cult film freak: October 2022

Written by James M. Tate / 10/31/2022 / No comments / england , john hurt , leo mckern , nigel davenport , orson welles , paul scofield , religion , sixties , susannah york

PAUL SCOFIELD IN 'A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS' WITH ORSON WELLES

<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/AVvXsEgbWmSjpLLarm_Pf75axWeFOeqsu6qAjLh-TrU5vH9VU2HL3rmAVzviYZ_Pnnij7XHGLL5AcYYy_PhGFPZd3amj3icqFdKzwsprK3qSeNqVS8Fbz1eByQ848mAkIjD1e5C1VHjb-gdvYJYoi6D4j1sFEsrpeQcElvy9cMius32CM2C4fSD5rFMplWOVEQ/s1344/Screen%20Shot%202022-11-02%20at%204.37.01%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="783" data-original-width="1344" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbWmSjpLLarm_Pf75axWeFOeqsu6qAjLh-TrU5vH9VU2HL3rmAVzviYZ_Pnnij7XHGLL5AcYYy_PhGFPZd3amj3icqFdKzwsprK3qSeNqVS8Fbz1eByQ848mAkIjD1e5C1VHjb-gdvYJYoi6D4j1sFEsrpeQcElvy9cMius32CM2C4fSD5rFMplWOVEQ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-11-02%20at%204.37.01%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Orson Welles in A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS Year: 19566</td></tr></tbody></table>Orson Welles, years after CITIZEN KANE, said the hardest role to play 
was probably that of Joseph Cotten's Jeb Leland, a man so determined, honest, 
and stubborn, he doesn't have many rooting for him, but instead, the sympathy goes to the flawed leading man... 
 
Far from the lead, Welles makes an appearance here as a perplexed Cardinal in the Oscar Winning A MAN FOR ALL 
SEASONS, kickstarting an accusation that would lead to the death of the titular 
priest who would not bend for anyone, not even the King of England... the infamous Henry the XIII... who,
 played by Robert Shaw, has a voracious laugh as rich as fool's gold...

england, john hurt, leo mckern, nigel davenport, orson welles, paul scofield, religion, sixties, susannah york

PAUL SCOFIELD IN 'A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS' WITH ORSON WELLES

Orson Welles in A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS Year: 19566 Orson Welles, years after CITIZEN KANE, said the hardest role to play was probably that ...

RICHARD FLEISCHER'S TRUE CRIME ADAPTATION OF 'COMPULSION'

<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/AVvXsEjht5S2U8gasORso3U5ABnbPYmHmWRnpzSMjhmuDRPY5P1O0MPloABuXbT-2mTP8Emoqe2k238PIHbu9M4RsvQa1ciqSfqtp0gooiaUX5tJqav-jlbIkalpY5GrYQXyLeKvZfrFPyVciBGWAxsowi1CeeFunflNW6OpwR7edTp49pt9N8q7l4Ma1WE-MA/s2149/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-30%20at%202.50.42%20AM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1143" data-original-width="2149" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjht5S2U8gasORso3U5ABnbPYmHmWRnpzSMjhmuDRPY5P1O0MPloABuXbT-2mTP8Emoqe2k238PIHbu9M4RsvQa1ciqSfqtp0gooiaUX5tJqav-jlbIkalpY5GrYQXyLeKvZfrFPyVciBGWAxsowi1CeeFunflNW6OpwR7edTp49pt9N8q7l4Ma1WE-MA/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-30%20at%202.50.42%20AM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Poster for Dean Stockwell and Bradford Dillman in COMPULSION Year: 1959 Rating: ****1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>In-between the late Dean Stockwell's green-haired child actor days and the likeable chubby fella leaping through time TV-era, he was a handsome young man but always with a gritty edge... Befitting perfectly alongside a more jovially crooked Bradford Dillman in COMPULSION directed by Richard Fleischer, who had trouble with the first-billed/third-act star Orson Welles (for tax issues more than attitude), providing a walloping anti-death penalty speech lasting ten minutes... yet by that time the best scenes had long passed...

adaptation, bio, bradford dillman, crime, dean stockwell, e.g. marshall, fifties, gavin macleod, melodrama, orson welles, richard fleischer, robert f. simon

RICHARD FLEISCHER'S TRUE CRIME ADAPTATION OF 'COMPULSION'

Poster for Dean Stockwell and Bradford Dillman in COMPULSION Year: 1959 Rating: ****1/2 In-between the late Dean Stockwell's green-haire...

ORSON WELLES DIRECTS AND STARS IN 'THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI'

<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/AVvXsEidiI2i60YyYtpr8XteNBGQLK27yX-SjXf7nac0_CzOGY38vC9nuWGJPlWEv3zj0ysCRslmJSzqWFCKC0-B1K0z5pZnEObbTrQeKwKU5xt5UlIeE209oRqGf_M4pSdiXIM56Px7wWv4TMfvoxO4DFpXyYkFC4G3iva0f4fU7geFa7HSK1eDNPWF0fKI6A/s1589/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-30%20at%2012.09.15%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="860" data-original-width="1589" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidiI2i60YyYtpr8XteNBGQLK27yX-SjXf7nac0_CzOGY38vC9nuWGJPlWEv3zj0ysCRslmJSzqWFCKC0-B1K0z5pZnEObbTrQeKwKU5xt5UlIeE209oRqGf_M4pSdiXIM56Px7wWv4TMfvoxO4DFpXyYkFC4G3iva0f4fU7geFa7HSK1eDNPWF0fKI6A/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-30%20at%2012.09.15%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: The Lady From Shanghai Year: 1947 Rating: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>Orson Welles's 1946 directorial noir adventure THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI is famous for the ending, but there are some worthy middle parts of this unique thriller that Welles cast ex-wife Rita Hayworth in, cutting off her luscious GILDA hair and ticking off studio-heads right off the bat...Not that it matters... Hayworth's performance isn't that "wicked" and yet she is fitfully vulnerable: particularly in a corny horse-and-carriage scene Welles opposed, introducing both his contentedly poor Irishman, Mike "Black Irish" O'Hara to Hayworth's rich, sullen Elsa, wife of a crippled, snaky and hugely infamous lawyer played by Everette Sloane...

action, adventure, everette sloane, film noir or melodrama, forties, glenn anders, orson welles, rita hayworth, ted decorsia, thriller

ORSON WELLES DIRECTS AND STARS IN 'THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI'

Title: The Lady From Shanghai Year: 1947 Rating: ***1/2 Orson Welles's 1946 directorial noir adventure THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI is famous ...

ORSON WELLES HYPNOTIZES NANCY GUILD WITH 'BLACK MAGIC'

<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/AVvXsEgcsdU-bowMNuYSBU2-n0QZqIGRFIumd5fv52JBK8fRUEyOz4eNtgeJGPPlx-5UHFa27AurPD2khtjHLhR5rpq3uReMTaTmqf5CyHoJAsTiOvRt3Xj9qOwHlFqM4-BI3_jxR06F0OgBmBff_0MP40dDenLmP2D7AMyL4OS2-YWfEcgUSYHgpF9jV1MOLw/s1022/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="556" data-original-width="1022" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcsdU-bowMNuYSBU2-n0QZqIGRFIumd5fv52JBK8fRUEyOz4eNtgeJGPPlx-5UHFa27AurPD2khtjHLhR5rpq3uReMTaTmqf5CyHoJAsTiOvRt3Xj9qOwHlFqM4-BI3_jxR06F0OgBmBff_0MP40dDenLmP2D7AMyL4OS2-YWfEcgUSYHgpF9jV1MOLw/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Orson Welles and Nancy Guild starring in BLACK MAGIC Year: 1948 Rating: **1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>As a hired actor instead of director or producer, Orson Welles — while making money for those projects he developed on his own — was used for his deep, godlike voice, but in BLACK MAGIC... released the same year as THE THIRD MAN which epitomized that sublime vocal delivery... it was his sharp, cold, piercing eyes that were the most exploited...He's a hypnotist after all: born the son of two 1700's-era gypsies and whose mother could actually foretell the future, he is soon orphaned when they're hanged for wielding so-called demonic powers...

adventure, akim tamiroff, berry kroeger, con man, drama, forties, frank latimore, nancy guilt, occult, orson welles, period piece, revenge, reymond burr, victorian

ORSON WELLES HYPNOTIZES NANCY GUILD WITH 'BLACK MAGIC'

Orson Welles and Nancy Guild starring in BLACK MAGIC Year: 1948 Rating: **1/2 As a hired actor instead of director or producer, Orson Welles...

ORSON WELLES, DAVID NIVEN & PETER SELLERS IN 'CASINO ROYALE'

<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/AVvXsEgJQf13eJ5t1CgTS0EXKqJO16KxpZ096e0_9cmwzcoiQg6whtSm6XFXSRvCZVCCHJB5o0dgZyVcw1soohqEXvxfyZZuEheh7P8df84U1oE0pJQOoARrioQfeB2RHKVx_Jd2h6fdVAnV9R15MWmcYWTWyrfzQvjSQfOrtwu5Em8xXu6RtOJfX2Woiv5wsg/s1414/Screen%20Shot%202022-11-04%20at%204.16.32%20AM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="892" data-original-width="1414" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJQf13eJ5t1CgTS0EXKqJO16KxpZ096e0_9cmwzcoiQg6whtSm6XFXSRvCZVCCHJB5o0dgZyVcw1soohqEXvxfyZZuEheh7P8df84U1oE0pJQOoARrioQfeB2RHKVx_Jd2h6fdVAnV9R15MWmcYWTWyrfzQvjSQfOrtwu5Em8xXu6RtOJfX2Woiv5wsg/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-11-04%20at%204.16.32%20AM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">ORSON WELLES from CASINO ROYALE Year: 1967 Rating: *1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>The infamous James Bond Spy Spoof CASINO ROYALE from the much-too-colorful 1960's could be deemed unbelievably awful but with a collection of writers and directors (including <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/val%20guest">Val Guest</a> and John Huston) desperately herding their all-star cast into what wound up resembling a high-priced TV variety show, it IS believable to have turned out so... well... unbelievably awful...Chopped into vignettes, by far the most awkward has David Niven's retired/reserved James Bond in Scotland (some kind of homage to Sean Connery) being tempted by a castle of gorgeous "daughters" of John Huston's newly-killed M...

angela scoular, barbara bouchet, british, comedy, david niven, deborah kerr, james bond, joanna pettet, john huston, orson welles, peter sellers, spoof, spy, ursula andress, val guest, woody allen

ORSON WELLES, DAVID NIVEN & PETER SELLERS IN 'CASINO ROYALE'

ORSON WELLES from CASINO ROYALE Year: 1967 Rating: *1/2 The infamous James Bond Spy Spoof CASINO ROYALE from the much-too-colorful 1960'...

