JEAN SEBERG & STANLEY BAKER ROMANCE 'IN THE FRENCH STYLE'

<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/AVvXsEiP3ViM9fL85udSCYvryLtf3YS5u-YvEdsRfl0UVoRbcUDDSobnNNslNGiGskjbpa_JTezAQFpGLHpw5-IfiSotampL5rTKtZRGPWSn7QDVWzfZ4XR-OXDClhoen5uHHV3jOrSEBXGEskpVjV87P-oxuOpFCpIHDy_KVmE1QnmUaz9LhysvKxZglkM0ow/s1348/AVvXsEiIDvDJK-RLmWFxXCXwaWm2BSoul4AEGR2q8GiJAmg3UXSJOF1-BCwzdkVnrIlTfzl-wC2W6Q9S5UoC1bfHE6qyA5iYhhwJjiu8N0WTovXx_dp1WiquB1rWgeqpK-DCl9Yhi3bvU3w7aQ4rx6v5RNf7kPMD2V3etrihm8d8UkCM1krLpQs0bou9KxuGKA=s16000.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1348" data-original-width="1235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP3ViM9fL85udSCYvryLtf3YS5u-YvEdsRfl0UVoRbcUDDSobnNNslNGiGskjbpa_JTezAQFpGLHpw5-IfiSotampL5rTKtZRGPWSn7QDVWzfZ4XR-OXDClhoen5uHHV3jOrSEBXGEskpVjV87P-oxuOpFCpIHDy_KVmE1QnmUaz9LhysvKxZglkM0ow/s16000/AVvXsEiIDvDJK-RLmWFxXCXwaWm2BSoul4AEGR2q8GiJAmg3UXSJOF1-BCwzdkVnrIlTfzl-wC2W6Q9S5UoC1bfHE6qyA5iYhhwJjiu8N0WTovXx_dp1WiquB1rWgeqpK-DCl9Yhi3bvU3w7aQ4rx6v5RNf7kPMD2V3etrihm8d8UkCM1krLpQs0bou9KxuGKA=s16000.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: IN THE FRENCH STYLE Year: 1963 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Adapted by Irwin Shaw based on two of his novels, Robert Parrish's vehicle for American actress famous for French films Jean Seberg in IN THE FRENCH STYLE also <i>feels like</i> two movies in one involving two polar opposite romances...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The first with a young and opinionated French local Phillipe Forquet whose uptight, idealistic persona contrasts his innocent boyish looks, and it's unbelievable that Seberg's Christina James... an American on perma-vacation in Paris to become an artist... would have lasted in this relationship for a narrated three months, wherein the best aspects are the actual Paris exterior locations...</p><p><span></span></p>

addison powell, british, drama, french, jack hedley, james leo herlihy, jean seberg, melodrama, romance, sixties, stanley baker

JEAN SEBERG & STANLEY BAKER ROMANCE 'IN THE FRENCH STYLE'

Title: IN THE FRENCH STYLE Year: 1963 Rating: *** Adapted by Irwin Shaw based on two of his novels, Robert Parrish's vehicle for America...

MICHAEL WINNER DIRECTS STANLEY BAKER IN 'THE GAMES'

<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/AVvXsEj3i1gb4t8THmR6S8te2HCSXIUYPN_dFKSPbpPP6tDguu34HYD_djWkqqt9-Blvh3NHO03hMqOo7qeIXyT9kbLMCA0rgtIeIgjN6hD7YgRBB2jqCCzUYq7EIcu9TaQ-Al05oKk5JhzLLCcffFG6AgCx-sQ9CVAzgd7glTa0PPhdKz-hvox6S5uoGrfWqQ/s1786/Screen Shot 2022-02-07 at 9.48.20 PM 5.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="726" data-original-width="1786" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3i1gb4t8THmR6S8te2HCSXIUYPN_dFKSPbpPP6tDguu34HYD_djWkqqt9-Blvh3NHO03hMqOo7qeIXyT9kbLMCA0rgtIeIgjN6hD7YgRBB2jqCCzUYq7EIcu9TaQ-Al05oKk5JhzLLCcffFG6AgCx-sQ9CVAzgd7glTa0PPhdKz-hvox6S5uoGrfWqQ/s16000/Screen Shot 2022-02-07 at 9.48.20 PM 5.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE GAMES Pictured: Stanley Baker, Michael Crawford Year: 1970 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In 1970, between working with Oliver Reed in Swinging Sixties flicks and Charles Bronson in exploitation crime, a mainstream Michael Winner directed THE GAMES, centering on a group of worldwide runners training for the Rome Olympics... but the trainers are the most intriguing characters...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>In particular Stanley Baker, at this point a British veteran actor (who always looked older than he actually was), as a former running champion with a limp so serious he never lets the viewer forget... </p><p><span></span></p>

drama, ensemble, leigh taylor-young, michael crawford, michael winner, ryan o'neal, sam elliott, seventies, sport, stanley baker

MICHAEL WINNER DIRECTS STANLEY BAKER IN 'THE GAMES'

Title: THE GAMES Pictured: Stanley Baker, Michael Crawford Year: 1970 Rating: ***1/2 In 1970, between working with Oliver Reed in Swinging S...

STANLEY BAKER & CLAUDIA CARDINALE IN 'THE BUTTERFLY AFFAIR'

<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/AVvXsEi3F5Iaz-qSAP_SycYJBV9ys902j2LQCFAlW2OkeUY9WLVe5ruSRd7kPy31dv7ztcweZbhR36I6D5CEK-a4tkUoKBPwyVtfB55XcwScS8vtfvacQAAhhrOxE2A-deCEc_YVDp75Ods4IbxhiXvpXaWt8iPs9nNX_wjki5u2h1ZSVWjQhQVsbzLAe7J4KToY/s1042/Screen%20Shot%202022-02-08%20at%204.02.00%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="597" data-original-width="1042" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3F5Iaz-qSAP_SycYJBV9ys902j2LQCFAlW2OkeUY9WLVe5ruSRd7kPy31dv7ztcweZbhR36I6D5CEK-a4tkUoKBPwyVtfB55XcwScS8vtfvacQAAhhrOxE2A-deCEc_YVDp75Ods4IbxhiXvpXaWt8iPs9nNX_wjki5u2h1ZSVWjQhQVsbzLAe7J4KToY/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-02-08%20at%204.02.00%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE BUTTERFLY AFFAIR Year: 1971 Rating: ***1.2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>When PAPILLON author Henri Charrière shares a long passionate kiss with Italian bombshell Claudia Cardinale, you not only know <i>why</i> he wrote POPSY POP aka THE BUTTERFLY AFFAIR aka THE 21 CARAT SNATCH, but why he cast himself in the part of an old rogue being kissed by the much-younger cult starlet...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>He gets screwed as well, as in screwed-over by Cardinale playing the titular Popsy, who saunters into an extremely poor diamond-mining village in Venezuela: A uniquely ragged, dilapidated third-world location that's far more interesting than a rushed heist plot involving a helicopter vanishing with the diamonds and the girl...</p><p><span></span></p>

adventure, claudia cardinale, french, heist, henri charrière, import, indie, italian, seventies, spanish, stanley baker

STANLEY BAKER & CLAUDIA CARDINALE IN 'THE BUTTERFLY AFFAIR'

Title: THE BUTTERFLY AFFAIR Year: 1971 Rating: ***1.2 When PAPILLON author Henri Charrière shares a long passionate kiss with Italian bombsh...

