Written by James M. Tate / 4/24/2024 / No comments / action , al bright , al lettieri , ali macgraw , ben johnson , bo hopkins , crime , exploitation , heist , modern western , road movie , sally struthers , sam peckinpah , steve mcqueen
STEVE MCQUEEN LITERALLY STEALS SAM PECKINPAH'S 'THE GETAWAY'
Title: THE GETAWAY Year: 1972 Rating: **** The machine-pounding prologue/montage of Sam Peckinpah's THE GETAWAY embodies caged hopelessn...
Written by James M. Tate / 4/23/2024 / No comments / action , classic , cop , crime , cult , don gordon , felice orlandi , jacqueline bisset , jazz-score , pat renella , peter yates , robert vaughn , simon oakland , sixties , steve mcqueen , thriller
PETER YATES GIVES MORE THAN CHASE IN THE CLASSIC 'BULLITT'
Steve McQueen in BULLITT Year: 1968 Rating: ***** The iconic car chase is the only thing that seems to matter in BULLITT, and not just for t...
Written by James M. Tate / 4/20/2024 / No comments / espionage , forties , frank latimore , henry hathaway , james cagney , karl malden , richard conte , sam jaffe , spy , thriller , world war II
JAMES CAGNEY WITH RICHARD CONTE IN '13 RUE MADELEINE'
Title: 13 RUE MADELEINE Year: 1947 Rating: ***1/2 In the 1940's, James Cagney went to war... well, not literally... but at forty-years o...
Written by James M. Tate / 4/19/2024 / No comments / ann-margret , anthony quinn , college , counter-culture , don keefer , donald moffat , gary lockwood , john mcliam , joseph bernard , paul winfield , ramon bieri , seventies , stanley kramer
GARY LOCKWOOD PROTESTS 'R.P.M.' STARRING ANTHONY QUINN
Gary Lockwood in R.P.M. Year: 1970 Rating: **1/2 A year after Gary Lockwood was slightly too old to play a hapless hippie about to go to Vie...
Written by James M. Tate / 4/18/2024 / No comments / gary lockwood , keir dullea , robert beatty , science-fiction , sean sullivan , sixties , stanley kubrick , william sylvester
GLOSSING THROUGH STANLEY KUBRICK'S '2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY'
Gary Lockwood in 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY Year: 1968 Rating: ***** The greatest cinema epics (from LAWRENCE OF ARABIA before to GOODFELLAS afte...
Written by James M. Tate / 4/14/2024 / No comments / armored car , caper , crime , elke sommer , exploitation , gary lockwood , heist , jack palance , jean servais , lee j. cobb , mobster , neo noir , spanish , warner archives
GARY LOCKWOOD IN ANTONIO ISASI'S 'THEY CAME TO ROB LAS VEGAS'
Gary Lockwood in THEY CAME TO ROB LAS VEGAS Year: 1968 Rating: ***1/2 Spanish auteur Antonio Isasi was definitely a fan of gangster films si...
Written by James M. Tate / 4/13/2024 / No comments / brooke bundy , gary lockwood , henry fonda , inger stevens , jack elam , jacqueline scott , james best , james stewart , louise latham , morgan woodward , robert porter , sixties , thriller , western
GARY LOCKWOOD WITH JAMES STEWART & HENRY FONDA 'FIRECREEK'
Gary Lockwood in FIRECREEK Year: 1968 Rating: **** With biker movies all the rampaging counter-culture rage, lower budgeted Westerns during...
GARY LOCKWOOD GUESTS 'HAWAII FIVE-O: SCHOOL FOR ASSASSINS'
Gary Lockwood in Hawaii Five-0: School for Assassins Year: 1980 Rates: ***1/2 After playing second-fiddle in Stanley Kubrick's highly-su...
Written by James M. Tate / 4/12/2024 / No comments / alexandra hay , anne randall , anouk aimée , counter-culture , drama , fred willard , gary lockwood , hangout , jacques demy , sixties
GARY LOCKWOOD DRIVES THROUGH JACQUES DEMY'S 'MODEL SHOP'
Gary Lockwood in MODEL SHOP Year: 1969 Rating: **1/2 Grade: C+ Leading up to French New Wave director Jacques Demy's car-cruising hangou...
Written by James M. Tate / 4/11/2024 / No comments / american international , body count , caroline munro , dark comedy , exploitation , horror , peter jeffrey , seventies , terry-thomas , vincent price , virginia north
CLASSIC HORROR VIBES REVIVING 'THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES'
Virginia North in THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES Year: 1971 Rating: ****1/2 For American International Pictures, THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES was a ...
Written by James M. Tate / 4/10/2024 / No comments / anjanette comer , asa maynor , dana andrews , dark comedy , ensemble , john geilgud , jonathan winters , milton berle , paul williams , robert morse , roddy mcdowall , roxanne arlen , sixties , tony richardson
ROBERT MORSE, ROD STEIGER & ANJANETTE COMER 'THE LOVED ONE'
Pamela Curran and Robert Morse in Tony Richardson's THE LOVED ONE Year: 1965 Rating: **1/2 Grade: C+ After American director Stanley Kub...
