WILLIAM LUCAS & JOHN RUTLAND WEATHERING 'CALCULATED RISK'

<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/AVvXsEgxOiKr5iZKVCfke243dJUBlNVeJBmqw_I4WXsNTQ8SCXgw_K1WnFMoImQIR9k9QJRZhuvs12kdYFKJqecMylAzZqXYIIVdKOLaXcqhxTVJrhNf4CCef-YHFH8bWESukDBGMUARN2WIYo-Pl2VvAIgchdPnn6R9xOG_Ba1mVtpklnfa94udDxCbxC6l3w/s2122/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-27%20at%204.59.37%20AM-1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1203" data-original-width="2122" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxOiKr5iZKVCfke243dJUBlNVeJBmqw_I4WXsNTQ8SCXgw_K1WnFMoImQIR9k9QJRZhuvs12kdYFKJqecMylAzZqXYIIVdKOLaXcqhxTVJrhNf4CCef-YHFH8bWESukDBGMUARN2WIYo-Pl2VvAIgchdPnn6R9xOG_Ba1mVtpklnfa94udDxCbxC6l3w/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-27%20at%204.59.37%20AM-1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>William Lucas in CALCULATED RISK Year: 1963 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Low-budget thriller has <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/02/gimme-a.html">THE BREAK</a> baddie and overall capable <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/british%20new%20wave">British New Wave</a> actor William Lucas in CALCULATED RISK, a hybrid of THE ASPHALT JUNGLE as a newly-released older short guy has big plans for a big heist (John Rutland doing Sam Jaffe) and LARCENY INC since they must dig through a pair of locations to reach the targeted goal... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Which aren't stores but bombed-out houses from twenty-years past, leading to a lucrative bank vault while Lucas, as a sophisticated yet crooked businessman (like ASPHALT backer Louis Calhern), who really doesn't need the bread (unlike Calhern and more like shifty Marc Lawrence), heads up a group of thugs resembling dockyard barflies...<br> </p>

british neo noir, british new wave, caper, dilys watling, george martin, heist, john rutland, sixties, suspense, terence cooper, thriller, warren mitchell, william lucas

WILLIAM LUCAS & JOHN RUTLAND WEATHERING 'CALCULATED RISK'

William Lucas in CALCULATED RISK Year: 1963 Rating: ***1/2 Low-budget thriller has THE BREAK baddie and overall capable British New Wave a...

MIKE HODGES DIRECTS A KILLER MICHAEL CAINE IN 'GET CARTER'

<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/AVvXsEjSD36OBqqh1u6xPWb1OI7eAeIcZGaUU2xbjYq7vxOIhWHwAHEIl1JP0I9wWAORKPOZFPTa5jZurj2sSIvxQzu7SDbg6-JemYmqxV1AwtX4JNvIHV0ZY_9wdQDLMvfa7bqKoqRCaBtdpQY0eAGcFk5IQnD0uXIoEQqYqdQgtYDEosiyuo3k8YpPLtSB9fu1/s1824/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-02%20at%2012.42.26%20AM-1%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="828" data-original-width="1824" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSD36OBqqh1u6xPWb1OI7eAeIcZGaUU2xbjYq7vxOIhWHwAHEIl1JP0I9wWAORKPOZFPTa5jZurj2sSIvxQzu7SDbg6-JemYmqxV1AwtX4JNvIHV0ZY_9wdQDLMvfa7bqKoqRCaBtdpQY0eAGcFk5IQnD0uXIoEQqYqdQgtYDEosiyuo3k8YpPLtSB9fu1/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-02%20at%2012.42.26%20AM-1%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: GET CARTER Year: 1971 Rating: *****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The plot of director Mike Hodges' GET CARTER is simple enough: London-based gangster Michael Caine as Jack Carter returns to the squalor of hometown Newcastle to find out how his brother died, which was supposedly a drunk driving accident that Jack thinks was murder...</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></p><p>Easy so far, sure, but how he figures out the truth is more complicated than memorizing Shakespeare in Klingon... And in the opening scene he's reading Raymond Chandler<i>,</i> a nod to the kind of Film Noir that GET CARTER embraces by the myriad of last names spouted in a dizzying barrage that needs <i>close</i> paying attention to... </p><p><span></span></p>

alun armstrong, british neo noir, british new wave, exploitation, george sewell, godfrey quigley, ian hendry, john bindon, michael caine, mike hodges, petra markham, seventies, thriller, tony beckley

MIKE HODGES DIRECTS A KILLER MICHAEL CAINE IN 'GET CARTER'

Title: GET CARTER Year: 1971 Rating: ***** The plot of director Mike Hodges' GET CARTER is simple enough: London-based gangster Michael ...