ORSON WELLES, PAMELA FRANKLIN & LEE PURCELL 'NECROMANCY'

<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/AVvXsEjeOYTDVcq7VdkTX5auzU3YTUfqZBKWU3fxBxuFOzl4-XSilHuArmQH2o2oqTBx18Swf2hW5fwzxxGS-nG9ebfqNnMT33tVa32GDviOdKOfccRJ2APJQEevGMgxGAl1cSB9I2meyaUcuBSHwOYPkUpnxtTXbULYLPdc9Jey8ssDvlTbs8Vbu5jfMvV1Rg/s908/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-27%20at%202.21.00%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="572" data-original-width="908" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeOYTDVcq7VdkTX5auzU3YTUfqZBKWU3fxBxuFOzl4-XSilHuArmQH2o2oqTBx18Swf2hW5fwzxxGS-nG9ebfqNnMT33tVa32GDviOdKOfccRJ2APJQEevGMgxGAl1cSB9I2meyaUcuBSHwOYPkUpnxtTXbULYLPdc9Jey8ssDvlTbs8Vbu5jfMvV1Rg/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-27%20at%202.21.00%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pamela Franklin & Orson Welles in NECROMANCY Year: 1972 Rating: **1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>Exploitation/Horror b-director Bert I. Gordon definitely knew WHO he had 
for the Rural Satanic Hippie Cult flick, THE WITCHING actually/originally titled NECROMANCY, but he 
didn't know enough about WHAT he had in his stellar cast including the 
legendary Orson Welles as the leader of a colorful coven... He's yearning to reanimate
 his dead son using the lovely, vulnerable, and soul-troubled wife of new couple in town Pamela 
Franklin, married to passive tagalong Michael Onkean as both are semi-seduced into the realm by one of the few women more insanely gorgeous than Franklin...

bert i. gordon, harvey jason, horror, interview, lee purcell, michael ontkean, occult, orson welles, rural, seventies, thriller, witch

ORSON WELLES, PAMELA FRANKLIN & LEE PURCELL 'NECROMANCY'

Pamela Franklin & Orson Welles in NECROMANCY Year: 1972 Rating: **1/2 Exploitation/Horror b-director Bert I. Gordon definitely knew WHO ...

PHOTO GALLERY 'CURSE OF THE DEMON' FOR ANOTHER OCTOBRER

<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/AVvXsEizqB7rhKiOybwlWd3JSEed0OEndIcKMTbgbIeCluN6z0DuF3sGNZ8sTZyJUVeuBR2SDSXnAn9Oe3NGfw7n9YpqbLptnAE8rvDcVE8i-XsvS3i3Sd-BfFimchJ-jxvmhq98dwQfIjqHByWU29atpZWGVJGjJArcwiuzZIVOQijA9YyveEYBsFadsEVElw/s1455/1%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="902" data-original-width="1455" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizqB7rhKiOybwlWd3JSEed0OEndIcKMTbgbIeCluN6z0DuF3sGNZ8sTZyJUVeuBR2SDSXnAn9Oe3NGfw7n9YpqbLptnAE8rvDcVE8i-XsvS3i3Sd-BfFimchJ-jxvmhq98dwQfIjqHByWU29atpZWGVJGjJArcwiuzZIVOQijA9YyveEYBsFadsEVElw/s16000/1%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cover of the British Blu Ray Box Set for NIGHT OF THE DEMON/CURSE OF THE DEMON</td></tr></tbody></table>There have been two reviews on the Jacques Tourneur classic horror 
<a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2018/12/DemonCurse.html">CURSE OF THE DEMON</a>, the American re-release title, and how it differs from the original British <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/10/NightCurse.html">NIGHT OF THE DEMON</a>, which 
these particular captures, celebrating this years' Halloween, derive...Our favorite actor is Dana Andrews and 
favorite director is Jacques Tourneur, making either DEMON a favorite 
horror that combines American cinema thrills and leading man, a French 
auteur and everything
 else belongs to the British including locations (including Stonehenge), character-actors and leading 
lady, Peggy Cummins...

article, british, cult, dana andrews, fifties, horror, jacques tourneur, list, niall macginnis, occult, peggy cummins, thriller

PHOTO GALLERY 'CURSE OF THE DEMON' FOR ANOTHER OCTOBRER

Cover of the British Blu Ray Box Set for NIGHT OF THE DEMON/CURSE OF THE DEMON There have been two reviews on the Jacques Tourneur classic h...

OLIVER REED AND GLENDA JACKSON IN 'THE TRIPLE ECHO'

<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/AVvXsEhX7AfKK4k-2YeVko5zXAXZBi32cEAEmjuKsgJ2wLCHS-pM91fr3i3XWTtG0d6wt3Oo7B40JLfd04AqahZblMf5KIqgPu180eL2VZmd1RD7l2lUElL765OsODut-DMAolpyiiZes0XaZlJyjXJUakSPomOfcRo4C9LtykKqEdjAe0y0Jq2W0NqrAyl43A/s966/71qLtwMalBL._SL1300_.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="660" data-original-width="966" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX7AfKK4k-2YeVko5zXAXZBi32cEAEmjuKsgJ2wLCHS-pM91fr3i3XWTtG0d6wt3Oo7B40JLfd04AqahZblMf5KIqgPu180eL2VZmd1RD7l2lUElL765OsODut-DMAolpyiiZes0XaZlJyjXJUakSPomOfcRo4C9LtykKqEdjAe0y0Jq2W0NqrAyl43A/s16000/71qLtwMalBL._SL1300_.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: THE TRIPLE ECHO Year: 1972 Rating: ****</td></tr></tbody></table>In any movie where a man has to dress up like a woman, for whatever reason, there's the one genuine manly male who wants to give that so-called female a test ride wherein the truth will be discovered...  So when it's stocky firebrand Oliver Reed as a World War II era tank sergeant, lusting after a deserted soldier hiding out in widowed Glenda Jackson's rural chicken farm while (romancing her and) posing as his sister, this otherwise searing romantic drama turns into a heated, nightmarish thriller...

brian deacon, british, drama, exploitation, glenda jackson, michael adpted, oliver reed, romance, rural, thriller, world war II

OLIVER REED AND GLENDA JACKSON IN 'THE TRIPLE ECHO'

Title: THE TRIPLE ECHO Year: 1972 Rating: **** In any movie where a man has to dress up like a woman, for whatever reason, there's the o...

LAURENCE HARVEY VS TOM COURTENAY FOR 'A DANDY IN ASPIC'

<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/AVvXsEiIGM9oLlSyXQbD_Hhp0y_loEsy_xBFRxbnuPCGaLbdM8FyxqB-QjxgeXx0u5rrwYqMv9sv0h0eDvxjaFkJu_39Z92dM01Dpl7dIAku8dGcgy6jEXQuF5aNjmyhoz7YI1FnAo0UZbFOLrDJTNHFlWQZdrWIlSQMhOsKMAcDA43mct9KyUN5YmpVDd0T4g/s1440/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-22%20at%2012.15.45%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="809" data-original-width="1440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIGM9oLlSyXQbD_Hhp0y_loEsy_xBFRxbnuPCGaLbdM8FyxqB-QjxgeXx0u5rrwYqMv9sv0h0eDvxjaFkJu_39Z92dM01Dpl7dIAku8dGcgy6jEXQuF5aNjmyhoz7YI1FnAo0UZbFOLrDJTNHFlWQZdrWIlSQMhOsKMAcDA43mct9KyUN5YmpVDd0T4g/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-22%20at%2012.15.45%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: A DANDY IN ASPIC Year: 1968 Rates: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>"I do believe that you two would have got on well together," Tom Courtenay as a stuffy, cautious and paranoid, cold-blooded British agent named Gaitiss tells Mia Farrow's flaky model Caroline after she beds Laurence Harvey, a far more sympathetic agent that we think is named Alexander Eberlin. "You haven't got a past, and he hasn't got a future."Sadly, either did veteran director Anthony Mann, who started with Film Noir using creative camera angles before turning to traditional Westerns, making A DANDY IN ASPIC a kind of halfway visual comeback...

anthony mann, barbara murray, british neo noir, british new wave, espionage, laurence harvey, lionel stander, mia farrow, sixties, spy, suspense, thriller, tom courtenay

LAURENCE HARVEY VS TOM COURTENAY FOR 'A DANDY IN ASPIC'

Title: A DANDY IN ASPIC Year: 1968 Rates: ***1/2 "I do believe that you two would have got on well together," Tom Courtenay as a s...

TOM COURTENAY PURSUED THROUGHOUT ENGLAND AS 'OTLEY'

<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/AVvXsEhLviDa0GiSxu4yazZvhWK-x1s0iy2EWdR5I2lZtBzz4lKmNd4pdkZ4t2wTGuLSEiDZB8_2SZPhY6_puFTBGcFweK0OTXizuk5rZ0WGLZIR-20zxCrWS5hKeg5eJEC7eDImuhFQPSaofUP0jd7yJmiuLawQndSHhcwS09NDVjPM7_uSqPkiTVJXZyLhRg/s1177/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-21%20at%202.54.26%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="737" data-original-width="1177" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLviDa0GiSxu4yazZvhWK-x1s0iy2EWdR5I2lZtBzz4lKmNd4pdkZ4t2wTGuLSEiDZB8_2SZPhY6_puFTBGcFweK0OTXizuk5rZ0WGLZIR-20zxCrWS5hKeg5eJEC7eDImuhFQPSaofUP0jd7yJmiuLawQndSHhcwS09NDVjPM7_uSqPkiTVJXZyLhRg/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-21%20at%202.54.26%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tom Courtenay in OTLEY Year: 1969 Rating: ****</td></tr></tbody></table>At the crest of the 1960's counter-culture, OTLEY was the final starring cinematic role for Tom Courtenay before returning to and remaining with the Royal Stage until his comeback in THE DRESSER. Despite earning an Oscar nomination, those very long thirteen-years had changed the scrawny, scowling, hungry rebellious youth into a mellow middle-aged man who could still act — but visually it was like replacing James Dean with Jimmy Dean... 
 
