HAPPY HALLOWEEN FROM 'THE BEACH GIRLS AND THE MONSTER'

<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/AVvXsEjQgKyYnqwp7vJmMqtrELVasQiUVqOXrcHQ5aqxQT39x2ns69PxahVpcuE6m4ZL6rHEC9HgqI6zNSc2PANrvwpG0J2JY9z7WeRyjVJViBttY4aQMZijSWxY_i63F5orJel6XVriCCUlFyhXMSx2zA30n0NfbBRZgXS4E7YK35YVh9Qf-0scRhd6hoeAMJlS/s1566/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-30%20at%2011.57.56%20PM%202%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="942" data-original-width="1566" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQgKyYnqwp7vJmMqtrELVasQiUVqOXrcHQ5aqxQT39x2ns69PxahVpcuE6m4ZL6rHEC9HgqI6zNSc2PANrvwpG0J2JY9z7WeRyjVJViBttY4aQMZijSWxY_i63F5orJel6XVriCCUlFyhXMSx2zA30n0NfbBRZgXS4E7YK35YVh9Qf-0scRhd6hoeAMJlS/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-30%20at%2011.57.56%20PM%202%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE BEACH GIRLS AND THE MONSTER Year: 1965 Camp Value: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>One of those b-movies that's so extremely/noticeably low budget it's almost a z-movie, bordering on what looks like snuff film footage while coming out right before the hippie 1960's was fully ignited...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>So the even-then-old-school surf guitar soundtrack for THE BEACH GIRLS AND THE MONSTER is more loose and groovy than usual, even when a monster so fake it's intentionally hilarious starts murdering hot bikini babes right on the beach, even in the daylight... </p><span></span>

beach, body count, cult, elaine dupont, horror, monster, sixties, sue casey, walker edmiston

HAPPY HALLOWEEN FROM 'THE BEACH GIRLS AND THE MONSTER'

Title: THE BEACH GIRLS AND THE MONSTER Year: 1965 Camp Value: *** One of those b-movies that's so extremely/noticeably low budget it...

JODY FAIR AND JUDY HOWARD IN 'GHOST OF DRAGSTRIP HOLLOW'

<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/AVvXsEitJoP-fTsJVywNaojjEcdObSpbrWGf3940Ac-_7LzYfiK6SZtynVKsmoFd9jl_PhDBAMzRKFotgba-43o7iJChW81q92scp4kl3c2Sossh0wi6GGqyLG4DkR_J935MxZ5YUEPFJOF1KAc_oqakn9nxQGCVRK-Ua-TtsqoXQPxSGnLbC3fX47dv1gHWQtMc/s1942/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-29%20at%2010.51.45%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1166" data-original-width="1942" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitJoP-fTsJVywNaojjEcdObSpbrWGf3940Ac-_7LzYfiK6SZtynVKsmoFd9jl_PhDBAMzRKFotgba-43o7iJChW81q92scp4kl3c2Sossh0wi6GGqyLG4DkR_J935MxZ5YUEPFJOF1KAc_oqakn9nxQGCVRK-Ua-TtsqoXQPxSGnLbC3fX47dv1gHWQtMc/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-29%20at%2010.51.45%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1959 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Sequel to a franchise b-movie HOT CAR GANG that hardly involved a gang and with only two young actors returning in the genre novelty of GHOST OF DRAGSTRIP HOLLOW, combining the titular ghost story with the original's borrowed plot about saving a car club's clubhouse, the dancing and rocking motorhead teens wind up at a haunted manor with only about twenty minutes left...  </p><p></p><p></p><p>Beginning with the only actual car race shot in an L.A. reservoir with mechanically-minded beauty Jody Fair returning with spectacle-wearing geek mechanic Harry McCann... </p><p><span></span></p>

action, elaine dupont, exploitation, fifties, franchise, horror satire, jack ging, jody fair, judy howard, russ bender, sequel, teen

JODY FAIR AND JUDY HOWARD IN 'GHOST OF DRAGSTRIP HOLLOW'

Year: 1959 Rating: **** Sequel to a franchise b-movie HOT CAR GANG that hardly involved a gang and with only two young actors returning in t...

TOM CONWAY TEAMS WITH HILLARY BROOKE IN 'CONFIDENCE GIRL'

<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/AVvXsEjzXvzVcWPrh5L-CVBpd9rNxItrFzCQcma6lmvBAX0D2e60_PI_UOnElceo_3Cyu9f9yHV2CSeikiEuH3UrPyECh_ShXG2J1qMZIjDyJ_kA3LHvq4QE5UqwY-fasAYzD14xJDkN8j3R3AdjMLcRjsNtRuY0BHPdbFKukPJkt59BD7IIvw_ePNkQ0QLVrut-/s1990/2%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1097" data-original-width="1990" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzXvzVcWPrh5L-CVBpd9rNxItrFzCQcma6lmvBAX0D2e60_PI_UOnElceo_3Cyu9f9yHV2CSeikiEuH3UrPyECh_ShXG2J1qMZIjDyJ_kA3LHvq4QE5UqwY-fasAYzD14xJDkN8j3R3AdjMLcRjsNtRuY0BHPdbFKukPJkt59BD7IIvw_ePNkQ0QLVrut-/s16000/2%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1952 Rating: ***1/2</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p>You know if a movie about confidence men aka con men (or in this case an ironic twist-titled CONFIDENCE GIRL) is being narrated/opened by an actual government agent, it won't particularly support their crooked schemes that would happen (from THE STING to DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS) decades later: when the cops are the heavies, the tricksters the anti-heroes and their victims rich dolts who should have never had so much money to begin with...<br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>But with the casting of the always smooth and dashing Tom Conway, leading to a nifty first-act twist... instead of being one of the crowded room of detectives after Hillary Brooke's titular CONFIDENCE GIRL he's actually her partner... the title CONFIDENCE COUPLE would have fit better... </p><p><span></span></p>

aline towne, con man, cop, fifties, film noir or melodrama, hillary brooke, jack kruschen, tom conway

