BURT REYNOLDS, CANDACE BERGEN, JILL CLAYBURGH 'STARTING OVER'

<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/AVvXsEgwAboAIlPhoDL6kIV9BijDFmw4FoGPTR917hj5QeCD6WpSIhSXmMwb1Q1S-o1zjM6w-MDVQnRaVzNQ9uuCEn-tTjW2wdGk_BlHy5HmcyKaRYxGZzkBARNizbAUgZi1Dt1CjUorXZugI1JwZbQ3DyBweUhCO4-pLTTey7r_JMW85A8dl87nGzigSNc3ZNCJ/s928/Screen%20Shot%202024-09-15%20at%205.53.15%20PM%203.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="504" data-original-width="928" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwAboAIlPhoDL6kIV9BijDFmw4FoGPTR917hj5QeCD6WpSIhSXmMwb1Q1S-o1zjM6w-MDVQnRaVzNQ9uuCEn-tTjW2wdGk_BlHy5HmcyKaRYxGZzkBARNizbAUgZi1Dt1CjUorXZugI1JwZbQ3DyBweUhCO4-pLTTey7r_JMW85A8dl87nGzigSNc3ZNCJ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-09-15%20at%205.53.15%20PM%203.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds in WHITE LIGHTNING (Reassessment Review) Year: 1973 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>There are two things that connect the romantic-comedy STARTING OVER with Burt Reynolds' career breakthrough DELIVERANCE: he doesn't have the defining mustache, and it's not a "Burt Reynolds Movie" but a movie he co-stars in with other people...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Successful TV-writer and future mogul James L. Brooks' original script is directed by Alan J. Pakula, more prone to political thrillers... and he's about as comfortable here directing as Burt is being basically stuck in a vehicle that would have far better suited an Alan Alda, Henry Winkler or Charles Grodin type...<br></p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

alan j. pakula, burt reynolds, candace bergen, charles durning, james l. brooks, jill clayburgh, love triangle, romantic comedy, seventies

BURT REYNOLDS, CANDACE BERGEN, JILL CLAYBURGH 'STARTING OVER'

Burt Reynolds in WHITE LIGHTNING (Reassessment Review) Year: 1973 Rating: **** There are two things that connect the romantic-comedy STARTIN...

BURT REYNOLDS, NED BEATTY & BO HOPKINS IN 'WHITE LIGHTNING'

<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/AVvXsEgyRAALyT-Ql23lJqBetLYXRwxSbpwWd-x6uiJse6ulunwhep_0_YkGnMFByW6rOKuMZflsFxNdTxH4HshFAD13AF45YzWgo8oItEv31fIAS333o2_kH5PPa7ha_Gg8ttqa_0CTj6JCSgaugcY4WO6wvNMVGiuNABxhnU5TPgBuVBIpgwiPGt-E58aEkPgo/s1096/Screen%20Shot%202024-09-01%20at%209.45.42%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="607" data-original-width="1096" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyRAALyT-Ql23lJqBetLYXRwxSbpwWd-x6uiJse6ulunwhep_0_YkGnMFByW6rOKuMZflsFxNdTxH4HshFAD13AF45YzWgo8oItEv31fIAS333o2_kH5PPa7ha_Gg8ttqa_0CTj6JCSgaugcY4WO6wvNMVGiuNABxhnU5TPgBuVBIpgwiPGt-E58aEkPgo/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-09-01%20at%209.45.42%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds in WHITE LIGHTNING (Reassessment Review) Year: 1973 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>For Burt Reynolds, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2012/06/white-lightning.html">WHITE LIGHTNING</a> was a cross between the previous-years' DELIVERANCE and near-future <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2024/08/bandit1.html">SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT</a> with creative and gritty 1970's-renaissance-era direction of the first and more mainstream good-old-boy muscle car action of the latter...</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>Where Burt looks as if his manly <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2022/09/deliverance.html">DELIVERANCE</a> character had never been injured and, doing a five-year sentence on a scorching work-farm for moonshine, he learns what the audience witnessed in the dusky prologue, ironically set in an extremely familiar rural river setting...<br></p><span></span>

action, burt reynolds, diane ladd, jennifer billingsley, john steadman, joseph sargent, laura dern, louise latham, matt clark, ned beatty, prison, r.g. armstrong, stephanie burchfield

