Beat Girl 1959  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 Kayne, Anthony Singleton, Robert Raglan, Nade Beall
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 lecherous club owner Kenny King (Christopher Lee) takes an interest in Jennifer.
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 Blowup 1966  N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama / Thriller
aka: Blow-Up
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Cast: David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, John Castle, Jill Kennington, Verushka von Lehndorff, Jane Birkin, Gillian Hills, Peter Bowles, Harry Hutchinson, Julian Chagrin, Claude Chagrin, Susan Brodrick, Mary Khal, Reg Wilkins
A London photographer (David Hemmings) unwittingly photographs a murder. What follows is the untangling of the psychological web in this masterpiece of visual magnificence. Michelangelo Antonioni was nominated for an Oscar for Best Director.
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Demons of the Mind 1972  R, 89 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: Blood Evil
Nightmare of Terror
Director: Peter Sykes
Cast: Patrick Magee, Paul Jones, Yvonne Mitchell, Robert Hardy, Gillian Hills, Michael Hordern, Kenneth J. Warren, Shane Briant, Virginia Wetherell, Thomas Heathcote, Robert Brown, Deirdre Costello, Barry Stanton, Sidonie Bond, John Atkinson
A 19th-century baron (Robert Hardy) keeps his grown children locked up because he thinks they are possessed by demons–which were passed on from their deceased mother. But the good baron has more skeletons in the closet, and Dr. Falkenberg (Patrick Magee) tries to find out what is going on. Another Hammer Films mood piece.
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Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1959  N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Dangerous Liaisons 1960
Director: Roger Vadim
Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Gerard Philipe, Annette Vadim, Jeanne Valerie, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Simone Renant, Boris Vian, Nicolas Vogel, Frederick O'Brady, Gillian Hills, Madeleine Lambert, Paquita Thomas
In this update of Laclos' 18th-century novel, a married couple (Jeanne Moreau and Gerard Philipe) is forever looking for fun, excitement, and sex (with others, but innocent, of course). It does a good job of catching the mood of the late 1950s France and was later remade in the U.S. as "Valmont" (1989) and "Dangerous Liaisons" (1988).
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| 1. Beat Girl (1959)
aka: Wild for Kicks
2. Blowup (1966)
aka: Blow-Up
3. Demons of the Mind (1972)
aka: Blood Evil
aka: Nightmare of Terror
4. Les Liaisons Dangereuses (1959)
aka: Dangerous Liaisons 1960
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