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Written by James M. Tate / 5/04/2022 / No comments / action , adventure , cara williams , charles bronson , clint walker , creature , cult , exploitation , jack warden , jaws-clone , martin kove , seventies , stuart whitman , western , will sampson

CHARLES BRONSON IN 'THE WHITE BUFFALO' WITH WILL SAMPSON

<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/AVvXsEhDEp-7q5mieJAo_9JfotTR67RskoLSDfVI7jFJRXDRV6htxgRXmHQ_RzwjS5FPK7tGv0BRoDkUoPZ0Nnl24NdFSJNTjQQEWaK65Y0SiEmezt6-mVhwqnDblr0OW7TZE6Bv1EqLZRnUQ9_neLOu-XSwnLXthJPGiH-ZMfNDF53bpG-P7F5_e5OrNY0GVY-C/s1128/Screen%20Shot%202023-09-26%20at%205.39.33%20PM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="666" data-original-width="1128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDEp-7q5mieJAo_9JfotTR67RskoLSDfVI7jFJRXDRV6htxgRXmHQ_RzwjS5FPK7tGv0BRoDkUoPZ0Nnl24NdFSJNTjQQEWaK65Y0SiEmezt6-mVhwqnDblr0OW7TZE6Bv1EqLZRnUQ9_neLOu-XSwnLXthJPGiH-ZMfNDF53bpG-P7F5_e5OrNY0GVY-C/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-09-26%20at%205.39.33%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Charles Bronson in THE WHITE BUFFALO Year: 1977 Rating: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>Within THE WHITE BUFFALO is a different kind of Western that Charles Bronson and director J. Lee Thompson not only wanted to make, but did... at least halfway through: One where Clint Walker has the kind of vengeful spite to kill main character/real life legend Bill Hickock because of the past he's both dodging and facing... thrust towards the gigantic titular beast that, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/jaws-clone">like JAWS</a>, a trio of contrary men band together to expire...In particular Native American Will Sampson who, like the other gentle giant actor Walker, have never been so formidable, also portraying a fictionally-set true legend, Crazy Horse, with his own revenge towards the buffalo that killed his child... giving an overboard performance more than a touch of camp. And the always capable Jack Warden is a one-eyed trapper... the <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2015/06/triad-jaws.html">Robert Shaw</a> here and, though full of tough dialogue, is rather underused...

action, adventure, cara williams, charles bronson, clint walker, creature, cult, exploitation, jack warden, jaws-clone, martin kove, seventies, stuart whitman, western, will sampson

CHARLES BRONSON IN 'THE WHITE BUFFALO' WITH WILL SAMPSON

Charles Bronson in THE WHITE BUFFALO Year: 1977 Rating: ***1/2 Within THE WHITE BUFFALO is a different kind of Western that Charles Bronson ...

IRWIN ALLEN'S 'CITY BENEATH THE SEA' WITH STUART WHITMAN

<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/AVvXsEiftNDBTZqw8ZR_q_9CHPYATRVwnrYtIxLLaQLTsdmlFGeDqKuqUJvIV3-3_dnL8SsezRrmGreXOKjfdK5vtQgPfEJYjquScxdmJppI_s6I3X1XFxyNK6x_xlR2_FIQGteTZECmUNOYyeq8dSWUcpWVgLN6c7QPfvw8-CiJ5I2NqUBNwLKHu9wNpXFeCg=s1171" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1171" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiftNDBTZqw8ZR_q_9CHPYATRVwnrYtIxLLaQLTsdmlFGeDqKuqUJvIV3-3_dnL8SsezRrmGreXOKjfdK5vtQgPfEJYjquScxdmJppI_s6I3X1XFxyNK6x_xlR2_FIQGteTZECmUNOYyeq8dSWUcpWVgLN6c7QPfvw8-CiJ5I2NqUBNwLKHu9wNpXFeCg=s16000"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: CITY BENEATH THE SEA Director: Irwin Allen Year: 1971 Rating: ***</td></tr></tbody></table>Between his b-science-fiction series and a-list disaster films, Irwin Allen combined both in a TV-Movie that plays out like a hopeful series pilot, CITY BENEATH THE SEA stars Stuart Whitman who, halfway through the 21st Century, is called back into the Modern-Atlantis underwater world he once ran...Feeling more like a sequel to a previous installment since so many plates are dangling, including a beloved employee who'd been killed, blamed on Whitman by sulky ingenue Rosemary Forsyth... completely overshadowed by insanely-gorgeous secretary Susana Miranda alongside a fish-man diver and the token bad guy in Robert Wagner, out to rob Fort Knox's gold, placed within the city...

action, disaster, irwin allen, joseph cotten, paul stewart, robert colbert, robert wagner, rosemary forsyth, science-fiction, seventies, stuart whitman, susana miranda, tv movie, warner archives

IRWIN ALLEN'S 'CITY BENEATH THE SEA' WITH STUART WHITMAN

Title: CITY BENEATH THE SEA Director: Irwin Allen Year: 1971 Rating: *** Between his b-science-fiction series and a-list disaster films, Irw...