STANLEY BAKER TRUCKS WITH PEGGY CUMMINS IN 'HELL DRIVERS'

<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/AVvXsEg8N6sx3lBySCRJll6wj47bkTMR8Nps5QxkLJs3OeRK8Fvuf9o-ufrLfw-oW3Fz7g3zShCLS-9Jd77cPa0i6hylzhCG4B3BW-jOmPRPkeqH3zGBFbJ0tIElupFswoysdHOJZJLLJv0zMrER95YvIp59do0UCOzIJzsdlTH0NLd7v0-gnLWXCLeUxipzksXK/s1502/Screen%20Shot%202023-02-25%20at%204.21.31%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="856" data-original-width="1502" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8N6sx3lBySCRJll6wj47bkTMR8Nps5QxkLJs3OeRK8Fvuf9o-ufrLfw-oW3Fz7g3zShCLS-9Jd77cPa0i6hylzhCG4B3BW-jOmPRPkeqH3zGBFbJ0tIElupFswoysdHOJZJLLJv0zMrER95YvIp59do0UCOzIJzsdlTH0NLd7v0-gnLWXCLeUxipzksXK/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-02-25%20at%204.21.31%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: HELL DRIVERS Year: 1957 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Cheating with the sped-up effect ala Keystone Cops, the hauling-trucks for HELL DRIVERS picks up granite and races it back to the factory as quickly as possible... at breakneck speed taking neck-breaking curves... and newly hired honest ex-con Stanley Baker catches on that he's not very wanted... that is, the boss wants him driving fast, but not <i>too</i> fast... <br> <br> And if you like breathing, you can NEVER beat the high score of antagonist Patrick McGoohan, looking like a severe, battered, modern-day pirate with a cocky grin behind the dangerous, risk-taking wheel... </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>

action, british film noir/melodrama, british new wave, cy endfield, david mccallum, fifties, herbert lom, jerry stovin, jill ireland, patrick mcgoohan, peggy cummins, sean connery, stanley baker

STANLEY BAKER TRUCKS WITH PEGGY CUMMINS IN 'HELL DRIVERS'

Title: HELL DRIVERS Year: 1957 Rating: **** Cheating with the sped-up effect ala Keystone Cops, the hauling-trucks for HELL DRIVERS picks up...

STANLEY BAKER IN THE BRITISH NEO NOIR HEIST FLICK 'ROBBERY'

<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><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/AVvXsEhuWgrMeoIMoDVlTKpAU0zn1KBPBigdaB55jdxZdGhk3hs28mkz_b4AgkiyjkBl7VywxIPncdE0zC1ocrPR754VZJxgzbEvLaW9HKe3-b3dd68TBax8PRrye4uvMPrn7GQThBrsFiNGFp0Nae4Z0igQVEnDqbvv6E9FT3Xi3WScQDORNIFGKhwX3LyMVp-R/s2266/newer.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1252" data-original-width="2266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuWgrMeoIMoDVlTKpAU0zn1KBPBigdaB55jdxZdGhk3hs28mkz_b4AgkiyjkBl7VywxIPncdE0zC1ocrPR754VZJxgzbEvLaW9HKe3-b3dd68TBax8PRrye4uvMPrn7GQThBrsFiNGFp0Nae4Z0igQVEnDqbvv6E9FT3Xi3WScQDORNIFGKhwX3LyMVp-R/s16000/newer.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: ROBBERY Director: Peter Yates Star: Stanley Baker Year: 1967 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Best known as the obscure crime film that gave English director Peter Yates his big game-changing opportunity to make BULLITT stateside, after Steve McQueen had witnessed the rudimentary car chase sequence from ROBBERY, overall a sparse, deliberately cold/heartless British Neo-Noir Heist-Thriller... </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></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 it's not <i>just</i> this initial chase (literally driven by Clinton Greyn) that Yates carried over to the McQueen classic, but also the strategically metronomic moments leading up...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, barry foster, british neo noir, british new wave, frank finlay, glynn edwards, heist, james booth, joanna pettet, peter yates, sixties, stanley baker, william marlowe

STANLEY BAKER IN THE BRITISH NEO NOIR HEIST FLICK 'ROBBERY'

Title: ROBBERY Director: Peter Yates Star: Stanley Baker Year: 1967 Rating: ****1/2 Best known as the obscure crime film that gave English d...

OLIVER REED REBELS THROUGH HAMMER'S 'THESE ARE THE DAMNED'

<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><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/AVvXsEiNsb9nb0xrd_0NbRwDR-OPV7BUQWf4DgfORiYt_7z7Ynv_-3BusjDfANDB_N9HUve42rAPc_IR86r2cPyUBmjKNKTHyXgrCCCzNH69RK2l1OLXiGJKlsNiZyCkOS-12iu9rayIGpxASm5iW7MdrV7-RRWwzpvnGEcfvakPc5mukxAbzxzqS7AmHTVvZG5s/s2074/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-20%20at%2011.19.46%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1342" data-original-width="2074" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNsb9nb0xrd_0NbRwDR-OPV7BUQWf4DgfORiYt_7z7Ynv_-3BusjDfANDB_N9HUve42rAPc_IR86r2cPyUBmjKNKTHyXgrCCCzNH69RK2l1OLXiGJKlsNiZyCkOS-12iu9rayIGpxASm5iW7MdrV7-RRWwzpvnGEcfvakPc5mukxAbzxzqS7AmHTVvZG5s/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-20%20at%2011.19.46%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THESE ARE THE DAMNED aka THE DAMNED Year: 1962 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Hammer's THESE ARE THE DAMNED has a double-edged title starting with a Teddy Boy gang (young punks from England's 1950's/1960's who dressed in Victorian-era used-clothe leftovers) led by Oliver Reed... </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></p><p></p><p>And he's in what seems an incestuous relationship with sexy sibling Shirley Anne Field, who... while the boys whistle the tune of a corny song that'd just conducted their street-savvy march into town... picks up on older, classy American, Macdonald Carey, so he can be deliberately clobbered, robbed...<br></p><p><span></span></p>

alexander knox, british new wave, david gregory, hammer films, james maxwell, joseph losey, kenneth cope, macdonald carey, oliver reed, shirley anne field, sixties, viveca lindfors, walter gotell

