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Written by James M. Tate / 12/14/2024 / No comments / action , chris robinson , dan blocker , exploitation , frank sinatra , gumshoe , jazz-score , lainie kazan , mystery , neo noir , raquel welch , richard conte , shark , sixties , tony rome

FRANK SINATRA RETURNING AS TONY ROME IN 'LADY IN CEMENT'

<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/AVvXsEjsIYtJRllfexjYwxcmIhV8B8K6DY0zGtijnWCOfW8KIkueUYY7agnvU4en-oWRaG3uQEjhLbcGsMhfmxIKS4-Dwcy3iI-O2nk3fNU7V765PhetyFSDNa227Mf1kNm7UsC0Wok4vkCkjTpPWrdq93QAKXcl53fA2CDhjrfBRZ7pUwMBM4sA5a4bN7EtKyS-/s1878/Screen%20Shot%202024-12-14%20at%207.13.52%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1124" data-original-width="1878" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsIYtJRllfexjYwxcmIhV8B8K6DY0zGtijnWCOfW8KIkueUYY7agnvU4en-oWRaG3uQEjhLbcGsMhfmxIKS4-Dwcy3iI-O2nk3fNU7V765PhetyFSDNa227Mf1kNm7UsC0Wok4vkCkjTpPWrdq93QAKXcl53fA2CDhjrfBRZ7pUwMBM4sA5a4bN7EtKyS-/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-12-14%20at%207.13.52%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>In LADY IN CEMENT Year: 1967 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In the sequel to the neo-noir <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/04/lyon-of-rome.html">TONY ROME</a>, with legendary cool crooner Frank Sinatra in the lead role during the colorful late 1960's... while deep sea diving he literally sees the LADY IN CEMENT at the bottom of the ocean...<br><br>Her naked, otherwise model-looking corpse surrounded by a guardian shark (that would have probably stripped her to the bone) as the original film's otherwise capable director Gordon Douglas (KISS TOMORROW GOODBYE), who filmed several other of Frank's crime/heist vehicles, doesn't get a lot of tension out of what should be an extremely suspenseful situation: as Rome (actually the stunt diver) merely brushes off the killer fish as if they were nothing... <br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>

action, chris robinson, dan blocker, exploitation, frank sinatra, gumshoe, jazz-score, lainie kazan, mystery, neo noir, raquel welch, richard conte, shark, sixties, tony rome

FRANK SINATRA RETURNING AS TONY ROME IN 'LADY IN CEMENT'

In LADY IN CEMENT Year: 1967 Rating: *** In the sequel to the neo-noir TONY ROME , with legendary cool crooner Frank Sinatra in the lead rol...

SUSAN GEORGE AND FIONA LEWIS IN 'TINTORERA: KILLER SHARK'

<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/AVvXsEhsXoq2hcJw2-pWxJv5RhRxvML7zIoNDYa0a2Z4JeH_5iAp8PyZ5RHwlxIU3mRgHcvHIbyv8FMxZeUMkfYV30eSZIgz-rHoGO9a9I6c0CB9lgqcz4dodxzOAqTZnOStwR2_ckcEdbFm6LtENC-kc-wYZf51FbMtC_PSh6T43aoZwgmsSMe2o0-HMknqQe0O/s1443/Screen%20Shot%202021-12-15%20at%205.17.43%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="678" data-original-width="1443" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsXoq2hcJw2-pWxJv5RhRxvML7zIoNDYa0a2Z4JeH_5iAp8PyZ5RHwlxIU3mRgHcvHIbyv8FMxZeUMkfYV30eSZIgz-rHoGO9a9I6c0CB9lgqcz4dodxzOAqTZnOStwR2_ckcEdbFm6LtENC-kc-wYZf51FbMtC_PSh6T43aoZwgmsSMe2o0-HMknqQe0O/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202021-12-15%20at%205.17.43%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jennifer Ashley's climactic scene image for TINTORERA: KILLER SHARK Year: 1977 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>If the sexually-driven/dream-vacationing ménage à trois of the 1980's SUMMER LOVERS were a 1970's JAWS-clone then you'd have the extremely bizarre Mexican exploitation TINTORERA: KILLER SHARK where, in familiar form, one character complains that the beaches should have been closed...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>But by that time it's almost over, before which two Mexican playboys... one a vulnerable blond millionaire with a yacht and the other a shallow dark-haired womanizing shark hunter... have two consecutive affairs with two different sexy British babes played by Fiona Lewis and Susan George respectively; and the first vanishes, mysteriously to the boys, but the audience had seen her eaten by not only a shark (Chrissie Watkins anyone?) but THE shark...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, andrés garcía, exploitation, fiona george, jaws-clone, jennifer ashley, mexico, priscilla barnes, romance, seventies, shark, susan george

SUSAN GEORGE AND FIONA LEWIS IN 'TINTORERA: KILLER SHARK'

Jennifer Ashley's climactic scene image for TINTORERA: KILLER SHARK Year: 1977 Rating: **1/2 If the sexually-driven/dream-vacationing mé...

