Beat Girl 1960  N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Wild for Kicks
Director: Edmond T. Greville
Cast: David Farrar, Noelle Adam, Gillian Hills, Christopher Lee, Adam Faith, Shirley Anne Field, Peter McEnery, Claire Gordon, Nigel Green, Oliver Reed, Delphi Lawrence, Michael Kane
Teen beatnik rebel Jennifer (Gillian Hills) is not at all happy when her widowed father, Paul (David Farrar), marries young Nichole (Noelle Adam) who is not much older than Jennifer. Finding out that Nichole may have been a stripper, Jennifer becomes a stripper at the sleazy club where Nichole worked. But problems loom when the lecherous club owner (Christopher Lee) takes an interest in Jennifer.
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Cone of Silence 1960  N/R, 76 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Trouble in the Sky
Director: Charles Frend
Cast: Michael Craig, Peter Cushing, Bernard Lee, Elizabeth Seal, George Sanders, Andre Morell, Gordon Jackson, Charles "Bud" Tingwell, Noel Willman, Delphi Lawrence, Marne Maitland, William Abney, Ballard Berkeley, Charles Lloyd Pack, Anthony Newlands
After Capt. George Gort (Bernard Lee) crash lands his plane in India, he is found guilty of pilot error but is not grounded. His daughter Charlotte (Elizabeth Seal) does not believe her father was responsible for the crash and asks Capt. Hugh Dallas (Michael Craig) to help prove his innocence. Soon after, Capt. Gort is killed in another crash, and Dallas looks for similarities between the two crashes. He suspects that the planes' design is the problem and that the designer, Nigel Pickering (Noel Willman), has been covering up the information that points to poor design. Is he correct, and can he prove it in order to clear Capt. Gort's name?
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Frozen Alive 1964  N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi / Mystery / Drama
Director: Bernard Knowles
Cast: Mark Stevens, Marianne Koch, Wolfgang Lukschy, Joachim Hansen, Delphi Lawrence, Walter Rilla, Helmut Weiss, John Longden, Albert Bessler, Sigurd Lohde, Wolfgang Gunther
After the breakup with his unfaithful wife, Dr. Frank Overton (Mark Stevens) collaborates with his new girlfriend, Dr. Helen Wieland (Marianne Koch), on his experiments of freezing human bodies. He uses himself as the person to be frozen, and while in that state, police arrive on the scene to arrest him for the murder of his ex-wife. But Helen can prove that he was in no condition to murder anyone. Yuk.
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The Last Challenge 1967 N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Richard Thorpe
Cast: Glenn Ford, Chad Everett, Angie Dickinson, Gary Merrill, Jack Elam, Delphi Lawrence, Royal Dano, Kevin Hagen, Florence Sundstrom, Frank McGrath
Marshal Dan Blaine (Glenn Ford), a former gunslinger, now works on the side of law and order defending his Western town. Now, a young troublemaker, Lot McGuire (Chad Everett), rides into town, and a crisis brews.
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The Man Who Could Cheat Death 1959  N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Drama / Horror / Thriller / Sci-Fi
Director: Terence Fisher
Cast: Anton Diffring, Hazel Court, Christopher Lee, Arnold Marle, Delphi Lawrence, Francis De Wolff, Michael Ripper, Ronald Adam, Gerda Larsen, Middleton Woods, Denis Shaw, Ian Hewitson, Frederick Rawlings, Charles Lloyd Pack, Marie Burke
In this remake of "The Man in Half Moon Street" (1944), Dr. Georges Bonnet (Anton Diffring) uses transplant surgeries involving the removal of a gland from living victims who die during the surgery. The surgeries have stopped Georges' aging, and, although he is 104-years old, he appears to others as a 35-year-old man. Now, his obsession with Janine (Hazel Court) who has fallen for his aide Dr. Pierre Gerrard (Christopher Lee) will lead to Georges' ultimate undoing.
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| 1. Beat Girl (1960)
aka: Wild for Kicks
2. Cone of Silence (1960)
aka: Trouble in the Sky
3. Frozen Alive (1964)
4. The Last Challenge (1967)
5. The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959)
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