OTLEY was also a reunion of two young cronies from Courtenay's star-making LONELINESS OF THE LONG DISTANCE RUNNER with James Bolam as one of several antique dealers along Fleet Street, England, where Courtenay's Gerald Otley hardly makes a living, starting out being kicked out of one flat and desperately seeking another...

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TOM COURTENAY PURSUED THROUGHOUT ENGLAND AS 'OTLEY'

Tom Courtenay in OTLEY Year: 1969 Rating: **** At the crest of the 1960's counter-culture, OTLEY was the final starring cinematic role f...

WILLIAM SYLVESTER DIGS INTO 'OFFBEAT' AKA 'THE DEVIL INSIDE'

<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/AVvXsEiGZNCZkC7WojDRlLM9LfucB0tBITl3L3yP6boAU01j50YWLFBE-cRkgDnd7RuvDVgAAJXZns0KylHBc8jWOO2p8c1gXn4_YjBmT8X6SSnqbaQfRIS6cezP1_b2nqcLhq1ExccOYOvWjIyBCdNj4yuiowIOUSKAd4MqdWat07GRnRybG5VPyYMdQJpm5Q/s1385/Screen%20Shot%202021-03-22%20at%202.35.24%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1385" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGZNCZkC7WojDRlLM9LfucB0tBITl3L3yP6boAU01j50YWLFBE-cRkgDnd7RuvDVgAAJXZns0KylHBc8jWOO2p8c1gXn4_YjBmT8X6SSnqbaQfRIS6cezP1_b2nqcLhq1ExccOYOvWjIyBCdNj4yuiowIOUSKAd4MqdWat07GRnRybG5VPyYMdQJpm5Q/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202021-03-22%20at%202.35.24%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">William Sylvester in OFFBEAT Year: 1961 Rating: ****</td></tr></tbody></table>There was a reason American actor William Sylvester was available for an American director who filmed and lived in England, where both he and Stanley Kubrick ala 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY literally felt right at home: And OFFBEAT/THE DEVIL INSIDE provides the usually cool/collected William Sylvester real edge and intensity: starting out in dark sunglasses while robbing a bank... then meeting with fellow cops for whom he's a resilient, somewhat roguish undercover agent. Taking place during one heist... a tunnel job on a quiet city street... the mission's to infiltrate a syndicate of criminals yet this particular den harbors pool-playing, working-class types so crooked they're almost normal, including by-the-numbers leader Anthony Dawson and affable John Meillon, who, along with muscle-thugs Neil McCarthy and Harry Baird, pose as construction workers....

anthony dawson, british neo noir, british new wave, cliff owen, cop, harry baird, heist, john meillon, mai zetterling, neil mccarthy, sixties, william sylvester

WILLIAM SYLVESTER DIGS INTO 'OFFBEAT' AKA 'THE DEVIL INSIDE'

William Sylvester in OFFBEAT Year: 1961 Rating: **** There was a reason American actor William Sylvester was available for an American direc...

JACQUELINE ELLIS WITH PATRICK ALLEN IN 'THE SINISTER MAN'

<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/AVvXsEgM6vcZBsr88JL6qZ9EcoJId_91eqyAwYv7nYAVTIHAe4PxztIBD7qDpbQD-1GZ8yrR0RJ3o825GNMB_WeJwqZGF7xcS-TLlgYW4JfRBhBMio9CC4sneoZtZimHouUFyhW4EhM-emNb2z9hZmZILAglP4Jn3Xpt9cFUHcSxyT77ZtfntC-TBZ9vpzwcgw/s1639/3.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="789" data-original-width="1639" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM6vcZBsr88JL6qZ9EcoJId_91eqyAwYv7nYAVTIHAe4PxztIBD7qDpbQD-1GZ8yrR0RJ3o825GNMB_WeJwqZGF7xcS-TLlgYW4JfRBhBMio9CC4sneoZtZimHouUFyhW4EhM-emNb2z9hZmZILAglP4Jn3Xpt9cFUHcSxyT77ZtfntC-TBZ9vpzwcgw/s16000/3.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jacqueline Ellis in THE SINISTER MAN Year: 1961 Rating: *1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>Another episode of EDGAR WALLACE MYSTERIES that also became a theatrical programmer, which is hard to believe since THE SINISTER MAN, never once living up to its name, is extremely episodic... and if this were a pilot for token constable John Bentley, here investigating a dead body in a river alongside a research center harboring scientist Patrick Allen and girlfriend Jacqueline Ellis, the show would have never been picked up...Because the story never picks up despite being filled with eclectic, random elements... from the overall two dead bodies having been karate-chopped to a falsely accused Asian man, there's no palpable suspense or intrigue in an sixty-minute mystery without thrills, and that feels like three hours... the best thing is seeing Jacqueline Ellis for over half that length, but she, like the plot-line, merely stands around going nowhere.

british neo noir, british tv, edgar wallace, jacqueline ellis, john bentley, mystery, patrick allen, ric young, thriller

JACQUELINE ELLIS WITH PATRICK ALLEN IN 'THE SINISTER MAN'

Jacqueline Ellis in THE SINISTER MAN Year: 1961 Rating: *1/2 Another episode of EDGAR WALLACE MYSTERIES that also became a theatrical progra...

JACQUELINE ELLIS AND JACK HEDLEY IN 'NEVER BACK LOSERS'

<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/AVvXsEinwG1S4DrMxaw55d2vdne8qN4aKfHhzAdLiWaxuNDUcqECd9ug3LSxCI4RehW9W1rkXgkJz3uzk68kIOnAMVLQaWwmiy72G0S0-pY5EX6DuRGmTHxsNT3SLA73x2kAVEHnw0ThJH9DVfquQhGkSBxT1STWewiIGRvO5ssUEiVC0OndWOsvmVsGwwD1nQ/s1594/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-17%20at%206.20.50%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="698" data-original-width="1594" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinwG1S4DrMxaw55d2vdne8qN4aKfHhzAdLiWaxuNDUcqECd9ug3LSxCI4RehW9W1rkXgkJz3uzk68kIOnAMVLQaWwmiy72G0S0-pY5EX6DuRGmTHxsNT3SLA73x2kAVEHnw0ThJH9DVfquQhGkSBxT1STWewiIGRvO5ssUEiVC0OndWOsvmVsGwwD1nQ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-17%20at%206.20.50%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jacqueline Ellis in NEVER BACK LOSERS Year: 1961 Rating: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>Another b-crime programmer from the early 1960's that was originally an episode of the British anthology <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/08/AOM.html">EDGAR WALLACE MYSTERY THEATER</a>, and Jack Hedley, who we follow from a boring desk job at an insurance company, becomes their mobile investigator...  And with an hour runtime, it's not long until he finds not only the villain in a slithering Patrick Magee, but ingenue <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/jacqueline%20ellis">Jacqueline Ellis</a>, a bad girl initially, visiting Jack's home with an angry pistol drawn...

british neo noir, british tv, edgar wallace, howard pays, jack hedley, jacqueline ellis, mystery, patrick magee, sixties

JACQUELINE ELLIS AND JACK HEDLEY IN 'NEVER BACK LOSERS'

Jacqueline Ellis in NEVER BACK LOSERS Year: 1961 Rating: ***1/2 Another b-crime programmer from the early 1960's that was originally an ...

JACQUELINE ELLIS IN 'THE TRAITORS' STARRING PATRICK ALLEN

<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/AVvXsEhGR8L5NnOjVdu49fBx7p9c7CISz9X3pivczQucfP5rMqZH_ScFbsvbY3m3RY7EVvxdetONf7THxVZ4FFsIs8J88tJ-Mit68v6rcQ-RO_5dKl4q0HO5bfVupWzVG00ib0buCz7XN8E8QnFYahEIMws45t0ZmGPMMfSEaFBsZAKCvZo7v0BXbTNYJ9Z5Tw/s911/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-16%20at%205.06.11%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="469" data-original-width="911" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGR8L5NnOjVdu49fBx7p9c7CISz9X3pivczQucfP5rMqZH_ScFbsvbY3m3RY7EVvxdetONf7THxVZ4FFsIs8J88tJ-Mit68v6rcQ-RO_5dKl4q0HO5bfVupWzVG00ib0buCz7XN8E8QnFYahEIMws45t0ZmGPMMfSEaFBsZAKCvZo7v0BXbTNYJ9Z5Tw/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-16%20at%205.06.11%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jacqueline Ellis in THE TRAITORS Year: 1962 Rating: ***</td></tr></tbody></table>The second of two British b-crimes pairing lantern-jawed <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/12/peter-cushing-patrick-allen-in-hammers.html">Patrick Allen</a>, honing one of the greatest voices in cinema history, with ingenue <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/jacqueline%20ellis">Jacqueline Ellis</a>, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/jacqueline%20ellis">THE TRAITORS</a>... written by Jim O'Connolly, who'd direct Ellis in <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/11/hijackers.html">THE HI-JACKERS</a> the next year... follows the usual spy template popular in the 1960's... Herein the titular gang of microfilm-carrying turncoats are shadowed by stalwart British agent Allen paired with an American with a British accent in future <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/02/otley.html">OTLEY</a> actor James Maxwell...

british neo noir, british new wave, espionage, harold goodwin, jacqueline ellis, james maxwell, jim o'connolly, patrick allen, sixties, spy, zena walker

JACQUELINE ELLIS IN 'THE TRAITORS' STARRING PATRICK ALLEN

Jacqueline Ellis in THE TRAITORS Year: 1962 Rating: *** The second of two British b-crimes pairing lantern-jawed Patrick Allen , honing one ...