DIRECTOR TONINO RICCI'S 'CAVE OF THE SHARKS' WITH JANET AGREN

<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/AVvXsEgN0DgOM1pmWx82llJNMnDV6ZgKE5cPkM_kg2avV-2eby0-qgUP9gk4OwFCgztpzsHitfLMmlgHkbMErQEg3l1yfsXqWZONZeoiY6DI1JJzI3To-XiI5sVWFqRI5jGGAJ0Qrnr25D4G0mqJmMpJzNj_Md9NIs0F4DGCpBkO2wnSrlVX7U5iYg6q1x8PUw/s1662/Screen%20Shot%202023-06-15%20at%201.39.32%20AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="836" data-original-width="1662" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN0DgOM1pmWx82llJNMnDV6ZgKE5cPkM_kg2avV-2eby0-qgUP9gk4OwFCgztpzsHitfLMmlgHkbMErQEg3l1yfsXqWZONZeoiY6DI1JJzI3To-XiI5sVWFqRI5jGGAJ0Qrnr25D4G0mqJmMpJzNj_Md9NIs0F4DGCpBkO2wnSrlVX7U5iYg6q1x8PUw/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-06-15%20at%201.39.32%20AM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: CAVE OF THE SHARK Year: 1978 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Italian director Tonino Ricci's CAVE OF THE SHARKS seems like a JAWS-clone by the title, but most of the sharks here can't move, hypnotically inactive on the sea floor as Stelvio Cipriani's eerie music almost hits its haunting peak... </p><p></p><p>Only getting weirder in a scene where a group of suddenly possessed young boaters passively jump into the ocean along with a floating, blood-vomiting doll, making SHARKS more a freakish underwater hybrid of THE DEEP,  CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND, THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE and THE EXORCIST...</p><p><span></span></p>

adventure, andrés garcía, arthur kennedy, fantasy, janet agren, mystery, shark, stelvio cipriani, thriller, tonino ricci, treasure

DIRECTOR TONINO RICCI'S 'CAVE OF THE SHARKS' WITH JANET AGREN

Title: CAVE OF THE SHARK Year: 1978 Rating: ***1/2 Italian director Tonino Ricci's CAVE OF THE SHARKS seems like a JAWS-clone by the tit...

TREAT WILLIAMS IN THE ITALIAN IMPORT 'NIGHT OF THE SHARKS'

<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/AVvXsEjloxEGwCbjmTpaQflBUfY14etbMfG5UnmugkIC61_syzNALPuLbyDOmyd5Us3oRGCyJzWe1Pq_8LuuUw2oLkFJYLRwUlSbgLBI4jiydlhCMSOYFupTAukaQ29P_gZg5SRa9AO5V8o-WWI7HqJgS8sjKZdeu4ni1KFI08leP93QurxMTceXnNQemzfnGA/s2525/Screen%20Shot%202023-06-13%20at%202.32.13%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1296" data-original-width="2525" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjloxEGwCbjmTpaQflBUfY14etbMfG5UnmugkIC61_syzNALPuLbyDOmyd5Us3oRGCyJzWe1Pq_8LuuUw2oLkFJYLRwUlSbgLBI4jiydlhCMSOYFupTAukaQ29P_gZg5SRa9AO5V8o-WWI7HqJgS8sjKZdeu4ni1KFI08leP93QurxMTceXnNQemzfnGA/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-06-13%20at%202.32.13%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Treat Williams and Janet Agren in NIGHT OF THE SHARKS Year: 1988 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Extremely low-budget imported Italian exploitation involving one of the most familiar potboiler plot-lines: a careless, flaky sibling (in this case younger brother) and their inevitable, semi-deserved death from being involved with the seedy crime world to begin with  — thus dragging their family into a proverbial whirlwind... <br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Herein a vengeful, tropical-shark-hunting older bro Treat Williams (with sidekick Antonio Fargas, priest Christopher Connelly and love-interest Janet Agren), whose balmy turf is encroached by killers... either the dorsal-finned kind (the deadliest shark actually plays intentionally goading mind-games) or those wearing cheap hoodlum suits... providing danger from the blood-soaked ocean into a machine-gunned jungle...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, antonio fargas, christopher connelly, eighties, exploitation, italian import, janet agren, john steiner, mobster, neo noir, nina soldano, sal borgese, shark, stelvio cipriani, thriller, tonino ricci

TREAT WILLIAMS IN THE ITALIAN IMPORT 'NIGHT OF THE SHARKS'

Treat Williams and Janet Agren in NIGHT OF THE SHARKS Year: 1988 Rating: *** Extremely low-budget imported Italian exploitation involving on...

PULP NOVEL 'HIS BONES ARE CORAL' BECOMES THE CHOPPY 'SHARK'

