KATHERINE WOODVILLE & OLIVER REED 'THE BRIGAND OF KANDAHAR'

<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/AVvXsEhGJgdHTg9jouuDL9LWn2FDTm575jdn136A8qpd2H0YNwOG5cGoQeJgeRv4B1Ek9x0Z1bSlhRvpzBEuVUaqV7HUYxug74go32_LK6VX9yl-_fCGb1Pj5fY5GC2OrZtqNtf5rQIRLut8LsK-EVpJkVTUJr0X31qrg7RXmbX3zP4Om48UqRwSPIQnam2CUjBz/s1700/2%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="612" data-original-width="1700" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGJgdHTg9jouuDL9LWn2FDTm575jdn136A8qpd2H0YNwOG5cGoQeJgeRv4B1Ek9x0Z1bSlhRvpzBEuVUaqV7HUYxug74go32_LK6VX9yl-_fCGb1Pj5fY5GC2OrZtqNtf5rQIRLut8LsK-EVpJkVTUJr0X31qrg7RXmbX3zP4Om48UqRwSPIQnam2CUjBz/s16000/2%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Katherine Woodville in THE BRIGAND OF KANDAHAR Year: 1965 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>With the seven Hammer Films featuring then-rising young star Oliver Reed, sometimes there's a feeling they didn't quite know how great a thing they had... even in his very own titular horror, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/03/reedwolf.html">CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF</a>, he doesn't appear until around forty-five-minutes (although the previous sequences are intensely entertaining)... and in <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/03/land-pirates.html">THE PIRATES OF BLOOD RIVER</a>, he dies way too soon...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Same thing happens here, since, as the leader of a band of holed-up Indian (from India) rebels who kidnap Ronald Lewis... playing a half-Caucasian/Indian treated unfairly by fellow British soldiers led by Duncan Lamont... Reed's not supposed to be the main star, billed second to Hammer's square-jawed <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/03/SOfear.html">SCREAM OF FEAR</a> and <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/11/fullT.html">STOP ME BEFORE I KILL</a> Lewis... </p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, duncan lamont, glyn houston, hammer films, katherine woodville, oliver reed, ronald lewis, sixties, yvonne romain

KATHERINE WOODVILLE & OLIVER REED 'THE BRIGAND OF KANDAHAR'

Katherine Woodville in THE BRIGAND OF KANDAHAR Year: 1965 Rating: **1/2 With the seven Hammer Films featuring then-rising young star Oliver ...

JIM BROWN, MARTIN LANDAU & BRUCE GLOVER IN 'BLACK GUNN'

<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/AVvXsEjhhePez-Wat53pTZI-ZLcrAJoTrbWXEJEksLOxKlElIWpU9NGgEYCl0Epzum0hbj52EBVpjILCzgU9GEw-Q-4j3RY-746u_ZsdNPWAsRwQuAxzjvpiI7pJxVqrJAh4BxjK0W76q6ALHf-JlpY_Nr1fQOlmSaBfUoXYOEKcuOi_hFf1DeAumbrhVNNj0w/s1746/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="875" data-original-width="1746" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhhePez-Wat53pTZI-ZLcrAJoTrbWXEJEksLOxKlElIWpU9NGgEYCl0Epzum0hbj52EBVpjILCzgU9GEw-Q-4j3RY-746u_ZsdNPWAsRwQuAxzjvpiI7pJxVqrJAh4BxjK0W76q6ALHf-JlpY_Nr1fQOlmSaBfUoXYOEKcuOi_hFf1DeAumbrhVNNj0w/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jim Brown in BLACK GUNN Year: 1972 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In 1972, two blaxploitation movies had similar plots: a group of black criminals successfully steal cash from a mafia money-counting outpost, followed by the inevitable thugs hunting them down... but in this case they only want Herbert Jefferson Jr. as Scott Gunn, younger brother of our titular hero in Jim Brown's rich  nightclub owner GUNN...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>For the first half the smooth star's caught in-between a political pickle with the mafia against his hidden-away brother's militant black gang, including another ex-footballer Bernie Casey... </p><p><span></span></p>

action, bernie casey, blaxploitation, brenda sykes, bruce glover, jim brown, katherine woodville, mafia, martin landau, neo noir, seventies, thriller

JIM BROWN, MARTIN LANDAU & BRUCE GLOVER IN 'BLACK GUNN'

Jim Brown in BLACK GUNN Year: 1972 Rating: **** In 1972, two blaxploitation movies had similar plots: a group of black criminals successfull...

