cult film freak: August 2021

Written by James M. Tate / 8/31/2021 / No comments / alexandra hay , comedy , counter-culture , groucho marx , jackie gleason , otto preminger , prison , sixties

OTTO PREMINGER'S COUNTER-CULTURE DISASTER OF 'SKIDOO'

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<table 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/AVvXsEgEOXF9fO4yFF6gg7J_o38pZ7qmmfOxKjThPUB6S7VM8Xst2Y_Lf1sbcbMfDri3S2mxWIXCrhfYOMi_63tug9gKvfrO69D40z_77cHJZjny3Nt2VtYys_710LZ_K-LnlyCkZiz9jM3b3yzA/s500/aaaa.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="461" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEOXF9fO4yFF6gg7J_o38pZ7qmmfOxKjThPUB6S7VM8Xst2Y_Lf1sbcbMfDri3S2mxWIXCrhfYOMi_63tug9gKvfrO69D40z_77cHJZjny3Nt2VtYys_710LZ_K-LnlyCkZiz9jM3b3yzA/s320/aaaa.jpeg" width="295"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1968 Rating: *</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p>For their time and in a matter of aesthetics, Otto
 Preminger's Film Noirs LAURA and FALLEN ANGEL (both with Dana Andrews) were "psychedelic" for their time, with a 
camera-gliding flow; yet there's NO flow here in 
the 1960's when flowing supposedly meant everything... In fact the 
camera's mostly stagnant, glued upon the now infamous idiocy as if 
SKIDOO were a two-hour Laugh-In skit...<br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Alexandra Hay painted in Skidoo</u></td></tr>
</tbody></table><p>There's a certain style of movie or show needed for LSD viewing; take
 it from yours truly, a former 1980's teenage acid head who dropped two tabs of white blotter to experience the VHS tapes of PINK FLOYD LIVE IN POMPEII (not the awful director's cut) and then, after two more hits, another collage-style experience, Bob Dylan DON'T LOOK BACK...</p><p>Dylan who
 Preminger, experimenting with LSD at the time, requested to score this 
mess about Jackie Gleason as a mafia hit-man married to an 
intentionally annoying Carol Channing... He's sentenced to a 
futuristic-looking Alcatraz who decides NOT to kill a friend/convict 
ratting on the chief mobster because... well... all that doesn't matter 
but at the same time, the plot's always being pushed at the audience, 
which is what NOT to do when trying to make something relevant to, or 
entertaining for, cinema-going Acid-Heads: But no matter the target audience, SKIDOO
 is just plain bad, and even worse than that, boring. <br>
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alexandra hay, comedy, counter-culture, groucho marx, jackie gleason, otto preminger, prison, sixties

OTTO PREMINGER'S COUNTER-CULTURE DISASTER OF 'SKIDOO'

Year: 1968 Rating: * For their time and in a matter of aesthetics, Otto Preminger's Film Noirs LAURA and FALLEN ANGEL (both with Dan...

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

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...

JEAN GABIN IN 'MOONTIDE' WITH THOMAS MITCHELL & IDA LUPINO

claude rains, film noir or melodrama, forties, helene reynolds, jean gabin, jerome cowan, robin raymond, romance, thomas mitchell

JEAN GABIN IN 'MOONTIDE' WITH THOMAS MITCHELL & IDA LUPINO

Jean Gabin in MOONTIDE Year: 1942 Rating: ***1/2 Begins with an intentionally surreal barroom scene with the headless body of pouting-lippe...

BRITISH CREATURE HORROR SUSPENSE YARN 'THE DEADLY BEES'

<p><u></u></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><p><u></u></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><p><u></u></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><u><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyWAlVkTlgUPUY4Zcz67ltYh8VU9tP29wlbM9RF0hNaZnx6xWnFXVtjEL02KDSoRuGT6ASuXvZh0ZguIUYhE1nfdPMUGThjgP0UaGpzWk1KfUKikWx0cbBwF2rkbY0pCQvktlmHwN8ZZ5K/s947/239614982_4502498543127724_8496898340320959235_n.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="555" data-original-width="947" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyWAlVkTlgUPUY4Zcz67ltYh8VU9tP29wlbM9RF0hNaZnx6xWnFXVtjEL02KDSoRuGT6ASuXvZh0ZguIUYhE1nfdPMUGThjgP0UaGpzWk1KfUKikWx0cbBwF2rkbY0pCQvktlmHwN8ZZ5K/w400-h235/239614982_4502498543127724_8496898340320959235_n.jpg" width="400"></a></u></div><p><u>title: THE DEADLY BEES year: 1966 cast: Suzanna Leigh, Frank Finlay, Guy Doleman, Michael Ripper director: Freddie Francis rating: ***1/2</u></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Don't mistake THE DEADLY BEES as one of those by-the-number creature-feature bug 
flicks where bees fly around killing people because of the ozone or 
military or whatever else causes "beasts" to cause havoc in other films 
of this type...</p><p>Despite the maligned camp status, DEADLY BEES is an intelligent British thriller centering on a beautiful singer who finds solace on an island, at the house of a 
professor who isn't nice to his wife, or her dog, and might just be mad 
enough to make bees... deadly. But with too-friendly/science-minded Frank Finlay involved, things are never quite what they seem, and 
this Amicus production mirroring Hammer Films (with the latter's regulars Michael Ripper, Suzanna Leigh and director Freddie Francis) is more Hitchcock than body count exploitation: 
building tension and mystery from start to finish. And when the bees do
 attack (although the effects are rather dated) it's quite a neat buzz. </p><p><span></span></p>

action, body count, british, creature, exploitation, frank finlay, guy doleman, horror, sixties, suspense, suzanna leigh

BRITISH CREATURE HORROR SUSPENSE YARN 'THE DEADLY BEES'

title: THE DEADLY BEES year: 1966 cast: Suzanna Leigh, Frank Finlay, Guy Doleman, Michael Ripper director: Freddie Francis rating: ***1/2 Do...

ROMAN POLANSKI'S 'A DAY AT THE BEACH' WITH MARK BURNS

beatie edney, british new wave, drama, indie, jack macgowran, joanna dunham, mark burns, maurice roëves, peter sellers, road movie, roman polanski, seventies

ROMAN POLANSKI'S 'A DAY AT THE BEACH' WITH MARK BURNS

Mark Burns and Beatie Edney in A DAY AT THE BEACH Year: 1970 Rating: ***1/2 Ironically, while Roman Polanski was in Europe the same year The...

RIP CHARLIE WATTS DRUMS UP 'LET'S SPEND THE NIGHT TOGETHER'

concert, eighties, hal ashby, mick jagger, music, rolling stones

RIP CHARLIE WATTS DRUMS UP 'LET'S SPEND THE NIGHT TOGETHER'

Charlie Watts in LET'S SPEND THE NIGHT TOGETHER Year: 1983 Rating: **** Nearing the end of British Movie Month on Cult Film Freak we say...

