 Ben-Hur 1959  N/R, 211 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Romance
Director: William Wyler
Cast: Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd, Sam Jaffe, Haya Harareet, Hugh Griffith, Martha Scott, Cathy O'Donnell, Finlay Currie, Frank Thring, Terence Longdon, George Relph, Andre Morell, Ferdy Mayne, Tutte Lemkow
Remember the famous Chariot Race where one of the extras forgot to take off his watch? That seems to be the only flaw in this epic film that won 11 Oscars, including Best Picture. Charlton Heston also won for Best Actor as the Jewish Prince Judah Ben-Hur whose life story is told in tandem with the life of Jesus. Other Oscars included Best Director and Supporting Actor (Hugh Griffith).
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The Black Stallion Returns 1983  PG, 93 min.
Genre: Family / Adventure
Director: Robert Dalva
Cast: Kelly Reno, Vincent Spano, Allen Garfield, Woody Strode, Teri Garr, Jodi Thelen, Ferdy Mayne, Doghmi Larbi, Angelo Infanti, Franco Citti, Luigi Mezzanotte, Joe Murphy, Loris Bazzocchi, Chris Larrance, Robert Behling
In this sequel to "The Black Stallion" (1979), Alec Ramsey (Kelly Reno) is now a teenager, and his beloved, black stallion is stolen by Moroccan thieves who plan to race the horse in Africa. Alec becomes a good, young hero when he stows away on a plane to Casablanca and then roams the Sahara Desert in search of his stolen horse.
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The Bobo 1967  N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Robert Parrish
Cast: Peter Sellers, Britt Ekland, Rossano Brazzi, Adolfo Celi, Hattie Jacques, Ferdy Mayne, Kenneth Griffith, Al Lettieri, Marne Maitland, Guistino Durano
Desperately dreaming of starting a new career as a singer, bullfighter Juan Batista (Peter Sellers) accepts the challenge to win the attention of Barcelona courtesan Olimpia Segura (Britt Ekland) in return for a singing engagement.
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The Captain's Paradise 1953  N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Anthony Kimmins
Cast: Alec Guinness, Yvonne De Carlo, Celia Johnson, Charles Goldner, Peter Bull, Bill Fraser, Miles Malleson, Ferdy Mayne, Nicholas Phipps, Sebastian Cabot, Walter Crisham, Roger Delgado, Victor Fairley, Tutte Lemkow, Ambrosine Phillpotts
This film is a comedy about Capt. Henry St. James (Alec Guinness) who is the captain of a steamer sailing regularly between Gibraltar and North Africa. He solves the problem of loneliness when away from home by having two wives. Maude (Celia Johnson) lives in Gibraltar, and Nita (Yvonne De Carlo) is in Tangiers. Problems rise to the fore when both women change their minds about the way they want to live, and Henry is left with no wives.
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The Deadly Game 1955  N/R, 64 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Third Party Risk
Director: Daniel Birt
Cast: Lloyd Bridges, Finlay Currie, Maureen Swanson, Simone Silva, Ferdy Mayne, Peter Dyneley, Roger Delgado, George Woodbridge, Russell Waters, Mary Parker, Seymour Green, Patrick Westwood
An American ex-GI, Philip Graham (Lloyd Bridges), is visiting in Spain when he meets an Army buddy, Tony Roscoe (Peter Dyneley), and runs an errand for him. Later, when Tony turns up murdered, Philip is accused of killing him in order to get his hands on certain microfilm containing secret formulas of a pharmaceutical company. Now, Philip must use all means possible to clear his name.
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The Fearless Vampire Killers, or Pardon Me But Your Teeth.. 1967  N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Comedy / Horror
aka: The Fearless Vampire Killers
Dance of the Vampires
Director: Roman Polanski
Cast: Jack MacGowran, Roman Polanski, Alfie Bass, Jessie Robins, Sharon Tate, Ferdy Mayne, Iain Quarrier, Terry Downes, Fiona Lewis, Ronald Lacey, Sydney Bromley, Andreas Malandrinos
[Full title: "The Fearless Vampire Killers, or Pardon Me But Your Teeth Are in My Neck"] Vampire hunter Professor Abronsius (Jack MacGowran) and his bumbling assistant, Alfred (Roman Polanski), arrive in a remote Slovanian village in search of vampires. They quickly become involved with an assortment of weird vampires when the innkeeper's daughter (Sharon Tate) is kidnapped by head vampire Count von Krolock (Ferdy Mayne). A funny and scary caper–with an excellent soundtrack–from a master director, Roman Polanski.
