Babes and Beefcake, Bad Girls, coming soon, trailer

Babes and Beefcake, Bad Girls, coming soon, trailer

We love Susan George! In honor of her birthday (as if we ever need an excuse to post crazy clips on CCT) here are the trailers for The House Where Evil Dwells (1982) Fright (1971) the deadly dull shark epic Tintorera (1977) and the southern-fried melodrama Mandingo (1975).

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TCM is airing some great stuff in the next few days. Set your various recording devices (VCR, DVR, Tivo or whatever) for Friday night (3/7) because the fun begins with one of our all-time favorites, the Suzanne Pleshette bad-girl classic A Rage to Live (1965). The evening continues with the spaghetti westerns of director Segio Leone, but be sure to catch his foray into the historical epic with The Colossus of Rhodes (1961) which inexplicably stars Rory Calhoun !?! Later, as part of their TCM Underground series, they’re airing two of Ray Dennis Steckler’s ultra low-budget flicks, The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!? (1964) and Rat Pfink a Boo Boo (1966). In the wee hours of Monday morning (3/10), catch the airing of such oddball sci-fi classics as X From Outer Space (1967) Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959) and the TCM sci-fi documentary Watch the Skies. The theme for Tuesday evening (3/11) is ‘night at the nuthouse’. Be sure not to miss The Cobweb (1955) Lilith (1964) The Caretakers (1963) or Maniac (1963).

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Elizabeth Taylor… what more can really be said? Here are a few clips from our favorite La Liz extravaganzas, Butterfield 8 (1960), The V.I.P.s (1963) and The Sandpiper (1965).

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Bad Girls, camp, cult, horror

Bad Girls, camp, cult, horror

Actress Suzanne Pleshette passed away earlier this month just a few weeks shy of her seventy-first birthday. Today she will posthumously receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Fondly remembered for her roles on television’s The Bob Newhart Show and in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds (1963), Pleshette also starred in a few films that could be qualified as Cool Cinema Trash. If you have the opportunity, I suggest you check out the sublimely soapy Rome Adventure (1962) in which she co-stars with future husband Troy Donahue. If Pleshette as a nyphomanical suburbanite is more to your liking, then you can’t go wrong with A Rage to Live (1965). Though neither is yet available on DVD, they occasionally air on cable. Check your local listings.

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Though mostly unknown to audiences in the U.S., Isabel Sarli is a bona-fide sex goddess in Latin America. Director Armando Bo discovered the beautifuly buxom former Miss Argentina and quickly put Sarli to work in his colorfully melodramatic sexploitation films. Bo directed his favorite leading lady in such films as Carne (1968) and Put Up or Shut Up (1958). Read Article

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According to the pop psychology of the 1950’s, there were good girls and there were bad girls. Good girls just didn’t look like Jane Russell. How could a woman, who wielded her curvaceous figure like a weapon, be anything but bad? The cross-your-heart bombshell spent most of her career playing seductive women out to get something and The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956) is no exception. Read Article

Bad Girls