/s2308/Screen%20Shot%202024-01-05%20at%209.58.47%20PM%202%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1286" data-original-width="2308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggddRaxfTZWmxM0fRmOcq_dQH6yyUtPhdz2zBbVyBJMPjkpwaoNYi6PSa9yorfjFWgF2yNK2kYGTkULjoIzcfwUPuBc9ePT0Dd0OTVyeW7kIdyA0Z8sTTzoZgPik9qz_ap6SyVg1D2ELWvTuX-i4CQQaxShQ2AZEeudzOVeavohhR3Zp0MFxAVz8nnzNQg/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-01-05%20at%209.58.47%20PM%202%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Clint Eastwood and David Soul in MAGNUM FORCE Year: 1973 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Director Don Siegel's DIRTY HARRY was a cultural phenomenon that gave Clint Eastwood a franchise and character for two decades while defining his persona even beyond the Sergio Leone westerns...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>But it was the 1970's, a decade of gritty films but also political correctness, and the sequel... written by John Milius and Clint's future THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHTFOOT director Michael Cimino... gave the thug-beating, lawbreaking lawman a break by creating a story where there are literal killer cops... actually doing what Harry's been accused of influencing or even instigating (he's even joked about being a suspect since he hates criminals so much)— all to make Dirty Harry Callahan less crooked and more by-the-book, by comparison...  </p><p><span></span></p>

action, clint eastwood, cop, david soul, dirty harry, felton perry, franchise, hal holbrook, john milius, michael cimino, richard devon, robert urich, seventies, tim matheson

CLINT EASTWOOD AS DIRTY HARRY VS DAVID SOUL 'MAGNUM FORCE'

Clint Eastwood and David Soul in MAGNUM FORCE Year: 1973 Rating: ****1/2 Director Don Siegel's DIRTY HARRY was a cultural phenomenon tha...

MERRY ANDERS WITH JOHNNY DESMOND 1957 DOUBLE-FEATURE

<p> <u></u></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><u></u></div><p><u></u></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/AVvXsEhAd9xLOokoeOzpaPO57SmouGv8KimvxCH-7adMnKTqKzRWxE6A21CthdWMkyhdFOQzlZ8gNxiEGsLi8YGUtD26Czq360ry70z9xPy4nAUaontsqXuyDWAsdMojqFoG1-d7suZBD_wx4aizb3PaiAYrKHJ57ZBjt6JRJFiF-NDiH8mMyCGj2cIysMgduVHj/s1205/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="677" data-original-width="1205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAd9xLOokoeOzpaPO57SmouGv8KimvxCH-7adMnKTqKzRWxE6A21CthdWMkyhdFOQzlZ8gNxiEGsLi8YGUtD26Czq360ry70z9xPy4nAUaontsqXuyDWAsdMojqFoG1-d7suZBD_wx4aizb3PaiAYrKHJ57ZBjt6JRJFiF-NDiH8mMyCGj2cIysMgduVHj/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Merry Anders with villain Richard Devon in ESCAPE FROM SAN QUENTIN Year: 1957 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p><u>ESCAPE FROM SAN QUENTIN</u>: More a legit film noir than the b-crime programmer it otherwise seems from the action-faring, plot-describing title, which can mislead viewers into thinking ESCAPE FROM SAN QUENTIN centers more on high-octane breakout bedlam than dialogue-driven suspense with a side dish of gun-wielding intrigue since all the usual hackneyed prison devices are absent, including makeshift underground tunnels, irritable guards, a Fascist warden and put-upon convicts tapping dire/urgent messages along the walls...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Instead, the rudimentary setting is a work farm not a prison; and it's one man's occupation, or in this case, previous skill that makes real life crooner Johnny Desmond a lucrative player for his hardened convict and cellmate "buddy" Richard Devon, whose tough lifer character, Roy, unlike Johnny's Mike who has only two years left, goads him into flying a small plane to freedom in what's ultimately a much too simple escape, especially for the movie to be named after: the duo headed to the same town where Roy buried a bag of loot...</p><p><span></span></p>

alan arkin, comedy, double-feature, escape, fifties, film noir or melodrama, fred f. sears, johnny desmond, meg myles, merry anders, michael granger, music, prison, richard devon, victor millan

MERRY ANDERS WITH JOHNNY DESMOND 1957 DOUBLE-FEATURE

Merry Anders with villain Richard Devon in ESCAPE FROM SAN QUENTIN Year: 1957 Rating: ****1/2 ESCAPE FROM SAN QUENTIN : More a legit film n...

