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Written by James M. Tate / 9/09/2024 / No comments / action , adventure , diana millay , franchise , henry tarzan , jan murray , manuel padilla jr , mike henry , rafer johnson , sixties

MIKE HENRY VS RAFER JOHNSON IN 'TARZAN AND THE GREAT RIVER'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCPCyJN6YJDVQ1o8gysm9mcpskV6NZoHCsCy-2yyKy7ckIL1ctD-Hs4VsGb4RTxR-Q7-imdOtk8IGKXqfVSS0gay8f0T0MPKjQru9eW1x6GNRnzxDFMshHzxSF-UoTpgHmcRdKi0ltuAmeKJwdz8ezLdbJ2iF0GGZPunZCkP712fUcE8yyh_dM0H8xPdsH/s1538/Screen%20Shot%202024-09-10%20at%2010.10.47%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="755" data-original-width="1538" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCPCyJN6YJDVQ1o8gysm9mcpskV6NZoHCsCy-2yyKy7ckIL1ctD-Hs4VsGb4RTxR-Q7-imdOtk8IGKXqfVSS0gay8f0T0MPKjQru9eW1x6GNRnzxDFMshHzxSF-UoTpgHmcRdKi0ltuAmeKJwdz8ezLdbJ2iF0GGZPunZCkP712fUcE8yyh_dM0H8xPdsH/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-09-10%20at%2010.10.47%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: TARZAN AND THE GREAT RIVER Year: 1967 Rating: **1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>The previous years' TARZAN AND THE VALLEY OF GOLD had the jungle-traipsing hero in a suit with a handgun, competing with the James Bond franchise and, in TARZAN AND THE GREAT RIVER, supposedly taking place in the Amazon instead of Africa, they're back to the jungle: although there is one rudimentary scene with Mike Henry's muscular yet monotone Tarzan wearing civilian clothes...Mostly though, the story's centered so much on a maverick boat captain... played by game-show-host Jan Murray with child-actor Manuel Padilla Jr his first-mate sidekick... that GREAT RIVER is more like an attempt to spinoff another franchise from Tarzan... who mostly stands around giving both the captain and kid advice on growing up...

action, adventure, diana millay, franchise, henry tarzan, jan murray, manuel padilla jr, mike henry, rafer johnson, sixties

MIKE HENRY VS RAFER JOHNSON IN 'TARZAN AND THE GREAT RIVER'

Title: TARZAN AND THE GREAT RIVER Year: 1967 Rating: **1/2 The previous years' TARZAN AND THE VALLEY OF GOLD had the jungle-traipsing he...

Written by James M. Tate / 11/22/2019 / No comments / clifford david , crime , diana millay , drama , exploitation , fifties , george montgomery , geraldine brooks , jazz score , marilee earle , melodrama , mob , nehemiah persoff

MARILEE EARLE IN 'STREET OF SINNERS' W/ GEORGE MONTGOMERY

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Marilee Earle and George Montgomery in Street of Sinners Year: 1957</td></tr>
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With Dana Andrews as Cult Film Freak's all-time favorite actor, and <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/08/feardemon.html">THE FEARMAKERS</a> the favorite movie, it's hard not to fall hard for obscure ingenue/bombshell Marilee Earle, whose deep, dark, narrowed, penetrating eyes are reminiscent of Elizabeth Short i.e. The Black Dahlia — yet with a sweet voice she'd often play vulnerable characters: alongside Dana she's a kindhearted secretary and a meek pregnant wife in the cold war thriller THE LOST MISSILE... 
 
So she really gets to shine in STREET OF SINNERS, a stage play type of B&W melodrama where everything is pushed into one setting, basically: a restaurant run by shady and not very mysteriously nefarious Nehemiah Persoff, who plays a different kind of crime boss who "runs the entire street" since he fully admits and even brags about his crooked reign, even to a much-too-old rookie cop played by George Montgomery as John Dean....

clifford david, crime, diana millay, drama, exploitation, fifties, george montgomery, geraldine brooks, jazz score, marilee earle, melodrama, mob, nehemiah persoff

MARILEE EARLE IN 'STREET OF SINNERS' W/ GEORGE MONTGOMERY

Marilee Earle and George Montgomery in Street of Sinners Year: 1957 With Dana Andrews as Cult Film Freak's all-time favorite actor, ...

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