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Written by James M. Tate / 1/19/2023 / No comments / body count , david soul , fred willard , geoffrey lewis , horror , james mason , julie cobb , kenneth mcmillan , lance kerwin , lew ayres , miniseries , seventies , stephen king , tobe hooper , tv movie , vampire

TOBE HOOPER DIRECTS THE TV VAMPIRE MOVIE OF 'SALEM'S LOT'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><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/AVvXsEj5bK2QdZk6eNrc2LFoc7C-OqUnNSr3nq3-3vIfWZohzDvD8sEJLy-o30FJgXFKh6uSfpMDaB0lEZUp4qLBkX930PTCd-y7GyGISg2O75vonqZyp9jbk262S-9iSc0z2cUN7XbVHoTxh267BeMkB1mcE-iBsEul-dPrAIDedrfy2pFhkHXrdkf4oG6sPQ/s1600/22.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="891" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5bK2QdZk6eNrc2LFoc7C-OqUnNSr3nq3-3vIfWZohzDvD8sEJLy-o30FJgXFKh6uSfpMDaB0lEZUp4qLBkX930PTCd-y7GyGISg2O75vonqZyp9jbk262S-9iSc0z2cUN7XbVHoTxh267BeMkB1mcE-iBsEul-dPrAIDedrfy2pFhkHXrdkf4oG6sPQ/s16000/22.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>David Soul in SALEM'S LOT Year: 1979 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Although groundbreaking horror/exploitation director Tobe Hooper is best known for and forever linked to the legendary low-budget slasher TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, his coolest, tightest and most accessible work is fulfilling and utterly frightful, unlike some other television movies/miniseries during the 1970's in which Stephen King's SALEM'S LOT rode the crest of... <br>
<br>Involving an eclectic ensemble from several cinematic generations behind leading man David Soul as a second-rate author returned to the titular New England hometown, doing investigative research on the locally-infamous, spooky-looking haunted manor on a hill described to former English teacher/mentor Lew Ayres: "Can a house be evil in its stone foundations? In its wooden beams? In the glass of its windows?"</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

body count, david soul, fred willard, geoffrey lewis, horror, james mason, julie cobb, kenneth mcmillan, lance kerwin, lew ayres, miniseries, seventies, stephen king, tobe hooper, tv movie, vampire

TOBE HOOPER DIRECTS THE TV VAMPIRE MOVIE OF 'SALEM'S LOT'

David Soul in SALEM'S LOT Year: 1979 Rating: ****1/2 Although groundbreaking horror/exploitation director Tobe Hooper is best known for...

SUE LYON IN STANLEY KUBRICK'S 'LOLITA' WITH JAMES MASON

<p></p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9svu0-YfiWzDVp4wV-JUqx981drxQ8o413jl2iK_leK_zejs00U6EeYWclFgUZOaOfWkJVz4XdtdFBp-tGs63BdZh-koqX7pgGtMkumJFrgkprv2iubCSjnv3DHsm3VWiKB7Dabmkqllcl5bk3TX_QsjNh7QcJm7ruNliTgBVsK_9qsuR0r2toIhf5w/s1211/1%202.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="938" data-original-width="1211" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9svu0-YfiWzDVp4wV-JUqx981drxQ8o413jl2iK_leK_zejs00U6EeYWclFgUZOaOfWkJVz4XdtdFBp-tGs63BdZh-koqX7pgGtMkumJFrgkprv2iubCSjnv3DHsm3VWiKB7Dabmkqllcl5bk3TX_QsjNh7QcJm7ruNliTgBVsK_9qsuR0r2toIhf5w/w400-h310/1%202.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>LOLITA Year: 1962 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Between Stanley Kubrick's financial gig on Kirk Douglas's epic SPARTACUS and the immense Cold War dark comedy DR. STRANGELOVE is the subtle yet brilliant LOLITA, perhaps his most conventionally filmed and least visually offbeat since the storyline takes care of all that... </p><p></p><p></p><p>Middle-aged British college professor James Mason falls for the titular Sue Lyon, whose mom, Shelley Winters, bounces around a suburban East Coast dream house, stealing all the first act scenes in what feels like a short film in itself... </p><p>And she's even more frantically smitten with Mason's Humbert than he surreptitiously lusts for her young-teen daughter, whose beauty alone is pure seduction as Lyon, with full lips just evolved from a playfully puffy, baby-face scowl has wide yet sharpened eyes guiding this literal performance of a lifetime (she had just played a teen seductress on Loretta Young's anthology series),: a sensually timeless time-capsule of devilish chaste enveloped in what eventually becomes Kubrick's very own road movie wherein lurks hilariously shady antagonist Peter Sellers who, like in STRANGELOVE, portrays a number of roles but in one man... playwright Clare Quilty... out to snake the girl from desperate step dad Mason, whose guilt, greed, vengeance and rage has already overpowered him during a framed prologue showdown between Brits: making Lyon's LOLITA not only the anticipated lead, but what everything leads to, means, and completely matters throughout.</p><span></span>