Written by James M. Tate / 4/09/2024 / No comments / anitra ford , body count , charles dierkop , cult , gloria katz , horror , joy bang , marianna hill , michael greer , seventies , walter hill , williard huyck , zombie
MARIANNA HILL WITH JOY BANG & ANITRA FORD 'MESSIAH OF EVIL'
Title: MESSIAH OF EVIL Year: 1974 Rating: ***1/2 Directing married couple (and future George Lucas collaborators) Willard Huyck and Gloria K...
Written by James M. Tate / 4/07/2024 / No comments / british film noir , fifties , geoffrey keen , mystery , robert beatty , terry moore , william sylvester
ROBERT BEATTY WITH TERRY MOORE IN 'POSTMARK FOR DANGER'
Title: POSTMARK FOR DANGER Year: 1955 Rating: ** Twenty years before Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, involving a first-act wher...
Written by James M. Tate / 4/05/2024 / No comments / action , adventure , bruce dern , cliff potts , douglas trumbull , jesse vint , ron rifkin , science-fiction , seventies , thriller
BRUCE DERN SURVIVING DOUGLAS TRUMBULL'S 'SILENT RUNNING'
Bruce Dern in SILENT RUNNING Year: 1972 Rating: ****1/2 Science-Fiction Special Effects wizard Douglas Trumbull went from making Stanley Kub...
Written by James M. Tate / 4/04/2024 / No comments / action , bruce dern , fritz weaver , john frankenheimer , marthe keller , michael v. gazzo , robert shaw , seventies , steven keats , walter gotell
BRUCE DERN WITH MARTHE KELLER & ROBERT SHAW 'BLACK SUNDAY'
Bruce Dern in BLACK SUNDAY Year: 1977 Rating: **** At the peak of Bruce Dern's 1970's career playing insane, frantic characters, Pal...
Written by James M. Tate / 3/24/2024 / No comments / film noir or melodrama , heist , james gregory , jazz-score , mary costa , paul picerni , rory calhoun , roxanne arlen
RORY CALHOUN WITH MARY COSTA & COREY ALLEN 'THE BIG CAPER'
Title: THE BIG CAPER Year: 1957 Rating: *** By late 1950's Film Noir, the kind of beatnik jazz listened to by the criminals also provide...
Written by James M. Tate / 3/22/2024 / No comments / drama , ian hendry , jacqueline jones , janette scott , janina faye , kay walsh , norman bird , ronald fraser , sidney james , sixties , val guest
VAL GUEST DIRECTS 'CONTEST GIRL' JANETTE SCOTT & IAN HENDRY
Title: THE BEAUTY JUNGLE aka CONTEST GIRL Year: 1964 Rating: **** After nearly a decade of Hammer science-fiction, war and film noir... from...
Written by James M. Tate / 3/20/2024 / No comments / christopher lee , dawn addams , exploitation , hammer films , janina faye , joy webster , oliver reed , paul massie , pauline shepherd , sixties , thriller
PAUL MASSIE STARS IN HAMMER'S 'THE TWO FACES OF DR. JEKYLL'
Paul Massie in THE TWO FACES OF DR. JEKYLL Year: 1960 Rating: ***1/2 The titular scientist in Hammer's usual Victorian era fits the 1800...
PAUL MASSIE STARS IN 'ORDERS TO KILL' FEARTURING EDDIE ALBERT
Title: ORDERS TO KILL Year: 1958 Rating: **** It's after forty-five minutes when first-billed American actor Eddie Albert sees second-bi...
Written by James M. Tate / 3/18/2024 / No comments / anjanette comer , drama , golf , guy stockwell , howard st. john , james farentino , jill st. john , mike kellin , robert wagner , sport
ROBERT WAGNER IN THE OBSCURE GOLF PRO CURIO 'BANNING'
Robert Wagner in BANNING Year: 1967 Rating: **** The extremely elusive and rare BANNING is a 1967 film about former golf pro Robert Wagner a...
Written by James M. Tate / 3/09/2024 / No comments / action , classic gangster , crime , edmond o'brien , forties , heist , james cagney , john archer , prison , robert osterloh , steve cochran , virginia mayo
JAMES CAGNEY CAGED UP IN 'WHITE HEAT' WITH VIRGINA MAYO
Japanese poster for WHITE HEAT Year of imprisonment and release: 1949 Sentence: ****1/2 At the peak of the 1940's, no one but James Cagn...
Written by James M. Tate / 3/08/2024 / No comments / alfred ryder , anthony mann , art smith , charles mcgraw , dennis o'keefe , docudrama , forties , jack overman , jane randolph , june lockhart , wallace ford
DIRECTOR ANTHONY MANN'S CONTERFEIT MONEY FILM NOIR 'T-MEN'
Title: T-MEN Director: Anthony Mann Year: 1947 Rating: ****1/2 Backed by offbeat, surreal music from a dream sequence... only here used for ...
