MEL BROOKS PRESENTS DAVID LYNCH'S ICONIC 'THE ELEPHANT MAN'

<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/AVvXsEhh-z-YOkkJdTZ9nmgkZ0ZrfHRN6Sqkw1b9Q0ORg2a6dkbOTunWlYiLqzZWpiO5m-Q-Erk2qAzJm3YErGniwUOhZ5gpwhebH7jnga0DzlWeNx_kF_7w8E9X-ftxLvWxtKVpu5UXHB-cP5F-J0S0lDH33YTZN0dHDz-v-c8f6Rv8pqeiQi8Q6locj4tGUxDz/s1786/Screen%20Shot%202025-01-22%20at%201.37.58%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="792" data-original-width="1786" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh-z-YOkkJdTZ9nmgkZ0ZrfHRN6Sqkw1b9Q0ORg2a6dkbOTunWlYiLqzZWpiO5m-Q-Erk2qAzJm3YErGniwUOhZ5gpwhebH7jnga0DzlWeNx_kF_7w8E9X-ftxLvWxtKVpu5UXHB-cP5F-J0S0lDH33YTZN0dHDz-v-c8f6Rv8pqeiQi8Q6locj4tGUxDz/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-01-22%20at%201.37.58%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Anthony Hopkins in David Lynch's THE ELEPHANT MAN Year: 1980 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>After the bleak B&W, nightmarishly bizarre ERASERHEAD, otherwise comedy producer Mel Brooks hired offbeat auteur David Lynch to provide 1880's England the same kind of Industrial-doomed, smokestack-bursting aesthetic...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yet what's expected of Lynch's signature weirdness (before and after), THE ELEPHANT MAN mostly plays out like an against-the-odds high school bully flick... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

anne bancroft, anthony hopkins, british, david lynch, eighties, freddie francis, freddie jones, frederick treves, hannah gordon, history, john geilgud, time period

MEL BROOKS PRESENTS DAVID LYNCH'S ICONIC 'THE ELEPHANT MAN'

Anthony Hopkins in David Lynch's THE ELEPHANT MAN Year: 1980 Rating: **** After the bleak B&W, nightmarishly bizarre ERASERHEAD, oth...

MARY MAUDE WITH JUDY MATHESON IN 'CRUCIBLE OF TERROR'

<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/AVvXsEhkLtdcs-KbUeL7Te_r4KkjY0WlBVbA7JCxq0yC3mjjvEkyL7n9-MtmEnPFaBhzSKtTwMawsw1DDNgoE-uuAUKnkxirJCslFqnWRXg_rk9ykXsp6eD4c4htEHIXTLPIGY5gfsVCQO_y1iloBtEDP933qo0bNi_2JQzjFngkCOi2Yb103hidI-efr2kh8Ody/s2072/Screen%20Shot%202024-12-29%20at%207.09.18%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1086" data-original-width="2072" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkLtdcs-KbUeL7Te_r4KkjY0WlBVbA7JCxq0yC3mjjvEkyL7n9-MtmEnPFaBhzSKtTwMawsw1DDNgoE-uuAUKnkxirJCslFqnWRXg_rk9ykXsp6eD4c4htEHIXTLPIGY5gfsVCQO_y1iloBtEDP933qo0bNi_2JQzjFngkCOi2Yb103hidI-efr2kh8Ody/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-12-29%20at%207.09.18%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mary Maude in CRUCIBLE OF TERROR Year: 1971 Rates: ***1/2<br></u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Fair and sophisticated, lithe and docile, straight-long-haired classic British beauty Mary Maude was as perfect a vulnerable ingenue in CRUCIBLE OF TERROR (an obvious muse for <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2024/04/moevil.html">MESSIAH OF EVIL</a>) as she's the sublime target for who seems to be a serial killing sculptor in <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2024/12/lustvamp.html">LUST OF THE VAMPIRE</a> antagonist Mike Raven, looking fitfully wicked enough to provide Mary's character Millie an inevitably nightmarish 11th hour chase...<br><br>Which does occur, kind of... but with a twist... beforehand spending most of the screen-time in an artistically Gothic beachside house where various beauties are either posing or being murdered, ranging from scream queen Judy Matheson as the artist's more faithful yet seductive, devilish (and possibly bisexual) moll to Raven's daughter-in-law Beth Morris, as sexy a blonde as Matheson's a deeply gorgeous brunette...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

beth morris, body count, british, horror, james bolam, john arnatt, judy matheson, mary maude, me me lai, melissa stribling, mike raven, mystery, ronald lacey, seventies, thriller

MARY MAUDE WITH JUDY MATHESON IN 'CRUCIBLE OF TERROR'

Mary Maude in CRUCIBLE OF TERROR Year: 1971 Rates: ***1/2 Fair and sophisticated, lithe and docile, straight-long-haired classic British bea...

BOLTING HAMMER'S UNDERRRATED 'THE EVIL OF FRANKENSTEIN'

<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/AVvXsEiej6SXAIncnjaRRuNYXqM3TMbG7iyUrTtZ3-_GfRJqN8LEV0KAHQlQ0OnE4NI7x55ltpeewbe60dNWAAUu2Icbmi90NP1g6pxugd_PBnMrFSM0Mxv_TbaOYHpV2LkGjNYphOOBrZVlawYfkYq_F2k4mmsaaS02Z108a7VjNtZoPyQF4LSkMtKGDjnbI4VX/s1618/Screen%20Shot%202024-12-25%20at%2010.01.17%20AM%202%205.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="893" data-original-width="1618" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiej6SXAIncnjaRRuNYXqM3TMbG7iyUrTtZ3-_GfRJqN8LEV0KAHQlQ0OnE4NI7x55ltpeewbe60dNWAAUu2Icbmi90NP1g6pxugd_PBnMrFSM0Mxv_TbaOYHpV2LkGjNYphOOBrZVlawYfkYq_F2k4mmsaaS02Z108a7VjNtZoPyQF4LSkMtKGDjnbI4VX/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-12-25%20at%2010.01.17%20AM%202%205.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Peter Cushing with Katy Wild with and Kiwi Kingston The Evil of Frankenstein 1964 Rates: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Hammer's third Peter Cushing Frankenstein THE EVIL OF FRANKENSTEIN is a kind of throwback to director James Whale's second starring Boris Karloff, but instead of Cushing having a BRIDE he seeks help from a small village's carnival sorcerer/charlatan named Zoltan the way Colin Clive needed Doctor Pretorius... both involving two mad scientists reanimating/controlling the one monster...</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>Here thinned from ice in an old cavern that Cushing and his normal/classy assistant Hans not so accidentally find... with the help of one of the prettiest Hammer starlets: which is saying something for a production company that churned out some of the prettiest faces on the big screen...</p><p><span></span></p>

british, caron gardner, duncan lamont, franchise, frankenstein, gothic, hammer films, horror, james maxwell, katy wild, kiwi kingston, peter cushing, peter woodthorpe, sequel, sixties

BOLTING HAMMER'S UNDERRRATED 'THE EVIL OF FRANKENSTEIN'

Peter Cushing with Katy Wild with and Kiwi Kingston The Evil of Frankenstein 1964 Rates: ***1/2 Hammer's third Peter Cushing Frankenstei...