JACQUELINE ELLIS VACATIONS FOR A NOIRISH 'DANGER MAN'

<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/AVvXsEhl5KGjyK5sjgW3deqQ9N9VM0kyKr1YoTyRhW2C7mtpGtMx7-hBo07d9jRGxDgnxu2NsaXC31N32QQfVCLNMVHaHhkqiNuAEyRSSajAkFQozO3dkYnbAi45WuYxtNaOEu8oGlM4SQ59hkFb3CTYEcWgMJ4lA5VWg-P7SFLq3TFf2CtOiCukNY27KhlFag/s1830/312084886_5796803600363872_3085006816356760227_n%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1155" data-original-width="1830" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl5KGjyK5sjgW3deqQ9N9VM0kyKr1YoTyRhW2C7mtpGtMx7-hBo07d9jRGxDgnxu2NsaXC31N32QQfVCLNMVHaHhkqiNuAEyRSSajAkFQozO3dkYnbAi45WuYxtNaOEu8oGlM4SQ59hkFb3CTYEcWgMJ4lA5VWg-P7SFLq3TFf2CtOiCukNY27KhlFag/s16000/312084886_5796803600363872_3085006816356760227_n%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Patrick McGoohan and Jacqueline Ellis in Danger Man: Vacation Year: 1961 Grade: A+</td></tr></tbody></table>When it comes to 1960's British spy television,  Patrick McGoohan is (and was even then) a legend with DANGER MAN, playing agent John Drake, morphed into SECRET AGENT and then THE PRISONER (more a spiritual than literal continuation): and in the first series, actress Jacqueline Ellis... usually cast as the good girl-next-door type for the overall crime genre... is the... um... well...That's a spoiler because her character... the niece of a very rich fella sought by a professional hit man (Hugh McDermott, who'd play Ellis's husband on <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2022/10/ellisaint2.html">THE SAINT</a>) that Drake's impersonating after recognizing and then knocking him out in an airplane... initially seems like the target, and whether she's practicing tennis or urgently warned by the always-intense McGoohan, she's cuter than ever in an excellently tight-knit, no-nonsense episode.

action, british tv, espionage, hugh mcdermott, jacqueline ellis, mystery, patrick mcgoohan, sixties, spy

JACQUELINE ELLIS VACATIONS FOR A NOIRISH 'DANGER MAN'

Patrick McGoohan and Jacqueline Ellis in Danger Man: Vacation Year: 1961 Grade: A+ When it comes to 1960's British spy television, Patr...

JACQELINE ELLIS RETURNS ON 'THE SAINT' WITH ROGER MOORE

<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/AVvXsEjKBJkRMVxcld5V526QaqvPPeP5Vm04eJH9JSd2btJVkxNMDmTKS9dLQ_a_SKs6mKOb75xDSfIe7nq8xk-Ivzomy30bFOF7L1G3_xn69e-h-V8hvXoMlG5KswV9PTRIC7YCjIs6UK36gwoLHzzKVviB48gV6Dbk4czkihpHd8bwZVsQHBIhkt1aqw4uXA/s1688/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1025" data-original-width="1688" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKBJkRMVxcld5V526QaqvPPeP5Vm04eJH9JSd2btJVkxNMDmTKS9dLQ_a_SKs6mKOb75xDSfIe7nq8xk-Ivzomy30bFOF7L1G3_xn69e-h-V8hvXoMlG5KswV9PTRIC7YCjIs6UK36gwoLHzzKVviB48gV6Dbk4czkihpHd8bwZVsQHBIhkt1aqw4uXA/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Jacqueline Ellis & Hugh McDermott in The Saint: The Golden Frog Year: 1965 Grade: C—</td></tr></tbody></table>Second episode of <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2022/10/ellisaint.html">THE SAINT</a> where<a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/jacqueline%20ellis"> Jacqueline Ellis</a>... the cute British actress who starred in British Film Noirs ranging from <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/02/ellis.html">ACCIDENTAL DEATH</a>, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2022/10/blog-post.html">THE TRAITORS</a> and THE <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/11/hijackers.html">HI-JACKERS</a>... is teamed with an older man, holed-up in a posh hotel, attempting to con a rich man...  In this case it's Roger Moore's Simon Templar, pretending to be a buyer in search of the titular GOLDEN FROG... and this time the location's South America instead of San Fransisco from an eclectic series that always changed locales...

british neo noir, british tv, con man, crime, hugh mcdermott, jacqueline ellis, roger moore, sixties, the saint

JACQELINE ELLIS RETURNS ON 'THE SAINT' WITH ROGER MOORE

Jacqueline Ellis & Hugh McDermott in The Saint: The Golden Frog Year: 1965 Grade: C— Second episode of THE SAINT where Jacqueline El...

JACQUELINE ELLIS IN 'ACCIDENTAL DEATH' WITH JOHN CARSON

<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/AVvXsEg7rEXfycsoqttSigS3abJoZSYOaY8LbWSwUzWnsHEIAuITV1vsxYvYmwMLBKhMOUg8cxWA7cyt7KMAeiGaYqh7F2BeGT5E_gXlQkeKIcvkAd4mPcJDbcgMnIE71BoSh4vEhCaoziSezEK5UcRQRf9TPt2dIiXKThWWfFpC5OS8lKgS6C14qVacplFCXQ/s2048/35.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1271" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7rEXfycsoqttSigS3abJoZSYOaY8LbWSwUzWnsHEIAuITV1vsxYvYmwMLBKhMOUg8cxWA7cyt7KMAeiGaYqh7F2BeGT5E_gXlQkeKIcvkAd4mPcJDbcgMnIE71BoSh4vEhCaoziSezEK5UcRQRf9TPt2dIiXKThWWfFpC5OS8lKgS6C14qVacplFCXQ/s16000/35.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Jacqueline Ellis in ACCIDENTAL DEATH Year: 1963 Rating: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>Resembling a pretty young school teacher, grown-up girl next door type, who "doesn't look like the teachers I had," <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/11/hijackers.html">Jacqueline Ellis </a>is a different kind of British b-movie starlet...And very important here as a wishbone not just between two men but three including an older rich gent who raised her; a young passive boyfriend; and a new guy in town... or actually, in the house... as flirtatious thirty-something Frenchman John Carson doesn't only have a plot to kill the old-timer for war crimes, he warns him outright so the title ACCIDENTAL DEATH fits what might occur...

british, british neo noir, british new wave, edgar wallace, jacqueline ellis, john carson, melodrama, suspense

JACQUELINE ELLIS IN 'ACCIDENTAL DEATH' WITH JOHN CARSON

Jacqueline Ellis in ACCIDENTAL DEATH Year: 1963 Rating: ***1/2 Resembling a pretty young school teacher, grown-up girl next door type, who ...

JACQUELINE ELLIS HITCHES JIM O'CONNOLLY'S 'THE HI-JACKERS'

<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/AVvXsEhbn3yGCqIqZPrB6TmNDtaISAX_v8Kg1StaJNKr6eT7xwDx2l0YgLBA5FEN8PbMyea0HWBlEN9l8qhKaQmlQxUMbxx2y7DnwPyfa7EhIEgNZAgCfoJyyRFkpsUgCi4ChkSmhZ7dYN5AFE9hGIhQEsjm4tzCNsyE_obFMJaHp102n1estEAPqswBDBOp1A/s1600/22.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1132" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbn3yGCqIqZPrB6TmNDtaISAX_v8Kg1StaJNKr6eT7xwDx2l0YgLBA5FEN8PbMyea0HWBlEN9l8qhKaQmlQxUMbxx2y7DnwPyfa7EhIEgNZAgCfoJyyRFkpsUgCi4ChkSmhZ7dYN5AFE9hGIhQEsjm4tzCNsyE_obFMJaHp102n1estEAPqswBDBOp1A/s16000/22.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Title: THE HI-JACKERSYear: 1963 Rating: ****</td></tr></tbody></table>Writer/director Jim O'Connolly should be well known for two films where the cult status went to someone else: In BERSERK, Joan Crawford gets credit while stop-motion guru Ray Harryhausen and his dinosaurs ruled THE VALLEY OF GWANGI. But O'Connolly's by himself in creating two neat, tight and entertaining B&W post-noir crime flicks derived from the British b-picture company, Butcher's, in the early/mid 1960's... 
 
The first being THE HI-JACKERS starring Anthony Booth as an independent truck/lorry driver: victim of the titular gang faking accident scenes on the rural roadside and then stealing the cargo: in his case, cases of Johnnie Walker Red...

anthony booth, british, british neo noir, british new wave, crime, david gregory, derek francis, glynn edwards, jacqueline ellis, jazz-score, jim o'connolly, sixties

JACQUELINE ELLIS HITCHES JIM O'CONNOLLY'S 'THE HI-JACKERS'

Title: THE HI-JACKERSYear: 1963 Rating: **** Writer/director Jim O'Connolly should be well known for two films where the cult status we...

