cult film freak: May 2022

Written by James M. Tate / 5/31/2022 / No comments / adam roarke , bruce dern , dean stockwell , drug culture , garry marshall , gary kent , henry jaglom , jack nicholson , max julien , richard rush , sixties , susan strasberg

JACK NICHOLSON PEAKS WITH SUSAN STRASBERG IN 'PSYCH-OUT'

<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/AVvXsEjVB-owo9AFIwj1DMoKoiNrPRNIhUvQaVeKMcMoFDoUb6uQXi1dO_QVaRZ8QGBFPiF5LQCN0JQjcAcqdKJ2eDfa5L0kU0EQxKtioWLKzjcY-IIoOL8D_6wrX5cI2SdWlxhxxnqfS3a1tt2vwgVujDDpMKygT0tSJEesYWuar3E9GNVosOQQ_33UzDQ7HWW0/s1549/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="1549" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVB-owo9AFIwj1DMoKoiNrPRNIhUvQaVeKMcMoFDoUb6uQXi1dO_QVaRZ8QGBFPiF5LQCN0JQjcAcqdKJ2eDfa5L0kU0EQxKtioWLKzjcY-IIoOL8D_6wrX5cI2SdWlxhxxnqfS3a1tt2vwgVujDDpMKygT0tSJEesYWuar3E9GNVosOQQ_33UzDQ7HWW0/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jack Nicholson and Susan Strasberg in PSYCH-OUT Year: 1968 Rating: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>In 1968, Susan Strasberg, a passive deaf girl hiding out in San Fransisco, 
happens upon members of a hopeful rock band consisting of a completely miscast Jack
 Nicholson and Adam Roarke, looking more like blue collar roughnecks 
than guitar-slinging hippies, and Max Julien, far more aligned with the 
drugged-out, passive aesthetic...Other young future-classic actors include Bruce Dern 
as Strasberg's troubled brother, the movie's McGuffin that little sister's seeking, fitfully named The 
Seeker, and Dean Stockwell as a "wise" hippie, reminding Jack, who wants
 his group to make it big, how shallow money and success are...

adam roarke, bruce dern, dean stockwell, drug culture, garry marshall, gary kent, henry jaglom, jack nicholson, max julien, richard rush, sixties, susan strasberg

JACK NICHOLSON PEAKS WITH SUSAN STRASBERG IN 'PSYCH-OUT'

Jack Nicholson and Susan Strasberg in PSYCH-OUT Year: 1968 Rating: ***1/2 In 1968, Susan Strasberg, a passive deaf girl hiding out in San Fr...

RAY LIOTTA & STUART WILSON IN 'NO ESCAPE' WITH ERNIE HUDSON

<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/AVvXsEgV_pYnqCtL3pGTM8aXkS4HrmUI8_opmXReqCDYlRzsVFN5K9eK2NKjZygtxNkoZDo1VemCzxXIlB_R6JyvSaAnWY_GHhczGgz8NFUYT8fCSvz3nRcKRFlskSDhG5wkQk5Ex7P8LWcEoE4I9xcYbO2Fx8XxEEWU42ZQUc8-Z7uBULmeK1q6-Y9XmdINjQ/s1749/Screen%20Shot%202022-05-29%20at%205.07.28%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="712" data-original-width="1749" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV_pYnqCtL3pGTM8aXkS4HrmUI8_opmXReqCDYlRzsVFN5K9eK2NKjZygtxNkoZDo1VemCzxXIlB_R6JyvSaAnWY_GHhczGgz8NFUYT8fCSvz3nRcKRFlskSDhG5wkQk5Ex7P8LWcEoE4I9xcYbO2Fx8XxEEWU42ZQUc8-Z7uBULmeK1q6-Y9XmdINjQ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-05-29%20at%205.07.28%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ray Liotta in NO ESCAPE Year: 1994 Rating: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>An action-packed b-movie that takes itself way too seriously, which is what makes NO ESCAPE great fun as Ray Liotta's only in an actual Fascist-future prison for a brief time, ironic since it's a prison-genre flick but taking place on a penal island like PAPILLON following the survival rules and ragged costume design of THE ROAD WARRIOR... Genuinely cool and fit, Liotta is, of course, the toughest and strongest and a completely handy stranger in a fortress world run by a passive yet formidable Lance Henriksen, polar opposite of British actor Stuart Wilson ruling the woodsy outskirts, whose insanely overboard, monologue-spouting dictator makes Dennis Hopper's WATERWORLD performance seem tame (and all but drowns out the prison's computer-monitor-monitoring warden Michael Lerner)...

action, ernie hudson, escape, ian mcneice, kevin dillon, lance henriksen, nineties, prison, ray liotta, stuart wilson

RAY LIOTTA & STUART WILSON IN 'NO ESCAPE' WITH ERNIE HUDSON

Ray Liotta in NO ESCAPE Year: 1994 Rating: ***1/2 An action-packed b-movie that takes itself way too seriously, which is what makes NO ESCAP...

JONATHAN KAPLAN DIRECTS RAY LIOTTA IN 'UNLAWFUL ENTRY'

<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/AVvXsEgvOvJ3i1E9VvKVzEoS9nmtpFL1lOgdlYDxBW4Rc0ukdev967ZlVIbl58AuQmF6cafYLHPIpyecHI4IXUHSt7ZJxQbbAEHOn3SczYhUmodfb8Lrn0RAt18zo_eeZoMVlbIpc2Xo956GlA4RWHZdlHYL4i20axLBnfFx0y95N9tejc7NVNS3YOUrOV1gXw/s2027/1%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="858" data-original-width="2027" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvOvJ3i1E9VvKVzEoS9nmtpFL1lOgdlYDxBW4Rc0ukdev967ZlVIbl58AuQmF6cafYLHPIpyecHI4IXUHSt7ZJxQbbAEHOn3SczYhUmodfb8Lrn0RAt18zo_eeZoMVlbIpc2Xo956GlA4RWHZdlHYL4i20axLBnfFx0y95N9tejc7NVNS3YOUrOV1gXw/s16000/1%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ray Liotta in UNLAWFUL ENTRY Year: 1992 Rating: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>Some former student directors of low-budget movie-producing icon Roger Corman, no matter how big they got, still held onto an economic style liken to the straightforward simplicity of an old school marquee b-movie, and Jonathan Kaplan was one of the A-students... 
 