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 Frightmare 1983  R, 86 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: The Horror Star
Director: Norman Thaddeus Vane
Cast: Ferdy Mayne, Luca Bercovici, Nita Talbot, Leon Askin, Jennifer Starrett, Barbara Pilavin, Carlene Olson, Scott Thomson, Donna McDaniel, Jeffrey Combs, Alan Stock, Peter Kastner
Horror film star Conrad Radzoff (Ferdy Mayne) murders his director and shortly thereafter dies himself. Horror film club teens decide to pay tribute to their hero with a party and steal the body for the event. They shouldn't have done that since Conrad is brought back as a zombie by a medium and takes revenge on the youngsters. Really bad, except Ferdy Mayne is fun as the flamboyant Conrad.
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The Glass Tomb 1955 N/R, 59 min.
Genre: Mystery
aka: The Glass Cage
Director: Montgomery Tully
Cast: John Ireland, Honor Blackman, Geoffrey Keen, Eric Pohlmann, Sid James, Liam Redmond, Sydney Tafler, Valerie Vernon, Arnold Marle, Stan Little, Arthur Howard, Sam Kydd, Ferdy Mayne
This story revolves around a murder at a carnival when "The Starving Man" Sapolio (Eric Pohlmann) is found dead inside his glass cage. Now, his manager Pel (John Ireland) takes it upon himself to find out what really happened.
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The Howling II : Your Sister Is a Werewolf 1985  R, 90 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Philippe Mora
Cast: Christopher Lee, Reb Brown, Annie McEnroe, Sybil Danning, Marsha A. Hunt, Judd Omen, Ferdy Mayne, Hana Ludvikova, Patrick Field, Jimmy Nail, Steven Bronowski, James Crawford, Jiri Krytinar, Ladislav Krecmer, Jan Kraus
After his werewolf sister Karen (Hana Ludvikova) is killed, Ben (Reb Brown) is convinced by werewolf hunter Stefan (Christopher Lee) to join him and reporter Jennie Templeton (Annie McEnroe) on a trip to Transylvania. Their mission: battle the werewolf Queen Stirba (Sybil Danning) and put an end to her cult of werewolves.
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The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By 1952 N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery
aka: Paris Express
Director: Harold French
Cast: Claude Rains, Marius Goring, Marta Toren, Ferdy Mayne, Herbert Lom, Lucie Mannheim, Anouk Aimee, Eric Pohlmann, Felix Aylmer, Gibb McLaughlin, Michael Nightingale, Robin Alalouf, Joan St. Clair
A very honest man, Kees Popinga (Claude Rains), finds that his boss Julius de Koster, Jr. (Herbert Lom) has been stealing from their Dutch trading company to support his French mistress Michele (Marta Toren). Kees' solution: steal the money himself to prevent his boss from getting his hands on it. Kees does get the money and boards a trans-European train to Paris. After arriving in Paris, he manages to become entangled with Michele. And, of course, problems lie ahead through a series of twists and turns.
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Our Man in Havana 1960 N/R, 111 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Thriller
Director: Carol Reed
Cast: Alec Guinness, Burl Ives, Maureen O'Hara, Ernie Kovacs, Noel Coward, Ralph Richardson, Jo Morrow, Paul Rogers, Gregoire Aslan, John Le Mesurier, Raymond Huntley, Ferdy Mayne, Maurice Denham, Jose Prieto, Duncan Macrae
This film adaptation of the Graham Greene novel features Alec Guinness as British expatriate Jim Wormold who, while living in pre-revolutionary Cuba, is recruited as a spy by British intelligence agent Hawthorne (Noel Coward). Wormold invents information on agents and events for which he is paid, and he uses his ill-begotten money for his daughter Milly (Jo Morrow) to appease her expensive tastes. The crooked police chief, Capt. Segura (Ernie Kovacs), believes that Wormold is truly a spy, and he finds Millie attractive. Wormold's reputation accelerates, and–in spite of his false reports–he actually performs a service for Britain.
