 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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Run, Man, Run! 1968  N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Foreign / Western
Director: Sergio Sollima
Cast: Tomas Milian, Donald O'Brien, John Ireland, Federico Boido, Linda Veras, Chelo Alonso, Jose Torres, Luciano Rossi, Nello Pazzafini, Marco Guglielmi, Gianni Rizzo, Goffredo Unger
Knife-throwing, petty thief Cuchillo (Tomas Milian) finds out from a prison inmate, who he helped escape, the location of a cache of gold. After the prisoner is killed, Cuchillo heads for the gold, which is intended to help fund the Mexical Revolution. But others also want the gold. One of the better spaghetti Westerns, with humor thrown in for good measure.
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Sabata 1969  PG, 107 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Gianfranco Parolini
Cast: Lee Van Cleef, William Berger, Franco Ressel, Linda Veras, Ignazio Spalla, Claudio Undari, Gianni Rizzo, Aldo Canti, Antonio Gradoli, Luciano Pigozzi, Spartaco Conversi, Carlo Tamberlani
City leaders, led by Stengel (Franco Ressel) hire robbers to steal money from an Army safe and plan to use the money to buy land in order to build a railroad. The robbers get the money, but Stengel doesn't want to share the loot, so he offers a reward for the capture of the robbers. Sabata (Lee Van Cleef) rides into town, tracks down the robbers, and collects the reward. Then he realizes that Stengel was behind the theft and attempts to blackmail him, which leads Stengel to hire assassins to kill Sabata. But, Sabata outwits them, kills Stengel, and rides out of town. This spaghetti Western spawned two sequels, "Adios, Sabata" and "The Return of Sabata."
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| 1. Le Mepris (1963)
aka: Contempt
2. Run, Man, Run! (1968)
3. Sabata (1969)
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