OLIVER REED REBELS THROUGH HAMMER'S 'THESE ARE THE DAMNED'

Title: THESE ARE THE DAMNED aka THE DAMNED Year: 1962 Rating: **** Hammer's THESE ARE THE DAMNED has a double-edged title starting with ...

WILLIAM LUCAS AND KENNETH COPE STEAL 'DATELINE DIAMONDS'

<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/AVvXsEiQt6RsLnwHxWr9iSeOYqqoP9ciZFKiXVdRNcpE_wEQ3uPC6yBEKYqU5PAn2qq1wZ9iBrVifNzMAsqUj-upz-PfMSdgM7RPU3_soooSfBCAfA1HwWVOooUHt4ZFvX5wgDELjyuQTLzZ02jb4oe0FOxjeJUflg0n8D-swrF6Rq81gU0SxKn14NjOZA0jYMjy/s952/377258740_1803669840062184_3406730178235353623_n-1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="562" data-original-width="952" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQt6RsLnwHxWr9iSeOYqqoP9ciZFKiXVdRNcpE_wEQ3uPC6yBEKYqU5PAn2qq1wZ9iBrVifNzMAsqUj-upz-PfMSdgM7RPU3_soooSfBCAfA1HwWVOooUHt4ZFvX5wgDELjyuQTLzZ02jb4oe0FOxjeJUflg0n8D-swrF6Rq81gU0SxKn14NjOZA0jYMjy/s16000/377258740_1803669840062184_3406730178235353623_n-1.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: DATELINE DIAMONDS Year: 1965 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>An otherwise nifty heist caper... with an agenda to promote the British band SMALL FACES... has two fitting actors, old and young, both having starred in several crime b-pictures, beginning with William Lucas, who played every incarnation of criminal... from cold-blooded to cowardly from THE BREAK to CALCULATED RISK to PAYROLL... and the intensely vulnerable Kenneth Cope from JUNGLE STREET, THE CONVICT and THE DAMNED... </p><p></p><p></p><p>Herein, Cope is the crooked manager of the band, and Lucas has his number... an intense actor never using costumes but here he resembles Inspector Clouseau if originally cast Peter Ustinov played him more straight, and his anti-chemistry with the younger Cope works surprisingly well... yet they mostly work together by remaining apart...</p><span></span>

british film noir, british new wave, conrad phillips, george mikell, heist, kenneth cope, music, william lucas

WILLIAM LUCAS AND KENNETH COPE STEAL 'DATELINE DIAMONDS'

Title: DATELINE DIAMONDS Year: 1965 Rating: ***1/2 An otherwise nifty heist caper... with an agenda to promote the British band SMALL FACES....

MICHAEL CAINE & MIKE HODGES FOLLOW 'GET CARTER' WITH 'PULP'

<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/AVvXsEie4UxP1V-aP27RqHpg19-8ePOJk0dWIYROkzCP5rF6sYXu3vImYg4x-jGBg8u-Bh-CVpZjcEaHogGVJu_Uq37inR81ODBLCQ2znPdvLH7qUaS3xKIAH5mBbtnrsHu2R79xG9jPKePlpnLk-KyQXHmwtLvyEZtYpKyH07a2U5vOqC0pKdmAKCLuqa3h2vcC/s1954/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-14%20at%207.16.01%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="950" data-original-width="1954" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie4UxP1V-aP27RqHpg19-8ePOJk0dWIYROkzCP5rF6sYXu3vImYg4x-jGBg8u-Bh-CVpZjcEaHogGVJu_Uq37inR81ODBLCQ2znPdvLH7qUaS3xKIAH5mBbtnrsHu2R79xG9jPKePlpnLk-KyQXHmwtLvyEZtYpKyH07a2U5vOqC0pKdmAKCLuqa3h2vcC/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-14%20at%207.16.01%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Michael Caine gets fiction in PULP Year: 1972 Rates: **</u><u>*</u><u>*</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Director Mike Hodges and his <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/12/getCarter.html">GET CARTER</a> anti-hero Michael Caine found the perfect antidote in PULP, a dark comedy in which a deliberately bad "gangster fiction" novelist becomes part of his own style of flimsy storytelling while narrating along in the usual Gumshoe fashion... </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></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Then landing a plot/purpose after a random and eclectic forty-minutes of anticipation for a has-been actor that Caine's slippery scribbler will ghostwrite an autobiography for... </p><p><span></span></p>

al lettieri, amerigo tot, british neo noir, british new wave, cult, dark comedy, lionel stander, lizabeth scott, michael caine, mickey rooney, mike hodges, neo noir, seventies, thriller

MICHAEL CAINE & MIKE HODGES FOLLOW 'GET CARTER' WITH 'PULP'

Michael Caine gets fiction in PULP Year: 1972 Rates: ** * * Director Mike Hodges and his GET CARTER anti-hero Michael Caine found the perfe...

