Before Winter Comes 1969  PG, 107 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Cast: David Niven, Topol, Anna Karina, John Hurt, Anthony Quayle, Ori Levy, John Collin, Karel Stepanek, Guy Deghy, George Innes
During 1945, in an Austrian camp for displaced persons, British Major Giles Burnside (David Niven) is given the job of dispatching civilians to either the Russian or the American zones. Burnside is aided by a multilingual refugee, Janovic (Topol), who, it turns out, is not the person he pretends to be.
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Devil Doll 1964 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Lindsay Shonteff, Sidney J. Furie
Cast: Bryant Haliday, William Sylvester, Yvonne Romain, Sandra Dorne, Karel Stepanek, Nora Nicholson, Francis De Wolff, Philip Ray, David Charlesworth, Alan Gifford, Guy Deghy, Ray Landor
The Great Vorelli (Bryant Haliday) is a successful ventriloquist and hypnotist whose act includes a unique dummy. When a journalist (William Sylvester) sets out to uncover the duo's past, the truth comes out that Vorelli had killed his partner some years earlier and transferred the partner's mind to the dummy. Now he intends to add a female dummy: the journalist's girlfriend (Yvonne Romain). Interesting.
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Vendetta for the Saint 1969 TV, 95 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Jim O'Connolly
Cast: Roger Moore, Ian Hendry, Rosemary Dexter, Aimi MacDonald, George Pastell, Marie Burke, Finlay Currie, Fulton Mackay, Alex Scott, Peter Madden, Anthony Newlands, Guy Deghy
Roger Moore recreates his TV-series role of suave adventurer Simon Templar in this made-for-TV film. Simon witnesses an altercation between two men in a Sicilian bar and decides to investigate after he reads in the next day's paper that one of the two had been murdered. He soon finds out the Mafia is involved, and he is slated for extinction.
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A Walk with Love and Death 1969 PG, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Huston
Cast: Anjelica Huston, Anthony Higgins, Assi Dayan, John Hallam, John Huston, Robert Lang, Michael Gough, Guy Deghy, George Murcell, Eileen Murphy, Anthony Nicholls, Joseph O'Conor
During the Hundred Years War in the 14th-century, Lady Claudia (Anjelica Huston) meets and falls in love with Heron of Foix (Assi Dayan). As lovers, they flee the country together and arrive at a monastery where they hope to be married. But more problems lie ahead for the doomed couple. This film marks Anjelica Huston's screen debut.
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| 1. Before Winter Comes (1969)
2. Devil Doll (1964)
3. Vendetta for the Saint (1969)
4. A Walk with Love and Death (1969)
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