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Written by James M. Tate / 4/30/2024 / No comments / action , adventure , austin stoker , bobby porter , claude akins , france nuyen , john huston , natalie trundy , paul williams , planet apes , post-apocalyptic , roddy mcdowall , science-fiction , severn darden

RODDY MCDOWALL WAGES 'BATTLE FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES'

<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/AVvXsEgMS6H8hqt8hcQ9T0TrAzXDoITFP2zn2ofQ_aaOygv79SQqkq38r6QNrTnMup5sZ29FAf9IG7P5vWsuGX-S6A7wi0irFeHm31-kKoHc1Jtfk6_YGJmdaj4sur-OFSEK0EJVwO2LPdcCX_KcgiXVDz_rZ_2dCjsrfdL0KuoxziRLU-Qb3NkGT0o0dK0A-hFG/s1776/Screen%20Shot%202024-04-30%20at%204.54.34%20AM%203.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="896" data-original-width="1776" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMS6H8hqt8hcQ9T0TrAzXDoITFP2zn2ofQ_aaOygv79SQqkq38r6QNrTnMup5sZ29FAf9IG7P5vWsuGX-S6A7wi0irFeHm31-kKoHc1Jtfk6_YGJmdaj4sur-OFSEK0EJVwO2LPdcCX_KcgiXVDz_rZ_2dCjsrfdL0KuoxziRLU-Qb3NkGT0o0dK0A-hFG/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-04-30%20at%204.54.34%20AM%203.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Roddy McDowall in Conquest of the Planet of the Apes Year: 1972 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Like RETURN OF THE JEDI would a decade later, ending the original STAR WARS franchise with a more accessible forest location along with big-budget science-fiction style lighted-corridors throughout dark steely fortresses, so the original ape series concluded with BATTLE FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES costing the least amount of money... only you wouldn't know since the new exterior locale (where both apes and humans can speak) takes place in what seems like something from a sparsely affordable Robinson Caruso production...</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>Yet not entirely since at the end of the previous film, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2024/04/conquest.html">CONQUEST OF THE PLANET OF THE APES</a>, there was an unseen and, herein, narrated-about (by John Huston) nuclear war after Roddy McDowall's Caesar took over... so the wilderness setting has a built-in explanation of the world going back to scratch... but there's also an underground compound of the previous formidable city after the holocaust: where the slain governor's main interrogator Severn Darden, with eerie post-nuke fallout garb, is now the main baddie...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, austin stoker, bobby porter, claude akins, france nuyen, john huston, natalie trundy, paul williams, planet apes, post-apocalyptic, roddy mcdowall, science-fiction, severn darden

RODDY MCDOWALL WAGES 'BATTLE FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES'

Roddy McDowall in Conquest of the Planet of the Apes Year: 1972 Rating: ****1/2 Like RETURN OF THE JEDI would a decade later, ending the ori...

RODDY MCDOWALL RULES 'CONQUEST OF THE PLANET OF THE APES'

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action, asa maynor, don murray, exploitation, gordon jump, hari rhodes, j. lee thompson, natalie trundy, planet apes, ricardo montalban, roddy mcdowall, science-fiction, seventies, severn darden

RODDY MCDOWALL RULES 'CONQUEST OF THE PLANET OF THE APES'

Roddy McDowall in Conquest of the Planet of the Apes Year: 1972 Rating: ****1/2 Taking place twenty-years after the previous/third film of t...

RODDY MCDOWALL IN 'ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES'

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albert salmi, bradford dillman, don taylor, eric braeden, harry lauter, kim hunter, m. emmett walsh, natalie trundy, planet apes, roddy mcdowall, sal mineo, science-fiction, seventies, william windom

RODDY MCDOWALL IN 'ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES'

Roddy McDowall in Escape from the Planet of the Apes Year: 1971 Score for ESCAPE: ***** Score for BENEATH: * The title ESCAPE FROM THE PLANE...

CHARLTON HESTON & RODDY MCDOWALL IN 'PLANET OF THE APES'