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>

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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>

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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...

JANE ASHER & IAN HENDRY RELATE WITH 'GIRL IN THE HEADLINES'

<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/AVvXsEhiLgWK5vEAxLSUY1iUmsYSxZwcuL-k5R_B5PxThQ4qbLLVexYVeNXrj_WTH2XIhl2bnDQB4sDYTaThPsu6kD_hcDCx6xbVn3w9iESEGXQjgo8oA6Sfw1VzoAqMv2uTu7GPxTd0IsWzxOBtvbYC8kRmY_UnMToidhKpuNA33o92payFgqSVjIZVeZjkMmfF/s2514/Screen%20Shot%202023-06-23%20at%203.25.28%20AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1464" data-original-width="2514" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiLgWK5vEAxLSUY1iUmsYSxZwcuL-k5R_B5PxThQ4qbLLVexYVeNXrj_WTH2XIhl2bnDQB4sDYTaThPsu6kD_hcDCx6xbVn3w9iESEGXQjgo8oA6Sfw1VzoAqMv2uTu7GPxTd0IsWzxOBtvbYC8kRmY_UnMToidhKpuNA33o92payFgqSVjIZVeZjkMmfF/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-06-23%20at%203.25.28%20AM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jane Asher from GIRL IN THE HEADLINES Year: 1963 Rating: **1/2</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Also known as THE MODEL MURDER CASE, this British Neo Noir has a perfectly cast Ian Hendry with Ronald Fraser as cop partners (Inspector and Sergeant) with such terrific chemistry it's a shame there weren't more films, or perhaps a television series where GIRL IN THE HEADLINES would be a merely passable episode... albeit filled with fantastic looking sets showcasing pallid wealth in a mystery thriller that needed not only more thrills but far more action...</p><p></p><p>A shame the titular model, shown all through the opening credits and even the first several minutes (seated dead in someone else's living room), isn't credited anywhere: Her character is quite something, making this a kind of <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/12/the-laura.html">LAURA</a> where the corpse has a life all her own, albeit not through any flashbacks. The suspects/her friends though are very similar... </p><p><span></span></p>

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JANE ASHER & IAN HENDRY RELATE WITH 'GIRL IN THE HEADLINES'

Jane Asher from GIRL IN THE HEADLINES Year: 1963 Rating: **1/2 Also known as THE MODEL MURDER CASE, this British Neo Noir has a perfectly ca...

OLIVER REED IN HAMMER FILMS 'PARANOIAC' WITH JANETTE SCOTT

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" 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/AVvXsEh6vWBjLr6HLNf3xFljqHl-WVo5Zw5cf3FRQhm-4715QwEeuhE6cmwfQOCRhocb224e2DYp59jAveE9Rbnp2iyTocsSRRSoVYM_xuraQz4KJSPrQ-X2KuHzmxwwOufUeWNitCfBLIIlUArXmK8T729zUE0Xc862abcJcUXOfR5qauu4r7TjSnu-C9bodw/s1932/Screen%20Shot%202023-04-29%20at%207.33.54%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1390" data-original-width="1932" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6vWBjLr6HLNf3xFljqHl-WVo5Zw5cf3FRQhm-4715QwEeuhE6cmwfQOCRhocb224e2DYp59jAveE9Rbnp2iyTocsSRRSoVYM_xuraQz4KJSPrQ-X2KuHzmxwwOufUeWNitCfBLIIlUArXmK8T729zUE0Xc862abcJcUXOfR5qauu4r7TjSnu-C9bodw/w400-h288/Screen%20Shot%202023-04-29%20at%207.33.54%20PM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Poster for PARANOIAC Year: 1963 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>If Terence Fisher was the <i>Universal Classic Monsters </i>version of England's HAMMER FILMS then Freddie Francis was their Hitchcock, and PARANOIAC one of Hammer's best psychological thrillers, providing stock actor Oliver Reed a grand performance, showcasing what would become his two signature traits: moody brooding and overboard intensity: He's the brother of troubled, haunted ingenue Jeanette Scott, set to inherit a bundle (strictly overseen by an aunt and family lawyer), holed up in the family's sea-cliff estate, but not if Reed (with moll Liliane Brousse) can help it...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And while mostly working alone, he's <i>not</i> alone in agenda: The leading man is a con artist, which we learn soon enough for PARANOIAC to not quite reach Mystery-genre status: But those fifteen minutes when handsome Alexander Davion may or may not be her adored prodigal brother are the most intriguing: After which, coinciding with the kind of quick-split editing wherein everything beforehand meant only how the scene abruptly ends, Reed and his boisterous persona takes over, making this a frantic game of wits using creative camera angles within a shadowy B&W aesthetic that'd perfectly suit Film Noir... and it's only five years shy of being one — for then it'd get a lot more praise and attention beyond the lot of We the faithfully dedicated/eternal Hammerheads.  </p><p><span></span></p>

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OLIVER REED IN HAMMER FILMS 'PARANOIAC' WITH JANETTE SCOTT

Poster for PARANOIAC Year: 1963 Rating: **** If Terence Fisher was the Universal Classic Monsters version of England's HAMMER FILMS then...