BURT REYNOLDS, NED BEATTY & BO HOPKINS IN 'WHITE LIGHTNING'

Burt Reynolds in WHITE LIGHTNING (Reassessment Review) Year: 1973 Rating: **** For Burt Reynolds, WHITE LIGHTNING was a cross between the p...

JOCK MAHONEY VS WOODY STRODE 'TARZAN'S THREE CHALLENGES'

<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/AVvXsEiP5KTPwatMdzAC6Ws0OUcZvLO9Kv3oB0m_CbQnhlCO8vQeQrTt0Jypp2-rJL7TzkUn8NpdklYQMliYqybBNQWApijWvTaV_iIe46NwjypQ6WGuZQUTkezB_wdoHUEFx58EOg2UVhSMchzSeH-EW8ERd7CRh3Q5Ba3kc6EXf6zm2CLvRwp1tnn0Gm9AoAmg/s950/Screen%20Shot%202024-09-14%20at%209.46.57%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="515" data-original-width="950" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP5KTPwatMdzAC6Ws0OUcZvLO9Kv3oB0m_CbQnhlCO8vQeQrTt0Jypp2-rJL7TzkUn8NpdklYQMliYqybBNQWApijWvTaV_iIe46NwjypQ6WGuZQUTkezB_wdoHUEFx58EOg2UVhSMchzSeH-EW8ERd7CRh3Q5Ba3kc6EXf6zm2CLvRwp1tnn0Gm9AoAmg/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-09-14%20at%209.46.57%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: TARZAN'S THREE CHALLENGES Year: 1963 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>There's a TARZAN curse when you look into the actors: Johnny Weismuller was golfing in Cuba during the Castro takeover, and decades later ended up doing his Tarzan call throughout the lonely corridors of an old folk's home; Lex Barker died middle-aged before marrying a younger woman; Mike Henry was bitten by a chimp and suffered from monkey fever; and far worst of all, Ron Ely hosted <i>Name That Tune</i> with Kathie Lee Gifford...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>At least Gordon Scott turned out okay, but his replacement in actor/stuntman Jock Mahoney... after getting through TARZAN GOES TO INDIA without trouble... dared to swim across a giant, extremely polluted Thailand river and caught amoebic dysentery, never gaining back complete strength for future stunt or acting roles...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, franchise, jock mahoney, mahoney tarzan, sixties, woody strode

JOCK MAHONEY VS WOODY STRODE 'TARZAN'S THREE CHALLENGES'

Title: TARZAN'S THREE CHALLENGES Year: 1963 Rating: **1/2 There's a TARZAN curse when you look into the actors: Johnny Weismuller wa...

JOCK MAHONEY IN JOHN GUILLERMAN'S 'TARZAN GOES TO INDIA'