BRITISH STANLEY BAKER JUNGLES THROUGH 'THE LAST GRENADE'

<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/a/AVvXsEgquLZRhF9BQo4RKq54IErf087mIvwLSIydB5DNIAQ7yWg4m1jvJ2GYuMqHThmlzHkG3Kl5-9YCa9jqKBr_jBPTMTi_ad3VJaBcTVhZOWBhfcQC8i50Y3On97OSnaIhWb6bOvKdREs9fKfyA-BYkpFPOZ4Z6Ci_vPt4nrNDHZfsgpifBJMoqdL0WjXXdg=s1483" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="774" data-original-width="1483" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgquLZRhF9BQo4RKq54IErf087mIvwLSIydB5DNIAQ7yWg4m1jvJ2GYuMqHThmlzHkG3Kl5-9YCa9jqKBr_jBPTMTi_ad3VJaBcTVhZOWBhfcQC8i50Y3On97OSnaIhWb6bOvKdREs9fKfyA-BYkpFPOZ4Z6Ci_vPt4nrNDHZfsgpifBJMoqdL0WjXXdg=s16000"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Alex Cord with Stanley Baker and Honor Blackman in THE LAST GRENADE Year: 1970 Rates: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>While THE LAST GRENADE is perhaps the longest 90-minutes you'll ever spend on an action flick, it actually needed to be a half-an-hour longer, right up front, since once-good-mercenary-turned-double-crossing Alex Cord is so deadly so soon, there's nothing to base things on when former partner Stanley Baker feels so betrayed...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Directed by Gordon Flemyng, the beautiful jungles (and crowded city) of Hong Kong China are shown in revealing wide shots, not only to establish the location but to show it off... </p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, alex cord, andrew keir, honor blackman, john thaw, military, rafer johnson, richard attenborough, seventies, stanley baker

BRITISH STANLEY BAKER JUNGLES THROUGH 'THE LAST GRENADE'

Alex Cord with Stanley Baker and Honor Blackman in THE LAST GRENADE Year: 1970 Rates: **1/2 While THE LAST GRENADE is perhaps the longest 90...

CY ENDFIELD DIRECTS STANLEY BAKER AGAIN FOR 'SEA FURY'

<p></p><table 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/a/AVvXsEipkIFIXy_Ws0i-El79V6QOqyqkg2oaQAAJ8Zqz5YuRF1IngffGWC15T1lrACa69fioxmJf9CcE0mM880_7ux51tAMFwbkAWtXxSr3_W3nmtDug8Gylhq5ekJ8wjpDDv9Z0VDIejXbTd2p7xK0trXOzi4oXo6ITQ2wH8iIAa3E-z2ZUcZA6ywanfj3P2w=s1299" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="996" data-original-width="1299" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEipkIFIXy_Ws0i-El79V6QOqyqkg2oaQAAJ8Zqz5YuRF1IngffGWC15T1lrACa69fioxmJf9CcE0mM880_7ux51tAMFwbkAWtXxSr3_W3nmtDug8Gylhq5ekJ8wjpDDv9Z0VDIejXbTd2p7xK0trXOzi4oXo6ITQ2wH8iIAa3E-z2ZUcZA6ywanfj3P2w=w400-h306" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1958 Rating: **</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Future ZULU collaborators American blacklisted turned British-film director Cy Endfield and his previous years' HELL DRIVERS leading man Stanley Baker basically made the same movie only about a tug boat instead of trucks and with very little action, intrigue or competition... </p><p>Although the love triangle is more important and upfront as old, somewhat friendly and completely weathered captain Victor McLaglen practically gets youthful (local) Spanish beauty Luciana Paluzzi thrown into his lap by her money-hungry father... </p><p></p><p>Only she, quickly and predictably, falls for the captain's handsome new first mate Baker who, like in DRIVERS, goes from stranger in town to hard-edged over-achiever whose fellow workmates, especially an underused Robert Shaw, wants him knocked down but sadly, given the cast and old school Errol Flynn-style seafront locale, the description of a battle between old and young man for the young lady never pans out, making an extremely misleading title of SEA FURY that's also the literal name of the boat... one that, despite an adventurous 11th hour rescue, runs out of steam before even really gaining any.  </p><p><span></span></p>

adventure, british, cy endfield, fifties, luciana paluzzi, robert shaw, stanley baker, victor mclaglen

CY ENDFIELD DIRECTS STANLEY BAKER AGAIN FOR 'SEA FURY'

Year: 1958 Rating: ** Future ZULU collaborators American blacklisted turned British-film director Cy Endfield and his previous years' HE...

JOCELYN LANE & JANETTE SCOTT ARE HOT IN 'THE GIRL SWAPPERS'

<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/a/AVvXsEjcTy4-gRmHWTAVjeiP_b1kqK_sbzesZYIQjomWf-PISXqbk54AF4mhqpl0znTKRo3IBR7iEWLNj3nQWhUDJ0SpnYhvDyr8xza-_DwYdtFkVgYOTNIRgt5QbymNUDhamkycfcvaYNnIGqQJST57mgyviDn4regdp7rXJm8MBrVI1d8XMv95iUaCW2bbjA=s951" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="446" data-original-width="951" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjcTy4-gRmHWTAVjeiP_b1kqK_sbzesZYIQjomWf-PISXqbk54AF4mhqpl0znTKRo3IBR7iEWLNj3nQWhUDJ0SpnYhvDyr8xza-_DwYdtFkVgYOTNIRgt5QbymNUDhamkycfcvaYNnIGqQJST57mgyviDn4regdp7rXJm8MBrVI1d8XMv95iUaCW2bbjA=s16000"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jocelyn Lane and </u><u><u>Alfred Lynch</u> in THE GIRL SWAPPERS aka </u><u>TWO AND TWO MAKE SIX  Year: 1962 Rates: ***<br></u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>American playing Canadian military rogue George Chakiris and British mama's boy Alfred Lynch ride motorcycles and for some reason aren't content with the gorgeous girls they're with, and each has a problem most men would die for... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Because of a pivotal mix-up in a hurried rush to leave an English diner, they wind up with each other's girls: Chakiris, a womanizing airman on the run after striking an officer, is with good/honest blonde Janette Scott, who couldn't be cuter until brunette bombshell Jocelyn Lane was cast, now saddled with Scott's whiny fella, Brit actor Lynch...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, alfred lynch, british, comedy, gary cockrell, george chakiris, janette scott, jocelyn lane, romance, sixties

JOCELYN LANE & JANETTE SCOTT ARE HOT IN 'THE GIRL SWAPPERS'

Jocelyn Lane and Alfred Lynch in THE GIRL SWAPPERS aka TWO AND TWO MAKE SIX  Year: 1962 Rates: *** American playing Canadian military rogue...

