cult film freak: 2018

Written by James M. Tate / 12/29/2018 / No comments / action , classic , crime , drama , glenda farrell , helen vinson , novel francis , paul muni , prison , thirties , thriller

REVIEW OF 'I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG' W/ PAUL MUNI

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lobby Card of the Paul Muni Chain Gang Classic YEAR: 1932</u></td></tr>
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A visual masterpiece with Film Noir elements despite being a decade shy of that particular "genre" and/or style of edgy crime thrillers led by a flawed yet sympathetic hero (turned anti-hero)...<br>
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In this case it's James Allen played by Paul Muni, who, as an edgy everyman, is discontented after WW1 and winds up caught between three dames: one good (Helen Vinson) and two bad (first Noel Francis and especially Glenda Farrell)...<br>
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And the most Noir-esque is the Wrong Man element — falsely accused of a theft that put him into the titular CHAIN GANG to begin with (later hilariously parodied in Woody Allen's TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN: from a guard whipping what the audience can only see is a prisoner's shadow, right down to a muscular black prisoner helping loosen the shackles so our man can go free)...<br>

action, classic, crime, drama, glenda farrell, helen vinson, novel francis, paul muni, prison, thirties, thriller

REVIEW OF 'I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG' W/ PAUL MUNI

Lobby Card of the Paul Muni Chain Gang Classic YEAR: 1932 A visual masterpiece with Film Noir elements despite being a decade shy of t...

MATT DILLON'S KILLER ROLE IN 'THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT'

2018, bruno ganz, crime, lars von trier, matt dillon, new, serial killer, thriller, uma thurman

MATT DILLON'S KILLER ROLE IN 'THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT'

Year of Capture and Release: 2018 THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT isn't quite sure when it's good since the good parts don't last ...

CLINT EASTWOOD STARRING IN 'THE MULE' W/ BRADLEY COOPER

2018, bradley cooper, clint eastwood, crime, drama, drugs, laurence fishburne, michael peña, new

CLINT EASTWOOD STARRING IN 'THE MULE' W/ BRADLEY COOPER

Year of Release and Capture: 2018 Actor/director Clint Eastwood, using very little action and suspense for a supposed crime thriller, is...

DC PRESENTS 'AQUAMAN' W/ JASON MOMOA & AMBER HEARD

action, adventure, amber heard, comic book, dc comics, dolph lundgren, fantasy, jason moma, new, superhero, willem defoe

DC PRESENTS 'AQUAMAN' W/ JASON MOMOA & AMBER HEARD

Yes, that's Dolph Lundgren, who plays Heard's father YEAR: 2018 Judged upon the comic books and, for this pop culture fanatic, t...

REVIVING WOODY ALLEN'S 'A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S SEX COMEDY'

adaptation, comedy, eighties, ensemble, gordon willis, jose ferrer, julie hagerty, kate mcgregor-stewart, mary steenburgen, mia farrow, nature, supernatural, time period, tony roberts, woody allen

REVIVING WOODY ALLEN'S 'A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S SEX COMEDY'

Visible crew and deer in NIGHT'S Year: 1982 Rates: **** Upon release, Woody Allen's multi homage (from Shakespeare to Bergman) A MI...

PENNY MARSHALL W/ SPINAL TAP ON 'LAVERNE & SHIRLEY'

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PENNY MARSHALL W/ SPINAL TAP ON 'LAVERNE & SHIRLEY'

Penny Marshall with a Richard Nixon voting Christopher Guest on Laverne & Shirley We all know MICHAEL MCKEAN from SPINAL TAP started...

JOHN BROMFIELD & CAROL SHANNON & JOI LANSING IN 'HOT CARS'

