VINCE EDWARDS WITH JUDY GEESON & DIANA DORS IN 'HAMMERHEAD'

<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/AVvXsEiuytAqQXeWwxyhYDNS9vu6FDbA1C69hKCVyg6hwn5IfHYQvQi9qYhGPyvLh_zm2zMX7UKBLVWc3ddTSF1tVfCZztDNmZKMmcngsMuzVl4hmgNghybdeLVFo4JqhfhDfXAhRYLp5pm-KMDOvHJ82z6A2MLcPlGAL18E7F7tyo111uU38iAXZqeKqWFhGxQl/s2090/DD.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="964" data-original-width="2090" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuytAqQXeWwxyhYDNS9vu6FDbA1C69hKCVyg6hwn5IfHYQvQi9qYhGPyvLh_zm2zMX7UKBLVWc3ddTSF1tVfCZztDNmZKMmcngsMuzVl4hmgNghybdeLVFo4JqhfhDfXAhRYLp5pm-KMDOvHJ82z6A2MLcPlGAL18E7F7tyo111uU38iAXZqeKqWFhGxQl/s16000/DD.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Vince Edwards and Judy Geeson in HAMMERHEAD Year: 1968 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Irwin Allen's production HAMMERHEAD is yet another James Bond clone, released at the peak of the jazz-driven, horn-blasting, colorfully-vibrant, boisterously-flamboyant, dancing-girl Swinging-60's...<br><br>Where a swarthy sex symbol from the previous decade lethargically jaunts from a British nightclub to a plush yacht to canvas-decorated castle interiors to a street party in Lisbon, Portugal... <br></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/AVvXsEhdlZ2V9h0arvCOeZcwlHkIY21BZLpZtiED2UUm8Qx2RxQmyS9lGmDt1g4gZejgD2cyIG9UdvkaH7a1rh5Pr6-CsXecflgnaF_qUfzhhKRN_BFTF2dVbQ0bp8NIf5AdsI3BmftdPEEQuMFqf9yF5rzZeYUkWwrIZKgwIN8XJc6QBn-6f2p37QiEqwZmf1bj/s2092/Screen%20Shot%202025-12-01%20at%2011.52.46%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="770" data-original-width="2092" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdlZ2V9h0arvCOeZcwlHkIY21BZLpZtiED2UUm8Qx2RxQmyS9lGmDt1g4gZejgD2cyIG9UdvkaH7a1rh5Pr6-CsXecflgnaF_qUfzhhKRN_BFTF2dVbQ0bp8NIf5AdsI3BmftdPEEQuMFqf9yF5rzZeYUkWwrIZKgwIN8XJc6QBn-6f2p37QiEqwZmf1bj/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-12-01%20at%2011.52.46%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>From Irwin Allen's HAMMERHEAD</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>While the only intriguing aspect that keeps American Vince Edwards' undercover agent Charles Hood interested is British blonde beauty Judy Geeson, who flirtatiously frolics around (competing with lanky Dorothy Adams and voluptuous Diana Dors) as he investigates the titular HAMMERHEAD... <br><br>Who, played by character-actor Peter Vaughan (guarded by future Darth Vader David Prowse), is an art-collecting billionaire with the usual cliche agenda on controlling the world — but it's never quite clear exactly how, or why.  </p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, beverly adams, david prowse, diana dors, irwin allen, jazz-score, judy geeson, kenneth cope, patrick cargill, peter vaughan, sixties, spy, vince edwards

VINCE EDWARDS WITH JUDY GEESON & DIANA DORS IN 'HAMMERHEAD'

Vince Edwards and Judy Geeson in HAMMERHEAD Year: 1968 Rating: **1/2 Irwin Allen's production HAMMERHEAD is yet another James Bond clone...

CHARLES BRONSON'S LAST CANNON 'KINJITE: FORBIDDEN SECRETS'

<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/AVvXsEjP_ueo47qC0tLC3nXtxNp_UFoPtS-V79vCCUZMsBoYMWad8kvA_KvJkq4wP9aqxiUhNuZPQUQQ2ul4aUKqZdjubYsQuM_r4g8ISlIx0zXbWKjRxWResSLYBU3heT0vGUXU_GO1neFKhaXWSv45dtGMya5dx-JSc67lSSTXt0scsx6aGbzCjFML9d_eJnZR/s1608/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-29%20at%202.32.07%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1014" data-original-width="1608" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP_ueo47qC0tLC3nXtxNp_UFoPtS-V79vCCUZMsBoYMWad8kvA_KvJkq4wP9aqxiUhNuZPQUQQ2ul4aUKqZdjubYsQuM_r4g8ISlIx0zXbWKjRxWResSLYBU3heT0vGUXU_GO1neFKhaXWSv45dtGMya5dx-JSc67lSSTXt0scsx6aGbzCjFML9d_eJnZR/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-29%20at%202.32.07%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Charles Bronson in KINJITE: FORBIDDEN SECRETS Year: 1989 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The final Cannon production starring Charles Bronson (and director J. Lee Thompson) couldn't be more of an exploitation flick (surpassing even DEATH WISH 2), spending more time on the underage girls of a sleazy pimp than Bronson and detective partner Perry Lopez are trying to figure things out...<br><br>In KINJITE: FORBIDDEN SECRETS, initially/ironically involving a sex-obsessed Japanese father whose daughter (Kumiko Hayakawa) winds up one the youngest, most vulnerable victims of an underground sex-slave market...</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/AVvXsEg1slfyP935-EK7xsjbuXVlt3fPXG-CwooMAYmHTRTevvv9sOsGP0pKEkARIObu9ROvICIBtCHUxVfE9OeN7fQVTCqmDY1k6rmF8cyzR96TUBdInVKdiPLCx9EFF-DfUFFPQorUV5wfmI41GuqttEBGyw8kuPQfCv1gmwDKjoxdI60fsCw01629YefmcTPa/s1724/2.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="904" data-original-width="1724" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1slfyP935-EK7xsjbuXVlt3fPXG-CwooMAYmHTRTevvv9sOsGP0pKEkARIObu9ROvICIBtCHUxVfE9OeN7fQVTCqmDY1k6rmF8cyzR96TUBdInVKdiPLCx9EFF-DfUFFPQorUV5wfmI41GuqttEBGyw8kuPQfCv1gmwDKjoxdI60fsCw01629YefmcTPa/s16000/2.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Charles Bronson in KINJITE: FORBIDDEN SECRETS</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Opening with blonde starlet Nicole Eggert as the most experienced, the actual leading young-lady's Amy Hathaway, even blonder, cuter and who just so happens to be Bronson's daughter, on the verge of the neon-noir-inspired criminal web led by CROCODILE DUNDEE II villain Juan Fernández... <br><br>Perhaps one of the sleaziest villains in Bronson cinema... providing the usual gun-blasting DEATH WISH-style vengeance that happens far too late to matter: overall making KINJITE more glossy expose than edgy crime-thriller. <br></p><p><span></span></p>

action, amy hathaway, bill mckinney, cannon, charles bronson, eighties, juan fernandez, neo noir, peggy lipton, perry lopez, sy richardson

CHARLES BRONSON'S LAST CANNON 'KINJITE: FORBIDDEN SECRETS'

Charles Bronson in KINJITE: FORBIDDEN SECRETS Year: 1989 Rating: ***1/2 The final Cannon production starring Charles Bronson (and director J...

TERENCE YOUNG'S 'SAFARI' WITH VICTOR MATURE & JANET LEIGH

<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/AVvXsEiEXa3gipR3Moalve1GiLlM8_pB_aeEguiuXV9oHi71rtja_fuYFErwqyelGY3VS_LgQWzdmpmIy9unpa05_bHbjBJ8ZqZT_gQXwvFfw1VlcfB7PZIXLQwjTO8RcVuG5wsAfgv18h_aX44VUai8kZUWc_cyGlrYdbhZYhedCTFkWSWTvEnN98ggCNBcOfzW/s2042/SS.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1050" data-original-width="2042" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEXa3gipR3Moalve1GiLlM8_pB_aeEguiuXV9oHi71rtja_fuYFErwqyelGY3VS_LgQWzdmpmIy9unpa05_bHbjBJ8ZqZT_gQXwvFfw1VlcfB7PZIXLQwjTO8RcVuG5wsAfgv18h_aX44VUai8kZUWc_cyGlrYdbhZYhedCTFkWSWTvEnN98ggCNBcOfzW/s16000/SS.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: SAFARI Year: 1956 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In 1956, future James Bond franchise director Terence Young had Victor Mature playing a charming kind of scoundrel, twice... in <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2025/11/zarak.html">ZARAK</a> his title character's an Arab bandit, and in SAFARI he's a kind of AFRICAN QUEEN Humphrey Bogart had he been in a revenge-driven b-adventure flick...<br><br>As the worst parts occur before he's hired to be a lion-hunting guide for old rich jerk Roland Culver, engaged to one of the most gorgeous actresses of all time, looking possibly her most gorgeous here... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, british, fifties, janet leigh, john justin, jungle, liam redmond, roland vulver, terence young, victor mature

TERENCE YOUNG'S 'SAFARI' WITH VICTOR MATURE & JANET LEIGH

Title: SAFARI Year: 1956 Rating: *** In 1956, future James Bond franchise director Terence Young had Victor Mature playing a charming kind o...

