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Post by Prime etc. on Sept 6, 2024 5:36:07 GMT
TASTE OF DEATH 1968 - Murderous cattle thieves stop in a small Colorado town and the sheriff reluctantly agrees to let them stay a couple of nights. John Ireland is an old friend of the sheriff--in fact, he's the father (presumed dead) of the sheriff's adopted son. Why Ireland is with the bad guys isn't really explained--but it gives him a reason to switch sides and help out the town people after the sheriff is sadistically murdered. The leader of the bandits is unusually creepy-reminded me of Count Orlock, cold and cruel with a dead-sounding voice as he throws around his authority and abuse of the people. It gets so bad that the villagers turn the tables while Ireland teaches his son (who doesn't know who he is) to shoot. The tension peters out to a conclusion which is ok but kind of underwhelming. Good part for Ireland though, and some interesting cinematography. It does not look like a standard spaghetti western given the snowy forest locations.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Sept 7, 2024 17:22:59 GMT
Chisum (1970), been sitting near the top of my watchlist for the last few years.
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Post by Prime etc. on Sept 10, 2024 7:01:06 GMT
HANG 'EM HIGH! 1968 - Alan Hale Jr seems out of place in this. When he is found by Clint Eastwood, he has an open mouth expression that looks like Gilligan just did something crazy. At least we don't see him get shot. You can't shoot the Skipper.
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Post by wickedkittiesmom on Sept 10, 2024 12:04:11 GMT
"A Little Romance" - a sweet movie.
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Post by Prime etc. on Sept 12, 2024 5:44:08 GMT
MURDERER'S CLUB OF BROOKLYN - 1967 - Jerry Cotton film series entry involving kidnappings in New York. They have a unique method of inserting people into filmed backgrounds. A sequence involving a truck chase is rather hi-tech in action because of the method they use. Similar to what they did in Mission Impossible 1996 with the helicopter and train scene.
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Post by Prime etc. on Sept 13, 2024 5:57:27 GMT
36 Hours of Hell - 1969 This is a macaroni war movie but unusual in that it is set in the Pacific and involves an American unit going to an island after allies bombed it to see if there are any survivors. A Swedish doctor woman is a captive of the Japanese-although she is content to help them since all the islanders were killed by the allied bombing. And they show all the bombs that they dropped at the beginning with endless archive footage. A lot of bombs. The most interesting character is the Japanese commander who is determined to fight to the last man without any unnecessary reflection or cartoonish behavior. Let's talk about the historical lecture part. We learn from the voice over at the start that the Australians launched their big offensive in November 1945. And there's a couple of soldiers (one of whom has a topless photo of Lena Horne in his helmet) killed 3 times. War is hell and also very confusing.
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Post by Prime etc. on Sept 15, 2024 7:13:52 GMT
MR. NO LEGS -1978 - -take John Agar, Lloyd Bochner, Richard Jaeckel, Ron Howard's dad, a charisma-challenged actor in his first role and the leading man, and a double amputee martial artist hitman who uses a wheelchair with shotguns and ninja throwing stars built into it as the title character, put it under the direction of the Creature From the Black Lagoon, and you get a kind of interesting mess. The fight scenes with Mr. No Legs are quite impressive--the rest of it is not. Apparently the paycheck Agar got from the producer bounced.
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Post by wickedkittiesmom on Sept 16, 2024 11:59:39 GMT
Radio Days _ We watch this movie at least once a year, its one of my favorite Woody Allen films and each time we watch it, I always notice something new in the background, this time it was a black cat Halloween decoration in the background that I never noticed before.
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