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</div><table align="center" 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/AVvXsEhevdp2PcYkTSBPxAkDpyYPZErHlK--ZpGP62KWIhs00QzEUG6h-PR7EZBxdBBewhA1Dair_DS3NPY6GOfgG6ecOQ5ZlwTopWjjTWgFY5Vk4MZ9EbTZ9fna2iUgPyuH4Lm3KuS5gDxR2KVdcvhjnhUAAy8T6lED012_lWsY2Hbr1uDhT-tsmZwVG77Mmg/s473/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-04%20at%2010.12.31%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="473" data-original-width="471" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhevdp2PcYkTSBPxAkDpyYPZErHlK--ZpGP62KWIhs00QzEUG6h-PR7EZBxdBBewhA1Dair_DS3NPY6GOfgG6ecOQ5ZlwTopWjjTWgFY5Vk4MZ9EbTZ9fna2iUgPyuH4Lm3KuS5gDxR2KVdcvhjnhUAAy8T6lED012_lWsY2Hbr1uDhT-tsmZwVG77Mmg/w319-h320/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-04%20at%2010.12.31%20PM.jpeg" width="319"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: SHARK Year: 1969 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table>Sometimes you run into a terrific pulp novel watching an old bad movie: In this case the Samuel Fuller sea noir SHARK came out in 1969 and starred a then mostly unknown <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/burt%20reynolds">Burt Reynolds</a> as a drug runner, who actually mentions that he's only heard of that occupation, "drug runner," in the movies... His maverick, footloose, hunted character is used by a supposed father/daughter team to dive for gold in shark-infested waters. This was based on the book HIS BONES ARE CORAL by British author Victor Canning, and with a pulpy title like that, it was well worth finding after searching a few used bookstores...<br>
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With a terrific Hemingway TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT-style fishing boat rocking through stormy waters: Wherein the film begins with a choppily-edited shark attack, the book opens with a plane crash, and he soon meets a pretty girl who introduces him to her father, and, like the movie, is hired to captain a charter where dad can dive for gold in a location guarded by sharks. Our ragged lead winds up fighting for his life to win the girl, and to come out of the situation without getting stabbed by human goons...<br>
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<table align="center" 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/AVvXsEjJtKQ5X0q7n6NHylEzTJ3CTBVwNWAR_6m2DjcBUIDwqz2V42troZu7WjODNQFaWJcgMMxCOsbaGrWY6X34fCKM8TFFOCvuDAPMfm_nOmgrQCRIkLLbyvgiIQqNC3hrQdcFZrknbhBI-LJUe0d_noKeDe9UqKktADZZs5I7IdMBP-qpo15dd7MCpHEvV7_U/s1336/Screen%20Shot%202024-08-31%20at%202.06.27%20AM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1336" data-original-width="843" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJtKQ5X0q7n6NHylEzTJ3CTBVwNWAR_6m2DjcBUIDwqz2V42troZu7WjODNQFaWJcgMMxCOsbaGrWY6X34fCKM8TFFOCvuDAPMfm_nOmgrQCRIkLLbyvgiIQqNC3hrQdcFZrknbhBI-LJUe0d_noKeDe9UqKktADZZs5I7IdMBP-qpo15dd7MCpHEvV7_U/s320/Screen%20Shot%202024-08-31%20at%202.06.27%20AM.jpeg" width="202"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt in Shark</u></td></tr></tbody></table>The first-person narrative is pulpy, poetic, corny, lovely; the action flows and the dialogue is dreamy and yet tough and uncompromising at the same time. The only downside is the second half doesn't live up to the first, being that, like many dime novels of the crime nature, the born loser main character gets too weepy and whipped by the backstabbing dame... but no matter... CORAL was a fantastic read that wouldn't have been discovered by Cult Film Freak without that maligned Sam Fuller flick, ruined by studio henchman, which is not only difficult to understand in the dialogue department, taking place in Cairo where the actors seem like the real thing and thus, dubbed horribly. Even Americans like Arthur Kennedy (playing a Walter Brennan style rummy sidekick from the theatrical TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT directed by Howard Hawks and starring Humphrey Bogart) and Barry Sullivan rush through their lines: providing what feels like a film noir collage of sneaky conversations with brief bouts of jumbled action. Although, technically, if you center on individual shots, creative camera angles, and a few neatly-flowing non-cut performances by a genuinely cool Bogart-style Burt Reynolds, Mr. Fuller's poetic signature is visible, somewhat, within those murky, muddied waters.<i></i>

action, adventure, arthur kennedy, barry sullivan, book review, burt reynolds, exploitation, neo noir, samuel fuller, shark, silvia pinal, sixties, thriller, treasure

PULP NOVEL 'HIS BONES ARE CORAL' BECOMES THE CHOPPY 'SHARK'

Title: SHARK Year: 1969 Rating: *** Sometimes you run into a terrific pulp novel watching an old bad movie: In this case the Samuel Fuller ...

JIM BROWN'S PAPILLON CLONE 'I ESCAPED FROM DEVIL'S ISLAND'

<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/AVvXsEhaGTCLGrosJZtERIkaAn3I6NwqX1ArIq7uXR9oAezX7KfyDYtb1Xc0j5yqjJXxsMsn01exxP0Fii1HkJAVCnd0yRC3L94GR_Jb4n1kW8faJBlFHf5myFa9UtZen2heD7pjpOEcR2jDAJxDbIH5IJ2dkvX6pXaRkD3Jc2wE3VYLhBaH5GKDKfYjmZSl1Q/s1152/Screen%20Shot%202023-05-30%20at%2012.22.45%20AM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="626" data-original-width="1152" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaGTCLGrosJZtERIkaAn3I6NwqX1ArIq7uXR9oAezX7KfyDYtb1Xc0j5yqjJXxsMsn01exxP0Fii1HkJAVCnd0yRC3L94GR_Jb4n1kW8faJBlFHf5myFa9UtZen2heD7pjpOEcR2jDAJxDbIH5IJ2dkvX6pXaRkD3Jc2wE3VYLhBaH5GKDKfYjmZSl1Q/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-05-30%20at%2012.22.45%20AM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jim Brown in I ESCAPED FROM DEVIL'S ISLAND Year: 1973 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Straying from his usual racially-charged blaxploitation cinema, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/jim%20brown">Jim Brown</a> in I ESCAPED FROM DEVIL'S ISLAND is not only pure <i>exploitation</i>, attempting to bank on the popularity of the novel turned adapted motion picture <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2018/03/pap.html">PAPILLON</a> about a French prisoner who escapes this movie's titular island, but it's practically an outright remake...<br><br>Jim Brown has the strong escape-minded Steve McQueen part while the vulnerable Dustin Hoffman sidekick role's for Christopher George, a passive progressive that Brown has to carry (while roughnecks Robert Phillips and James Luisi both fill Woodrow Palfrey's shoes), and, starting from a beach-set bamboo-scattered makeshift prison, brutal guard <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/05/underw.html">Richard Rust</a> reigns — and there's even a helpful homosexual convict along with a neighboring leper colony...</p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, christopher george, escape, indie, james luisi, jim brown, jungle, prison, richard rust, robert phillips, roland bob harris, seventies, shark

JIM BROWN'S PAPILLON CLONE 'I ESCAPED FROM DEVIL'S ISLAND'

Jim Brown in I ESCAPED FROM DEVIL'S ISLAND Year: 1973 Rating: *** Straying from his usual racially-charged blaxploitation cinema, Jim Br...