TOM CONWAY TEAMS WITH HILLARY BROOKE IN 'CONFIDENCE GIRL'

Year: 1952 Rating: ***1/2 You know if a movie about confidence men aka con men (or in this case an ironic twist-titled CONFIDENCE GIRL) is b...

JOSEPH BOTTOMS, LANA CLARKSON & KEIR DULLEA IN 'BLIND DATE'

<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/AVvXsEj7PSWmVePK_soQENMo2DsyLNLbsTkWV-8So_s5yOZ0sdvh5X-ZWRknXwsXaSrjeEKiK3tKEPwW-JgJxJBY69lxDJBBdwl2daijl0NJob9nFCtDxhiRu4RwseMsQjRsqi8ux9lkEf7sQzwME7aHUats3tv7eLx4TNpojMja4z4qdEAfBT_Ry6mmwHVwHKk3/s1034/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-27%20at%201.44.19%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="545" data-original-width="1034" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7PSWmVePK_soQENMo2DsyLNLbsTkWV-8So_s5yOZ0sdvh5X-ZWRknXwsXaSrjeEKiK3tKEPwW-JgJxJBY69lxDJBBdwl2daijl0NJob9nFCtDxhiRu4RwseMsQjRsqi8ux9lkEf7sQzwME7aHUats3tv7eLx4TNpojMja4z4qdEAfBT_Ry6mmwHVwHKk3/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-27%20at%201.44.19%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Joseph Bottoms in BLIND DATE Year: 1984 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>If it weren't for the Sony Walkman that Joseph Bottoms listens to in order to miraculously <i>visualize </i>computer-graphic/inferred grid-like outlines after having lost his sight, offbeat director Nico Mastorakis's BLIND DATE would seem from the steely neo-noir 1970's instead of the more glossy and subdued 1980's...<br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>As that decade brings a wall-to-wall score of loud synthesizers and bad techno pop songs in what's an otherwise intriguing Greek-set giallo that builds beyond an uninspired initial 30-minutes... picking up when blinded Joseph Bottoms becomes a James Stewart/REAR WINDOW-style protagonist, only with moveable investigatory skills like VERTIGO... stalking the dark night for ex-girlfriend (and possible final victim) Lana Clarkson...</p>

body count, eighties, exploitation, james daughton, joseph bottoms, keir dullea, kirstie alley, lana clarkson, marina sirtis, nico mastorakis, science-fiction, serial killer, suspense, thriller, valerie golino

JOSEPH BOTTOMS, LANA CLARKSON & KEIR DULLEA IN 'BLIND DATE'

Joseph Bottoms in BLIND DATE Year: 1984 Rating: ***1/2 If it weren't for the Sony Walkman that Joseph Bottoms listens to in order to mir...

RALPH BAKSHI BEGNNING WITH ROBERT CRUMB'S 'FRITZ THE CAT'

<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/AVvXsEiRYoE170NZNfTV-Tsj0etrr7nG-SWcJ3pfoX3NL1pfKpKYh3VC5ivQkRTlLVHijjd5LWcb4y4Evjs_hyXH4L_U4qkkBN2R72XhzAsRMvjQpllg5uq6PsFqrp2BPLSmARwJfPU_2LPfMkTXnL8e3_TYwDtKByH-xX9fC2iR4lI-NrTcDFDfIsKJfjmZHm5n/s2570/1%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1198" data-original-width="2570" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRYoE170NZNfTV-Tsj0etrr7nG-SWcJ3pfoX3NL1pfKpKYh3VC5ivQkRTlLVHijjd5LWcb4y4Evjs_hyXH4L_U4qkkBN2R72XhzAsRMvjQpllg5uq6PsFqrp2BPLSmARwJfPU_2LPfMkTXnL8e3_TYwDtKByH-xX9fC2iR4lI-NrTcDFDfIsKJfjmZHm5n/s16000/1%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: FRITZ THE CAT Year: 1971 Rating: **</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Ralph Bakshi progressed from children's cartoons in the 1960's into adapting underground comic-book artist Robert Crumb's underground anti-hero feline FRITZ THE CAT in 1971... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Thus turning on stoned teenagers (who had once been kids watching SPIDER-MAN and ROCKET ROBIN HOOD) with lots of naked animal characters, ranging from a group of pretentious liberal co-eds to black revolutionary crows to a rugged road trip involving a Nazi rabbit biker and...</p><p><span></span></p>

animation, college, counter-culture, cult, exploitation, ralph bakshi, road movie, robert crumb, seventies

RALPH BAKSHI BEGNNING WITH ROBERT CRUMB'S 'FRITZ THE CAT'

Title: FRITZ THE CAT Year: 1971 Rating: ** Ralph Bakshi progressed from children's cartoons in the 1960's into adapting underground ...

