tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8759424336368437002024-03-14T14:27:32.057-04:00The Oak Drive-InDick http://www.blogger.com/profile/00409849079342411514noreply@blogger.comBlogger395125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-875942433636843700.post-30484529286797415172022-01-10T09:35:00.000-05:002022-01-10T09:35:23.920-05:00Favorite Catalog Releases From 2021<p>This has been an unbelievable year for catalog releases and this list could very easily go into the dozens so here's a list of a just few of my favorites.</p><p>I remember paying $20.00 for multi-gen bootleg VHS with burned in Greek subs or such for some of this back in the dark ages of cult film collecting. </p><p><b> SATAN'S BLOOD 1978 Vinegar Syndrome Blu</b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihnR9bNc0HauUm7HHaaUk_d9GS0aWA_gbFcvr_pltpkLBeMCiMumq2NINp1sQI-JFTOX3AbDKg1x6nMci4nU5P4gFZQQljkXOuK045Q3TiaCN2tJslhbrwoAReM61MeoIGaqfZzywWe_xS/s720/Satan%2527s+Blood.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="405" data-original-width="720" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihnR9bNc0HauUm7HHaaUk_d9GS0aWA_gbFcvr_pltpkLBeMCiMumq2NINp1sQI-JFTOX3AbDKg1x6nMci4nU5P4gFZQQljkXOuK045Q3TiaCN2tJslhbrwoAReM61MeoIGaqfZzywWe_xS/w400-h225/Satan%2527s+Blood.webp" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: left;">Director & writer Carlos Puerto's sex & gore-filled Satanic romp has had a couple of DVD releases in the past but with a new 4K scan of the 35mm negative Vinegar Syndrome's Blu-ray brings all the skin & Satanic goings-on out in gorgeous clarity. One of the first post-Franco regime Spanish horror films that took advantage of the relaxing censorship standards, there's also was some help here production-wise from Juan Piquer Simón (PIECES) and Vinegar adds a great bunch of extras including a 45-minute Spanish documentary on the film, still gallery and best of all a commentary track by Samm Deighan and Kat Ellinger.</p><p>Along with the exploitive elements on full display, it's also a beautiful looking film filled with a moody gothic atmosphere some very creepy set design (including an unsettlingly macabre doll), and a climax that'll stick in your brain for quite a while afterward. </p><p><b>AN ANGEL FOR SATAN 1966 Severin Films Blu</b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBGILnijGsiLqxERRu2JhjrtIYSDHkJnQSqdNaaGK0Zdnyx3pMukclxxfoV9OwIO0hzcialFh5yUOzcL9mupYvYbAlShkXTYSourzq4Dn71nJbfnj2lnFdtnHqCIrkT73dLmC-qcSkzkYM/s976/a1.JPEG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="534" data-original-width="976" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBGILnijGsiLqxERRu2JhjrtIYSDHkJnQSqdNaaGK0Zdnyx3pMukclxxfoV9OwIO0hzcialFh5yUOzcL9mupYvYbAlShkXTYSourzq4Dn71nJbfnj2lnFdtnHqCIrkT73dLmC-qcSkzkYM/w400-h219/a1.JPEG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">One of last of Barbara's B&W Italian Gothics to receive a quality release, Severin's Blu-ray of this perverse (and sometimes still shocking) gem will have you thankfully tossing all those ropey bootlegs and quasi-legit DVDs in the waste bin. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Directed by Camillo Mastrocinque this one hits all the marks - beautiful B&W cinematography by Giuseppe Aquaris, a haunting soundtrack by Francesco De Masi and the breathtaking presence of Barbara Steele. Although there is the expected witches curse, this is not exactly a horror film as its more of an unsettlingly Gothic melodrama with some obvious underpinnings of S&M and sexual perversion. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Severin's release contains a very nice commentary from Barbara and David Del Valle in which she touches on her entire career in Italy and in addition there is a second more scholarly one from Kat Ellinger. A nice extra is the 1967 short BARBARA AND HER FURS (which is a must-see experience) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>THE HUNTER WILL GET YOU (L'ALPAGUEUR) 1976 Kino Lorber Blu</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg9qP-sepKqVD9MBP9uestmBArGVgDdjkPzh2uYDIAN3S4LvNg5Ua6pusXT_FiMtfvJ41bvfwIti5U2VZIUn-A7N-y-KaVDVhMfxHmVEtlUx4bHblQxiqhSsXG1ApzNr8LWj6Y85AeO3LXC8KvAZylf48awiRy_0UI9PYe0jiKSxhia58GzmPb2bPAFAg=s1441" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="888" data-original-width="1441" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg9qP-sepKqVD9MBP9uestmBArGVgDdjkPzh2uYDIAN3S4LvNg5Ua6pusXT_FiMtfvJ41bvfwIti5U2VZIUn-A7N-y-KaVDVhMfxHmVEtlUx4bHblQxiqhSsXG1ApzNr8LWj6Y85AeO3LXC8KvAZylf48awiRy_0UI9PYe0jiKSxhia58GzmPb2bPAFAg=w400-h246" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Although he started out his career as one of the faces of French New Wave cinema Jean-Paul Belmondo in the 70's and 80's was the star of a great string of police/thriller action films among them this 1976 release directed by Philippe Labro.<div><br /></div><div>A twisting turning tale has Belmondo playing a mercenary hiring out as a type of rogue policeman who works for various agencies as he has carte blanche to do what he needs to do to get his man. After busting a drug smuggling ring, he goes after “L’Épervier” (“The Hawk" played by Bruno Cremer from SORCERER), a ruthless thief who employs petty criminals to help him rob banks and then murders them.</div><div><br /></div><div> Featuring of course the usual jaw dropping stunts (performed by Belmondo himself) this is one of a group of great Belmondo action films that Kino has brought out. Now please can we get PEUR SUR LA VILLE (THE NIGHT CALLER) with Belmondo chasing a serial killer in Paris. </div><div><br /></div><div>Kino's Blu features an audio Commentary by Howard S. Berger, Steve Mitchell and Nathaniel Thompson and an interview with director/writer Philippe Labro.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>DOCTOR X 1932 Warner Archive Blu </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhFHoZJFDLzZbVWbi-xRSJ9DINj7GpGFD7kl_27NzjT7eXtAdaheNDegqSVq6HoB3oX0VFb2EyN4Siyr9c_OXMMFaesyt0-YzKanODvFpa2FoDXVPAL-cPI_6L7hSoabh9bwZ6QpRf3mQ0cfW8FNLiLjNBpk2z9kmJU_ffMEzDGnwFzzvwwArSupeq0wA=s660" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="660" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhFHoZJFDLzZbVWbi-xRSJ9DINj7GpGFD7kl_27NzjT7eXtAdaheNDegqSVq6HoB3oX0VFb2EyN4Siyr9c_OXMMFaesyt0-YzKanODvFpa2FoDXVPAL-cPI_6L7hSoabh9bwZ6QpRf3mQ0cfW8FNLiLjNBpk2z9kmJU_ffMEzDGnwFzzvwwArSupeq0wA=w400-h243" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Featuring a stunning restoration from a recent 4K scan of the last surviving Technicolor nitrate print this Michael Curtiz directed & wonderfully lurid pre-code shocker joins last year's release of its companion film MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Fast-talking newspaperman (Lee Tracy - who specialized in playing fast-talking guys) is on the trail of "The Moon Killer" which leads him to the clinic run by Dr. Xavier (Lionel Atwill) along with Atwill's daughter (Fay Wray) and a whole host of potential red herrings with the clinic's staff of doctors (all of whom have some unique habit or psychoses).</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">A great pre-code horror with thinly veiled allusions to prostitution, double entendre wisecracks, along open talk of cannibalism. The "synthetic flesh" sequence still packs a jolt, and nobody can chew up scenery like Atwill. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Warner Archive has included a nice batch of extras including two commentaries, a documentary on Curtiz and the alternate B&W version of the film. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>THE DESIGNATED VICTIM 1971 Mondo Macabro Blu</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjWUY1oMUwNO4sRZtScK_aufwZafY7bi6NTOYd1Lu4VYSXwvvRjzARIX8t7EhU3JVZvfWuizRnZ0wHkOkD-1dahSo-OpDVjrBziq8CCkR1Ga1AbX8WSIDyFwN4JZY_ofsc52i14hKPIq4AnrqCGFG8G6-IjM9rgrDpbQBM-bmoVaSeDuEV-A2TOzSCIRA=s888" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="376" data-original-width="888" height="169" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjWUY1oMUwNO4sRZtScK_aufwZafY7bi6NTOYd1Lu4VYSXwvvRjzARIX8t7EhU3JVZvfWuizRnZ0wHkOkD-1dahSo-OpDVjrBziq8CCkR1Ga1AbX8WSIDyFwN4JZY_ofsc52i14hKPIq4AnrqCGFG8G6-IjM9rgrDpbQBM-bmoVaSeDuEV-A2TOzSCIRA=w400-h169" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Mondo Macabro continues to surprise us with great underseen gems including this Italian riff on Patricia Highsmith's STRANGERS ON A TRAIN. Directed by Maurizio Lucidi and a script co-written by Aldo Lado (<a href="http://theoakdrivein.blogspot.com/2021/12/chi-lha-vista-morire-aka-who-saw-her.html"><span style="color: red;">WHO SAW HER DIE?</span></a>) it features the wonderful Tomas Milian along with Pierre Clémenti, Katia Christine, and Marisa Bartoli. Clementi and Milian are wonderful playing off each other and there's some great use of Venice locations (which I'm always a sucker for).</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Plus, Mondo Macabro brought out a much-needed beautiful upgrade release of Piero Schivazappa's FEMINA RIDENS (THE LAUGHING WOMAN) on Blu along with a passel of other great releases including ITS NOTHING MAMA, JUST A GAME, and the very bizarre & interesting HUMAN ANIMALS.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>BURY ME AN ANGEL 1972 Shout Factory Blu </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEioDRpVG09ziFQ5uXqvQTi_T4zLVQJCPVjX1XgAbG6b_Zf9qKa6Wm5Dkek6yPn9tecM4o52fCLgkVHUC_SC0sRm_Z4sbN9szj_LL3UFBl8h5fTOiH7M52TVeQ4n4XLMvdtyWrPACJZqAGjqbbN5ftD9XjuSWVN9YLyFHn7lp0r0-aeuHSk-ynUXNBNGuw=s975" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="975" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEioDRpVG09ziFQ5uXqvQTi_T4zLVQJCPVjX1XgAbG6b_Zf9qKa6Wm5Dkek6yPn9tecM4o52fCLgkVHUC_SC0sRm_Z4sbN9szj_LL3UFBl8h5fTOiH7M52TVeQ4n4XLMvdtyWrPACJZqAGjqbbN5ftD9XjuSWVN9YLyFHn7lp0r0-aeuHSk-ynUXNBNGuw=w400-h205" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Blessed with one of the greatest taglines in the history of film "A howling hellcat humping a hot steel hog on a roaring rampage of revenge" this has been long missing on home video and is now out as part of the Shout Select line. Originally announced by Shout as part of The Angel Collection DVD set that was to also include ANGELS HARD AS THEY COME (which was also released by Shout on Blu in 2021) and ANGELS DIE HARD this package along with a Nurses/Students and a Filipino action set fell off the radar as Shout began winding down their New World releases about a decade ago. </div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Directed by Barbara Peeters (SUMMER SCHOOL TEACHERS & most of HUMUNOIDS FROM THE DEEP) it's the rare biker film that is told from a female point of view - both as far as the film's director and its lead character.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The film mixes a road movie with the biker genre as 6 Ft. Dixie Peabody (playing "Dag") sets out on a journey to avenge her brother's death. Like a lot of biker films, it consists of long takes of bikes cruising along desert highways with the appropriate fuzz guitar soundtrack and along the way there's some bloody violence, a bit of nudity and a jarring twist in the ending. Dan Haggerty (GRIZZLY ADAMS) who pops up in a few biker films shows up here as a hippie artist. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Nothing earth-shattering plot-wise but it's always great to get another classic biker film in HD and its companion release ANGELS HARD AS THEY COME (written by Jonathan Demme) is an interesting biker version of RASHOMON. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Here's hoping we can get some more New World titles and these Shout Select releases are limited, so once they're gone they're gone. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>WEIRD WISCONSIN: THE BILL REBANE COLLECTION Arrow Blu</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhp50j8WwxuL6wt3m1jYulTRGACS0MiGVANK4WMVrbJBhkWMrHVSrg0I6BcFugWxMgpBI_yLiaJA0P0jrV0qZA52fWhjrp5KC1lJQBVJewWhy-B_9NJn1NTVUDQXQOB9I30PQ0cF-s4qbvX_gUi4R3HH_INf66plj1NrxhcyWjbBVQaiHgC2QU8jmOxIg=s810" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="614" data-original-width="810" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhp50j8WwxuL6wt3m1jYulTRGACS0MiGVANK4WMVrbJBhkWMrHVSrg0I6BcFugWxMgpBI_yLiaJA0P0jrV0qZA52fWhjrp5KC1lJQBVJewWhy-B_9NJn1NTVUDQXQOB9I30PQ0cF-s4qbvX_gUi4R3HH_INf66plj1NrxhcyWjbBVQaiHgC2QU8jmOxIg=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">Along with last year's William Grefe collection, this is another fascinating journey into the world of low-budget regional filmmaking. Featuring haunted pianos, alien invaders and a talking monster truck among other wonders, Rebane's films while never to be considered great are fascinating pieces of movie history and exude a certain grungy low-budget charm.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Missing from the box is his magnum opus THE GIANT SPIDER INVASION (released on Blu by Code Red), BLOOD HARVEST (available from Vinegar Syndrome), and two of his later efforts THE CAPTURE OF BIGFOOT and RANA: THE LEGEND OF SHADOW LAKE (both held by Troma) but there's still much to love here including my personal favorite THE DEMONS OF LUDLOW and a highly informative documentary on Bill and his career.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>ALL THE HAUNTS BE OURS: A COMPENDIUM OF FOLK HORROR</b> Severin Blu</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg3zfEl-eSF9yBYrsmziamarQ23mDLlmFsIWhMpjvLXydI0cHceBgiTj_JDfBIeKbyJWY1OyYdhcfIE_uZtWg5Vh7so2vT_G7eQu-KWq-yu1j3vYuqkttGEwxhsAh34Pkjm1q95gdwQQx7TB_RphZ9g6nInvCf6zCfbQFBYxS6oZg0QAFv52-kfc7OTlQ=s1478" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="831" data-original-width="1478" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg3zfEl-eSF9yBYrsmziamarQ23mDLlmFsIWhMpjvLXydI0cHceBgiTj_JDfBIeKbyJWY1OyYdhcfIE_uZtWg5Vh7so2vT_G7eQu-KWq-yu1j3vYuqkttGEwxhsAh34Pkjm1q95gdwQQx7TB_RphZ9g6nInvCf6zCfbQFBYxS6oZg0QAFv52-kfc7OTlQ=w400-h225" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Consisting of 12 Blu-rays, 3 CDs and featuring 20 films along with hours of special features, short subjects, interviews, commentaries etc. this is one of the top releases of the year for me.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Kicking off with Kier-La Janisse's epic 194 min. documentary WOODLANDS DARK AND DAYS BEWITCHED it then takes a world-wide tour of the genre including (with many making their HD debut) EYES OF FIRE (USA 1983), WITCHHAMMER (Czechoslovakia 1970), VIY (Soviet Union 1967), LAKE OF THE DEAD (Norway 1958, ROBIN REDBREAST (UK 1970) and IL DEMONIO (Italy 1963) among others.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">There's also a hefty book, a CD soundtrack with music from the documentary and actress Linda Hayden (THE BLOOD ON SATAN'S CLAW) reading Arthur Machen's The White People. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">All in all, a beautiful (and thankfully compact) package that is perfect for a winter,s night viewing (or listening).</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>MILL OF THE STONE WOMEN</b> 1960 Arrow Blu</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjK9TqCm9FDAKS5NAQM45p6cC2Lq3XJ3Jtq2TbNO5-Lcf2aBirV3U_usqlBSQrHZYxvgJSWdTihB9eKUpcssLMKkS7UOvwSeZayj68NorASjEbIAf-Tvz95jbqD9y0kwT1UqqDsMqWIU3upf9JgOiOo2s2yFL3T0dGVJCRcJMR2YZ3ieBQkGM-FMmFsGQ=s1024" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="619" data-original-width="1024" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjK9TqCm9FDAKS5NAQM45p6cC2Lq3XJ3Jtq2TbNO5-Lcf2aBirV3U_usqlBSQrHZYxvgJSWdTihB9eKUpcssLMKkS7UOvwSeZayj68NorASjEbIAf-Tvz95jbqD9y0kwT1UqqDsMqWIU3upf9JgOiOo2s2yFL3T0dGVJCRcJMR2YZ3ieBQkGM-FMmFsGQ=w400-h241" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Directed by Giorgio Ferroni and one of the first Euro-horror films to be produced in color this has had several notable home video releases before, however this new release from Arrow is the definitive one by far.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Containing <i>four</i>(!!) unique cuts of the film we also get a packed set of extras including a commentary from Tim Lucas, visual essay by Kat Ellinger, archival interviews, alternate opening credits, poster gallery and more.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">One of the most ravishing looking horror films (with all apologies to Mario Bava) from the golden age of Euro Gothic horror this is eye candy of the highest degree and has never looked better. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>BEYOND TERROR 1980</b> Cauldron Films Blu</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjY9SNG1yGANtOdhrynhuhGahM3U5p2Qz_XrNx2Kd5wLCCvPEZtIZBtpReb0iwJ85Q3eqRSsqTbtcCVezslBLYeFasNb7o2iBk-c9uCexm_rDh--m0FgyQ5wXrKpb66FceBZzzeiLiaDJiddQE0Pyk05VgLg6sfgxhOGwou2PJzW0ZBrVwgEPvHECBNfA=s929" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="548" data-original-width="929" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjY9SNG1yGANtOdhrynhuhGahM3U5p2Qz_XrNx2Kd5wLCCvPEZtIZBtpReb0iwJ85Q3eqRSsqTbtcCVezslBLYeFasNb7o2iBk-c9uCexm_rDh--m0FgyQ5wXrKpb66FceBZzzeiLiaDJiddQE0Pyk05VgLg6sfgxhOGwou2PJzW0ZBrVwgEPvHECBNfA=w400-h236" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"> A long-lost Spanish oddity that throws together juvenile delinquency mayhem, gothic horror and some Blind Dead inspired attacks this sleazy and gore/nudity packed shocker one on the more surprising releases of the year (especially considering its long unavailable status on home video). </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Directed by Tomás Aznar, this may initially seem to be a weird viewing experience with seemingly three separate stories grafted together (with the horror element not kicking in until the climax) but there's a nightmarish flow to the film that draws you in. Probably not the best film for Euro-horror newbies to dip their toe into, it's definitely worth a look for those into the more "out-there" examples of the genre.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Another one of those that I initially owned via a bootleg from a murky European PAL video tape release this has been given a 4K scan from the original negative that brings out the earthy and hazy intended color palette of the film (and now you can actually see what's going on).</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Some other favorites from 2021:</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">Vinegar Syndrome's Camille Keaton in Italy collection</div><div style="text-align: left;">Synapse beautiful work on THE LIVING DEAD AT THE MANCHESTER MORGUE</div><div style="text-align: left;">88 Films EROTIC GHOST STORY</div><div style="text-align: left;">Arrow Films massive Shaw Brothers box</div><div style="text-align: left;">Vinegar Syndrome's rescue of the lost NEW YORK NINJA</div><div style="text-align: left;">Kino Lorber's NIGHT GALLERY Season 1 box</div><div style="text-align: left;">Impluse STAR OF DAVID: BEAUTIFUL GIRL HUNTER</div><div style="text-align: left;">Criterion's Melvin Van Peebles box</div><div style="text-align: left;">Imprint LET'S SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">and many more....</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Things I'm looking forward to in 2022...</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">AGFA has teased the release of a HUGE Doris Wishman Blu-ray collection (maybe two separate boxes) which will include the recent 4K restorations, which going by the recent sample of films put up on the Criterion Channel, is going to look gorgeous. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Severin has dropped some hints concerning a Black Emanuelle/Laura Gemser box. Laura in HD! Sign me up!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Synapse films in their usual methodical way (with the results sure to be worth the wait) have been working on a new restoration of TOMBS OF THE BLIND DEAD which has been shown at some recent festivals. Along with three(!!) different cuts of the film I'm sure Synapse will have a great batch of extras. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Shout Factory has announced a couple of long-missing video titles from the Group One catalog with ALLIGATOR and THE SWORD AND THE SORCERER.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Vinegar Syndrome is going to release a new 4K(!!) restoration of the Swedish exploitation classic THRILLER (aka THEY CALL HER ONE EYE) starring the great Christina Lindberg along with Forgotten Gialli: Volume Four (containing Stelvio Massi's ARABELLA BLACK ANGEL)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Cauldron is releasing Lucio Fulci's great poliziotteschi COUNTERBAND with Fabio Testi.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">88 Films release of THE BLACK CAT </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div></div>Dick http://www.blogger.com/profile/00409849079342411514noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-875942433636843700.post-47916729826511064822021-12-20T20:36:00.000-05:002021-12-20T20:36:00.987-05:00Let's Go To The Movies # 5 Fri. 28 June 1974<p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="color: red;"><b>One week 'till the 4th of July and lots of cool stuff playing around town! </b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg9hTQwgbQdI_37rZP94JvojBJxLaRDbI-0ogpBEDKUHzxSTeYjhzti_ON1UgM2P4JWElipUXDKnZurL2jxprnwJMA73BHxyzVz6VQ3QxEQTf_jjTWzaNJFeUXcnKCpAiyB4Zq-ilcarNvYK2v0wTgIxk693XZuBt_y64ib10u5i470ZZ3_POySUzLL6w=s764" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="764" data-original-width="302" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg9hTQwgbQdI_37rZP94JvojBJxLaRDbI-0ogpBEDKUHzxSTeYjhzti_ON1UgM2P4JWElipUXDKnZurL2jxprnwJMA73BHxyzVz6VQ3QxEQTf_jjTWzaNJFeUXcnKCpAiyB4Zq-ilcarNvYK2v0wTgIxk693XZuBt_y64ib10u5i470ZZ3_POySUzLL6w=w253-h640" width="253" /></a></span></div><p style="text-align: left;">Playing multiple drive-ins around Detroit (including the inspiration for this blog's title), it doesn't get much better than this double feature of DIRTY O'NEIL THE LOVE LIFE OF A COP ("<i>Women Who Make Him The Kind Of Offer A Cop Can't Refuse!"</i>) and the Swedish exploitation classic THEY CALL HER ONE EYE (aka THRILLER- <i>"The Movie That Has No Limits Of Evil!"</i>) starring the great Christina Lindberg. </p><p style="text-align: left;">Kind of like if Joseph Wambaugh had written a drive-in movie, DIRTY O'NEIL is another title that we really need a legit Blu of and the mega-sleazy & nasty THEY CALL HER ONE EYE is getting a spanking new release from Vinegar Syndrome in May of 2022.</p><span><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj36IhJOv12QDS4dFi0WLC2UlhSGxcnyvwBNNktsk0zct7NSG0ybQQrMFkUOPZ8vH00zvcx_QxeCWkagGaMZIRMIMlZ5XrJ4gHbsM5oPR0wfx4JxmLPTvToYxsBvaK2t4YqeR7Z6N7sWWxDrKQJ651JGqX6L8xn55V-8T-Ys9XoHh7MZqRc5lQv0_SN3A=s675" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="388" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj36IhJOv12QDS4dFi0WLC2UlhSGxcnyvwBNNktsk0zct7NSG0ybQQrMFkUOPZ8vH00zvcx_QxeCWkagGaMZIRMIMlZ5XrJ4gHbsM5oPR0wfx4JxmLPTvToYxsBvaK2t4YqeR7Z6N7sWWxDrKQJ651JGqX6L8xn55V-8T-Ys9XoHh7MZqRc5lQv0_SN3A=w230-h400" width="230" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Co-starring Sandra Peabody (THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT) and Chris Jordan (A TOUCH OF GENIE) TEENAGE HITCHHIKERS (<i>"Everything You're Looking For...More Than You Bargained For!"</i>) is getting its premiere at seven local theaters. Peabody and Jordan had previously co-starred in MASSAGE PARLOR MURDERS! the previous year. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjpe3rsDyfnocaMvTSavjCZXpgNqhSEcv0ATDbg6DrqMKsxQHA1dd6LpI3ojcxe42cpTZ6u5OgmI0W2apHpkgXOgWf2gOmduPTe2LmIMxD4HAVisuWxJqXPs6SGb_qTrqnnPl65iud1mx7xWrnfYrfdq9bo1YjP-sGFgzivPLJ7OxJQoAmVwvfHL6tlAA=s570" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="570" data-original-width="372" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjpe3rsDyfnocaMvTSavjCZXpgNqhSEcv0ATDbg6DrqMKsxQHA1dd6LpI3ojcxe42cpTZ6u5OgmI0W2apHpkgXOgWf2gOmduPTe2LmIMxD4HAVisuWxJqXPs6SGb_qTrqnnPl65iud1mx7xWrnfYrfdq9bo1YjP-sGFgzivPLJ7OxJQoAmVwvfHL6tlAA=w261-h400" width="261" /></a><b style="color: red; text-align: left;"> </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="color: red; text-align: left;"><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">"In the miracle of Dynarama" here is Ray Harryhausen's THE GOLDEN VOYAGE OF SINBAD (complete with a "Flying Homunculus"!) and of course Caroline Munro.