BURT REYNOLDS MOSTLY AVOIDS 'SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT PART 3'

<p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKbGPN5X6AFLfD0pCHzQiHpZXoodpxvpdC1Pf1LYnZolnNtyuQduMpomTBICxMhtP-5iPFLyu9xXh8OQXQiojv3UIvDU1TvTW-UivR-gdGF6vEJXA9D0awiRaNxIScLkusGZPcPw7K7cDFFaTPG4fps9Z_UpEpYZ8uQmb7df2E58azSQGYxCK48tT2YExD/s1675/Screen%20Shot%202024-08-31%20at%2010.22.30%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="725" data-original-width="1675" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKbGPN5X6AFLfD0pCHzQiHpZXoodpxvpdC1Pf1LYnZolnNtyuQduMpomTBICxMhtP-5iPFLyu9xXh8OQXQiojv3UIvDU1TvTW-UivR-gdGF6vEJXA9D0awiRaNxIScLkusGZPcPw7K7cDFFaTPG4fps9Z_UpEpYZ8uQmb7df2E58azSQGYxCK48tT2YExD/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-08-31%20at%2010.22.30%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds cameo in SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT 3 Year: 1983 Rating: **</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>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 ruined both their careers...</p><p></p><p></p><p>Originally titled SMOKE <i>IS</i> THE BANDIT, Jackie Gleason, the scene-stealing cop always tailing Reynold's road-roving outlaw, was to also play Burt's part... or else pretend to be Bandit... but that thankless role went to otherwise fan-favorite trucker Jerry Reed...</p><p><span></span></p>

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BURT REYNOLDS MOSTLY AVOIDS 'SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT PART 3'

Burt Reynolds cameo in SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT 3 Year: 1983 Rating: ** The irony of Burt Reynolds and director Hal Needham (mostly) avoiding S...

BURT REYNOLDS WITH JERRY REED IN 'SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLEFwEIBTWrD0aumiMkX0bnzbOaNATUsmGETiOqyOz2rj7ha2YHhFrC6I5cS1XHN8W8PJkh2-VHZ5n6YTW5PbFe4h0ZoFDbESplJA7pgjklUBMZPFmYno2Dd70c32XvF6PFV3kjsZWvuckvGJ4R89Z8bvps8zQ8Wz6piw_3PodeXFtwsEgOIIHlh3zuDuF/s1852/Screen%20Shot%202024-11-03%20at%206.53.59%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1060" data-original-width="1852" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLEFwEIBTWrD0aumiMkX0bnzbOaNATUsmGETiOqyOz2rj7ha2YHhFrC6I5cS1XHN8W8PJkh2-VHZ5n6YTW5PbFe4h0ZoFDbESplJA7pgjklUBMZPFmYno2Dd70c32XvF6PFV3kjsZWvuckvGJ4R89Z8bvps8zQ8Wz6piw_3PodeXFtwsEgOIIHlh3zuDuF/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-11-03%20at%206.53.59%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds in SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT Year: 1977 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>While SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT has been maligned for not allowing Burt Reynolds to continue his <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2022/09/deliverance.html">DELIVERANCE</a> style of worthwhile acting, it should be complimented for finally perfecting the good-old-boy persona/rural car-chase action he ignited in <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2012/06/white-lightning.html">WHITE LIGHTNING</a>...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Mostly thanks to the director, who was already a veteran stuntman, as Hal Needham brought the action up front to where the characters — from Jerry Reed's trucker Snowman to Burt's Trans-Am driving cop-blocking Bandit — flows smoothly along with the trek and the reason behind it...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

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BURT REYNOLDS WITH JERRY REED IN 'SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT'

Burt Reynolds in SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT Year: 1977 Rating: **** While SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT has been maligned for not allowing Burt Reynolds ...

BURT REYNOLDS WITH JERRY REED AND JACK WESTON IN 'GATOR'

<p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV0rbMu8AnQ0bwpBxOAiCIl6YUDIj1ZodfASuCsEnhnfGErPYkEj6UI5lLWp-upJYfZL6wFucprygM_j6rVrFcDn0EwAvyasJUXt6D5AbSeA75OgbdMmchIf41ieeHAEE-Hkp_RJp8skBZKHceqcbznqFTP44NLkxz8Z-P3BXCwkljUGSHMQ4xRO7ldHAb/s1888/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="948" data-original-width="1888" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV0rbMu8AnQ0bwpBxOAiCIl6YUDIj1ZodfASuCsEnhnfGErPYkEj6UI5lLWp-upJYfZL6wFucprygM_j6rVrFcDn0EwAvyasJUXt6D5AbSeA75OgbdMmchIf41ieeHAEE-Hkp_RJp8skBZKHceqcbznqFTP44NLkxz8Z-P3BXCwkljUGSHMQ4xRO7ldHAb/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds in GATOR Year: 1976 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Burt Reynolds got the directing bug for the <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2012/06/white-lightning.html">WHITE LIGHTNING</a> sequel GATOR, that's really more a reboot given a similar plot with the titular moonshiner now donning a slick mustache, dating big city newscaster Lauren Hutton, raising a young daughter and seeming more like a professionally-suave secret-agent than Southern rogue reluctantly gathering information for the feds... in this case an affably overweight Jack Weston, who'd have made a worthier constant sidekick than random connection...<br></p><p></p><p></p><p>He hires Burt's Gator McKlusky to help nab a crime boss that's horribly miscast, and not because of acting since Jerry Reed (who sings the funky title theme song) is almost always great...</p><p><span></span></p>

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BURT REYNOLDS WITH JERRY REED AND JACK WESTON IN 'GATOR'

Burt Reynolds in GATOR Year: 1976 Rating: **1/2 Burt Reynolds got the directing bug for the WHITE LIGHTNING sequel GATOR, that's really...