DUTIFULLY DEFENDING THE DEADLY DISASTER OF 'JAWS 3D'

<p><i><u></u></i></p><i><u><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/AVvXsEgkvYZFaSiVJ23IMdZB0NcvWhm-Fe07P0ed0ZaSN17vpZq2U82P3V0qQKSYY3nJdqK9vk2GAwV5GeHfQlwMPb855IiQLHQlGltrRC-7-8jxxpdhZCDcItLgQ1X6ym0Srg47B_KydUWa8JqcBGqWKJDSd07VblVkvL__FFdqx6-CW82ZHAI2L28TicDGTR-s/s1567/Jaws3-D_B2_Japan-7-1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="722" data-original-width="1567" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkvYZFaSiVJ23IMdZB0NcvWhm-Fe07P0ed0ZaSN17vpZq2U82P3V0qQKSYY3nJdqK9vk2GAwV5GeHfQlwMPb855IiQLHQlGltrRC-7-8jxxpdhZCDcItLgQ1X6ym0Srg47B_KydUWa8JqcBGqWKJDSd07VblVkvL__FFdqx6-CW82ZHAI2L28TicDGTR-s/s16000/Jaws3-D_B2_Japan-7-1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: JAWS 3D Year: 1983 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table>Just when you thought it was safe to go back... to Sea World!? A Deadly New Attraction, indeed, and who’d have thought the third JAWS would abandon Amity Beach to take place at an oceanic theme park, relying on 3D to make stuff ranging from dolphins, killer whales, spears and sea monster decorations come at you on the big... or at this point, small screen... </u></i><br>
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Directed by Joe Alves, the former production assistant who brought the shark to life in the first two outings (and can be very fitfully deemed The Wizard of Jaws), this isn’t as bad as 1980's cinematic history may lead you to believe... </i></div>
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3D, bess armstrong, creature, dennis quaid, disaster, eighties, franchise, joe alves, lea thompson, louis gossett jr., sequel, shark, simon maccorkindale

DUTIFULLY DEFENDING THE DEADLY DISASTER OF 'JAWS 3D'

Title: JAWS 3D Year: 1983 Rating: *** Just when you thought it was safe to go back... to Sea World!? A Deadly New Attraction, indeed, and w...

ROY SCHEIDER FOR MORE A MORE THRILLER THAN CHILLER 'JAWS 2'

<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/AVvXsEjUhoxbjoVGSHw8vmTWHbbDN5McHtGIf2NQwYBA2YFHG-zKEQvTDtCG-rWq-j_2C0evLMdOXJ52JVpouKZH6E3wHEM1v4dhS23dQyNeYmjMjq4k3lGrZdusUksjTXylP_ew5k-W2ERNUqjYK9XZyXCletq7HYoRlRVsVRpXDjy5Yd2wpt_0BcAgmtvGoA/s1042/Screen%20Shot%202022-05-01%20at%204.34.36%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="463" data-original-width="1042" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUhoxbjoVGSHw8vmTWHbbDN5McHtGIf2NQwYBA2YFHG-zKEQvTDtCG-rWq-j_2C0evLMdOXJ52JVpouKZH6E3wHEM1v4dhS23dQyNeYmjMjq4k3lGrZdusUksjTXylP_ew5k-W2ERNUqjYK9XZyXCletq7HYoRlRVsVRpXDjy5Yd2wpt_0BcAgmtvGoA/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-05-01%20at%204.34.36%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: JAWS 2 Year: 1978 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Grading on the dorsal curve of the Steven Spielberg classic, this sequel feels like a would-be pilot episode of a JAWS television series: Thus it's somewhat lacking, and to be fair, shouldn't be compared to its once-in-a-lifetime predecessor. But taken on its own value, JAWS 2 a decent monster movie with some beautiful shots and interesting characters, who sometimes matter enough to fret over...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Most of the possible body-count-victims are a group of sail-boating teenagers, merely teased at in the beginning and then becoming what Brody has to save at the end. These beach-loving teens include a few future cult actors such as ANGEL starlet Donna Wilkes, possessed CHRISTINE wimp Keith Gordon and an extremely sexy Ann Dusenberry along with two the sons of Chief Brody played by the returning lead Roy Scheider... </p><p><span></span></p>

action, ann dusenberry, body count, donna wilkes, franchise, horror, jaws, lorraine gary, monster, murray hamilton, roy scheider, sequel, seventies, shark, suspense, thriller

ROY SCHEIDER FOR MORE A MORE THRILLER THAN CHILLER 'JAWS 2'

Title: JAWS 2 Year: 1978 Rating: ***1/2 Grading on the dorsal curve of the Steven Spielberg classic, this sequel feels like a would-be pilo...

