Death at Love House 1976  TV, 74 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: E.W. Swackhamer
Cast: Robert Wagner, Kate Jackson, Sylvia Sidney, Joan Blondell, Dorothy Lamour, John Carradine, Bill Macy, Marianna Hill, Joseph Bernard, Robert Gibbons
Long dead Lorna Love (Marianna Hill) was a movie queen. Her life is being researched by Joel (Robert Wagner)–whose father had an affair with Lorna–and Joel's wife, Donna (Kate Jackson). It turns out that Lorna used many techniques to gain stardom, including witchcraft. Now, Joel's obsession with Lorna results in her return from the dead. Originally made for TV.
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 High Plains Drifter 1973  R, 105 min.
Genre: Western / Drama / Romance
Director: Clint Eastwood
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Billy Curtis, Verna Bloom, Marianna Hill, Mitch Ryan, Jack Ging, Stefan Gierasch, Geoffrey Lewis, Walter Barnes, Paul Brinegar, Ted Hartley, Richard Bull, Robert Donner, John Hillerman
Clint Eastwood plays a cowboy known only as "the Stranger" who drifts into the town of Lagos that contains more dishonest citizens than one could count. As a matter of fact, it is hard for "the Stranger" to keep track of the good guys and the bad guys when the townsfolk hire him for protection from outlaws.
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Medium Cool 1969 R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Haskell Wexler
Cast: Robert Forster, Verna Bloom, Peter Bonerz, Peter Boyle, Marianna Hill, Christine Bergstrom, Harold Blankenship, Charles Geary, Doug Kimball, Robert McAndrew
This excellent semi-documentary makes a statement about the influence of TV on society. It focuses on a disinterested cameraman who unemotionally films the street riots, which were a facet of the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago.
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Paradise, Hawaiian Style 1966 N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Musical / Comedy
Director: Michael D. Moore
Cast: Elvis Presley, Suzanna Leigh, James Shigeta, Donna Butterworth, Philip Ahn, Marianna Hill, Irene Tsu, John Doucette, Grady Sutton, Mary Treen, Julie Parrish, Jan Shepard, Doris Packer, Don Collier, Linda Wong
After being blacklisted by major airlines for his romantic trysts with female staff members, pilot Rick Richards (Elvis Presley) and his friend Danny Kohana (James Shigeta) start up a helicopter charter service in Hawaii. Rick's plan is to find romance with different girls as he travels from island to island. Judy Hudson (Suzanna Leigh) serves as their secretary, and she is just one of the women Rick romances. Will Rick ever learn that mixing his ideas of romance with flying is not a good idea?
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 Red Line 7000 1965  N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: James Caan, Laura Devon, Gail Hire, Charlene Holt, John Robert Crawford, Marianna Hill, James Ward, Norman Alden, George Takei, Robert Donner
Excellent racing scenes help the excitement of this film about romance and tragedy encountered in auto racing.
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Star Trek Original Series, Vol. 5 (Episodes 10&11) 1966  TV, 100 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: James Goldstone, Vincent McEveety
Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Nichelle Nichols, Majel Barrett, Michael Strong, Morgan Woodward, Marianna Hill, James Gregory, Sherry Jackson
Two episodes of the original series are presented on this DVD. "What are Little Girls Made of?" (aired 10/20/1966, stardate 2712.4). The Enterprise is searching for biologist Dr. Korby, and finds him on a now-uninhabited planet. The trouble is, he has learned how to make androids and intends to make duplicates of leaders in order to take over the Federation. Kirk becomes a test case. "Dagger of the Mind" (aired 11/3/1966, stardate 2715.1)-While investigating evidence that members of a penal colony are going mad, Kirk finds that he must deal with Dr. Adams who has developed a brainwashing device.
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| 1. Death at Love House (1976)
2. High Plains Drifter (1973)
3. Medium Cool (1969)
4. Paradise, Hawaiian Style (1966)
5. Red Line 7000 (1965)
6. Star Trek Original Series, Vol. 5 (Episodes 10&11) (1966)
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