BURT REYNOLDS GOES MONKEYING AROUND FOR 'SKULLDUGGERY'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJQGnjDgvgncff8GeB1ti5YO2qmqIHgM2msGMU6hd4hIB-Frlwd-Bt6FPor6x6JGWStpoaN2ed5ZPakUwWzeCdlmhL_MewKSzvYHHWLJia7EGNUpdcZuzSeHdp7yQGUsmNT3NMms-HSAZmOj7J2CVrqkNOBQnHA3VTzDqa3PTXcXBrL5df2vnr_I_IzxkT/s1828/Screen%20Shot%202024-08-28%20at%2010.57.50%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1156" data-original-width="1828" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJQGnjDgvgncff8GeB1ti5YO2qmqIHgM2msGMU6hd4hIB-Frlwd-Bt6FPor6x6JGWStpoaN2ed5ZPakUwWzeCdlmhL_MewKSzvYHHWLJia7EGNUpdcZuzSeHdp7yQGUsmNT3NMms-HSAZmOj7J2CVrqkNOBQnHA3VTzDqa3PTXcXBrL5df2vnr_I_IzxkT/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-08-28%20at%2010.57.50%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds in SKULLDUGGERY Director: Gordon Douglas Year: 1970 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Between an eclectic television career and hitting big with the big-screen DELIVERANCE, Burt Reynolds appeared in mostly westerns and/or adventure b-movies... two of the latter titled IMPASSE and then SKULLDUGGERY, with Reynolds as one of those cocky fortune hunters, here smitten with classy female scientist Susan Clark while paired with friendly sidekick Roger C. Carmel...<br><br>But right when the expedition into the scenic, potentially perilous mountains of Papua New Guinea begins... with the man and dame sleeping together too quickly to evolve into an AFRICAN QUEEN-style anti-chemistry romance... a group of ape-like/missing-link creatures are discovered, and quickly exploited...<br><span></span></p>

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BURT REYNOLDS GOES MONKEYING AROUND FOR 'SKULLDUGGERY'

Burt Reynolds in SKULLDUGGERY Director: Gordon Douglas Year: 1970 Rating: **1/2 Between an eclectic television career and hitting big with t...

BURT REYNOLDS SPYING THROUGH SAIGON FOR 'OPERATION C.I.A.'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzR0ua735MgZ9H99E64jRj7qL90bfnbju6xdvbTUkkAIDzVtNKBvkqrDDuxkTWQ-gyTCDC8Rgr1zjq95ItmZUWHA6TDKJ-APB9Td-2-Gp3KK9t_KVl9vj2AJ7nglfuM-cvW2Hr7OCKnxgnSNaunAmNQ1SguBo3UPToS4ZHuOH-gCoJomKK5wSWrh4idPi5/s2254/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1218" data-original-width="2254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzR0ua735MgZ9H99E64jRj7qL90bfnbju6xdvbTUkkAIDzVtNKBvkqrDDuxkTWQ-gyTCDC8Rgr1zjq95ItmZUWHA6TDKJ-APB9Td-2-Gp3KK9t_KVl9vj2AJ7nglfuM-cvW2Hr7OCKnxgnSNaunAmNQ1SguBo3UPToS4ZHuOH-gCoJomKK5wSWrh4idPi5/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds in Operation C.I.A. Year: 1966 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Although 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 any recent acting, so there's actually a lot to be proud of in this B&W programmer miraculously filmed right in Saigon, Vietnam, right before the real life war... <br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Replacing a slain agent, something straight from the James Bond universe, Burt's CIA-operative Mark Andrews is either fighting woodwork villains, from exploitation regular Vic Diaz to a karate-chopping massage girls, or dodging main baddie (bonafide stuntman) Bill Catching...</p><p><span></span></p>

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BURT REYNOLDS SPYING THROUGH SAIGON FOR 'OPERATION C.I.A.'

Burt Reynolds in Operation C.I.A. Year: 1966 Rating: ***1/2 Although Burt Reynolds detested OPERATION CIA, his first starring turn fresh fro...

BURT REYNOLDS AS DETECTIVE NAMED 'HAWK' WITH MARIANNA HILL

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZK6NtEdlOwJJ7X9Qvz3tFrZRNcTVoToENXIXv-ALI-pZpWfvtbZR9-hsDHV1Cy48S4upRG6FAwCBCEG4GdlPcgWFL4TgvC8mGID2bp8vLQAniohltn0TOtmF-0oVn0ThxF13LMg53eqJqCOeCz-AVgSbd6ooCy5pr7ILRbp9v17Hft4-PnUW-xytyq3Kb/s1628/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="846" data-original-width="1628" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZK6NtEdlOwJJ7X9Qvz3tFrZRNcTVoToENXIXv-ALI-pZpWfvtbZR9-hsDHV1Cy48S4upRG6FAwCBCEG4GdlPcgWFL4TgvC8mGID2bp8vLQAniohltn0TOtmF-0oVn0ThxF13LMg53eqJqCOeCz-AVgSbd6ooCy5pr7ILRbp9v17Hft4-PnUW-xytyq3Kb/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds as HAWK: The Hands of Corbin Claybrooke Year: 1966 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Before playing a monotone detective in the 1970 series <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2022/09/burt-reynolds-headlines-neo-noir-cop.html">DAN AUGUST</a>, young mustache-less/Marlon-Brando-looking Burt Reynolds played a monotone detective named HAWK... the difference being he's, like the initial breakthrough role on GUNSMOKE, part Indian... and instead of investigating old friends mostly during daylight, the twist here's  a seedy gumshoe style world after midnight...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>In this case, one of the few episodes available, THE HANDS OF CORBIN CLAYBROOKE, centering on an offbeat artist with gorgeous assistant Marianna Hill teamed with a handsome criminal that had murdered another artist, both involved in a scam a bit difficult to follow, for the audience more than Burt's titular detective, knowing the girl's involved as if he'd seen enough noir films...</p><p><span></span></p>

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BURT REYNOLDS AS DETECTIVE NAMED 'HAWK' WITH MARIANNA HILL

Burt Reynolds as HAWK: The Hands of Corbin Claybrooke Year: 1966 Rating: ***1/2 Before playing a monotone detective in the 1970 series DAN A...