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

<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/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;"><u>Fiona Fullerton in ANGELS Year: 1975-1976 First Season Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>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...<br><br>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...</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><span></span></p>

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'

<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/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;"><u>Mimsy Farmer in THE WILD RACERS Year: 1968 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>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...<br><br>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...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

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...

JANET MUNRO & JENNIFER JAYNE IN 'THE TROLLENBERG TERROR'

<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/AVvXsEhmNpc32Xls2mMXrjENZFhORiKxNx0x_I_uinwAMnfjHIXZuELgzAw1bl41c6Bo_CMAQS6A_hcg0gsUSF_Kr_yb9VOAHbjsNe6HvpXXERT6qEuoAb4lXY9_9XiAuCcCy4ELhkL0dRJRbV_KkaolMN1KaUN56PjxaxASjCYnYiyAEcUATzgBeSzyN2ln-cEz/s1864/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1030" data-original-width="1864" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmNpc32Xls2mMXrjENZFhORiKxNx0x_I_uinwAMnfjHIXZuELgzAw1bl41c6Bo_CMAQS6A_hcg0gsUSF_Kr_yb9VOAHbjsNe6HvpXXERT6qEuoAb4lXY9_9XiAuCcCy4ELhkL0dRJRbV_KkaolMN1KaUN56PjxaxASjCYnYiyAEcUATzgBeSzyN2ln-cEz/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>THE TROLLENBERG TERROR aka THE CRAWLING EYE Year: 1958 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The originally-titled British horror THE TROLLENBERG TERROR changing into THE CRAWLING EYE is a matter of b-movie peer pressure, morphing a genuinely effective, deliberately slow-paced and mostly character-driven thriller into the kind of campy fare that never really had a chance...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The central character is imported American actor Forrest Tucker, who had just come off another British-made snowbound venture (by Hammer Studios) THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN... and TERROR is equally smart and cerebral, featuring scream-queen Janet Munro as a young lady with telepathic powers, who... before honing in on the impending danger at hand... was a kind of novelty act with perfectly-cast older sister Jennifer Jayne, both lovely brunettes with full lips and looking very much related...</p><p><span></span></p>

british, creature, cult, fifties, forrest tucker, horror, janet munro, jennifer jayne, laurence payne, warren mitchell

JANET MUNRO & JENNIFER JAYNE IN 'THE TROLLENBERG TERROR'

THE TROLLENBERG TERROR aka THE CRAWLING EYE Year: 1958 Rating: **** The originally-titled British horror THE TROLLENBERG TERROR changing int...

PAUL MASSIE STARS IN 'ORDERS TO KILL' FEARTURING EDDIE ALBERT

<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/AVvXsEjGhtsJfXg7oc9uwVABiHbHmGvvWXwURFjk2n2Nc7zqZZ0bNLiMEjuS8uPEfIB-dQgRYiN1pMojBFa7iNlPmhuYp7urJi4NXBnNbDucV3FGWXF_q0GsnU8dJRzPiFiN7XALEUw809_GEBxAS0vZBuSyiR4I3y8BIWp_Fpm-yg2LO0z1cn1thc1_UV6cti2Q/s1850/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-20%20at%202.40.16%20PM-1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="944" data-original-width="1850" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGhtsJfXg7oc9uwVABiHbHmGvvWXwURFjk2n2Nc7zqZZ0bNLiMEjuS8uPEfIB-dQgRYiN1pMojBFa7iNlPmhuYp7urJi4NXBnNbDucV3FGWXF_q0GsnU8dJRzPiFiN7XALEUw809_GEBxAS0vZBuSyiR4I3y8BIWp_Fpm-yg2LO0z1cn1thc1_UV6cti2Q/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-20%20at%202.40.16%20PM-1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: ORDERS TO KILL Year: 1958 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>It's after forty-five minutes when first-billed American actor Eddie Albert sees second-billed Canadian actor <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/07/2F.html">Paul Massie</a> off to France in this British anti-war film that really begins with Massie's Gene Summers on a central mission to kill a French Resistance double-crosser, who had sold out the last five spies to the Germans...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>So after the initial training sessions where a somewhat robotic Massie (originally ordered by <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/03/HellisACity.html">John Crawford</a> with a cameo by Lilian Gish as his mother), trained by Albert to be as cold-blooded as possible (without being too glib about it), ORDERS TO KILL becomes a kind of Hitchcock style suspense flick with mousy Leslie French as the target, so downright friendly and affably neurotic, the inevitable moral dilemma finally kicks into gear...</p><p><span></span></p>

british, edward albert, espionage, fifties, irene worth, john crawford, leslie french, lilian gish, paul massie, world war II

PAUL MASSIE STARS IN 'ORDERS TO KILL' FEARTURING EDDIE ALBERT

Title: ORDERS TO KILL Year: 1958 Rating: **** It's after forty-five minutes when first-billed American actor Eddie Albert sees second-bi...

DEAN JAGGER AND WILLIAM LUCAS IN HAMMER'S 'X THE UNKNOWN'

<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/AVvXsEiOFYr9YI4BhkslOH6CpAAH7SCLjfSmNcOmcuSvas8maCfYWtZZ8EoanyuJsjPcxLvYHxzN4MrfTMxrFTMwoZ3-stt2YGCuqJtfGs12D5S0xXye0EeMe9iI03fk6Au9UVabhC2m592yMgckIO740Mq5DJSTEhx-HOJAYWgq72kcjUSBAQCw5xR1gtaRpFwW/s2078/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-26%20at%2012.24.59%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1120" data-original-width="2078" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOFYr9YI4BhkslOH6CpAAH7SCLjfSmNcOmcuSvas8maCfYWtZZ8EoanyuJsjPcxLvYHxzN4MrfTMxrFTMwoZ3-stt2YGCuqJtfGs12D5S0xXye0EeMe9iI03fk6Au9UVabhC2m592yMgckIO740Mq5DJSTEhx-HOJAYWgq72kcjUSBAQCw5xR1gtaRpFwW/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-26%20at%2012.24.59%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>X THE UNKNOWN Year: 1957 Rates: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Hammer's science-fiction/horror hybrid X THE UNKNOWN came out the same year as QUATERMASS 2, sequel to THE QUATERMASS XPERIMENT where Brian Donlevy played the inevitable creature-seeking Dr. Quatermass in both...<br><br>And this production was supposed to be yet another of that franchise, which makes sense since Dean Jagger plays central investigative scientist Dr. Adam Royston with more genuinely cerebral concentration and would have made a far superior, more effective title character... but being a standalone makes X a solidly entertaining thriller about a mysterious atomic substance that first kills a soldier (Kenneth Cope) and then a child in a rural wide-open field... </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><span></span></p>

british, creature, dean jagger, fifties, hammer films, horror, kenneth cope, leo mckern, michael ripper, nuclear, science-fiction, william lucas

DEAN JAGGER AND WILLIAM LUCAS IN HAMMER'S 'X THE UNKNOWN'

X THE UNKNOWN Year: 1957 Rates: **** Hammer's science-fiction/horror hybrid X THE UNKNOWN came out the same year as QUATERMASS 2, sequel...