LOLA ALBRIGHT & GRANT WILLIAMS IN 'THE MONOLITH MONSTERS'

<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/AVvXsEicQluAMPYhiUtc0yN4v-QBm2A9DxHT3xChZ0v-RrnlCs0d1Dg5-t2Y4qRsx34RjkEqn2fkob6aXvTPW5XAAVimEntudzmACTwJHOQrx9EUguXxPUOy85JxjlegD5VDguEdXmS1Z3hdWdyLaEU6ikNVHK7RvzeQy1ZY9NOQBt_XgROV6M-0Re-szKIBH-QO/s2794/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-30%20at%207.51.08%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1374" data-original-width="2794" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicQluAMPYhiUtc0yN4v-QBm2A9DxHT3xChZ0v-RrnlCs0d1Dg5-t2Y4qRsx34RjkEqn2fkob6aXvTPW5XAAVimEntudzmACTwJHOQrx9EUguXxPUOy85JxjlegD5VDguEdXmS1Z3hdWdyLaEU6ikNVHK7RvzeQy1ZY9NOQBt_XgROV6M-0Re-szKIBH-QO/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-30%20at%207.51.08%20PM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lola Albright in THE MONOLITH MONSTERS Year: 1957 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Grant Williams, with an unassumingly skinny frame, All-American blond hair and soft voice, is perfect for science-fiction as he passively allows strange things to happen around him... even when vanishing into thin air for <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2023/05/shrinkwrapup.html">THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN</a>, and, here as a small town cop, he's partnered with a old scientist to figure out how giant monoliths are growing out of the earth...</p><p></p><p>Which eventually look fantastic as they crash into a raging river... but these titular MONOLITH MONSTERS never seem that formidable, and are more dangerous in semi-suspenseful scenes leading up... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

fifties, grant williams, horror, jack arnold, les tremayne, lola albright, paul frees, science-fiction, thriller, troy donahue

LOLA ALBRIGHT & GRANT WILLIAMS IN 'THE MONOLITH MONSTERS'

Lola Albright in THE MONOLITH MONSTERS Year: 1957 Rating: **1/2 Grant Williams, with an unassumingly skinny frame, All-American blond hair a...

PHILIP CAREY WITH AARON SPELLING IN 'WYOMING RENEGADES'

<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/AVvXsEhxApTo5udlQXGTsvD2kBAFYYks2ZnoVSfBGXLblU7kXTzWWlX5Z0bJnonemQFEZLjqbf4ChuIhMzGdEpT7vWRafQboSO9DA-Syuqf2pGeDFmJYrcpnw1bxpIa0taTSSeyqGmL0aRdYuBEd4_sGyGALrNo6tsVpzh4tssmwhe0CgGrzv-0fqq0UOd1ovzG8/s2002/fff%202%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1026" data-original-width="2002" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxApTo5udlQXGTsvD2kBAFYYks2ZnoVSfBGXLblU7kXTzWWlX5Z0bJnonemQFEZLjqbf4ChuIhMzGdEpT7vWRafQboSO9DA-Syuqf2pGeDFmJYrcpnw1bxpIa0taTSSeyqGmL0aRdYuBEd4_sGyGALrNo6tsVpzh4tssmwhe0CgGrzv-0fqq0UOd1ovzG8/s16000/fff%202%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Philip Carey and Martha Hyer in WYOMING RENEGADES Year: 1956 Rating; ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>It's impossible to hear about Butch Cassidy and Sundance without thinking of Paul Newman and Robert Redford... but a decade earlier, more regular-looking Gene Evans and William Bishop played the cowboy outlaws but are secondary to Philip Carey's Brady Sutton, one of their fictional gang members who splits early on...<br><br>The main problem with so many low-budget western-potboilers is expository dialogue explaining what could have been compelling/entertaining actual content as, three years later, Carey, having been imprisoned, turns up completely unwelcome in the small town he had come from...</p><p><span></span></p>

aaron spelling, douglas kennedy, fifties, fred f. sears, gene evans, george keymas, martha hyer, philip carey, western, william bishop

PHILIP CAREY WITH AARON SPELLING IN 'WYOMING RENEGADES'

Philip Carey and Martha Hyer in WYOMING RENEGADES Year: 1956 Rating; *** It's impossible to hear about Butch Cassidy and Sundance withou...

CORNEL WILDE, DONNA REED & CHRISTOPHER LEE 'BEYOND MOMBASA'

<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/AVvXsEg6OQskJD0q_Hc1Z6Oic6wkY7icnRlk35O2HySQpyI8rN2S88lSUCg7JPnBG1c5NsbDqf0tXS1AyctUNhKaYP-osT-958UeTdOYGxbcysamaGHZctrsStSsdKJLE005ghNWTQer53VKt7qplaOg-fkYfSRaK3D2AWXa611OG5IdZVUSH6kdkFFVm1pOW-L9/s1218/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-27%20at%201.35.12%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="672" data-original-width="1218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6OQskJD0q_Hc1Z6Oic6wkY7icnRlk35O2HySQpyI8rN2S88lSUCg7JPnBG1c5NsbDqf0tXS1AyctUNhKaYP-osT-958UeTdOYGxbcysamaGHZctrsStSsdKJLE005ghNWTQer53VKt7qplaOg-fkYfSRaK3D2AWXa611OG5IdZVUSH6kdkFFVm1pOW-L9/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-27%20at%201.35.12%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: BEYOND MOMBASA Year: 1956 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The same year and basically the same plot-line of <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2025/11/safari.html">Terence Young's SAFARI</a>,, where a scoundrel safari guide romances a lovely sophisticated woman by having nothing in common but both being attractive... <br></p><p><br>And the fact he also has a revenge-driven ulterior motive, in this case his brother having been murdered, BEYOND MOMBASA is slightly edgier since Cornel Wilde's overall rogue attitude are far more intriguing than Victor Mature's...  <br></p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, british, christopher lee, cornel wilde, fifties, george marshall, jungle, leo genn, ron randell

CORNEL WILDE, DONNA REED & CHRISTOPHER LEE 'BEYOND MOMBASA'

Title: BEYOND MOMBASA Year: 1956 Rating: *** The same year and basically the same plot-line of  Terence Young's SAFARI ,, where a scound...

TERENCE YOUNG'S 'ZARAK' WITH VICTOR MATURE & EUNICE GAYSON

<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/AVvXsEgPbdhyX3Cs3MWxMHThwMC1uDy9pHS_aweGJagSCD0YVMLe1VfDsLN3_o_-GY5YyxKJKEzgcGNEXmag1_PEkZsrGne3v5Q-2VvNOu8jmfQXwmjDFW2BW62ZN_7wC7Zx0FmlzamRpJqizj9aJ379dmyeQ6PnHtsqtYDHfTIU1jQBvL8VEaf-Hrknn5W4VRuv/s1510/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-26%20at%201.40.43%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="622" data-original-width="1510" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPbdhyX3Cs3MWxMHThwMC1uDy9pHS_aweGJagSCD0YVMLe1VfDsLN3_o_-GY5YyxKJKEzgcGNEXmag1_PEkZsrGne3v5Q-2VvNOu8jmfQXwmjDFW2BW62ZN_7wC7Zx0FmlzamRpJqizj9aJ379dmyeQ6PnHtsqtYDHfTIU1jQBvL8VEaf-Hrknn5W4VRuv/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-26%20at%201.40.43%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: ZARAK Year: 1956 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Future James Bond directing icon Terence Young made the Arabic Adventure ZARAK so full of bright 1950's technicolor, it's only when the matte paintings of lush background sunsets and deserts are too obvious is it apparent this is basically yet another low-budget British potboiler... but those matte paintings are painted beautifully...<br><br>And with the kind of setup for what would seem a pre LAWRENCE OF ARABIA epic, where a powerful Arab leader father banishes his son Cain-style into the endless sandy wilderness for having an affair with his prettiest of many wives, Anita Ekberg, American import Victor Mature's title character is really a charming anti-heroic bandit straight from any American-shot b-Western...</p><p><span></span></p>

adventure, anita ekberg, bonar colleano, british, eddie byrne, eunice gayson, fifties, patrick mcgoohan, terence young, victor mature

TERENCE YOUNG'S 'ZARAK' WITH VICTOR MATURE & EUNICE GAYSON

Title: ZARAK Year: 1956 Rating: ***1/2 Future James Bond directing icon Terence Young made the Arabic Adventure ZARAK so full of bright 1950...

