The Brain 1962  N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: Vengeance
Director: Freddie Francis
Cast: Peter van Eyck, Anne Heywood, Cecil Parker, Bernard Lee, Maxine Audley, Ellen Schwiers, Jeremy Spenser, Siegfried Lowitz, Hans Nielsen, Miles Malleson, Jack MacGowran, George A. Cooper
After a bomb explodes on a rich financier's plane, Dr. Peter Corrie (Peter van Eyck) notes that the dead man's brain is still alive, and he removes it. As the brain gains power, it takes charge of Peter's mind and orders Peter to find the killer. This is the third–and weakest– film based on Curt Siodmak's novel. The previous films were "The Lady and the Monster" (1944) and "Donovan's Brain" (1953).
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Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace 1962  N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Mystery
aka: Valley of Fear
Director: Terence Fisher, Frank Winterstein
Cast: Christopher Lee, Senta Berger, Hans Sohnker, Hans Nielsen, Ivan Desny, Leon Askin, Thorley Walters, Wolfgang Lukschy, Edith Schultze-Westrum, Bernard La Jarrige
In one of the more unusual depictions of the storied sleuth, this German-made film shows the villainous Moriarty (Hans Sohnker) as respected in both the community and by Scotland Yard. But when a necklace is stolen from Cleopatra's tomb, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (Christopher Lee and Thorley Walters) are hot on Moriarty's trail.
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 Titanic 1943  N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Werner Klingler, Herbert Selpin
Cast: Sybille Schmitz, Hans Nielsen, Kirsten Heiberg, Ernst Fritz Furbringer, Karl Schonbock, Charlotte Thiele, Otto Wernicke, Franz Schatheitlin, Sepp Rist, Theodor Loos
This German propaganda version of the sinking of the H.M.S. Titanic places the blame squarely on the British, Americans, and Jews. An interesting look at the Nazi depiction of anti-English sentiment.
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Town Without Pity 1961 N/R, 112 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Gottfried Reinhardt
Cast: Kirk Douglas, E.G. Marshall, Robert Blake, Richard Jaeckel, Christine Kaufmann, Stefan Schnabel, Alan Gifford, Barbara Rutting, Hans Nielsen, Frank Sutton
American GIs are accused of raping a young German girl. This is the story of her fellow townspeople's indignation and demand for retribution.
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| 1. The Brain (1962)
aka: Vengeance
2. Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (1962)
aka: Valley of Fear
3. Titanic (1943)
4. Town Without Pity (1961)
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