THE ASTRAL FACTOR - 1978? -A convict has the ability to make himself invisible through ESP and seeks to kill various celebrity women. It's a rather cheap-looking movie and would likely be easy to forget except the cast is all familiar---Robert Foxsworth as a cop, Stephanie Powers as his girlfriend, Leslie Parrish, Marianne Hill as two of the victims, and Elke Sommer. There's a connection of sort to the 1971 tv-movie Rachel, Sweet Rachel since Foxworth visits an ESP expert (Alex Dreier). Maybe just a coincidence. It's kind of goofy film but I liked it.
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Scooby-Doo and the Curse of Weyland-Yutani aka Alien: Romulus. Scooby, Shaggy, and the gang fire up the Mystery Machine and head to the old haunted outpost. Legend has it there is a curse attached to the outpost but also a hidden treasure. When it turns out it was Old Man Carruthers is the ghost the gang thinks they have the mystery solved. That is until Old Man Carruthers tells them the real secret of the haunted outpost...
There's very little meat in this gym-mat of a film.
There's very little meat in this gym-mat of a film.
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Oasis of Fear (Un posto ideale per uccidere, "An ideal place to kill," 1971)
If you only knew this film under its alternate English title Dirty Pictures, you might think it was a sex comedy evolving into an erotic drama. A young, hippie-ish couple pay for their trip to Europe by legally buying pornography in the UK then illegally selling it in Italy. They spend money like crazy, then resort to taking nude photographs of themselves and selling them. This finally gets them in trouble with the cops, so they're told to leave the country. What little money they have left is stolen by a guy on a motorcycle.
They run out of petrol for their funky little sports car in front of a fancy house. They break in to steal petrol, but the woman in residence (the great Greek actress Irene Papas, dominating the film) catches them. She takes them in as guests, explaining that she's waiting for her husband, a NATO officer, to arrive. Partying, drinking, and sex follow. (Nudity for both women is supplied by the same body double, who gets a special credit at the end of the movie.)
After an hour, we finally get our first clue that this is a suspense thriller. Since this is so delayed, I won't give away anything about the plot. It's not a bad film, if you're willing to be very patient with it.
If you only knew this film under its alternate English title Dirty Pictures, you might think it was a sex comedy evolving into an erotic drama. A young, hippie-ish couple pay for their trip to Europe by legally buying pornography in the UK then illegally selling it in Italy. They spend money like crazy, then resort to taking nude photographs of themselves and selling them. This finally gets them in trouble with the cops, so they're told to leave the country. What little money they have left is stolen by a guy on a motorcycle.
They run out of petrol for their funky little sports car in front of a fancy house. They break in to steal petrol, but the woman in residence (the great Greek actress Irene Papas, dominating the film) catches them. She takes them in as guests, explaining that she's waiting for her husband, a NATO officer, to arrive. Partying, drinking, and sex follow. (Nudity for both women is supplied by the same body double, who gets a special credit at the end of the movie.)
After an hour, we finally get our first clue that this is a suspense thriller. Since this is so delayed, I won't give away anything about the plot. It's not a bad film, if you're willing to be very patient with it.
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The Bloodstained Shadow (Solamente nero, "Only blackness," 1978)
Atmospheric giallo. Before the opening credits, a schoolgirl is strangled by an unseen killer. Years later, a young professor of art goes back to his hometown (on an island near Venice) to stay with his older brother, a priest. Along the way he meets a pretty young interior decorator/artist, who serves as the love interest and lady in distress. She also has an ailing stepmother. The professor has flashbacks to something he witnesses as a child but can't quite remember.
The priest tells his kid brother about the disreputable folks in town. A medium/blackmailer, a doctor and midwife team of abortionists (the latter happens to have a mentally challenged adult son), a wealthy aristocrat who is overly fond of young boys. Thus our list of red herrings and future victims.
The medium is killed right away. The priest witnesses this, but can't identify the killer. Nonetheless, the murderer sends him a series of threatening typed notes and even a sheep's head. Other folks listed above get killed until we get to our Shocking Twist Ending.
The plot is typical giallo stuff, but the movie differs from others of the same kind by the way it looks. Instead of the usual bright colors, everything is muted. People wear gray and beige. Instead of sunshine, the weather is always foggy, cloudy, or rainy. Well worth a look for fans of the genre.