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgpmFShJwQo0KUCnLbiUdUzMKeAAxtt4yYT6gn7yuayjY0DqFkgxuTQjGw_xbyWJWI7JEP3asqs1bgzofp_881SX0HOMqo8_WPlSyUaUcCUqATRSS4aJBn0bbANwtiME2stfZ_9HQb84-npcG_I5BK9za7R7mJykfDG3Agcr5qfOdepRViR51iaUVrf8A=s537" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="537" data-original-width="392" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgpmFShJwQo0KUCnLbiUdUzMKeAAxtt4yYT6gn7yuayjY0DqFkgxuTQjGw_xbyWJWI7JEP3asqs1bgzofp_881SX0HOMqo8_WPlSyUaUcCUqATRSS4aJBn0bbANwtiME2stfZ_9HQb84-npcG_I5BK9za7R7mJykfDG3Agcr5qfOdepRViR51iaUVrf8A=w293-h400" width="293" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">My favorite Blaxploitation film <a href="http://theoakdrivein.blogspot.com/2021/01/truck-turner-1974.html"><span style="color: red;">TRUCK TURNER</span></a> (<i>"Anybody asks you what happened, tell 'em you been hit by a truck- Mac 'Truck' Turner!"</i>) is playing a midnight show at the Mercury and Grand Circus</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh20LQX9mRUFGME-Ky7CterebkOKkQaWoiMYylG_xjWi3QUtVhLp4Qyr7nGybRPwZxeklizAhVue9N_UF-v_RaezGuqxYg8gv7gHihhigkBDJaSLWB5I0bHGSOQIp8BKVNbIldAf5oCL4UoLIo7fiS6tr3oluGV4srnduxMjP8cbMmDAcSdX2NhkEHa8Q=s774" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="774" data-original-width="386" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh20LQX9mRUFGME-Ky7CterebkOKkQaWoiMYylG_xjWi3QUtVhLp4Qyr7nGybRPwZxeklizAhVue9N_UF-v_RaezGuqxYg8gv7gHihhigkBDJaSLWB5I0bHGSOQIp8BKVNbIldAf5oCL4UoLIo7fiS6tr3oluGV4srnduxMjP8cbMmDAcSdX2NhkEHa8Q=w200-h400" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgC-KWzqozlUwwtR1X4fqbSzbVs3xr4m68lOvGxy6fpOdQya3lpNfpVeP5vh-xNKaeM2w6RQ_18ShZbdTR-9JLzWrVL0G80sWWndMuyCpvZ8PtRllAwHZLKlpJpqwiXj6rEpDIfGCFuBDN8bpZDpAHA6W7afYBdPQdb0r8rTxj8XZU7AxpJSvZLwjf5Zw=s514" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="328" data-original-width="514" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgC-KWzqozlUwwtR1X4fqbSzbVs3xr4m68lOvGxy6fpOdQya3lpNfpVeP5vh-xNKaeM2w6RQ_18ShZbdTR-9JLzWrVL0G80sWWndMuyCpvZ8PtRllAwHZLKlpJpqwiXj6rEpDIfGCFuBDN8bpZDpAHA6W7afYBdPQdb0r8rTxj8XZU7AxpJSvZLwjf5Zw=w400-h255" width="400" /></a></div><br /></span><div><span>The Ralph Bakshi-less (and not a very good sequel) THE NINE LIVES OF FRITZ THE CAT is opening at numerous theatres including way out in the 'burbs at the Shelby Twin (a "rocking chair theatre") along with Don Siegel's kind-of-forgotten today THE BLACK WINDMILL.</span></div><div><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Frank Hardy from The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew started in a (surely a sickeningly sweet that ends tragically) movie together?!?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjyBQqosow9iBQDfrHbCMWdgrnYFyx-kXF4UqyDp7eD9q5vtzH5FG41GWhKSo1UPe5JGU5TWDcllqp36s4VvI9eSD-ZI8O6t7rdiPz-sgJ2fliHZolBkEXNDbz8eLx7xKfPDYsE5FtAWUKqaCxFsCe0WlJlZg8NkYsv3w6pT5BKEJ1jE7E7AujrSK-Gqg=s262" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="262" data-original-width="252" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjyBQqosow9iBQDfrHbCMWdgrnYFyx-kXF4UqyDp7eD9q5vtzH5FG41GWhKSo1UPe5JGU5TWDcllqp36s4VvI9eSD-ZI8O6t7rdiPz-sgJ2fliHZolBkEXNDbz8eLx7xKfPDYsE5FtAWUKqaCxFsCe0WlJlZg8NkYsv3w6pT5BKEJ1jE7E7AujrSK-Gqg=w308-h320" width="308" /></a></div><div><br /></div>PINK FLOYD AT POMPEII (or simply PINK FLOYD) "An overwhelming full volume Pink Floyd color experience" is in its final weekend - no doubt playing to hordes of stoned patrons<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Directed by Aldo Lado (in his second directorial effort after the interesting SHORT NIGHT OF THE GLASS DOLLS) it's one of my favorite giallos and features a great performance by Lazenby as a haunted grief-filled father searching for his daughter's killer in an off-the-tourist-track (and seedy) looking Venice. Released at the very height of the genre's popularity it has tended to get lost in the myriad of titles from this period. </div><div><br /></div><div>Lazenby plays Franco Serpieri a sculptor who resides in Venice and who is visited by his daughter Roberta (Nicoletta Elmi from DEEP RED & FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN and a bunch of other Italian genre films). Roberta resides with Franco's estranged wife Elizabeth (Anita Strindberg A LIZARD IN A WOMAN'S SKIN). It soon becomes apparent that Roberta is being stalked through the city by a mysterious female (maybe??) figure dressed in black with a black veil. In the film's prelude, we saw this same figure stalk and murder a young girl at a ski resort in France. Franco leaves Roberta to play with some other children while he goes off for a sexual tryst with his mistress Gabriella (Rosemarie Lindt EMANUELLE AND FRANCOISE) with the result of his daughter being abducted and later found dead floating in a canal.</div><div><br /></div><div>Driven by a profound sense of guilt and much to the concern of his recently arrived wife Franco becomes obsessed with finding his daughter's killer which is driven even more by the fact that the police seem ineffectual and uninterested in discovering the killer's identity. He soon begins to uncover a veritable toxic stew of corruption, perverse sexual "clubs" and cover-ups many of which lead to his own circle of friends and the upper social classes of the city while finding connections to the previous murder in France. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiWqJWoq_m8xtX0kCEeQGRztR0SpmIRNklH2-ZKLIXpJkc8h9b-kTqaNOfW-Z-o9KKIqDPkt0RxARgaSvmr2CvfdR4MigxT2JWQUGeGNy6u6Wuujf4aY8-cRJjFkHAsL-mlt-aE66JZsLeh9ASJRZNFPTWZGk8oBSWcV04bjpnD2-jyImUoCcd1bDHAeQ=s982" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="387" data-original-width="982" height="158" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiWqJWoq_m8xtX0kCEeQGRztR0SpmIRNklH2-ZKLIXpJkc8h9b-kTqaNOfW-Z-o9KKIqDPkt0RxARgaSvmr2CvfdR4MigxT2JWQUGeGNy6u6Wuujf4aY8-cRJjFkHAsL-mlt-aE66JZsLeh9ASJRZNFPTWZGk8oBSWcV04bjpnD2-jyImUoCcd1bDHAeQ=w400-h158" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjJqoHsmi6n5xq3eSzCQA-LWPuxOI5X-Jw5DP4kOJ4DbWcwi02y7bx8viBOPVevotTq3kWfctPU6gZXXpf05dA77CjS-vJ-nEyXnIyAREDBWrwBvtXFqemLLarH5nJXZDuyF7726HOA-thS2qUrtnwqWnwYnWi-xqlZvumwY3sjkyK6do92AMUva8btEA=s982" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="391" data-original-width="982" height="159" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjJqoHsmi6n5xq3eSzCQA-LWPuxOI5X-Jw5DP4kOJ4DbWcwi02y7bx8viBOPVevotTq3kWfctPU6gZXXpf05dA77CjS-vJ-nEyXnIyAREDBWrwBvtXFqemLLarH5nJXZDuyF7726HOA-thS2qUrtnwqWnwYnWi-xqlZvumwY3sjkyK6do92AMUva8btEA=w400-h159" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjHPmr6JWbXYGvMOpieWUquIa0vT1IUSQe4K8O151RJ6qewU2CeGwT0yCWr_ctbAPUGrmoF5OnlkzP3NVyPno3tH3WpkoctAluYKpOJi2ZXPhjTgEPZradhf7-EuSaKHKZ1QV_pyQeORsioZWXsZCv3kKJ1GsQXcpEA4lVoMDeAlnvGIROjR80IRMRoFw=s975" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="393" data-original-width="975" height="161" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjHPmr6JWbXYGvMOpieWUquIa0vT1IUSQe4K8O151RJ6qewU2CeGwT0yCWr_ctbAPUGrmoF5OnlkzP3NVyPno3tH3WpkoctAluYKpOJi2ZXPhjTgEPZradhf7-EuSaKHKZ1QV_pyQeORsioZWXsZCv3kKJ1GsQXcpEA4lVoMDeAlnvGIROjR80IRMRoFw=w400-h161" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Classic Giallos have many common tropes including a twisting plot, a mysterious killer in black, a protagonist who often must work on his own to solve the mystery, and a host of red herrings paraded with the viewer often choosing between following every twist and turn of the plot or just sitting back and letting the film flow over one's self. WHO SAW HER DIE? has all these but in addition, brings a very tragic story to its core and has interesting and well-scripted characters. </div><div><br /></div><div>Both Lazenby and Strindberg are fantastic in their roles and bring a real sense of a desperate and grieving couple who although separated are still in love. It's a pity this film is never really brought up in the discussion of either actor's career as they seem like they have chemistry and not just two attractive actors have been thrown together in a film. Lazenby is wonderful here and his gaunt appearance (he lost approx. 35 lbs. before taking the role - and it's quite shocking the first time he strips down), along with a shaggy haircut and ill-kept mustache all are a long way from the suave James Bond. In addition, he seems to be dressed "down" as he spends the entire film in an ill-fitting turtleneck and a truly ugly oversized parka. It's to his credit that he obviously just did not look upon this role as a throwaway Italian quickie to make a quick paycheck. It's a shame they didn't let him do his own English dub, but that wasn't uncommon for Italian productions of the period. </div><div><br /></div><div>Lado spends a nice amount of time showing Lazenby and Elmi's relationship as father and daughter often focusing on the child's point of view of the proceedings. As an example, when they visit a rich art dealer (played by the great Adolfo Cheli from THUNDERBALL) the camera focuses on the child as she studies the furnishings in the ornate apt. You get a real sense of closeness between them. With her red hair and piercing green eyes, child actor Nicoletta Elmi can be looked upon as a real veteran of Euro-horror/giallo as she appeared in Mario Bava's BAY OF BLOOD and BARON BLOOD, along with <a href="http://theoakdrivein.blogspot.com/2019/05/le-orme-aka-footprints-on-moon-1975.html"><span style="color: red;">FOOTPRINTS ON THE MOON</span></a>, DEEP RED, FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN, THE NIGHT CHILD, and later in Lamberto Bava's DEMONS.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgu9l6eiocVTPPoUF9zdV3Jlxy1eYACDOMPB7JCw_eBGk2EAmQQwLTLgNlkpflU4KHhxP1rtvW0OYcODUHUjkRIMg6ORYx3w04qLoqZMRR5NZKBNezEF_qK0lNmctXG-sAuPYND-YZdm8oh6tPRWCIniFtQKtLQH-jrds-vFoYS_-hFg6gEZQ6bFShnEw=s974" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="389" data-original-width="974" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgu9l6eiocVTPPoUF9zdV3Jlxy1eYACDOMPB7JCw_eBGk2EAmQQwLTLgNlkpflU4KHhxP1rtvW0OYcODUHUjkRIMg6ORYx3w04qLoqZMRR5NZKBNezEF_qK0lNmctXG-sAuPYND-YZdm8oh6tPRWCIniFtQKtLQH-jrds-vFoYS_-hFg6gEZQ6bFShnEw=w400-h160" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjqfwu2Ero_mBNSiD1-ZW0DFdNvqjjW0N4pnc57euv96eaOpIl0KWMY3kOOprZri4T1tf9fx6-_9sGb7DRxcAoSduP9x0lGGmLslU_Wc6lJ0TeHcK9u-zjpRW9FlIRv7JybGf1aB5CWP_zJd3ZCeBbn1bys3j9rrzM17Y28vx7xR6xcJl9XHtt8m-IAMw=s985" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="391" data-original-width="985" height="159" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjqfwu2Ero_mBNSiD1-ZW0DFdNvqjjW0N4pnc57euv96eaOpIl0KWMY3kOOprZri4T1tf9fx6-_9sGb7DRxcAoSduP9x0lGGmLslU_Wc6lJ0TeHcK9u-zjpRW9FlIRv7JybGf1aB5CWP_zJd3ZCeBbn1bys3j9rrzM17Y28vx7xR6xcJl9XHtt8m-IAMw=w400-h159" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhWtUvk3x2lWqPsvukMkXs7zUxazCAkc9j9E3jOKfll9Ah2FW1fAbx27gaT0R_QepM_Bje0gWRrfm19e9ImqpUiwWEaeM__6r29lFOkiwm70fe20doA2lB1h-IeosnohjZ8ttgCHTB0PHXMzAxLW0Rp5kM4XTr7RN2qY-Wue8_nGJEkQjfmzS_YHkkqKw=s980" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="390" data-original-width="980" height="159" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhWtUvk3x2lWqPsvukMkXs7zUxazCAkc9j9E3jOKfll9Ah2FW1fAbx27gaT0R_QepM_Bje0gWRrfm19e9ImqpUiwWEaeM__6r29lFOkiwm70fe20doA2lB1h-IeosnohjZ8ttgCHTB0PHXMzAxLW0Rp5kM4XTr7RN2qY-Wue8_nGJEkQjfmzS_YHkkqKw=w400-h159" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Because the film follows a murder conspiracy plot there is quite a bit of Lazenby walking about Venice talking to various people (and then they talk to someone else about Lazenby) all of whom are set up as red herrings and/or future murder victims (with his poking about causing other murders). One wonders with his constant probing and questioning the conspirators simply just don't kill him at some point. </div><div><br /></div><div>Although Lazenby is cast as a seemingly well-known sculptor he is presented as a working-class type and in common, with other Giallos the film makes much of showing the decadent lifestyle of the upper class with which he must interact with. Literally, every character he comes across (even a priest) is presented as sleazy with leering expressions, questionable motives with most having a habit of indulging in kinky sex. </div><div><br /></div><div>When outdoors Lado keeps the film centered in side streets and narrow passages with the cinematographer Damiano Damiani (best known as the director of the bonkers AMITYVILLE II: THE POSSESSION) capturing a creepy and mist-shrouded Venice (reminiscent of Luchino Visconti's DEATH IN VENICE from 1971) that looks far removed from the tourist postcard-friendly city we're used to seeing. This Venice atmosphere along with the plot of two grief-stricken parents dealing with the loss of a child look forward to next year's DON'T LOOK NOW directed by Nicholas Roeg.</div><div><br /></div><div>The beautiful (and Giallo familiar face) Dominique Boschero (THE IGUANA WITH THE TONGUE OF FIRE and ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK) is wasted in a small role and Ennio Morricone contributes a superb and haunting score that features a female children's chorus. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiRdnF6e9vuaU9s-8W0RbIGAbtVPacvhfeYPrqQt1saVaENxDy7hqzH5IQigwliw4Rhj8ZUFcMFDmMZZ5tYimJljsZcGBQZOW1FQ1hxyQWA1gyeRpfxEyZKnb7-u1KX-BHDDsk2W41IkjwKRv_8-_TCVGAXJfu7DOe_nU61shJLBZqGvT2SN4qaESttig=s973" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="973" height="158" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiRdnF6e9vuaU9s-8W0RbIGAbtVPacvhfeYPrqQt1saVaENxDy7hqzH5IQigwliw4Rhj8ZUFcMFDmMZZ5tYimJljsZcGBQZOW1FQ1hxyQWA1gyeRpfxEyZKnb7-u1KX-BHDDsk2W41IkjwKRv_8-_TCVGAXJfu7DOe_nU61shJLBZqGvT2SN4qaESttig=w400-h158" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Lots of re-releases this week as the drive-in season winds down in Detroit, Michigan. </span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiNTuk28-sUdJN2tgK5jbRZiCYuIwn0oEciZdhK9g7qonj1C-XFCuPwEmaVG3i1XEYX0dvjHSEYVz-HdiGk43h663nmPzKqaBCOUyVE43fou5ixJ7Q9u0gDT1h9KDsBUzqhnbwhxJpR2Y_0hsyE1hXaI5SQG8t_aCB4BS9dATHjzLpC0SeVO9UB3ClRdw=s637" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="637" data-original-width="494" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiNTuk28-sUdJN2tgK5jbRZiCYuIwn0oEciZdhK9g7qonj1C-XFCuPwEmaVG3i1XEYX0dvjHSEYVz-HdiGk43h663nmPzKqaBCOUyVE43fou5ixJ7Q9u0gDT1h9KDsBUzqhnbwhxJpR2Y_0hsyE1hXaI5SQG8t_aCB4BS9dATHjzLpC0SeVO9UB3ClRdw=w310-h400" width="310" /></a></b></div><br /><span>The magnificent Tamera Dobson in CLEOPATRA JONES (<i>"She's 6 feet 2" of Dynamite!"</i>) is getting a re-release with COME BACK, CHARLESTON BLUE (the sequel to COTTON COMES TO HARLEM) as the second feature at The Plaza downtown on Woodward Ave. and three drive-ins. </span><div><span><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg8CHMTUZz3aKUnTg-V6Vct0HfpA8px5_zrhkn9n_-C8y63GtIBVnP-NDMzV3lYjlQkd11FaxsZwtQkDQY5adM0-ZLHZN_7Sq4rHClOziYl3QZ_YaT_Tfx8Hrd30FQgKYupX1e6rPgSsEc44HmAwNUac_2ZKtdCBVAgPyQXesHRhJnQVBaTFOouAeL5_A=s701" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="701" data-original-width="487" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg8CHMTUZz3aKUnTg-V6Vct0HfpA8px5_zrhkn9n_-C8y63GtIBVnP-NDMzV3lYjlQkd11FaxsZwtQkDQY5adM0-ZLHZN_7Sq4rHClOziYl3QZ_YaT_Tfx8Hrd30FQgKYupX1e6rPgSsEc44HmAwNUac_2ZKtdCBVAgPyQXesHRhJnQVBaTFOouAeL5_A=w278-h400" width="278" /></a></div><br /><span><i>"2 Houses of Hell-together for a night of HORROR!"</i> Hallmark Releasing has a re-release double feature of S.F. Brownrigg's DON'T LOOK IN THE BASEMENT (originally released as THE FORGOTTEN but retitled for the "Don't" marketing craze) and Wes Craven's LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT from 1972 which is still out there on the grindhouse circuit (and would continue to be for years). </span></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiAxOp-j-bcSWXVbZFZzU5fn-bgXlBWD9cQOpeG2nSTwJgzd2D59HLEGlZJLhE92b48t6FyKS8ELVOccbJ5Qo6nJHObvuwjRdtC-nejnRdmuP5ZDoQwEywL6KZur0IhFHNs7bsjhKX2FVXLR0OMt2bu9KbLURObcrsJjbmi9nyN42Xf-2KHGsdd04C7Vg=s658" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="658" data-original-width="256" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiAxOp-j-bcSWXVbZFZzU5fn-bgXlBWD9cQOpeG2nSTwJgzd2D59HLEGlZJLhE92b48t6FyKS8ELVOccbJ5Qo6nJHObvuwjRdtC-nejnRdmuP5ZDoQwEywL6KZur0IhFHNs7bsjhKX2FVXLR0OMt2bu9KbLURObcrsJjbmi9nyN42Xf-2KHGsdd04C7Vg=w155-h400" width="155" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Released back in Aug. GORDON"S WAR starring Paul Winfield and directed by Ossie Davis. <i>"They said it would take an army to get the mob out of Harlem. This is the army! This is Gordon's war!" </i>is on a late show at the Palms downtown and the Mercury out on the west side. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Ossie Davis discovered that he could not competently film the action sequences in the film so Bruce Kessler (SIMON, KING OF WITCHES and ANGELS FROM HELL) was brought in and directed all the violence and action. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhM2tbitB3gH34Un4Xr1N9yEwOi7eN-dTGEepvPRGU1hAVvmYafzuimnRrzRS80FBIhzBdrlwq_iRLK7SGhj2nLO9e36tS3IiPK1_yzw3NHId4UzsbR3xcDEoWLMayfkGJqLi7NikiDBV2bfzqFC6x-OFScs1_RqEwi5urYf68o3ldh6o27iqJFaw1dRg=s811" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="811" data-original-width="244" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhM2tbitB3gH34Un4Xr1N9yEwOi7eN-dTGEepvPRGU1hAVvmYafzuimnRrzRS80FBIhzBdrlwq_iRLK7SGhj2nLO9e36tS3IiPK1_yzw3NHId4UzsbR3xcDEoWLMayfkGJqLi7NikiDBV2bfzqFC6x-OFScs1_RqEwi5urYf68o3ldh6o27iqJFaw1dRg=w120-h400" width="120" /></a></div><div><br /></div>From earlier in 1973 is WALKING TALL (<i>"the "in" movie of 1973"</i>) starring Joe Don Baker and his big whup-ass stick. Oddly they seem to be trying to sell it as a love story and/or family drama this time around. <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjQ1hMs4JNBAwlWosyZAABVfpJ-KrS9-W1r9ZSdf721BtU11Ma9mHECSd0ZlMwABv9GT0t00pxryYE9uPESY_AjGvjZgh5KNvOQMuF88tdCGjsbNvLNhhsGK97mgHUwBQUlc6BJkfgzach2JcSsvo9hX55jF1TLSl_ceC8ZeZUgTNhoRY_y4yGPvI9DoA=s411" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="365" data-original-width="411" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjQ1hMs4JNBAwlWosyZAABVfpJ-KrS9-W1r9ZSdf721BtU11Ma9mHECSd0ZlMwABv9GT0t00pxryYE9uPESY_AjGvjZgh5KNvOQMuF88tdCGjsbNvLNhhsGK97mgHUwBQUlc6BJkfgzach2JcSsvo9hX55jF1TLSl_ceC8ZeZUgTNhoRY_y4yGPvI9DoA=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Russ Meyer's BLACK SNAKE (here re-titled SWEET SUZY) is playing with Paul Rapp's THE CURIOUS FEMALE which was originally going to be titled LOVE COMPUTER STYLE and had its world premiere in Detroit back in 1970.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">BLACK SNAKE was Russ Meyer's return to self-financed film production and attempt at the Blaxploitation market after his stint at 20th Century which had resulted in BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLL and THE SEVEN MINUTES. BLACK SNAKE had a troubled production including the last minute drop out of it lead actress and was a box office failure which led it to being released under several different titles. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgu0Dvwiwwytu4_GKmVF69P_eApsik7FBymy-cwL_Wr184n0m_EjsJHnoQ4PY57YhAvm5sIk0vYiA42X7WYKbG2lglHmQZpgkO4wBboqBF5e7BQcQzKUKfxTEtEeX9dSZ0YO92LCDVaHGHQeRQO8LX7DRNQ-EHdawcS1CNCrW7_0xeOocrb0lAx50aywg=s499" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="476" data-original-width="499" height="305" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgu0Dvwiwwytu4_GKmVF69P_eApsik7FBymy-cwL_Wr184n0m_EjsJHnoQ4PY57YhAvm5sIk0vYiA42X7WYKbG2lglHmQZpgkO4wBboqBF5e7BQcQzKUKfxTEtEeX9dSZ0YO92LCDVaHGHQeRQO8LX7DRNQ-EHdawcS1CNCrW7_0xeOocrb0lAx50aywg=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Here we got the horrifically bad ARNOLD'S WRECKING COMPANY which was filmed in 1971 but not released until 1973 and is a "comedy" about a nerdy high school student who starts dealing pot and runs afoul of police and gangsters. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjrr81r_5bjpmcrQwboi9F_kHh7ilxgoFgRlmrssdCjg6bB43DB2SAaiPrRcnL0WKPpSozGymraPaQw6Jh0kMGP1C8kD5JlIAqRyJKhb-5eKEOFfs0VTeBbIQreylQ60BTFb15DdU1c3BhObN9SEf6ARq-nyFHaBeKhM30tnFBtKbIK14lMGG2JyjwKEw=s875" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="875" data-original-width="670" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjrr81r_5bjpmcrQwboi9F_kHh7ilxgoFgRlmrssdCjg6bB43DB2SAaiPrRcnL0WKPpSozGymraPaQw6Jh0kMGP1C8kD5JlIAqRyJKhb-5eKEOFfs0VTeBbIQreylQ60BTFb15DdU1c3BhObN9SEf6ARq-nyFHaBeKhM30tnFBtKbIK14lMGG2JyjwKEw=w306-h400" width="306" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The mondo film AFRICA UNCENSORED from 1972 is running downtown with the much more watchable and entertaining BLACULA (also from 1972). AFRICA UNCENSORED was directed by Alfredo and Angelo Castiglioni and Guido Guerrasio who did a whole series of African mondo films that mostly focused (as to be expected) on sexual fertility rites along with animal killings. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgmWTrXXs_ibt12N20yo8Mc37bSc1T5cxXX2ajHRG_QKqRqrAExUHD_aFFxHYPx165EUG8ShhgNnCZiITWpmfDcogMXIebi7SiQMBnyytV7YPG-J3P434vLhN6iN1DwxTRyZ681DiDAG345jsVYPoYjvZdDgEn0-RMrddRwgmCMwl6ZDF8Km4DweccNTQ=s373" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="373" data-original-width="268" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgmWTrXXs_ibt12N20yo8Mc37bSc1T5cxXX2ajHRG_QKqRqrAExUHD_aFFxHYPx165EUG8ShhgNnCZiITWpmfDcogMXIebi7SiQMBnyytV7YPG-J3P434vLhN6iN1DwxTRyZ681DiDAG345jsVYPoYjvZdDgEn0-RMrddRwgmCMwl6ZDF8Km4DweccNTQ=w288-h400" width="288" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg4B8KMd5MQwQlmwzgEsRrphSvD-PGDUWs1RDkru0qKM646z4M3-povgXp2bkI0jJ5CQiDS3Gn40DxWqIaAZG7GbrFucN7cEp_S8xRlfrV9QL5qbdgGY3sa_W2Thm5cvgnZwV8np7rqWfgm7EVivII5D3vXGvtxugK56VFs3DVMPeFg6z7t59wWbQycnQ=s649" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="649" data-original-width="351" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg4B8KMd5MQwQlmwzgEsRrphSvD-PGDUWs1RDkru0qKM646z4M3-povgXp2bkI0jJ5CQiDS3Gn40DxWqIaAZG7GbrFucN7cEp_S8xRlfrV9QL5qbdgGY3sa_W2Thm5cvgnZwV8np7rqWfgm7EVivII5D3vXGvtxugK56VFs3DVMPeFg6z7t59wWbQycnQ=w216-h400" width="216" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg4F4WuGXzyO1UOi6gwYiZ6NsW75oQTMNsPUtOOlNWaaRjBqPwO-qLQ-Z8Rd455gDwYI7EJCZ_crw9hKH9gFboGRXcOELd9-w7AL-4pcEJg2F9nfV7ub2XywSWs66w1Il_8XMoZXO-ZpQEtrFzVS6lyPxKO4jTLWNmU_vLqyI4_fpSGgaPNy02ah4EcGw=s832" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="832" data-original-width="485" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg4F4WuGXzyO1UOi6gwYiZ6NsW75oQTMNsPUtOOlNWaaRjBqPwO-qLQ-Z8Rd455gDwYI7EJCZ_crw9hKH9gFboGRXcOELd9-w7AL-4pcEJg2F9nfV7ub2XywSWs66w1Il_8XMoZXO-ZpQEtrFzVS6lyPxKO4jTLWNmU_vLqyI4_fpSGgaPNy02ah4EcGw=w234-h400" width="234" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Some major studio releases include a sneak preview of THE WAY WE WERE at the Americana and Eastland, the kind-of-forgotten today OKLAHOMA CRUDE w/ George C. 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimDfi_cJJFi1RV6HzpqnZWKLiXpk4ABIuMb8eSCaOz1x7niuZnxjup2HVwW1LHrxRwvkeZ-2gta25DDxKQcutisvwJw1Zq7fVyxxQLzIp2ctiy46iFQFHo2qyKPd5s133QWcHJsHeShpN8/s827/8.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="827" data-original-width="548" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimDfi_cJJFi1RV6HzpqnZWKLiXpk4ABIuMb8eSCaOz1x7niuZnxjup2HVwW1LHrxRwvkeZ-2gta25DDxKQcutisvwJw1Zq7fVyxxQLzIp2ctiy46iFQFHo2qyKPd5s133QWcHJsHeShpN8/w265-h400/8.jpg" width="265" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="color: red;">"Right out of today's headlines! The youth cult...the buried bodies...the shocking impact of what is happening now!" </span></i></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7p6TrOYiQKqf-LZGlPXIR11TEFcJgN1jTx8Ec3zYqPzgTor6UZcOmxf2ej7OLcKUGKtqdswZ8h1nr66wr0RHAeglv1uxcq4ewU9DWIUpGhD4bQmCzqYtYEjehWxaxpup5N5-tTgALAuFU/s978/6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="773" data-original-width="978" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7p6TrOYiQKqf-LZGlPXIR11TEFcJgN1jTx8Ec3zYqPzgTor6UZcOmxf2ej7OLcKUGKtqdswZ8h1nr66wr0RHAeglv1uxcq4ewU9DWIUpGhD4bQmCzqYtYEjehWxaxpup5N5-tTgALAuFU/s320/6.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh72-QLRk5-LWIIeLiwVRUSzGHbnao2f5hV_bkrAgTPtTLL6uOj3TeNFtbTvONtwFysBoKeSCF9BcjSX6kCF2HHz8n6q04gNNVs06olWYleMIFFh4Px5uS23HwQbmfXXM-8V3ePrWAPDzCR/s981/10.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="394" data-original-width="981" height="161" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh72-QLRk5-LWIIeLiwVRUSzGHbnao2f5hV_bkrAgTPtTLL6uOj3TeNFtbTvONtwFysBoKeSCF9BcjSX6kCF2HHz8n6q04gNNVs06olWYleMIFFh4Px5uS23HwQbmfXXM-8V3ePrWAPDzCR/w400-h161/10.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Released in the midst of that early 70's sub-genre of murderous teens (or hippies) that came about post-Manson, THE TODD KILLINGS was based on the case of Charles Schmid
("The Pied Piper of Tucson"), who as a 23-year-old high school dropout
in the mid-'60s killed several young girls in the region around Tucson, AZ.