<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/AVvXsEgOWNTRT4k2V0pvCl_WeP3GMz1ZI0UBp6exG3LKYUfPW9zhkY6eYdI2yHfH-WMaOB0N97obXLk-2ITsOfXP1bVYPqnVzkQPHY_CEs0YxpHvzxNLMY4x7w7EweALgZRXUZ2mYjkX7i0Prkg6J__f_6NTnCniZd7jvagYoWiaJ2Teu8tLUZKcNZjQdEz6bGJe/s1456/Screen%20Shot%202025-03-28%20at%205.11.23%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1456" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOWNTRT4k2V0pvCl_WeP3GMz1ZI0UBp6exG3LKYUfPW9zhkY6eYdI2yHfH-WMaOB0N97obXLk-2ITsOfXP1bVYPqnVzkQPHY_CEs0YxpHvzxNLMY4x7w7EweALgZRXUZ2mYjkX7i0Prkg6J__f_6NTnCniZd7jvagYoWiaJ2Teu8tLUZKcNZjQdEz6bGJe/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-03-28%20at%205.11.23%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: PLANET OF THE APES Year: 1968 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>With a built-in spoiler title such as PLANET OF THE APES, the fact the apes don't appear, riding like lethal humans on horseback, until 32-minutes in isn't because the first act's created to simply lead into that important moment... instead, the three American astronauts Taylor, Landon and Dodge played by Charlton Heston, Robert Gunner and Jeff Burton, have their very own seemingly separate short film/prologue...<br></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>Crash landing on a mysterious planet from an outer-space mission, they search throughout initially lifeless scorched terrain where the characters are economically fleshed-out, particularly Heston's Taylor, poking fun at (or as black astronaut Dodge says, "riding") Landon for still being patriotic... so basically, the shocking and violent ape-hunting-party's more of an interruption of the astronauts' rudimentary journey than their own first act predictably leading to the inevitable reverse-evolution reality...<br></p><span></span>

charlton heston, francis j. schaffner, kim hunter, maurice evans, planet apes, roddy mcdowall, science-fiction, sixties

CHARLTON HESTON & RODDY MCDOWALL IN 'PLANET OF THE APES'

Title: PLANET OF THE APES Year: 1968 Rating: ****1/2 With a built-in spoiler title such as PLANET OF THE APES, the fact the apes don't a...

TV SERIES 'PLANET OF THE APES' FIRST & ONLY SEASON REVIEWS

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And after one season, there was no more of the Apes canon...<br>
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That's if you don't count the one-season cartoon titled RETURN TO THE PLANET OF THE APES: fans got the same plot as the 1968 Pierre Boulle novel, which involved apes in modern cities, driving cars, jeeps and flying airplanes. Meanwhile, this live-action cult series was inspired by and modeled after the blockbuster Charlton Heston loosely-adapted motion picture where the simians live in caves while caging humans: And replacing Heston are two astronauts who resemble that world's very own Starskey and Hutch... <br>
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<u>Episode One: ESCAPE FROM TOMORROW:</u> Pilot episode of the television series based on the franchise of motion pictures involving two astronauts: older blond-haired Ron Harper and cool young dark-haired James Naughton aka Virdon and Burke, who land on a planet ruled by… you got it… talking apes. The beleaguered astronauts meet Roddy McDowall as Galen, a friendly chimp (Cornelius with a new name...<br>
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Galen was actually an assistant chimp in the original movie) helping them dodge gun-totting militaristic Gorillas while a local, Royal Dano, provides shelter and exposition about their situation. The suspenseful plot involves straight-line survival, setting up the series’ template: Virdon, Burke and Galen are known fugitives who must be caught and it’s General Urko, played by a fitfully hammy Mark Lenard, who heads up the chase – although it’s the scientific orangutan, Zaius, who wants them alive: but for scientific reasons, which would lead to the same lethal conclusion.<br>

booth colman, cult, david naughton, franchise, james daughton, one season, planet apes, roddy mcdowall, ron harper, seventies, sondra locke, TV, william smith

TV SERIES 'PLANET OF THE APES' FIRST & ONLY SEASON REVIEWS

Planet of the Apes 1974 Television Series Episode Reviews When THE PLANET OF THE APES movies were all finished, fans of the franchise wante...

ROBERT MORSE, ROD STEIGER & ANJANETTE COMER 'THE LOVED ONE'

<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/AVvXsEicnigBVbzATSPW-tZ87cuH4mDX5ADwO8x6X35vdblt5zC1JQPTQd_p5bwrxmT3AKVj5ZXTthR1cwAVaGAKZLcydZNmUl4eY7i64Uo3oDX23rgtlOmWHXweKcPa711JtWsMozMjlq-cJktkKGvK1nbJaTLwgRR1Ne3aDNZonffjYX_JB1TIc2qx6rhzuwrK/s1462/Screen%20Shot%202024-04-09%20at%206.09.46%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="860" data-original-width="1462" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicnigBVbzATSPW-tZ87cuH4mDX5ADwO8x6X35vdblt5zC1JQPTQd_p5bwrxmT3AKVj5ZXTthR1cwAVaGAKZLcydZNmUl4eY7i64Uo3oDX23rgtlOmWHXweKcPa711JtWsMozMjlq-cJktkKGvK1nbJaTLwgRR1Ne3aDNZonffjYX_JB1TIc2qx6rhzuwrK/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-04-09%20at%206.09.46%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Pamela Curran and Robert Morse in Tony Richardson's THE LOVED ONE Year: 1965 Rating: **1/2 Grade: C+</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>After American director Stanley Kubrick made DR. STRANGELOVE in England, British director Tony Richardson attempted his own offbeat dark comedy in Los Angeles... with Jonathan Winters replacing the Peter Sellers multi-role device as the owner of a plush cemetery catered to the rich, and a dodgy pet cemetery for just about anyone... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Where offbeat Robert Morse ends up working after his Hollywood producer uncle (John Geilgud) hangs himself, bringing the audience into Whispering Glades Funeral Parlor that (with Haskell Wexler cinematography) grounds the most intriguing and creatively shot B&W sequences...  </p><p><span></span></p>