OLIVER REED & KATHERINE WOODVILLE IN 'THE PARTY'S OVER'

<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/AVvXsEhn9mj31x2IEZ0CnTZ_S0ewiijIwytKuxXE2qDlYeviG5Vo_tRTtHzKjTwe6U9sCrNkuF_9tvTxrSTBHMGIgTafmoQngfl_mOFDTHojepAfKE3xqU6b-XUfCIqQU-YoMCALKXu6Q7LVf_rxYGvyruwDNao8-BRDpC_Qk85fQhhtfHII1yQ7sF2j8jr_ZA/s1214/Screen%20Shot%202022-05-06%20at%201.36.30%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="538" data-original-width="1214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn9mj31x2IEZ0CnTZ_S0ewiijIwytKuxXE2qDlYeviG5Vo_tRTtHzKjTwe6U9sCrNkuF_9tvTxrSTBHMGIgTafmoQngfl_mOFDTHojepAfKE3xqU6b-XUfCIqQU-YoMCALKXu6Q7LVf_rxYGvyruwDNao8-BRDpC_Qk85fQhhtfHII1yQ7sF2j8jr_ZA/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-05-06%20at%201.36.30%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u> Title: THE PARTY'S OVER Year: 1965 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Executive Producer Peter O'Toole and Jack Hawkins along with director Guy Hamilton took their names off this controversial British Beatnik flick where an American girl, missing from her New York tycoon father and businessman fiance, is supposedly raped/screwed after death: so for them it wasn't controversial enough...<br> <br> Yet no actual necrophilia occurs (unless you count a quick posthumous kiss), even in the restored cut when — a day before THE PARTY'S OVER — Oliver Reed and his wayward cohorts play cat-and-mouse with Clifford David as the rich chick's arranged fiance, Carson...<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>

ann lynn, beatnik, british, british new wave, clifford david, counter-culture, crime, eddie albert, jazz score, katherine woodville, louise sorel, maurice browning, mystery, oliver reed, romance, sixties

OLIVER REED & KATHERINE WOODVILLE IN 'THE PARTY'S OVER'

Title: THE PARTY'S OVER Year: 1965 Rating: **** Executive Producer Peter O'Toole and Jack Hawkins along with director Guy Hamilton...

NIGEL PATRICK IN 'UNDERWORLD INFORMERS' AKA 'THE INFORMERS'

<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/AVvXsEhrybRA8NXnlNJbiFZSquxhA1SWXAo6xaTVAim9zunO32CZN1ZMRJLhU2pQiRXVdA9MeqUrFhyphenhyphenS6ySzPs4xsWlRwipCHbQMynCvwG6yfxyDc4_ARM-k8pFkcKViluIKM1bID3ychBt_Dmji/s1287/0+8.52.46+PM.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1199" data-original-width="1287" height="373" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrybRA8NXnlNJbiFZSquxhA1SWXAo6xaTVAim9zunO32CZN1ZMRJLhU2pQiRXVdA9MeqUrFhyphenhyphenS6ySzPs4xsWlRwipCHbQMynCvwG6yfxyDc4_ARM-k8pFkcKViluIKM1bID3ychBt_Dmji/w400-h373/0+8.52.46+PM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1963 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>No matter what title's used, UNDERWORLD INFORMERS or simply THE INFORMERS, it's right up front about those shady <i>characters</i> desperate enough to run to the law and name names: Only here it's Scotland Yard's Nigel Patrick who takes foot after <i>them</i>... actually one particular snitch/<i>snout</i> in a newly-slain informer's ex-con brother Colin Blakely, so intensely energetic he needed far more screen time...</p><p></p><p>But it's pretty boy criminal <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/09/strongroom.html">Derren Nesbitt </a>on the freewheeling forefront, strutting his wealth as he and more cautious partner Frank Finlay hang out in a crowded nightclub while their planned bank/safe heist (after several previous knockoffs) happens simultaneously elsewhere... <br></p><p>And so Nigel Patrick's Chief Inspector John Edward Johnnoe... vulnerable to strict chief Harry Andrews since he cuts corners to begin with... dives into a dog-eat-dog plot saturated enough for three crime flicks while curbed by two dames that, like any Noir, has one naive the other wicked. Unfortunately the gorgeous <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/08/TPO.html">Katherine Woodville</a> is benign and underused as the cop's wife, leaving the good stuff to bad girl/moll Margaret Whiting who, despite framing our hero, is equally sympathetic as a single mom mentally and physically abused by that rich pompous crime lord Nesbitt... And yet <i>he</i> really has the most fun since, unlike everyone else... dizzy from all the complicated bedlam... he's grinning till the end, and with an unapologetic villainy that — possibly inspired by the likes of Robinson and Cagney — becomes downright infectious. </p><span></span>

british neo noir, british new wave, colin blakely, crime, derren nesbitt, faye craig, frank finley, katherine woodville, margaret whiting, michael coles, nigel patrick, sixties

NIGEL PATRICK IN 'UNDERWORLD INFORMERS' AKA 'THE INFORMERS'

Year: 1963 Rating: ***1/2 No matter what title's used, UNDERWORLD INFORMERS or simply THE INFORMERS, it's right up front about those...