The Endangered List (Case File #71)

TROIKA (1969)

Starring
Nate Thurmond (Attenuated Man)
Gloria Rossi (Mediterranean Woman)
Parra O’Siochain (Warrior)
Morgan Upton (Rax)
T.G. Rossi (Boy)
Richard Faun (Mr. Gordon Goodloins)
Basilio O. Holowaty (Basil)
Sigmund Harris (Linesman)
R. Gordon Henderson (Professor of Astrology)
Elmer Moore (Professor of Folklore)
Ronald Wheeler (Professor of Classics)
Sigmund Harris (Professor of Economics)
Kenn Davis (Professor of Engineering)
Patricia Gaunce (Professor of Dance)
John Feldman (Professor of Ecology)
Fredric Hobbs (Chef/Phantom/Hobbs)

Written and directed by
Fredric Hobbs

Collaborating Director
Gordon Mueller

Art work by
Fredric Hobbs

Camera
William R. Heick
and
Gordon Mueller

“Black and White People”
photographed by Richard Faun

Edited by
Gordon Mueller

Music Consultant
David Johnson

Produced by
Inca Films

Released by
Emerson Film Enterprises

MPAA rating: R

89 minutes

Destructible Man takes on THE GREEN BERETS!

It's been 3 long months since their last appearance, but the Flying Maciste Brothers have made a triumphant return to the blogosphere with a smart and detailed analysis of the most violent G-rated movie ever made, THE GREEN BERETS (1968)! Don't be a dummy -- head over to Destructible Man immediately and prepare to be enlightened!

Donate to the CHURCH OF THE EYES!

Independent moviemaker Andy Copp needs money-money-money to get the cameras rolling on his latest joint, CHURCH OF THE EYES, and he's willing to give a producer credit to anyone who helps make it happen. Ten bucks, twenty, fifty, whatever you can spare. He wants to shoot this movie yesterday, but he'll settle for tomorrow. Now admittedly we've never seen one of Andy's productions, but we know him well from the message boards and he's a heck of a nice guy so we sent him some cheddar. Besides, we want to find out more about this creepy-looking school bus.


Looking for Investor Funds

The latest production from Andrew Copp is CHURCH OF THE EYES, an experimental, rock and roll, horror, return to his roots a la THE MUTILATION MAN and BLACK SUN. Written by Andrew Copp and Kevin Jones with some additional material by Nick Williams, the movie is a trip into the heart of spiritual decay and madness as one man confronts mortality. He experiences a deep loss after his girlfriend dies in a car crash, and as he falls deeper into depression and sorrow, he decides the only way out it is to simply find God and kill him in retaliation for taking away all that he has loved. The project was conceived by musician Keven Jones as a vehicle for his music imprint "Swineburner" and has developed into a beast all its own.


While the movie is set to start shooting soon we are still nowhere near were we need to be funds wise. Due to the economy, two thirds of the saved money that was going towards the budget was lost (thanks lost jobs and GM faulty cars!) and we are simply not willing to forego shooting another year, as we have postponed that long already. We need to raise a substantial amount to do this right. We can get started on what we have and make an okay movie. But if we can raise some decent money we can make the movie we NEED to make.


This is where you THE FANS come in. We are asking for your help. Coppfilms has always been pretty quiet when it comes to this sort of thing, but we are asking this time. We are asking for the fans to donate some money towards this production to get it going properly. There will be a paypal button below at which you can donate however much you can give.


Anyone who donates will receive credit in the film in a special producer line. And anyone who gives more than $25.00 will get a special free gift from Coppfilms. Be sure when you donate to include your name and information so we can properly credit you in the end credits of the final film.


We need all the help you can give and we need it fast to make this work. So please help us out. We've been in making underground movies since the mid 90's and want to continue. But we need the fans support.

Thank you
Andy Copp

Click HERE to visit Andy’s site and see the dif­fer­ent dona­tion options.

One-Sheet of the Week: LIKE A CROW ON A JUNE BUG (1972)

LIKE A CROW ON A JUNE BUG (1972)

Re-released as CARNIVAL TRAMP and SIXTEEN

The impossibly funky Cashiers du Cinemart book is headed your way!