FRANCO NERO IN ENZO G. CASTELLARI'S 'THE SHARK HUNTER'

</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/AVvXsEj6v_7LAOpw9fmYbmEQRwkkW7QHFNDsoNIqFUGKj01IOpsNjYl8gFD0rFW9pDvb0VBURT_anmCLpPkofNs_7MeunfqgN88dFrVEafiIHeWzZCdZVIX0bium_BAShgUAGjZWENBgDfkaoPNgisKbagpRzEukiX7Vgg6WfzuNUG7dmE7VJWar-jKvXIrhag/s1128/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-09%20at%209.01.33%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="649" data-original-width="1128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6v_7LAOpw9fmYbmEQRwkkW7QHFNDsoNIqFUGKj01IOpsNjYl8gFD0rFW9pDvb0VBURT_anmCLpPkofNs_7MeunfqgN88dFrVEafiIHeWzZCdZVIX0bium_BAShgUAGjZWENBgDfkaoPNgisKbagpRzEukiX7Vgg6WfzuNUG7dmE7VJWar-jKvXIrhag/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-09%20at%209.01.33%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE SHARK HUNTER Year: 1979 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Actually more similar to Cornel Wilde's <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2017/02/sharksT.html">SHARKS' TREASURE</a> from 1975, the same year as <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2015/06/triad-jaws.html">JAWS</a>... The latter literally mentioned in Enzo G. Castellari's THE SHARK HUNTER and that he'd ingloriously rip off in THE LAST SHARK two years later... But this is really a pulpy and hard-driven, treasure-hunting picture: Within a cavern of "resting sharks" is the tail of a plane that fell deeper than the fuselage, holding a hundred-million dollars...<br>
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So while the caper's described by our "gringo" in Mexico, Franco Nero as Mike, with a surfer blond wig resembling vanilla seaweed glued onto an omnipresent headband or scuba mask, most of the film has an array of stealthily, espionage-genre assassins trying to jump in on the action (working for a crooked millionaire), which results in tons of just that... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

action, crime, enzo g. castellari, exploitation, franco nero, italian import, seventies, shark, treasure

FRANCO NERO IN ENZO G. CASTELLARI'S 'THE SHARK HUNTER'

Title: THE SHARK HUNTER Year: 1979 Rating: *** Actually more similar to Cornel Wilde's SHARKS' TREASURE from 1975, the same year...

BITING INTO THE DESERVED BLASPHEMY OF 'JAWS THE REVENGE'

<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/AVvXsEjKfCkE-f0Hv1VwHmPXASoGMIkb5LrfMVHNfE0cUZt7iUdjiuvKnQzNqJZE7vCD8ZkzLAeX9Op1KGFtBXqbn0MmQOoISQsaksA8uTXTOBtyPgyjTplxEmpPPNVP75iL6xPflbomUv6vq_CjI9UbuMEmbuQiOwAXYRMFuFFH8L5bGaALtlp16a7V74fm5g/s1038/Screen%20Shot%202022-05-02%20at%203.48.42%20PM-1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="624" data-original-width="1038" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKfCkE-f0Hv1VwHmPXASoGMIkb5LrfMVHNfE0cUZt7iUdjiuvKnQzNqJZE7vCD8ZkzLAeX9Op1KGFtBXqbn0MmQOoISQsaksA8uTXTOBtyPgyjTplxEmpPPNVP75iL6xPflbomUv6vq_CjI9UbuMEmbuQiOwAXYRMFuFFH8L5bGaALtlp16a7V74fm5g/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-05-02%20at%203.48.42%20PM-1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: JAWS THE REVENGE Year: 1987 Rating: *</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>If you don't count CADDYSHACK II, the fourth JAWS... tag-titled JAWS: THE REVENGE... takes the cake, or in this case, the chum, winning all awards for the worst sequel ever, ever, ever made...<br>
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</div><p>While <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2013/10/jaws-3-sucks-greatly.html">Part 3</a>, released at the time as 3D, is an awkward novelty, at least it's got campy cult value. Here, after Roy Scheider's Martin Brody has (already) died of an expository heart-attack, we center on his grown-up sons at a luxurious Oceanic Theme Park (that included Dennis Quaid). And now it's mom, the faithful and earthy Ellen's, turn at the lead, played again by Lorraine Gary, who takes a vacation with her oldest son, Mike, a Marine Biologist (like Quaid in the third), tanning in the beautiful Bahamas...<br>
</p>

jaws, lance guest, lorraine gary, mario van peebles, michael caine, sequel, shark, suspense, thriller

BITING INTO THE DESERVED BLASPHEMY OF 'JAWS THE REVENGE'

Title: JAWS THE REVENGE Year: 1987 Rating: * If you don't count CADDYSHACK II, the fourth JAWS... tag-titled JAWS: THE REVENGE... takes...

MARK STEVENS & JOANNE DRU IN THE NEO NOIR 'SEPTEMBER STORM'

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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhPySBAloxw_4bKJkYVOqZcAkgbi_93oz_m_gNZEkqeVESZt5_I2E4nC0i1dwUe8b5Drp4utq0IcM6zoqetgdakBKuRA9j_lPf6xMZZqxVb4t4vkcmN2pB5dH0-fmBirp4dzgcKX18kbw-/s1600/0.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="795" data-original-width="1336" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhPySBAloxw_4bKJkYVOqZcAkgbi_93oz_m_gNZEkqeVESZt5_I2E4nC0i1dwUe8b5Drp4utq0IcM6zoqetgdakBKuRA9j_lPf6xMZZqxVb4t4vkcmN2pB5dH0-fmBirp4dzgcKX18kbw-/s1600/0.jpeg"></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Pulpy poster featuring a lovely painted lovely actress Joanne Dru for SEPTEMBER STORM Year: 1960 Rating: ***</u></td></tr>
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Directed by underrated WAR OF THE WORLDS filmmaker Byron Haskin, for a 3D movie with a giant shark on the poster, it's amazing how much time's wasted at a Spanish (i.e. Spain-set) nightclub, which includes an extremely drawn-out Flamenco dance. All viewed by the four main characters that consist of two important pairs...<br>
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The first begins the picture: An extremely perfect-looking young Spanish guy who pretends to own the yacht of a vacationing millionaire (his boss), and a pretty yet slightly aged American model who he's making up the lie for: They go diving when the other two check out the vessel...<br>

3D, adventure, byron haskin, import, joanne dru, mark stevens, neo noir, robert strauss, shark, sixties, treasure

MARK STEVENS & JOANNE DRU IN THE NEO NOIR 'SEPTEMBER STORM'

Pulpy poster featuring a lovely painted lovely actress Joanne Dru for SEPTEMBER STORM Year: 1960 Rating: *** Directed by underrated WAR ...

