Written by James M. Tate / 8/31/2024 / No comments / burt reynolds franchise , colleen camp , cop , eighties , jackie gleason , jerry reed , mike henry , pat mccormick , paul williams , sequel
BURT REYNOLDS MOSTLY AVOIDS 'SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT PART 3'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 8/31/2024
Burt Reynolds cameo in SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT 3 Year: 1983 Rating: **The irony of Burt Reynolds and director Hal Needham (mostly) avoiding SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT 3 is that, during the same year, their own separate car-comedy STROKER ACE ruine
Written by James M. Tate / 8/30/2024 / No comments / action , adventure , alfie wise , burt reynolds , cop , hal needham , jackie gleason , mike henry , paul williams , road movie , sally field , seventies
BURT REYNOLDS WITH JERRY REED IN 'SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 8/30/2024
Burt Reynolds in SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT Year: 1977 Rating: ****While SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT has been maligned for not allowing Burt Reynolds to continue his DELIVERANCE style of worthwhile acting, it should be complimented for finally perfect
Written by James M. Tate / 8/29/2024 / No comments / action , alice ghostly , burt reynolds , burton gilliam , dub taylor , jerry reed , john steadman , lauren hutton , moonshine , remake , seventies
BURT REYNOLDS WITH JERRY REED AND JACK WESTON IN 'GATOR'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 8/29/2024
Burt Reynolds in GATOR Year: 1976 Rating: **1/2Burt Reynolds got the directing bug for the WHITE LIGHTNING sequel GATOR, that's really more a reboot given a similar plot with the titular moonshiner now donning a slick mustache, dating big c
Written by James M. Tate / 8/26/2024 / No comments / adventure , alexander knox , burt reynolds , gordon douglas , paul hubschmid , roger c. carmel , seventies , susan clark
BURT REYNOLDS GOES MONKEYING AROUND FOR 'SKULLDUGGERY'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 8/26/2024
Burt Reynolds in SKULLDUGGERY Director: Gordon Douglas Year: 1970 Rating: **1/2Between an eclectic television career and hitting big with the big-screen DELIVERANCE, Burt Reynolds appeared in mostly westerns and/or adventure b-movies... two
Written by James M. Tate / 8/25/2024 / No comments / action , adventure , bill catching , burt reynolds , christian nyby , danielle aubry , kieu chinh , sixties , spy , vic diaz , vietnam
BURT REYNOLDS SPYING THROUGH SAIGON FOR 'OPERATION C.I.A.'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 8/25/2024
Burt Reynolds in Operation C.I.A. Year: 1966 Rating: ***1/2Although Burt Reynolds detested OPERATION CIA, his first starring turn fresh from sidekick TV-roles on RIVERBOAT and GUNSMOKE, he would often brag more about his past stuntwork than
Written by James M. Tate / 8/24/2024 / No comments / burt reynolds , cop , crime , marianna hill , neo noir , sixties , tv series
BURT REYNOLDS AS DETECTIVE NAMED 'HAWK' WITH MARIANNA HILL
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 8/24/2024
Burt Reynolds as HAWK: The Hands of Corbin Claybrooke Year: 1966 Rating: ***1/2Before playing a monotone detective in the 1970 series DAN AUGUST, young mustache-less/Marlon-Brando-looking Burt Reynolds played a monotone detective named HAWK
Written by James M. Tate / 8/23/2024 / No comments / burt reynolds , crime , diana muldaur , efrem zimbalist jr. , sixties , tv series , william reynolds
BURT REYNOLDS RETURNS TO 'THE FBI' EPISODE 'ACT OF VIOLENCE'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 8/23/2024
Burt Reynolds on FBI: ACT OF VIOLENCE Year: 1967 Rating: ***In Quentin Tarantino's ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD, he had his fictional late-60's-era actor Rick Dalton playing Burt Reynold's part from THE FBI first-season episode ALL THE STR
Written by James M. Tate / 8/22/2024 / No comments / burt reynolds , crime , efrem zimbalist jr. , FBI , james francsiscus , joe maross , norman fell , rex holman , sixties , tv series , wesley addy
BURT REYNOLDS ANTAGONIZES 'THE FBI: ALL THE STREETS ARE SILENT'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 8/22/2024
Burt Reynolds on FBI: ALL THE STREETS ARE SILENT Year: 1965 Rating: ***It's unlikely that Quentin Tarantino's fictional once-famous Rick Dalton from ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD... played by Leonardo DiCaprio digitally altered to replace t
Written by James M. Tate / 8/20/2024 / No comments / action , carol lynley , efrem zimbalist jr. , FBI , peter duel , tv series , william reynolds
CAROL LYNLEY WITH PETER DUEL DRIVING 'THE FBI: FALSE WITNESS'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 8/20/2024
Peter Duel & Carol Lynley on THE FBI: FALSE WITNESS Year: 1967 Season 3 Rating: ****Sometimes the Quinn Martin production THE FBI would compete with all the 1960's spy movies, so the most complicated episodes involve espionage while the bes
Written by James M. Tate / 8/19/2024 / No comments / action , british film noir , fifties , john mills , lionel jeffries , lisa daniely , noelle middleton , wilfrid hyde-white , wrong man
JOHN MILLS IN THE BRITISH WRONG MAN NOIR 'THE VICIOUS CIRCLE'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 8/19/2024
Title: THE VICIOUS CIRCLE Year: 1957 Rating: ****At one point in the middle of THE VICIOUS CIRCLE, starring John Mills as a doctor falsely accused of murdering gorgeous actress Lisa Daniely, he winds up playing an idyllic round of golf with