<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/AVvXsEgd1QR74OLqHaqDddYTGW88JguHLHWu6LDRc-kvzjMPQtlDssgzWxGoTy6hvPP8EW82hl_AabeJxZjrGH6T3CLO0sM8W9p0JZSBogtGb-AaKWFTWu0rSwhHtJ1BIlq1tp8pVTbzYmsDYHBV1FrHB5Xgr8t5-affbVxB-bsFPjJr2LIhyDAMwozXzIYtmMcN/s1504/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="855" data-original-width="1504" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd1QR74OLqHaqDddYTGW88JguHLHWu6LDRc-kvzjMPQtlDssgzWxGoTy6hvPP8EW82hl_AabeJxZjrGH6T3CLO0sM8W9p0JZSBogtGb-AaKWFTWu0rSwhHtJ1BIlq1tp8pVTbzYmsDYHBV1FrHB5Xgr8t5-affbVxB-bsFPjJr2LIhyDAMwozXzIYtmMcN/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jock Mahoney in TARZAN GOES TO INDIA Year: 1962 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>After actor/stuntman Jock Mahoney played the villain to Gordon Scott's Tarzan in TARZAN THE MAGNIFICENT, he was chosen to portray the swinging ape-man himself, a bit older, more sinewy than muscular and facially resembling former Tarzan (who Scott replaced) Lex Barker...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Here against several villains, beginning with formidable Leo Gordon as a foreman on a vast desert construction site (foreshadowing Tanis from RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK)... An infamous elephant hunter, he threatens to kill any wildlife that could hinder the work — unless Tarzan and his boy sidekick... with a trained pet elephant... saves the day...</p><p><span></span></p>

adventure, franchise, jock mahoney, john guillermin, leo gordon, mahoney tarzan, mark dana, sixties

JOCK MAHONEY IN JOHN GUILLERMAN'S 'TARZAN GOES TO INDIA'

Jock Mahoney in TARZAN GOES TO INDIA Year: 1962 Rating: *** After actor/stuntman Jock Mahoney played the villain to Gordon Scott's Tarza...

MIKE HENRY IN THE ESPIONAGE 'TARZAN AND THE VALLEY OF GOLD'

<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/AVvXsEio8kOLvAbp-o-FuAb7RBVdq8CgUeuApqGvipLbI63lUxXMHqKJxEBoQrj3xGCE_q0MYpGb-wEonbyet6pjScENMij3YIOkVEGeie8wCxQ0h_dBH7UxaF17WudtxLhxTLrn_EYfjRov1M2oqcZ5I_m8sWnvCQbxlZcA5noh21N-VYKMLzMy3Prl0_h5pPka/s1220/Screen%20Shot%202024-09-08%20at%205.51.28%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="744" data-original-width="1220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio8kOLvAbp-o-FuAb7RBVdq8CgUeuApqGvipLbI63lUxXMHqKJxEBoQrj3xGCE_q0MYpGb-wEonbyet6pjScENMij3YIOkVEGeie8wCxQ0h_dBH7UxaF17WudtxLhxTLrn_EYfjRov1M2oqcZ5I_m8sWnvCQbxlZcA5noh21N-VYKMLzMy3Prl0_h5pPka/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-09-08%20at%205.51.28%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: TARZAN AND THE VALLEY OF GOLD Year: 1966 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>You can tell that TARZAN AND THE VALLEY OF GOLD is imitating/emulating the popular mid-1960's James Bond franchise by the opening credits alone, with a vibrant, jazzy score and psychedelic colors tracing what winds up the opening scene's empty bullfight arena, with Mike Henry's usually scantily-clad hero actually dressed-up in a dapper business suit for a duck-and-cover shootout...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Winding up in another (filmed entirely in) Mexico location full of gorgeous pyramids where David Opatoshu as Vinero attempts taking over, more like a Bond villain than Tarzan's a spy, eventually trading his civilian clothes for the signature loin-cloth framing a ripped/muscular build, the usual Tarzan template from Johnny Weissmuller to Lex Barker to Jock Mahoney leading to the USC Trojan football star's acting breakthrough... <br></p><span></span>

action, adventure, david opatoshu, don megowan, franchise, henry tarzan, manuel padilla jr, mike henry, nancy kovack, sixties, spy, treasure

MIKE HENRY IN THE ESPIONAGE 'TARZAN AND THE VALLEY OF GOLD'

Title: TARZAN AND THE VALLEY OF GOLD Year: 1966 Rating: ***1/2 You can tell that TARZAN AND THE VALLEY OF GOLD is imitating/emulating the po...

