The Comancheros 1961  N/R, 107 min.
Genre: Western / Action / Adventure / Romance
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: John Wayne, Stuart Whitman, Lee Marvin, Bruce Cabot, Nehemiah Persoff, Ina Balin, Michael Ansara, Patrick Wayne, Jack Elam, Edgar Buchanan, Joan O'Brien, Henry Daniell, Richard Devon, Bob Steele, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams
Comancheros (White men who supplied the warring Comanches with guns) were in full swing in the middle 1800s. Enter Texas Ranger Jake Cutter (John Wayne) who teams up with his prisoner Paul Regret (Stuart Whitman) to ward off the Comancheros and bring peace to the Texas Territory.
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Kid Galahad 1962  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Musical
Director: Phil Karlson
Cast: Elvis Presley, Gig Young, Lola Albright, Joan Blackman, Charles Bronson, Ned Glass, Robert Emhardt, David Lewis, Edward Asner, George Mitchell, Liam Redmond, Roy Roberts, Judson Pratt, Michael Dante, Richard Devon
This musical remake of the 1937 drama stars Elvis Presley as ex-GI Walter Gulick who works out at Willie Grogan's (Gig Young) training camp to achieve his goal of becoming a successful boxer. After Gulick saves Grogan's partner Dolly (Lola Albright) from gangsters' clutches, she gives him the name "Kid Galahad," and he rises through the boxing ranks. Gulick knows he has the talent to win the upcoming championship, but his trainer Lew (Charles Bronson) has been bribed to contribute to Gulick losing his big fight. The fight begins, and "Kid Galahad" refuses to give up. He wins the match–and the love of his life, Rose (Joan Blackman), as well.
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Machine Gun Kelly 1958 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Roger Corman
Cast: Charles Bronson, Susan Cabot, Morey Amsterdam, Jack Lambert, Wally Campo, Frank DeKova, Connie Gilchrist, Michael Fox, Barboura Morris, Richard Devon
Famous gangster Machine Gun Kelly (Charles Bronson) robs and murders until police follow his trail of destruction and capture him.
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 Magnum Force 1973  R, 124 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller
Director: Ted Post
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Hal Holbrook, David Soul, Robert Urich, Mitch Ryan, Felton Perry, Tim Matheson, Margaret Avery, Kip Niven, Christine White, Maurice Argent, Richard Devon, Tony Giorgio, Jack Kosslyn
"Dirty Harry" Callahan (Clint Eastwood) is back. This time he is investigating some especially brutal murders when he discovers cops are taking the law into their own hands and killing underworld characters. Dirty Harry suspects fellow cop Charlie McCoy (Mitch Ryan), but Charlie ends up murdered by another cop, and now Harry must fight for his own life while hunting the predators, who just might include his own traitorous boss Lt. Neill Briggs (Hal Holbrook).
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Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to ... 1958  N/R, 66 min.
Genre: Adventure
aka: Viking Women
Director: Roger Corman
Cast: Abby Dalton, Richard Devon, Susan Cabot, Bradford Jackson, Jonathan Haze, June Kenny, Betsy Jones-Moreland, Sally Todd, Gary Conway, Michael Forest
(Full title: "Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent") When their men disappear, Viking women go off to search for them and find them held captive by a sea monster. Rescue completed, they return home. Whoopie! A real Roger Corman baddie.
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Teenage Doll 1957 N/R, 68 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Roger Corman
Cast: June Kenny, Fay Spain, John Brinkley, Barboura Morris, Richard Devon, Dorothy Neumann, Ed Nelson, Ziva Rodann, Richard H. Cutting, Jay Sayer
Rival gangs of teenage girls are about to go at it when one gang is accused of killing a member of the other. If it's a Corman flick, it's got to be different.
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The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze 1963 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Norman Maurer
Cast: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe DeRita, Jay Sheffield, Joan Freeman, Walter Burke, Maurice Dallimore, Richard Devon, Anthony Eustrel, Ramsay Hill
The Three Stooges join Phileas Fogg's grandson (Jay Sheffield) for a trip "Around the World in 80 Days."
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The Undead 1957 N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Roger Corman
Cast: Pamela Duncan, Richard Garland, Allison Hayes, Val DuFour, Mel Welles, Dorothy Neumann, Billy Barty, Richard Devon, Dick Miller, Bruno VeSota
Prostitute Diana Love (Pamela Duncan) time-travels, via hypnosis, to the Middle Ages where she is thought to be Helen, the witch in a previous life. Trying to tamper with history can have grave repercussions in this pretty good Corman caper.
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| 1. The Comancheros (1961)
2. Kid Galahad (1962)
3. Machine Gun Kelly (1958)
4. Magnum Force (1973)
5. Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to ... (1958)
aka: Viking Women
6. Teenage Doll (1957)
7. The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze (1963)
8. The Undead (1957)
9. War of the Satellites (1958)
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