The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother 1975  PG, 91 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Gene Wilder
Cast: Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman, Dom DeLuise, Leo McKern, Roy Kinnear, John Le Mesurier, Douglas Wilmer, Thorley Walters
Sherlock's younger brother, Sigerson (Gene Wilder), is given the mission of playing the foil but, instead, teams up with the police to solve the case ahead of his famous brother.
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The Battle of the River Plate 1956  N/R, 119 min.
Genre: Adventure / Action / Drama
aka: Pursuit of the Graf Spee
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Cast: John Gregson, Anthony Quayle, Peter Finch, Ian Hunter, Jack Gwillim, Bernard Lee, Lionel Murton, Anthony Bushell, Peter Illing, Michael Goodliffe, Christopher Lee, Peter Scott, Patrick Macnee, John Chandos, Douglas Wilmer
The Graf Spee, the Bismarck, the Scharnhorst, and the Gneissau were heavily armed German battleships that wreaked havoc on Atlantic shipping in the early stages of World War II. This is the story of outmanned British ships dealing with this threat, and the story is shown through both the German and the British perspectives. Good documentary-style film.
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 El Cid 1961  N/R, 185 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama / Romance
Director: Anthony Mann
Cast: Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren, Raf Vallone, John Fraser, Genevieve Page, Gary Raymond, Herbert Lom, Massimo Serato, Douglas Wilmer, Frank Thring, Hurd Hatfield, Michael Hordern, Andrew Cruickshank, Ralph Truman, Tullio Carminati
This is the story of the 11th-century Spanish hero, El Cid (Charlton Heston), and his fight to force the Moors out of his homeland. El Cid is estranged from his wife Chimene (Sophia Loren) after he kills her father Count Gormaz (Andrew Cruickshank) in a duel, and she enters a convent. King Ferdinand (Ralph Truman) dies, and Spain is divided between the Moors and the Christians. King Alphonso (John Fraser) exiles El Cid, and, now, Chimene reconciles with him. El Cid becomes an honored warrior fighting to drive the Moors from Spain–which, ultimately, will be a fight to the death.
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The Fall of the Roman Empire 1964 N/R, 175 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama
Director: Anthony Mann
Cast: Alec Guinness, Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd, James Mason, Christopher Plummer, Anthony Quayle, John Ireland, Mel Ferrer, Omar Sharif, Eric Porter, Finlay Currie, Andrew Keir, Douglas Wilmer, George Murcell, Norman Wooland
Marcus Aurelius (Alec Guinness) rules the Roman Empire and tells his daughter Lucilla (Sophia Loren) that he has chosen his adopted son Livius (Stephen Boyd) to inherit the throne instead of the legal heir Commodus (Christopher Plummer). After Marcus Aurelius is murdered, Commodus claims the throne. Lucilla wants Livius to claim the throne, but her pleas to him fall on deaf ears. Meanwhile, Commodus is wreaking havoc and murdering anyone who poses a threat to his rule. Now he sees Lucilla as a threat and orders her death. This time, Livius does come to her rescue, slays Commodus, and brings an end to his evil rule.
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 Jason and the Argonauts 1963  G, 104 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Adventure / Fantasy
aka: Jason and the Golden Fleece
Director: Don Chaffey
Cast: Todd Armstrong, Nancy Kovack, Gary Raymond, Laurence Naismith, Niall MacGinnis, Michael Gwynn, Douglas Wilmer, Jack Gwillim, Honor Blackman, John Cairney, Patrick Troughton, Andrew Faulds, Nigel Green
Master stop-motion animator Ray Harryhausen really makes this a fantasy to watch. Based on Greek mythology, Jason (Todd Armstrong) is heir to the throne of Thessaly, but it is ordained that he must first return the magical Golden Fleece. Thus, under the protection of the goddess Hera, he and his crew set sail, encountering many obstacles along the way–including a seven-headed reptile, a 100-foot tall live statue, and an army of skeletons.