MIKE HENRY VS RAFER JOHNSON IN 'TARZAN AND THE GREAT RIVER'

<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/AVvXsEiCPCyJN6YJDVQ1o8gysm9mcpskV6NZoHCsCy-2yyKy7ckIL1ctD-Hs4VsGb4RTxR-Q7-imdOtk8IGKXqfVSS0gay8f0T0MPKjQru9eW1x6GNRnzxDFMshHzxSF-UoTpgHmcRdKi0ltuAmeKJwdz8ezLdbJ2iF0GGZPunZCkP712fUcE8yyh_dM0H8xPdsH/s1538/Screen%20Shot%202024-09-10%20at%2010.10.47%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="755" data-original-width="1538" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCPCyJN6YJDVQ1o8gysm9mcpskV6NZoHCsCy-2yyKy7ckIL1ctD-Hs4VsGb4RTxR-Q7-imdOtk8IGKXqfVSS0gay8f0T0MPKjQru9eW1x6GNRnzxDFMshHzxSF-UoTpgHmcRdKi0ltuAmeKJwdz8ezLdbJ2iF0GGZPunZCkP712fUcE8yyh_dM0H8xPdsH/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-09-10%20at%2010.10.47%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: TARZAN AND THE GREAT RIVER Year: 1967 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The previous years' TARZAN AND THE VALLEY OF GOLD had the jungle-traipsing hero in a suit with a handgun, competing with the James Bond franchise and, in TARZAN AND THE GREAT RIVER, supposedly taking place in the Amazon instead of Africa, they're back to the jungle: although there <i>is</i> one rudimentary scene with Mike Henry's muscular yet monotone Tarzan wearing civilian clothes...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Mostly though, the story's centered so much on a maverick boat captain... played by game-show-host Jan Murray with child-actor Manuel Padilla Jr his first-mate sidekick... that GREAT RIVER is more like an attempt to spinoff another franchise from Tarzan... who mostly stands around giving <i>both</i> the captain and kid advice on growing up... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, diana millay, franchise, henry tarzan, jan murray, manuel padilla jr, mike henry, rafer johnson, sixties

MIKE HENRY VS RAFER JOHNSON IN 'TARZAN AND THE GREAT RIVER'

Title: TARZAN AND THE GREAT RIVER Year: 1967 Rating: **1/2 The previous years' TARZAN AND THE VALLEY OF GOLD had the jungle-traipsing he...

MIKE HENRY FINISHING WITH 'TARZAN AND THE JUNGLE BOY'

<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/AVvXsEj4x67yJU2SP0-xXJfCmSKw__UqSQOIb3rcJRzY1XOvuf6r7aRCKTMB7eW9ae8rB6ecnCJ4ZJIbWRdod2pD0n7unY4gf4FjGZ5mLLavXcqBZHtVbVrcE7Ha-AjVEQpX2R42b9U6qhhA789CBpBjivBTu3V9kebdgg-08OcJ9MfMGNCPWi_mxg9JKgH5Mh5a/s1504/Screen%20Shot%202024-09-10%20at%2010.44.27%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="725" data-original-width="1504" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4x67yJU2SP0-xXJfCmSKw__UqSQOIb3rcJRzY1XOvuf6r7aRCKTMB7eW9ae8rB6ecnCJ4ZJIbWRdod2pD0n7unY4gf4FjGZ5mLLavXcqBZHtVbVrcE7Ha-AjVEQpX2R42b9U6qhhA789CBpBjivBTu3V9kebdgg-08OcJ9MfMGNCPWi_mxg9JKgH5Mh5a/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-09-10%20at%2010.44.27%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mike Henry in Aliza Gur in TARZAN AND THE JUNGLE BOY Year: 1968 Rates: **</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>By 1968, when the third and final Mike Henry TARZAN movie hit theaters, the television series starring Ron Ely and Mike's former sidekick Manual Padilla Jr had already almost run its course, because TARZAN AND THE JUNGLE BOY was made in 1965 and shelved for three years...<br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Beginning like Edgar Rice Burroughs' original story since the titular JUNGLE BOY was abandoned and raised there, so Tarzan can surely relate... only it's the villain's brother, literally played by returning actor Rafer Johnson's lookalike sibling Edward Johnson, who searches for and eventually rescues the kid... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, aliza gur, franchise, henry tarzan, mike henry, rafer johnson, sixties