CORNEL WILDE IN 'SHARKS' TREASURE' WITH YAPHET KOTTO

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</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/AVvXsEihhUOModo77K03T5g0MzRKG1gFUXbF8nO2DFTzvAwjgI0_CHs9ZLwv2reskrfeTv1tFJJjHqXKJXlptD-i6YfB491jr8aCwM9m659TzEH53Jlp9Nt7_6wFMgwja25AAI8LLRt4UcM3gck3wQUqWyMLA_QAj3sBCcXRTTWtvuNuyeVNCMd9JQCRzOCjOQ/s1376/Screen%20Shot%202022-12-09%20at%2010.49.54%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="891" data-original-width="1376" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihhUOModo77K03T5g0MzRKG1gFUXbF8nO2DFTzvAwjgI0_CHs9ZLwv2reskrfeTv1tFJJjHqXKJXlptD-i6YfB491jr8aCwM9m659TzEH53Jlp9Nt7_6wFMgwja25AAI8LLRt4UcM3gck3wQUqWyMLA_QAj3sBCcXRTTWtvuNuyeVNCMd9JQCRzOCjOQ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-12-09%20at%2010.49.54%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: SHARK'S TREASURE Year: 1975 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Cornel Wilde's SHARKS' TREASURE, a Neo Noir in the 
Ernest Hemingway tradition of the TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT style, centers on
 machismo verses elements of the sea...</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>The title 
killer fish seems to be intentionally guarding a treasure of golden 
coins at a location that takes over half the film led by Wilde's 
semi-famous fortune hunter boatsman, Jim Carnahan, along with the map's 
bearer, a young man played by TERROR HOUSE actor John Neilson...</p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, cliff osmond, cornel wilde, david canary, david gilliam, exploitation, homosexual, john neilson, neo noir, roxanna bonilla-giannini, seventies, shark, thriller, treasure, yaphet kotto

CORNEL WILDE IN 'SHARKS' TREASURE' WITH YAPHET KOTTO

Title: SHARK'S TREASURE Year: 1975 Rating: **** Cornel Wilde's SHARKS' TREASURE, a Neo Noir in the Ernest Hemingway tradition ...

DOUBLE TRIAD FROM STEVEN SPIELBERG'S MASTERPIECE 'JAWS'

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</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/AVvXsEjuI19B2xWasR-0vsNcUZbF_NPtUdews4S--j6w6D1CedRywkDkjH0up3kaWgF63YkLgJpW2hC0nFgJCwvxxpzdEAdKSCEpVINr325uwyeENsv0E4W0IBsMYVlk0N2GCWZODAZIIuSi7as9UieEIg3LeglFYnFKzrQosXinKrYZXIEUj-_-Z4mpywbipQ/s1624/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-05%20at%205.18.15%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="862" data-original-width="1624" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuI19B2xWasR-0vsNcUZbF_NPtUdews4S--j6w6D1CedRywkDkjH0up3kaWgF63YkLgJpW2hC0nFgJCwvxxpzdEAdKSCEpVINr325uwyeENsv0E4W0IBsMYVlk0N2GCWZODAZIIuSi7as9UieEIg3LeglFYnFKzrQosXinKrYZXIEUj-_-Z4mpywbipQ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-05%20at%205.18.15%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Defining the three leads of JAWS Year: 1975 Rating: *****<br></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Never has a motion picture made such perfect use of three acts, and three main characters... As Martin Brody, the relatively new Chief of Police in the beachside town of Amity, <u>ROY SCHEIDER</u> solely headlines the first act of JAWS... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Which can be titled <u>ACT 1) WARNING</u>, as he investigates the death of a young female swimmer by what is, despite the eventual coverup, a bonafide SHARK ATTACK. Thus Brody both leads the show <i>and</i> blends into the canvas of the eccentric town, lost in mazy politics concerning keeping the beaches open despite the immanent danger...</p><span></span>

classic, cult, jaws, lorraine gary, murray hamilton, richard dreyfuss, robert shaw, roy scheider, seventies, shark, steven spielberg

DOUBLE TRIAD FROM STEVEN SPIELBERG'S MASTERPIECE 'JAWS'

Defining the three leads of JAWS Year: 1975 Rating: ***** Never has a motion picture made such perfect use of three acts, and three main ch...

WILLIAN GREFÉ TURNS 'STANLEY' INTO 'MAKO: JAWS OF DEATH'

body count, cult, exploitation, jaws-clone, jennifer bishop, john davis chandler, revenge, richard jaekal, seventies, shark, thriller, william grefé

WILLIAN GREFÉ TURNS 'STANLEY' INTO 'MAKO: JAWS OF DEATH'

Year: 1976 Someone already pointed out that MAKO: THE JAWS OF DEATH is a hybrid of JAWS and a cult classic about a young man with a twisted...