while using his Svengali-like hold over a group of local teenagers to help him
dispose of the bodies.</div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal">Directed by Barry Shear (<a href="https://theoakdrivein.blogspot.com/2013/05/across-110th-street-1972.html"><span style="color: red;">ACROSS 110TH STREET</span></a>) and written by Dennis Murphy &
Joel Oilansky, it stars Robert F. Lyons (AVENGING ANGEL 1985) as
"Skipper" Todd a charming early twenties sociopath who becomes
the social leader of a group of teenagers in a small California town. Featuring a terrific cast
consisting of new faces including a pre-WALTONS Richard Thomas plus the wonderful Belinda Montgomery along with veterans Gloria Grahame (THE BIG HEAT), Barbara
Bel Geddes (VERTIGO), Fay Spain (DRAGSTRIP GIRL) along with Ed Asner, Michael
Conrad, and in perpetuum heavy William Lucking.</p><p class="MsoNormal">The film starts out with a deliberately disjointed storyline as we're shown three young people disposing of a body in the nighttime desert which is intercut with a police interrogation along with a mother reporting her missing daughter. As the group drives away immediately we see their hierarchy which includes the leader "Skipper" Todd (Lyons) and his two sycophants - Norma (Holly Near <a href="http://theoakdrivein.blogspot.com/2015/02/cult-of-damned-1969.html"><span style="color: red;">ANGEL, ANGEL, DOWN WE GO</span></a>), a girl with obvious self-esteem issues who clings to Todd both physically & emotionally (and to whom he treats with a cruel indifference) and a toady named Andy.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmKT0bTfJI5zQJodwhPcIwOBChCx2SJPSbm_SW0xyCyQPs6aUxoAbdXnp1oMQsJambF-JJNSJPUZKOZJbtp-M0eq_CiafJ4huP6nMcvqsvccoEVPUbijpLpdnsHCORQNfa64AtMzvXZxJ3/s981/9.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="394" data-original-width="981" height="161" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmKT0bTfJI5zQJodwhPcIwOBChCx2SJPSbm_SW0xyCyQPs6aUxoAbdXnp1oMQsJambF-JJNSJPUZKOZJbtp-M0eq_CiafJ4huP6nMcvqsvccoEVPUbijpLpdnsHCORQNfa64AtMzvXZxJ3/w400-h161/9.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_-t5IJuQCvPqfRCIV0ntQNQErHdm20wkdUBH5V3OW0oN_2Oso2rSXFmdIwvdWt6kvbiaPzIvruoGhxmyZkQz5T-ltn287MFTb0eOwhA_IM6pWkfUPewH2qnK5YqwF_wbEzQV1awcujFbf/s985/12.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="395" data-original-width="985" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_-t5IJuQCvPqfRCIV0ntQNQErHdm20wkdUBH5V3OW0oN_2Oso2rSXFmdIwvdWt6kvbiaPzIvruoGhxmyZkQz5T-ltn287MFTb0eOwhA_IM6pWkfUPewH2qnK5YqwF_wbEzQV1awcujFbf/w400-h160/12.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd0uoJCb_gJqxC5j83c2ycU6GEFidjEZafC0QwqU5dIaRf5GUGinwzb5SjyNWnYUi6PZEPxY0RbDQw0dVmN24VvZnTA_FEBy8SwrHyEOngZZvxsAw_SRixHNlvoryJQl3YrLn4XEK01cfU/s977/11.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="391" data-original-width="977" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd0uoJCb_gJqxC5j83c2ycU6GEFidjEZafC0QwqU5dIaRf5GUGinwzb5SjyNWnYUi6PZEPxY0RbDQw0dVmN24VvZnTA_FEBy8SwrHyEOngZZvxsAw_SRixHNlvoryJQl3YrLn4XEK01cfU/w400-h160/11.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">Todd holds sway over the youth of a small California town whose main diversions include cruising the local main street or hanging out at a nightspot. Being several years older than them, they seem to look upon him with almost reverence as he strides among them like a wanna-be-God as he even arranges for sexual hook-ups between the teens (and himself). An aspiring rock star who spends his spare time writing (without too much conviction it would seem) songs, he tools about town in a purple dune buggy dressed in mod clothes while sponging money off his mother (Barbara Bel Geddes) who operates a somewhat lower-end retirement facility. There are some parallels to Manson, as he also had dreams of rock stardom and controlled the sex lives of his followers. </p><p class="MsoNormal">At the start of the film while returning from the desert burial Todd and his two cronies pick up Billy Roy (Richard Thomas) a youth who knows Todd and is returning home from reform school. Todd drops off Billy Bob at and his home and charms his mother (Gloria Grahame). We never learn what Billy Roy was in reform school for (although we get the feeling that it involved a girl) and his shaved head & denim work clothes suggest a prison more than "reform school". It's here that we witness the off-kilter atmosphere of the town with that will continue through the film with oblivious adults & teachers along with young people devoid of a conscious all of which paint a very dark picture of American family life. </p><p class="MsoNormal">Billy Roy, who is in awe of Skipper's magnetism with women, is attracted to a woman he remembers from school (Sherry E. DeBoer THE VELVET VAMPIRE) and he awkwardly tries to attract her while being prodded on by Skipper. At the same time Skipper is devoting much of his time to breakdown the refusal of high schooler Roberta (in a very nice performance by Belinda Montgomery) to surrender her virginity. Throughout this Shear intercuts scenes of Skipper's interrogation by detectives Michael Conrad (UN FLIC) and William Lucking (HELL'S BELLES) and it's revealed that one of his minions has turned him in. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJlbEHYDEl1wgpIqHpXQ50Nf7yVgWqnx4kgVkdRoDll4Sp9IxzTxxGQuNyo8K8NGM8xvWEKjLx6X068mPv9wrteKMyuRpgfjo6QaSJ4k0oLV8s-qtXk-5vg6nA4Jzllcod9v45TIKWEglM/s977/14.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="395" data-original-width="977" height="161" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJlbEHYDEl1wgpIqHpXQ50Nf7yVgWqnx4kgVkdRoDll4Sp9IxzTxxGQuNyo8K8NGM8xvWEKjLx6X068mPv9wrteKMyuRpgfjo6QaSJ4k0oLV8s-qtXk-5vg6nA4Jzllcod9v45TIKWEglM/w400-h161/14.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVXtgvWIFsqc7_K8N5dWGQHJBciFZ1cRoUeQvVoC9rOatuuRhEhkpy9egdPC6lmWROaRK03fzYHII2dGRCC3VrhG7-z2uOuz7FOBnTK6OsNSDwMLvPc9xnRSfiBMZ5SNxmirpu40zCMund/s974/15.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="394" data-original-width="974" height="161" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVXtgvWIFsqc7_K8N5dWGQHJBciFZ1cRoUeQvVoC9rOatuuRhEhkpy9egdPC6lmWROaRK03fzYHII2dGRCC3VrhG7-z2uOuz7FOBnTK6OsNSDwMLvPc9xnRSfiBMZ5SNxmirpu40zCMund/w400-h161/15.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA_S1Cp_1zxTkclYlPWX6VvRTknbgrwkCSV_X6bqTKIVreru9Gn0ZBrXjX5jVNHP08LDyT_3cFvAG5hmTUKC562px8JFd1SZV-mZ4_Nl1t5iVNPz4xyiM06OrWFkbh6Ly1HXGcxw55BUoe/s979/17.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="393" data-original-width="979" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA_S1Cp_1zxTkclYlPWX6VvRTknbgrwkCSV_X6bqTKIVreru9Gn0ZBrXjX5jVNHP08LDyT_3cFvAG5hmTUKC562px8JFd1SZV-mZ4_Nl1t5iVNPz4xyiM06OrWFkbh6Ly1HXGcxw55BUoe/w400-h160/17.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">Although we see the killings and they are brutal, Shear does it more with restrained terror than outright horror that while this is to be commended for not using these to rub the viewers face in them, it doesn't begin to convey the shocking true events. It's this combined with Lyon's low-key approach to the killer is that causes the film to miss its mark as one of the great true crime films of the era. The actual Charles Schmid was short of stature and filled his cowboy boots with crushed cans and cardboard in order to appear taller while sloppily applying putty to make his nose appear bigger and painted a large mole on his cheek. Has this been incorporated into the film's plot it would be for a more bizarre (and interesting) killer as the movie version comes across as a murderer but one who's cool, polite to the elders, just slightly creepy as a result come across like a murderous Eddie Haskell. </p><p class="MsoNormal">Despite the above mentioned, this a is an interesting hidden 70's gem, well worth a look, and deserves more recognition. Lyons gives a fine performance in what is an underwritten part and Belinda Montgomery stands out in her performance as the focus of Skipper's interest and it's always great to see Gloria Grahame even in a small role (you really wish that both she and Bel Geddes were given larger roles). 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So lets see what's playing!</span></b></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPQpG2mTvAM_x-Tgk4PgQPAiEC3GMJKMwLNvfCC1Tyn8TK2aCkT9IfeJrSFmJRutW_BAoBwQwuL6sCxC721CLvwav7N9-VOfSw-AeINH04QP4eqUgunZ7ncePWRnzkJ45_3RenJ7Vok7P4/s578/6.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="578" data-original-width="440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPQpG2mTvAM_x-Tgk4PgQPAiEC3GMJKMwLNvfCC1Tyn8TK2aCkT9IfeJrSFmJRutW_BAoBwQwuL6sCxC721CLvwav7N9-VOfSw-AeINH04QP4eqUgunZ7ncePWRnzkJ45_3RenJ7Vok7P4/w305-h400/6.PNG" width="305" /></a></div><span><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">There's a double feature of COMBAT COPS (aka THE GET-MAN aka THE ZEBRA KILLER) and last year's DETROIT 9000(aka POLICE CALL 9000) at The Fox.</div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span>In most other markets <a href="http://theoakdrivein.blogspot.com/2014/05/detroit-9000-1973.html"><span style="color: red;">DETROIT 9000</span></a> (<i>Visit the murder capital of the world--where the honkies are the minority!</i>) was playing as POLICE CALL 9000 but for the added publicity the original title was kept for its hometown run. COMBAT COPS (<i>"Savage and Wilson are Combat Cops! A Hard Way To Live... An Easy Way!"</i>) </span>was directed by the great William Gridler (ASYLUM OF SATAN & GRIZZLY!) and was re-released by Arthur Marks under several titles but never really caught on with audiences. It's a solid little police action thriller concerning a serial killer and is one those mega-violent 70's PG movies that would easily get an R today.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjddB86HcljegOyQi-rZfmH9koCkqPRb_vOFvOfuqPUwReLcywcHcJtT0SAOADQTfBurWSaggs21WGdC3iiLtn8eFk1g5ok6dE9iUR7FdWfTw5wypzKWiRQ8qjKuIcmgsjsVZ8odfBuvP09/s683/4.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="683" data-original-width="439" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjddB86HcljegOyQi-rZfmH9koCkqPRb_vOFvOfuqPUwReLcywcHcJtT0SAOADQTfBurWSaggs21WGdC3iiLtn8eFk1g5ok6dE9iUR7FdWfTw5wypzKWiRQ8qjKuIcmgsjsVZ8odfBuvP09/w258-h400/4.PNG" width="258" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span>One of the more controversial releases of the decade and in addition one of the grimiest films ever released by a major studio MANDINGO (<i>"Now you are ready for "Mandingo!"</i>) is being held over at several are theatres.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span>Directed by Richard Fleischer (20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA) and it features heaps of nudity, some still shocking sequences and a great performance by Susan George that tends to get lost in all the sleazy goings-on. James Mason later admitted in only appeared in it in order to cover his alimony payments. According to IMDB Sylvester Stallone appears as an unbilled extra although I've never been able to spot him.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb1opEjukuesJyCJUN5bEWb_kWSsntOna8HEHXCpX6g_GE26qOdF-poK7IHC9CbeEIf2A13Y_3UVmmgjQN6aJK8Z5yHHrvTPAIz31iZW1WTtTPWtm8vbOl3C2A7w6M1Eg92QgKZTEso9-H/s592/16.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="592" data-original-width="302" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb1opEjukuesJyCJUN5bEWb_kWSsntOna8HEHXCpX6g_GE26qOdF-poK7IHC9CbeEIf2A13Y_3UVmmgjQN6aJK8Z5yHHrvTPAIz31iZW1WTtTPWtm8vbOl3C2A7w6M1Eg92QgKZTEso9-H/w204-h400/16.PNG" width="204" /></a></div><p style="text-align: left;">H.B. Halicki's great GONE IN 60 SECONDS (<i>"See 93 cars destroyed in the most incredible pursuit ever filmed!"</i>) is still getting lots of playdates 4 weeks after its opening and would continue racking in money for years (I first saw it the next year on a dbl. feat. with THE GUMBALL RALLY).</p><div style="text-align: left;">Halicki would tragically die in 1989 while filming a sequel.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg584bv_zDXhNT65oVTULdb_MTnhS_1DuT1v_g7Dcy6KgGH8Cbk_nV8Ep1bcFwM-UJullKxD1cKutMfae9Imc28oB9nm1FEcJRmq_bP2f5CMNN6cm0Fdo8PoltaSaVrmRlOSxcNArms_Ht0/s614/1.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="614" data-original-width="452" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg584bv_zDXhNT65oVTULdb_MTnhS_1DuT1v_g7Dcy6KgGH8Cbk_nV8Ep1bcFwM-UJullKxD1cKutMfae9Imc28oB9nm1FEcJRmq_bP2f5CMNN6cm0Fdo8PoltaSaVrmRlOSxcNArms_Ht0/w295-h400/1.PNG" width="295" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span>Proudly bearing its 70's PG rating the violent and surprisingly downbeat WHITE LIGHNING (</span><i>"WHITE LIGHTNING never strikes twice - 'cause once is enough!"</i><span>) from the previous year is getting re-released. Starring a just on the cusp of mega-stardom Burt Reynolds and directed by Joseph Sargent it would continue to play at drive-ins (particularly in the south) well into the 80's. Burt would follow it up in 1976 with the slightly more family-friendly GATOR.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit_PLVWfJPM-iz99-vD3pkPllpw_7ApZZh0grwGKP81T0ee8mFQnD4Up3lDHGDsp0vjshzMfKSxnXVFF91KQjJ5WLRwMHppSILJGdDQeDD00ZnOFCrJOD-VxnHeUJvmue1dBGGR29ZIgem/s317/13.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="317" data-original-width="297" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit_PLVWfJPM-iz99-vD3pkPllpw_7ApZZh0grwGKP81T0ee8mFQnD4Up3lDHGDsp0vjshzMfKSxnXVFF91KQjJ5WLRwMHppSILJGdDQeDD00ZnOFCrJOD-VxnHeUJvmue1dBGGR29ZIgem/w375-h400/13.PNG" width="375" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Downtown at the Grand Circus is THE KUNG-FU MASSACE <i>("Wholesale Murder by a one-man kung-fu army!"</i>) from 1974 and FORCED TO FIGHT from way back in 1971. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkHXQArm9mM2c_dmkf8B3Sd7ru5D5zmQwaNSMfvv44II_PK_AHOfPgiDF-w4MUwLNU_WcR4er4xBTyj-6cf7ZS0DX8rM0kAGrLoYNjYUkxY6RHl1wDJ6KREkWNiZHLtQdkSG9UVdQTbTdi/s868/12.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="868" data-original-width="442" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkHXQArm9mM2c_dmkf8B3Sd7ru5D5zmQwaNSMfvv44II_PK_AHOfPgiDF-w4MUwLNU_WcR4er4xBTyj-6cf7ZS0DX8rM0kAGrLoYNjYUkxY6RHl1wDJ6KREkWNiZHLtQdkSG9UVdQTbTdi/w326-h640/12.PNG" width="326" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Getting a wide release is CAPONE starring a scenery-chewing Ben Gazzara. Directed by Steve Carver it was produced by Roger Corman as part of his deal with 20th Century Fox which resulted in Roger Corman New World type films with a bit more gloss and budget.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIbvidHIVLuf4MaXChWL_EmGXBhhIDBqfXsHfPspvE6hIDDVWjGuNO399VerqIti-tMqPv1aL8jbd7UJtqQ7q91Ox1eXE_zCMAD_rFzIKjRWwrDZYc5yub6F5fARMxMb0J96feP6GNV84X/s468/18.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="468" data-original-width="464" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIbvidHIVLuf4MaXChWL_EmGXBhhIDBqfXsHfPspvE6hIDDVWjGuNO399VerqIti-tMqPv1aL8jbd7UJtqQ7q91Ox1eXE_zCMAD_rFzIKjRWwrDZYc5yub6F5fARMxMb0J96feP6GNV84X/w396-h400/18.PNG" width="396" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">John Frankenheimer's underrated THE FRENCH CONNECTION II (or as billed here "Number 2") is still in wide release as it enters its ninth week. One of my favorite roles by Hackman it's an intensely gritty film and the withdrawal sequence is still harrowing. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk9hixUl-jpm-uARFR9IuUGHwmPy8nvvCKg95g8XH4KHbm37E-tDqi8iVr8CMi7KYnSrBEVVXtmNeMi8Hgc7FtGQPkm2RGpBsAjXD7UwHZmm0GVv8KSRAMoSibA6GLMM0d9n2Jzm_uzRDx/s781/17.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="781" data-original-width="229" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk9hixUl-jpm-uARFR9IuUGHwmPy8nvvCKg95g8XH4KHbm37E-tDqi8iVr8CMi7KYnSrBEVVXtmNeMi8Hgc7FtGQPkm2RGpBsAjXD7UwHZmm0GVv8KSRAMoSibA6GLMM0d9n2Jzm_uzRDx/w189-h640/17.PNG" width="189" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Considered "unfilm-able" for decades director John Schlesinger & writer Waldo Salt's take on Nathaniel West's nightmarish novel of the dark underbelly of the 1930's Hollywood dream factory is being held over at 6 local theaters from its May premiere. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGbtlE52zVZLEZx3J3WgBUb5l1WFFV7rTIxjqQ7vizzPxEmZDZMInCaTzEw3rFtBbFqelIau5HSv0GXzcGe-Xuan_6L33bRKAgF83xdyDRF0qBTg039Jy0v3Dfpq6gweqp-RCAe1JYmAFq/s493/20.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="493" data-original-width="233" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGbtlE52zVZLEZx3J3WgBUb5l1WFFV7rTIxjqQ7vizzPxEmZDZMInCaTzEw3rFtBbFqelIau5HSv0GXzcGe-Xuan_6L33bRKAgF83xdyDRF0qBTg039Jy0v3Dfpq6gweqp-RCAe1JYmAFq/w189-h400/20.PNG" width="189" /></a></div><div><br /></div>At the Palms (which in now The Fillmore concert hall) is an interesting double feature in the Israel/U.S. co-production of LEPKE starring Tony Curtis and directed by a pre-Cannon Films Menahem Golan.<div><br /></div><div>The second feature is one of my favorite Blaxploitation films BLACK SAMSON on re-release from 1974 (<i>"If you mess with the 'hood, he'll mess with you!"</i>) and starring Rockne Tarkington and the always welcome presence of the wonderful Carol Speed.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin-_9f7t-CgDv9NoXEuNDibZinAwQYQzScolnLjxNvcBuqQgLQpuLN7SBN8ihNFx8-_GUeRsFAlm3se5afx8726kEip4KUG4dr0CcHn7pZH-HjgOMCqNzYqZ52DOXX2SiLrB1rrUUVA5Dm/s696/19.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="229" data-original-width="696" height="131" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin-_9f7t-CgDv9NoXEuNDibZinAwQYQzScolnLjxNvcBuqQgLQpuLN7SBN8ihNFx8-_GUeRsFAlm3se5afx8726kEip4KUG4dr0CcHn7pZH-HjgOMCqNzYqZ52DOXX2SiLrB1rrUUVA5Dm/w400-h131/19.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Lots of stuff around for your XXX night out including SOMETIME SWEET SUSAN which is the film that Robert De Niro took Cybill Shepherd on their ill-fated date at NYC's Lyric Theatre in TAXI DRIVER. And of course, there's also the always running somewhere DEEP THROAT. <div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://theoakdrivein.blogspot.com/search/label/Let%27s%20Go%20To%20The%20Movies" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="569" data-original-width="263" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiiyYkfSqdjSNQRteo3lmvv07qRR3ggft3hAZ4mDG-TSx-Tv4Whqzc93INCT2lPASdvGYPZyYFLxNVvF4BsTKr_RQbrptPZqfJN_ihkcIq_9VWI_Xsnh-GYqe1ct6XlEeSZU3zLECtcyRrsIl71Sq8hp81y-uTlC_uxi1TuoSIoKiab5JB9dkzO4RyABw=s320" width="148" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div><p></p></div></div>Dick http://www.blogger.com/profile/00409849079342411514noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-875942433636843700.post-82901807599164354612021-11-16T18:14:00.001-05:002021-11-16T18:14:22.037-05:00THE FARMER 1977<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: red;">"They Committed Murder, Rape, Arson and One Mistake...They left The Farmer Alive"</span></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4ac0GtyMJrwmKWPG-ENxep-mMCFj31B2cvxlq7jYgnVjBQOJMmOwrGT_qdcKM5iEcP-19AE1c0Dtz4OifaZT3dFz6wgjmxKML5-8YJBu8dYVLB2cC_6M7gj2NcgBiWPNasmWukZHZidGt/s1000/1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="652" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4ac0GtyMJrwmKWPG-ENxep-mMCFj31B2cvxlq7jYgnVjBQOJMmOwrGT_qdcKM5iEcP-19AE1c0Dtz4OifaZT3dFz6wgjmxKML5-8YJBu8dYVLB2cC_6M7gj2NcgBiWPNasmWukZHZidGt/w261-h400/1.jpg" width="261" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><i><b>"He doesn't get mad. He gets even." </b></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_IDZ-R40UbHyiFKbYDy-mYWwuHB7ZfKeju9c35UqILYrsNT6guwcf2hZmf7OfYqbbckrOADuZoARjg-n3TjUNlgYnDIZ-XYGsUJNBbnYKj43fh3leoAcrwUouKljLNztCGRFllW-Lmvec/s692/12.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="520" data-original-width="692" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_IDZ-R40UbHyiFKbYDy-mYWwuHB7ZfKeju9c35UqILYrsNT6guwcf2hZmf7OfYqbbckrOADuZoARjg-n3TjUNlgYnDIZ-XYGsUJNBbnYKj43fh3leoAcrwUouKljLNztCGRFllW-Lmvec/s320/12.PNG" width="320" /></a></div></i></span></div><p class="MsoNormal">After decades of being unavailable and morphing into one of
the great holy grails of '70s exploitation revenge cinema, THE FARMER has finally (sort
of) escaped out into the wild. Long
teased by Bill Olsen at Code Red for a DVD release going as far back as 2006 (the
trailer popped up on several of his releases) and in addition several screen
grabs from the restoration were posted. Since then, he's talked of music rights, unpaid IRS
tax liens on the film, etc., and claiming that only "23 people would buy it". </p><p class="MsoNormal">Recently it showed up on YouTube posted by Van Lukassen in a
transfer from a bootleg VHS he had purchased. The upload was removed about a
week later due to copyright infringements (reportedly instigated by Bill Olsen)
but not before it had been downloaded and since then has shown up on the Internet
Archive (although it seems to be gone from there as of this writing), but has appeared on "that" torrent site.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Obviously derived from a multi-generational tape source (see the screengrabs) with
several instances of tape roll and audio/video dropouts although far from
pristine it's watchable and back in the pre-DVD days of VHS collecting, I paid
$20.00 for bootleg VHS tapes (usually with burned in Greek subs or such) at
Chiller Theatre Conventions or via mail order that looked on par or worse than this. </p><p class="MsoNormal">Produced by and starring Gary Conway (I WAS A TEENAGE
FRANKENSTEIN 1957) it was directed by editor David Berlatsky (THE DEEP 1977) in
his only directorial credit. Filmed in the summer & fall of 1975 around Atlanta GA., according to the AFI Catalog website the film went through financial difficulty
during production before being picked up by Columbia in 1976 for distribution and
had its world premiere in Detroit, MI. on Feb. 25, 1977. It seems to have had a limited theatrical run (sometimes titled BLAZING REVENGE or THE KILLER FARMER), although allegedly it ran at Marine Corps bases throughout the country. According to Variety (via the AFI website),
the film had to be reportedly trimmed to avoid an X-rating for violence from
the MPAA. TV Guide called it "A totally negative film of violence that barely avoided an X rating". </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNEmeXmHr9asNJCA6rcjgvFEAUllGBJgH2V6ve5LQ6gLdmRr0iC11YEPwVy_ow_0JxbJRO8SSw_tUnU10T2z4o5LCE6RlMrhLpwVHAc0shAThmZuxw4dWg-8R6eoTNCdYnYFncWTie2-V_/s693/13.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="513" data-original-width="693" height="237" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNEmeXmHr9asNJCA6rcjgvFEAUllGBJgH2V6ve5LQ6gLdmRr0iC11YEPwVy_ow_0JxbJRO8SSw_tUnU10T2z4o5LCE6RlMrhLpwVHAc0shAThmZuxw4dWg-8R6eoTNCdYnYFncWTie2-V_/s320/13.PNG" width="320" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal">Of course, the big question is - does the film live up to
its decades-long quest and hoped for status as one of the great revenge
exploitation films of the era? The answer is yes and no. Falling into the
category of "decorated returning veteran seeks vengeance" genre, the
film is interesting in that it sets its timeframe in post-WWII rather than the
usual Vietnam era '70s, and to its credit, it does attempt to address the issue
of race and prejudice. On the downside, there is a highly convoluted &
drawn-out plot that takes much too long to get where it needs to go and to what we're
all waiting for.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Conway plays Kyle Martin a decorated WWII Sgt. who upon
returning home to his family farm finds it destitute and in dire financial shape after the death of his father. It's been looked after by an African American caretaker, Gumshoe (Ken Rendard TRUE GRIT 1969) and with whom Kyle seems to have a close relationship (which will play out in the film climax) Immediately Kyle runs into problems with the local bank who demands payment for the back taxes owed. </p><p class="MsoNormal">In the aftermath of a road accident near his farm, Martin rescues gangster Johnny "O" (Michael Dante THE BIG SCORE 1983) from his wrecked car, and as a reward, Johnny gives him $1500.00 which is still short the amount needed for the bank. There is also Betty McCrail (Angel Tompkins THE TEACHER 1974) a former girlfriend of Martin's, who now works for Johnny "O", and she rekindles her relationship with Martin. Later Johnny is blinded in a gangland altercation and offers Kyle more money if he will take vengeance for him on those responsible. Kyle waffles initially but is soon forced into a bloody vendetta when the gangsters violently attack those close to him. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBCWUoHcRS_T7bYUgGAL3gSlFPYd_2Ym6teTXz6F2ymfJIq_afMuTNSPatCPjPj0d1Ya8UQbxGgd5xTyxBjNsm320MWMwGSRgYum2Cqj7E5kFbkYyXoKLk3eslyt8BoosmlbmlQVt6zKnm/s697/14.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="517" data-original-width="697" height="237" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBCWUoHcRS_T7bYUgGAL3gSlFPYd_2Ym6teTXz6F2ymfJIq_afMuTNSPatCPjPj0d1Ya8UQbxGgd5xTyxBjNsm320MWMwGSRgYum2Cqj7E5kFbkYyXoKLk3eslyt8BoosmlbmlQVt6zKnm/s320/14.PNG" width="320" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">The movie works as expected (you basically know which characters are destined to die the moment they're introduced) but because the film takes almost an hour to get both the reason for and the actual instigation of the title character's vengeance it seems rather meandering for that first hour and the ending is highly implausible which is a shame as the film would end nicely without that last scene. </p><p class="MsoNormal">The film does have some interesting moments including Martin hanging his uniform and Silver Star on a scarecrow and the action sequences are terrifically brutal and live up to the hype (Martin is particularly effective with his shotgun) along with being well-edited (which makes sense as the film's director is an editor). For a low-budget film, there is an excellent feeling for period detail including clothing & vehicles, and an actual parade is neatly integrated into the plot. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGybXR9mNiRS7q_CYTtQolga83Bq1emkc2LQujM7lz1Ik2aKPNaAECP8M6Zkq1CI5eY232OTIST_FsLBulN9V-k7tZaWADtA1rB5sEScAkNiH8Qx4FhobUlWpLDy02JN_C-L357Z3xGbbQ/s687/15.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="513" data-original-width="687" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGybXR9mNiRS7q_CYTtQolga83Bq1emkc2LQujM7lz1Ik2aKPNaAECP8M6Zkq1CI5eY232OTIST_FsLBulN9V-k7tZaWADtA1rB5sEScAkNiH8Qx4FhobUlWpLDy02JN_C-L357Z3xGbbQ/s320/15.PNG" width="320" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">Conway does a good job as the title character often wears aviator sunglasses which hide his eyes and give him a blank expressionless stare. As mentioned, the violence is extremely brutal including acid thrown in a face, a man burned alive, non-flinching close-ups of shotgun blasts to bodies, point-blank shootings to the groin & face, and an especially harrowing & brutal rape in a barn. </p><p class="MsoNormal">The music is by Hugo Montenegro (I see the soundtrack pop up occasionally in used bins as it's much easier to find than the film itself) and features a song by ex-Byrd Gene Clark titled American Dreamer which was also used in the Dennis Hopper film AMERICAN DREAMER in 1971.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Since the film's appearance on YouTube Bill Olsen has made statements yet again concerning a possible release at some point, now with "only 26 people wanting to buy it" (which at least is three more than before).</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZMEAEJY_z3cKczorFloM7kXCoGyyXn2li_H7Iz7Q-p8IhyphenhyphenP8GocVysP2HH6k0Do6JByCXE0rdUx40sYohlFaoqiTfcHAM6vuyPB9uJthhFNLHF9uXqWdU3RZNXTOesMxB_X-yn6rEV1xX/s1541/2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyeQWLBKjHodOfF8bnOyFLrH6GMdPefCy6JlUghObrLN9xWkgEh9tlXhnchu0JBB5mAzLbSbdJSS5iu_-wZM8Bl5PGYCJlWLzv91ebw9VD1O1N1Tt_7BLuSsr9lq2wGH-ma8heNQIMHw8-/s931/32.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="520" data-original-width="931" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyeQWLBKjHodOfF8bnOyFLrH6GMdPefCy6JlUghObrLN9xWkgEh9tlXhnchu0JBB5mAzLbSbdJSS5iu_-wZM8Bl5PGYCJlWLzv91ebw9VD1O1N1Tt_7BLuSsr9lq2wGH-ma8heNQIMHw8-/w400-h224/32.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"> It could be argued that Mario Bava reached his pinnacle as a director in 1963. There was the classic anthology I TRE VOLTI DELLA PAURA (BLACK SABBATH) and the early Giallo (and Bava's last B&W film) LARAGAZZA CHE SAPEVA TROPPO (THE EVIL EYE or THE GIRL WHO KNEW TOO MUCH) and this lush gothic that while having all the trademarks of Italian horror & classic gothic ambiance also mixes in a healthy dollop of front & center sadomasochism. </span></div><div><br /></div><div>Along with Bava's trademark breathtaking direction and use of color, and gliding prowling camera there is also a very literate (and very adult-themed) script by Ernesto Gastaldi (THE SWEET BODY OF DEBORAH, and ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK plus countless other classics) and one of Christopher Lee's finest performances along with the gorgeous presence of Daliah Lavi (TWO WEEKS IN ANOTHER TOWN). And there's Harriet Medin (THE HORRIBLE DR. HICHCOCK and BLOOD AND BLACK LACE) as a sinister housekeeper. THE WHIP AND THE BODY has often been critiqued for being slow-moving but although it does move at a languid pace it allows the viewer to soak in its glorious gothic atmosphere and be drawn into the encroaching feeling of dread </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpGTWzez8mQO0pBKphwo94aRXQkBoDb_s7frUnz0Mz8CQs2MgrjVQuOhfbw7i6sYXo2am7gBA8Td-OEYoBDE1F0fI7FHIBL7WVLeFlJlDqOVgc1M2e270TrU3b688KjvmYoQXDu5OnbO6O/s930/18.