RALPH BAKSHI'S MULTI-GENERATIONAL MELODRAMA 'AMERICAN POP'

<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/AVvXsEhSLlkFGEv0wpZu3A7RVyOrCILBrRWmeBudXWP3kXGFLl_UHZxC-3hj1x6HXAqdEZRV6ApwVwAxy4K-CWS5OMLIi5FTWciwhgZpYROojRtiePw0eNJlZ4GVc3nI_MfNlBOFG1huSl3hjBCAivna_hT6ky9a_ogeSLqzql8A5k9RWvAsIZ4p1Ocaaa0WJcFo/s1974/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-21%20at%208.47.28%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1010" data-original-width="1974" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSLlkFGEv0wpZu3A7RVyOrCILBrRWmeBudXWP3kXGFLl_UHZxC-3hj1x6HXAqdEZRV6ApwVwAxy4K-CWS5OMLIi5FTWciwhgZpYROojRtiePw0eNJlZ4GVc3nI_MfNlBOFG1huSl3hjBCAivna_hT6ky9a_ogeSLqzql8A5k9RWvAsIZ4p1Ocaaa0WJcFo/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-21%20at%208.47.28%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Marya Small (now Mews Small) in Ralph Bakshi's AMERICAN POP Year: 1981 Rating: **</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>What's considered animation director Ralph Bakshi's greatest achievement is a searing saga about four generations of failed musicians dating back to the turn of the century... winding up with a singer/songwriter who's supposed to have become famous having written and performed Bob Seger's NIGHT MOVES...</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>But the most involving sequences should have been during the first half, dealing with historically iconic topics from vaudville to mobsters to jazz joints to world wars... </p><p><span></span></p>

animated, eighties, mews small, music, ralph bakshi

RALPH BAKSHI'S MULTI-GENERATIONAL MELODRAMA 'AMERICAN POP'

Marya Small (now Mews Small) in Ralph Bakshi's AMERICAN POP Year: 1981 Rating: ** What's considered animation director Ralph Bakshi...

RALPH BAKSHI'S ANIMATED APOCALYPTIC-FANTASY 'WIZARDS'

<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/AVvXsEiE-zlJcBxjusZhRmr3BAZ5_ecn4bz4-cfZnRmwRenLAB8f5E0ILbOa4nkTcF_urrnnoTA4cpbip7Lc6A1jmi_Fzq89T5AEgPzISChJSrq7wr_QXFODKLQXQJTd5eHRclmPinXmI4UDpziXakdzqtzMp7Ki3r4s0JV5e-WgLIhv4smgKkyu3aBKDGc0UfCu/s2134/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-20%20at%201.02.05%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1124" data-original-width="2134" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE-zlJcBxjusZhRmr3BAZ5_ecn4bz4-cfZnRmwRenLAB8f5E0ILbOa4nkTcF_urrnnoTA4cpbip7Lc6A1jmi_Fzq89T5AEgPzISChJSrq7wr_QXFODKLQXQJTd5eHRclmPinXmI4UDpziXakdzqtzMp7Ki3r4s0JV5e-WgLIhv4smgKkyu3aBKDGc0UfCu/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-20%20at%201.02.05%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: WIZARDS Year: 1977 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Animation director <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/ralph%20bakshi">Ralph Bakshi's</a> infamously rushed/ill-conceived <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2024/10/LOTR78.html">LORD OF THE RINGS</a>, combining the then-new Rotoscoping process of animating actual people/objects without seeming entirely animated, began with WIZARDS where that bizarre, half-baked process eventually makes sense...</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 centered on an already famous source like J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle Earth trilogy, WIZARDS (liken to Terry Brooks's SWORD OF SHANNARA) is set in the post-apocalyptic future where, instead of the usual barren scorched landscape, everything's gone back to the dreamy world of wizards, elves, fairies...</p><p><span></span></p>

animation, david proval, fantasy, jesse welles, mark hamill, nazi, ralph bakshi, richard romanus, science-fiction, seventies

RALPH BAKSHI'S ANIMATED APOCALYPTIC-FANTASY 'WIZARDS'

Title: WIZARDS Year: 1977 Rating: **** Animation director Ralph Bakshi's infamously rushed/ill-conceived LORD OF THE RINGS , combining ...

BYRON HASKIN DIRECTS PAUL MANTEE 'ROBINSON CRUSOE ON MARS'

