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‘Who are Those Guys?’: The Super Posse in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

‘Who are Those Guys?’: The Super Posse in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

Released: September 1969 Directed by: George Roy Hill Cast: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Strother Martin, Henry Jones, Jeff Corey, George Furth, Cloris Leachman, Ted Cassidy, Kenneth Mars, Donnelly Rhodes, Timothy Scott, and Charles Dierkop as Flat Nose Curry. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the iconic western from 1969, contains many classic scenes and characters. The knife fight between Butch (Paul Newman) and Harvey Logan (Ted Cassidy), ‘Rain Drops Keep Fallin’ on My Head’, Woodcock (George Furth) who…

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Teenage Gang Debs: Into the Valley of NYC Underground Cinema.

Teenage Gang Debs: Into the Valley of NYC Underground Cinema.

Released: 1966 Directed by: Sande N. Johnsen Cast: Diane Conti, Linda Gale, Eileen Dietz, Robin Nolan, John Betis, George Winship, and Joey Naudic as Nino. Tubi Roulette is a little game I like to play sometimes. The rules are simple. First go on Tubi. Scroll around until you find a movie you’ve watched before, or piques your interest. Click on the movie and scroll down to the ‘You might also like’ list. From the ten films listed, pick one, preferably…

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The Bedford Incident: In the Shadow of the Cold War.

The Bedford Incident: In the Shadow of the Cold War.

Released: November 1965 Directed by: James B. Harris Cast: Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, James MacArthur, Martin Balsam, Wally Cox, Eric Portman, Michael Kane, Gary Cockrell, Phil Brown, and Donald Sutherland as Hospitalman Nerney. Some spoilers. Cold War movies usually lurk in the shadows. The shadowy alleyways of East or West Berlin or an endless Scandinavian night. The Bedford Incident exists in the shadows of the bridge of the USS Bedford, a US Navy destroyer patrolling the Denmark Strait off the…

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On Her Majesty’s Secret Service: Merry Christmas 007

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service: Merry Christmas 007

Released: December 1969 Directed by: Peter R. Hunt Cast: George Lazenby, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas, Gabriele Ferzetti, Ilse Steppat, Lois Maxwell, George Baker, Bernard Lee, Desmond Llewelyn. Yup, spoilers. Ernst Stavro Blofeld has no redeeming qualities, save one, he is not a quitter. Like his contemporary, Wile E. Coyote-Super Genius, he continues to plot, scheme, and execute said plots. His operative in Jamaca, Dr. No was charged with toppling U.S. missiles and failed. In a revenge, extortion scheme, Rosa Klebb…

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Santa Claus Conquers the Martians: That Magical Time of Year When We Turn to Warm Thoughts of Alien Invasion.

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians: That Magical Time of Year When We Turn to Warm Thoughts of Alien Invasion.

Released: November 1964 Directed By: Nicholas Webster Cast: John Call, Leonard Hicks, Vincent Beck, Bill McCutcheon, Victor Stiles, Donna Conforti, Chris Month, Pia Zadora. It was the middle of Septober on the planet Mars, and Kimar (Leonard Hicks) was concerned. His children, Bomar (Chris Month) and Girmar (Pia Zadora), were addicted to watching Earth programs on the video scope. If you saw the programs the kids were watching, you’d be concerned as well. KID-TV was broadcasting live from Santa’s Workshop…

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Crossplot: The Forgettable Movie I Can’t Get Out of My Head.

Crossplot: The Forgettable Movie I Can’t Get Out of My Head.

Released: November 1969 Directed By: Alvin Rakoff Cast: Roger Moore, Claudie Lange, Martha Hyer, Alexis Kanner, Derek Francis, Ursula Howells. Bernard Lee. I hadn’t planned on writing anything about Crossplot beyond my blurb on Twitter (I refuse to call it ‘X’) and Letterboxd, referring to the film ultimately as forgettable. However, a Twitter follower commented on my blurb thinking the movie poster and the plot looked interesting. I replied saying the plot was very Hitchcock-like and the film itself was…

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Ivan’s Childhood: Time Standing Still.

Ivan’s Childhood: Time Standing Still.

Released: 1962 Dir.: Andrei Tarkovsky First-time viewing reaction. Many of the films I’ve seen dealing with the Second World War recently have been very personal stories. Most of them were made within the following 25-30 years after the war’s conclusion. All of them from countries that suffered staggering, incomprehensible losses, such as the nations of continental Europe, Japan, and the Soviet Union. Films such as Kanal, Fires on the Plain, Rome Open City, The Bridge, and Come and See have…

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Tunes of Glory: Mills. Guinness. An Epic Clash of Wills.

Tunes of Glory: Mills. Guinness. An Epic Clash of Wills.

Released: 1960 Dir.: Ronald Neame Acting Col. Jock Sinclair (Alec Guinness) is in command of a Scottish Highland Regiment in the peacetime years following the Second World War. He took command when the regiments Colonel was killed during the Battle of El Alamein in North Africa and saw the battalion through to the wars end and beyond. Jock is a hard drinking career man who worked his way up the ranks the hard way, beginning as a regimental piper. If…

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Ski Troop Attack: A Bad Movie that Challenges Depression.

Ski Troop Attack: A Bad Movie that Challenges Depression.

Released: 1960 Dir.: Roger Corman When you suffer from depression, you endure bouts, sometimes severe, of not really caring much about anything. Life has no purpose, you keep telling yourself you don’t matter, nobody seems to care about you, your world has become breath-takingly small, you feel you have nothing important to contribute, over-whelming hopelessness, and you can’t make decisions, even what movie to watch. Something as trivial as finding a movie to watch is what your life has been…

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Goldfinger: Thoughts on Operation: Rockabye Baby.

Goldfinger: Thoughts on Operation: Rockabye Baby.

Released: 1964 Dir. Guy Hamilton “Champaign Leader to Grand Slam Task Force Leader. The Baby is asleep!”               When I first saw Goldfinger, I was unaware I was watching an ‘edited for television’ version. In early 1986 we got our first VCR, and sometime in those first six months I rented Goldfinger on VHS. It came as a wonderful surprise when I discovered there was stuff that I had been missing out on. Mainly the now iconic pre-title sequence, and…

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