TOM COURTENAY 'THE LONELINESS OF THE LONG DISTANCE RUNNER'

<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/AVvXsEi7cyF2PQClsy3Zq3ZOKs6ecjxS5gsTRFylfpOKss1810A9XdMBntG6sSDuScYAuUcfw8JzevzPsJM3IDGkFwoQ8OMeUID-CGKs8RfNASGlNXTArm0PAKVn2xEsETdjm0Y6vV8872uZz4A2l3_vC7KsB3GqZa1AgNH1orp8WEoluu2esCEJubXBODQy8w/s2625/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-20%20at%207.47.00%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1255" data-original-width="2625" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7cyF2PQClsy3Zq3ZOKs6ecjxS5gsTRFylfpOKss1810A9XdMBntG6sSDuScYAuUcfw8JzevzPsJM3IDGkFwoQ8OMeUID-CGKs8RfNASGlNXTArm0PAKVn2xEsETdjm0Y6vV8872uZz4A2l3_vC7KsB3GqZa1AgNH1orp8WEoluu2esCEJubXBODQy8w/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-20%20at%207.47.00%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE LONELINESS OF THE LONG DISTANCE RUNNER Year: 1962 Rating: *****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Although SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING gets credit for igniting the <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/british%20new%20wave">British New Wave</a>, otherwise known as Kitchen Sink Dramas centering on the working class in England's late 50's/early 60's, that film's producer Tony Richardson's directorial THE LONELINESS OF THE LONG DISTANCE RUNNER really thrust the movement forward...</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>With an active sport-plot behind character-driven, documentary-style social themes, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/tom%20courtenay">Tom Courtenay</a> plays young contented loser Colin Smith, newly arrived at a rural juvenile detention center from a renovated castle, run by ambitious warden (aka governor) Michael Redgrave...</p><p><span></span></p>

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TOM COURTENAY 'THE LONELINESS OF THE LONG DISTANCE RUNNER'

Title: THE LONELINESS OF THE LONG DISTANCE RUNNER Year: 1962 Rating: ***** Although SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING gets credit for igniti...

ZENA WALKER & DENNIS WATERMAN IN THE DRAMA 'SNOWBALL'

<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/AVvXsEiLSxG9_0ABxRIou_HuID5GUJOXDqrS4DhLCXkz2SuxNsImcaKwFF8DLGrpUpYAksAo3TrbWNeEwy2mPH3xp0p1W4omYWU1KA1ygYHEBJV6O7tZzPqrqNIuSa_TYKt5WeiJxFz_RTqWgTGdkylJtrxyZDddggJojrBVuxrk3ii_E-fwmVJuDhGcLbdPQA/s1423/1%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="841" data-original-width="1423" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLSxG9_0ABxRIou_HuID5GUJOXDqrS4DhLCXkz2SuxNsImcaKwFF8DLGrpUpYAksAo3TrbWNeEwy2mPH3xp0p1W4omYWU1KA1ygYHEBJV6O7tZzPqrqNIuSa_TYKt5WeiJxFz_RTqWgTGdkylJtrxyZDddggJojrBVuxrk3ii_E-fwmVJuDhGcLbdPQA/s16000/1%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Zena Walker in SNOWBALL Year: 1960 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>A unique<a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/british%20neo%20noir"> British New Wave/Kitchen Sink melodrama</a> involving how fate works... not the first or last... and SNOWBALL is set in some pretty warm weather, so the title's about gossip gaining momentum...<br><br>And all because of child actor <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/dennis%20waterman">Dennis Waterman</a> as an English suburban kid who shares to his parents and neighbor how a bus driver dumped him off: having to walk home four miles — the last stretch of that seemingly breezy stride opening the movie with credits shown...</p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

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ZENA WALKER & DENNIS WATERMAN IN THE DRAMA 'SNOWBALL'

Zena Walker in SNOWBALL Year: 1960 Rating: *** A unique British New Wave/Kitchen Sink melodrama involving how fate works... not the first ...

