The Ambushers 1968  N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Action / Comedy
Director: Henry Levin
Cast: Dean Martin, Senta Berger, Janice Rule, James Gregory, Albert Salmi, Kurt Kasznar, Beverly Adams, David Mauro, Roy Jenson, John Brascia
Secret agent Matt Helm (Dean Martin) is sent out once again to solve a problem. This time it involves a kidnapping and will appeal mostly to Matt Helm fans.
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Cast a Giant Shadow 1966  N/R, 144 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Melville Shavelson
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Senta Berger, Angie Dickinson, Frank Sinatra, John Wayne, Yul Brynner, James Donald, Luther Adler, Topol
Col. David Marcus (Kirk Douglas), West Point graduate and military lawyer, is recruited to aid Israel in its 1947 war against the Arabs. This is a romanticized perspective of the establishment of the Jewish state.
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Cross of Iron 1977   R, 119 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Cast: James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason, David Warner, Senta Berger, Klaus Lowitsch, Vadim Glowna, Roger Fritz
After Russia's severe winter as well as the defeat of the Nazis on the Eastern Front, the retreating German army reflects the weariness and futility of war in this insightful film. 1 User Review
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Diabolically Yours 1967  N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Foreign / Thriller / Drama
Director: Julien Duvivier
Cast: Alain Delon, Senta Berger, Sergio Fantoni, Peter Mosbacher, Claude Pieplu, Guy Stranger, Georges Montant, Renate Birgo
Three weeks after his car crash, Pierre (Alain Delon) awakens from his coma as an amnesiac who has been taken to his French estate and is being nursed by his wife Christiane (Senta Berger), family doctor Freddie (Sergio Fantoni), and Chinese servant Kim (Peter Mosbacher). As Pierre strives to regain his memory, his world becomes more and more confusing, and dangers lurk as his memory begins to clear.
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Killing Cars 1986  N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Foreign / Thriller
aka: Blitz
Director: Michael Verhoeven
Cast: Jurgen Prochnow, Senta Berger, Agnes Soral, Daniel Gelin, Stefan Meinke, Bernhard Wicki, Peter Matic, William Conrad, Osman Ragheb, Axel Scholz
After inventing an electric/chemical car, Ralph Korda (Jurgen Prochnow) encounters corporate managers as well as oil men who employ strong-arm tactics against him that add to the intrigue as he tries to get his car into production.
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Major Dundee 1965 N/R, 120 min.
Genre: Adventure / Western
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Cast: Charlton Heston, Richard Harris, Jim Hutton, James Coburn, Michael Anderson Jr., Senta Berger, Mario Adorf, Brock Peters, Warren Oates, Ben Johnson, R.G. Armstrong, L.Q. Jones, Slim Pickens, Michael Pate, Karl Swenson
Major Dundee (Charlton Heston) is a member of the Union Cavalry who, as a result of his mistakes at the Battle of Gettysburg, has been sent out West to be in charge of a Union prison in New Mexico. The Apache Indians, led by Sierra Charriba (Michael Pate), have been raiding U.S. bases and kidnapping children, and Major Dundee decides to take on the job of capturing the raiders and rescuing the victims. But, he does not have enough men under his command, so he recruits Confederate prisoners–including his childhood friend Captain Benjamin Tyreen (Richard Harris)–and leads a motley group of men across the border into Mexico in pursuit of the marauding Apaches.
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Poppies Are Also Flowers 1966  TV, 105 min.
Genre: Action
aka: The Poppy Is Also a Flower
The Opium Connection
Director: Terence Young
Cast: Senta Berger, Stephen Boyd, Yul Brynner, Angie Dickinson, Eli Wallach, Jack Hawkins, Rita Hayworth, E.G. Marshall, Gilbert Roland, Omar Sharif
Supported by many stars who worked for scale to get across Ian Fleming's protest against drug abuse, this film, unfortunately, failed as an artistic triumph, but its profits did go to UNESCO.
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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 Scarlet Letter 1972 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Wim Wenders
Cast: Senta Berger, Lou Castel, Hans Christian Blech, Yella Rottlander, Yelena Samarina, William Layton, Rudiger Vogler, Tito Garcia, Jose Villasante, Alfredo Mayo
This is a good Wim Wenders rendition of the Nathaniel Hawthorne classic tale. Wenders' characterization of the early immigrants' biases and customs is interesting, and the acting is likewise good. It tells the story of Hester Prynne (Senta Berger) who is disgraced after having a sexual encounter and must wear the letter "A" on her blouse, and of the Reverend (Lou Castel) living with his indiscretion but sworn to secrecy by Hester.
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See How They Run 1964 TV, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: David Lowell Rich
Cast: John Forsythe, Senta Berger, Jane Wyatt, Franchot Tone, Leslie Nielsen, Pamela Franklin, George Kennedy, John Van Dreelen, Harlan Warde, Robert Carricart
Based on Michael Blankfort's novel "The Widow Makers," this is the first movie made for TV. The plot involves the journey to America of three orphans who are not aware that their father's murderers are pursuing them.
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Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace 1962 N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Mystery
aka: Valley of Fear
Director: Terence Fisher, Frank Winterstein
Cast: Christopher Lee, Senta Berger, Hans Sohnker, Hans Nielsen, Ivan Desny, Leon Askin, Thorley Walters, Wolfgang Lukschy, Edith Schultze-Westrum, Bernard La Jarrige
In one of the more unusual depictions of the storied sleuth, this German-made film shows the villainous Moriarty (Hans Sohnker) as respected in both the community and by Scotland Yard. But when a necklace is stolen from Cleopatra's tomb, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (Christopher Lee and Thorley Walters) are hot on Moriarty's trail.
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The Swiss Conspiracy 1975 PG, 88 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Jack Arnold
Cast: David Janssen, Senta Berger, John Ireland, John Saxon, Elke Sommer, Ray Milland, Anton Diffring, Arthur Brauss, Inigo Gallo, David Hess
Customers having secret accounts in a Swiss bank find their fortunes as well as their lives in jeopardy. American investigator David Christopher (David Janssen) is hired to save the day.
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The Terror of Dr. Mabuse 1962 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Foreign / Thriller
aka: The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
Director: Werner Klingler
Cast: Gert Frobe, Senta Berger, Helmut Schmid, Charles Regnier, Wolfgang Preiss, Harald Juhnke, Leon Askin, Zeev Berlinsky, Ann Savo, Claus Tinney
This remake of Fritz Lang's 1933 film doesn't have the same impact as the original. Inspector Lohmann (Gert Frobe) investigates a series of unusual crimes. It appears that Dr. Mabuse (Wolfgang Preiss), while imprisoned in an insane asylum, hypnotizes a doctor to do his nasty deeds. Lohmann is captured and tortured–a bad predicament to be sure.
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| 1. The Ambushers (1968)
2. Cast a Giant Shadow (1966)
3. Cross of Iron (1977)
4. De Sade (1969)
5. Diabolically Yours (1967)
6. The Glory Guys (1965)
7. Killing Cars (1986)
aka: Blitz
8. Major Dundee (1965)
9. Poppies Are Also Flowers (1966)
aka: The Poppy Is Also a Flower
aka: The Opium Connection
10. The Quiller Memorandum (1966)
11. The Scarlet Letter (1972)
12. See How They Run (1964)
13. Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (1962)
aka: Valley of Fear
14. The Swiss Conspiracy (1975)
15. The Terror of Dr. Mabuse (1962)
aka: The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
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