Adventure Races to a Climax! (May, 1957)

 

 

 

 
Nightfall (1956) Copa Productions :: Columbia Pictures / P: Ted Richmond / D: Jacques Tourneur / W: Stirling Silliphant, David Goodis (novel) / C: Burnett Guffey / E: William A. Lyon / M: George Duning / S: Aldo Ray, Anne Bancroft, Brian Keith, Jocelyn Brando, James Gregory

Wicked as They Come (1956) Frankovich Productions :: Columbia Pictures / P: Maxwell Setton / D: Ken Hughes / W: Ken Hughes, Robert Westerby, Sigmund Miller, Bill S. Ballinger (novel) / C: Basil Emmott / E: Max Benedict / M: Malcolm Arnold / S: Arlene Dahl, Philip Carey, Herbert Marshall, Michael Goodliffe, Sidney James

Told in Blood! Cosa Nostra Story in 2 Shocking Motion Pictures! (November, 1963)

 

 

 

 

 
Al Capone (1959) Allied Artists Pictures / P: Leonard Ackerman, John H. Burrows / D: Richard Wilson / W: Malvin Wald, Henry F. Greenberg / C: Lucien Ballard / E: Walter Hannemann / M: David Raksin / S: Rod Steiger, Martin Balsam, Fay Spain, James Gregory, Nehemiah Persoff

Pay or Die! (1960) Allied Artists / P: Richard Wilson / D: Richard Wilson / W: Richard Collins, Bertram Millhauser / C: Lucien Ballard / E: Walter Hannemann / M: David Raksin / S: Ernest Borgnine, Zohra Lampert, Alan Austin, Vito Scotti, John Marley

Operation 00-Odballs :: Matt Helm Shoots the Works, Fabulous Slaygirls, Dressed to Kill! (March, 1968)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Part Three of

 

Other Points of Interest:

Full film review of The Ambushers at 3B Theater.

Poster campaign for The Ambushers at the Archive.

The Ambushers (1967) Meadway-Claude Productions Company :: Columbia Pictures Corporation / P: Irving Allen / AP: Douglas Netter / D: Henry Levin / W: Herbert Baker, Donald Hamilton (novel) / C: Edward Colman, Burnett Guffey / E: Harold F. Kress / M: Hugo Montenegro / S: Dean Martin, Janice Rule, Senta Berger, James Gregory, Albert Salmi, Beverly Adams

Da’King Lives! :: Wakin’ ‘n’ Bakin’ to that Wild Beat! (January, 1968)

 

 

 

 

 

 
In a slight change of pace that we have seen since … what, Blue Hawaii? Anyways, for this shindig, the Big E plays another heir of wealth and fortune who wants for nothing except a desire for people to like him for him — and not just for all the perks that go along with his last name. And to accomplish this, he switches identities with his new best friend. Let the merry mix-upped identity shenanigans begin, am I right? Also of note, “Do the Clam” is not featured in Clambake — for that you’ll have to track down Girl Happy — but it does contain one of my favorite movie ballads:
 

Video courtesy of SoundandArt 2010.

 
This post was part of Da’King Lives, which originated back in January of 2010, to help celebrate the King of Rock-n-Roll’s 75th birthday and throw a spotlight on his fine, fractured forays into feature film.
 

Clambake (1967) Levy-Gardner-Laven :: Rhodes Pictures :: United Artists / P: Arthur Gardner, Arnold Laven, Jules V. Levy / AP: Ernst R. Rolf / D: Arthur H. Nadel / W: Arthur Browne Jr. / C: William Margulies / E: Ernst R. Rolf / M: Jeff Alexander / S: Elvis Presley, Shelley Fabares, Bill Bixby, Gary Merrill, James Gregory, Suzie Kaye, Angelique Pettyjohn

Wild Excitement! Tempestuous Romance! Wholesale Slaughter! (May, 1964)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
A Distant Trumpet (1963) A First National Picture :: Warner Bros. / P: William H. Wright / D: Raoul Walsh / W: John Twist, Richard Fielder, Albert Beich, Paul Horgan (novel) / C: William H. Clothier / E: David Wages / M: Max Steiner / S: Troy Donahue, Suzanne Pleshette, Diane McBain, James Gregory, Claude Akins

Johnny Cool (1963) Chrislaw Productions :: United Artists / EP: Peter Lawford / P: William Asher / AP: Milton Ebbins / D: William Asher / W: Joseph Landon, John McPartland (novel) / C: Sam Leavitt / E: Otto Ludwig / M: Billy May / S: Henry Silva, Elizabeth Montgomery, Richard Anderson, Jim Backus, Joey Bishop, Telly Savalas