LAURENCE HARVEY VS TOM COURTENAY FOR 'A DANDY IN ASPIC'

<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/AVvXsEiIGM9oLlSyXQbD_Hhp0y_loEsy_xBFRxbnuPCGaLbdM8FyxqB-QjxgeXx0u5rrwYqMv9sv0h0eDvxjaFkJu_39Z92dM01Dpl7dIAku8dGcgy6jEXQuF5aNjmyhoz7YI1FnAo0UZbFOLrDJTNHFlWQZdrWIlSQMhOsKMAcDA43mct9KyUN5YmpVDd0T4g/s1440/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-22%20at%2012.15.45%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="809" data-original-width="1440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIGM9oLlSyXQbD_Hhp0y_loEsy_xBFRxbnuPCGaLbdM8FyxqB-QjxgeXx0u5rrwYqMv9sv0h0eDvxjaFkJu_39Z92dM01Dpl7dIAku8dGcgy6jEXQuF5aNjmyhoz7YI1FnAo0UZbFOLrDJTNHFlWQZdrWIlSQMhOsKMAcDA43mct9KyUN5YmpVDd0T4g/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-22%20at%2012.15.45%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: A DANDY IN ASPIC Year: 1968 Rates: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>"I do believe that you two would have got on well together," Tom Courtenay as a stuffy, cautious and paranoid, cold-blooded British agent named Gaitiss tells Mia Farrow's flaky model Caroline after she beds Laurence Harvey, a far more sympathetic agent that <i>we</i> think is named Alexander Eberlin. "You haven't got a past, and <i>he</i> hasn't got a future."</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Sadly, either did veteran director Anthony Mann, who started with Film Noir using creative camera angles before turning to traditional Westerns, making A DANDY IN ASPIC a kind of halfway visual comeback...</p><p><span></span></p>

anthony mann, barbara murray, british neo noir, british new wave, espionage, laurence harvey, lionel stander, mia farrow, sixties, spy, suspense, thriller, tom courtenay

LAURENCE HARVEY VS TOM COURTENAY FOR 'A DANDY IN ASPIC'

Title: A DANDY IN ASPIC Year: 1968 Rates: ***1/2 "I do believe that you two would have got on well together," Tom Courtenay as a s...

TOM COURTENAY PURSUED THROUGHOUT ENGLAND AS 'OTLEY'

<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/AVvXsEhLviDa0GiSxu4yazZvhWK-x1s0iy2EWdR5I2lZtBzz4lKmNd4pdkZ4t2wTGuLSEiDZB8_2SZPhY6_puFTBGcFweK0OTXizuk5rZ0WGLZIR-20zxCrWS5hKeg5eJEC7eDImuhFQPSaofUP0jd7yJmiuLawQndSHhcwS09NDVjPM7_uSqPkiTVJXZyLhRg/s1177/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-21%20at%202.54.26%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="737" data-original-width="1177" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLviDa0GiSxu4yazZvhWK-x1s0iy2EWdR5I2lZtBzz4lKmNd4pdkZ4t2wTGuLSEiDZB8_2SZPhY6_puFTBGcFweK0OTXizuk5rZ0WGLZIR-20zxCrWS5hKeg5eJEC7eDImuhFQPSaofUP0jd7yJmiuLawQndSHhcwS09NDVjPM7_uSqPkiTVJXZyLhRg/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-21%20at%202.54.26%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Tom Courtenay in OTLEY Year: 1969 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>At the crest of the 1960's counter-culture, OTLEY was the final starring cinematic role for Tom Courtenay before returning to and remaining with the Royal Stage until his comeback in THE DRESSER. Despite earning an Oscar nomination, those very long thirteen-years had changed the scrawny, scowling, hungry rebellious youth into a mellow middle-aged man who could still act — but visually it was like replacing James Dean with Jimmy Dean... <br> <br> OTLEY was also a reunion of two young cronies from Courtenay's star-making LONELINESS OF THE LONG DISTANCE RUNNER with James Bolam as one of several antique dealers along Fleet Street, England, where Courtenay's Gerald Otley hardly makes a living, starting out being kicked out of one flat and desperately seeking another...<br> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>

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TOM COURTENAY PURSUED THROUGHOUT ENGLAND AS 'OTLEY'

Tom Courtenay in OTLEY Year: 1969 Rating: **** At the crest of the 1960's counter-culture, OTLEY was the final starring cinematic role f...

WILLIAM SYLVESTER DIGS INTO 'OFFBEAT' AKA 'THE DEVIL INSIDE'

<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/AVvXsEiGZNCZkC7WojDRlLM9LfucB0tBITl3L3yP6boAU01j50YWLFBE-cRkgDnd7RuvDVgAAJXZns0KylHBc8jWOO2p8c1gXn4_YjBmT8X6SSnqbaQfRIS6cezP1_b2nqcLhq1ExccOYOvWjIyBCdNj4yuiowIOUSKAd4MqdWat07GRnRybG5VPyYMdQJpm5Q/s1385/Screen%20Shot%202021-03-22%20at%202.35.24%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1385" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGZNCZkC7WojDRlLM9LfucB0tBITl3L3yP6boAU01j50YWLFBE-cRkgDnd7RuvDVgAAJXZns0KylHBc8jWOO2p8c1gXn4_YjBmT8X6SSnqbaQfRIS6cezP1_b2nqcLhq1ExccOYOvWjIyBCdNj4yuiowIOUSKAd4MqdWat07GRnRybG5VPyYMdQJpm5Q/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202021-03-22%20at%202.35.24%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>William Sylvester in OFFBEAT Year: 1961 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>There was a reason American actor William Sylvester was available for an American director who filmed and lived in England, where both he and Stanley Kubrick ala 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY literally felt right at home: And OFFBEAT/THE DEVIL INSIDE provides the usually cool/collected William Sylvester real edge and intensity: starting out in dark sunglasses while robbing a bank... then meeting with fellow cops for whom he's a resilient, somewhat roguish undercover agent. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Taking place during one heist... a tunnel job on a quiet city street... the mission's to infiltrate a syndicate of criminals yet this particular den harbors pool-playing, working-class types so crooked they're almost normal, including by-the-numbers leader Anthony Dawson and affable John Meillon, who, along with muscle-thugs Neil McCarthy and Harry Baird, pose as construction workers....</p><p><span></span></p>

anthony dawson, british neo noir, british new wave, cliff owen, cop, harry baird, heist, john meillon, mai zetterling, neil mccarthy, sixties, william sylvester

