cult film freak: claudia cardinale

Written by James M. Tate / 1/28/2022 / No comments / adventure , claudia cardinale , french , heist , henri charrière , import , indie , italian , seventies , spanish , stanley baker

STANLEY BAKER & CLAUDIA CARDINALE IN 'THE BUTTERFLY AFFAIR'

<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/AVvXsEi3F5Iaz-qSAP_SycYJBV9ys902j2LQCFAlW2OkeUY9WLVe5ruSRd7kPy31dv7ztcweZbhR36I6D5CEK-a4tkUoKBPwyVtfB55XcwScS8vtfvacQAAhhrOxE2A-deCEc_YVDp75Ods4IbxhiXvpXaWt8iPs9nNX_wjki5u2h1ZSVWjQhQVsbzLAe7J4KToY/s1042/Screen%20Shot%202022-02-08%20at%204.02.00%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="597" data-original-width="1042" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3F5Iaz-qSAP_SycYJBV9ys902j2LQCFAlW2OkeUY9WLVe5ruSRd7kPy31dv7ztcweZbhR36I6D5CEK-a4tkUoKBPwyVtfB55XcwScS8vtfvacQAAhhrOxE2A-deCEc_YVDp75Ods4IbxhiXvpXaWt8iPs9nNX_wjki5u2h1ZSVWjQhQVsbzLAe7J4KToY/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-02-08%20at%204.02.00%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: THE BUTTERFLY AFFAIR Year: 1971 Rating: ***1.2</td></tr></tbody></table>When PAPILLON author Henri Charrière shares a long passionate kiss with Italian bombshell Claudia Cardinale, you not only know why he wrote POPSY POP aka THE BUTTERFLY AFFAIR aka THE 21 CARAT SNATCH, but why he cast himself in the part of an old rogue being kissed by the much-younger cult starlet...He gets screwed as well, as in screwed-over by Cardinale playing the titular Popsy, who saunters into an extremely poor diamond-mining village in Venezuela: A uniquely ragged, dilapidated third-world location that's far more interesting than a rushed heist plot involving a helicopter vanishing with the diamonds and the girl...

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STANLEY BAKER & CLAUDIA CARDINALE IN 'THE BUTTERFLY AFFAIR'

Title: THE BUTTERFLY AFFAIR Year: 1971 Rating: ***1.2 When PAPILLON author Henri Charrière shares a long passionate kiss with Italian bombsh...

Written by James M. Tate / 7/12/2021 / No comments / action , adventure , claudia cardinale , comedy , elliott gould , ensemble , heist , prison , richard roundtree , roger moore , seventies , sonny bono , stefanie powers , telly savalas , william holden , world war II

ROGER MOORE IN 'ESCAPE TO ATHENA' WITH TELLY SAVALAS

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYecJR8Cy6ee_QdKN0zyXzxtnY17_PMMQAemavG2WQdHr1rydAS1Tr3WWwDiSCALaxZB0T5uZSVH6s8ubbnNbZCzAiV0iz7ZOUIc0FaVID68I2ALTe2Ke8D4C03RmKgFzeLGErrZ_nonA3/s467/escape-to-athena-movie-poster-1979-1020551523.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="421" data-original-width="467" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYecJR8Cy6ee_QdKN0zyXzxtnY17_PMMQAemavG2WQdHr1rydAS1Tr3WWwDiSCALaxZB0T5uZSVH6s8ubbnNbZCzAiV0iz7ZOUIc0FaVID68I2ALTe2Ke8D4C03RmKgFzeLGErrZ_nonA3/w400-h360/escape-to-athena-movie-poster-1979-1020551523.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: Escape to Athena Year: 1979 Rates: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>About the only thing ESCAPE TO ATHENA is known for is how miscast the famously British James Bond actor Roger Moore is at playing a WWII Nazi... but Moore's actually a charming German major reluctantly running a Greek Island-set POW camp and can care less about Hitler... In fact he's what true Nazi villain Anthony Valentine calls "an antique collector" so, as a German Archeologist flirting with sassy ingenue Stefanie Powers, Moore fits much better than scene-wrecker Elliott Gould, partnered with Powers as a captured USO team... and the goofy, flamboyant Gould seems lost in the wrong movie...One that's tonally-challenged either way, showing a public execution one minute and silly pratfalls the next: Yet ESCAPE is beautifully directed by George P. Cosmatos, using creative camera shots to cover what feels like every inch of the sea-cliff Greek village of antique buildings and glorious ruins, where the other characters fare better like Sonny Bono as an endearing Italian chef, David Niven as an experienced old Brit and Richard Roundtree as a token black con man, eventually joining Greek cutthroat Telly Savalas and heart-of-gold-hooker Claudia Cardinale. So despite the maligned reputation, ATHENA has loads of neat action, explosions, gun fights, twists, turns, and only the overlong race-against-time climb to a treasure-laden mountain slows down this adventurous/ambitious Lew Grade produced b-picture... that ultimately tries too hard for epic mainstream status. A far better action than heist flick.

action, adventure, claudia cardinale, comedy, elliott gould, ensemble, heist, prison, richard roundtree, roger moore, seventies, sonny bono, stefanie powers, telly savalas, william holden, world war II

ROGER MOORE IN 'ESCAPE TO ATHENA' WITH TELLY SAVALAS

Title: Escape to Athena Year: 1979 Rates: ***1/2 About the only thing ESCAPE TO ATHENA is known for is how miscast the famously British Jame...

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