Beyond the Law 1968  N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Foreign / Western
aka: Bloodsilver
The Good Die First
Director: Giorgio Stegani
Cast: Lee Van Cleef, Antonio Sabato, Lionel Stander, Bud Spencer, Gordon Mitchell, Ann Smyrner, Graziella Granata, Herbert Fux, Enzo Fiermonte, Adriana Facchetti, Hans Elwenspoek, Romano Puppo, Gunther Stoll, Valentina Arrigoni, Carlo Gaddi
This spaghetti Western is fun. An outlaw (Lee Van Cleef) reforms and becomes Sheriff. When a shipment of silver arrives, the temptation is too much for him to resist.
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Big Alligator River 1979  N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Foreign / Horror
aka: The Great Alligator
Director: Sergio Martino
Cast: Claudio Cassinelli, Barbara Bach, Mel Ferrer, Richard Johnson, Geneve Hutton, Romano Puppo, Fabrizia Castagnoli, Silvia Collatina, Enzo Fisichella, Anny Papa, Bobby Rhodes, Clara Colosimo, Lory Del Santo, Peter Bloom, Marco Mastantuono
Joshua (Mel Ferrer) has just finished greeting his first guests at his tourist resort, Paradise House, when first one of the tourists and then some of the natives are eaten by a giant alligator. But never fear, Alice and Daniel (Barbara Bach and Claudio Cassinelli) will save the day.
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China 9, Liberty 37 1978  R, 98 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Monte Hellman, Tony Brandt
Cast: Fabio Testi, Warren Oates, Jenny Agutter, Sam Peckinpah, Isabel Mestres, Luis Prendes, Franco Interlenghi, Helga Line, Sydney Lassick, Charly Bravo, Gianrico Tondinelli, Richard C. Adams, Natalia Kim, Paco Benlloch, Romano Puppo
Gunfighter Clayton Drumm (Fabio Testi) is saved from the gallows by railroad men on the promise to kill Matthew Sebanek (Warren Oates) who refuses to sell his land. Not only does Clayton not kill Matthew, he sleeps with Matthew's wife, Catherine (Jenny Agutter), after which the railroad men must be dealt with.
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The Day of the Cobra 1980 N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Foreign / Action / Drama
Director: Enzo G. Castellari
Cast: Franco Nero, Sybil Danning, William Berger, Carlo Gabriel Sparanero, Mickey Knox, Ennio Girolami, Massimo Vanni, Romano Puppo, Licinia Lentini, Mario Maranzana
"Double Cross" is the name of the game that San Francisco ex-cop Larry "Cobra" Staziani (Franco Nero) finally discovers after he is hired to track down the ruthless drug kingpin who heads a narcotics ring in Genoa, Italy.
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Il Grande Racket 1976 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Foreign / Action / Drama
aka: The Big Racket
Director: Enzo G. Castellari
Cast: Fabio Testi, Vincent Gardenia, Renzo Palmer, Orso Maria Guerrini, Glauco Onorato, Sal Borgese, Romano Puppo, Antonio Marsina, Daniele Dublino, Massimo Vanni, Salvatore Billa, Joshua Sinclair, Marcella Michelangeli, Roberto Dell'Acqua
Rome police Inspector Nico Palmieri (Fabio Testi) uncovers the work of racketeers in his home town but has problems because the citizens live in terror of the vicious gang. Just as Palmieri closes in, he is fired. Forced to take matters into his own hands, Palmieri gives the gang a lesson in street justice when he and his own newly formed gang raid the meeting of mob bosses, and a bloody massacre ensues. "The Big Racket" is the title of the English-dubbed version.
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The Master Touch 1972 PG, 97 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Un Uomo Da Rispettare
Director: Michele Lupo
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Florinda Bolkan, Giuliano Gemma, Reinhard Kolldehoff, Bruno Corazzari, Vittorio Fanfoni, Wolfgang Preiss, Romano Puppo, John Bartha, Allen Stanley
Newly paroled safecracker Wallace (Kirk Douglas) joins up with a trapeze artist (Giuliano Gemma) in a plot to partake of $1 million through illegal means.
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Sinbad of the Seven Seas 1989  PG-13, 90 min.
Genre: Adventure / Fantasy
Director: Enzo G. Castellari, Tim Kincaid
Cast: Lou Ferrigno, John Steiner, Romano Puppo, Yehuda Efroni, Alessandra Martines, Donald Hodson, Stefania Girolami Goodwin, Cork Hubbert, Daria Nicolodi, Ennio Girolami, Roland Wybenga, Hal Yamanouchi, Teagan Clive, Leo Gullotta, Melonee Rodgers
Legendary sailor Sinbad (Lou Ferrigno) sets sail for Basra to retrieve the five sacred gems that are needed to defeat the evil Jaffar (John Steiner).
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Street Law 1974 R, 100 min.
Genre: Foreign / Action / Drama
aka: The Citizen Rebels
Director: Enzo G. Castellari
Cast: Franco Nero, Giancarlo Prete, Barbara Bach, Renzo Palmer, Nazzareno Zamperla, Massimo Vanni, Romano Puppo, Adriana Facchetti, Franco Borelli, Mauro Vestri
After muggers (Nazzareno Zamperla, Massimo Vanni, and Romano Puppo) attack and rob Carlo (Franco Nero) at his bank, Carlo takes justice into his own hands and tracks them down.
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Street People 1976  R, 92 min.
Genre: Foreign / Action / Drama
Director: Maurizio Lucidi
Cast: Roger Moore, Stacy Keach, Ivo Garrani, Fausto Tozzi, Ennio Balbo, Ettore Manni, Loretta Persichetti, Pietro Martellanza, Luigi Casellato, Romano Puppo, Franco Fantasia, Aldo Rendine, Emilio Vale, Salvatore Torrisi, Rosemarie Lindt
This film's tangled, confusing plot revolves around the Mafia and narcotics smuggling ($3 million worth of heroin) inside a crucifix). Comic relief helps.
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Tuareg: The Desert Warrior 1984 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure
aka: Desert Warrior
Director: Enzo G. Castellari
Cast: Mark Harmon, Antonio Sabato, Aldo Sambrell, Massimo Vanni, Giovanni Cianfriglia, Claudia Gravy, Luis Prendes, Ritza Brown, Paolo Malco, Ennio Girolami, Manuel Pereiro, Romano Puppo, Emiliano Redondo, Mario De Barros
Nomadic chieftain Gacel Sayah (Mark Harmon) leads a Tuareg tribe in the Sahara Desert. One day, the tribe gives water and shelter to two lost men. Soon, soldiers appear who are hunting down the men and demand that they be turned over to them. Using the sacred law of hospitality, Gacel Sayah refuses, but the soldiers kill one of the men and take away the other. Gacel Sayah now obeys his sacred rule of punishing those who bring harm to his guests and mounts his camel for a trip across the desert seeking justice by hunting down the soldiers.
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| 1. Beyond the Law (1968)
aka: Bloodsilver
aka: The Good Die First
2. Big Alligator River (1979)
aka: The Great Alligator
3. China 9, Liberty 37 (1978)
4. The Day of the Cobra (1980)
5. Il Grande Racket (1976)
aka: The Big Racket
6. The Master Touch (1972)
aka: Un Uomo Da Rispettare
7. Sinbad of the Seven Seas (1989)
8. Street Law (1974)
aka: The Citizen Rebels
9. Street People (1976)
10. Tuareg: The Desert Warrior (1984)
aka: Desert Warrior
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