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'

<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/AVvXsEgEL7FMJ6Zkjrjm9iRswqd76Rvs3RqkvWbUlqxj8VSNoKtEeJLpaLtnhaIUWke1lekx_LGaqlxgs0qSykhmat2KxXxhUHqSPIGSW3okQpLg2yWAXgaGSux56DbhpN4ttxJt6U9paIYNP255BNMIYYAKH4zvtTkLo1G5v0LkewQ8ST9NzRBXOI4awnXF0jfh/s1422/Screen%20Shot%202024-04-30%20at%204.37.30%20AM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="704" data-original-width="1422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEL7FMJ6Zkjrjm9iRswqd76Rvs3RqkvWbUlqxj8VSNoKtEeJLpaLtnhaIUWke1lekx_LGaqlxgs0qSykhmat2KxXxhUHqSPIGSW3okQpLg2yWAXgaGSux56DbhpN4ttxJt6U9paIYNP255BNMIYYAKH4zvtTkLo1G5v0LkewQ8ST9NzRBXOI4awnXF0jfh/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-04-30%20at%204.37.30%20AM%202.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>Taking place twenty-years after the previous/third film of the franchise, ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES, which was set in the then-modern/groovy 1970's and hardly resembled a science-fiction film except the two talking chimps, Roddy McDowall and Kim Hunter as scientist couple Cornelius and Kira, dying violently at the end but, in a surprise twist, their talking baby chimp was saved by traveling circus owner Ricardo Montalban as Armando...</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>Who for some reason, as CONQUEST OF THE PLANET OF THE APES begins, makes a rather idiotic decision to visit the primary police-state location shot at the University of Irvine in California, resembling a sparse, steely fortress/city ruled by a firm futuristic government, casting a daunting shadow over its inhabitants...</p><p><span></span></p>

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...

GARY LOCKWOOD DRIVES THROUGH JACQUES DEMY'S 'MODEL SHOP'

<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><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/AVvXsEh4T6PgXcVdZ-7PzGC5w-HQcjfiWt6BgkL7vdMDyVpV8libx-dgGNIlStVNpNwhah3uokf52OhsWKvZ2gYqEydgwjM06nZiwFxqYOxZFBkiGJvppcl_r42sBnNcqzty9E6ZSZHW3eMvzASgRmJ9vDGZhh0bTAURfcw6ubQq4nf7lYRIze3KbmHkzJSGzAGP/s2708/Screen%20Shot%202025-09-29%20at%208.21.33%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1404" data-original-width="2708" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4T6PgXcVdZ-7PzGC5w-HQcjfiWt6BgkL7vdMDyVpV8libx-dgGNIlStVNpNwhah3uokf52OhsWKvZ2gYqEydgwjM06nZiwFxqYOxZFBkiGJvppcl_r42sBnNcqzty9E6ZSZHW3eMvzASgRmJ9vDGZhh0bTAURfcw6ubQq4nf7lYRIze3KbmHkzJSGzAGP/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-09-29%20at%208.21.33%20PM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Gary Lockwood and Anne Randall in MODEL SHOP Year: 1969 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Leading up to French New Wave director Jacques Demy's car-cruising hangout ode to 1969 Los Angeles, actor Gary Lockwood had a decade of interesting characters, like an idealistic young lieutenant on Gene Roddenberry's <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2012/11/lieutenant-uhura-in-gene-roddenberrys.html">THE LIEUTENANT</a>; Captain Kirk's lethal foil on an episode of Roddenberry's <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2012/04/star-trek-where-no-man-has-gone-before_27.html">STAR TREK</a>; a crude gunslinger in the Western <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/02/firecreek.html">FIRECREEK</a>; and most famously an astronaut in Stanley Kubrick's <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2024/04/2001space.html">2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY</a>...</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></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And here he's dropped any pretense of his usual intensity in MODEL SHOP where he drives a classic jalopy around town, smitten with French starlet Anouk Aimée, who's only first-billed since she'd worked with the director previously (being a loose sequel to LOLA)... when she was younger, much prettier... and it's not like she's unattractive...</p><p><span></span></p>

alexandra hay, anne randall, anouk aimée, counter-culture, drama, fred willard, gary lockwood, hangout, hilarie thompson, jacques demy, severn darden, sixties

GARY LOCKWOOD DRIVES THROUGH JACQUES DEMY'S 'MODEL SHOP'

Gary Lockwood and Anne Randall in MODEL SHOP Year: 1969 Rating: ***1/2 Leading up to French New Wave director Jacques Demy's car-cruisin...