WILLIAM SYLVESTER DIGS INTO 'OFFBEAT' AKA 'THE DEVIL INSIDE'

William Sylvester in OFFBEAT Year: 1961 Rating: **** There was a reason American actor William Sylvester was available for an American direc...

JACQUELINE ELLIS IN 'THE TRAITORS' STARRING PATRICK ALLEN

<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/AVvXsEhGR8L5NnOjVdu49fBx7p9c7CISz9X3pivczQucfP5rMqZH_ScFbsvbY3m3RY7EVvxdetONf7THxVZ4FFsIs8J88tJ-Mit68v6rcQ-RO_5dKl4q0HO5bfVupWzVG00ib0buCz7XN8E8QnFYahEIMws45t0ZmGPMMfSEaFBsZAKCvZo7v0BXbTNYJ9Z5Tw/s911/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-16%20at%205.06.11%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="469" data-original-width="911" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGR8L5NnOjVdu49fBx7p9c7CISz9X3pivczQucfP5rMqZH_ScFbsvbY3m3RY7EVvxdetONf7THxVZ4FFsIs8J88tJ-Mit68v6rcQ-RO_5dKl4q0HO5bfVupWzVG00ib0buCz7XN8E8QnFYahEIMws45t0ZmGPMMfSEaFBsZAKCvZo7v0BXbTNYJ9Z5Tw/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-16%20at%205.06.11%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jacqueline Ellis in THE TRAITORS Year: 1962 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The second of two British b-crimes pairing lantern-jawed <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/12/peter-cushing-patrick-allen-in-hammers.html">Patrick Allen</a>, honing one of the greatest voices in cinema history, with ingenue <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/jacqueline%20ellis">Jacqueline Ellis</a>, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/jacqueline%20ellis">THE TRAITORS</a>... written by Jim O'Connolly, who'd direct Ellis in <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/11/hijackers.html">THE HI-JACKERS</a> the next year... follows the usual spy template popular in the 1960's... <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>Herein the titular gang of microfilm-carrying turncoats are shadowed by stalwart British agent Allen paired with an American with a British accent in future <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/02/otley.html">OTLEY</a> actor James Maxwell...</p><p><span></span></p>

british neo noir, british new wave, espionage, harold goodwin, jacqueline ellis, james maxwell, jim o'connolly, patrick allen, sixties, spy, zena walker

JACQUELINE ELLIS IN 'THE TRAITORS' STARRING PATRICK ALLEN

Jacqueline Ellis in THE TRAITORS Year: 1962 Rating: *** The second of two British b-crimes pairing lantern-jawed Patrick Allen , honing one ...

JACQUELINE ELLIS IN 'ACCIDENTAL DEATH' WITH JOHN CARSON

<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/AVvXsEg7rEXfycsoqttSigS3abJoZSYOaY8LbWSwUzWnsHEIAuITV1vsxYvYmwMLBKhMOUg8cxWA7cyt7KMAeiGaYqh7F2BeGT5E_gXlQkeKIcvkAd4mPcJDbcgMnIE71BoSh4vEhCaoziSezEK5UcRQRf9TPt2dIiXKThWWfFpC5OS8lKgS6C14qVacplFCXQ/s2048/35.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1271" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7rEXfycsoqttSigS3abJoZSYOaY8LbWSwUzWnsHEIAuITV1vsxYvYmwMLBKhMOUg8cxWA7cyt7KMAeiGaYqh7F2BeGT5E_gXlQkeKIcvkAd4mPcJDbcgMnIE71BoSh4vEhCaoziSezEK5UcRQRf9TPt2dIiXKThWWfFpC5OS8lKgS6C14qVacplFCXQ/s16000/35.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u> Jacqueline Ellis in ACCIDENTAL DEATH Year: 1963 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Resembling a pretty young school teacher, grown-up girl next door type, who "doesn't look like the teachers I had," <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/11/hijackers.html">Jacqueline Ellis </a>is a different kind of British b-movie starlet...</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 very important here as a wishbone not just between two men but three including an older rich gent who raised her; a young passive boyfriend; and a new guy in town... or actually, in the house... as flirtatious thirty-something Frenchman John Carson doesn't only have a plot to kill the old-timer for war crimes, he warns him outright so the title ACCIDENTAL DEATH fits <i>what might</i> occur...</p><span></span>

british, british neo noir, british new wave, edgar wallace, jacqueline ellis, john carson, melodrama, suspense

JACQUELINE ELLIS IN 'ACCIDENTAL DEATH' WITH JOHN CARSON

Jacqueline Ellis in ACCIDENTAL DEATH Year: 1963 Rating: ***1/2 Resembling a pretty young school teacher, grown-up girl next door type, who ...