BRADFORD DILLMAN & SUZY PARKER IN 'CIRCLE OF DECEPTION'

<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/AVvXsEibtfjVkHLgCOPvn4GJsZ_YtD6vTIdj4KP_1Y1zYlAgpM4S6BiYl9FLetz4fYX-3wwNdJdTFRmct7J60zdxMaCvAQCyLHoaEGptOZKb3gzg0l0pA5OVHO9WsqNgn4TmWE1ygDKCKj0xSSiOSusX0_0ilCsXHT03dbogcRWqNJFGf_4uHNc5bAItMGhkikh3/s1978/Screen%20Shot%202023-10-28%20at%202.58.21%20AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1140" data-original-width="1978" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibtfjVkHLgCOPvn4GJsZ_YtD6vTIdj4KP_1Y1zYlAgpM4S6BiYl9FLetz4fYX-3wwNdJdTFRmct7J60zdxMaCvAQCyLHoaEGptOZKb3gzg0l0pA5OVHO9WsqNgn4TmWE1ygDKCKj0xSSiOSusX0_0ilCsXHT03dbogcRWqNJFGf_4uHNc5bAItMGhkikh3/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-10-28%20at%202.58.21%20AM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: CIRCLE OF DECEPTION Year: 1960 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Alternate titles for the British WWII Thriller CIRCLE OF DECEPTION starring two imported and thereafter married American actors Bradford Dillman and Suzy Parker, could be <i>He Was Expendable</i> or <i>Hell Is For Cowards</i> as the deliberately telegraphed twist has British Intel chief Harry Andrews seeking the wrong man for the job, who must fold under questioning/torture with bogus information that <i>he thinks</i> is right...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>In the intentionally undependable role is Bradford Dillman, newly famous for brilliantly playing a murderous brat in <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/11/stockwell-dillman.html">COMPULSION</a>, seeming a bit too young here, his uniform loose on a skinny frame while Parker, a former model turned actress ala <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/05/TBOE.html">THE BEST OF EVERYTHING</a>, is mostly relied upon for looks and exposition while predictably falling in love with the sympathetic, vulnerable pawn...</p><p><span></span></p>

bradford dillman, british, espionage, harry andrews, robert stephens, sixties, spy, suzy parker, world war II

BRADFORD DILLMAN & SUZY PARKER IN 'CIRCLE OF DECEPTION'

Title: CIRCLE OF DECEPTION Year: 1960 Rating: *** Alternate titles for the British WWII Thriller CIRCLE OF DECEPTION starring two imported a...

VAL GUEST DIRECTS THE DISEASE MELODRAMA '80,000 SUSPECTS'

<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/a/AVvXsEjZ9gi1RtjgChdp_sVzrrQJAjlPdhuxexH-8MhaUfJgbhFvj2QhPnOwftNY3Y7R4y2cK1eZKdtm4ptojMpx2K_vvzVZ7hnZlHa44sJrUj91XbhU25BudjVxBc437ZiuRoA_Yh1Uaaj26iZ-GagDWerBdtdTO6zKb6aq9oxXypG9uEjmWZuSdTJwCa7skw=s1393" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="592" data-original-width="1393" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjZ9gi1RtjgChdp_sVzrrQJAjlPdhuxexH-8MhaUfJgbhFvj2QhPnOwftNY3Y7R4y2cK1eZKdtm4ptojMpx2K_vvzVZ7hnZlHa44sJrUj91XbhU25BudjVxBc437ZiuRoA_Yh1Uaaj26iZ-GagDWerBdtdTO6zKb6aq9oxXypG9uEjmWZuSdTJwCa7skw=s16000"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: 80,000 SUSPECTS Director: Val Guest Year: 1963 Rating: **</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Even for an epidemic drama, Val Guest's 80,000 SUSPECTS is extremely grim, starting with a busy and boisterous yet underlined melancholy British hotel New Years Eve bash where two wives of two doctors, polar opposites Claire Bloom, seemingly stalwart wife of our lead handsome doctor Richard Johnson, and drunken floozy Yolande Donlan, converse about being married to strict, aloof professionals... both husbands soon immersed in a small pox outbreak....</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Given the stellar British cast also including secondary doctor Michael Goodliffe and empathetic priest Cyril Cusack, there's very little intrigue within the buildup, before the sickness has taken over the city, and, as the film balances the escalating illness with the lead couple's ironically (and soon literally) dying marriage, SUSPECTS has taken itself too seriously to grow into the kind of body-count disease thriller that, compared to the American Film Noir THE KILLER THAT STALKED NEW YORK, needed more suspense and less soapy melodrama.  </p><p><span></span></p>

british, claire bloom, cyril cusack, disease, kim tracy, melodrama, richard johnson, sixties, val guest, vanda godsell

VAL GUEST DIRECTS THE DISEASE MELODRAMA '80,000 SUSPECTS'

Title: 80,000 SUSPECTS Director: Val Guest Year: 1963 Rating: ** Even for an epidemic drama, Val Guest's 80,000 SUSPECTS is extremely gr...

FILM NOIR MELODRAMA 'THE KILLER THAT STALKED NEW YORK'

<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/AVvXsEj0cqyh2-ekWROSCc5O0y384-CJuv4UeQ4TqgRjTjFniEjKJ3QdB1YJBEdQLUj2ha2p0djbb9FyxaaHWgfQlZvSHzTJQpUDLgGOayR3GiIPh753Cba_fc9TIVxJCRYUCiC2W8N0vMc36wUwMdwUyVMBS0bnZ6EV0dmJoKAd-CvbHKoW7kmOSYwOJwQEM24I/s2016/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-19%20at%2010.32.37%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1192" data-original-width="2016" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0cqyh2-ekWROSCc5O0y384-CJuv4UeQ4TqgRjTjFniEjKJ3QdB1YJBEdQLUj2ha2p0djbb9FyxaaHWgfQlZvSHzTJQpUDLgGOayR3GiIPh753Cba_fc9TIVxJCRYUCiC2W8N0vMc36wUwMdwUyVMBS0bnZ6EV0dmJoKAd-CvbHKoW7kmOSYwOJwQEM24I/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-19%20at%2010.32.37%20PM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>THE KILLER THAT STALKED NEW YORK Year: 1950 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>THE KILLER THAT STALKED NEW YORK is a <i>that </i>not a <i>who</i>, and two movies in one: the first a noirish b-crimer involving pretty blonde Evelyn Keyes right off the New York City train with a package of smuggled diamonds that her crooked boyfriend is waiting for... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>She has a prettier little sister in future PETER GUNN beauty Lola Albright having a secret affair with said beau Charles Korvin, and, once that affair's revealed, the second film has already begun...</p><p><span></span></p>

barry kelley, charles korvin, crime, disease, evelyn keyes, fifties, film noir or melodrama, harry shannon, jim backus, lola albright, thriller, william bishop

FILM NOIR MELODRAMA 'THE KILLER THAT STALKED NEW YORK'

THE KILLER THAT STALKED NEW YORK Year: 1950 Rating: **** THE KILLER THAT STALKED NEW YORK is a that not a who , and two movies in one: the f...

