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Director: Tony Richardson    More Info
Starring: Trevor Howard, Vanessa Redgrave, John Gielgud, Harry Andrews, Jill Bennett, David Hemmings, Peter Bowles, Donald Wolfit, Ben Aris, Mickey Baker

 The British defeat by the Russians in the 1854 battle at Balaclava, Turkey, during the Crimean War is the subject of this anti-war film. Seeking glory, Lord Cardigan (Trevor Howard) leads his Light Brigade on a mission to gain a victory over Russian troops. But, when the battle begins, wrong decisions are made by incompetent officers that prove disastrous when they find themselves in the middle of Russian forces.

Director: Albert Finney    More Info
Starring: Albert Finney, Billie Whitelaw, Colin Blakely, Liza Minnelli, Timothy Garland, Alan Lake, Richard Pearson, Peter Sallis, Charles Lamb, Nicholas Phipps

 Charlie's (Albert Finney) life seems to revolve around only three relationships–his wife Lottie (Billie Whitelaw), son Jack (Timothy Garland), and his secretary Eliza (Liza Minnelli)–until he decides to try life on his own and sails off in an orange hot-air balloon.

Director: Ralph Nelson    More Info
Starring: Cliff Robertson, Claire Bloom, Lilia Skala, Leon Janney, Dick Van Patten, William Dwyer, Barney Martin, Ruth White, Edward McNally, Dan Morgan

 Cliff Robertson won the Oscar for his portrayal of Charly, a mentally retarded man who becomes a genius after undergoing a new surgical technique. Claire Bloom plays the teacher and friend who helps him adjust to his new situation.

Director: Richard Fleischer    More Info
Starring: Omar Sharif, Jack Palance, Cesare Danova, Woody Strode, Robert Loggia, Barbara Luna

 This is the story of how guerilla leader Che Guevara (Omar Sharif) helped organize Castro's forces in Cuba before the coup and then went on to manipulate events during 1962's Cuban missile crisis.

Director: Armando Crispino    More Info
Starring: Lee Van Cleef, Jack Kelly, Giampiero Albertini, Marino Mase, Gotz George, Pier Paolo Capponi, Ivano Staccioli, Marilu Tolo, Joachim Fuchsberger, Heinz Reincke

 U.S. Army Sergeant Sullivan (Lee Van Cleef) leads a platoon of misfits against German forces in North Africa. While Sullivan feuds with his young, inexperienced senior officer, Capt. Valli (Jack Kelly), the platoon sets out on a mission to capture a Nazi airbase.

Director: Don Siegel    More Info
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Lee J. Cobb, Susan Clark, Don Stroud, Tisha Sterling, Betty Field, Tom Tully, David Doyle, James Edwards, Louis Zorich

 Frontier-style competes with modern-day law enforcement in this Clint Eastwood film in which he plays Arizona sheriff Walt Coogan who comes to New York City to extradite a murderer, James Ringerman (Don Stroud). When Coogan arrives, bureaucratic NYPD detective Lieutenant McElroy (Lee J. Cobb) tells Coogan that Rengerman is in Bellevue Hospital following an acid trip and is not ready to be transported back to Arizona. Coogan takes matters into his own hands and heads for the hospital, manages to get Ringerman released, and leaves for the airport with his prisoner. But, on the way to the airport, Ringerman's hippie girlfriend Linny (Tisha Sterling) waylays Coogan, and this allows Ringerman to escape. Coogan tracks Linny to a psychedelic club, and his adventures in the Big City continue as he deals not only with police bureaucracy but with drugs and hippies as well.

Director: Robert Altman    More Info
Starring: James Caan, Robert Duvall, Joanna Moore, Barbara Baxley, Charles Aidman, Steve Ihnat, Ted Knight, Michael Murphy, Charles Irving

 This is a fictionalized story about the behind-the-scenes struggles that occurred before the first manned-space shot to the moon.

Director: Ralph Nelson    More Info
Starring: Charlton Heston, Maximilian Schell, Kathryn Hays, Leslie Nielsen, Anton Diffring, Neva Patterson, Peter Masterson, Linden Chiles, Cyril Delevanti

 While an American symphony orchestra is on tour in Europe, they are captured by Nazi S.S. forces. The conductor, Evans (Charlton Heston), tries to outwit the evil and devious S.S. commander, General Schiller (Maximilian Schell), in an effort to save his entourage. Not among Heston's best.

