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Written by James M. Tate / 8/23/2024 / No comments / burt reynolds , crime , diana muldaur , efrem zimbalist jr. , sixties , tv series , william reynolds

BURT REYNOLDS RETURNS TO 'THE FBI' EPISODE 'ACT OF VIOLENCE'

<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/AVvXsEi-5REJOOgjmfZG6kP7dOQ0igVVUZFIeblCQwvQRmrMN4e6D6fNXVOSaF4uy47IdxDdt8cxh3KBl1tPMJHex9SSxldjQdIV2X7TwefBsFlERBXorAkZuiR0pgr5Fl3Y_RVl1X_mMePgRxJVXaTeP-3mEXEYdAWJc8A_Q-Fxc1gfbnMjRZcBqDavC_arpmbQ/s2194/Screen%20Shot%202024-08-24%20at%2011.38.06%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1295" data-original-width="2194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-5REJOOgjmfZG6kP7dOQ0igVVUZFIeblCQwvQRmrMN4e6D6fNXVOSaF4uy47IdxDdt8cxh3KBl1tPMJHex9SSxldjQdIV2X7TwefBsFlERBXorAkZuiR0pgr5Fl3Y_RVl1X_mMePgRxJVXaTeP-3mEXEYdAWJc8A_Q-Fxc1gfbnMjRZcBqDavC_arpmbQ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-08-24%20at%2011.38.06%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Burt Reynolds on FBI: ACT OF VIOLENCE Year: 1967 Rating: ***</td></tr></tbody></table>In Quentin Tarantino's <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/07/in-hollywood.html">ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD</a>, he had his fictional late-60's-era actor Rick Dalton playing Burt Reynold's part from THE FBI first-season episode ALL THE STREETS ARE SILENT, four-years away from his movie's 1969 timeline so it would have been more befitting in this 1967 third-season venture ACT OF VIOLENCE, in which Burt plays former hit-man/current bookie John Duquesne, forced to attempt silencing ex-wife Diana Muldaur, who knows about a murder from the previous decade that could implicate Burt and former crime-boss Michael Strong...Not a bad episode yet far from great, with lead investigators Efrem Zimbalist Jr and William Reynolds casually going from one office to another gathering clues... while Reynolds converses with Strong about a deadly mission he may or may not be suited for: overall making Burt a hardened yet ambiguous would-be killer... who needed more scenes, with more action... at least until producer Quinn Martin hired Reynolds for his own series <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2022/09/burt-reynolds-headlines-neo-noir-cop.html">DAN AUGUST</a> where, though on the other side of the law, he's equally cool and calculating.

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BURT REYNOLDS RETURNS TO 'THE FBI' EPISODE 'ACT OF VIOLENCE'

Burt Reynolds on FBI: ACT OF VIOLENCE Year: 1967 Rating: *** In Quentin Tarantino's ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD , he had his fictional...

Written by James M. Tate / 2/11/2021 / No comments / apocalyptic future , diana muldaur , gene roddenberry , janet margolin , john saxon , science-fiction , seventies , ted cassidy , tv movie , warner archives

GENE RODDENBERRY'S SCI-FI TV-MOVIE PILOT FOR 'PLANET EARTH'

<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/AVvXsEjG7OWJqliuz30s_jUAIy2dW9puWQU-op4gPSa7faXvZGeJ5jKgK7UE2-Qu5I1YTDaYCAbmA6F2PhLA1rjKZeIQYFIgB8RqOJiLW7rWUEjWOgXNPZK0UGClB9D2533yNFJYxiKGOndVX_gOJfaySszJLCg7x52xjFtmWPEZsjcGO9wt59iVxWj5s4614Q/s1170/Screen%20Shot%202022-03-23%20at%2010.07.38%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="767" data-original-width="1170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG7OWJqliuz30s_jUAIy2dW9puWQU-op4gPSa7faXvZGeJ5jKgK7UE2-Qu5I1YTDaYCAbmA6F2PhLA1rjKZeIQYFIgB8RqOJiLW7rWUEjWOgXNPZK0UGClB9D2533yNFJYxiKGOndVX_gOJfaySszJLCg7x52xjFtmWPEZsjcGO9wt59iVxWj5s4614Q/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-03-23%20at%2010.07.38%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: Planet Earth Year: 1974 Rating: ****</td></tr></tbody></table>By the 1970's, because of both syndication and conventions, Gene Roddenberry's 1960's three-season gem STAR TREK was beginning to gather a big cult following...And yet, before the progressive doors opened up for another possible TREK series or, what happened instead from the financial success of STAR WARS, a trail of movies, Roddenberry attempted several entirely new science-fiction shows...

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GENE RODDENBERRY'S SCI-FI TV-MOVIE PILOT FOR 'PLANET EARTH'

Title: Planet Earth Year: 1974 Rating: **** By the 1970's, because of both syndication and conventions, Gene Roddenberry's 1960'...

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