dark comedy, exploitation, james mason, jazz score, jerry stovin, peter sellers, road movie, shelley winters, sixties, stanley kubrick, sue lyon

SUE LYON IN STANLEY KUBRICK'S 'LOLITA' WITH JAMES MASON

LOLITA Year: 1962 Rating: ****1/2 Between Stanley Kubrick's financial gig on Kirk Douglas's epic SPARTACUS and the immense Cold War ...

SECOND PETER USTINOV POIROT MYSTERY 'EVIL UNDER THE SUN'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><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/a/AVvXsEiIn9n1krgIKjrYymp7GVHNekTm4ToxzqlP3OaL8okR8OH7UDyoanQn8RlFgmfy4EkCAMtsgXaDdpuolWBiHgohEI7ituNgX2QwurXbW073l4R3bExE65LHnL_jfLIJxpvibP_hh7CAmeOHGc7Haufs9eNKFI-3zNsmOv1gt4So9wPZfMOMSkfD-uiEkQ=s1897" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="742" data-original-width="1897" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiIn9n1krgIKjrYymp7GVHNekTm4ToxzqlP3OaL8okR8OH7UDyoanQn8RlFgmfy4EkCAMtsgXaDdpuolWBiHgohEI7ituNgX2QwurXbW073l4R3bExE65LHnL_jfLIJxpvibP_hh7CAmeOHGc7Haufs9eNKFI-3zNsmOv1gt4So9wPZfMOMSkfD-uiEkQ=s16000"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: EVIL UNDER THE SUN Director: Guy Hamilton Year: 1982 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Surprisingly EVIL UNDER THE SUN, the least known and least popular of the Agatha Christie Mystery films featuring Hercule Poirot beginning with MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS and sustaining with <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2022/02/nile1978.html">DEATH ON THE NILE</a>, is the best adaptation simply because there's not a distracting all-star cast and every character is a worthy suspect...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Which doesn't mean it's not a great cast, including Broadway-producing older couple James Mason and Sylvia Miles; polar opposite younger couple Jane Birkin and Nicholas Clay as a mousy rich girl and her playboy husband; a Clifton Webb LAURA-style flamboyantly vengeful writer in Roddy McDowall; and Denis Quilley as a millionaire father of gloomy teen (and the edgiest character) Emily Hone, paired with a gold-digging actress played with fashionably formidable zest by Diana Rigg, who everyone wants dead...</p><p><span></span></p>

agatha christie, british, colin blakely, denis quilley, diana rigg, emily hone, ensemble, guy hamilton, james mason, jane birkin, mystery, peter ustinov, roddy mcdowall, sylvia miles

SECOND PETER USTINOV POIROT MYSTERY 'EVIL UNDER THE SUN'

Title: EVIL UNDER THE SUN Director: Guy Hamilton Year: 1982 Rating: ***1/2 Surprisingly EVIL UNDER THE SUN, the least known and least popula...

MALCOLM MCDOWELL IN 'THE PASSAGE' STARRING ANTHONY QUINN

action, anthony quinn, christopher lee, exploitation, j. lee thompson, james mason, kay lenz, malcolm mcdowell, michael lonsdale, patricia neal, paul clemens, seventies, war

MALCOLM MCDOWELL IN 'THE PASSAGE' STARRING ANTHONY QUINN

Poster art for THE PASSAGE Year: 1979 Rates: **** It's already been written and spoken about that the infamous World War II flick THE PA...