CHARLES BRONSON TRAINING ELVIS PRESLEY IN 'KID GALAHAD'

<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/AVvXsEg7PvhtNb7hqZZKeZYMtG9xKO_8qGsNEOocvJHy64EMh0pfjYp8TJqDwydmo763oXZT0AlJ3pJnadBFfO5j24_4VRAeu9m9K_IWAWaHOgf9KmqV-pKdjJV545dmorfaRwTt0PeE6smQx7Hb/s1608/Screen+Shot+2021-07-15+at+10.15.40+PM.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1045" data-original-width="1608" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7PvhtNb7hqZZKeZYMtG9xKO_8qGsNEOocvJHy64EMh0pfjYp8TJqDwydmo763oXZT0AlJ3pJnadBFfO5j24_4VRAeu9m9K_IWAWaHOgf9KmqV-pKdjJV545dmorfaRwTt0PeE6smQx7Hb/w400-h260/Screen+Shot+2021-07-15+at+10.15.40+PM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Charles Bronson & Elvis Presley Year: 1961 Rates: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>If there's one Elvis Presley vehicle where the songs would be best left out altogether it's KID GALAHAD since his performance, as sparing partner turned titular phenom <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/boxing">boxer</a>, is over-par, especially surrounded by Gig Young as a rural boxing-camp owner/mob-bullied manager and trainer <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/charles%20bronson">Charles Bronson</a>: it's better than just a mainstream remake or another commercial attempt to manufacture hit Elvis tunes...</p><p>One he croons about how lovely moonlight walks are in the daylight, and our token ingenue in Gig's younger sister Joan Blackman is outshined by Lola Albright as his put-upon girlfriend with an actual character-arc, desperately wanting her man to take their relationship seriously (if mentioned at all) while Joan and Elvis hook-up too quickly to matter. But in the male ego department it's said Bronson avoided Elvis on-set despite their on-screen chemistry; not only is The King's acting surprisingly natural here but the usually iron-clad Bronson plays gentle and vulnerable, eventually maimed by mobster <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/richard%20devon">Richard Devon</a> between capably shot bouts by <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/phil%20karlson">Phil Karlson</a> despite Elvis having requested CASABLANCA director Michael Curtiz (some of us believe 99 RIVER STREET was better than the Bogart classic): So for Bronson and Presley this was <i>not</i> the start of a beautiful friendship, which is sad since they fit so nicely together. </p><p><span></span></p>

boxing, charles bronson, elvis presley, gig young, joan blackman, lola albright, melodrama, michael dante, music, phil karlson, richard devon, sixties

CHARLES BRONSON TRAINING ELVIS PRESLEY IN 'KID GALAHAD'

Charles Bronson & Elvis Presley Year: 1961 Rates: ***1/2 If there's one Elvis Presley vehicle where the songs would be best left out...

CHARLES BRONSON & SUSAN CABOT IN 'MACHINE-GUN KELLY'

<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/AVvXsEhsz02sSREBuudC7cN3Sb9LmJoEHfoJ7rU35oEBoy3o3wbO0-rERKNpu6y2LlPYtTzGUH-RXKm0VMG28oTNf4k6N6hoEpsmhoJ5Yltnb0oPnvK7r7csOpajMzEif1P9DA9yzjIzqRgplypHdznYKDnqQZSVCWj21IPzvRu-hi9aR6MqFmp7F6mfUe8gI3S9/s1328/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-11%20at%201.54.35%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="818" data-original-width="1328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsz02sSREBuudC7cN3Sb9LmJoEHfoJ7rU35oEBoy3o3wbO0-rERKNpu6y2LlPYtTzGUH-RXKm0VMG28oTNf4k6N6hoEpsmhoJ5Yltnb0oPnvK7r7csOpajMzEif1P9DA9yzjIzqRgplypHdznYKDnqQZSVCWj21IPzvRu-hi9aR6MqFmp7F6mfUe8gI3S9/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-11%20at%201.54.35%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: MACHINE-GUN KELLY Year: 1958 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>There's a fine line between atmospheric and claustrophobic as Roger Corman directs Charles Bronson as the title character, MACHINE GUN KELLY, who goes from one noir-lit room to the next... </p><p></p><p>Mostly arguing with moll Susan Cabot about robbing banks while angering his former gang, who eventually want to kill him for being so unpredictable: Kelly's either really tough or breaking down like a child. Not the narrowed, tough guy you'd get from Bronson fifteen years later... </p><p><span></span></p>

barboura morris, biopic, charles bronson, fifties, film noir or melodrama, frank dekova, gangster, jack lambert, richard devon, roger corman, susan cabot