JACQUELINE ELLIS, JEANNE MOODY & ROGER MOORE 'THE SAINT'

<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/AVvXsEihNuwuQVFdmAL2ExjjQq5IOcbMDsFngDnun4CUsLupc_-CaRm6CoaaGkafbqD0XO9qSe7nIWrsBsyBb6IrWK-NgEHvKAhCU_v-WS1cj9WrygTa5S2R_2Gf1dwMFC_Lg2pLA28Fhqfa9DYYGwoEKTnajrMmLDWhAVk7al7qw-UmZ60fbGNI1XTz_lyr-Q/s1838/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-13%20at%201.44.22%20AM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1172" data-original-width="1838" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihNuwuQVFdmAL2ExjjQq5IOcbMDsFngDnun4CUsLupc_-CaRm6CoaaGkafbqD0XO9qSe7nIWrsBsyBb6IrWK-NgEHvKAhCU_v-WS1cj9WrygTa5S2R_2Gf1dwMFC_Lg2pLA28Fhqfa9DYYGwoEKTnajrMmLDWhAVk7al7qw-UmZ60fbGNI1XTz_lyr-Q/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-13%20at%201.44.22%20AM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jacqueline Ellis & Roger Moore in The Saint: The Ever-Loving Spouse Year: 1964 Grade: B—</td></tr></tbody></table>British actress Jacqueline Ellis was a girl-next-door beauty with vulnerability and strength battling for a kind of spoiled girl's spunky attempt to better herself out of dire circumstance, usually of the crime nature as she appeared in several British New Wave Noirs like ACCIDENTAL DEATH and THE HI-JACKERS, and two episodes of THE SAINT...In THE EVER-LOVING SPOUSE, Jacqueline's busy at a San Fransisco hotel, that's holding a rowdy convention of businessmen where she's teamed-up to blackmail a candy company mogul with a contrived-suggestive photograph she rushed him into, posing in scantily-clad clothes for the snap...

british neo noir, british tv, crime, jacqueline ellis, jeanne moody, robert arden, roger moore, sixties, the saint

JACQUELINE ELLIS, JEANNE MOODY & ROGER MOORE 'THE SAINT'

Jacqueline Ellis & Roger Moore in The Saint: The Ever-Loving Spouse Year: 1964 Grade: B— British actress Jacqueline Ellis was a girl-nex...

JACQUELINE ELLIS 'THE YELLOW TEDDY BEARS' ANNETTE WHITELEY

<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/AVvXsEhHo7yofs5U66Y46U8ca266XNQaRofUhCI928wjjuttdO4yoBV-jJ7ClI5Lu3CvX6d2c38oMX6GWZnJ0b-FfaMnsRdNrhj9FVcy6cSTlb3ki7m6x5gOVpTK6WTXq3l9KWvmraM5OhFiuDJGPa9PmyL8KZ_sQCfZ6olVKVEucg_5xBaD34dwYoyte6w1UQ/s2056/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-15%20at%2012.41.07%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1159" data-original-width="2056" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHo7yofs5U66Y46U8ca266XNQaRofUhCI928wjjuttdO4yoBV-jJ7ClI5Lu3CvX6d2c38oMX6GWZnJ0b-FfaMnsRdNrhj9FVcy6cSTlb3ki7m6x5gOVpTK6WTXq3l9KWvmraM5OhFiuDJGPa9PmyL8KZ_sQCfZ6olVKVEucg_5xBaD34dwYoyte6w1UQ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-15%20at%2012.41.07%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jacqueline Ellis in THE YELLOW TEDDY BEARS Year: 1963 Rating: **1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>With alternate titles THE THRILL SEEKERS and GUTTER GIRLS, even the 
actual name THE YELLOW TEDDY BEARS... pins that female students wear 
meaning they've been devirginized... is very misleading, and, what 
initially plays out a sexual cautionary tale for teenagers turns into a 
third-act lecture for adults about these kids... So while ahead of its time, not only addressing abortion but showing <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/08/GOA.html">GIRL ON APPROVAL</a> rebel chick Annette Whiteley about to have one, the pace is uneven while progressively sympathetic teacher <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/jacqueline%20ellis">Jacqueline Ellis</a><a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/jacqueline%20ellis"> (</a><a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/11/hijackers.html">THE HI-JACKERS</a>)... who winds up in the same kind of "why even discuss such a thing with students?" predicament William Shatner landed in in THE EXPLOSIVE YEARS... seems more a guest star than lead...

annette whiteley, british new wave, douglas sheldon, drama, georgina patterson, high school, hilary mason, iain gregory, jacqueline ellis, jill adams, sixties

JACQUELINE ELLIS 'THE YELLOW TEDDY BEARS' ANNETTE WHITELEY

Jacqueline Ellis in THE YELLOW TEDDY BEARS Year: 1963 Rating: **1/2 With alternate titles THE THRILL SEEKERS and GUTTER GIRLS, even the act...

BURT REYNOLDS & JULIE ANDREWS 'THE MAN WHO LOVED WOMEN'

<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/AVvXsEhdNd4eF74TqDzSFfYq0TuolxbVW9t9aKhAkmFMQUZ9GrU1WEshCaNSnjPcIcdmnN_wVN2Ln8neM0UtlDSlmF0QkaASdcOjcFTmu18S6PblHrZDB_RdBAcIiqg0zUyuGFiazjBDKsdlYahJov-PgAxsyW1ssYTFvvkfFwR1KTOgJvHaGlOXJXenvaqO_GVb/s2008/Screen%20Shot%202024-11-16%20at%2011.32.52%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1068" data-original-width="2008" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdNd4eF74TqDzSFfYq0TuolxbVW9t9aKhAkmFMQUZ9GrU1WEshCaNSnjPcIcdmnN_wVN2Ln8neM0UtlDSlmF0QkaASdcOjcFTmu18S6PblHrZDB_RdBAcIiqg0zUyuGFiazjBDKsdlYahJov-PgAxsyW1ssYTFvvkfFwR1KTOgJvHaGlOXJXenvaqO_GVb/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-11-16%20at%2011.32.52%20PM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Burt Reynolds in THE MAN WHO LOVED WOMEN Director: Blake Edwards Year: 1983 Rating: ***</td></tr></tbody></table>There are two movies reported to have been what Burt Reynolds decided to star in instead of co-starring in TERMS OF ENDEARMENT for the role famously taken by Jack Nicholson... and along with being box office bombs, they embodied each sub-genre that rode Burt through six-years as box office king...The second is the action-comedy STROKER ACE directed by collaborator/stuntman muse Hal Needham; and the first by a director Burt's said to have liked the best, Blake Edwards, in the romantic-comedy THE MAN WHO LOVED WOMEN...

blake edwards, burt reynolds, cynthia sikes, denise crosby, eighties, jill carroll, julie andrews, kim basinger, marilu henner, romantic comedy, sela ward

BURT REYNOLDS & JULIE ANDREWS 'THE MAN WHO LOVED WOMEN'

Burt Reynolds in THE MAN WHO LOVED WOMEN Director: Blake Edwards Year: 1983 Rating: *** There are two movies reported to have been what Burt...

ESCAPE FROM HAMMER HOUSE OF HORROR: THE SILENT SCREAM

<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/AVvXsEgsTm7t2sKk0HnduYcumra6j02Rwwb0XWSLqoUdTscjw_XPdnpCKUtQ9DO5NAKdVC8wjjCpbA8PN0hzlZ-hc8NkPNbOqSPexoK2kyQRuG5UuhidT5KHFqgNg5IA6nxpXc53rwfgm49c00yWD0zdDcrsy5Ju3bk3QWGrKu4ozvTxvXyiSDaCQ-R_NsuUBA/s1994/12.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1432" data-original-width="1994" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsTm7t2sKk0HnduYcumra6j02Rwwb0XWSLqoUdTscjw_XPdnpCKUtQ9DO5NAKdVC8wjjCpbA8PN0hzlZ-hc8NkPNbOqSPexoK2kyQRuG5UuhidT5KHFqgNg5IA6nxpXc53rwfgm49c00yWD0zdDcrsy5Ju3bk3QWGrKu4ozvTxvXyiSDaCQ-R_NsuUBA/s16000/12.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">ç</td></tr></tbody></table>Ironically the final vehicle for the original HAMMER FILMS wasn't a film but a television series in the anthology vein of THE TWILIGHT ZONE, or in this case THRILLER being of course produced in England, and one episode features Hammer's greatest asset, Peter Cushing as... not to spoil the twist so we'll say he's a scientist working in a surreptitious caged-animal zoo behind a pet store...And the past legendary Cushing is cast with future horror icon Brian Cox... the latter an ex-con who met the doctor while in prison and now, newly released, answers a letter to make big money for some kind of research which, like any mad scientist venture, winds up an experiment...

brian cox, eighties, elaine donnelly, hammer films, horror anthology, peter cushing, prison, science-fiction, thriller, tv series

ESCAPE FROM HAMMER HOUSE OF HORROR: THE SILENT SCREAM

ç Ironically the final vehicle for the original HAMMER FILMS wasn't a film but a television series in the anthology vein of THE TWILIGHT...

CHEVY CHASE DRIVES ORIGINAL 'NATIONAL LAMPOON'S VACATION'

<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/AVvXsEgUBye7JeF40kDpzRyeDLlpJcWxm_ZQbaxVJBwapTKvJjiShuo2FgIm4KSsM12_I4AuWoqVw7-pO2Vhy5n1kmhQ_-Ur4C4KFX-iBJwT8htoe7sML2Ir6BmMhqGCPseziTXqZSR8v_cVzy6KpOmA55BdAr2K50YaysWvY0lo3E0I4M5kdo9Usk9dk9LUCw/s2210/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1378" data-original-width="2210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUBye7JeF40kDpzRyeDLlpJcWxm_ZQbaxVJBwapTKvJjiShuo2FgIm4KSsM12_I4AuWoqVw7-pO2Vhy5n1kmhQ_-Ur4C4KFX-iBJwT8htoe7sML2Ir6BmMhqGCPseziTXqZSR8v_cVzy6KpOmA55BdAr2K50YaysWvY0lo3E0I4M5kdo9Usk9dk9LUCw/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: NATIONAL LAMPOON'S VACATION Year: 1983 Rating: ****1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>Chevy Chase's best actual acting performance, capturing the naive optimism
 of a suburban dad driving reluctant yet resilient son Anthony Michael Hall and moody wannabe stoner daughter Dana Barron as the original Rusty and Audrey... and co-starring mostly perfect wife in Beverly D'Angelo: all stuck on a cross-country trip... Our ever-optimistic hero remains stridently hopeful till exploding in a 
curse-laden diatribe; this after an unlucky string of adventurous 
stopovers at various tourist traps including a Wild West Town and (above
 and within) the Grand Canyon while Randy Quaid, as D'Angelo's white trash 
step-brother, takes things to another level: not only comically but, as 
Chase's polar-opposite, we see our put-upon hero more clearly...

anthony michael hall, beverly d'angelo, chevy chase, comedy, cult, dana barron, eighties, franchise, harold ramis, national lampoon, randy quaid, road movie

CHEVY CHASE DRIVES ORIGINAL 'NATIONAL LAMPOON'S VACATION'

Title: NATIONAL LAMPOON'S VACATION Year: 1983 Rating: ****1/2 Chevy Chase's best actual acting performance, capturing the naive opti...