CHEVY CHASE AND DAN AYKROYD SEEK HOPE IN 'SPIES LIKE US'

action, adventure, bob hope, bruce davison, chevy chase, comedy, dan aykroyd, eighties, james daughton, john landis, nuclear, political, ray harryhausen, road movie, team-up, terry gilliam, tom hatten

CHEVY CHASE AND DAN AYKROYD SEEK HOPE IN 'SPIES LIKE US'

Title: Spies Like Us Year: 1986 Rating: *** Spouting technical jargon with a computer-like brain, Dan Aykroyd could have made the perfect ...

ROBERT MORSE IN 'THE BOATNIKS' WITH STEFANIE POWERS

action, comedy disney, denise lynn, disney, don ameche, kelly thorsden, lynn borden, mickey shaughnessy, norman fell, phil silvers, robert morse, seventies, stefanie powers, wally cox

ROBERT MORSE IN 'THE BOATNIKS' WITH STEFANIE POWERS

Opening Credits for THE BOATNIKS Year: 1970 Rating: ***1/2 Like THE APPLE DUMPLING GANG five-years later, Disney juggles two stories in one ...

CHARLES BRONSON, JILL IRELAND & JAN GAN BOYD 'ASSASSINATION'

<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/AVvXsEj5Hp5MNmvOM5-h83fjXvqPvYGNwVqYGsGCZPVIohyphenhyphenJSBKcRVTXhZoKrclQ0-9nRM5Oa8tmmbIC7tKTCdW_MJ1SuVjlDjgplTzTA8KSWIvOaOepsh-9TjXMteCa4Vve0vRezaiSw45mgOJR_ZG15cB-9XIFfltlBe-jwMaevAu5PnmWhdvi3xF04UBs0DLc/s954/AVvXsEgzpoOrhQRKG3yoj2tyvwL3HPqFc8kQ7fYU8EHcWz7eVFXQumVQh-eTgrG4YAbFY32OkGGtJ9gkslH-79_-5nA1EhTHOjS3Mn9wCoIMpVv9QRVEt5upMXkqOmXRY4dzaZwvtD85XaBreS5H0HkZI9fJxgpEeA6AUUU1EMVkNM5-WguzxN6MR0srG9Nikw=s16000.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="511" data-original-width="954" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5Hp5MNmvOM5-h83fjXvqPvYGNwVqYGsGCZPVIohyphenhyphenJSBKcRVTXhZoKrclQ0-9nRM5Oa8tmmbIC7tKTCdW_MJ1SuVjlDjgplTzTA8KSWIvOaOepsh-9TjXMteCa4Vve0vRezaiSw45mgOJR_ZG15cB-9XIFfltlBe-jwMaevAu5PnmWhdvi3xF04UBs0DLc/s16000/AVvXsEgzpoOrhQRKG3yoj2tyvwL3HPqFc8kQ7fYU8EHcWz7eVFXQumVQh-eTgrG4YAbFY32OkGGtJ9gkslH-79_-5nA1EhTHOjS3Mn9wCoIMpVv9QRVEt5upMXkqOmXRY4dzaZwvtD85XaBreS5H0HkZI9fJxgpEeA6AUUU1EMVkNM5-WguzxN6MR0srG9Nikw=s16000.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Charles Bronson & Jan Gan Boyd Year: 1988 Rates: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Jill Ireland's last collaboration after many with husband Charles Bronson gives her her biggest role as a bratty First Lady goading head of Secret Service Bronson with mind-games and media ploys, providing a NORTH BY NORTHWEST style road adventure that pays off with gun and bazooka fights, car and motorcycle chases along with exploding yachts and helicopters... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Bronson and Ireland have good chemistry along a rural road with assassins around every bend or waiting armed inside farmhouses...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, body count, cannon, charles bronson, eighties, exploitation, james staley, jill ireland, political, randy brooks, thriller

CHARLES BRONSON, JILL IRELAND & JAN GAN BOYD 'ASSASSINATION'

Charles Bronson & Jan Gan Boyd Year: 1988 Rates: ***1/2 Jill Ireland's last collaboration after many with husband Charles Bronson gi...

CHARLES BRONSON IN THE FRENCH THRILLER 'RIDER ON THE RAIN'

<table 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/a/AVvXsEiDgab8OEh7Ppov7ZTRZJoyCgHO1EF3VbSm55VfTA5dpazB4bcDi7zxGAoK1QerjoesnWEIJ8ixuZHkFY7DRks8uYRn3skE02yRYNiN-tAU6NlkFZ4ugL26VtNCz58I_oO-gaZRd-UCESMB1mGAnAk6BWvIQW9EuZDvwcsGOFRjS1EV5S3dpPdIQA_iRg=s1198" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1198" data-original-width="1064" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiDgab8OEh7Ppov7ZTRZJoyCgHO1EF3VbSm55VfTA5dpazB4bcDi7zxGAoK1QerjoesnWEIJ8ixuZHkFY7DRks8uYRn3skE02yRYNiN-tAU6NlkFZ4ugL26VtNCz58I_oO-gaZRd-UCESMB1mGAnAk6BWvIQW9EuZDvwcsGOFRjS1EV5S3dpPdIQA_iRg=w355-h400" width="355"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Kino Lorber inside cover Year: 1970 Rates: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The reversible Kino Lorber Blu Ray cover(s) for RIDER ON THE RAIN has one image of a shirtless and muscular Charles Bronson torturing ingenue Marlène Jobert at gun point; on the other side they look contented, even love-struck: And while both are misleading, Bronson's Col. Harry Dobbs does play rough trying to get Jobert's victimized Mellie to explain <i>everything</i>... <br></p><p></p><p></p><p>And it's that <i>everything</i> Dobbs is after in this cat and and mouse thriller that takes a little while to get going... despite the most memorable scenes involving creepy RIDER Marc Mazza occurring early on... supposedly the inspiration for The Doors' <i>Riders on the Storm</i>, this <i>killer's brain is squirming</i> from a banal decision to... after raping the girl... remain in her and her boring French husband's basement... </p><p>The husband making Jobert and Bronson's chemistry that much better, but still far from great, which a movie about mind games needed in order for the complications to matter, on either side... Although by the end, Bronson's muscular anti-hero (from snoop to interrogator to bodyguard) makes more sense, and with Jill Ireland given a bit role as a gossipy shop-girl, anyone would have fared better opposite Bronson (even a tough prostitute in an intense 11th hour scene)... But in what's basically a French art-film there needed an artsy-looking French girl, which Jobert definitely is. Yet what she's hiding... throughout a noisy/monotonous soundtrack... feels more misplaced, and all Bronson's searching (calling her "Love Love" sounding like "Blah Blah") is in vain... Making the creative direction by René Clément the best thing about RIDER, where each shot either means something or seems meant to.</p><p><span></span></p>

charles bronson, exploitation, jill ireland, marc mazza, marlene jobert, mystery, rene clement, seventies, thriller

CHARLES BRONSON IN THE FRENCH THRILLER 'RIDER ON THE RAIN'

Kino Lorber inside cover Year: 1970 Rates: *** The reversible Kino Lorber Blu Ray cover(s) for RIDER ON THE RAIN has one image of a shirtles...