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="524" data-original-width="930" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpGTWzez8mQO0pBKphwo94aRXQkBoDb_s7frUnz0Mz8CQs2MgrjVQuOhfbw7i6sYXo2am7gBA8Td-OEYoBDE1F0fI7FHIBL7WVLeFlJlDqOVgc1M2e270TrU3b688KjvmYoQXDu5OnbO6O/w400-h225/18.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoYMPrqKL9jJhSN4peXR-u90cBWchRPpVOxc3OlMwgXe0P4BKUkhs7T1imRg3-n2BSVwhagYlb2hNznPwfad8cwYCXfD-gI-w1oi6lvrK4YHL757gXNU_2ao8NwSyz5wIgmZFffDrv8gJl/s934/15.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="523" data-original-width="934" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoYMPrqKL9jJhSN4peXR-u90cBWchRPpVOxc3OlMwgXe0P4BKUkhs7T1imRg3-n2BSVwhagYlb2hNznPwfad8cwYCXfD-gI-w1oi6lvrK4YHL757gXNU_2ao8NwSyz5wIgmZFffDrv8gJl/w400-h224/15.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYtzLmFgAdv4sYlFhyphenhyphen4riP_iFndoA-0lG9JMGDZUmQmmrTKMpynNI-MpcjWyxV40_mnXlr_oaLWK7KzKhb2OyWyCq2oDfS4c6TG8pcqy0tcnZ1Lh6tSv-IrF_nMZG9zZVa-k0GN21-EMsU/s933/31.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="518" data-original-width="933" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYtzLmFgAdv4sYlFhyphenhyphen4riP_iFndoA-0lG9JMGDZUmQmmrTKMpynNI-MpcjWyxV40_mnXlr_oaLWK7KzKhb2OyWyCq2oDfS4c6TG8pcqy0tcnZ1Lh6tSv-IrF_nMZG9zZVa-k0GN21-EMsU/w400-h223/31.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div>Like many Italian horror films of the period (and a theme in Bava's films) the plot centers on an upper-class aristocratic family with corruption and decadence threatening to destroy it from within. Because of its outright in-your-face themes of sex and sadomasochism (which Luis Buñuel's BELLE DE JOUR from 1967 perhaps drew some inspiration from), THE WHIP AND THE BODY ran into censor problems throughout the world. In the U.S. and Britain (released as WHAT or PHANTOM OF THE NIGHT) it was cut to 77 min. and had all the whipping sequences removed which made for an incomprehensible storyline.</div><div><br /></div><div>Kurt Menliff (Christopher Lee) returns home to his family's seaside castle after being ostracized after an affair with a servant girl that led to her suicide. Kurt's return is meant with anger by his father Count Vladimir Menliff (Gustavo De Nardo BLACK SABBATH and a favorite character actor of Bava) and both anger and fear by his brother Christian ("Tony Kendall" -Luciano Stella <a href="http://theoakdrivein.blogspot.com/2013/11/blind-dead-movie-night-2-return-of-evil.html"><span style="color: red;">RETURN OF THE EVIL DEAD 1973</span></a>) when it becomes obvious immediately that Kurt intends not only to reclaim his family title but also plans to reignite his S&M-tinged affair with Nevenka (Daliah Lavi) who is now newly-married to Christian. In a nice macabre touch, the housekeeper Giorgia (Harriet Medin) whose daughter was the ill-fated lover of Kurt's, keeps the dagger which she committed suicide with displayed in a glass case with roses. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs12TZVVBT09f9vTg9hnjP4pUcKIqRs2vRzJn8e0H9VxFku3rJGeNHT0kvYBlSj91kOp8FjcP0dCfAWImtdKm6Y-y3PJhsWabAlgwCZAazhOfvtztjGvlWjM7nRmhqXv7PWJOOdubzz1RR/s934/20.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="519" data-original-width="934" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs12TZVVBT09f9vTg9hnjP4pUcKIqRs2vRzJn8e0H9VxFku3rJGeNHT0kvYBlSj91kOp8FjcP0dCfAWImtdKm6Y-y3PJhsWabAlgwCZAazhOfvtztjGvlWjM7nRmhqXv7PWJOOdubzz1RR/w400-h223/20.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghyr3G5ULO9M2DHpEdZ0kYGEkqAXczt6tFVj93tFBBY8rAxM2_04-0Xd5lIVficawMQ09CeAA8Ca_vELUYikvb_tP6HGtiZ2_pDCNgjowF-HNv9xFGik9EPG05OEjkvGqnLVrHUKdivvi8/s914/19.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="518" data-original-width="914" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghyr3G5ULO9M2DHpEdZ0kYGEkqAXczt6tFVj93tFBBY8rAxM2_04-0Xd5lIVficawMQ09CeAA8Ca_vELUYikvb_tP6HGtiZ2_pDCNgjowF-HNv9xFGik9EPG05OEjkvGqnLVrHUKdivvi8/w400-h226/19.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6EG-I-Wypin4QBv-iivUhQp_5S6wVusLqOiv9WsaBwOxtzUTgS90bvi3MunGDCXjgtRNHd-ozERdObLKmQvWfXT4uDHMO90g2sM888vhIN0QFlNuR6pE1I3pz0TmFOFyro6M5fbxa4-X8/s938/23.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="523" data-original-width="938" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6EG-I-Wypin4QBv-iivUhQp_5S6wVusLqOiv9WsaBwOxtzUTgS90bvi3MunGDCXjgtRNHd-ozERdObLKmQvWfXT4uDHMO90g2sM888vhIN0QFlNuR6pE1I3pz0TmFOFyro6M5fbxa4-X8/w400-h223/23.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div>Soon after arriving Kurt comes across Nevenka reclining on the beach where she (rather meekly) tries to ward him off with her riding crop whereupon he tears the clothes off her back and begins to viciously whip her bareback and in one of the more weirdly perverse sequences in '60s Euro-horror she begins to enjoy the whipping as her expression changes from terror to sexual excitement. Soon after Kurt is killed by an unseen assailant using the same dagger that Giorgia's daughter used in her suicide. Then begins supernatural appearances which may be real or the result of Nevenka's deteriorating mental state.</div><div><br /></div><div>Although dealing with sexual perversion this also stands as one of Bava's most lushly romantic films and one of his great troupes as a director was his ability to take traditional gothic horror themes and merge them with more adult themes which started with BLACK SUNDAY 1960 and would reach its apex with LISA AND THE DEVIL 1973. THE WHIP AND THE BODY has all the hallmarks of gothic horror and here all infused with the director's trademark beautiful almost hallucinatory lighting. For me along with HERCULES IN THE HAUNTED WORLD 1961 (which was Lee's only other work for Bava), this is his most beautiful film. The cinematographer of credit is Ulbaldo Terzano (who also worked with Bava on BLOOD AND BLACK LACE 1964, BLACK SABBATH 1963, and THE ROAD TO FT. ALAMO 1964) but Bava as usual was the major force behind the look of the film including several of his gorgeous glass paintings for background effects. </div><div><br /></div><div>Unlike other horror films of the era that crept gently around the subjects of sex and perversion here it is brought right to the forefront (and not subtly) that the plot's main driving force is sadomasochism (which is why in the heavily censored versions the motivations of the two main characters are left in the void). Bava's usual U.S. distributor A.I.P balked at releasing it because of the sexual overtones and it languished for a couple of years before being released in 1965 by the small Futuramic Releasing in a heavily censored <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">incompressible </span>version that bore the appropriate title of WHAT.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy1tw78nLWmEhvY4UOR4_Oh1QHiidSudVNcSbfVDzNnn8yZ3iu2tGHprpqox9yMcMm5MEVQHXF89JYT7dHiWHVsp5NO9KBG4aeDNYxyprF0dNN8JA_DDGLK6ynK7EQc1cUKCKOK3lufe6t/s926/25.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="523" data-original-width="926" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy1tw78nLWmEhvY4UOR4_Oh1QHiidSudVNcSbfVDzNnn8yZ3iu2tGHprpqox9yMcMm5MEVQHXF89JYT7dHiWHVsp5NO9KBG4aeDNYxyprF0dNN8JA_DDGLK6ynK7EQc1cUKCKOK3lufe6t/w400-h226/25.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiKQ7EytIXO8FiMIepX1P768gS68xmIJbYh688AYd3_f40DAefAZ0VFovIX8kfhW9nw2unXR_zn3fnjniAEFBthfXTCMCiL08I3_HyDTve-K0KIkH9tAMzBISJvVpLz6e_Mz_b1YoWPyNP/s925/24.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="526" data-original-width="925" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiKQ7EytIXO8FiMIepX1P768gS68xmIJbYh688AYd3_f40DAefAZ0VFovIX8kfhW9nw2unXR_zn3fnjniAEFBthfXTCMCiL08I3_HyDTve-K0KIkH9tAMzBISJvVpLz6e_Mz_b1YoWPyNP/w400-h228/24.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDFazSv_y9OXXvn490zHABhSkW4G1aPFGGJNWLo5Nv3Ffk8QcbkptS4s7OoQaWW1aJFxXbbP2lJd9iI66K9t2pKJJdihUSVSCNNAtp5aeajraI9jccQ2hU-zbc6BgbmoRRWsaLM5Yl3T1z/s929/29.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="521" data-original-width="929" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDFazSv_y9OXXvn490zHABhSkW4G1aPFGGJNWLo5Nv3Ffk8QcbkptS4s7OoQaWW1aJFxXbbP2lJd9iI66K9t2pKJJdihUSVSCNNAtp5aeajraI9jccQ2hU-zbc6BgbmoRRWsaLM5Yl3T1z/w400-h224/29.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">Lee is excellent here (although sadly his distinctive voice is dubbed) and although the aristocratic a-hole is a part he could play in his sleep he is magnificent here and even though he disappears for the most part 20 minutes in, his presence looms over the entire film. This was his favorite of his Italian productions. One of Lee's gifts was pantomime (which was why he was so great in his Hammer "non-speaking" roles such as the creatures in THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN or THE MUMMY) and he uses that talent wonderfully here especially with close-ups of his hands. The plot even manages to get him into a coffin at one point. </span></div><div><br /></div><div>Daliah Lavi's Nevenka is the main narrative focus and an exceedingly complex character in which Lavis conveys pity for and wonderfully shows her fragile mental state as she becomes more and more detached from reality. It is an extremely complex character and not the usual Gothic heroine and she seems to revel in the chance to show her acting chops. </div><div><br /></div><div>Carlo Rustichelli contributes a beautiful score, and the film's seaside location will be familiar to anyone who is seen Bava's filmography including 5 DOLLS FOR AN AUGUST MOON, SHOCK, and a barbarian-rampaging Cameron Mitchell in KNIVES OF THE AVENGER and ERIK THE CONQUEROR. Bava originally wanted Barbara Steele for the role of Nevenka but she was in one of her "no more horror roles" phases (probably from having just worked in Fellini's 8 1/2) but I think Lavi is perfect here. </div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Lee and Bava were supposed to work again on a version of
H.P. Lovecraft’s THE DUNWICH HORROR for A.I.P. which was also to star Boris Karloff.
The project fell apart and eventually <a href="http://theoakdrivein.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-dunwich-horror-1970.html"><span style="color: red;">was made</span></a> in 1970 and directed by Daniel
Haller.</span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSr-R-z9jtcUyWfZcbrxZEE23w_7bLkHqfwhyphenhyphen4Zp7TuMyhKsu0GfdaWVFKY_ZMtoCwxx5Y1Yyi-PhHXfbHkJGahTz-bS290XGRFNRTtwcHZnMrtL1FQJymJzowuuAngQ32d8_N3kAE3XvX/s921/22.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="524" data-original-width="921" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSr-R-z9jtcUyWfZcbrxZEE23w_7bLkHqfwhyphenhyphen4Zp7TuMyhKsu0GfdaWVFKY_ZMtoCwxx5Y1Yyi-PhHXfbHkJGahTz-bS290XGRFNRTtwcHZnMrtL1FQJymJzowuuAngQ32d8_N3kAE3XvX/w400-h228/22.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUtYi11MaZkRMXVSPPt8xkvjNhW61ikdPB9ZZGK-1z0wZ3Gx7h3zSoIivISWoGoLNCGWqBwDex0DyzgRPSReW46Sv8BU1K6u1q-cQXgIpQzFtKAa51jkvNN51ZinUPyVgvwnit5bj993Wu/s925/21.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><b><i>"Conceived by the Devil, only she knows what her baby really is!"</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxyVhhozPID3MRxq8rqJbTPptf0ousP0f2uKygaiATpcZGgaOCXjd01JT5dtDreI-oZTYD_veAToxEZMG_dJnJgigi3gz6apWBIXHdIeL56CwT3jw3XyC4Bo-TVNu7mUeq4yqHXk_VPbx9/s640/1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="510" data-original-width="640" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxyVhhozPID3MRxq8rqJbTPptf0ousP0f2uKygaiATpcZGgaOCXjd01JT5dtDreI-oZTYD_veAToxEZMG_dJnJgigi3gz6apWBIXHdIeL56CwT3jw3XyC4Bo-TVNu7mUeq4yqHXk_VPbx9/w400-h319/1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><i><b>"Pray for the Devil Within Her...before it preys on you!"</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigbfTTA12Sy0l5K5ThkiScn5fr9fbhLAMEmGvJDrELN-MayMec9lD9yhJXz6zTWMJbGX9D5GOSHz54A8Lk2mWdKGQfcM8GS71l8u2tZ8BQYVxcN8ay91HkqoMwomK1MVxYFbOnNPJMH__y/s670/3.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="522" data-original-width="670" height="311" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigbfTTA12Sy0l5K5ThkiScn5fr9fbhLAMEmGvJDrELN-MayMec9lD9yhJXz6zTWMJbGX9D5GOSHz54A8Lk2mWdKGQfcM8GS71l8u2tZ8BQYVxcN8ay91HkqoMwomK1MVxYFbOnNPJMH__y/w400-h311/3.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span>"You will have a baby - a monster, an evil monster </span><span>conceived</span></b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span> </span>in your womb as big as I am small and possessed by the devil himself"</b></i></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTclmtm8DpaO5PiEcDTXsXYXAqfw5RoH2sjmBE7otqLYgn1viVNa_vveMJMpBRvL-KrZ1o8kZpoZtEnXCZj8hgc_cn0BQ2SeYG9ndQgovSkptuS65gqCPgaD7QP5Ee_L9NEchvwlO7XO3Y/s1920/4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTclmtm8DpaO5PiEcDTXsXYXAqfw5RoH2sjmBE7otqLYgn1viVNa_vveMJMpBRvL-KrZ1o8kZpoZtEnXCZj8hgc_cn0BQ2SeYG9ndQgovSkptuS65gqCPgaD7QP5Ee_L9NEchvwlO7XO3Y/w400-h225/4.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Part of the wave of possessed baby pictures spawned by ROSEMARY'S BABY that even 7 years after that film's 1968 premiere was a genre that was still going strong and would gain even more momentum with the release of THE OMEN in 1976. With also a bit of homage to IT'S ALIVE, this was released in the UK under I DON'T WANT TO BE BORN in 1975, it was retitled by A.I.P for its 1976 American release as THE DEVIL WITHIN HER (where it was often time double-billed with SQUIRM or SHIVERS). It subsequently would surface on home video under a myriad of titles including THE MONSTER, IT LIVES WITHIN HER, and most bizarrely SHARON'S BABY (even though there is nary a character named Sharon to be found here). </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Although trashy and lurid, it is not quite as exploitative as you might initially think (or hope for) and never reaches the insane giddiness of a <a href="http://theoakdrivein.blogspot.com/2015/12/beyond-door-1974.html"><span style="color: red;">BEYOND THE DOOR 1974</span></a> and one thinks that the producers might have been hoping to reach for something a bit more serious. Sadly, by this time, the British film industry (in particular the horror genre) had begun to have troubles with American co-producers fleeing for the more economic thriftiness of Italy & Europe which along with the decline of Gothic horror made for some grasping at straws type productions (such as this) which tried to latch on the new trends in horror. With a game cast giving it their all with for the most part serious performances (despite the sometimes unintentionally funny dialogue) along with some gloriously insane moments help make this maybe not a great film (or perhaps even "good") but there is something to be said for Joan Collins with a possessed baby, Donald Pleasence as a pediatrician, some iffy attempts at Italian accents and of course Caroline Munro.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHTQnfJt5oue4S-ye2y-E9xK27fnaDwKDNGsIvBOkajq_ZEWd6Y1HErHKrmcM3piPCWMqZ9Z-aDkg4GxEnQy8SkUIaJoNqwVTgMjIcD-4PvKjMUtBHgGMYzDJe3PzNDDlGkHb3YOCv11GR/s913/7.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="522" data-original-width="913" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHTQnfJt5oue4S-ye2y-E9xK27fnaDwKDNGsIvBOkajq_ZEWd6Y1HErHKrmcM3piPCWMqZ9Z-aDkg4GxEnQy8SkUIaJoNqwVTgMjIcD-4PvKjMUtBHgGMYzDJe3PzNDDlGkHb3YOCv11GR/w400-h229/7.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaTx_AVM9vRRlQp5VxloHlukQyWZP-kez_9SvHkVi89Ccfop4xFnhsv5lmfWtN7hUc1T_St1TDObW1mtj6IpJGd0wgY50JRPAnD7B_y65kuQgeLcTX35buS9bT_zA7Rg6wBNEp8jIHCQnE/s919/9.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="515" data-original-width="919" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaTx_AVM9vRRlQp5VxloHlukQyWZP-kez_9SvHkVi89Ccfop4xFnhsv5lmfWtN7hUc1T_St1TDObW1mtj6IpJGd0wgY50JRPAnD7B_y65kuQgeLcTX35buS9bT_zA7Rg6wBNEp8jIHCQnE/w400-h224/9.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOu2Vf0IAbnSx0dDR298bOWS9gZpdt0OarCdP9EFCiSZS63_1aL1KpVbYuHDqp34md_e1bon221UYbuvmjrs2cxgNUvPKK5BJuVthJ7Dc2pCDexTE3jIk9XWoPx0YLp4xXgiwmMtEadn69/s918/8.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="519" data-original-width="918" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOu2Vf0IAbnSx0dDR298bOWS9gZpdt0OarCdP9EFCiSZS63_1aL1KpVbYuHDqp34md_e1bon221UYbuvmjrs2cxgNUvPKK5BJuVthJ7Dc2pCDexTE3jIk9XWoPx0YLp4xXgiwmMtEadn69/w400-h226/8.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">The film starts off with a hysterical & screaming Lucy Carlesi (Joan Collins) going through a difficult birth which results in a 12 lb. boy (with a full head of black hair) who promptly attacks Lucy. Dr. Finch (a remarkably restrained performance by Donald Pleasence) remarks "This one doesn't want to be born" and after the newborn's aggressive behavior intones "Even at this age, babies have an extraordinary instinct for survival” (!!). She brings the baby home to her husband Gino (Ralph Bates <a href="http://theoakdrivein.blogspot.com/2015/10/taste-blood-of-dracula-1970.html"><span style="color: red;">TASTE THE BLOOD OF DRACULA 1970</span></a><span style="color: red;"> </span>and here bizarrely cast as an Italian businessman) and their immediately suspicious housekeeper Mrs. Hyde (Hilary Mason DON'T LOOK NOW 1973).</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">In a flashback, Lucy recounts her previous profession as a "nightclub showgirl" (i.e., stripper) who worked in a club run by a creepy and lecherous John Steiner (CALIGULA 1979 and bunches of Italian productions) and the MC was pudgy small person Hercules (George Claydon <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://theoakdrivein.blogspot.com/2016/07/twins-of-evil-1971.html"><span style="color: red;">TWINS OF EVIL 1971</span></a> </span>and here looking like he's auditioning for the lead role in Edgar Allan Poe's Hop-Frog). At one point Hercules had started making sexual advances on Lucy and upon rebuffing him he put a curse upon her future baby. Now concerned by this (along with the fact that Steiner's sleazy club owner may be the father of her baby) she reaches out to her friend and fellow stripper Mandy (Caroline Munro <a href="http://theoakdrivein.blogspot.com/2015/04/dracula-ad-1972_20.html"><span style="color: red;">DRACULA A.D. 1972</span></a>). Some reviews have Munro's character referred to as Collin's sister, but I did not pick up on that and for some strange reason Munro is dubbed here with a cockney accent. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGlrwNGZJl0ohWfr6vg2SJabK84_ZO7RrDC5ZnrAHgj1gS3IPmLBOlT79Ff4Jg3eP695X7Gh7JIuu-Rr2QM1IV-R8K36Y5kS966lX2POy4hPCXqMgi-mABC9oWrUJJtpuc6sOQ7R5tMRYk/s920/23.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="524" data-original-width="920" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGlrwNGZJl0ohWfr6vg2SJabK84_ZO7RrDC5ZnrAHgj1gS3IPmLBOlT79Ff4Jg3eP695X7Gh7JIuu-Rr2QM1IV-R8K36Y5kS966lX2POy4hPCXqMgi-mABC9oWrUJJtpuc6sOQ7R5tMRYk/w400-h228/23.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG3lmlUF74GYLa56fkZNsIyuWrxQMTwImwuEILGN__dqqeamsVhprbfy2EzprIiE2nL0KXr54lOTFhp1Opb_b382tKHdpCIui4BFhHpr9XPADMVQvQzYWZRXffZrNQsGEAMSUNFW69K7-j/s917/21.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="516" data-original-width="917" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG3lmlUF74GYLa56fkZNsIyuWrxQMTwImwuEILGN__dqqeamsVhprbfy2EzprIiE2nL0KXr54lOTFhp1Opb_b382tKHdpCIui4BFhHpr9XPADMVQvQzYWZRXffZrNQsGEAMSUNFW69K7-j/w400-h225/21.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh46F65tcxrw2dfiOLB4qvkGOV8y0nohGNbvBP8tTnUjsJloI13Esxo5wg-P49LZq18SNVJlr19lME0kMgSB2qXGAD0dxMNH4Wa6WMGE-GilAT6kLxeXU1-CppfZwpltYXgDBZnpUQv_pu1/s915/13.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="519" data-original-width="915" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh46F65tcxrw2dfiOLB4qvkGOV8y0nohGNbvBP8tTnUjsJloI13Esxo5wg-P49LZq18SNVJlr19lME0kMgSB2qXGAD0dxMNH4Wa6WMGE-GilAT6kLxeXU1-CppfZwpltYXgDBZnpUQv_pu1/w400-h228/13.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Also showing up to help is Sister Albana (BBC & Shakespearean actor Eileen Atkins) who is also a research scientist with small animals (I am not sure why this is brought up as a character point in the film) and the actual sister of Gino. It is strange that the scriptwriters choose to have Gino of Italian descent and to make a point of his sister being a nun based in Italy. Bates struggles sometimes with a fading in and out Italian accent while Atkins (a wonderful actress) pronounces devil as "dee-vul" and often time looks like she is wondering what she's doing in this film. A nun from England could not handle an evil baby that needs an exorcism?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The Carlesi's new baby shows increasingly disturbing behavior as he screams and throws a fit during his baptism and shrieks when Gino and Sister Albana attempt to pray in the house one night. Along with tearing his room apart at various times and the appearance of a dead mouse in a cup of tea all of which lead the ever-dwindling cast to the fact that something is satanically up with the child. When the baby starts its murderous rampage things really get crazy as we see a little hand reach out and push the destined-to-be-killed young nanny into a river. The problem with evil baby movies is that you either go with a full-on monster baby (IT'S ALIVE) or you go with suggestion and the unseen (ROSEMARY'S BABY), however when you just show a baby in a crib (as in this film) you simply have a baby making baby-faces in a crib. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Collin's 70's pre-DYNASTY acting career has passed over at times (sometimes by Joan herself) but there are some real sometimes sleazy/sometimes WTF crazy (but always entertaining) gems in here including the late-night cable favorites THE STUD 1978 and THE BITCH 1979 along with REVENGE 1971 and EMPIRE OF THE ANTS 1977. She also appeared in the Italian poliziotteschi MAGNUM COP 1978, the Hammer thriller FEAR IN THE NIGHT 1972, and was the unfortunate recipient of a Christmas-gone-bad in the TALES FROM THE CRYPT segment "All Through The House" in 1978. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV1tLRt7tt14b04yiVfIaJPYj5_72KDW4xXGUvXOK_NRTkI9JGJxhxuuSKFJjKFoFnv71izlwHY5d26tBgUKUkgjoU0fhycBxw-R8cqGfLI9KVL2irgJZhLhi96P3I8lQuazgxbYsqok5R/s912/10.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="521" data-original-width="912" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV1tLRt7tt14b04yiVfIaJPYj5_72KDW4xXGUvXOK_NRTkI9JGJxhxuuSKFJjKFoFnv71izlwHY5d26tBgUKUkgjoU0fhycBxw-R8cqGfLI9KVL2irgJZhLhi96P3I8lQuazgxbYsqok5R/w400-h229/10.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilKmGSOaYRo37fTw0LsAF8YoEGOnEE_p8-JOwH6KdVGb9CbpzUlVrOwuAzlsl_p-kRR_d29zPE9FiXOSpI1qmocCKDQd9Uuyc1tBX77qROkt0xx71Xm14HyMa8r1s4Oy-ZEadOMfhJt8Wy/s917/18.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="525" data-original-width="917" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilKmGSOaYRo37fTw0LsAF8YoEGOnEE_p8-JOwH6KdVGb9CbpzUlVrOwuAzlsl_p-kRR_d29zPE9FiXOSpI1qmocCKDQd9Uuyc1tBX77qROkt0xx71Xm14HyMa8r1s4Oy-ZEadOMfhJt8Wy/w400-h229/18.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgceA_cWxiaHcC5FmGH2Ti3FSIMPqCy3QDZCyUi0AreuSIslGnf9XDlEJ8gv22CGj6fsZUQ2fiGn6-fj-RgcWXt5ww_BpQpj8Bw96CLy51KJSbit95T0jRs8iiD1-YbdKJlCZ6L4XlhcPJm/s946/25.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="514" data-original-width="946" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgceA_cWxiaHcC5FmGH2Ti3FSIMPqCy3QDZCyUi0AreuSIslGnf9XDlEJ8gv22CGj6fsZUQ2fiGn6-fj-RgcWXt5ww_BpQpj8Bw96CLy51KJSbit95T0jRs8iiD1-YbdKJlCZ6L4XlhcPJm/w400-h217/25.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Always giving her all (Collin's was RADA trained) she throws herself fully into her role even giving a flash of nudity during a roll in the bed with Bates although she keeps dressed during "dance routines". There is some full-frontal nudity supplied by others (which I suspect are played by "Suzie Lightning" and "Lopez" going by the end credits) which help nudge the film into "R" rated territory. Bates who a bit earlier in the decade had been groomed as a new younger-type leading man for Hammer (appearing in THE HORROR OF FRANKENSTEIN 1970, LUST FOR A VAMPIRE 1971 and DR. JEKYLL AND SISTER HYDE 1971) but with the studios declining fortunes his roles there dried up and he would tragically die at the young age of 51 in 1991. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"> Pleasence who by this time was a staple in these types of films gets lines that bring the most unintentional laugh-out-loud lines ("I thought today would be a bit of a bore, but here I am talking about mysticism with an Italian nun"), and although he could go over the top in some roles his dead serious reading of these lines here all add to the lunacy of the plot. One of my favorite actresses of the period, Caroline Munro has what is basically a glorified cameo here but brings her undeniable presence to her scenes and gets to appear in some pretty groovy outfits. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Directed by Peter Sasdy (who did some great work for Hammer including TASTE THE BLOOD OF DRACULA 1970, HANDS OF THE RIPPER 1971, COUNTESS DRACULA 1971, and the interesting Tigon produced eco-thriller DOOMWATCH 1972) brings a few interesting flourishes to the proceedings including a nifty decapitation. The score by Ron Grainer is a mish-mash of world music, 70's Italian scores, and prog rock all of which mix together in a crazy stew that screams "1970's!!" 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://takinguproom.wordpress.com/2020/11/18/announcing-the-third-so-bad-its-good-blogathon/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="650" data-original-width="1135" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijPMWxNWUyI1TP-RgqIemFJFWGqNlg86MebI6dhnJwWelRIH_5PO_4kEIWmpogeLSukf4I00E1p5WV6Boq6ktl-yo0XNXWNs-iX5f9bJS_PfCJwjTIXJXFRYjOhGg1EH7SRZ_IzbW671pS/s320/BLOGSG.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> Hosted By <a href="https://takinguproom.wordpress.com/2020/11/18/announcing-the-third-so-bad-its-good-blogathon/"><span style="color: red;">Taking Up Room</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="color: red;">"Cinemagic And You Take a Trip To The Angry Red Planet!"</span></b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Although released in 1959 it has the look and feel of something from earlier in the decade and it is mind-bogglingly to think that MGM (who currently own the rights to it) would release 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY in a scant 9 years. It was directed by Irb Melichor (THE TIME TRAVELERS 1964) who also co-wrote it with the film's producer Sidney Pink and that same duo would co-produce/direct the Danish monster-on-the rampage REPTILICUS in 1961.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The film is most known today among genre fans for the use of a process that was heralded as "CineMagic" whereupon solarization was applied to a B&W film negative (which reverses the negative making it a positive) and then slathering the image in a heavy red filter. The process allowed a part of the film to be shot on less expensive B&W film stock while also (hopefully) helping mask the film's budget-constrained special effects. Pink and Melchor also went with hand-drawn matt paintings for the sequences on Mars that were just drawn as outlines of the vegetation and landscape (worked on by comic artist Alex Toth) which was hoped would be covered up by the solarization & heavy filtering but instead appear exactly as they are - simple line drawings.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">THE ANGRY RED PLANET has often been criticized for having some interesting ideas and concepts that because of the budget and script never come close to being explored (although you wonder what they could explore in an 83-min. low budget film shot in a week and a half). In addition, most space exploration films of this period do not have much in science plausibility (and to be fair even at the time of their release we were and still are today watching them for entertainment) but ANGRY RED PLANET appears to have been made by folks who did not have the slightest grasp in what was known about Mars at the time or science in general. However, it is wonderfully entertaining, and one cannot but help to revel in its unintentional humor (and dialogue) and the creatures for all their WTF craziness have a wonderful whacky charm to them and are not soon forgotten. Despite everything working against it, it succeeds on its own often-time silly merits. Along with MISSLE TO THE MOON from 1958, you could probably look at this as one of the main inspirations for the 50's sci-fi parody segment in AMAZON WOMEN ON THE MOON. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin_5LN9sBTqOEkJkSFLSyx1JqnM9z-xltOWB0RgBDLSjLzqfeF11xRzGiueylUwVH-XY3UVI50FQaqNZ10CaJdPF6a6_FJDXg-OQAUnOW4HnY_5V_N-TwweV6CgofMDBPEVoKpyS_76SMP/s937/8.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="505" data-original-width="937" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin_5LN9sBTqOEkJkSFLSyx1JqnM9z-xltOWB0RgBDLSjLzqfeF11xRzGiueylUwVH-XY3UVI50FQaqNZ10CaJdPF6a6_FJDXg-OQAUnOW4HnY_5V_N-TwweV6CgofMDBPEVoKpyS_76SMP/w400-h215/8.