Martin B
The movie became more about Silva's character traveling the country, knowing where everything was, what everyone was doing his travel plans always perfect. Aloof, enigmatic, the perfect killing machine his only weakness Samantha from Bewitched. Who only knew him for 10 hours but would grovel at his feet willing to do anything for him.
Best part Montgomery. Her charater shockingly different from the one we grew to know so well on Bewitched.
Everything spectacularly over the top. Watching Silva doing the impossible so perfectly mesmerizing.
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
03/07/23
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Flashily directed, with lots of NYC scenes that (happily) eschew the landmarks in favor of the real deal. Fast-moving, gritty, weirdly entertaining. You can see what I mean in the first 5".
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Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
02/02/23
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ashley h
Johnny Cool is a disappointing film. It is about exiled American gangster Colini who sends his protégé-killer Giordano to the USA to eliminate Colini's mob enemies. Henry Silva and Elizabeth Montgomery give terrible performances. The screenplay is badly written. William Asher did a horrible job directing this movie. I was not impressed with this motion picture.
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars
03/31/23
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Scared money never made money.
A Sicilian gangster known as Johnny Cool is caught by American authorities and exported back to Italy. Once in Italy, he trains a man to take his name, responsibilities, and send him back to the US to assassinate those responsible for his exile. The assassin pretends to be Johnny Cool and quickly falls for a girl. If his secret gets out, he'll quickly become a target of rival gangs. Can the assassin maintain his secret identity and complete his mission?
"Do I know you?"
"No."
"Then what are you looking at?"
William Asher, director of Night Warning, Fireball 500, Bikini Beach, Beach Blanket Bingo, Beach Party, The 27th Day, The Shadow on the Window, and Leather Gloves, delivers Johnny Cool. The storyline for this picture is just okay and fairly straightforward. It is a bit bland in parts but the concept was interesting. The acting is just okay and the cast includes Henry Silva, Elizabeth Montgomery, Sammy Davis Jr, Jim Backus, Richard Anderson, and Brad Dexter.
"What do you do?"
"My best."
I came across this picture on Turner Classic Movies (TCM) and decided to give it a shot. This was fairly solid and had potential. This wasn't a masterpiece, but a different type of gangster picture for this era. Overall, I recommend giving it a viewing if nothing else is on, but I wouldn't add it to my collection.
"He'll be alone. He's always been alone."
Grade: C
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Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars
01/19/23
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very cool gangsta pic plus bewitched- the powers= this 1
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Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
01/21/23
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Delightfully tawdry early 60s crime drama staring Henry Silva and Elizabeth Montgomery in a pre-Bewitched role. The story is about a deported gangster living in Sicily training an Italian convict, Silva, to take over his US operations. Silva then proceeded to violently dismantle the US mob operations his mentor had stolen from him. The film has the same sort of trashy appeal as Mamie Van Doren's "Guns, Girls, and Gangsters," except this film is slickly made by director William Asher, who I mostly associate with the vastly different Beach Party films, and has a strong supporting cast of character actors, including Richard Anderson, Jim Backus, Joey Bishop, Brad Dexter, Mort Sahl, Telly Savalas, Sammy Davis Jr. Elisha Cook Jr. and Joe Turkel. There's even a jazzy Bill May score to boot. Best of all is seeing the gorgeous Elizabeth Montgomery playing Dare Guinness, a beautifulshowgirl-type, miles away from the wholesome image she crafted as Samantha on "Bewitched." Tough, violent and sexy, this film plays like a very entertaining Roger Corman ripoff of a "Point Blank." Well worth watching for 60s crime film fans.
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
01/31/23
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