MICHAEL WINNER DIRECTS CHARLES BRONSON IN 'CHATO'S LAND'

<table 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/AVvXsEgLuDNBF-0pxjLJV2yTTccjYWGs9FA8Qtp28dYXnxaseHpZBFf8Tc83_vsfNFvo67_2pFNlrySWnKKY-UYEUkUWnB6Hw2X0rCv7-mX7g7xCXFY236hqJYFuv29ld31LviKqV-hyJUWZWk2z/s547/Screen+Shot+2021-08-15+at+6.21.57+PM.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="407" data-original-width="547" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLuDNBF-0pxjLJV2yTTccjYWGs9FA8Qtp28dYXnxaseHpZBFf8Tc83_vsfNFvo67_2pFNlrySWnKKY-UYEUkUWnB6Hw2X0rCv7-mX7g7xCXFY236hqJYFuv29ld31LviKqV-hyJUWZWk2z/w400-h297/Screen+Shot+2021-08-15+at+6.21.57+PM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Charles Bronson in CHATO'S LAND year: 1971</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The first act of CHATO'S LAND should have an alternative title, since we
 don't experience his land, along with his wrath, till much, much later 
on. Perhaps THE MOSSY POSSE would have fit being that Jack Palance, as 
brooding ex-Confederate Capt. Quincey Whitmore, progressively gathers up
 a gang to head after Charles Bronson as Pardon Chato, who, in the 
film's gun-blasting prelude, kills a white man and is "gonna hang for 
it!" But that's only after he gets caught... which doesn't seem likely...<br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTs_Exj-ne-z3T6PBOk8YWO7tZJ_Q_wiruhI0zkUCteExDwgijiVgBsJ9oOqDpl9EIWFhXfObtVPUwpxhf2CU4C_prcr9_nwegI6V1P9qiD0OQJV1s8FML26VsDrJ3o957higIM993xK_m/s1674/11111.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1674" data-original-width="1002" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTs_Exj-ne-z3T6PBOk8YWO7tZJ_Q_wiruhI0zkUCteExDwgijiVgBsJ9oOqDpl9EIWFhXfObtVPUwpxhf2CU4C_prcr9_nwegI6V1P9qiD0OQJV1s8FML26VsDrJ3o957higIM993xK_m/s320/11111.jpeg" width="192"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rating: **1/2<br></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Chato knows his land, much like MR.
 MAJESTYK in two years, playing cat and mouse with the inferior villains; but it's really like two separate movies in one. The angry white men talk about Chato and how terrible Indians are
 in general, and we get to know some of them better than others, 
especially Richard Jordan as a young and feisty, troubled, sexed-up white trash and Simon Oakland as the polar opposite... </p><p>And yet he and several 
others hate Indians more than the mellow Palance, never losing his cool 
and playing a philosophical waiting game... And he waits, and waits...</p><p></p><p>Problem is, so do we... Way too long while never quite "walking a mile 
in the moccasins" of our title hero... Other than a few tricks, 
like splitting water bottles and stealing horses, the posse take up more
 screen time than Bronson, who actually does look 
part Mexican or Eskimo to begin with, and there's a point when this Anti-Western action flick could have actually used some action, earlier on, to see more what Chato's 
made of other than being Charles Bronson. Despite a few good scenes 
toward the end, the hunted and the hunter, and then the hunter doing the
 hunting, are too separate from each other to matter... or seem 
connected... as a whole. </p><p><span></span></p>

body count, charles bronson, exploitation, jack palance, michael winner, richard jordan, seventies, simon oakland, western

MICHAEL WINNER DIRECTS CHARLES BRONSON IN 'CHATO'S LAND'

Charles Bronson in CHATO'S LAND year: 1971 The first act of CHATO'S LAND should have an alternative title, since we don't exper...

MICHAEL WINNER DIRECTS CHARLES BRONSON IN 'DEATH WISH 3'