BURT REYNOLDS RETURNS TO 'THE FBI' EPISODE 'ACT OF VIOLENCE'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-5REJOOgjmfZG6kP7dOQ0igVVUZFIeblCQwvQRmrMN4e6D6fNXVOSaF4uy47IdxDdt8cxh3KBl1tPMJHex9SSxldjQdIV2X7TwefBsFlERBXorAkZuiR0pgr5Fl3Y_RVl1X_mMePgRxJVXaTeP-3mEXEYdAWJc8A_Q-Fxc1gfbnMjRZcBqDavC_arpmbQ/s2194/Screen%20Shot%202024-08-24%20at%2011.38.06%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1295" data-original-width="2194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-5REJOOgjmfZG6kP7dOQ0igVVUZFIeblCQwvQRmrMN4e6D6fNXVOSaF4uy47IdxDdt8cxh3KBl1tPMJHex9SSxldjQdIV2X7TwefBsFlERBXorAkZuiR0pgr5Fl3Y_RVl1X_mMePgRxJVXaTeP-3mEXEYdAWJc8A_Q-Fxc1gfbnMjRZcBqDavC_arpmbQ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-08-24%20at%2011.38.06%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds on FBI: ACT OF VIOLENCE Year: 1967 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In Quentin Tarantino's <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/07/in-hollywood.html">ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD</a>, he had his fictional late-60's-era actor Rick Dalton playing Burt Reynold's part from THE FBI first-season episode ALL THE STREETS ARE SILENT, four-years away from his movie's 1969 timeline so it would have been more befitting in this 1967 third-season venture ACT OF VIOLENCE, in which Burt plays former hit-man/current bookie John Duquesne, forced to attempt silencing ex-wife Diana Muldaur, who knows about a murder from the previous decade that could implicate Burt and former crime-boss Michael Strong...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Not a bad episode yet far from great, with lead investigators Efrem Zimbalist Jr and William Reynolds casually going from one office to another gathering clues... while Reynolds converses with Strong about a deadly mission he may or may not be suited for: overall making Burt a hardened yet ambiguous would-be killer... who needed more scenes, with more action... at least until producer Quinn Martin hired Reynolds for his own series <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2022/09/burt-reynolds-headlines-neo-noir-cop.html">DAN AUGUST</a> where, though on the other side of the law, he's equally cool and calculating.</p><p><span></span></p>

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BURT REYNOLDS RETURNS TO 'THE FBI' EPISODE 'ACT OF VIOLENCE'

Burt Reynolds on FBI: ACT OF VIOLENCE Year: 1967 Rating: *** In Quentin Tarantino's ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD , he had his fictional...

BURT REYNOLDS ANTAGONIZES 'THE FBI: ALL THE STREETS ARE SILENT'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhToHN_TxK60pp9w8W8L3LGpoLeRVjZKeUaX-oAC1j4EKafLVI7GAT0z23VjU48kU7YAU7j6AM7wxD6anKRCfSEd3sqYrkIfCOtRxeb0B8xOH-Cp9XewAxF_M1ajHrS3XQKiIAp2LoZ8N-ncyAKn38Kj99kUEwahbhztlL0kxzuwFNK6Z2c8ZD615mvsa4X/s1060/Screen%20Shot%202024-08-24%20at%209.14.23%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="620" data-original-width="1060" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhToHN_TxK60pp9w8W8L3LGpoLeRVjZKeUaX-oAC1j4EKafLVI7GAT0z23VjU48kU7YAU7j6AM7wxD6anKRCfSEd3sqYrkIfCOtRxeb0B8xOH-Cp9XewAxF_M1ajHrS3XQKiIAp2LoZ8N-ncyAKn38Kj99kUEwahbhztlL0kxzuwFNK6Z2c8ZD615mvsa4X/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-08-24%20at%209.14.23%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds on FBI: ALL THE STREETS ARE SILENT Year: 1965 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>It's unlikely that Quentin Tarantino's fictional once-famous Rick Dalton from <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/07/in-hollywood.html">ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD</a>... played by Leonardo DiCaprio digitally altered to replace the villain role of Burt Reynolds from THE FBI episode ALL THE STREETS ARE SILENT... would have even taken the part since it's not very big beyond a terrific opening, where Burt (along with offbeat weasel Rex Holman) follows an army jeep onto an open field marine base, killing two soldiers and taking their weapons... <br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yet the rest of the episode mostly entails Efrem Zimbalist Jr working on former boxer/current cabbie James Francsiscus who, with a melodramatic pregnant wife subplot, is reluctant to out the killers but eventually pulls through: leading to an intense tommygun fight to a courtroom hearing to a much too rushed finale and, ironically, three seasons later, for <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2024/08/burtFBI.html">ACT OF MURDER</a>, Burt returned as another gunman involved with a military outpost murder. <br></p><p><span></span></p>

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BURT REYNOLDS ANTAGONIZES 'THE FBI: ALL THE STREETS ARE SILENT'

Burt Reynolds on FBI: ALL THE STREETS ARE SILENT Year: 1965 Rating: *** It's unlikely that Quentin Tarantino's fictional once-famous...

