PAUL SCOFIELD IN 'A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS' WITH ORSON WELLES

<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/AVvXsEgbWmSjpLLarm_Pf75axWeFOeqsu6qAjLh-TrU5vH9VU2HL3rmAVzviYZ_Pnnij7XHGLL5AcYYy_PhGFPZd3amj3icqFdKzwsprK3qSeNqVS8Fbz1eByQ848mAkIjD1e5C1VHjb-gdvYJYoi6D4j1sFEsrpeQcElvy9cMius32CM2C4fSD5rFMplWOVEQ/s1344/Screen%20Shot%202022-11-02%20at%204.37.01%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="783" data-original-width="1344" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbWmSjpLLarm_Pf75axWeFOeqsu6qAjLh-TrU5vH9VU2HL3rmAVzviYZ_Pnnij7XHGLL5AcYYy_PhGFPZd3amj3icqFdKzwsprK3qSeNqVS8Fbz1eByQ848mAkIjD1e5C1VHjb-gdvYJYoi6D4j1sFEsrpeQcElvy9cMius32CM2C4fSD5rFMplWOVEQ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-11-02%20at%204.37.01%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Orson Welles in A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS Year: 19566</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Orson Welles, years after CITIZEN KANE, said the hardest role to play was probably that of Joseph Cotten's Jeb Leland, a man so determined, honest, and stubborn, he doesn't have many rooting for him, but instead, the sympathy goes to the flawed leading man... <br> <br> Far from the lead, Welles makes an appearance here as a perplexed Cardinal in the Oscar Winning A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS, kickstarting an accusation that would lead to the death of the titular priest who would not bend for anyone, not even the King of England... the infamous Henry the XIII... who, played by Robert Shaw, has a voracious laugh as rich as fool's gold... <br> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>

england, john hurt, leo mckern, nigel davenport, orson welles, paul scofield, religion, sixties, susannah york

PAUL SCOFIELD IN 'A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS' WITH ORSON WELLES

Orson Welles in A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS Year: 19566 Orson Welles, years after CITIZEN KANE, said the hardest role to play was probably that ...

CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER & ELLIOTT GOULD IN 'THE SILENT PARTNER'

<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/AVvXsEhTpo6EuuPGBZfRkU1Uyu1oFx8MQlpnRe_NRLNP-p5YmC5csOEIpAuQLSBGbC5SJhh-qM8WHZ5LhSATkL8lQpO6k5eneWju8d7XBDnsg9bWi9gEkxl3C9ikEP1iECqAgaqa-oIef7TX_xaAQwvYXPDQCVaQKgYT5h2VJ5Tmn6M5QBsrjTnfr9y3U-rvXg/s1931/Screen%20Shot%202023-05-15%20at%203.42.37%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1102" data-original-width="1931" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTpo6EuuPGBZfRkU1Uyu1oFx8MQlpnRe_NRLNP-p5YmC5csOEIpAuQLSBGbC5SJhh-qM8WHZ5LhSATkL8lQpO6k5eneWju8d7XBDnsg9bWi9gEkxl3C9ikEP1iECqAgaqa-oIef7TX_xaAQwvYXPDQCVaQKgYT5h2VJ5Tmn6M5QBsrjTnfr9y3U-rvXg/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-05-15%20at%203.42.37%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE SILENT PARTNER Year: 1978 Rating: ***</u><u>*</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>An almost perfect vehicle for Christopher Plummer, who, playing either nice guys or menacing villains, was always intensely scowling and extremely intimidating... </p><p></p><p>Especially in the Canadian bank-heist thriller THE SILENT PARTNER (made in Canada showing Canadian cash); yet he's a little <i>too</i> silent and needed to be in the picture more, all but vanishing halfway through until a somewhat rushed third act...</p><p><span></span></p>

canadian, céline lomez, christopher plummer, elliott gould, heist, john candy, seventies, stephen young, susannah york, thriller

CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER & ELLIOTT GOULD IN 'THE SILENT PARTNER'

Title: THE SILENT PARTNER Year: 1978 Rating: *** * An almost perfect vehicle for Christopher Plummer, who, playing either nice guys or menac...

