It's great to see another one of Stephen Boyd's 'Eurotrash' movies from the 1970s up on TH-cam, and in such good shape! Action, Yes!, Adventure, Yes!, So Bad it's Good, Yes!, but my favorite aspect of this doozy is that it's a Comedy, and a funny one at that! Boyd is a riot as the lazy, arrogant Arnold Tiller, practicing his golf swing in the office as his tie flies around his nose, playing the Wurlitzer organ while Harriet's dog howls away, and demanding a receipt for ransom money!😂The hoods are all straight out of spaghetti westerns, the soundtrack is full of humor, and Michael Kirner as Rex Maynard, the even-keeled stuntman/singer warbling away, valiantly resisting kidnappers & the charms of Silva Koscina, is too much! This movie is just plain fun.
A much better movie than I originally expected! Curiosity made me watch the entire thing and I'm glad I did, a really good movie and the majority of the stunts were believable, not the far-fetched impossible feats that soo many action movies portray. I really do miss the sounds and sights of the '70s and this movie just really took me back to a simpler, more-peaceful time in the world. A really good movie, thank you for downloading and sharing this!
Aw, hot dog, man! Hot dog! I have been looking for this obscurity for forty years, ever since I taped it off the air in 1984 and then silly me went and recorded over it thinking THE MANIPULATOR would be shown again or even issued on VHS or DVD. Thanks to Sprocket Vault for finding this movie of movies and posting it!!!!!
Sylva Koscina. She seemed to become more beautiful and alluring as she aged. Here, at 38, nothing less than stunning. Oh, and the location shots in this film are breathtaking too.
Half a century later, we are still watching these movies, which in the 1980s & 1990s were deemed 'straight to video' segment! Imagine, Stephen Boyd was in movies like Ben Hur as Messala - he surely did this for the paycheck and a trip to South Africa...
Copyright 1972. Whatever happened to Stephen Boyd, after being in top pictures with Charlton Heston, with Sophia Loren, with Omar Sharif, and then in this
He came from basically the exact same place as George Best, the soccer player, that being the unsavory arse-end of the world, Northern Ireland [ Ulster ]. He co-starred with just about all of them. Charlton Heston, Gregory Peck, Donald Pleasance, Sophia Loren, Omar Sharif [ that would have been that Kublai Khan thing ], Doris Day, Yvette Mimeaux, James Mason, Leo McKern. All these studios were going for the absolute blockbuster but the scripts were more often than not just a little bit off-beam. Which was basically the 1960s. He had done his dash by the time that they got their movie-making in better gear with the 1970s. .His wife described his demise. They were out doing a round of golf in 1977 and he expressed a sudden sensation of feeling absolutely rotten and he just immediately collapsed.
@@alvaropelayo8084 SB, for one reason or another, blew it accepting roles that were way below him, so to speak. The Hollywood films that he did after Ben Hur faded fast...his return to the epic film, that The Fall of the Roman Empire was a grandiose film that tried hard to match Ben Hur, but it failed with little box office. His chemistry with Sophia Loren was not good and outside of a terrific chariot scene, taking place in a forest, the film falls flat, The one great element in the film was cinematography AND music by the master Dimitri Tiomkin! Another failure was an ill conceived western with Sean Connery, of all people, titled Shalako. Stephen Boyd appeared lost in that film. Another failure was a movie titled The Oscar. The less said of that the better. A disaster of a film, which seen now only makes one laugh at its horrific dialogue. All these films buried Boyd, unfortunately. And I'm not mentioning other of his films, post Ben Hur, that were terrible. As you can see in this movie, displayed here, he doesn't look well at all, as if time took his toll on him. Sad, but true. Peace...🙏🏹♐
1977 I had just graduated from High School, we were on our way to Myrtle Beach SC, heard of Stephen Boyd's passing. I cried! He is one of my favourites, since I was a little girl. Great actor!❤ Rip
i really can't be certain that Rex was really the star of this so much as Arnold Tiller, who was mainly instrumental in rescuing Linda. While being a master escape artist, (the jumping out of the window washing cart into the swimming pool was something else), i think Rex played an accesorial part in rescuing Linda as her father was the main architect of her liberation. and then reconciliation at the end between Rex and his father in law was a twist i didn't expect
This was set in 1971, the legal age wasn’t lowered to 18 in the U.S. and various other nations until 1972, until that time 21 was the legal age, and Linda just turned 21 after she left with her boyfriend.
