Casino Royale 1967  N/R, 131 min.
Genre: Action / Comedy
Director: John Huston, Val Guest, Ken Hughes, Joseph McGrath, Robert Parrish
Cast: Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, David Niven, Woody Allen, Orson Welles, William Holden, Deborah Kerr, Daliah Lavi, John Huston, George Raft, Joanna Pettet, Charles Boyer, Kurt Kasznar, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Peter O'Toole
Special Agent 007 James Bond (David Niven) is enjoying retirement when he is coaxed back into the Secret Service after M is slain. Bond's mission is to smash the spy organization SMERSH, which is headed by the evil Le Chiffre (Orson Welles), and to accomplish that goal, agents converge on Casino Royale. Burt Bacharach provided the good musical score. The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song ("The Look of Love").
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Catlow 1971  PG, 103 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Sam Wanamaker
Cast: Yul Brynner, Richard Crenna, Leonard Nimoy, Daliah Lavi, Jo Ann Pflug, Jeff Corey, Bessie Love, David Ladd, Julian Mateos, Michael Delano, Robert Logan, John Clark, Dan van Husen, Cass Martin, Jose Nieto
Based on Louis L'Amour's novel, this is the story of Catlow's (Yul Brynner) attempt to take off with a fortune in gold and the subsequent hunt for him by friend and foe alike. Hot on Catlow's trail is Marshal Ben Cowan (Richard Crenna) who was Catlow's Civil War buddy. Also in pursuit is a killer, Miller (Leonard Nimoy), who has been hired to kill Catlow. The action sequences in this film are very good.
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Lord Jim 1965 N/R, 154 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Richard Brooks
Cast: Peter O'Toole, James Mason, Curt Jurgens, Jack Hawkins, Eli Wallach, Paul Lukas, Daliah Lavi, Akim Tamiroff, Andrew Keir, Jack MacGowran
This is a good film adaptation of Joseph Conrad's novel about a merchant seaman (Peter O'Toole) who jumps ship in a storm and then spends his life trying to atone for his act of cowardice.
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Nobody Runs Forever 1968  N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Action
aka: The High Commissioner
Director: Ralph Thomas
Cast: Rod Taylor, Christopher Plummer, Lilli Palmer, Camilla Sparv, Daliah Lavi, Franchot Tone, Clive Revill, Lee Montague, Calvin Lockhart, Burt Kwouk
Australian policeman Scobie (Rod Taylor) heads to London to bring back a diplomat (Christopher Plummer) who is in charge of high-level negotiations. The charge: murder of his wife 25 years ago. The diplomat talks Scobie into allowing him to finish the negotiations, but Scobie has his hands full saving the diplomat from assassination attempts. A tepid Cold War tale.
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The Return of Dr. Mabuse 1961 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Foreign / Sci-Fi
aka: Phantom Fiend
Director: Harald Reinl
Cast: Gert Frobe, Lex Barker, Daliah Lavi, Wolfgang Preiss, Fausto Tozzi, Werner Peters, Rudolf Forster, Rudolf Fernau, Joachim Mock, Laura Solari
The diabolical Dr. Mabuse (Wolfgang Preiss) is back in this first of several non-Fritz Lang directed Dr. Mabuse films. Thought dead, Mabuse returns to sabotage a nuclear plant. Inspector Lohmann (Gert Frobe), with the help of U.S. agent Joe Como (Lex Barker), is again on the trail as Mabuse's zombie-like henchmen leave a trail of murders.
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Rocket to the Moon 1967 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi / Comedy
aka: Blast Off
Those Fantastic Flying Fools
Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon
Director: Don Sharp
Cast: Burl Ives, Troy Donahue, Gert Frobe, Terry-Thomas, Hermione Gingold, Graham Stark, Lionel Jeffries, Daliah Lavi, Dennis Price, Judy Cornwell, Stratford Johns, Jimmy Clitheroe, Edward de Souza, Renate von Holt, Allan Cuthbertson
This sci-fi comedy is loosely based on a Jules Verne novel ("De la terre a la lune") and tells the story of Phineas T. Barnam (Burl Ives) and his friends who try to finance the first trip to the Moon. Many obstacles stand in the way.
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The Silencers 1966 N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Comedy / Action
Director: Phil Karlson
Cast: Dean Martin, Stella Stevens, Daliah Lavi, Victor Buono, Arthur O'Connell, Robert Webber, James Gregory, Nancy Kovack, Cyd Charisse, Beverly Adams
Secret agent Matt Helm (Dean Martin) comes to the rescue when Tung-Tze (Victor Buono) threatens to destroy a U.S. atomic testing site.
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Some Girls Do 1969 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Ralph Thomas
Cast: Richard Johnson, Daliah Lavi, Beba Loncar, James Villiers, Robert Morley, Maurice Denham, Sydne Rome, Florence Desmond, Ronnie Stevens, Virginia North
This was the second attempt to revive the old Bulldog Drummond series–it failed, though the story isn't too bad–it revolves around possible espionage involving Britain's new supersonic airliner.
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Ten Little Indians 1965 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Mystery
aka: And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians
Director: George Pollock
Cast: Hugh O'Brian, Fabian, Shirley Eaton, Leo Genn, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Daliah Lavi, Dennis Price, Marianne Hoppe, Mario Adorf
This version of Agatha Christie's novel at least keeps the author's ending. Guests are invited to an Austrian castle, and after the host announces that each guest has caused the death of an innocent person, the guests begin being killed–one-by-one.
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Two Weeks in Another Town 1962  N/R, 106 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Edward G. Robinson, Cyd Charisse, George Hamilton, Claire Trevor, Daliah Lavi, James Gregory, Rosanna Schiaffino, George Macready, Stefan Schnabel
While making a movie in Rome, actor Jack Andrus (Kirk Douglas) realizes that he must trust in himself in this film-within-a-film.
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| 1. Casino Royale (1967)
2. Catlow (1971)
3. Lord Jim (1965)
4. Nobody Runs Forever (1968)
aka: The High Commissioner
5. The Return of Dr. Mabuse (1961)
aka: Phantom Fiend
6. Rocket to the Moon (1967)
aka: Blast Off
aka: Those Fantastic Flying Fools
aka: Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon
7. The Silencers (1966)
8. Some Girls Do (1969)
9. Ten Little Indians (1965)
aka: And Then There Were None
aka: Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians
10. Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)
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