#J Lee Thompson

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What a Way to Go! (1964) dir. J. Lee Thompson

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SHARON TATE as ODILE DE CARAY for ‘EYE OF THE DEVIL’, 1966. 🤍

“SHARON was asked to play this very difficult role, of a rather witchlike person. It was asking a newcomer to do a lot. She takes direction beautifully. Very soon she began to realise that the camera was a friend. ‘Could she do it?’ that was all in our minds. We even agreed that if after the first two weeks, SHARON was not quite making it, that we would put her back in cold storage. We started work. The moment that SHARON appeared on screen in her first rushes, we knew that this wonderful personality was going to make out. We all realised that here was a girl who was tremendously exciting. She had that thing that you cant really explain, star projection. I think this girl is going to be a big star.”

—J. LEE THOMPSON (Director, Eye of the Devil, 1966.)

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ROBERT MITCHUM as MAX CADY in Cape Fear (1962), dir. J. Lee Thompson

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Death Wish 4: The Crackdown // Dir. J. Lee Thompson

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Sharon Tate photographed preparing for a scene in Eye of the Devil with director J. Lee Thompson, High Priest Paul King, self-proclaimed 'King Witch' Alex Sanders, and 'Queen Witch' Maxine Morris, 27 January 1966.

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what a way to go! (1964) dir. j. lee thompson

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Best Robert Mitchum movies and performances:

1. Out of the Past - Jacques Tourneur (1947)

2. The Night of the Hunter - Charles Laughton (1955)

3. Cape Fear - J. Lee Thompson (1962)

4. The Lusty Men - Nicholas Ray (1952)

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After the extinction of cats and dogs in 1982, humans started using apes as pets. By 1991 they had become a major source of slave labor. Caesar, the intelligent ape son of survivors of the Planet of the Apes who had fallen backwards in time, witnesses the mistreatment of his fellow apes. When Caesar learns of the death of the only human he really cared for (who was being forced to tell about Caesar by a machine called the Authenticator and killed himself before he completely revealed everything about Caesar) he lead an ape uprising against the human oppressors. This uprising lead to what would become known as the Planet of the Apes. ("Conquest of the Planet of the Apes", flm)

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August 22nd, 2023

The first film of my official birthday was Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972). I think of the final three movies of the series this is my favorite. Not as good as the first and not as wildly entertaining as the second, this movie is definitely an interesting explanation for how the apes came to power. It was entirely foreshadowed by Cornelius and Zira in the previous movie as they told their history to the scientists, so it was a little clever to see it unfold a lot faster than either of the two apes realized. I guess the audience is supposed to infer that after Taylor left at the end of the first movie, Cornelius got ahold of the actual histories the orangutans were hiding from the rest of their civilization, though I’m trying not to poke too many holes into the series. It’s more entertaining when you just sit back and enjoy the ride.

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What a Way to Go! (1964) dir. J. Lee Thompson

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What a Way to Go! (1964) dir. J. Lee Thompson

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Secret passage from The Ambassador (1984)

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Sharon Tate in Eye of the Devil (1966)

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Peter Parker, the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man celebrating his 30th anniversary among family, friends and foes. Art by Erik Larsen (soon before the start of his Savage Dragon run at Image Comics).