cult film freak: December 2024

Written by James M. Tate / 12/22/2024 / No comments / body count , eighties , franchise , horror , jensen daggett , kelly hu , peter mark richman , saffron henderson , sharlene martin , slasher

PETER MARK RICHMAN AND 'JASON TAKES MANHATTAN: FRIDAY 13TH'

<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/AVvXsEjye_5y_ZfZqAUa92hLzaeBNeV0sj0kqRS35cxeuvYr2ivpzu4WlV90FZtl2QHjTaZHV0rK_ke8IMdgreNz-HqVAf6zQAASF6DGbSlLk6wvMyjO_wG_yAgdZ02XQX2BveheJmuNA_6NWCihGmdm97P8qhVIiSHMcQIH-TQKSrS5yes7uW7s_gP7peeRxqB1/s1418/Screen%20Shot%202024-12-22%20at%209.54.24%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="876" data-original-width="1418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjye_5y_ZfZqAUa92hLzaeBNeV0sj0kqRS35cxeuvYr2ivpzu4WlV90FZtl2QHjTaZHV0rK_ke8IMdgreNz-HqVAf6zQAASF6DGbSlLk6wvMyjO_wG_yAgdZ02XQX2BveheJmuNA_6NWCihGmdm97P8qhVIiSHMcQIH-TQKSrS5yes7uW7s_gP7peeRxqB1/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-12-22%20at%209.54.24%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Peter Mark Richman in FRIDAY THE 13TH PART VII: JASON TAKES MANHATTAN Year: 1989 Rates: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>The first real semi-separated novelty of the FRIDAY THE 13TH franchise, JASON TAKES MANHATTAN (Part 8) has its satire built right into the title... the only problem is, he hardly winds up in Manhattan/New York at all... Most of the action... as in people getting picked off by the hockey-mask-wearing killer... takes place on a large charter boat to get there — with all the character tropes including a conceited blonde, a geeky guy, an affable handsome fella who of course loves the final girl, here in girl-next-door Jensen Daggett, related to and connected with the scene-stealer and basically, co-antagonist throughout...

body count, eighties, franchise, horror, jensen daggett, kelly hu, peter mark richman, saffron henderson, sharlene martin, slasher

PETER MARK RICHMAN AND 'JASON TAKES MANHATTAN: FRIDAY 13TH'

Peter Mark Richman in FRIDAY THE 13TH PART VII: JASON TAKES MANHATTAN Year: 1989 Rates: ***1/2 The first real semi-separated novelty of the ...

SUSAN TYRRELL STALKING 'BUTCHER, BAKER, NIGHTMARE MAKER'

<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/AVvXsEgSYrIlMjFqSx3-LlNLiyhyYpNuKJaiFa7vBtGPUuJuQVBGfLl8vpeLF-_4-a9dRZTUvAfpqGCqXAaqLAli3s2vMasw9KDR3U4p0XJh9JpPYO-jalUQ12HO3iwFH6bFAji85OJrcgUQz5fRXbKbo8EPRvsJRMri6PQZPjWM3wywjl5J4wEpx4U_JmLFyr94/s1918/Screen%20Shot%202024-12-21%20at%203.54.32%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="952" data-original-width="1918" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSYrIlMjFqSx3-LlNLiyhyYpNuKJaiFa7vBtGPUuJuQVBGfLl8vpeLF-_4-a9dRZTUvAfpqGCqXAaqLAli3s2vMasw9KDR3U4p0XJh9JpPYO-jalUQ12HO3iwFH6bFAji85OJrcgUQz5fRXbKbo8EPRvsJRMri6PQZPjWM3wywjl5J4wEpx4U_JmLFyr94/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-12-21%20at%203.54.32%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: BUTCHER, BAKER, NIGHTMARE MAKER Year: 1981 Rating: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>Somewhat misleadingly billed as a straight-out horror, and with an exploitation title to get people into the theater, BUTCHER, BAKER, NIGHTMARE MAKER (having nothing to do with the story) has one important element that makes it more suspenseful thriller than body-count chiller... And that's Susan Tyrrell, who, looking as if Golden Age starlet Gloria Grahame suffered an eternal hangover, could play hag-characters so realistically grotesque, she devours the scenery just by showing up... even though, in this case, she's not technically the main character, provided here by athletically-innocent high-schooler Jimmy McNichol, who was mostly famous for having a far more famous sister...

bill paxton, bo svenson, cult, drama, eighties, exploitation, horror, jimmy mcnichol, julia duffy, susan tyrrell, thriller

SUSAN TYRRELL STALKING 'BUTCHER, BAKER, NIGHTMARE MAKER'

Title: BUTCHER, BAKER, NIGHTMARE MAKER Year: 1981 Rating: ***1/2 Somewhat misleadingly billed as a straight-out horror, and with an exploita...