<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/AVvXsEjqQuW1BdXd4vtuXc3lcszMoYA1qBhXN7Nqqi0bcZx2ETY-xuQTygUyZ63H2V4oqMLqVXIT-xVduFJiFhWBq7RyMGPSSHoiPggiRGUonRaTSUJnj5o0idqSmbqFoGbpTfo5ZWoq60NdBsb7b4GZCHtmiFpY5yQgKRNt31NZZO8y6Kws1hCWlyq0w0zpq_fC/s1874/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-19%20at%206.51.55%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1160" data-original-width="1874" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqQuW1BdXd4vtuXc3lcszMoYA1qBhXN7Nqqi0bcZx2ETY-xuQTygUyZ63H2V4oqMLqVXIT-xVduFJiFhWBq7RyMGPSSHoiPggiRGUonRaTSUJnj5o0idqSmbqFoGbpTfo5ZWoq60NdBsb7b4GZCHtmiFpY5yQgKRNt31NZZO8y6Kws1hCWlyq0w0zpq_fC/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-19%20at%206.51.55%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: ROBINSON CRUSOE ON MARS Year: 1964 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>A low-budget science-fiction film by super-low-budget producer <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/bel%20air%20productions">Aubrey Schenck</a> and WAR OF THE WORLDS director <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/byron%20haskin">Byron Haskin</a> is mostly known for not being as bad as it could have been... had it been full of cheap-looking space monsters, as originally intended...<br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Instead, ROBINSON CRUSOE ON MARS is more a cerebral lone-man's figure-it-out-as-he-goes journey that just happens to occur on the red planet, following a technical orbiting-capsule sequence, ironically conceived five-years before America landed on the moon...</p>

adam west, adventure, byron haskin, paul mantee, science-fiction, sixties

BYRON HASKIN DIRECTS PAUL MANTEE 'ROBINSON CRUSOE ON MARS'

Title: ROBINSON CRUSOE ON MARS Year: 1964 Rating: ***1/2 A low-budget science-fiction film by super-low-budget producer Aubrey Schenck and ...

RALPH BAKSHI BLAXPLOITATION-ANIMATION OF 'COONSKIN'

<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/AVvXsEhNboiGSYBo9CItym2nA3XC4Zjmq90WfY9PCPSMDZHfqX7UwyEHmwoX1RA1DoUPXwisNrnQOXR3MLgDyF0fL2ipalo4Ct3yqxF93kSPpJEweOl5IMBQiZ1OY56pvHPyw_hrytfaORAnB2xcLxwFC-Mg39CcXuGr9jYpcjBIIspSJSq9-KSrkusYmfdVNCOW/s2134/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-13%20at%208.30.51%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1086" data-original-width="2134" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNboiGSYBo9CItym2nA3XC4Zjmq90WfY9PCPSMDZHfqX7UwyEHmwoX1RA1DoUPXwisNrnQOXR3MLgDyF0fL2ipalo4Ct3yqxF93kSPpJEweOl5IMBQiZ1OY56pvHPyw_hrytfaORAnB2xcLxwFC-Mg39CcXuGr9jYpcjBIIspSJSq9-KSrkusYmfdVNCOW/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-13%20at%208.30.51%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: COONSKIN aka STREET FIGHT Director: Ralph Bakshi Year: 1975 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>After <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2024/10/htraffic.html">HEAVY TRAFFIC</a> where cult director Ralph Bakshi inserted cartoon characters with actual urban backdrops, he went to the next level, combining character-driven live-action in what begins a super-low-budget blaxploitation prison-break that just might've been something on its own... <br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>As hidden escapees Philip Michael Thomas and the narrating Scatman Crothers await friends Barry White and Charles Gordone to pick them up, Crothers tells a story based on SONG OF THE SOUTH: transforming into a symbolic cartoon with Thomas as a skinny/slinky Rabbit; Barry White a gigantic Bear; and Gordone a preaching Fox...</p><p><span></span></p>

animation, barry white, blaxploitation, cult, philip michael thomas, scatman crothers, seventies

RALPH BAKSHI BLAXPLOITATION-ANIMATION OF 'COONSKIN'

Title: COONSKIN aka STREET FIGHT Director: Ralph Bakshi Year: 1975 Rating: **1/2 After HEAVY TRAFFIC where cult director Ralph Bakshi inser...

RALPH BAKSHI COUNTER-CULTURE ANIMATION 'HEAVY TRAFFIC'

<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/AVvXsEhVeNZJxi6vzm7B3a6f7nqLy_XyfnWH2nJy-zHJzps95dLmExCT3LryqZ4v4RaGAzC67k9zCFfneUqBB2h3nghp-0lU5TQ8o6cDvQaIcSXOFDtwiFThBve_OFvw9RbrRPZt5bBIn1YcasE1JOM2gPg4I6XceBZFnXDPVrC5XJcYfvA7mpDNx2xek7YCQY50/s2141/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-13%20at%202.15.59%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1062" data-original-width="2141" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVeNZJxi6vzm7B3a6f7nqLy_XyfnWH2nJy-zHJzps95dLmExCT3LryqZ4v4RaGAzC67k9zCFfneUqBB2h3nghp-0lU5TQ8o6cDvQaIcSXOFDtwiFThBve_OFvw9RbrRPZt5bBIn1YcasE1JOM2gPg4I6XceBZFnXDPVrC5XJcYfvA7mpDNx2xek7YCQY50/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-13%20at%202.15.59%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: HEAVY TRAFFIC Director: Ralph Bakshi Year: 1973 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Double-irony of Ralph Bashki's urban-animated HEAVY TRAFFIC in that he turned down making the sequel to his previous years' surprise blockbuster FRITZ THE CAT, based on Robert Crumb's underground comic, and chose to do a story that actually involves a young underground comic, who's not even known enough to be unknown, or even underground... and both the style of this very feature and the fictional artist's work is also very similar to Crumb's...<br><br>That aside, HEAVY solely belongs to Bakshi, who began his process of combining live-action footage along with animation... framed by a sporadic pinball game in process, representing the downtown world where characters bounce around spontaneously...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

animation, counter-culture, cult, ralph bakshi, seventies

RALPH BAKSHI COUNTER-CULTURE ANIMATION 'HEAVY TRAFFIC'

Title: HEAVY TRAFFIC Director: Ralph Bakshi Year: 1973 Rating: **** Double-irony of Ralph Bashki's urban-animated HEAVY TRAFFIC in that ...

