La Residencia 1969 PG, 104 min. Genre: Foreign / Horror aka: The House That Screamed
Director: Chicho Ibanez-Serrador Cast: Lilli Palmer, Cristina Galbo, John Moulder-Brown, Mary Maude, Candida Losada, Tomas Bianco, Pauline Challoner, Maribel Martin, Teresa Hurtado, Conchita Paredes
Stern Madame Fourneau (Lilli Palmer) runs a school for girls, and her son, Luis (John Moulder-Brown), takes advantage of the abundance of girls by building the perfect girl from pieces of the pupils after murdering them. A good, well-paced horror flick.
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Man at the Top 1973 N/R, 87 min. Genre: Drama
Director: Mike Vardy Cast: Kenneth Haigh, Nanette Newman, Harry Andrews, William Lucas, Clive Swift, Paul Williamson, John Collin, John Quentin, Danny Sewell, Charlie Williams, Anne Cunningham, Angela Bruce, Margaret Heald, Norma West, Mary Maude
First there was the great film "Room at the Top," followed by "Life at the Top." These films inspired the British TV series "Man at the Top," which, in turn, inspired this film. Business executive Joe Lampton (Kenneth Haigh) has a problem: whether or not to blow the whistle on an untested drug put out by his company. Joe knows that his boss, who is also his father-in-law Lord Ackerman (Harry Andrews), will not be happy if he does. Meanwhile, Joe's marriage falls apart, and Joe enters into a love affair with Lord's wife Alex (Nanette Newman). And Joe's problems continue.
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Scorpio 1973 PG, 114 min. Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller
Director: Michael Winner Cast: Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Paul Scofield, John Colicos, Gayle Hunnicutt, J.D. Cannon, Joanne Linville, James Sikking, Mel Stewart, Vladek Sheybal, Mary Maude, Jack Colvin, Burke Byrnes, William Smithers, Shmuel Rodensky
The daring world of espionage is the setting for this film about Soviet defector Cross (Burt Lancaster) who tries to escape the bullet of a CIA-blackmailed assassin, Laurier (Alain Delon).
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| 1. La Residencia (1969) aka: The House That Screamed
2. Man at the Top (1973)
3. Scorpio (1973)
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