<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/AVvXsEjmYvSbZovJ8cm4zt3y8BA_qHQkT7oHGDQYpQkRb8p6Tdq5KojOPfRXnHTU3sB8fLySdwCRYPFZ9mMczClE13tw6YSe31BfiTARGGbZP9u9fsigIUms1P5dmYrUjueDXqegn54_rCMtPzoH/s1567/11.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="766" data-original-width="1567" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmYvSbZovJ8cm4zt3y8BA_qHQkT7oHGDQYpQkRb8p6Tdq5KojOPfRXnHTU3sB8fLySdwCRYPFZ9mMczClE13tw6YSe31BfiTARGGbZP9u9fsigIUms1P5dmYrUjueDXqegn54_rCMtPzoH/s16000/11.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Charles Bronson and Gavan O'Herlily foreign poster artwork Year: 1985 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>By the third DEATH WISH, a gray-haired Charles Bronson was showing his 
age. Although compared to a group of helpless elderly residents of an 
apartment building in the middle of a contained, highly dangerous urban 
neighborhood ruled by a vicious gang, he seems much younger. Plus, the 
iconic action star can still get around...</p><p></p><p></p><p>The villain is named Fraker, played by the actor who was the first basketball-bouncing Chuck Cunningham, enigmatic/pointless older brother of Ron Howard’s Richie on  HAPPY DAYS... <br></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/AVvXsEgjN6mJiHo64jFY3fAZquvZ0eF9gsNLgWJUPiIn70JvrmfkoYS5vYjLC-1k86IzpARr2dzP5fD3m2cfnQbMKtmD6dnWrY1y2OHsbsMw5omLJ2r6w7qR6qvlXprD9Ofr_-zu-vfUpWefKNPo/s1777/Screen%252BShot%252B2021-08-13%252Bat%252B9.17.02%252BPM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1006" data-original-width="1777" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjN6mJiHo64jFY3fAZquvZ0eF9gsNLgWJUPiIn70JvrmfkoYS5vYjLC-1k86IzpARr2dzP5fD3m2cfnQbMKtmD6dnWrY1y2OHsbsMw5omLJ2r6w7qR6qvlXprD9Ofr_-zu-vfUpWefKNPo/s16000/Screen%252BShot%252B2021-08-13%252Bat%252B9.17.02%252BPM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Gavan O'Herlihy as Fraker in DEATH WISH III</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Enter Gavan O'Herlihy, with a reverse Mohawk and a red stripe running
 down the middle of his shaved head, makes for an unlikely leader, 
especially one consisting of every race: from black to Hispanic to white...</p><p></p><p>But Fraker does have an effectively nasty glare that fits within the punk rock aura, displayed amongst the lot of sordid villains liken to a 
bunch of schoolyard goons with weapons: sneaking into old people’s 
apartments, stealing purses and wreaking general havoc, like brats with
 too much free time... </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/AVvXsEikuSLz5iZsnILKPtIoBFWBeM4Ii0-7leqkhBnDII-VmE_U97JKybpptGFPublsZwGIB22KdKG4IXPods0MHqgzvUG_Zs7UuU_cmjOER_EzYizmSHau-RbUhosE_aShMwCbPnx24FoHMtjw/s1865/Screen%252BShot%252B2021-08-13%252Bat%252B9.17.36%252BPM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1171" data-original-width="1865" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikuSLz5iZsnILKPtIoBFWBeM4Ii0-7leqkhBnDII-VmE_U97JKybpptGFPublsZwGIB22KdKG4IXPods0MHqgzvUG_Zs7UuU_cmjOER_EzYizmSHau-RbUhosE_aShMwCbPnx24FoHMtjw/s16000/Screen%252BShot%252B2021-08-13%252Bat%252B9.17.36%252BPM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Deborah Raffin in DEATH WISH 3</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>It’s Charles Bronson’s architect Paul Kersey... back 
in the grungy Neo Western New York City where everything began... who will send them into permanent 
detention...</p><p></p><p></p><p>A peripheral romance between Kersey and Deborah Raffin is useless 
filler, but Ed Lauter as a cut-corner and effective police captain, and 
Martin Balsam as the tenants’ weapon-stockpiling spokesman, serves as 
worthy side-characters, helping move the story and all the gratuitous 
cat-and-mouse action...<br>
</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/AVvXsEjJj1e0lrl6AcZGDlL0Hq0-T13WUVBGzoWp3CPmEhFO_D2erHCCTidWbHG2WlroBRRd33wteA2khOTBCWB08w4zLmv898kcjuQg-ZpJMxlH3Aj5O6AtrPsGvcpHOZuP4n95meqT081-RgEA/s1738/Screen%252BShot%252B2021-08-13%252Bat%252B9.17.23%252BPM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1130" data-original-width="1738" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJj1e0lrl6AcZGDlL0Hq0-T13WUVBGzoWp3CPmEhFO_D2erHCCTidWbHG2WlroBRRd33wteA2khOTBCWB08w4zLmv898kcjuQg-ZpJMxlH3Aj5O6AtrPsGvcpHOZuP4n95meqT081-RgEA/s16000/Screen%252BShot%252B2021-08-13%252Bat%252B9.17.23%252BPM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Charles Bronson in DEATH WISH 3</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The music, although given credit to Jimmy Page, who provided the 
ominously spooky guitar/synthesizer score of the second film, is actually 
completed by another composer, throwing in Page’s previous work with his
 own variations, making the soundtrack more conventional and less 
intriguing, foreboding... <br></p><p></p><p></p><p>And Michael Winner directs his last of three (out of five) 
DEATH WISH films, the camerawork full of the usual creative zoom shots 
in an exploitation manner, giving this mid-80’s venture a desperate and 
edgy early 70’s style throughout.</p><p><span></span></p>

action, alex winter, charles bronson, death wish, ed lauter, eighties, exploitation, franchise, gavan o'herlihy, jimmy page, martin balsam, michael winner, revenge, sequel

MICHAEL WINNER DIRECTS CHARLES BRONSON IN 'DEATH WISH 3'

Charles Bronson and Gavan O'Herlily foreign poster artwork Year: 1985 Rating: **** By the third DEATH WISH, a gray-haired Charles Bronso...

ROBERT DOWNEY JR AND VAL KILMER IN 'KISS KISS BANG BANG'

