The latest American actor to take a “working vacation” in Britain in the boxed set of Hammer noir films I’ve been working through is Lloyd Bridges, and I’ll thank you not to look up any of my grade school teachers and point ouf to them the convoluted grammar of this sentence. Convolutions, by the way, are what arise in The Deadly Game (1954) as Bridges agrees to drive a friend’s car from Spain back to England for him — and with it, some microfilm that everyone wants to get their hands on. Oh, and there’s a saucy nightclub singer all over the poster who kind of fades out of the plot about halfway through. Pity.
FROM THE VAULT
- Challenge of the Superfriends! — posted by kbegg on January 8, 2008
- Killing Mannequins — posted by KeithA on August 30, 2009
- Nightmare, perhaps. Original, perhaps not. — posted by lyzard on January 3, 2008
- Elvis Played a Chopper Pilot Once… — posted by El Santo on March 2, 2016
- Yes; well… — posted by lyzard on June 15, 2020
Pages
- About the Cabal
- Full Index of Reviews
- Roundtables
- 01: Brainathon ’99
- 02: Bangs'n'Whimpers
- 03: Post-Apocalypso
- 04: Review All Monsters
- 05: Pretty Mad Scientists
- 06: Tainted Love
- 07: Days of Future Past
- 08: Secret Santa
- 09: Catch a Throwing Star
- 10: Four-Color Features
- 11: Big Bugs
- 12: Fish With Bicycles
- 13: Go Go Go-Go Boys!
- 14: paLe IMITATIONS
- 15: We're Gonna Need a Bigger Roundtable
- 16: Whoa… Deja Vu.
- 17: Month of the Living Dead
- 18: B-Masters Beach Party
- 19: Kinji Fukasaku – The Man No Genre Could Tame.
- 20: Home Video Holocaust – The Video Nasties
- 21: Father Dearest: Who's Your Daddy?
- 22: So Sorry…
- 23: Back to the Well
- 24: Another Month of the Living Dead
- 25: The Ottoman Empire Strikes Back
- 26: Rubber Soul
- 27: Shhhhhh
- 28: Month of the Alternative Living Dead
- 29: On Time & Under Budget
- 30: These Kids Today…
- 31: Mea maxima culpa
- 32: Stingathon ’09
- 33: 10,000 B.S.
- 34: Foot Notes
- 35: Don’t Touch That Dial!
- 36: He Conquered the World
- 37: Secret Santa’s Revenge
- 38: At the Movies of Madness
- 39: They Might Be Giants
- 40: The Other Elizabeth Taylor
- 41: The Dark Guys of London
- 42: Falling Stars
- 43: To Be or Not To Be! (Pilot Error)
- 44: Teeth and Tentacles
- 45: Brunoween
- 46: Howl of the B-Masters
- 47: It’s Alive!
- 48: Bad, Black and Beautiful
- 49: Don’t Quit Your Day Job
- 50: B-Mentia 15
- 51: Quelle Horreur!
- 52: Carradine, Thou Wayward Son!
- 53: Tall, Dark and Gruesome
- 54: Pets Gone Wild
- 55: The Bad Place
- 56: From The Bible To Barbarella
- 57: A Fistful Of Pennies
- 58: Hello, Dolly
- 59: No, Not That One!
- 60: Dr Terror’s House Of Honours
- 61: WTF!?
- 62: In The Key Of B
- 63: The Forgotten Dawn Of Horror
- 64: The Most Dangerous Roundtable
- 65: Room For One More
- 66: Were-WHAT?
- 67: The China Anniversary Syndrome
- 68: The China Anniversary Syndrome: Part 2
- 69: The China Anniversary Syndrome: Part 3
- 70: The China Anniversary Syndrome: Part 4
- The Links We Love
#1 by Carl on September 4, 2008 - 5:58 am
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I can’t resist.
How about the spelling?
Blame Ken again, he actually sent me a review to proof that was essentially error-free.
#2 by Nathan Shumate on September 4, 2008 - 7:14 am
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I blame Ken for most things. And that’s not a spelling mistake, it’s a typographical mistake.
#3 by KeithA on September 4, 2008 - 9:21 am
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I have to defend myself frequently from the “its” versus “it’s” mistake. I know the rule. I understand it perfectly. But when I’m typing furiously, “it’s” comes out by force of habit, and one can only hope that I catch it in my cursory proofreading (which consists of me glancing over the entire article in under a minute while pouring myself a scotch and lighting up a cigar).
And Nathan — I’m glad you’ve been reviewing all these Hammer noirs. I’ve been tempted by them but have yet to purchase the set, so I can view vicariously through your reviews.
#4 by Carl on September 4, 2008 - 6:40 pm
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As long as I’m in this kind of mood: the link on the main Cold Fusion Video page that is labeled “Flavia the Heretic (1974)” actually leads to a review of “Grim Prairie Tales (1990)”. It would seem that the Good, The Bad, and The Ugly has not, in fact, reviewed a movie by that first title, or at least no such review appears on the archive page.
#5 by Nathan Shumate on September 4, 2008 - 8:33 pm
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The bad link on in the Cold Fusioneers sidebar is my fault; the un-updated GBU archive page is Chad’s fault; and the review is right here.