The 7th Voyage of Sinbad 1958  G, 92 min.
Genre: Family / Adventure / Action / Fantasy
Director: Nathan Juran
Cast: Kerwin Mathews, Kathryn Grant, Richard Eyer, Torin Thatcher, Alec Mango, Danny Green, Harold Kasket, Alfred Brown, Nana DeHerrera, Nino Falanga, Luis Guedes, Virgilio Teixeira
Special effects innovator Ray Harryhausen adds stop-motion to his bag of tricks, resulting in a near-classic. The evil magician Sokurah (Torin Thatcher) has put a spell on Sinbad's (Kerwin Mathews) beloved princess (Kathryn Grant), making her just a few inches tall. The spell can be broken by getting an eggshell from the giant, ferocious, two-headed bird Roc, who is on the island of Colossa. Sinbad must fight all sorts of creatures to reach his goal.
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Frankenstein Created Woman 1967  N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Horror / Drama / Thriller
Director: Terence Fisher
Cast: Peter Cushing, Susan Denberg, Robert Morris, Barry Warren, Thorley Walters, Duncan Lamont, Peter Blythe, Derek Fowlds, Alan MacNaughtan, Peter Madden, Philip Ray, Ivan Beavis, Colin Jeavons, Alec Mango, Bartlett Mullins
Frankenstein (Peter Cushing) brings Christina (Susan Denberg), back to life after she commits suicide. But, he slips the soul of her lover, who has been executed, into her body. When Christina regains consciousness, she sets out to seek revenge against those responsible for the execution.
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Gothic 1986  R, 90 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Ken Russell
Cast: Natasha Richardson, Julian Sands, Gabriel Byrne, Myriam Cyr, Timothy Spall, Alec Mango, Andreas Wisniewski, Ken Russell
An 1816 meeting of friends and cohorts–Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Godwin, and Lord Byron–at their Swiss villa brought on the challenge to write ghost stories. The culmination of that meeting was Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley's tale of "Frankenstein," which was completed two years later. This is the story of that 1816 meeting. It's a sex-filled, blood-and-guts-filled weekend.
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A Race for Life 1954  N/R, 69 min.
Genre: Action / Drama
aka: Mask of Dust
Director: Terence Fisher
Cast: Richard Conte, Mari Aldon, George Coulouris, Peter Illing, Alec Mango, Meredith Edwards, James Copeland, Jeremy Hawk, Richard Marner, Edwin Richfield, Tim Turner, Stirling Moss
Once a world-class car racer, Peter Wells (Richard Conte) heads for Europe to make a comeback despite the fact that his wife Pat (Mari Aldon) objects to his plan and leaves him. But, when Peter enters the Grand Prix, Pat comes to the pits in support of Peter who ends up winning the race and then making a decision to give up car racing.
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They Who Dare 1954 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama / Action
Director: Lewis Milestone
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Denholm Elliott, Akim Tamiroff, Gerard Oury, Eric Pohlmann, Alec Mango, Kay Callard, William(2) Russell, Lisa Gastoni, Sam Kydd, David Peel, Michael Mellinger
During World War II, six British commandos and four Greek soldiers land on the Greek isle of Rhodes with orders to blow up two Axis airfields. The Greek soldiers are there to help lead the way through the rugged terrain. But the island is crawling with enemy troops, and the mission will prove costly in human lives.
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| 1. The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
2. Frankenstein Created Woman (1967)
3. Gothic (1986)
4. A Race for Life (1954)
aka: Mask of Dust
5. They Who Dare (1954)
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