RALPH BAKSHI ANIMATED MEAN STREETS 'HEY GOOD LOOKIN'

<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/AVvXsEhATx_YOFWuDMTKoKM42rVd36MKiapvDylupzgRlBE7rMkQ74TMlKnIL__h0Ux3WiOebBpQubkkeasDMyxfv9qnOdqtFmvJ8u1XrFQJe__0diDTxJWAPAR_1puPxh7vgEp1m7SPqslE_xeHq9GBqoy_XQhxe62am8ym7RqOVBXLSDEBuALnbxHy9hs0V23C/s2012/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-11%20at%2010.15.34%20PM-1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1082" data-original-width="2012" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhATx_YOFWuDMTKoKM42rVd36MKiapvDylupzgRlBE7rMkQ74TMlKnIL__h0Ux3WiOebBpQubkkeasDMyxfv9qnOdqtFmvJ8u1XrFQJe__0diDTxJWAPAR_1puPxh7vgEp1m7SPqslE_xeHq9GBqoy_XQhxe62am8ym7RqOVBXLSDEBuALnbxHy9hs0V23C/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-11%20at%2010.15.34%20PM-1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Richard Romanus in HEY GOOD LOOKIN' Year: 1983 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Often compared to <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2013/09/grease-revisited.html">GREASE</a>, being that the main character... a suave/strutting New York City hood... resembles John Travolt, it seems animation icon Ralph Bashki's HEY GOOD LOOKIN' is more Martin Scorsese's <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/08/goodstreets.html">MEAN STREETS</a> as an adult-oriented cartoon, and for two good reasons...<br><br>The first is that the script and some of the artwork were created in the mid-70's, right after STREETS came out and where Bashki was to originally combine animated and live-action characters... leaving only a few genuine locations, from a dingy poolhall to Coney Island... <br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

action, cartoon, david proval, eighties, exploitation, fifties-era, gang, ralph bakshi, richard romanus

RALPH BAKSHI ANIMATED MEAN STREETS 'HEY GOOD LOOKIN'

Richard Romanus in HEY GOOD LOOKIN' Year: 1983 Rating: *** Often compared to GREASE , being that the main character... a suave/strutting...

RALPH BAKSHI & FRANK FRAZETTA'S CULT FANTASY 'FIRE AND ICE'

<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/AVvXsEjNb7s1tQgOKaYMVOeYvsGmkZvu4m1N8nbm1sQPfraLqWcUc9yPE2WcRZ8RqZfRCuOsBNqgS_7HQWd335yUa5rS-QkmI4n9PLCpZsmuU5iz3KB8XRGzbCJiZGRF8V4CG4rhan7u_cj28jdTH9AqZtCR6fE6NgeafQUiX-6CPevLAv7BgfcJoPoHHC4J2NWS/s1670/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-11%20at%2012.19.21%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="898" data-original-width="1670" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNb7s1tQgOKaYMVOeYvsGmkZvu4m1N8nbm1sQPfraLqWcUc9yPE2WcRZ8RqZfRCuOsBNqgS_7HQWd335yUa5rS-QkmI4n9PLCpZsmuU5iz3KB8XRGzbCJiZGRF8V4CG4rhan7u_cj28jdTH9AqZtCR6fE6NgeafQUiX-6CPevLAv7BgfcJoPoHHC4J2NWS/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-11%20at%2012.19.21%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Steve Sandor as Darkwolf in FIRE AND ICE Year: 1983 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Ironic that animation director Ralph Bakshi and fantasy-book-cover illustrating-legend Frank Frazetta's collaboration FIRE AND ICE is narrated by one of the antagonists, witchy mother of an evil ice kingdom ruling son, when the intrepid good guys are the most intriguing, and numerous: three total covering a 90-minute traipsing-adventure where a princess is captured before escaping until she's captured once again... <br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Mostly by primal slave creatures sent by Susan Tyrrell's whiskey-voiced queen, provoking other dangerous obstacles for the jungle-resilient, Tarzan-esque Lark, survivor of a peacefully picturesque woodsy-village encroached by sharp glacier fortresses that open the film as the title literally plays-out... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

adventure, eighties, exploitation, fantasy, leo gordon, ralph bakshi, steve sandor, susan tyrrell, william ostrander

RALPH BAKSHI & FRANK FRAZETTA'S CULT FANTASY 'FIRE AND ICE'

Steve Sandor as Darkwolf in FIRE AND ICE Year: 1983 Rating: ****1/2 Ironic that animation director Ralph Bakshi and fantasy-book-cover illus...

