cult film freak: quinn o'hara

Written by James M. Tate / 11/07/2024 / No comments / british tv , espionage , joyce blair , lois maxwell , paul stassino , quinn o'hara , roger moore , sixties , the saint , william sylvester

ROGER MOORE & LOIS MAXWELL 'THE SAINT: INTERLUDE IN VENICE'

<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/AVvXsEhoADP1mZCsa_x_yCpPFlvAPyvdnOpuMlcSCT61HrLgaA6htpy5A5VHb41v5tMeiTVQqmMZB890arZm3TVFwNgej72Pd0vpU58X25QW2JZ209jQeeE0m3Cd6fOD62rN61slygmsPEX4NMySIOdbMaN9OiSFYB3mQsjYUDM40XChFo-q4hW-Q8Pat9uU9M2R/s1296/Screen%20Shot%202025-01-29%20at%202.34.58%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="744" data-original-width="1296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoADP1mZCsa_x_yCpPFlvAPyvdnOpuMlcSCT61HrLgaA6htpy5A5VHb41v5tMeiTVQqmMZB890arZm3TVFwNgej72Pd0vpU58X25QW2JZ209jQeeE0m3Cd6fOD62rN61slygmsPEX4NMySIOdbMaN9OiSFYB3mQsjYUDM40XChFo-q4hW-Q8Pat9uU9M2R/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-01-29%20at%202.34.58%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roger Moore in The Saint: Interlude in Venice Year: 1966 Rating: ****</td></tr></tbody></table>There are good episodes and bad in all television shows, old and new, including THE SAINT, the spy thriller about not a secret-agent but philanthropist helping various people throughout the world, ironically played by future secret-agent/007 James Bond actor Roger Moore in his younger days, but he's still cool, classy, sophisticated, humorous... And Lois Maxwell, who played Miss Moneypenny beginning with Sean Connery and continuing into Roger Moore's entire run, is a relatively younger wife of a millionaire whose spoiled daughter (cute and spicy scene-stealer Quinn O'Hara) is accused of killing a womanizing charlatan in INTERLUDE IN VENICE, mostly talking place there (or made to): backed by future 2001 actor William Sylvester, bookending one of the very good episodes with swift direction and enough twists and turns to be like its very own crime programmer.

british tv, espionage, joyce blair, lois maxwell, paul stassino, quinn o'hara, roger moore, sixties, the saint, william sylvester

ROGER MOORE & LOIS MAXWELL 'THE SAINT: INTERLUDE IN VENICE'

Roger Moore in The Saint: Interlude in Venice Year: 1966 Rating: **** There are good episodes and bad in all television shows, old and new, ...

Written by James M. Tate / 4/24/2021 / No comments / beach , comedy , james stacy , lili kardell , mary mitchel , music , quinn o'hara , raquel welch , sixties , william wellman jr.

MARY MITCHEL & RAQUEL WELCH DIGGING 'A SWINGIN' SUMMER'

<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/AVvXsEh7_d13EG4G2un1ODMIjb1COOUPcWPY_osIC52GqlJ5CFM1t_9vLiG5N7EE3ziZ-mdNdkIbBWl0vBf4G-ygrEkd-Pez5p2pSNzqkhnTd5IwmSYlTpAV5ocEiJIJv8IH87JwEqw3xCuEZ7Us/s391/swingin-summer-japanese-b2-movie-poster-raquel-welch-bikini-1966-nm.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="326" data-original-width="391" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7_d13EG4G2un1ODMIjb1COOUPcWPY_osIC52GqlJ5CFM1t_9vLiG5N7EE3ziZ-mdNdkIbBWl0vBf4G-ygrEkd-Pez5p2pSNzqkhnTd5IwmSYlTpAV5ocEiJIJv8IH87JwEqw3xCuEZ7Us/w400-h334/swingin-summer-japanese-b2-movie-poster-raquel-welch-bikini-1966-nm.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Raquel Welch in A Swingin' Summer 1965 Rates: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>This forgotten, parenthetical beach bikini movie actually takes place on a lake... Arrowhead, to be exact... where two guys and a girl run an abandoned low-rent dance-festival...Which is pretty easy given that pretty redhead Quinn O'Hara has her rich father secretly funding the operation... A secret since her great-looking boyfriend William Wellman Jr. has too much pride to want/need anyone's help...Well that's the plot, with hardly any urgency except a quick breakup as a local jerk eyes the girl while a sexy scheming cougar nabs the guy — plus there's a water-skiing bully and a few 11th hour thugs... But with girl-next-door b-starlet Mary Mitchel as O'Hara's flirtatious, junk-food consuming friend and future iconic bombshell Raquel Welch initially wearing geeky glasses, progressively revealing her perfect body while (for reasons unexplained) jotting notes about the main character's affably attractive sidekick James Stacy, A SWINGIN' SUMMER is more about the good times than those attempting to ruin them... A fairly decent time-filler balanced between the glossy Frankie/Annette flicks and that, despite the misleading title, came out right before hippies were too damn hip for this kind of lightweight, old fashioned (even then) entertainment.

beach, comedy, james stacy, lili kardell, mary mitchel, music, quinn o'hara, raquel welch, sixties, william wellman jr.

MARY MITCHEL & RAQUEL WELCH DIGGING 'A SWINGIN' SUMMER'

Raquel Welch in A Swingin' Summer 1965 Rates: ***1/2 This forgotten, parenthetical beach bikini movie actually takes place on a lake... ...

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