Island of Love 1963  N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Morton DaCosta
Cast: Robert Preston, Tony Randall, Giorgia Moll, Walter Matthau, Betty Bruce, Michael Constantine, Norma Varden, Titos Vandis, Lewis Charles, Peter Mamakos
Two con men, Steve Blair (Robert Preston) and Paul Ferris (Tony Randall), trying to escape from gangster Tony Dallas (Walter Matthau), turn a Greek island's faltering tourist trade around by promoting the island as "The Island of Love."
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 Le Mepris 1963  N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Contempt
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Cast: Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, Giorgia Moll, Jean-Luc Godard, Fritz Lang, Linda Veras, Raoul Coutard
Paul Javal (Michel Piccoli) is busy rewriting the screenplay "The Odyssey" for producer Jeremy Prokosch (Jack Palance). Meanwhile, Paul's wife, Camille (Brigitte Bardot), is not happy in their marriage. As she expresses her unhappiness, Paul is unable to confront the real world, just does not understand the problems, and their marriage falls apart. This film was restored and re-released in 1997.
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 The Quiet American 1958  N/R, 120 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller / Romance
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast: Audie Murphy, Michael Redgrave, Claude Dauphin, Giorgia Moll, Bruce Cabot, Richard Loo, Yoko Tani, Sonia Moser, Fred Sadoff, Kerima, Peter Trent, Georges Brehat, Clinton Anderson, Nguyen Long, C. Long Cuong
Told in flashbacks, this film, based on Graham Greene's novel, stars Audie Murphy as the innocent young American who goes to Vietnam with idealistic plans to help the Vietnamese fight the Communists and the French. He meets embittered British reporter Thomas Fowler (Michael Redgrave) who is living with a beautiful woman, Phuong (Giorgia Moll), and the American falls in love with her. Fowler retaliates, and the American ends up as a pawn whose fate is sealed when Fowler tells the Communists that the American is selling arms to their enemy.
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Thief of Baghdad 1961  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Foreign / Adventure / Fantasy
Director: Arthur Lubin, Bruno Vailati
Cast: Steve Reeves, Giorgia Moll, Arturo Dominici, Edy Vessel, Georges Chamarat, Daniele Vargas, Giancarlo Zarfati, Anita Todesco, Antonio Battistella, Eduardo Bergamo
A young man (Steve Reeves) must find an enchanted blue rose before he can marry the beautiful princess.
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The White Warrior 1959  N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Foreign / Adventure
Director: Riccardo Freda
Cast: Steve Reeves, Giorgia Moll, Renato Baldini, Scilla Gabel, Gerard Herter, Nikola Popovic, Milivoje Zivanovic, Niksa Stefanini, Jovan Gec
Steve Reeves still looks and acts like Hercules, although this poor effort is actually based on a Tolstoy story of the fight against the mean Czar Nicholas I in 19th-century Russia. There is also a terrible dubbed version out there.
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| 1. Island of Love (1963)
2. Le Mepris (1963)
aka: Contempt
3. The Quiet American (1958)
4. Thief of Baghdad (1961)
5. The White Warrior (1959)
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