The Fearless Vampire Killers, or Pardon Me But Your Teeth.. 1967   N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Comedy / Horror
aka: The Fearless Vampire Killers
Dance of the Vampires
Director: Roman Polanski
Cast: Jack MacGowran, Roman Polanski, Alfie Bass, Jessie Robins, Sharon Tate, Ferdy Mayne, Iain Quarrier, Terry Downes, Fiona Lewis, Ronald Lacey, Sydney Bromley, Andreas Malandrinos
[Full title: "The Fearless Vampire Killers, or Pardon Me But Your Teeth Are in My Neck"] Vampire hunter Professor Abronsius (Jack MacGowran) and his bumbling assistant, Alfred (Roman Polanski), arrive in a remote Slovanian village in search of vampires. They quickly become involved with an assortment of weird vampires when the innkeeper's daughter (Sharon Tate) is kidnapped by head vampire Count von Krolock (Ferdy Mayne). A funny and scary caper–with an excellent soundtrack–from a master director, Roman Polanski.
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Firefox 1982  PG, 136 min.
Genre: Action / Thriller / Sci-Fi
Director: Clint Eastwood
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Freddie Jones, David Huffman, Warren Clarke, Ronald Lacey, Stefan Schnabel, Kenneth Colley, Klaus Lowitsch, Nigel Hawthorne, Thomas Hill, Clive Merrison, Kai Wulff, Michael Currie, Dimitra Arliss, Austin Willis
Called back into service, American fighter pilot Mitchell Gant (Clint Eastwood), who speaks fluent Russian but is suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder following his duty in Vietnam, is hired by the United States to steal a secret fighter plane from the Soviet Union. Gant succeeds in capturing the plane, but now a cat-and-mouse chase ensues across the Arctic.
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Flesh & Blood 1985 R, 126 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Cast: Rutger Hauer, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tom Burlinson, Susan Tyrrell, Jack Thompson, Fernando Hilbeck, Ronald Lacey, Brion James, John Dennis Johnston, Simon Andreu, Bruno Kirby, Kitty Courbois
Disgruntled mercenaries seek revenge against a lord who forced them out of the city without their promised arms and loot in payment for services rendered.
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Gawain and the Green Knight 1973  N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Adventure
aka: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Director: Stephen Weeks
Cast: Murray Head, Nigel Green, Ciaran Madden, Robert Hardy, David Leland, Anthony Sharp, Ronald Lacey, Murray Melvin, George Merritt, Peter Copley
An English legend is brought to the screen in this cheap, but watchable, film of Sir Gawain (Murray Head) who has lost his wager with the Green Knight (Nigel Green) and now must solve the Green Knight's riddle or lose his head.
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 The Hound of the Baskervilles 1983 TV, 100 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery / Horror
Director: Douglas Hickox
Cast: Ian Richardson, Donald Churchill, Martin Shaw, Denholm Elliott, Brian Blessed, Ronald Lacey, Eleanor Bron, Edward Judd, Nicholas Clay, Glynis Barber, Connie Booth, Eric Richard, Michael Burrell, Peter Rutherford, David Langton
Dr. Mortimer (Denholm Elliott) hires Sherlock Holmes (Ian Richardson) to investigate the murder of Sir Charles Baskerville. Mortimer tells Holmes that 350 years ago Hugo Baskerville traded his soul to the devil, and all of his ancestors have fallen under a curse and have been murdered when they inherited the Baskerville dynasty. Mortimer wants to protect the new heir, Sir Henry (Martin Shaw), from suffering the same fate. Holmes sends Dr. Watson (Donald Churchill) to investigate while Holmes, unbeknownst to Watson, arrives on the scene disguised as a gypsy to find the culprit.
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How I Won the War 1967 N/R, 109 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Richard Lester
Cast: Michael Crawford, John Lennon, Roy Kinnear, Lee Montague, Jack MacGowran, Michael Hordern, Jack Hedley, Karl Michael Vogler, Ronald Lacey, James Cossins
An inept lieutenant (Michael Crawford) leads his motley troops across North Africa and into France during World War II. This black, anti-war, comedy has some great scenes and some not so great ones.
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Making the Grade 1984  R, 105 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Preppies
Director: Dorian Walker
Cast: Judd Nelson, Jonna Lee, Gordon Jump, Walter Olkewicz, Ronald Lacey, Dana Olsen, Carey Scott, Scott McGinnis, Andrew Dice Clay, John Dye
Wealthy Palmer Woodrow (Dana Olsen) hires a poor kid, Eddie Keaton (Judd Nelson), to attend the elite Hoover Academy in his place while Palmer heads off for a good time in Europe. But it doesn't take Eddie long to gain notoriety and for events to surge beyond control.
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Nijinsky 1980 R, 125 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Herbert Ross
Cast: Alan Bates, George De La Pena, Leslie Browne, Alan Badel, Colin Blakely, Jeremy Irons, Ronald Pickup, Ronald Lacey, Vernon Dobtcheff, Janet Suzman
This is a good film biography of the brilliant, early 20th-century ballet star, Vaslav Nijinsky (George De La Pena), and his involvement in a homosexual affair with the Ballet Russe's manager, Sergei Diaghilev (Alan Bates).
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Of Human Bondage 1964 N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ken Hughes
Cast: Kim Novak, Laurence Harvey, Robert Morley, Siobhan McKenna, Nanette Newman, Roger Livesey, Jack Hedley, Ronald Lacey, John Sutton
This is another good adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's novel. The young medical student is played well by Laurence Harvey, and Kim Novak takes on role of the promiscuous waitress with whom he is obsessed.