BARBARA PAYTON IN HAMMER'S 'THE FOUR SIDED TRIANGLE'

<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/AVvXsEj-GIjwOyNWVbxwxV3p5N2-GpGAhb5rEy0C3wNJCp3bmfeapoC4HZhyphenhyphen2z9FQ7jR7Mlpwd9IAKKu2knh9RTGpsMhP8DZpbyQNOA4wQi9fb4qQO2UtXbTGETFo91ezQHbDlCvXjgSZYAEToxv62WLAt60YHOqRkd-OLLUzH1uqa2d-kLxEX6dg6AsO3cUMVGA/s2148/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-27%20at%202.14.20%20AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1286" data-original-width="2148" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-GIjwOyNWVbxwxV3p5N2-GpGAhb5rEy0C3wNJCp3bmfeapoC4HZhyphenhyphen2z9FQ7jR7Mlpwd9IAKKu2knh9RTGpsMhP8DZpbyQNOA4wQi9fb4qQO2UtXbTGETFo91ezQHbDlCvXjgSZYAEToxv62WLAt60YHOqRkd-OLLUzH1uqa2d-kLxEX6dg6AsO3cUMVGA/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-27%20at%202.14.20%20AM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE FOUR SIDED TRIANGLE (Spanish Translation: OF THE EVIL GENIUS) Year: 1953 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Before Hammer's Golden Age of Victorian Horror, from DRACULA to FRANKENSTEIN, primary director Terence Fisher got prepared for the latter, involving an ultimately mad-scientist creating the duplicate of lead actress Barbara Payton within a familiar kind of dark laboratory, filled with sizzling electrical wires when the right buttons are pressed... <br></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>The catch is that Payton's Lena has been in love with central inventor Bill's best friend Robin since childhood, beginning with a prelude of that era where she literally chooses one over the other, and, cut to the present where both grown men are absent of their companion (momentarily back in America), they invent a machine also reminiscent of what would be in THE FLY, placing an object on one enclosure as its copy's created miraculously inside the other, initially tested with a pocket watch and signed check...</p><p><span></span></p>

barbara payton, british, fifties, hammer films, james hayter, john van eyssen, science-fiction, stephen murray, thriller

BARBARA PAYTON IN HAMMER'S 'THE FOUR SIDED TRIANGLE'

Title: THE FOUR SIDED TRIANGLE (Spanish Translation: OF THE EVIL GENIUS) Year: 1953 Rating: **** Before Hammer's Golden Age of Victorian...

JOHN THAW IN 'THE SWEENEY: ABDUCTION" WITH STUART WILSON

<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/AVvXsEilIGKWnY8SOzb8DjrvPwtvqFOPJalpH1VbPDXejrznsm7rx1c9qXvuTYG6jKSuzv2faMm-jDZGIYYfrNjxieVlIuqDNIb-rSQhU7ewjspUgLvgbnC0vVU4n3iH50w3oGodQwAQIjoWn-72-NCtWlv54-bW8pKewnN1Flk4lv37QyOYqth9CIc2LNLGuJUq/s1395/Screen%20Shot%202023-10-11%20at%201.16.16%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="762" data-original-width="1395" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilIGKWnY8SOzb8DjrvPwtvqFOPJalpH1VbPDXejrznsm7rx1c9qXvuTYG6jKSuzv2faMm-jDZGIYYfrNjxieVlIuqDNIb-rSQhU7ewjspUgLvgbnC0vVU4n3iH50w3oGodQwAQIjoWn-72-NCtWlv54-bW8pKewnN1Flk4lv37QyOYqth9CIc2LNLGuJUq/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-10-11%20at%201.16.16%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Stuart Wilson and Janet Key in THE SWEENEY: ABDUCTION Year: 1975 Rates: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>John Thaw's Inspector Regan is the kind of sex symbol that could only derive from the British 1970's... and while resembling the devil-head from the William Shatner roadside-cafe fortune-machine TWILIGHT ZONE, he's never at a loss for sexy birds, who usually simply throw themselves at him... </p><p></p><p></p><p>Yet sometimes settling for somewhat plain ones, that actually fit him aesthetically and realistically over the bombshells... so here's a middle-ground in ABDUCTION as we meet his first wife, having been divorced before the series began, and young daughter, befitting the titular plot-line of kidnapping...<br></p><p><span></span></p>

action, british, cop, dennis waterman, janet key, john thaw, kidnapping, seventies, stuart wilson, sweeney

JOHN THAW IN 'THE SWEENEY: ABDUCTION" WITH STUART WILSON

Stuart Wilson and Janet Key in THE SWEENEY: ABDUCTION Year: 1975 Rates: ***1/2 John Thaw's Inspector Regan is the kind of sex symbol tha...

JOHN THAW WITH JOHN CLIVE IN 'THE SWEENEY: BIG BROTHER'