Written by James M. Tate / 3/07/2024 / No comments / action , barbara payton , escape , film noir or melodrama , heist , john hoyt , lloyd bridges , richard fleischer
RICHARD FLEISCHER'S T-MEN HEIST FILM NOIR OF 'TRAPPED'
Title: TRAPPED Year: 1949 Rating: ** It's a shame that director Richard Fleischer didn't realize how good the usual good guy Lloyd B...
Written by James M. Tate / 3/06/2024 / No comments / action , barbara hale , bill williams , film noir or melodrama , mayra marco , richard fleischer , richard loo , richard quine , robert bray
RICHARD FLEISCHER'S WRONG MAN ACTION NOIR 'THE CLAY PIGEON'
Title: THE CLAY PIGEON Stars: Bill Williams, Barbara Hale Year: 1949 Rating: **** Richard Fleischer's Wrong Man Film Noir has a patrioti...
Written by James M. Tate / 3/05/2024 / No comments / cop , dorothy patrick , douglas spencer , film noir or melodrama , forties , jeff corey , marlo dwyer , richard fleischer , serial killer , william lundigan
RICHARD FLEISCHER'S SERIAL KILLER NOIR 'FOLLOW ME QUIETLY'
Title: FOLLOW ME QUIETLY Year: 1949 Rating: ***1/2 If you can handle dialogue like, after a statement about a serial killer killing only dur...
Written by James M. Tate / 3/04/2024 / No comments / anne jeffreys , dick tracy , film noir or melodrama , forties , franchise , horror , jane greer , mike mazurski , milton parsons , morgan conway
MORGAN CONWAY, ANNE JEFFREYS & MIKE MAZURSKI 'DICK TRACY'
Title: DICK TRACY Year: 1945 Rating: *** The towering, muscular, intimidating and always formidable noir-villain Mike Mazurki, who would soo...
Written by James M. Tate / 3/03/2024 / No comments / action , anne jeffreys , comic book , dick tracy , dick wessel , film noir or melodrama , forties , franchise , morgan conway , skelton knaggs
MORGAN CONWAY AND DICK WESSEL IN 'DICK TRACY VS. CUEBALL'
Title: DICK TRACY VS. CUEBALL Year: 1946 Rating: ***1/2 The maligned DICK TRACY replacement-actor from the first two RKO pictures was Morgan...
Written by James M. Tate / 3/02/2024 / No comments / action , anne gwynne , boris karloff , crime , dick tracy , forties , franchise , horror satire , ralph byrd , skelton knaggs
RALPH BYRD AND BORIS KARLOFF IN 'DICK TRACY MEETS GRUESOME'
Title: DICK TRACY MEETS GRUESOME Year: 1947 Rating: **1/2 Despite the legendary Boris Karloff playing Gruesome, this is the last and weakest...
Written by James M. Tate / 3/01/2024 / No comments / action , comic book , crime , dick tracy , film noir or melodrama , forties , franchise , jack lambert , thriller
RALPH BYRD WITH JACK LAMBERT IN 'DICK TRACY'S DILEMMA'
Title: DICK TRACY'S DILEMMA Year: 1947 Rating: **** It's true that comic book heroes are only as good as the villains, even way back...
Written by James M. Tate / 2/28/2024 / No comments / body count , cult , donna anderson , edward walsh , horror , judy lang , michael murphy , robert quarry , seventies , vampire
ROBERT QUARRY SINKS HIS TEEH INTO 'COUNT YORGA, VAMPIRE'
Title: COUNT YORGA, VAMPIRE Year: 1970 Rating: **** A hybrid of late-1960's leading to early-1970's low-budget exploitation horror a...
Written by James M. Tate / 2/27/2024 / No comments / adventure , anne jeffreys , chase , cold war , film noir or melodrama , forties , james flavin , jason robarts sr. , lawrence tierney , myrna dell , mystery , romance , wrong man
LAWRENCE TIERNEY & ANNE JEFFREYS RETURN FOR 'STEP BY STEP'
Lawrence Tierney and Anne Jeffreys in STEP BY STEP Year: 1946 Rating: **** Lawrence Tierney with Anne Jeffreys, the gangster and moll from D...
Written by James M. Tate / 2/26/2024 / No comments / anne jeffreys , biopic , constance worth , dewey robinson , eduardo ciannelli , elisha cook jr. , film noir or melodrama , forties , heist , lawrence tierney , lou lubin , marc lawrence , max nosseck
LAWRENCE TIERNEY DEAD AS 'DILLINGER' WITH ANNE JEFFREYS
Anne Jeffreys and Lawrence Tierney in DILLINGER Year: 1945 Rating: ****1/2 In the 1930's through to the 1960's and 1970's, befo...
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STEVE MCQUEEN LITERALLY STEALS SAM PECKINPAH'S 'THE GETAWAY'
Title: THE GETAWAY Year: 1972 Rating: **** The machine-pounding prologue/montage of Sam Peckinpah's THE GETAWAY embodies caged hopelessn...