STEPHEN BOYD & CAMILLA SPARV IN VAL GUEST'S 'ASSIGNMENT K'

<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/AVvXsEiWncnPrmIqJQ1OJhSaBD88KoopMduGHQtP1ieklFozBps5uvCQ0lgdKu8pOetkC5QpznoJnlKYrZCXA_w21QCU3GtrUUmgsEQZhW0ZqribFhKC5kJeYxq4u5E8l18JpyDM-U8InyWAVEDifDS39ps7fgnbr8Rqivp6Q66i2eieur3wytRKD71QuA7mcvy5/s1800/0.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWncnPrmIqJQ1OJhSaBD88KoopMduGHQtP1ieklFozBps5uvCQ0lgdKu8pOetkC5QpznoJnlKYrZCXA_w21QCU3GtrUUmgsEQZhW0ZqribFhKC5kJeYxq4u5E8l18JpyDM-U8InyWAVEDifDS39ps7fgnbr8Rqivp6Q66i2eieur3wytRKD71QuA7mcvy5/s16000/0.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: ASSIGNMENT K Year: 1968 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>British director <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/val%20guest">Val Guest</a> and Irish actor Stephen Boyd are both underrated and only known by film buffs: Boyd the super-handsome, square-jawed, cleft-chin villain in BEN-HUR while Guest directed the more suspenseful Hammer entries including non-scary crime flicks... <br><br>Here both converging into what's basically a James Bond spy movie the same year Sean Connery replacement George Lazenby took to the snowy alps in <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2012/04/on-her-majestys-secret-service.html">ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE</a>... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

andrea allan, british neo noir, catherine schell, espionage, jane merrow, john alderton, leo mckern, michael redgrave, robert hoffman, sixties, sport, ursula howells, val guest, vivi bach

STEPHEN BOYD & CAMILLA SPARV IN VAL GUEST'S 'ASSIGNMENT K'

Title: ASSIGNMENT K Year: 1968 Rating: ***1/2 British director Val Guest and Irish actor Stephen Boyd are both underrated and only known by...

PETER LORRE WITH ROBERT WILCOX IN 'ISLAND OF DOOMED MEN'

<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/AVvXsEi63qaa0xiIctbqdopb0jHwTW48cGiHlbKfsNogToqQnktHRhkTmLAaWw881aY3RyCoS-XyMXTK_rQfXLZz3GrvQyD55RCkiDVgkwynHbSmtbRUd0ddzqczxOS8_qCwB78SiG6B6Ydj8X-G6JGOw6b8qzHWmNXGWldTImlrrITUmx-3jfC32IH36tt4-RPS/s1892/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-19%20at%206.59.45%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1090" data-original-width="1892" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi63qaa0xiIctbqdopb0jHwTW48cGiHlbKfsNogToqQnktHRhkTmLAaWw881aY3RyCoS-XyMXTK_rQfXLZz3GrvQyD55RCkiDVgkwynHbSmtbRUd0ddzqczxOS8_qCwB78SiG6B6Ydj8X-G6JGOw6b8qzHWmNXGWldTImlrrITUmx-3jfC32IH36tt4-RPS/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-19%20at%206.59.45%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: ISLAND OF DOOMED MEN Year: 1940 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The pulpy tagline to the 1940 thriller ISLAND OF DOOMED MEN is "Women shuddering at his cruel caress" despite the fact only one woman, the wife of evil slave-master Peter Lorre, is on the titular island: and within their balmy plantation villa interior, he hardly touches or even speaks to her at all...<br><br>As classic beauty Rochelle Hudson quickly and understandably falls for handsome, dark-haired buried-lead Robert Wilcox, whose initial wrong-man story-line fits more into a deliberately-complicated film-noir beyond what's often mistaken as a horror flick (the plot heavily infused into Lawrence Tierney's jungle-traipsing <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/06/KOBK.html">KILL OR BE KILLED</a>)... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

forties, george e. stone, kenneth macdonald, peter lorre, prison, robert wilcox, rochelle hudson, thriller

PETER LORRE WITH ROBERT WILCOX IN 'ISLAND OF DOOMED MEN'

Title: ISLAND OF DOOMED MEN Year: 1940 Rating: ***1/2 The pulpy tagline to the 1940 thriller ISLAND OF DOOMED MEN is "Women shuddering ...

CAROLYN KEARNEY & ANDRA MARTIN 'THE THING THAT COULDN'T DIE

<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/AVvXsEg__1GetCOBkoVOgDzE23ZVpT1wddPgGfpCU3LlXbG6KiU4rot4tL5b7NQRpcle31GReyjInM7BDRzk3B4cSe-cGuJ9mkPgDdPNz_zzV0nRDWJRX-fFIoZLLUXWV0Y3t8-dJ24I3NIrXs2qpF2tvdP0JEtPZtijJT6wZMD40WYmZ1qgpK3nHUeSRew05chw/s1998/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-20%20at%2012.32.01%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1298" data-original-width="1998" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg__1GetCOBkoVOgDzE23ZVpT1wddPgGfpCU3LlXbG6KiU4rot4tL5b7NQRpcle31GReyjInM7BDRzk3B4cSe-cGuJ9mkPgDdPNz_zzV0nRDWJRX-fFIoZLLUXWV0Y3t8-dJ24I3NIrXs2qpF2tvdP0JEtPZtijJT6wZMD40WYmZ1qgpK3nHUeSRew05chw/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-20%20at%2012.32.01%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE THING THAT COULDN'T DIE Year: 1958 Rates: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Several horror tropes work perfectly together in THE THING THAT COULDN'T DIE: the talking/moving severed head, here possessing anyone looking into his eyes, and the sweetly enlightened, strange and beautiful young girl with powers beyond her understanding...<br><br>As chaste blonde Carolyn Kearney is targeted by more experienced and literally entranced/hypnotized brunette Andra Martin: their alluring bedroom scene is sensuously suggestive, especially for the 1950's...<span></span></p>

andra martin, carolyn kearney, charles horvath, fifties, horror, james anderson, jeffrey stone, peggy converse, robin hughes, treasure

CAROLYN KEARNEY & ANDRA MARTIN 'THE THING THAT COULDN'T DIE

Title: THE THING THAT COULDN'T DIE Year: 1958 Rates: **** Several horror tropes work perfectly together in THE THING THAT COULDN'T D...

CHRISTOPHER LEE & MARIA ROHM 'THE VENGEANCE OF FU MANCHU'

<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/AVvXsEiuDa2Gji-gPO_JqJnniTekzHx87_pKUbzAPsqfmbVppTXqYlRPWT8fs9PhYtLYJLsqOkk8l52txA0VsHBkmOuQd-5sdahnKbHHaTC1G1WVmkysOCRtiiq1PktSP9fbTViJoGQfqOq_CA2F13fOdxlX9YZLNtNqyonW-whu0-biNnRJTF6xVqGPCb7Qk2aJ/s1710/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1028" data-original-width="1710" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuDa2Gji-gPO_JqJnniTekzHx87_pKUbzAPsqfmbVppTXqYlRPWT8fs9PhYtLYJLsqOkk8l52txA0VsHBkmOuQd-5sdahnKbHHaTC1G1WVmkysOCRtiiq1PktSP9fbTViJoGQfqOq_CA2F13fOdxlX9YZLNtNqyonW-whu0-biNnRJTF6xVqGPCb7Qk2aJ/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE VENGEANCE OF FU MANCHU Year: 1967 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The last of the Christopher Lee as FU MANCHU movies from the 1960's where sophisticated Brit Douglas Wilmer plays the titular Asian kingpin's main Scotland Yard adversary Nayland Smith, and he gets to work double-time here, kind of...<br><br>But when he's the surgically-altered clone of himself, who murders his lovely Asian secretary, he has hardly any dialogue or expression... staring forward with a vacantly gaunt expression, resembling Peter Sellers if he were deadpan without the humor... not even relying on his own Doctor Watson in sidekick Petrie (who narrates the Sax Rohmer source novels) played by an affable Howard Marion-Crawford...</p><p><span></span></p>

christopher lee, douglas wilmer, eddie byrne, fu manchu, harry alan towers, horst frank, howard marion-crawford, maria rohm, noel trevarthen, sixties, suzanne roquette, thriller, tsai chin

CHRISTOPHER LEE & MARIA ROHM 'THE VENGEANCE OF FU MANCHU'

Title: THE VENGEANCE OF FU MANCHU Year: 1967 Rating: ***1/2 The last of the Christopher Lee as FU MANCHU movies from the 1960's where so...

CAROLE GRAY IN 'BRIDES OF FU MANCHU' WITH CHRISTOPHER LEE

<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/AVvXsEjCS02BRD6t-mFsb_vBZMpSTPj97OiYVB-M17QiMEBiEIUMM7fwWrZ6aA3moXX8who7316s33L6yDEvZPG-5tzNitosQ4gMFuUXfq4CVNCLhtDI3kNE1YQqvC4Qz0pFlpGsuk3PgGVgCgt_nIE0QOSCt0cpot5bLUMMrvDB6_wpCsrG2oc-LsBO0-cOXCE8/s2222/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-18%20at%207.56.37%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1232" data-original-width="2222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCS02BRD6t-mFsb_vBZMpSTPj97OiYVB-M17QiMEBiEIUMM7fwWrZ6aA3moXX8who7316s33L6yDEvZPG-5tzNitosQ4gMFuUXfq4CVNCLhtDI3kNE1YQqvC4Qz0pFlpGsuk3PgGVgCgt_nIE0QOSCt0cpot5bLUMMrvDB6_wpCsrG2oc-LsBO0-cOXCE8/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-18%20at%207.56.37%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU Year: 1966 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Christopher Lee's version of author Sax Rohmer's nefarious Asian mastermind FU MANCHU makes like a James Bond villain that Lee would become in the next decade... herein seeking to take over the world by kidnapping the daughters of scientists who will help build the weapon to do so...<br><br>It's a shame that this plot-line's given away up front, in every online and video-box description, because the film leads the audience, and their classy Scotland Yard hero Nayland Smith (Douglas Wilmer), into a mystery-genre investigation as to why gorgeous gals Carole Gray and Marie Versini have become the least brain-washed of a dozen of Manchu's titular scantily-clad background BRIDES...<br></p><p><span></span></p>

burt kwouk, carole gray, christopher lee, crime, douglas wilmer, francesca tu, fu manchu, harry alan towers, howard marion-crawford, marie versini, mystery, sally sheridan, sixties, thriller, tsai chin

CAROLE GRAY IN 'BRIDES OF FU MANCHU' WITH CHRISTOPHER LEE

Title: THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU Year: 1966 Rating: ***1/2 Christopher Lee's version of author Sax Rohmer's nefarious Asian mastermind...