EDWARD G. ROBINSON'S FISHY LOVE TRIANGLE OF 'TIGER SHARK'

<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/a/AVvXsEi2Cmmbx2wI1_p3enNu6QDW1kred9ZXXQmMA3Cew99Z0Rwgt73AkJksEiXmftHcYlr-O1-2hBbeFtjkCudTgUeWryxaTTrQY8bK3SVJiy5982WdScZo6hxQq6sfauxa3NRGLmk_v-Dk9Dyrp7XJ-vJR6QlR6qPGJGow0dgDhunm1bBzVEOR3DqXkbSwvg=s1159" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="862" data-original-width="1159" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi2Cmmbx2wI1_p3enNu6QDW1kred9ZXXQmMA3Cew99Z0Rwgt73AkJksEiXmftHcYlr-O1-2hBbeFtjkCudTgUeWryxaTTrQY8bK3SVJiy5982WdScZo6hxQq6sfauxa3NRGLmk_v-Dk9Dyrp7XJ-vJR6QlR6qPGJGow0dgDhunm1bBzVEOR3DqXkbSwvg=s16000"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: TIGER SHARK Stars: Edward G. Robinson Year: 1932 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Had the antique fishing-village-set TIGER SHARK come out ten years later, it would've made a pretty intriguing Film Noir, following the trope of the pretty young girl marrying an older businessman while falling in love with the handsome younger fella who has no money, and is friends with the rich guy...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>In this case that rich guy, before there was any money and when he had both hands... during the more adventuresome Hemingway-meets-Melville first act... saves the life of Richard Arlen as common fisherman Pipes Boley by losing one hand to the titular (yet thereafter unimportant) TIGER SHARK, later replaced with a hook...</p><p><span></span></p>

adventure, edward g. robinson, love triangle, melodrama, richard arlen, romance, shark, thirties, warner archives, zita johann

EDWARD G. ROBINSON'S FISHY LOVE TRIANGLE OF 'TIGER SHARK'

Title: TIGER SHARK Stars: Edward G. Robinson Year: 1932 Rating: *** Had the antique fishing-village-set TIGER SHARK come out ten years later...

MARK STEVENS WITH JACK DONNER IN 'ESCAPE FROM HELL ISLAND'

adventure, drama, indie, jack donner, jazz-score, linda scott, mark stevens, neo noir, shark, sixties, thriller

MARK STEVENS WITH JACK DONNER IN 'ESCAPE FROM HELL ISLAND'

FROM HELL ISLAND" year: 1963 Rates: **1/2 There's filmmaking, and then there are films that somehow get made... but that still don...

QUICK DRAW OF 'THE LAST SHARKNADO: IT'S ABOUT TIME'

2018, action, franchise, ian ziering, new, sequel, shark, tara reid

QUICK DRAW OF 'THE LAST SHARKNADO: IT'S ABOUT TIME'

Down to Dee (Snider) List cameos in Sharknado 6 Rating: *1/2 It happens in every action movie and you're not supposed to realize it....

VICTOR MATURE DIVES INTO JERRY HOPPER'S 'THE SHARKFIGHTERS'

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<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/AVvXsEhukXVKQhJ_eYciCT8uXOvDtawOOTM18VIo-UMcL5Kwe6X7GYmg8StcDVxXTaKfeaUepg4voqFkObvuDSTOfAfRa_xrglnysX9QTviR4QS2z12MeuOw5dW_UFr3-sR03qomB9omDm1ko4gUoM6F6iGVL-xniZRijpEc15qA8XDzoVtz-Or1nJuSlRPJMavt/s1766/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-09%20at%208.32.56%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1030" data-original-width="1766" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhukXVKQhJ_eYciCT8uXOvDtawOOTM18VIo-UMcL5Kwe6X7GYmg8StcDVxXTaKfeaUepg4voqFkObvuDSTOfAfRa_xrglnysX9QTviR4QS2z12MeuOw5dW_UFr3-sR03qomB9omDm1ko4gUoM6F6iGVL-xniZRijpEc15qA8XDzoVtz-Or1nJuSlRPJMavt/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-09%20at%208.32.56%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE SHARKFIGHTERS Year: 1955 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table>THE SHARKFIGHTERS is but an ingredient of what would make a bonafide 
World War II movie's main course: In order for soldiers to survive in 
the ocean — either far out or close to an invading beach — without being
 eaten by those infamously ravaging dorsal-finned predators, it's the 
job of a scientific military unit, stationed in pre-Castro Cuba, to 
develop a liquid-repellent to keep sharks away, and for long enough to 
matter...<br></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">That's the plot overall, and there's a lot of testing in-between, making
 up a few suspenseful scenes when not wasting superfluous time inland, 
in Havana, where the main character, war hero Lt. Cmdr. Ben Staves, 
played by Victor Mature, enjoys live mamba music with his gorgeous wife 
(Karen Steele), whose character is all but deleted by the token 
expository shark expert who, like any film's stock "better half" sans 
the romance,  must weather his new moody boss on the boat or back at a 
compound, located at a fishing village looking straight out of 
Hemingway... <br></div><span></span>

action, claude akins, fifties, jerry hopper, karen steele, philip coolidge, rafael campos, shark, suspense, victor mature, war

VICTOR MATURE DIVES INTO JERRY HOPPER'S 'THE SHARKFIGHTERS'

Title: THE SHARKFIGHTERS Year: 1955 Rating: **** THE SHARKFIGHTERS is but an ingredient of what would make a bonafide World War II movie...

