America, America 1963  N/R, 168 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: The Anatolian Smile
Director: Elia Kazan
Cast: Stathis Giallelis, Frank Wolff, Elena Karam, Estelle Hemsley, Lou Antonio, John Marley, Harry Davis, Linda Marsh, Paul Mann, George Foundas
This film received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Director, and Story and won the Oscar for Best Art Direction. The story depicts the struggles of a young immigrant (Stathis Giallelis) who, through hard work, is able to survive in his new land and bring his family to America.
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Atlas 1960  N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Roger Corman
Cast: Michael Forest, Frank Wolff, Barboura Morris, Walter Maslow, Christos Exarchos, Andreas Filippides, Theodoros Dimitriou, Miranda Kounelaki, Roger Corman, James Carleton
Greek mythological hero Atlas (Michael Forest) has won the ancient Grecian city state of Thenis for Praximedes (Frank Wolff) in a private combat between leading warriors. He leaves Thenis with the woman he loves, Candia (Barboura Morris). Too late, Atlas recognizes the evil in the tyrannical Praximedes and joins rebel troops in a fight to regain the city.
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Il Grande Silenzo 1968  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Foreign / Western
aka: The Great Silence
Director: Sergio Corbucci
Cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Klaus Kinski, Vonetta McGee, Frank Wolff, Luigi Pistilli, Remo de Angelis, Bruno Corazzari, Mario Brega, Carlo D'Angelo, Raf Baldassarre
This is one of the best of the so-called spaghetti Westerns. Silence (Jean-Louis Trintignant) is mute due to his throat being cut by ruthless bounty hunters. Now he's on the trail of a mean group of them who were hired by the corrupt sheriff of a Utah town. Overall, a good movie–especially the scenery (shot in the Pyrenees).
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 Once Upon a Time in the West 1968  PG, 165 min.
Genre: Western / Action / Drama
Director: Sergio Leone
Cast: Claudia Cardinale, Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Jason Robards, Woody Strode, Jack Elam, Keenan Wynn, Lionel Stander, Paolo Stoppa, Frank Wolff, Gabriele Ferzetti, Frank Brana, Benito Stefanelli, Aldo Sambrell
This movie is a classic, telling the story of the railroad's effect on the American West and how great wealth could be attained by owning land around it. The owner of a railroad, Morton (Gabriele Ferzetti), hires Frank (Henry Fonda) to kill any landowners around the railroad line who threaten the railroad's completion. Frank does what he was hired to do and murders landowner Brett McBain (Frank Wolff). Now Brett's widow (Claudia Cardinale) arrives on the scene to ensure that the family's land remains in her name. She is also out for revenge and hires two killers of her own choice, Harmonica and Cheyenne (Charles Bronson and Jason Robards), to kill Frank. And the quest to get even begins.
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Salvatore Giuliano 1961 N/R, 125 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Francesco Rosi
Cast: Frank Wolff, Salvo Randone, Federico Zardi, Pietro Cammarata, Fernando Cicero, Sennuccio Benelli, Bruno Ekmar, Max Cartier, Giuseppe Calandra, Cosimo Torino, Giuseppe Teti, Ugo Torrente
The life of Sicilian gangster Salvatore Giuliano is the subject of this film, which begins at Giuliano's funeral and is then told through flashbacks.
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Situation Hopeless...But Not Serious 1965  N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Gottfried Reinhardt
Cast: Alec Guinness, Mike Connors, Robert Redford, Anita Hoefer, Mady Rahl, Paul Dahlke, Frank Wolff, Elisabeth von Molo, John Briley, Carola Regnier
A bizarre, and more than slightly mad, German (Alec Guinness) keeps two American airmen (Mike Connors and Robert Redford) captive in his basement for six years after the war has ended.
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Ski Troop Attack 1960 N/R, 63 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Roger Corman
Cast: Michael Forest, Frank Wolff, Wally Campo, Richard Sinatra, James Hoffman, Sheila Carol, Roger Corman, Wayne Lasher, Tom Staley, Skeeter Bayer
During World War II, American soldiers, who are members of a ski patrol, are sent on a mission to go behind Nazi lines and blow up a railroad bridge. Many problems await them, but their perseverance pays off. Good action scenes.
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Villa Rides 1968 N/R, 125 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Buzz Kulik
Cast: Yul Brynner, Robert Mitchum, Gracia Buccella, Charles Bronson, Herbert Lom, Frank Wolff, Fernando Rey, Jill Ireland, Alexander Knox
This film brings to the screen Hollywood's version of the Mexican bandit/folk hero, Pancho Villa, with Yul Brynner in the title role.
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 The Wasp Woman 1960  N/R, 73 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Roger Corman
Cast: Susan Cabot, Michael Mark, Anthony Eisley, Barboura Morris, Frank Gerstle, Dick Miller, Bruno VeSota, Frank Wolff, William Roerick
Aging, cosmetics tycoon Janice (Susan Cabot) uses wasp jelly as her formula for eternal youth. However, problems develop when a chilling side effect of her youth potion turns her intermittently into a wasp monster.
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| 1. America, America (1963)
aka: The Anatolian Smile
2. Atlas (1960)
3. Beast from Haunted Cave (1959)
4. Il Grande Silenzo (1968)
aka: The Great Silence
5. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
6. Salvatore Giuliano (1961)
7. Situation Hopeless...But Not Serious (1965)
8. Ski Troop Attack (1960)
9. Villa Rides (1968)
10. The Wasp Woman (1960)
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