MIKE HENRY FINISHING WITH 'TARZAN AND THE JUNGLE BOY'

Mike Henry in Aliza Gur in TARZAN AND THE JUNGLE BOY Year: 1968 Rates: ** By 1968, when the third and final Mike Henry TARZAN movie hit thea...

BURT REYNOLDS AND RAQUEL WELCH KIND OF REUNITE IN 'FUZZ'

<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/AVvXsEhnjBF5lAnF_9ae4pTwsXsZAxL8uL5UZQ3KT8Q5laV1wJXuxh58V_d2w9l9Q7Oj8rxDF6VFTaEyEt5MzE8ptHqCJ1u6JBAQ5GJC0AWCpTdsrqzhDUGCFZepgjQOpayNPU_3TRQDDh6Xg1AXJS0ZuU8Thqrn8laxJMYTTmpHwj6rAaVF4hSKIyZvJonrpM_o/s1590/Screen%20Shot%202024-09-09%20at%204.04.32%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="970" data-original-width="1590" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnjBF5lAnF_9ae4pTwsXsZAxL8uL5UZQ3KT8Q5laV1wJXuxh58V_d2w9l9Q7Oj8rxDF6VFTaEyEt5MzE8ptHqCJ1u6JBAQ5GJC0AWCpTdsrqzhDUGCFZepgjQOpayNPU_3TRQDDh6Xg1AXJS0ZuU8Thqrn8laxJMYTTmpHwj6rAaVF4hSKIyZvJonrpM_o/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-09-09%20at%204.04.32%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Pop Culture Explosion Poster for FUZZ Year: 1972 Rating: **</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Since Burt Reynolds and Raquel Welch couldn't stand each other on the set of <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2022/08/100R.html">100 RIFLES</a>, when they wound up in FUZZ... a funky-scored blaxploitation-style wannabe but for mostly white cops... she demanded they share no screen-time together, which <i>almost</i> comes true...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>In one scene inside the usual dingy precinct, a woman tells Welch's newbie detective character about an attack... cutting to Burt and affable sidekick Jack Weston eavesdropping... then when Welch is shown again you can hear an early version of Burt's signature chortle... after which, they're in the same frame: twice, quickly...</p><p><span></span></p>

bert remsen, burt reynolds, charles martin smith, cop, dark comedy, don gordon, ensemble, jack weston, james mceachin, peter bonerz, raquel welch, seventies, tamara dobson, tom skerritt, yul brynner

BURT REYNOLDS AND RAQUEL WELCH KIND OF REUNITE IN 'FUZZ'

Pop Culture Explosion Poster for FUZZ Year: 1972 Rating: ** Since Burt Reynolds and Raquel Welch couldn't stand each other on the set of...