CAROL LYNLEY WITH PETER DUEL DRIVING 'THE FBI: FALSE WITNESS'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrxGo73-17lgbRKJHUYmp3zbCDESYMD1wieaMxl4FCgKCzkjLJVbOgJ3Km4pJBqjNLlRVX_I2qy38rc94tfjAtURbSnWVaF7vuRTRfSw8AP0yds3fYsug7NHhc3ujh-vnKSoYGASHzHJVc9wqhKdtGdil9BG5UykcWfjDz5B1ZgL2XlUOkDnHkzoKvpuqS/s916/Screen%20Shot%202024-08-23%20at%202.20.49%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="508" data-original-width="916" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrxGo73-17lgbRKJHUYmp3zbCDESYMD1wieaMxl4FCgKCzkjLJVbOgJ3Km4pJBqjNLlRVX_I2qy38rc94tfjAtURbSnWVaF7vuRTRfSw8AP0yds3fYsug7NHhc3ujh-vnKSoYGASHzHJVc9wqhKdtGdil9BG5UykcWfjDz5B1ZgL2XlUOkDnHkzoKvpuqS/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-08-23%20at%202.20.49%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Peter Duel & Carol Lynley on THE FBI: FALSE WITNESS Year: 1967 Season 3 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>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 best go to simple heist plots with, in this case, beautiful Carol Lynley falsely accused of driving a getaway car after a bank robbery... so her loser boyfriend Pete Duel (who'd later commit suicide while starring in another Martin production) both uses and protects her for another score...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Episodes like FALSE WITNESS don't have the twists and turns of the more highly-rated commie-traitor turns, but they're far more involving (and less melodramatic), allowing leads Efrem Zimbalist Jr and William Reynolds more hands-on input instead of waiting around by the phone... making this another low-rated yet highly enjoyable episode of a series that's aged considerably well  — depending on the particular episode. <br></p><p><span></span></p>

action, carol lynley, efrem zimbalist jr., FBI, peter duel, tv series, william reynolds

CAROL LYNLEY WITH PETER DUEL DRIVING 'THE FBI: FALSE WITNESS'

Peter Duel & Carol Lynley on THE FBI: FALSE WITNESS Year: 1967 Season 3 Rating: **** Sometimes the Quinn Martin production THE FBI would...

JOHN MILLS IN THE BRITISH WRONG MAN NOIR 'THE VICIOUS CIRCLE'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd3VCnxmJJHW07F0G8ZP28yXFta892oN3E3gHI3KVXEIaog1tjPpXViHZHRFPN6j592tSzqLxG_vLwIIBHL1rVqMKfTDV6XAQwV19qPQrAQjKOti9lv7mQnbEhK4vOXk7Td8XWejQxKHJ3Vro8IwXLZJgDAnOWwP3Grw-cxTKqSjd07jEUqHH57p88r8ha/s1894/Screen%20Shot%202024-08-21%20at%2011.44.21%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1146" data-original-width="1894" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd3VCnxmJJHW07F0G8ZP28yXFta892oN3E3gHI3KVXEIaog1tjPpXViHZHRFPN6j592tSzqLxG_vLwIIBHL1rVqMKfTDV6XAQwV19qPQrAQjKOti9lv7mQnbEhK4vOXk7Td8XWejQxKHJ3Vro8IwXLZJgDAnOWwP3Grw-cxTKqSjd07jEUqHH57p88r8ha/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-08-21%20at%2011.44.21%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE VICIOUS CIRCLE Year: 1957 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>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 best friend Derek Farr...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Strangely enough, during an otherwise suspenseful daylight-to-nighttime journey... from back alleyways to random offices to immense concert halls... the audience and main character are actually allowed to cut <i>from </i>the chase... </p><p><span></span></p>

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'

Title: THE VICIOUS CIRCLE Year: 1957 Rating: **** At one point in the middle of THE VICIOUS CIRCLE, starring John Mills as a doctor falsely ...

DENNIS COLE, RENÉE ASHERSON & PATRICK BARR 'TIME IS MY ENEMY'

<p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSr22OUyGyAmXASjAGwOPlG6ZvGSvTjmGiPoSdzr_gDxZ_vYklZw6SmuZWVs8tUnLsu7YiUy6x-6xi7yQCZGPPB65F85FCvaLMEd5xd-Igh9Dd9tDR0GAA_FIZ1cW4gnyyTkqZO2MXBMaynfh3oPN-9HQnWktix536HqdV1LW_GIoi6SYwgL9xm4_40FmI/s1778/Screen%20Shot%202024-08-19%20at%204.52.30%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="908" data-original-width="1778" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSr22OUyGyAmXASjAGwOPlG6ZvGSvTjmGiPoSdzr_gDxZ_vYklZw6SmuZWVs8tUnLsu7YiUy6x-6xi7yQCZGPPB65F85FCvaLMEd5xd-Igh9Dd9tDR0GAA_FIZ1cW4gnyyTkqZO2MXBMaynfh3oPN-9HQnWktix536HqdV1LW_GIoi6SYwgL9xm4_40FmI/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-08-19%20at%204.52.30%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: TIME IS MY ENEMY Year: 1954 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>British 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 died... while instigating cop Duncan Lamont, really the main character here, tries figuring things out...<br></p><p></p><p></p><p>This low-budget British programmer talks more than acts with dialogue over action, including an opening heist/murder that's only discussed through exposition... wasting characters like Price's two femme fatale lovers Barbara Graley and Susan Shaw, ultimately giving most of the work to initial ingenue-victim Renée Asherson, who even gets to wield a smoking gun to have some 11th hour crime-genre fun, which everybody on board here needed much more of.</p><p><span></span></p>

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'

Title: TIME IS MY ENEMY Year: 1954 Rating: **1/2 British actor Dennis Price made a living as smooth-talking lowlifes in British b-movies, an...

