End of the Game 1976  PG, 106 min.
Genre: Mystery
aka: Getting Away with Murder
Director: Maximilian Schell
Cast: Jon Voight, Jacqueline Bisset, Martin Ritt, Robert Shaw, Helmut Qualtinger, Gabriele Ferzetti, Norbert Schiller, Lil Dagover, Donald Sutherland
Swiss detective Hans Baerlach (Martin Ritt) has been on the trail of Richard Gastmann (Robert Shaw). Now, as he closes in, the waters become murky, and things are not always as clear as they seem.
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Frankenstein - 1970 1958  N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller / Sci-Fi
Director: Howard W. Koch
Cast: Boris Karloff, Tom Duggan, Jana Lund, Don "Red" Barry, Charlotte Austin, Norbert Schiller, Rudolph Anders, Irwin Berke, Mike Lane, John Dennis, Franz Roehn, Joe Ploski, Otto Reichow, Jack Kenny
In this story, set in the future (1970), Victor III (Boris Karloff) is the disfigured grandson of Frankenstein who tries to create life in his own unique way–by employing nuclear power! Because he needs money to generate atomic energy, Victor allows a TV crew to shoot a documentary about his grandfather. When they arrive at his German castle, Victor collects rent from them and then uses the money to buy an atomic reactor, which he employs to kill off crewmembers for spare parts for his creature. But, just like in the case of his grandfather, tragedy ensues.
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The Man in the Glass Booth 1975  PG, 117 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Arthur Hiller
Cast: Maximilian Schell, Lois Nettleton, Luther Adler, Lawrence Pressman, Henry Brown, Richard Rasof, David Nash, Martin Berman, Sy Kramer, Lloyd Bochner, Robert H. Harris, Norbert Schiller, Berry Kroeger, Leonardo Cimino, Connie Sawyer
In 1965, Arthur Goldman (Maximilian Schell) is a wealthy Jewish industrialist enjoying life in a luxury apartment in Manhattan when Israeli agents break into his home and arrest him for being the Nazi war criminal "Dorff" who ran a Nazi death camp. Goldman is drugged and sent to Israel where he is tried while in a protective glass booth. Now the question is, "Is he, or is he not, really Dorff?" This screen adaptation of Robert Shaw's play is so far removed from Shaw's interpretation that Shaw removed his name from the credits.
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Sealed Verdict 1948  N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lewis Allen
Cast: Ray Milland, Florence Marly, Broderick Crawford, John Hoyt, John Ridgely, Ludwig Donath, Norbert Schiller, Patricia Miller, Celia Lovsky, Elisabeth Risdon
Captain Kinsella (Broderick Crawford) is suspected of being a Nazi, and Major Robert Lawson (Ray Milland) is determined to find sufficient evidence to put Kinsella away.
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Thieves' Highway 1949 N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jules Dassin
Cast: Richard Conte, Valentina Cortese, Lee J. Cobb, Barbara Lawrence, Jack Oakie, Millard Mitchell, Joseph Pevney, Morris Carnovsky, Tamara Shayne, Kasia Orzazewski, Norbert Schiller, Hope Emerson
World War II vet Nick Garcos (Richard Conte) returns home and finds himself in the middle of another war. This time, the enemy is Mike Figlia (Lee J. Cobb) who heads up a racketeering and smuggling ring in California. As a result of this film, Director Jules Dassin was labeled a Communist sympathizer and was blacklisted from Hollywood.
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| 1. End of the Game (1976)
aka: Getting Away with Murder
2. Frankenstein - 1970 (1958)
3. The Man in the Glass Booth (1975)
4. Sealed Verdict (1948)
5. Thieves' Highway (1949)
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