<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/AVvXsEg8LRyZesOoHw1Nf0K7E-qwLoJ8ENdod9SOl9mIT3o51tNV2cgfcoi1gZsRD1f-J7N8mNkc5cVopS6cuWGnkQYPYtbIaxpC8mRUYFqr3jI7S1BgjFLD1C1N5kw-NzG5H9nLl66CAwmah7eQSRU4k3lHjnLb5hdJ1CX0bjmG0YWHvDrvmTdg-TN81PsQKcGT/s979/387214730_1817622472000254_9116286702101684868_n.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="591" data-original-width="979" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8LRyZesOoHw1Nf0K7E-qwLoJ8ENdod9SOl9mIT3o51tNV2cgfcoi1gZsRD1f-J7N8mNkc5cVopS6cuWGnkQYPYtbIaxpC8mRUYFqr3jI7S1BgjFLD1C1N5kw-NzG5H9nLl66CAwmah7eQSRU4k3lHjnLb5hdJ1CX0bjmG0YWHvDrvmTdg-TN81PsQKcGT/s16000/387214730_1817622472000254_9116286702101684868_n.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>John Clive in THE SWEENEY: BIG BROTHER Year: 1975 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Like the film noir WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS, as an otherwise brutal cop looks extremely guilty of murder when he's innocent... THE SWEENEY episode BIG BROTHER puts John Thaw's Regan in a similar circumstance... </p><p></p><p>Only he doesn't punch a guy to accidentally kill him like Dana Andrews... instead, after a bit of manhandling witnessed by partner Dennis Waterman's Carter, alone in the interrogation room with the smug younger brother of a criminal kingpin, the kid suddenly falls to the floor and is hospitalized, in critical condition, with Regan the suspect...</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/AVvXsEj9MJoI6MtySza7cmpQW3Nypmam_FFtCtFOYG5-_ZZ1PZ3ARkFJSav73SvozEW1sYPQz8kRHsePnj03bwyas6SA51fq0ikeJEPomKk_Lpkl_NLgp2tWLtYExgwC6y4CAE6WQDbXIyB7dGYUYmArro50wSAafBAdLqeZaYzzK1j9DnzaeUBiJyVGrvpJfVTH/s1544/Screen%20Shot%202023-10-11%20at%2012.42.26%20AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="808" data-original-width="1544" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9MJoI6MtySza7cmpQW3Nypmam_FFtCtFOYG5-_ZZ1PZ3ARkFJSav73SvozEW1sYPQz8kRHsePnj03bwyas6SA51fq0ikeJEPomKk_Lpkl_NLgp2tWLtYExgwC6y4CAE6WQDbXIyB7dGYUYmArro50wSAafBAdLqeZaYzzK1j9DnzaeUBiJyVGrvpJfVTH/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-10-11%20at%2012.42.26%20AM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>John Thaw in THE SWEENEY: BIG BROTHER with David Dixon</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>As the episode juggles several genre elements: from gangster-revenge, bad cop, wrong man to blaxploitation... particularly intriguing when A CLOCKWORK ORANGE goading stage actor John Clive... always with a weaselly trick up his sleeve... plays a liberal journalist dying to turn the infamous cop into a killer...<br></p><p></p><p>Meanwhile Maurice Roëves looks dapper and partially menacing as the title character, who hires a wild card torpedo to off Regan, yet neither story-line comes to anything, really... leaving a foot chase with Regan and Carter after a black pimp backed by a funky score to close a really good episode that's almost downright incredible.</p><p><span></span></p>

action, british, cop, dennis waterman, garfield morgan, john clive, john thaw, maurice roëves, seventies, sweeney

JOHN THAW WITH JOHN CLIVE IN 'THE SWEENEY: BIG BROTHER'

John Clive in THE SWEENEY: BIG BROTHER Year: 1975 Rating: ***1/2 Like the film noir WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS, as an otherwise brutal cop look...

JOHN THAW & DENNIS WATERMAN IN 'THE SWEENEY: SUPERSNOUT'

<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/AVvXsEiQG5PCieHf1XQ1f5z3q6ExU7611Hah2R8g_SbiHd3Nes3SvphIt9nMBDKOmJB8PNx0VrcLnDuiVmjXLcLHT_ezukgKrhzHMKl1SK7mYfi9W_NjhXeOHSaRregGfj23-cJACe2teqOYGrMIBGDO6bbc46tlm8gS9WV2XLTO9pPliCmFFzZFDTeP0PyXTya0/s993/1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="589" data-original-width="993" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQG5PCieHf1XQ1f5z3q6ExU7611Hah2R8g_SbiHd3Nes3SvphIt9nMBDKOmJB8PNx0VrcLnDuiVmjXLcLHT_ezukgKrhzHMKl1SK7mYfi9W_NjhXeOHSaRregGfj23-cJACe2teqOYGrMIBGDO6bbc46tlm8gS9WV2XLTO9pPliCmFFzZFDTeP0PyXTya0/s16000/1.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>John Thaw and Dennis Waterman in THE SWEENEY: SUPERSNOUT Year: 1975 Rates: ***<br></u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Whenever THE SWEENEY writers want to get under John Thaw's independent-minded Chief Inspector Regan's skin, they either add a new partner... making a third alongside Dennis Waterman as Carter...  or in this case (and the second theatrical film SWEENEY 2) they'll add a new superintendent, who in this case is so quirky his name's actually Quirk...</p><p></p><p>Played by bald character-actor Bill Maynard, he even shakes hands funny, and, as a mediocre, unfit leader he wants to prove himself by busting a mail-thief operation that's already weeks old, inevitably pushing his neurotic personality to the sideline as SUPERSNOUT refers to an even more neurotic John Tordoff as Stickler, an inside information man for Regan, and their dialogue-driven expository scenes are more interesting than the confusing big con that, as usual, takes until the very last minute to comprehend. <br></p><p><span></span></p>

action, bill maynard, british, cop, dennis waterman, john thaw, seventies, sweeney, tv series

JOHN THAW & DENNIS WATERMAN IN 'THE SWEENEY: SUPERSNOUT'

John Thaw and Dennis Waterman in THE SWEENEY: SUPERSNOUT Year: 1975 Rates: *** Whenever THE SWEENEY writers want to get under John Thaw'...

TREVOR HOWARD AND HERBERT LOM IN 'GOLDEN SALAMANDER'

