INGRID PITT AS HAMMER'S 'COUNTESS DRACULA' WITH NIGEL GREEN

<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/AVvXsEgL7MD37uO-L_oJWNaEM-nhbRiYRni4NQCSTcaoafx6axk7G1EHu5SpYtAj_mmd3vXZL0FGv39_ztMP_10ImJYHl85bxY6Hgqs2YMQzdwTfnDRMuT9EsL0mv6tu49cQaVKwRZorxwTRcZTll7pgR3A05Ncilqu45VsPF3nj0Qo__cmC0BiBkZZmvF9dE_Xu/s2030/Screen%20Shot%202025-01-03%20at%2010.22.52%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1222" data-original-width="2030" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL7MD37uO-L_oJWNaEM-nhbRiYRni4NQCSTcaoafx6axk7G1EHu5SpYtAj_mmd3vXZL0FGv39_ztMP_10ImJYHl85bxY6Hgqs2YMQzdwTfnDRMuT9EsL0mv6tu49cQaVKwRZorxwTRcZTll7pgR3A05Ncilqu45VsPF3nj0Qo__cmC0BiBkZZmvF9dE_Xu/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-01-03%20at%2010.22.52%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: COUNTESS DRACULA Year: 1971 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Hammer had a new neck-sucker in Ingrid Pitt after her tour-de-force performance in THE VAMPIRE LOVERS, and the title COUNTESS DRACULA refers not to her character or Dracula but a real life countess she's based on...<br><br>Yet the plot of a haggard rich woman needing blood from virgins to make her young and beautiful... but only for relatively small periods of time as she steals love with an otherwise oblivious handsome man, hiding away after turning even older and uglier each time... borrows straight from the decade-earlier b-movie <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/08/LeechW.html">THE LEECH WOMAN</a>...<br></p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

andria lawrence, body count, hammer films, horror, ingrid pitt, lesley-anne down, maurice denham, nigel green, nike arrighi, peter jeffrey, sandor elès, susan brodrick

INGRID PITT AS HAMMER'S 'COUNTESS DRACULA' WITH NIGEL GREEN

Title: COUNTESS DRACULA Year: 1971 Rating: ***1/2 Hammer had a new neck-sucker in Ingrid Pitt after her tour-de-force performance in THE VAM...

STANLEY BAKER & PETER CUSHING IN 'THE MAN WHO FINALLY DIED'

<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/AVvXsEgaT6ouOrtiJbcxO07OeOD6xeJeGdlfEb5JxmbYQhnWoQKPSqfsHJnTgUd-1dZkIlGUsi5XlSbkYih8BGwcrlh1Z3Gv3HETmBd8cZhEtsbz3welRHL7qsrfCIHujPHRbetzeAaJzP1nLptZ89e4ywMge6-4HE2x1zU0s_e97AZbU6ruWd6r9XwOOq1TKOKV/s2010/Screen%20Shot%202024-01-25%20at%2011.31.49%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1162" data-original-width="2010" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaT6ouOrtiJbcxO07OeOD6xeJeGdlfEb5JxmbYQhnWoQKPSqfsHJnTgUd-1dZkIlGUsi5XlSbkYih8BGwcrlh1Z3Gv3HETmBd8cZhEtsbz3welRHL7qsrfCIHujPHRbetzeAaJzP1nLptZ89e4ywMge6-4HE2x1zU0s_e97AZbU6ruWd6r9XwOOq1TKOKV/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-01-25%20at%2011.31.49%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Stanley Baker on poster Year: 1963 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Not only is THE MAN WHO FINALLY DIED the second movie where Niall MacGinnis has a gun drawn on a train during the climax following CURSE OF THE DEMON, but THE THIRD MAN has been knocked-off once again...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And this time... despite a horribly intrusive, melodramatic harpsichord hammering like lightning following a horror film revelation... it's a pretty good effort as former German child now adult British citizen/jazz pianist Stanley Baker returns to Germany after getting a mysterious call about his father, who he thought was dead twenty-years ago, and is now dead again, only it happened a week earlier...</p><p><span></span></p>

georgina ward, mai zetterling, neo noir, niall macginnis, nigel green, peter cushing, sixties, stanley baker, thriller

STANLEY BAKER & PETER CUSHING IN 'THE MAN WHO FINALLY DIED'

Stanley Baker on poster Year: 1963 Rating: ***1/2 Not only is THE MAN WHO FINALLY DIED the second movie where Niall MacGinnis has a gun draw...

