CORVETTE SUMMER JEDI

9/12/2024

MARK HAMILL ON THE FBI: THE CORRUPTOR

Mark Hamill on THE FBI: The Corruptor from 1971

Mark Hamill turns up on THE FBI from 1971, as a kid about to rob a movie theater, which is playing DIRTY HARRY. Also in this episode is Jason Wingreen, who originally voiced Boba Fett in EMPIRE STRIKES BACK. Jason appears in the scene quickly after Hamill is arrested.

A LONG TIME AGO

This was a fun blog to do while I did it. There was a custom URL and some traction but that went by the wayside and basically it's a dead blog (my very LIVE BLOG is here) but... it was a fun blog to do while I did it; and I'd have purchased this Blu Ray long ago if I didn't already own the classic CORVETTE SUMMER on HD streaming.

4/03/2019

CHRISTOPHER JONES IN 'MAD DOG TIME'

Christopher Jones in MAD DOG TIME

Since it's nowhere on Google, here's a screen capture of Christopher Jones, the handsome young British soldier (although he's American) from RYAN'S DAUGHTER, as hit man Nicholas Falco in Larry Bishop's MAD DOG TIME...

Larry Bishop, son of Rat Packer Joey Bishop, is a friend and collaborator of Quentin Tarantino, playing the bar owner, aptly named Larry, in KILL BILL VOL. 2, and Jones took this small role after turning down what Tarantino wanted Jones in for a comeback: Zed in PULP FICTION. Jones probably read the script and passed, for good reason. So instead of raping a huge black guy, Ving Rhames... in MAD DOG TIME he kills a short black guy, Gregory Hines.

Twenty-Four Years Earlier in His Last role in RYAN'S DAUGHTER

Before that, Christopher Jones, WILD IN THE STREETS, probably where Tarantino knows him from

9/21/2018

EXPLOITATION DEATH CAR MOVIE APTLY TITLED 'CRASH!'

Black car of death in CRASH!

A killer car movie, that is, a movie about a car that kills, that is very underrated was directed by Charles Band and involves LOLITA starlet Sue Lyon in her thirties, whose character controls the vehicle with a Satanic necklace on her hospital bed after being attacked by her rich husband's doberman, which came out during the 1970's, around the time when THE CAR hit theaters, and possible while author Stephen King, who was just starting out, had his own future story, CHRISTINE, in mind...

What makes this killer car different is its a convertible, making it easy to see that there is no driver... Cops or angry motorists get perturbed by the mere site of it, trying to take it down, only to CRASH!, the name of the movie, into burning, roadside flames: Here's a Cult Film Freak Review of this Charles Band exploitation piece...

1/21/2015

TWO DESERT CARAVANS

Spanish Caravan take me away... Take me to Vegas, take me to...

In CORVETTE SUMMER, Mark Hamill's Kenny Dantley, having left home, is venturing to Las Vegas through the sandy desert heat, and catches a ride from a caravan of lowriders...

Meanwhile, in RETURN OF THE JEDI, Hamill's Luke Skywalker, back home on Tatooine, is being taken by a caravan of sail barges to his execution. Kenny never seemed so lucky.

Tatooine, where Jabba The Hutt's sail barges prepare their Jedi for the plank

1/18/2015

HOOKER VAN, SAND WORM SKELETON, OVER HERE!

Mark Hamill's Kenny Dantley needs a ride, lost in the desert...

And he's not the only one... "Over here!"

10/13/2014

PAGE 5-7 OF THE CORVETTE SUMMER SCREENPLAY

Mark Hamill's Kenny Dantley cools off during Corvette creation... Back to Beginning of Script

Page Five Part 1

Page 5 Part 2

Page 6 Part 1

Mark Hamill and character actor Eugene Roche

Page 6 Part 2

Page 7 Part 1

Page 7 Part 2

The crew getting the Vette made... the late Wendy Jo Sperber, pictured to the left

6/16/2014

PAGE 2-4 OF THE CORVETTE SUMMER SCREENPLAY

Kenny Dantley in the throes of creation

We begin the next few pages of the awesome CORVETTE SUMMER screenplay inside the noisy autoshop where Kenny begins reconstructing the car, almost from scratch...

Mr. McGrath is giving a pep talk on the job at hand: to build this new hot rod... Something he has financial gain for, although we, and Kenny, don't now this yet...

First part of page 2...

Second part of page 2...

Too much time in auto shop makes Kenny a dull student

Our next scene has another teacher... This one not so nice... Actually we cut back here from auto shop class, where Kenny feels at home, to history...

And symbolism is always fun, so when the scene begins with an uptight and probably out-of-touch teacher lecturing the class on being bad students, we get a closeup on a dinosaur skeleton...

The camera lifts from this prehistoric creature's reconstructed fossil and we then see the teacher, Mr. Hefferman, passing out the bad news... These scenes switchback to the autoshop class...