#Crossplot

[askthemoores]

Hey all of y’all, how do y’all react when someone knocks on your bathroom door ?

James: Why am I there twice?? And such a drastic switch too.

Seymour: How does one shit louder??

Brett: Why am I screaming.....

Simon: I'm the most normal here. Why did Gary open the door?

Gary: Who knows....

Brett: Miss Luna most likely.

Me: I was going of vibes okay, I feel like you all would do each of them in that order.

Everyone: ......

Seymour: Kinda accurate.

James: 🤦‍♂️

[cantsayidont]

Hateration holleration in the cinema:

THE BAT WHISPERS (1930): Creaky early talkie thriller, based on a Mary Roberts Rinehart/Avery Hopwood stage play, about a group of people terrorized by a mysterious masked criminal called The Bat. (Bob Kane later claimed that this was one of the inspirations for Batman.) There's a great opening shot and some cool model work in the first 10 minutes (like a sequence where The Bat descends by rope into his special car, which can generate a smokescreen to deter pursuers), but once it gets into the actual play, it becomes too static, and it's burdened with hammy acting and a truly painful level of mugging comic relief from the supporting players (with Maude Eburne the worst offender as the cowardly, superstitious maid). Star Chester Morris appears briefly out of character at the end to urge the audience not to reveal The Bat's true identity. CONTAINS LESBIANS? No. VERDICT: Promises FANTÔMAS or LES VAMPIRES, mostly delivers Scooby-Doo. Batman fans interested in the character's antecedents should check out the first 10 minutes, but you won't miss much if you stop there.

ONE WAY PASSAGE (1932): Charming pre-Code melodrama about the doomed shipboard romance between a dying rich girl (Kay Francis) and a suave escaped convict (William Powell), who's being escorted back to San Francisco to be hanged for murder. Despite its obvious contrivances, the compact script and brisk direction keep things from becoming maudlin or grim, and Powell and Francis have wonderful chemistry (the best of their many pairings at Warner Bros.), with good support from Warren Hymer as the thick-headed but not entirely unsympathetic cop, Frank McHugh as a drunken scam artist, and Aline MacMahon as a bogus countess. A surprisingly warm little story about people doing the best they can in the face of unsympathetic fate. CONTAINS LESBIANS? No. VERDICT: Touching, funnier than you'd think (though McHugh lays it on a little too thick), and even life-affirming.

THE BAD SLEEP WELL (1960): Overlong, overwrought, somewhat undercooked Akira Kurosawa corporate crime drama, a loose modern-dress variation on HAMLET, about a junior executive (Toshiro Mifune) who borrows someone else's name and identity to infiltrate a big corporation whose ruthless skulduggery is responsible for his father's suicide, even going so far as to marry the boss's disabled daughter (Kyoko Kagawa) to ingratiate himself with his foe (Masayuki Mori). It starts off well, with a punchy style Leonard Maltin aptly compares to a '40s Warner Bros movie, but Kurosawa lets the supporting cast go overboard while failing to provide Mifune with enough fireworks to sustain the film through its rather ponderous 150-minute running time, and the gloomy ending offers no real dramatic payoff. CONTAINS LESBIANS? No. VERDICT: Highly regarded by Kurosawa fans and film nerds, but casual viewers may wonder what all the fuss is about.

CROSSPLOT (1969): Labored action comedy starring Roger Moore as womanizing ad executive Gary Fenn, whose new discovery is a gorgeous Hungarian model named Marla Kogash (Claudie Lange), who's tied up in a convoluted assassination plot. Moore is game, but the script and direction are too clunky to ever whip up the requisite degree of froth, and the plot's awkward equivocation about student protests doesn't sit well. Martha Hyer is fun as Marla's flirtatious English aunt Jo, and fans of THE PRISONER will immediately recognize costar Alexis Kanner from "Living in Harmony" and "Fall-Out." (Moore's future Bond movie costar Bernard Lee also pops up in a small role.) CONTAINS LESBIANS? No. VERDICT: Never as funny or as fun as it wants to be, and your attention will start to wander by the midpoint.

THE HOT ROCK (1972): Droll, lightweight caper film, adapted by William Goldman from a Donald Westlake novel, about a gang of thieves (Robert Redford, George Segal, Ron Leibman, and Paul Sand) attempting to steal a rare diamond on behalf of a UN delegate from a fictional African country (Moses Gunn), only to have one brilliant plan after another go badly awry. Director Peter Yates wisely keeps things light even as the plot gets sillier, although he sometimes lets the energy level wane too much, and the ending feels a bit anticlimactic. Gunn steals the show as the gang's increasingly exasperated financier. CONTAINS LESBIANS? It really only has two female characters, and their roles are very small. VERDICT: Never laugh-out-loud funny, but a pleasantly relaxed amusement.

DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS (1995): Near-miss film adaptation of the first of Walter Mosley's popular Easy Rawlins detective novels, about a newly unemployed Black veteran in 1948 Los Angeles (Denzel Washington) who's hired to track down a mystery woman (Jennifer Beals) some people will kill to find. Adapted and directed by Carl Franklin, it has great atmosphere, a charismatic lead, and superb support by Don Cheadle as Easy's casually murderous friend Mouse. Unfortunately, the story lacks an emotional hook, and Beals' flat performance leaves a blank space at its heart; the mise-en-scène is ultimately more compelling than the plot. CONTAINS LESBIANS? Not in any substantive way. VERDICT: A movie good enough that you'll come away frustrated that it falls so short of greatness.