<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/AVvXsEimOu49r0UOdZgCEFGjRIJntM64veRfkTIJQf1uRuaAZBZ793XCUT_te8VHCkw9f25VGBlC5dInzSV_a1pRupDh62YhIK5SR6jf0MwaI2Xo0xka2AHoiHhqZXlKJitEXSqooxuijAM2eqcQ/s2241/Screen%252BShot%252B2021-08-08%252Bat%252B4.49.27%252BPM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="980" data-original-width="2241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimOu49r0UOdZgCEFGjRIJntM64veRfkTIJQf1uRuaAZBZ793XCUT_te8VHCkw9f25VGBlC5dInzSV_a1pRupDh62YhIK5SR6jf0MwaI2Xo0xka2AHoiHhqZXlKJitEXSqooxuijAM2eqcQ/s16000/Screen%252BShot%252B2021-08-08%252Bat%252B4.49.27%252BPM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Michelle Monaghan in KISS KISS BANG BANG Year: 2005 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Famous for writing the original LETHAL WEAPON, thus receiving Story Credit for the entire hit-and-miss franchise, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/05/NG.html">Shane Black</a> energetically attempts to trade mainstream action for a Quentin Tarantino style wheelhouse of humorously neurotic criminals who still do violent, desperate, horrible things... </p><p></p><p></p><p>And instead of outright ripping off the PULP FICTION auteur, Black goes back even further, basing the adapted KISS KISS BANG BANG on his love of Pulp Fiction itself: detective novels that inspired everything in the 1940's/1950's Noir lexicon, making this a mile-a-minute <i>Neo</i> Noir that runs itself ragged before the first fifteen minutes...</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/AVvXsEh4b7VDgP6QxgNsZpnJgwMGc7PBRDeOysatmICPZijdBccH14C-ApIPnM7ASYMlawVtrdBAK4H6fHJECM4ltctaqPgKGW8WT834mJbK59TW28jMX4nbV2CEiwh1BbfDDCQGvjo3ifWCyTWs/s2314/Screen%25252BShot%25252B2021-08-08%25252Bat%25252B4.18.09%25252BPM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="978" data-original-width="2314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4b7VDgP6QxgNsZpnJgwMGc7PBRDeOysatmICPZijdBccH14C-ApIPnM7ASYMlawVtrdBAK4H6fHJECM4ltctaqPgKGW8WT834mJbK59TW28jMX4nbV2CEiwh1BbfDDCQGvjo3ifWCyTWs/s16000/Screen%25252BShot%25252B2021-08-08%25252Bat%25252B4.18.09%25252BPM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert Downey Jr. in KISS KISS BANG BANG</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>But the perfect lead's cast to deliberately exhaust the audience with self-aware/self-deprecating narration that will often critique the very film you're watching, ala Mel Brooks. And although looking older than he would throughout his IRON MAN tenure... cleaning up from an infamous drug habit... Robert Downey Jr. fits our rambling crook turned would-be actor caught in a murder mystery as convoluted as the kind of novels that influenced it... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>In this case, a fictional gumshoe paperback series by a fictional author mentioned repeatedly and extremely important within the story itself, and that both Downey and super-gorgeous dream-girl Michelle Monaghan (and some other strategic characters) grew up reading... </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/AVvXsEix4gjyrcFsmhe0RZgZfVMrJjYA3W_LGFyS0wBPhskww6mJtKO8A-CLF-xHQP_Y8nkOvtFP_bQwliXQdgHfQI4iyHng372oPtmKAfGvXv0FUX0eCxa3QCoLPlNHJBJdkFdQk681YGuPPdwy/s2323/Screen%25252BShot%25252B2021-08-08%25252Bat%25252B4.54.41%25252BPM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="978" data-original-width="2323" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix4gjyrcFsmhe0RZgZfVMrJjYA3W_LGFyS0wBPhskww6mJtKO8A-CLF-xHQP_Y8nkOvtFP_bQwliXQdgHfQI4iyHng372oPtmKAfGvXv0FUX0eCxa3QCoLPlNHJBJdkFdQk681YGuPPdwy/s16000/Screen%25252BShot%25252B2021-08-08%25252Bat%25252B4.54.41%25252BPM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Michelle Monaghan and Robert Downey Jr. in KISS KISS BANG BANG</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>So now the Middle-American-born thirty-somethings are stuck in the fast L.A. nightlife, one step away from death while their peripheral romance... the vulnerable sap still in love with the hot chick who was always too good for him... seems straight out of Judd Apatow cinema...<br></p><p></p><p></p><p>But it's Val Kilmer who glues everything together as Gay Perry, a successful and confident homosexual Hollywood-hired detective teaching Downey the ropes... and yet soon enough both get equally tangled in the twisty bedlam (you can almost hear Kilmer channel Danny Glover's famous "I'm too old for this" line)...<br></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/AVvXsEjl8rrTB0Zn0cDNbt0BKFEeE47WuLdIT4LZOU8PXQZmxJysfF6tsui2SnWTWxvg9vwqU2NOFSUNLKXGdMWt0-0ewQOsWPJPBXEClzTXLdIb-qLVfXz5RZuzud7vg2kS6gYiOopxP65Edq_5/s2206/Screen%25252BShot%25252B2021-08-08%25252Bat%25252B4.22.38%25252BPM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="966" data-original-width="2206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl8rrTB0Zn0cDNbt0BKFEeE47WuLdIT4LZOU8PXQZmxJysfF6tsui2SnWTWxvg9vwqU2NOFSUNLKXGdMWt0-0ewQOsWPJPBXEClzTXLdIb-qLVfXz5RZuzud7vg2kS6gYiOopxP65Edq_5/s16000/Screen%25252BShot%25252B2021-08-08%25252Bat%25252B4.22.38%25252BPM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Val Kilmer in KISS KISS BANG BANG</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>So KISS KISS provides the once hot method-acting madman a surprisingly subdued role he can vanish into without trying too hard (THE DOORS) whilst providing more than just his rugged handsomeness (HEAT) which, at this point, is not only aged but has extra weight added on and, randomly teasing the gay stereotypes, he becomes both a befitting target and experienced muse for Downey's incessant quips...<br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And there are several action-packed/high-octane moments in Black's hyperactive thriller where he's showcasing something more 1980's mainstream after all... scenes of the polar opposite partners bickering (and even fist-fighting like 48 HRS) is far more entertaining and intriguing than those Tarantino elements that can wind up downright dizzying. But, for what its worth, KISS KISS BANG BANG is pretty much a good kind of dizzy.  </p><p><span></span></p>

ariel winter, buddy, comedy, crime, dark comedy, genre tarantino, gumshoe, michelle monaghan, neo noir, robert downey jr., shane black, shannyn sossamon, stephanie pearson, val kilmer, zeroes

ROBERT DOWNEY JR AND VAL KILMER IN 'KISS KISS BANG BANG'

Michelle Monaghan in KISS KISS BANG BANG Year: 2005 Rating: **** Famous for writing the original LETHAL WEAPON, thus receiving Story Credit ...

ELVIS PRESLEY HIDES HIS STRENGTH IN 'FOLLOW THAT DREAM'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table 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/AVvXsEgWON7gBUuLHwLBVJyuKKRMkM3pILJIdzExK9HQXPhGJ_3cuO7vDaVAK3u8R2tAVA3iASAHrT2LpJTGuyhyU6kvBHH8nh-_lztM4fBAwGlkHtJafNXdII4U4pW1RTsIy17AUfh57AZwtnD3/s935/Screen+Shot+2021-09-01+at+1.59.35+AM.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="634" data-original-width="935" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWON7gBUuLHwLBVJyuKKRMkM3pILJIdzExK9HQXPhGJ_3cuO7vDaVAK3u8R2tAVA3iASAHrT2LpJTGuyhyU6kvBHH8nh-_lztM4fBAwGlkHtJafNXdII4U4pW1RTsIy17AUfh57AZwtnD3/w400-h271/Screen+Shot+2021-09-01+at+1.59.35+AM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year of Broadcast: 1962 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Every
 album from any rock band or artist has that one song that glides 
smoother, grooves while keeping a steady hand-sweeping guitar rhythm, and it's not a sappy ballad but a kind of soft boogie, in-between;
 usually a forgotten track that never made the charts but glues the 
album together, somehow...<br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span>As is FOLLOW THAT DREAM in a theatrical sense, made by 
the highly eclectic THEM and KISS TOMORROW GOODBYE serious director Gordon 
Douglas who also had musical fun with SHE'S WORKING HER WAY THROUGH COLLEGE... </span></p><p><span>And Elvis was in his long decade-spanning "visual album" phase, seeming finished with the genuine 
Rock N' Roll </span><span>LP's</span><span>,
 including the incredible rudimentary Sun Records followed by immense chart toppers
 and then, sinking into hit/miss motion pictures he was musically replaced by The Beatles (who ironically worshiped him). And yet, in actuality, FOLLOW THAT DREAM is set RIGHT before the British and 
American game-changing counter-culture Invasion, and actually isn't too shabby...</span><br></p><div style="text-align: left;">
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soundtrack or to prove his big screen presence, DREAM borders on a fable...<br>
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</tbody></table><p>The plot involving a naive clan of nomads, not related save 
Presley's Toby Kwimper and his Pop, played by Arthur O'Connell (the 
drunk lawyer-friend of James Stewart in ANATOMY OF A MURDER)...</p><p>He's the stubborn and prideful
driver of his own vehicle with a surreptitious-sexy 19-year-old 
babysitter... of twin boys and a little girl... who'd been carried 
around and about since she was gawky-thirteen: that being Anne Helm as 
Holly Jones, one of the most genuine Elvis ingenues being that she's 
really not an ingenue-type for most of the film, but more of a little sister 
(or "kissin' cousin") who puts in the most work in the new outdoors 
family business...</p><span></span>

action, anne helm, arthur o'connell, elvis presley, gordon douglas, joanna moore, musical, romantic comedy, simon oakland, sixties

ELVIS PRESLEY HIDES HIS STRENGTH IN 'FOLLOW THAT DREAM'

Year of Broadcast: 1962 Rating: **** Every album from any rock band or artist has that one song that glides smoother, grooves while keepin...