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguQxsqy6IDLcgrfIef32cZT4XrUfdxB3pMLvifijIViPZF22gDlcX3K8ImtO4TDAHx6m7JEG9RIuEvp1ENM6JKJ9D7AqxbWZovoh4ELT6MeOEUTYGXOyzGmQJU__8DVsaUM58ynsG63rfQ/s932/12.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="506" data-original-width="932" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguQxsqy6IDLcgrfIef32cZT4XrUfdxB3pMLvifijIViPZF22gDlcX3K8ImtO4TDAHx6m7JEG9RIuEvp1ENM6JKJ9D7AqxbWZovoh4ELT6MeOEUTYGXOyzGmQJU__8DVsaUM58ynsG63rfQ/w400-h217/12.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuMIk1q7btRxeJDg9dbFcZbmHyB-HIrVxrBYZKyFPDpV5ZQeBm7w_Y-8vqLLmfnMVM6pL8Fvm0XE2nosnIbAorXKU1Sl6sOd8CMy2RDhcUMAu_mwBlg9DGhMuEK3NNqSx0tX031eMH-9k8/s933/10.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="503" data-original-width="933" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuMIk1q7btRxeJDg9dbFcZbmHyB-HIrVxrBYZKyFPDpV5ZQeBm7w_Y-8vqLLmfnMVM6pL8Fvm0XE2nosnIbAorXKU1Sl6sOd8CMy2RDhcUMAu_mwBlg9DGhMuEK3NNqSx0tX031eMH-9k8/w400-h216/10.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Opening with a montage of frantic meetings between military and scientist-types along with screaming newspaper headlines (and a great deal of stock footage), it is learned that the long-missing Mars MR1 rocket has been found in space just outside of the earth's atmosphere. In a classic space mystery (and reminiscent of Hammer's <a href="http://theoakdrivein.blogspot.com/2016/09/the-quatermass-xperiment-1955.html"><span style="color: red;">THE QUATERMASS XPERIMENT</span></a> from 1955) it is discovered that only two of the four crew members are left alive and that the rocket can be brought back and landed by "robot control". In a short flashback via newsreel footage, the crew members are introduced which are the pilot (and space lounge lizard) Col. Tom O'Bannon (Gerald Mohr THE SNIPER 1952), "electronics expert", and comic-relief Sam Jacobs (Jack Kruschen SATAN'S CHEERLEADERS 1977 and Academy Award nominee for THE APARTMENT 1960), scientist Dr. Iris "Irish" Ryan (Nora Hayden PLUNDER ROAD 1957) and rocket designer Prof. Theodore Gettell (Les Tremayne THE WAR OF THE WORLDS 1953). </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Upon landing its discovered that the remaining crew members are Dr. Ryan and an initially kept secretive second member who is unconscious and has a strange green growth on their arm. Unable to recall anything Dr. Ryan is given sodium panthenol and recalls the events of the expedition in flashback which unfolds as the main plot of the film. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The voyage to Mars is shown in one of those magnificently huge 1950's rocket interiors where folks stroll about, smoke cigarettes, and the canned rations ("Mars Ration No. 1") are kept on a shelf in a small kitchen-type wood cabinet. There is no mention of the gravity issue and we are quickly brought up to speed with the four main characters and their stock character hierarchy. Gerald Mohr with his unbuttoned jumpsuit exposing his hairy chest spends almost his entire time making passes at Irish ("When I call you by your name... you'll know it"). You keep expecting him to walk out in a velour bathrobe & slippers with a pipe and demanding a drink. Kruschen's Jacobs in the tradition of cinema love-lorn second bananas develops an unhealthy relationship to a piece of equipment. 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In a nice bit of enlightenment for the time women were often given roles of a scientist in 50's Sci-Fi (although they are often given male nicknames such as Mara Corday's "Steve" in TARANTULA 1955) and it is commendable that the writers here make Nora Hayden's character a biology scientist she is shown to be making the meals and screaming every 10 minutes. However, she is the one whose knowledge of science saves the day in the end. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Upon landing on Mars (accompanied by what sounds like a whirring tape deck and everybody barking out landing instructions) they find the planet eerily quiet and unmoving with the Professor immediately jumping to the conclusion that everything is controlled by an unseen presence. While looking out on the landscape Iris sees a three-eyed bug-like creature gazing at her from the outside through a window. The group begins wandering aimlessly about in simple coveralls in a landscape that seems to change from jungle to desert to sea in a matter of steps with all the landscape rendered in the "CineMagic" process. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The creatures they encounter are the highlights of the film and include a huge man-eating plant and best of all a towering thing described as a "rat bat spider" that seems to defy all laws of zoology & evolution (how and what does it eat??). Encountering a large sea, the group begins paddling across it in a rubber boat they conveniently have brought with them and spy a towering futuristic city on the horizon (described as "hundreds of feet high" and oddly invisible to telescopes on earth it seems) and encounter a huge amoeba-like sea monster (with a spinning eyeball on top!).</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmvD8Ok6gc_z9hsWhBw-gbd126dE-QaAUZ-Deg_zYgkAN6GYFMnWB-KuDBhQzCNaudoBLjGhIGHkJJJk0ZSOCB8LS1XjxOVN5qGSJ4ZB7f0DozrnQ0P_vR8Gntv6GYfAzkI89K8U4BHqsZ/s934/18.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="504" data-original-width="934" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmvD8Ok6gc_z9hsWhBw-gbd126dE-QaAUZ-Deg_zYgkAN6GYFMnWB-KuDBhQzCNaudoBLjGhIGHkJJJk0ZSOCB8LS1XjxOVN5qGSJ4ZB7f0DozrnQ0P_vR8Gntv6GYfAzkI89K8U4BHqsZ/w400-h216/18.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeI0yaqPoZEXU800jITwFzzBAx4RF0WD9u5PrZ9EcmIqs4agxOo3UMy6EbikVZkwpAudBxNew1iI0RPcVsZJP5273RWMNiInvpFan7ofr9QGMK0rO2af2iCx0Ugx5D0af59R76jZ84x8sM/s930/20.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="503" data-original-width="930" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeI0yaqPoZEXU800jITwFzzBAx4RF0WD9u5PrZ9EcmIqs4agxOo3UMy6EbikVZkwpAudBxNew1iI0RPcVsZJP5273RWMNiInvpFan7ofr9QGMK0rO2af2iCx0Ugx5D0af59R76jZ84x8sM/w400-h216/20.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga3AwkW4p4FNlGRsGBYlCSk7HEkpJTuPQLuRU4h84_vv-J-K8V-RS1qbKdp6hyphenhyphen3-x967dylZ_98J_pHq-6FSyRti3zbbh5tvenKG2yMCXXVdPoiOCnq438MPGaULd_0aLW4Ia8mi6mzWWy/s930/22.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="506" data-original-width="930" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga3AwkW4p4FNlGRsGBYlCSk7HEkpJTuPQLuRU4h84_vv-J-K8V-RS1qbKdp6hyphenhyphen3-x967dylZ_98J_pHq-6FSyRti3zbbh5tvenKG2yMCXXVdPoiOCnq438MPGaULd_0aLW4Ia8mi6mzWWy/w400-h217/22.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">For all its mystery concerning the identity of the green-growth afflicted crew member, it is painfully obvious who it is and equally obvious which two crew members will be the equivalent of a red-shirted crew member on a STAR TREK landing party. For all its faults and unintentional humor, THE ANGRY RED PLANET is a lot of fun and as mentioned will definitely stick in your mind. Paul Dunlap (who is still working in the Hollywood music industry to this day) contributes a score that veers from finger-popping jazz-like interludes to more ominous queues. The martian glimpsed in the film was originally to be shown as gigantic and can be seen towering above the rocket in some promo material. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Gerald Mohr had one of those "radio voices" and made a decent transition to movies with roles in the bizarre INVASION U.S.A. (from 1952, not the Chuck Norris one) and appeared in some great film noirs including THE SNIPER 1952 and GILDA 1946 along with bunches of westerns and tons of TV work. A busy character actor Jack Kruschen seemed poised for bigger things after his nomination for THE APARTMENT but continued with small roles in major pictures (often playing ethnic types) along with more prominent work in lower-budget movies. I will always remember him from George Pal's THE WAR OF THE WORLDS 1953 where he played one of the unfortunate trio who first encounter the invaders and in the John Wayne comedy western MCCLINTOCK! 1963. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Nora Hayden was a model and appeared in the excellent PLUNDER ROAD 1957 and did extensive TV work in the '60s and '70s. Les Tremayne was another radio guy with an impressive 132 acting credits and was a familiar face (and voice) in 50's Sci-Fi usually playing gruff no-nonsense military and authority business types such as in the above mentioned THE WAR OF THE WORLDS 1953 and <a href="http://theoakdrivein.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-monolith-monsters-1957.html"><span style="color: red;">THE MONOLITH MONSTERS 1957</span></a>.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">THE ANGRY RED PLANET is available on Blu-ray from Shout Factory and had a couple previous DVD releases from Shout including a 4 pack with THE MAN FROM PLANET X, THE TIME TRAVELERS, and BEYOND THE TIME BARRIER. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj42RUH98CAKYMxde8Nqscewawz_rGlxpxBlGsY_1x8Ag3qXp3-BzZ6-H5IC3eogXenHugpLUOwYuW_5d35bqsX2XM9AfZ2h2qivoSsJJz5Ns-owUINxwO91blIjU1wqJgbC6nflxHlhepp/s959/23.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; 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In addition, star Miriam Hopkins had passed away in 1972 which must have added to the befuddlement of theatergoers.</div><div><br /></div><div>The film opens with a beautifully shot & evocative credit sequence of the then rusted and dilapidated Hollywood sign atop Mt. Lee (where it is literally falling apart before the camera) before it pans down to a woman's mutilated corpse at its base. We next see various shots of old-time glamorous Hollywood (some of it cribbed from SINGIN' IN THE RAIN) and then cutting to a contemporary seedy Sunset Blvd. where an elderly woman is followed home and bloodily dispatched by a variety of sharp objects (including an electric knife). A televised news reports that there has been a series of brutal killings of women in the Hollywood area. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHc4Dy3DKXi5aRP4XdRjcQn-kAfdNKLA_CAqKP-8i0vkYjZA-MedC31jW-TPbONRaucVVVgXuEmSkZ4IZOt8N-Q4fhbWbVge_sQ7Mplp-5TgmzgiumXPQA8g5j2S1IPiLTGum94vA1Afn1/s936/5.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="504" data-original-width="936" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHc4Dy3DKXi5aRP4XdRjcQn-kAfdNKLA_CAqKP-8i0vkYjZA-MedC31jW-TPbONRaucVVVgXuEmSkZ4IZOt8N-Q4fhbWbVge_sQ7Mplp-5TgmzgiumXPQA8g5j2S1IPiLTGum94vA1Afn1/w400-h215/5.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB2usGaafxqcq5uqS1OmzujqVgDXrN-IZoni_3LO2bZF_lWWrabU_YnmwnvsEkD7Fnup1j-Pky6xmEOEJRCM3TRxbizWkcljQtLYTCtJ7EfnLRFiWAiLfU7rav2xLUq04FtC5iDigO5wbN/s933/6.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="502" data-original-width="933" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB2usGaafxqcq5uqS1OmzujqVgDXrN-IZoni_3LO2bZF_lWWrabU_YnmwnvsEkD7Fnup1j-Pky6xmEOEJRCM3TRxbizWkcljQtLYTCtJ7EfnLRFiWAiLfU7rav2xLUq04FtC5iDigO5wbN/w400-h215/6.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5XJiXbCOJB1siWdam82G9SRdgTcYVbTwZt6oC393j8U8kvQfnI42W37ljG5LmfWWqKbz1F68nF2CT8c891pd-c1pt9cZFeXP4SAKhOEK_AAOOyPi0g1U6L9m8EPxeTSI6MJ2VV8ZiE8Qc/s928/15.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="504" data-original-width="928" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5XJiXbCOJB1siWdam82G9SRdgTcYVbTwZt6oC393j8U8kvQfnI42W37ljG5LmfWWqKbz1F68nF2CT8c891pd-c1pt9cZFeXP4SAKhOEK_AAOOyPi0g1U6L9m8EPxeTSI6MJ2VV8ZiE8Qc/w400-h217/15.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div>In her sprawling Hollywood Hills mansion (actually the Santa Monica home of silent screen actress Norma Talmadge) faded and reclusive screen star Katherine Packard (Miriam Hopkins DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE 1931) has fallen down the stairs in a drunken stupor and broken her leg. Her secretary Leslie (Gale Sondergaard THE SPIDER WOMAN 1943) decides to hire a live-in nurse and in a bit of happenstance, a Hollywood tour bus (driven by the least funny of The Three Stooges Joe Besser) stops in front of her house, and struggling actor Vic Valance (David Garfield and son of John Garfield) whose been hitching a ride on the rear bumper jumps off and marches up to the front door.</div><div><br /></div><div>Introducing himself to the cook Mildred (busy character actor Florence Lake THE DAY OF THE LOCUST 1974) as "Laurel N. Hardy", he is mistaken as an applicant for the nurse job and after flim-flamming his way past Leslie, gets the job. The now wheelchair-bound Katherine quickly becomes fond of her new young companion and he soon seduces her along with the housekeeper Greta (Virginia Winters CHARLEY VARRICK) while Leslie & Mildred become increasingly suspicious of his behavior and closeness to Katherine. Periodically Vic has hallucinatory LSD-triggered flashbacks to his childhood as he watches his nymphomaniac mother being groped by a gaggle of men before he (or somebody?) chops off her hand with an ax and then a quick cut to ketchup gurgling out of a bottle. He also suffers from other LSD flashbacks that include quick-cut montages where among others Hitler and Alister Crowley can be glimpsed. Since there is no suspense on who the slasher is as seen in the opening sequence (the plot makes it in-your-face obvious) we are only left with the when & who in the Packard household are going to meet their end. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrsNeQ6qiMrfcL85SgDjLv-0F_7H4-VUBiEgBlsBsAyrm1IlMCTNu9zXShlIIuXylF3ICPLRapGWmtorfaaH-B1HG8sQThjdcBmKWLmIvgAlRZ8T1jfuiXWIJWiRuah0VxI_wqbI78SN7j/s930/8.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="504" data-original-width="930" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrsNeQ6qiMrfcL85SgDjLv-0F_7H4-VUBiEgBlsBsAyrm1IlMCTNu9zXShlIIuXylF3ICPLRapGWmtorfaaH-B1HG8sQThjdcBmKWLmIvgAlRZ8T1jfuiXWIJWiRuah0VxI_wqbI78SN7j/w400-h216/8.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGpvF5fxfck0MBstd8sNkYvG3mQcFnW-OVNUQL4qL9eYZcs4DUzjTwMqie0HPzWkRXIrUAt1oitbBszX9yw-ISl78qi6Vr7TCLD8o9ONiwsG2kUa0Pfs0UgUnRqqm77dALvNvb8X_XRhX9/s929/18.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="501" data-original-width="929" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGpvF5fxfck0MBstd8sNkYvG3mQcFnW-OVNUQL4qL9eYZcs4DUzjTwMqie0HPzWkRXIrUAt1oitbBszX9yw-ISl78qi6Vr7TCLD8o9ONiwsG2kUa0Pfs0UgUnRqqm77dALvNvb8X_XRhX9/w400-h216/18.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrTLOzk8eNsBNusSsnzQD2ysh2-kUkqjSNTzSTcf_GHdXQpxnC7GD1gM45ARLGPB5x4QM_DA4CxwlQUu9pUdKhVAvlcEY-tnsEd1-DIoYYGDBDRkygk1tRUgFSo1QC7_6lhjbZPyOQXGvC/s944/9.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="504" data-original-width="944" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrTLOzk8eNsBNusSsnzQD2ysh2-kUkqjSNTzSTcf_GHdXQpxnC7GD1gM45ARLGPB5x4QM_DA4CxwlQUu9pUdKhVAvlcEY-tnsEd1-DIoYYGDBDRkygk1tRUgFSo1QC7_6lhjbZPyOQXGvC/w400-h214/9.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div> Hopkins who would sadly die of a heart attack in 1972 throws herself full-tilt into the proceedings whether gleefully screaming "vodka!" (which she insists on injecting directly into her veins) when asked what flavor of ice cream she wants, flashing a bare breast while getting a nude massage from Vic and in one particularly over-the-top-sequence participating in the Hollywood Christmas parade as she drunkenly shrieks "I'm the Queeeeen of the Christmas Paraaaaade!" while riding with Santa Claus. It would have been nice for Hopkins to go out on a higher note, however it cannot be said that she does not give her all here and her role may be a trainwreck, but it's an entertaining (and sometimes amazing in its bad taste) train wreck. There are a few sequences that hint at some evocative atmosphere including one room in Katherine's house that contains mannequins wearing costumes from her past roles. </div><div><br /></div><div>One of the more under-appreciated golden age actresses, Sondergaard who specialized in cunning & sinister roles (she is especially good in the 1939 version of THE CAT AND THE CANARY and just missed out on the Wicked Witch role in THE WIZARD OF OZ) comes out the best of the leads as she gives a sympathetic performance as the caring secretary. Although he looks a great deal like his famous father (and in some instances sounds eerily just like him) Garfield lacks the charisma of his Dad, although some more focused direction might have helped his role (the same can be said for Hopkins). 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There's a couple of out-right lifts from SUNSET BLVD. including Katherine hosting a dinner party with some of her other old Hollywood cronies among them her former director (Lester Matthews THE WEREWOLF OF LONDON) who secretly loves her and Vic doing shopping for his new gigolo-financed clothes courtesy of his employer. </div><div><br /></div><div>The opening credit sequence of the crumbling Hollywood sign with the wind blowing through it is the most atmospheric of the film and one wonders if perhaps this was done by the second unit director Don May as it is so unlike the rest of the film. The music is by Stu Phillips, who seemed to supply the music for exploitation film of the period and had just come off <a href="http://theoakdrivein.blogspot.com/2016/06/the-losers-1970.html"><span style="color: red;">THE LOSERS</span></a>, THE CURIOUS FEMALE, and BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS. </div><div><br /></div><div>Previously only available on VHS sourced releases of dubious legality HOLLYWOOD HORROR HOUSE has been given a Blu-ray release from Vinegar Syndrome in an eye-popping 4K transfer from the 35mm negative which brings out the colors and psychedelic Day-Glo color scheme in glorious retina-burning color. 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For if we tell, we'll go to hell"</span></b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjSPhjU9TDsGXzR_D-x22NsJJ-lkl_I-o2DMkfioy0XWkAx6XyBWizzH6eXIAWbaXBfQzPpFhopvvnjT6bvWnrxzXDvlYvcDzHttIJr_JUNSbm7BVvqdh4msZXShT4fCXq2RJ5RXDDepps/s872/8.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="519" data-original-width="872" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjSPhjU9TDsGXzR_D-x22NsJJ-lkl_I-o2DMkfioy0XWkAx6XyBWizzH6eXIAWbaXBfQzPpFhopvvnjT6bvWnrxzXDvlYvcDzHttIJr_JUNSbm7BVvqdh4msZXShT4fCXq2RJ5RXDDepps/w400-h238/8.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfwdgOD20bHHdp5qvAFbVHc2GKN60PVpl8aCXoAOd5KscblF5iqcDXi6_s5xCSbKSnoIRSqfA7JCd-7aERVf23Q_NLqFJpSxOfnZ0-bYivnlJu1AD5tXZ1WjtAYUHMfbtvvXjE7MNCY64V/s860/24.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="526" data-original-width="860" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfwdgOD20bHHdp5qvAFbVHc2GKN60PVpl8aCXoAOd5KscblF5iqcDXi6_s5xCSbKSnoIRSqfA7JCd-7aERVf23Q_NLqFJpSxOfnZ0-bYivnlJu1AD5tXZ1WjtAYUHMfbtvvXjE7MNCY64V/w400-h245/24.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></b></i></div><div style="text-align: left;">After spending years in the British film system director Jack Clayton appeared to be on quite a roll in the first half of the sixties. After ROOM AT THE TOP in 1959, followed by the great THE INNOCENTS in 1961 and then 1964's THE PUMPKIN EATER he seemed destined to become one of the leading figures of British cinema, and then in 1967, he directed this adaptation of Julian Gloag's novel of the same name. A failure at the box office, the film was saddled with a wholly inappropriate ad campaign that attempted to sell it as a Hammer-type PSYCHO-inspired psychological horror complete with lurid one-sheets along with a spoiler-laden trailer that managed to pack every bit of perceived salacious & violent content into its brief running time. With its blend of old-fashioned Gothic ambiance combined with a very dark (this film truly goes into some shadowy & disturbing places) storyline along with a very creepy and unsettling blend of religious hypocrisy and dark sexual undertones (all of which involve children) it no doubt was a tough sell.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"> In the London suburb of Croydon, the seven Hook children (with the name of "Hook" perhaps being a reference to Peter Pan) live with their sickly bed-ridden & deeply religious mother in a large rambling Victorian house. Ranging in age from pre-school to middle teen they tend to their mother and with their only outside contact being school and a visit from an occasional housekeeper they live isolated in the home which the mother has festooned with crosses and biblical verses. One night right before "bible story time" the mother dies suddenly and faced with the prospect of being sent to an orphanage the children conspire to secretly bury her in the garden.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbtQRKmWeKBl7KoDhKGQCfDLkTkEpLV2G9gk83J1vOv09TQ02GgURMYz-Ux6po5Y9bgjWLKhRJQ4lZ8DXLuHsKs2rD6HRUKWm4lf3-D8RrSoGzpT9I_4N5Cd9pJyg417BHyBUfhBmw51eO/s872/9.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="522" data-original-width="872" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbtQRKmWeKBl7KoDhKGQCfDLkTkEpLV2G9gk83J1vOv09TQ02GgURMYz-Ux6po5Y9bgjWLKhRJQ4lZ8DXLuHsKs2rD6HRUKWm4lf3-D8RrSoGzpT9I_4N5Cd9pJyg417BHyBUfhBmw51eO/w400-h240/9.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAdgzlTvnSQd2LCmC-qlvOVJKbxyajEMJAlqePHKGOwb_KPxI5DVoR341pq_9fCcdg7Xyvqb5Hti_MLJBeb12WmiKpuxAkGwNr_szAMs6UX54yTtOR8oTSgVo7nGt2ex_ryPrBeNzI4BSw/s872/13.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="872" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAdgzlTvnSQd2LCmC-qlvOVJKbxyajEMJAlqePHKGOwb_KPxI5DVoR341pq_9fCcdg7Xyvqb5Hti_MLJBeb12WmiKpuxAkGwNr_szAMs6UX54yTtOR8oTSgVo7nGt2ex_ryPrBeNzI4BSw/w400-h235/13.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipaF9G_H18iAfudsj4zHbA31g127YwLGw-qdQrWkurSxwiRL2iGSMmCeKX-zMqDeCvopTeKLVMxTehEdj2YD0_q6o9zTOtsK5QMTurlUIpf9GAEydwXUv7pgeHfwzytkr18AUCFFW1KEAL/s874/16.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="520" data-original-width="874" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipaF9G_H18iAfudsj4zHbA31g127YwLGw-qdQrWkurSxwiRL2iGSMmCeKX-zMqDeCvopTeKLVMxTehEdj2YD0_q6o9zTOtsK5QMTurlUIpf9GAEydwXUv7pgeHfwzytkr18AUCFFW1KEAL/w400-h238/16.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Building a makeshift shrine to their mother in a shed, they dismiss the suspicious housekeeper Mrs. Quayle (Yootha Joyce), and set about to carry on as before. At first, all seems to go reasonably well with the older siblings Elsa (Margaret Brooks) and Hubert (Louis Sheldon Williams) taking charge with Elsie playing the mother role as she cooks and sends the younger children off to school. Hubert suggests to Elsie that they might want to bring an adult or authority figure into the situation but is chastised for this. The stuttering and shy Jiminee (a pre-OLIVER Mark Lester) shows an aptitude for forgery which is put to good use in the form of replicating their mother's signature on the monthly relief checks.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Things begin to get darker however when they begin to hold candlelit seance-like "mommy time" sessions in the dark garden shed with the coming-of-age Diana (in a wonderful performance by Pamela Franklin) rocking back and forth in their mother's rocking chair while quoting biblical verses, intoning advice from "mother" and doling out punishment. In the film's most horrifying sequence perky young Gertie (Phoebe Nicholls) is punished for accepting a ride from a stranger on a motorcycle by having her hair cut off while she terrifyingly shrieks and the other children scream "harlot!" at her.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Into this increasingly dark environment arrives the smiling and affable Charlie Hook (Dirk Bogarde) the children's absent father who arrives just in time to help pacify an inquiring school teacher and later the returning and nosy housekeeper Mrs. Quayle. At first, Charlie seems to fit in with the children well. He accepts their story of the mother's demise and subsequent garden internment without an afterthought. Taking the children for outings in some of the few sequences where we are not in the increasingly claustrophobic house, he initially seems to be the adult figure needed but underneath there is something devious lurking in him. The older Elsie quickly grows suspicious of him while Diana seems enamored of him and although it is initially left ambiguous as to who (if any) of the children he is the actual biological father of, his attraction to Franklin's Diana is very queasily disturbing. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz99mONS9YfhC8EK_KkHzURwsViBkBCnKoKYHISDAzUEPqGRSCWutXDDpaO564Ya8dyizEORuujtd4xDoDfmElFsEfkbdNVuk0FKSFD0qkIVQC3Kpo26P33h4kOwfNZir7Pex0kDh1jewJ/s886/21.PNG"><img border="0" data-original-height="514" data-original-width="886" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz99mONS9YfhC8EK_KkHzURwsViBkBCnKoKYHISDAzUEPqGRSCWutXDDpaO564Ya8dyizEORuujtd4xDoDfmElFsEfkbdNVuk0FKSFD0qkIVQC3Kpo26P33h4kOwfNZir7Pex0kDh1jewJ/w400-h233/21.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT-gtYRE-WZsRUaKjWFY4vTveyBr0eag3y3ZDsvvgygZwQXwg-dHOYCLOROL87OVo70TlAP5chDQ0vbdYGuAF56WLDERMziKSS1y69C2Xc5GkTmj5OMCMqkjZrRtZP6AHvf6FL3bOzs6eZ/s871/15.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="518" data-original-width="871" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT-gtYRE-WZsRUaKjWFY4vTveyBr0eag3y3ZDsvvgygZwQXwg-dHOYCLOROL87OVo70TlAP5chDQ0vbdYGuAF56WLDERMziKSS1y69C2Xc5GkTmj5OMCMqkjZrRtZP6AHvf6FL3bOzs6eZ/w400-h238/15.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9Hg1gOBiN_N6nzpm7sLGipul5jlE9TG55iOFEN7qg6mXHIB8ZFqjl8Iwu3Ek5dz2OGEM3vnhum3E91rf0kbyie01_2uwSLxz1slwjGWQgPMX7KJ54E6UtAHrRrXN4UZ_GPi2gThAEHKkX/s867/18.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="522" data-original-width="867" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9Hg1gOBiN_N6nzpm7sLGipul5jlE9TG55iOFEN7qg6mXHIB8ZFqjl8Iwu3Ek5dz2OGEM3vnhum3E91rf0kbyie01_2uwSLxz1slwjGWQgPMX7KJ54E6UtAHrRrXN4UZ_GPi2gThAEHKkX/w400-h241/18.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">With a sly glint in his eye, Charlie befriends Jiminee when he learns of the latter's forgery skills and soon begins to bring the outside world into the up till then cloistered home. This includes pop music, Playboy magazine, liquor, and women with which he carries on sexual relations within full view of the children. This all turns the then swinging 60's on their head by having the adult figure indoctrinate the children into the changing trends and morals. However, it seems that along with the strict religious upbringing the children also have in them a sense of biblical retribution which plays out in the film's terrifying and somber climax.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">As he demonstrated with ROOM WITH A VIEW and especially in THE INNOCENTS Clayton was a master of mood and here, he is helped immensely by Larry Pizer's shadowy cinematography that shows off the films gorgeous, muted brown, and autumnal color palette along with Georges Delerue's spare musical score who's gently descending & ascending chords suggest a child's lullaby. The book was adapted for the screen by Jeremy Brooks and Haya Harareet (who played Esther in 1959's BEN HUR and was Clayton's wife). </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Although Clayton had a reputation as a taskmaster on set, he seemed to have a special gift for working with children as evidenced in THE INNOCENTS and here he conjures up a wonderful ensemble performance from the children letting each show a distinct personality while still behaving like children and not "little adults" which was a common trait in films of the period. Pamela Franklin (whom Clayton had worked with previously in THE INNOCENTS) is magnificent here. Her role as the child Flora in THE INNOCENTS followed by the young teenage Diana here and then the troubled adult medium Florence Tanner in THE LEGEND OF HELL HOUSE in 1974 form a wonderful symmetry.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Dirk Bogarde who started out in light comedies for Rank brings that easy-going charm to our initial impression of the wayward father and later turns to a darker complex personality more related to his roles in THE SERVENT and THE VICTIM. In his memoir, Bogarde related that he “loved every second of the film,” and upon his first day on the already in production film he found a note in his dressing room which read “Let us hope you’re as good as you’re cracked up to be" and it was signed "The Children". It was his work in this film that brought him to Luchino Visconti's notice and cast him in THE DAMNED and DEATH IN VENICE. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The British Board of Censors slapped the film with an "X" rating (the rough equivalent of an "R" today) and its failure at the box office led to a downturn in Clayton's career and he did not direct again until the somewhat messy version of THE GREAT GATSBY in 1974 and later Disney's SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES in 1983 which suffered from post-production tampering by the studio. Regulated to the occasional late-night TV showing and later sporadic scheduling on TCM, OUR MOTHER'S HOUSE was finally given a release on bare-bones DVD release by Warner Archive in a soft but serviceable 1.66 transfer. 