The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones 1976  R, 94 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Cliff Owen
Cast: Nicky Henson, Trevor Howard, Joan Collins, Terry-Thomas, Arthur Lowe, Georgia Brown, William Mervyn, Murray Melvin, Madeline Smith, Geraldine McEwan, John Forrest
Tom Jones (Nicky Henson) and Black Bess (Trevor Howard) frolic in this musical based on Henry Fielding's novel.
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Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell 1974 TV, 93 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Terence Fisher
Cast: Peter Cushing, Shane Briant, Madeline Smith, David Prowse, Patrick Troughton, Bernard Lee, John Stratton, Michael Ward, Elsie Wagstaff, Norman Mitchell, Clifford Mollison, Philip Voss, Charles Lloyd Pack, Lucy Griffiths, Christopher Cunningham
Dr. Frankenstein is presumed dead, but he is using the assumed name of Dr. Victor (Peter Cushing) and is in charge of an insane asylum. With help from his crazed assistant, Dr. Simon Helder (Shane Briant), he creates a new "monster" (Dave Prowse) from body parts of the asylum's criminal patients–and the gore continues. This film is Terence Fisher's final entry in his series of Frankenstein stories.
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 Live and Let Die 1973 PG, 121 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Guy Hamilton
Cast: Roger Moore, Jane Seymour, Yaphet Kotto, Geoffrey Holder, Clifton James, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell, David Hedison, Julius Harris, Gloria Hendry, Tommy Lane, Madeline Smith, Robert Dix, Roy Stewart, Earl Jolly Brown
This is the eighth agent 007 film, but it is the first with Roger Moore in the starring role. In this installment, James Bond is on the trail of a Caribbean-based drug dealer. As with the previous seven 007 films, this one has plenty of gadgetry, beautiful women, and wild chases. It's not up to the standards of the others, though, except for the title song by Paul McCartney.
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 The Vampire Lovers 1970 R, 91 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller / Mystery
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Cast: Ingrid Pitt, Pippa Steel, Peter Cushing, Madeline Smith, George Cole, Dawn Addams, Kate O'Mara, Douglas Wilmer, Ferdy Mayne, Jon Finch, Kirsten Lindholm, Janet Key, John Forbes-Robertson, Charles Farrell, Harvey Hall
Hammer Films gets into more sex and violence in this first of three films based on Sheridan LeFanu's "Carmilla," the tale of a lesbian vampire. Our vampire heroine (Ingrid Pitt) awakens from her death sleep and, using the name of Marcilla, heads to a European town to exact revenge on those responsible for killing off her family. She starts having lesbian encounters and then drains the blood of her "partner." It's time to bring in the vampire killer! Followed by "Lust for a Vampire" and "Twins of Evil."
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Why Didn't They Ask Evans? 1980 TV, 180 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: John Davies, Tony Wharmby
Cast: Francesca Annis, John Gielgud, James Warwick, Bernard Miles, Eric Porter, Leigh Lawson, Madeline Smith, Robert Longden, Connie Booth, Doris Hare, Joan Hickson
Based on the Agatha Christie novel, this complicated, made-for-TV film is long and, at times, hard to follow the convoluted plot. With some humor thrown in, it follows Lady Frances Derwent (Francesca Annis) and Bobby Jones (James Warwick) as they solve the mystery.
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| 1. The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones (1976)
2. Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974)
3. Live and Let Die (1973)
4. The Vampire Lovers (1970)
5. Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (1980)
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