CAROLE GRAY & GEORGE BAKER BUZZ THROUGH 'CURSE OF THE FLY'

<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/AVvXsEiv4VZfmJIsp9Cili1phZU2SsxLPuMK89v1r8h6tNmH5Uv__W7S7qkCmWmiSBfuo4-ptH8Ndt5vL_JOi-z1Evs8r0nld0VCkYYs4BLNQrEIuSd5FsrRnzBseYuqZgDiIZdQLOUMbwKzOKXWBSSmZjq9ry73nhyphenhyphenLmUThSk9EquSMy2dBHa7aPmvFK2hV0MUL/s1892/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-09%20at%205.43.18%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="820" data-original-width="1892" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv4VZfmJIsp9Cili1phZU2SsxLPuMK89v1r8h6tNmH5Uv__W7S7qkCmWmiSBfuo4-ptH8Ndt5vL_JOi-z1Evs8r0nld0VCkYYs4BLNQrEIuSd5FsrRnzBseYuqZgDiIZdQLOUMbwKzOKXWBSSmZjq9ry73nhyphenhyphenLmUThSk9EquSMy2dBHa7aPmvFK2hV0MUL/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-09%20at%205.43.18%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Carole Gray in CURSE OF THE FLY Year: 1965 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In one of those cinematic examples of problems you want to have, George Baker's Martin Delambre, grandson of the original FLY David Hedison... whose father and brother are still working on a cure for their son/brother turning into the titular insect... is driving into Toronto, Canada when gorgeous brunette <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/carole%20gray">Carole Gray</a>, wearing only sexy undergarments, runs by his vehicle... and within two more scenes they're married... <br><br>In what's more Alfred Hitchcock's REBECCA than a horror-genre continuation, most of the screen-time has the new wife feeling spooked and uncomfortable in the enigmatic family manor, that's also a laboratory... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

brian donlevy, british, burt kwouk, carole gray, franchise, george baker, horror, jeremy wilkin, michael graham, science-fiction, sequel, sixties, thriller, yvette rees

CAROLE GRAY & GEORGE BAKER BUZZ THROUGH 'CURSE OF THE FLY'

Carole Gray in CURSE OF THE FLY Year: 1965 Rating: ***1/2 In one of those cinematic examples of problems you want to have, George Baker'...

CAROLE GRAY & BARBARA SHELLEY ON 'THE SAINT' W/ ROGER MOORE

<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/AVvXsEj4LFndYLubeJv7zlktl58WfF3b68k-CPeEQ9jWsRMq6OoOXn9CmyZjZc7XEjADgHwiJCPKPHzFx3ZpQ0hhieRu593VJekUUvxoT-zGrbvgtf_dLzBg8ZGdtqZjZRfxJdH9rxml-4dwz1AtMWWxIXXoOJT5iVVAQIARV6aM6-drWv9942NBrypp7YBAH0Hh/s2110/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-10%20at%2012.16.56%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1306" data-original-width="2110" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4LFndYLubeJv7zlktl58WfF3b68k-CPeEQ9jWsRMq6OoOXn9CmyZjZc7XEjADgHwiJCPKPHzFx3ZpQ0hhieRu593VJekUUvxoT-zGrbvgtf_dLzBg8ZGdtqZjZRfxJdH9rxml-4dwz1AtMWWxIXXoOJT5iVVAQIARV6aM6-drWv9942NBrypp7YBAH0Hh/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-10%20at%2012.16.56%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Carole Gray in THE SAINT: THE COVETOUS HEADSMAN Year: 1962 Grade: C+</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Before playing a vampire's killer moll in the Satan's coven investigatory horror DEVILS OF DARKNESS, and a leading character's rich and resilient girlfriend in the science-fiction creature-feature ISLAND OF TERROR, Carole Gray was the bad of two gorgeous women in Roger Moore's British series THE SAINT...</p><p></p><p>Her character not only danced in DARKNESS (having been a professional dancer way back in THE PRINCESS AND THE SHOWGIRL), but she channeled Valerie Gaunt's lead vamp-girl from Hammer's DRACULA... </p><p><span></span></p>

action, barbara shelley, british tv, carole gray, crime, roger moore, sixties, the saint

CAROLE GRAY & BARBARA SHELLEY ON 'THE SAINT' W/ ROGER MOORE

Carole Gray in THE SAINT: THE COVETOUS HEADSMAN Year: 1962 Grade: C+ Before playing a vampire's killer moll in the Satan's coven inv...

CAROLE GRAY AND WILLIAM SYLVESTER IN 'DEVILS OF DARKNESS'

<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/AVvXsEicX3GlXWdswVqhKJTbvjxpkv76ZC43fCjyN6sk25MGfsj2-Tq9Lbnrq1l6i7fCNt6uQgzjtTfprfQEMHyBUXLEQFpcL2_Fq2pQSE_-Wq4bolIHymw3zDfqsYXFheTgJ2RFDIkVOdquC54VFG9rBOZB-OL2RO7GZxWkjHeuAEoC4tkq54E4KrEK_CDK8qR5/s1498/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-07%20at%2010.50.38%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="870" data-original-width="1498" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicX3GlXWdswVqhKJTbvjxpkv76ZC43fCjyN6sk25MGfsj2-Tq9Lbnrq1l6i7fCNt6uQgzjtTfprfQEMHyBUXLEQFpcL2_Fq2pQSE_-Wq4bolIHymw3zDfqsYXFheTgJ2RFDIkVOdquC54VFG9rBOZB-OL2RO7GZxWkjHeuAEoC4tkq54E4KrEK_CDK8qR5/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-07%20at%2010.50.38%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Carole Gray in DEVILS OF DARKNESS Year: 1965 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Before playing the benign bombshell in Planet Film's ISLAND OF TERROR, raven-haired/full-lipped beauty <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/carole%20gray">Carole Gray</a> had a sensuously demonic/scene-stealing role in DEVILS OF DARKNESS that, shot by veteran crime-genre director Lance Comfort, is a hybrid of Hammer's DRACULA, Universal's THE WOLF MAN (with a harbinger gypsy woman), and the myriad of Satanic Occult Horrors that were gaining traction during the middle-to-late 1960's... <br><br>The first half being in Comfort's comfort zone with gentlemanly American-actor-in-England William Sylvester (later in Stanley Kubrick's 2001) and upper-class girlfriend Diana Decker (previously in Kubrick's LOLITA) figuring out that their idyllic vacation locale is really a demonic cult led by Hubert Noël's Count Sinistre, channeling Christopher Lee's neck-biter but more broodingly asexual and melancholy... <br><span></span></p>

british, carole gray, diana decker, eddie byrne, hubert hoël, lance comfort, marianne stone, rona anderson, sixties, tracy reed, vampire, william sylvester

CAROLE GRAY AND WILLIAM SYLVESTER IN 'DEVILS OF DARKNESS'

Carole Gray in DEVILS OF DARKNESS Year: 1965 Rating: *** Before playing the benign bombshell in Planet Film's ISLAND OF TERROR, raven-ha...

CAROLE GRAY, EDWARD JUDD & PETER CUSHING 'ISLAND OF TERROR'

<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/AVvXsEj6uUe9AI9XfzyEDX_gG2ajcd1KmfAhTPqFhWGKByuaVX9G3GJvWrmd5a9FeYMQURGXqs8t4Yl7k_n0vFhs_tnRjVsJj-1u4MMI1mTIt6MDyzJF6RGLiRML024OMQwUgvJ9WjaJm7IajIdSZTqaLq-v4Zj46zjHtCO_gKMbPQ4lsVe4NqdLYQzuZGtdZ6_U/s1250/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-06%20at%2011.10.55%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="1250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6uUe9AI9XfzyEDX_gG2ajcd1KmfAhTPqFhWGKByuaVX9G3GJvWrmd5a9FeYMQURGXqs8t4Yl7k_n0vFhs_tnRjVsJj-1u4MMI1mTIt6MDyzJF6RGLiRML024OMQwUgvJ9WjaJm7IajIdSZTqaLq-v4Zj46zjHtCO_gKMbPQ4lsVe4NqdLYQzuZGtdZ6_U/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-06%20at%2011.10.55%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1966 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Two horror-genre leading men star in the scientific creature-feature ISLAND OF TERROR, which is normal for British b-movies to pair up equally-important male characters, and a gorgeous woman in-between...<br><br>Full-lipped bombshell <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/carole%20gray">Carole Gray's</a> the affable rich girl girlfriend of Edward Judd, the second bone-doctor sought out by the first of three medical experts in British character-actor (and future STAR WARS general) Eddie Byrne, who, after bluntly glib college professor Peter Cushing has no answers, they all seek Judd (for the solution) and Gray (for daddy's helicopter) to head-off for the titular Irish ISLAND...</p><p><span></span></p>

british, carole gray, creature, eddie byrne, edward judd, horror, james caffrey, niall macginnis, peter cushing, science-fiction, shay gorman, sixties, terence fisher

CAROLE GRAY, EDWARD JUDD & PETER CUSHING 'ISLAND OF TERROR'

Year: 1966 Rating: **** Two horror-genre leading men star in the scientific creature-feature ISLAND OF TERROR, which is normal for British b...

