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Acid - Delirio Dei Sensi (68) - Stephen Forsyth, Bud Thompson, Bruna Caruso, Annabella Andreoli. Note: In Italian, no English subtitles. Kind of a Docu-Drama about LSD/drugs and hippies. A bit of psychedelic imagery on display. In one scene a guy is given a pair of cement shoes and dumped into the ocean! (B-C)

African Deal (74) - Calvin Lockhart, George Hilton, Anita Strindberg, Yanti Somer, Enrico Maria Salerno. Drama about a Italian businessman trying to set up a deal in Africa. Plenty of dirty dealings and exploitation elements are thrown in too. (B)

Agency (80) - Lee Majors, Robert Mitchum, Valerie Perrine, George Touliatos. Lee Majors plays an ad exec whose agency is taken over by a mysterious millionaire (Robert Mitchum). Soon after, he stumbles onto a nefarious plot involving politicians using subliminal messages in tv ads. Although it's a Mystery/Thriller, there is some humor thrown in too. (B-C)

Angels' Brigade aka Angels Revenge (79) - Jack Palance, Susan Kiger, Peter Lawford, Jacqueline Cole, Sylvia Anderson, Jim Backus, Alan Hale Jr., Pat Buttram, Neville Brand. Another classic probably best known from being shown on Mystery Science Theater 3000. A group of women from different backgrounds join forces to take down some drug dealing bad guys lead by Jack Palance and Peter Lawford! Along the way you get several cameos (tv's Mr. Howell & The Skipper along with Mr. Haney), a tricked out supervan, explosions, dirt bikes, wacky sound effects, and all the 70's-ness you can handle. Recommended! (B)

The Baron (77) - Calvin Lockhart, Richard Lynch, Joan Blondell, Raymond St. Jacques. Smooth operator Calvin Lockhart is The Baron, a filmmaker who is struggling to bring his 'vision' to the screen. He is forced to borrow money from gangsters to finance his movie. Richard Lynch plays a mobster trying to collect, and he is in full mean mofo mode in this one. (B)

Blackout aka Murder By Proxy (54) - Dane Clark, Belinda Lee, Betty Ann Davies, directed by Terence Fisher. Film Noir about an washed up American (who likes to hit the sauce) in London. He meets a woman in a bar, and after a night of too much drinking he wakes up married to the woman and accused of murder. (B-C+)

The Brain Machine (77) - Gerald McRaney, James Best, Doug Collins, Barbara Burgess, Stuart Lancaster, Gil Peterson. Sci-Fi about a group of people who take part in a government experiment project involving a computer that reads people's thoughts. (B)

Candy Tangerine Man (75) - John Daniels, Marilyn Joi, George 'Buck' Flower, Richard Kennedy. One of the Blaxploitation greats! John Daniels plays an IBM family man by day, vicious pimp by night! He runs the streets in his candy tangerine colored Rolls Royce (complete with pop out machine guns next to the headlights). Excellent and highly recommended! (C)

Cat In The Cage (78) - Behrouz Vossoughi, Sybil Danning, Colleen Camp, Frank DeKova, Patrick W. Wright, Mel Novak. After a stay in a mental hospital following his mother's death, Bruce Khan returns home. His rich father has gotten married to the woman who was his mother's nurse (Sybil Danning). Bruce doesn't get along with Sybil (and neither does the family cat!) and he suspects she had something to do with his mother's death. People start getting knocked off soon after and things get stranger. (B-)

The Cross And The Switchblade (70) - Pat Boone, Erik Estrada, and a funky soundtrack. Based on a true story about a minister (Boone) working to help gang members in New York. Erik Estrada's first role. (B)

Cuba Crossing (80) - Stuart Whitman, Robert Vaughn, Woody Strode, Sybil Danning, Albert Salmi, Raymond St. Jacques. Tale of an assassination attempt on Fidel Castro almost 20 years after the Bay Of Pigs. Robert Vaughn plays Hud, a veteran of the first invasion. He is teamed up with CIA agent Mr. Bell (Raymond St. Jacques), and a local mobster. Stuart Whitman plays a bar owner/boat captain forced into helping after his family is kidnapped. (B-)