CHARLES BRONSON & SUSAN CABOT IN 'MACHINE-GUN KELLY'

Title: MACHINE-GUN KELLY Year: 1958 Rating: *** There's a fine line between atmospheric and claustrophobic as Roger Corman directs Char...

MERRY ANDERS 'ESCAPE FROM SAN QUENTIN' W/ RICHARD DEVON

<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/AVvXsEgp-g87t9gaQ07euAdsV7pdnLO55OXeKbcQkiC0oydbv0CEmcapUmPnHOfWWZVGTggEYMLqQexqmipn4XzQUsvAEwQecIoPzOSKtIJEhnJsCJVEgFVz43hXtiy_IdNVJI32doArCmYBwDIw/s1600/Screen+Shot+2017-03-23+at+4.24.19+PM.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp-g87t9gaQ07euAdsV7pdnLO55OXeKbcQkiC0oydbv0CEmcapUmPnHOfWWZVGTggEYMLqQexqmipn4XzQUsvAEwQecIoPzOSKtIJEhnJsCJVEgFVz43hXtiy_IdNVJI32doArCmYBwDIw/s320/Screen+Shot+2017-03-23+at+4.24.19+PM.jpg" width="320"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Richard Devon with Merry Anders YEAR: 1957 </u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Continuing an ongoing Cinema of Merry Anders, a beautiful actress from B-Crime flicks that aren't usually "good enough" to be considered a bonafide, by-the-book Film Noir...<br> <br> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHRf8deaiUu1bMTF3e5U-USPnpsJ0DxfOl7gCE1RL1MV8INxJiAg5Uw1o72d0q2FIjkVmBatVbUxuEKZhueT5EYgpr7n97mu4LV_F7H6aGKa9WXvwggArmgdwwqFQfe7YfFiaJluRA5rLm/s1600/kkwzpmdy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHRf8deaiUu1bMTF3e5U-USPnpsJ0DxfOl7gCE1RL1MV8INxJiAg5Uw1o72d0q2FIjkVmBatVbUxuEKZhueT5EYgpr7n97mu4LV_F7H6aGKa9WXvwggArmgdwwqFQfe7YfFiaJluRA5rLm/s320/kkwzpmdy.jpg" width="165"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Insert Poster</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Meaning that the famous genre of what former Cult Film Freak interviewee Coleen Gray... co-star of THE KILLING, KISS OF DEATH, MODELS INC., NIGHTMARE ALLEY, THE SLEEPING CITY, LAS VEGAS SHOWDOWN and KANSAS CITY CONFIDENTIAL... described as simply "B-Movies," pretty much makes this a C-Picture... Which isn't such a bad thing given how dull and listless mainstream vehicles were (and still are)...<br> <br> And so, Merry Anders appeared in a handful of other kinds of crime vehicles from the late 50's and early 60's as well as science fiction (T<a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/11/TTT.html">HE TIME TRAVELERS</a>), a Western (THE DALTON GIRLS) and a music trend propaganda (CALYPSO HEAT WAVE)... And so, stuck in a purgatory between Crime and Cult and yet, unlike <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/08/AirPATROL.html">AIR PATROL</a>, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/07/merry-anders-cinema-raiders-from.html">RAIDERS FROM BENEATH THE SEA</a> or <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/07/anders1-HYP-EYE.html">THE HYPNOTIC EYE</a>, this is more Film Noir than anything else, despite the action-faring, plot-describing title, which can mislead viewers into thinking ESCAPE FROM SAN QUENTIN centers more on high octane breakout bedlam than dialogue-driven suspense with a side dish of gun-wielding intrigue...<br>

fifties, film noir or melodrama, fred f. sears, merry anders, richard devon

MERRY ANDERS 'ESCAPE FROM SAN QUENTIN' W/ RICHARD DEVON

Richard Devon with Merry Anders YEAR: 1957  Continuing an ongoing Cinema of Merry Anders, a beautiful actress from B-Crime flicks that a...