tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9149411832127844385.post7641042840304875221..comments2024-03-22T14:34:39.101-04:00Comments on MONDO 70: A Wild World of Cinema: TREASURE OF TAYOPA (1974): "Now you've put a gun in the hand of a fool!"Samuel Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00934870299522899944noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9149411832127844385.post-73577815644017449192017-08-30T17:37:20.123-04:002017-08-30T17:37:20.123-04:00Treasure of Tayopa is not to be missed. It has bec...Treasure of Tayopa is not to be missed. It has become a huge classic cult film, right up there with my top 10...charming and corny, the dialog and the cast of characters, Rena Winters, along with Bob Corrigan and Phil Tarpani, is simply the best, I'm so glad that I have found this great film. Pinkyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14056294222708801259noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9149411832127844385.post-50427518665269679422009-03-27T21:49:00.000-04:002009-03-27T21:49:00.000-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9149411832127844385.post-84349734646894104052009-03-26T19:52:00.000-04:002009-03-26T19:52:00.000-04:00Thanks, Vicar -- and all those worthies should be ...Thanks, Vicar -- and all those worthies should be attended by nuns of the sort you and the Duke have been discussing this week -- with special attention paid to Walerian Borowczyk, of course.Samuel Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00934870299522899944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9149411832127844385.post-29396109442382080002009-03-26T17:29:00.000-04:002009-03-26T17:29:00.000-04:00>>he seems to have understood that in low-bu...>>he seems to have understood that in low-budget exploitation cinema, it's up to the actors to become special effects<BR/><BR/>OMG--what a brilliant summation, Samuel! True, true, yes, yes YES! Yet *another* cutting observation I will now be unable to stop myself stealing from you. ;)<BR/><BR/>Excellent write-up of a movie I've passed over *many* times on my Mill Creek set, and now must give a shot. Hell, I even used to get up an hour early on Saturday mornings to watch the Cisco Kid/Lone Ranger hour before the cartoons started! <BR/><BR/>That and the performance you tout, together with the "you can tell everybody's trying their best despite their limitations" vibe--which I *love* in a bad movie--yes, I must give this one a watching. <BR/><BR/>Like Browning famously wrote, "A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?" I like to think that when they pass on, these earnest, ambitious, but sadly incapable filmmakers will be sitting at the right hand of Hitchcock, Kubrick, Tourneur and Bergman, accepted as colleagues in the quest for Perfect Expression.<BR/><BR/>Excellent stuff!The Vicar of VHShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06832137990485130735noreply@blogger.com