JACQUELINE ELLIS HITCHES JIM O'CONNOLLY'S 'THE HI-JACKERS'

<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/AVvXsEhbn3yGCqIqZPrB6TmNDtaISAX_v8Kg1StaJNKr6eT7xwDx2l0YgLBA5FEN8PbMyea0HWBlEN9l8qhKaQmlQxUMbxx2y7DnwPyfa7EhIEgNZAgCfoJyyRFkpsUgCi4ChkSmhZ7dYN5AFE9hGIhQEsjm4tzCNsyE_obFMJaHp102n1estEAPqswBDBOp1A/s1600/22.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1132" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbn3yGCqIqZPrB6TmNDtaISAX_v8Kg1StaJNKr6eT7xwDx2l0YgLBA5FEN8PbMyea0HWBlEN9l8qhKaQmlQxUMbxx2y7DnwPyfa7EhIEgNZAgCfoJyyRFkpsUgCi4ChkSmhZ7dYN5AFE9hGIhQEsjm4tzCNsyE_obFMJaHp102n1estEAPqswBDBOp1A/s16000/22.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u> Title: THE HI-JACKERSYear: 1963 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Writer/director Jim O'Connolly should be well known for two films where the cult status went to someone else: In BERSERK, Joan Crawford gets credit while stop-motion guru Ray Harryhausen and his dinosaurs ruled THE VALLEY OF GWANGI. But O'Connolly's by himself in creating two neat, tight and entertaining B&W post-noir crime flicks derived from the British b-picture company, Butcher's, in the early/mid 1960's...<br> <br> The first being THE HI-JACKERS starring Anthony Booth as an independent truck/lorry driver: victim of the titular gang faking accident scenes on the rural roadside and then stealing the cargo: in his case, cases of Johnnie Walker Red...<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>

anthony booth, british, british neo noir, british new wave, crime, david gregory, derek francis, glynn edwards, jacqueline ellis, jazz-score, jim o'connolly, sixties

JACQUELINE ELLIS HITCHES JIM O'CONNOLLY'S 'THE HI-JACKERS'

Title: THE HI-JACKERSYear: 1963 Rating: **** Writer/director Jim O'Connolly should be well known for two films where the cult status we...

JACQUELINE ELLIS 'THE YELLOW TEDDY BEARS' ANNETTE WHITELEY

<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/AVvXsEhHo7yofs5U66Y46U8ca266XNQaRofUhCI928wjjuttdO4yoBV-jJ7ClI5Lu3CvX6d2c38oMX6GWZnJ0b-FfaMnsRdNrhj9FVcy6cSTlb3ki7m6x5gOVpTK6WTXq3l9KWvmraM5OhFiuDJGPa9PmyL8KZ_sQCfZ6olVKVEucg_5xBaD34dwYoyte6w1UQ/s2056/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-15%20at%2012.41.07%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1159" data-original-width="2056" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHo7yofs5U66Y46U8ca266XNQaRofUhCI928wjjuttdO4yoBV-jJ7ClI5Lu3CvX6d2c38oMX6GWZnJ0b-FfaMnsRdNrhj9FVcy6cSTlb3ki7m6x5gOVpTK6WTXq3l9KWvmraM5OhFiuDJGPa9PmyL8KZ_sQCfZ6olVKVEucg_5xBaD34dwYoyte6w1UQ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-15%20at%2012.41.07%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jacqueline Ellis in THE YELLOW TEDDY BEARS Year: 1963 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>With alternate titles THE THRILL SEEKERS and GUTTER GIRLS, even the actual name THE YELLOW TEDDY BEARS... pins that female students wear meaning they've been devirginized... is very misleading, and, what initially plays out a sexual cautionary tale for teenagers turns into a third-act lecture for adults <i>about</i> these kids... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>So while ahead of its time, not only addressing abortion but showing <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/08/GOA.html">GIRL ON APPROVAL</a> rebel chick Annette Whiteley about to have one, the pace is uneven while progressively sympathetic teacher <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/jacqueline%20ellis">Jacqueline Ellis</a><a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/jacqueline%20ellis"> (</a><a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/11/hijackers.html">THE HI-JACKERS</a>)... who winds up in the same kind of "why even discuss such a thing with students?" predicament William Shatner landed in in THE EXPLOSIVE YEARS... seems more a guest star than lead...<br></p><p><span></span></p>

annette whiteley, british new wave, douglas sheldon, drama, georgina patterson, high school, hilary mason, iain gregory, jacqueline ellis, jill adams, sixties

JACQUELINE ELLIS 'THE YELLOW TEDDY BEARS' ANNETTE WHITELEY

Jacqueline Ellis in THE YELLOW TEDDY BEARS Year: 1963 Rating: **1/2 With alternate titles THE THRILL SEEKERS and GUTTER GIRLS, even the act...