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsxxmGvdfDeBtXWDzWqGbMjLprrnWm62TTeAvdBwgrOD7D0gP0OZlCo51GT3Xs6TlptZpHrs5BGD5lFX7VJ8P8VpPaG8aqO__OviSx7X_UCMjB32ZwmSNHaso77wVScUBL_QkrziWYtyCm/s2048/1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1353" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsxxmGvdfDeBtXWDzWqGbMjLprrnWm62TTeAvdBwgrOD7D0gP0OZlCo51GT3Xs6TlptZpHrs5BGD5lFX7VJ8P8VpPaG8aqO__OviSx7X_UCMjB32ZwmSNHaso77wVScUBL_QkrziWYtyCm/w264-h400/1.jpg" width="264" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><i><b>"Anybody ask you what happened, tell 'em you've been hit by a truck...Mac "Truck" Turner!" </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgesYGDz9fnpnetbJMNAzhmVe3dqRIGKk0npR1SN7SG1QZ5qyIe5OifA0pW9adnUrY8xAXyvq7uiWYV5s05r7_eyIAaRJepW1-PeRv3RvWGSQlrFOb2IIdg0GQYZSxS-6wc0CgHHCnYGyRg/s937/9.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; 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TRUCK TURNER was released just as the genre was peaking with THREE THE HARD WAY, FOXY BROWN, ABBY, and TNT JACKSON among many others all being released the same year. </p><p style="text-align: left;">After the massive success of his soundtrack for 1971's SHAFT, it seemed only natural for the composer Isaac Hayes would make the transition to acting, and his role in TRUCK TURNER was immediately preceded by the quirky but excellent TOUGH GUYS which paired him with Lino Ventura (and is overdue for a legit release). And of course, Hayes supplied the soundtrack to both films with his work on TRUCK TURNER soundtrack is great and stands right up there with his work on SHAFT.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Written by Oscar Williams (BLACK BELT JONES) along with Michael Allin (ENTER THE DRAGON) and uncredited help from Leigh Chapman (DIRTY MARY AND CRAZY LARRY), it was originally conceived by American International as a project for a Caucasian actor (Robert Mitchum and Ernest Borgnine were among those considered). It was re-written right before production as a blaxploitation vehicle which according to the informative commentary on the Kino Lorber Blu-ray by director Jonathan Kaplan caught him by surprise. Kaplan also relates that when Isaac Hayes was first shown the script, he objected to the title character's misogyny and the use of the word "bitch" with the result that they took the character in a different direction than most blaxploitation male leads and in turn brought a rather sweet love story into the plot. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFHZRBXlQDhwMCzucqvylruxQcz8LKAwwa57N9PIXtPnYudp6pJgTCGtAdwthtADjBatwo6gFIvmhhaRTZBdR4LC1fa7kOJtqzPFLnjeW9voN3e2JPV3oDaQYxmstUYEbW86GnOqYdKrMp/s930/11.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="502" data-original-width="930" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFHZRBXlQDhwMCzucqvylruxQcz8LKAwwa57N9PIXtPnYudp6pJgTCGtAdwthtADjBatwo6gFIvmhhaRTZBdR4LC1fa7kOJtqzPFLnjeW9voN3e2JPV3oDaQYxmstUYEbW86GnOqYdKrMp/w400-h216/11.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjdnJwHZlpV3RzrPOdvKM65CEPxSKOeotZP8g_31pXuY6KkSnxGmO1PoShvP9V4oxsASbYbOf-TR1GXAbvNAgGkrIiK4EAFmMlEI8surwrszYhptSAPhS4sPh9PI-RfY4ak_HkiILBe4z9/s944/25.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="944" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjdnJwHZlpV3RzrPOdvKM65CEPxSKOeotZP8g_31pXuY6KkSnxGmO1PoShvP9V4oxsASbYbOf-TR1GXAbvNAgGkrIiK4EAFmMlEI8surwrszYhptSAPhS4sPh9PI-RfY4ak_HkiILBe4z9/w400-h211/25.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdOs36w-7w-6aaLattv-UpJPthfTb6BK-sM5-zf-es_a3UMMoBJgfm3X4E6NtDqa4wx5-t2KtuMXRBsNusKq9-UlFRJPkn23jqOTUOFQVMbT6dBwVaLS_-mOB6cZnq_EpEZzGVldT2isXl/s933/12.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="502" data-original-width="933" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdOs36w-7w-6aaLattv-UpJPthfTb6BK-sM5-zf-es_a3UMMoBJgfm3X4E6NtDqa4wx5-t2KtuMXRBsNusKq9-UlFRJPkn23jqOTUOFQVMbT6dBwVaLS_-mOB6cZnq_EpEZzGVldT2isXl/w400-h215/12.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: left;">The opening credits start off in the shiny & new office building Los Angeles and then moves to blighted urban streets with endless rows of bail bondman storefronts and were introduced to the title character who on a bit of reverse-SHAFT, lives in a squalid apartment littered with food containers and empty beer bottles. Hayes is ex-football player-now bounty hunter Mac "Truck" Turner who along with his partner Jerry (Allen Weeks - who was the recipient of the "picking your feet in Poughkeepsie" interrogation by Gene Hackman in THE FRENCH CONNECTION) are hired by a slimy lawyer (the great Dick Miller in a wonderful pink sports jacket) to track down Leroy "Gator" Johnson (Paul Harris <a href="http://theoakdrivein.blogspot.com/2013/05/across-110th-street-1972.html"><span style="color: red;">ACROSS 110TH STREET</span></a>) a notorious pimp who skipped bail leaving Truck's friend & bondsman Nate Dinwiddie (Sam Laws <a href="http://theoakdrivein.blogspot.com/2019/04/hit-man-1972.html"><span style="color: red;">HIT MAN</span></a>). Tracking Gator down, Truck & Jerry participate in a high-speed car chase while pursuing the pimp in a spectacularly staged sequence. </p><p style="text-align: left;">After Truck kills Gator in a shootout, Gator's "business partner" Dorinda (in an off-the-rails performance from STAR TREK's Nichelle Nichols) vows revenge on Turner thereby setting in motion the main plot of the film. Dorinda who operates her girls out of a swanky Beverly Hills house (with a huge picture of her late partner adoring the living room) gathers a cadre of her fellow pimps (one of whom wears a variety of terrific western shirt/matching eye-patch combos) and offers half a cut of her business to whoever kills Turner. The standout among the would-be assassins is the cold, calculating & very quietly menacing Harvard Blue (Yaphett Kotto).</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP4mRh2nUVd4m0Xzvg3ykQrkvjQHzytF-mv0knd15gbvoPwH16B38j9r3HzWdwo4Iq0L4GyRC5D5shWElzeZ8fPFlEfPaXAU6r4ivoncKI7syIvYf_Q8vGT2v5BnBnPtt9JICEAh6SRdue/s929/21.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="507" data-original-width="929" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP4mRh2nUVd4m0Xzvg3ykQrkvjQHzytF-mv0knd15gbvoPwH16B38j9r3HzWdwo4Iq0L4GyRC5D5shWElzeZ8fPFlEfPaXAU6r4ivoncKI7syIvYf_Q8vGT2v5BnBnPtt9JICEAh6SRdue/w400-h219/21.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgukGiaZjihfLHcT7Q4XtEuBE-wt4Tnorsd2qfD516wu8pqzY6UUeFxob30XRjecrjXtG7z7C8U-oGzYpXrIlIo0IC85i03qj34aQ5nDnopTSZnH2PrrIINIbhyxGBQ6ZKiOct6SnNgT5aC/s933/14.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="506" data-original-width="933" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgukGiaZjihfLHcT7Q4XtEuBE-wt4Tnorsd2qfD516wu8pqzY6UUeFxob30XRjecrjXtG7z7C8U-oGzYpXrIlIo0IC85i03qj34aQ5nDnopTSZnH2PrrIINIbhyxGBQ6ZKiOct6SnNgT5aC/w400-h217/14.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjKoeQleVz0GsyEO4-twe1V1rQUslx1IYrax-6MCP_llQHv-n-6HCWDXfEh-AMLNt6WohtVmZvAqtG1AK_Jj9MxGp7vYlhsnSCmPfYS9I3BqBzFdy5B4Zu_9xUUN78mmgXDVfizG6gO-YW/s939/15.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="504" data-original-width="939" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjKoeQleVz0GsyEO4-twe1V1rQUslx1IYrax-6MCP_llQHv-n-6HCWDXfEh-AMLNt6WohtVmZvAqtG1AK_Jj9MxGp7vYlhsnSCmPfYS9I3BqBzFdy5B4Zu_9xUUN78mmgXDVfizG6gO-YW/w400-h215/15.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: left;">Nichols as Dorinda is a true force of nature here - not so much chewing scenery but devouring it whole and then spitting it back out. She seems to be gleefully glad to shed her Star Trek image and her long uninterrupted monologues are the highlight of the film as she spews bile at anyone that comes within her sight. Throwing out lines such as "We call her Turnpike, cuz you gotta pay to get on and pay to get off!" she brings a grin to your face whenever she is on-screen.</p><p style="text-align: left;">The film alternates between bloody squib-filled shoot-outs (Hayes's Turner carries a .44 Magnum in a nod to DIRTY HARRY) and light-hearted moments (there is some genuinely funny stuff here). Although Hayes's acting range is limited, he brings a great presence & charisma to the screen whether being shirtless while coolly dispatching would-be assassins (along with a complete lack of police presence) or sharing some tender (and sometimes funny) moments with his girlfriend Annie (a nicre performance from Annazette Chase THE MACK). Although Week's performance as Turner's partner Jerry has come under criticism from some, I think he is quite good here and his scenes with Hayes show some real chemistry between the two (along with some light comedy) and makes me wish there were a sequel with the pair and Chase's Annie. </p><p style="text-align: left;">Jonathan Kaplan had started out with Roger Corman on NIGHT CALL NURSES and THE STUDENT TEACHERS (which is my favorite of the "student" and "nurses" cycle) and THE SLAMS with Jim Brown. He worked his way up the food chain later directing WHITE LINE FEVER, HEART LIKE A WHEEL, and MR. BILLION (which deserves a nice Blu-ray) among others then a busy career in TV. In TRUCK TURNER he stages some great action sequences including a prolonged and bloody shootout in a hospital with patients on gurneys being pushed over, an operating room being invaded with exploding blood bags, and a nifty death POV sequence. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuBSDILBT-_1WWxDKHNol2x33N5d8OAaDvGSGdC9sIXcwYPQ_6hqrLww0ensAcxP2NNlGG3KLuI53rIebG-tICrrz3vnpCM1s6D9M_8HB6v7e5jfpcvuRDGnPYLWHR3Ll1mkQ52e5OnWQC/s934/16.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="505" data-original-width="934" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuBSDILBT-_1WWxDKHNol2x33N5d8OAaDvGSGdC9sIXcwYPQ_6hqrLww0ensAcxP2NNlGG3KLuI53rIebG-tICrrz3vnpCM1s6D9M_8HB6v7e5jfpcvuRDGnPYLWHR3Ll1mkQ52e5OnWQC/w400-h216/16.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP9P-oQfnOxpfg6dfd4g7hJVp3Q2_AxKedIR9jia-NG1YjXokkGL4zsvQkJ8oeBNu1DyhSj1zNwglp3eht3qBzDg5cE35mNvRlqS_VNJ6b91BNYVPz7bk-CHIt4PkvxK63BCVsck_NoH4R/s928/27.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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color: red; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMnClxuH7WqbpdFrlZSEQx8FO9lVjAdhyphenhyphenw_vDXhndq28r04KXqYFMBph16a2pw-GElciwn8yTpjvE1x2-G-sQTY_v79JNks_DTdHL5940ZnLuU4Ha5lQt_lSQInGbPwS-b88aXoAaJAzz4/s693/8.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="521" data-original-width="693" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMnClxuH7WqbpdFrlZSEQx8FO9lVjAdhyphenhyphenw_vDXhndq28r04KXqYFMBph16a2pw-GElciwn8yTpjvE1x2-G-sQTY_v79JNks_DTdHL5940ZnLuU4Ha5lQt_lSQInGbPwS-b88aXoAaJAzz4/w400-h301/8.PNG" width="400" /></a></span></div><span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTl277N0A3d86n35jguIefyef5l-xVSkCln8Pql59RDs1Q_ozXGR4UDSeyzkUep7lwDgZQewfyX_x5nbsDUpxV9cjMtPVKuZ2_kHAP6SEtgV-P702L1PAHWmKpRkO2f37NI_yXZJJ8QOXi/s685/10.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="520" data-original-width="685" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTl277N0A3d86n35jguIefyef5l-xVSkCln8Pql59RDs1Q_ozXGR4UDSeyzkUep7lwDgZQewfyX_x5nbsDUpxV9cjMtPVKuZ2_kHAP6SEtgV-P702L1PAHWmKpRkO2f37NI_yXZJJ8QOXi/w400-h304/10.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"> </span>RUN ANGEL RUN from 1969 is notable for having several "firsts" attached to it. It was the first biker film that William Smith (<a href="http://theoakdrivein.blogspot.com/2016/06/the-losers-1970.html"><span style="color: red;">THE LOSERS 1970</span></a>) appeared in and in which would be a genre that he in the coming decade he would become synonymous with. It also marked the acting debut of blog favorite Margaret Markov (<a href="http://theoakdrivein.blogspot.com/2015/11/happy-birthday-margaret-markov-black.html"><span style="color: red;">BLACK MAMA WHITE MAMA 1973</span></a><span style="color: red;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://theoakdrivein.blogspot.com/2015/11/happy-birthday-margaret-markov-black.html"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSjw4YO66bWsCnbVVb7POCKcculEX1u4-vsS01PCgR9It_wAzfiHgYmFC87LOhH2nVd2GFMb87mxK1uu2jXp6SqvmZEqLuzNHRbEfGJvaSwqATgj9CZI3wBLdy43P-RVYsY6A7NZNbhkc2/s2048/5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1597" data-original-width="2048" height="313" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSjw4YO66bWsCnbVVb7POCKcculEX1u4-vsS01PCgR9It_wAzfiHgYmFC87LOhH2nVd2GFMb87mxK1uu2jXp6SqvmZEqLuzNHRbEfGJvaSwqATgj9CZI3wBLdy43P-RVYsY6A7NZNbhkc2/w400-h313/5.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></span>) and most importantly was the directorial debut of the great Jack Starrett (<a href="http://theoakdrivein.blogspot.com/2014/06/race-with-devil-1975.html"><span style="color: red;">RACE WITH THE DEVIL 1975</span></a>) who would go on to helm a string of drive-in classics along with being a vastly underrated actor (check him out as the evil deputy in FIRST BLOOD).</div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;">Produced by Joe Solomon (WEREWOLVES ON WHEELS & ANGELS FROM HELL and who specialized in these) and Paul Rapp SCREAM FREE & THE STUDENT NURSES) it was released during the pivotal year of 1969 for biker films that also included the classics THE CYCLE SAVAGES, FIVE THE HARD WAY, HELL'S BELLES, HELL'S ANGELS '69, NAKED ANGELS, SATAN'S SADISTS, and of course EASY RIDER. All of which would lead to an explosion of choppers, iron crosses, and sleaziness which burst on the screen the following year. Although an exploitation genre film at its core (including a couple of brutal offscreen rapes) there is a surprisingly rather tender love story in RUN ANGEL RUN that makes this film a bit of an outlier. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT2dt4oSQw7f1B1sL9EeIpH5oHg9G9qenkssX8f4pdAn0ZgSs1CSy2lCR2-d44O-VxJHxH9IVpSsZ1DO8KyrkNNaggFs62zOom70T1vnvPxRsiitTY4MM3e6_vD1dHngEKUsKdQvRiHfY4/s691/9.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="524" data-original-width="691" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT2dt4oSQw7f1B1sL9EeIpH5oHg9G9qenkssX8f4pdAn0ZgSs1CSy2lCR2-d44O-VxJHxH9IVpSsZ1DO8KyrkNNaggFs62zOom70T1vnvPxRsiitTY4MM3e6_vD1dHngEKUsKdQvRiHfY4/w400-h304/9.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoDPBNToEDm1NfT6z3bUnpzYhS_Qxw-dGPOHwIUkMvjjBUuwNLub0SjPwvpYVpHANwY120oHXPvN_wh4_BFluOUjQkBRcGB1LjaKo0tIOst3Dkx97FqTKIjOyWX9_smZFr7nzMs7uJdD8C/s699/18.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="522" data-original-width="699" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoDPBNToEDm1NfT6z3bUnpzYhS_Qxw-dGPOHwIUkMvjjBUuwNLub0SjPwvpYVpHANwY120oHXPvN_wh4_BFluOUjQkBRcGB1LjaKo0tIOst3Dkx97FqTKIjOyWX9_smZFr7nzMs7uJdD8C/w400-h299/18.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMeaHXUhvvijmW9jgRGDgMtAanKqMMZC3epv0elEcSV06iNIK10eNj03d0jUDe0JTFtUs-0xULH8mRZt283DkECjNkVw_1ilyl4_zsTsy5iTPe_FN_ti00f_sEmNMcMVYMEwzPjgkVdEud/s691/19.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="523" data-original-width="691" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMeaHXUhvvijmW9jgRGDgMtAanKqMMZC3epv0elEcSV06iNIK10eNj03d0jUDe0JTFtUs-0xULH8mRZt283DkECjNkVw_1ilyl4_zsTsy5iTPe_FN_ti00f_sEmNMcMVYMEwzPjgkVdEud/w400-h303/19.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: left;">Angel (William Smith) has incurred the wrath of his fellow outlaw cycle gang members as he has sold a tell-all story about the biker lifestyle to a major weekly news magazine (titled "Like") for the sum of $10,000. Unfortunately, Big Bill Smith did not seem to think this one through too carefully as not only does he have to wait two weeks to collect his payment but in addition, he must drive from his home base of L.A. up to San Francisco to retrieve it. Adding to his problems he is thrown in jail and upon having bail posted by his girlfriend, Laurie (Jack Starrett's daughter Valerie Starrett) he learns surprisingly (to him at least -somewhat oddly it would seem) that he is the subject of a massive manhunt by the biker community. All of whom are angrily clutching the magazine while snarling vengeance.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Heading off on his chopper with Laurie he is immediately sent upon by a gang of bikers who pursue him to a railroad yard where Starrett stages an excellent chase sequence involving a moving train that climaxes with Laurie jumping into an open boxcar (probably courtesy of stunt woman Randee Lynn Jensen) and Angel jumping his bike on a flatcar which is helped by some quick editing and changeover from a chopper to a motocross bike for the jump. The sequence also has some multi-screen editing and is a precursor to what a great director Starrett was and his feel for staging terrific action sequences. </p><p style="text-align: left;">After tangling with some hobo-rapists Angel and Laurie take to the backroads and finding themselves in a small, isolated town they set up home in an abandoned house and attempt a kind of domestic tranquility (which is shaky at best) as Angel gets a job with local sheep rancher Dan Felton (Don Kemp THE GIRLS FROM THUNDER STRIP) where he initially seems eager to settle down. He bonds with Felton after repairing the rancher's antique motorcycle and begins to learn the intricacies of sheep farming including "sheep dipping"(??). Things turn dark when Angel's old gang tracks him down and begin their brutal revenge which tragically involves Felton's teenage daughter Meg (Margaret Markov).</p><p style="text-align: left;">Made for under $100,000 and shot in 13 days it went on to gross 13 million at the box office putting it directly behind A BOY NAMED CHARLIE BROWN and just ahead of THE WILD BUNCH making it one of the most successful films of the outlaw biker drive-in genre. Starrett gets the most out of the film's meager budget and it does get bogged down for short periods of time with some of the mundane plot elements there's slow-building tension as Angel's old gang tracks him down. 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Although seeming eager to settle down with Laurie ("the straight life") he slowly begins to get frustrated only coming to life slowly with the restoration of Felton's antique motorcycle and later during the film's violent climax.</div><p style="text-align: left;">Markov who although in a small early role here shows the beginnings of her later cult status as an actress in the coming decade who is not only a beautiful face on the screen (she is one of those actresses that the camera seems to love) but bringing a wonderful presence to her film roles. After her marriage to actor and later producer Mark Damon (<a href="https://theoakdrivein.blogspot.com/2013/05/rosalba-neri-friday-devils-wedding.html"><span style="color: red;">THE DEVIL'S WEDDING NIGHT</span></a>), she would drop out of sight but in the past several years has turned up in several DVD extras and documentaries. </p><p style="text-align: left;">The screenplay was written by Jerome Wish (his other two credits are THE GAY DECEIVERS and ANGELS FROM HELL) and a V.A. Furlong. As this is the pseudonym-sounding V.A.'s only screen credit I'm wondering if it could actually be Jack Starrett? 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Unlike other noirs FORCE OF EVIL deals with shady lawyers and businessmen who control the lives and fortunes of those below them and was also one of the first films along with NEW YORK CONFIDENTIAL 1955 and THE BIG COMBO 1955 that showed crime as a corporation while inserting its tendrils into the very core of society. Because as in a way it could be seen as an anti-capitalism statement this film was the main reason for Polonsky to run afoul of the infamous House Committee on Un-American Activities (which John Garfield was also tragically involved with).</div><div> Garfield plays ambitious young attorney Joe Morse who has a secret phone locked in his desk drawer that is a direct line to his main client mobster Ben Tucker (Roy Roberts HE WALKED BY NIGHT). Morse is in cahoots with Tucker in an attempt to gain control of the numbers racker in NYC by forcing out the small betting parlors by rigging the winning numbers. One of the interesting things FORCE OF EVIL does is that it gets down into the real nuts and bolts of the numbers racket in which millions of people made nickel & dime bets on a set of three numbers that were picked from horse racing results. As one character says in the course of the film "it's a petty crime" but FORCE OF EVIL shows hows that those small bets add up to millions of dollars that are used to pay off corrupt politicians, judges, and police.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM2YfkMV3oP98iDloot5PqYXfasOt9VgASNNwmYYk6g51h26_ZIqjraU9W0W_bj1WH1vb35koHS50B0FvnXbEnDIiZgu7oY3klZtmzdUrW5TLJPNXPo8NTAdmWxHJOSC5-PEnRrN1YMFxw/s690/15.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="523" data-original-width="690" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM2YfkMV3oP98iDloot5PqYXfasOt9VgASNNwmYYk6g51h26_ZIqjraU9W0W_bj1WH1vb35koHS50B0FvnXbEnDIiZgu7oY3klZtmzdUrW5TLJPNXPo8NTAdmWxHJOSC5-PEnRrN1YMFxw/w400-h304/15.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpLDP_lz1leE51vB5p9_ew1MeZfdhTKI8K6bWkKQkriXxqnMeVAFvmjg2zhtGkSUt1i2jzj1BYaka-lx5PX0jG00c-abUwPAgzOqRtR889uzrGL-xlDMfdOEFCTdwuZVnM-YCyfotNTrJm/s692/13.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="522" data-original-width="692" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpLDP_lz1leE51vB5p9_ew1MeZfdhTKI8K6bWkKQkriXxqnMeVAFvmjg2zhtGkSUt1i2jzj1BYaka-lx5PX0jG00c-abUwPAgzOqRtR889uzrGL-xlDMfdOEFCTdwuZVnM-YCyfotNTrJm/w400-h301/13.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXl1fOrlp3_SELYGHhFphQq3Y_gjBLpknmPyrS3nnIDlCVCKZ8MY_096ee40Z2vCdoAACrgFG0wTt6Y_e1QnvN3JECJozni-QFPqbffZ1jxgDe2pDY74Ocy7sKftfPV5oukl5Gco-OwKl7/s689/22.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="522" data-original-width="689" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXl1fOrlp3_SELYGHhFphQq3Y_gjBLpknmPyrS3nnIDlCVCKZ8MY_096ee40Z2vCdoAACrgFG0wTt6Y_e1QnvN3JECJozni-QFPqbffZ1jxgDe2pDY74Ocy7sKftfPV5oukl5Gco-OwKl7/w400-h303/22.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div> Morse has a brother Leo (Thomas Gomez KEY LARGO) who runs one of the small numbers parlors with which Joe Morse has made an agreement with Tucker to save and fold into the new large "corporation". Unlike most other film-noir that deal with shadowy figures dealing in robberies and murder FORCE OF EVIL puts the criminal activity in line with lawyers, wall street, and businessmen all of which are conspiring against the working class. The Morse brothers relationship is one of the primary plot points setting up a Jekyll and Hyde thing with the overtly corrupt lawyer contrasting with his crooked albeit decent working-class brother. While each brother cares for each other their motives and actions shift considerably as they move toward a tragic outcome. </div><div> Joe also begins a relationship with Doris (Beatrice Pearson) a young woman who works for Leo in a minor job and along with several other employees of Leo's are presented as the true innocents in the unfolding drama with Leo shown as a father figure and caring employer who feels actual empathy for his staff and is powerless as they're shallowed up and used by the big corrupt businessmen. </div><div> The story itself is terrific with well-written amoral characters and was based upon a book by Ira Wolfert titled Tucker's People which was published in 1943. The book was optioned by Garfield's newly formed Enterprise Productions which he started after his contract at Warner had expired and this was its second production which was preceded by BODY AND SOUL in 1947 (and was also directed by Polonsky). </div><div> If there is a fault with FORCE OF EVIL it is that it does become very "talky" at certain points as characters seem to engage in lengthly & highly detailed (and highly unlikely) conversations that explain in minute detail the workings of the racket which does help explain things to the audience but are kind of tedious. This however is more than overshadowed by the cast and production including beautiful cinematography by George Barnes who had shot JANE EYRE and Hitchcock's SPELLBOUND and REBECCA. The film makes great use of actual NYC locations much of which was shot in the very early morning hours which lends an empty and desolate feel to the city. There are several terrific sequences including a beautifully edited shooting in a basement restaurant while a Beethoven piece plays plaintively on a phonograph and a nail-biting shootout in a dark office.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn5HCKgaJNsPxJhw87YQZu-QH97Ge40i3ZWWYknRGKbwvRyE3lhAZd_utIS09CsaEYWRu5ifgghkN934s24xZGA0DzLal3seFN44adnKfVZ9lOieXnQ6CYVW6grdli-BwnVXig5P8VA6xs/s685/27.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="525" data-original-width="685" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn5HCKgaJNsPxJhw87YQZu-QH97Ge40i3ZWWYknRGKbwvRyE3lhAZd_utIS09CsaEYWRu5ifgghkN934s24xZGA0DzLal3seFN44adnKfVZ9lOieXnQ6CYVW6grdli-BwnVXig5P8VA6xs/w400-h306/27.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1Kn3IGcazrleoqDMoHu45V9ywMyhzgFfoiFgPa9JUU2gvc_3KUq1t_lI93ZkynphpkBUiy6fjzkWsA3-6N-R-pY1y25mEZaROeaZ6LrUitwiMWafIoVMivIKFPERJWv00hj6wadcWZLvw/s695/29.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="522" data-original-width="695" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1Kn3IGcazrleoqDMoHu45V9ywMyhzgFfoiFgPa9JUU2gvc_3KUq1t_lI93ZkynphpkBUiy6fjzkWsA3-6N-R-pY1y25mEZaROeaZ6LrUitwiMWafIoVMivIKFPERJWv00hj6wadcWZLvw/w400-h300/29.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaVX_DXGRzpz7VCjgnlMFQTyTf1ckleoyffTPxTjEklNhmu6LnoZ94AkEKSCvx7rMp4gEnwopvPgEumpRCRmUMDOokf4tr8lxxp1yt9BFntLFb170ERolz7M7k_PkGSklica88c9vOtO9u/s699/32.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="519" data-original-width="699" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaVX_DXGRzpz7VCjgnlMFQTyTf1ckleoyffTPxTjEklNhmu6LnoZ94AkEKSCvx7rMp4gEnwopvPgEumpRCRmUMDOokf4tr8lxxp1yt9BFntLFb170ERolz7M7k_PkGSklica88c9vOtO9u/w400-h297/32.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div> Garfield is terrific as the ambitious lawyer who is blinded by his greed and it's his internal narration that contains many of the scripts most poignant lines ("A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he should have said") and it's interesting to see busy character actor Roy Roberts who usually played stuffy executives and business-types here take that characterization to the dark side. Howland Chamberlain (THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES) has a very symptomatic part as Leo's tragic accountant and he too was blacklisted after his appearance in HIGH NOON and didn't work again until the 70's.</div><div> In one of her first credited roles, Marie Windsor has a small but very memorable role as gangster Roy Roberts's wife and has two nice dialogue sequences with Garfield. Although sadly underused as initially as her character is set up as the classic noir femme-fatal and although she obviously is trying to seduce Garfield their relationship doesn't lead to his downfall. She is, however (as always) unforgettable here, and when she's curled up in her black dress with those gorgeous eyes seductively conversing with Garfield's Joe Morse you wonder how he can not succumb to her like many a classic noir character, but then as he says is only in for the money. </div><div> A big thanks to Toby for putting this blogathon together and celebrating one the greatest and undersung actresses in film history. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1UwjaMip9f6OBAWlJ3KDNKyF7tTgxb1gqD6TmbUEIDcyrRhdE2fWR4vXLKkmkQUBtkDdIBSB8ZrQshOGQ0gitD046iycJ3TeVx81Tsfduc18gwc3fc0-9723VDI9nFa3Txt1MrQn4hMwz/s686/33.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="519" data-original-width="686" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1UwjaMip9f6OBAWlJ3KDNKyF7tTgxb1gqD6TmbUEIDcyrRhdE2fWR4vXLKkmkQUBtkDdIBSB8ZrQshOGQ0gitD046iycJ3TeVx81Tsfduc18gwc3fc0-9723VDI9nFa3Txt1MrQn4hMwz/w400-h303/33.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="404" data-original-width="512" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMqtWfhxjXiA8r0J0rOBYPn2QSy2s5n0tIc8DxlGHIudvQRix68bO_24S5AU3Jzyea-Lmvf7-7kUHbBx61Gkftcqqw6apZDjnvaCGInTbyEgwDzXa4yzqrin0gzvytNao_yLc7WbkdifDg/w400-h315/1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;">An oozing coolness Gary Lockwood and a gang of European character actors hatch out a heist plan to knock-off a hi-tech armored truck in this unjustly forgotten caper film. A French/Spain/Italy/West Germany co-production that also features Elke Sommer along with Lee J. Cobb and Jack Palance (in a rare good guy role) bringing some acting and publicity gravitas to the production. Lots of vintage Vegas exteriors and awash in 60's decor, it also features a script with some quirky & witty moments but at 129 minutes is kind of ponderous in places.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcCIUqydrg5X-KWf3XdLiCUs5BZpg8drqMYq5whRLQ2JsbOKX2YkqjckM9zBpCPkAIB0GJjzP3704suVERWafKe6jr0tcoLtF6uRNl4lzTUjz_XNfAvME3Bp6eiGkvJEwaEUfCNE3wps_s/s957/8.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="413" data-original-width="957" height="173" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcCIUqydrg5X-KWf3XdLiCUs5BZpg8drqMYq5whRLQ2JsbOKX2YkqjckM9zBpCPkAIB0GJjzP3704suVERWafKe6jr0tcoLtF6uRNl4lzTUjz_XNfAvME3Bp6eiGkvJEwaEUfCNE3wps_s/w400-h173/8.