CAROLINE MORTIMER & HEATHER SEARS IN 'SATURDAY NIGHT OUT'

<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/AVvXsEgVZd7jnjmMQX_vwCq7CvGN0tXGdPQIEwEJ6m04KDT3i7IWswQ3ZInsKk31Cz3_mVQnt0NSEF3dRQAE_9eWpRYH_ZjEAkfuVOIPgw5phs-SBf9Akhgx9jSKu2WsxCTl8LQehdVmOnnzt4dv/s1159/Screen%25252BShot%25252B2021-08-12%25252Bat%25252B8.59.33%25252BPM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="648" data-original-width="1159" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVZd7jnjmMQX_vwCq7CvGN0tXGdPQIEwEJ6m04KDT3i7IWswQ3ZInsKk31Cz3_mVQnt0NSEF3dRQAE_9eWpRYH_ZjEAkfuVOIPgw5phs-SBf9Akhgx9jSKu2WsxCTl8LQehdVmOnnzt4dv/s16000/Screen%25252BShot%25252B2021-08-12%25252Bat%25252B8.59.33%25252BPM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u><u>Caroline Mortimer</u> from the poster artwork for SATURDAY NIGHT OUT Year: 1964 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Not to be mistaken with the famous British <i>kitchen sink drama </i>SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING; the next day hardly matters and there are hardly any sinks in SATURDAY NIGHT OUT... </p><p></p><p>Except maybe at Heather Sears' bizarre apartment as a flaky, blunt and childish Beatnik chick, having met one of several merchant seaman on a weekend pass, starting out at a nightclub where house band The Searchers jovially blast their dance-steady Beatlesque rock... </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/AVvXsEjnwA71yVfyVkRfP8LEoMITJDC7RvgPfbxq87eTY2LfQV9MOKSvgTod4Iw82hgA0A1b54MYiRI5q4TII9lvxdqSb8qcr5C82D93lpmx0U8lH1bhFUlA59UhGxoFxXL6l70VSnYb2F0P_jX9/s1988/Screen%25252BShot%25252B2021-08-13%25252Bat%25252B2.44.15%25252BAM%252B2.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1203" data-original-width="1988" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnwA71yVfyVkRfP8LEoMITJDC7RvgPfbxq87eTY2LfQV9MOKSvgTod4Iw82hgA0A1b54MYiRI5q4TII9lvxdqSb8qcr5C82D93lpmx0U8lH1bhFUlA59UhGxoFxXL6l70VSnYb2F0P_jX9/s16000/Screen%25252BShot%25252B2021-08-13%25252Bat%25252B2.44.15%25252BAM%252B2.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>The Searchers playing SATURDAY NIGHT OUT</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Providing the kind of <i>source music </i>(non-composed and heard by both the audience and characters) that'd become normal a decade later in the 24-hour spanning classic <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2013/07/american-graffiti-theatrical-experience.html">AMERICAN GRAFFITI</a>... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Alas this all-night forerunner has a bland existential plot yet is loaded with fine British actors like Bernard Lee (despite being way too old for ingenue Erika Remberg), Nigel Green and David Lodge...</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/AVvXsEhDkV8ziP_ao5DoIsiAgXERVJ6Nl3L5zucMl0vOotxSOU40znwPq7uoCDmniF3vqdFKVe_Px16TtxaR3b8boSW39PIU8fmrXYnyJybMFjrORvPVR3iY2UQHZ0mmr44j4ZLabwowszP-n08V/s1985/Screen%252BShot%252B2021-08-13%252Bat%252B2.53.17%252BAM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1193" data-original-width="1985" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDkV8ziP_ao5DoIsiAgXERVJ6Nl3L5zucMl0vOotxSOU40znwPq7uoCDmniF3vqdFKVe_Px16TtxaR3b8boSW39PIU8fmrXYnyJybMFjrORvPVR3iY2UQHZ0mmr44j4ZLabwowszP-n08V/s16000/Screen%252BShot%252B2021-08-13%252Bat%252B2.53.17%252BAM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Inigo Jackson with Vera Day in SATURDAY NIGHT OUT with </u><u>Caroline Mortimer</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>And while not crime-centered like many <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/british%20new%20wave">British New Wave</a> flicks, the best story involves a haphazard Inigo Jackson seduced by and progressively ripped off by a darker club's b-girls in seductive and flirtatious poodle-carrying brunette Caroline Mortimer and experienced blonde Vera Day, providing the most situational suspense herein...  <br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Meanwhile the only truly satisfying arc has Francesca Annis forever<i> </i>hooked<i> </i>with the handsomest of the traipsing males: all of whom should have had a wilder, more intriguing SATURDAY NIGHT OUT... Overall this feels more like a Tuesday.  </p><p><span></span></p>

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CAROLINE MORTIMER & HEATHER SEARS IN 'SATURDAY NIGHT OUT'

Caroline Mortimer from the poster artwork for SATURDAY NIGHT OUT Year: 1964 Rating: *** Not to be mistaken with the famous British kitchen ...

