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The Third Secret
This moody, unsettling whodunnit benefits from sensitive cinematography, fine direction and a perfectly-cast group of players. Stephen Boyd gets a worthwhile starring…
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Bedazzled (1967)
All hail the memory of Stanley Donen. We also appreciate the razor-sharp satire of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, whose genius Donen…
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The Mole People
Not enough love is set aside for this ambitious, under-budgeted Lost Civilization epic. John Agar and Cynthia Patrick find love in an…
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Mad Dog and Glory
What can you say about a hybrid gangster picture that generates a good feeling about people? We really like this show --…
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Death in Venice
High class Italo filmmaking slips into the '70s with Luchino Visconti still on top. This handsomely appointed period drama recreates Venice of…
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What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?
It's cold-blooded murder, I tell ya! Feisty Ruth Gordon goes undercover to find the evidence of homicide at Geraldine Page's desert home,…
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The Vengeance of She
Olinka Berova is as sexy as Ursula Andress, but even with a new woman producer Hammer's She sequel doesn't give this new…
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Ecco + The Forbidden
Those scurrilous Italian 'mondo' films are difficult to see in original versions; this Something Weird double bill yields an American hybrid of…
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The Wrong Box
Director Bryan Forbes tries his hand at comedy. His nostalgic Victorian farce features an eclectic choice of Brit stars -- established greats…
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Untamed
Fiery dame Susan Hayward carries this far-flung 'women's epic' to delirious romantic extremes, as her Irish heroine defies nature and exploits admirers…
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La vérité
Brigitte Bardot proved her mettle as a dramatic actress in H.G. Clouzot's strikingly pro-feminist courtroom epic, that puts the modern age of…
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A Star Is Born
Last fall's audience-pleaser is indeed a pleasant surprise, not because it's a classic but because it isn't plain awful. An unnecessary third…
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Private Snafu Golden Classics
Make way for the ribald, very non-PC adventures of the GI doofus Private Snafu -- demonstrator of the wrong way to do…
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My Name is Julia Ross
Is this any way to treat a lady? Lovely Nina Foch just wanted a job, but she instead becomes the fall-gal in…
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Horror Express
It's a spooky, snowy train ride across thousands of miles of Siberian rails -- trapped on board with a victim-possessing creature from…
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The Midnight Man
Murder strikes a private college. In the new security guard's efforts to find the killer, he uncovers sordid secrets and multiple unsavory…
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Beyond the Limit (The Honorary Consul)
Retitled from The Honorary Consul and sold in America with one of Paramount's sleaziest ad campaigns, John MacKenzie and Christopher Hampton's adaptation…
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Yanks
A million American GIs are bivouacked in the English countryside, awaiting debarkation to France... and the green fields are loaded with young…
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Television’s Lost Classics Vol One: John Cassavetes
John Cassavetes springs forth as a major 1950s talent in these two 'Primetime Special' dramatic plays broadcast live on ABC and CBS.…
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Gardens of Stone
Francis Coppola's get-out-of-debt directorial assignments may not be his most personal movies, but this one is satisfying just the same, with its…
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Posse from Hell
Wow -- a good Audie Murphy movie. Clair Huffaker's screenplay should take credit, as well as the workmanlike direction of former Hitchcock…
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Shame (Skammen)
War no longer recognizes 'innocent bystanders': a married couple seeks to sidestep 'civil disturbances' by relocating to a rural island, only for…
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The Giant Behemoth
"Brace Yourself For A SHOCK!...200 Feet of Living Burning Horror!" Eugène Lourié's second feature about an irate sea monster wrecking a city…
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Desert Fury
The murky crimes of sordid characters come to the fore in the wide-open Nevada spaces... producer Hal Wallis' Technicolor noir concentrates on…
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Beat the Devil
The star lineup sparkles in this witty, lighthearted tale of a gang of international schemers and cutthroats trying to -- well, what…
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Satan Never Sleeps
Pearl S. Buck and Leo McCarey give it to ya straight: Red China is BAD. This strange mix of Cold War truth-telling…