Here is the Tele week, and doing just as sugested, watch movies of all kinds:
The images in this movie are truly astonishing, and as beautiful as they are, they are also brutal in their honesty.
Maybe I'm old fashioned , but I would have appreciated some kind of narrative, other than truly astonishing images,
Tommy why? This feels like something that sounded good on paper, and that they tried to save in the editing room. Tough Tommy Lee Jones and a bunch of cheerleaders have to share the same house since he's a Texas Ranger and the cheerleaders witnessed a murder.
Clumsy garbage with two jokes that was actually funny.
Stuart Whitman's star had dropped considerably when he made this Hammer-Shaw Brothers collaboration, made on Hong Kong locations. Whitman play's an international hitman who has just murdered an African President (or dictator) who goes to Hong Kong to collect his money, but nobody is willing to pay him, as promised, and why not. That's the core of the story. There is a lot of Kung Fu action, 1970s style, as a matter of fact a bit too much as it sideglides the story. Lung Ti or Ti Lung more or less helps Stuart in most situations, my knowledge if he was famous is sadly minimal.
It's an OK B-action movie, since I didn't expect any depth, but could have been tightened up in a few places.
Peter Cushing and Anton Differing (not playing a Nazi?) puts a bit of class and spice into the movie in a few scenes.
aka
Innocent Bystanders.
A secret agents movies from 1972 starring Stanley Baker and Geraldine Chaplin, with good support from Donald Pleasence and Dana Andrews, can't be too bad?
Storywise it's closer to LeCarré and Harry Palmer, and it is a good movie except for one thing.
Stanley Baker at the end of his stardom in British action movies, plays an agent who might be too old and only be used as a decoy, for other top agents.
The young top agents, as played by Sue Lloyd and Darren Nesbitt, must have been educated at Three Stooges College, and they sort of tips this movie in the totally wrong way.
Still Baker, Chaplin, Pleasence and Andrews makes it a good watch.
Ashamed to say but I've seen very few movies from Dick Powell's tough guy period, so this was a delight for me.
Robert Rossen's debut as director too.
Liked this one.
While Powell is a delight, Lee J. Cobb is tops, Drew is great as a bored and sensual moll, Gomez is great as gambling owner, too naive to be smart and too smart to be too naive.
It's about the dead bodies they left behind.
Evelyn Keyes was sadly too bland, this time.
Could there be something like a Vampire programmer
A very low-budget movie from Republic, and a screenplay by Leigh Brackett (
The Big Sleep 1946,
Rio Bravo 1959,
The Empire Strikes Back 1980), it is surprisingly better than it shoul'd have been.
No fangs and effects, about someone draining natives of blood in an African un-named costal town.
Not going to give away who the vampire is, even if it's obvious after 20-25 minutes.
Interesting use of so called jungle drums, since vampire's is a "white man's" problem, let us take care of it, just tell us were he/she is, using junlge drums for dialogue, don't think I've seen it used that way before of that era.
A moral booster, reminding the World that when the Yanks are coming they sure do come, and we are thankfull! Made before USA entered what is now known as WWII.
At Times Square in New York there is a statue of Father Duffy, the movie is partly about him (played by Pat O'Brian) and his services in the trenches during WWI, and one particular tough case, a streetwise James Cagney.
As much as I love James Cagney, his character in this movie is so incredible unlikable and repulsive, he's motives for anger is never made clear, he's actions kills innocents of his own command, one wishes someone shot a bullet in his head early on.
The whole production feels a bit hasty, and one feels there could have been better character development's, if given time.
Interesting take on the old Rider Haggard novel and it uses other angles than the 1950 MGM version that I'm more familiar with.
Famous bass bariton Paul Robeson bursting out in songs kind of dates it badly, no matter how good he sings. Sir Cedric and Roland Young keeps the adventure rolling along. Anna Lee, who I known mostly as Bronwyn with her basket of cookies, played a very manupulative bitch in this movie, and did it good.
Maybe best seen as a curiosity nowdays.
11 and a half is mine, the rest is maybe yours.
Until next time, have a good one!