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Wednesday, December 30, 2020

THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. - "The Project Deephole Affair" (1966)

Tonight's Wildly Vain Wednesday feature is an episode of "The Man From U.N.C.L.E."

My Editor in Berlin, Lord Litter, is currently enjoying this show immensely despite these horrid times, because "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." was never shown in it's entirety in Germany when it originally aired.

"The Project Deephole Affair" was from Season two of "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." and was the 26th episode and aired on March 18, 1966.

This is one of those shows that I take for granted that everybody already knows about, but you'd be surprised how much popular culture has been left behind by society today!

But then again, it was fifty-six years ago!

The core cast members of the show were Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, and Leo G. Carroll.

But for me, the real star of this episode was Barbara Bouchet as the villianess Narcissus Darling! Not only is she vain, she's also totally self-absorbed, and has a completely inordinate fascination with herself!

The other awesome guest star is Jack Weston as the deadbeat down and out Buzz Conway! Jack is another one of those special people that among all his roles, he was actually in two episodes of  "The Twilight Zone," "The Bard," and one of my all-time favorites, "The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street."

Barbara lives up to the name of her Narcissistic character by constantly primping and priming herself while admiring herself in the mirror!

I might just make a painting of this shot because I think it's very cool, but if I don't, I'll always think I should have!

Ralph J. Rose has the role of a Dr. Remington, a guy who the T.H.R.U.S.H. agents just can't wait to get their filthy hands on. Ralph had six credits to his name, for shows like "The Addams Family," and "Gunsmoke," and "The Andy Griffith Show."

Narcissus might be a self-centered egomaniac, but she does look good from all angles, and has the goods to back it up!

The big bad guy running the show is Leon Askin as Marvin Elom. For a large man, Leon must have had a strong heart, because he lived to be 97 years old. His 137 credits went all the way back to 1950, and included stints working with Superman, Dr. Mabuse, and Sherlock Holmes, and he was in "The Outer Limits" episode "The Inheritors Part 1." Being of Austrian descent, it might have been easy for him to play the role of General Burkhalter on 67 episodes of "Hogan's Heroes."

As it should be, Narcissus just can't get enough of herself!

So what happens is that Buzz Conway gets mistaken for Dr. Remington by T.H.R.U.S.H, so the U.N.C.L.E agents use him as bait, but he's not very happy when he finds the real Doctor dead in his hotel room closet.

But it was just a set-up to scare him, and the knife is fake.

Buzz decides to split the scene via an open window, but doesn't like the height much.

Even though I don't really like to fly much, I can still appreciate a good picture of a 1960's airliner in flight like this!

Wait a minute! I thought Hotels weren't supposed to have thirteenth floors!

Narcissus just keeps on doing her vanity thing, and the joke never gets old!

T.H.R.U.S.H. has a plan to create an earthquake along the San Andreas fault, and make California fall off into the ocean, and takes credit for the 9.2 earthquake in Alaska that claimed 131 casualties two years earlier in 1964.

But in the end, Marvin creates his own personal tsunami when he falls into an open elevator shaft!
So that's it for me and 2020, and I say Good Riddance, go away, take all your crap with you, and don't come back!

Wednesday, October 25, 2017

LA DAMA ROSSA UCCIDE SETTE VOLTE - "The Red Queen Kills Seven Times" (1972)

Hey! Welcome to my last Wednesday of the Countdown to Halloween! I thought I had a good one for you, but this movie isn't near as Halloweenie as I thought it was going to be!
But......It is what it is!

The title is "La Dama Rossa Uccide Sette Volte," and the literal translation is "The Red Queen Kills Seven Times!" If you want to get really confused, it was also released as "Horror House," "Blood Feast," "Feast Of Flesh," and "The Corpse Which Didn't Want To Die!" For the record, most of those titles have nothing to do with the actual movie!

"La Dama Rossa Uccide Sette Volte" can be quite opulent at times!

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that the main ingredient in most Italian Giallos is the colour red, blood red!

I show you this still for two reasons, 1972 stereo, and 1972 phone!

Here's our decennial shout out to all you Vespa lovers!

"La Dama Rossa Uccide Sette Volte" goes from high fashion to.........

.......Super low fashion!!

"La Dama Rossa Uccide Sette Volte" is worth a watch just for arty interiors and fashion like this! 1972 only happened once, and it was different!

"La Dama Rossa Uccide Sette Volte" is chock full of beautiful women like Pia Giancaro of "The Evil Eye," and "Curse Of The Butterfly" fame!

But don't forget, it is a bloody murder mystery!

As what can only be considered the ultimate insult, the maniac not only kills this gal, she also steals her bug!

How about those glasses? Wow!

And what about this cat's pad? Ever seen anything like that before?

Don't forget that despite all the fashion, "La Dama Rossa Uccide Sette Volte" is a grisly and garish slasher film!

Here she comes again now now!
The real title says it all, and indeed, the Queen does commit seven murders, but whether she's really the Red Queen or not is a different story!

Pretty good nightmare visit from the Red Queen!

We don't usually show much nudity, but it's hard to get a shot of Sybil (Naughty Nymphs) Danning with her clothes on, and besides, everybody's seen her naked at least once anyway!

The elegant Marina (Seven Blood-Stained Orchids, All The Colors Of The Dark) Malfatti just passed away last year at the age of 83!

 The last and main beauty in the cast was Barbara Bouchet who is still working today! Thank goodness for small miracles! She might not be a household name, but besides an array of Giallo flicks, Barbara was in "In Harm's Way," and "Agent For H.A.R.M.!!" She was Moneypenny in "Casino Royale," she was in a "Star Trek," and a "Man From U.N.C.L.E." episode. She was in "Don't Torture A Duckling," "Duck In Orange Sauce," and "Death Rage!"
 But when it's all said and done, personally, I think the weirdest thing about "La Dama Rossa Uccide Sette Volte" is that the killer Red Queen is named Evelyn, and she has essentially come back from the grave, and that Director Emilio Miraglia's previous movie before this was called "The Night Evelyn Came Out Of The Grave!"
Despite all the thrashing and slashing, I'm thinking Emilio was having a pretty good laugh on us all!

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