RALPH BAKSHI ANIMATED ADAPTATION 'THE LORD OF THE RINGS'

<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/AVvXsEgeu18gkyCLAnneBTQuDxyX9oXOt4Fg5Bt2eP6lON1Cr4QrWsiqBcBS_E75Dv88SjR1kD3_9Gs_9RwDX8o-39TzWbHrajppHecYbKfnxiyeqog2UGGZPtWxx9PkrpI-HZcqXV0ueujeQSFi1-iPOuPJYNBwnvn-Q4YVUlJKQVux2QHzjX39X0eAapIuZ_i2/s1970/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-10%20at%2010.07.24%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1092" data-original-width="1970" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeu18gkyCLAnneBTQuDxyX9oXOt4Fg5Bt2eP6lON1Cr4QrWsiqBcBS_E75Dv88SjR1kD3_9Gs_9RwDX8o-39TzWbHrajppHecYbKfnxiyeqog2UGGZPtWxx9PkrpI-HZcqXV0ueujeQSFi1-iPOuPJYNBwnvn-Q4YVUlJKQVux2QHzjX39X0eAapIuZ_i2/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-10%20at%2010.07.24%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Ralph Bakshi's THE LORD OF THE RINGS Year: 1978 Rating: **</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>As the Hobbits' legendary adventure begins... in animator Ralph Bashki's mostly maligned albeit cult-appreciated version of J. R. R. Tolkien's iconic fantasy THE LORD OF THE RINGS... it's pretty decent, involving...<br><br>And with vibrant colors more richly deep-toned than the intentionally child-geared storybook-aesthetic of the Rankin/Bass HOBBIT from the previous year, RINGS follows pretty close to the source, in both exteriors and interiors, until those chosen little ones... suddenly without their leader Gandalf the Wizard... arrive at The Prancing Pony...<span></span></p><p></p><p></p>

action, adaptation, adventure, animated, anthony daniels, fantasy, john hurt, jrr tolkien, ralph bakshi, seventies

RALPH BAKSHI ANIMATED ADAPTATION 'THE LORD OF THE RINGS'

Ralph Bakshi's THE LORD OF THE RINGS Year: 1978 Rating: ** As the Hobbits' legendary adventure begins... in animator Ralph Bashki...

IAN HENDRY VS ROGER MOORE IN 'VENDETTA FOR THE SAINT'

<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/AVvXsEjyo1l4DsMZybJoPlVtYte0-pfZVqOcuiWuSpffJCT-gDoIjleA36gj-aiokuzPu4YijNYkzXp2pVt4rw1YbVZkyiggzVF_SrGFNuR8XQ0R7YabCDPLSi06YpoGHgO9D1vJ0hbc77s7YBCnWah50xi1EtezDZ4rAYAKl9Ob6RDFLcCgKYF6WeWVy8RFTYzw/s2168/Screen%20Shot%202025-01-09%20at%202.51.32%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1464" data-original-width="2168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyo1l4DsMZybJoPlVtYte0-pfZVqOcuiWuSpffJCT-gDoIjleA36gj-aiokuzPu4YijNYkzXp2pVt4rw1YbVZkyiggzVF_SrGFNuR8XQ0R7YabCDPLSi06YpoGHgO9D1vJ0hbc77s7YBCnWah50xi1EtezDZ4rAYAKl9Ob6RDFLcCgKYF6WeWVy8RFTYzw/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-01-09%20at%202.51.32%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u> Ian  Hendry in VENDETTA FOR THE SAINT Year: 1969 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>When television shows becomes theatrical features, it's usually a cheat like in the case of THE SAINT two-part episode VENDETTA FOR THE SAINT, which, pieced together, becomes a 90-minute movie...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Although herein, there <i>is</i> a kind of theatrical touch, for two reasons: villain Ian Hendry, as a mobster who was once someone else and now goes by a fake name while working as an aging/dying mob boss's sophisticated, falsely-related henchman, is always great on both the big (<a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/12/getCarter.html">GET CARTER</a>) and small (THE AVENGERS to <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2022/04/ian-hendry-jill-townsend-christen.html">THE SWEENEY</a>) screen...  </p><p><span></span></p>

action, aimi macdonald, ian hendry, jim o'connolly, mafia, neo noir, roger moore, rosemary dexter, sixites, tv-series

IAN HENDRY VS ROGER MOORE IN 'VENDETTA FOR THE SAINT'

Ian  Hendry in VENDETTA FOR THE SAINT Year: 1969 Rating: ***1/2 When television shows becomes theatrical features, it's usually a cheat...

NAKEDLY INGITING THE ANIMATED CULT CLASSIC 'HEAVY METAL'

