The cast of Alice, 1979

cast of "Alice" (1976)

The only sitcom based on a Martin Scorsese film.

Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974) Martin Scorsese

June 8th 2023

Blood and Lace (1971)

Vic Tayback, 1980

THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHTFOOT (1974) Grade: B

This had to feel a little ahead of its time during release right? It's a bromance crime film with Eastwood and Bridges. Jeff Bridges steals the film. Gutsy ending.

The cast of Alice, 1979

The Cheap Detective (1978)

Hey, you gotta, gotta Tayback / The Vic Tayback

Vic Tayback SuperStation

Mansion of the Doomed

There’s something very sad about seeing Richard Basehart and Gloria Grahame stuck in a film as decrepit as Michael Pataki’s MANSION OF THE DOOMED (1976, Shudder), aka THE TERROR OF DR. CHANEY, aka MASSACRE MANSION, aka EYES, aka EYES OF DR. CHANEY aka HOUSE OF BLOOD. Both were gifted actors who didn’t play the Hollywood game and sank into B movies while lesser actors who did play the game rose to stardom. For that matter, it’s sad to see that a gifted character actor like Pataki turned out to be such a bad director, though the production here, an early film from Charles Band, has continuity issues at the end and is so choppy it looks at times as if they ran out of money and stitched together whatever footage they had. Basehart is a revered ophthalmologist whose daughter (Trish Stewart) is blinded in a car crash. With sister Grahame, he starts kidnapping people to transplant their eyes into Stewart’s head in vain hopes of curing her. Yes, it’s LES YEUX SANS VISAGE (1960) with eyes instead of faces, which, I suppose makes it “Les Visages sans Yeux.” Both stars do their best. Grahame’s role doesn’t have much of a throughline, but she plays each bit well and looks terrific. There’s a lot of narration, so you get to enjoy Basehart’s sonorous voice, even when the words are banal. And he makes Stewart look like a better actress in their scenes together. The film is ableist to a fault. There’s no thought of Stewart’s learning to live with blindness, and the people whose eyes Basehart steals are treated as monsters, albeit with good makeup by the young Stan Winston. Lance Henriksen is surprisingly pretty as a doctor engaged to Stewart who becomes Basehart’s first victim, and Vic Tayback is on hand briefly as a police detective whose dedication to his job is his salvation.

Vic Tayback and Melody Patterson in Blood and Lace (1971).

Monkeeing Around Episode 22 - Your Friendly Neighborhood Kidnappers

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Monkeeing Around Episode 22 - Your Friendly Neighborhood Kidnappers

This week the Monkeeing Around gang discusses the fourth aired Monkees episode, Your Friendly Neighborhood Kidnappers.

Monkeeing Around is a part of the ESO Podcast Network, Executive Producer Mike Faber.