CAROL REED'S BELFAST NOIR 'ODD MAN OUT' WITH JAMES MASON

british film noir/melodrama, carol reed, cyril cusack, dan o'herlihy, drama, forties, IRA, james mason, kathleen ryan, robert beatty, thriller

CAROL REED'S BELFAST NOIR 'ODD MAN OUT' WITH JAMES MASON

Robert Beatty bribes an urchin for help YEAR: 1947 James Mason is always intense, even when he's playing comedy, and this is no com...

CHARLES BRONSON IN 'COLD SWEAT' W/ LIV ULLMANN & JILL IRELAND

<p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMFJCzT56q4xO47JPssBnqZuPJ1UeRLr7t30JYWqGmD1y_HLzdOSPheVfKrXW-1ZzG84eA-ikb3eLrG12TQZetswnDtc9D3EaFiFUNuxk7PI03Zpg6IBv4-bIlu14tx2BplDexBA9aUI85/s1234/81m7Ag-Z6DL._SL1500_+2.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="937" data-original-width="1234" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMFJCzT56q4xO47JPssBnqZuPJ1UeRLr7t30JYWqGmD1y_HLzdOSPheVfKrXW-1ZzG84eA-ikb3eLrG12TQZetswnDtc9D3EaFiFUNuxk7PI03Zpg6IBv4-bIlu14tx2BplDexBA9aUI85/w400-h304/81m7Ag-Z6DL._SL1500_+2.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Charles Bronson starring in COLD SWEAT Year: 1970</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In-between Charles Bronson appearing in Film Noir and the Michael Winner winners, he took the "Reign in Hell or Serve in Heaven" approach, and at this time his resume was an eclectic hit, miss... or both, like the pulpy thriller COLD SWEAT, based on a novel by Richard Matheson titled RIDE THE NIGHTMARE... Which doesn't fit this picture as it occurs mostly in daylight (for that matter, either does the original title NIGHT VISITORS); is too controlled for a bad dream... </p><p>And yet, like many a Noir... usually ones set in the Florida Keys but here taking place in France... the main character's a charter boat captain who, returning home after work, gets a phone call from the past followed by a <i>visitor</i> from the present, attempting to use that past to his extortion-plotting advantage, which Bronson puts a wrestling lethal end to: Long story short, an hour later he and his pretty wife are visited by the kind of crime film "with friends like these" types led by James Mason as Captain Ross, using a Nantucket accent along with the true villain in severe-looking Frenchman Jean Topart as Katanga, who, during an attempted oceanic drug run with Bronson at the helm... his wife and daughter held hostage inland... the heavy hints at a fondness for 12-years-old girls, causing what might have instinctively been another quick death scene...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxVfQYxlO8LbWxb6g8RQGO816qiNJ4ubKuFFyhDUedD1c5xvCTcfcLHI28XQo0HZXLKxy9vYsl1dgBH1jSouOQgztHqxc-UNhUVaPMCZtlC1OniEZTXnQlSppK-63APvNipaE1g2jCdEJw/s1014/Screen+Shot+2021-07-03+at+2.43.39+PM.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="811" data-original-width="1014" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxVfQYxlO8LbWxb6g8RQGO816qiNJ4ubKuFFyhDUedD1c5xvCTcfcLHI28XQo0HZXLKxy9vYsl1dgBH1jSouOQgztHqxc-UNhUVaPMCZtlC1OniEZTXnQlSppK-63APvNipaE1g2jCdEJw/w400-h320/Screen+Shot+2021-07-03+at+2.43.39+PM.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Charles Bronson in COLD SWEAT Rates: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>But as shown during an important flashback involving a prison escape where Katanga kills a bicycle policemen, Bronson's "Man with <i>New </i>Name" getaway driver Joe Martin is a good guy surrounded by bad ones, only killing in self defense, and he'd taken off, leaving his fellow cons with a larger prison sentence until they reenter his new life backed by the gorgeous yet grainy French landscape, ranging from the ocean to coastal villas into craggy mountainous terrain, where one dire situation is stretched for the last half of the film. And since James Bond director Terence Young behind the camera, the action flows better than it should with such a distracting, anemic budget...<br />