JAMES KENNEY & JOAN COLLINS IN 'KOSH BOY' OR 'THE SLASHER'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSztivwwyjpgLV6Erv4ORURXkjIaanoMGYRIWAEdendhpMYw3VgAPZpENvGmp_8wz67nk5i-WKX-zmfqvvAVDvp2tseRwTZdgnEiD1ZFy3-rqUIuYsYo-Nl9xV99R2oyM2YBm0DzcXooY1sIPXTF8RO6v0XAup1pNKNLFeRRmL-uS6hpioQweH7kpo5b3A/s1230/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="1230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSztivwwyjpgLV6Erv4ORURXkjIaanoMGYRIWAEdendhpMYw3VgAPZpENvGmp_8wz67nk5i-WKX-zmfqvvAVDvp2tseRwTZdgnEiD1ZFy3-rqUIuYsYo-Nl9xV99R2oyM2YBm0DzcXooY1sIPXTF8RO6v0XAup1pNKNLFeRRmL-uS6hpioQweH7kpo5b3A/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: COSH BOY also THE SLASHER Year: 1954 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>It'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 "teddy boy" (name of youth gangs in England)... because Kenney not only delivers his dialogue strongly, but listens just as intensely...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Too bad his words are aimed at a coddling mother, about to marry a strict man... and both are even more important than the fellow gang members, who sporadically hit the streets to "cosh" (violently mug) their victims...</p><p><span></span></p>

british film noir, fifties, james kenney, joan collins, melodrama, teen

JAMES KENNEY & JOAN COLLINS IN 'KOSH BOY' OR 'THE SLASHER'

Title: COSH BOY also THE SLASHER Year: 1954 Rating: **1/2 It's a shame that COSH BOY (strangely re-titled THE SLASHER) is so extremely d...

MENAHEM GOLAN'S 'LEPKE' WITH TONY CURTIS & ANJANETTE COMER

<p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVtna58Hp7gESf_DRS_EdXMrcUSluOhL0sL3PRoUx7Rs_nQWMt814v4d-CX090FvrGGC5TXFonV6BYd9o3OBjh_wLLnfDz0cWQuR5ZZWUIlvn9iatqamUegcs_yjCnaKzni-dwEbYZki0GcnD7IxFYNG-tp7rRVCPGV6chbTIWyAjfZawanMSbks_xjqch/s1388/Screen%20Shot%202024-08-14%20at%202.23.09%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="892" data-original-width="1388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVtna58Hp7gESf_DRS_EdXMrcUSluOhL0sL3PRoUx7Rs_nQWMt814v4d-CX090FvrGGC5TXFonV6BYd9o3OBjh_wLLnfDz0cWQuR5ZZWUIlvn9iatqamUegcs_yjCnaKzni-dwEbYZki0GcnD7IxFYNG-tp7rRVCPGV6chbTIWyAjfZawanMSbks_xjqch/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-08-14%20at%202.23.09%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: LEPKE Year: 1975 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>A 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 younger version with an intense Barry Miller in turn-of-the-century America, committing a crime and about to be locked up... a shame since more time should have been spent on those youthful years...</p><p></p><p></p><p>Instead, right when the titular Jewish mobster gets out, he's already a 50-something miscast Tony Curtis, who at one point talks Milton Berle into marrying docile daughter Anjanette Comer... and about thirty-minutes later, when the detectives start knocking, she's supposed to have realized her mistake at marrying a lethal crime boss...</p><p><span></span></p>

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

Title: LEPKE Year: 1975 Rating: **1/2 A cross between yet another 1970's THE GODFATHER clone and a drive-in exploitation with sex and vi...

VAL LEWTON PRESENTS MARK ROBSON'S THRILLER 'THE GHOST SHIP'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSoeYzexRQ6JPX0Nf-gZqV_A0eGTNcwUZPI8AlJbSDCPjhW07IOjCQnQmaYsD5OCD69NMDcwAvIBoTy6ahA5k675avUpzOdP77sflNtyZRYnt2RsL6LEOaiytfuGvzK3aIZLhHgihBHwihByUAHV1yRi0i6ZKtNE94y735041nsB0wc_KU3-vKP05jnivJ/s1574/Screen%20Shot%202022-11-27%20at%204.48.39%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1002" data-original-width="1574" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSoeYzexRQ6JPX0Nf-gZqV_A0eGTNcwUZPI8AlJbSDCPjhW07IOjCQnQmaYsD5OCD69NMDcwAvIBoTy6ahA5k675avUpzOdP77sflNtyZRYnt2RsL6LEOaiytfuGvzK3aIZLhHgihBHwihByUAHV1yRi0i6ZKtNE94y735041nsB0wc_KU3-vKP05jnivJ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-11-27%20at%204.48.39%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE GHOST SHIP Year: 1943 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>A 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 Wade under his philosophizing wing... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Right before crew members die mysteriously on the GHOST SHIP... the most recognizable being wise guy Lawrence Tierney, who Dix posthumously describes as "a sea lawyer full of windy complaints, seasoned with bad comedy.”  </p><p><span></span></p>

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'

Title: THE GHOST SHIP Year: 1943 Rating: ***1/2 A dark, atmospheric Val Lewton production using RKO's fog-shrouded KING KONG ship (liter...