Atmospheric giallo. Before the opening credits, a schoolgirl is strangled by an unseen killer. Years later, a young professor of art goes back to his hometown (on an island near Venice) to stay with his older brother, a priest. Along the way he meets a pretty young interior decorator/artist, who serves as the love interest and lady in distress. She also has an ailing stepmother. The professor has flashbacks to something he witnesses as a child but can't quite remember.
The priest tells his kid brother about the disreputable folks in town. A medium/blackmailer, a doctor and midwife team of abortionists (the latter happens to have a mentally challenged adult son), a wealthy aristocrat who is overly fond of young boys. Thus our list of red herrings and future victims.
The medium is killed right away. The priest witnesses this, but can't identify the killer. Nonetheless, the murderer sends him a series of threatening typed notes and even a sheep's head. Other folks listed above get killed until we get to our Shocking Twist Ending.
The plot is typical giallo stuff, but the movie differs from others of the same kind by the way it looks. Instead of the usual bright colors, everything is muted. People wear gray and beige. Instead of sunshine, the weather is always foggy, cloudy, or rainy. Well worth a look for fans of the genre.
Victoria Silverwolf
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Bad Girls Go to Hell (1965)
Ultra-cheap exploitation film. Woman is raped by the janitor of her apartment building. He then blackmails her into going into his apartment so can have do it again by threatening to tell her husband about it. She kills him during the second attack then goes on the run, winding up in New York City with a new name but no money and no place to stay.
A guy takes her to his place. Amazingly, he doesn't take advantage of her. He acts offended when she asks for a drink, claiming he has no alcohol. She finds his secret stash of booze and pours a drink for him when he gets home. This causes him to go into a frenzy, drinking straight from the bottle and beating her with his belt. Wisely, she leaves.
Next a woman takes her to another woman who needs a roommate. This leads to our mandatory lesbian scene. Our beleaguered heroine leaves again, although she entered into the affair willingly, saying that she has to go because she loves her new roommate.
She gets a job as a live-in helper for a disabled woman. The woman's son turns out to be a police detective who knows she's wanted for murder. Then we get an absolutely outrageous twist ending.
Not a good film, but valuable for revealing attitudes of the time to sexual violence (blame the victim) and same-sex relationships (rejection of one's true self.)
Ultra-cheap exploitation film. Woman is raped by the janitor of her apartment building. He then blackmails her into going into his apartment so can have do it again by threatening to tell her husband about it. She kills him during the second attack then goes on the run, winding up in New York City with a new name but no money and no place to stay.
A guy takes her to his place. Amazingly, he doesn't take advantage of her. He acts offended when she asks for a drink, claiming he has no alcohol. She finds his secret stash of booze and pours a drink for him when he gets home. This causes him to go into a frenzy, drinking straight from the bottle and beating her with his belt. Wisely, she leaves.
Next a woman takes her to another woman who needs a roommate. This leads to our mandatory lesbian scene. Our beleaguered heroine leaves again, although she entered into the affair willingly, saying that she has to go because she loves her new roommate.
She gets a job as a live-in helper for a disabled woman. The woman's son turns out to be a police detective who knows she's wanted for murder. Then we get an absolutely outrageous twist ending.
It was all a dream! Then the rape happens again, exactly as it did in the dream, starting the cycle over again .
Not a good film, but valuable for revealing attitudes of the time to sexual violence (blame the victim) and same-sex relationships (rejection of one's true self.)
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Blood Diamond (2006) - During a bloody civil war in Sierra Leone, a fisherman finds a large diamond. A smuggler tries to help him recover it, but warlords and mercenaries want it too. To make things worse, the fisherman's son has been captured by rebels and brainwashed into being a child soldier.
This is a fairly didactic thriller with a pretty grim real-world basis. Rather like Children of Men, it's the sort of thriller where the action scenes largely involve normal people running away from maniacs. Leonardo di Caprio is surprisingly good and surprisingly unpleasant as the sleazy smuggler, and Djimon Hounsou plays the fisherman well, although he doesn't get quite enough to do. It actually reminded me of District 9, another "Africa is in a bad way" story, where the emphasis is as much on the redemption of a bad white exploiter rather than the guys being ripped off (perhaps inevitable given that he's the biggest star in it).
David Harewood is good as a rebel leader, the sort of lunatic who would seem absurd if he wasn't so (realistically) homicidal, and that guy who always plays a South African mercenary (Arnold Vosloo) plays a South African mercenary. Overall, not a very fun film, but an exciting and intense one that conveys a worthy message.