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A hybrid of lounge lizard and game show jazz plays during the opening credits where a quiet Los Angeles main street's lined with outlet stores across from a used car lot, and John Bromfield's Nick Dunn is so damn honest, he ironically passes the acid test for crooks: That is, the main (though polite, classy and unassuming) heavy, rolling stolen vehicles through his own larger lot, sees that Nick is the man to trust...<br />
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Not trusted to be dishonest but to remain faithful and, like any Film Noir outing, it takes something desperate and personal for a good man to cross the line...<br />
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In this case, his child needing surgery causes Nick do what Joi Lansing and her incredible body couldn't initially persuade. And by the time our husband/dad's up to his neck in those titular HOT CARS, delivered to the illegal, seemingly untouchable nighttime operation where Nick is stuck as middleman, he's the sole target of a determined, stubborn and almost unstoppable police investigator, with no way out... Or is there? And does freedom have a price? And who's gonna pay? <br />
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The best scenes occur <i>before</i> he gets hounded and <i>right after</i> he's on board the seemingly perfect, well-paying gig as the fitfully cool, underrated movie and TV actor John Bromfield, with all the ingredients of a casual b-actor, nails the put-upon working man persona, with class to boot: A nice fit for caustic, melodramatic lines like: "That's the problem with dopes like us," to his incredibly-trusting wife, without sounding corny, or cliché: "Too much month at the end of our money."<br />
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In cult movie retrospect, Bromfield played the flirtatious scuba diver (targeting pretty Lori Nelson who prefers humble John Agar) in REVENGE OF THE CREATURE. Though he wasn't able to "reign in heaven" as a leading man in mainstream features, he's a sublime b-leading man and does a particularly fine job here, looking handsome and boxy-muscular under well-suited work clothes... <br />
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Set in the cut-and-dry mid-1950's, the bare-boned, industrial locations, shot in fitfully sparse B&W, lends to the purgatory aesthetic as our sexy and manipulative, full-breasted "femme fatale" in Joi Lansing lights up every room. Meanwhile, her boss, Ralph Clayton as Mr. Markel... with Mark Dana's tall, square-jawed and very lethal Smiley Ward at his beckon call... make for a solid if subtle, professionally villainous trio... <br />
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Within Bel-Air Productions' Film Noir template, using more plot-points and character motivations than cinematography and lighting, instead of being an otherwise kindhearted anti-hero, Nick's a solid clean slate, working for the wrong side while that extremely pestering cop (Dabbs Greer) is the main "antagonist" albeit in protagonist's clothes: most of the second act suspense occurs between these two proverbial "good guys," one masked with an effective, royal flush poker face...<br />
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And after a slight twist, there's an intense HOUSE OF BAMBOO style action climax with Nick and an armed Smiley battling-it-out on a fast-moving, rickety rollercoaster (in Ocean Park Pier, Santa Monica). Meanwhile, an 11th hour stampede of cops move in on "poor little me" Joi Lansing and her gentleman boss, who can't flirt <i>or</i> pay their way out of how these kind of movies all wind down and end up: Learning that harsh, inevitable lesson that crime doesn't pay... at least, not for very long.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>You do plan on having CARS on this review of HOT CARS don't you</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mark Dana and John Bromfield in HOT CARS</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>John Bromfield w/ his first boss played by Robert Osterloh: Cagney's partner in WHITE HEAT</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>John Bromfield and Joi Lansing in HOT CARS</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>John Bromfield and some HOT CARS in HOT CARS</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>John Bromfield and Joi Lansing in HOT CARS</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Classy head villain Ralph Clanton with employee Nick Dunn (John Bromfield) HOT CARS</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Joi's the bad girl and Carol Shannon is the good girl aka John Bromfield's perfect wife</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Gunsmoke and Little House actor Dabbs Greer plays cop to John Bromfield HOT CARS</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>B-Movie actor John Bromfield winds up with C-movie actor Mark Dana as Smiley Ward</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Pay to play Joi Lansing lays in bed and dreams of fur coats in HOT CARS</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Bel-Air Productions includes producer Howard W. Koch</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Marilee Earle in HOT CARS in an establishing shot that was never completed </u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>And here's a shot of Marilee Earle in her co-starring role in <span style="font-size: small;">THE FEARMAKERS</span> w/ Dana Andrews</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Poster for HOT CARS starring Joi Lansing on the front with John Bromfield</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert Osterloh as the jerk boss Big John in HOT CARS</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Cool b-movie actors Mark Dana and John Bromfield in HOT CARS</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Like Sam Fuller's House of Bamboo ending in HOT CARS with John Bromfield & Mark Dana</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>John Bromfield and Ralph Clanton in HOT CARS</u></td></tr>
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HARRISON FORD & TOMMY LEE JONES BOTH STAR IN 'THE FUGITIVE'

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Tommy Lee Jones, practically a veteran actor who hadn't reached mainstream success, is downright fantastic: he deserved the A-list promotion but should <i>not </i>have won the award far more deserving of Ralph Fiennes, who turned in a more difficult and less natural performance as a Nazi in SCHINDLER'S LIST, and his <i>was actually a</i> <i>Supporting Role</i>, and not one of two equal co-leads: Which is what Ford and Jones are... In fact, the latter has even more scenes, overall input, and, obviously, dialogue...<br>

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HARRISON FORD & TOMMY LEE JONES BOTH STAR IN 'THE FUGITIVE'

Title: THE FUGITIVE Year: 1993 Rating: **** The coolest scene of this popular and successful, multi Oscar nominated and winning big screen ...

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GETTING IN CHARACTER WITH HARRY NORTHUP: AN INTERVIEW

Cult Film Freak Interview with actor Harry Northup Harry Northup can play just about anything. Characters that are gentle, naïve, funny,...

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JACQUES TOURNEUR'S 'STARS IN MY CROWN' STARS JOEL MCCREA

Poster image from Stars in my Crown YEAR: 1950 The most memorable scene adorns the poster artwork: A just-arrived in a small town preach...

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BLASPHEMOUSLY BAD MAGIC OF 'POLTERGEIST II: THE OTHER SIDE'

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INVESTIGATING DIRECTION OF THE ORIGINAL CLASSIC 'POLTERGEIST'

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REEVALUATING THE ETERNAL DAMNATION OF 'POLTERGEIST III'

Heather O'Rourke as Carol Anne in POLTERGEIST III Year: 1988 There are actually some good things about the maligned POLTERGEIST III ...

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>A very cute and underrated 80's starlet Jamie Gertz in Quicksilver</u></td></tr>
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<u>cast: Kevin Bacon, Jami Gertz, Rudy Ramos, Lawrence Fishburne, Paul Rodriguez </u><br>
<u>year: 1986 rating: ***1/2</u><br>
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What could have been Kevin Bacon's COCKTAIL (or renamed <i>The Wolf of Ten-Speed</i>) is actually pretty decent...<br>
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Bacon
 as a New York City Wall Street broker who loses everything in one shot,
 and ends up a 10-speed messenger: swerving in and out of traffic with 
ease. Side characters include Jami Gertz and Paul Rodriquez, not just 
props but with their own important stories within. But who really shines
 is Rudy (THE DRIVER) Ramos as a villainous drug dealer using the riders
 as runners, including Lawrence (then Larry) Fishburne and Gertz 
herself, who winds up the damsel Bacon must eventually save: all the 
while trying for an 11th hour comeback in his old profession.<br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jamie Gertz QUICKSILVER with Kevin Bacon</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>QUICKSILVER Jamie Gertz</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>"My parents and Frank are THIS close" Jamie Gertz, Quicksilver</u></td></tr>
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