NOVA PILBEAM IN ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S 'YOUNG AND INNOCENT'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLGF_I_tuNznfmkxhtRp-xh9pruIZP4a1NMTNCRFaLEgeT0vVBYj3H-mJBoH8Kd29p1iZf17WBNrl1EZZMWOT4Ds0R3TGrGizZ_SReiG676_naoJL3X6eURkD6zp5mL6UW3GPops6-kfCDqy3OSXXwymqBlsUIptCExUxX_sSmpAQ-u64X-QzjFuEQca5K/s823/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="505" data-original-width="823" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLGF_I_tuNznfmkxhtRp-xh9pruIZP4a1NMTNCRFaLEgeT0vVBYj3H-mJBoH8Kd29p1iZf17WBNrl1EZZMWOT4Ds0R3TGrGizZ_SReiG676_naoJL3X6eURkD6zp5mL6UW3GPops6-kfCDqy3OSXXwymqBlsUIptCExUxX_sSmpAQ-u64X-QzjFuEQca5K/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Nova Pilbeam and Derrick De Marney in YOUNG AND INNOCENT Year: 1937 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Alfred Hitchcock was the master of suspense — <i>and</i> the master of teaming up a wrong-man with a good girl in an espionage-driven adventure, which began with THE 39 STEPS and peaked with NORTH BY NORTHWEST with SABOTEUR and FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT in-between...<br><br>Then there's the least known, YOUNG AND INNOCENT, starring the McGuffin/kidnapped daughter from his original THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH in lovely girl-next-door Nova Pilbeam — here the local constable's daughter who takes to falsely-accused scriptwriter Derrick De Marney, having had an affair with a slain actress, part of an opening scene so wispy and melodramatic it almost seems like a parody...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

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'

Nova Pilbeam and Derrick De Marney in YOUNG AND INNOCENT Year: 1937 Rating: *** Alfred Hitchcock was the master of suspense — and the maste...

NOVA PILBEAM KIDNAPPED IN 'THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgarfREX2WyPOLk6nFRi56Z7Hb9fGUm_dSZzGcg84rk8vgK074waLr6EjJeUaZiYQGpMbBraChKfJZw09u3_asOzWd7D8AgGGn4xLeDlc9kruAqnW99jx4drTokVius1FcqucepFZaKoXVsVx8yH7XYwWaOY4Vs92qyj4bSb5saNp9uZ_wUcS-Kd5YLbrFt/s1621/1%203.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="906" data-original-width="1621" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgarfREX2WyPOLk6nFRi56Z7Hb9fGUm_dSZzGcg84rk8vgK074waLr6EjJeUaZiYQGpMbBraChKfJZw09u3_asOzWd7D8AgGGn4xLeDlc9kruAqnW99jx4drTokVius1FcqucepFZaKoXVsVx8yH7XYwWaOY4Vs92qyj4bSb5saNp9uZ_wUcS-Kd5YLbrFt/s16000/1%203.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Leslie Banks, </u><u>Nova Pilbeam </u><u>and Pierre Fresnay in THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>When 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 come to mind... which should have been renamed COUPLE instead of just one MAN... <br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>But here, in the 1934 B&W original mostly known for Peter Lorre's signature creepy and sinister gunman kidnapper, it's mainly Swiss-vacationing British patriarch Leslie Banks taken into random dark-lit interiors to find his kidnapped daughter (after the death of professional-skier friend Pierre Fresnay), played by cute and energetic Nova Pillbeam, who Hitchcock would later direct in YOUNG AND INNOCENT...</p><p><span></span></p>

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'

Leslie Banks, Nova Pilbeam and Pierre Fresnay in THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH When first hearing about Alfred Hitchcock's THE MAN WHO KNEW ...

ALAD LADD, SUSAN GORDON & CAROLYN JONES 'THE MAN IN THE NET'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7p2Yri8YomHVFZhSkmBwXSQ5dzilM9txxqaAQyvpYXSUGhE7iWY9LEQj3zGdbXAdqQP9p-jMovPteoywkGCiyCPRobK0TDflH0UOyi7Kvz5IgXeFSQps66T6SuZM6hwHFEof0PBwMflSLYNhOlbeJ2T_G5essAsR1KKI6YRIAFJ6i9a1TJDapESl3qKKo/s1190/Screen%20Shot%202024-08-06%20at%2012.03.27%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="722" data-original-width="1190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7p2Yri8YomHVFZhSkmBwXSQ5dzilM9txxqaAQyvpYXSUGhE7iWY9LEQj3zGdbXAdqQP9p-jMovPteoywkGCiyCPRobK0TDflH0UOyi7Kvz5IgXeFSQps66T6SuZM6hwHFEof0PBwMflSLYNhOlbeJ2T_G5essAsR1KKI6YRIAFJ6i9a1TJDapESl3qKKo/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-08-06%20at%2012.03.27%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Charles McGraw, Edward Binns & Alan Ladd pictured from THE MAN IN THE NET Year: 1959 Rating: **</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>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 is, the French had yet to coin the Dark Film into the term that would grow throughout the years... but the template that makes these kind of dark crime melodramas still remained, and in Michael Curtiz's A MAN IN A NET, two of the most specific and popular tropes are well at hand...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>First off, the Wrong Man aspect as an aged, sluggish, loser artist Alan Ladd (looking as if he had a facelift to resemble a miniature Robert Mitchum) as the only logical culprit to have killed his boozing/cheating, no-good wife... and the second aspect's just been mentioned, and in that, Carolyn Jones, on the verge of THE ADDAMS FAMILY and having been in a handful of noirs ranging from THE BIG HEAT to SHIELD FOR MURDER, is the best thing going...</p><p><span></span></p>

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'

Charles McGraw, Edward Binns & Alan Ladd pictured from THE MAN IN THE NET Year: 1959 Rating: ** By 1959, Film Noir had ended, but not of...