TUESDAY WELD KILLS 'PRETTY POISON' WITH ANTHONY PERKINS

<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/AVvXsEine9DCcW5wKhwAsptIWJ7hJ4NA8T2LUAuU7gZJlIN9hGv-wyX64mjZu33foXQT_hSPD5FrgIPWvSbKeFiccV6NnqtKf9g-a3_-DhbAWzdZwiHKn0xQNpMU9brJBImDf6omwxMmBQ6keRL_vsVcslUbL4BHktZywODqwL2kNOkqqsvlwDcReCYQXSKOp6b7/s2148/Screen%20Shot%202024-12-15%20at%2011.26.17%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1192" data-original-width="2148" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEine9DCcW5wKhwAsptIWJ7hJ4NA8T2LUAuU7gZJlIN9hGv-wyX64mjZu33foXQT_hSPD5FrgIPWvSbKeFiccV6NnqtKf9g-a3_-DhbAWzdZwiHKn0xQNpMU9brJBImDf6omwxMmBQ6keRL_vsVcslUbL4BHktZywODqwL2kNOkqqsvlwDcReCYQXSKOp6b7/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-12-15%20at%2011.26.17%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Anthony Perkins and Tuesday Weld in PRETTY POISON Year: 1968 Rating: ****</td></tr></tbody></table>In Alfred Hitchcock's PSYCHO, few women were safe around Anthony Perkins... and in PRETTY POISON, gorgeous young blonde Tuesday Weld turns tables after seeming to fall in love with Perkins' Dennis Pitt, ironically just freed from a mental institution (because of a childhood arson) and, working for a chemical company, his fantastical symptoms persist in that he thinks himself a secret agent...Yet the plot's not what he thinks but what Weld's high-schooler Sue Ann Stepanek buys into... progressing from a kind of LILITH style young-lovers arthouse romance to a dark-comedy/drama far ahead of its time, setting the stage for BADLANDS and Quentin Tarantino's script of NATURAL BORN KILLERS...

anthony perkins, cult, dark comedy, drama, john randolph, ken kercheval, sixties, thriller, tuesday weld

TUESDAY WELD KILLS 'PRETTY POISON' WITH ANTHONY PERKINS

Anthony Perkins and Tuesday Weld in PRETTY POISON Year: 1968 Rating: **** In Alfred Hitchcock's PSYCHO, few women were safe around Antho...

FRANK SINATRA RETURNS AS TONY ROME IN 'LADY IN CEMENT'

<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/AVvXsEjsIYtJRllfexjYwxcmIhV8B8K6DY0zGtijnWCOfW8KIkueUYY7agnvU4en-oWRaG3uQEjhLbcGsMhfmxIKS4-Dwcy3iI-O2nk3fNU7V765PhetyFSDNa227Mf1kNm7UsC0Wok4vkCkjTpPWrdq93QAKXcl53fA2CDhjrfBRZ7pUwMBM4sA5a4bN7EtKyS-/s1878/Screen%20Shot%202024-12-14%20at%207.13.52%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1124" data-original-width="1878" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsIYtJRllfexjYwxcmIhV8B8K6DY0zGtijnWCOfW8KIkueUYY7agnvU4en-oWRaG3uQEjhLbcGsMhfmxIKS4-Dwcy3iI-O2nk3fNU7V765PhetyFSDNa227Mf1kNm7UsC0Wok4vkCkjTpPWrdq93QAKXcl53fA2CDhjrfBRZ7pUwMBM4sA5a4bN7EtKyS-/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-12-14%20at%207.13.52%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In LADY IN CEMENT Year: 1967 Rating: ***</td></tr></tbody></table>In the sequel to the neo-noir <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/04/lyon-of-rome.html">TONY ROME</a>, with Frank Sinatra in the lead role during the colorful late 1960's... while deep sea diving he literally sees the LADY IN CEMENT at the bottom of the ocean... Her naked, otherwise model-looking corpse surrounded by guardian sharks as otherwise capable director Gordon Douglas, who filmed several of Frank's crime/heist vehicles, doesn't get a lot of tension out of what should be an extremely suspenseful situation: as Rome merely brushes off each shark as if they were nothing...

action, chris robinson, dan blocker, frank sinatra, gumshoe, jazz-score, lainie kazan, mystery, neo noir, raquel welch, richard conte, sixties

FRANK SINATRA RETURNS AS TONY ROME IN 'LADY IN CEMENT'

In LADY IN CEMENT Year: 1967 Rating: *** In the sequel to the neo-noir TONY ROME , with Frank Sinatra in the lead role during the colorful l...