Director: Vernon Sewell    More Info
Starring: Boris Karloff, Christopher Lee, Mark Eden, Barbara Steele, Virginia Wetherell, Michael Gough

 A gothic mansion provides the background for this story about the poor judgment used by an antique dealer, Robert Manning (Mark Eden), when he chose his lodging for the night. He ends up at the home of Professor Marshe (Boris Karloff) who happens to be involved in witchcraft.

Director: Anthony Mann    More Info
Starring: Laurence Harvey, Tom Courtenay, Mia Farrow, Lionel Stander, Harry Andrews, Peter Cook, Per Oscarsson, Vernon Dobtcheff, Barbara Murray, Norman Bird

 British double agent Alexander Eberlin (Laurence Harvey) is dedicated to his espionage world, but he finds love and support from Caroline (Mia Farrow).

Director: Mario Bava    More Info
Starring: John Phillip Law, Marisa Mell, Michel Piccoli, Adolfo Celi, Terry-Thomas, Claudio Gora, Mario Donen, Renzo Palmer, Caterina Boratto, Lucia Modugno

 The authorities of a European country are frustrated in their efforts to catch master criminal Diabolik (John Phillip Law) who, with his girlfriend/assistant Eva (Marisa Mell), continues to pull of big heists while killing anyone in his way. The police minister finally makes a deal with the underworld to help in the chase as Diabolik becomes a hero to the population through his exploits.

Director: Jerry Thorpe    More Info
Starring: Glenn Ford, Arthur Kennedy, Dean Jagger, John Anderson, Paul Fix, Nico Minardos, Harry Dean Stanton, Royal Dano

 When his wife and children are kidnapped by Apaches, Warfield (Glenn Ford) teams up with Forbes (Arthur Kennedy) to track them down.

Director: Jack Shea    More Info
Starring: Rory Calhoun, Leslie Nielsen, Lainie Kazan, Eric Braeden, Barry Sadler, Bruce Glover, Georg Stanford Brown, Pat Renella, Rigg Kennedy, Rodolfo Acosta

 While working out of a Mexican villa, former U.S. Air Force Col. Frank Dayton (Leslie Nielsen) recruits Mike (Rory Calhoun), Max (Eric Braeden), Barrney (Barry Sadler), and Claude (Pat Renella) in a plot to rob over $2 million from a United States Air Force base. They are smuggled onto the Santa Barbara beach, destroy communications on the base, and steal the payroll. Dayton's girlfriend Leda (Lainie Kazan) drives the get-away car and takes them to the beach. They swim out to their boat where disasters await.

Director: Bryan Forbes    More Info
Starring: Michael Caine, Giovanna Ralli, Eric Portman, Nanette Newman, David Buck, Emilio Rodriguez, Leonard Rossiter, Vladek Sheybal

 An unlikely trio–jewel thief Henry Clarke (Michael Caine); femme fatale Fe Moreau (Giovanna Ralli); and her homosexual husband, Richard (Eric Portman)–join forces in a jewelry heist.

Director: Jesus Franco    More Info
Starring: Jack Palance, Romina Power, Akim Tamiroff, Klaus Kinski, Sylva Koscina, Maria Rohm, Rosemary Dexter, Mercedes McCambridge, Carmen de Lirio, Serena Vergano

 Sadistic torture resulting in murder awaits two unwary young women.

Director: Giulio Petroni    More Info
Starring: John Phillip Law, Lee Van Cleef, Luigi Pistilli, Mario Brega, Anthony Dawson, Jose Torres, Franco Balducci, Bruno Corazzari, Felicita Fanny, Ignazio Leone

 Bill (John Phillip Law) sets out to hunt down and take revenge on the gang members who killed his parents when he was a young boy. Along the way, he teams up with gunfighter Ryan (Lee Van Cleef) who is also searching for the gang to extract his own revenge on the gangsters for taking his money and causing his imprisonment. Lots of shooting and other violence in this spaghetti Western.