Darker Than Amber (70) - Rod Taylor, William Smith, Suzy Kendall, Theodore Bikel, Ahna Capri, Jane Russell, directed by Robert Clouse. Salvage expert Travis McGee (Rod Taylor) rescues a woman (Suzy Kendall) after she's thrown in the water with a weight tied around her ankle by her psycho ex-partner in crime Terry (William Smith). Terry ends up killing her anyway and McGee comes up with a plan to catch him by using a look alike. He follows Terry onto a cruise ship and the two end up having one of the all time greatest fight scenes ever (yes, this has with fight scene intact). William Smith & Rod Taylor were really fighting and you can tell by the amount of violence on display it's not fake! (A)

The Day Time Ended (80) - Christopher Mitchum, Jim Davis, Marcy Lafferty, Dorothy Malone. Sci-Fi tale about a family who lives out in the desert. Strange occurrences start to happen when they spot UFO's flying overhead and a space portal opens up at their house! (A-B+)

Deadly Impact (84) - Fred Williamson, Bo Svenson, John Morghen. After a computer genius figures out a way to rob slot machines in Las Vegas, Fred Williamson and Bo Svenson team up to recover the loot. (B+)

Death Cheaters (76) - John Hargreaves, Grant Page, Margaret Gerard. Two stunt men are recruited by the Australian Secret Service to help take down an evil genius. Wall to wall stunts! (B+)

Death Stalk (75) - Vince Edwards, Vic Morrow, Anjanette Comer, Carol Lynley, Normal Fell, Neville Brand, Robert Webber, Larry Wilcox. 'Deliverance' style tv movie with a great cast (you get Mr. Roper & Jon from CHiPs in the same movie!) about some escaped prisoners who take two couples hostage while on a whitewater rafting trip. (B-C+)

Diamond Connection (82) - Barbara Bouchet, William Berger, Gordon Mitchell, directed by Sergio Bergonzelli. A jet goes down in bad weather and on board was a suitcase containing a shipment of diamonds meant for an arms deal. Only one man survives the crash, but he has partial amnesia and his face is badly burned. The daughter of the man responsible for the diamonds shows up wanting to recover them, as well as other parties who are trying to get their hands on them too. (A-)

Escape From Galaxy 3 (81) - Cheryl Buchanan, James Milton, Don Powell, directed by Bitto Albertini. The best way to describe this is that is starts out like Starcrash (including some of the same special effects) with the good guys fighting the bad guy who wants to take over the galaxy. But then our heroes land on a planet and it takes a detour and turns into this 'Sword & Sandal meets 70's Disco' movie! (C+ has some bright contrast on the backgrounds a few times)

The Four Deuces (76) - Jack Palance, Carol Lynley, Martin Kove, Adam Roarke. Cool comic book style Prohibition-era Gangster movie. Jack Palance leads the Four Deuces gang against his rival Chico Hamilton (Warren Berlinger). Great mix of over the top violence/comedy. (B)

Hitler- Dead Or Alive (42) - Ward Bond, Warren Hymer, Paul Fix, Dorothy Tree, Bob Watson. Three ex-con gangsters respond to a wealthy man's offer of a million dollars for anyone who can pull off a hit on Hitler! They head up to Canada, join the military, and after parachuting into Germany are caught and end up in a POW prison. But that isn't going to stop the men from continuing their mission. The movie deserves credit for being a big concept on a low budget. Plenty of plot twists, humor, and even some bleakness thrown in and the result is entertaining. (C+)

The Hit Team aka The Company Of Killers (70) - Van Johnson, John Saxon, Ray Milland, Clu Gulager, Ahna Capri, Brian Kelly. John Saxon plays a hit man caught up between the mob and the police. There's a great scene in a parking garage with Saxon driving (and smashing) the heck out of a split window Corvette while trying to kill a guy! (B-C+)

Hollywood Man (76) - William Smith, Mary Woronov, Don Stroud, Jennifer Billingsley, Wayde Preston, directed by Jack Starrett. A movie about making a movie: William Smith plays a man who wants to direct his Biker film. The only person he can find to help finance the film is a mobster who has other motives for being involved and doesn't want to see the picture finished. (B+)

Hospital, The White Mafia (73) - Enrico Maria Salerno, Senta Berger, Gabriele Ferzetti, Claudio Gora. A look at some questionable practices going on at a hospital. (C)