DANE CLARK WITH BEN JOHNSON & PETER GRAVES 'FORT DEFIANCE'

<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/AVvXsEjbgsHzGZdCEgKklq8ykcr5b4MfGq4MU-tQsuCZEKPsz5O3eaWahHvcNWKmtEZP8UdZIlcN5NmDzmNwSM9xk5hnqBkyHjvZ37GIBpbeSfsSX_tJzANs9q4HH_a0n_WoLj5lVu42K2zl6MrebOK59KPtt6RKllBhj-rtyDsedi-sXtuVm1LYWyrOmb-TvIue/s1968/Screen%20Shot%202024-12-22%20at%208.44.58%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1110" data-original-width="1968" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbgsHzGZdCEgKklq8ykcr5b4MfGq4MU-tQsuCZEKPsz5O3eaWahHvcNWKmtEZP8UdZIlcN5NmDzmNwSM9xk5hnqBkyHjvZ37GIBpbeSfsSX_tJzANs9q4HH_a0n_WoLj5lVu42K2zl6MrebOK59KPtt6RKllBhj-rtyDsedi-sXtuVm1LYWyrOmb-TvIue/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-12-22%20at%208.44.58%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dane Clark in FORT DEFIANCE Year: 1951 Rates: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>For a fitfully simple b-western, FORT DEFIANCE has the most complicated case of post Civil War revenge, twofold: first there's Ben Johnson, who becomes a ranch-hand working for blind, extremely trustworthy Peter Graves, and secretly wants to kill Peter's older brother for backing out of one of the last battles... and then an entire posse wants both brothers dead... Enter first-billed Dan Clark, extremely anticipated through expository dialogue, thirty-five minutes in, as his brother and new best friend are cornered by Indians in a cornering canyon, led by legendary faker Iron Eyes Cody...

action, adventure, ben johnson, dane clark, fifties, peter graves, tracey roberts, western

DANE CLARK WITH BEN JOHNSON & PETER GRAVES 'FORT DEFIANCE'

Dane Clark in FORT DEFIANCE Year: 1951 Rates: ***1/2 For a fitfully simple b-western, FORT DEFIANCE has the most complicated case of post Ci...

DEFENDING THE BREEZY SEQUEL 'BREAKIN 2': ELECTRIC BOOGALOO'

<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/AVvXsEh4CMdlSLCAtz2c5Mmq1faLghHh0vag2791PpV2KAI9Ub45bbMwWD8Vkw9ErDAEBrtj97TeAgAZc7ud3PiRi_rRF2NyZ2fQ8vEe31cUeYVF1yZ3JEoPPbZNQgqQIjraluDUlaMGkCQlihmYInhuCSfECbcgT56-bbxhTqlpRm_m6DxdB1YGRlBxfgOMuDHh/s1840/Screen%20Shot%202024-12-11%20at%2012.29.33%20AM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1072" data-original-width="1840" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4CMdlSLCAtz2c5Mmq1faLghHh0vag2791PpV2KAI9Ub45bbMwWD8Vkw9ErDAEBrtj97TeAgAZc7ud3PiRi_rRF2NyZ2fQ8vEe31cUeYVF1yZ3JEoPPbZNQgqQIjraluDUlaMGkCQlihmYInhuCSfECbcgT56-bbxhTqlpRm_m6DxdB1YGRlBxfgOMuDHh/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-12-11%20at%2012.29.33%20AM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: BREAKIN' 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO Year: 1984 Rating: ***</td></tr></tbody></table>Cannon Films' BREAKIN' 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO  was rushed out the same year of the original's box office success, yet is more of a “Musical Based on The Film" (or a failed attempt at the first episode of a TV-series based on the film) than a necessary followup on its own... Fantasy sequences replace the former urban, realistic street grooves and back-room competitions: In fact, within the first five minutes the entire downtown is dancing… including mailmen, cops, everyone...

adolfo quinones, cannon, comedy, dance, harry caesar, ice-t, lucinda dickey, michael chambers, musical, sabrina garcia, sequel

DEFENDING THE BREEZY SEQUEL 'BREAKIN 2': ELECTRIC BOOGALOO'

Title: BREAKIN' 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO Year: 1984 Rating: *** Cannon Films' BREAKIN' 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO was rushed out the same...