BRITISH STARLET CAROL WHITE WASHES UP ON 'HAWAII FIVE-0'

<p></p><table 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/a/AVvXsEiHXQt5Rl60C47w4lDD1UOl4vZoUzwMmn5WhhTmbW-cqZIyc-WlxqaG97QVV_aOEKwTNkOksJ_IOGSTOVJZEglD2DviqhnSvyqpnOnNSodTG6mkiEl7N1-4ZWgEKWmLLDs3ByTUMzz6npziE9-bEBXWFOfj7hZhkTeRPO7znb1pBishvRBZ66ZPLbg1-Q=s747" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="586" data-original-width="747" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiHXQt5Rl60C47w4lDD1UOl4vZoUzwMmn5WhhTmbW-cqZIyc-WlxqaG97QVV_aOEKwTNkOksJ_IOGSTOVJZEglD2DviqhnSvyqpnOnNSodTG6mkiEl7N1-4ZWgEKWmLLDs3ByTUMzz6npziE9-bEBXWFOfj7hZhkTeRPO7znb1pBishvRBZ66ZPLbg1-Q=w400-h314" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Carol White on Hawaii Five-O from 1974</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p>British actress Carol White randomly turned up on the small screen after her 1960's movie career faded, from the Ken Loach exploitation POOR COW that followed his even more severe CATHY COMES HOME, both not only art-house but ultra-realistic, far from the mainstream unlike the careers of other full-lipped blonde beauties like Julie Christie and Susannah York, who Carol proceeded... But with the British New Wave at a crest, after co-starring in I'LL NEVER FORGET WHAT'S'ISNAME with Oliver Reed and Orson Welles,  she sporadically appeared in a handful of avant garde films from her homeland England followed by family-oriented American television... </p><p>Before an innocuous episode of DIFF'RENT STROKES she had a much more befitting role as a gun moll secretly out to kill the man romancing her... targeting  Jack Lord on HAWAII FIVE-O in 1974's A GUN FOR McGARRET that... despite several male assassins of a island-monopolizing gangster... ultimately belongs to Carol, and, ironically, by this time, having shed about 15-pounds too much, she resembled an actress who'd wind up on the series' final season, Sharon Farrell, even more than herself... but this was perhaps the last edgy role for a actress who usually played edgy and tough, no-nonsense woman.  </p><p><span></span></p>

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BRITISH STARLET CAROL WHITE WASHES UP ON 'HAWAII FIVE-0'

Carol White on Hawaii Five-O from 1974 British actress Carol White randomly turned up on the small screen after her 1960's movie career ...

BRITISH STARLET CAROL WHITE TURNS UP ON 'DIFF'RENT STROKES'

<p></p><p></p><table 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/a/AVvXsEgomWc27mIglVFkXIhHzku65xABCk4gUR-tAme2BhV1OGfQJEoGvBOAvekkTeUDsK8QJyLMNuwg47D11IOnkYvK4NzCZvXllLkdurbGj5i1XJrEmlb8JyIIHHzgIT7HQryN-m7BPxEF9p1VemwPYU7mGmZ0KPDFSZ_4pys6bu5s38FT0wEHbNJaFlbPTg=s795" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="607" data-original-width="795" height="305" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgomWc27mIglVFkXIhHzku65xABCk4gUR-tAme2BhV1OGfQJEoGvBOAvekkTeUDsK8QJyLMNuwg47D11IOnkYvK4NzCZvXllLkdurbGj5i1XJrEmlb8JyIIHHzgIT7HQryN-m7BPxEF9p1VemwPYU7mGmZ0KPDFSZ_4pys6bu5s38FT0wEHbNJaFlbPTg=w400-h305" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Carol White & Gary Coleman on Diff'rent Strokes in 1980</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In 1980, former British sexpot Carol White, who started the wave of full-lipped blondes from Julie Christie to Susannah York to Judy Geeson, appeared on the family sitcom DIFF'RENT STROKES... random for a seemingly semi-retired actress known for playing troubled girls ranging from NEVER LET GO to POOR COW.... </p><p></p><p></p><p>On DIFF'RENT STROKES her penultimate (and last television) role has her dining with "old friend" Philip Drummond at a fancy restaurant, only to be constantly interrupted by phone calls from THE SLUMBER PARTY back home that includes <i>original </i>cast members of THE FACTS OF LIFE... </p><p>And much like this episode's crossover guest-star Molly Ringwald, Carol starting out a child actress... Beginning in 1949 and continuing throughout the 1950's, she gained genuine attention during the British New Wave with a small part in THE BOYS (as the one girl they all want) to her co-starring turn opposite Oliver Reed in I'LL NEVER FORGET WHAT'S'IS'NAME... And, decades later, following a HAWAII FIVE-O episode right before STROKES, her career ended after an indie adaptation of NUTCRACKER, after which she died (far too young) in 1991, of liver disease. And although she had many vices during the 1980's, she still looked fantastic. <br></p><p><span></span></p>

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BRITISH STARLET CAROL WHITE TURNS UP ON 'DIFF'RENT STROKES'

Carol White & Gary Coleman on Diff'rent Strokes in 1980 In 1980, former British sexpot Carol White, who started the wave of full-lip...