Impulse (74) - William Shatner, Ruth Roman, Harold 'Odd Job' Sakata. If you are a Shatner fan at all, you owe it to yourself to see this movie! Bill plays Matt Stone, a psychotic conman ladykiller (literally) who sports some mean 70's threads. Matt is always on the lookout for the next woman he can hustle money from. Once he gets their dough, he kills them. The young daughter of one of the ladies catches on to what he's up to, but nobody will believe her. Of course Matt can't let anybody get in his way so he does his best to get rid of her. There are so many great scenes in this film, from Shatner going ballistic on a woman in a theme park, to the scene when he bumps off his pal Karate Pete (Harold Sakata) in a car wash! Highly recommended. (B)

Joshua (76) - Fred Williamson, Calvin Bartlett, Isela Vega. After the Civil War, Joshua (Fred Williamson) returns home to find his mother has been murdered. He sets out to track down and kill the men responsible. (B-C)

Julius Caesar (70) - Charlton Heston, Jason Robards, Robert Vaughn, Richard Chamberlain, Christopher Lee, Diana Rigg, John Gielgud. All star Shakespeare adaptation. (B-)

Little Ladies Of The Night (77) - David Soul, Louis Gossett Jr., Linda Purl, Kathleen Quinlan, Lana Wood, Dorothy Malone, Vic Tayback, Katherine Helmond, Clifton Davis. Excellent and gritty 70's tv movie with a great cast about runaways becoming prostitutes. David Soul and Louis Gossett Jr. attempt to get Linda Purl (Happy Days) off the streets. (B-)

Los Angeles Connection aka Femmine Insaziabili/The Insatiables (69) - Nicoletta Machiavelli, Robert Hoffmann, Dorothy Malone, John Ireland, Frank Wolff, Luciana Paluzzi, directed by Alberto De Martino. A journalist (Robert Hoffmann) investigates the mysterious death of his childhood friend in Los Angeles. (C color is strong but print has thin static lines that appear throughout the movie)

The Lovers Of The Great Bear (72) - Giuliano Gemma, Senta Berger, Nicoletta Machiavelli, Sybil Danning, Bruno Cremer. Historical Drama with an excellent cast about smugglers on the border of newly established Poland and Russia. Once again Giuliano Gemma shows that he is one of the most versitle actors. (A)

Lucky Johnny: Born In America (75) - Glenn Lee, Venetia Vianello, James Westerfield, Virgil Frye. Western made in Mexico about an orphaned boy saved and raised by an undertaker. (C+)

The Mad Bomber (73) - Vince Edwards, Chuck Connors, Neville Brand, directed by Bert I. Gordon. Yes, here is a longer version of this crime masterpiece! After Chuck Connors daughter overdoses and his marriage dissolves, he snaps and turns into the mad bomber. The bomber feels like he has to punish society for it's evils, so he goes around planting bombs. Vince Edwards plays the cop trying to break the case, and Neville Brand plays a crazy rapist who is the only witness to Chuck's bombings. This is the unedited version which has a lot more nastiness and grizzly special effects missing from most versions (including the dvd). Highly recommended. (A-)

Manaos (78) - Fabio Testi, Florinda Bolkan, Jorge Rivero, Andrés García, Agostina Belli, Miguel Ángel Fuentes. Kind of a cross between a jungle Action movie and a historical Drama. Fabio Testi gets involved with a group trying to overthrow a corrupt rubber plantation owner in the Amazon jungle. (A-B+)

The Manipulator (71) - Mickey Rooney, Luana Anders, Keenan Wynn. Mickey Rooney plays a nutcase makeup artist who snaps and kidnaps an actress. He keeps her hostage in a prop storage warehouse and forces her to 'film scenes' (on a non existent camera) with him directing her. When he's not screaming out directions and tormenting her, he performs his own scenes and song and dance numbers (while wearing caked on woman's makeup)! The camera work and Rooney's over the top sadistic B.J. Lang character make for interesting viewing. (B)