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">Opening with a COOL HAND LUKE-like frenzied escape through a swamp complete with angry dogs and shotguns, Gino Russo (Jean Servais RIFIFI 1955) makes good his escape via car and ends up in psychedelic 1960's L.A. where he looks up his younger brother Tony (Gary Lockwood 2001: A SPACE ODESSEY 1968). Gino tries to talk his younger brother into an armored car robbery on a heavily armored and fortified vehicle operated by the Skorsky Corporation, but Tony declines as he reminds the elderly Gino that times have changed and the caper is doomed to fail. Sure enough, Gino and his gang although armed with a bazooka (!!) are bloodily gunned down in a freeway overpass attempting the robbery while a gang of spectators including Tony watches impassively from atop the freeway. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Now in Las Vegas Tony works as a blackjack dealer at The Flamingo and is running a scam on the casino with Jill Bennett (Elke Sommer <a href="http://theoakdrivein.blogspot.com/search/label/Elke%20Sommer"><span style="color: red;">DEADLIER THAN THE MALE 1967</span></a>) and planning a revenge caper on the Skorsky Corporation which is headed by Steve Skorsky (Lee J. Cobb MARC THE NARC 1975) whose specially designed armored cars (that looks like an armor-plated Winnebago) are used to transport money from Vegas to Los Angeles. Sommer's Jill Bennett is also the secretary/mistress of Steve Skorsky and it is with her that Tony will obtain the secret route timing of the money shipment. Adding another twist to the proceedings is that Skorsky is also using his armored trucks to transport gold for the Mafia which brings in Treasury Agent Douglas (Jack Palance RULERS OF THE CITY 1976) to start nosing around.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ4CaWmWkB3B1Z7m-lzUtSDnf1hV2Vk9adsfLfwKFZy4euz1eW6mYIUCyOn_AmHqhZxlZlg-f7ZTaRiOMDdVIpfY2tkfdFmqeM0ANW83RvDNvWI0-YwpnDU9eiH8GcKuohWpw3a7CxAQUj/s982/10.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="413" data-original-width="982" height="169" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ4CaWmWkB3B1Z7m-lzUtSDnf1hV2Vk9adsfLfwKFZy4euz1eW6mYIUCyOn_AmHqhZxlZlg-f7ZTaRiOMDdVIpfY2tkfdFmqeM0ANW83RvDNvWI0-YwpnDU9eiH8GcKuohWpw3a7CxAQUj/w400-h169/10.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQGFiNwM_Q3QA122jrRUeqibqVkbVrCFqfLxkjkta0xyseReBiDgoIF-IurpFafI_a-9iLBpgT3eqix9uoQKanrX1u1lOJ236W1mStvWoixwNX2GANokwwNQDko_7__cFBE9GQShwdkS2r/s981/16.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="412" data-original-width="981" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQGFiNwM_Q3QA122jrRUeqibqVkbVrCFqfLxkjkta0xyseReBiDgoIF-IurpFafI_a-9iLBpgT3eqix9uoQKanrX1u1lOJ236W1mStvWoixwNX2GANokwwNQDko_7__cFBE9GQShwdkS2r/w400-h168/16.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh95pqtluPpMwPIKSmiDHDCz44bNyIwim7i0k3gLWUEexcAZEFElKTwsAG-fAH-PnZ_USMFuvPHtb5D6kmsdIlY8p_btnhF2lHBLahDip6Hk5FWKtkQm4Frf2aoDOMbv2dLq3QQNp2kds1V/s943/20.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="390" data-original-width="943" height="165" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh95pqtluPpMwPIKSmiDHDCz44bNyIwim7i0k3gLWUEexcAZEFElKTwsAG-fAH-PnZ_USMFuvPHtb5D6kmsdIlY8p_btnhF2lHBLahDip6Hk5FWKtkQm4Frf2aoDOMbv2dLq3QQNp2kds1V/w400-h165/20.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">Tony brings together his gang to pull off the heist which includes a gaggle of familiar faces including Gustavo Re (SUMMERTIME KILLER 1972), Daniel Martin (A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS 1964), and Enrique Avila (PLAY DIRTY 1969). Unlike other caper films, there's not a lot of time here devoted to the actual planning as Tony just gathers his gang around a pool table and then marches them out to the desert with the long shots of men trudging over sand dunes giving a flashback of sorts to LAWRENCE OF ARABIA. The film also seems to draw upon the previous year's John Wayne/Kirk Douglas western THE WAR WAGON (which in actuality is a western caper film) as they both share a supposedly impregnable method of transporting money that's controlled by a corrupt power-hungry businessman. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">With both the Treasury Agent Douglas and Tony looking to get into the armored truck it's inevitable that this leads to both of them trying it on the same day which leads to the film really kicking into gear with double-crosses, triple-crosses and I think even a quadruple cross(??)! When the film sticks to the nuts and bolts of the heist it is holding your interest but when it invariably moves to character interaction it falls a bit flat. There's a lot of Lee J. Cobb in his high-tech office building (which looks to be lifted right out of Euro-spy villains liar) yelling and growling at people along with some tedious filler toward the end and at 129 minutes it could have lost about 20 minutes easily. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitcF3Y3hNeaHQ-j9ZwICbsTT-doPr-fBN2MtR6fHlNCLzpAYNJ0TOzZy_HJjJBxXdq3nlXqJwlMNNFB8Syj8bTPYhZNUjT2bEPc-jaXElotoz5Cq5MnGiQ0UTgTirQvO87LdJqT_a1x6GZ/s930/24.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="388" data-original-width="930" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitcF3Y3hNeaHQ-j9ZwICbsTT-doPr-fBN2MtR6fHlNCLzpAYNJ0TOzZy_HJjJBxXdq3nlXqJwlMNNFB8Syj8bTPYhZNUjT2bEPc-jaXElotoz5Cq5MnGiQ0UTgTirQvO87LdJqT_a1x6GZ/w400-h168/24.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3s5DSP-6yKobzju9ff8b_ny28J7QEz2URCKW6xNwX8lpFy0XcFNM3lPF4zaPpd9tSp-yMq3px-01yP0E5UUmS6sImD3QuRT3BMbW3NIeadr2gXpoMaO0cxyWQdcvTQtWVBVwAjtsSN2Ao/s938/29.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="387" data-original-width="938" height="165" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3s5DSP-6yKobzju9ff8b_ny28J7QEz2URCKW6xNwX8lpFy0XcFNM3lPF4zaPpd9tSp-yMq3px-01yP0E5UUmS6sImD3QuRT3BMbW3NIeadr2gXpoMaO0cxyWQdcvTQtWVBVwAjtsSN2Ao/w400-h165/29.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj__PZuAU40nG82OL5r2kg-rf9tqGnxQoQxdrkh8-WKNNaprnY9xWFz4OFtpoHqPr2ZHEHfleM1xnkorYJnihYPbobUvIvbp_KftcfdMuyDXZ6Rh9FAi8XcNwVUQCLBkD4LfSlxRJkIaCh0/s937/23.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="388" data-original-width="937" height="166" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj__PZuAU40nG82OL5r2kg-rf9tqGnxQoQxdrkh8-WKNNaprnY9xWFz4OFtpoHqPr2ZHEHfleM1xnkorYJnihYPbobUvIvbp_KftcfdMuyDXZ6Rh9FAi8XcNwVUQCLBkD4LfSlxRJkIaCh0/w400-h166/23.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">Directed by Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi (who also had a hand in the screenplay) and shot in beautiful widescreen by Juan Gelpi, it was filmed in Spain particularly around Almeria which gives the desert scenery a very spaghetti western feel (along with a host of familiar voices dubbing the European actors). The shots of Las Vegas & Los Angeles (including a nifty sequence at Angels Flight) were done separately with none of the principal actors (and most of it done in obvious rear-projection). The Las Vegas footage is spectacular with glorious views of a pre-theme park Vegas complete with marquees hyping Juliet Prowse in Sweet Charity at Ceasars, Dean Martin in the Copa Room, Jimmy Durante at The Desert Inn, and topless revues at The Sahara all followed by a steak dinner at Mr. Porterhouse. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Gary Lockwood was in the midst of a great run in this period including 2001: A SPACE ODESSEY (1968), MODEL SHOP (1968), and the underrated western FIRECREEK (1968). A handsome brooding actor, even when playing a decent guy he always seemed to have a sullen intensity smoldering underneath. In his scenes with Elke Sommer (here improbably playing an American but who the heck cares its Elke Sommer) there's a vague hinting of S&M in their relationship and one gets the feeling there's something more (or less) than love going on here. Through the film, it is left vague as to whether Tony is simply using her in order to get close to Skorsky.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ8VcKqcXRdR0PKc7I4ccAw14n2_M0HePvgoCi0OGGMk_quE-iBCAIRUULI_ypBgy21NKunNo5Iu5nYJm-Ptjun6EtOb5lx3GkzC2MAVtqGDtk-LTOzRc-5qmTdNL0qJSPXpVy2bFnZrhn/s947/26.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="390" data-original-width="947" height="165" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ8VcKqcXRdR0PKc7I4ccAw14n2_M0HePvgoCi0OGGMk_quE-iBCAIRUULI_ypBgy21NKunNo5Iu5nYJm-Ptjun6EtOb5lx3GkzC2MAVtqGDtk-LTOzRc-5qmTdNL0qJSPXpVy2bFnZrhn/w400-h165/26.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3a-AN-1FJDoaWGclmkwpK1lxz2LhdDODja7ISdL4oCKFMUm9XLnRMeXWlTMb35GkJpXXsghiJb0CALspY3H4vzGYdgRfQLlToYx6LUvYszJmL36YG9XyrgrYrhoCqstEYQNsAIhKjQ_tE/s992/12.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="409" data-original-width="992" height="165" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3a-AN-1FJDoaWGclmkwpK1lxz2LhdDODja7ISdL4oCKFMUm9XLnRMeXWlTMb35GkJpXXsghiJb0CALspY3H4vzGYdgRfQLlToYx6LUvYszJmL36YG9XyrgrYrhoCqstEYQNsAIhKjQ_tE/w400-h165/12.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin9DnZbAs14c9THfi4aN2o0nkvgcehtpmiBF3C7sJ9S9WjGBXrikJ_kyJwK7YIFvSbWj8myenabbzoAYfA4sYcNcS0Y_Vp4Gi3hww_m5zKfyTzpns-5FlZ6B4mRIRGVVQNI8hBv-XmjVA1/s942/31.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="385" data-original-width="942" height="164" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin9DnZbAs14c9THfi4aN2o0nkvgcehtpmiBF3C7sJ9S9WjGBXrikJ_kyJwK7YIFvSbWj8myenabbzoAYfA4sYcNcS0Y_Vp4Gi3hww_m5zKfyTzpns-5FlZ6B4mRIRGVVQNI8hBv-XmjVA1/w400-h164/31.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">It's odd seeing Palance play a character on the law & order side of things, but this brings am ambiguity to his role as it's always in the back of your mind on his true motives are. Both him and Lee J. Cobb both were lending their names and faces to various Italian productions at the time and both of them bring some gravity to proceedings as after the initial prison escape it seems to take on a more light-hearted tone but then gets progressively darker. It is pretty cool to see Jean Servais from the all-time classic heist RIFIFI film show up. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">The film features a great jazz-tinged soundtrack moving around cool, sexy, and thrilling sounds and is way overdue for a new release. 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<span style="color: red;"><b><i>"When You Push Too far, Even A Peaceful Man Gets Fighting Mad"</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmW0HGjA7aUUKuKtcf8v9wH2pqxB5c33EIK9ylZ3nSERu0cmQTe1siayDE1jUXWrMtiYuL0lWGL9B3VkHWWFXlhX9SK9DwuWcwMUy1v3mf2ZIHXsedYvLce4DlPbnhnWUZSUeo7ycPTkP7/s972/1.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="553" data-original-width="972" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmW0HGjA7aUUKuKtcf8v9wH2pqxB5c33EIK9ylZ3nSERu0cmQTe1siayDE1jUXWrMtiYuL0lWGL9B3VkHWWFXlhX9SK9DwuWcwMUy1v3mf2ZIHXsedYvLce4DlPbnhnWUZSUeo7ycPTkP7/w400-h228/1.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbTz7Wz8aOw6mCQzp_1LXs8CV9RXgVw0jPVtWD3Q_zNvbD2Z2lUz7_Td0dAilbtkLF3IuhPkA5EIpSZ_EL1nsxwGSmm_6Vg9iZVrXGyFK79c4T-eRC9TLIWSG86dglTn4Rxyy3HZIF3c2u/s975/19.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="543" data-original-width="975" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbTz7Wz8aOw6mCQzp_1LXs8CV9RXgVw0jPVtWD3Q_zNvbD2Z2lUz7_Td0dAilbtkLF3IuhPkA5EIpSZ_EL1nsxwGSmm_6Vg9iZVrXGyFK79c4T-eRC9TLIWSG86dglTn4Rxyy3HZIF3c2u/w400-h223/19.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"> The third of three movies Jonathan Demme (SILENCE OF THE LAMBS) directed for Roger Corman, this followed CAGED HEAT (1974) and CRAZY MAMA (1975). Even though it was written by Demme (along with CAGED HEAT), FIGHTING MAD had the most "work for hire" feel to it of all his Corman productions. Demme, even in his later work tended to be at his best when he focused on quirky characters and small-town oddballs such as in MELVIN AND HOWARD and in the underrated & unknown CITIZENS BAND. He also always seemed to favor strong female characters which one can see in CAGED HEAT and even in the sometimes silly & wacky CRAZY MAMA.</span></div>
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Part of Corman's deal with 20th Century Fox which meant that Roger had a bit more money than usual for his productions that made for a slicker and bigger looking film (sometimes for the better & sometimes not), FIGHTING MAD mixes in some 70's Whole Earth Catalog ecology along with the then-popular hicksplotation (although here lacking moonshine), revenge such as WALKING TALL and BILLY JACK along with independent salt-of-the-earth folks fighting greedy corporations. </div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> Stoic Tom Hunter (Peter Fonda (<a href="http://theoakdrivein.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-wild-angels-1966.html"><span style="color: red;">THE WILD ANGELS</span></a>) travels back to his small Arkansas hometown with his young son. Through his monologue to his son, we learn that he's divorced and leaving "the big city" as he hated living there and his wife wouldn't leave with him. Returning to the family farm he finds his father Jeff (John Doucette PATTON) and his brother Charlie (a young Scott Glenn billed here as Scott Glen) engaged in battle with a greedy land developer Pierce Crabtree (TV actor Phillip Carey) who heads up the appropriately named Crabtree Corp. Seemingly wanting to run roughshod over the entire area Crabtree is busy throwing up shopping malls and adding strip mines while forcing the local townsfolk off their land at a fraction of its value while enlisting the help of the corrupt local law enforcement and hired strong-arm goons.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt-8Wysgmwyax6wpgRWVnAyc0yh_a7ZxcZ5W0WIVqRSwcISVFZaQeKptxp5f9Xt0uqiU6K028XCZTmXcyXAehkbm3Xw5Dis1IPzLKg1_vxBbAbSRbVkOuwgI5n-n1mRXyfOsbkYTAMAWR3/s980/11.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="554" data-original-width="980" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt-8Wysgmwyax6wpgRWVnAyc0yh_a7ZxcZ5W0WIVqRSwcISVFZaQeKptxp5f9Xt0uqiU6K028XCZTmXcyXAehkbm3Xw5Dis1IPzLKg1_vxBbAbSRbVkOuwgI5n-n1mRXyfOsbkYTAMAWR3/w400-h226/11.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVebBYSjTnu3dgtkK7qzLNAoDEMfELlM_v5ydmWS_K-sHR_pSBZTan8_lNwwAhu21j1sRAGUn1kRWVebV7cte1mNLOSzUK2v63M5m0kmV7VuHv3Q0DIh-kgdg1qKuZPzr8KFRlgQO0YpSq/s968/5.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="552" data-original-width="968" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVebBYSjTnu3dgtkK7qzLNAoDEMfELlM_v5ydmWS_K-sHR_pSBZTan8_lNwwAhu21j1sRAGUn1kRWVebV7cte1mNLOSzUK2v63M5m0kmV7VuHv3Q0DIh-kgdg1qKuZPzr8KFRlgQO0YpSq/w400-h228/5.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK8M65ptWQ_f-0AUXhpKXk5YGvC9EqxtZIfAb5F4DVEgn4XOwr3se0PyAQ77ewIZKPxU7ZnkG5Ck-88jC2M78OidTP9XJoTUE7yoVFbXgttm02wUI8dMKkQ9eH6AXRhUWcOHk9AcjiLhDB/s971/12.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="551" data-original-width="971" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK8M65ptWQ_f-0AUXhpKXk5YGvC9EqxtZIfAb5F4DVEgn4XOwr3se0PyAQ77ewIZKPxU7ZnkG5Ck-88jC2M78OidTP9XJoTUE7yoVFbXgttm02wUI8dMKkQ9eH6AXRhUWcOHk9AcjiLhDB/w400-h228/12.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>
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Wasting no time in kicking things into gear Tom is back in town barely one day before his brother and sister-in-law are killed in a fiery car crash after being piled with liquor and he begins a relationship with his old flame Lorene Maddox (Lynn Lowry I DRINK YOUR BLOOD). The spineless & corrupt sheriff (Harry Northup BOXCAR BERTHA) along with Crabtree dismiss the crash as a "drunken accident" and when the shifty realtors show up at the family farm with legal paperwork and a model of the proposed shopping mall they plan to build on the families farmland Tom smashes the model and clobbers the evil realtors with a hoe. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> With a film like this, you know what's coming and the way the plot unfolds and the character's motivation and reaction to the unfolding events that make it either work or not. Fonda was always an interesting actor and watching him balance his initial laid-back persona with his later vengeance-seeking righteous-driven character is interesting although the constant brooding and simmering anger go on too long sometimes (along with shots of earthmoving equipment & strip mines). Watching him commandeer a bulldozer to break-up a neighbors house repossession or calmy kill off the land developers in their expansive home with a bow and arrow is loads of fun. Crabtree and his posse of crooks seem to live together in a swanky ultra-modern house with interiors that look to be from a Playboy photoshoot. The bow & arrow is a bit perplexing it does reinforce the back-to-nature wronged man protecting his land and the way of life. The sequences of families being evicted by the developers and the bulldozing of their homes bring to mind the depression era and the WPA photographs of the '30s. As to be expected the action sequences and Fonda "putting it to man" are the best parts of the film. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> The film's pacing is kind of choppy and sometimes has trouble keeping consistent pacing. Just when the action starts ramping up Fonda goes into a bar and broods for a while or stops by for a roll in the hay with Lynn Lowry. The secondary characters including Douchette and the young Scott Glenn all bring a sense of grounded realism to their characters and Carey brings an atmosphere of the slimy big businessman (and ultimately thoroughly evil) that make you want to cheer on Fonda's character even more. One of my favorite actresses Lynn Lowry has a rather thankless role here but as usual, brings a wonderful presence to the small role. She also contributes a couple of topless scenes that along with some bloody shootings barely nudge the film into an "R" rating by 1970's standards.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> The film bears a close approximation to New World's later BLACK OAK CONSPIRACY from 1977 and that film's producer and writer Jesse Vint would claim that he brought the story idea to New World and they "appropriated" it for FIGHTING MAD. 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Cal. locations for New World films. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> The schizophrenic music score by longtime Fonda friend and collaborator Bruce Langhorne is all over the map with banjo themed moments for the family and farm scenes and a jarring electronic score for the action sequences. There's also the classic plaintive harmonica the pops up every time somebody dies that we care about. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> Not a great movie but a film that does what it's supposed to do and thanks to Fonda's performance which brings quiet simmering anger to the character rather than the over-the-top bloody revenge that's the usual hallmark of these films. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> Available on DVD from Shout Factory with Charles S. 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Dick http://www.blogger.com/profile/00409849079342411514noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-875942433636843700.post-34651557731601694942020-10-17T16:09:00.000-04:002020-10-17T16:09:36.496-04:00Rosalba Neri News #33 THE FRENCH SEX MURDERS and THE GIRL IN ROOM 2A on Blu-ray <p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLakzjQT8EakulRb9EkEQSuREUZGHt7B41YGcHf3gatyu_Bsoz2B05qUWDpo3xbfFe117JFvmwFKRMF-3Tl-IE3iUgzLb6rk8daXEmNoN3v13xeJs2ue4Y1bBU1tCfbz74HWCKBuTebitm/s900/b3.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="600" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLakzjQT8EakulRb9EkEQSuREUZGHt7B41YGcHf3gatyu_Bsoz2B05qUWDpo3xbfFe117JFvmwFKRMF-3Tl-IE3iUgzLb6rk8daXEmNoN3v13xeJs2ue4Y1bBU1tCfbz74HWCKBuTebitm/w266-h400/b3.webp" width="266" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcyQ-URINWzj55P0VdrA-reEmmfx6Gc1_WDXL1JKg3Ot0eXdQuC-0SXyzUKvONX84T3wVSQFrDYkqH-1xXFFf-Ynx0vFsxymHPIE52Kp5zGNuiuFc6Tg79HzbZjBDFC140DxnZpGfddfFM/s2048/b4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1346" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcyQ-URINWzj55P0VdrA-reEmmfx6Gc1_WDXL1JKg3Ot0eXdQuC-0SXyzUKvONX84T3wVSQFrDYkqH-1xXFFf-Ynx0vFsxymHPIE52Kp5zGNuiuFc6Tg79HzbZjBDFC140DxnZpGfddfFM/w263-h400/b4.jpg" width="263" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="text-align: justify;">As part of their Black Friday releases </span><span style="color: red; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://vinegarsyndrome.com/"><span style="color: red;">Vinegar Syndrome</span></a> </span><span style="text-align: justify;">has announced their second Giallo box which will contain Ferdinando Merighi’s sleazy & gory <a href="http://theoakdrivein.blogspot.com/2014/06/rosalba-neri-thur-friday-happy-birthday.html"><span style="color: red;">THE FRENCH SEX MURDERS</span></a> released in 1972. It will be taken from the negative of the uncut French version which has never before released on home video. Also included will be THE GIRL IN ROOM 2A from 1974 which is a rare Giallo that was directed by an American, the infamous exploitation king William Rose who brought forth RENT-A-GIRL' THE HOOKERS and the lost THE SMUT PEDDLER). </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;">While neither film is never going to be considered in the upper echelon of the Giallo genre they're both loads of fun and both feature Rosalba, although her role in THE GIRL IN ROOM 2A is best described as a glorified cameo. THE FRENCH SEX MURDERS is the better of the two and has a wonderfully sleazy vibe to it and to top it off there's a great cast including Barbara Bouchet, Antia Ekberg, and Evelyn Kraft.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Both should have gorgeous transfers and no doubt will have some nice extra features and impressive packaging. Let's hope Rosalba is included in some extra features. 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Following in the wake of Bruce Brown's ENDLESS SUMMER (1966) is this surfing "documentary" that follows three likable, good-looking, and always chipper young American surfers as they travel around the world looking for waves to surf and spreading good vibes wherever they stop. Mixing in some Monkees-style quick editing and quirky camera angles, it adds a female to the ENDLESS SUMMER male duo and features a great psychedelic pop soundtrack by Stu Phillips and David Gates with Dino, Desi, and Billy handling the vocals.</div>
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Produced and directed by Gene McCabe, it features professional surfers in the main roles (which probably helps immensely if you're making a surfing movie) and here we have Bob Purvey (who narrates the film), Claude Cogan, and Mary Lou McGinnis. Three cinematographers are credited and the film features some truly spectacular surfing footage mixed in with twisting twirling camera shots and color tinting. Being a product of the times there's also has a zoom-happy lens diving into bikini cleavage and other physical attributes.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeMOpo-yFqaRpO1KFDgFWwXwZX0LGWv6oSp9GymPQynxLtICMlM7TLqitB-KLA5IJgJfxGTAlAKN3Nvd0gMlrSSZrI25dIe_Edf7DkWodVp6sABcc0ylS7WnPAvKgMGxBrC4BhpGDBXng3/s979/10.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="556" data-original-width="979" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeMOpo-yFqaRpO1KFDgFWwXwZX0LGWv6oSp9GymPQynxLtICMlM7TLqitB-KLA5IJgJfxGTAlAKN3Nvd0gMlrSSZrI25dIe_Edf7DkWodVp6sABcc0ylS7WnPAvKgMGxBrC4BhpGDBXng3/w400-h228/10.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWyUKCr6W3xFmiRFhUxA0H5ZzPKazf2NMW-Ihv6lJxHktqy4dhXakZ5QxjBx-DHohC7SYL4pjqw-GwuMS9jChPhb_rcJkwxRlOeEAwU_mXPwYzAyCe7dpSxOZ6Li2BbccuOsp-H4cwgsVq/s975/11.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="555" data-original-width="975" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWyUKCr6W3xFmiRFhUxA0H5ZzPKazf2NMW-Ihv6lJxHktqy4dhXakZ5QxjBx-DHohC7SYL4pjqw-GwuMS9jChPhb_rcJkwxRlOeEAwU_mXPwYzAyCe7dpSxOZ6Li2BbccuOsp-H4cwgsVq/w400-h228/11.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKB63nr6cZPoxPQEMrm6see8DOyRMQElOdZmsNIBQ6NC3oPIabWWM1pwrsg2eN3ZlB2i2fPtuB09mGoVL2U5p_RxRbXWB2kwYFELcaIDwI5DLOVSv20gWXyICR81hdqW9cUPhoyce399ve/s971/12.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="549" data-original-width="971" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKB63nr6cZPoxPQEMrm6see8DOyRMQElOdZmsNIBQ6NC3oPIabWWM1pwrsg2eN3ZlB2i2fPtuB09mGoVL2U5p_RxRbXWB2kwYFELcaIDwI5DLOVSv20gWXyICR81hdqW9cUPhoyce399ve/w400-h226/12.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>
Christening themselves "The Surf Corp" they jet off from Los Angeles and head off toward Portugal (with locations that bring to mind Soledad Miranda and Jess Franco's filmography) and then in turn visit Morocco, Ceylon, India, Hong Kong, Japan, and Hawaii. Using many of the tropes from ENDLESS SUMMER including humorous fake books with pasted on front covers along with some admittedly corny humor, however the whole thing is done with such exuberance and fun that you can't help get caught up in it. The three main leads are perky & peppy to the point of annoyance and the film descends into what seems like endless travelogue footage at some points but there is a charming innocence along with "the whole world as one" late 60's vibe.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> The admittedly threadbare plot follows the three around the world as they make various globe-hopping stops where they absorb the local culture and endear themselves to the local population. In Japan, there's a lengthy interlude in an indoor wave pool (which in 1969 was quite a novelty) and in most of the locations spend time teaching the locals how to surf.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> Totally devoid of traditional plot and with no actual acting there's only Purvey's narration describing what's going on as the film relies on the spectacular surfing footage to carry the plot and luckily the film contains enough of this to help break up the travelogue footage and the sometimes corny late 60's sitcom humor (I kept thinking of the Bardy Bunch Hawaii episodes when watching this). 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Dick http://www.blogger.com/profile/00409849079342411514noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-875942433636843700.post-21025428360215984442020-08-02T12:19:00.004-04:002021-12-20T20:12:40.828-05:00Let's Go To The Movies # 2 Fri. 10 Aug. 1973<span style="color: red;">It Fri. night in Detroit, MI (and probably hot & humid as all hell) so let's go to a nice air-conditioned theatre or head over to a drive-in.</span><br />
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The world premiere of <a href="http://theoakdrivein.blogspot.com/2014/05/detroit-9000-1973.html"><span style="color: red;">DETROIT 9000</span></a> is downtown at the Madison and at the Camelot and Norwest. Filmed on location in Detroit "It's the murder capital of the world, The Black rip-off of the decade, and a White cop squeezed in the middle", it stars the great Alex Rocco along with a host of Detroit area '70s personalities in cameos.<br />
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Featuring an ad campaign that promoted Detroit's infamous sky-rocketing homicide rate (a record 751 would be recorded in 1974), its a favorite of Quentin Tarantino and was directed by Arthur Marks who had a great run in the '70s with <a href="http://theoakdrivein.blogspot.com/2013/03/tiffany-bolling-movie-night-3-bonnies.html"><span style="color: red;">BONNIE'S KIDS</span></a> ("Thank God She Only Had Two!"), <a href="http://theoakdrivein.blogspot.com/2013/06/tiffany-bolling-movie-night-4-candy_14.html"><span style="color: red;">THE CANDY SNATCHERS</span></a>, FRIDAY FOSTER, and THE ROOMMATES among others.</div>
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The magnificent Tamera Dobson stars in the surprisingly "PG" rated CLEOPATRA JONES ("She's 6 Feet 2" of Dynamite!") which has been held over at the Grand Circus and the Mercury. Directed by 70's drive-in guru Jack Starret (best known as the sadistic Deputy Gault in FIRST BLOOD), it also co-stars a full-on scenery-chewing Shelly Winters (who as to be seen to be believed here). </div>
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The Grand Circus along with the Fox and the Adams were the giant old movie houses in downtown Detroit located around the Grand Circus Park area. In the '70s they specialized in blaxploitation, kung fu, and stuff like the ILSA films. And on the way home, you could stop at Lafayette Coney Island.</div>
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Dwain Esper's infamous VD warning film SEX MADNESS (which harkens back to 1937) is getting one of its countless revivals in several area theatres. Hopefully, there was a white-coated guy in the lobby hawking pamphlets warning you of the ill-effects of pre-marital sex. "She Sought Thrills And Caught Trouble!" Plus as a double feature, you get the 1927 "weed western" HIGH ON THE RANGE with famed Hollywood stuntman Yakima Canutt.</div>
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The sequel to 1972's BLACULA, SCREAM BLACULA SCREAM is held over at the downtown theatre the Palms. Starring the very effective and Shakespearian-trained William Marshall the ad really plays up co-star Pam Grier's involvement along with her recent hit COFFY ("Pam Grier-That Coffy Spitfire is a Voodoo Priestess Now!") which shows how big a box office draw she was in the '70s. </div>