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Pirates 1986 PG-13, 117 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Roman Polanski
Cast: Walter Matthau, Charlotte Lewis, Cris Campion, Damien Thomas, Richard Pearson, David Kelly, Roy Kinnear, Bill Fraser, Ferdy Mayne, Emilio Fernandez
When pirate Capt. Thomas Bartholomew Red (Walter Matthau) and a French sailor (Cris Campion) are captured by the crew of the Spanish galleon, Red evokes a crew mutiny, and the adventures continue.
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Revenge of the Pink Panther 1978 PG, 98 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Blake Edwards
Cast: Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Dyan Cannon, Robert Webber, Burt Kwouk, Paul Stewart, Andre Maranne, Graham Stark, Robert Loggia, Ferdy Mayne, Tony Beckley, Marc Lawrence, Alfie Bass, Sue Lloyd, Danny Schiller
This is Peter Sellers' last film as the bungling Inspector Clouseau. This time around, Clouseau is on the heels of an international drug trafficking ring led by drug lord Douvier (Robert Webber) who gives orders to kill Clouseau. When Clouseau's car crashes, Douvier believes that Clouseau, not an escaping criminal, was killed. Clouseau fakes his own death, and Douvier, believing he is dead, is not on the lookout for him. Now, Clouseau goes incognito to Hong Kong, and Douvier's ex-girlfriend Simone Legree (Dyan Cannon), who seeks revenge against Douvier, helps Clouseau solve the case.
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Third Man on the Mountain 1959 N/R, 107 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Ken Annakin
Cast: Michael Rennie, James MacArthur, Janet Munro, James Donald, Herbert Lom, Laurence Naismith, Lee Patterson, Walter Fitzgerald, Nora Swinburne, Ferdy Mayne
After his father is killed on the Matterhorn, Rudi Matt (James MacArthur) joins a group of mountain climbers in an attempt to climb that same mountain. Don't miss MacArthur's mother, Helen Hayes, in a short shot as a tourist. Disney.
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Vampire Happening 1971 R, 100 min.
Genre: Foreign / Horror / Comedy
Director: Freddie Francis
Cast: Pia Degermark, Thomas Hunter, Ferdy Mayne, Yvor Murillo, Ingrid van Bergen, Joachim Kemmer, Oskar Wegrostek, Lyvia Bauer, Daria Damar, Kay Williams, Michael Janisch, Toni Wagner, Raoul Retzer, Willfried Kovamik, Beba Novak
Actress Betty Williams (Pia Degermark) inherits a castle in the Balkans but soon learns that her grandmother (also played by Degermark) was a witch and has returned as a vampire. And then there's Count Dracula (Ferdy Mayne) to deal with in this comedic horror film with nudity to boot.
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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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Where Eagles Dare 1968 PG, 158 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama
Director: Brian G. Hutton
Cast: Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, Robert Beatty, Mary Ure, Patrick Wymark, Michael Hordern, Donald Houston, Peter Barkworth, Ferdy Mayne, Anton Diffring, William Squire, Brook Williams, Neil McCarthy, Vincent Ball, Derren Nesbitt
During World War II, an American General is captured by the Nazis and is being held in a remote castle in the Alps. Commandos (Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood) courageously attempt his rescue before the General is forced to reveal military secrets. A great action-filled film as the team goes from one escapade to another.
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| 1. Ben-Hur (1959)
2. The Black Stallion Returns (1983)
3. The Bobo (1967)
4. The Captain's Paradise (1953)
5. The Deadly Game (1955)
aka: Third Party Risk
6. The Fearless Vampire Killers, or Pardon Me But Your Teeth.. (1967)
aka: The Fearless Vampire Killers
aka: Dance of the Vampires
7. Frightmare (1983)
aka: The Horror Star
8. The Glass Tomb (1955)
aka: The Glass Cage
9. Hawk the Slayer (1980)
10. The Howling II : Your Sister Is a Werewolf (1985)
11. The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By (1952)
aka: Paris Express
12. Our Man in Havana (1960)
13. Pirates (1986)
14. Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978)
15. Third Man on the Mountain (1959)
16. Vampire Happening (1971)
17. The Vampire Lovers (1970)
18. Where Eagles Dare (1968)
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