Although his best (or most well known) movies came after "graduation" with vehicles such as the cult teen angst rebellion classic, OVER THE EDGE, and then guiding Jodie Foster's first Oscar-winning role in the more conventional THE ACCUSED and later on, using the actor from fellow Cormon crony Jonathan Demme (who directed Foster's second big win) for his risque road journey SOMETHING WILD...

cop, dick miller, harry northup, jonathan kaplan, ken lerner, kurt russell, madeline stowe, ray liotta, roger e. mosley, suspense, thriller

JONATHAN KAPLAN DIRECTS RAY LIOTTA IN 'UNLAWFUL ENTRY'

Ray Liotta in UNLAWFUL ENTRY Year: 1992 Rating: ***1/2 Some former student directors of low-budget movie-producing icon Roger Corman, no ma...

JONATHAN DEMME'S QUIRKY CULT ROAD PICTURE 'SOMETHING WILD'

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</div><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/AVvXsEgEryiUGaSGJmwZOpHGBfKbPl8S-1Om6JOZUvrPP3BJZcCC2lE5rgty-vpzHfo90_3bxF-UUFS9ZGeDeX6NkCG3o5LGs4JdTsGUq8cPAf2tqf-VNdTdw08_ZuwsK0yKNtDeUO5tudPj2t15l-6u-Nd_nUaBMxUToE1g6_orwoZAj-OJqgoAeYR-9niOJIKB/s1330/Screen+Shot+2020-01-12+at+9.29.30+PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="766" data-original-width="1330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEryiUGaSGJmwZOpHGBfKbPl8S-1Om6JOZUvrPP3BJZcCC2lE5rgty-vpzHfo90_3bxF-UUFS9ZGeDeX6NkCG3o5LGs4JdTsGUq8cPAf2tqf-VNdTdw08_ZuwsK0yKNtDeUO5tudPj2t15l-6u-Nd_nUaBMxUToE1g6_orwoZAj-OJqgoAeYR-9niOJIKB/s16000/Screen+Shot+2020-01-12+at+9.29.30+PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ray Liotta in SOMETHING WILD</td></tr></tbody></table>Until the 45-minute "Kong-mark" when, after the romance hits a peak at Griffith's ten-year high school reunion, purposefully bordering on endearing small town cinema saccharine, Ray Liotta as Ray — Griffith's freshly sprung ex-con/ex-husband — shows up, and the breezy vehicle veers from fun-wild to wildly-dangerous: A quirky romantic comedy now sharing a Neo Noir/thriller template... 
 
During the best scene in another, more dark and shabby motel, Daniels is stuck between Liotta and Griffith in what's been natural to them all along... having nothing to do with sex, only facts. Daniels's initially polite cat-and-mouse wordplay with Liotta makes one forget his prior risque physicality and odd couple banter with Griffith the film once seemed entirely built around: the boys wield the truly daring anti-chemistry, and at this point even she knows it...

eighties, indie, jeff daniels, jonathan demme, kristin olsen, margaret colin, melanie griffith, quirky, ray liotta, road movie, romantic comedy, thriller

JONATHAN DEMME'S QUIRKY CULT ROAD PICTURE 'SOMETHING WILD'

Ray Liotta's in SOMETHING WILD Year: 1986 Rating: ****1/2 Director Jonathan Demme's sexy road-flick SOMETHING WILD plays around wi...

RIP RAY LIOTTA TRUE LEAD OF THE LEGENDARY 'GOODFELLAS'

<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/AVvXsEjTMM_c9t4jd8pPhNA31AZ0YgavTvsw9Dp1jCsFHr02oBqB3KVyodr7fYOpYi3BnldPI6gp4mUfHNqzfHU-5icwP_bEqkKGWW9aKolu8VT1aWVbuOZ1Co9qGvmHiNBYSPDp1T98EJvNBb4Cqf_xUkzDgB0vRWa0P5Uh7QilSBF68Lfo92whHBshrNSVZw/s2272/Screen%20Shot%202022-05-26%20at%202.08.18%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="927" data-original-width="2272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTMM_c9t4jd8pPhNA31AZ0YgavTvsw9Dp1jCsFHr02oBqB3KVyodr7fYOpYi3BnldPI6gp4mUfHNqzfHU-5icwP_bEqkKGWW9aKolu8VT1aWVbuOZ1Co9qGvmHiNBYSPDp1T98EJvNBb4Cqf_xUkzDgB0vRWa0P5Uh7QilSBF68Lfo92whHBshrNSVZw/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-05-26%20at%202.08.18%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ray Liotta as Henry Hill in GOODFELLAS</td></tr></tbody></table>The one thing GOODFELLAS had going that set it apart from all the inferior clones is Ray Liotta, the star of the movie although he's second billed to Robert De Niro who, along with scene-stealer and sole Oscar winner Joe Pesci, gets most of the credit for the legacy of the film along with director Martin Scorsese, peaking here as an auteur...It's a story that centers on Ray Liotta's real life former mobster Henry Hill, providing Liotta the most natural-sounding narration in the history of movies and, sadly, Ray Liotta, the comparable baby of the film to Robert, Joe and Martin, has died... the first to go, and in this particular groundbreaking, game-changing masterpiece, the true leading role.

exploitation, martin scorsese, memorial, mobster, nineties, ray liotta

RIP RAY LIOTTA TRUE LEAD OF THE LEGENDARY 'GOODFELLAS'

Ray Liotta as Henry Hill in GOODFELLAS The one thing GOODFELLAS had going that set it apart from all the inferior clones is Ray Liotta, the ...

