#james farentino

[ozu-teapot]

Me, Natalie | Fred Coe | 1969

Patty Duke, James Farentino, et al.

[honeygleam]

dead and buried (1981) dir. gary sherman

[yestergaze]

Me, Natalie (1969) features Patty Duke in her Golden Globe winning performance as a young Brooklyn woman who moves to Greenwich Village and finds romance with an aspiring artist played by James Farentino. The cast included Martin Balsam, Nancy Marchand, Elsa Lanchester and Al Pacino in his film debut.

[rwpohl]

sins, douglas hickox 1986

[mariocki]

Dead & Buried (1981)

"This is child's play. I've replaced missing eyeballs with sawdust and glued the lids together; I've used bent aluminium combs for dentures; I've used the back part of the scalp when there was no front part; and I folded one hand over wadded-up newspapers when the other hand had no fingers. You find all this obscene, Sheriff? Do you know what is really obscene? Look at this. Look at the work I've done. This is an art and I am the artist! What can you remember about a sealed box? A sealed casket: that is obscene. That is the death of memory. The cosmetologist gives birth. I make souvenirs."

[denver-carrington]

Neil Dickson (Gavin Maurier), Catherine Mary Stewart, James Farentino (Nick), Joan, and Peter Holm at a screening party for Sins (1986).

[gatutor]

James Farentino-Lorraine Rogers "Violent midnight" 1963, de Richard Hilliard.

[peter-ash]

[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have Her Alibi 1989

[kwebtv]

Wings of Fire - NBC - February 14, 1967

Action / Drama

Running Time: 99 minutes

Stars:

Suzanne Pleshette as Kitty Sanborn

James Farentino as Taff Malloy

Lloyd Nolan as Max Clarity

Juliet Mills as Lisa

Jeremy Slate as Hal Random

Ralph Bellamy as Doug Sanborn

Gary Crosby as Scott

Jaime Sánchez as Luis Passos

[ozu-teapot]

Me, Natalie | Fred Coe | 1969

Patty Duke, James Farentino

[erstwhile-punk-guerito]

[knowyourbmovieactors]

OCTOBER HORROR MOVIES 2022 (D) DEAD & BURIED

Once again, we're going back to the '80s, but for real this time! It's an actual, honest-to-god film made in the 1980s (well, barely: it was released in 1981).

A quaint seaside town hides a dark secret: a cult that gruesomely murders pretty much every stranger that wanders in. For you well-traveled horror fans, this is a ho-hum concept. How about we up the ante? In this movie, the murdered strangers subsequently reappear in town, acting as if they have always lived there, often in menial jobs like a waitress or gas station attendant. See folks, not every murderous cult needs to kill people to summon dark, unspeakable forces. They can also kill to make sure their service sector is fully staffed.

For a fairly low-budget film, it's pretty damn good. I'm surprised that I've never heard of it before, especially since it was co-written by Dan O'Bannon (the guy who wrote Alien and directed Return of the Living Dead). It features a pre-Freddy Robert Englund and stars James Farentino (a guy I'm sure you can't quite place right now, but if you ever watched a TV show in the '70s or '80s, you have seen him) and Jack Albertson (yeah, the guy who played Charlie's grandpa in "Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory"). It also has special makeup effects by none other than Stan Winston, who designed half your nightmares in the '80s, half of your iconic movies of the '90s, and also Mr. Roboto in that Styx video. Dead & Buried is a delightful throwback to the way horror movies used to work before slashers steamrolled the genre. It functions basically as a film version of a '50s EC horror comic in the best ways, which I guess shouldn't be surprising, since Dan O'Bannon cited EC as one of his major artistic inspirations.

But the very best part is watching Jack Albertson play the weirdo coroner/mortician of this small town. Did you ever want to see Grandpa Joe give a powerful monologue about how fixing up dead bodies for burial is a high art and choosing a closed casket is an insult to his genius? Well, here's your chance.

[istrw]

ME, NATALIE (1969) dir. Fred Coe

[thedukeofdormont]

October 2 - Movie Night - Dead and Buried

[laserpinksteam]

September's single shots: Her Alibi (dir. Bruce Beresford, 1989)

This unfunny comedy's catchy trailer played on every second VHS cassette I would watch the late 80s–early 90s. Lewis has a fun cameo as one of the court's jury members. Selleck doesn't have fun though.