WARREN BEATTY & SUSANNAH YORK SHUFFLE 'KALEIDOSCOPE'

<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/a/AVvXsEjUUz5Z59W0QxWAhnwC5Z9bqJdSy5k7rcBpai37vXsnrl0G4HOx8Xgp9UYWxeClOXKEQ-UqOgbt7ttfXbdaOcbREh1-XwIVr4YdZxMeacbqtjps4o6BXvMy9sM4esg35cdVRDDraxkcncwpmq4mBWpKp0xvOeeNYDZ2py_RIlW1u9mfU1RiPvsYOBzp9g=s717" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="468" data-original-width="717" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjUUz5Z59W0QxWAhnwC5Z9bqJdSy5k7rcBpai37vXsnrl0G4HOx8Xgp9UYWxeClOXKEQ-UqOgbt7ttfXbdaOcbREh1-XwIVr4YdZxMeacbqtjps4o6BXvMy9sM4esg35cdVRDDraxkcncwpmq4mBWpKp0xvOeeNYDZ2py_RIlW1u9mfU1RiPvsYOBzp9g=s16000"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1967 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The famous scene in THUNDERBALL, the first James Bond feature featuring supervillain Bloefeld, has his associates seated around a table, wondering which one of them will be found out as a traitor... for then to die in front of everyone... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And the same thing happens here with jovially sinister, talky antagonist Eric Porter as Dominion, more like Le Chiffre from CASINO ROYALE since American import cat burglar Warren Beatty is sent by British police to break the bank with a single night's poker match on the baddie's home turf, a castle with groovy interior befitting the rest of the cheerfully dated late-60's aesthetic... </p><p><span></span></p>

british, clive revill, eric porter, gambling, romantic comedy, sixties, spy, susannah york, thriller, warner archives, warren beatty

WARREN BEATTY & SUSANNAH YORK SHUFFLE 'KALEIDOSCOPE'

Year: 1967 Rating: ***1/2 The famous scene in THUNDERBALL, the first James Bond feature featuring supervillain Bloefeld, has his associates ...

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

<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><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/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;"><u>Title: SANDS OF THE KALAHARI Year: 1965 Rating: *** </u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Supposedly this was the movie that pushed square-jawed British superstar Stanley Baker — who'd <i>just</i> 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... </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></p><p></p><p></p><p>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...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, airplane, british, harry andrews, nature, nigel davenport, sixties, stanley baker, stuart whitman, survival, susannah york, theodore bikel

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

Title: SANDS OF THE KALAHARI Year: 1965 Rating: *** Supposedly this was the movie that pushed square-jawed British superstar Stanley Baker —...

SUSANNAH YORK IN 'THE KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE' W/ BERYL REID

<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/AVvXsEhG0j87SkYaxmoC7RUjOqYHs65oVny3h0heW2V1i56ezaQkxFiADsvxFtgnILA24CdgL7mrGtEiAnDEoKgz9J7mY-L6ayLZPe_jMVfny7vPOasqeaQn7H9J3PvlsRFbEUHA0kbPuXyRe5av/s1442/Screen+Shot+2021-08-29+at+2.34.56+AM+2.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="579" data-original-width="1442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG0j87SkYaxmoC7RUjOqYHs65oVny3h0heW2V1i56ezaQkxFiADsvxFtgnILA24CdgL7mrGtEiAnDEoKgz9J7mY-L6ayLZPe_jMVfny7vPOasqeaQn7H9J3PvlsRFbEUHA0kbPuXyRe5av/s16000/Screen+Shot+2021-08-29+at+2.34.56+AM+2.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE Year: 1968 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>After director Robert Aldrich exploded with THE DIRTY DOZEN he returned to an independent style melodrama in the fashion of WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE although THE KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE is really a hybrid of STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE and DEATH OF A SALESMAN but in this case the saleswoman's an actress fearing the possible death of her fictional character from a long-running British soap, and it all sounds like Aldrich's BIG KNIFE style parody of insider's show business... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yet most of SISTER GEORGE centers on a gorgeous blonde childlike, doll-collecting Susannah York, the titular starlet's lover, and their bickering, apartment-dwelling scenes, ranging from the middle-aged has-been played by middle-aged firebrand Beryl Reid, wielding mind games, making her lover literally eat cigar tips or threatening to behead one of her beloved antique dolls... </p><p><span></span></p>

beryl reid, british, coral browne, homosexual, melodrama, robert aldrich, sixties, susannah york

SUSANNAH YORK IN 'THE KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE' W/ BERYL REID

Title: THE KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE Year: 1968 Rating: *** After director Robert Aldrich exploded with THE DIRTY DOZEN he returned to an ind...