[its-m7ke]

I'm watching Crossplot (1969)

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crossplot, alvin rakoff 1969

[gatutor]

Roger Moore-Claudie Lange "Complot" (Crossplot) 1969, de Alvin Rakoff.

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Crossplot 1969 Roger Moore Martha Hyer Francis Matthews Claudie Lange Al...

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Claudie Lange.New film Crossplot, being filmed on location at Chelsea Reach, by the River Thames, London, 31st October 1968🎍🌱🌹

Photo by Julian Brown📸

Via @isabelfutre on Instagram🍂🥀🪷

[heartistic-blog]

Crossplot movie

yeah,. i wonder ,. is te UK,, movies all day,. just a holiday thing

[laresearchette]

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[jb89149]

FX 60s style

Crossplot (1969)

[the-black-deep]

Crossplot (1969)

Crossplot (1969) is a mad plotless caper involving a very talented helicopter stunt pilot and a pre-Bond Roger Moore doing Roger Moore things. #movie #review #1970s

Crossplot is a wild caper involving Roger Moore, an actress I was convinced was Gina Lollobrigida, leggy girls in mini-dresses and a damn good helicopter stunt pilot. And a plot. I think there is a plot somewhere. What’s not to like! We open with some guy being tossed off a bridge and his female companion (Marla) making a getaway with a piece of paper in her hand. James, I mean Roger, I mean…

[askthemoores]

Hi there! Welcome to my blog! Ever wanted to ask Roger Moore's characters a question? Well, now you can! But first we need some rules.

No NSFW please

I am a minor, and that would make me uncomfortable.

No asking Roger Moore himself anything. This is just for his characters. Roger was a real person it would feel odd for me to answer questions posing as him.

Please be patient, I have a lot going on and may not always be able to answer.

No topics of Self h@rm or anything along those lines. If you want to have a small vent to a character that is fine, just keep it low-key. (Also, my Dms are always open, and I'm fine responding in or out of character just specify!)

The character's I am responding as for now are:

James Bond: LALD to AWTAK era. (73-85)

Simon Templar: The Saint Tv series (62-69)

Lord Brett Sinclair: The Persuaders (1971)

Gary Fenn: Crossplot (1969)

Seymour Goldfarb Jr: Canonnball run (1981)

This is it for now but can be updated. If there is a certain Roger character you wish to see, let me know!

And my final rule is to have fun!

My main account is: @basicallyarogermoorestanaccount

Come check me out on there, I talk all about Roger and even post some of my own art!

Have a good day!! -Luna ✨️

[mariocki]

RIP Veronica Carlson (18.9.1944 - 27.2.2022)

"It was a joy. You make assumptions about people and I found how wrong I was. I expected Christopher [Lee] to be a very aristocratic, rather aloof, dignified man. I was a bit afraid to approach him, but I found him to be the exact opposite. He was very approachable. He was not aloof. He is very dignified. He's got such an aristocratic air and look about him, but he was so kind and so thoughtful in every thing that we did together. He discussed things with me. He asked if I liked the thought of doing something a certain way. I must have thought he was very nice, because I asked him if he would sit for a portrait and he agreed to do so. In thirty-five minutes, I did a sketch of him. He has a lovely, dignified face. That shows you how relaxed I was around him."

"Every convention I go to, I'm asked about Peter [Cushing]. People wish they could have met him or they were lucky to have once met him. Peter was a sweet, lovely man to work with. I even introduced him to my parents. It's impossible not to love Peter."

[gerryandersontv]

FAB Facts: The Century 21 special effects contribution to Crossplot

FAB Facts: The Century 21 special effects contribution to Crossplot

During the 1960s Gerry Anderson’s Century 21 special effects team did a very short sequence for the film Crossplot, starring Roger Moore. Having missed out on 2001: A Space Odyssey, this seemed like the perfect opportunity to collaborate with the team behind The Saint…

[illustraction]

CROSSPLOT (1969) - ROGER MOORE MOVIE POSTERS (Part 1/10)

ROGER MOORE just left us yesterday, May 24th 2017, so this 10 part BLOG is a tribute to the British actor who became a Sir of her Majesty thanks to his incredible string of successful roles on TV (Ivanhoe, The Saint, The Persuaders) and then not only as the longest serving actor in the James Bond franchise (7 movies between 1973 and 1985) but as an action hero in many other movies proving his versatility.

Let’s start exploring his non James Bond career with a lesser know movie of his filmography shot in 1969 in which Moore plays an advertising executive trapped in an assassination plot. While the movie is a pastiche of Bond films, it is interesting to see Moore so at ease with both exuding charm and elegance and in action scenes which made him the perfect choice ti replace Sean Connery 4 years later.

Above are the Japanese and the US half sheet poster for the movie. The latter being my favorite Roger Moore poster.

R.I.P. Sir Roger Moore!

All our ROGER MOORE posters are here

If you like this entry, check the other 9 parts of this week’s Blog as well as our Blog Archives and all our NEW POSTERS

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The posters above courtesy of ILLUSTRACTION GALLERY

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Cartel película "Complot" (Crossplot) 1969, de Alvin Rakoff.