This is a fairly didactic thriller with a pretty grim real-world basis. Rather like Children of Men, it's the sort of thriller where the action scenes largely involve normal people running away from maniacs. Leonardo di Caprio is surprisingly good and surprisingly unpleasant as the sleazy smuggler, and Djimon Hounsou plays the fisherman well, although he doesn't get quite enough to do. It actually reminded me of District 9, another "Africa is in a bad way" story, where the emphasis is as much on the redemption of a bad white exploiter rather than the guys being ripped off (perhaps inevitable given that he's the biggest star in it).
David Harewood is good as a rebel leader, the sort of lunatic who would seem absurd if he wasn't so (realistically) homicidal, and that guy who always plays a South African mercenary (Arnold Vosloo) plays a South African mercenary. Overall, not a very fun film, but an exciting and intense one that conveys a worthy message.
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Too much kid, not enough mom.
Too much kid, not enough mom.
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Transformers One (2024) - animated origin story for Optimus Prime and Megatron. One of the better Transformers movies I've watched.
I checked it out the other day too! I love Transformer movies!
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The Hill (1965) During WWII, a British prison for naughty soldiers is a very unpleasant place to live. The title refers to a big heap of sand that convicts are required to climb under the heat of the day. Located in North Africa, it is very hot, making the repeated trips up the hill with full backpacks that much more unpleasant.
Joe Roberts (Sean Connery) is the most uncooperative of all the prisoners, along with two others. The warden expects that the Medical Officer (Sir Michael Redgrave)'s 2 minute exams are sufficient to justify the grueling hill climbing inflicted on the prisoners, but one man, who was in a office before being sent there dies, which results in major unrest.
Prisoner Jacko King (Ossie Davis) being black, receives unequal treatment, racial discrimination & humiliation from the guards & even the commandant (Norman Bird), until he begins mimicking the behavior of a gorilla, in the commandant's office, who feared violence from the man whom he assumed had gone mad.
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Joe Roberts (Sean Connery) is the most uncooperative of all the prisoners, along with two others. The warden expects that the Medical Officer (Sir Michael Redgrave)'s 2 minute exams are sufficient to justify the grueling hill climbing inflicted on the prisoners, but one man, who was in a office before being sent there dies, which results in major unrest.
Prisoner Jacko King (Ossie Davis) being black, receives unequal treatment, racial discrimination & humiliation from the guards & even the commandant (Norman Bird), until he begins mimicking the behavior of a gorilla, in the commandant's office, who feared violence from the man whom he assumed had gone mad.
8/10
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La Haine [the hate] (1995) Three youths Vinz (Vincent Cassel), Hubert (Hubert Koundé), Saïd (Saïd Taghmaoui), in a poor part of Paris, have their share of troubles in one day and night of juvenile delinquency.
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Ace of Hearts (1921) A group of holier than thou people decide the fate of others, and draw cards to see which of them will act as executioners. Regarding one whom they particularly despise, the man who was lived too long, Farallone (Lon Chaney) draws the Ace of Hearts. Intending to destroy the man using a bomb, Farallone sees a mother and child walking into the zone of destruction, and prevents the deaths. Being rather haughty, the other members decide that Farallone, having betrayed their cause, must now be their next target.
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Phantom Lady (1944) dir. Robert Siodmak; starring Franchot Tone, Ella Raines, Alan Curtis, Thomas Gomez
Second time seeing this on Turner Cable Movies. Based on a Cornell Woolrich (as by William Irish) novel of the same name. Young engineer Scott's (Curtis) marriage is falling apart. Supposed to go to the theater together, his wife says she won't and he goes off to a bar. A chance encounter with a sad woman in an extremely ornate hat leads to them going to the theater. She won't give him her name, though; it's better, she feels, to keep it string-free since they'll never see each other again. When Scott goes home he finds cops waiting for him: His wife has been strangled to death with one of his ties. Inspector Burgess (Gomez) gives him a chance to come up with alibi, but insisting on a woman with an unusual hat and no name eventually leads to a death sentence.
With 18 days left, can his faithful secretary (Raines) find the woman with the ornate hat?
Solid, tense early noir. Maybe the best acting I've ever seen from Tone. And pleasant to see Gomez as something other than a heavy. Best known for a scene in which Raines is trying to get information from a drummer (Elisha Cook, Jr.) at an after hours night club as the music gets wilder and wilder.