How did the mom of all those kids know that a random car would be bringing them home? She seemed to be expecting them and already waving to the car from a distance and there were no cell phones then. Lol.
SB, for one reason or another, blew it accepting roles that were way below him, so to speak. The Hollywood films that he did after Ben Hur faded fast...his return to the epic film, that The Fall of the Roman Empire was a grandiose film that tried hard to match Ben Hur, but it failed with little box office. His chemistry with Sophia Loren was not good and outside of a terrific chariot scene, taking place in a forest, the film falls flat, The one great element in the film was cinematography AND music by the master Dimitri Tiomkin! Another failure was an ill conceived western with Sean Connery, of all people, titled Shalako. Stephen Boyd appeared lost in that film. Another failure was a movie titled The Oscar. The less said of that the better. A disaster of a film, which seen now only makes one laugh at its horrific dialogue. All these films buried Boyd, unfortunately. And I'm not mentioning other of his films, post Ben Hur, that were terrible. As you can see in this movie, displayed here, he doesn't look well at all, as if time took his toll on him. Sad, but true. Peace...🙏🏹♐
This movie is most likely not even an English language movie, in terms of its original production. It looks and sounds like dubbed English dialog. Some of those movie actors were fluent in several languages. Supposing they were originally speaking Afrikaans, then maybe this movie was something of a hit in South Africa, and anywhere else beyond the Anglo-American realm, since they have a Hollywood actor not heeding the anti-apartheid boycott. Just a theory. I'd only need to view the credits for more of a line.
Yeah, I dont know what happened to Stephen, but its very obvious the tremendous change in his looks and career during the last years of his life. When he was younger he always looked like a greek god and he was always smiling and being cute, but in 70's he had aged badly and in many pics you can see certain sadness in his eyes. I think he was dissappointed at life in general, ( career, relationships, etc) and how the things didnt turn out as he expected. I think he died young because he was already dead inside...Whenever I watch his last movies I feel that was not the same Steve from 60's. He had like this black aura around him. In many movies you can feel his soul is not there , not like when he filmed Ben Hur or Jumbo and you could feel that his laughter and happiness were genuine. I feel bad for him 😓
Perhaps the scenes with him and Heston in Ben Hur are perhaps too memorable. The scene with them throwing the javelin into the wooden beam... He seemed to have a bit of spark in the last scene with a more realistic top lip but body language with lady? Worth watching for that safe world feeling atmosphere of the 70s.
@@diamantina5115 Totally agree with everything you said. By the 70's, he did look very sad in his eyes and that was heartbreaking since he was still very young.... and then he married that old lady/long time assistant who was 20 years older than him but by then he had aged about 30 years in a 10 year period. As you said, I really think that he was emotionally dying like most brilliant people who have lived for years so far beneath their abilities and class - his beloved parents had also recently died and he had been a chain smoker for decades - if you look at photos, he had lost a lot of weight by 1976 and his face looked wrinkled and sunken in - his physician should have been checking his heart, which seems totally lacerated inwardly and outwardly. For someone who everyone said was so kind, so hard working and so talented, Boyd and his career definitely did not turn out as everyone expected and as he deserved.
Somewhat over-protective with his daughter, to the point of it being a bit of a stretch. If she were not of age by 20 going on 21 then she never would be. And she is specifically into this guy, and it is not as if he was a total waste of space, being under contract and in demand, and he'll have a go when heavied and can get in some licks in a scrap..
A very decent old-style thriller. No spoilers, just much very stinky goings-on........ but these films are all the same when it comes to creating a successful pop star - his singing really stinks. Enjoy!
It's great to see another one of Stephen Boyd's 'Eurotrash' movies from the 1970s up on TH-cam, and in such good shape! Action, Yes!, Adventure, Yes!, So Bad it's Good, Yes!, but my favorite aspect of this doozy is that it's a Comedy, and a funny one at that! Boyd is a riot as the lazy, arrogant Arnold Tiller, practicing his golf swing in the office as his tie flies around his nose, playing the Wurlitzer organ while Harriet's dog howls away, and demanding a receipt for ransom money!😂The hoods are all straight out of spaghetti westerns, the soundtrack is full of humor, and Michael Kirner as Rex Maynard, the even-keeled stuntman/singer warbling away, valiantly resisting kidnappers & the charms of Silva Koscina, is too much! This movie is just plain fun.