OLIVER REED & SUNNY JOHNSON IN 'DR. HECKYL AND MR. HYPE'

<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/AVvXsEjmlHiCFgNNqqDSZc083DjmjGJ6meEQXmeGVzNzhmxNgnl4tB7gC8R4xkb9QuOOCNAZwLR9xTEZaKBdoDgMt6R1TF-4nQjIP66Zg9U7NvS637BncU1Fh6rve2aRm9cwn_yQ2Xf2LSgCVnET4lpNqFvwRiPpJRw7MRMVsVS9jQzKFfNWSnWuklbo0qNn6Q/s1801/1%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="911" data-original-width="1801" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmlHiCFgNNqqDSZc083DjmjGJ6meEQXmeGVzNzhmxNgnl4tB7gC8R4xkb9QuOOCNAZwLR9xTEZaKBdoDgMt6R1TF-4nQjIP66Zg9U7NvS637BncU1Fh6rve2aRm9cwn_yQ2Xf2LSgCVnET4lpNqFvwRiPpJRw7MRMVsVS9jQzKFfNWSnWuklbo0qNn6Q/s16000/1%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oliver Reed in DR. HECKYL AND MR. HYPE Year: 1980 Rating: **1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>What's considered one of Cannon Pictures and Oliver Reed's worst movies has ironical casting since Reed, back in his Hammer beginnings, appeared as a pimp-bouncer in their own <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/07/2F.html">Dr. Jekyll adaptation</a>...And in the satirical DR. HECKYL AND MR. HYPE, as a ghoulish-looking yet sweet-natured podiatrist, he alters into the dashing counterpart, an overweight Reed, not all that mainstream-handsome but fitfully formidable, as the best scenes are of the body count nature killing loose women he dates yet still can't score with...

body count, cannon, cult, eighties, exploitation, horror satire, oliver reed, sunny johnson

OLIVER REED & SUNNY JOHNSON IN 'DR. HECKYL AND MR. HYPE'

Oliver Reed in DR. HECKYL AND MR. HYPE Year: 1980 Rating: **1/2 What's considered one of Cannon Pictures and Oliver Reed's worst mo...

MICHAEL WINNER DIRECTS OLIVER REED IN 'THE JOKERS'

<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/AVvXsEjrOpEuHScMYbPYDu-NDmfou_apt7Q3D0bkRjcr3dkSPmNn8vrY0YeuYK7oEtzlIkkhusQTH9kCc6asqOE7VXD82PR_1aDd9TmfWei0KWQv4_8ewqg8fG0u-XpGT-4FXbAi1Y-7GsL1fMFiUvqiokvRugQo8Ra86JR5gAHWnSb657M08ru1J6CFak27YA/s1352/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="676" data-original-width="1352" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrOpEuHScMYbPYDu-NDmfou_apt7Q3D0bkRjcr3dkSPmNn8vrY0YeuYK7oEtzlIkkhusQTH9kCc6asqOE7VXD82PR_1aDd9TmfWei0KWQv4_8ewqg8fG0u-XpGT-4FXbAi1Y-7GsL1fMFiUvqiokvRugQo8Ra86JR5gAHWnSb657M08ru1J6CFak27YA/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: THE JOKERS Year: 1967 Rating: **</td></tr></tbody></table>The most disappointing of director Michael Winner and actor Oliver Reed's 1960's collaborations following their first and best, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/10/system.html">THE SYSTEM</a> and before (the same year as)<a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2022/05/reedwelles.html"> I'LL NEVER FORGET WHAT'S'ISNAME</a> and then <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2022/05/olliephant.html">HANNIBAL BROOKS</a>, the crime comedy THE JOKERS is too broad for a caper and not humorous enough for a comedy...Two brothers, one an ex-military man played by 12-year-old-voiced <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2022/02/bakerwinner.html">Michael Crawford</a>, horribly miscast, and his far more potentially-intriguing, womanizing brother <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/oliver%20reed">Oliver Reed</a>, attempt a media-frenzied heist on the Crown Jewels while playing cat-and-mouse with a trio of Royal keystone-like cops and there's so much running around not much lands in the form of the characters being developed beyond their gimmicky circumstance that, from beginning to end, this duo seems far too protected from the audience hoping they don't fail: which is the most important element of any heist film, comedic or otherwise.

caper, comedy, counter-culture, crime, james donald, michael crawford, michael winner, oliver reed, sixties

MICHAEL WINNER DIRECTS OLIVER REED IN 'THE JOKERS'

Title: THE JOKERS Year: 1967 Rating: ** The most disappointing of director Michael Winner and actor Oliver Reed's 1960's collaborati...

MICHAEL WINNER DIRECTS OLIVER REED RUNNING 'THE SYSTEM'

<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/AVvXsEj3xkQHt5KLsTrnMOF-JvpSCbmwxcProcRXxZdtOMKZC3Bt2TPFYKSUhQ5BHXyZqF4Yl5Sz1ht-MW9VjeOmmLvz3Pkib9Sma0MywnUgpi0raFTg7Wy4LArtPOBBZNIW9mzbFBsFzd6UdoTzfq1U6UvZapKKI5Y1T4lG1vHUX-YIyYnIaNjbDVKVpecAkQ/s1127/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-23%20at%206.25.27%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="479" data-original-width="1127" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3xkQHt5KLsTrnMOF-JvpSCbmwxcProcRXxZdtOMKZC3Bt2TPFYKSUhQ5BHXyZqF4Yl5Sz1ht-MW9VjeOmmLvz3Pkib9Sma0MywnUgpi0raFTg7Wy4LArtPOBBZNIW9mzbFBsFzd6UdoTzfq1U6UvZapKKI5Y1T4lG1vHUX-YIyYnIaNjbDVKVpecAkQ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-23%20at%206.25.27%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: The System Year: 1964 Rates: ****1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>THE GIRL-GETTERS is really THE SYSTEM as the other title makes little sense — and although the British New Wave comedy/drama does begin like a horny-guys ensemble, it soon narrows solely onto Oliver Reed as Tinker, head of the wolf pack who "gets his" by falling in love with a rich model as cool, smooth, complicated and yes, beautiful as he is...Director Michael Winner, before the <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/01/bronson-winner-three.html">Charles Bronson action</a> flicks, began an eclectic partnership with Hammer villain Reed, and the first is their best: Winner provides a looser LONELINESS OF THE LONG DISTANCE RUNNER vibe with similar satirical montage breaks; and Reed's Tinker... the local womanizing photographer... is all smiles and robust energy, hardly frowning or scowling before a long career playing frowning, scowling antagonists and anti-heroes. <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/AVvXsEjvhquBVvoqYZCX0bBs-mmZUIBT8vo-vZGeAwUolQCmNxSq1CGn4fWcwqrSN2MKEOdAKVDbIr-nZ4lfV6ykA7DQyW7STg98B954l28lK6elQ2KFhOuh-1MifS8aPvA5V3S7a2hLxpEtVhPk49xChKt0vSqaG5z1So89GhE2pCurRoA6RxOmm0HY02gWtw/s1115/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-23%20at%206.25.27%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="448" data-original-width="1115" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvhquBVvoqYZCX0bBs-mmZUIBT8vo-vZGeAwUolQCmNxSq1CGn4fWcwqrSN2MKEOdAKVDbIr-nZ4lfV6ykA7DQyW7STg98B954l28lK6elQ2KFhOuh-1MifS8aPvA5V3S7a2hLxpEtVhPk49xChKt0vSqaG5z1So89GhE2pCurRoA6RxOmm0HY02gWtw/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-23%20at%206.25.27%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The System aka The Girl-Getters</td></tr></tbody></table>Taking place during two weeks at a British vacation spot, there's a contained hanging-out all-night vibe as this might've influenced AMERICAN GRAFFITI, putting you right alongside the characters also including a female version of Tinker (Barbara Ferris); a sullen married woman (Ann Lynn); Tinker's newly engaged finally grown-up best friend (John Alterton); and a ditsy conquest (Julia Foster):..All working and playing at this sunny retreat where tourists abound, and our boys use their titular SYSTEM to cover the entire area (girls and money), saving up for the approaching winter. And although they never reach that particular season, the foreboding chill is palpable, ironically after Reed's creative, genuine charm had almost completely thawed Jane Merrow's sublime dream-girl, Nicola, in what's more of a prolonged end of a party than a beginning, middle and end of a romantic summertime adventure — yet it's all that too.