anjanette comer, asa maynor, dana andrews, ensemble, john geilgud, jonathan winters, margaret leighton, milton berle, paul williams, robert morse, roddy mcdowall, roxanne arlen, sixties, tony richardson

ROBERT MORSE, ROD STEIGER & ANJANETTE COMER 'THE LOVED ONE'

Pamela Curran and Robert Morse in Tony Richardson's THE LOVED ONE Year: 1965 Rating: **1/2 Grade: C+ After American director Stanley Kub...

FINAL CINEMA TURN FOR MONTGOMERY CLIFT IN 'THE DEFECTOR'

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And for the sake of cinematic history, there is an importance in this otherwise forgotten vehicle, mostly known as the legendary Montgomery Clift's final role, which isn't a surprise when you see that, very sadly and extremely noticable, he resembles a man very near death and ironically, less than a decade prior, he was equal with (and was around before) James Dean and Marlon Brando, and this was his first step back in action...<br>
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So Krüger provides the only real conflict, making him the actor to watch for his expressions and reactions alone; that is, if you don't count Clift having to survive a slowburn nightmare of being stuck in this purgatory, softly batted about as a pawn (although he's hard to really feel sorry for since he hooks up so easily with the moon-faced German beauty)... <br>
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speaking perfect English, a Foreign Film without subtitles while 
maintaining an even-keel through strategic wordplay over gunplay, and a 
palpable sense of doom without a single bomb ticking. Winding up with 
11th hour action that, though quite rushed and begging for the film to 
close, is more like suspenseful-movement as our subtle if bland yet 
determined and intriguing hero tries to get out of the country, the hard
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christine delaroche, cold war, espionage, hardy kruger, macha méril, montgomery clift, roddy mcdowall, sixties, thriller, uta levka, warner archives

FINAL CINEMA TURN FOR MONTGOMERY CLIFT IN 'THE DEFECTOR'

THE DEFECTOR Year: 1967 By the Sixties, the Cold War genre, which began in the Forties, was in full swing, sometimes with bullets flying, a...

SECOND PETER USTINOV POIROT MYSTERY 'EVIL UNDER THE SUN'

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agatha christie, british, colin blakely, denis quilley, diana rigg, emily hone, ensemble, guy hamilton, james mason, jane birkin, mystery, peter ustinov, roddy mcdowall, sylvia miles

SECOND PETER USTINOV POIROT MYSTERY 'EVIL UNDER THE SUN'

Title: EVIL UNDER THE SUN Director: Guy Hamilton Year: 1982 Rating: ***1/2 Surprisingly EVIL UNDER THE SUN, the least known and least popula...

THE ORIGINAL 'FRIGHT NIGHT' FOR HALLOWEEN

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William Ragsdale has an every-kid charm as a teenager named Charley, who worships a TV show centering on a fictional vampire slayer. And his dreams and/or nightmares are about to come true. For he new next door neighbor is a vampire, and the movie doesn't prolong suspense before our frenzied antagonist quickly discovers the truth through an open window.<br>
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The teen trio are great but without Roddy McDowall as Peter Vincent, the TV vamp slayer who's really a timid, washed-up actor, there wouldn't be the essential push needed to make things really work. A terrific transformation of Ed morphing from a bitten teen to a psychotic wolf is a highlight of this intentionally campy feast with a surprise around every corner. And not to forget Amanda Beasley (the neighbor from MARRIED WITH CHILDREN) as Charley's pretty ingenue; her scenes under Sarandon's swarthy spell adds a sensual creepiness to make it all even more worthy and complete.
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THE ORIGINAL 'FRIGHT NIGHT' FOR HALLOWEEN

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RODDY MCDOWALL WITH LAURETTE LUEZ IN 'KILLER SHARK'

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RODDY MCDOWALL WITH LAURETTE LUEZ IN 'KILLER SHARK'

KILLER SHARK Year: 1950 Following the bizarre Neo Noir SHARKS' TREASURE and continuing our monthlong review of underrated or rela...