A much better movie than I originally expected! Curiosity made me watch the entire thing and I'm glad I did, a really good movie and the majority of the stunts were believable, not the far-fetched impossible feats that soo many action movies portray. I really do miss the sounds and sights of the '70s and this movie just really took me back to a simpler, more-peaceful time in the world. A really good movie, thank you for downloading and sharing this!
Aw, hot dog, man! Hot dog! I have been looking for this obscurity for forty years, ever since I taped it off the air in 1984 and then silly me went and recorded over it thinking THE MANIPULATOR would be shown again or even issued on VHS or DVD. Thanks to Sprocket Vault for finding this movie of movies and posting it!!!!!
@@thomastarwater2989 TH-cam is great for appears.
Glad you're happy
So bad , its great. Love the 70s
Sylvia ranks along with the most beautiful Italian actresses, like Sophia and Gina. What a stunner.
This was a fun movie. The great Stephen Boyd always looks like the cat who ate the canary!
Really good movie. This was a surprise, did not stop after start till end
Sylva Koscina. She seemed to become more beautiful and alluring as she aged. Here, at 38, nothing less than stunning. Oh, and the location shots in this film are breathtaking too.
Half a century later, we are still watching these movies, which in the 1980s & 1990s were deemed 'straight to video' segment!
Imagine, Stephen Boyd was in movies like Ben Hur as Messala - he surely did this for the paycheck and a trip to South Africa...
Even Bad movies were Good in the 70's 😅
@@Eugeniadella yeah, no matter how hokey they could be, they're cool.. have a certain vibe to em. Plus the carz, ladies, music..
I love movies like this. The music especially.
Gorgeous! Lovely Sylva koscina! is it possible for you to upload it with better quality? 720? you will make me so happy and thankful. ❤🎉
Sorry, this was the best quality we were provided.
Wonderful to see a safe working south AFRICA has become a CESSPOOL now
Copyright 1972. Whatever happened to Stephen Boyd, after being in top pictures with Charlton Heston, with Sophia Loren, with Omar Sharif, and then in this
He came from basically the exact same place as George Best, the soccer player, that being the unsavory arse-end of the world, Northern Ireland [ Ulster ]. He co-starred with just about all of them. Charlton Heston, Gregory Peck, Donald Pleasance, Sophia Loren, Omar Sharif [ that would have been that Kublai Khan thing ], Doris Day, Yvette Mimeaux, James Mason, Leo McKern. All these studios were going for the absolute blockbuster but the scripts were more often than not just a little bit off-beam. Which was basically the 1960s. He had done his dash by the time that they got their movie-making in better gear with the 1970s. .His wife described his demise. They were out doing a round of golf in 1977 and he expressed a sudden sensation of feeling absolutely rotten and he just immediately collapsed.
@@alvaropelayo8084 SB, for one reason or another, blew it accepting roles that were way below him, so to speak. The Hollywood films that he did after Ben Hur faded fast...his return to the epic film, that The Fall of the Roman Empire was a grandiose film that tried hard to match Ben Hur, but it failed with little box office. His chemistry with Sophia Loren was not good and outside of a terrific chariot scene, taking place in a forest, the film falls flat, The one great element in the film was cinematography AND music by the master Dimitri Tiomkin! Another failure was an ill conceived western with Sean Connery, of all people, titled Shalako.
Stephen Boyd appeared lost in that film. Another failure was a movie titled The Oscar. The less said of that the better. A disaster of a film, which seen now only makes one laugh at its horrific dialogue. All these films buried Boyd, unfortunately. And I'm not mentioning other of his films, post Ben Hur, that were terrible. As you can see in this movie, displayed here, he doesn't look well at all, as if time took his toll on him. Sad, but true. Peace...🙏🏹♐
1977 I had just graduated from High School, we were on our way to Myrtle Beach SC, heard of Stephen Boyd's passing. I cried! He is one of my favourites, since I was a little girl. Great actor!❤ Rip
i really can't be certain that Rex was really the star of this so much as Arnold Tiller, who was mainly instrumental in rescuing Linda. While being a master escape artist, (the jumping out of the window washing cart into the swimming pool was something else), i think Rex played an accesorial part in rescuing Linda as her father was the main architect of her liberation. and then reconciliation at the end between Rex and his father in law was a twist i didn't expect
Mustache kept going between gray and light brown.
😂
I wouldn't trust that guy!