Mean Johnny Barrows (76) - Fred Williamson, Roddy McDowall, Stuart Whitman, Elliott Gould, Elliott Gould. This movie has a little bit of everything: Fred Williamson kicking butt, Roddy McDowall as a gangster, and Elliott Gould even pops up for a guest appearance! After being kicked out of the Army, Williamson is pursued by the mob to be a hitman for them. He wants to live a regular life, but events eventually lead him to take them up on their offer. (B-)

Microscopic Liquid Subway To Oblivion (70) - Ewa Aulin, Alex Rebar. Psychedelic drug themed movie about a college junkie and his professor's attempt to clean him up. (B-)

The Monitors (69) - Guy Stockwell, Larry Storch, Avery Schreiber, Susan Oliver, Keenan Wynn, Ed Begley. Kind of a Sci-Fi/Comedy mix. The Monitors invade Earth, take over, and impose a 'big brother' style society where everything is orderly. Even though the Monitors don't mean any harm, a group of individuals join together to rebel against them. Very humorous and a sharp satire, highly recommended! (B+)

Mr. No Legs (75) - Richard Jaeckel, John Agar, Ted Vollrath, Lloyd Bochner, Rance Howard. Ted Vollrath plays Mr. No Legs, a Mob enforcer with no legs. His wheelchair is equipped with shotguns in the arm rests, and ninja stars on the wheels! On top of that, he is a Karate Master who can dish out a mean beating. In real life, Mr. Vollrath was a Marine who lost his legs from combat wounds during the Korean War. After that, he became the first person in a wheelchair to earn a black belt. Anyhow, the story involves Mob drug deals and a police investigation headed by Richard Jaeckel. There's plenty of bizarre stuff that goes along, including a bar fight with a midget and some transvestites, Ron Howard's father Rance, plus it was all directed by Ricou Browning, the Creature From The Black Lagoon himself. Amazing stuff. (B-C+)

Night Of The Assassin (70) - Klaus Kinski, Margaret Lee, Adolfo Celi, George Sanders, Eva Renzi, Michael Craig. Klaus Kinski plays a Greek priest who turns into a terrorist in this political thriller. (B-)

Open Season (74) - Peter Fonda, John Phillip Law, Richard Lynch, William Holden, Helga Line, Cornelia Sharpe, directed by Peter Collinson. Tale of three friends who come from a spoiled upbringing. They have gotten away with everything since childhood. After serving in Viet Nam, they get together for a 'hunting' vacation each year and continue with the crimes. On the way to their cabin, they kidnap a couple. After raping the woman, they turn them loose to hunt them down in the woods. But this year the vacation is going to be different because someone has shown up and is hunting down the hunters one at a time. (B-C+)

Piranha, Piranha (72) - William Smith, Peter Brown, Ahna Capri. Ahna Capri (from Enter The Dragon) plays a photographer who along with her brother (Peter Brown) and friend take a trip to South America. Once there, they meet hunter/adventurer Caribe (Bad Bill Smith). He offers to help take them to a diamond mine in the jungle to take pictures. But things take a turn for the worse after they learn Caribe likes to hunt for more than animals! (B)

Powderkeg (71) - Rod Taylor, Dennis Cole, Fernando Lamas, Luciana Paluzzi, Michael Ansara, Reni Santoni. Pilot movie for the tv show 'The Bearcats', takes place after the turn of the century and before WW1. The great Rod Taylor and Dennis Cole play mercenaries who are called in to rescue passengers on a train hijacked by Fernando Lamas. (B-C+)

Prisoners Of The Lost Universe (83) - Richard Hatch, Kay Lenz, John Saxon. A scientist creates a device that can transfer matter into another dimension. A reporter (Kay Lenz) and a handyman/Karate expert (Richard Hatch) both accidently get zapped by the device and are sent to a crazy post apocalypse style land ruled by the evil Kleel (John Saxon)! (B+)

Raquel! (70) - Raquel Welch, Tom Jones, John Wayne, Bob Hope. Musical tv special, kind of like early music videos. Raquel travels all around the world from Mexico to France performing musical numbers. Tom Jones shows up to do some duets with Raquel, and John Wayne and Bob Hope pop in and do their thing too.