andrew ray, ann lynn, british new wave, comedy, david hemmings, drama, ensemble, guy doleman, iain gregory, jane merrow, john alderton, julia foster, michael winner, oliver reed, sixties, the searchers

MICHAEL WINNER DIRECTS OLIVER REED RUNNING 'THE SYSTEM'

Title: The System Year: 1964 Rates: ****1/2 THE GIRL-GETTERS is really THE SYSTEM as the other title makes little sense — and although the B...

BURT REYNOLDS 'MALONE' WITH CYNTHIA GIBB & SCOTT WILSON

<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/AVvXsEh_njxAYVXAOPsaOzQKNio_anYFcXFqntWpKvBDsikHTMUgkAA2MgD4T-cO7IiqYA767ugNNTZkD1B1Ywe0edHkrNDIXHi6ypHSSTwDJyfKdAX0gGyBVNoFI6afOhjZdvN2Cw5QHRCEighxHJzQELNjOjpHc9LHHzH2nIwT3IoFzTQmLisPi9UIsh2oUSvk/s774/Screen%20Shot%202024-09-01%20at%206.06.28%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="425" data-original-width="774" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_njxAYVXAOPsaOzQKNio_anYFcXFqntWpKvBDsikHTMUgkAA2MgD4T-cO7IiqYA767ugNNTZkD1B1Ywe0edHkrNDIXHi6ypHSSTwDJyfKdAX0gGyBVNoFI6afOhjZdvN2Cw5QHRCEighxHJzQELNjOjpHc9LHHzH2nIwT3IoFzTQmLisPi9UIsh2oUSvk/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-09-01%20at%206.06.28%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Burt Reynolds in MALONE Year: 1987 Rating: ****</td></tr></tbody></table>For Burt Reynolds, compared to his bombs of the early to mid 1980's, MALONE is a nice, tight production that's basically a remake of a classic 1950's Western. "Let's be honest," Reynolds once stated. "The film is SHANE."The ongoing lustful flirtation by young, cute-as-a-button, girl-next-door ingenue Cynthia Gibb is a little out of place, although while he might've been too old for the part (Christopher Lambert was originally considered), she's not at all miscast...

action, burt reynolds, cliff robertson, cynthia gibb, dennis burkley, eighties, kenneth mcmillan, scott wilson, thriller, tracey walter

BURT REYNOLDS 'MALONE' WITH CYNTHIA GIBB & SCOTT WILSON

Burt Reynolds in MALONE Year: 1987 Rating: **** For Burt Reynolds, compared to his bombs of the early to mid 1980's, MALONE is a nice, t...

OLIVER REED AGAIN IN HAMMER'S 'THE PIRATES OF BLOOD RIVER'

<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/AVvXsEj-2NH-ioEPWhqAyuouB_VPanDnQqTf8ctFPLLwqyq3dsoNxGuynRwD4Anh6wNLbnT86e64AOQz0KdSSlShVySPZSHqj-t8ra2CMlr5VkGmNPLv9MAN2G9bqtB6Lp5ZCYKhLAOHugrlvrbov6HaQVGVtetFUVNatv77HLLBuBoEM2Hi6QBPNrNVmpwWXg/s1430/159942583_1195755417520299_2845632136342354247_o.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="606" data-original-width="1430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-2NH-ioEPWhqAyuouB_VPanDnQqTf8ctFPLLwqyq3dsoNxGuynRwD4Anh6wNLbnT86e64AOQz0KdSSlShVySPZSHqj-t8ra2CMlr5VkGmNPLv9MAN2G9bqtB6Lp5ZCYKhLAOHugrlvrbov6HaQVGVtetFUVNatv77HLLBuBoEM2Hi6QBPNrNVmpwWXg/s16000/159942583_1195755417520299_2845632136342354247_o.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oliver Reed in THE PIRATES OF BLOOD RIVER 1961 Rates: **1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>The twist ending of Hammer's THE PIRATES OF BLOOD RIVER is not only given away in the prologue when a town zealot's free-spirited son Kerwin Matthews loses his married lover, but in the title itself, making only half sense since these PIRATES, led by Christopher Lee with subordinates Michael Ripper, Peter Arne and Oliver Reed, are hardly ever on a pirate ship, having landed upon an island sanctuary of Huguenot farmers that, as the story commences, is attacked by those land-roaming scoundrels, thinking there's gold nearby... It's a shame when BLOOD RIVER reaches the point where the Huguenots and Pirates have a Mexican standoff since, earlier on, Matthews — attempting his SINBAD energy despite being too old — is sent to prison, then escapes... <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/AVvXsEgFXUHLSIXmXEcKGoxzxHHo9a5C3diAsP2fKrZww-rrFrudVOiIm5pODEJzbDeTM2eNTrHN-lqGh0C7TOSZY5swnW3E9V1JQFZYisMpd8siHpggg3rgEeJXMuh0EjMfQw0k4Iwhvcgo2ZJGSynIgs13P5zMp0c7JXvFcBTNYzPpFK114Six84uTxX2ogQ/s1436/160006474_1195755434186964_2040556207424182213_o.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="617" data-original-width="1436" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFXUHLSIXmXEcKGoxzxHHo9a5C3diAsP2fKrZww-rrFrudVOiIm5pODEJzbDeTM2eNTrHN-lqGh0C7TOSZY5swnW3E9V1JQFZYisMpd8siHpggg3rgEeJXMuh0EjMfQw0k4Iwhvcgo2ZJGSynIgs13P5zMp0c7JXvFcBTNYzPpFK114Six84uTxX2ogQ/s16000/160006474_1195755434186964_2040556207424182213_o.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oliver Reed in THE PIRATES OF BLOOD RIVER with Peter Arne</td></tr></tbody></table>During which this Hammer adventure is very adventurous and action-packed... Sadly the villains take over in Christopher Lee's worst role, dressed for a bad Halloween party, added to which Peter Arne kills off a far cooler Oliver Reed... Hammer just didn't know their potential... This misleadingly advertised swashbuckler buckles under the weight of its own unambitious limitations, and with a "younger male hero" in Glenn Corbett afraid to fight, and Marla Landi pretty but weak in the ingenue department, PIRATES is more sunken than treasure.

