Connecting Rooms 1971  N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Franklin Gollings
Cast: Bette Davis, Michael Redgrave, Alexis Kanner, Kay Walsh, Leo Genn, Olga Georges-Picot, Richard Wyler, Mark(2) Jones, Gabrielle Drake, Brian Wilde
This drama involves three misfits–a musician, a former teacher, and a young man–who board in a London house and profoundly influence each others' lives.
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The Day of the Jackal 1973   PG, 144 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Cast: Edward Fox, Terence Alexander, Alan Badel, Michel Auclair, Tony Britton, Adrien Cayla-Legrand, Cyril Cusack, Maurice Denham, David(2) Swift, Denis Carey, Vernon Dobtcheff, Michael Lonsdale, Olga Georges-Picot, Derek Jacobi, Raymond Gerome
Conspiring French generals hire the Jackal (Edward Fox) to assassinate President Charles de Gaulle (Adrien Cayla-Legrand) in the early 1960s. The French Security Force is suspicious when the French generals who hired the Jackal have gone into hiding. They kidnap the generals' errand boy, and when questioned he reveals the assassins name. The Security Force hires ace detective Lebel (Michel Lonsdale) to track down the Jackal before he kills DeGaulle. The Jackal now assumes a new identity that will make it even more difficult for Lebel to catch him before he completes the assassination. And the mystery deepens.
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Farewell, Friend 1968 PG, 115 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama / Thriller
aka: Honor Among Thieves
Director: Jean Herman
Cast: Alain Delon, Charles Bronson, Olga Georges-Picot, Brigitte Fossey, Bernard Fresson, Marianna Falk, Ellen Bahl, Guy Delorme, Jean-Claude Ballard, Raoul Guylad, Lisette Lebon, Gilbert Servien
This movie involves French mercenaries Dino Barran and Franz Propp (Alain Delon and Charles Bronson) who return home from Algeria, are separated, then reunite, and turn to robbery, which results in internal conflicts.
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Love and Death 1975  PG, 85 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Olga Georges-Picot, Harold Gould, Jessica Harper, Shimen Ruskin, James Tolkan, Howard Vernon, Zvee Scooler, Alan Tilvern
Set during the 1812 Napoleonic invasion of Russia, this film is good satire on Russian politics and literature. Diane Keaton plays the strong Sonja who is loved by the weak, intellectual Boris (Woody Allen). Boris is falsely accused and then executed for the "death" of Napoleon.
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The Man Who Haunted Himself 1970  PG, 94 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Basil Dearden
Cast: Roger Moore, Hildegarde Neil, Alastair Mackenzie, Hugh Mackenzie, Kevork Malikyan, Thorley Walters, Anton Rodgers, Olga Georges-Picot, Freddie Jones, John Welsh
Harold Pelham (Roger Moore), a successful businessman, has a car accident. Surgery is successful but it appears that his alter ego is released. When Harold gets out, he finds that his "other" self has been acting much differently from him, including a sexual awakening and making different business decisions.
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| 1. Connecting Rooms (1971)
2. The Day of the Jackal (1973)
3. Farewell, Friend (1968)
aka: Honor Among Thieves
4. Love and Death (1975)
5. The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970)
6. Two for the Road (1967)
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