cult film freak: August 2017

Written by James M. Tate / 8/31/2017 / No comments / fifties , james cagney , sixties , vic morrow , warner archives , western

THE OTHER/FORGOTTEN WESTERNS OF JAMES CAGNEY

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Release Year: 1955</u></td></tr>
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Another "hanging without a trial" situation but, at first, Cagney and his brand new young partner, John Derek, provide the necks for the posse's rope: mistaken as train robbers but for hardly five minutes until Cagney demands proof, which there's none...<br />
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While Cagney's more natural and at-home than his other Westerns before and after, there's an overdose of melodrama...<br />
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That includes minor flaws like Derek's corny name, Davey, repeated like a scratched record: The kid had been shot by the posse and rendered crippled with an eternal limp, making the handsome would-be co-leading man more of an idiot man-child to Cagney, who's hired as Sheriff by the same town that nearly executed him and with Deputy Davey in tow...<br />
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There's a handing off of sporadic bouts against ambiguous drifter Ernest Borgnine and local redneck Jack Lambert to heartfelt dialogue between Cagney and townswoman Viveca Lindfors, a good actress in an extremely contrived role — they fall in love so quick the romance doesn't mean anything, slowing down the overall pace that never quite allows itself to go all-out till the 11th hour, when it's too late. Perhaps intentionally since RUN FOR COVER remains as subtle and level-headed as our patient, good-natured and, alas, somewhat dull hero.<br />
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THE OTHER/FORGOTTEN WESTERNS OF JAMES CAGNEY

Release Year: 1955 Another "hanging without a trial" situation but, at first, Cagney and his brand new young partner, John Der...

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LAST STRETCH AND DECLINE OF RODNEY DANGERFIELD CINEMA

<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When he turned fifty, the age most comic-actors would be considered has-beens, he was cast in a now classic golf comedy, CADDYSHACK, that was originally written about the caddies, like ANIMAL HOUSE (with the same co-writers, SHACK director Harold Ramis and Doug Kenney) centered on the Delta fraternity house. It's impossible to imagine the evil Dean Wormer (John Vernon) and the hippie professor (Donald Sutherland) as the focal points, leaving all but one rebellious frat boy in the buried lead role, like Michael O'Keefe's Danny Noonan in CADDYSHACK... But sometimes the side-characters shine brighter than the leads, or at least the most memorable, iconic...</span><br>

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LAST STRETCH AND DECLINE OF RODNEY DANGERFIELD CINEMA

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GENE RODDENBERRY SCI-FI 70'S PILOT OF 'THE QUESTOR TAPES'

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GENE RODDENBERRY SCI-FI 70'S PILOT OF 'THE QUESTOR TAPES'

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SCI-FI TV PILOT OF STRANGE NEW WORLD WITH JOHN SAXON

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SCI-FI TV PILOT OF STRANGE NEW WORLD WITH JOHN SAXON

John Saxon, Kathleen Miller & Reb Brown YEAR: 1975 STRANGE NEW WORLD is a lot like Gene Roddenberry's PLANET EARTH also starrin...

ORIGINAL 'V' MINISERIES WITH 'V: THE FINAL BATTLE' & TV SHOW

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Reviews of V: THE ORIGINAL MINISERIES with THE FINAL BATTLE and the TV SERIES 1983-1985</u></td></tr>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><u><span style="font-size: large;">V: THE ORIGINAL MINISERIES</span> (1983):</u> About every five years it's time to rediscover the brilliance of a miniseries that, for a number of reasons, has gotten a bad rap as being pure, unapologetic camp: But it's wise not to mistake camp for cult, and to realize that every original vehicle with cheesy followups did begin with something worthy of being followed-up in the first place...</span><br>

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FRANCES RAINES IS BEAUTIFUL IN 'RYDER P.I.' W/ HOWARD STERN

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Frances Raines will be subject for other reviews YEAR: 1986</u></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Suffering an awful weeklong cold when awful movies seem good, let's veer back to Really Bad Movie basics with a vehicle created on a shoestring budget featuring an obscure gathering of Long Island comics and a future shock jock icon...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Up front is fat comic David Hawthorne, the sleepy-eyed "moron" who, a decade later, as a restaurant bartender, served a heartbroken Jack Nicholson a glass of "the last free drug" in AS GOOD AS IT GETS: he throws in a Jack imitation along with a bagful of quick quips and a thin plot-line for RYDER P.I., a Humphrey Bogart Era Film Noir parody that, surprisingly, keeps up the entertainment value alongside the feeling of, "How much worse can this get?"</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Frances Raines dries off with a smile</u></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hawthorne is comfortable in front of the camera despite being uncomfortable to look at — but that seems an intentional thread of the overall punchline: he's the antithesis of any sort of leading man on-screen persona. So some local help was obviously needed...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">At that time, in 1986, Howard Stern was climbing as a New York morning radio talkshow host.  Random scenes as a television newscaster aren't that funny because Howard's not doing his own thing, or poking fun at his crew. And yet the aggression and annoyance does feel genuine: his character, Ben Wah, can't stand the network he's on, and obviously Stern felt the same about this project. And he's not alone. Not completely...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">His writer, Jackie "The Joke Man" Martling, provides the voice of a "Fat Eddie" doll that, when Hawthorne's P.I. character, Skylar Ryder, pulls a string, it unloads insults, each ending with Martling's chortle that'd soon become famous within the Stern universe... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But what makes RYDER easy viewing on the eye is b-starlet Frances Raines, who isn't blood related-to but is technically a relative of THE INVISIBLE MAN Claude Raines. Her vulnerable, girl-next-door beauty, seeking the titular snoop for protection from a woodwork of goons, makes this trainwreck worth watching. Plus, she appears during the midway point when desperately needed...</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>A jokey doll voiced by Jackie Martling CAMP VALUE SCORE: ***1/2</u></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The worst of the cast is Ryder's hairbrained partner, overacting "the retard" to the hilt and almost forcing the viewer to either change the channel or destroy their television... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For those brave or patient enough, or in this case, who pay by the month, Amazon Prime members can stream this extremely low budget comedy. And for fans of the classic era Howard Stern it's a rare gem to behold, or rather, to survive: There's a feeling of bizarre accomplishment lasting through these kind of movies that aren't really movies. Added to that, RYDER doesn't have a cult following to join the ranks of worthy Camp Schlock unlike a couple others we'll review in the future starring</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Frances Raines... Stay tuned. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Hell, might as well get at least one picture of the film's star, Bob Hawthorne</u></td></tr>
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