And Comes the Dawn...But Colored Red 1970  N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Foreign / Horror
aka: Web of the Spider
Dracula in the Castle of Blood
Director: Antonio Margheriti
Cast: Anthony Franciosa, Klaus Kinski, Michele Mercier, Enrico Osterman, Irina Maleeva, Karin Field, Paolo Gozlino, Peter Carsten, Silvano Tranquilli, Raf Baldassarre, Marco Bonetti, Vittorio Fanfoni
Director Margheriti remakes his 1964 film "Castle of Blood" with a new cast. Alan Foster (Anthony Franciosa) accepts a bet from Edgar Allan Poe (Klaus Kinski) and Lord Blackwood (Enrico Osterman) to spend a night in Blackwood's haunted mansion. When the dead return, Alan tries to escape.
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The Quiller Memorandum 1966  N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Anderson
Cast: George Segal, Alec Guinness, Max von Sydow, Senta Berger, George Sanders, Robert Helpmann, Robert Flemyng, Peter Carsten, Gunter Meisner, Edith Schneider
Set in early 1960s' West Berlin, British agent Quiller (George Segal) infiltrates a neo-Nazi organization and comes close to losing his life.
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The Squeeze 1978  R, 100 min.
Genre: Action
aka: Diamond Thieves
Director: Antonio Margheriti
Cast: Lee Van Cleef, Karen Black, Edward Albert, Lionel Stander, Robert Alda, Angelo Infanti, Antonella Murgia, Peter Carsten, Dan van Husen, Dyane Silverstein, Ron Van Clief, Roy Brocksmith
Chris (Lee Van Cleef) is talked into coming out of retirement for one more heist using his talent to help a German group pull off a million dollar theft. But he gets wind of the fact that his associates intend to kill him after completion of the job, so he beats them to the punch, killing them. However, Chris is wounded in the process. Luckily, he has a perfect nursemaid–Clarisse (Karen Black) to help him recover. One of Lee Van Cleef's weaker films.
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The Vengeance of Fu Manchu 1967 N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jeremy Summers
Cast: Christopher Lee, Tony Ferrer, Tsai Chin, Douglas Wilmer, Wolfgang Kieling, Horst Frank, Maria Rohm, Howard Marion-Crawford, Peter Carsten, Suzanne Roquette, Noel Trevarthen, Mona Chong
The evil Fu Manchu (Christopher Lee) is back and still plotting to become the world's most feared criminal. His plan: kidnap a surgeon and force him to remake the face of one of Fu Manchu's prisoners into that of Scotland Yard nemesis Nayland Smith. He then sends the double–under hypnosis–to kill Smith's maid. Now Nayland Smith is convicted of murder, and Fu Manchu sets out to do the same thing in other countries.
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The Wide Blue Road 1957 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Gillo Pontecorvo
Cast: Yves Montand, Alida Valli, Francisco Rabal, Umberto Spadaro, Peter Carsten, Federica Ranchi, Terence Hill, Ronaldo Bonacchi, Giancarlo Soblone, Josip Batistic
Squarcio's (Yves Montand) family is one of many poor fishing families who live in a small village off of Italy's Dalmatian coast. Times are indeed tough, and the local wholesaler exploits the fisherman. Squarcio has a plan to increase his yield, but the results are tragic.
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| 1. And Comes the Dawn...But Colored Red (1970)
aka: Web of the Spider
aka: Dracula in the Castle of Blood
2. The Quiller Memorandum (1966)
3. The Squeeze (1978)
aka: Diamond Thieves
4. The Vengeance of Fu Manchu (1967)
5. The Wide Blue Road (1957)
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