!The film itself I found to be a bit slow and, at times, ever so slightly confusing. Each time she appears the film slows down to a drag. "Hoo boy!
Silva, as Johnny Cool, is a brutally efficient killing machine and spreads mass terror in the New York, L.A. and Las Vegas mob circles. WORTH A SHOT. The dialog was cheesy and terrible. Im a huge fan of Elizabeth Montgomery and watched a few of her performances outside Bewitched (which i love) hadn't been able to find a copy until recently. It’s a tight little thriller. Johnny Cool is a real revelation. "They call me....[struggles to put on novelty 3D glasses]....Johnny Cool.". No wonder she became a star! Highly recommended. 1963 Director William Asher did all those Beach Blanket movies but this one is surprisingly violent and mean-spirited for the early 60's and doesn't hold an ounce of cuteness. Fun stuff! Our Johnny Cool review investigated online customer ratings for this Darwin-based installation company, featuring testimonials and reviews on sites such as Facebook and Google. Once again i have no problem in giving this a 10/10 for enjoyment and pure talent..
And, he's been promised that he'll one day be Colini's successor. Realistically you probably couldn't expect more from the director William Asher, who previously oversaw the Beach Party movies. from yesteryear. Offbeat, Violent, and incredibly Intense Gangster Movie Cobbled together by Rat Packers and a host of Character Actors. Fail! Way grimmer and grimier than its Rat Pack adjacency would suggest.
Realistically you probably couldn't expect more from the director William Asher, who previously oversaw the Beach Party movies. There's an odd moment when Silva meets Sammy Davis Jr. at a crap game and Davis gives him a weird little grin. Joseph Landon's script has more holes in it than a Swiss cheese but he stuffs most of them with action and director William Asher cuts the action in thick slices. Sort of a rat pack movie without Frank & Dean but with Sammy and Joey this movie exudes cool- it ain’t Point Blank but it doesn’t try to be. Perfect!
I saw this movie accidentally a number of years ago channel surfing. End of story, right? 4 donuts out of 5. | Please enter your email address and we will email you a new password. He's basically playing a Terminator here called Johnny Cool (!!!)
The most annoying thing about this movie has got to be the cameos by Peter Lawford's pack of hacks. "Johnny Cool" is an entertaining enough gangster saga with Henry Silva in the titular role.
1 of 1. Actually really enjoyable, nothing great about it but fun sociopath mafia terminator, just murking dudes in a handful of creative ways.
Instead, events merely happen haphazardly, and at an audience distance.
A slick, stylized crime thriller with an all star cast. This film begins with a brief overview of the career of a local Sicilian hood named Salvatore Giordano. Reliable heavy, Henry Silva, assays the title role; a simple Sicilian country bandit who's enlisted against his will to carry out an exiled mobster's vendetta against his betrayers in return for inheriting his criminal empire. I missed the first 5 minutes of it. Film data from TMDb.
User Ratings There's murder and mayhem to spare in this wild ride through the underworld of the early 1960s.
Silva himself gives yet another amazing performance moving like a robot with his dead-eye stare and awkward smile adding to that appearance. | An interesting script with a lot more detail than the usual generic "hoods" of the period, though I suppose it isn't until The Godfather that they really reach a level of authenticity. and to receive email from Rotten Tomatoes and Fandango. It's a small, black and white thriller, about two or three days in the life of a ruthless contract killer, sent from Italy to America to seek revenge,and demand tribute on behalf of a deported Mafioso. The rest of the cast is a virtual "who's who" of classic American character actors that includes Elisha Cook Jr., Jim Backus, John McGiver, Mort Sahl, and another charter member of…. And there's a unique romance between Cool and Elizabeth Montgomery that scratches some interesting surfaces without getting too deeply into what lies beneath.
And actually once it gets going, you can see in "Johnny Cool" a surprising sense of nihilism and some pretty violent executions as Johnny Cool carries out a string of hits for a mob boss with each kill it's own set piece. Playing the titular role, Silva is energetic and propels the film, keeping things dynamic.
Some cameo support performances from Jim "Mr. Magoo" Backus and Sammy Davis, Jr. make an interesting and dark gangster story. This was painful to watch. and then poor William Asher has to write in scenes which derail the plot (not necessarily a bad thing in this movie). Not sure if this is on DVD yet, but it should be. | Get the freshest reviews, news, and more delivered right to your inbox! All rights reserved. But whatever the reason, it's no wonder the flick has faded into rank obscurity; and that's despite the peripheral presence of so many familiar names and faces ( Backus, Lawrence, Cook, et al.) So cold and calculating! Overall an excellent early look at a modern organized crime syndicate. killing off various mobsters without caring about collateral damage. Dare's self-revelation about the innocence of her 'dolce vita' friends and the corruption and the prevalence of the underworld is almost understated. Catch it if you can. He works fine in that role as long as he doesn't have to act with his "love interest". The last vestiges of Telly Savalas' hair clinging desperately to the back of his head as he screams at an out-of-his-acting-ability-league Henry Silva forever. However, when you consider that Vitoria De Sica, who had once been considered the Cary Grant of Italian films, you may realize, that some of these people who we looked at as entertainers, may have also had ambitions to create art. TMDb This is a great and beautiful gangster film that I have heard anything about going into it and glad I didn’t. In my little book, the movie's best part are the legion of location shots of NYC, LA, and Las Vegas that lend an involving eye.
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Check it out. Funny. Silva is awful.
I made this for myself but I thought others might find it useful. Then this enjoyably lurid noir should be right up your alley.
William Asher proved he could direct drama as well as comedy (His forte').
Johnny Cool Henry Silva, as a Sicilian-born assassin, is at home as the 'delivery boy of death' for deported underworld kingpin Marc Lawrence. It should be on DVD. Before Lee Marvin in 'The Killers' and 'Point Blank' there was 'Johnny Cool'.