<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/AVvXsEheV5gkvmm7SKxgTNhsioZ_Em5Lb5YruyixUkWho-peYe6hcMbmYDFf_cTPianjNUYuR19Pr1X6dCiDrs1AcPCd7-6clEDce3st3tOT7ejzJmnyr9KklVwsx4Dn1TBBsEigSVNjsSwtVOoDnHxkhg7ZdZkQgfgz-toJgB9kjwJY1n0CYix-VU8zrtMWlZTr/s1664/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-07%20at%2011.43.15%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="898" data-original-width="1664" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheV5gkvmm7SKxgTNhsioZ_Em5Lb5YruyixUkWho-peYe6hcMbmYDFf_cTPianjNUYuR19Pr1X6dCiDrs1AcPCd7-6clEDce3st3tOT7ejzJmnyr9KklVwsx4Dn1TBBsEigSVNjsSwtVOoDnHxkhg7ZdZkQgfgz-toJgB9kjwJY1n0CYix-VU8zrtMWlZTr/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-07%20at%2011.43.15%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: HEAVY METAL Year: 1981 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The best two stories from HEAVY METAL... producer Ivan Reitman's animated/cartoon anthology with a continuously-pulsating soundtrack of acts ranging from Devo to Sammy Hagar to Don Felder to Donald Fagan to Black Sabbath... have a beginning, middle and end, and either could have stretched into full-length features: starting with a futuristic film-noir homage with modernly-grungy cab-driver HARRY CANYON (voiced by <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/08/goodstreets.html">MEAN STREETS</a> actor Richard Romanus) that includes the usual pulp-signature glib narration, chain-smoked cigarettes, crooked cops, flying cars above grounded savage hoodlums and a luscious backstabbing dame...<br></p><p></p><p></p><p>And the last a fantasy... in the mesmerizing otherworld style of Roger Dean's progressive-rock album covers combined with Ralph Bakshi's animated-fantasy-flicks <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2024/10/LOTR78.html">THE LORD OF THE RINGS</a> and WIZARDS (while the urban-noir resembles Bakshi's <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2024/10/htraffic.html">HEAVY TRAFFIC</a>)... that gave this 1981 cult classic its gorgeous flying-avian-riding poster-girl TAARNA who, sword in hand, violently protects a village like an antihero from a Spaghetti Western...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, animation, cult, eighties, exploitation, fantasy, future, harold ramis, ivan reitman, john candy, music, neo noir, richard romanus, science-fiction

NAKEDLY INGITING THE ANIMATED CULT CLASSIC 'HEAVY METAL'

Title: HEAVY METAL Year: 1981 Rating: **** The best two stories from HEAVY METAL... producer Ivan Reitman's animated/cartoon anthology w...

JEREMY PIVEN LITERALLY DRIVING 1994'S RIDE 'JUDGEMENT NIGHT'

<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/AVvXsEin6GkOGa-1ZYurARF2V-9t4uW44R2KDCUG7K6MLuZcYfug2G0WENcP9r-9Mw_4v2DMuhkf5nAHH2MpJSHYNHD1PS5bGXN2ZdzIM-Ex2CjTeVzijUqiPlRA8-M8UC4LnFqkt6jpfeAjMqZpEixIKxKPHBjDC8qGh6vEY6JJU5GNogRAlMkbnLIjfUKZ4M3Z/s1594/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-04%20at%201.54.19%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="728" data-original-width="1594" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin6GkOGa-1ZYurARF2V-9t4uW44R2KDCUG7K6MLuZcYfug2G0WENcP9r-9Mw_4v2DMuhkf5nAHH2MpJSHYNHD1PS5bGXN2ZdzIM-Ex2CjTeVzijUqiPlRA8-M8UC4LnFqkt6jpfeAjMqZpEixIKxKPHBjDC8qGh6vEY6JJU5GNogRAlMkbnLIjfUKZ4M3Z/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-04%20at%201.54.19%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jeremy Piven in JUDGEMENT NIGHT Year: 1994 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In JUDGEMENT NIGHT, token instigating/troublemaking black-sheep of drinking-buddies Jeremy Piven has provided a giant one-night-only RV for buddies Emilio Estevez, his nervous little brother Stephen Dorff and intense yet cool-headed Cuba Gooding Jr to hang out and drink in... all while watching prime night boxing on the way to  front seats for the actual match...<br><br>What's funny is that, while stuck on a very important freeway traffic jam, and with drinks in hand and mobile satellite television, they could have simply cruised around and had a better time than at the place they never reach...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><span></span>

action, cuba gooding jr., denis leary, emilio estevez, gang, jeremy piven, nineties, race against time, stephen dorff

JEREMY PIVEN LITERALLY DRIVING 1994'S RIDE 'JUDGEMENT NIGHT'

Jeremy Piven in JUDGEMENT NIGHT Year: 1994 Rating: **1/2 In JUDGEMENT NIGHT, token instigating/troublemaking black-sheep of drinking-buddies...

KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, KAREN BLACK & GENE HACKMAN 'CISCO PIKE'

<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/AVvXsEjca0OogyxbVy1JWT23-OVMOfUA_T3HQaPFiFbhaiwh0w8f2L2SVRJdO13X81KK0QkGSgj2w3Wr4SnZ2zfBrdji8NrZNrC7OTkpNAbbuNtHWUaVXEawbEjhF7HpDHyp2wpPC094BJ4wN6YMGEX3a-0bIYpai80ZPFIasNOxRYuNzURI2n6TGQ-W0QZBSiCu/s1749/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-04%20at%2012.10.35%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="890" data-original-width="1749" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjca0OogyxbVy1JWT23-OVMOfUA_T3HQaPFiFbhaiwh0w8f2L2SVRJdO13X81KK0QkGSgj2w3Wr4SnZ2zfBrdji8NrZNrC7OTkpNAbbuNtHWUaVXEawbEjhF7HpDHyp2wpPC094BJ4wN6YMGEX3a-0bIYpai80ZPFIasNOxRYuNzURI2n6TGQ-W0QZBSiCu/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-04%20at%2012.10.35%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Kris Kristofferson in CISCO PIKE Year: 1971 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Since EASY RIDER ignited movies by stoners for stoners, CISCO PIKE takes it a step further: while Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda safely sold cocaine in Mexico before riding off into America, CISCO has a different approach...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>By having the title character... a musician fresh outta jail played by acting-newcomer Kris Kristofferson... blackmailed to sell pot by crooked cop Gene Hackman, the crime-thriller genre's mixed into an otherwise spontaneously free-form counter-culture expose...<br></p><p><span></span></p>

cop, counter-culture, exploitation, gene hackman, hangout, harry dean stanton, joy bang, karen black, kris kristofferson, music, seventies, viva

KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, KAREN BLACK & GENE HACKMAN 'CISCO PIKE'

Kris Kristofferson in CISCO PIKE Year: 1971 Rating: **** Since EASY RIDER ignited movies by stoners for stoners, CISCO PIKE takes it a step...