A decade ago, when I was a regular contributor to Shock Cinema and Fangoria and still had pipe dreams of becoming a professional writer, I pitched ideas for articles to a handful of the small press magazines I admired, and one of the editors who responded enthusiastically was Mike White of Cashiers du Cinemart. I wrote a piece on PETS which appeared in CdC #10 (and can be read here), and although I quickly lost interest in free-lance magazine writing I remained a faithful reader of CdC. I'm very happy to report that Mike has a book coming out titled Impossibly Funky (named after the record company owned by John Daniels in GETTING OVER) which collects the very best articles from the 15-year history of Cashiers du Cinemart and contains sections dedicated to BLACK SHAMPOO (another John Daniels classic, and Mike's favorite movie), unproduced screenplays, celebrity interviews, STAR WARS, Quentin Tarantino (Mike made the short films WHO DO YOU THINK YOU'RE FOOLING? and YOU'RE STILL NOT FOOLING ANYBODY) and much, much more. This isn't just a collection of reprints from the magazine either; there are several new articles included here ("13.2% all new stuff" claims the advertising) and many of the older ones have been updated and expanded, so even if you have all of the original issues of CdC there will still be plenty of reasons to pick up this greatest hits package. Or as Mike puts it, "Everything has been refreshed, polished, and improved for this volume of movie mayhem." In fact, I'm gonna turn this post over to Mike in a second, right after I mention that he's offering several options that will enable you to pre-order a signed copy and help pay for the book's advertising at the same time.

Okey-doke, Mike, you can take it from here...


Here's a rough swipe at the table of contents. Still pending. I made some notes about some of the changes included, though every piece has been proofed and edited for clarity and re-fact-checked. My proofreader, Lori Hubbard Higgins, did an amazing job combing through my abhorrent prose. -- Mike White

IMPOSSIBLY FUNKY: A CASHIERS DU CINEMART COLLECTION

Introduction by Herschell Gordon Lewis

Foreword by Chris Gore

Features:

- A Dynamite Double Feature - CdC favorite Rich Osmond looks at some explosive '70s cinema
- Psycho Vixens - Rich Osmond examines two flicks about girls gone wild.
- Tragically Obscure: John Paizs’s (The Big) Crime Wave - Combination of two articles about Paizs by Skizz Cyzyk from CdC 9 & 10
- The Four and a Half Worlds of Parker - Updated piece (formerly "Three and a Half Worlds") which has been edited and expanded. Includes some insight from the creator of Parker, Donald Westlake
- Madness in the 20th Century - This article about Charles Willeford has been updated and tightened up
- The Serious Moonlight: The Cinematic World of David Goodis - Updated to include discussion of "Goodiscon" as well as expansion of the "Goodis on TV" section
- The Dark Places of James Ellroy - Updated to include discussion of Street Kings and L.A. Sheriff's Homicide
- The Cashiers du Cinemart Manifesto - So perfectly written, nothing could make it better
- All The Good Guys and the Bad Guys that I've Been - One of my favorite pieces from Cashiers du Cinemart, this is an appreciation of Paul Williams by Leon Chase
- The Prize is Your Life - I expanded this article to include several other "people hunting people" movies
-Oedipal Ketchip - A terrific discussion of Shuji Terayama's films by Andrew Grant
- The Highlander returns! - Two rants from Mike Thompson about the wonder of the Highlander films. This was updated to include cuts of the films that have been made available since the early days of Cashiers du Cinemart
- Double Impact: The Duplicity of Jean-Claude Van Damme - Brand new piece that has never been published
- Lone Wolf & Cub - Edited and updated for clarity


Tarantino:

- Tale of the Tape - The whole epic story of WHO DO YOU THINK YOU'RE FOOLING? and the controversy surrounding it. Updated and severely rewritten
- Ironic Press Release - My facetious discussion of YOU'RE STILL NOT FOOLING ANYBODY
- Attention Enemy - Following up with the YOU'RE STILL NOT FOOLING ANYBODY fun
- Tarantino in a Can - A look at Tarantino's obsession with the bathroom in his early works


Star Wars:

-The Lost Cut - Discussing the early version of STAR WARS that will never see the light of day again
- Jar Jar Done Gone - How THE PHANTOM MENACE put heat behind the Fan Editing movement
- Triumph of the Whills - This piece now combines three different rants about the madness of King George Lucas


Scripts:

- 8mm - Mike Thompson compares what we saw to what Andrew Kevin Walker wrote
- The Uncredible Hulk - Another great Thompson rant, updated to include the latest incarnation of Hulk and the Ang Lee version, too
- CAT WOMAN - Thompson declaws this kitty
- Digging up the Bones of Indy Jones - Severely rewritten and updated version of "Jonesing for the New Indy Film" from CdC 9 that traces the trajectory of Jones through several proposed sequels
- Travis McGee & The Lonely Silver Screen - Combination of the CdC 14 and 15 articles
- Return to the Planet of the Apes - Combining observations about the POTA remake from CdC 10 and 13
- Superman: Grounded - Updated to include Superman: Doomsday and the reaction to Singer's reboot of Superman
- The Metamorphoses of ALIEN III - Includes additional content
- GREMLINS - A thorough look at an early draft of this classic flick by Chris Cummins