<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/AVvXsEjq9ednWXh26qq5RAuYiFe-1sblKyyrkK0_-gdD8d7V2yTCOw4DpZ8tg0FdJsaGTXxB32k6MpNkhkjHrU8cR42XeAyvzPVajQbXXPT79RA6A-revX8hJgbWJkfpePyMYLKjsCGSBgNTjBOVeqciJYNCKT_clfx7p_dzSK4dn1xBaMl2HtmSXc0h5Rw4X2YO/s2060/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1374" data-original-width="2060" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq9ednWXh26qq5RAuYiFe-1sblKyyrkK0_-gdD8d7V2yTCOw4DpZ8tg0FdJsaGTXxB32k6MpNkhkjHrU8cR42XeAyvzPVajQbXXPT79RA6A-revX8hJgbWJkfpePyMYLKjsCGSBgNTjBOVeqciJYNCKT_clfx7p_dzSK4dn1xBaMl2HtmSXc0h5Rw4X2YO/s16000/1.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: GOLDEN SALAMANDER Year: 1950 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>No matter how low budget a British movie is, there's usually great acting being filled with great actors... of the British or neighboring-European kind... here from 1950 with night-passage stranded archaeologist Trevor Howard in a Tunisian town, consisting of a noirish tavern that includes wispy ingenue Anouk Aimée and where usual-lead-villain Herbert Lom only <i>seems </i>in charge of the impending darkness...<br /></p><p></p><p></p><p>Turns out being a more sophisticated, monologue-spouting Walter Rilla while Howard's distracted in a beachy romance with the extremely vulnerable Aimée... while Lom's and handsome partner Jacques Sernas are keeping something chillingly secret: the only real nice person is bartender Wilfrid Hyde-White while Howard, in the midst of a lean, economic thriller without much suspense yet high on atmospheric tension, seems to kind of stand around and... wait for the outcome, which is actually pretty tight and pulpy, and worth rewatching. <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/AVvXsEj2M_NouBaRNMfbfJ7EIGRWs_1PD-q3OHIQe0eQhPjZBnsC5bsbIPsJueATuWmUY2DH7_FT19TldqF0DNmljzvtrlwSjIQ3evn6gLI_J_YxGhigPCvSdG2I7_zJDDFxGWlzp2UCx8tCCiSl5_flPFPGYSGSUwfUbse577QoWG-uarwDqgKeFkxa_OVtr6wp/s1390/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.45.47%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1046" data-original-width="1390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2M_NouBaRNMfbfJ7EIGRWs_1PD-q3OHIQe0eQhPjZBnsC5bsbIPsJueATuWmUY2DH7_FT19TldqF0DNmljzvtrlwSjIQ3evn6gLI_J_YxGhigPCvSdG2I7_zJDDFxGWlzp2UCx8tCCiSl5_flPFPGYSGSUwfUbse577QoWG-uarwDqgKeFkxa_OVtr6wp/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.45.47%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Anouk Aimée in GOLDEN SALAMANDER</u></td></tr></tbody></table><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/AVvXsEhEP466B4Wd586MoUAnKz-FOT7Kb0IcCIiJWTPs8YtLWnP9KiD1CIiQXsu1Sdu749pCUwou0hS-sDnds_ZFiMwZxCU1ZOTTHzM71p8rvTSQffgNUzrpF2aSJVQNtLBmWARVpoHFbIjS5Lkuee936kFMHr0i-Cfe3pZFWvVLlFWUpcJH20WHyZVM5soEOn-e/s1932/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.46.16%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1436" data-original-width="1932" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEP466B4Wd586MoUAnKz-FOT7Kb0IcCIiJWTPs8YtLWnP9KiD1CIiQXsu1Sdu749pCUwou0hS-sDnds_ZFiMwZxCU1ZOTTHzM71p8rvTSQffgNUzrpF2aSJVQNtLBmWARVpoHFbIjS5Lkuee936kFMHr0i-Cfe3pZFWvVLlFWUpcJH20WHyZVM5soEOn-e/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.46.16%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Trevor Howard and Anouk Aimée in GOLDEN SALAMANDER</u></td></tr></tbody></table><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/AVvXsEg0YDuo33U8b8S_4ay4BU12KfOjjL4-yIRBSJ0qEhFsQ5qfFENsI5f1t4RtNJXVM9TA8OWNEt2cJ8N0aBeNYMDFytgqEcyRONpFa9KRrUzx8H7LE4Gf6yHXL8LMqgzZkN_OOKmxQq6QguQbZi25-o2Cdyai_Q9i4iIGCAmQ_dRiOhgXzn0oXTD4XAmr8aZ3/s2046/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.33.19%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1290" data-original-width="2046" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0YDuo33U8b8S_4ay4BU12KfOjjL4-yIRBSJ0qEhFsQ5qfFENsI5f1t4RtNJXVM9TA8OWNEt2cJ8N0aBeNYMDFytgqEcyRONpFa9KRrUzx8H7LE4Gf6yHXL8LMqgzZkN_OOKmxQq6QguQbZi25-o2Cdyai_Q9i4iIGCAmQ_dRiOhgXzn0oXTD4XAmr8aZ3/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.33.19%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jacques Sernas and Herbert Lom in GOLDEN SALAMANDER</u></td></tr></tbody></table><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/AVvXsEgqvPaeoxQVev0fdB7UjdddCPJe3zkZp_PyZR4TTIfqSaTK2Adeg7T7l3uTgFWe6RQxckNLHLnNsha142xA8p2iXJcoo93ToIwgAyQBMhN5fcPfZmspMxXA8Cd5Q-LEBA9foTX9NDoSbfI8simR4CL6zoXxXWylj4j9Edx67xynXCTAmJ4Y0jBM0NEByowM/s2064/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.33.55%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1286" data-original-width="2064" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqvPaeoxQVev0fdB7UjdddCPJe3zkZp_PyZR4TTIfqSaTK2Adeg7T7l3uTgFWe6RQxckNLHLnNsha142xA8p2iXJcoo93ToIwgAyQBMhN5fcPfZmspMxXA8Cd5Q-LEBA9foTX9NDoSbfI8simR4CL6zoXxXWylj4j9Edx67xynXCTAmJ4Y0jBM0NEByowM/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.33.55%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Anouk Aimée in GOLDEN SALAMANDER</u></td></tr></tbody></table><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/AVvXsEh8O4j8BGKNp-70QA05AJkAvk2FUqgkttracyQjFxX9d54vjRMFIvWXFRVPmL8Rly8nq6kPENjFaAmTuKlBGX32bcXrT3znRjvWhLmAxOSwmIOQDuYl7KGIneoXcI0utsjbUG0197sqpqn09ozpZ72VS2RJtTyE-vx7RzQhbrSt5_fSrBpsK8ilnhk_uOh-/s2002/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.34.07%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1294" data-original-width="2002" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8O4j8BGKNp-70QA05AJkAvk2FUqgkttracyQjFxX9d54vjRMFIvWXFRVPmL8Rly8nq6kPENjFaAmTuKlBGX32bcXrT3znRjvWhLmAxOSwmIOQDuYl7KGIneoXcI0utsjbUG0197sqpqn09ozpZ72VS2RJtTyE-vx7RzQhbrSt5_fSrBpsK8ilnhk_uOh-/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.34.07%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Anouk Aimée in GOLDEN SALAMANDER</u></td></tr></tbody></table><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/AVvXsEhAirBcUEelwcyZCXg10BLn8wbQjwBiouH1utq0i77UGknZNW7H09Z6kzwLc9oTXoq9C-viqES-M8C2bFLO-Y3soWzNJZr1cgD5GR_vQdjog_d6xNH1m_3mDq8DdUDl4nL1JvkDhk90P6EDtlhCOHf_9L5pBvfTCMCj8hklnYpEjWct9NDloD27dn3QMOjj/s1916/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.34.47%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1362" data-original-width="1916" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAirBcUEelwcyZCXg10BLn8wbQjwBiouH1utq0i77UGknZNW7H09Z6kzwLc9oTXoq9C-viqES-M8C2bFLO-Y3soWzNJZr1cgD5GR_vQdjog_d6xNH1m_3mDq8DdUDl4nL1JvkDhk90P6EDtlhCOHf_9L5pBvfTCMCj8hklnYpEjWct9NDloD27dn3QMOjj/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.34.47%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Anouk Aimée in GOLDEN SALAMANDER</u></td></tr></tbody></table><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/AVvXsEhs7l7q00_hKr8lG0TQ7kc0tr-nSL059hTAwUW9nMyl02gHYieUCntClWBjH9rG8qM82lFOn5lL4Naj6elic-bDBmQi9Tqu6uDUEJtR6Y-njy7igxjVm0fEzyAuS8pb4mVOaKXkuTxHnQfmj94GW4GzOEEzKW7KMbE4Q82rMl3aAKJrS-a-MzNJJKPvawEj/s1910/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.35.01%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1326" data-original-width="1910" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs7l7q00_hKr8lG0TQ7kc0tr-nSL059hTAwUW9nMyl02gHYieUCntClWBjH9rG8qM82lFOn5lL4Naj6elic-bDBmQi9Tqu6uDUEJtR6Y-njy7igxjVm0fEzyAuS8pb4mVOaKXkuTxHnQfmj94GW4GzOEEzKW7KMbE4Q82rMl3aAKJrS-a-MzNJJKPvawEj/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.35.01%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Wilfrid Hyde-White in GOLDEN SALAMANDER</u></td></tr></tbody></table><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/AVvXsEjRIw_tho8lz1Y5apCZbKrP_lfAMgskY0LJWzlvobtrJ2kLz3Y_T5gaqO_mZJchnImXor3Ezd6mwvpbEvPprOqjo8Qxwi1SQp494tXx5ePoqqDiyBhpsI4aufqOYWeslMWdNxojNVFUI4uOTTRSllqvROkHX9FTbuhXjLx9qtqfICgHV-zkX6-LpfFm3sfu/s1296/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.35.24%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="952" data-original-width="1296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRIw_tho8lz1Y5apCZbKrP_lfAMgskY0LJWzlvobtrJ2kLz3Y_T5gaqO_mZJchnImXor3Ezd6mwvpbEvPprOqjo8Qxwi1SQp494tXx5ePoqqDiyBhpsI4aufqOYWeslMWdNxojNVFUI4uOTTRSllqvROkHX9FTbuhXjLx9qtqfICgHV-zkX6-LpfFm3sfu/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.35.24%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Trevor Howard in GOLDEN SALAMANDER</u></td></tr></tbody></table><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/AVvXsEi5cChfC5yYgrkJGxKgEiBvTYk-rOHErAr5AAQFu6e594OUXRmA03YOsaKc7VfQBp794n5J7e1RHahQUQV-bxfd1N2TCNy3rWuGGVORB0j_JktEgSsAa-UhYZmhFIeJZ9pZWEM8h8WEwe_A0ovDksHz2eDAlE36rCnfjAfZaHN88t_ucdtCBca9gdmaHR9D/s1804/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.37.54%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1316" data-original-width="1804" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5cChfC5yYgrkJGxKgEiBvTYk-rOHErAr5AAQFu6e594OUXRmA03YOsaKc7VfQBp794n5J7e1RHahQUQV-bxfd1N2TCNy3rWuGGVORB0j_JktEgSsAa-UhYZmhFIeJZ9pZWEM8h8WEwe_A0ovDksHz2eDAlE36rCnfjAfZaHN88t_ucdtCBca9gdmaHR9D/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.37.54%20PM.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Anouk Aimée in GOLDEN SALAMANDER</u></td></tr></tbody></table><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/AVvXsEjHTo-G244n4oGBBG4HHPc0_IBKuLVW9rDgrSf70wTv0zV5L9SrYXK8nyh87dpOS9QgykTy9hehO-6rSFdQ7VNEXMl0IWHcNwhyLAFmEwlCGvD7AiNqXhV4_KWBPZ4ZG9J5pe9aIwfwmSTGXZ0tg-ZvWajmPB2jz39Pdddr9aDZbLPQbCr287W9Wow6msLD/s2028/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.38.08%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1418" data-original-width="2028" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHTo-G244n4oGBBG4HHPc0_IBKuLVW9rDgrSf70wTv0zV5L9SrYXK8nyh87dpOS9QgykTy9hehO-6rSFdQ7VNEXMl0IWHcNwhyLAFmEwlCGvD7AiNqXhV4_KWBPZ4ZG9J5pe9aIwfwmSTGXZ0tg-ZvWajmPB2jz39Pdddr9aDZbLPQbCr287W9Wow6msLD/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.38.08%20PM.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jacques Sernas in GOLDEN SALAMANDER </u></td></tr></tbody></table><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/AVvXsEgvwOjgCraGxH2hfIoJBtH1_fr-2ej9QLHhalS1z87hd25eQB3egIYSdqwS-Wgrq8ENBD-DBIZ3PMzZQCi4gZBw5F25YXJ8leAgBhvyuDoTpp2ltk7SC8oF5O2XW2tLGCE46JvKlXm9d9F7Q29YEiWNDngkm-ChQfqonyIcudotTFLef8X5ec-mIN96qC2z/s2076/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.33.04%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="2076" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvwOjgCraGxH2hfIoJBtH1_fr-2ej9QLHhalS1z87hd25eQB3egIYSdqwS-Wgrq8ENBD-DBIZ3PMzZQCi4gZBw5F25YXJ8leAgBhvyuDoTpp2ltk7SC8oF5O2XW2tLGCE46JvKlXm9d9F7Q29YEiWNDngkm-ChQfqonyIcudotTFLef8X5ec-mIN96qC2z/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-06%20at%2010.33.04%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jacques Sernas and Herbert Lom in GOLDEN SALAMANDER with Trevor Howard<br /></u></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p>