SEARCHING FOR A MOVIE IN DENNIS HOPPER'S 'THE LAST MOVIE'

<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/AVvXsEgOctD5Mu5BZ9hJZmXkG9OSdZCjqyN2AfE81nO9XuP_Wic6CBEr_-ZgOPsjaQKyE4PapglWUnv-92tO2itor-JZMsbJtIT7PTwzO1G85ZRCkbVzyvzJJM-PfmaPWk6HS368ilogOWCnKTBI/s1600/0.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="721" data-original-width="939" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOctD5Mu5BZ9hJZmXkG9OSdZCjqyN2AfE81nO9XuP_Wic6CBEr_-ZgOPsjaQKyE4PapglWUnv-92tO2itor-JZMsbJtIT7PTwzO1G85ZRCkbVzyvzJJM-PfmaPWk6HS368ilogOWCnKTBI/s400/0.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Dennis Hooper resembling his youngest Rumble Fish son YEAR: 1971</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Within Dennis Hopper's infamous post-EASY RIDER flop, THE LAST MOVIE, are several movies with great potential had they been more fleshed-out — or if at least <i>one</i> took center stage...<br> <br> These include a cowboy picture being filmed in Peru where a stuntman dies, leading Hopper's character, Kansas, also a stuntman — and also an extra and caterer and acquirer of horses — to deal with the conscious-brooding aftermath...<br> <br> And a psychotic local that, after witnessing the Western being made, films his own makeshift movie with bamboo cameras, actual punches pulled and real gunshots fired without blanks... A melancholy priest dealing with how his small town is altered by the Ugly American production, having come and gone with all its bogus yet influential, shoot-em-up violence... A gold-seeking expedition-plan between Hooper and his scruffy (future OUT OF THE BLUE) sidekick Don Gordon... Or our moping American film-worker falling in love with a beautiful Peruvian prostitute, Maria, played by natural beauty Stella Garcia...<br>

cult, dennis hopper, donna baccala, drama, drug culture, indie, julie adams, michelle phillips, peter fonda, poupée bocar, samuel fuller, seventies, severn darden, stella garcia, tomas milian, toni basil

SEARCHING FOR A MOVIE IN DENNIS HOPPER'S 'THE LAST MOVIE'

Dennis Hooper resembling his youngest Rumble Fish son YEAR: 1971 Within Dennis Hopper's infamous post-EASY RIDER flop, THE LAST MOVI...

KARI MICHAELSEN TOTALLY STEALS 'SATURDAY THE 14TH'

<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/AVvXsEj99QLFUvNHo4OU45tkfG7k1_KYfYT3696B28DZFb9QRHOo19E8ZKHW30Oe7uRsiD7tPJnDg-9GDwrxlWZx3pTgzi9ATFE8W4AIVfbLVSlefXpbj4jTeC_Wc_xLYs7HLviG0BvhTv4dAys/s1600/s21.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj99QLFUvNHo4OU45tkfG7k1_KYfYT3696B28DZFb9QRHOo19E8ZKHW30Oe7uRsiD7tPJnDg-9GDwrxlWZx3pTgzi9ATFE8W4AIVfbLVSlefXpbj4jTeC_Wc_xLYs7HLviG0BvhTv4dAys/s320/s21.jpg" width="320"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Kari Michaelsen in Saturday the 14th year: 1982</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="color: #3d596d; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 24px;"> In LOVE AT FIRST BITE, a popular comedy that took the vampire genre by satire, Richard Benjamin played Dracula's psychologist, and in SATURDAY THE 14TH, he steals his house… Well not exactly...<br> <br> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> <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/AVvXsEj4qkldgHMsgNjTVpZE4Rk5cCO2MTVzZj5GiUlCGfif-kOkxk_HrNdvwTQ9C85E0mcm7iLLp1k-9BoDWkVoflQSGnijd6dByo9H3OuOJ8IXdUEekgQZhi9eLpF3wuXUcZH6pKUInFHW4gKB/s1600/vlcsnap-2011-05-11-23h07m58s56.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4qkldgHMsgNjTVpZE4Rk5cCO2MTVzZj5GiUlCGfif-kOkxk_HrNdvwTQ9C85E0mcm7iLLp1k-9BoDWkVoflQSGnijd6dByo9H3OuOJ8IXdUEekgQZhi9eLpF3wuXUcZH6pKUInFHW4gKB/s1600/vlcsnap-2011-05-11-23h07m58s56.jpg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Bathtub Creature</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Part of an inheritance, Benjamin and real life wife and movie partner Paula Prentiss, as the extremely typical John and Mary, get a fixer upper that, wanted desperately by Jeffrey Tambor's mopey, melancholy Dracula and his Gothic wife, looks like it’s been through hell – and it has, literally... For most of the netherworld is unleashed within...<br> <br> This thanks or no thanks to a "Book of Evil" the curious young son, Billy, opens up, conjuring all types of nostalgic monstrosities – from the Universal Pictures canon and beyond: Within the first thirty minutes, anything and everything is possible, including the best scene involving teenage daughter Debbie taking a bath that, while she’s preparing, completely unaware, has a shark’s dorsal fin rising up and down from the bubbles.</div>

eighties, kari michaelsen, paula prentiss, richard benjamin, roger corman, severn darden

KARI MICHAELSEN TOTALLY STEALS 'SATURDAY THE 14TH'

Kari Michaelsen in Saturday the 14th year: 1982 In LOVE AT FIRST BITE, a popular comedy that took the vampire genre by satire, Richard ...