SEAN CONNERY LEADS PETER HYAM'S SCI-FI THRILLER 'OUTLAND'

<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/AVvXsEhTvRhG4IvVt2VIthUQHw8Diq0oZQDK0YPykskeRlEIcQRhooM9tOfhCufnkRKFtMGpZVIyEbWJeYxMwWUGUJccUl-LgVLKH50oj0Bd-Zoui8ihBmf4iiNCHpOmzBQr6bueGOVFEzAmk_-8-JHs5dOg46fu64JJDWHA84KF9hRDOU3HAkomLBeXGoiWBvNn/s1898/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-05%20at%204.06.40%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="982" data-original-width="1898" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTvRhG4IvVt2VIthUQHw8Diq0oZQDK0YPykskeRlEIcQRhooM9tOfhCufnkRKFtMGpZVIyEbWJeYxMwWUGUJccUl-LgVLKH50oj0Bd-Zoui8ihBmf4iiNCHpOmzBQr6bueGOVFEzAmk_-8-JHs5dOg46fu64JJDWHA84KF9hRDOU3HAkomLBeXGoiWBvNn/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-05%20at%204.06.40%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: OUTLAND Year: 1981 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Known as a science-fiction version of HIGH NOON, Peter Hyam's OUTLAND... bringing the CAPRICORN ONE director from conspiracy-contrived outer-space into the real thing... is more like the galactic working-class origins of ALIEN, looking straight from the same universe with claustrophobic corridors and steely space-station interiors where a matte-painted planet... in this case Jupiter's moon Ion... looms formidably outside...<br><br>Where you could imagine disgruntled ALIEN union-types Yaphet Kotto and Harry Dean Stanton working... as random likewise miners are mysteriously/violently dying like in a body-count horror flick: either by an unknown head-exploding factor or apparent suicides having to do with possible stir-craziness within the crowded off-white bunkhouse interiors, or the raunchy and pulsating, proto-BLADE RUNNER neon nightclubs...</p><p><span></span></p>

drugs, eighties, frances sternhagen, james b. sikking, john ratzenberger, peter boyle, science-fiction, sean connery, steven berkoff, thriller

SEAN CONNERY LEADS PETER HYAM'S SCI-FI THRILLER 'OUTLAND'

Title: OUTLAND Year: 1981 Rating: ***1/2 Known as a science-fiction version of HIGH NOON, Peter Hyam's OUTLAND... bringing the CAPRICORN...

CHRISTINA GREGG RIDING ROGER CORMAN'S 'THE YOUNG RACERS'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><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/AVvXsEhskYDTYU1LHatBfFbs_yFBBsY-IEHHQhptfDyj1eA_jN8IcOSPut72ukEUH1zim2_68l0xhMGdOXg6HogTN-JRrwVIz9-qOUVLbwy9fHWLR9SLKIMBxB4JC4vcskqXIfj5Iq7MabW6inoHo-k8JiksjwVSVPWaREp_2MzGNAwCIRfspzwXvU5vhL-KjZ2E/s1612/Screen%20Shot%202025-01-13%20at%2011.04.54%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="838" data-original-width="1612" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhskYDTYU1LHatBfFbs_yFBBsY-IEHHQhptfDyj1eA_jN8IcOSPut72ukEUH1zim2_68l0xhMGdOXg6HogTN-JRrwVIz9-qOUVLbwy9fHWLR9SLKIMBxB4JC4vcskqXIfj5Iq7MabW6inoHo-k8JiksjwVSVPWaREp_2MzGNAwCIRfspzwXvU5vhL-KjZ2E/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-01-13%20at%2011.04.54%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Christina Gregg with Mark Damon in THE YOUNG RACERS Year: 1963 Rates: ** </u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>There are bad b-movies that are still entertaining, and then there are those that simply don't work — as is the case of Roger Corman's THE YOUNG RACERS,<i> that does use</i> genuine European Monte Carlo Grand Prix racing locations that don't resemble stock footage thrown into the melodramatic romance sequences, which this has far too much of...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Howard Hawks fared much better (though not financially) with what this picture seems a precursor of, RED LINE 7000, following womanizing racers and their female conquests, some stronger than others, in particular Luana Anders as the central ingenue, stuck between THE YOUNG RACERS... </p><p><span></span></p>

action, christina gregg, exploitation, luana anders, marie versini, mark damon, melodrama, race car, roger corman, romance, sixties, sport, william campbell, william shatner

CHRISTINA GREGG RIDING ROGER CORMAN'S 'THE YOUNG RACERS'

Christina Gregg with Mark Damon in THE YOUNG RACERS Year: 1963 Rates: ** There are bad b-movies that are still entertaining, and then there ...

WILLIAM LUCAS MAKING 'THE BREAK' WITH CHRISTINA GREGG

<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/AVvXsEjP11Rqcn79bgZ3GBm28SrGDV8S9CZjweRVpxdm0xCxHeuO8Y1k_Qdxhg2JN9UnmrqllrVL-r-lwJrLdUNdGySlV41UdL2LkaMUMVdCIPcenCWT9PhrPVM4rT8cpRff9w4Aced44eC-BzvA2Cq9CzlWXogtYStK4lSDd3GbPXwXSs431RaLJElOAXvjMNdd/s1630/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-31%20at%201.54.19%20PM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1092" data-original-width="1630" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP11Rqcn79bgZ3GBm28SrGDV8S9CZjweRVpxdm0xCxHeuO8Y1k_Qdxhg2JN9UnmrqllrVL-r-lwJrLdUNdGySlV41UdL2LkaMUMVdCIPcenCWT9PhrPVM4rT8cpRff9w4Aced44eC-BzvA2Cq9CzlWXogtYStK4lSDd3GbPXwXSs431RaLJElOAXvjMNdd/w400-h268/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-31%20at%201.54.19%20PM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Christina Gregg & William Lucas THE BREAK Year: 1962</u></td></tr></tbody></table>The same year British beauty Christina Gregg played a schoolgirl told <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/08/catfone.html">DON'T TALK TO STRANGE MEN</a>, she was the twenty-something sister of a convict who made THE BREAK from a train...<br> <br> And winds up with handful of eclectic characters that... as Quentin Tarantino attempted in HATEFUL EIGHT inspired by John Carpenter's classic THE THING... are all stuck together, here within a rural Bed and Breakfast: all with not only different personalities and perspectives but purpose, motivation and temperaments... Meanwhile the leading man is a sophisticated type: here a blocked author and, on the upside he quickly yet slowly finds kinship with the gorgeous Christina Gregg, but he's also being surreptitiously eyed by the most intriguing and perhaps crooked person onboard in CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN tutor Robert Urquhart as a wily-charming gumshoe insurance investigator...<br>

action, british neo noir, british new wave, christina gregg, eddie byrne, gene anderson, lance comfort, robert urquhart, sixties, thriller, tony britton, william lucas

WILLIAM LUCAS MAKING 'THE BREAK' WITH CHRISTINA GREGG

Christina Gregg & William Lucas THE BREAK Year: 1962 The same year British beauty Christina Gregg played a schoolgirl told DON'T TAL...

CHRISTINA GREGG PLAYS VICTIM FOR THE 'COVER GIRL KILLER'

<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/AVvXsEgSvhI_aVSQYxrd2l9L3Wmr0zvodQxTVr8Yzrmu-FgEGoPlvOeSGyKeIhET9Lv0PEnCMatJE6cCtbEf0DUEMWRv3NHQVi7r0pNZSnfypAxTD79HE9K1bwbxl-yDD-5jU-BeT_BC53BIHFQccItx5KxdDvHM6ZRKjt7dE9HT64Te7LbN5P9ajJ9K75g_EQdo/s1230/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-31%20at%201.36.11%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="760" data-original-width="1230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSvhI_aVSQYxrd2l9L3Wmr0zvodQxTVr8Yzrmu-FgEGoPlvOeSGyKeIhET9Lv0PEnCMatJE6cCtbEf0DUEMWRv3NHQVi7r0pNZSnfypAxTD79HE9K1bwbxl-yDD-5jU-BeT_BC53BIHFQccItx5KxdDvHM6ZRKjt7dE9HT64Te7LbN5P9ajJ9K75g_EQdo/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-31%20at%201.36.11%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Christina Gregg faces death in THE COVER GIRL KILLER Year: 1959 Rating: **</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Any chance to see model-turned-actress Christina Gregg is worthwhile, no matter how disappointing this particular British New Wave crime thriller is despite the cool title of COVER GIRL KILLER, supposedly the inspiration for PEEPING TOM. Gregg would later play a 15-year-old virgin stalked by a psychotic phone caller, while here she's an older yet equally shy, innocent and naïve victim of a spectacle-wearing photographer who kills cover girls, as the tile implies...</p><p>Sadly, most of the film has two cops blandly discussing the murders when there could have been more British beauties taken out in a body count fashion, mixing horror within the pulpy police procedural that's not very intriguing. Although lead ingenue Felicity Young, as the girl/friend of a flaky magazine owner no one takes seriously, is also worth the watch. You'll hope she fares better than poor Christina.<br></p><p><span></span></p>

body count, british neo noir, british new wave, christina gregg, crime, julie shearing, sixties

CHRISTINA GREGG PLAYS VICTIM FOR THE 'COVER GIRL KILLER'

Christina Gregg faces death in THE COVER GIRL KILLER Year: 1959 Rating: ** Any chance to see model-turned-actress Christina Gregg is worthwh...

