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23 Paces to Baker Street (1956)
Refreshing portrayal of blindness
Whether the director or Van Johnson came up with it, it's refreshing that Van didn't provide the standard stiff-necked, fixed-gazed "look I'm a blind man" cliche performance.
This always drives me batty when they do that.
So it was a pleasure to watch this well-crafted thriller.
They keep up the mystery right to the final showdown, too. Lots of twists and turns albeit while overdoing the tape recorder which should have gotten a screen credit!
I hope to catch it again. I think the storyline will hold up despite my knowing now how it ends.
You'll like it, too, I am sure. A very fine whodunit.
Return to Green Acres (1990)
Not even Mr. Haney could sell this junk
Apparently William Asher never watched any 60's TV besides Bewitched. Otherwise he'd have seen Green Acres at least once and had a clue how to direct "Return".
Pure garbage is place for this, lame story is a total miss. Jokes falling flat far and wide. Give me the original and let's pretend that Bill never tried.
This is the worst remake of anything I can recall.
It would have been much better to have made a 2 hour reunion of the cast to reminisce about the original show.
The writers must have worked from a list of character bios and reverse engineered this travesty while completely missing everything that made the series awesome. I'm sorry I watched it and will never make that mistake again.
Breakout (1975)
Good way to spend a couple hours
Most Charles Bronson flicks guarantee a good time. This one is no exception. It does require considerable suspension of belief to get through it though. There are a number of situations that are just incredible bits of happenstance. And it includes a number of clichéd movie airplane escape sequences, for example, a last second effort by armed soldiers, to chase down the fleeing aircraft before it can takeoff. And of course their machine gun fire fortunately misses the plane and everyone on it. There are a number of scenes where scantily clad Sheree North are blurred in the TV release, but curiously a climatic scene with a bad guy tangling with an airplane propeller was not.
The Last Days of Billy the Kid (2017)
Bad. So horribly bad.
I missed the first hour of this one on This Tv.
That's the best thing about it for me.
Any fool with a digital camera can be a cinematographer these days and this offering proved it.
Sadly, anyone who can speak can also be an actor and we have proof of that as well.
The entire crew should be ashamed of their involvement with this stinker.
Why was this made? We may never know.
The Twilight Zone: Black Leather Jackets (1964)
The 'Eye'
I'm surprised no one has picked up on the 'TV' communication device with a huge eye, evidently their great leader. Twilight Zone was a CBS show! I found that to be a delightfully humorous subtlety whether intentional or not.
While it's true this is not a great story, it follows the simple formula of all Twilight Zone episodes, where everything is just slightly odd, and is therefore an enjoyable one to watch.
It's an odd mix - partly The Wild One's motorcycle 'gang', partly every sci-fi movie that had space invaders (why ARE those highly advanced alien civilizations always plotting to destroy the earth or its lifeforms?).
Key Witness (1960)
What a klinker
The bizarre 'hepcat' language from the punks, their oh-so-clever 'street' names, the just-plain-corny phrases from the adults('Torno do me a favor. Stay as sweet as you are'), the ridiculous plot, the awful acting - these all add up to one laughably awful film. Like any bad accident, you just can't turn away.
Joby Baker gives the only decent and believable performance. The others characters' roles were so cluttered with clichés and overdone acting that Joby's work seemed Oscar-worthy by comparison.
Jeffery Hunter was much better in a later role, on Star Trek - strapped into a box with just one blinking yes/no light and no dialog.
It amazes me that Dennis Hopper has continued to get work in spite of performances like this.