My Name Is Ruin

Gary Numan & Persia Numan

The Old Grey Whistle Test For One Night Only, 2018

Head Nun

fake love by dastafiz

Dominion Day

Gary Numan

From the album Exile, 1997

quit lie come a new day by greog6

Reaper by KD Johnston

In my darkness

I hear Jesus crying.

In my darkness

I see children savage and blind.

In my darkness

I see dead men kneel before the cross.

In my darkness

I hear the voice of evil.

"Disciples, dark angels

This is Dominion Day"

"My demons, come to me

This is Dominion Day"

In His darkness

I can feel the storm come.

In His darkness

Holy water burns my soul.

In His darkness

A grave waits for you at Heaven's gate.

In His darkness

I hear screams that hide the voice of God.

"Come children of Eden

Pray to me on Dominion Day"

"Pray for your salvation,

Sanctuary on Dominion Day"

My soul, save me.

In His mercy

He will bring the disease.

In His mercy

He will burn the oceans.

In His mercy

He will tear the sky down.

In His mercy

He will make pain eternal.

"Your nightmare is breathing

This is Dominion Day."

"Welcome to your saviour

This is Dominion Day".

"This is my new kingdom.

This is Dominion Day."

"Creation bleeds for me.

This is Dominion Day."

Written by Gary Numan

Rik Garret

Roberta Fellin, 2011

Mr Mercedes

Unfair Exchanges

Drama shown as part of the BBC TV series Screen Two, 1984

Mavis's plight will ring a bell in the heart of anyone who ever felt like murdering a telephone. Is some ghoulish mind behind the increasingly mysterious and sinister calls she gets? Is it madness or the system, or a joke that's bigger than all of us?

Starring Julie Walters

Kathryn Perry, 1930s

Georges Dambier - Suzy Parker, 1953

Photo by Michael Malaka

Mad Monster Party

The Debt

Written by Richard McBrienwriter and directed by Jon Jones, 2003

Warren Clarke, Hugo Speer and Lee Williams star in a wry and witty look at the lives of three men and just how far they will go to get out of debt.

Geoff Dresner (Warren Clarke) is a retired safe-breaker who's turned his back on crime to make an honest living as a baker. But his past comes back to haunt him when he's forced to take on one more job. Geoff's return to criminal activity is in order to help his family's debt - specifically his less than useful son-in-law Terry (Martin Freeman).

DS Edward Foster (Hugo Speer) is an amiable CID officer who is struggling financially. His second job as a night taxi driver means he's in no fit state to do his best at police work during the day. As a result he's being over-looked for promotion. But an investigation into some dodgy dealings involving one Geoff Dresner could be an opportunity for him to make the grade.

James Hilden (Lee Williams) is a young lawyer, recently married and with a baby on the way. He doesn't seem to be quite ready for his loss of independence and embarks on an affair with an ex-colleague.

Ambitious and keen to impress his lover [gorgeous Orla Brady as a savagely alluring predator], James takes on the case of Geoff Dresner. His secret love life becomes entwined with his professional life and before he knows it he's stuck in a spiral of deceit and denial.

"The Debt is a story about a criminal, a detective and a lawyer and how their lives collide with each other," explains writer Richard McBrien.

"The idea is that all three men owe debts to their children in some way which affects the way they do their job."

"I can sympathise with all three characters," continues McBrien. "I wanted to show that in their own world, criminals, detectives and lawyers are all good people, not real villains. The there men are trying to lead a good life but become compromised by events."  (BBC).

Starring Warren Clarke as Geoff Dresner, Hugo Speer as DS Edward Foster, Lee Williams as James Hilden, Malcolm Storry as Tony Stokes, Martin Freeman as Terry Ross and Orla Brady as Angela Jahnsen.

Circumstances and money may corrupt people from all walks of life while the naturally corrupt protagonist always ends up on top. As does the seductive tigress in his pocket who uses the law to protect a dangerous criminal.

This gripping British thriller originally aired on the BBC. The story concerns Geoff Dresner (Warren Clarke), a retired English safecracker forced back into the seedy underworld and illicit doings of his past when his son-in-law (Freeman) fails to pay a cutthroat loan shark - and must immediately cough up an enormous sum of money if he has any hope of emerging unscathed. Dresner stages a robbery to aid the young man, but it quickly goes awry - placing Dresner in a vice between a ruthless detective, eager to bring the thief in once and for all, and an attorney (Williams) unequipped with the experience or know-how to successfully defend this career criminal. Dresner suddenly finds himself caught up in a net of lies and double-crosses, struggling to find a way to save himself and assist his family in the process. (Rotten Tomatoes).

I Want Him Dead

Lo voglio morto

Italian-Spanish Spaghetti Western film directed by Paolo Bianchini, 1968

Starring Craig Hill as Clayton and Lea Massari as Aloma

Gunslinger Clayton Lea's sister is raped and murdered. Time for lethal revenge! He ends up protecting two other ladies in the process. Not to be missed!

