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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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Post by Prime etc. on Sept 17, 2024 5:29:26 GMT
Support Your Local Sheriff! - 1969
Joe Danby: What's your name?
Jason McCullough: Jason McCullough. What's yours?
Joe Danby: Joe Danby. And you had better remember it.
Jason McCullough: Oh, I'll remember it, Joe. That's about all I'm gonna do the rest of my life is go around rememberin' your name.
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Post by vrkalak on Sept 17, 2024 10:28:21 GMT
Support Your Local Sheriff! - 1969 Joe Danby: What's your name? Jason McCullough: Jason McCullough. What's yours? Joe Danby: Joe Danby. And you had better remember it. Jason McCullough: Oh, I'll remember it, Joe. That's about all I'm gonna do the rest of my life is go around rememberin' your name. Great movie. |
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Post by Prime etc. on Sept 18, 2024 7:42:08 GMT
THE MONOCLE LAUGHS - (1964) -- But I didn't. A french spy comedy notable for Barbara Steele participation. Probably wanted to visit Hong Kong.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Sept 18, 2024 13:31:59 GMT
A Swingin' Summer (1965) 
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Post by Prime etc. on Sept 20, 2024 7:10:49 GMT
DESERT BATTLE - 1969 - British army unit led by George Hilton with a unhinged Canadian (Frank Wolff) is stranded in the desert and has to collaborate with German tank crew commanded by Robert Hossein. Flashbacks reveal character angst before lack of fuel and water leads to violence and a stock footage tank battle (I know I have seen it before).
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Post by wickedkittiesmom on Sept 21, 2024 12:37:33 GMT
The Banshees of Inisherin A haunting film about the end of a friendship , a good glimpse of life on a remote Irish island in the 1920's.
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Post by Prime etc. on Sept 22, 2024 7:56:57 GMT
SORCERESS - 1982 - Twin girls are given magic fighting powers and seek to defeat a red-robed guy who desperately needs a better dubbed voiceover. Some good sets given the cheapness and despite goofy acting and puppetry I can't dislike a movie that has a sequence of a flying lion thingee floating about and throwing green lasers at a deformed head that vomits the same.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Sept 23, 2024 12:31:26 GMT
A Yank at Oxford (1938) 
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Post by Prime etc. on Sept 24, 2024 18:38:02 GMT
TEN LITTLE INDIANS - 1974 --seen it before--first time I realized there were people listed in the cast at the start who did not appear in the movie but were part of a longer version shown in Europe.
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Post by Prime etc. on Sept 27, 2024 5:27:28 GMT
GOLD - 1975 - Roger Moore in a gold mine.
A FINE PAIR - 1968 - First time I saw this I had not watched McMillan & Wife but having seen that show this was likely an inspiration since it has Rock Hudson as a police official who meets the eccentric daughter (Claudia Cardinale) of a police colleague. Though in this case she is a jewel thief. There is also a housekeeper (Ellen Corby) named Mrs. Walker. Nancy Walker was Mildred in the series.
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Post by Prime etc. on Sept 29, 2024 7:52:46 GMT
THE PRIZE OF PERIL - 1982 - Contestants are selected to compete in a tv show where they must run from 5 hunters and if they survive, win $2 million. The same idea as the Running Man but with a higher budget French film and more satisfying execution--so to speak. There is a smarmy host just like Richard Dawson but they get rid of the rebel plot and bland wrestler-style hunters (the killers are also contestants who come from everyday jobs and just want to kill someone for money or personal psycho reasons). They make it more exciting by having the runner go through an actual city where he interacts with the populace (some friendly, others seeking to help him get killed --when he tries to hitch a ride on a subway, the smirking passenger who is on the other side of the closed doors says "you have to learn to get by on your own when you are a tv star". There are also some Robocop-style tv commercials. The ending fits better than the Arnie version.
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Post by Prime etc. on Oct 1, 2024 5:58:04 GMT
JUGGERNAUT - 1974 - Mad bomber puts a half dozen bombs on a cruise liner and bomb disposal expert Richard Harris (assisted by David Hemmings) has to do the job ("If it were easy then everybody'd be doing it and what would become of us?") of figuring out how to disarm them. I have seen it before but it is still suspenseful as Hell when they are unscrewing the plates.
The human interest stuff is insignificant but the bomb scenes are very tense.
Released 50 years ago this week.
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