Black Shampoo:

- Interview: John Daniels - Edited and updated
- Interview: Greydon Clark - Edited and updated
- Interview: Tanya Boyd - Edited and updated
- Interview: Skip E Lowe - Edited and updated
- A Few Notes on BLACK SHAMPOO - Edited and updated
- Can You Feel the Love? - Edited and updated
- DVD release - Edited and updated
- Interview: Gerald and Gary Lee - Brand new interview with the men who made the music for my favorite film


Interviews:

- Crispin Glover - Brand new, never published
- James Ellroy - Edited and updated
- Guy Maddin - Updated / Additional Content
- Monte Hellman - Edited and updated
- Richard Crawford - Edited and updated
- Taylor Negron - Edited and updated
- Svengoolie - Edited and updated
- Bruce Campbell - Edited and updated
- Keith Gordon - Edited and updated
- Dr. Demento - Edited and updated


Life:

- Theater Work Story - Highly edited and rewritten
- Fish out of Water - Andrea's reaction to the UPC in Bowling Green
- Mike & Andrea go to Breakfast - Never before published tale of woe from Andrea White
- Brendan Fraser + Monkey = Fun! - A new party game from Skizz Cyzyk

Preorder the book now. Enter in the amount you want to pay and your "VIP perk."

Happy Birthday STACY KEACH

America's greatest living actor? We think so.

The Endangered List (Case File #70)

COUNTDOWN AT KUSINI (1976)

Starring
Ruby Dee (as Leah Matanzima)
Ossie Davis (as Ernest Motapo)
Greg Morris (as Red Salter)
Tom Aldredge (as Ben Amed)
Michael Ebert (as Charles Henderson)
Thomas Baptiste (as John Okello)
Jab Adu (as Juma Bakari)
Elsie Olusola (as Mamouda)
Funso Adeolu (as Marni)

Directed by
Ossie Davis

Produced by
Ladi Ladebo

Screenplay by
Ossie Davis
Al Freeman, Jr.
Ladi Ladebo

Story by
John Storm Roberts

Original Music by
Manu Dibango

Cinematography by
Andrew Laszlo

Released by
Columbia Pictures

MPAA rating: PG

Running time: 101 minutes

Re-released in 1978 as COOL RED

REVIEW

Film financing takes on a new dimension with this Columbia release backed by DST Telecommunications, a subsidiary of Delta Sigma Theta, the largest sorority of influential black women in the world. The Nigerian government and the Presbyterian Economic Development Corp. participated in the Arnold Stone-Bruce Graham production. Highly respected Ossie Davis directed, co-starred and wrote the script with Ladi Ladebo and Al Freeman, Jr. Scenario and film continuity are credited to George T. Norris and Alyne Model. Mrs. Davis, Ruby Dee, and TV action star Greg Morris head the predominantly black cast, which features an appearance by gold record-winning composer Manu Dibango, who wrote the score. Basically an action film, “Kusini” tells of fictional Fahari (actually Lagos), its liberator and a white militarist who realizes that the black man will one day rule Africa. There isn’t too much action and the ideas tend to become lost amidst the Dee-Morris on and off romancing, both being involved with whites. Most remarkable aspect is Miss Dee’s physical appearance, she being at least ten years older than Morris. Panavision color photography of Andrew Laszlo is poor. Original story and screen treatment by John Storm Roberts.

[Boxoffice BookinGuide, April 26th, 1976, p.4963]






THE STORY

Natives are oppressed by the colonialists in a 20-year African struggle. Revolutionary Ossie Davis leads the resistance. Colonel Tom Aldredge, who wiped out a village, works incognito for a Fahari import-export firm concerned with the country’s resources. He vows to kill Davis. Latter’s friend Ruby Dee is romantically involved with pianist Greg Morris, an American. British journalist Michael Ebert, an old friend of Dee, arouses Morris’ jealousy and the musician retaliates by obtaining a white girlfriend, Rosalind Corbett. After surviving a near-fatal poisoning, Dee involves Morris in Davis’ plan to obtain arms. Before the arms can be gotten from Joseph Layode, both Dee and Davis are arrested. Ebert rescues them, but is killed in a motorboat chase when Aldredge rams their vessel. Gambler Funso Adeolu, Davis’ nephew, sells out the revolutionary leader and arranges an ambush at a railroad junction near Kusini. Dee and Morris with followers kill Adeolu and Aldredge. A grateful Davis watches as Dee tells Morris that he is now part of the movement.

[Boxoffice BookinGuide, April 26th, 1976, p.4963]