CAROLINE MORTIMER & HEATHER SEARS IN 'SATURDAY NIGHT OUT'

<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/AVvXsEgVZd7jnjmMQX_vwCq7CvGN0tXGdPQIEwEJ6m04KDT3i7IWswQ3ZInsKk31Cz3_mVQnt0NSEF3dRQAE_9eWpRYH_ZjEAkfuVOIPgw5phs-SBf9Akhgx9jSKu2WsxCTl8LQehdVmOnnzt4dv/s1159/Screen%25252BShot%25252B2021-08-12%25252Bat%25252B8.59.33%25252BPM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="648" data-original-width="1159" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVZd7jnjmMQX_vwCq7CvGN0tXGdPQIEwEJ6m04KDT3i7IWswQ3ZInsKk31Cz3_mVQnt0NSEF3dRQAE_9eWpRYH_ZjEAkfuVOIPgw5phs-SBf9Akhgx9jSKu2WsxCTl8LQehdVmOnnzt4dv/s16000/Screen%25252BShot%25252B2021-08-12%25252Bat%25252B8.59.33%25252BPM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u><u>Caroline Mortimer</u> from the poster artwork for SATURDAY NIGHT OUT Year: 1964 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Not to be mistaken with the famous British <i>kitchen sink drama </i>SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING; the next day hardly matters and there are hardly any sinks in SATURDAY NIGHT OUT... </p><p></p><p>Except maybe at Heather Sears' bizarre apartment as a flaky, blunt and childish Beatnik chick, having met one of several merchant seaman on a weekend pass, starting out at a nightclub where house band The Searchers jovially blast their dance-steady Beatlesque rock... </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/AVvXsEjnwA71yVfyVkRfP8LEoMITJDC7RvgPfbxq87eTY2LfQV9MOKSvgTod4Iw82hgA0A1b54MYiRI5q4TII9lvxdqSb8qcr5C82D93lpmx0U8lH1bhFUlA59UhGxoFxXL6l70VSnYb2F0P_jX9/s1988/Screen%25252BShot%25252B2021-08-13%25252Bat%25252B2.44.15%25252BAM%252B2.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1203" data-original-width="1988" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnwA71yVfyVkRfP8LEoMITJDC7RvgPfbxq87eTY2LfQV9MOKSvgTod4Iw82hgA0A1b54MYiRI5q4TII9lvxdqSb8qcr5C82D93lpmx0U8lH1bhFUlA59UhGxoFxXL6l70VSnYb2F0P_jX9/s16000/Screen%25252BShot%25252B2021-08-13%25252Bat%25252B2.44.15%25252BAM%252B2.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>The Searchers playing SATURDAY NIGHT OUT</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Providing the kind of <i>source music </i>(non-composed and heard by both the audience and characters) that'd become normal a decade later in the 24-hour spanning classic <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2013/07/american-graffiti-theatrical-experience.html">AMERICAN GRAFFITI</a>... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Alas this all-night forerunner has a bland existential plot yet is loaded with fine British actors like Bernard Lee (despite being way too old for ingenue Erika Remberg), Nigel Green and David Lodge...</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/AVvXsEhDkV8ziP_ao5DoIsiAgXERVJ6Nl3L5zucMl0vOotxSOU40znwPq7uoCDmniF3vqdFKVe_Px16TtxaR3b8boSW39PIU8fmrXYnyJybMFjrORvPVR3iY2UQHZ0mmr44j4ZLabwowszP-n08V/s1985/Screen%252BShot%252B2021-08-13%252Bat%252B2.53.17%252BAM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1193" data-original-width="1985" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDkV8ziP_ao5DoIsiAgXERVJ6Nl3L5zucMl0vOotxSOU40znwPq7uoCDmniF3vqdFKVe_Px16TtxaR3b8boSW39PIU8fmrXYnyJybMFjrORvPVR3iY2UQHZ0mmr44j4ZLabwowszP-n08V/s16000/Screen%252BShot%252B2021-08-13%252Bat%252B2.53.17%252BAM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Inigo Jackson with Vera Day in SATURDAY NIGHT OUT with </u><u>Caroline Mortimer</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>And while not crime-centered like many <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/british%20new%20wave">British New Wave</a> flicks, the best story involves a haphazard Inigo Jackson seduced by and progressively ripped off by a darker club's b-girls in seductive and flirtatious poodle-carrying brunette Caroline Mortimer and experienced blonde Vera Day, providing the most situational suspense herein...  <br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Meanwhile the only truly satisfying arc has Francesca Annis forever<i> </i>hooked<i> </i>with the handsomest of the traipsing males: all of whom should have had a wilder, more intriguing SATURDAY NIGHT OUT... Overall this feels more like a Tuesday.  </p><p><span></span></p>

