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Written by James M. Tate / 11/02/2026 / No comments / classic , cult , jaws , lorraine gary , murray hamilton , richard dreyfuss , robert shaw , roy scheider , seventies , shark , steven spielberg

DOUBLE TRIAD FROM STEVEN SPIELBERG'S MASTERPIECE 'JAWS'

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</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/AVvXsEjvuZ7lGmMFG0Wl-GzpAEn9ZkQ4et40JRVngVIpNfyVpervI-i7iMuud_YGzDqBFrLbH2Pp_3hxy1ldSlAYi3F_AAXS4HeirFQKwOMIUZhaLoWV0Vq23JEb0P3fV15jH_c0b16Q8C95lH9P__f5oZ5zBrFzimmqGGAeClfaCuB0GPUtvSJSDcTOeONtSdSG/s1624/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-05%20at%205.18.15%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="862" data-original-width="1624" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvuZ7lGmMFG0Wl-GzpAEn9ZkQ4et40JRVngVIpNfyVpervI-i7iMuud_YGzDqBFrLbH2Pp_3hxy1ldSlAYi3F_AAXS4HeirFQKwOMIUZhaLoWV0Vq23JEb0P3fV15jH_c0b16Q8C95lH9P__f5oZ5zBrFzimmqGGAeClfaCuB0GPUtvSJSDcTOeONtSdSG/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-05%20at%205.18.15%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Defining the three leads of JAWS Year: 1975 Rating: *****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Never has a motion picture made such perfect use of three acts, and three main characters... As Martin Brody, the relatively new Chief of Police in the beachside town of Amity, <u>ROY SCHEIDER</u> solely headlines the first act of JAWS... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Which can be titled <u>ACT 1) WARNING</u>, as he investigates the death of a young female swimmer by what is, despite the eventual coverup, a bonafide SHARK ATTACK. Thus Brody both leads the show <i>and</i> blends into the canvas of the eccentric town, lost in mazy politics concerning keeping the beaches open despite the immanent danger...</p><span></span>

classic, cult, jaws, lorraine gary, murray hamilton, richard dreyfuss, robert shaw, roy scheider, seventies, shark, steven spielberg

DOUBLE TRIAD FROM STEVEN SPIELBERG'S MASTERPIECE 'JAWS'

Defining the three leads of JAWS Year: 1975 Rating: ***** Never has a motion picture made such perfect use of three acts, and three main ch...

CAPTURING THE PANDEMONIUM OF STEVEN SPIELBERG'S '1941'

<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></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/AVvXsEiQdhn56IMBuzjk2gDcOrh3xW7k_bI-Ma-02mqo7g8pa0yG3_qd2eNrRkt6dnGPdK8g0LwpgYL6XW6No91yswJ7Z5-Kw_IxYmlkHvxOas_bimwKfxyPGbBQ7IFoUcjIOQlG477C8fqkZBU_3EDqbzsn60KA5MveRlHqY1u2MOakb8aFvA78yQBjGCCWh_YW/s1936/Screen%20Shot%202023-06-12%20at%209.31.51%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="939" data-original-width="1936" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQdhn56IMBuzjk2gDcOrh3xW7k_bI-Ma-02mqo7g8pa0yG3_qd2eNrRkt6dnGPdK8g0LwpgYL6XW6No91yswJ7Z5-Kw_IxYmlkHvxOas_bimwKfxyPGbBQ7IFoUcjIOQlG477C8fqkZBU_3EDqbzsn60KA5MveRlHqY1u2MOakb8aFvA78yQBjGCCWh_YW/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202023-06-12%20at%209.31.51%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: 1941 from 1979 Director: Steven Spielberg Pictured: John Belush, John Landis Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>While considered by many to be Steven Spielberg's worst film... especially compared to DUEL, JAWS and CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND... the 1979 blockbuster 1941 is actually his most important motion picture... </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><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>For a director whose camera-flowing style REMAINS the prototype for other big budget (including comic book adapted) extravaganzas, 1941... from the warplane dogfight to the climactic rolling Ferris Wheel... moved Spielberg from action-BACKED thrillers to action-PACKED thrills...</p><p><span></span></p>

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CAPTURING THE PANDEMONIUM OF STEVEN SPIELBERG'S '1941'

Title: 1941 from 1979 Director: Steven Spielberg Pictured: John Belush, John Landis Rating: ***1/2 While considered by many to be Steven Spi...

INVESTIGATING DIRECTION OF THE ORIGINAL CLASSIC 'POLTERGEIST'

article, craig t. nelson, haunted house, heather o'rourke, horror, james karen, jobeth williams, oliver robins, poltergeist, sonny landham, steven spielberg, supernatural, thriller, tobe hooper, zelda rubinstein

INVESTIGATING DIRECTION OF THE ORIGINAL CLASSIC 'POLTERGEIST'

Year of Theatrical POLTERGEIST Haunting circa 1982 One of the most iconic images in horror film history occurs when the little blond-haired ...

STEVEN SPIELBERG PRESENTS THE ORIGINAL CLASSIC 'POLTERGEIST'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWMbQ81X07nUKjQytp81WN9ovaTRD-TzLxE-LRPBC6D_8Uh_SXSbkZDND0ChyZXHDU0nCGDmj3JMJVotx5__9IWN-pl-PaZBamO9jko6D6ej-T13jB5vgq_kzuN2q_7TSoKBkmnGtL1ipn9I2Hc2nx3Tv-l5utY4F6wWcjj85UJMOZYXx9VTtQMmA71Gdt/s1814/1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1532" data-original-width="1814" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWMbQ81X07nUKjQytp81WN9ovaTRD-TzLxE-LRPBC6D_8Uh_SXSbkZDND0ChyZXHDU0nCGDmj3JMJVotx5__9IWN-pl-PaZBamO9jko6D6ej-T13jB5vgq_kzuN2q_7TSoKBkmnGtL1ipn9I2Hc2nx3Tv-l5utY4F6wWcjj85UJMOZYXx9VTtQMmA71Gdt/s320/1.jpeg" width="320"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">year: 1982 rating: ****</td></tr></tbody></table>Although executive produced and not technically directed by Steven Spielberg, who was busy with E.T. THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL, few projects have perfectly encompassed the successful and groundbreaking filmmakers' style and overall rhythm, while fulfilling his college dream of creating a genuine horror flick, as the iconic POLTERGEIST: beginning with a spooky introduction wherein a television actually… get ready for a shock, millennials… ceases programming late at night following the Star Spangled Banner – the screen becomes "snow" and a little blond girl, Carol Anne, played by the late Heather O’Rourke, is summoned from her bed, puts her hands to the static and utters the famous line… Well you know that line, and many know the film already… A taut combination of at least two horror sub-genres, Haunted House and 
Paranormal Research, POLTERGEIST exists within the suspenseful collision
 of either, introducing the family at a newly developed semi rural 
suburbia, a pivotal character in itself…
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Craig T. Nelson and JoBeth Williams are cool parents of three kids, and only two really matter. Sadly, in real life, a few years before O'Rourke's death, teenage daughter Dominique Dunne, playing the temperamental and eventually absent teenage daughter, was killed by her boyfriend – catapulting the “Poltergeist curse" that unfortunately adds to the overall pop culture spell of the original vehicle and eventual franchise. <br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nelson &amp O'Rourke</td></tr>
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Behind the lens, TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE auteur Tobe Hooper channels Spielberg’s lavish vision, beginning with random odd occurrences that are, by the ex-hippie parentals, mistaken as simply good vibrations at first… that is until Carol Anne vanishes into the television set, and then into the clutches of the house itself, which, by the time professional researchers arrive, has gone completely bonkers… <br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Send in the Clown</td></tr>
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Expository scenes where Beatrice Straight and her two assistants perform a sort of ghostly stakeout within the central living room, as Carol’s voice echoes through the shadowy walls, are both entertaining and educational – also showing how the family has become like seasoned war vets, hardly scared or even skittish after everything that's happened previously: arguably making up the best scenes, free from what would become a bit too much frantic screeching, exist within the mysterious and even humorous 45-minute initial buildup, which includes smoking grass, remote controls, sudden furniture stacking, and a dead parakeet... <br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">No Bozos After This</td></tr>
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And there's an underrated horror starlet in JoBeth Williams’ Diane Freeling, keeping a strong connection with her daughter even as scene-stealing, ghost channeling Zelda Rubinstein, as Tangina, a sort of mystic Columbo and the film’s most memorable cult figure, arrives: butting heads with Nelson’s stalwart father/husband Steve while trying to coax Carol Anne towards, and away from, "the Light"...<br>
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But it’s Oliver Robins as young son Robbie Freeling, attacked by his infamous clown doll not long after a nightmarish tree grabs him into a menacing thunderstorm, who goes through the most hellish torture – that’s if you don’t count the guy who pulls his face off under heavy bathroom lights, supplying Tobe Hooper fans a taste of 70’s exploitation smoothly combined with Spielberg’s stylistic vision that earns genuine chills while avoiding cheap thrills, and eventually focuses on not only the house but where it was built, giving the tagline and famous dialogue “They’re here” a deeper meaning since, basically, "they" never left: it's the family that moved in. <br>
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craig t. nelson, eighties, heather o'rourke, horror, jobeth williams, poltergeist, steven spielberg, tobe hooper

STEVEN SPIELBERG PRESENTS THE ORIGINAL CLASSIC 'POLTERGEIST'

year: 1982 rating: **** Although executive produced and not technically directed by Steven Spielberg, who was busy with E.T. THE EXTRA TERRE...