action, adventure, hammer films, john gilling, michael ripper, oliver reed, peter arne, pirates, sixties

OLIVER REED AGAIN IN HAMMER'S 'THE PIRATES OF BLOOD RIVER'

Oliver Reed in THE PIRATES OF BLOOD RIVER 1961 Rates: **1/2 The twist ending of Hammer's THE PIRATES OF BLOOD RIVER is not only given aw...

OLIVER REED & ART HINGLE IN DAVID CRONENBERG'S 'THE BROOD'

<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/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLVR03Pp4vh7MYeuSZMlL2f6KKVTVKPY6DXJprtvtPRCJACw9AGnql98XZzUV3n9bJnQEx7PaCmk5NPWVbKXtTpugG5qFRx1rvpLIz-6ucll7VVqqcWPsWBbc1UHnWo-8Cag4d3lSTXTLztP3L4k6Tpuj31L2XBVpLjLSrsrnAQeDZyOojTuU5zKyFJw/s531/ollie+brood.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="336" data-original-width="531" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLVR03Pp4vh7MYeuSZMlL2f6KKVTVKPY6DXJprtvtPRCJACw9AGnql98XZzUV3n9bJnQEx7PaCmk5NPWVbKXtTpugG5qFRx1rvpLIz-6ucll7VVqqcWPsWBbc1UHnWo-8Cag4d3lSTXTLztP3L4k6Tpuj31L2XBVpLjLSrsrnAQeDZyOojTuU5zKyFJw/w400-h253/ollie+brood.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Year: 1979 Rating: ****</td></tr></tbody></table>The term “watch your temper” has never been so 
relevant and palpable than in THE BROOD, where Oliver Reed’s Dr. Hal 
Raglan, a psychiatrist in complete control of his mentally childlike 
subjects, has a favorite patient with serious issues: Enter Nola Caverth, played by THE COLLECTOR actress 
Samantha Eggar, intensely listening to the doctor’s advice… But who's 
really in charge?Well neither British actors are the 
main stars despite top billing: The investigative buried lead is third-billed INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS patient-x Art 
Hindle as Nola’s separated husband and father of a vulnerable little girl, 
Candace, played sublimely by Cindy Hinds, aesthetic precursor to Heather O’Rourke from POLTERGEIST...As dad pieces clues together, various characters are stalked by what look like 
psychotic school kids combined with the pint-sized literal little devil 
from DON'T LOOK NOW and/or a taller yet equally aggressive TRILOGY OF 
TERROR's Zuni Fetish Doll: shifting the aura from an intriguing psychological thriller to a genuinely frightening horror flick...<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhitHqIhWhg3n-cKjUJijkAoPTRphYL563DbffhZzRELJ3BKBllfpelhB5j4vs80J8jV4azc0mNPwceEPRhmfL3BoVGFmAnWGXUCI77tyeAe83PkxaZkWw066uWE00ngYwzNLg-a52ZoRWErbzX1uFaaY4Lhbn7WwLLtT-ry1dmjrXSDW6xiTmBpHEnfQ/s1263/Screen%20Shot%202022-05-09%20at%206.12.54%20PM.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="664" data-original-width="1263" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhitHqIhWhg3n-cKjUJijkAoPTRphYL563DbffhZzRELJ3BKBllfpelhB5j4vs80J8jV4azc0mNPwceEPRhmfL3BoVGFmAnWGXUCI77tyeAe83PkxaZkWw066uWE00ngYwzNLg-a52ZoRWErbzX1uFaaY4Lhbn7WwLLtT-ry1dmjrXSDW6xiTmBpHEnfQ/w400-h210/Screen%20Shot%202022-05-09%20at%206.12.54%20PM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Art Hindle in THE BROOD</td></tr></tbody></table>With distorted, nightmarish faces and the power to 
kill anyone connected to Nola’s bitter dream-state, the origin and 
purpose of the evil tykes should be kept secret. But anyone familiar 
with THE BROOD already knows what's up. Let’s just say, catharsis has 
rarely been as creepy, vicious and grotesque.. Horror auteur David Cronenberg keeps the story moving with a dark, ominous pace even 
though much of the film occurs in the daylighDespite too much 
scientific dialogue between bloodshed, not always enhancing the 
storyline, with Oliver Reed spouting exposition, it's 
forgivable. But humans aside, those killer mutants 
really steal the show: Too bad they didn’t have a larger playground to 
wield their lunacy as the best scenes include their body count hunting spree: first with Nola's parents, and then the perfect woman/school teacher (Susan Hogan). And the very, very end, involving a bizarre form of 
childbirth, should send men right back into the waiting room, chain 
smoking cigarettes while anticipating the outcome.

art hindle, cindy hinds, david cronenberg, horror, nuala fitzgerald, oliver reed, samantha eggar, seventies, susan hogan

OLIVER REED & ART HINGLE IN DAVID CRONENBERG'S 'THE BROOD'

Year: 1979 Rating: **** The term “watch your temper” has never been so relevant and palpable than in THE BROOD, where Oliver Reed’s Dr. Hal...