CHEVY CHASE, CINDY MORGAN & MICHAEL O'KEEFE 'CADDYSHACK'

<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/AVvXsEg2YTg4Xyfv5BoD120W7OkqCola80H12aMz8JROUJvxFsQxSr8WBrEDnCsfJ7MNJYQIczKI3F7_1Lbtj5pAkBdfjiacNVjOCTBsr6RoC-BUSqVxZcocPYFpFsOXUwS25f-cHPeZeopcCFKMU-t1OMEluaT3LL_vYU4Ulnjptz0g8RcInFiBYO5cmNijyg/s1371/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-09%20at%209.31.36%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="819" data-original-width="1371" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2YTg4Xyfv5BoD120W7OkqCola80H12aMz8JROUJvxFsQxSr8WBrEDnCsfJ7MNJYQIczKI3F7_1Lbtj5pAkBdfjiacNVjOCTBsr6RoC-BUSqVxZcocPYFpFsOXUwS25f-cHPeZeopcCFKMU-t1OMEluaT3LL_vYU4Ulnjptz0g8RcInFiBYO5cmNijyg/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-09%20at%209.31.36%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Japenese Poster for CADDYSHACK Year: 1980 Rating: ****1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>Originally an ANIMAL HOUSE of golf, directed by its co-writer, Harold Ramis, CADDYSHACK morphed into an eclectic comedy starring four comic actors that — had the rudimentary vision sustained — probably would have been random guest appearances amid the shack-dwelling youngsters... Although a youngster's still the main character — the straight-man pawn, Michael O'Keefe as Danny Noonan, with one of the best natural golf swings recorded on film (most actors have horrible swings even when playing pros)...

bill murray, chevy chase, cindy morgan, comedy, cult, eighties, ensemble, golf, harold ramis, michael o'keefe, rodney dangerfield, sport, ted knight

CHEVY CHASE, CINDY MORGAN & MICHAEL O'KEEFE 'CADDYSHACK'

Japenese Poster for CADDYSHACK Year: 1980 Rating: ****1/2 Originally an ANIMAL HOUSE of golf, directed by its co-writer, Harold Ramis, CADD...

CHEVY CHASE PHYSICALLY SUFFERING THROUGH 'MODERN PROBLEMS'

<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/AVvXsEiGfftIUNH1maJXY0SiM92S5XtQjuqc8AtthCQarIwUvklCSQXOC5_4p5gR9rPQPrAyafvP_xNToAPQGLx_MphWhvLfSA0zX0SgxPL667Ng0i1RlHDJLz_qEsh45fjXEWE7gCRbq64rxMyYbuxErOjAEQkppZKzy38bE4FIULN_C5VjzNEIbtCwtnaqJg/s1378/3%202%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="832" data-original-width="1378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGfftIUNH1maJXY0SiM92S5XtQjuqc8AtthCQarIwUvklCSQXOC5_4p5gR9rPQPrAyafvP_xNToAPQGLx_MphWhvLfSA0zX0SgxPL667Ng0i1RlHDJLz_qEsh45fjXEWE7gCRbq64rxMyYbuxErOjAEQkppZKzy38bE4FIULN_C5VjzNEIbtCwtnaqJg/s16000/3%202%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">year: 1981 cast: Chevy Chase, Patty D'Arbinville, Dabney Coleman Rates: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>Based on the Front Page News of a then-newly-elected President Ronald Regan-era strike, Chevy Chase is a not very contented Air Traffic Controller, and he's having serious troubles and/or, um... well... MODERN PROBLEMS... 
 
His convertible's been keyed... nothing compared to the nuclear waste spilled from a truck, eventually allowing him to move things at will derived from the frustration of his girlfriend leaving: Herein the orchestrated physical gags are balanced along with Chase's deadpan humor, only more-so than usual: the poor guy's downright depressed...

brian doyle murray, chevy chase, comedy, dabney coleman, eighties, fantasy, mary kay place, nell carter, patti d'arbanville, quirky, science-fiction, supernatural

CHEVY CHASE PHYSICALLY SUFFERING THROUGH 'MODERN PROBLEMS'

year: 1981 cast: Chevy Chase, Patty D'Arbinville, Dabney Coleman Rates: ***1/2 Based on the Front Page News of a then-newly-elected Pre...

HAWN AND GRODIN CHASE NEIL SIMON'S 'SEEMS LIKE OLD TIMES'

<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/AVvXsEj7CUDjwKBJ6ea_Ku2hsHg8SsiQ_r3AVmnCusQx8zFQdKwraYXJZLhlthYKpLVqKx--b80h115kTj_CX9mVKqNfwNTI1kRNwuM7l2RkWfsD342HzATYXBCnsu6gXtMW4092p3Gb35Sv2gc1x4uslcJqjETnN1jQG_-E0MyuZyYjf1u8mbOHMGE45rwrXVzr/s1868/z.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="846" data-original-width="1868" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7CUDjwKBJ6ea_Ku2hsHg8SsiQ_r3AVmnCusQx8zFQdKwraYXJZLhlthYKpLVqKx--b80h115kTj_CX9mVKqNfwNTI1kRNwuM7l2RkWfsD342HzATYXBCnsu6gXtMW4092p3Gb35Sv2gc1x4uslcJqjETnN1jQG_-E0MyuZyYjf1u8mbOHMGE45rwrXVzr/s16000/z.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">SEEMS LIKE OLD TIMES Year Released; 1980 Rates: ****</td></tr></tbody></table>While the Hitchcock-style Goldie Hawn romp FOUL PLAY got the critical accolades, with Chevy Chase as her personal Cary Grant, SEEMS LIKE OLD TIMES is not only a funnier pairing but better suits Chase's physical comedy...Even though Hawn, as the wife of a prominent D.A., is the central character, we begin with her flaky ex-husband Chase, an ex-con journalist kidnapped to rob a bank, becoming the Wrong Man and sent into hiding... into Hawn's busy house housing not only her important husband but a nagging maid, a crooked chauffeur and a bevy of orphaned dogs...

charles grodin, chevy chase, comedy, eighties, ensemble, goldie hawn, neil simon, robert guillaume, slapstick, t.k. carter, wrong man

HAWN AND GRODIN CHASE NEIL SIMON'S 'SEEMS LIKE OLD TIMES'

SEEMS LIKE OLD TIMES Year Released; 1980 Rates: **** While the Hitchcock-style Goldie Hawn romp FOUL PLAY got the critical accolades, with C...

TOM CRUISE IN THE SUBURBAN-CLASS SEX-COMEDY 'RISKY BUSINESS'

<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/AVvXsEiJjbLIUVaiSZuaosfbU5RXn1JCtm2qyTb-zkYdCYgMXKjC15hVID0RfTg7BK2zDEB2V9hzPojcBQFqF8TPa1PrxaEI4tSt7jn3A1GJmztVhPJwCvGGAEXvJiZp6vpLMEO6cvOaTuaj2-VfdkQSwz4VozDRr29_NNyXIO3orbD6sD2uvABWhqN_GbMglwhn/s2126/Screen%20Shot%202024-07-19%20at%203.06.39%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1150" data-original-width="2126" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJjbLIUVaiSZuaosfbU5RXn1JCtm2qyTb-zkYdCYgMXKjC15hVID0RfTg7BK2zDEB2V9hzPojcBQFqF8TPa1PrxaEI4tSt7jn3A1GJmztVhPJwCvGGAEXvJiZp6vpLMEO6cvOaTuaj2-VfdkQSwz4VozDRr29_NNyXIO3orbD6sD2uvABWhqN_GbMglwhn/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-07-19%20at%203.06.39%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tom Cruise in RISKY BUSINESS Year: 1983 Rating: ****1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>Tom Cruise's first big moment where females took worldwide notice was from RISKY BUSINESS, during the now legendary lip-sync-dancing-in-underwear to Bob Segar's Old Time Rock N' Roll... And ironically, his Joel Goodman was dancing alone as a high school virgin with no girls around after his parents left on vacation, filling meantime on his first night of freedom — and for Cruise, that's acting...

bronson pinchot, curtis armstrong, eighties, high school, joe pantoliano, nicholas pryor, prostitute, raphael, rebecca demorney, richard masur, sbarge, sex comedy, tangerine dream, tom cruise

TOM CRUISE IN THE SUBURBAN-CLASS SEX-COMEDY 'RISKY BUSINESS'

Tom Cruise in RISKY BUSINESS Year: 1983 Rating: ****1/2 Tom Cruise's first big moment where females took worldwide notice was from RISKY...

RYAN O'NEAL WITH JACK WARDEN AND RICHARD KIEL IN 'SO FINE'

One such vehicle is
 the semi-slapstick SO FINE by first time director and usual Hollywood writer Andrew Bergman, in which Ryan O'Neal plays a semi-stuffy college professor up for tenure...

comedy, eighties, exploitation, fashion, gangster, jack warden, john stockwell, richard kiel, ryan o'neal, warner archives

RYAN O'NEAL WITH JACK WARDEN AND RICHARD KIEL IN 'SO FINE'

Title: SO FINE Year: 1981 Rating: ^^^ There were comedies not that funny yet still provided a fair amount of entertainment. And in some cas...