Written by James M. Tate / 8/18/2024 / No comments / british film noir , crime , dennis price , duncan lamont , fifties , renee asherson , susan shaw , william franklyn
DENNIS COLE, RENÉE ASHERSON & PATRICK BARR 'TIME IS MY ENEMY'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 8/18/2024
Title: TIME IS MY ENEMY Year: 1954 Rating: **1/2British actor Dennis Price made a living as smooth-talking lowlifes in British b-movies, and in 1954 he's a blackmailer for TIME IS MY ENEMY, crashing on his wealthy ex-wife who thought he die
Written by James M. Tate / 8/17/2024 / No comments / british film noir , fifties , james kenney , joan collins , melodrama , teen
JAMES KENNEY & JOAN COLLINS IN 'KOSH BOY' OR 'THE SLASHER'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 8/17/2024
Title: COSH BOY also THE SLASHER Year: 1954 Rating: **1/2It's a shame that COSH BOY (strangely re-titled THE SLASHER) is so extremely dated, holding back what's promised by the edgy image of British teen actor James Kenney as a street thug
Written by James M. Tate / 8/14/2024 / No comments / anjanette comer , barry miller , biopic , cannon , gianni russo , michael callan , milton berle , mobster , seventies , simmy bow , tony curtis , vic tayback , warner archives
MENAHEM GOLAN'S 'LEPKE' WITH TONY CURTIS & ANJANETTE COMER
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 8/14/2024
Title: LEPKE Year: 1975 Rating: **1/2A cross between yet another 1970's THE GODFATHER clone and a drive-in exploitation with sex and violence, future Cannon Films co-owner Menahem Golan directs Tony Curtis as LEPKE... beginning with a young
Written by James M. Tate / 8/11/2024 / No comments / body count , dewey robinson , film noir or melodrama , horror , lawrence tierney , mark robson , richard dix , russell wade , skelton knaggs , thriller , val lewton
VAL LEWTON PRESENTS MARK ROBSON'S THRILLER 'THE GHOST SHIP'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 8/11/2024
Title: THE GHOST SHIP Year: 1943 Rating: ***1/2A dark, atmospheric Val Lewton production using RKO's fog-shrouded KING KONG ship (literally in one shot) now captained by subtly manipulative Richard Dix, who takes new 3rd Officer Russell Wad
Written by James M. Tate / 8/10/2024 / No comments / adventure , alfred hitchcock , british film noir , john longden , nova pilbeam , road movie , romance , thirties , wrong man
NOVA PILBEAM IN ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S 'YOUNG AND INNOCENT'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 8/10/2024
Nova Pilbeam and Derrick De Marney in YOUNG AND INNOCENT Year: 1937 Rating: ***Alfred Hitchcock was the master of suspense — and the master of teaming up a wrong-man with a good girl in an espionage-driven adventure, which began with THE 39
Written by James M. Tate / 8/07/2024 / No comments / alfred hitchcock , british film noir , edna best , espionage , kidnapping , leslie banks , nova pilbeam , pierre fresnay , remake , thirties
NOVA PILBEAM KIDNAPPED IN 'THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 8/07/2024
Leslie Banks, Nova Pilbeam and Pierre Fresnay in THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCHWhen first hearing about Alfred Hitchcock's THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH, the technicolor remake starring an equally-adventurous Jimmy Stewart and Doris Day will usually
Written by James M. Tate / 8/06/2024 / No comments / alan ladd , carolyn jones , charles mcgraw , diane brewster , edward binns , fifties , michael mcgreevy , mystery , neo noir , susan gordon , wrong man
ALAD LADD, SUSAN GORDON & CAROLYN JONES 'THE MAN IN THE NET'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 8/06/2024
Charles McGraw, Edward Binns & Alan Ladd pictured from THE MAN IN THE NET Year: 1959 Rating: **By 1959, Film Noir had ended, but not officially since it was never an official genre or a categorized style of films... at least not yet... that
Written by James M. Tate / 8/05/2024 / No comments / bel air productions , drama , eddie cochran , fifties , howard w. koch , john russell , lori nelson , lurene tuttle , mamie van doren , music , warner archives , wayne nelson , women in prison , yvonne lime
LORI NELSON, JOHN RUSSELL & MAMIE VAN DOREN 'UNTAMED YOUTH'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 8/05/2024
title: UNTAMED YOUTH year: 1957 rating: ****In a creatively low-budget twist of the prison genre, by the time bad lockup girl Jeanne Carmen fights friendly newcomer Lori Nelson, who's defending blonde bombshell singing sister Mamie Van Dore
Written by James M. Tate / 8/04/2024 / No comments / action , arthur franz , don taylor , drama , fifties , nancy olson , william bendix , william holden , world war II
WILLIAM HOLDEN AND NANCY OLSON IN 'SUBMARINE COMMAND'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 8/04/2024
Title: SUBMARINE COMMAND Year: 1951 Rating: ***Imagine THE CAINE MUTINY, without a mutiny, and you might have the William Holden vehicle SUBMARINE COMMAND (actually more like THE FROGMEN) co-starring SUNSET BOULEVARD girl-next-door Nancy Ol
Written by James M. Tate / 8/02/2024 / No comments / action , adventure , anthony zerbe , charles haid , jonathan banks , michael moriarty , nick nolte , ray sharkey , richard masur , seventies , thriller , tuesday weld , vietnam , wings hauser
NICK NOLTE IN 'WHO'LL STOP THE RAIN' WITH MICHAEL MORIARTY
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 8/02/2024
Nick Nolte in WHO'LL STOP THE RAIN Year: 1978 Rating: ***In the same year that the groundbreaking BOYS IN COMPANY C showed soldiers fighting in Vietnam, WHO'LL STOP THE RAIN (influenced by the previous years' ROLLING THUNDER) centered on th
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