Barabbas 1962  N/R, 144 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama
Director: Richard Fleischer
Cast: Anthony Quinn, Arthur Kennedy, Ernest Borgnine, Silvana Mangano, Jack Palance, Katy Jurado, Harry Andrews, Vittorio Gassman, Valentina Cortese, Douglas Fowley, Norman Wooland, Michael Gwynn, Roy Magnano
This is the story of Barabbas (Anthony Quinn), the thief who Pontius Pilate (Arthur Kennedy) tried along with Jesus and allowed to escape crucifixion. After being released, the guilt-ridden Barabbas goes through many ordeals searching for meaning in his life and, finally, becomes a follower of Christ. The script and cast are good in this religious epic.
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 Jason and the Argonauts 1963   G, 104 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Adventure / Fantasy
aka: Jason and the Golden Fleece
Director: Don Chaffey
Cast: Todd Armstrong, Nancy Kovack, Gary Raymond, Laurence Naismith, Niall MacGinnis, Michael Gwynn, Douglas Wilmer, Jack Gwillim, Honor Blackman, John Cairney, Patrick Troughton, Andrew Faulds, Nigel Green
Master stop-motion animator Ray Harryhausen really makes this a fantasy to watch. Based on Greek mythology, Jason (Todd Armstrong) is heir to the throne of Thessaly, but it is ordained that he must first return the magical Golden Fleece. Thus, under the protection of the goddess Hera, he and his crew set sail, encountering many obstacles along the way–including a seven-headed reptile, a 100-foot tall live statue, and an army of skeletons.
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Revenge of Frankenstein 1958 N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Horror / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Director: Terence Fisher
Cast: Peter Cushing, Francis Matthews, Eunice Gayson, Michael Gwynn, John Welsh, Lionel Jeffries, Charles Lloyd Pack, Michael Ripper, John Stuart, Arnold Diamond, Oscar Quitak, Richard Wordsworth, Marjorie Gresley, Anna Walmsley, George Woodbridge
Dr. Frankenstein (Peter Cushing) takes on the new identity of "Dr. Victor Stein" and is up to his old tricks of transplanting body parts into a monster. This is a sequel to "The Curse of Frankenstein" and is followed by "The Evil of Frankenstein."
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The Runaway Bus 1954  N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Comedy / Mystery
Director: Val Guest
Cast: Frankie Howerd, Margaret Rutherford, Petula Clark, George Coulouris, Belinda Lee, Reginald Beckwith, Toke Townley, Terence Alexander, John Horsley, Marianne Stone, Stringer Davis, Lisa Gastoni, Frank Phillips, Sam Kydd, Michael Gwynn
Bus driver Percy Lamb (Frankie Howerd) is transporting passengers from foggy Heathrow airport to another airport. Unbeknownst to Percy, the perpetrator with a cache of stolen gold is on his bus, and to make matters worse, Percy and his passengers get lost in the fog.
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The Scars of Dracula 1970 R, 96 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Cast: Christopher Lee, Jenny Hanley, Dennis Waterman, Christopher Matthews, Patrick Troughton, Michael Gwynn, David Leland, Michael Ripper, Wendy Hamilton, Anouska Hempel
This film is good viewing. As one of a number of entries in the Dracula series, Christopher Lee again takes on the role of Count Dracula. This story is about a murder in the Count's castle, and the victim's brother makes the mistake of searching for the killer.
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What a Carve Up! 1961 N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Comedy / Horror
aka: No Place Like Homicide
Director: Pat Jackson
Cast: Kenneth Connor, Sid James, Shirley Eaton, Donald Pleasence, Dennis Price, Michael Gough, Valerie Taylor, Michael Gwynn, Esma Cannon, Philip O'Flynn, Timothy Bateson, Frederick Piper
Members of the Broughton family gather together in an eerie mansion for the reading of Uncle Gabriel's (Philip O'Flynn) will. Several of the family end up murdered, and it turns out that the murderer is Uncle Gabriel who faked his death to get even with the rest of his family.
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| 1. Barabbas (1962)
2. Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
aka: Jason and the Golden Fleece
3. Revenge of Frankenstein (1958)
4. The Runaway Bus (1954)
5. The Scars of Dracula (1970)
6. What a Carve Up! (1961)
aka: No Place Like Homicide
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