REEVALUATING THE ETERNAL DAMNATION OF 'POLTERGEIST III'

franchise, gary sherman, heather o'rourke, horror, lara flynn boyle, nancy allen, poltergeist, sequel, thriller, tom skerritt, zelda rubinstein

REEVALUATING THE ETERNAL DAMNATION OF 'POLTERGEIST III'

Title: Poltergeist III Year: 1988 Rating: **1/2 There are actually some good things about the maligned POLTERGEIST III including a capable d...

BLASPHEMOUSLY BAD MAGIC OF 'POLTERGEIST II: THE OTHER SIDE'

<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/AVvXsEg0cCrRCeVAasTmTCnIaSqXEpAgcXrAihk0wJAaNcosIcGotfCyIsgOpUjprIlbH37c79IlIIMo-Q-1y-aoluYpyg5MPi9Df740WBSgvUiKTYsaIRhcA3v4eoRaaym3APg9dh1iBa5siy7KkXvt_F1Uqj6MveEcDahzYhC6G1ZEMwNTrWB-hQEb0m2tq_4v/s2228/Screen%20Shot%202026-11-01%20at%201.42.52%20AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1524" data-original-width="2228" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0cCrRCeVAasTmTCnIaSqXEpAgcXrAihk0wJAaNcosIcGotfCyIsgOpUjprIlbH37c79IlIIMo-Q-1y-aoluYpyg5MPi9Df740WBSgvUiKTYsaIRhcA3v4eoRaaym3APg9dh1iBa5siy7KkXvt_F1Uqj6MveEcDahzYhC6G1ZEMwNTrWB-hQEb0m2tq_4v/w400-h274/Screen%20Shot%202026-11-01%20at%201.42.52%20AM.png" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Julien Beck stalks Heather O'Rourke's family in P2 Year: 1986</u></td></tr></tbody></table>Shockingly worse than the more maligned, infamous POLTERGEIST III, but a lot more entertaining than EXORCIST II, this first sequel 
of the haunted house classic suffers the same futile, completely unnecessary attempt at explaining the origins of the initial ghostly infestation... <br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Cool P3 poster as P2 rates: *1/2</u></td></tr>
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Vapid
 Indian spells with extremely bad special 
effects, killer tequila worms, the son's braces becoming monsters, and contrived dialogue from characters so wonderfully natural the 
first time around, and in a house that's not even their own: Craig T. Nelson is particularly
hammy while JoBeth Williams means little to nothing. Along with a barrage of flashbacks from Steven Spielberg's classic, POLTERGEIST, we're reminded of what should've been untouched,
 and unburdened...<br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Trying hard for a Spielberg Close Encounters look</u></td></tr>
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As the real burden's on Heather O'Rourke's Carol Anne: the pivotal victim before now holds silly magical powers to the OTHER SIDE run by nefarious Julien Beck as "Reverend Kane", a creepy old man providing the only real chills...<br>
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Before and after him, it's all flash 
and zero substance. Although our tall, wise Indian, Will Sampson from ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (who literally inhales a celestial slipstream), is noted by the family patriarch as having (probably) escaped from an insane asylum. Well old Will should've stayed put — this crap is embarrassing. Even ORCA's a step up.<br>

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BLASPHEMOUSLY BAD MAGIC OF 'POLTERGEIST II: THE OTHER SIDE'

Julien Beck stalks Heather O'Rourke's family in P2 Year: 1986 Shockingly worse than the more maligned, infamous POLTERGEIST III, but...

JOHN CARPENTER DIRECTING RODDY PIPER THROUGH 'THEY LIVE'

<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/AVvXsEh4lDXR7xSSgeyLeb_8Pg3HBHxT6M1euDlBBbnx-9mIb2YdabwlVdsvrthxJFbCtrv_qu2cfrikWHJgZPv22rWjvv1INXYAfdBSDCfYrF1yh3yXVeXBZNlK0qmURfHczP0pN6xasZxiPvGyIsivwwaUsryKynEAq4x-EHJlF6xO-H6pkoya1vqotHmYJgRh/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-10-31%20at%209.47.48%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="978" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4lDXR7xSSgeyLeb_8Pg3HBHxT6M1euDlBBbnx-9mIb2YdabwlVdsvrthxJFbCtrv_qu2cfrikWHJgZPv22rWjvv1INXYAfdBSDCfYrF1yh3yXVeXBZNlK0qmURfHczP0pN6xasZxiPvGyIsivwwaUsryKynEAq4x-EHJlF6xO-H6pkoya1vqotHmYJgRh/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-10-31%20at%209.47.48%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THEY LIVE Year: 1988 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In the last genuinely classic John Carpenter movie, THEY LIVE stars antagonist wrestler Roddy Piper, who couldn't stop kicking and screaming in the ring... yet here's a kind of spaghetti western loner that keeps his cool and hardly speaks...<br><br>Until the scenes the science-fiction alien-invasion thriller is known for, during the game-changing yet still slow-burn second act: after Roddy Piper discovers a pair of important cheap sunglasses... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

action, eighties, george buck flower, horror, john carpenter, keith david, meg foster, norman alden, peter jason, raymond st jacques, science-fiction, susan blanchard, sy richardson

JOHN CARPENTER DIRECTING RODDY PIPER THROUGH 'THEY LIVE'

Title: THEY LIVE Year: 1988 Rating: ****1/2 In the last genuinely classic John Carpenter movie, THEY LIVE stars antagonist wrestler Roddy Pi...

QUENTIN TARANTINO/ROBERT RODRIGUEZ 'FROM DUSK TILL DAWN'

<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/AVvXsEjrj5Qj1BM8h46MdHO1QvZuk-E9szW3EnMnnu3OTGmlPSx1VSeATo9RuGOSpc8PbLca9VLChPaAE5dEEZ5TVHp5ptyB49ilHtHZQBeA-ZnOaSN8PA37ZnqkiCOPo0_wpJJZ4I-juKCMX_67U1HOyw57LvRGV4T3bxVAJwTDu1QoSt_4unCAdHxSPJAETHdl/s2184/Screen%20Shot%202026-10-26%20at%203.26.18%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1356" data-original-width="2184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrj5Qj1BM8h46MdHO1QvZuk-E9szW3EnMnnu3OTGmlPSx1VSeATo9RuGOSpc8PbLca9VLChPaAE5dEEZ5TVHp5ptyB49ilHtHZQBeA-ZnOaSN8PA37ZnqkiCOPo0_wpJJZ4I-juKCMX_67U1HOyw57LvRGV4T3bxVAJwTDu1QoSt_4unCAdHxSPJAETHdl/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-10-26%20at%203.26.18%20PM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1994 Rating: ****1/2</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Quentin Tarantino's RESERVOIR DOGS had a lot of tension within a limited interior space while, around the same time, another about-to-break indie filmmaker Robert Rodriguez made a mostly exterior, hyperactive exploitation flick titled MARIACHI...<br><br>So in their collaboration FROM DUSK TILL DAWN, written by post PULP FICTION Oscar-winner Tarantino and directed by Rodriguez, there are particular scenes of long, drawn-out dialogue (Michael Parks's opinionated rural sheriff is a standout) that erupts in the kind of frolicking action fare that Tarantino would only subtly wield as a result of his characters' back-to-the-wall predicaments...</p><p><span></span></p>

fred williamson, george clooney, harvey keitel, john hawkes, john saxon, juliette lewis, kelly preston, marc lawrence, michael parks, nineties, quentin tarantino, tom savini, vampire

QUENTIN TARANTINO/ROBERT RODRIGUEZ 'FROM DUSK TILL DAWN'

Year: 1994 Rating: ****1/2 Quentin Tarantino's RESERVOIR DOGS had a lot of tension within a limited interior space while, around the sam...