The King's Man (2021) dir. Matthew Vaughn; starring Ralph Fiennes, Gemma Arterton, Rhys Ifans
Well-directed, well-acted, and with a well-constructed script, making for superior adventure-fluff. A lot of fun. I'd probably watch it again, especially the sequences with Rasputin (Ifans). (Seen on Prime.)
Second time seeing this on Turner Cable Movies. Based on a Cornell Woolrich (as by William Irish) novel of the same name. Young engineer Scott's (Curtis) marriage is falling apart. Supposed to go to the theater together, his wife says she won't and he goes off to a bar. A chance encounter with a sad woman in an extremely ornate hat leads to them going to the theater. She won't give him her name, though; it's better, she feels, to keep it string-free since they'll never see each other again. When Scott goes home he finds cops waiting for him: His wife has been strangled to death with one of his ties. Inspector Burgess (Gomez) gives him a chance to come up with alibi, but insisting on a woman with an unusual hat and no name eventually leads to a death sentence.
With 18 days left, can his faithful secretary (Raines) find the woman with the ornate hat?
Solid, tense early noir. Maybe the best acting I've ever seen from Tone. And pleasant to see Gomez as something other than a heavy. Best known for a scene in which Raines is trying to get information from a drummer (Elisha Cook, Jr.) at an after hours night club as the music gets wilder and wilder.
The King's Man (2021) dir. Matthew Vaughn; starring Ralph Fiennes, Gemma Arterton, Rhys Ifans
Well-directed, well-acted, and with a well-constructed script, making for superior adventure-fluff. A lot of fun. I'd probably watch it again, especially the sequences with Rasputin (Ifans). (Seen on Prime.)
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Disparate double feature.
Ulee's Gold. Peter Fonda as a widower in about as nonfunctional a family as can be imagined. He is a quiet beekeeper. Provides a home for his granddaughters. But his son and daughter-in- law,'s ,dope and crime catch up with him. Fonda is superb, skating through violence without partaking. He was nominated for an Academy Award. He got the Golden Globe. and the NY Film Circle awards for best actor. The winner of the Academy that year, Jack Nicholson, said that he was honored to be nominated with his old biker buddie.
The Producers. With Zero Mostel & Gene Wilder. You can pick your favorite comedy of all time. I would pick this and two other Mel Brooks creations. With a few runners up.
You of course can pick your own,. but if you love over the top farce, go with Brooks..
Watched both on Kanopy. A free service that you can sign up for in both the US & GB via your local library.
Ulee's Gold. Peter Fonda as a widower in about as nonfunctional a family as can be imagined. He is a quiet beekeeper. Provides a home for his granddaughters. But his son and daughter-in- law,'s ,dope and crime catch up with him. Fonda is superb, skating through violence without partaking. He was nominated for an Academy Award. He got the Golden Globe. and the NY Film Circle awards for best actor. The winner of the Academy that year, Jack Nicholson, said that he was honored to be nominated with his old biker buddie.
The Producers. With Zero Mostel & Gene Wilder. You can pick your favorite comedy of all time. I would pick this and two other Mel Brooks creations. With a few runners up.
You of course can pick your own,. but if you love over the top farce, go with Brooks..
Watched both on Kanopy. A free service that you can sign up for in both the US & GB via your local library.
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The Prisoner of Zenda (1922) Unlike the talkie versions, this one starts at Rudolf Rassendyll (Lewis Stone)'s home in England, and has a bit more romance at the end, when Rassendyll & Princess Flavia (Alice Terry) are thinking about abandoning their responsibilities & marrying. Now, I have seen at least 4, count 'em, four versions, including the GET SMART 2 part parody, #106, S4, #20, & 107 S4, #21, To Sire, with Love.
Including the TCM host Jaqueline Stewart's intro & follow-up comments, this ran nearly 2 hours.
Stewart did mention that one particular actor rose from supporting to starring because of his role here. Rupert of Hentzau (Ramon Novarro).
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Including the TCM host Jaqueline Stewart's intro & follow-up comments, this ran nearly 2 hours.
Stewart did mention that one particular actor rose from supporting to starring because of his role here. Rupert of Hentzau (Ramon Novarro).