DAVID MCCALLUM, BRIAN WESKE & JILL IRELAND IN 'JUNGLE STREET'

<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/AVvXsEju-4Wb6dz-Claf4T-QGMDuK-YLOjWlYlHGOCxanTGHiK_hLY0S54tKkPNdyT7LDLo2xfrg6juUGkXg6wkRWhht2_tD5vvxJ70Ba75P-X9aCwtO_qeE5HhL4h3F_NUqdcGyJiuQ9GRffGkqEj3vD9H2k47yMwgHfDLmCGB9EhtriZVmAOx5C9lOmNkqEh-a/s1896/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-25%20at%2010.10.36%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1008" data-original-width="1896" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju-4Wb6dz-Claf4T-QGMDuK-YLOjWlYlHGOCxanTGHiK_hLY0S54tKkPNdyT7LDLo2xfrg6juUGkXg6wkRWhht2_tD5vvxJ70Ba75P-X9aCwtO_qeE5HhL4h3F_NUqdcGyJiuQ9GRffGkqEj3vD9H2k47yMwgHfDLmCGB9EhtriZVmAOx5C9lOmNkqEh-a/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-25%20at%2010.10.36%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>David McCallum and Gillian Watt with Anne Scott in JUNGLE STREET (Jungle Street Girls) Year: 1960 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>After having met and married after working together in <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/09/HellDrivers.html">HELL DRIVERS</a> where they were basically glorified cameos, three years later David McCallum and Jill Ireland — as an aimless <i>still at home</i> loser hanging around a strip joint to catch that joint's top stripper — actually <i>starred in</i> another B&W British flick that's far superior: a heist thriller that takes an entire film to reach that heist with creative twisty avenues, and our two stars aren't alone...<br> <br> The third lead in the triangle is freshly-sprung convict Kenneth Cope, a handsome and experienced lad with a romantic background with Ireland (one scene as he charmingly converses with McCallum's kitchen sink mother is a standout); he also wants payback from former partner McCallum, who <i>didn't</i> get caught from what landed him in prison... </p><p></p>

brian weske, british neo noir, charles saunders, david mccallum, faye craig, gillian watt, guido coen, howard pays, jill ireland, joy webster, julie shearing, kenneth cope, marian collins, sixties, vanda hudson

DAVID MCCALLUM, BRIAN WESKE & JILL IRELAND IN 'JUNGLE STREET'

David McCallum and Gillian Watt with Anne Scott in JUNGLE STREET (Jungle Street Girls) Year: 1960 Rating: ****1/2 After having met and marri...

WILLIAM LUCAS, ZENA WALKER & DAVID GREGORY 'THE MARKED ONE'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/william%20lucas"></a></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><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/AVvXsEgqWlqhNBW53SMywUPaBGKvTAAm0GE3XnFuRr6zJRwAEYeVj_a4oFBaQIyMugN5mN7vmUppaAJq8u4E0Nf0LalB_uk8lue3B91c6PhFC8qK332_8ANut387eW_2PsGXrHNvIrSK3G7wQCsqrqNve-9Z63T2VvHfKdtZAIO7TWk9tu8JA3cZLe7WBJIjmWc3/s1774/Screen%20Shot%202025-06-08%20at%2012.13.09%20AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="844" data-original-width="1774" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqWlqhNBW53SMywUPaBGKvTAAm0GE3XnFuRr6zJRwAEYeVj_a4oFBaQIyMugN5mN7vmUppaAJq8u4E0Nf0LalB_uk8lue3B91c6PhFC8qK332_8ANut387eW_2PsGXrHNvIrSK3G7wQCsqrqNve-9Z63T2VvHfKdtZAIO7TWk9tu8JA3cZLe7WBJIjmWc3/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-06-08%20at%2012.13.09%20AM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE MARKED ONE Year: 1963 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Obscure British actor <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/william%20lucas">William Lucas</a> gained niche fame as the father from the 1970's BLACK BEAUTY, no longer the Bogart-looking tough guy from a string of early-1960's b-crimes as leading bad guys (<a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/02/gimme-a.html">THE BREAK</a>), sketchy middlemen (<a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/03/payrollers.html">PAYROLL</a>) or criminals in-between (CALCULATED RISK, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/03/breakOUT.html">BREAKOUT</a>)...<br><br>And THE MARKED ONE also leans to that midpoint... an ex convict who, with a divorced wife, young daughter, dotting landlady (Laurie Leigh) and a factory job, is threatened by enigmatic goons to retrieve forgery plates that he might or might not have, providing more mystery to the character than his dire circumstance...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></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 neo noir, british new wave, crime, david gregory, gillian watt, kidnapping, kim tracy, laura leigh, marianne stone, post-heist, sixties, thriller, william lucas, wrong man, zena walker

WILLIAM LUCAS, ZENA WALKER & DAVID GREGORY 'THE MARKED ONE'

Title: THE MARKED ONE Year: 1963 Rating: ***1/2 Obscure British actor William Lucas gained niche fame as the father from the 1970's BLA...

WILLIAM LUCAS & JOHN RUTLAND WEATHERING 'CALCULATED RISK'

<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/AVvXsEiYHRU7OaVKlLY96mUGH78mkarDQs6TTzgmdORuZrWAfTfgVMy2P48P-72YEFr-WRLbiZETvPVDjatgBbVNCl9vrMzGlYxbn5LoZFWQpTk9cZWr6vFDVxABtNYeTVSpy9BQJ_P07oc4h_t2NxGp39G3GJeo7epT1YWyHheKdVLnVU-ExISjMusScEiUvP6o/s1742/Screen%20Shot%202025-06-08%20at%206.15.02%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1742" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYHRU7OaVKlLY96mUGH78mkarDQs6TTzgmdORuZrWAfTfgVMy2P48P-72YEFr-WRLbiZETvPVDjatgBbVNCl9vrMzGlYxbn5LoZFWQpTk9cZWr6vFDVxABtNYeTVSpy9BQJ_P07oc4h_t2NxGp39G3GJeo7epT1YWyHheKdVLnVU-ExISjMusScEiUvP6o/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-06-08%20at%206.15.02%20PM.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></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, shay gorman, 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...

JILL IRELAND IN THE GIRLS-BEHIND-BARS DRAMA 'SO EVIL, SO YOUNG'

<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/AVvXsEhkFx8rfRcnVLhzKHzXTR4Jbbl0dO9WfhDXlIHpHoZW6gEzVgtJEDMeKWlFBiTMXTx5tt4VKH7SuFsa2d60wFCA-k-jSplLNIo0kzaSGNVKXDSivRiY5rVyqIj2G1YhhbGxP62bAx2B4p46w2Fz0z-pL2AQ6Fh6_KkZ-vtzGUd7Xu1bFm8FSdjS8GaZvlPy/s1320/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-25%20at%207.18.41%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="856" data-original-width="1320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkFx8rfRcnVLhzKHzXTR4Jbbl0dO9WfhDXlIHpHoZW6gEzVgtJEDMeKWlFBiTMXTx5tt4VKH7SuFsa2d60wFCA-k-jSplLNIo0kzaSGNVKXDSivRiY5rVyqIj2G1YhhbGxP62bAx2B4p46w2Fz0z-pL2AQ6Fh6_KkZ-vtzGUd7Xu1bFm8FSdjS8GaZvlPy/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-25%20at%207.18.41%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jill Ireland in SO EVIL, SO YOUNG Year: 1961 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>When framed-for-burglary good girl Jill Ireland is put into isolation in an all-girls reformatory, the already unfitting mellow jazz soundtrack suddenly explodes into a bedlam of vibes and horns, almost seeming like that very music's being pumped into the room to drive her crazy, as she starts grabbing the bars, desperately wanting to get out... <br><br>Contrasting to what begins as a rather tame earlier version of THE LONELINESS OF THE LONG DISTANCE RUNNER but involving girls... and yes, SO EVIL SO YOUNG is a women's prison movie taking place in more of a boarding bunkhouse... and there are some pretty ingenues including Ireland's JUNGLE STREET co-starlet Gillian Watts: But one scene-stealing inmate gains much-needed momentum during the third act... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

british, colin tapley, ellen pollock, jocelyn britton, john longden, olive mcfarland, sixties, women in prison

JILL IRELAND IN THE GIRLS-BEHIND-BARS DRAMA 'SO EVIL, SO YOUNG'

Jill Ireland in SO EVIL, SO YOUNG Year: 1961 Rating: *** When framed-for-burglary good girl Jill Ireland is put into isolation in an all-gir...