YOUNG BRITISH BLONDE BEAUTY GILLIAN HILLS AS 'BEAT GIRL'

<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/AVvXsEg4wXFLTQhmGmUS9XGx8ceXWutydCmG1yNNJhcUYZTHZLBBcns-9PaOmOLfKePmfBTtBZa3hgzvhQ2i5KW1ZRuaX43iuPB-iwc_8zDFVUN_Mzl_V8-A495pGopFD-mGlahB6tG0jwdHXjUkEM1NQkTVUKnWe1XxhBITO-HqDAP_HHKo6UilSKDjg3IaPK0F/s1600/1%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1060" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4wXFLTQhmGmUS9XGx8ceXWutydCmG1yNNJhcUYZTHZLBBcns-9PaOmOLfKePmfBTtBZa3hgzvhQ2i5KW1ZRuaX43iuPB-iwc_8zDFVUN_Mzl_V8-A495pGopFD-mGlahB6tG0jwdHXjUkEM1NQkTVUKnWe1XxhBITO-HqDAP_HHKo6UilSKDjg3IaPK0F/s16000/1%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gillian Hills as BEAT GIRL Year: 1960</td></tr></tbody></table>BEAT GIRL is like two movies in one, and both are pretty great with the insanely gorgeous Gillian Hills, a hybrid of Sue Lyon's LOLITA and Diane Lane in RUMBLE FISH: All three looking dynamic in B&W while this more obscure gem centers on teenagers wild about the Stateside "hopeless and soapless" Beatnik movement, grooving to the jazz score of composer John Barry (featuring his live John Barry Seven)... 
 
And when the wayward/lackadaisical youngsters aren't hanging-out, the main plot centers solely on Gillian's Jennifer Linden, a rich spoiled brat of sixteen (her real age), who unfairly loathes her architect father David Farrar's new wife (Noelle Adam), a pretty yet earthy, twenty-something French girl — with a past...

beatnik, british new wave, carol white, christopher lee, claire gordon, david farrar, delphi lawrence, exploitation, gillian hills, jazz-score, melodrama, noëlle adam, oliver reed, shirley anne field, sixties

YOUNG BRITISH BLONDE BEAUTY GILLIAN HILLS AS 'BEAT GIRL'

Gillian Hills as BEAT GIRL Year: 1960 BEAT GIRL is like two movies in one, and both are pretty great with the insanely gorgeous Gillian Hil...

RICHARD LESTER RETURNS TO THE SWORD FOR 'ROYAL FLASH'

<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/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9NfwVKrxHXAGFfa3SCIUnJRh3jTYpTNH7hJaUmdKvACqH4Vhhnyfzhdw1XAwM1j6c435qMnHv1eHf3ASAwkWRwhj6yNpyMnIWJDY555nkNsHDJJSFXhJwRGAacS8ivQ4_hWVXQqm2KjHdQLNVjkSSUe1s3GdNPDYqOhzzHEl9KjiwIyww6iEF6DOThQ/s986/AVvXsEglJ6rJ-HWX_PQhNmXZr3vCF2z1n4zFT7e8ELVmK_0B91no-P_cxSsv62bf6YMzMywKp9-HqufgdsMawAhLPPSSK5BOjXQevkJZMOb1PSzUlu1J0jt3X3NV10nNa5cnm6PgOakyzRAS_R9FRY9FF6pzhgNHDm-sJp3_cRUS2TH6LI0g3cYW2mzCLNq_Bg=s16000.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="986" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9NfwVKrxHXAGFfa3SCIUnJRh3jTYpTNH7hJaUmdKvACqH4Vhhnyfzhdw1XAwM1j6c435qMnHv1eHf3ASAwkWRwhj6yNpyMnIWJDY555nkNsHDJJSFXhJwRGAacS8ivQ4_hWVXQqm2KjHdQLNVjkSSUe1s3GdNPDYqOhzzHEl9KjiwIyww6iEF6DOThQ/w400-h255/AVvXsEglJ6rJ-HWX_PQhNmXZr3vCF2z1n4zFT7e8ELVmK_0B91no-P_cxSsv62bf6YMzMywKp9-HqufgdsMawAhLPPSSK5BOjXQevkJZMOb1PSzUlu1J0jt3X3NV10nNa5cnm6PgOakyzRAS_R9FRY9FF6pzhgNHDm-sJp3_cRUS2TH6LI0g3cYW2mzCLNq_Bg=s16000.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Year: 1975 Rating: ****</td></tr></tbody></table>There were only three actors Stanley Kubrick had to give little direction to: Peter Sellers from DR. STRANGELOVE and LOLITA, James Mason from LOLITA, and his CLOCKWORK ORANGE star turned cult icon, Malcolm McDowell, who, through his own statements, wanted to keep in touch with the reclusive genius auteur, perhaps for more great roles in other projects in future years... and being how much he did for Kubrick, it wasn't too much to ask, was it? But after ORANGE he never heard from the director who had ignited his career with the ultra-violent classic that would, better for us and maybe worse for him, never go away... Perhaps he caught wind that Kubrick's next vehicle was a time period piece epic involved around the art of The Duel, titled BARRY LYNDON wherein Ryan O'Neal, while taking some getting used to, by the end turns in a wonderful performance being someone who took us for a very long ride and wound up a man who... let's just say, fit the actor's supposed real life un-appeal. But imagining Malcolm in the title role is a torturous fantasy: If only, yes, if only...

action, adaptation, adventure, alan bates, bob hoskins, caper, history, malcolm mcdowell, oliver reed, richard lester, seventies, time period, twilight time

RICHARD LESTER RETURNS TO THE SWORD FOR 'ROYAL FLASH'

Year: 1975 Rating: **** There were only three actors Stanley Kubrick had to give little direction to: Peter Sellers from DR. STRANGELOVE and...