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With a big 1/8 page ad the porno-chic, THE DEVIL IN MISS JONES from the previous year is still in its exclusive run at the Krim. Like DEEP THROAT, many theatres ran this almost 24/7 and it racked in tens of millions (if not hundreds of millions) of dollars for it's mob-controlled distributers during the '70s. </div>
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Hey, look at this! There's a spook show happening at the Holiday Drive-In hosted by local Detroit horror host Sir Graves Ghastly. The spook shows are fascinating and now forgotten bit of film-going history. Usually featuring one (or maybe two) old "B" horror films they featured costumed monsters and guys in gorilla suits jumping out at the audience or rampaging through the drive-in lot all of which was hosted by a local celebrity (usually as here the local Saturday TV horror host). Sometimes at drive-ins, they would bury somebody in a box just under the surface of the drive-in lot (hopefully with an air outlet) and they would pop out at the appropriate time as a zombie. </div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">"For the Sake of Your Sanity, Pray it isn't True!" One of the greatest haunted house films ever and featuring a magnificent performance from Pamela Franklin, THE LEGEND OF HELL HOUSE (with another WTF were-they-thinking '70's "PG" rating) is still getting a broad release a couple months after its release date including the Northgate in Hazel Park which was a great somewhat-on-the-scuzzy-side theatre that specialized in horror and slasher. </span></div>
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Arguably featuring career-best performances from Gene Hackman and Al Pacino, the ultimate downer of a 70's buddy road movie SCARECROW is in its last week and is playing four theatres out in the 'burbs after it's April opening. </div>
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Down at the Studio 8 on 8 Mile and complete with a review quote from Family Circle (??) magazine ("It's not a dirty movie") is Bernardo Bertolucci's LAST TANGO IN PARIS. Located east of 8 Mile Road's string of topless bars, adult bookstores and massage parlors, The Studio tended to feature arthouse and foreign films. </div>
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Last chance at the Camelot to see the really cool double feature of BONNIE AND CLYDE and BULLITT. A bit earlier than this, I saw BULLITT and NEVADA SMITH on a double feature.</div>
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"Shaft's back and twice as bad...Kickin' the Mafia up and down the world and back." The third (and final) in the Shaft series the James Bond-ish SHAFT IN AFRICA is playing two drive-ins and one theatre. The weakest of the two sequels it has a plot that doesn't hold up to much scrutiny, but Richard Roundtree's screen presence helps as he busts a modern-day slavery ring and there's Vonetta Mcgee (who's also in DETROIT 9000) and heaps of violence of bare skin. "Wanna see Shaft again? This time bring yo' momma!"</div>
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For the adults-only inclined we've got THE FOURSOME along with the always-running DEEP THROAT and some good old-fashioned burlesque at National Burlesk Theatre (across from Crowley's Dept. Store) featuring Mademoiselle Di-Di BangBang (42-24-36).</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://theoakdrivein.blogspot.com/search/label/Let%27s%20Go%20To%20The%20Movies" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="569" data-original-width="263" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhN4bkOeDMA54ftLwWUbSRrSl8BcKMnGXrelJZ9ytNsF4S8T6wUzds958qpeW0e7mMHeeAu9Iq_jRkYng_dsM3Lx7whfUMADKaswNZeZKhHVfYcRq81-4Ktlj-GMZQ7h-0WCqzA2HTyWPrck-jaD2gL14RA0xOCGH3POzFJPm_35mmr8Kj_k9xz2CjUTA=s320" width="148" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>
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Collecting the five Fu Manchu titles produced by Harry Alan Towers, Indicator has announced <a href="https://www.powerhousefilms.co.uk/collections/frontpage/products/the-fu-manchu-cycle-1965-1969-le"><span style="color: red;">this</span></a> release for 19 Oct. 2020. Directed by Don Sharpe, Jeremy Summers, and Jess Franco these feature Christopher as the title villain with Nigel Green, Douglas Wilmer, and Richard Greene playing his arch-nemesis Nayland Smith.<br />
A mixture of pulpy adventure and James Bond with a sprinkling of Euro-horror they are collected together in this limited (6000 units) edition box set. Containing a plethora of extras (some of which will address the controversies now attached to the character) including commentaries, interviews, image galleries, the first chapter of the silent Fu Manchu serial from 1923 and nice fat book among others. <br />
Rosalba appears (with some really odd costume choices) in the last film in the cycle with Jess Franco's THE CASTLE OF FU MANCHU from 1969. There's a new 2020 interview listed with her in extras which is a definite plus.<br />
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Dick http://www.blogger.com/profile/00409849079342411514noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-875942433636843700.post-18383053456100795972020-07-27T17:23:00.001-04:002021-01-19T07:07:02.594-05:00WALK THE WALK 1970 <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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One of the more fascinating personalities on the periphery of motion picture history was producer Kroger Babb (who billed himself as "America's Fearless Showman"). A husker showman in the vein of the more famous Dave Friedman, Babb specialized in sex education films and mondo-style travelogues with his best-known effort being MOM AND DAD. First released in 1945 MOM AND DAD was infamously known for its graphic birth-of-a-baby footage and continued to play theatres well into the 1970s (eventually grossing upwards of $50 million) and was even added to the National Film Registry in 2006.<br />
In 1970 Babb released WALK THE WALK in what might have been an attempt to cash-in on an A.I.P.-type counter-culture film but in its marketing seems to harken back to REEFER MADNESS with a warning about the evils of drug use while also providing a head-ups to the older generation to the hippie movement.<br />
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Directed by Jac Zacha whose only other directorial credit is the early gay sexploitation film THE STUD FARM from 1969, WALK THE WALK was produced by Babb's Ohio-based Hallmark Productions (formally known as <span style="text-align: center;">Hygienic Productions when Babb was marketing sex-education films) and it seems to have gotten a decent amount of play around the country (with a lot of Midwest playdates) based upon newspapers ads. It disappeared after its release becoming a lost film for decades until several copies were found in an out-of-business film lab. It's available for <a href="https://www.bynwr.com/articles/walk-the-walk-1970"><span style="color: red;">streaming</span></a> on director </span>Nicolas Winding Refn's excellent <a href="https://www.bynwr.com/"><span style="color: red;">byNWR website</span></a> which is a treasure trove of cult & forgotten films.<br />
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WALK THE WALK has 40-something old seminary student Mike (Bernie Hamilton - brother of jazz great Chico Hamilton and best remembered as Capt. Dobey on STARSKY AND HUTCH) who wanders through a bizarre collection of characters and settings in Los Angeles on his quest for heroin to feed his habit. Starting with Mike ravenously licking various spots in his room where he had previously stashed his dope he heads out to score. Arriving a club with an unnamed psychedelic rock band wailing in the background he meets up with an equally long-in-the-tooth Judy (Honor Lawrence) who seems to have some sort of mystical status among the plots counter-culture characters. For a film supposedly dealing with the "youth movement" most of the actors (including many of the extras) appear to be at least 20 years too old for their respective parts??</div>
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Moving from one random sequence to the next, Judy sets up "Toke" (Eric Weston THE IRON TRIANGLE) to take the fall for a drug deal for unexplained reasons, she and Mike hang out at her house where she goes into monologues concerning Warner Brothers cartoons and there's a stolen chalice lurking about. Most of the dialogue seems to ad-libed on the spot and the characters all engage in endless conversations that have nothing to do with the plot. Along the way we witness a hippie wedding overseen by Judy, a clown car-like assemble of people (and dogs) exiting a car, and a climatic endless lopping chase that starts in the city but switches to the desert suddenly. The film has three(!!) credited cinematographers which might mean an on-again/off-again shooting schedule. </div>
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Filmed around a decapitated and dingy-looking Venice the film features some excellent and bizarre location work that fits in with the proceedings with a very grungy post-Manson/Gimme Shelter end-of-the-hippie-dream atmosphere pervading everything. The acoustic folk soundtrack is by Kevin Dwyer and Eric Zohn (credited as Kevin and Eric).<br />
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The director Jac Zacha based the film on much of his own experience (there are some period articles from trade publications over at Chris Poggiali's <a href="http://templeofschlock.blogspot.com/2010/06/endangered-list-case-file-72.html"><span style="color: red;">Temple of Schlock</span></a> blog) and there was originally a filmed prologue with Zacha that is missing from the surviving prints. </div>
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Most often meandering and boring this a cinematic oddity, to say the least, but it's always nice to have a previously missing piece of film history appear and I find these weird little bits from the dark recesses of cinema endlessly fascinating. <br />
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Dick http://www.blogger.com/profile/00409849079342411514noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-875942433636843700.post-88476949745237941092020-07-18T14:37:00.007-04:002021-12-20T20:21:09.122-05:00LET'S GO TO THE MOVIES #1<b><span style="color: red;">It's Sat. March 19, 1977. Let's see what's playing in the Detroit, MI metro area.</span></b><br />
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Lots of post-Oscar hype and re-releases for some major studio stuff<br />
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Ralph Bakshi's WIZARDS is still playing at multiple theatres 5 weeks after its opening and would soon become a "midnight show" staple on Fri. and Sat. late nights along with various concert films for hordes of stoned patrons.<br />
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A triple feature of J.D.'s REVENGE, COOLEY HIGH and CORNBREAD, EARL AND ME at The Mercury on 6 Mile and Schaffer. This trio ran for what seemed like years at local theatres.</div>
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Kroger Babb's infamous UNCLE TOM'S CABIN is in its "Second Big Week!". Exploitation huckster extraordinaire Babb was famous for his sex-hygiene, nudie, and birth-of-a-baby films such as MOM AND DAD and had a career going back to the '30s. Cashing in on the MANDINGO and DRUM hype in the '70s, he bought a German-produced version of UNCLE TOM'S CABIN with Herbert Lom as Simon Legree and hired low-budget guru Al Adamson to shoot additional scenes of sex and sadism which he inserted. </div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">There's a double feature of the kinda/sorta EYES WITHOUT A FACE inspired MANSION OF THE DOOMED (with an early appearance by Lance Henrikson) and Juan López Moctezuma's recut and edited AT THE MANSION OF MADNESS under the title DR. TARR'S TORTURE DUNGEON. </span></div>
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Based upon a series of unsolved murders around Texarkana in 1946, Charles B. Pierce's atmospheric proto-slasher THE TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN has been held over. With a post-GILLIGAN'S ISLAND Dawn Wells, 70's exploitation stalwart Andrew Prine, and in a bit of bizarre casting Ben Johnson as a Hispanic town sheriff. </div>
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"The Dirtiest Harry Of Them All!" THE ENFORCER is playing all over the place including the Troy Drive-In which is where I saw it.</div>
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The Americana, Eastland, and The Showcase have a preview for the "R" rated SLAPSHOT with the disclaimer "certain language may be too strong for children" - but hey most of the language is fine and makes for a great family movie-night out!</div>
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The mythical THE FARMER is getting a pretty wide release in the Motor City. This lost exploitation revenge has never been issued on home video. 43 years on and I'm still kicking myself for missing this one. </div>
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Held over is Michael Winner's gloriously lurid and wonderfully trashy <a href="http://theoakdrivein.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-sentinel-1977.html"><span style="color: red;">THE SENTINEL</span></a> which features Burgess Meredith channeling Ruth Gordon from ROSEMARY'S BABY, Beverly D'Angelo & Sylvia Miles as lesbian cannibals along with a pretty unbelievable cast of former Hollywood A-listers and up and comers. And hey, there's John Carradine in one of his <i>11(!!) </i>film<i> </i>roles from 1977.</div>
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CHATTERBOX staring the wonderful Candice Rialson is just playing at the Fairlane Drive-In after opening back on Feb. 2. It features Railson as a young woman and her adventures with a unique bit of talking anatomy. </div>
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Italian peplum kiddie matinee at the Northgate with Sergio Corbucci's GOLIATH AND THE VAMPIRES followed by a double bill later that day (not for the kiddies) of the above-mentioned UNCLE TOM'S CABIN and THE KLANSMAN starring Richard Burton and Lee Marvin </div>
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Dick http://www.blogger.com/profile/00409849079342411514noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-875942433636843700.post-8517488552740895702020-07-13T09:18:00.001-04:002021-01-18T20:36:09.754-05:00RIDE THE HOT WIND 1971<div style="text-align: center;">
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Long before major Hollywood films dealt with the returning Vietnam Veterans and their sometimes difficult transition to civilian life the low budget biker films of this era often dealt with this and while they often did this with this on a pure exploitation level they did (mostly by default as I highly doubt they were looking to make serious social commentary) inject some feeling and pathos to the characters.<br />
Looking to break away from his Disney/Mouseketeer persona Tommy Kirk (OLD YELLER) stars in this 1971 genre effort which was co-written and directed by Ted "Duke" Kelly who's only other IMDB credit is the even more obscure "G" rated MY NAME IS LEGEND from 1975 which also starred Tommy Kirk. Kelly's notable claim to fame is that he's referred to as "a friend of Audie Murphy" in several sources and there are also a few references to his work as a stuntman but there are no credits that bear this out. I was also hard-pressed to find any evidence of a theatrical run for RIDE THE HOT WIND with no one-sheets or other promo material in circulation. It's probably played a few drive-in double or triple bills before fading into obscurity. There was a mega-rare VHS release back in the day that in spite of my renting every biker movie I could lay my hands on back in the days of video rental I never came across. Currently, there is a nice widescreen copy (with some appropriate grindhouse-style cigarette burns and dirt) available to stream on Amazon that carries the Vinegar Syndrome logo at the closing.<br />
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Opening with stock footage of Vietnam combat during the credits (some of it quite graphic) we jump to a stateside military trial (which looks like it was filmed in a school gymnasium) where Capt. William Shanks (Tommy Kirk although billed here as the more adult-sounding "Tom" Kirk) is on trial for the massacre of Vietnamese women and children. Obviously based upon the actual incident concerning William Calley and the My Lai Massacre, it's a bold attempt at a contemporary issue from an exploitation film and in the hands of a more capable cast and crew (more on this later) could have really been an interesting and provocative story.<br />
After being found guilty Shanks is court-martialed and sent to a military prison where he is humiliated and brutalized in a brief montage (director Kelly loves his montages here). Upon getting a pardon he hits the road hitchhiking and is picked up by soft-core queen Marsha Jordan (MARSHA: THE EROTIC HOUSEWIFE and COUNT YORGA VAMPIRE) who invites him to her hotel room for a tumble. He finds work in an advertising agency and begins a relationship with a co-worker which leads to the first of <i>TWO</i>(!!)<i> </i>falling-in-love montages that we're treated to during the course of the film. Once his identity is known is to his employer Shank is summarily fired and unable to find other stable employment he falls in with a biker gang after beating up their leader during a fight at a roadside diner.<br />
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The seemingly hopeless and befuddled biker gang defer to Shanks on everything (referring to him as "Captain") and he in turn yells and berates them every time they engage in biker-movie type activities including assault, robbery and the kidnapping and rape of two women. Shank dreams of escaping to Mexico with his unbelievably sweet biker girlfriend but things spiral downward to the nihilistic ending as Shanks and his gang are pursued by the local law enforcement (led by a jut-jawed and steely-eyed Ted Kelly). At one pint the biker gang launches into a party complete with dancing that must have reminded Kirk of his previous "beach party" movies.<br />
The film's plot contains some interesting points that if explored more deeply would have made for far more engaging viewing, but Kelly's flat direction and not picking up some of the deeper motivations to Kirk's character makes one wonder why they were introduced in the first place. Along with the above mentioned My Lai reference, there's also an interesting use of flashback from the biker violence to Shank's time in Vietnam that's clumsily approached, Kelly as the pursuing sheriff carries some begrudging respect and pity for Shanks which adds some nuances to the film's climax and their relationship is reminiscent of LONELY ARE THE BRAVE and TELL THEM WILLIE BOY IS HERE.<br />
There's a lot of potential here and one wonders what a director like Jack Starrett or perhaps even Richard Rush could have done with this concept with William Smith, Bruce Dern, or Adam Adam Roarke in the lead role. Kirk seems to have only two emotional states in the film being either sullen or lashing out in over-stated anger every 10 minutes and strangely for the leader of the biker gang we never actually see him ride a motorcycle. Along with Kirk and the famously well-endowed Jordan, there are a couple more recognizable faces lurking around including Cheryl Waters (<a href="http://theoakdrivein.blogspot.com/2014/12/act-of-vengeance-1974.html"><span style="color: red;">ACT OF VENGEANCE</span></a><span style="color: red;"> </span>and MACON COUNTY LINE) as Shank's biker girlfriend and Sherry Bain (<span style="color: red;"><a href="http://theoakdrivein.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-hard-ride-1971.html"><span style="color: red;">THE HARD RIDE</span></a> </span>and WILD RIDERS) as his advertising agency romance.<br />
The film's score is composed of library tracks one of which will be familiar to some viewers as it's been used in ad bumpers for local TV news. According to some signage seen it was filmed in the Lake Los Angeles area near Lancaster.<br />
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<i><b><span style="color: red;">"…While, like a ghastly rapid river, Through the pale door, </span></b></i><br />
<i><b><span style="color: red;">a hideous throng rush out forever and laugh – But smile no more"</span></b></i><br />
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Although cinematically placed in Roger Corman's "Poe" cycle for A.I.P. (and marketed as such by A.I.P. who by this time were highly attuned to the cash cow the series had become) 1963's THE HAUNTED PALACE is based (however nominally) on the H.P. Lovecraft novella The Case Of Charles Dexter Ward with Price narrating the closing verses of the Poe poem that lends itself to the film's title.<br />
Written by Charles Beaumont (Rod Serling's THE TWILIGHT ZONE) the story while being saddled with Poe references, based upon a Lovecraft story and with a script by Beaumont does sometimes has the feel of a mix of different cooks, none of which are fully developed. In interviews, Roger Corman has bemoaned the fact that he was forced to link Poe to all these projects and that he was looking forward to doing a Lovecraft adaption. The film itself is a beautiful looking production with Floyd Crosby's cinematography (HOUSE OF USHER), art direction by Daniel Haller (<a href="http://theoakdrivein.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-dunwich-horror-1970.html"><span style="color: red;">THE DUNWICH HORROR</span></a>) and set direction by Harry Reif (<a href="http://theoakdrivein.blogspot.com/2013/12/panic-in-year-zero-1962.html"><span style="color: red;">PANIC IN YERO ZERO</span></a>) all lending themselves to a production that's Gothic eye candy all done in somber browns & blacks, with mist-shrouded matte paintings and gnarly trees.<br />
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Coming 6th in the series (after the comedic THE RAVEN from earlier in 1963, THE HAUNTED PALACE was the last of the series to be filmed in America and coming in the latter half of the series it benefits from the studios slowly up ticking budget for each film and although still technically a "B" picture it has the sumptuous look that Corman and his crew brought to these films. Although all the Poe films always had some adult themes lurking just under the surface, THE HAUNTED PALACE brings these more to the forefront with rape and women being possessed in order to breed with otherworldly entities. The film is also the first theatrical picture to directly reference Lovecraft with such cosmic horrors as Elder Gods, Cthulhu, and Yog-Sothoth along with the town of Arkam all being mentioned. It contains the first utterance of the fabled Necronomicon (by the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred) with the book being shown on-screen in its film debut.<br />
Like all the Poe films, THE HAUNTED PALACE opens with some atmospheric credits (designed by Armondo Linus Acosta THE YOUNG RACERS) as a spider spins a web across a black screen with the web moving over the credits. A group of angry townsfolk is gathered in a local tavern (although we're never given a specific year we're led to believe the films opening narration takes place in the mid-1700s before jumping ahead to the next century for the remainder of the film) and they're mounting angry with local warlock Joseph Curwen (Vincent Price) comes to a head when Edgar Weeden's (Leo V. Gordon TOBRUK) wife is wondering off in a trance to Dexter's castle where she is to be indoctrinated into some evil proceedings. Doing what townfolks do best in this type of situation they gather the pitchforks and torches and proceed to the castle where they take Ward and burn him at the stake. Like all good warlocks (and witches) he proceeds to invoke a curse upon the townfolks and their descendants as a thunderstorm rages overhead.<br />
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Flash forward 110 years and Curwen's great-grandson Charles Dexter Ward (again Price) and his wife Ann (Debra Paget TALES OF TERROR in her last theatrical role) arrive in Arkam to claim their inheritance of the Curwen castle. Stopping in the Burning Man Tavern they come across the same surly group of townsfolk (in fact the <i>exact</i> same as they're played by the same actors portraying the original mob's relatives). Among them are a gaggle of familiar character faces including above mentioned Leo V. Gordon along with Elisha Cook Jr. (THE MALTESE FALCON), John Dierkes (THE ALAMO) and ubiquitous TV presence Frank Maxwell (MR. MAJESTYK). Finding them not too receptive to his looking to settle in the Dexter house, the couple proceeds to the newly inherited adobe with only Maxwell's doctor character showing them some friendship. There's also a sequence showing the physically deformed offspring of some of the Arkam residents that still packs a jolt.<br />
Once inside the castle, Charles Ward gazes upon the portrait of his ancestor Joseph Curwen and immediately begins channeling his evil great-grandfathers personality while hooking up with his two assistants one of them being Simon Orne (Lon Chaney Jr.), here making his only appearance in a Corman film along with this being his only pairing with Price. Charles Ward/Joesph Curwen begins moving forward with his old plans which include resurrecting his previous mistress (Barbara Morris THE WASP WOMEN and who appeared in over 15 A.I.P. films from 1956 to 1970), and (hopefully) getting Debra Paget to get acquainted with "the thing in the pit". At the same time, the same group of angry villagers (Leo V. Gordon spends his brief screen time in a perpetual rage) us fuming in the same pub before the now possessed Price begins knocking them off in gruesome fashion as revenge for his previous century stake burning.<br />
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Price seems to be having a wonderful time playing the dual roles (especially toward the middle of the plot when he alternates between the two) and it's interesting to see him play somewhat of a milquetoast character in the first scenes before he goes into the full arching eyebrows Vincent Price evil persona. Even though by this time this would the evil warlock would be a character Price could play in his sleep, he still brings a wonderful and entertaining level of professionalism to the role. Chaney Jr.'s work had lately been regulated to guest spots on TV westerns and with the exception of Jack Hill's SPIDER BABY in 1967, this would be one of his last decent roles.<br />
Debra Paget had had roles in several major movies including DEMETRIUS AND THE GLADIATORS 1954, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS 1956, and Elvis's LOVE ME TENDER in 1956, but made the biggest impression in Fritz Lang's THE INDIAN TOMB 1959 where has Seetha she did a dance that was forever ingrained on many a young boy's brains during its frequent showing on Sat. afternoon TV. She doesn't get to do a lot here, seeming to spend most of her time cowering in her bed or wondering about the castle in her dressing gown - which to Paget's and cinematographer Floyd Crosby's credit do look ravishingly beautiful.<br />
The movie's plot is indebted to Mario Bava's LA MASCHERA DEL DEMOINO (aka BLACK SUNDAY 1960) and that films motif of witches/warlocks being executed while invoking curses on future generations would be carried over in countless Euro-horror films of the coming decade along with John Llewellyn Moxey's <a href="http://theoakdrivein.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-city-of-dead-aka-horror-hotel-1960.html"><span style="color: red;">CITY OF THE DEAD</span></a> (aka HORROR HOTEL 1960) which also seems to be an influence on THE HAUNTED PALACE (Roger Corman during this period was a prodigious movie watcher).<br />
Lovecraft's fiction often dealt with demonic cosmic entities, ancient evil religions of vast scope and unexplainable monstrous visages all of which are pretty much impossible to project on the screen (especially in 1963 on an A.I.P. budget) and THE HAUNTED PALACE attempts to marry some of this to a rather basic A.I.P. "Poe" plot. The result being is that's a great deal of exposition by characters in the film attempting to explain this which sometimes bogs down things in the middle and the films much talked about & hyped "pit monster" or "old one" is bound to disappoint if fully shown. Its wavy out-of-focus views during the plot's climax are more in line with what Lovecraft often described as horrors unable to describe. This film is my favorite of the Poe cycle and it's gorgeous to look at (it's Gothic overdrive to the max) and while only being nominally attached to the Lovecraft source novella it does an admirable job of invoking the spirit of H.P. and remains one of my favorite Lovecraft adaptions and one of my favorite Vincent Price roles.<br />
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