FRANTIC CHARACTERIZATION OF RIDLEY SCOTT'S ORIGINAL 'ALIEN'

<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/AVvXsEhN8Wcln3hjaZ1qrZqsBg__QUkIkV5J9RMya5KvPpkOG_joqBR4WM2LiRbjY6ufNeX91q7iReCbOmvoQhR1SjvP17vr8j3OjynYreefohe23xDpVJmzi4PBNTzdZq2rZ1zbmOQRVmFST83FlIqO8Gnnsl7BUFYnf31plfgv3P3KtK1jaUy6-4ipG-GgTNpU/s2180/Screen%20Shot%202026-10-24%20at%201.05.54%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1476" data-original-width="2180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN8Wcln3hjaZ1qrZqsBg__QUkIkV5J9RMya5KvPpkOG_joqBR4WM2LiRbjY6ufNeX91q7iReCbOmvoQhR1SjvP17vr8j3OjynYreefohe23xDpVJmzi4PBNTzdZq2rZ1zbmOQRVmFST83FlIqO8Gnnsl7BUFYnf31plfgv3P3KtK1jaUy6-4ipG-GgTNpU/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-10-24%20at%201.05.54%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Yaphet Kotto, John Hurt and Tom Skerritt in ALIEN Year: 1979 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In the first act of Ridley Scott's science-fiction horror classic ALIEN, composer Jerry Goldsmith's otherwise meticulously dark score is optimistically adventurous when three of seven spaceship crew-members are investigating a planet that will lead to John Hurt getting the worst stomachache in the history of exploitation cinema... </p><p></p><p>He's even the first to awake from a cryogenic slumber, being one of two Janet Leigh PSYCHO-inspired characters — deliberately misleading the audience into thinking he'll be around much longer... </p><p><span></span></p>

harry dean anderson, horror, ian holm, john hurt, ridley scott, science-fiction, sigourney weaver, thriller, tom skerritt, veronica cartwright, yaphet kotto

FRANTIC CHARACTERIZATION OF RIDLEY SCOTT'S ORIGINAL 'ALIEN'

Yaphet Kotto, John Hurt and Tom Skerritt in ALIEN Year: 1979 Rating: ****1/2 In the first act of Ridley Scott's science-fiction horror c...

JANE GRIFFITHS WITH LAURENCE PAYNE IN 'THE THIRD ALIBI'

<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/AVvXsEjhEsGzIu2oXPpvW3JSAB2WncK8GY5QTP6_KZscfxcEU6oNgCgVqpz1gfm1dDHMlsJJbKxoATPTahLRGcxNt2VFbetqU0UAkG7MgRF1a-xbGd9Uaulshx7VWXqlzfCq_s7BQmaepLRWeeRjAEi0CZQZplcHfqXgYvqHzX1NsYrbbRK1b4Fgzg_866TOpv-G/s1600/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="968" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhEsGzIu2oXPpvW3JSAB2WncK8GY5QTP6_KZscfxcEU6oNgCgVqpz1gfm1dDHMlsJJbKxoATPTahLRGcxNt2VFbetqU0UAkG7MgRF1a-xbGd9Uaulshx7VWXqlzfCq_s7BQmaepLRWeeRjAEi0CZQZplcHfqXgYvqHzX1NsYrbbRK1b4Fgzg_866TOpv-G/s1600/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jane Griffiths and Laurence Payne in THE THIRD ALIBI Year: 1961 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>In the 1961 neo noir thriller THE THIRD ALIBI, Laurence Payne looks like a young James Mason with high anxiety caused by many problems, but he really only has one... or, two... maybe three: beginning with the fact he's a composer of a rehearsing musical and doesn't have a lot of cash in the bank...<br><br>Relating to his primary concerns, the staple of any noir having to do with two dames: one's his wife in extremely pretty good-girl blonde Patricia Dainton, and then her dark-haired bad-girl step-sister Jane Griffiths...</p><p><span></span></p>

british neo noir, jane griffiths, laurence payne, mystery, patricia dainton, sixties, thriller

JANE GRIFFITHS WITH LAURENCE PAYNE IN 'THE THIRD ALIBI'

Jane Griffiths and Laurence Payne in THE THIRD ALIBI Year: 1961 Rating: ***1/2 In the 1961 neo noir thriller THE THIRD ALIBI, Laurence Payne...

JANE GRIFFITHS WITH RONA ANDERSON IN 'SHADOW OF A MAN'

<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/AVvXsEjtde2GJoTH-oJrZwhXoMYv5wNt82d9Tix1_yv_qYmrnoXcgxsHhMHazHjLc0HJXiBqVHDe8txjrwI-ankqVQfEclgSmCahPjHtidXqY3uPyMcIEymp_YgmPJuT7HPILVhsTwTIEmRCO_W3k2SvvnWqd40_K4UQlPok87JYgkVUWOI7q9tSeegyXvDMQ0ZJ/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-10-21%20at%208.29.19%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1034" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtde2GJoTH-oJrZwhXoMYv5wNt82d9Tix1_yv_qYmrnoXcgxsHhMHazHjLc0HJXiBqVHDe8txjrwI-ankqVQfEclgSmCahPjHtidXqY3uPyMcIEymp_YgmPJuT7HPILVhsTwTIEmRCO_W3k2SvvnWqd40_K4UQlPok87JYgkVUWOI7q9tSeegyXvDMQ0ZJ/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-10-21%20at%208.29.19%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1954 Rating: **</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>A year before dashing, smooth-voiced Canadian actor Paul Carpenter starred with classic beauty Rona Anderson in <a href="https://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2025/05/stockcar.html">STOCK CAR</a>, they were semi-paired up in a mystery thriller that attempts THE THIRD MAN to the point where, in some of the opening exposition, a third man is even mentioned...</p><p>And it's all about the husband of Anderson who's dead before, during and after the murder plot-line: imagine that happening with Orson Welles as Harry Lime, never providing Joseph Cotten a payoff... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

bill nagy, british film noir, fifties, jane griffiths, mystery, paul carpenter, rona anderson, ronald leigh-hunt, thriller, tony quinn

JANE GRIFFITHS WITH RONA ANDERSON IN 'SHADOW OF A MAN'

Year: 1954 Rating: ** A year before dashing, smooth-voiced Canadian actor Paul Carpenter starred with classic beauty Rona Anderson in STOCK ...

JOHN THAW WITH JACK WATSON & INGRID HAFNER 'FIVE TO ONE'

<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/AVvXsEgpFQQnbIdacXzwaJ5RjfGNmFLbGiuM_UJLaEx39xruFpRUWwA-zRaNPEhrfbXyKqAczzzjYnC09CxPV6QHdlQuV-5VeKyuCc7Bp9g4Wiybg5yzauGvwQHRWWc_LpwlU1V8k35AkZjP1eNRhzG5F5KZ5MdA764QukoRP_J62neafsrbT5aMuuA1Me0BG4ry/s1327/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="784" data-original-width="1327" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpFQQnbIdacXzwaJ5RjfGNmFLbGiuM_UJLaEx39xruFpRUWwA-zRaNPEhrfbXyKqAczzzjYnC09CxPV6QHdlQuV-5VeKyuCc7Bp9g4Wiybg5yzauGvwQHRWWc_LpwlU1V8k35AkZjP1eNRhzG5F5KZ5MdA764QukoRP_J62neafsrbT5aMuuA1Me0BG4ry/s1600/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>John Thaw in FIVE TO ONE Year: 1963 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>British icon John Thaw is best known as the hard-edged, grouchy yet equally charming chief detective on England's THE SWEENEY television series in the 1970's... but he had appeared on big and small screen pictures of the previous decade, and in the case of FIVE TO ONE it's both at the same time...<br><br>Featuring Thaw as one of three con-artists nabbing money from a crooked bookie, this was a cinematic b-crimer that wound up on the EDGAR WALLACE MYSTERIES anthology show... and seems more of a pilot episode of what would have been a pretty nifty series...</p>

brian mcdermott, british neo noir, edgar wallace, edina ronay, ingrid hafner, jack watson, john thaw, lee montague, mystery, sixties

JOHN THAW WITH JACK WATSON & INGRID HAFNER 'FIVE TO ONE'

John Thaw in FIVE TO ONE Year: 1963 Rating: *** British icon John Thaw is best known as the hard-edged, grouchy yet equally charming chief d...