VILLAINOUS OLIVER REED AND KLAUS KINSKI BITING INTO 'VENOM'

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><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/AVvXsEgb8COQSJaFx52TM4gTugV_j-_lFmIJcv7rp5tJn2cPw45liMw5C8vr9_ZbalDIbgaInjBFzqPlBPqafzqeXYoLj6F7kjI2XZ8uKtkEcIbbGBdO9024pVKKvz2R_qT2mqMCX__gxEJy7w4adLbjoHKWkQHz0uWaZV2wlVhgdVInSOUhi9AOqQbNH107wyvB/s1092/Screen%20Shot%202022-05-06%20at%2012.46.25%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="559" data-original-width="1092" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb8COQSJaFx52TM4gTugV_j-_lFmIJcv7rp5tJn2cPw45liMw5C8vr9_ZbalDIbgaInjBFzqPlBPqafzqeXYoLj6F7kjI2XZ8uKtkEcIbbGBdO9024pVKKvz2R_qT2mqMCX__gxEJy7w4adLbjoHKWkQHz0uWaZV2wlVhgdVInSOUhi9AOqQbNH107wyvB/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-05-06%20at%2012.46.25%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oliver Reed in VENOM Year: 1981 Rating: ****</td></tr></tbody></table>A sickly British kid and his grandfather are overtaken by the help in their family estate: Earlier that day, the boy picked up the wrong snake from a pet shop: And now a deadly Black Mamba slithers around, mostly inside the vents for a snake-eye viewpoint...A clever enough premise for a group of otherwise shady and hardened DESPERATE HOURS-inspired characters to be paranoid and terrified while cloistered in a doubly-dangerous setting...

cornelia sharpe, creature, drama, eighties, exploitation, horror, hostage, klaus kinski, nicol williamson, oliver reed, sarah miles, snake, sterling hayden, susan george, suspense, thriller

VILLAINOUS OLIVER REED AND KLAUS KINSKI BITING INTO 'VENOM'

Oliver Reed in VENOM Year: 1981 Rating: **** A sickly British kid and his grandfather are overtaken by the help in their family estate: Ear...

STANLEY BAKER IN 'VIOLENT PLAYGROUND' WITH PETER CUSHING

<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/AVvXsEjTaj_mDknBWjH5ljeWdGpSiXHXT97DktY0rMgEdruLE7ybGkIimyb9mIPynQEV30egY8iyZAt3rnhx3bveWwKTjw0-WzT292XHsiuWdANavzeK_GhrjmKVz7JB-cMyakRSChc8lh5yfbONNqU-EIDcyDFAJLITeQLgEQgF5jVM02g2deYQz2iSFY8xXs7n/s1819/Screen%20Shot%202023-02-25%20at%204.38.52%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1178" data-original-width="1819" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTaj_mDknBWjH5ljeWdGpSiXHXT97DktY0rMgEdruLE7ybGkIimyb9mIPynQEV30egY8iyZAt3rnhx3bveWwKTjw0-WzT292XHsiuWdANavzeK_GhrjmKVz7JB-cMyakRSChc8lh5yfbONNqU-EIDcyDFAJLITeQLgEQgF5jVM02g2deYQz2iSFY8xXs7n/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-02-25%20at%204.38.52%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: VIOLENT PLAYGROUND Year: 1957 Rating: **** </td></tr></tbody></table>A year after playing brothers in <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/09/HellDrivers.html">HELL DRIVERS</a>, making Stanley Baker famous and putting cameo David McCallum on the map, they both starred equally in VIOLENT PLAYGROUND, with Baker as a detective reluctantly demoted to juvenile liaison before he can close an arson case... Little does he know McCallum's street punk Johnny is the fire-starter. And as the movie begins with a Rock Around the Clock clone inspired by BLACKBOARD JUNGLE, this gang not only fights but dances wildly...

anne heywood, david mccallum, fifties, film noir or melodrama, freddie starr, george a. cooper, john slater, music, peter cushing, stanley baker

STANLEY BAKER IN 'VIOLENT PLAYGROUND' WITH PETER CUSHING

Title: VIOLENT PLAYGROUND Year: 1957 Rating: **** A year after playing brothers in HELL DRIVERS , making Stanley Baker famous and putting ca...

ENDLESS SUZANNE SOMERS AT JOHN CARPENTER'S 'ZUMA BEACH'

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<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/AVvXsEiO-Lg3J4paycJuUkgeLf9hIq1dMe_9pUIkAGGNR-65YV9btUaHUVVxhJhEMm0ytdaQhr_JrrvErih763BQJ4SWcPq1xnfLobAzz1232sNVF79R-FASswcufC7_DtAIAnoUGd7iyxiJ48BS61_IBAsExwXbRbyK-lFhCsOoujPXfjGZesaY3DkFQrF65olI/s2048/newer.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1223" data-original-width="2048" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO-Lg3J4paycJuUkgeLf9hIq1dMe_9pUIkAGGNR-65YV9btUaHUVVxhJhEMm0ytdaQhr_JrrvErih763BQJ4SWcPq1xnfLobAzz1232sNVF79R-FASswcufC7_DtAIAnoUGd7iyxiJ48BS61_IBAsExwXbRbyK-lFhCsOoujPXfjGZesaY3DkFQrF65olI/w400-h239/newer.jpg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Suzanne Somers in ZUMA BEACH 1978 Rates: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>TV Movies of the Week reigned in the 1970's before cable and the video rental boom, always filling time decently enough... And at ZUMA BEACH, escapism is pretty fine, like with Kimberly Beck as Cathy, new girl in town and cousin of Rosanna Arquette’s Southern California local, Beverly, who thinks apish Steven Keats, as car parking shyster Jerry McCabe, is a fox… so goes the 1970’s… But the mainline centers on a singer named Bonnie Katt: wherein Suzanne Somers, after teasing Richard Dreyfuss in AMERICAN GRAFFITI, blowing up in MAGNUM FORCE and right at the beginning of her game-changing breakthrough on THREE’S COMPANY, dons a sexy one-piece bikini, making the beach her own strutting sandbox...</div>

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ENDLESS SUZANNE SOMERS AT JOHN CARPENTER'S 'ZUMA BEACH'

Suzanne Somers in ZUMA BEACH 1978 Rates: ***1/2 TV Movies of the Week reigned in the 1970's before cable and the video rental boom, al...