FIONA FULLERTON, ERIN GERAGHTY & JULIE DAWN COLE IN 'ANGELS'

<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/AVvXsEgZsF7qUResYtH-Wf3rUvEp6Yj7AOI6OJOeIM2Wu3uWKkPIFJdOidLAn-_JdZW1ETSmFN-1F0LAMmZB8Hei1e6sfjQEeSImGNKbBAjTItVeMk_Ba5k-UGwBM5Seexm6xJNUdFrrWqm8lyv4LloGjRyThyphenhyphenTC0oVQAzxutuzxKTIheQsYHgFqgjuxFkg4CCgK/s1110/Screen%20Shot%202024-12-09%20at%207.16.44%20PM%203.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="1110" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZsF7qUResYtH-Wf3rUvEp6Yj7AOI6OJOeIM2Wu3uWKkPIFJdOidLAn-_JdZW1ETSmFN-1F0LAMmZB8Hei1e6sfjQEeSImGNKbBAjTItVeMk_Ba5k-UGwBM5Seexm6xJNUdFrrWqm8lyv4LloGjRyThyphenhyphenTC0oVQAzxutuzxKTIheQsYHgFqgjuxFkg4CCgK/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-12-09%20at%207.16.44%20PM%203.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fiona Fullerton in ANGELS Year: 1975-1976 First Season Rating: ****1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>The 1975 British/BBC television series ANGELS is a character-driven story centering on two pairs of student nurses wherein Fiona Fullerton and Erin Geraghty are new to the in-house hospital training program while Clare Clifford and Julie Dawn Cole have been working in the ward for a year... so neither duo are actual nurses quite yet, and each pairing are polar opposites that are individually cast-billed depending on who the episode centers on primarily... As the pilot mainly introduces Fiona Fullerton and Erin Garaghty as Patricia and Maureen: the first being progressive, spontaneous, confident, experienced, entitled, proudly egotistical and insanely beautiful while the other's an Irish farm-girl so shy she can hardly lift her head from a curtain of stringy hair... allowing former ADVENTURES OF ALICE IN WONDERLAND star Fullerton to help the Catholic-raised Garaghty be more assertive (either at work or at play) while forced to learn (mostly through head instructor Faith Brook) that she herself doesn't know everything...

british, british tv, clare clifford, colin higgins, debbie ash, erin geraghty, faith brook, fiona fullerton, julie dawn cole, karl howman, lesley dunlop, seventies

FIONA FULLERTON, ERIN GERAGHTY & JULIE DAWN COLE IN 'ANGELS'

Fiona Fullerton in ANGELS Year: 1975-1976 First Season Rating: ****1/2 The 1975 British/BBC television series ANGELS is a character-driven s...

MIMSY FARMER RIDES SHOTGUN WITH FABIAN IN 'THE WILD RACERS'

<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/AVvXsEjMj2HsnbpCMd1sShnyihyphenhyphenM9Q2INVI-_8F68lIZheErNkK1YyJEvlHR82DekDY-AM8CiA46_z2EueWliGDYPiQADTUn16vMGDOXBxEmcEhyphenhyphenYVT1JFIAY0S5LawuYg1RWde1rLxZnY5m6d2J58vrOswf8Q7Tki65PlZ_6ACBa8h9yxLiz956H9Cev-5PY8OE/s2022/Screen%20Shot%202024-12-05%20at%2010.21.38%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1160" data-original-width="2022" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMj2HsnbpCMd1sShnyihyphenhyphenM9Q2INVI-_8F68lIZheErNkK1YyJEvlHR82DekDY-AM8CiA46_z2EueWliGDYPiQADTUn16vMGDOXBxEmcEhyphenhyphenYVT1JFIAY0S5LawuYg1RWde1rLxZnY5m6d2J58vrOswf8Q7Tki65PlZ_6ACBa8h9yxLiz956H9Cev-5PY8OE/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-12-05%20at%2010.21.38%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mimsy Farmer in THE WILD RACERS Year: 1968 Rating: ****</td></tr></tbody></table>Following THE YOUNG RACERS, producer Roger Corman returns to the European Race Car circuit for THE WILD RACERS, which actually only really centers on one... played by a great singer turned limited actor in American import Fabian, actually decent here since he never has to oversell a contentedly cocky persona... Deliberately clashing against the progressive 1960's French New Wave influence of Corman's director Daniel Haller, using future JAWS editor Verna Fields for a myriad of jump-cuts from creative camera angles to create a deliberately art-house showcase showcasing a young handsome driver with almost everything...

british, counter-culture, dick miller, fabian, mimsy farmer, race car, roger corman, romance, sixties, sport, talia shire

MIMSY FARMER RIDES SHOTGUN WITH FABIAN IN 'THE WILD RACERS'

Mimsy Farmer in THE WILD RACERS Year: 1968 Rating: **** Following THE YOUNG RACERS, producer Roger Corman returns to the European Race Car c...