DAWN ADDAMS IN EDGAR WALLACE'S MYSTERY 'THE £20,000 KISS'

<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/AVvXsEif_LlexaewpCCAJWmP9EWowtU4BPWvhkfD5SFCSPYFe01xr6gKvl4ttbovkdIT-PjV1CG2WCp-8_waO5VguTP83Ms1ttLClrPmDcmSkIWnmsxhHsk6U3p-tyZcX1JkW9nGQHQiAqW5qwC3bVLByVVWZY0Y9Fe_awTK3pYnaaCNAkavsaqyJJUDz-_DNAv_/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-10-07%20at%208.27.48%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1111" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif_LlexaewpCCAJWmP9EWowtU4BPWvhkfD5SFCSPYFe01xr6gKvl4ttbovkdIT-PjV1CG2WCp-8_waO5VguTP83Ms1ttLClrPmDcmSkIWnmsxhHsk6U3p-tyZcX1JkW9nGQHQiAqW5qwC3bVLByVVWZY0Y9Fe_awTK3pYnaaCNAkavsaqyJJUDz-_DNAv_/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-10-07%20at%208.27.48%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Dawn Addams in THE £20,000 KISS Year: 1962 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Dawn Addams, best known as a <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/07/2F.html">Hammer starlet</a> both sophisticated and exotic, vulnerable and nefarious, stars in a low-budget British theatrical b-movie THE £20,000 KISS that wound up on the television anthology EDGAR WALLACE MYSTERY THEATRE, and actually feels more like a small screen whodunnit, complete with the usual ending where a detective reveals the murder and motive as it plays out on the screen...<br><br>Otherwise a kind of battle of wits between two classy men: one a professional blackmailer in Anthony Newlands, married to Addams, who steals that titular smooch with wealthy barrister Michael Goodliffe...</p><p><span></span></p>

alfred burke, anthony newlands, british neo noir, dawn addams, mia karam, michael goodliffe, mystery, richard thorp, sixties, soong ling

DAWN ADDAMS IN EDGAR WALLACE'S MYSTERY 'THE £20,000 KISS'

Dawn Addams in THE £20,000 KISS Year: 1962 Rating: *** Dawn Addams, best known as a Hammer starlet both sophisticated and exotic, vulnerabl...

MAUREEN CONNELL WITH MERVYN JOHNS IN 'ODE TO BARBARA'

<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/AVvXsEjul-j7s1ae91uTUjRzTfWvE0YD8BDaBDF_Ia4iXDtTIiNCxPNgWvQLioR6YfYe7KH2GMwuvwfVFkE6idt5Q5iSXoOqaqYg84uSy19QkQGMqRRIzWvRdv05C1awt17hLg-ztG2ZbsKEJ52D4UvBSjpxTZ85O8_bohBHYAzPs4HGO6sLsYpBPP07xPi018p3/s1365/image_66cb7f48.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjul-j7s1ae91uTUjRzTfWvE0YD8BDaBDF_Ia4iXDtTIiNCxPNgWvQLioR6YfYe7KH2GMwuvwfVFkE6idt5Q5iSXoOqaqYg84uSy19QkQGMqRRIzWvRdv05C1awt17hLg-ztG2ZbsKEJ52D4UvBSjpxTZ85O8_bohBHYAzPs4HGO6sLsYpBPP07xPi018p3/s1600/image_66cb7f48.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Maureen Connell in ODE TO BARBARA Year: 1961 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Another British b-crimer where lanky/intense <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/03/payrollers.html">PAYROLL</a> and <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2022/01/prizeofarms.html">PRIZE OF ARMS</a> actor Tom Bell plays the main antagonist's moody henchman, only here his job's pretty straightforward, keeping an eye on a bank-robber's spoiled gambling son (Ronald Hines, the backstabbing business partner in <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/11/hijackers.html">THE HI-JACKERS)</a>... but there's a lot more going on in ECHO OF BARBARA than the usual early-1960's neo-noir... </p><p></p><p>Borrowing from the classic story of THE PRISONER OF ZENDA, it's a masquerading con-game as lovely, vulnerable, pouty, wispy, cigarette-smoking Maureen Connell (on her first day of seedy nightclub stripping) is hired by that desperately in-debt son to pretend being his father's long-lost  lookalike daughter...  <br></p><p><span></span></p>

brian peck, british neo noir, david gregory, maureen connell, mervyn johns, paul stassino, ronald hines, sixties, tom bell

MAUREEN CONNELL WITH MERVYN JOHNS IN 'ODE TO BARBARA'

Maureen Connell in ODE TO BARBARA Year: 1961 Rating: **** Another British b-crimer where lanky/intense PAYROLL and PRIZE OF ARMS actor Tom...

MICHAEL CAINE IN 'SOLO FOR SPARROW' STARRING GLYN HOUSTON

<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/AVvXsEhywY4XYMtgo92sQUoXp7kVOSmdJlZ2onoaYqZ0wTC0F4JY3pF46agIM1KZwRzS3CWmFHM7KfFCF6niyGIJ4Zrvu9kFRK9bVxTSARJsdRF5-9V3FmSiNgojrH1Q7-SlgJsLWFg7goYcKnfkRQudsQihaFbZOFpygLO83ZIfmGw00dGYDifxP-rWeiFyIGvs/s1244/image_3f3465eb.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="848" data-original-width="1244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhywY4XYMtgo92sQUoXp7kVOSmdJlZ2onoaYqZ0wTC0F4JY3pF46agIM1KZwRzS3CWmFHM7KfFCF6niyGIJ4Zrvu9kFRK9bVxTSARJsdRF5-9V3FmSiNgojrH1Q7-SlgJsLWFg7goYcKnfkRQudsQihaFbZOFpygLO83ZIfmGw00dGYDifxP-rWeiFyIGvs/s1600/image_3f3465eb.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Michael Caine in SOLO FOR SPARROW Year: 1962 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Most of the early/mid 1960's crime b-movies from England that wound up on the television anthology EDGAR WALLACE MYSTERIES feels like their own stories with a beginning, middle and end while SOLO FOR SPARROW feels like a pilot for a rather unique kind of police detective...<br><br>Played by sturdily stocky British character-actor Glynn Houson, whose manliness allowed a few glimpses into semi leading man status, bringing a cute bartender chick on a stakeout for the rich owner of a jewelry store, robbed by a gang that includes Michael Boles, who could play both robbers and cops with equal offbeat intensity, and young no-name Michael Caine... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

anthony newlands, british neo noir, edgar wallace, glyn houston, jerry stovin, michael caine, michael coles, murray melvin, nadja regin, neil mccarthy, sixties, wanda ventham, yvonne buckingham

MICHAEL CAINE IN 'SOLO FOR SPARROW' STARRING GLYN HOUSTON

Michael Caine in SOLO FOR SPARROW Year: 1962 Rating: *** Most of the early/mid 1960's crime b-movies from England that wound up on the t...

KATHERINE WOODVILLE CLASSING UP 'CLUE OF THE NEW PIN'

<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/AVvXsEgxmBF8FopZ5-XM3iXTu8J0t-eA9NJlqUAyIEbXkPf7FkrAIeCs7cvC_w6-GRWS16jylcaDEcAhi0nMKMrGaqikWTC5lXqOGO1540WfN_sB4TL2Dpz5XI8eukuqAVR0XIDeMJzCa9cAGVJsv28CGJ0QkfP3aSY1WmBWjiKcZMD6UoUOncSeILTQhX29im7s/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-10-02%20at%2012.09.56%20AM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="851" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxmBF8FopZ5-XM3iXTu8J0t-eA9NJlqUAyIEbXkPf7FkrAIeCs7cvC_w6-GRWS16jylcaDEcAhi0nMKMrGaqikWTC5lXqOGO1540WfN_sB4TL2Dpz5XI8eukuqAVR0XIDeMJzCa9cAGVJsv28CGJ0QkfP3aSY1WmBWjiKcZMD6UoUOncSeILTQhX29im7s/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-10-02%20at%2012.09.56%20AM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Katherine Woodville in CLUE OF THE NEW PIN Year: 1961 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Katherine Woodville (here billed as Catherine Woodville) is one the most beautiful British actresses of all time, and, with full lips and reddish-dark hair, she also has the cool, laid-back aura like she knows everything...<br><br>Fitfully cast as a gorgeous jewelry-wearing model/actress in the Edgar Wallace episode CLUE OF THE NEW PIN, mostly taking place within an underground room in a rich man's manor, where his seemingly affable nephew Paul Daneman appears to be the most innocent, vulnerable... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

edgar wallace, james villiers, katherine woodville, mystery, paul daneman, sixties, thriller

KATHERINE WOODVILLE CLASSING UP 'CLUE OF THE NEW PIN'

Katherine Woodville in CLUE OF THE NEW PIN Year: 1961 Rating: ***1/2 Katherine Woodville (here billed as Catherine Woodville) is one the mos...