This movie is so bad that it’s good…
facts
@@dariusewing6962 I don't know where to begin, but I liked his devotion to his dog!
Sylva Koscina was a very fair Lady🌹💋❤‼️
Thought it was Bob Wall for a second.
This was set in 1971, the legal age wasn’t lowered to 18 in the U.S. and various other nations until 1972, until that time 21 was the legal age, and Linda just turned 21 after she left with her boyfriend.
Showed South Africa before it's downfall !
and LA when it was clean and new 😂
@gold3084
Showed South Africa when a predominant percentage of its population were oppressed under a cruel apartheid rule.
@@peterfreeman1585 Now everyone is oppressed by violence and corruption..., much more democratic...
@@peterfreeman1585 Now they run the place and it's a shithole !
How did the mom of all those kids know that a random car would be bringing them home? She seemed to be expecting them and already waving to the car from a distance and there were no cell phones then. Lol.
I bet Roger Corman saw this.
SB, for one reason or another, blew it accepting roles that were way below him, so to speak. The Hollywood films that he did after Ben Hur faded fast...his return to the epic film, that The Fall of the Roman Empire was a grandiose film that tried hard to match Ben Hur, but it failed with little box office. His chemistry with Sophia Loren was not good and outside of a terrific chariot scene, taking place in a forest, the film falls flat, The one great element in the film was cinematography AND music by the master Dimitri Tiomkin! Another failure was an ill conceived western with Sean Connery, of all people, titled Shalako.
Stephen Boyd appeared lost in that film. Another failure was a movie titled The Oscar. The less said of that the better. A disaster of a film, which seen now only makes one laugh at its horrific dialogue. All these films buried Boyd, unfortunately. And I'm not mentioning other of his films, post Ben Hur, that were terrible. As you can see in this movie, displayed here, he doesn't look well at all, as if time took his toll on him. Sad, but true. Peace...🙏🏹♐
This movie is most likely not even an English language movie, in terms of its original production. It looks and sounds like dubbed English dialog. Some of those movie actors were fluent in several languages. Supposing they were originally speaking Afrikaans, then maybe this movie was something of a hit in South Africa, and anywhere else beyond the Anglo-American realm, since they have a Hollywood actor not heeding the anti-apartheid boycott. Just a theory. I'd only need to view the credits for more of a line.
Yeah, I dont know what happened to Stephen, but its very obvious the tremendous change in his looks and career during the last years of his life.
When he was younger he always looked like a greek god and he was always smiling and being cute, but in 70's he had aged badly and in many pics you can see certain sadness in his eyes.
I think he was dissappointed at life in general, ( career, relationships, etc) and how the things didnt turn out as he expected.
I think he died young because he was already dead inside...Whenever I watch his last movies I feel that was not the same Steve from 60's.
He had like this black aura around him. In many movies you can feel his soul is not there , not like when he filmed Ben Hur or Jumbo and you could feel that his laughter and happiness were genuine.
I feel bad for him 😓
Perhaps the scenes with him and Heston in Ben Hur are perhaps too memorable. The scene with them throwing the javelin into the wooden beam... He seemed to have a bit of spark in the last scene with a more realistic top lip but body language with lady? Worth watching for that safe world feeling atmosphere of the 70s.
@@diamantina5115 Totally agree with everything you said. By the 70's, he did look very sad in his eyes and that was heartbreaking since he was still very young.... and then he married that old lady/long time assistant who was 20 years older than him but by then he had aged about 30 years in a 10 year period. As you said, I really think that he was emotionally dying like most brilliant people who have lived for years so far beneath their abilities and class - his beloved parents had also recently died and he had been a chain smoker for decades - if you look at photos, he had lost a lot of weight by 1976 and his face looked wrinkled and sunken in - his physician should have been checking his heart, which seems totally lacerated inwardly and outwardly. For someone who everyone said was so kind, so hard working and so talented, Boyd and his career definitely did not turn out as everyone expected and as he deserved.
Alguien sabe cómo la consigo en Español
You need to re upload the field order is wrong!
Somewhat over-protective with his daughter, to the point of it being a bit of a stretch. If she were not of age by 20 going on 21 then she never would be. And she is specifically into this guy, and it is not as if he was a total waste of space, being under contract and in demand, and he'll have a go when heavied and can get in some licks in a scrap..
A very decent old-style thriller. No spoilers, just much very stinky goings-on........ but these films are all the same when it comes to creating a successful pop star - his singing really stinks. Enjoy!