GORDON SCOTT VS SEAN CONNERY 'TARZAN'S GREAT ADVENTURE'

<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/AVvXsEgSUbPHlDaXxTujVzTSADv1wiTG01Sxec-BZOd3gKrntP-d6hRJXAG6Cj_-s0hRVSBJdmJBvgUWZ_pr337s1cULcO4YIbP_seAF8TtYcA2v0HIlyid1yAlFi2c15OxbGmP98qdYzueHdCeZEgbNtAOeS6ygfukysLBsd8_mm39_9c0g4gXaZ0igde5i9iF0/s1844/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-03%20at%2011.03.24%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1026" data-original-width="1844" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSUbPHlDaXxTujVzTSADv1wiTG01Sxec-BZOd3gKrntP-d6hRJXAG6Cj_-s0hRVSBJdmJBvgUWZ_pr337s1cULcO4YIbP_seAF8TtYcA2v0HIlyid1yAlFi2c15OxbGmP98qdYzueHdCeZEgbNtAOeS6ygfukysLBsd8_mm39_9c0g4gXaZ0igde5i9iF0/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-03%20at%2011.03.24%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sean Connery in TARZAN'S GREAT ADVENTURE Year: 1959 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>John Guillerman's TARZAN'S GREATEST ADVENTURE has a grainy aesthetic so that, unlike so many of producer Sy Weintraub's 1950's/1960's Tarzan flicks, it seamlessly matches the inserted shots of wildlife stock footage... <br></p><p></p><p></p><p>From Gordon Scott's Tarzan nodding at crocodiles to pointing out a random predator/prey chase to beautiful (crash landed) pilot Sara Shane... then lecturing on how nature only kills for itself while humans kill for other reasons...  </p><span></span>

action, adventure, al mulock, anthony quayle, franchise, john guillermin, niall macginnis, scott tarzan, sean connery, sixties

GORDON SCOTT VS SEAN CONNERY 'TARZAN'S GREAT ADVENTURE'

Sean Connery in TARZAN'S GREAT ADVENTURE Year: 1959 Rating: **** John Guillerman's TARZAN'S GREATEST ADVENTURE has a grainy aest...

GORDON SCOTT VS JOCK MAHONEY 'TARZAN THE MAGNIFICENT'

<p></p><p> </p><p></p><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/AVvXsEhXL1onM9d5ymbkQjaYGtAKogGuO3mECjMijeVE_H2Dp2_lLtqtYoxLlDg1ZRY_wDmdaVvKHxlqMcWf-HWHVZyfL2093wDYz3kqW_3X6lfkKGC8MCw9oLL3Zhtrr8bBqZGiyp4h2x3tec1SU0F7G49M3tcilZgLhTekHiShwtV-B6yYXXg1tQHL3al4oWyM/s1502/Screen%20Shot%202024-09-30%20at%2010.51.42%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1145" data-original-width="1502" height="305" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXL1onM9d5ymbkQjaYGtAKogGuO3mECjMijeVE_H2Dp2_lLtqtYoxLlDg1ZRY_wDmdaVvKHxlqMcWf-HWHVZyfL2093wDYz3kqW_3X6lfkKGC8MCw9oLL3Zhtrr8bBqZGiyp4h2x3tec1SU0F7G49M3tcilZgLhTekHiShwtV-B6yYXXg1tQHL3al4oWyM/w400-h305/Screen%20Shot%202024-09-30%20at%2010.51.42%20AM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1960 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>TARZAN THE MAGNIFICENT is mostly known for, in the following film, having the villain, Jock Mahoney, replace Gordon Scott in the Tarzan role... but it's really a cross between the John Ford Western STAGECOACH... with Tarzan traveling with a group of bickering characters... and William Shakespeare's family-quarrel saga KING LEAR... <br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Enter the criminal clan, with patriarch John Carradine but it's oldest son Mahoney really in charge: he led a local store robbery and, captured by Tarzan, is being brought to authorities for the reward money to help a native village... All while his vengeful father and brooding brothers (including LOLITA actor Gary Cockrell) are on their trail and, along with Tarzan's group there's a great cast including Lionel Jeffries as a jealous husband, whose wife has a thing for the captured heavy yet MAGNIFICENT is a mostly hi/miss adventure that relies on random bursts of action while the characters (far too many here) never really gel... Leaving Scott's final TARZAN role more a whimper than bang until a QUIET MAN style fist-fight with Mahoney that should have not only happened sooner... but a lot more throughout. </p><span></span>

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GORDON SCOTT VS JOCK MAHONEY 'TARZAN THE MAGNIFICENT'

Year: 1960 Rating: **1/2 TARZAN THE MAGNIFICENT is mostly known for, in the following film, having the villain, Jock Mahoney, replace Gordo...