SUSAN HAMPSHIRE IN 'THE VIOLENT ENEMY' STARRING TOM BELL

<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/AVvXsEj4QV1H9kMp92AuItE2SfvkFUBEE-wjmR_gpZTvE7ko2jweYrjw82v9_PLhcL8s1n95wgYayLCzDAI7-v5UHZPUb9K0LK7s-z7baJs7_lEYqnonFSrCft9FT9hwBAmmKhBR-IkqKM5VXH9shXrzpyId3h2ua47uTkvjVK4-yEAOoIICed7cy1jcJPXhzZG7/s1600/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="887" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4QV1H9kMp92AuItE2SfvkFUBEE-wjmR_gpZTvE7ko2jweYrjw82v9_PLhcL8s1n95wgYayLCzDAI7-v5UHZPUb9K0LK7s-z7baJs7_lEYqnonFSrCft9FT9hwBAmmKhBR-IkqKM5VXH9shXrzpyId3h2ua47uTkvjVK4-yEAOoIICed7cy1jcJPXhzZG7/s1600/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Susan Hampshire in THE VIOLENT ENEMY Year: 1967 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Before infamously heckling Prince Philip while seated next to very nervous future knighted actors, sharp-faced dark-horse Tom Bell would often play unpredictably argumentative henchmen of the crime boss... a kind of villain's villain... so in one of his few starring roles, he seems more befitting one of several edgy side-characters...<br><br>Who are actually Irish performers... the plot involving the IRA breaking Bell's former iconic patriot Sean Rogan from a British prison: returned to Ireland where most of the expository-plotline takes place within a tight-knit tavern... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

british neo noir, don sharp, ed begley, ireland, sixties, susan hampshire, thriller, tom bell

SUSAN HAMPSHIRE IN 'THE VIOLENT ENEMY' STARRING TOM BELL

Susan Hampshire in THE VIOLENT ENEMY Year: 1967 Rating: **1/2 Before infamously heckling Prince Philip while seated next to very nervous fut...

ZENA WALKER WITH KENNETH COPE IN 'CHANGE PARTNERS'

<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/AVvXsEjrBC5hXAhJbEhtaSYM9-3gwo8sY2HxeL378L1zu9SYQxZygxGy1TYqoz9q92cAPLPhqTG-wyJYT2Fbr_C5me_3dO-xpBg_-KGlD6L5FxdoMcHQSaiYfRiv4TUCFlvuPD-4ecpJH02EgmStkpUqQgA1r7PInCG9FIxYEF01Tgb-7CBOaCAIyWeBN0X3LWTd/s1600/1%202%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="923" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrBC5hXAhJbEhtaSYM9-3gwo8sY2HxeL378L1zu9SYQxZygxGy1TYqoz9q92cAPLPhqTG-wyJYT2Fbr_C5me_3dO-xpBg_-KGlD6L5FxdoMcHQSaiYfRiv4TUCFlvuPD-4ecpJH02EgmStkpUqQgA1r7PInCG9FIxYEF01Tgb-7CBOaCAIyWeBN0X3LWTd/s1600/1%202%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Zena Walker in CHANGE PARTNERS Year: 1965 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>Zena Walker is one of the most underrated British actresses from the 1960's, specializing in natural-looking good girls in kitchen sink crime films, like <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2022/09/wlucas.html">THE MARKED ONES</a>, but in CHANGE PARTNERS she's anything but... <br><br>And in this hour-long programmer that became part of THE EDGAR WALLACE MYSTERIES, Zena plays the coolest and coldest, most calculating femme fatales around...</p><p><span></span></p>

anthony dawson, basil henson, british neo noir, edgar wallace, kenneth cope, pamela ann davy, sixties, zena walker

ZENA WALKER WITH KENNETH COPE IN 'CHANGE PARTNERS'

Zena Walker in CHANGE PARTNERS Year: 1965 Rating: ***1/2 Zena Walker is one of the most underrated British actresses from the 1960's, sp...

PAUL CARPENTER AND HAZEL COURT IN 'THE NARROWING CIRCLE'

<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/AVvXsEh1RIjKAfW4lCqAZI9QFMO2lYpDhUQKFTO4PR57fTgxmuXwTO2AuoZJ4-A2jUB3-6xVKMgDcQJvsIe1SVZy8s7yMjhtyjS6f9IEoSwU1Ex4qgIN5mN5q13RJB087xi4yU0Bhc8TPjE9JwyqfzlqWiD47oJV8xRw2-MTG8q7JRPBTIlcHxxLPtXd_GwuHpPI/s1560/Screen%20Shot%202026-09-28%20at%2010.02.01%20PM-1%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1028" data-original-width="1560" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1RIjKAfW4lCqAZI9QFMO2lYpDhUQKFTO4PR57fTgxmuXwTO2AuoZJ4-A2jUB3-6xVKMgDcQJvsIe1SVZy8s7yMjhtyjS6f9IEoSwU1Ex4qgIN5mN5q13RJB087xi4yU0Bhc8TPjE9JwyqfzlqWiD47oJV8xRw2-MTG8q7JRPBTIlcHxxLPtXd_GwuHpPI/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-09-28%20at%2010.02.01%20PM-1%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Hazel Court and Paul Carpenter in THE NARROWING CIRCLE  Year: 1957 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>Canadian actor Paul Carpenter, when he's not providing his smooth voice for the usual roles as announcers or broadcasters, has a charmingly affable manner in which, for 1950's British Noirs <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2025/05/stockcar.html">STOCK CAR</a> and THE NARROWING CIRCLE, he seems to be a replacement for what aspires to be a more standard-leading-man type of picture...<br><br>But he's still fairly intriguing: here as a true crime journalist falling into the usual wrong-man trope of not only being falsely accused for one murder... of a fellow writer who took both his job and his fiance... but he's always around when random dead bodies keep turning up...</p><p><span></span></p>

british film noir, charles saunders, ferdy mayne, fifties, hazel court, hugh latimer, michael standing, paul carpenter, wrong man

PAUL CARPENTER AND HAZEL COURT IN 'THE NARROWING CIRCLE'

Hazel Court and Paul Carpenter in THE NARROWING CIRCLE Year: 1957 Rating: ***1/2 Canadian actor Paul Carpenter, when he's not providing...

PAUL CARPENTER AND SUSAN SHAW IN WOLF RILLA'S 'STOCK CAR'

<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/AVvXsEjIyPhYGGgUrEMeKJVS5e1DV8bI_Vg-SCQKa5cwWvnbkpK7FCSiGTawr3eIKtJMeQkn-yunGc7TVBWOa5wBZjaCNYPMxM-Rb16LxoqrlF4QRrqpKoZt06UUomvoYoia4QdbfvFqvpq2Mgh-YCfeGouJN96waTKMU7Xolj-j5WK1mL6YMgICFtQ4sfX16pJG/s1452/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="828" data-original-width="1452" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIyPhYGGgUrEMeKJVS5e1DV8bI_Vg-SCQKa5cwWvnbkpK7FCSiGTawr3eIKtJMeQkn-yunGc7TVBWOa5wBZjaCNYPMxM-Rb16LxoqrlF4QRrqpKoZt06UUomvoYoia4QdbfvFqvpq2Mgh-YCfeGouJN96waTKMU7Xolj-j5WK1mL6YMgICFtQ4sfX16pJG/s1600/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: STOCK CAR Year: 1955 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Canadian actor turned British movie <i>stock American</i> <i>character</i> Paul Carpenter had one of the smoothest voices in the history of cinema, so much that he'd either play random announcers or sometimes co-leads, like in director Wolf Rilla's STOCK CAR...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>By looks he didn't really stand out, yet with a cool enough demeanor suiting the vocal delivery, it's easier to believe that two polar opposite dames (bad blonde and virginal brunette) would be instantly smitten...  <br></p><span></span>

british film noir, fifties, harry fowler, patrick jordan, paul carpenter, race car, robert rietty, rona anderson, sabrina, susan shaw, wolf rilla

PAUL CARPENTER AND SUSAN SHAW IN WOLF RILLA'S 'STOCK CAR'

Title: STOCK CAR Year: 1955 Rating: **** Canadian actor turned British movie stock American character Paul Carpenter had one of the smooth...

