Milton!

Milton Reid appears briefly at the very beginning of the 1969 black comedy 'The Assassination Bureau', playing a circus performer who is murdered when the fake TNT he uses to fire his fake cannon is replaced with the real thing. He flies through the air with the greatest of ease, and leaves a considerable hole in the roof of the tent. God speed, Milton and R.I.P.

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Milton Reid makes a very brief appearance in the 1971 Jason King episode 'From Russia With Panache' and ends up getting beaten up by the flamboyant Mr. King and chucked down a lift shaft. Nice to see him in a costume, though, instead of that rather tired brown jerkin ensemble. He rounds off his somewhat nautical look here by tucking his trousers into a pair of knee high leather boots (not pictured). Milton is an inveterate trouser tucker, but he was born in India, so perhaps he was scared of snakes.

Speaking of Jason King / Peter Wyngarde, he's been absent from these pages for far too long. The place just isn't the same without him, so I'll have to do something about that, won't I?.    

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'Ooops, wrong arm. Keep filming, I'll sort it...' 

'That's better'

Milton Reid as he appears in no budget Bond rip off No. 1 Of The Secret Service' (1977). Milton plays a bad ass with an earring and an eye patch and a bare chest, although later he dons his familiar brown jerkin, trousers and cowboy boots.

I wonder if he charged for supplying his own costume, or whether he put the saving forward as a reason to employ him?

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The formidable (and familiarly attired) Mr. Milton Reid turns up in 'Terror', playing a bouncer at a bizarre club where the main attraction is a stripping whip wielding punkette. When the customer get out of long, Milton attacks, neutralises and frogmarches their sleazy arses out. No lines, but plenty of action.

One Step Beyond Horror

‘Terror’ is absolutely brilliant from start to finish. Although there is a plot (something about a foxy witches curse), it mainly concerns itself with introducing (occasionally attractive) people before almost immediately putting them in perilous situations, racking up the tension with horror signifiers familiar from nightmares and other horror films and then summarily disposing of them in inventive, gruesome and bloody ways.  

What most of them have to do with the curse is anyone’s guess, but that doesn’t matter. What does matter is that they die: beheaded by falling glass, smashed on the head by a falling spotlight that then catches fire, garrotted and then impaled on some railings. Most of all, there’s a whole lot of stabbing going on, and in really painful places, like the foot, and the crotch, and the mouth. I don’t suppose there is a nice place to get stabbed, but these attacks look particularly ‘ouch-y’ (if that is a word), and you can imagine contemporary audiences cringing as the blade plunges in.

Ostensibly a straightforward slasher, you keep expecting a ‘Scooby Doo’ dénouement where the killer is revealed - until the film climaxes in a full on supernatural assault in which that pesky, foxy witch turns up and wreaks her bloody final revenge which reminded me of ’Suspira’ on a shoestring budget, lots of dry ice and a wind machine.

Extremely enjoyable, and it features Milton Reid in a supporting role! It’s a classic, and the sort of film this blog is all about.

Terror

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Big old, good old Milton Reid as yet another henchman in Stanley Long's rather pointless 'Adventures Of A Private Eye'. Here, he is unconvincingly neutralised by a knee in the bollocks. Unconvincingly? Everyone knows Milton had balls of steel. 

He's wearing the costume he seemingly wears in all his post 1976 appearances: a strange, round neck big buttoned blouson affair paired with matching brown trousers tucked into cowboy boots. In this film he supplements the basics with a pair of shades and a red carnation.

He doesn't have any lines as such, but he and large sidekick Jon Robinson are an impressively heavy set of heavies, although not much good in a chase. 

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Milton Jones sings for his no doubt quite considerable supper as 'the strong man' in 'Beserk!'. Please don't look for this record in the shops, you'll only embarrass yourself.

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In 1979, Milton Reid took time out of his busy schedule to star as a heavy in not one, but two David Sullivan produced smut films. He needn't have bothered, they're both pathetic.

Here he is in 'Confessions From The David Galaxy Affair' and 'Queen of the Blues', respectively. He wears exactly the same costume in both films.

Milton fact: his middle name was Rutherford.

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Milton Reid provides security to Christopher Lee and Roger Delgado in Hammer's 1961 Orientsploitation film 'Terror Of The Tongs'.

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Milton Reid gets a plum role, has a chance to show off his physique and get to grips with Dana Gillespie as the evil Sabbala in the 1977 kids action film 'The People Who Time Forgot'.

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Fourteen years on from 'Dr. No', in 'The Spy Who Loved Me', Milton Reid gets a larger part and a couple of lines (including 'Pyramids!) in exchange for pretending that Roger Moore could beat him up. His name is Sandor and, as you can see, he falls off a building in Istanbul. Nasty.

Night Creatures

Captain Clegg and his phosphorescent gang take a little ride.

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Milton Reid has a hell of a time in perhaps one of his best known roles, as 'The Mulatto' in Hammer's 'Captain Clegg' (1962).