HARVEY KEITEL & DAVID PROVAL ON 'KOJAK' PILOT 'SIEGE OF TERROR'

<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/AVvXsEig9Vw6UqLY_5jywg5_2MEnHmBq2OGlvb5dTayIybPWSGY4OpV0vmSB4BAILJd93p8pV-i7mUQMC8o3rs8nAfF95FG2anig8X4vcV60Mf81OvpkUDs7TvBrJr2N6AUgrtmt-E3Ov4f98aj4VQY6i6-upRRZDi1sqKN0E85bccTaBdYjc3uQ0A_PN9pEAxdv/s2048/Screen%20Shot%202024-12-07%20at%203.22.41%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1062" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig9Vw6UqLY_5jywg5_2MEnHmBq2OGlvb5dTayIybPWSGY4OpV0vmSB4BAILJd93p8pV-i7mUQMC8o3rs8nAfF95FG2anig8X4vcV60Mf81OvpkUDs7TvBrJr2N6AUgrtmt-E3Ov4f98aj4VQY6i6-upRRZDi1sqKN0E85bccTaBdYjc3uQ0A_PN9pEAxdv/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-12-07%20at%203.22.41%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: KOJAK: SIEGE OF TERROR Year: 1973 Rating: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>The pilot of the classic series KOJAK is a little different than most of the episodes to come, in that it involves the bad guys more than title character in Telly Savalas' bald tough guy cop as, fresh from MEAN STREETS has an intense Harvey Keitel holding up a store and taking hostages... with a quick reuniting of Keitel's bar-owner MEAN STREETS partner David Proval playing a wounded cop, literally under Harvey's gun...Instead, Proval should have played Keitel's maniacally unpredictable, wild-card thug sidekick instead of James Sloyan, who, instantly familiar for TV, lacks the cinematic prowess of Keitel or Proval... the latter asking for his last rites most of the time... but it's a pretty decent episode that would have worked better for a half hour than hour, and overall gives Keitel fans a reason to see how the cop show began thanks to his big-screen-aura-on-the-small-screen catapult.

cop, david proval, harvey keitel, hostage, rick hurst, seventies, telly savalas, tv series

HARVEY KEITEL & DAVID PROVAL ON 'KOJAK' PILOT 'SIEGE OF TERROR'

Title: KOJAK: SIEGE OF TERROR Year: 1973 Rating: ***1/2 The pilot of the classic series KOJAK is a little different than most of the episode...

BRUCE LEE 'ENTER THE DRAGON' WITH JOHN SAXON & JIM KELLY

<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/AVvXsEhYufq72vb5oo1D67hoxsuqe_kOaROzYeHz2WS6TwKufvC26bpZUeIuTiXTi_cOq8fqAuDtfMgr1d9hqRofCuAkCsVamG7mQOo34sFrxwUoQhDcR5AYOrfWmhHVn2E4oPqI_Ds_zOCN_GlNH3fHfSEBXU_cXpDrKW9xQjOqsGEViX0L3gY90T2kORJYYYb5/s1238/Screen%20Shot%202024-12-01%20at%207.45.04%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="709" data-original-width="1238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYufq72vb5oo1D67hoxsuqe_kOaROzYeHz2WS6TwKufvC26bpZUeIuTiXTi_cOq8fqAuDtfMgr1d9hqRofCuAkCsVamG7mQOo34sFrxwUoQhDcR5AYOrfWmhHVn2E4oPqI_Ds_zOCN_GlNH3fHfSEBXU_cXpDrKW9xQjOqsGEViX0L3gY90T2kORJYYYb5/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-12-01%20at%207.45.04%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bruce Lee, Angela Mao, Kien Shih and Jim Kelly in ENTER THE DRAGON Year: 1973 Rates: ****1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>By the time Bruce Lee, starring in his first and last American produced motion picture, squares off against island-ruling heavy Han in ENTER THE DRAGON, one important thing is crystal clear... Nobody, from henchmen <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2024/11/tconnection.html">Bolo Young</a> to Robert Wall, or co-stars John Saxon or <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/jim%20kelly">Jim Kelly</a>, could have taken him on and so, liken to a James Bond franchise villain, the seedy-smiling, slave-owning, harem-surrounded Kien Shih has a glove with knife-fingers to give him that needed/necessary edge...

adventure, ahna capri, bolo yeung, bruce lee, jim kelly, john saxon, karate, robert clouse, seventies, spy