DERREN NESBITT & KEITH FAULKNER IN 'THE MAN IN THE BACK SEAT'

<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/AVvXsEgd6OcxPtmXEf88yb860DxA9O3nF7-k-cMJ4uwcGCwAnr7MbQ36rdilvbovfYFxrPSeI1S9RRB1UCqQjjTo6PmxxS9CDcghsjQ9Eji5OaXg4JcF4EGoYPjdK6_grEreAcAckJSmJLJe7ovmkqUdm1d4DB1Pf2Fb0tvJ1g56VFivtt6qs-ltfTef7CQrikMi/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-09-26%20at%209.05.30%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1062" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd6OcxPtmXEf88yb860DxA9O3nF7-k-cMJ4uwcGCwAnr7MbQ36rdilvbovfYFxrPSeI1S9RRB1UCqQjjTo6PmxxS9CDcghsjQ9Eji5OaXg4JcF4EGoYPjdK6_grEreAcAckJSmJLJe7ovmkqUdm1d4DB1Pf2Fb0tvJ1g56VFivtt6qs-ltfTef7CQrikMi/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-09-26%20at%209.05.30%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1961 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The year before Vernon Sewell would direct blond-haired British duo Derren Nesbitt and Keith Faulkner as bank robbers in <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/09/strongroom.html">STRONGROOM</a>, they played another pair of crooks yet far more lowly and desperate: knocking out a bookie chained to a bag of cash... and for a tight 57-minutes, they get tied to both... <br><br>Mostly taking place on the road, driving around in the unconscious man's car while trying to figure out how to dump the poor fella, after having separated his chained arm from the loot much too quickly... <br><span></span></p>

anthony bate, british neo noir, carol white, derren nesbitt, keith faulkner, thriller, vernon sewell

DERREN NESBITT & KEITH FAULKNER IN 'THE MAN IN THE BACK SEAT'

Year: 1961 Rating: ***1/2 The year before Vernon Sewell would direct blond-haired British duo Derren Nesbitt and Keith Faulkner as bank robb...

DERREN NESBITT & KEITH FAULKER IN 'STRONGROOM' WITH ANN LYNN

<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/AVvXsEjQphBCM_PapbWWykd9ZjlnhBXjvvKKW8nqp5Ojr9wTyj-tNmVlltL6hN9BbBnp-U6Mlix6nPqLhXXvfA8T5f_e_wvw3GzDzbGSf_n6hBuPu9krQXFK1BgPwqAFjfwQYnF_yJLBeqq0yKbkZZIleZj3L-BpMrGUuQuqOOuU00RzOgc3FiJ4oIUO5kuglg5z/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-09-26%20at%209.18.34%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1042" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQphBCM_PapbWWykd9ZjlnhBXjvvKKW8nqp5Ojr9wTyj-tNmVlltL6hN9BbBnp-U6Mlix6nPqLhXXvfA8T5f_e_wvw3GzDzbGSf_n6hBuPu9krQXFK1BgPwqAFjfwQYnF_yJLBeqq0yKbkZZIleZj3L-BpMrGUuQuqOOuU00RzOgc3FiJ4oIUO5kuglg5z/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-09-26%20at%209.18.34%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Poster for STRONGROOM Year: 1962 Rates: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>STRONGROOM is an important early-1960's British crime films as it underlines what you won't find Stateside: to be extra cautious to <i>not harm anyone</i> during a heist or your jail sentence lengthens, making British bad guys not only more sympathetic but far more cautious, which includes bank robbers Keith Faulkner and Derren Nesbitt who, after locking the first guy's coworkers in the titular bank vault, is talked into by the more empathetic crook to return to the crime scene to provide some oxygen...<br></p><p></p><p>A twist ignited by the third robber's death... the older brother to the edgy Keith Faulkner, he held the key to the STRONGROOM that the oblivious cops won't let go of, so, what takes up most of the runtime is the bickering boys seeking a way back while, inside, spectacle-wearing bank manager Colin Gordon and subtle beauty Ann Lynn are running out of air, providing more race-against-time suspense than what should be occurring simultaneously outside, including investigating cops...</p><p><span></span></p>

ann lynn, british neo noir, british new wave, colin gordon, crime, derren nesbitt, guido coen, heist, keith faulkner, race against time, suspense

DERREN NESBITT & KEITH FAULKER IN 'STRONGROOM' WITH ANN LYNN

Poster for STRONGROOM Year: 1962 Rates: ***1/2 STRONGROOM is an important early-1960's British crime films as it underlines what you won...

SHARON GURNEY WITH YVONNE MITCHELL IN 'CRUCIBLE OF HORROR'

<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/AVvXsEi3yeY6zXy_NBcKCZEFlKvCHISEh_NBLohowL3mV-meEA0waRoq4KrHU58VeIxDCnqnlrM7vhJ9yuNk6Py8bj-ASspDuC_fSagkI0AgJh4TRQjouRX64SrFraIJqSCkJn-EBHKKFoEReXkLLdsBxT90v6UMiQvzMutfPq8RuvJp2BGC_7pLKcUSYiebPKDg/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-09-17%20at%2010.12.44%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="878" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3yeY6zXy_NBcKCZEFlKvCHISEh_NBLohowL3mV-meEA0waRoq4KrHU58VeIxDCnqnlrM7vhJ9yuNk6Py8bj-ASspDuC_fSagkI0AgJh4TRQjouRX64SrFraIJqSCkJn-EBHKKFoEReXkLLdsBxT90v6UMiQvzMutfPq8RuvJp2BGC_7pLKcUSYiebPKDg/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-09-17%20at%2010.12.44%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sharon Gurney</u><u> </u><u>in CRUCIBLE OF HORROR/THE CORPSE Year: 1971 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>It's been said that Viktors Ritelis was a British television director with the eye of a cinematic filmmaker, and his only feature, CRUCIBLE OF HORROR (originally THE CORPSE), is a creatively-shot thriller in the vein of Alfred Hitchcock... <br><br>Helping to develop a wave of rural-set psychological horrors of the 1960's/1970's, from England's SHUTTERED ROOM to America's LET'S SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH to Hammer's DEMONS OF THE MIND... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

british, cannon, horror, michael gough, seventies, sharon gurney, simon gough, thriller, yvonne mitchell

SHARON GURNEY WITH YVONNE MITCHELL IN 'CRUCIBLE OF HORROR'

Sharon Gurney in CRUCIBLE OF HORROR/THE CORPSE Year: 1971 Rating: ***1/2 It's been said that Viktors Ritelis was a British television d...

SHARON GURNEY IN GARY SHERMAN'S CULT SLASHER 'DEATH LINE'

<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/AVvXsEj6_h7VJh9NBg1174f7YjoMRM8_2VI9uyl7yO5K5bSdSc0D0GXKjjlKeLL75L8C1yrE0uUesLnwXhMj_E1z1krWQENgYFN1BGnk5kBhjTPMWbLnA5KMhSxEgLreh2Vimb5xuc8xoPKlosU1bozdIqQV4uwF9w7FGdHo9EmlHPGkwTwb0JhfankiWio-GRmA/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-09-15%20at%2010.51.10%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="937" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6_h7VJh9NBg1174f7YjoMRM8_2VI9uyl7yO5K5bSdSc0D0GXKjjlKeLL75L8C1yrE0uUesLnwXhMj_E1z1krWQENgYFN1BGnk5kBhjTPMWbLnA5KMhSxEgLreh2Vimb5xuc8xoPKlosU1bozdIqQV4uwF9w7FGdHo9EmlHPGkwTwb0JhfankiWio-GRmA/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-09-15%20at%2010.51.10%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sharon Gurney in DEATH LINE Year: 1972 Rating: **</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>There's a point in future <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2010/11/dead-buried.html">DEAD & BURIED</a>, V<a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2025/03/vsquad.html">ICE SQUAD</a> and <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2018/12/reevaluating-eternal-damnation-of.html">POLTERGEIST III</a> director Gary Sherman's 1972 proto-slasher DEATH LINE where blunt detectives Donald Pleasence and Norman Rossington are discussing the hippie couple they're separately questioning: and only David Ladd (playboy son of iconic Alan Ladd) is shown... <br><br>Merely part of the problem in what's an otherwise groundbreaking horror involving a cannibal, before even TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, taking place in a dark and spooky-looking location, including an extremely long maneuvering crane shot of the lead killer in his underground fortress...</p><p><span></span></p>

british, christopher lee, david ladd, donald pleasence, horror, norman rossington, seventies, sharon gurney, slasher

SHARON GURNEY IN GARY SHERMAN'S CULT SLASHER 'DEATH LINE'

Sharon Gurney in DEATH LINE Year: 1972 Rating: ** There's a point in future DEAD & BURIED , V ICE SQUAD and POLTERGEIST III direct...