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Lincoln (2012) I had no idea! Here, the film focuses on Lincoln's persuading the Congress to pass the 13th amendment just as the Confederates are coming to surrender, and thus eliminate the motive for the amendment. I do not know how accurate this film is, but it is very dramatic!
One guy says that
"Congress must never declare equal those whom God created unequal!"
to which Thaddeus Stevens (Tommy Lee Jones) responded,
"Slavery is the only insult to natural law, you fatuous nincompoop!
I am very unfamiliar with most of the cast, except TLJ & First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln (Sally Field).
Anyway, about 2.5 hours, & well-worth watching!
One guy says that
"Congress must never declare equal those whom God created unequal!"
to which Thaddeus Stevens (Tommy Lee Jones) responded,
"Slavery is the only insult to natural law, you fatuous nincompoop!
I am very unfamiliar with most of the cast, except TLJ & First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln (Sally Field).
Anyway, about 2.5 hours, & well-worth watching!
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The Lives of Others (2006) East German secret police (the Stasi) have nothing better to do, but to monitor the activities of the [I would not call them citizens, because they lack rights inherent in citizenship] people who live in that town. Expensive recording equipment is brought to the attic of the apartment building where the subject lives. Men monitor that equipment day and night, just waiting for someone to say the wrong thing.
One particular monitor Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler (Ulrich Mühe) becomes too familiar with the subjects of his eavesdropping, and begins to bond with him. Just as the Stasi are about to swoop down, and find the evidence, this guy goes in & removes it.
One particular monitor Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler (Ulrich Mühe) becomes too familiar with the subjects of his eavesdropping, and begins to bond with him. Just as the Stasi are about to swoop down, and find the evidence, this guy goes in & removes it.
| This is another of those 100 most significant films that TCM showed between Early September & early November. It reminded me of another film, this one, a Czech language film, called the Ear. Here, party members are having a party & one of them wonders if he may have said something he should not have said. He worries about being arrested and taken away. |
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The Two Low-Budget Exploitation Crime Films Written and Directed by Some Guy Named William Martin Double Feature:
The Naked Road (1959)
Nineteen-year-old model is making out with an advertising guy in his convertible, but refuses to go to a motel with him. Maybe the fact that he openly admits he's married has something to do with it. Frustrated, he starts to drive her home but gets pulled over for speeding. The local Justice of the Peace fines him fifty bucks, then another fifty for contempt of court when he objects. To get the hundred bucks, he has to go back to the city, so the model is kept behind. (You'd expect him not to come back, but he actually does, albeit too late.)
A British guy who looks like a young Alfred Hitchcock with hair gets pulled in for speeding. (If you've seen the old commercial where the stuffy fellow complains about prunes having pits, gets one without pits, then says "They're still rather badly wrinkled, you know" followed by the slogan "Today the pits, tomorrow the wrinkles!" -- written by Stan Freberg -- then you've seen this actor.) He's actually in cahoots with the justice and the cop. He takes the model to some kind of diner, drugs her coffee, and keeps her prisoner until she agrees to work in "public relations" (i.e. prostitution.)
They try starving her, threatening to make her addicted to (unnamed) heroin, etc. Along the way, the British guy's assistant kills a "public relations" employee who got drunk and hit a client by dumping her out a window. He stupidly let another employee witness this, leading to the cops tracking him down and rescuing the model.
Mostly just talk in ordinary rooms. The director must have told everybody to speak slowly to drag out the running time. The two bad guys seem remarkably patient with their new slave. It's only when their tough-as-nails female associate shows up and suggests that they kill her that the tension builds a little, but by then the cops are outside.
Jacktown (1962)
Twenty-one-year-old punk with no job who hangs around with crooks is caught in flagrante delicto with a fifteen-year-old carhop. To the slammer he goes for statutory rape. The place is "Jacktown," the prison with the largest inmate population in the world at the time. (About 6000.) This was a real place, and we get some documentary footage of an infamous riot at the prison.
The punk gets harassed by other convicts, who don't approve of morals charges. Must be good, respectable folks. The warden takes him under his wing by having him work in his garden. The warden's adult daughter (Patty McCormack, famous as the little girl who kills people in The Bad Seed. The opening credits include the statement "starring Miss Patty McCormack," since she's the only big name in this thing) takes a shine to him.
For some reason, they send him to town with a guard and a convict who needs medical treatment. The ailing prisoner wallops the guard, so the punk runs away. (We're told later the guard killed the convict.) He goes to the warden's daughter in her apartment, where she convinces him to turn himself in.
