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Double Indemnity. An insurance rep lets himself be talked into a murder/insurance fraud scheme that arouses an insurance investigator's suspicions.Stars:Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck and Edward G. Robinson and directed by the legendary Billy Wilder. Brilliant film noir, thick in atmosphere, with some terrific performances by the leads. Got to be nearly a 10/10.
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Obscure counter-cultural early 70's movie starring Andrew Prine as a modern-day warlock who joins the (post-)hippie life-style.
An interesting time-capsule, but not as good as some claim it to be, mostly because of some unspectacular cinematography, which gives it a made-for-tv kind of feel to it. The great performance by Andrew Prine in the role of Simon makes this one worth watching.
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Prine's always good, but I agree with you, Johnny, "Simon, King of the Witches," is just fair, defintely a time-capsule piece.
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I just watched a pretty decent made for TV film, Satan's School For Girls.
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The Night of a Thousand Cats - Hilariously bad. This guy flies around in his helicopter picking up women, taking them back to his castle and feeding them to his cats Posts: 4057 | From: uk | Registered: May 2007 | Site Updates: 0
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Hustling aka Prostitution: A Deadly Profession (1975)
"Based on Gail Sheehy's book, this film chronicles how a reporter for a New York City magazine decided to investigate the city's prostitution industry to find out just who was making all the money. What she found out caused a firestorm of controversy--that many of the city's richest and most powerful families and corporations benefited directly and indirectly from the illegal sex business." (IMDb)
This was a nice little educational tv-movie directed by Joseph Sargent. Cool mid 70s street scenes and good job from the cast: Lee Remick, Jill Clayburgh, Alex Rocco, Monte Markham, Melanie Mayron and Burt Young. The movie is available on dvd as part of the Synergy Archive Series.
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"An ex-prostitute rescues one of her pimp's potential new recruits, beginning a deadly rivalry." (IMDb)
Interesting and sleazy canuxploitation flick directed by Frank Vitale. Starring Andrée Pelletier, Anne-Marie Provencher, Miguel Fernandes and Allan Moyle who also co-wrote the movie. Moyle later directed two Rewind favorites, Pump Up the Volume and Empire Records.
Lots of nudity, violence, crazy cuts, bad acting and mid 70s Montreal scenery.
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Revisited my box set of the Rathbone/Bruce Sherlock Holmes series.14 great films, based mainly on the Conan Doyle stories, all but the first updated to the current time (ie the WW11 war years) and several having the Nazis as the enemies, rather than late Victorian criminals. A few less than very good, but all very solid. Well worth £15, with a few yak tracks as extras.
1939: The Hound Of The Baskervilles 1939: The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes 1942: Sherlock Holmes And The Voice Of Terror 1942: Sherlock Holmes And The Secret Weapon 1943: Sherlock Holmes In Washington 1943: Sherlock Holmes Faces Death 1944: Sherlock Holmes And The Spider Woman 1944: The Scarlet Claw 1944: The Pearl Of Death 1945: The House Of Fear 1945: The Woman In Green 1945: Pursuit To Algiers 1946: Terror By Night 1946: Sherlock Holmes And The Secret Code ("Dressed To Kill" In The USA)
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quote:Originally posted by Helen_S: The Night of a Thousand Cats - Hilariously bad. This guy flies around in his helicopter picking up women, taking them back to his castle and feeding them to his cats
HAHA I own this movie! I remember my hubby bought it super cheap and we watched it, laughing the entire time.. love the theme music! haha..the only song they used in the movie, everytime he was in the helicopter. Funny stuff!
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Harper (1966). Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Julie Harris, Arthur Hill, Janet Leigh, Pamela Tiffin, Robert Wagner, Robert Webber and Shelley Winters. In Los Angeles, private detective Lew Harper is engaged by a woman to find her missing husband. Based on the novel The Moving Target by Ross MacDonald.
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Directed by Jean Rollin and starring Jean-Marie Lemaire, Brigitte Lahaie, Franca Mai and Fanny Magier.
"This erotic horror film, set in 1906, tells the story of a thief who seeks refuge in a castle owned by two women, Eva (Brigitte Lahaie) and Elizabeth (Franca Mai). The women are seductive and teasing, but turn out to be part of a vampiric cult of blood-drinking aristocrats. (IMDb)
Well, i watched my first Rollin film earlier today and it was... interesting to say the least. Pretty low-budget, not much going on plotwise and the camera moves sloooowly...
On the other hand we have beautiful bloodthirsty women, nudity and a strange, eerie atmosphere. Somehow you just have to see what´s going to happen to the main character. Definitely not for everyone but i think that i´m hooked Posts: 7055 | From: Finland | Registered: Feb 2008 | Site Updates: 7
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quote:Originally posted by aTomiK: Pretty low-budget, not much going on plotwise and the camera moves sloooowly...
lol, pretty much sums up the Rollin films I've seen. I did like Requiem for a Vampire tho Posts: 4057 | From: uk | Registered: May 2007 | Site Updates: 0
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Creepy and depressing with Sheila Keith, hallmarks of a Peter Walker film. Posts: 2008 | From: Dixieland | Registered: Oct 2008 | Site Updates: 0
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Jean Rollin and Pete Walker.. now we're talking movies !!
Seriously, their movies were the ones i started collecting some 20 years ago or so. Very hard to find in the 90s, because the golden days of the video era were over and the old rental-tapes were long gone from videostores by that time. UK video label Redemption released some of them (along with the likes of Jess Franco for example) in the 90s, but things got really interesting when the same movies started showing up on the then-new digital format of DVD. 70s euro-trash proved to be extremely popular to a new generation of movie-collectors. Even the British Film Institute joined in by releasing a very cool Pete Walker double-feature on both DVD as well as blu-ray ! (Man of Violence and The Big Switch) Many of the Jean Rollin horror titles have been released on numerous dvd-editions. (most noteworthy among those are the 3-disc collector's editions of Levres de Sang, Les Demoniaques, Requiem pour Un Vampire and La Morte Vivante, as well as 2-disc editions of La Nuit des Traquees and Le Frison des Vampires released by Encore Entertainment). Throw all known narrative structure overboard and enjoy these dreamlike, extremely atmospheric masterpieces of subversive cinema !
Currently i'm busy trying to collect as many as Rollin's movies which he made as Michel Gentil as possible. Many of these venture into adult-oriented areas and have yet to be released on any kind of digital format.
Jean Rollin sadly passed away almost exactly one year ago now, aged 72.
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975)
Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman, Madeleine Kahn, Dom Deluise, Leo McKern and Roy Kinnear.
The story of when Sherlock's younger and 'smarter' brother Sigerson Holmes takes on a case that his brother can't fit in, and comes up against Moriaty...
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The Sting - Newman, Redford and Shaw. Conmen in the depression get their own back on a ruthless megolamaniac. Great score.
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