HEATHER SEARS CROONS HAMMER'S 'THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA'

<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/a/AVvXsEi3fVfFgB1lP_vkhA9gRpn-UpglfUwFoJEG3wPUd-Yh9JA-OBReObEK-6Ws4PDXi4mD0xXYmQ2i7HfFHyIGKp-aLB60VOlnBHIhGc7K6A6t5TQOn7KuqYnIU6QkN4KpOvI-PaD2Kc_1rkzs8M1IL5kO5qY3mSFFhLEi1QjU-xN2xHv3oWEqOG3YsaE0sOl8" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="850" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi3fVfFgB1lP_vkhA9gRpn-UpglfUwFoJEG3wPUd-Yh9JA-OBReObEK-6Ws4PDXi4mD0xXYmQ2i7HfFHyIGKp-aLB60VOlnBHIhGc7K6A6t5TQOn7KuqYnIU6QkN4KpOvI-PaD2Kc_1rkzs8M1IL5kO5qY3mSFFhLEi1QjU-xN2xHv3oWEqOG3YsaE0sOl8=s1600"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Heather Sears in THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA Year: 1964 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Both Oliver Reed and Herbert Lom have played similar types of villains, with wide dead-eyes and a cold/calculating reserve, and not without exceeding passion... yet neither have all that much to do with their titular monster Hammer features, both directed by Hammer regular Terence Fisher... <br></p><p></p><p>In Reed's CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF, he shows up after forty-five minutes, with little to do with the most surrealistically nightmarish aspects leading up while in Lom's THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, besides being fitfully hidden behind strategically-cut corners of the central opera house, he basically gives his own personal Igor all the rafter-crashing violence... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

hammer films, heather sears, herbert lom, horror, monster, music, sixties, terence fisher, thorley walters

HEATHER SEARS CROONS HAMMER'S 'THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA'

Heather Sears in THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA Year: 1964 Rating: ***1/2 Both Oliver Reed and Herbert Lom have played similar types of villains, ...

HEATHER SEARS WITH ANNETTE WHITELEY IN 'THE BLACK TORMENT'

<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/AVvXsEga4habL-HxQmztWm4Nbc4V-LIFKw3Q0CMZnWnbyfdiWu736xJnMHeYG-lP391rgDCGWoCzVHHjw3BhUjSXj48L3SZ_ZnEaeSpTkOVfQvAcJrG5lEYJuq9MCjAKvT_MAwZ6-tMswG9uG1ckFGxLfZj1p3qQ3xG9MtuegIvbCZNT_ubk_tpBAAeu5c7_O3nV/s1600/image1788936022.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1082" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga4habL-HxQmztWm4Nbc4V-LIFKw3Q0CMZnWnbyfdiWu736xJnMHeYG-lP391rgDCGWoCzVHHjw3BhUjSXj48L3SZ_ZnEaeSpTkOVfQvAcJrG5lEYJuq9MCjAKvT_MAwZ6-tMswG9uG1ckFGxLfZj1p3qQ3xG9MtuegIvbCZNT_ubk_tpBAAeu5c7_O3nV/s1600/image1788936022.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Heather Sears and John Turner in THE BLACK TORMENT Year: 1964 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Since THE ROOM WITH A VIEW, when social-climbing rascal Laurence Harvey stares at Heather Sears, he mentions out loud how incredibly perfect a young woman she is... <br><br>Which became her niche: the upturned nosed, round-faced, always-smiling cutie that turns the heads of both men and monsters in Hammer's PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, and once again epitomizes girl-next-door allure as the new wife of a returning English lord in THE BLACK TORMENT...</p><p><span></span></p>

ann lynn, annette whiteley, edina ronay, francis de wolff, gothic, heather sears, horror, john turner, joseph tomelty, peter arne, sixties

HEATHER SEARS WITH ANNETTE WHITELEY IN 'THE BLACK TORMENT'

Heather Sears and John Turner in THE BLACK TORMENT Year: 1964 Rating: ***1/2 Since THE ROOM WITH A VIEW, when social-climbing rascal Laurenc...

JUDD NELSON IS 'RELENTLESS' WITH LEO ROSSI & ROBERT LOGGIA

<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/a/AVvXsEjvkXIJmOu6Ar1krsooooS46LJsy8mrJ1btppf9LhwopkEnAJWlslcKgHQ4jTWdKq3R-olhKY2KF0Y4LqlRQ1IrSojONKVqVBzl_tKYDQaFo8wDYQMOnDgYnRv0JBABZXDh8llID7NNfBcbnBhxR_UHw6Q7dyQP69IRjb2WhCR6yMHmVmOiczFpmmmyJAK9" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1056" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjvkXIJmOu6Ar1krsooooS46LJsy8mrJ1btppf9LhwopkEnAJWlslcKgHQ4jTWdKq3R-olhKY2KF0Y4LqlRQ1IrSojONKVqVBzl_tKYDQaFo8wDYQMOnDgYnRv0JBABZXDh8llID7NNfBcbnBhxR_UHw6Q7dyQP69IRjb2WhCR6yMHmVmOiczFpmmmyJAK9=s1600"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1989 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In the mid-1980's, starting out with famously low-budget Cannon Films in MAKING THE GRADE before breaking into Universal stardom for THE BREAKFAST CLUB, by 1989, Judd Nelson was back in the little leagues...</p><p>Getting first-billed in exploitation drive-in maestro William Lustig's RELENTLESS, a kind of revamp of WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS involving Nelson as a man-child serial killer, motivated by the media's goading perception of his ultra-violent actions based on lonely loser motivations... <br></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

angel tompkins, body count, cop, eddie bunker, eighties, frank pesce, judd nelson, leo rossi, meg foster, neo noir, robert loggia, william lustig

JUDD NELSON IS 'RELENTLESS' WITH LEO ROSSI & ROBERT LOGGIA

Year: 1989 Rating: ***1/2 In the mid-1980's, starting out with famously low-budget Cannon Films in MAKING THE GRADE before breaking into...

JUDD NELSON RULES THE BRAT PACK CLASSIC 'THE BREAKFAST CLUB'

<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/AVvXsEi9axfbyFw3ghrUUEM1I-atl_DiE_yzy95PdK6GDNo4iR1Spq6uSdVb7djvuBbpFNn9jM2PaU746meD37uDjQ_ouKfqWqFxnATbJrAOWm0UYJD5qJYvw0ZYQX_cQbKOgK283dxAT-bdFgO7nwCNgjWo_6EhO380cF4aS8oahqPSxftkWa-hzSvB6OBoFeD0/s1600/unnamed.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="978" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9axfbyFw3ghrUUEM1I-atl_DiE_yzy95PdK6GDNo4iR1Spq6uSdVb7djvuBbpFNn9jM2PaU746meD37uDjQ_ouKfqWqFxnATbJrAOWm0UYJD5qJYvw0ZYQX_cQbKOgK283dxAT-bdFgO7nwCNgjWo_6EhO380cF4aS8oahqPSxftkWa-hzSvB6OBoFeD0/s1600/unnamed.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1985 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In 1985, a year after swaggering onto the big screen in the nearly forgotten con-man caper <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2015/05/judd-nelson-MTG.html">MAKING THE GRADE,</a> Judd Nelson played the biggest post-collegiate geek ever for Kevin Costner's indie breakthrough F<a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2024/07/fandango.html">ANDANGO</a>... before ironically poking fun at high school geek Anthony Michael Hall in John Hughes's THE BREAKFAST CLUB...<br><br>As Nelson's criminal character John Bender isn't anything like the typical BLACKBOARD JUNGLE teen rebel... his <i>cause</i> is basically being a demonic Phil Donahue within an 8-hour Saturday detention, also goading pretty popular Molly Ringwald, handsome jock Emilio Estevez, and neurotic pre-goth Ally Sheedy into eventually seeking their true feelings about topics ranging from homelife parentals to high school popularity...</p><p><span></span></p>

ally sheedy, brat pack, comedy, eighties, emilio estevez, john hughes, judd nelson, molly ringwald, paul gleason

JUDD NELSON RULES THE BRAT PACK CLASSIC 'THE BREAKFAST CLUB'

Year: 1985 Rating: ****1/2 In 1985, a year after swaggering onto the big screen in the nearly forgotten con-man caper MAKING THE GRADE, Jud...