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</div><p>And there's some well-played tension as Captain Ross, shot in the gut by his own double-crossing partner, has to be saved or he'll kill Bronson's wife, played by Liv Ullmann, whose role pales to Bronson's real life betrothed Jill Ireland as the Captain's mouthy hippie moll, reluctantly teamed with our hero on a car speeding race-against-time, yet the better scenes take place back at the rural cabin. Where Mason's Ross sits in pain, dying to stay awake and alive while Katanga, probably the best character on board, waits for his time to strike either Captain Ross, Ullman, the pretty young daughter (Yannick Delulle), or all three. It might have worked better had Ireland played the fictional wife so that Ullman, wasted here with domesticated expressions of somber, passive grief, could truly (and energetically) co-star alongside Bronson, as promised. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Charles Bronson in COLD SWEAT aka Los compañeros del diablo</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Charles Bronson in COLD SWEAT aka Los compañeros del diablo</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Liv Ullmann in COLD SWEAT aka Los compañeros del diablo</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Charles Bronson in COLD SWEAT aka Los compañeros del diablo</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jill Ireland in COLD SWEAT aka Los compañeros del diablo</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>James Mason in COLD SWEAT aka Los compañeros del diablo</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Charles Bronson in COLD SWEAT aka Los compañeros del diablo w/ Jean Topart</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Liv Ullmann, Yannick Delulle and James Mason in COLD SWEAT</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Liv Ullmann and Yannick Delulle (looking like Family Affair's Anissa Jones) in COLD SWEAT</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jean Topart in COLD SWEAT aka Los compañeros del diablo</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Charles Bronson in COLD SWEAT with Liv Ullmann and Yannick Delulle</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Yannick Delulle as Michèle Martin (as Yannick de Lulle) in COLD SWEAT</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Yannick Delulle (as Yannick de Lulle) in COLD SWEAT w/ Liv Ullmann</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jean Topart in COLD SWEAT aka L'uomo dalle due ombre aka Revenge</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Yannick Delulle (as Yannick de Lulle) in COLD SWEAT w/ Liv Ullmann</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jill Ireland, Charles Bronson stick up doctor Paul Bonifas in Cold Sweat aka Sudor frio</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Yannick Delulle (as Yannick de Lulle) in COLD SWEAT aka </u><u>De kom om natten w/ Liv Ullmann </u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Charles Bronson in COLD SWEAT aka Gece misafirleri aka Iskalla nerver</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Charles Bronson in COLD SWEET aka Sudoare rece aka Varuj se prijateljev </u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>There's another kid credited as  Yannick Deheth in COLD SWEAT and this may be her</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Terence YOung's COLD SWEAT originally titled in France as De la part des copains </u></td></tr>
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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1372" data-original-width="1759" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq6Xd-9p3nud6bwq-aXMBxwjXNkcQVTLPcR3wbyROnoqTWzXZtM7je8DuG8mTdA-c9wGRRhJmilWtOI0WBgoTbDWflaf-B7r4z7hlVdfNLIQZKyj8CdJczy92Wq5fBcy0TIPqQaqf_EH_Z/s16000/Screen+Shot+2021-07-03+at+3.36.22+PM.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Charles Bronson in COLD SWEAT aka Los compañeros del diablo</u></td></tr></tbody></table><br />

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CHARLES BRONSON IN 'COLD SWEAT' W/ LIV ULLMANN & JILL IRELAND

Charles Bronson starring in COLD SWEAT Year: 1970 In-between Charles Bronson appearing in Film Noir and the Michael Winner winners, he took ...