Raw Force (82) - Cameron Mitchell, Jillian Kesner, Camille Keaton, Vic Diaz. A group of Karate expert vacationers take a cruise and end up on 'Warrior Island'. The island is a burial ground for disgraced martial arts masters of the past and is controlled by a group of cannibal Monks. The Monks have the power to raise the masters from the dead and sick the zombies on whoever gets in their way! There's also a gang of slave traders involved who kidnap women and trade them to the Monks. (B-)

Refuge Of Fear (74) - Craig Hill, Patty Shepard, Fernando Hilbeck, Teresa Gimpera. Stylish post apocalypse story about a group of people living in an underground house/bunker and trying to survive. (B)

The Rogue (71) - Margaret Lee, Barbara Bouchet, Milan Galovic. Tale of the downfall of a womanizing con artist/hustler who bounces from Barbara Bouchet to Margaret Lee. (B)

Rum Runners (71) - Brigitte Bardot, Lino Ventura, Hunt Powers, Bill Travers, Jess Hahn. Lino Ventura plays Cornelius von Zeelinga, a sailor/dreamer who smuggles booze during prohibition. When he's not at sea, he likes to spend his time watching silent movie star Linda Larue's (Brigitte Bardot) films. One day Corny's dream comes true when he runs into Linda on a Caribbean island. (B-C+)

The Second Coming Of Suzanne (74) - Jared Martin, Sondra Locke, Richard Dreyfuss, Gene Barry. Story about an avant garde filmmaker who after meeting a young woman named Suzanne (Sondra Locke) has a vision to make a film with her as a Christ-like figure. Done in a stream of consciousness/surreal style. (B)

The Shark Hunter (79) - Franco Nero, Eduardo Fajardo, Michael Forest, Enzo Castellari, Jorge Luke, directed by Enzo Castellari. Franco Nero plays an ex-intelligence agent turned shark hunter. He knows the location of a sunken airplane containing 100 million dollars that crashed during a covert operation. It's risky to recover the treasure because it's located near a shark infested grotto, but he comes up with a plan and enlists the help of a friend. Meanwhile, several other men show up wanting to get their hands on the money, including an agent who works for 'The Organization'. Very entertaining. (A-)

Starcrash (79) - Caroline Munro, Marjoe Gortner, David Hasselhoff, Christopher Plummer, Joe Spinell. Low-low budget late 70's Sci-Fi, it manages to be hilarious and entertaining. Caroline Munro and Marjoe Gortner play space smugglers, they fly around to different planets and then get caught. Once they escape, they go on a mission to find the Emperor's (Christopher Plummer) son, that would be David Hasslehoff. There's cowboy robots, light sabers, stop motion monsters, goofy costumes, space torpedoes with bad guys inside them, and an over the top bad guy in a black cape. Brain melting in a good way. Letterboxed. (A-)

Terminal Island (73) - Tom Selleck, Phyllis Davis, Roger E. Mosley, Marta Kristen, Barbara Leigh, Don Marshall. Death row inmates are dumped on a desolate island after the death penalty is abolished. They are left to survive by any means necessary, so they picks sides and duke it out amongst themselves. Tom Selleck plays an ex-doctor with a cocaine problem! Plus Roger Mosley (TC from Magnum PI) is in it so you have Magnum and TC teamed up years before Magnum started. (B-C+)

The True And The False (71) - Terence Hill, Martin Balsam, Paola Pitagora. Court/Crime Drama with Terence Hill playing a lawyer in charge of defending a woman accused of murder. (B-)

Virus (80) - Chuck Connors, Glenn Ford, Sonny Chiba, George Kennedy, Henry Silva, Bo Svenson, Olivia Hussey, Edward James Olmos, Nicholas Campbell. Cool movie about a man made virus that gets loose and wipes out most of the planet. A group of people in Antarctica are spared because the virus can't stay alive in the cold. If that's not bad enough, there's the threat of nuclear missiles going off and wiping the survivors out. (B)

W.A.R. Women Against Rape aka Death Blow (87) - Frank Stallone, Jerry Van Dyke, Don Swayze, Martin Landau, Terry Moore, George 'Buck' Flower, Jack Carter. A group of rape victims fed up with the system form a vigilante group to go after rapists. Frank Stallone is the cop in charge, Martin Landau is the judge, and Jerry Van Dyke plays a vicious chauvinist pig rapist! Oh no, what would Coach and Christine think?! (B)

 
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