LORI NELSON, JOHN RUSSELL & MAMIE VAN DOREN 'UNTAMED YOUTH'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbL8faQqwVhFg8x1sgk6Q9vF_-u3EFjQ05tyYvTYDEroA-s01QyBpiHs4xaGfGmbUBhYp3fMOCL49RU8FGyGRCTyYS-RDxXjVnjDE0mWhHF5YVLIMfgtoUO-nsDF3rcpQfeIlxJWzmJxGwc7Eaw7tbyarwgFZmuP8c5gOUFE3kTT3dqxUMU7n46WSnx4O0/s1712/Screen%20Shot%202024-08-05%20at%2011.45.07%20AM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1073" data-original-width="1712" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbL8faQqwVhFg8x1sgk6Q9vF_-u3EFjQ05tyYvTYDEroA-s01QyBpiHs4xaGfGmbUBhYp3fMOCL49RU8FGyGRCTyYS-RDxXjVnjDE0mWhHF5YVLIMfgtoUO-nsDF3rcpQfeIlxJWzmJxGwc7Eaw7tbyarwgFZmuP8c5gOUFE3kTT3dqxUMU7n46WSnx4O0/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-08-05%20at%2011.45.07%20AM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>title: UNTAMED YOUTH year: 1957 rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>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 Doren, she soon becomes their friend... because in this particular work-farm, square-jawed big boss John Russell's practically the sole antagonist, a hybrid of warden and cheating businessman...<br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Connected with by being secreted married to an older woman, who just happens to be the small town ranch-owning judge that winds up intentionally sentencing outsiders to her man's makeshift hoosegow, and whose son, fresh from the Navy, is as heroic as Russell is (with trained dobermans) borderline deadly...</p><p><span></span></p>

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'

title: UNTAMED YOUTH year: 1957 rating: **** In a creatively low-budget twist of the prison genre, by the time bad lockup girl Jeanne Carmen...

WILLIAM HOLDEN AND NANCY OLSON IN 'SUBMARINE COMMAND'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX97R_krL4-Ym-uKwEVch7H4ccl18ox8mLLI4JNdgtYNPeJ17pIstm8Sx1gdpDj8y1RuvoWL26V8XCAVfMnbMhdEhXyGlfzeE-rsUdGlTZDUzXiiIPq0TsFVrJxLBlbEpn8XehMi-LEt2hAWz3LXsiC5vyIrFFoCJWJIe9AtT5DPWwqDIH7-LVkVcLzjQ2/s1253/2%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="927" data-original-width="1253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX97R_krL4-Ym-uKwEVch7H4ccl18ox8mLLI4JNdgtYNPeJ17pIstm8Sx1gdpDj8y1RuvoWL26V8XCAVfMnbMhdEhXyGlfzeE-rsUdGlTZDUzXiiIPq0TsFVrJxLBlbEpn8XehMi-LEt2hAWz3LXsiC5vyIrFFoCJWJIe9AtT5DPWwqDIH7-LVkVcLzjQ2/s16000/2%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: SUBMARINE COMMAND Year: 1951 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>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 Olson as the wife of Holden's Lt. Commander Ken White, who, initially second-in-charge within the titular vessel, makes a quick decision to submerge when the stalwart/popular captain's still outside...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The audience can see he's been hit by a Japanese zero but the drama relies on Holden's character not knowing if the death was by gunfire or drowning, the latter to save the crew... yet what really matters is stocky CPO Boyer's opinion, and, played by always reliable William Bendix, he doesn't like Holden's guilt-ridden second-guessing lieutenant one bit...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, arthur franz, don taylor, drama, fifties, nancy olson, william bendix, william holden, world war II

WILLIAM HOLDEN AND NANCY OLSON IN 'SUBMARINE COMMAND'

Title: SUBMARINE COMMAND Year: 1951 Rating: *** Imagine THE CAINE MUTINY, without a mutiny, and you might have the William Holden vehicle SU...

DANA ANDREWS & ALICE FAYE IN OTTO PREMINGER'S 'FALLEN ANGEL'

<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/AVvXsEgTWpLk2K0he59eAcyZzeXtL6cO56fog-X9GPxGlJ0xBlK70cuigd4MstArYkOdDhciSLaFjg7XMTPHZATxSXIvqkR_kgULb4xpNyuRVxN58_puPD5IR2dD5GZY-lgbH-EM-BLbVO_5CTNc01pgUgBVQAeTahU4UMWBHxX-GLYhOin4sd8EVsL5rKAyiTrR/s1372/Screen%20Shot%202024-08-06%20at%2011.49.47%20AM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1062" data-original-width="1372" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTWpLk2K0he59eAcyZzeXtL6cO56fog-X9GPxGlJ0xBlK70cuigd4MstArYkOdDhciSLaFjg7XMTPHZATxSXIvqkR_kgULb4xpNyuRVxN58_puPD5IR2dD5GZY-lgbH-EM-BLbVO_5CTNc01pgUgBVQAeTahU4UMWBHxX-GLYhOin4sd8EVsL5rKAyiTrR/w400-h310/Screen%20Shot%202024-08-06%20at%2011.49.47%20AM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1945 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table>If you look at the filmography of two actresses who play sisters in the Otto Preminger Film Noir FALLEN ANGEL, Alice Faye, as naive June Mills, who's mentored by an older, wiser, more cautious Ann Revere as Clara: Both had prosperous careers in that decade, the 1940's, and then their 50's resume reads like a clean slate...<br> <br> Sadly, more of a <i>Black</i>list for the NATIONAL VELVET Oscar-Winning Revere (who co-starred with Andrews in the lobster-diver drama DEEP WATERS)... But the 20th Century Fox starlet Faye basically quit acting for a long while... Ironically, till she was old enough to be a teenage girl's mother in the remake of STATE FAIR, the original co-starring Andrews... And her career's demise was all because of Otto Preminger's underrated and mostly obscure/unknown Dana Andrews (with Gene Tierney) Film Noir FALLEN ANGEL in-between classics LAURA and  WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS... <br>

alice faye, ann revere, bruce cabot, dana andrews, film noir, film noir or melodrama, forties, linda darnell, otto preminger

DANA ANDREWS & ALICE FAYE IN OTTO PREMINGER'S 'FALLEN ANGEL'

Year: 1945 Rating: ****1/2 If you look at the filmography of two actresses who play sisters in the Otto Preminger Film Noir FALLEN ANGEL, Al...