HALLOW'S ENTRY: IT! WITH RODDY MCDOWALL & JILL HAWORTH

creature, horror, jill haworth, roddy mcdowall, sixties

HALLOW'S ENTRY: IT! WITH RODDY MCDOWALL & JILL HAWORTH

Roddy McDowall figuring IT! all out slowly YEAR: 1967 Since it came out twenty or so years before the much more famous Stephen King nove...

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REVIEW OF DISNEY'S CULT-CLASSIC SPACE YARN 'THE BLACK HOLE'

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After the release and success of the original STAR WARS in 1977, Disney, who as of 2015 owns the franchise, jumped on the laser-beam bandwagon: Attempting classic science fiction with an abundance of
fantastical elements, combining your typical mad scientist 20,000 LEAGUES-inspired
motif with a neat dash of heroic peril, THE BLACK HOLE is a flawed yet fun cerebral space
venture starring the recently departed Maximilian Schell as Dr. Hans Reinhardt, a rogue scientist commanding a humongous ghost ship aimed straight for – while being invisibly anchored down at the foot of – a nightmarishly palpable black hole…<br />
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His mission is to study the vortex from the
inside as the crew of an American exploratory ship the U.S.S.
Palamino, led by Robert Forster’s stalwart Captain Dan Holland, winds up aboard
Reinhardt’s enigmatic vessel wherein the most intriguing scenes occur as the
crew's "welcomed" by Reinhardt and his formidable levitating robot Maximilian, a
maroon, metal-plated demon with “hands” made of twirling blades: The ominous <i>Max</i> provides an essentially suspenseful element… that
anything can happen at any time, and most likely it won’t be good for our heroes, especially the
crew’s vulnerable Science Officer Dr. Alex Durant, played by Anthony Perkins, like Paul Lukas to James Mason in LEAGUES, is wooed by
the brilliant and famous galactic pioneer. Meanwhile the Doubting Thomas reporter and most earthy
character, Harry Booth, wielding caustic humor (speaking for the audience) throughout, had, years earlier, conducted
Reinhardt’s last interview before he took off from Earth and never returned: In this scene-stealing role, veteran actor Ernest
Borgnine's Booth doesn't hold back while the gallant Forster and his more
faithful compatriots, including love interest Yvette Mimieux as Dr. Kate McCrea  (one of the loveliest ingenues hampered with a horrible hairdo) and token youth Joseph Bottoms as the spunky and endearing Lt. Charlie Pizar, remain on cautious alert through Reinhardt’s monologue-spouting seduction.<br />
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Then, like the results of an actual <i>Event Horizon</i>, possibly forcing the giant ship into its inevitably sinister clutches, a sci-fi tale that neatly builds momentum
winds up a standard free-for-all action fare with a soundtrack much too
blaring and triumphant. Although John Barry’s swirling opening track INTO THE
HOLE is poignant and spooky, the victorious MAIN THEME, playing during the and eventually the last act as our
surviving heroes run throughout the ship's haul, being torn apart by flaming meteors, is simply begging for the story to end: Leading to a 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY style ambiguous finale that
happens too soon, not allowing Maximilian Schell enough time as the underlined, subliminal menace wherein his best moments occur during the build-up… But that big evil robot Max, eventually butting metal heads with
V.I.N.C.E.N.T, a floating, telepathic and endearing sidekick ala R2D2, winds up
stealing a movie (who is voiced by Roddy McDowell along with a beat-up robot of the same make, B.O.B. by Slim Pickens) that causes science fiction
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<u>ALAN DEAN FOSTER</u>:<i> Bad film, but that's no news bulletin. I spent a lot of time trying to correct and rationalize the science. The meteor rolling down the center of the ship like a giant flaming bowling ball almost made me give up in despair (velocity? momentum? oxygen?). I felt terrible for the Ellenshaws and especially Ellenshaw Sr. They did some beautiful matte work for the picture, but the story and science were beyond juvenile.  </i><br />
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<i>After I finished the book I made a list of 75 changes that I felt could be made to the picture in post-production to improve it and turned it in to my contact at Disney but </i><i>nothing was heard, and y</i><i>ears later I ran into the same guy and said, "I guess no one at the studio ever saw my suggestions." "Oh no," he replied. "They had a meeting about it. There was a lot of anger expressed". I was hardly surprised. How dare some cheap-ass novelizer make suggestions about their big-budget extravaganza!  See, in certain areas of the film business the only thing worse than being wrong about something is being right. </i>OH WELL, Mr Foster... Your book is incredible, you helped make movies come to a deeper light years ago, but, as for his cinematic opinion: the rest of us <i>not-so-science-minded star cruising
adventure frolicking freaks</i> can only turn off the brainlights and have a good... no, make that a great... time in the outer regions of space, and beyond, where just about anything is possible!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Some great special effects for THE BLACK HOLE who cares what the critics say</u></td></tr>
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