Tonight's Stinker: The Stranger and the Gunfighter(1974)

Tonight's Stinker The Stranger and the Gunfighter(1974) https://youtu.be/qrfK_6dfT2U?si=eJmNE26N1rJuoKE9 Lee Van Cleef is a safecracker in the old west, who accidentally kills a rich Chinese investor who leaves tattoos on the rear-ends of prostitutes.... Inside the safe, Van Cleef finds nothing but the pictures of four prostitutes, and promptly gets arrested.... Cut to China, Lo Lieh is a Kung Fu master who's about as convincing a the Power Rangers at a wrestling match... He's arrested & told his uncle is dead, & the money he was given by the government has disappeared...He's given a year to find the money or his family dies.... Lieh arrives in America just in time to talk to Van Cleef, & rescues him from the gallows...., It's obvious early on that the tattooed derrieres are part of a puzzle, so it's a quest to find the four posteriors... However, a psychotic priest catches on, & hires a fighter of his own...... Interesting mashup of the two genres, particularly towards the end, as most of the first hour is about butt jokes & culture clashes... Some of the aforementioned jokes are well timed & got a giggle or two outa me, albeit, some of the racial tropes are a bit dated.....

Tonight's Stinker: I Wonder Who's Killing Her Now?(1975)

Tonight's Stinker I Wonder Who's Killing Her Now?(1975) https://youtu.be/W0vNw0klxeY?si=V2s9HJavxGTKbxkJ A rich ne'er-do-well loses his job after being caught embezzling, and is given thirty days to pay the money back... He then goes home to his rich wife, only to discover she wants a divorce, with alimony.... After a while, his les than helpful psychiatrist puts the idea of killing his wife in his head, and he sets out to find a hitman... Eventually, he settles for a simpleton with gambling debts.... Unfortunately, the next day, he learns the insurance policy he took out on his wife is null.... He tries to stop the hit, but the simpleton subcontracted the work, as did the subcontractor, as did a litany of subcontractors, so he has to follow his wife to Las Vegas with a group of idiots to find the hitman.... Lots of frantic energy from the lead, which gets exhausting at times, but works out... Some characters play like college students who saw an SNL sketch & thought they could stretch it out for ninety minutes, but it also has plenty of Python-esque moments that get a good laugh....

Tonight's Stinker: Monster a Go-Go(1965)

Sooo, I was gonna watch something in memory of Bud Cort, but changed my mind..... Tonight's Stinker Monster a Go-Go(1965) https://youtu.be/btJoXBIv2SI?si=_eYLD5jjmOkHKPJ9 So, the army's out looking for a lost space capsule, and find it with the astronaut missing.... Turns out, he's soaked up a lot of radiation, lost his mind, and can kill people by touching them, and the army has to find him before he gets too radioactive.... Also, a subplot about a pair of uncommunicative scientists who caused it.... Drags at points, but also has plenty of riffable moments, with an ending that defies suspension of disbelief!!

Tonight's Stinker: Adios Compañeros(1971)

Tonight's Stinker Adios Compañeros(1971) https://youtu.be/CmPzeBsyt1w?si=u35uIraWFdJl34S7 The Wild Bunch are lost in the desert, no food, horses or ammo, when the spot another gang on the run... They kill the gang for their stuff, but Macho plays dead... Later on, Butch Cassidy & Ironhead get in a disagreement over splitting the money, & butch screws him & several others out of their share... Meanwhile, Macho is taken in by a good Samaritan... After recovering, he heads to the next town, where he wins a new revolver in a game of horse shoes, gets in a bar fight, & wins the respect of Buck, who invites him to join a robbery.... The robbery is planned by Ironhead, who now in the business of sending other people out to do his dirty work, then killing them, while sending bounty hunters to find Butch & Sundance... This puts Macho closer to revenge... Steady pacing, one riffable moment, with a disco-muzak soundtrack...

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