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TREVOR HOWARD AND HERBERT LOM IN 'GOLDEN SALAMANDER'

Title: GOLDEN SALAMANDER Year: 1950 Rating: ***1/2 No matter how low budget a British movie is, there's usually great acting being fille...

WILLIAM LUCAS IN THE BRITISH ARMORED CAR ROBBERY 'PAYROLL'

<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/AVvXsEjn_oqXvPeeWgjenIlDoXoV8SNUjeKUrKpJv5R-VRIVdVQVJEc77KbUAwph9wqsF175S0lek4l5Tf8fNmBnJCpv86enXzWxEFprCvfOsQipG2wHv4CxH_yP9ni59OML_VwLrcx9Qg2wqCGDEafI4RxbcE55YxiVjfzP8IGuEWa52K_a5rLw4L4VpCiXVm7r/s1490/less%20yellow.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="848" data-original-width="1490" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn_oqXvPeeWgjenIlDoXoV8SNUjeKUrKpJv5R-VRIVdVQVJEc77KbUAwph9wqsF175S0lek4l5Tf8fNmBnJCpv86enXzWxEFprCvfOsQipG2wHv4CxH_yP9ni59OML_VwLrcx9Qg2wqCGDEafI4RxbcE55YxiVjfzP8IGuEWa52K_a5rLw4L4VpCiXVm7r/s16000/less%20yellow.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Original Title: PAYROLL/I PROMISED TO PAY Director: Cliff Owen Year: 1961 Rates: ***</u><u>*</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Early example of girl power encroaching a manly action flick, or more like widow power in that Billie Whitelaw only initially <i>seems</i> the docile suburban wife/mother, married to the literally <i>driven</i> creator of an armored vehicle... </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>Whose invention thwarts a gang's plan to rob a factory safe, now mobile... but the equally driven <i>and</i> dangerous Michael Craig (contrasting to the heroic <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/05/Misland.html">MYSTERIOUS ISLAND</a> role) is hell-bent on the blag going down... </p><p><span></span></p>

armored car, billie whitelaw, british, british neo noir, british new wave, françoise prévost, heist, jazz score, kenneth griffith, michael craig, pauline shepherd, revenge, sixties, tom bell, william lucas

WILLIAM LUCAS IN THE BRITISH ARMORED CAR ROBBERY 'PAYROLL'

Original Title: PAYROLL/I PROMISED TO PAY Director: Cliff Owen Year: 1961 Rates: *** * Early example of girl power encroaching a manly actio...