BLAKE EDWARDS REDIRECTS 'GUNN' STARRING CRAIG STEVENS

<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="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjvuN9YXE868Z5c4jZLxaTcjNg8Z8rA4iJtedNkABlNvqa5JYhjbVf6HPK9gF534LOU8n4ka4oj7ABiy6MYaaaEdWM4V48Hc6uVFgcBsshSkSS6UySB2fV9wUPPRZoUzKxvc_Tgx2Rjt2dzFmXQXzOkHBzq0RJwmbnnvM6txhztHtqqxjNLvZyQX8b8Uw=s1429" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1117" data-original-width="1429" height="313" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjvuN9YXE868Z5c4jZLxaTcjNg8Z8rA4iJtedNkABlNvqa5JYhjbVf6HPK9gF534LOU8n4ka4oj7ABiy6MYaaaEdWM4V48Hc6uVFgcBsshSkSS6UySB2fV9wUPPRZoUzKxvc_Tgx2Rjt2dzFmXQXzOkHBzq0RJwmbnnvM6txhztHtqqxjNLvZyQX8b8Uw=w400-h313" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: GUNN Year: 1967 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>A womanizing 1950's playboy (who does little work for ladies to throw themselves his way) in the late-1960's Sexual Revolution is like an established multimillionaire winning the lottery... And in the case of fifty-year-old Craig Stevens returning into his PETER GUNN role for creator/director Blake Edwards' GUNN, it's what's expected and... even with original singer Lola Albright's Edie replaced by a less natural (or attractive) Laura Devon... GUNN makes for a decent Bond Clone despite the TV-series proceeding 007 cinema... </p><p>Yet most likely the popular spy franchise was Edwards' reason to revisit this kind of fun-flowing investigation, now more twisty espionage and in color as opposed to the televised B&W; and that show's jazzy nightclub's a slow-groove random backstop instead of an uptempo mainstay while the action sequences are effective and suspenseful, creatively-shot yet far too sporadic with our resilient, often vulnerable anti-hero, now a stone-faced Jack Webb monotone who, backed by a grouchy Ed Asner, is dealing with the mob who killed his friend, now after him... But the token hot young girl adds the real heart in quirky and neurotic brunette Sherry Jackson: her zesty presence noticeably ages our hero, yet she could have been the sole GUNN girl and, despite only a few scenes, she's far more into the movie than anyone else on board, including old Pete.</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/a/AVvXsEg0JvKqN5Q2tjzj7ICzUo27eAYEQxQT0lBCnh-SfdFzH7gSF1nWxLTBJdeqmGC0_crIGvBb-5gQ18DzM1Nq6c24Oj50bCefxrbkgA-SVp8ClRLGZPHOs6uZzroa6JMx2f1kj7UxX80jRx-_k4hMWgc0KW4Hymm6wxu_Ly8SKhBOCrctjY8R9Qpo4Q_P0A=s911" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="562" data-original-width="911" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg0JvKqN5Q2tjzj7ICzUo27eAYEQxQT0lBCnh-SfdFzH7gSF1nWxLTBJdeqmGC0_crIGvBb-5gQ18DzM1Nq6c24Oj50bCefxrbkgA-SVp8ClRLGZPHOs6uZzroa6JMx2f1kj7UxX80jRx-_k4hMWgc0KW4Hymm6wxu_Ly8SKhBOCrctjY8R9Qpo4Q_P0A=s16000" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sherry Jackson in Blake Edwards' GUNN</u></td></tr></tbody></table><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/a/AVvXsEiERzCT_Vo42vtoLuvh6os-SJftCwO5pkISBZmC11z1XIuhQmspiisWmXOkGY4iOJg_plyBs1nvAveEbDhs6x__2O4FVveE6Z06Th4-zA-J7yWihWR543J5UyYoUnArRrKY93hRv3W5NGUt7gYNGbyaPLSPetuw3vqL39dGJNk3cpTY83ASLbcfHAG8eg=s923" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="448" data-original-width="923" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiERzCT_Vo42vtoLuvh6os-SJftCwO5pkISBZmC11z1XIuhQmspiisWmXOkGY4iOJg_plyBs1nvAveEbDhs6x__2O4FVveE6Z06Th4-zA-J7yWihWR543J5UyYoUnArRrKY93hRv3W5NGUt7gYNGbyaPLSPetuw3vqL39dGJNk3cpTY83ASLbcfHAG8eg=s16000" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Craig Stevens in GUNN</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh1eCejWaivvtKNZb1vsak2BRS543_fhU_5he7cvRyhzc5VBfFztgfHR9ySashMYCo6DM7Fl46hNVJy3FuKEai-kKgwy-so0FSwYsixD5zpW317ND22pygcAk7G9ts8vH32FyvzVPuS9N1ltLhZTm56sJFAR6IfWSXT1lhUVptbGiAeLNqJpvNY7zUNCA=s1050" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="597" data-original-width="1050" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh1eCejWaivvtKNZb1vsak2BRS543_fhU_5he7cvRyhzc5VBfFztgfHR9ySashMYCo6DM7Fl46hNVJy3FuKEai-kKgwy-so0FSwYsixD5zpW317ND22pygcAk7G9ts8vH32FyvzVPuS9N1ltLhZTm56sJFAR6IfWSXT1lhUVptbGiAeLNqJpvNY7zUNCA=s16000" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Craig Stevens in GUNN with Laura Devon<br /></u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiH1rF8vGOp_ZcgozCP8lmJbBWRKYvJESlB7cmt9vADq3qGhaLKAvpCWPGivV6HzLt8960pTh__G6Y8OLxioRc_zJLZMyp5z6IscG1Z9o4oNWnnzd9gMoLLldwLymjAkv4wyBuJS4pVIXlbk6xWgjD7EXtdqdOKLjy6_DhFnlLzUVqON_yEpiNsYdw4dw=s1094" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="676" data-original-width="1094" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiH1rF8vGOp_ZcgozCP8lmJbBWRKYvJESlB7cmt9vADq3qGhaLKAvpCWPGivV6HzLt8960pTh__G6Y8OLxioRc_zJLZMyp5z6IscG1Z9o4oNWnnzd9gMoLLldwLymjAkv4wyBuJS4pVIXlbk6xWgjD7EXtdqdOKLjy6_DhFnlLzUVqON_yEpiNsYdw4dw=s16000" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sherry Jackson as Samantha in GUNN </u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgdY_kfMlDLGvNh0Xd5tyvdKFLrb-HFlwlbaZy8UvTGfLyQzjAk17Cz2OW89f3pEmCk-359wXTzifLPtCWi3zuLqqNivwQN5IeE8_Pf3OM3GSBOCf2MzWpvFAOnUfxHD_m-tJ5IcqLJZc55EGgrrix3w85RfyV7Tz2CisrbzBuXAksB4-yh-FYOyBPJfQ=s1054" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="582" data-original-width="1054" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgdY_kfMlDLGvNh0Xd5tyvdKFLrb-HFlwlbaZy8UvTGfLyQzjAk17Cz2OW89f3pEmCk-359wXTzifLPtCWi3zuLqqNivwQN5IeE8_Pf3OM3GSBOCf2MzWpvFAOnUfxHD_m-tJ5IcqLJZc55EGgrrix3w85RfyV7Tz2CisrbzBuXAksB4-yh-FYOyBPJfQ=s16000" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Craig Stevens in GUNN</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgUGVwBBivnKvLczfobwSpA-RECIEq7C0i-7CQLqrjFGHYNAXi1DDdx47FCvIHoty8gB4sBn2z9OqPUQETwjOTV8IGRe3mzG4Av9uKNZZ9pswRTN-2c3ZyHRvCLtCzLHf4D7lP2PslLldnKkCM0o_5iV1fpRSnOyoCYAAb-CoOkSGHw31isjp2xj7iUPg=s715" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjlhjyekDGDwzygabOxxxQkn6UmvBo6zhZLn57pKmQjDv5i1-EIPK2MvWls3nroFKajYO7-szyCZh7BuLHJbsQ9HlF3b8fg__Zj42RCxtUNJ-mGk3oQUn1MlfNnyjD-W2hmn_IN48I0_GWqgKTUYRP_JyWFDkTxJDwDgkXiwoxO6I2LHW88i3Qp_1LFrg=s713" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="713" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjlhjyekDGDwzygabOxxxQkn6UmvBo6zhZLn57pKmQjDv5i1-EIPK2MvWls3nroFKajYO7-szyCZh7BuLHJbsQ9HlF3b8fg__Zj42RCxtUNJ-mGk3oQUn1MlfNnyjD-W2hmn_IN48I0_GWqgKTUYRP_JyWFDkTxJDwDgkXiwoxO6I2LHW88i3Qp_1LFrg=s16000" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sherry Jackson in GUNN</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEid4T2DvQjhpr0HwezFVA_W469alv2LziYJX9QJs_hplWTfcvEWt271XV9WRjO7ACEe7R-hJFUEdvg8VCk0O0Zo7EhetEndxWEVpultyqhzT1FLES_RkkKyRaXGPFlsWaN1vSRqBs2b0GjCG4K9JBB15-kZfsKIuelHNoBGXFRuaxLEeadT9BKTA0slfg=s1055" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="530" data-original-width="1055" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEid4T2DvQjhpr0HwezFVA_W469alv2LziYJX9QJs_hplWTfcvEWt271XV9WRjO7ACEe7R-hJFUEdvg8VCk0O0Zo7EhetEndxWEVpultyqhzT1FLES_RkkKyRaXGPFlsWaN1vSRqBs2b0GjCG4K9JBB15-kZfsKIuelHNoBGXFRuaxLEeadT9BKTA0slfg=s16000" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Laura Devon jazz-singing through GUNN</u><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjP5qgmF0XnILiLtwT3ljGz16Qf8pRvqhaOIk08ophuEvjDKfTn17N2eF-LT4pml66b6Ay4t3qO__dOL0rMg-_fgmSG9pm-2NUTf1ymTF2AWEt4_0jAGJoUeuEoSgZGL_mH8H9h3TDQHblouCeylAulZG-Oli69um5X_Zod8s-u5YyTEWLtq7kKeAY5TQ=s702" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="348" data-original-width="702" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjP5qgmF0XnILiLtwT3ljGz16Qf8pRvqhaOIk08ophuEvjDKfTn17N2eF-LT4pml66b6Ay4t3qO__dOL0rMg-_fgmSG9pm-2NUTf1ymTF2AWEt4_0jAGJoUeuEoSgZGL_mH8H9h3TDQHblouCeylAulZG-Oli69um5X_Zod8s-u5YyTEWLtq7kKeAY5TQ=s16000" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Craig Stevens and Sherry Jackson in GUNN</u><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br />