There are also some scenes outside the prison of the punk's buddy robbing a grocery store and getting shot by the cops. If the first film was linear but slow, this one is quick but jumpy.
The Naked Road (1959)
Nineteen-year-old model is making out with an advertising guy in his convertible, but refuses to go to a motel with him. Maybe the fact that he openly admits he's married has something to do with it. Frustrated, he starts to drive her home but gets pulled over for speeding. The local Justice of the Peace fines him fifty bucks, then another fifty for contempt of court when he objects. To get the hundred bucks, he has to go back to the city, so the model is kept behind. (You'd expect him not to come back, but he actually does, albeit too late.)
A British guy who looks like a young Alfred Hitchcock with hair gets pulled in for speeding. (If you've seen the old commercial where the stuffy fellow complains about prunes having pits, gets one without pits, then says "They're still rather badly wrinkled, you know" followed by the slogan "Today the pits, tomorrow the wrinkles!" -- written by Stan Freberg -- then you've seen this actor.) He's actually in cahoots with the justice and the cop. He takes the model to some kind of diner, drugs her coffee, and keeps her prisoner until she agrees to work in "public relations" (i.e. prostitution.)
They try starving her, threatening to make her addicted to (unnamed) heroin, etc. Along the way, the British guy's assistant kills a "public relations" employee who got drunk and hit a client by dumping her out a window. He stupidly let another employee witness this, leading to the cops tracking him down and rescuing the model.
Mostly just talk in ordinary rooms. The director must have told everybody to speak slowly to drag out the running time. The two bad guys seem remarkably patient with their new slave. It's only when their tough-as-nails female associate shows up and suggests that they kill her that the tension builds a little, but by then the cops are outside.
Jacktown (1962)
Twenty-one-year-old punk with no job who hangs around with crooks is caught in flagrante delicto with a fifteen-year-old carhop. To the slammer he goes for statutory rape. The place is "Jacktown," the prison with the largest inmate population in the world at the time. (About 6000.) This was a real place, and we get some documentary footage of an infamous riot at the prison.
The punk gets harassed by other convicts, who don't approve of morals charges. Must be good, respectable folks. The warden takes him under his wing by having him work in his garden. The warden's adult daughter (Patty McCormack, famous as the little girl who kills people in The Bad Seed. The opening credits include the statement "starring Miss Patty McCormack," since she's the only big name in this thing) takes a shine to him.
For some reason, they send him to town with a guard and a convict who needs medical treatment. The ailing prisoner wallops the guard, so the punk runs away. (We're told later the guard killed the convict.) He goes to the warden's daughter in her apartment, where she convinces him to turn himself in.
There are also some scenes outside the prison of the punk's buddy robbing a grocery store and getting shot by the cops. If the first film was linear but slow, this one is quick but jumpy.
The movie did take some "artistic liberties" but the essence of it is exactly right. It was not easy to get passed, and Lincoln most definitely had to twist some arms.
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For a Few Dollars More (1965) Two, count 'em, 2 bounty hunters are going after the same criminals, each preferring that the other would find some other way to make a living. Eventually, they decide to team-up, because there are too many criminals for either one to pursue alone.
Colonel Douglas Mortimer (Lee Van Cleef) researches the old newspapers to find information on Manco (Clint Eastwood). He finds what he seeks in the Monday June 15th 1873 EL PASO TRIBUNE. So why, is all that cash labelled Confederate States of America?
I find it unlikely that a regular-sized pocket watch could produce that much sound, & still function as a watch.
Supporting cast/characters:
El Indio (Gian Maria Volonté; also had the role of Ramón Rojo in Fistful of Dollars) the bad guy. Juan Wild (Klaus Kinski).
Never get tired of watching these!
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Colonel Douglas Mortimer (Lee Van Cleef) researches the old newspapers to find information on Manco (Clint Eastwood). He finds what he seeks in the Monday June 15th 1873 EL PASO TRIBUNE. So why, is all that cash labelled Confederate States of America?
I find it unlikely that a regular-sized pocket watch could produce that much sound, & still function as a watch.
Supporting cast/characters:
El Indio (Gian Maria Volonté; also had the role of Ramón Rojo in Fistful of Dollars) the bad guy. Juan Wild (Klaus Kinski).
Never get tired of watching these!
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