Director: Paul Landres    More Info
Starring: Boris Karloff, Whit Bissell, Myron Healey, Tod Andrews, George Hamilton, Jean Del Val, Iphigenie Castiglioni, Rusty Lane, Ron Hagerthy, Roy Engel

 Boris Karloff introduces and stars in tales of the supernatural, which was the pilot for a TV series.

Director: Ishiro Honda    More Info
Starring: Akira Kubo, Yukiko Kobayashi, Kyoko Ai, Jun Tazaki, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Kenji Sahara, Andrew Hughes, Haruo Nakajima, Hisaya Ito, Yoshifumi Tajima

 Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan, and all the other monsters have been quarantined on an island, and the skyline is peaceful. But wait! Evil aliens appear on the scene and release all the monsters onto large cities of Earth in order to take control. Only the daring crew of a rocket ship can save the day.

Director: Francis D. Lyon    More Info
Starring: Richard Egan, Patricia Owens, John Ericson, Michael Ansara, Joan Blackman, David Brian

 This film about international intrigue was not released for two years after it was filmed, which should tell you something about its lack of entertainment value.

Director: Gordon Douglas    More Info
Starring: Frank Sinatra, Lee Remick, Al Freeman Jr., Jacqueline Bisset, Ralph Meeker, Jack Klugman, Robert Duvall, Horace McMahon, Lloyd Bochner, William Windom

 A homosexual is killed, and apparently there are only two honest policemen in the NYPD. As this film unfolds, it presents an assortment of cops with various degrees of psychological problems. Frank Sinatra is excellent as one of the honest cops who ends up losing his job and his wife while pursuing the homosexual's killer.

Director: Terence Fisher    More Info
Starring: Christopher Lee, Charles Gray, Nike Arrighi, Leon Greene, Patrick Mower, Paul Eddington, Russell Waters, John Bown

 The Duc de Richleau (Christopher Lee) battles a Satanist, Mocata (Charles Gray), for the soul of young Simon (Patrick Mower).

Director: Richard Burton    More Info
Starring: Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Andreas Teuber, Ian Marter, Elizabeth O'Donovan, Jeremy Eccles, Richard Carwardine, Ram Chopra

 This film adaptation of Christopher Marlowe's play features Richard Burton as Dr. Faustus selling his soul for Helen of Troy (Elizabeth Taylor).

Director: Freddie Francis    More Info
Starring: Christopher Lee, Rupert Davies, Veronica Carlson, Barbara Ewing, Barry Andrews, Ewan Hooper, Michael Ripper, George A. Cooper, Marion Mathie, John D. Collins

 After a girl's body, scarred with fang marks, is found hanging in the church bell, the Monsignor (Rupert Davies) performs exorcism rites at Count Dracula's (Christopher Lee) castle. By accident, Dracula is freed from the ice that had imprisoned him, and now the Monsignor must pay the consequences. First on Dracula's list is the Monsignor's niece Anna (Marion Mathie) who works at a nearby pub, but the Monsignor seeks revenge and is only steps behind the vampire Dracula.

Director: John Cassavetes    More Info
Starring: John Marley, Gena Rowlands, Lynn Carlin, Seymour Cassel, Fred Draper, Val Avery, Dorothy Gulliver, Joanne Moore Jordan, Darlene Conley, Gene Darfler

 Richard (John Marley) and Maria (Lynn Carlin) have been married for 14 years but are growing apart, neither one being content with his/her life. While Richard visits young prostitute Jeannie Rapp(Gena Rowlands), Maria meets a younger man, Chet (Seymour Cassel), in a bar and takes him to bed. But, their extramarital affairs do not satisfy either one. Carlin and Cassel received Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actress and Actor.

Director: Otar Ioseliani    More Info
Starring: Ramaz Giorgobiani, Marina Kartsivadze, Gogi Kharabadze, Aleqsandre Omiadze, Dodo Abashidze, Akaki Kvantaliani, Baadur Tsuladze, Tengiz Daushvili, Bukhuti Zaqariadze, Otar Zautashvili

 A young man takes a job at the local winery where he finds that wine unfit for consumption is bottled to meet quotas. His attempts to improve conditions fall on deaf ears in this statement against Russian bureaucracy.