BURT REYNOLDS IN 'IMPASSE' WITH ANNE FRANCIS & MIKO MAYAMA

<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/AVvXsEiEW36b9GWU1IVX1oXdEsas5QZnpgAOVZk93nB9nZaWnZNBZR5JJqY3y14935wD1-JUSXIJ_B9PypvCtqG2SODB9uIzvJMu5itCooIOBEsNpahqBt2CvoTnaQ68m7Djw_swDGJNgvAmM4aDfO5iD7DO6u2CVR7xkoGnMD6bIFZYP27r6vpuCLrmiu6HLW6N/s1304/1%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="771" data-original-width="1304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEW36b9GWU1IVX1oXdEsas5QZnpgAOVZk93nB9nZaWnZNBZR5JJqY3y14935wD1-JUSXIJ_B9PypvCtqG2SODB9uIzvJMu5itCooIOBEsNpahqBt2CvoTnaQ68m7Djw_swDGJNgvAmM4aDfO5iD7DO6u2CVR7xkoGnMD6bIFZYP27r6vpuCLrmiu6HLW6N/s16000/1%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds in IMPASSE Year: 1969 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In Burt Reynolds' first starring role, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2024/08/burtCIA.html">OPERATION CIA</a>, he ran and leapt throughout Saigon, Vietnam and a few years later, in another low budget exploitation flick only in the Philippines, he does pretty much the same thing... at least the best parts providing tons of action including his own stunts...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That's after a rather clunky yet still somewhat intriguingly offbeat set-up of Burt gathering a band of renegade army veteran misfits of all races and ages: from old tough white guy Lyle Bettger to equally tough old Indian Rodolfo Acosta to Burt's former OPERATION co-star Vic Diaz... and of course a pretty ingenue's always needed... </p><p><span></span></p>

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BURT REYNOLDS IN 'IMPASSE' WITH ANNE FRANCIS & MIKO MAYAMA

Burt Reynolds in IMPASSE Year: 1969 Rating: **** In Burt Reynolds' first starring role, OPERATION CIA , he ran and leapt throughout Saig...

FRANK CONVERSE IN 'CORONET BLUE' WITH SUSAN HAMPSHIRE

<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/AVvXsEhgQdEoAlRJZk8LPTFDbUEzeGuJQ5cdx_hf5aWZzyM8lK2vuyrHFIoTyE4tKWtuMUCAyq3CZITChy1UAft7KbuCJ8YtHmLvUa39jSYVccGx8suAsZpk5d0aikyOjPbeOrbjN3Tga4Gu3r89Dc5RIG6crpr3teD4yHT68p2RunP-iwJABbDfWxs9GWWAaO-j/s908/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="554" data-original-width="908" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgQdEoAlRJZk8LPTFDbUEzeGuJQ5cdx_hf5aWZzyM8lK2vuyrHFIoTyE4tKWtuMUCAyq3CZITChy1UAft7KbuCJ8YtHmLvUa39jSYVccGx8suAsZpk5d0aikyOjPbeOrbjN3Tga4Gu3r89Dc5RIG6crpr3teD4yHT68p2RunP-iwJABbDfWxs9GWWAaO-j/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Susan Hampshire and Frank Converse in CORONET BLUE: A Time To Be Born Year: 1967 Rating: ***1/2 </u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Before the BOURNE franchise of amnesiac espionage where a man without any memory gathers info along the way, trying not to be killed while investigating who's trying to kill him, and why, there was Larry Cohen's CORONET BLUE from1967 filled with that decade's bright colors, groovy sounds, creative camera angles and a beatnik coffee shop...<br><br>Starring Frank Converse, who only remembers the strange title, <i>Coronet Blue</i>, upon waking up from a blackout caused by (what we see) being knocked-out and thrown into the ocean: yet the pilot's outright stolen by ingenue Susan Hamphire, a classy British actress playing a classy American rich girl who makes such a worthy love interest and helpful partner, she's missed for the rest of the series since, after all, CORONET BLUE was a one-man show and yet, never as solid as this pilot... Hampshire's absence being the sole reason why.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

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FRANK CONVERSE IN 'CORONET BLUE' WITH SUSAN HAMPSHIRE

Susan Hampshire and Frank Converse in CORONET BLUE: A Time To Be Born Year: 1967 Rating: ***1/2 Before the BOURNE franchise of amnesiac espi...