RODDY MCDOWALL WITH LAURETTE LUEZ IN 'KILLER SHARK'

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Following the bizarre Neo Noir <span style="color: #444444;"><a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2017/02/sharksT.html">SHARKS' TREASURE</a> </span>and continuing our monthlong review of underrated or relatively unknown shark flicks, here's a rare catch titled...<br>
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KILLER SHARK, a sort of CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS only with a semi-grownup preppy college kid visiting his once American office desk-set turned hardworking fisherman father in Mexico. Starring Roddy McDowall who also co-produced, turning in his usual dependable performance, at this point having worked for a decade, and his character's insecure whininess doesn't get too incessant or annoying, which is good for obvious reasons but there lacks a turnaround worth rooting for. Yet there <i>is</i> a changeling (albeit very quick) and, for the most part, he comes around when dad points out he sounds like a snob, like his mother. Filmed in sparse black & white and showing every nook of the boat including the crowded sleeping quarters, a busy upward deck, a high rise crow's nest and, putting the audience <i>out there </i>a sea, soon enough Roddy's Ted White is part of the group of tough Spanish sailors. He does make one mistake; putting his father in harm's way, and not by a singular KILLER SHARK but a horde of them. Herein the suspense mounts and the plot thickens, progressing from Act One that seemed like a short film docudrama on the predatory creatures and the brave souls who hunt them for a dangerous (and not very lucrative) living.<br>

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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...

WILL SAMPSON DOUBLE CREATURE 'ORCA' & 'WHITE BUFFALO'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px; text-align: center;"><u>Poster for ORCA THE KILLER WHALE</u></td></tr>
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With a brooding soundtrack, composed by genius maestro Ennio Morricone, orchestrating the title killer whale seeking revenge on Richard Harris's Neo-Ahab, Captain Nolan, for killing the whale's pregnant mate, ORCA is more an oceanic Spaghetti Western than an outright "Creature Feature."<br>
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Once narrowed into the hunt, as Harris — like JAWS scene-stealer, Quint, played by Robert Shaw, did with his two-man-crew to the Great White —leads ORCA (the name of Quint's boat, which means "a large toothed whale") out to sea, or vice versa, it's an entertaining adventure. But in order to make the audience forget about the 1975 shark thriller, this campy whale tale throws it right into our face with a menacing Great White's dorsal fin heading towards a young crewman (Robert Carradine) — only to be saved, at the last minute, by the one monstrosity more powerful than even Spielberg's Carcharodon Carcharias...<br>
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But it's the horrendously melodramatic revenge aspect, from the whale against the seafaring Captain, that shifts ORCA into camp-howler territory. One scene involving Harris, a hunter combination of Shaw (along with scruffy boat pilot Keenan Wynn) and Roy Scheieder, and an oceanographic Richard Dreyfuss in the exotic French starlet Charlotte Rampling, the whale actually sees (with a knowing, narrowed eye) his foe seconds after <i>actually</i> causing the sea-town, curved along the surrounding shoreline, to explode in massive flames...<br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Will Sampson, Charlotte Rampling and Richard Harris</u></td></tr>
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Here's when our doomed anti-hero is forced seaward, going deeper and deeper into the Killer Whale's territory and, straight from the brawny pages of Herman Melville or even Ernest Hemingway, the macho captain wants the whale dead too — what the giant mammal did to Harris's gorgeous friend (a pre-fame Bo Derek) adds fiery insult to injury.... Making up for overlong bouts of tedious arguments on board, the pivotal, entertaining "body count" occurs in the style of a violent and bloody 1970's horror/exploitation flick, and like JAWS, the suspense is channelled into a steady pulse when the creature, unseen, is anticipated within the dark waters — but not for long...<br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Great White Shark smack-down by ORCA THE KILLER WHALE</u></td></tr>
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During the third act, an iceberg becomes a HIGH NOON main street between man and beast. And, last but not least, along for the ride, to legitimize the picture and fitting within the theme of this double feature review, CUCKOO'S NEST Chief Bromden...<br>
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Will Sampson, taking a break from his role as a tortured Sioux with a WHITE BUFFALO chip on his shoulder, provides a hybrid of Dreyfuss style wisdom and Shaw experience — a moral compass swing vote, dead-set against the stubborn and determined Richard Harris who, the likes of Peter O'Toole, Oliver Reed and other intense British actors, whether in good, bad or downright ugly motion pictures, doesn't hold anything back.<br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Bo Derek in ORCA THE KILLER WHALE</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Bo Derek in ORCA THE KILLER WHALE</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Bo Derek in ORCA THE KILLER WHALE</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Bo Derek in ORCA THE KILLER WHALE</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Bo Derek in ORCA THE KILLER WHALE</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Bo Derek in ORCA THE KILLER WHALE</u></td></tr>
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A Charles Bronson cult film that, without the hilariously dated and 
contrived title creature, is a surprisingly decent Western in its own 
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Haunted by nightmares of THE WHITE BUFFALO, Bronson, as a retired, 
inconspicuous Wild Bill Hickok, wakes up with guns blazing, all
 his own — first on a train and then inside a gold mining town's hotel 
run by a gracious Kim Novak...<br>
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In-between we learn of the giant beast through the frantic, personal 
rage 
of the most sympathetic character, Will Sampson's Crazy Horse, who must 
go by the name 'Worm' until he avenges his family's death and, by
 the end, a stretch of terrain that resembles a neatly cut, treeless 
landing strip provides a showdown location for the killer Buff's
 three hunters — so let's cover the main JAWS similarities through the 
main characters...<br>

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WILL SAMPSON DOUBLE CREATURE 'ORCA' & 'WHITE BUFFALO'

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