WARNER ARCHIVES MELODRAMA 'CONVICTS 4' WITH BEN GAZARRA

<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/AVvXsEgNUXT7Vjqn9Jgh2hAek_dogirXD5QCgKnVAhWa7_TaINaAjs7cwSlc7mAoL5UBtkYuk_Pcf48VjcQQuOcBUKOa7A4yoIYTgmon8-irrvvLLItKNo4-U750xbfKx1QCzl8r68mtD0WWcV_PasVGAeeaBdzS2WbPU5Cw1Ulvmpr2U5ZwOM0YtZQaWxOTbA=s1178" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="772" data-original-width="1178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgNUXT7Vjqn9Jgh2hAek_dogirXD5QCgKnVAhWa7_TaINaAjs7cwSlc7mAoL5UBtkYuk_Pcf48VjcQQuOcBUKOa7A4yoIYTgmon8-irrvvLLItKNo4-U750xbfKx1QCzl8r68mtD0WWcV_PasVGAeeaBdzS2WbPU5Cw1Ulvmpr2U5ZwOM0YtZQaWxOTbA=s16000"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ben Gazarra and Sammy Davis Jr. in CONVICTS 4 Year: 1962 Rating: **</td></tr></tbody></table>There's a point in the prison drama CONVICTS 4 when Ben Gazzara, after standing-through a rowdy lecture from one-scene-only chief guard Rod Steiger, complains about bedbugs in his cot: Which wouldn't seem all that questionable if the film actually began with Gazarra's John Resko being thrown into this not-so-cleanly prison...But what the audience and main character had suffered through during an entire first act was a waiting game for impending execution on death row, harboring the most suspenseful and effective scenes and making those gripes about the next prison's subpar prison-conditions seem outright ludicrous...

andy williams, ben gazzara, broderick crawford, death row, drama, prison, rod steiger, sammy davis jr., sixties, stuart whitman, timothy carey, warner archives

WARNER ARCHIVES MELODRAMA 'CONVICTS 4' WITH BEN GAZARRA

Ben Gazarra and Sammy Davis Jr. in CONVICTS 4 Year: 1962 Rating: ** There's a point in the prison drama CONVICTS 4 when Ben Gazzara, aft...

STANLEY BAKER AND STUART WHITMAN IN 'SANDS OF THE KALAHARI'

<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/AVvXsEi_MXFybahkxYWn0Wh1ZfRwntITQfDKhaPH6FI87u9vYWyrsAjBuyYAI4brlotvy3hBHlpiYUAAfnn6cvz3QLH-GxXVeIpkHimTfv_ZdQVNG8v-3r_gTE6PWLu27s1_ejiwaQ6Ir8ek-IZtId169rFa0QuEVtjinZIFu80rblUf2e9nwP5SLxwbr-8Z5Jpo/s1412/AVvXsEiWGyz9WS4HfmnGfB05kNPJn4UFES-yqgQt9ab0MLLweJZyfSmjoRYnR28d7cNXsgY73zuw9-5JXEt9je8cSkkduwPb1SvitXqPpi5X6aqZexQjqV6CJuw1cFpF9-VFhVd9nMOnzzyLKkNt07JN_UoxnEJce8QF3Qw0H7vjL5ICTJsS0o_ZePIopL5TwA=s16000.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="658" data-original-width="1412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_MXFybahkxYWn0Wh1ZfRwntITQfDKhaPH6FI87u9vYWyrsAjBuyYAI4brlotvy3hBHlpiYUAAfnn6cvz3QLH-GxXVeIpkHimTfv_ZdQVNG8v-3r_gTE6PWLu27s1_ejiwaQ6Ir8ek-IZtId169rFa0QuEVtjinZIFu80rblUf2e9nwP5SLxwbr-8Z5Jpo/s16000/AVvXsEiWGyz9WS4HfmnGfB05kNPJn4UFES-yqgQt9ab0MLLweJZyfSmjoRYnR28d7cNXsgY73zuw9-5JXEt9je8cSkkduwPb1SvitXqPpi5X6aqZexQjqV6CJuw1cFpF9-VFhVd9nMOnzzyLKkNt07JN_UoxnEJce8QF3Qw0H7vjL5ICTJsS0o_ZePIopL5TwA=s16000.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: SANDS OF THE KALAHARI Year: 1965 Rating: *** </td></tr></tbody></table>Supposedly this was the movie that pushed square-jawed British superstar Stanley Baker — who'd just peaked with the same director Cy Endfield for <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/03/ZULU.html">ZULU</a> — into a career downturn, and not just because SANDS OF THE KALAHARI is a deliberately strange and uncomfortable (FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX style) survival tale, initially involving six passengers of a crashed plane stranded in the vast titular desert... As producer, Baker not only gave the best role to Stuart Whitman, but his own character's injured and therefore basically useless for most of the picture: one that features a somewhat convenient ensemble...