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BLAKE EDWARDS REDIRECTS 'GUNN' STARRING CRAIG STEVENS

Title: GUNN Year: 1967 Rating: ***1/2 A womanizing 1950's playboy (who does little work for ladies to throw themselves his way) in the l...

JASON REITMAN'S NOSTALGIC 'GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE'

<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/a/AVvXsEgKa20lcUUu6EHof4LXIK1zHyi-h_99bFGQTHTr5e_ST8ZBMLYhJ2OGwjNNaP_OAYRYBC5cHdHeJq8uyLPp8B_QwDhfbM96A0veqwetSrBLK1XMsKgFYZAWpTBRpa2aSGm8dhs20vxDtwqKQ4J54EWO-WyU4CrQSa8thfpMzZHr7hQveb-bigVqiDAmuw=s1015" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="1015" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgKa20lcUUu6EHof4LXIK1zHyi-h_99bFGQTHTr5e_ST8ZBMLYhJ2OGwjNNaP_OAYRYBC5cHdHeJq8uyLPp8B_QwDhfbM96A0veqwetSrBLK1XMsKgFYZAWpTBRpa2aSGm8dhs20vxDtwqKQ4J54EWO-WyU4CrQSa8thfpMzZHr7hQveb-bigVqiDAmuw=s16000"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE Year: 2021 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The whole "Mary Sue" comparison is dated... a talented youngster with a built-in knowledge of everything who can do no wrong, right off the bat... but in GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE the token super-girl in the late Harold Ramis's late Egon's antisocial granddaughter Phoebe is not only the best character, she's the only one who <i>really</i> seems into the movie that director Jason son-of-Ivan Reitman has attempted to make...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>A retro-driven Spielbergian adventure set in a modern day yet 1950's-style small town, with one of everything from a school to a diner to a hardware store to a jailhouse to a dusty main street, and Carrie Coon as Egon's abandoned daughter feels extremely <i>not</i> at home... </p><p><span></span></p>

2021, action, adventure, bill murray, carrie coon, comedy, dan aykroyd, ernie hudson, finn wolfhard, franchise, mckenna grace, new, paul rudd, science-fiction, sequel

JASON REITMAN'S NOSTALGIC 'GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE'

Title: GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE Year: 2021 Rating: **1/2 The whole "Mary Sue" comparison is dated... a talented youngster with a bu...

HUBERT CORNFIELD DIRECTS SIDNEY POITIER IN 'PRESSURE POINT'

<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/a/AVvXsEhURBLAEmK6BbxuezifbDlPGTDN1nbWHt8V9gCAxHk83Fh35MouB9hwhGY7X-m6sVRFS_B9slg3NjZq6q3uMRmfSq375uciK2OxFwpiURw6_4Oqu4DQiakVj25OQsgTl2Ii0pM0udsfyDAF6TKQWPt36RUq7l1NPQgrwZsxBLMutxSEjP2qRpNzWUxyGg=s903" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="473" data-original-width="903" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhURBLAEmK6BbxuezifbDlPGTDN1nbWHt8V9gCAxHk83Fh35MouB9hwhGY7X-m6sVRFS_B9slg3NjZq6q3uMRmfSq375uciK2OxFwpiURw6_4Oqu4DQiakVj25OQsgTl2Ii0pM0udsfyDAF6TKQWPt36RUq7l1NPQgrwZsxBLMutxSEjP2qRpNzWUxyGg=s16000"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sidney Poitier in PRESSURE POINT Year: 1962 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Produced by Stanley Kramer and directed by Hubert Cornfield, the recently-departed acting legend Sidney Poitier starred in this psychological drama about a prison shrink batting heads with a full-blown Nazi sympathizer... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>An unapologetic self-proclaimed Anti-Semitic/White Supremacist who right off the bat considers President Roosevelt (neither Jewish or black) a no-good cripple during a flashback taking up most of the screen-time, so he's... well, opposite of a registered democrat... but made in 1961 what comes across as preachy-bias now was fairly new then, and part of Kramer's usual progressive teachable-moment forte...</p><p><span></span></p>

barry gordon, bobby darin, hubert cornfield, melodrama, noir noir, peter falk, prison, sidney poitier, sixties, stanley kramer

HUBERT CORNFIELD DIRECTS SIDNEY POITIER IN 'PRESSURE POINT'

Sidney Poitier in PRESSURE POINT Year: 1962 Rating: *** Produced by Stanley Kramer and directed by Hubert Cornfield, the recently-departed a...

CHARLES SAUNDERS & GUIDO COEN'S 'DANGEROUS AFTERNOON'

<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/a/AVvXsEh3rTW6QXKdVChlTuveANvyL0iPyMyIIWGp-9Xwv7Zr-zsQOHRruvT5Ntvgyi5rpoqHu_LTgm81KTFcG5aoUbBElz4-h2yEenqAaCCcFZ4FtciCQkOCnXEQNcV9r5SiL72SHqe2AAis8cDd2tqhUDjaJ5oKXkAlOq6rV6_uJW4mhrXyebyekuIr1QRBfw=s861" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="861" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh3rTW6QXKdVChlTuveANvyL0iPyMyIIWGp-9Xwv7Zr-zsQOHRruvT5Ntvgyi5rpoqHu_LTgm81KTFcG5aoUbBElz4-h2yEenqAaCCcFZ4FtciCQkOCnXEQNcV9r5SiL72SHqe2AAis8cDd2tqhUDjaJ5oKXkAlOq6rV6_uJW4mhrXyebyekuIr1QRBfw=s16000"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Joanna Dunham and Jackie Noble in DANGEROUS AFTERNOON Year: 1961 Rates: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Another nifty crime programmer from the team of director Charles Saunders and producer Guido Coen, the makers of JUNGLE STREET GIRLS only the girls here are women... really old ones in a boarding house and all are ex-crooks, run by a crippled Ruth Denning with crafty expressions like she knows and has seen everything... </p><p></p><p></p><p>Contrasting to her naive artistic niece (actually daughter) played by quirky cute-as-a-button Joanna Dunham with equally attractive businessman husband Howard Pays (who co-starred in JUNGLE STREET with cameo Brian Weske)...</p><p><span></span></p>

brian weske, british neo noir, british new wave, charles saunders, crime, ensemble, guido coen, gwenda wilson, howard pays, joanna dunham, nora nicholson, ruth dunning, sixties

CHARLES SAUNDERS & GUIDO COEN'S 'DANGEROUS AFTERNOON'

Joanna Dunham and Jackie Noble in DANGEROUS AFTERNOON Year: 1961 Rates: *** Another nifty crime programmer from the team of director Charles...

