Stone Cold Dead (1980)

This movie shows a lot of breasts, a look at the Sexy/Dirty side of The Big City in 1980. The sentimental scene in a limo where a pimp (Paul Williams) takes back his special lady after kicking her out for the track marks on her arm is not to be missed. The plot here is centered around a sniper killing prostitutes who has a super nice pistol mounted with a sight and a canon camera.

The musical interludes in this film are whimsical and intriguing.

The chase scenes are absolutely awful. Richard Crenna is the dick doing the chasing, and he is awfully awful.

This movie is awfully fun! Including a surprise twist ending! (Hint: Sealed with a kiss!)

"Fish don't bark." - Sgt. Boyd (Crenna)

Williams is curiously engaging as the vain, sentimental, powderpuff pimp.

Director George Mendeluk went on to direct a lot of TV.

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Bogie (TV) (1980)

Bogie is most remarkable because it features a young Drew Barrymore, before she became a star in E.T. The rest of this film comes off like a made for TV movie that tells us very little about Humphrey Bogart. Kevin O'Connor looks more like Bogart the longer the film goes on, the older Bogart gets, and the more make-up O'Connor is wearing. Kathryn Harrold is fun to watch as Lauren Bacall, but that's because it really doesn't matter how true to life the character was to the real person.

We don't get much about Bogie here except that he liked to drink, liked boats, and died of cancer, all of which are given the prime time TV family treatment. Ann Wedgeworth portrays Mayo Methot, one of Bogart's wives, and she is just as annoying here as she is anywhere. The film was directed by Vincent Sherman towards the end of his career. He directed three films in 1950, Harriet Craig, The Damned Don't Cry, and Backfire, (two of which are Joan Crawford melodrama vehicles).

Sherman also directed The Return of Doctor X (1939), a horror film starring Humphrey Bogart.