JUDD NELSON IN THE BRAT PACK MELODRAMA 'ST. ELMO'S FIRE'

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><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/AVvXsEg5nN79QoycBGnUFvwjkqwRPDRl-bZ6N_C7Y5v8_iQUadkTzgmI9xpz_OSrAjSVKl0GS6u9S-6XNBccL-X9juDjzxX69CrGXjz-w5ZIQFiZjVOpcnxOuY9BIrd8m2k7E6u5yBgtgghEiOTKa9s8RdZp9-ehZyN42EnxX4AtbCgMM9DgsKBCeQ1BEnuMA7PB/s1644/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-31%20at%2012.06.42%20AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1082" data-original-width="1644" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5nN79QoycBGnUFvwjkqwRPDRl-bZ6N_C7Y5v8_iQUadkTzgmI9xpz_OSrAjSVKl0GS6u9S-6XNBccL-X9juDjzxX69CrGXjz-w5ZIQFiZjVOpcnxOuY9BIrd8m2k7E6u5yBgtgghEiOTKa9s8RdZp9-ehZyN42EnxX4AtbCgMM9DgsKBCeQ1BEnuMA7PB/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-31%20at%2012.06.42%20AM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1985 Rating; ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A
 group of college graduates, a few months after leaving the cozy nest of
 dorm life, wind up on their own in the big city yet still have each 
other to depend on<span style="font-family: inherit;">... </span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thus
 in 1985, when the so-called “Brat Pack” was in full form, ST. 
ELMO’S FIRE was the navel-gazing follow-up to THE BREAKFAST CLUB just as
 CLUB has graduated past SIXTEEN CANDLES (only this has nothing to do 
with John Hughes, amazingly enough)...</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span></span></span></p></div>

ally sheedy, andie macdowell, andrew mccarthy, brat pack, eighties, emilio estevez, joel schumaker, judd nelson, mare winningham, melodrama, romance

JUDD NELSON IN THE BRAT PACK MELODRAMA 'ST. ELMO'S FIRE'

Year: 1985 Rating; ***1/2 A group of college graduates, a few months after leaving the cozy nest of dorm life, wind up on their own in the...

JUDD NELSON, DANA OLSEN AND JONNA LEE IN 'MAKING THE GRADE'

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</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/AVvXsEic2WcRpkqfKLrPmomPi3eb9DJ57D-kJkhyoqUjyQFYRRQHYevkDiBRpB5q6Qjev8h8B5m8HtrjqxaeF7Qlpa7Gn7-cUqeGhEEUzj9EQ4vVbTLp5tJRsE3-IY63Iku2ak7UGd7PTbK8D2ccGzVirB4ML7iw8-foI7qQ09p6lJ1ndRyCPTePknseUMpCYhPx/s1600/unnamed.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="993" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic2WcRpkqfKLrPmomPi3eb9DJ57D-kJkhyoqUjyQFYRRQHYevkDiBRpB5q6Qjev8h8B5m8HtrjqxaeF7Qlpa7Gn7-cUqeGhEEUzj9EQ4vVbTLp5tJRsE3-IY63Iku2ak7UGd7PTbK8D2ccGzVirB4ML7iw8-foI7qQ09p6lJ1ndRyCPTePknseUMpCYhPx/s1600/unnamed.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: MAKING THE GRADE Year: 1984 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>A year before <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2026/08/bclub.html">THE BREAKFAST CLUB</a> made Judd Nelson a star, turning his energetic acting style into a focused study of teenage angst and rebellion, he played a similar character – only his MAKING THE GRADE hero Eddie Keaton break-dances instead of jamming an air guitar Cream riff; in other words, his rebellion is catered strictly for humor. Wild on the streets, he owes a bookie, Dice Man, played by Andrew Clay, and winds up taking the place of a spoiled rich kid: attending a prep school whilst hiding from mobsters. <br>
<br>
That’s the plot in a nutshell, and GRADE, within this framework, packs a lot of hit and miss humor as well as likable or fitfully unlikable side-characters, throwing everything into the pot: from pratfalls to one-liners to stereotypes to action scenes, and beyond... No surprise Nelson plays the part with gusto – though sometimes too much. Yet where Eddie’s urban-hip con artist stuck in the fledgling Preparatory academy tries stealing every scene on board, he’s given an ultimately thankless lead to people like Dana Olsen as, technically, the most important person herein...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><span></span>

andrew dice clay, cannon, comedy, dana olsen, eighties, gordon jump, jonna lee, judd nelson, ronald lacey, teen, walter olkewicz

JUDD NELSON, DANA OLSEN AND JONNA LEE IN 'MAKING THE GRADE'

Title: MAKING THE GRADE Year: 1984 Rating: ***1/2 A year before THE BREAKFAST CLUB made Judd Nelson a star, turning his energetic acting s...

JUDD NELSON BEING DRIVEN BY KEVIN COSTNER IN 'FANDANGO'

<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></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/AVvXsEhkxmKpqZkFu4L7hw9_qCG0892H62n83aRtdcSLwgznrh6LoTCWndFUZ2eXWviJalJodmgpbRW2fU6QvGr4VsQmg7DlQk8vcBWrRIe0K8h66aa15-eWVZ1_T8TODBkJ3b425gYJ37PIEXuytEEL5BgTzjmXgSDDEg0AuXYvbE8KJv8htOYqLAL99jfnY4kT/s2282/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-30%20at%2011.45.27%20AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1358" data-original-width="2282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkxmKpqZkFu4L7hw9_qCG0892H62n83aRtdcSLwgznrh6LoTCWndFUZ2eXWviJalJodmgpbRW2fU6QvGr4VsQmg7DlQk8vcBWrRIe0K8h66aa15-eWVZ1_T8TODBkJ3b425gYJ37PIEXuytEEL5BgTzjmXgSDDEg0AuXYvbE8KJv8htOYqLAL99jfnY4kT/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-30%20at%2011.45.27%20AM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1985 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Director Kevin Reynolds didn't know who was in the room when his student film PROOF screened... and it was none other than Steven Spielberg, who'd later hire him to enhance the story about a group of early-1970's Vietnam War-era college students, one a coward forced to prove his worth by parachuting in a rural Texas stopover where the instructor's a burnout hippie, played by scene-stealing Marvin J. McIntyre...</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><p></p><p>Who's the only actor returning for the feature-length version FANDANGO starring newcomer Kevin Costner (in the kind of zesty youthfulness liken to SILVERADO) as the best looking and most confident instigating leader while Judd Nelson... the same year he'd portray an extremely cool high-school student in THE BREAKFAST CLUB... proves his versatility here as the complete opposite...<br></p><p><span></span></p>

eighties, elizabeth daily, judd nelson, kevin costner, kevin reynolds, marvin j. mcintyre, road movie, sam robards, steven spielberg, suzy amis

JUDD NELSON BEING DRIVEN BY KEVIN COSTNER IN 'FANDANGO'

Year: 1985 Rating: **** Director Kevin Reynolds didn't know who was in the room when his student film PROOF screened... and it was none ...

JUDD NELSON & ALLY SHEEDY IN THE BRAT PACK NOIR 'BLUE CITY'

<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/AVvXsEhdDbAPERKVEZzhNEVzh-2CtuEF1TYM-YWsbudtjdLIH4pFXH2Wfz8vC2AlWkkrQULSHcOzsOZMGjknUJ6spVjSXqGTPXRDwL3Dx3IUCJ_Q4q-qwnYiTeKb4UyH0_YabbOcfrTUyk0lbUK1BAGNTzq47g_z8JBzFOr8dT3oiv8a4LyySr3xEcx86kbYlM_7/s1162/image1788044637.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="1162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdDbAPERKVEZzhNEVzh-2CtuEF1TYM-YWsbudtjdLIH4pFXH2Wfz8vC2AlWkkrQULSHcOzsOZMGjknUJ6spVjSXqGTPXRDwL3Dx3IUCJ_Q4q-qwnYiTeKb4UyH0_YabbOcfrTUyk0lbUK1BAGNTzq47g_z8JBzFOr8dT3oiv8a4LyySr3xEcx86kbYlM_7/s1600/image1788044637.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1986 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>This dark horse Brat Pack outing was up for a few Razzie Awards, but 
for what exactly? BLUE CITY is actually a decent action/thriller about 
the son of a beloved slain mayor returning to a Florida town, Blue City,
 now run (from inside a roadhouse bar) by seedy Scott Wilson...<br>
<br>
Seeking
 clues, Nelson gets back in touch with his old drinking buddy David 
Caruso, who is sober, paranoid, and running a fishing boat. And what 
makes this Brat a Pack in our love interest: Caruso's pretty sister, 
Ally Sheedy, who becomes smitten with Judd... a former crush resurfaced.
 She works at the local jail he was thrown into after a brawling bar 
fight...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><span></span>

action, ally sheedy, anita morris, brat pack, david caruso, eighties, judd nelson, neo noir, scott wilson, walter hill

JUDD NELSON & ALLY SHEEDY IN THE BRAT PACK NOIR 'BLUE CITY'

Year: 1986 Rating: ***1/2 This dark horse Brat Pack outing was up for a few Razzie Awards, but for what exactly? BLUE CITY is actually a d...

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