A Brief Vacation 1973  PG, 106 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Cast: Florinda Bolkan, Renato Salvatori, Daniel Quenaud, Jose Maria Prada, Adriana Asti, Teresa Gimpera, Anna Carena, Miranda Campa, Hugo Blanco, Angela Cardile
Clara (Florinda Bolkan) has her hands full trying to support her family–children, disabled husband, obnoxious brother-in-law, and senile mother–on the meager wages of a factory worker. Things take a turn for the better when she is diagnosed with tuberculosis and enters a sanatorium where her spirits and body are improved. Sadly, it's only a brief vacation before she must return to her former life.
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Dr. Orloff's Monster 1964  N/R, 99 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: The Secret of Dr. Orloff
Director: Jesus Franco
Cast: Marcelo Arroita-Jauregui, Hugo Blanco, Luisa Sala, Agnes Spaak, Jose Rubio, Marta Reves, Heriberto Pastor Serrador, Daniel Blumer, Manuel Guitian, Perla Cristal
A mad scientist gets even madder when he finds out that his brother is sleeping with his wife. So he turns his brother into a robotic zombie, and the slaughters start. A poor sequel to the already poor "The Awful Dr. Orloff."
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The Sadistic Baron Von Klaus 1962  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Foreign / Horror
Director: Jesus Franco
Cast: Howard Vernon, Hugo Blanco, Gogo Rijo, Fernando Delgado, Paula Martel, Ana Castor, Georges Rollin, Maria Frances, Serafin Garcia Vazquez, Miguel Madrid
A young baron attempts to leave the old mansion, with its dungeon of death, and leave the family curse behind. But, the curse takes hold and the torturing and murdering of women begins. Very few "horror moments" in this slow film.
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Texas, Addio 1966 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Foreign / Western
Director: Ferdinando Baldi
Cast: Franco Nero, Alberto Dell'Acqua, Jose Suarez, Elisa Montes, Jose Guardiola, Livio Lorenzon, Hugo Blanco, Luigi Pistilli, Antonella Murgia, Gino Pernice, Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia
The body count is high in this spaghetti Western. Tough Sheriff Burt Sullivan (Franco Nero) leaves his job and heads to Mexico with his younger brother, Jim (Alberto Dell'Acqua), in search of the man, Cisco (Jose Suarez), who killed his father many years before. He locates Cisco, now a rich, ruthless, crime boss. The battle begins, despite the wrinkle that Cisco is Jim's father.
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| 1. A Brief Vacation (1973)
2. Dr. Orloff's Monster (1964)
aka: The Secret of Dr. Orloff
3. The Sadistic Baron Von Klaus (1962)
4. Texas, Addio (1966)
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