CAROL WHITE, DAVID GREGORY & PETER REYNOLDS IN 'GAOLBREAK'

<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/AVvXsEjFi62zVDagV5OKbNqNZgE4DVlvklCOp-CPedGO5TZtGkZMibJtzHRRCZtLDfMTCdGvGnly9rSm4kMhyphenhyphen14zsi6jSKyedRBHrMUTSvgqiu-8-a7JWg9Z_eIzDHTX1maV6zZHd11ZSoY0sZxd8p4q9AbtvJhxbGDXpzyTn8_ZQ8aVjOlyO1oYbQx3ohSYV4U-/s1892/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-25%20at%2012.11.49%20PM%203%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="996" data-original-width="1892" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFi62zVDagV5OKbNqNZgE4DVlvklCOp-CPedGO5TZtGkZMibJtzHRRCZtLDfMTCdGvGnly9rSm4kMhyphenhyphen14zsi6jSKyedRBHrMUTSvgqiu-8-a7JWg9Z_eIzDHTX1maV6zZHd11ZSoY0sZxd8p4q9AbtvJhxbGDXpzyTn8_ZQ8aVjOlyO1oYbQx3ohSYV4U-/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-25%20at%2012.11.49%20PM%203%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Carol White in GAOLBREAK AKA JAILBREAK Year: 1962 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In the Swinging-Sixties, full-lipped blonde starlets were the thing in British cinema, from Julie Christie to Susannah York to Judy Geeson... but it started with Carol White, who appeared way back into the early-1960's, from a small part in BEAT GIRL to a co-starring turn in one of many Butcher's Film Group B&W crime-programmers, GAOLBREAK... <br><br>She's the girlfriend of the only kind-hearted member of a Ma Barker-style family of crooks led by oldest brother (and crime flick regular) Peter Reynolds, who conspires with surreptitiously resilient mother Avice Landone to knockoff a building with the contents of art auction proceeds... but there's a problem...</p><p><span></span></p>

british neo noir, carol white, david gregory, heist, laura leigh, marianne stone, peter reynolds, sixties

CAROL WHITE, DAVID GREGORY & PETER REYNOLDS IN 'GAOLBREAK'

Carol White in GAOLBREAK AKA JAILBREAK Year: 1962 Rating: **1/2 In the Swinging-Sixties, full-lipped blonde starlets were the thing in Briti...

PETER MAXWELL'S 'IMPACT' WITH CONRAD PHILLIPS & ANITA WEST

<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/AVvXsEg-JMpKxh-Kv9FaDfYljrsDLfF4qc1xyneZ8ummhF4U2O0yeIfd8bUgEP3nGDbOHQwaF7il-J0tlJfZHNa_iCd9xtoujAB0AXa_zay-mW-NEwtDJNJAlBwL-HSF_e8nVokFwyZcNGaCQqA3lISMq0-a6EwGbHik6-hqsWopuKJYiev0q6KooP68BflnNWrl/s1896/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-24%20at%2011.04.51%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1104" data-original-width="1896" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-JMpKxh-Kv9FaDfYljrsDLfF4qc1xyneZ8ummhF4U2O0yeIfd8bUgEP3nGDbOHQwaF7il-J0tlJfZHNa_iCd9xtoujAB0AXa_zay-mW-NEwtDJNJAlBwL-HSF_e8nVokFwyZcNGaCQqA3lISMq0-a6EwGbHik6-hqsWopuKJYiev0q6KooP68BflnNWrl/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-24%20at%2011.04.51%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Conrad Phillips in IMPACT Year: 1963 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The low-budget British studio Butchers turned out film noir-type crime-dramas like they were television episodes, playing out like something more from the small screen than big...<br><br>And that's not a negative critique since they almost always pay off with good stories and great actors, in this case an equally edgy and severe wrong-man/good guy and nightclub-owning villain...</p><p><span></span></p>

anita west, ballard berkeley, british neo noir, conrad phillips, george pastell, john rees, linda marlowe, peter maxwell, sixties, wrong man

PETER MAXWELL'S 'IMPACT' WITH CONRAD PHILLIPS & ANITA WEST

Conrad Phillips in IMPACT Year: 1963 Rating: *** The low-budget British studio Butchers turned out film noir-type crime-dramas like they wer...

PETER MAXWELL'S 'BLIND SPOT' ROBERT MACKENZIE & MICHAEL CAINE

<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/AVvXsEg0oIJXUqjA_oXHwfV5eLvajPy1NYJby2NNpRn5kOA5QJ3w1lqv7yp-wPfM4hLgC3sabpH1Gf5E0FVp69EvqZ4QV62PMyUfjwbI7tucLv917lYcNn6rXn416Reqt5G2zGgLbFiu2ju7dhEt7_xbyhyrX0Y2UMxjA-J3FIqPOKPE2MczexXw2TftXnZdUSyy/s1884/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-23%20at%2011.47.59%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1096" data-original-width="1884" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0oIJXUqjA_oXHwfV5eLvajPy1NYJby2NNpRn5kOA5QJ3w1lqv7yp-wPfM4hLgC3sabpH1Gf5E0FVp69EvqZ4QV62PMyUfjwbI7tucLv917lYcNn6rXn416Reqt5G2zGgLbFiu2ju7dhEt7_xbyhyrX0Y2UMxjA-J3FIqPOKPE2MczexXw2TftXnZdUSyy/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-23%20at%2011.47.59%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert MacKenzie in BLIND SPOT Year: 1958 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>By the time a young Michael Caine's much anticipated wild-card-airplane-pilot character's revealed with a gun drawn to his own sister, BLIND SPOT has one quick car chase and it's over... </p><p>Leaving most of the gumshoe-inspired/traipsing-from-interior-to-interior screen-time to military man Robert MacKenzie, who's blind when he literally knocks into two killers after being dropped off in the wrong house, and then, after his sight's back, he investigates what's behind the murder... <br></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/AVvXsEj7jrH6UCqOCKpGiEY9cw8qOld2Zyp4PF7YMevho0Z0Q_LH0izKxOe8mWAv9u151fkGyYILh_abQ7bmO2K8jWng_8ILtRPo67m3AM7BiB0GfV6eoQwyDxCFmuJydIq0XuapCZj5NC1EHrtah_HG9XzMa4HOj8NQjBju9EtN-bOrV7fXS15JcHKix2tW5C52/s1736/1.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="902" data-original-width="1736" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7jrH6UCqOCKpGiEY9cw8qOld2Zyp4PF7YMevho0Z0Q_LH0izKxOe8mWAv9u151fkGyYILh_abQ7bmO2K8jWng_8ILtRPo67m3AM7BiB0GfV6eoQwyDxCFmuJydIq0XuapCZj5NC1EHrtah_HG9XzMa4HOj8NQjBju9EtN-bOrV7fXS15JcHKix2tW5C52/s16000/1.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert MacKenzie in BLIND SPOT with Ann Sharp</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>A remake of the 1950 British Film Noir BLACKOUT, seeming like a made-for-TV vehicle in the deliberately sparse camera style of merely facing the actors spouting loads of exposition... </p><p></p><p>But what makes this subtle thriller work is MacKenzie's affably cool yet randomly urgent aura, a hybrid of American-working-in-England b-crime regular William Sylvester and legendary American noir actor Sterling Hayden... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

andrew faulds, ann sharp, british film noir, delphi lawrence, fifties, george pastell, john crawford, leigh madison, michael caine, mystery, peter maxwell, robert mackenzie, ronan o'casey

PETER MAXWELL'S 'BLIND SPOT' ROBERT MACKENZIE & MICHAEL CAINE

Robert MacKenzie in BLIND SPOT Year: 1958 Rating: ***1/2 By the time a young Michael Caine's much anticipated wild-card-airplane-pilot c...

EUGÉNE LOURIÈ DIRECTS THE BRITISH 'BEHEMOTH THE SEA MONSTER'

<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/AVvXsEjDci9rOOUuNLadl0LKiOW_cFx3dQZYct_0KJdvI9V1g4Oz187gcwoUhDhSWCLnjvlPoev9JOm5RhHcNshyphenhyphen33EvLti6A_bSgylRwjSc6hJidPRQp_A_smMOG6f037BSdiB4doVTHqAqtU5i9W2Sh-gtZz1T2IN4GBlfxdaBm7RiOxbArDswvqq2pZhh5NvC/s1478/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="850" data-original-width="1478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDci9rOOUuNLadl0LKiOW_cFx3dQZYct_0KJdvI9V1g4Oz187gcwoUhDhSWCLnjvlPoev9JOm5RhHcNshyphenhyphen33EvLti6A_bSgylRwjSc6hJidPRQp_A_smMOG6f037BSdiB4doVTHqAqtU5i9W2Sh-gtZz1T2IN4GBlfxdaBm7RiOxbArDswvqq2pZhh5NvC/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: BEHEMOTH THE SEA MONSTER Year: 1959 Rating: ****<br></u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The British creature-feature BEHEMOTH THE SEA MONSTER is said to be England's answer to the GODZILLA franchise... when in fact it's a reboot of the same director's THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS that had actually inspired Japan's now legendary GODZILLA/GOJIRA... </p><p></p><p>And while nothing touches the Japanese classic, an unpopular opinion is that Eugène Lourié SEA MONSTER (redundantly re-titled THE GIANT BEHEMOTH for America) is actually miles better than its groundbreaking FATHOMS predecessor... which had three scientists chasing an enigmatic sea-beast from the arctic into New York with very little character-development along the way... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

andré morell, creature feature, douglas hickox, eugène lourié, fifties, gene evans, jack macgowran, john turner, leigh madison, maurice kaufmann, monster, willis h. o'brien

EUGÉNE LOURIÈ DIRECTS THE BRITISH 'BEHEMOTH THE SEA MONSTER'

Title: BEHEMOTH THE SEA MONSTER Year: 1959 Rating: **** The British creature-feature BEHEMOTH THE SEA MONSTER is said to be England's an...