ROD STEIGER COMMANDS 'THE SERGEANT' WITH JOHN PHILLIP LAW

<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/AVvXsEhSc4_ix08RGWWjEjiNTtMyoegbGtX0-CRzPH7Vk78cUfzLpmMco3cK15XCAk116vxFKrugb4F-axvt3QQIkQfh4z_qnceEn_V-qT4ZQASiqiX3OUy5lntBpKnCqXS2hPNanj8AikeTWJoLgLnT7OghVMqpyes1lzlMaQPDmMHrzDIr-yPGjOefWwKfdQ/s992/Screen%20Shot%202023-05-15%20at%204.28.33%20AM.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="699" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSc4_ix08RGWWjEjiNTtMyoegbGtX0-CRzPH7Vk78cUfzLpmMco3cK15XCAk116vxFKrugb4F-axvt3QQIkQfh4z_qnceEn_V-qT4ZQASiqiX3OUy5lntBpKnCqXS2hPNanj8AikeTWJoLgLnT7OghVMqpyes1lzlMaQPDmMHrzDIr-yPGjOefWwKfdQ/w225-h320/Screen%20Shot%202023-05-15%20at%204.28.33%20AM.jpeg" width="225"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Year: 1968 Rating: ****1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>It's not just what THE SERGEANT is about, or even who it's about: An American World War II hero returned to France ten years later for an otherwise breezy peacetime gig not as risky or daring...This Army Sergeant of military construction laborers wielding old-school brass tactics to shape things up... until both someone and something distracts him... because MSgt. Albert Callan is a closet homosexual, and on the surface, Rod Steiger portrays a lonesome Army lifer who finally finds a true friend he can mentor and/or simply hang around with...Of course it's deeper than that... but as a film from 1968 about 1952, John Flynn directs with a unique, strategic, cautious approach aptly suited for and catered to Steiger's creepy-harsh yet desperately sympathetic performance...And on the other side is tall, handsome John Phillip Law, who often plays calm wooden types but he plays them well... His targeted Pfc. Swanson to Steiger's subtle style of persuasive bullying... after being shifted to his personal office clerk... is, in its own way, equal to the intense title role... 
Law's oblivious reactions to the passive/aggressive action that only an offbeat genius like Steiger could effectively pull off within this sparse, subtle maze countered by French starlet Ludmila Mikaël as Law's gorgeous town-next-door girlfriend (who he's captivated with like Steiger is to him), caught in the middle of something that would not only be considered completely impossible back then, but never fathomed in the first place: And yet, putting the controversial theme aside, THE SERGEANT is an outright buddy flick bromance coinciding with the gentle male/female love story. Surprisingly, it's the latter that comparably lacks conviction and seduction.

controversial, drama, exploitation, frank latimore, homosexual, john flynn, john phillip law, ludmila mikaël, military, rod steiger, sixties, warner archives

ROD STEIGER COMMANDS 'THE SERGEANT' WITH JOHN PHILLIP LAW

Year: 1968 Rating: ****1/2 It's not just what THE SERGEANT is about, or even who it's about: An American World War II hero return...

RUSHED WRITEUP CLASHING MELANIE CHARTOFF FROM 'FRIDAYS'

<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/AVvXsEhF1Ss0sDb1HaHx4RPeCU-oejzLgi6jE9vIdhGyEVEV4rbwVM48boCkjIRlusutupleWO5L7bhbe3UD1qcgRtnGhVCuItdd0v8wwrRaoGM84L4zW3HieSUsJ0tP-PETtRym5W9LXKFl3HZY6QiVIRkTxLLEk4CH-efqpktKwrDfDT0jgrhk48nulAzjFA/s1702/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="982" data-original-width="1702" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF1Ss0sDb1HaHx4RPeCU-oejzLgi6jE9vIdhGyEVEV4rbwVM48boCkjIRlusutupleWO5L7bhbe3UD1qcgRtnGhVCuItdd0v8wwrRaoGM84L4zW3HieSUsJ0tP-PETtRym5W9LXKFl3HZY6QiVIRkTxLLEk4CH-efqpktKwrDfDT0jgrhk48nulAzjFA/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Melanie Chartoff in the opening of the sketch comedy FRIDAYS from 1980 to 1982</td></tr></tbody></table>The late night sketch-comedy FRIDAYS began when SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE was transitioning from the original cast, and while not every skit is drop dead hilarious, and both were an Americanized MONTY PYTHON with far-out silliness pushed to deliberately insane, conceptual limits, it was a pretty cool show... While SNL had become a kind of faded classic rock ashtray, FRIDAYS felt like one of those new wave/punk rock music store buttons with random shapes swimming in hip colors and busy, hyperactive design...

andy kaufman, comedy, cult, eighties, melanie chartoff, michael richards, punk rock, TV, william shatner

RUSHED WRITEUP CLASHING MELANIE CHARTOFF FROM 'FRIDAYS'

Melanie Chartoff in the opening of the sketch comedy FRIDAYS from 1980 to 1982 The late night sketch-comedy FRIDAYS began when SATURDAY NIG...

STEVE MCQUEEN'S FINAL LIFETIME BOUNTY FOR 'THE HUNTER'

<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/AVvXsEjuNhi-hHviAzAGOyowmfxxPf0MDJN0wjymOPm69REll-yYLMW3anmVEQo87gHf6q2Kq9VSiqNhexavHAOycVL8_P2x2WHnydOoeFL_WEcJS-w0Jp0HGS_H9PHT9ITDo-JDhyphenhyphenlX8wJFzjblLMJSrF1bR0hZqF6UCsPR8LA-mC5Gq49QffuyABHtFClYErpW/s1432/Screen%20Shot%202023-04-03%20at%203.37.25%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="804" data-original-width="1432" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuNhi-hHviAzAGOyowmfxxPf0MDJN0wjymOPm69REll-yYLMW3anmVEQo87gHf6q2Kq9VSiqNhexavHAOycVL8_P2x2WHnydOoeFL_WEcJS-w0Jp0HGS_H9PHT9ITDo-JDhyphenhyphenlX8wJFzjblLMJSrF1bR0hZqF6UCsPR8LA-mC5Gq49QffuyABHtFClYErpW/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-04-03%20at%203.37.25%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: THE HUNTER Year: 1979 Rating: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>Steve McQueen began his career as a bounty hunter on TV's WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE and ended as one on the big screen, twice: TOM HORN was also a rebounder tale, and actually resembled a theatrical motion picture while THE HUNTER looks and plays-out like a made-for-television movie... But a pretty good one as McQueen's real life Ralph 'Papa' Thorson seeks various bond-skippers, each more difficult than the next: In one case the violent powerhouse nephew of McQueen's GETAWAY foe Ben Johnson; and later a literally explosive tractor vs Trans Am cornfield chase...

action, ben johnson, biopic, bounty hunter, cop, crime, eighties, eli wallach, kathryn harrold, lavar burton, steve mcqueen, tracey walter, tribute

STEVE MCQUEEN'S FINAL LIFETIME BOUNTY FOR 'THE HUNTER'

Title: THE HUNTER Year: 1979 Rating: ***1/2 Steve McQueen began his career as a bounty hunter on TV's WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE and ended as...

ANTHONY PERKINS RETURNS FOR 'PSYCHO II' WITH MEG TILLY

<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/AVvXsEhlULHBwr1wREPo36KKb8YelnA6UzQuhjm9Ac-GQ8cp9xmqchA4WAELLl0Ql3v5OoEkGbgVd9OAjAZVAJuML-tDpRFpHuK15P7D6_Am9ktopX7jZvMKlLidW4QfneKc3EdK6kd9ZjjDcEfCw5guCIDWb5nIo37cvLA78Rym5PDr4E1vBQTs1ZShk8Va3A/s2227/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1009" data-original-width="2227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlULHBwr1wREPo36KKb8YelnA6UzQuhjm9Ac-GQ8cp9xmqchA4WAELLl0Ql3v5OoEkGbgVd9OAjAZVAJuML-tDpRFpHuK15P7D6_Am9ktopX7jZvMKlLidW4QfneKc3EdK6kd9ZjjDcEfCw5guCIDWb5nIo37cvLA78Rym5PDr4E1vBQTs1ZShk8Va3A/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Meg Tilly foxes Norman Bates in PSYCHO II Year: 1983 Rating: ***</td></tr></tbody></table>The infamous yet somewhat unfairly maligned PSYCHO II actually includes the surrounding town viewed clearly during daylight hours, a friendly sheriff (Hugh Gillin), a helpful shrink (Robert Loggia), and a somewhat mysterious young lady, played by Meg Tilly, who becomes a kind of little sister/ingenue for Norman Bates... And while the passive, newly-released Anthony Perkins returns as the legendary killer, he winds up helping the vulnerable young beauty survive, in and out of the greasy spoon diner where they work, and at the spooky manor, she even takes a shower... safely...

anthony perkins, cult, dennis franz, exploitation, horror, hugh griffin, meg tilly, richard franklin, robert loggia, rural, sequel

ANTHONY PERKINS RETURNS FOR 'PSYCHO II' WITH MEG TILLY

Meg Tilly foxes Norman Bates in PSYCHO II Year: 1983 Rating: *** The infamous yet somewhat unfairly maligned PSYCHO II actually includes the...