YOKO TANI AND JOHN CRAWFORD IN 'PICCADILLY THIRD STOP'

<p></p><table 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/AVvXsEhnnvl_KlYck7Ugzxrc-Ob-Y9kXa6p0nG3fyTrMM04OuGbq7k8E-fVB9r7VaTeTlUQZWX4pMShwr41c0-NJ2p40RxlycMeORznmTxK-9UsT-Vru5Z_o8MyJUGTLYlrGwlzmCer0AOny8FnM/s726/Screen+Shot+2021-08-02+at+9.04.47+AM.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="650" data-original-width="726" height="359" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnnvl_KlYck7Ugzxrc-Ob-Y9kXa6p0nG3fyTrMM04OuGbq7k8E-fVB9r7VaTeTlUQZWX4pMShwr41c0-NJ2p40RxlycMeORznmTxK-9UsT-Vru5Z_o8MyJUGTLYlrGwlzmCer0AOny8FnM/w400-h359/Screen+Shot+2021-08-02+at+9.04.47+AM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Yoko Tani gets the cover from 1960 Rating: ***</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The British crime-heist b-movie PICCADILLY THIRD STOP could also be known as <i>Your Fault Jungle</i> since there's never been a more spiteful, argumentative group to rob a safe together... </p><p>Which includes usual suspect ingredients like the safe-cracker himself, the backer, the weak link, the leader, and instead of the usual Noir two are three dames, and the most important isn't British but Asian in French-born starlet Yôko Tani as a rich ambassador's initially virginal daughter until played by womanizing lead Terence Morgan... </p><p></p><p>After which she becomes part manipulated Geisha part trophy Marilyn Monroe ala THE ASPHALT JUNGLE, including not only an anticipated double-cross but attempted triple-cross... </p><p>Particularly with <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/03/HellisACity.html">HELL IS A CITY</a> edgy/grouchy American import John Crawford, in-dept to crooked casino-owner Dennis Price while unhappily married to ingenue <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/03/third-man-finally-died.html">Mai Zetterling</a> (sleeping with the sneaky Morgan, who lives with an underused <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/ann%20lynn">Ann Lynn</a>). So basically STOP is dialog-driven as the suspense lies not in the heist or whoever might be killed but who'll get a punch in the nose for annoying one another. That's except for quirky safe-cracking scene-stealer William Hartnell... who needed more screen-time since when he's around, the gang (and movie) becomes more centered, driven, professional. </p><span></span>

ann lynn, british neo noir, british new wave, charles kay, dennis price, heist, john crawford, mai zetterling, sixties, terence morgan, william hartnell, yoko tani

YOKO TANI AND JOHN CRAWFORD IN 'PICCADILLY THIRD STOP'

Yoko Tani gets the cover from 1960 Rating: *** The British crime-heist b-movie PICCADILLY THIRD STOP could also be known as Your Fault Jungl...

STEWART GRANGER WITH BERNARD LEE IN 'THE SECRET PARTNER'

<p></p><table 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/AVvXsEjNVcJA0NaJT-uC4EzJ7Cptkb4VW8IPWwmoOySrNwFinzXMtA71HLcoSlrjhR5kFf_oJlXJN2JwdM6Hd_RnbCXuT0c_4zzfDq6tH3J7Hs51VpxhqKnJjkzPgJKe7FbfBMGEyCR8YkXLObs2/s1604/MV5BMjAzNjNkOTgtN2E2Yi00YTk4LWExZTgtMTQ5OGE1MTc4ODViXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTk2MzI2Ng%2540%2540._V1_.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1163" data-original-width="1604" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNVcJA0NaJT-uC4EzJ7Cptkb4VW8IPWwmoOySrNwFinzXMtA71HLcoSlrjhR5kFf_oJlXJN2JwdM6Hd_RnbCXuT0c_4zzfDq6tH3J7Hs51VpxhqKnJjkzPgJKe7FbfBMGEyCR8YkXLObs2/w400-h290/MV5BMjAzNjNkOTgtN2E2Yi00YTk4LWExZTgtMTQ5OGE1MTc4ODViXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTk2MzI2Ng%2540%2540._V1_.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Granger, Lee & Harareet Year: 1963 Rating: ****</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Hybrid of THE THIRD MAN where steely London never looked so menacing with science-fiction/horror with the title menace's mask and spooky voice-box, and who exactly THE SECRET PARTNER is can't be entirely figured in this always-guessing mystery thriller since two people are being blackmailed including an initially blackmailing dentist and Stewart Granger, so enigmatic he can't be altogether trusted despite portraying the victimized lead... </p><p></p><p>There's a doomed underworld vibe despite almost equal screen time spent in a bright police station with token inspector Bernard Lee, figuring things along with both the audience and Granger himself... as this is is a con artist story despite seeming like a revenge against a man who's supposedly a former one. The cast also includes lovely yet tough Haya Harareet as Granger's supposedly betrayed wife who seems anything but a victim, and the shifty Peter Lorre-like dentist played by a quirky Norman Bird. As in most British b-movies, the side-characters and location... from industrial London factories, bleak city streets and an immense shipyard... stands out above the mainline, which in itself is always shifting, twisty and unpredictable.  <br></p><p><span></span></p>

bernard lee, british neo noir, british new wave, colette wild, con man, haya harareet, mystery, norman bird, sixties, stewart granger, thriller

STEWART GRANGER WITH BERNARD LEE IN 'THE SECRET PARTNER'

Granger, Lee & Harareet Year: 1963 Rating: **** Hybrid of THE THIRD MAN where steely London never looked so menacing with science-fictio...

NIGEL PATRICK IN 'UNDERWORLD INFORMERS' AKA 'THE INFORMERS'

british neo noir, british new wave, colin blakely, crime, derren nesbitt, faye craig, frank finley, katherine woodville, margaret whiting, michael coles, nigel patrick, sixties

NIGEL PATRICK IN 'UNDERWORLD INFORMERS' AKA 'THE INFORMERS'

Year: 1963 Rating: ***1/2 No matter what title's used, UNDERWORLD INFORMERS or simply THE INFORMERS, it's right up front about those...

JOHN CARSON IN THE OFFBEAT MYSTERY THRILLER 'ACT OF MURDER'

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JOHN CARSON IN THE OFFBEAT MYSTERY THRILLER 'ACT OF MURDER'

Anthony Bate in Act of Murder Year: 1964 Rating: ** John Carson may look like a leading man, but the handsome square-jawed British b-crime s...

BRITISH NEW WAVE 'THE BOYS' WITH RONALD LACEY & JESS CONRAD

<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/AVvXsEiYrMF1eSwPxV13MtYN6u9AhJHIHlw-71TiYXIMVRw0ifHd820WGmOcRUGAadr9aucF9yvrpxavXx6sA3UL_I38ATIXlGdImVT9VuBsEieJ95lm8MByRRhFW08aARE0Ub49loQjq4dshTCtAZZtiLnA2MQLQFvrvsYvbEmeaVSEm2faSDJ1fz3k7UOoxA/s1317/Screen%20Shot%202021-08-03%20at%2011.50.28%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="1317" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYrMF1eSwPxV13MtYN6u9AhJHIHlw-71TiYXIMVRw0ifHd820WGmOcRUGAadr9aucF9yvrpxavXx6sA3UL_I38ATIXlGdImVT9VuBsEieJ95lm8MByRRhFW08aARE0Ub49loQjq4dshTCtAZZtiLnA2MQLQFvrvsYvbEmeaVSEm2faSDJ1fz3k7UOoxA/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202021-08-03%20at%2011.50.28%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Tony Garnett with Jess Conrad and Dudley Sutton</u><u> in THE BOYS Year: 1962 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>A kind of <i>depending upon perspective</i> RASHOMON of the rebellious teen set has a gang of four young Brits accused of murder; yet THE BOYS is more a street-set thriller than courtroom drama with creative director Sidney J. Furie unveiling a mystery where only the four suspects know the exact truth, leading to an inevitable twist that's worth the otherwise overlong wait... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Headed by the memorably offbeat Dudley Sutton as the group's shifty instigator while real life pop singer Jess Conrad's the most sympathetic with nerdy/likeable Ronald Lacey and a tough-sullen Tony Garnett in-between... </p><p><span></span></p>

brian weske, british neo noir, british new wave, carol white, courtroom drama, dudley sutton, jess conrad, mystery, richard todd, robert morley, ronald lacey, roy kinnear, sidney j. furie, sixties, teddy boys