BRITISH NEW WAVE CRIME MELODRAMA OF 'A MATTER OF CHOICE'

<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/a/AVvXsEgMjS25KjXkb2Ug3niSSvOceT5_21aeZv8rH69gJ2eTUql-k6dr2Si9pYGheNw_63cAovEe4dwHgfV33osfK2n8exysvlPnyma3TtzE8tkmxAkV00XemKy7Lk8Xkt1VXiObwLq-Dw9QN83p5Qra8R48dpjTNglwBuuZwJDCPzXdTxKbSPBSC19HvTDuWw=s1102" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="545" data-original-width="1102" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgMjS25KjXkb2Ug3niSSvOceT5_21aeZv8rH69gJ2eTUql-k6dr2Si9pYGheNw_63cAovEe4dwHgfV33osfK2n8exysvlPnyma3TtzE8tkmxAkV00XemKy7Lk8Xkt1VXiObwLq-Dw9QN83p5Qra8R48dpjTNglwBuuZwJDCPzXdTxKbSPBSC19HvTDuWw=s16000"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Penny Morrell in A MATTER OF CHOICE Year: 1963 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>If A MATTER OF CHOICE didn't rely on the titular melodramatic fateful inevitability premise, it would more smoothly summarize the British New Wave of the 1960's, liken to THE LONELINESS OF A LONG DISTANCE RUNNER had Tom Courtenay and James Bolam never been arrested since the best scenes involve two young men just hanging out... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Herein lifted from Leopold and Loeb-inspired ROPE and COMPULSION as these fellas seem more interested in each other than women... and their goal to find the perfect chick's more a dare than possible conquest...  </p><p><span></span></p>

anthony steel, british neo noir, british new wave, ensemble, jazz score, jeanne moody, lisa peake, malcolm gerard, marie noël, melodrama, penny morrell, sixties

BRITISH NEW WAVE CRIME MELODRAMA OF 'A MATTER OF CHOICE'

Penny Morrell in A MATTER OF CHOICE Year: 1963 Rating: ***1/2 If A MATTER OF CHOICE didn't rely on the titular melodramatic fateful inev...

RIP THE FIRST TRUE MOVIE GEEK DIRECTOR PETER BOGDANOVICH

<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/a/AVvXsEgVfo6mIzA1qgfJEId2lJBw1LFZSkY0Lqb3ks3i_pPzRsH4t-OlC0TxEMOHzs864wPct8pcKA4T-XFD48wDxr1KDOHOTUIALVpgzl0B6Icg9UYg1nEu0LkiiSK9gNykCQbEgKC-eDLCg8jGSwhM97f1IuOX55tjVU8QvRSTRJyxpkEN_RICsPu6ZNbGPg=s1074" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="572" data-original-width="1074" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgVfo6mIzA1qgfJEId2lJBw1LFZSkY0Lqb3ks3i_pPzRsH4t-OlC0TxEMOHzs864wPct8pcKA4T-XFD48wDxr1KDOHOTUIALVpgzl0B6Icg9UYg1nEu0LkiiSK9gNykCQbEgKC-eDLCg8jGSwhM97f1IuOX55tjVU8QvRSTRJyxpkEN_RICsPu6ZNbGPg=s16000"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Peter Bogdanovich directs himself in SAINT JACK circa 1979</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The late <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/05/StJack.html">PETER BOGDANOVICH</a> started out writing <i>about</i> films before making them, and, predating the cinema-loving likes of John Landis, Joe Dante or Quentin Tarantino, he was the first bonafide retro-minded movie geek wherein his debut TARGETS is one of the first pop-culture-referencing semi-meta vehicles (both Boris Karloff and Peter basically playing themselves using different names)... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And he befriended the very legends he wrote about from groundbreaking auteurs Howard Hawks to John Ford to Alfred Hitchcock to Sam Fuller (who he's named after in TARGETS) and most famously Orson Welles... </p><p><span></span></p>

boris karloff, memorial, peter bogdanovich, seventies, sixties

RIP THE FIRST TRUE MOVIE GEEK DIRECTOR PETER BOGDANOVICH

Peter Bogdanovich directs himself in SAINT JACK circa 1979 The late PETER BOGDANOVICH started out writing about films before making them, ...

KIRK DOUGLAS IN 'CATCH ME A SPY' WITH TOM COURTENAY

<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/a/AVvXsEiJAaoFnbtb1X2GpjJFfSyZrJu077DEk7dyX4YtiZNioNOUkpHNhj_CBCJjr9tUVWsCSCGfmyxxCG0Z4WVYtOmA7qwpsRGEA3S-IQxwfJWOx_PH07IAnVgeWpIRY2NY15-Rteo1EN5ZkX4dDEa6Y1lH0a31n312SVEsxWbyg8TRtsaWDRSXAydMEq-Qvw=s880" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="497" data-original-width="880" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiJAaoFnbtb1X2GpjJFfSyZrJu077DEk7dyX4YtiZNioNOUkpHNhj_CBCJjr9tUVWsCSCGfmyxxCG0Z4WVYtOmA7qwpsRGEA3S-IQxwfJWOx_PH07IAnVgeWpIRY2NY15-Rteo1EN5ZkX4dDEa6Y1lH0a31n312SVEsxWbyg8TRtsaWDRSXAydMEq-Qvw=s16000"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Marlène Jobert with Kirk Douglas and Trevor Howard in CATCH ME A SPY Year: 1971 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In one scene where French starlet Marlène Jobert plugs her nose for a mousy-sounding voice to thwart cat-and-mouse counterpart Kirk Douglas, it's actually less annoying than her real one... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>But she's super cute, probably all that mattered to director Dick Clement in his spy-spoof followup to the spy-spoof <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/02/otley.html">OTLEY</a> that starred Tom Cortenay in his <span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc">penultimate </span></span> big-screen role until THE DRESSER... </p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, british, comedy, dick clement, garfield morgan, john thaw, kirk douglas, marlene jobert, seventies, spoof, spy, tom courtenay, trevor howard

KIRK DOUGLAS IN 'CATCH ME A SPY' WITH TOM COURTENAY

Marlène Jobert with Kirk Douglas and Trevor Howard in CATCH ME A SPY Year: 1971 Rating: **1/2 In one scene where French starlet Marlène Jobe...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY FOR DANA ANDREWS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR

