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Written by James M. Tate / 1/20/2025 / No comments / cornelia sharpe , creature , drama , eighties , exploitation , horror , hostage , klaus kinski , nicol williamson , oliver reed , sarah miles , snake , sterling hayden , susan george , suspense , thriller

VILLAINOUS OLIVER REED AND KLAUS KINSKI BITING INTO 'VENOM'

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><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 target="_top" href="/newspapers?url=https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC8ju3yKCxQfiIQzger758e-boCfKIZi8J33q4CoTF7oLck4JK1BQhTKZW_sgugbYtMiFCBR9bw9yc1WA1yIsY96IISeM4Jr6p6tK-MC3SLMLFqO6MlhyphenhyphenXQGmRt5XD4K6fPJnI7SVEHl5zSpJU6QNpXWKBi3fk-D9W74ZhhtCESFft5kUW88ioG6dejR9w/s1454/Screen%20Shot%202025-01-20%20at%2011.51.03%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="692" data-original-width="1454" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC8ju3yKCxQfiIQzger758e-boCfKIZi8J33q4CoTF7oLck4JK1BQhTKZW_sgugbYtMiFCBR9bw9yc1WA1yIsY96IISeM4Jr6p6tK-MC3SLMLFqO6MlhyphenhyphenXQGmRt5XD4K6fPJnI7SVEHl5zSpJU6QNpXWKBi3fk-D9W74ZhhtCESFft5kUW88ioG6dejR9w/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-01-20%20at%2011.51.03%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: VENOM Year: 1981 Rating: ****</td></tr></tbody></table>In England, a sickly child and his grandfather are overtaken by the help in their family estate: Earlier that day, the boy picked up the wrong snake from a pet shop: And now a deadly Black Mamba slithers around, mostly inside the vents for a snake-eye viewpoint...A clever enough premise for a group of otherwise shady and hardened DESPERATE HOURS-inspired characters to be paranoid and terrified while cloistered in a doubly-dangerous setting...

cornelia sharpe, creature, drama, eighties, exploitation, horror, hostage, klaus kinski, nicol williamson, oliver reed, sarah miles, snake, sterling hayden, susan george, suspense, thriller

VILLAINOUS OLIVER REED AND KLAUS KINSKI BITING INTO 'VENOM'

Title: VENOM Year: 1981 Rating: **** In England, a sickly child and his grandfather are overtaken by the help in their family estate: Earli...

HARVEY KEITEL & DAVID PROVAL ON 'KOJAK' PILOT 'SIEGE OF TERROR'

<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 target="_top" href="/newspapers?url=https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig9Vw6UqLY_5jywg5_2MEnHmBq2OGlvb5dTayIybPWSGY4OpV0vmSB4BAILJd93p8pV-i7mUQMC8o3rs8nAfF95FG2anig8X4vcV60Mf81OvpkUDs7TvBrJr2N6AUgrtmt-E3Ov4f98aj4VQY6i6-upRRZDi1sqKN0E85bccTaBdYjc3uQ0A_PN9pEAxdv/s2048/Screen%20Shot%202024-12-07%20at%203.22.41%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1062" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig9Vw6UqLY_5jywg5_2MEnHmBq2OGlvb5dTayIybPWSGY4OpV0vmSB4BAILJd93p8pV-i7mUQMC8o3rs8nAfF95FG2anig8X4vcV60Mf81OvpkUDs7TvBrJr2N6AUgrtmt-E3Ov4f98aj4VQY6i6-upRRZDi1sqKN0E85bccTaBdYjc3uQ0A_PN9pEAxdv/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-12-07%20at%203.22.41%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: KOJAK: SIEGE OF TERROR Year: 1973 Rating: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>The pilot of the classic series KOJAK is a little different than most of the episodes to come, in that it involves the bad guys more than title character in Telly Savalas' bald tough guy cop as, fresh from MEAN STREETS has an intense Harvey Keitel holding up a store and taking hostages... with a quick reuniting of Keitel's bar-owner MEAN STREETS partner David Proval playing a wounded cop, literally under Harvey's gun...Instead, Proval should have played Keitel's maniacally unpredictable, wild-card thug sidekick instead of James Sloyan, who, instantly familiar for TV, lacks the cinematic prowess of Keitel or Proval... the latter asking for his last rites most of the time... but it's a pretty decent episode that would have worked better for a half hour than hour, and overall gives Keitel fans a reason to see how the cop show began thanks to his big-screen-aura-on-the-small-screen catapult.

cop, david proval, harvey keitel, hostage, rick hurst, seventies, telly savalas, tv series

HARVEY KEITEL & DAVID PROVAL ON 'KOJAK' PILOT 'SIEGE OF TERROR'

Title: KOJAK: SIEGE OF TERROR Year: 1973 Rating: ***1/2 The pilot of the classic series KOJAK is a little different than most of the episode...

CORNEL WILDE IN 'SHARKS' TREASURE' WITH YAPHET KOTTO

<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 target="_top" href="/newspapers?url=https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihhUOModo77K03T5g0MzRKG1gFUXbF8nO2DFTzvAwjgI0_CHs9ZLwv2reskrfeTv1tFJJjHqXKJXlptD-i6YfB491jr8aCwM9m659TzEH53Jlp9Nt7_6wFMgwja25AAI8LLRt4UcM3gck3wQUqWyMLA_QAj3sBCcXRTTWtvuNuyeVNCMd9JQCRzOCjOQ/s1376/Screen%20Shot%202022-12-09%20at%2010.49.54%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="891" data-original-width="1376" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihhUOModo77K03T5g0MzRKG1gFUXbF8nO2DFTzvAwjgI0_CHs9ZLwv2reskrfeTv1tFJJjHqXKJXlptD-i6YfB491jr8aCwM9m659TzEH53Jlp9Nt7_6wFMgwja25AAI8LLRt4UcM3gck3wQUqWyMLA_QAj3sBCcXRTTWtvuNuyeVNCMd9JQCRzOCjOQ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-12-09%20at%2010.49.54%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: SHARK'S TREASURE Year: 1975 Rating: ****</td></tr></tbody></table>Cornel Wilde's SHARKS' TREASURE, a Neo Noir in the 
Ernest Hemingway tradition of the TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT style, centers on
 machismo verses elements of the sea...The title 
killer fish seems to be intentionally guarding a treasure of golden 
coins at a location that takes over half the film led by Wilde's 
semi-famous fortune hunter boatsman, Jim Carnahan, along with the map's 
bearer, a young man played by TERROR HOUSE actor John Neilson...

action, adventure, cliff osmond, cornel wilde, david canary, david gilliam, exploitation, homosexual, hostage, john neilson, nature, neo noir, seventies, shark, thriller, treasure, yaphet kotto

CORNEL WILDE IN 'SHARKS' TREASURE' WITH YAPHET KOTTO

Title: SHARK'S TREASURE Year: 1975 Rating: **** Cornel Wilde's SHARKS' TREASURE, a Neo Noir in the Ernest Hemingway tradition ...

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