BRITISH NEW WAVE 'THE BOYS' WITH RONALD LACEY & JESS CONRAD

Tony Garnett with Jess Conrad and Dudley Sutton in THE BOYS Year: 1962 Rating: ***1/2 A kind of depending upon perspective RASHOMON of the...

ERIC IDLE AND ROBBIE COLTRANE BECOME 'NUNS ON THE RUN'

<table 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/AVvXsEgC_IZwog_wuyCgsVAobMeg6jCjGrMhXUr2AUEpplBuU6ccEA4TFa5mgmpoNlSdXlaOe0K50_LVCskbr1VA0qQ68Lal3_HyiVIwcsSeeE5jW9JO2jUIYZr75XE0aCluKDFxs5iUF0u4GAl0/s698/Screen+Shot+2021-08-08+at+3.17.49+AM.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="599" data-original-width="698" height="344" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC_IZwog_wuyCgsVAobMeg6jCjGrMhXUr2AUEpplBuU6ccEA4TFa5mgmpoNlSdXlaOe0K50_LVCskbr1VA0qQ68Lal3_HyiVIwcsSeeE5jW9JO2jUIYZr75XE0aCluKDFxs5iUF0u4GAl0/w400-h344/Screen+Shot+2021-08-08+at+3.17.49+AM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1990 Producer: George Harrison Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The late dark horse Beatles guitarist George Harrison’s Handmade Films produced a mixed bag of projects: The established cult favorites include MONTY PYTHON’S LIFE OF BRIAN and 
LIVE AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL; Terry Gilliam's dwarf adventure fantasy TIME 
BANDITS and the underrated Jodie Foster 1950's melodrama FIVE CORNERS while the
 bad includes the truly horrible/critically demolished SHANGHAI SURPRISE starring Harrison's at-that-time client celebrity couple, Sean Penn and Madonna...<br></p><p></p><p>On the more obscure end there's a forgotten lot including Michael Palin comedies A PRIVATE 
FUNCTION and THE MISSIONARY... </p><p>And with that list intact, sticking with 
another Python vet while providing George's tropically-blues solo career ballad <i>Blow Away</i>, NUNS ON THE RUN stars Eric Idle and rotund comic actor Robbie Coltrane, residing somewhere in-between the musician/producer's eclectic cinematic patchwork. Especially thanks to the extremely cute Camille Coduri, who isn't your waify ingenue like most American actresses; she has a great
 smile, voluptuous curves and big sad pouting eyes, melting Eric Idle’s 
Brian Hope within moments of meeting at the diner where she’s employed…<br></p><p></p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgsfLElaQ7oA04WMF_94fHVmUxW8yjdOzjxwdeCdfugxNwu-c2myLxIlJKNbJ0KxZDkmaYkDXFChx2VUuyf85mWLjDp6RBsYziAQ_NRhvfk6FosuhP_LRb47ET_SQtyaO0s_jV5PQJRId6ZR-Xn2hID4Z_B_Jk1r-Su6OVvHi8FXg0N7AuVX1IcU91l5A=s1028" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1028" data-original-width="788" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgsfLElaQ7oA04WMF_94fHVmUxW8yjdOzjxwdeCdfugxNwu-c2myLxIlJKNbJ0KxZDkmaYkDXFChx2VUuyf85mWLjDp6RBsYziAQ_NRhvfk6FosuhP_LRb47ET_SQtyaO0s_jV5PQJRId6ZR-Xn2hID4Z_B_Jk1r-Su6OVvHi8FXg0N7AuVX1IcU91l5A=w306-h400" width="306"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Camille Corduri in Nuns on the Run</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>And that’s saying something since Brian has a lot on his mind, including
 being constantly lectured by stout buddy/partner Robbie Coltrane as 
Charlie McManus. Both Charlie and Brian are workaday bank robbers who, 
after a double-cross plan that Faith overhears, wind up with a cliché 
briefcase of stolen cash...</p><p>And through creative dutch angles, are sought
 after by a gang of mobsters that are genuinely serious and lethal throughout the comedy hijinx (pre-Tarantino no less)  as the boys hide out and pose as… you 
guessed it… NUNS! </p><p></p><p>The ON THE RUN part doesn’t entirely fit the storyline since there isn’t far to go, and the entire film takes place in locations along one 
particular England street: A nice mellow atmosphere that relies 
on keeping up a suspenseful scam... </p><p></p><p>The draped duo have to keep the other residents, including a bevy of young hot students, into thinking they’re visiting nuns… </p><p>Which is all a WE'RE NO ANGELS inspired prolonged ruse often stretched beyond limit. And they wind up having 
to trick Camille, as Faith; although without her glasses she can’t see a lick, providing leeway for 
the boys: The only Monty Python style joke is a reoccurring argument 
about The Holy Trinity, allowing Idle to take part in clever diatribes 
concerning the baseline of a religion he just doesn’t get. But of the 
two, Robbie Coltrane really stands out, keeping his expository faith intact 
while lusting after the student/girls who look up to him… or rather, her. And
 the resulting action sequences aren’t too shabby either: Camille 
becomes the most important cog in a decent comedy vehicle that’s an even
 better ride the second and third time. </p><p><span></span></p>

british, camille coduri, comedy, crime, cross-dressing, eric idle, george harrison, handmade films, heist, jonathan lynn, nineties, religion, robbie coltrane

ERIC IDLE AND ROBBIE COLTRANE BECOME 'NUNS ON THE RUN'

Year: 1990 Producer: George Harrison Rating: ***1/2 The late dark horse Beatles guitarist George Harrison’s Handmade Films produced a mixed ...

DERREN NESBITT STALKS A DARING BRITISH NEW WAVE 'VICTIM'

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DERREN NESBITT STALKS A DARING BRITISH NEW WAVE 'VICTIM'

Year: 1961 Rating: ***1/2 If watching the 1961 British crime film VICTIM with no idea about the plot, the spooked young "Boy Barrett...

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