all night, bernard lee, british new wave, caroline mortimer, colin campbell, david lodge, erika remberg, francesca annis, heather sears, inigo jackson, nigel green, sixties, the searchers, vera day

CAROLINE MORTIMER & HEATHER SEARS IN 'SATURDAY NIGHT OUT'

Caroline Mortimer from the poster artwork for SATURDAY NIGHT OUT Year: 1964 Rating: *** Not to be mistaken with the famous British kitchen ...

STANLEY BAKER AND MICHAEL CAINE BATTLING THROUGH 'ZULU'

<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/AVvXsEiRkJViiH0hqInRvcHU2oau_ng4DAdAO2HH0IK51lV1--0YCHOCyslQqeR2zREupA6nRHNaS9YKWAANYHehI4Zrf9wIDI809ze5oQ92A5xmNIIjqnJbLXEa6gILo21kmNKSvBwDLXNyCpQl1TF2MiTQrU8t4TUa9swYD_HIWeg8aEYJuf29pBXiTnPf7A/s1688/Screen%20Shot%202021-03-17%20at%205.52.26%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="793" data-original-width="1688" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRkJViiH0hqInRvcHU2oau_ng4DAdAO2HH0IK51lV1--0YCHOCyslQqeR2zREupA6nRHNaS9YKWAANYHehI4Zrf9wIDI809ze5oQ92A5xmNIIjqnJbLXEa6gILo21kmNKSvBwDLXNyCpQl1TF2MiTQrU8t4TUa9swYD_HIWeg8aEYJuf29pBXiTnPf7A/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202021-03-17%20at%205.52.26%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Stanley Baker & Michael Caine in ZULU Year: 1964 Rating: ***1/2</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p>A cross between LAWRENCE OF ARABIA and THE ODD COUPLE, Cy Endfield's cast-of-thousands ZULU was directed by an American and features a crop of great British actors about their own history — yet the first of several problems is it feels more mainstream American than edgy/offbeat British... </p><p></p><p>Especially some of the performances, seeming more catered to Oscar nominations (particularly Jack Hawkins as a ridiculously passive yet hammy priest) than moving the story forward: about a South African outpost called <span>Rorke's Drift after a massive Little Big Horn style defeat of the British by Zulu warriors...</span></p><p><span><span></span></span></p>

action, adventure, british, cy endfield, epic, history, james booth, michael caine, nigel green, sixties, stanley baker, war

STANLEY BAKER AND MICHAEL CAINE BATTLING THROUGH 'ZULU'

Stanley Baker & Michael Caine in ZULU Year: 1964 Rating: ***1/2 A cross between LAWRENCE OF ARABIA and THE ODD COUPLE, Cy Endfield's...