BURT REYNOLDS IN SERGIO CORBUCCI'S WESTERN 'NAVAJO JOE'

<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/AVvXsEgltjXkiFpIiCSlyjP8Frs4eGgNN7l3lIaLnKv9mST6k3jiCdeD2IWDCGxrIltJT5EtnpLLnflWF5gxkLp1JAn2tBvZ5S0UV2mgqlICVSAc0ilkRhvs7QRwMyDNbjUYrrUyX5FRrb0jM_4R1hM6SNTmn-qqGvlFCKq_ewkvyvlQkMRPxTbovzDJ0hKE5iqO/s1970/Screen%20Shot%202024-08-26%20at%2010.50.26%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="848" data-original-width="1970" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgltjXkiFpIiCSlyjP8Frs4eGgNN7l3lIaLnKv9mST6k3jiCdeD2IWDCGxrIltJT5EtnpLLnflWF5gxkLp1JAn2tBvZ5S0UV2mgqlICVSAc0ilkRhvs7QRwMyDNbjUYrrUyX5FRrb0jM_4R1hM6SNTmn-qqGvlFCKq_ewkvyvlQkMRPxTbovzDJ0hKE5iqO/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-08-26%20at%2010.50.26%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds and Nicoletta Machiavelli in NAVAJO JOE Year: 1966 Grade: C+</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Other than Italian composer Ennio Morricone's foreboding five-note score, that Quentin Tarantino used memorably for a climactic standoff in KILL BILL, there's a crooning/vocalizing of title character NAVAJO JOE...<br><br>An energetic and resilient half-Indian warrior played by Burt Reynolds, whose personal theme is actually more majestic than the character: Not given much for Reynolds other than some tremendous stuntwork within Spaghetti Western b-auteur Sergio Corbucci's visually creative/action-packed direction...<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><span></span></p>

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BURT REYNOLDS IN SERGIO CORBUCCI'S WESTERN 'NAVAJO JOE'

Burt Reynolds and Nicoletta Machiavelli in NAVAJO JOE Year: 1966 Grade: C+ Other than Italian composer Ennio Morricone's foreboding five...

BURT REYNOLDS WITH AHNA CAPRI & NORMAL FELL ON 'DAN AUGUST'

<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/AVvXsEhmO5erNdc2sQSnKdhIiM09fMAE4xP6gvrizoUuvItMKvgikMkhLvGcbx1JoS-nLA1khyACFR1zJeoJrVDpB0pd-loRdoMDfdm0W4rnzdouOtjefE6B_Oymb6yIt3Q_pUijeBYbIPWByTWpjh96Dw0JwlK4DiMFQXR6QpbxiQG-H6gY5jPEd6t4COfEgOW9/s1208/z.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="798" data-original-width="1208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmO5erNdc2sQSnKdhIiM09fMAE4xP6gvrizoUuvItMKvgikMkhLvGcbx1JoS-nLA1khyACFR1zJeoJrVDpB0pd-loRdoMDfdm0W4rnzdouOtjefE6B_Oymb6yIt3Q_pUijeBYbIPWByTWpjh96Dw0JwlK4DiMFQXR6QpbxiQG-H6gY5jPEd6t4COfEgOW9/s16000/z.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds on DAN AUGUST Prognosis: Homicide Year: 1971 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>One of the better episodes of the Burt Reynolds detective series DAN AUGUST has a flowing handing-off plot, beginning with a bum who finds a free bottle of whiskey, is poisoned and dies, which leads Burt's titular character and partner Norman Fell into seeking three beautiful blondes connected to an unpopular surgeon played by Fritz Weaver...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The most important in ENTER THE DRAGON dragonlady Ahna Capri, who might have the doctor's baby... and Ena Hartman, girlfriend of a lower surgeon who, along with hook-handed Ken Scott, has it in for the womanizing doc...</p><p><span></span></p>

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BURT REYNOLDS WITH AHNA CAPRI & NORMAL FELL ON 'DAN AUGUST'

Burt Reynolds on DAN AUGUST Prognosis: Homicide Year: 1971 Rating: **** One of the better episodes of the Burt Reynolds detective series DAN...