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FOURTH CHRISTIE MYSTERY: EVIL UNDER THE SUN

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FOURTH CHRISTIE MYSTERY: EVIL UNDER THE SUN

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CHARACTER-DRIVEN TRINITY OF THE 1972 THRILLER 'CHILD'S PLAY'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Beau Bridges faces the boys of Child's Play YEAR: 1972</u></td></tr>
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In CHILD'S PLAY, from way back in 1972 and not involving a red-haired serial killer doll named Chucky, the development of the characters drives the suspense, and for today's standards, this could seem like a slow-moving, over-brooding, thrilless arthouse thriller, or a stage play adapted to the big screen. But what's really intriguing are the similarities with THE EXORCIST, which was being filmed when this hit theaters, but the book had been on the stands for several years...<br />
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So for anyone who hasn't seen or doesn't want to see William Friedkin's brilliant and timeless GODFATHER of horror flicks, that opened the door for a number of slowburn Catholic-centered horror-thrillers, there are three particular characters: an old priest, a younger priest, and a possessed young girl. Replace the girl with an entire Catholic School of mostly bullying boys who, as we witness their odd behavior, are in some sort of... spell, or something... adding Mystery to the myriad of genres...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Child's Play Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr>
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We learn of everything through token white rabbit Beau Bridges, a former student who had returned as a teacher and greatly admired Robert Preston's vivacious, progressive English teaching priest, Joseph Dobbs, while immensely fearing a bitter old coot – Jerome Malley played by James Mason – who seems to be our primary antagonist, but as "the case" unfolds he could very well be a temperamental red herring...<br />
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Leading to the best scenes involving conversations between Beau's pivotal and, for the most part, eventually ambiguous Paul Reis with the polar opposite instructors while the kids are but a sporadic break that really need no escaping from...<br />
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For CHILD'S PLAY is more of a "Courtroom Drama" without a court and gavel. Bridges proceeds over the "testimonies" of both men although one is sold as being far more likable from the onset; yet this opinion remains more decided by the students than we, the hyper-alert audience, anticipating a twist to occur, especially with a character (Preston) so flawless. Meanwhile, we're (through Bridges) the Jury being swayed, maneuvered from one side to the other: Preston is charming and understandable on a universal level as Mason has a tortuous life that can be pitied, even beyond the death of his mother. And the characters develop from there.<br />
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Director Sidney Lumet channels his signature New York gritty realism into the Gothic school where statues and cold walls keep that heated far-off reality as distant from the lens as it is the students, inhibiting a power, or perhaps merely channeling a hypnotic strength that needs no real explanations like, say, a ROSEMARY'S BABY. Leading to a conclusion with so much buildup it begs for palpable closure. And yet, CHILD'S PLAY clings to words beyond action and an enigmatic dark aura over nail-biting suspense. In some strange way, there doesn't need to be any end at all. You can hear these two men speaking for days.<br />
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Sure there could have been scarier moments here and there, or even a dugout of fellow priest/teachers introduced to individually buy the farm when they wander off alone through the spooky campus. (Alright, that's very 1980's, but there are pockets of downtime when a few deaths would have livened the picture.) Hell, even THE EXORCIST had palpable "gotcha!" moments: cinematic caffeine never hurts. But CHILD'S PLAY centers more on the dark hypnosis than what derives from it. Adding to one of several films using THREE main male leads to override a more conventional formula, intriguing enough to keep the viewer tuned in even after the purpose becomes all too clear.<br />
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CHARACTER-DRIVEN TRINITY OF THE 1972 THRILLER 'CHILD'S PLAY'

Beau Bridges faces the boys of Child's Play YEAR: 1972 In CHILD'S PLAY, from way back in 1972 and not involving a red-haired ser...