EUGÉNE LOURIÈ DIRECTS WILLIAM SYLVESTER IN BRITAIN'S 'GORGO'

<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/AVvXsEgOCb012SNM_ZOUG1AaaD27e7QLiUtxbZJRLAuDPOrfmGZKCxpXy8ES3aBde0E1MYDDwvkHmrlWo9Z471a_0mncoo-IByiKCdJBhVluV2N8Vbj4WOt2wG6f1qMMgkyRZROfCvHmq5WljD2jMlEJEk_yN2U81GouFkeI9RSLB9LGvTm237xYLlaVzQJhyphenhyphen_ff/s1138/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-24%20at%206.32.30%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="644" data-original-width="1138" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOCb012SNM_ZOUG1AaaD27e7QLiUtxbZJRLAuDPOrfmGZKCxpXy8ES3aBde0E1MYDDwvkHmrlWo9Z471a_0mncoo-IByiKCdJBhVluV2N8Vbj4WOt2wG6f1qMMgkyRZROfCvHmq5WljD2jMlEJEk_yN2U81GouFkeI9RSLB9LGvTm237xYLlaVzQJhyphenhyphen_ff/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-24%20at%206.32.30%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: GORGO Year: 1961 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>While GORGO seems like an unapologetic GODZILLA ripoff, director Eugène Lourié had already made BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS, which, released a year before the Japanese GODZILLA/GOJIRA, was a direct inspiration... </p><p></p><p>However, the movie that inspired both creature-features, RKO's classic KING KONG, is what GORGO is primarily based on: a gigantic beast is taken from its remote sea-surrounding-island home, and turned into a corporate carnival attraction... breaking free at one point from a banal photographer's intrusive flashbulb... </p><p><span></span></p>

bill travers, british, creature feature, eugène lourié, martin benson, maurice kaufmann, monster, sixties, william sylvester

EUGÉNE LOURIÈ DIRECTS WILLIAM SYLVESTER IN BRITAIN'S 'GORGO'

Title: GORGO Year: 1961 Rating: *** While GORGO seems like an unapologetic GODZILLA ripoff, director Eugène Lourié had already made BEAST FR...

EUGÉNE LOURIÈ'S PRE-GODZILLA 'THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS'

<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/AVvXsEgOGACTJk9Jb0_uuImDEUb5hVbU3AIZ_tfDcCaYZowkOWV19_SwJ5MqZ0txSh5vqUvoni_CKeHOJe4DFzrF3HT4arE_UqjmxKUaGpRIPX7ksm5S_8iHdlTvfF-l8ml7yJUsjHngy7oRVWXIW46xCifnaNRIRPQEAkBwRcHf2uwYxohtvQOgfgzC5qjr9HCn/s1892/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-22%20at%2012.08.19%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1160" data-original-width="1892" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOGACTJk9Jb0_uuImDEUb5hVbU3AIZ_tfDcCaYZowkOWV19_SwJ5MqZ0txSh5vqUvoni_CKeHOJe4DFzrF3HT4arE_UqjmxKUaGpRIPX7ksm5S_8iHdlTvfF-l8ml7yJUsjHngy7oRVWXIW46xCifnaNRIRPQEAkBwRcHf2uwYxohtvQOgfgzC5qjr9HCn/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-22%20at%2012.08.19%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1953 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Eugène Lourié's THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS was what actually inspired Japan's year-later GODZILLA... other than the legendary GOJIRA creature representing American nuclear bombs that destroyed their country (and lost them the war)... making the second radioactive-dinosaur-flick much deeper and far more coherent than this literally groundbreaking predecessor to all sizzling-lizard creature-features... <br><br>At one point, when scientific leads Paul Hubschmid and Paula Raymond wind up in KING KONG-inspired New York City after following the beast (resembling a T-Rex's walking-on-all-fours feisty pet) from the arctic underseas, it never feels like we actually struggled with them throughout any truly adventurous danger within a surprisingly bland monster movie that, other than Ray Harryhausen's terrific 11th hour stop-motion effects, feels like two disconnected stories that never quite meshes into one. <br></p><p><span></span></p>

adventure, creature feature, eugène lourié, fifties, horror, kenneth tobey, lee van cleef, monster, paula raymond, science-fiction

EUGÉNE LOURIÈ'S PRE-GODZILLA 'THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS'

Year: 1953 Rating: **1/2 Eugène Lourié's THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS was what actually inspired Japan's year-later GODZILLA... oth...

LIZA GREER & ROBIN GREER IN GREYDON CLARK'S 'ANGELS' BRIGADE'

<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/AVvXsEj1mc7Xm9YingPhDDvUf4nTsSp8ny9m1wd_nzkE8WGb9UFtBLzS205f5ka8SfrkKG-xCEzBu7ADX9j5KCgDl1LI1nC18UIYAJWdlhABrueQlXWNjXa6JBFAOYs7IQhVAwQu-pvibfHl4Qud93gNuW8sLOxbBZKD954xL0oYO-iOwUGEPl9Oj_r4YkTCJlMO/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-21%20at%209.08.15%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1008" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1mc7Xm9YingPhDDvUf4nTsSp8ny9m1wd_nzkE8WGb9UFtBLzS205f5ka8SfrkKG-xCEzBu7ADX9j5KCgDl1LI1nC18UIYAJWdlhABrueQlXWNjXa6JBFAOYs7IQhVAwQu-pvibfHl4Qud93gNuW8sLOxbBZKD954xL0oYO-iOwUGEPl9Oj_r4YkTCJlMO/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-21%20at%209.08.15%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Liza Greer in ANGELS' BRIGADE Year: 1979 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Thank goodness that in 1979, no one told low-budget director Greydon Clark that this kind of crime-centered, revenge-driven, van-cruising exploitation had gone out of style since blaxploitation and kung fu flicks waned in popularity, but, with the then-popularity of CHARLIE'S ANGELS on television, Clark's ANGEL'S BRIGADE really hit the spot... and with more than three beautiful women... <br><br>One a lanky-cute, pig-tailed teenager, played by Liza Greer (seeming primed for her own movie), trained by real life sister Robin Greer, a cop who also helps shape tough black chick Sylvia Anderson, athletic Asian Lieu Chinh, tall blonde showgirl (and technically leading actress) Susan Kiger, spicy Latina Noela Velasco and Clark's wife Jacquelin Cole, an idealistic high school school teacher who has, not surprisingly, the best part herein...</p><p><span></span></p>

alan hale jr., exploitation, greydon clark, jack palance, jacqulin cole, jim backus, liza greer, neville brand, peter lawford, robin greer, seventies, susan kiger, sylvia anderson

LIZA GREER & ROBIN GREER IN GREYDON CLARK'S 'ANGELS' BRIGADE'

Liza Greer in ANGELS' BRIGADE Year: 1979 Rating: ***1/2 Thank goodness that in 1979, no one told low-budget director Greydon Clark that ...

DEFENDING THE INFFAMOUS CAMP OF 'THE HORROR OF PARTY BEACH'

<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/AVvXsEi1G48r4kEzhKfVFyXv8UkDplCXhcaOGMw9igjiCvwuGBg-0zdjkWSj2l75C-iTJ92ibZLv4uWYzByqxzi8wlOHYx7u4DlLpJ41WFbIuARv4hUGyBhilZzRHFgyGDgbzQliafOdmiuNJt_EuFpEIC2B9RmQFa5GueBmgiJ0QjEhPNPEWLLFi-H_wmpSI4-Z/s1886/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-20%20at%208.37.55%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1106" data-original-width="1886" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1G48r4kEzhKfVFyXv8UkDplCXhcaOGMw9igjiCvwuGBg-0zdjkWSj2l75C-iTJ92ibZLv4uWYzByqxzi8wlOHYx7u4DlLpJ41WFbIuARv4hUGyBhilZzRHFgyGDgbzQliafOdmiuNJt_EuFpEIC2B9RmQFa5GueBmgiJ0QjEhPNPEWLLFi-H_wmpSI4-Z/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-20%20at%208.37.55%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE HORROR OF BLOOD BEACH Year: 1964 Camp Value: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Starting out one of those town-crashing 1960's biker flicks, quickly transforming into a WEST SIDE STORY rumble before blasting into a BEACH BLANKET BINGO musical, the camp-driven drive-in HORROR AT PARTY BEACH has flirtatious brunette Marilyn Clarke causing good guy local John Lyon and angry biker Agustin Mayor to fight... </p><p></p><p>She's like Janet Leigh from PSYCHO, seeming like the main character before foreshadowing Crissie Watkins in JAWS, quickly murdered in the water (actually a rocky atoll) by one of the goofiest looking monster-costume-antagonists ever...</p><p><span></span></p>

cult, del tenney, exploitation, horror, music, science-fiction, sixties, slasher, surf, thriller, wayne tippit

DEFENDING THE INFFAMOUS CAMP OF 'THE HORROR OF PARTY BEACH'

Title: THE HORROR OF BLOOD BEACH Year: 1964 Camp Value: ***1/2 Starting out one of those town-crashing 1960's biker flicks, quickly tran...