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 Octopussy 1983 PG, 130 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Thriller
Director: John Glen
Cast: Roger Moore, Maud Adams, Louis Jourdan, Kristina Wayborn, Kabir Bedi, Steven Berkoff, Lois Maxwell, Desmond Llewelyn, Robert Brown, Walter Gotell, David&Tony Meyer, Vigay Amritaj, Albert Moses, Geoffrey Keen, Douglas Wilmer
Roger Moore takes over the role of James Bond for the sixth time in this 13th movie of Agent 007 and his daring exploits. This time, Bond goes to East Berlin to investigate the murder of a fellow agent after he dropped off a Faberge egg at the British Embassy. The trail leads to a traveling circus whose assistant manager Kamal (Louis Jourdan) outbids Bond for the egg. Now, Bond follows Kamal to India where he meets beautiful circus leader Octopussy (Maud Adams) who uses the circus as the cover for her smuggling operations. Through his association with Octopussy, Bond figures out that the crazed Russian General Orlov (Steven Berkoff) is raising needed money by selling fake Faberge eggs to get needed money to pay for his plot to detonate a nuclear bomb in order to cripple Europe and defeat NATO.
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A Shot in the Dark 1964  N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Mystery
Director: Blake Edwards
Cast: Peter Sellers, Elke Sommer, Herbert Lom, Tracy Reed, George Sanders, Graham Stark, Andre Maranne, Douglas Wilmer, Vanda Godsell, Burt Kwouk, Moira Redmond, Maurice Kaufmann, Ann Lynn, David Lodge, Martin Benson
The Pink Panther series continues as Inspector Clouseau (Peter Sellers), the inept–but some would say brilliant–detective solves another crime. This story takes place in Benjamin Ballon's (George Sanders) mansion in the outskirts of Paris where parlormaid Maria Gambrelli (Elke Sommer) is accused of murdering her lover. Clouseau believes that Maria is innocent; however, Chief Inspector Dreyfus (Herbert Lom) is sure that she is guilty and is dismayed–once again–at Clouseau's handling of the case. The number of murder victims increases, but Clouseau is convinced that Marie is being framed and remains determined to prove her innocence.
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 The Vampire Lovers 1970 R, 91 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller / Mystery
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Cast: Ingrid Pitt, Pippa Steel, Peter Cushing, Madeline Smith, George Cole, Dawn Addams, Kate O'Mara, Douglas Wilmer, Ferdy Mayne, Jon Finch, Kirsten Lindholm, Janet Key, John Forbes-Robertson, Charles Farrell, Harvey Hall
Hammer Films gets into more sex and violence in this first of three films based on Sheridan LeFanu's "Carmilla," the tale of a lesbian vampire. Our vampire heroine (Ingrid Pitt) awakens from her death sleep and, using the name of Marcilla, heads to a European town to exact revenge on those responsible for killing off her family. She starts having lesbian encounters and then drains the blood of her "partner." It's time to bring in the vampire killer! Followed by "Lust for a Vampire" and "Twins of Evil."
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The Vengeance of Fu Manchu 1967  N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jeremy Summers
Cast: Christopher Lee, Tony Ferrer, Tsai Chin, Douglas Wilmer, Wolfgang Kieling, Horst Frank, Maria Rohm, Howard Marion-Crawford, Peter Carsten, Suzanne Roquette, Noel Trevarthen, Mona Chong
The evil Fu Manchu (Christopher Lee) is back and still plotting to become the world's most feared criminal. His plan: kidnap a surgeon and force him to remake the face of one of Fu Manchu's prisoners into that of Scotland Yard nemesis Nayland Smith. He then sends the double–under hypnosis–to kill Smith's maid. Now Nayland Smith is convicted of murder, and Fu Manchu sets out to do the same thing in other countries.
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Woman of Straw 1964 N/R, 117 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Basil Dearden
Cast: Gina Lollobrigida, Sean Connery, Ralph Richardson, Johnny Sekka, Peter Madden, Alexander Knox, Michael Goodliffe, Andre Morell, Edward Underdown, Douglas Wilmer
A wheel-chair-bound millionaire (Ralph Richardson) is murdered, and more than one person has a motive for the killing.
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| 1. The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975)
2. The Battle of the River Plate (1956)
aka: Pursuit of the Graf Spee
3. El Cid (1961)
4. The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
5. The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1974)
6. The Incredible Sarah (1976)
7. Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
aka: Jason and the Golden Fleece
8. Octopussy (1983)
9. A Shot in the Dark (1964)
10. The Vampire Lovers (1970)
11. The Vengeance of Fu Manchu (1967)
12. Woman of Straw (1964)
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