<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/a/AVvXsEgvFH8xaOgwDyogJaen6lelhKPof8eShLSQxphoUB-1Dgu4i6-DiYey-9_b_jgjICLffv8KoyFHOJNZlcVLoGtfe5D1dl8SN1ogX3VtrukdGR0ftlrMCHF1szQ4YFvKPQ9Gorln3B_hOWJxX931_XT2TLlq4H5WKkWX7OqcYJvLilNaU79Vfk1fYdWCPg=s2048" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="865" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgvFH8xaOgwDyogJaen6lelhKPof8eShLSQxphoUB-1Dgu4i6-DiYey-9_b_jgjICLffv8KoyFHOJNZlcVLoGtfe5D1dl8SN1ogX3VtrukdGR0ftlrMCHF1szQ4YFvKPQ9Gorln3B_hOWJxX931_XT2TLlq4H5WKkWX7OqcYJvLilNaU79Vfk1fYdWCPg=s16000"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Dana Andrews from SPY IN YOUR EYE</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Birthday of <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/dana%20andrews">DANA ANDREWS</a> as the new year begins; our personal favorite actor here, we cover just about everything Dana's ever starred or appeared in, whether from the big or small screen ranging from Westerns to War to Noir...<br></p><p>From his rudimentary secondary-leads to leading-man roles to formidable villains with that ever-deepening mellifluous voice, there's no other point for this particular entry but to say both Happy Birthday <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/dana%20andrews">Dana Andrews </a>and Happy New Year from Cult Film Freak, to everybody. </p><p><span></span></p>

dana andrews, dianne foster, fifties, forties, holiday, marilee earle, sixties, teresa wright

HAPPY BIRTHDAY FOR DANA ANDREWS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR

Dana Andrews from SPY IN YOUR EYE Birthday of DANA ANDREWS as the new year begins; our personal favorite actor here, we cover just about ev...

STANLEY BAKER AND STUART WHITMAN IN 'SANDS OF THE KALAHARI'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><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/AVvXsEi_MXFybahkxYWn0Wh1ZfRwntITQfDKhaPH6FI87u9vYWyrsAjBuyYAI4brlotvy3hBHlpiYUAAfnn6cvz3QLH-GxXVeIpkHimTfv_ZdQVNG8v-3r_gTE6PWLu27s1_ejiwaQ6Ir8ek-IZtId169rFa0QuEVtjinZIFu80rblUf2e9nwP5SLxwbr-8Z5Jpo/s1412/AVvXsEiWGyz9WS4HfmnGfB05kNPJn4UFES-yqgQt9ab0MLLweJZyfSmjoRYnR28d7cNXsgY73zuw9-5JXEt9je8cSkkduwPb1SvitXqPpi5X6aqZexQjqV6CJuw1cFpF9-VFhVd9nMOnzzyLKkNt07JN_UoxnEJce8QF3Qw0H7vjL5ICTJsS0o_ZePIopL5TwA=s16000.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="658" data-original-width="1412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_MXFybahkxYWn0Wh1ZfRwntITQfDKhaPH6FI87u9vYWyrsAjBuyYAI4brlotvy3hBHlpiYUAAfnn6cvz3QLH-GxXVeIpkHimTfv_ZdQVNG8v-3r_gTE6PWLu27s1_ejiwaQ6Ir8ek-IZtId169rFa0QuEVtjinZIFu80rblUf2e9nwP5SLxwbr-8Z5Jpo/s16000/AVvXsEiWGyz9WS4HfmnGfB05kNPJn4UFES-yqgQt9ab0MLLweJZyfSmjoRYnR28d7cNXsgY73zuw9-5JXEt9je8cSkkduwPb1SvitXqPpi5X6aqZexQjqV6CJuw1cFpF9-VFhVd9nMOnzzyLKkNt07JN_UoxnEJce8QF3Qw0H7vjL5ICTJsS0o_ZePIopL5TwA=s16000.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: SANDS OF THE KALAHARI Year: 1965 Rating: *** </u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Supposedly this was the movie that pushed square-jawed British superstar Stanley Baker — who'd <i>just</i> peaked with the same director Cy Endfield for <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/03/ZULU.html">ZULU</a> — into a career downturn, and not just because SANDS OF THE KALAHARI is a deliberately strange and uncomfortable (FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX style) survival tale, initially involving six passengers of a crashed plane stranded in the vast titular desert... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>As producer, Baker not only gave the best role to Stuart Whitman, but his own character's injured and therefore basically useless for most of the picture: one that features a somewhat convenient ensemble...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, airplane, british, harry andrews, nature, nigel davenport, sixties, stanley baker, stuart whitman, survival, susannah york, theodore bikel

STANLEY BAKER AND STUART WHITMAN IN 'SANDS OF THE KALAHARI'

Title: SANDS OF THE KALAHARI Year: 1965 Rating: *** Supposedly this was the movie that pushed square-jawed British superstar Stanley Baker —...

DOUGLAS HICKOX SHOOTING OLIVER REED FOR 'SITTING TARGET'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><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/AVvXsEg2D8ZnmOmUZdswsoA_rOofyQ6L_SgDlhI29cK3BihlqUf8uBX284hdOneuQ-asFirMUzsgTf0vCwlU_1kzp60SWUMN9xSfV2NdXIg8NXfLUt_wpYgiQiEiQGQf-z14-i9G6khcrmubnaKRjuYGJP3kY8ULZin2zxEdzCZWghxIwC1yvXh6FYfdJ-ZtMJVe/s2512/Screen%20Shot%202024-01-12%20at%2010.00.05%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1266" data-original-width="2512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2D8ZnmOmUZdswsoA_rOofyQ6L_SgDlhI29cK3BihlqUf8uBX284hdOneuQ-asFirMUzsgTf0vCwlU_1kzp60SWUMN9xSfV2NdXIg8NXfLUt_wpYgiQiEiQGQf-z14-i9G6khcrmubnaKRjuYGJP3kY8ULZin2zxEdzCZWghxIwC1yvXh6FYfdJ-ZtMJVe/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-01-12%20at%2010.00.05%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Oliver Reed in SITTING TARGET Year: 1972 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>When long-time locked-up convict Oliver Reed breaks out of prison to kill wife Jill St. John for getting pregnant without him, it seems a solo effort despite having a buddy right alongside since Ian McShane's his dead-ringer/doppelganger...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>In fact, both seem like the same character, only one's younger, more shady and sexually-active while our volatile anti-hero has the kind of seething tunnel-vision liken to Michael Caine from this film's obvious muse GET CARTER, only with far less last names/red herrings and a much simpler plot i.e. almost none at all... </p><p><span></span></p>

british new wave, douglas hickox, edward woodward, exploitation, frank finley, freddie jones, ian mcshane, jailbreak, jill st. john, jill townsend, oliver reed, revenge, robert beatty, seventies, tony beckley

DOUGLAS HICKOX SHOOTING OLIVER REED FOR 'SITTING TARGET'

Oliver Reed in SITTING TARGET Year: 1972 Rating: ****1/2 When long-time locked-up convict Oliver Reed breaks out of prison to kill wife Jill...