"Clayton (Craig Hill), a former scout for the Confederacy, seeks revenge after his sister is raped and murdered by local bad guy Jack Blood (Jose Manuel Martin). His search for Blood is complicated by the fact that the villain works for a ruthless capitalist named Mellek (Andrea Bosic) who has plans to prolong the civil war for his own economic ends by assassinating two generals who are meeting to discuss peace terms. Jack Blood is the man Mellek appoints to carry out these assassinations and Clayton's pursuit of him leads him into deeper and more difficult waters as the two plot lines converge." (Spaghetti Western Database)

Andrea Bosic as Mallek

Christina Businari as Mercedes

Craig Hill as Clayton 

Cristina Businari, Miss Italia 1967

  

 Lea Massari, Craig Hill

The Curse of the Sad Mummy

League of Legends

Quintana: Dead Or Alive

Written and directed by Vincenzo Musolino, 1969

"In a Mexican province oppressed by the evil Governor Don Juan de Leyra, the rebel-outlaw Quintana is the sole guardian of justice. Wearing a poncho and covering his face while on the warpath, Quintana is some kind of cross between Clint Eastwood and Zorro. He still lives with his parents, his girlfriend is called Esmeralda, and one of his best friends is a priest, Mansueto, who offers shelter to those who are wanted by the law, that is the corrupt governor and his federal troops. The story is quite intricate. The governor, Don Juan de Leyra, wants to marry the rich heiress Virginia, but she is in love with a guy called Manuel. The governor puts Manuel in jail on a false accusation, but he is freed from captivity by our masked hero. However, the governor also has an official fiancée, Perla, who’s mighty jealous of Virginia, so when Manuel...well, to make a long story short: there are a lot of machinations, twists and turns, and it all ends with a marriage and bloodshed." (Spaghetti Western Database).

Starring Tony Di Mitri as Quintana and Femi Benussi as Virginia de Leon

Femi Benussi as Virginia De Leon with Aldo Bufi Landi as Don Juan

Bonus

Stefania Careddu and George Hilton

Any Gun Can Play 1967 (YouTube)

Any Gun Can Play 1967 (DailyMotion)

Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy

A Coffin for the Sheriff

Aka Lone and Angry Man

Directed by Mario Caiano, 1965

In one of his first Spaghetti Westerns, Anthony Steffen is a sheriff from Texas, Joe Logan, or Shenandoah, who infiltrates a gang of highwaymen to find out who was responsible for the death of his wife. The woman was sent back to him in a coffin (hence the title) after she was raped and killed during a stagecoach robbery. After passing a near impossible and death defying initiation, he learns exactly what happened to his wife. The gang begins to suspect Shenandoah may be a traitor in their midst. They learn the real reason he joined their degenerate gang of thieves: retribution. The theme song, A lone and Angry Man (written by Francesco De Masi  and sung by Peter Tevis) tells us that the sheriff has become a lone and angry man who only lives for revenge. (IMDb & www.spaghetti-western.net).

Starring Anthony Steffen, Eduardo Fajardo, Armando Calvo, Arturo Domenici, Luciana Gilli, Fulvia Franco, George Rigaud, Frank Braña and Lucio de Santis.

~ DailyMotion ~

Bonus

What's the West coming to?

Hollywood Takes the Piss Again

A Million Ways to Die in the West (Shite made in 2014)

Hannie Caulder

Directed by Burt Kennedy, 1971 (UK)

"Hannie Caulder (Raquel Welch) is a frontier wife, living with her husband at a horse station between towns in the American West. After a disastrous bank raid, the inept Clemens brothers gang arrive at the station. They murder Caulder's husband, gang-rape her, burn down her house and leave her for dead. The brothers go on a crime spree, while Caulder recruits bounty hunter Thomas Price (Robert Culp) to help her get revenge by training her to be a gunfighter. The pair travel to Mexico to have gunsmith Bailey (Christopher Lee) build her a specialized revolver, to be a fast draw specialist. When bandidos surround the house, a gun battle erupts but Hannie is unable to kill a man face to face. Price recommends she give up her quest for revenge but she refuses, telling him to get out and that she was only using him and doesn't need him any more. He leaves, telling her she's a bad liar.

As he goes, Price sees the Clemens brothers arrive in town. His attempt to take down Frank goes awry, because Emmet throws a knife into Price's belly, mortally wounding him. Hannie goes after them, killing Frank (Jack Elam) in a whorehouse. The two brothers swear revenge on her but she gets Rufus (Strother Martin) in a store when he tries to kill her. Hannie lures Emmett (Ernest Borgnine) to an old prison for a showdown and almost meets the same fate as Price but Emmett's attempt to throw a knife into her back is thwarted by the Preacher, who shoots it from his hand. Hannie kills Emmett face to face but realizes that Price was right: taking revenge will change her forever." (Wikipedia).

Starring Raquel Welch, Robert Culp and Ernest Borgnine.

Hannie Caulder introduces the concept of the lady gunfighter in this revenge-driven western.