Kona Coast is a 1968 crime thriller based on John D. MacDonald’s story Bimini Gal. It's OK but it needed a bit more energy and focus. Richard Boone is good as the crusty determined hero. Makes good use of the Hawaiian locations.
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/06/kona-coast-1968.html
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66 years ago:
Lizzie (US)
A psychiatrist treats a woman of three faces: neurotic Elizabeth, wanton Lizzie, and charming Beth.
1957-04-04
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/116780
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66 years ago:
The Tall T (US)
A pair of newlyweds, a ranch foreman, and their stagecoach driver are held up by a trio of outlaws who kidnap the woman after learning that she is heir to a rich man.
1957-04-02
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/43253
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Director Ida Lupino instructs star Richard Boone in a scene of the television western “Have Gun, Will Travel”, Dec. 1958
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56 years ago:
Hombre (US)
John Russell, disdained by his "respectable" fellow stagecoach passengers because he was raised by Indians, becomes their only hope for survival when they are set upon by outlaws.
1967-03-21
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/27945
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45 years ago:
The Big Sleep (GB,US)
Private eye Philip Marlowe investigates a case of blackmail involving the two wild daughters of a rich general, a pornographer and a gangster.
1978-03-13
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1815
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60 years ago today:
Have Gun, Will Travel
S6E26: Sweet Lady of the Moon
Airdate: 1963-03-09
https://themoviedb.org/tv/10980/season/6/episode/26
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#NYJ, born the same year as #OsamabinLaden, I closed my legal practice so I could spend more time looking for my #phone.#Koreatown #SurrogateCourthouse #SeagramsBuilding #DeliriousNewYork #TheFreshman #SomeLikeItHot #AbbottandCostelloMeetFrankenstein #ClunyBrown #KarenRussell #RivkaGalchen #DashiellHammett #MasterandMargarita #DeadSouls #TheRadetskyMarch #WithoutFeathers #EasyMoney #JoshuaFerris #MarcelTheShellWithShoesOn #TheSparksBrothers #ThePrisoner #FroggytheGremlin #Ishtar #RichardBoone
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