DANA ANDREWS & GENE TIERNEY IN 'WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS'

<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/AVvXsEgJhPb8JjRRH1wWt-iiX7FYG10-nzeRLO8EErcY5OVLHm6Cx7A09fIsAMDqJaGjP7rFsUpKG6V4hzwku6nWNYwKWUAjyLP5cCaXulAmaqn5QhZwvwexT3oKaoEHFX9v8ft1uGBpVPgDzMLzv_9qg9KkC0f5a9XRzOcLIkzOE3WKZVtI3oaUUeJbyFQoZFy0/s1270/Screen%20Shot%202024-08-02%20at%202.50.48%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="972" data-original-width="1270" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJhPb8JjRRH1wWt-iiX7FYG10-nzeRLO8EErcY5OVLHm6Cx7A09fIsAMDqJaGjP7rFsUpKG6V4hzwku6nWNYwKWUAjyLP5cCaXulAmaqn5QhZwvwexT3oKaoEHFX9v8ft1uGBpVPgDzMLzv_9qg9KkC0f5a9XRzOcLIkzOE3WKZVtI3oaUUeJbyFQoZFy0/w400-h306/Screen%20Shot%202024-08-02%20at%202.50.48%20AM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Dana and Gene a third time YEAR: 1950</u></td></tr></tbody></table>A sort of Film Noir in reverse as a downright bad and brutal cop does something accidental and pretty awful, covers it up and then, a bit later, gets half-a-heart, which is how Noir leading men usually start: this after he falls for the Falsely Accused Wrong Man's daughter in Gene Tierney's gorgeous, as usual, Morgan Taylor... Even her name is lovely...<br> <br> Dana Andrews, who resembled a hybrid Sean Connery before there was one famous enough to resemble, and Steve Martin had he been a tough and tall leading man type, stole scenes in the post World War Two classic, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/05/BYOOurLIVES.html">THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES,</a> and, brother of Steve Forrest, has the same square-jaw and no-nonsense style, and is a lot more edgy and desperate than his snoopy cop in the previous, more lavish and high-budgeted crime melodrama, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/05/Loir.html">LAURA</a>, with the same director and gorgeous co-star...<br>

bert freed, british film noir/melodrama, cop, craig stevens, dana andrews, fifties, gary merill, gene tierney, karl malden, otto preminger, suspense

DANA ANDREWS & GENE TIERNEY IN 'WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS'

Dana and Gene a third time YEAR: 1950 A sort of Film Noir in reverse as a downright bad and brutal cop does something accidental and pretty ...

DANA ANDREWS AND GENE TIERNEY IN OTTO PREMINGER'S 'LAURA'

<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/AVvXsEj01Z3iqJzlmy6i_LXewxuB3Fi42kxXhpmCfjkWOGbUBZ8lbT1x_C0FvWMNx0Yva7Hd4O6Cnxsc8KygwS5aRZUusdPl9lYfHtUdEkhnauQs0JFqn6A-38OF-Hw276uEPpjH9gwMTKYsAqzTkazwOJZXMHH9MTjcSm2s7OJOJSjSBA9cd8ivur1swvQZW1vJ/s1904/Screen%20Shot%202024-08-01%20at%2010.13.06%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1387" data-original-width="1904" height="291" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj01Z3iqJzlmy6i_LXewxuB3Fi42kxXhpmCfjkWOGbUBZ8lbT1x_C0FvWMNx0Yva7Hd4O6Cnxsc8KygwS5aRZUusdPl9lYfHtUdEkhnauQs0JFqn6A-38OF-Hw276uEPpjH9gwMTKYsAqzTkazwOJZXMHH9MTjcSm2s7OJOJSjSBA9cd8ivur1swvQZW1vJ/w400-h291/Screen%20Shot%202024-08-01%20at%2010.13.06%20AM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: LAURA Year: 1944 Rates: *****</u></td></tr></tbody></table>Dana Andrews as Det. Lt. Mark McPherson has fallen in love with a ghost, kind of, and that's not to be spoiled for anyone who hasn't seen LAURA with its particular dreamlike camera panning from a sleeping McPherson, and we get the murderous yarn, spun all over again in a different fashion and with a twist that could be something else entirely as our hero deals with two creeps connected with the ingenue: especially a cerebral "sugar daddy" in a sophisticated Clifton Webb...<br> <div style="text-align: right;"> </div> <br> Word is the producer frowned on this important casting because of... well... what's pretty apparent about the futzy fella, and he can't shake that aspect from his character of a character, Waldo Lydecker. But Webb is perfect as LAURA seems to be the only girl who can rid the sophisticated and manipulative Lydecker from his daily uptight uptown lunch, all by himself with a contented life all mapped-out...<br>

classic, clifton webb, cop, crime, dana andrews, film noir, forties, gene tierney, mystery, otto preminger, vincent price

DANA ANDREWS AND GENE TIERNEY IN OTTO PREMINGER'S 'LAURA'

Title: LAURA Year: 1944 Rates: ***** Dana Andrews as Det. Lt. Mark McPherson has fallen in love with a ghost, kind of, and that's not...