A Dandy in Aspic 1968  R, 107 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Anthony Mann
Cast: Laurence Harvey, Tom Courtenay, Mia Farrow, Lionel Stander, Harry Andrews, Peter Cook, Per Oscarsson, Vernon Dobtcheff, Barbara Murray, Norman Bird
British double agent Alexander Eberlin (Laurence Harvey) is dedicated to his espionage world, but he finds love and support from Caroline (Mia Farrow).
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Endless Night 1971 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery / Thriller
aka: Agatha Christie's Endless Night
Director: Sidney Gilliat
Cast: Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, Britt Ekland, George Sanders, Per Oscarsson, Lois Maxwell, Peter Bowles, Walter Gotell, Helen Horton, Robert Keegan, Aubrey Richards, David Healy, David Bauer, Ann Way
Based on an Agatha Christie novel that is different from her usual hero/heroine sleuth, this unusual psychological thriller begins with Michael (Hywel Bennett) pining over a beautiful estate that he would never be able to afford. Now working as a chauffer, he meets a beautiful young American, Ellie (Hayley Mills), who is vacationing in England. They hit it off, and when he finds that she is one of America's richest people, he convinces her to buy the estate. They also fall in love and move into their new home. All is happy for the couple until strange things begin to happen, and friends, relatives, and neighbors continue to pop up. Where this all leads is not revealed until late in the film.
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 Hunger 1966  N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Sult
Director: Henning Carlsen
Cast: Per Oscarsson, Gunnel Lindblom, Birgitte Federspiel, Knud Rex, Sigrid Horne-Rasmussen, Osvald Helmuth, Hans W. Petersen, Henki Kolstad, Roy Bjornstad, Sverre Hansen, Carl Ottosen
Set in Norway during 1890, this story involves the trials and tribulations of aspiring writer Pontus (Per Oscarsson) who manages to maintain his dignity while suffering abject poverty yet still searching for love and success as a writer.
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The Last Valley 1971 PG, 125 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: James Clavell
Cast: Michael Caine, Omar Sharif, Florinda Bolkan, Nigel Davenport, Per Oscarsson, Arthur O'Connell, Madeleine Hinde, Yorgo Voyagis, Miguel Alejandro, Christian Roberts, Brian Blessed, Ian Hogg
Set during the Thirty Years War, this story takes place in a peaceful, hidden valley whose inhabitants are visited by a former teacher, Vogel (Omar Sharif), and then by an army led by The Captain (Michael Caine). Both men are looking for a reprieve from the outside world. They winter over in the valley and then go on their way–leaving the valley and its inhabitants in peace.
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Montenegro 1981 R, 96 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Dusan Makavejev
Cast: Susan Anspach, Erland Josephson, Per Oscarsson, James Marsh, Bora Todorovic, Marianne Jacobi, John Zacharias, Marina Lindahl, Lisbeth Zachrisson, Svetozar Cvetkovic
Susan Anspach plays the American wife of a wealthy Swedish businessman. One day she is kidnapped and held in a nightclub. To her amazement, she finds this den of inequity to her liking with humorous results.
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The New Land 1972  PG, 157 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jan Troell
Cast: Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Eddie Axberg, Hans Alfredson, Halvar Bjork, Allan Edwall, Per Oscarsson, Monica Zetterlund, Pierre Lindstedt, Agneta Prytz, Tom C. Fouts, Peter Lindgren, Oscar Ljung, Karin Nordstrom, Larry Clementson
This sequel to "The Emigrants" follows in the excellent tradition as it chronicles the Minnesota phase of the Swedish emigrants Kristina and Karl-Oskar (Liv Ullmann and Max von Sydow). While settling into their new home, they must deal with the Sioux tribes and their bloody uprising. The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Film.
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Victor Frankenstein 1977 TV, 92 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: Terror of Frankenstein
Director: Calvin Floyd
Cast: Leon Vitali, Per Oscarsson, Nicholas Clay, Stacy Dorning, Jan Ohlsson, Harry Brogan, Olof Bergstrom, Mathias Henrikson, Per-Axel Arosenius, David(2) Byrne
This Swedish/Irish made-for-TV film adapts Mary Shelley's tale into a psychological study of the famous creator of his monster, and is one of the most faithful of the film versions to the original story. Well done.
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| 1. The Blockhouse (1973)
2. A Dandy in Aspic (1968)
3. Endless Night (1971)
aka: Agatha Christie's Endless Night
4. Hunger (1966)
aka: Sult
5. The Last Valley (1971)
6. Montenegro (1981)
7. The New Land (1972)
8. Victor Frankenstein (1977)
aka: Terror of Frankenstein
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