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Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971)
What a Late Saturday Night/Early Sunday Morning Blast!
10 Stars for the hokiest and silliest monster flick ever. I love every second of it from the old Universal sets to Chaney and Naish in their final film roles even though Lon was so sick with throat cancer he could not speak at the time. It does not get much funner than this, folks. Russ Tamblyn looked and probably was stoned out of his mind when he gets brained by Big Junior Lon who was drunk himself as always. Make yourselves a bag of buttered popcorn and grab a liter of your favorite soft drink and enjoy a classic in schlock. A knock it out of the park for the late great Al Adamson for us Drive In fans. Enjoy horror lovers!
Phantom Punch (2008)
Great Entertainment For Boxing Buffs
I loved it because it was about one of the Greatest Heavyweights Ever in Charles "Sonny" Liston. No, it's not "Casablanca" but it is time well spent for former fighters like myself and boxing fans. We love just about anything on The Bad Man and the movie is very stylishly shot with a sleek music score backing it. I have been to Liston's grave in Vegas and "Night Train" played in my head the entire time I was there. No monument, just a weathered headstone that you have to ask the folks inside how to find as it is difficult to locate. Watch this with an open mind and enjoy it, sports fans. While it may not be 100 percent accurate - it is fun for fans of The Big Bear. Troy Ross is a real fighter who plays Floyd Patterson but the guy that plays Ali is not. He is the only downside to this movie that I found as they should have gotten a real boxer to play him. Ving is not as big nor nearly as massive as Sonny was but then again, few men have been. One of the Great Hitters and most Mysterious Men in Boxing history.
The Outer Limits: Fun and Games (1964)
Great fun for Nick Adams fans
Nick plays an ex-boxer teamed up with Nancy Malone to do battle on a distant planet with two aliens. Good scarring make up on close ups of Adams who plays a Terry Malloy type from "On the Waterfront." Adams did his obligatory usual "freak out" scene, and there were few better in Hollywood at the time that could lose it as good as "Johnny Yuma" could. Adams was an authentically tough and athletic man whose passions included playing semi-professional baseball and he was also an avid practitioner of the martial arts. This fine actor left us far too soon and catch this if you are a fan of his as it is a great period curio of a time long gone.