OLIVER REED DOUBLE FEATURE ON 'THE SAINT' WITH ROGER MOORE

<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/AVvXsEhsICp65heiiAXpRg50-K5oGk1Q2DMH-fW2t5ZHPTNdQd8yB9-rTsFZ_b-JYlkvnCCrRbkDcSxczvUgTnToG5l3tqTKcY0xYCr61Xv5F5SAWFwq6dgkmqgWghZG-07gYGPfo3XbslKN4_f4JJebG4MnwLeuSFiNKp3O3IGtZzrVcfk8uQrrWq2RZcpDZpoO/s2008/Screen%20Shot%202023-06-23%20at%209.55.23%20AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1224" data-original-width="2008" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsICp65heiiAXpRg50-K5oGk1Q2DMH-fW2t5ZHPTNdQd8yB9-rTsFZ_b-JYlkvnCCrRbkDcSxczvUgTnToG5l3tqTKcY0xYCr61Xv5F5SAWFwq6dgkmqgWghZG-07gYGPfo3XbslKN4_f4JJebG4MnwLeuSFiNKp3O3IGtZzrVcfk8uQrrWq2RZcpDZpoO/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-06-23%20at%209.55.23%20AM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Oliver Reed on two 1963 episodes of THE SAINT starring Roger Moore</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In his early troubled-youth pictures THE SYSTEM and THE PARTY'S OVER, British actor Oliver Reed gave his future roles away with imitations that are, in those cases, poking fun of either Americans or the typical cinematic Gangster...<br> <br> The latter being used in the episode SOPHIA where Roger Moore's THE SAINT finds himself in rural Greece where the episode's titular character (played by a gorgeous Imogen Hassall)... the daughter of a stubborn, old-fashioned pub owner... is anticipating her supposedly rich New Yorker cousin...<br> </p><p></p><p></p>

british, british new wave, crime, heist, imogen hassal, oliver reed, roger moore, sixties, the saint, TV, yvonne romain

OLIVER REED DOUBLE FEATURE ON 'THE SAINT' WITH ROGER MOORE

Oliver Reed on two 1963 episodes of THE SAINT starring Roger Moore In his early troubled-youth pictures THE SYSTEM and THE PARTY'S OVER...

VINCENT PRICE & JANE ASHER IN 'THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH'

<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/AVvXsEiluIah5E-5qLAvPRY6zH_6w13Qs-Ehvp-n6qNT_aT07Px609nICXwny2UNkZcZI-KlDRx5s8x1gebWY1WFPZE-s6I2KCiqjdNZcauRv9-Wh0xVmWjb-EnDW7A9GP58pZ7conxwG2keyEJJ4baRd-LcVYZLcnm1z0gYI64Tjp_3MWlo6lUGlMFoA7EUU4UV/s1598/354593695_1748974838865018_7069470018568829689_n.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="905" data-original-width="1598" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiluIah5E-5qLAvPRY6zH_6w13Qs-Ehvp-n6qNT_aT07Px609nICXwny2UNkZcZI-KlDRx5s8x1gebWY1WFPZE-s6I2KCiqjdNZcauRv9-Wh0xVmWjb-EnDW7A9GP58pZ7conxwG2keyEJJ4baRd-LcVYZLcnm1z0gYI64Tjp_3MWlo6lUGlMFoA7EUU4UV/s16000/354593695_1748974838865018_7069470018568829689_n.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jane Asher guides through THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH Year: 1964 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In the Edgar Allen Poe adaptation of THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH, low-budget director Roger Corman goes all-out in a gorgeously-shot hybrid of Ingmar Bergman's philosophically death-obsessed SEVENTH SEAL, and especially a Victorian-era Hammer horror film...<br><br>Particularly the striking bright colors of the central castle, run by Vincent Price as menacing sadist Prince Prospero, the luckiest man in 1600's Europe not only for owning a castle in the first place, but remaining safe and healthy while everyone outside's dying from a plague called THE RED DEATH...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

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VINCENT PRICE & JANE ASHER IN 'THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH'

Jane Asher guides through THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH Year: 1964 Rating: ****1/2 In the Edgar Allen Poe adaptation of THE MASQUE OF THE RED ...

DIANA DORS IN 'YIELD TO THE NIGHT' WITH MICHAEL CRAIG

<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/AVvXsEgt6hYS4ZBA--eezjO5bkYMg6gFwrG3XkVjz9rzhhaKb9ihVED8DEu2vo4N172gzor9l8rER4it-yix5sGzseed4I4bHhvPtw1hzXeh_neoUB04rinD_SRTHmjif_YJnDHRye4MSJgQLkbqJrelSTIYi8QSmbhixqAPsZf8jBrEr4zsaK6TLUQv_2DD8Dmo/s1060/darker.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="554" data-original-width="1060" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt6hYS4ZBA--eezjO5bkYMg6gFwrG3XkVjz9rzhhaKb9ihVED8DEu2vo4N172gzor9l8rER4it-yix5sGzseed4I4bHhvPtw1hzXeh_neoUB04rinD_SRTHmjif_YJnDHRye4MSJgQLkbqJrelSTIYi8QSmbhixqAPsZf8jBrEr4zsaK6TLUQv_2DD8Dmo/s16000/darker.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Diana Dors in YIELD TO THE NIGHT Year: 1956 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The true life capital punishment expose YIELD TO THE NIGHT had its name changed to BLONDE SINNER, with poster images focusing on a gun-wielding, femme-fatale type in the full-lipped Marilyn Monroe of England, Diana Dors, smitten by her seemingly bad boy boyfriend in lounge piano player Michael Craig...</p><p></p><p></p><p>But this 1950's J. Lee Thompson vehicle is more melodrama than any kind of thriller, mostly taken place inside a death row cell where Dors, as condemned Mary Hilton, strikes up a dialog-filled friendship with lady guard Yvonne Mitchell...</p><p><span></span></p>

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DIANA DORS IN 'YIELD TO THE NIGHT' WITH MICHAEL CRAIG

Diana Dors in YIELD TO THE NIGHT Year: 1956 Rating: **1/2 The true life capital punishment expose YIELD TO THE NIGHT had its name changed to...