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 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981  PG, 115 min.
Genre: Adventure / Thriller
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Denholm Elliott, Ronald Lacey, Wolf Kahler, John Rhys-Davies, Paul Freeman, Anthony Higgins, Alfred Molina, Tutte Lemkow, Vic Tablian, Don Fellows, William Hootkins
Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) battles the Nazis in an attempt to be the first to reach the lost ark containing the remains of the Ten Commandments. Indy suffers a host of adventures during the transformation from his quiet job as college professor to mercenary in South America. This was the first of three Indiana Jones films. In all, four Oscars were awarded for this film, including Best Special Effects; five other nominations included Best Picture and Director.
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 Red Sonja 1985 PG-13, 89 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Fantasy
Director: Richard Fleischer
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Brigitte Nielsen, Sandahl Bergman, Paul L. Smith, Ronald Lacey, Ernie Reyes Jr., Pat Roach, Terry Richards, Janet Agren, Donna Osterbuhr, Lara Naszinsky, Hans Meyer, Tutte Lemkow, Francesca Romana Coluzzi, Sefano Maria Mioni
Superheroine Red Sonja (Brigitte Nielsen) searches for a magic talisman. Unfortunately for her, another "hero," Kalidor (Arnold Schwarzenegger), wants to come to her aid. No matter what she does, he just doesn't catch on to the fact that he is not needed.
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 Sahara 1983  PG, 111 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Cast: Brooke Shields, John Mills, Lambert Wilson, Steve Forrest, Horst Buchholz, John Rhys-Davies, Perry Lang, Ronald Lacey, Cliff Potts, Ya'ackov Ben-Sira
A young heiress (Brooke Shields) promises her dying father that she will drive his newly designed car in the 1927 endurance race (the world's most treacherous auto race) across the Sahara Desert. While crossing the desert, she is captured and falls in love with an Arab Sheik (Lambert Wilson). A terrible take-off on "The Perils of Pauline."
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The Sign of Four 1987 TV, 102 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama / Adventure / Thriller
Director: Peter Hammond
Cast: Jeremy Brett, Edward Hardwicke, Robin Hunter, Alf Joint, John Thaw, Kiran Shah, Jenny Seagrove, Ronald Lacey, Rosalie Williams, Derek Deadman, Ishaq Bux, Terence Skelton, Marjorie Sudell, Emrys James, Gordon Gostelow
Miss Mary Morstan (Jenny Seagrove) has been receiving jewels each year, and now her unknown benefactor asks for a meeting with her. She goes to Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett) for help and advice. The investigation uncovers the "Sign of Four," a lost treasure in the hands of four convicts on the Andaman Islands where Mary's father had disappeared 10 years ago.
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Sword of the Valiant 1982 PG, 101 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Stephen Weeks
Cast: Miles O'Keeffe, Cyrielle Claire, Leigh Lawson, Sean Connery, Trevor Howard, Peter Cushing, Ronald Lacey, Lila Kedrova, John Rhys-Davies, Wilfrid Bramwell
The old English tale of Sir Gawain (Miles O'Keeffe)–who must solve the riddle posed by the Green Knight (Sean Connery) or die at the Green Knight's hand–is recreated in this film. He has one year to solve it, and the adventures are many as he goes about the land in search of the answer. Not particularly good, but Connery's role is a highlight. Previously made in 1973 as "Gawain and the Green Knight."
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Trenchcoat 1983 PG, 91 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Michael Tuchner
Cast: Margot Kidder, Robert Hays, David Suchet, Gila von Weitershausen, Daniel Faraldo, Ronald Lacey, John Justin, Leopoldo Trieste
A corrupt stenographer and amateur mystery writer, Mickey Raymond (Margot Kidder), vacations on Malta where she becomes involved in the world of cocaine smuggling, murder, and international intrigue. Disney.
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Zulu Dawn 1979 PG, 115 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama
Director: Douglas Hickox
Cast: Burt Lancaster, John Mills, Peter O'Toole, Simon Ward, Nigel Davenport, Michael Jayston, Ronald Lacey, Denholm Elliott, Freddie Jones, Christopher Cazenove, Peter Vaughan, James Faulkner, Bob Hoskins, David Bradley, Paul Copley
When Gen. Lord Chelmsford (Peter O'Toole) sends in British troops to fight the South African Zulu tribes, Col. Anthony Dumford (Burt Lancaster) leads his men into the fatal Battle of Isandhlwaba where they are greatly outnumbered. During the bloody battle, 30,000 Zulu warriors kill 1,500 British troops. This movie shows the events that led up to the siege at Rorke's Drift in "Zulu" (1964) and again shows the hostility between the British and native South Africans.
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| 1. The Fearless Vampire Killers, or Pardon Me But Your Teeth.. (1967)
aka: The Fearless Vampire Killers
aka: Dance of the Vampires
2. Firefox (1982)
3. Flesh & Blood (1985)
4. Gawain and the Green Knight (1973)
aka: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
5. The Hound of the Baskervilles (1983)
6. How I Won the War (1967)
7. Making the Grade (1984)
aka: Preppies
8. Nijinsky (1980)
9. Of Human Bondage (1964)
10. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
11. Red Sonja (1985)
12. Sahara (1983)
13. The Sign of Four (1987)
14. Sword of the Valiant (1982)
15. Trenchcoat (1983)
16. Zulu Dawn (1979)
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