OLIVER REED & KATHERINE WOODVILLE IN 'THE PARTY'S OVER'

<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/AVvXsEhn9mj31x2IEZ0CnTZ_S0ewiijIwytKuxXE2qDlYeviG5Vo_tRTtHzKjTwe6U9sCrNkuF_9tvTxrSTBHMGIgTafmoQngfl_mOFDTHojepAfKE3xqU6b-XUfCIqQU-YoMCALKXu6Q7LVf_rxYGvyruwDNao8-BRDpC_Qk85fQhhtfHII1yQ7sF2j8jr_ZA/s1214/Screen%20Shot%202022-05-06%20at%201.36.30%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="538" data-original-width="1214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn9mj31x2IEZ0CnTZ_S0ewiijIwytKuxXE2qDlYeviG5Vo_tRTtHzKjTwe6U9sCrNkuF_9tvTxrSTBHMGIgTafmoQngfl_mOFDTHojepAfKE3xqU6b-XUfCIqQU-YoMCALKXu6Q7LVf_rxYGvyruwDNao8-BRDpC_Qk85fQhhtfHII1yQ7sF2j8jr_ZA/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-05-06%20at%201.36.30%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Title: THE PARTY'S OVER Year: 1965 Rating: ****</td></tr></tbody></table>Executive Producer Peter O'Toole and Jack Hawkins along with director Guy Hamilton took their names off this controversial British Beatnik flick where an American girl, missing from her New York tycoon father and businessman fiance, is supposedly raped/screwed after death: so for them it wasn't controversial enough... 
 
Yet no actual necrophilia occurs (unless you count a quick posthumous kiss), even in the restored cut when — a day before THE PARTY'S OVER — Oliver Reed and his wayward cohorts play cat-and-mouse with Clifford David as the rich chick's arranged fiance, Carson...

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OLIVER REED & KATHERINE WOODVILLE IN 'THE PARTY'S OVER'

Title: THE PARTY'S OVER Year: 1965 Rating: **** Executive Producer Peter O'Toole and Jack Hawkins along with director Guy Hamilton...

INTERVIEW WITH ACTRESS JANE MERROW REVISITING 'THE SYSTEM'

<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/AVvXsEhiyWZodVf1mcNK1kDzftMOEBkc3MgVK-Uf-hsIJLoX8ZErorwoR74txbs06oWGmg70FPu0fQh8D2g4XQlzeBMyk967TvQyhltouYDI8hF672wAQwXMlI3wnlGJ9PL47G3CX59yD_do4fyo2MFZt4TAyIYExeqaM7kXlNlz7QdyPzL0DqGsVFaBIj1f9w/s1129/Screen%20Shot%202022-05-03%20at%202.11.11%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="612" data-original-width="1129" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiyWZodVf1mcNK1kDzftMOEBkc3MgVK-Uf-hsIJLoX8ZErorwoR74txbs06oWGmg70FPu0fQh8D2g4XQlzeBMyk967TvQyhltouYDI8hF672wAQwXMlI3wnlGJ9PL47G3CX59yD_do4fyo2MFZt4TAyIYExeqaM7kXlNlz7QdyPzL0DqGsVFaBIj1f9w/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-05-03%20at%202.11.11%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Interview with British actress JANE MERROW on Michael Winner's THE SYSTEM</td></tr></tbody></table>“Well I was/am in show business so it wasn’t too much of a stretch!” British actress Jane Merrow said about playing Nicola, the ingenue from Michael Winner’s <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/10/system.html">THE SYSTEM</a>, a model as professional and gorgeous as Jane is an actress, changing the life of womanizing playboy <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/oliver%20reed">Oliver Reed</a> as Tinker, who, along with his buddies, uses the titular SYSTEM to strategically pick up girls (mostly rich, unlike them) at the summer resort where they work... And we asked Jane about this incredible film, also known as THE GIRL-GETTERS, made during and about the inception of Britain’s Swinging Sixties at the crest of the cinematic British New Wave…

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INTERVIEW WITH ACTRESS JANE MERROW REVISITING 'THE SYSTEM'

Interview with British actress JANE MERROW on Michael Winner's THE SYSTEM “Well I was/am in show business so it wasn’t too much of a str...

CHARLES BRONSON IN 'THE WHITE BUFFALO' WITH WILL SAMPSON

<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/AVvXsEhDEp-7q5mieJAo_9JfotTR67RskoLSDfVI7jFJRXDRV6htxgRXmHQ_RzwjS5FPK7tGv0BRoDkUoPZ0Nnl24NdFSJNTjQQEWaK65Y0SiEmezt6-mVhwqnDblr0OW7TZE6Bv1EqLZRnUQ9_neLOu-XSwnLXthJPGiH-ZMfNDF53bpG-P7F5_e5OrNY0GVY-C/s1128/Screen%20Shot%202023-09-26%20at%205.39.33%20PM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="666" data-original-width="1128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDEp-7q5mieJAo_9JfotTR67RskoLSDfVI7jFJRXDRV6htxgRXmHQ_RzwjS5FPK7tGv0BRoDkUoPZ0Nnl24NdFSJNTjQQEWaK65Y0SiEmezt6-mVhwqnDblr0OW7TZE6Bv1EqLZRnUQ9_neLOu-XSwnLXthJPGiH-ZMfNDF53bpG-P7F5_e5OrNY0GVY-C/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-09-26%20at%205.39.33%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Charles Bronson in THE WHITE BUFFALO Year: 1977 Rating: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>Within THE WHITE BUFFALO is a different kind of Western that Charles Bronson and director J. Lee Thompson not only wanted to make, but did... at least halfway through: One where Clint Walker has the kind of vengeful spite to kill main character/real life legend Bill Hickock because of the past he's both dodging and facing... thrust towards the gigantic titular beast that, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/jaws-clone">like JAWS</a>, a trio of contrary men band together to expire...In particular Native American Will Sampson who, like the other gentle giant actor Walker, have never been so formidable, also portraying a fictionally-set true legend, Crazy Horse, with his own revenge towards the buffalo that killed his child... giving an overboard performance more than a touch of camp. And the always capable Jack Warden is a one-eyed trapper... the <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2015/06/triad-jaws.html">Robert Shaw</a> here and, though full of tough dialogue, is rather underused...

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CHARLES BRONSON IN 'THE WHITE BUFFALO' WITH WILL SAMPSON

Charles Bronson in THE WHITE BUFFALO Year: 1977 Rating: ***1/2 Within THE WHITE BUFFALO is a different kind of Western that Charles Bronson ...

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