BURT REYNOLDS AND DAVID NIVEN IN DON SIEGEL'S 'ROUGH CUT'

<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><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/AVvXsEjWSlt0hUJfUFHuavutZlH4Oat0Rvrrp30b_z0myehRtE5eRUlXRO-5R6JjEymQzvE7IxVP8FDG1440I7FqcER5CgiVKmskF8ZYR2v0gfQTURlcVN7xqXDB59bfetR3xGu8vj68n9wYMlmTVdPqIsKIPk1ArE213nC3rc6w676Vcli_cHd9Ain3VjSmjw/s1962/Screen%20Shot%202023-06-04%20at%208.13.12%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1060" data-original-width="1962" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWSlt0hUJfUFHuavutZlH4Oat0Rvrrp30b_z0myehRtE5eRUlXRO-5R6JjEymQzvE7IxVP8FDG1440I7FqcER5CgiVKmskF8ZYR2v0gfQTURlcVN7xqXDB59bfetR3xGu8vj68n9wYMlmTVdPqIsKIPk1ArE213nC3rc6w676Vcli_cHd9Ain3VjSmjw/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-06-04%20at%208.13.12%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Asa Maynor in MAN BEAST Year: 1956 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>For poor David Niven, ROUGH CUT turned out to be the second heist comedy centering on diamond thieves where he gets lost in the mix: First of course was THE PINK PANTHER as the charming, sophisticated criminal with lawman Peter Sellers historically stealing the show, and here Niven himself is the dogged constable yet the entire picture belongs to Burt Reynolds and Lesley-Anne Down playing the suave burglars...</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>And although <i>mostly</i> directed by American edgy auteur Don Siegel and starring the American box office champ Reynolds, this British-set CUT has the witty pace and polished style of that country's crime-comedy genre including polite expository banter, lavish interior sets and plenty of champagne...</p><p><span></span></p>

andrew ray, british, burt reynolds, caper, con man, david niven, don siegel, heist, lesley-anne down, sue lloyd, susan littler, wolf kahler

BURT REYNOLDS AND DAVID NIVEN IN DON SIEGEL'S 'ROUGH CUT'

Asa Maynor in MAN BEAST Year: 1956 Rating: **1/2 For poor David Niven, ROUGH CUT turned out to be the second heist comedy centering on diamo...

MICHAEL GOUGH CONTROLS 'KONGA' FEATURING CLAIRE GORDON

<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/AVvXsEg47vjvPw1AIq3cBM7Xv7d1ZARKCorTL7jxCUGIsrtxiNIlFYIzY4XsnG7e2OxqklnQwen4t6-depgHY0oy11DEWYeHR901l5hq5o3IDpUZ7txGPnAMDPUdGYz3KRpSmIjA2fWrTQ9_Rhrf2jT-trjjMfPf9-51asDvCj1SCqI4d8IqZEBX1Q3eFzy1OQ/s2029/Screen%20Shot%202023-05-05%20at%2012.41.45%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1145" data-original-width="2029" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg47vjvPw1AIq3cBM7Xv7d1ZARKCorTL7jxCUGIsrtxiNIlFYIzY4XsnG7e2OxqklnQwen4t6-depgHY0oy11DEWYeHR901l5hq5o3IDpUZ7txGPnAMDPUdGYz3KRpSmIjA2fWrTQ9_Rhrf2jT-trjjMfPf9-51asDvCj1SCqI4d8IqZEBX1Q3eFzy1OQ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-05-05%20at%2012.41.45%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: KONGA Year: 1961 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>A movie that finally proves dumb things can sound smart when spoken in an English accent as Michael Gough explains his growth serum, starting out on neat looking Venus Flytraps and then pet chimp KONGA, who eventually grows to the size of KING KONG. By that point, when the superimposed giant ape reaches half as tall as the Big Ben Clock Tower, no one's speaking in any accent so everything falls apart slowly, and stupidly...<br> <br> But most of the film has a tall man in a tall gorilla suit, taking out particular strategic enemies of Gough's mad scientist/professor named Dr. Charles Decker in a body count fashion both intriguing and fun. From the snippy dean of the college he works for, after having returned from Africa with a wealth of expository knowledge taking up the first five minutes via media interview, to a handsome male student rightfully smitten with young voluptuous Claire Gordon (as cute Kim Tracy waits in the wings), this movie's bombshell blonde Fay Wray, bitterly jealous of the time and attention teacher spends on his teacher's pet, especially on an outdoor field trip...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><span></span>

body count, british, claire gordon, creature feature, horror, jess conrad, kim tracy, margo johns, michael gough, monster, rupert osborne, steven berkoff, vanda godsell, waveney lee

MICHAEL GOUGH CONTROLS 'KONGA' FEATURING CLAIRE GORDON

Title: KONGA Year: 1961 Rating: ***1/2 A movie that finally proves dumb things can sound smart when spoken in an English accent as Michael ...

HAMMER PRESENTS 'NIGHT CREATURES' WITH PETER CUSHING

<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><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/AVvXsEiWTz9m6RhzMPCFlFr3qO8z-6M1AeD-lb72Tzq43aRbO6EkJwm4cjsYZEIXC1_c39mBWl_3EP7RyJI9MXDAWm9k7dIJrEc7e_yIJCvzE6FQjO7XEPfV2fygkXtoL5vezZEskUVAQsHvNP5jdAY9Yyx-N1fHIhj1WXB9Nw2LiHar-hTqk_W3xTOoURyujQ/s1581/Screen%20Shot%202022-05-15%20at%208.27.42%20PM%203.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="837" data-original-width="1581" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWTz9m6RhzMPCFlFr3qO8z-6M1AeD-lb72Tzq43aRbO6EkJwm4cjsYZEIXC1_c39mBWl_3EP7RyJI9MXDAWm9k7dIJrEc7e_yIJCvzE6FQjO7XEPfV2fygkXtoL5vezZEskUVAQsHvNP5jdAY9Yyx-N1fHIhj1WXB9Nw2LiHar-hTqk_W3xTOoURyujQ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-05-15%20at%208.27.42%20PM%203.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Oliver Reed and Peter Cushing in Hammer's NIGHT CREATURES Year: 1962 Rating: *****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Hammer's decision to name this hybrid of thriller, horror and mystery CAPTAIN CLEGG proves that that last genre wasn't intended since spoiling Peter Cushing's true identity doesn't only ruin the plot's sneaky, intriguing premise, it makes Cushing's uniquely affable performance yet another fervent and intense one, not battling monsters this time but England's 1800's-era "tax man" himself...<br></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></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>In Patrick Allen's square-jawed Captain Collier, sent with his troops to investigate what he doesn't yet realize is a tightknit, secret-latch, wine-smuggling operation run by Cushing playing local vicar Rev. Dr. Blyss, THE ONLY character that director Peter Graham Scott... until well into the second act... intends him to be...<br></p><span></span>

british, david lodge, derek francis, hammer films, horror, martin benson, martin reid, michael ripper, mystery, oliver reed, patrick allen, peter cushing, peter graham scott, sixties, yvonne romain

HAMMER PRESENTS 'NIGHT CREATURES' WITH PETER CUSHING

Oliver Reed and Peter Cushing in Hammer's NIGHT CREATURES Year: 1962 Rating: ***** Hammer's decision to name this hybrid of thriller...