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KIRK DOUGLAS IN DISNEY'S '20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Probably singing something by SEAL</td></tr>
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What's rare about movies, especially that of the action or science-fiction nature, is there are usually two or three leads. That is, two males, an Alpha and Beta, and one female ingenue that you only see enough to drive the two men crazy.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kirk Douglas</td></tr>
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Meanwhile, a woman would have given Kirk Douglas's freelance harpooner a lot more to sing to, and about, than a seal within a very special submarine/boat that, among other things, Kirk secretly collects a cache of treasure and booze inside as battle-ship rammer James Mason's Captain Nemo uses the machine's pointed exterior to rid the ocean of ships carrying weapons for that horrible creation called War...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kirk kicking his way out</td></tr>
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And in this multi-layered, completely entertaining 1954 Disney adventure, there are plenty of characters to center on including two buried leads for their scientific value, yet only one, Mason's brilliant yet borderline insane Nemo, is the entire reason for the group to go 10,000 leagues deeper than a book taken seriously by everyone at that time, written by the famous Prof. Pierre Aronnax (the Jules Verne of the movie), played by a subdued, grounded, very important (and narrating) Paul Lukas, who becomes more of an unappreciated middleman between the edgy Nemo and the cocky, rogue Douglas; the latter who, years later, would possibly inspire Steve McQueen in THE GREAT ESCAPE and/or Han Solo in STAR WARS, stealing the movie outright, as if it were his very own... like that stolen treasure in the seal's room. But the conversations between Professor Aronnax and Captain Nemo range from pretty much everything: to the war, basic human nature and our overall existence.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kirk Douglas figures things out</td></tr>
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And last but not least is an aged Peter Lorre, more heavyset and friendly than his eerie and sinister youth, resembling character-actor Burt Young (before there was a Burt Young to be compared to).<br />
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Lorre's Conseil is the only thing (moral compass) really holding back Douglas's Ned Land from continuing to steal more and more treasure that Nemo had taken from the sea floor, and that Ned wanted to do beforehand, while Nemo's busy destroying war ships, which is how, after a mysterious first act, boats were supposedly being ferociously and fatally attacked by a rumored, unstoppable sea beast... initially bringing the three investigative leads together in the first place: all reluctantly "rescued" into the classy mad man's submarine, The Nautilus. And eventually, during the famous conclusion, a giant formidable squid tries taking the sub/ship, and crew, apart with its powerful tentacles...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Peter Lorre</td></tr>
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Herein Douglas finally <i>almost</i> proves his heroic worth to Mason's perpetually untrusting Nemo, although at this point, after a relatively long yet flowing two-hours, the adventure, now taking place on the island where the ill-fated war ships set out to sea, there's a literally explosive conclusion. Just imagine Nemo destroying British war ships on the way to stopping Hitler, and you might just want to kick his idealistic ass...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The brains of the bunch</td></tr>
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Well this is obviously years before WWII, and still, the sane trio realizes he's a sick man. But Nemo's edgy, anti-war status is somewhat understandable since these war ships have to do with slavery that he was involved with, and yet, despite the <i>deep </i>stuff, a lot of the film has Douglas hanging with both the cute seal and Peter Lorre, reveling in the booze and booty as Lorre catches tips from the brave hero (while peripherally "protecting" his boss) as Douglas, subliminally becoming a sort of SIERRA MADRE Bogart, only nicer, is yearning to take the treasure chest for himself...<br />
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Meanwhile, Nemo considers<i> all</i> the underwater elements to be the real treasures and/or discoveries, ranging from aquatic elements that can make food and cigars... Basically, you can live an entire life underwater, and Nemo needs the Professor as his own personal Captain's log-pen for what could be a glorious journal when (and if) completed.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Four main leads in one motion picture RATES: **** </td></tr>
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With a perfect combination of scientific exposition and a handing-off of daring-do adventures, all completely resulting from the characters: from battling headhunters to that awesome giant squid, LEAGUES takes us lower than any movie...<br />
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Yet, although dated with a few corny singalongs by an initially hyperactive Douglas (few can get away with such kitsch and still seem cool, wearing a shirt resembling Christmas candy cane, to boot), contrasting with his brainy partners and eventually, all heads connect in one of the best Disney features that... although only slightly wielding dated (albeit completely apt) monstrous creature effects... looks great outside and even better inside as any movie today, especially the plush interior of Nemo's ultimate submarine... Thus the Nautilus, which is also a spooky-looking boat resembling some kind of primal dragon sea monster of the depths, is both a character in itself and the reason for everything to take place, uniting four human beings that couldn't be more different, and yet fitting together, perfectly.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Giant Octopus fighting the Nautilus in the Disney classic YEAR: 1954 </u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Exterior View of Nemo's vessel as the boy's attempt to escape</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An intense Captain Nemo during an 11th hour emergency</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Peter Lorre standing next to that great looking organ</td></tr>
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