STACY KEACH TRUCKS THROUGH RICHARD FRANKLIN'S 'ROADGAMES'

<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/AVvXsEgdgSU2JoI0ZH_Yv-HWE7vbrItt_nGxP1MkLUcYDeNZTHhBXl_Hqch5qOn6x145gjNezsRMxRHfZL0UUQrQsndv-9s-lst9KkMN4pr3uDzgBPkKWi7_-zNMFHhTfb1a6msv37tq55qRVjkAJlf1oV6k01x3n3wS_vCpPcTkad76-BtoS5-AAV5jSvW3gA/s2175/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-03%20at%207.17.24%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="901" data-original-width="2175" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdgSU2JoI0ZH_Yv-HWE7vbrItt_nGxP1MkLUcYDeNZTHhBXl_Hqch5qOn6x145gjNezsRMxRHfZL0UUQrQsndv-9s-lst9KkMN4pr3uDzgBPkKWi7_-zNMFHhTfb1a6msv37tq55qRVjkAJlf1oV6k01x3n3wS_vCpPcTkad76-BtoS5-AAV5jSvW3gA/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-03%20at%207.17.24%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stacy Keach in ROADGAMES aka ROAD GAMES Year: 1981 Rating: ****</td></tr></tbody></table>Australian exploitation director Richard Franklin was picked for the daring task of making <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2015/10/psychos.html">PSYCHO II</a> as a student of Alfred Hitchcock, particularly for his Down Under-set vehicle, ROADGAMES, known as a REAR WINDOW on wheels when it's actually Steven Spielberg's DUEL in reverse... Where a carefree trucker follows and is followed by a killer in a passenger vehicle, and an otherwise optimistic Stacy Keach as Quid, who proudly states "just because I drive a truck doesn't make me a truck driver," also narrates, either in his mind or, for the most part, talking to himself out loud, like Dennis Weaver did in the groundbreaking Spielberg TV-Movie, both also winding up in a diner loaded with possible suspects...

eighties, exploitation, horror, jamie lee curtis, modern western, richard franklin, road movie, robert thompson, serial killer, stacy keach, thriller

STACY KEACH TRUCKS THROUGH RICHARD FRANKLIN'S 'ROADGAMES'

Stacy Keach in ROADGAMES aka ROAD GAMES Year: 1981 Rating: **** Australian exploitation director Richard Franklin was picked for the daring ...

LANCE COMFORT'S 'THE PAINTED SMILE' WITH NANETTE NEWMAN

<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/AVvXsEhIzZCJ7mfmN2Moc8N_ZGEJVoOADYA8xntychZ64aTL4IWfvJ8_9hrD-6VJV-knmYjF6mUPshnRKoyr0cYgof_EhD6xoCvsfJdy4eLIeji1gylc24qRUCBqu-2u4aOU9AlGjZBh5Kgkvu0WXJGAlfkEXCQmen8r2ISELger8j60HpvOnTWq9BYqwuWkBw/s1169/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="676" data-original-width="1169" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIzZCJ7mfmN2Moc8N_ZGEJVoOADYA8xntychZ64aTL4IWfvJ8_9hrD-6VJV-knmYjF6mUPshnRKoyr0cYgof_EhD6xoCvsfJdy4eLIeji1gylc24qRUCBqu-2u4aOU9AlGjZBh5Kgkvu0WXJGAlfkEXCQmen8r2ISELger8j60HpvOnTWq9BYqwuWkBw/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nanette Newman in THE PAINTED SMILE Year: 1962 Rating: ***</td></tr></tbody></table>Somewhat complicated British Neo Noir with two separate stories that eventually connect, connected to a murder that begins with a scheming couple who make their living taking a targeted man back home: a sultry blonde Liz Fraser does the rudimentary work while her partner Mark (Peter Reynolds), plays the angry jealous husband aka the badger game... But while Liz's Jo Lake arrives at a nightclub to find the right prey, back home Peter's killed by a brooding crippled psychopath played by Kenneth Griffith, usually cast as a wimp but not here...

british neo noir, british new wave, david hemmings, grazina frame, kenneth griffith, lance comfort, liz fraser, nanette newman, sixties, tony wickert, wrong man

LANCE COMFORT'S 'THE PAINTED SMILE' WITH NANETTE NEWMAN

Nanette Newman in THE PAINTED SMILE Year: 1962 Rating: *** Somewhat complicated British Neo Noir with two separate stories that eventually c...

JANINE GRAY AND DYSON LOVELL IN 'PANIC' WITH BRIAN WESKE

<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/AVvXsEgktvewxLFfACYMvpX-eIrfaxgI_wutpjtY3l5h371sGbHx0peRFne2X5YJ75fXtUJzStEyKoC_7jOmEiJK1nbrW0ywqaunYi6mtyZTI5GyOUqBakPKwruyqGpJ_SKBwg34mEqZB_dVIbW2CC_cTYMRx7XJmg_9Zy7UaandYbfDo8ny6iFmi-PjqTJx2g/s2168/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-04%20at%2012.22.39%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1292" data-original-width="2168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgktvewxLFfACYMvpX-eIrfaxgI_wutpjtY3l5h371sGbHx0peRFne2X5YJ75fXtUJzStEyKoC_7jOmEiJK1nbrW0ywqaunYi6mtyZTI5GyOUqBakPKwruyqGpJ_SKBwg34mEqZB_dVIbW2CC_cTYMRx7XJmg_9Zy7UaandYbfDo8ny6iFmi-PjqTJx2g/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-04%20at%2012.22.39%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: PANIC Year: 1963 Rating: ****</td></tr></tbody></table>By the end of John Billing's 1963 Neo Noir PANIC, a has-been boxer, who just got a pounding in the ring, is about to be killed by a punk crook in a back alley, and what climaxes into a sparse b-movie was quite complicated and surreal, beginning with what should have been an easy jewelry heist that morphs into the most hackneyed plot device ever... And bad old amnesia's thrust upon lead ingenue Janine Gray, the secretary where the diamond got swiped by a gang plotted by her boyfriend played by an edgy, James Cagney-looking, trumpet-playing loser Dyson Lovell as Johnny, sending two goons including JUNGLE GIRLS lowlife Brian Weske and a mug-faced Stanley Meadows...

amnesia, boxing, brian weske, british neo noir, charles houston, crime, dyson lovell, gilling, grazina frame, guido coen, heist, janine gray, john billing, milton reid, sixties, stanley meadows

JANINE GRAY AND DYSON LOVELL IN 'PANIC' WITH BRIAN WESKE

Title: PANIC Year: 1963 Rating: **** By the end of John Billing's 1963 Neo Noir PANIC, a has-been boxer, who just got a pounding in the ...

GENE NELSON, STERLING HAYDEN & CHARLES BRONSON 'CRIME WAVE'

<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/AVvXsEhEFLouh-YVaVxojlokTo_DU7IrZVRxujRNljncBzL10OPOJmrSfqKM69wMiIUysRrgUAVtNmNGmOjNIZy1_E361ElgqyPidFLUG5szmTjs9cWYpZITOwdjO5y5ow1Iz5WzGmBDhoW9kBnQ4pTXI39MovQLXjoMKC1NyLTUiXOuMa2ANZJYg9G5o0RYsA/s1735/Screen%20Shot%202021-11-04%20at%2012.47.48%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="943" data-original-width="1735" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEFLouh-YVaVxojlokTo_DU7IrZVRxujRNljncBzL10OPOJmrSfqKM69wMiIUysRrgUAVtNmNGmOjNIZy1_E361ElgqyPidFLUG5szmTjs9cWYpZITOwdjO5y5ow1Iz5WzGmBDhoW9kBnQ4pTXI39MovQLXjoMKC1NyLTUiXOuMa2ANZJYg9G5o0RYsA/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202021-11-04%20at%2012.47.48%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Charles Bronson in CRIME WAVE Year: 1953 Rating: ****</td></tr></tbody></table>The steady and stalwart yet vulnerable and manipulated buried lead in CRIME WAVE aka THE CITY IS DARK... overshadowed by rigid 
cop Sterling Hayden, a young Charles Bronson, lead thug Ted de Corsia 
and a thoroughly demented Timothy Carey... is played by Gene Nelson... Prhaps the most incredible dancer before and after, he remains cool
 and tough in his first ultra-serious role as Steve Lacey, an ex-convict
 paid a surprise visit by three of his old friends...

andre de toth, andré de toth, charles bronson, crime, dub taylor, fifties, film noir or melodrama, gene nelson, phyllis kirk, sterling hayden, ted decorsia, thriller, timothy carey

GENE NELSON, STERLING HAYDEN & CHARLES BRONSON 'CRIME WAVE'

Charles Bronson in CRIME WAVE Year: 1953 Rating: **** The steady and stalwart yet vulnerable and manipulated buried lead in CRIME WAVE aka T...

ROGER MOORE IN 'THE SAINT' WITH JACKIE COLLINS & BRIAN WESKE

<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/AVvXsEj89vsyJRIoazWk5tC-5hkoxHjU7FR6LICxEOQpsq6RLeDDyyTl36FlZ0wax9rDaTuUnmILaXz3eki6NXOyNcUpdr-tRBaEiQKOn4seWtva35hz0-4ULmHJqxa2v0wiAip9jd7d3bIVucy_00L4Hjm91SMi6xh_oBF3nwpVWRnzjE1x3NZvUDN2EftE3w/s1883/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-02%20at%2011.05.22%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1136" data-original-width="1883" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj89vsyJRIoazWk5tC-5hkoxHjU7FR6LICxEOQpsq6RLeDDyyTl36FlZ0wax9rDaTuUnmILaXz3eki6NXOyNcUpdr-tRBaEiQKOn4seWtva35hz0-4ULmHJqxa2v0wiAip9jd7d3bIVucy_00L4Hjm91SMi6xh_oBF3nwpVWRnzjE1x3NZvUDN2EftE3w/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-02%20at%2011.05.22%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roger Moore is THE SAINT episode STARRING THE SAINT Year: 1963 Rating: ****</td></tr></tbody></table>In most TV-series about unique human beings there's usually one that tweaks the 4th wall in having the concept of a film studio wanting to make a motion picture about the series itself, which for the viewer isn't a series at all, often feeling intrusive or contrived but THE SAINT season two's STARRING THE SAINT is one of the iconic British show's best episodes, and features two polar opposite bombshells... One being Joan's sister, future scandal writer Jackie Collins as a lavish actress and Moore's love interest, and sophisticated secretary Monica Stevenson who... along with has-been actor Alexander Davion seeking the Saint role, troubled director Alfred Burke wanting out of a contract and a frustrated writing team including LOLITA actor Jerry Stovin... continuously weathers her nefarious producer boss, played with sublime menace by Ronald Radd...

alexander davion, alfred burke, brian weske, british neo noir, british tv, hollywood satire, jackie collins, jerry stovin, monica stevenson, mystery, roger moore, ronald radd, sixties, the saint

ROGER MOORE IN 'THE SAINT' WITH JACKIE COLLINS & BRIAN WESKE

Roger Moore is THE SAINT episode STARRING THE SAINT Year: 1963 Rating: **** In most TV-series about unique human beings there's usually ...

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