Blood and Black Lace 1964 N/R, 88 min. Genre: Foreign / Thriller
Director: Mario Bava Cast: Cameron Mitchell, Eva Bartok, Thomas Reiner, Ariana Gorini, Dante DiPaolo, Mary Arden, Franco Ressel, Claude Dantes, Massimo Righi, Luciano Pigozzi, Harriet Medin, Francesca Ungaro
A model, Isabella (Francesca Ungaro), is killed in a fashion salon run by Contessa Cristina Como (Eva Bartok) and her lover Max (Cameron Mitchell). Isabella left a diary, and now other models are being murdered as the killer searches for the diary.
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The Crimson Pirate 1952 N/R, 104 min. Genre: Action / Adventure / Comedy
Director: Robert Siodmak Cast: Burt Lancaster, Eva Bartok, Nick Cravat, Leslie Bradley, Christopher Lee, Frederick Leister, Torin Thatcher, James Hayter, Margot Grahame, Frank Pettingell, Noel Purcell, Eliot Makeham, Dana Wynter, Ewan Roberts
This film has developed a cult following for its thrills and laughter as it verges on satire of the action genre. The Crimson Pirate, Captain Vallo (Burt Lancaster) does it all; he intercepts a cargo ship, swings his sword, and wins the fair lady Consuelo (Eva Bartok).
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Operation Amsterdam 1959 N/R, 105 min. Genre: Adventure
Director: Michael McCarthy Cast: Peter Finch, Eva Bartok, Tony Britton, Alexander Knox, Malcolm Keen, Christopher Rhodes, Tim Turner, John Horsley, Alfred Burke, Carl Jaffe
Based on a true story, this film, set in 1940, follows a foursome whose job is to move a fortune in diamonds from Amsterdam to England before the Nazis show up–only hours away. To make it to safety, they must avoid not only the Nazis but the sympathizers as well, AND one of the four may be on the other side.
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Spaceways 1953 N/R, 76 min. Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Terence Fisher Cast: Howard Duff, Eva Bartok, Alan Wheatley, Philip Leaver, Andrew Osborn, Michael Medwin, Anthony Ireland, David Horne, Marianne Stone, Cecile Chevreau, Hugh Moxey
Espionage confronts an American wife whose extramarital affair hinges on her delivery of U.S. government secrets. Her rocket scientist husband (Duff) is helping the British with their first satellite, and when his wife and her lover, a Russian spy, disappear it is assumed that he killed them and sent them into space. How will he prove himself innocent?
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| 1. Blood and Black Lace (1964)
2. The Crimson Pirate (1952)
3. Operation Amsterdam (1959)
4. Spaceways (1953)
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