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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Castle of Blood 1964  N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Foreign / Horror
aka: Castle of Terror
Director: Antonio Margheriti
Cast: Georges Riviere, Barbara Steele, Henry Kruger, Margarete Robsahm, Silvia Sorrente, Silvano Tranquilli, Umberto Raho, Phil Karson, John Peters, Ben Steffen
Tourist Alan Foster (Georges Riviere) stops at an inn and meets Lord Blackwood and Edgar Allan Poe. The two bet Alan that he cannot spend one night in a haunted mansion where several deaths have occurred. Alan takes the bet. The castle is indeed haunted by those who died there, and they relive their deaths to Alan. Will he get away? I doubt it. Eerie and effective. Remade by the director in 1970 as "Web of the Spider."
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Escape from Death Row 1973 R, 85 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
aka: Mean Frank & Crazy Tony
Director: Michele Lupo
Cast: Lee Van Cleef, Tony Lo Bianco, Edwige Fenech, Jean Rochefort, Jess Hahn, Fausto Tozzi, Mario Erpichini, Adolfo Lastretti, Silvano Tranquilli, Nello Pazzafini, Claudio Gora, Steffen Zacharias
Feared crime boss Frankie (Lee Van Cleef) has an admirer in small-time hustler Tony (Tony Lo Bianco). Though Frankie doesn't care for Tony, the two teams up after Tony saves Frankie from a mob hit man. An Italian-made spoof on the mob scene.
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Happy New Year 1973 PG, 114 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Claude Lelouch
Cast: Lino Ventura, Francoise Fabian, Charles Gerard, Andre Falcon, Claude Mann, Frederic de Pasquale, Mireille Mathieu, Lilo, Gerard Sire, Silvano Tranquilli
Con man Simon (Lino Ventura) is released from prison with investigators on his trail–the jewelry from his last big job has not been found and the police hope he will lead them to it. After Simon loses the tail, he looks up his partner in crime (Charles Gerard) and reminisces about the heist and the woman (Francoise Fabian) he found while preparing for it.
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The Horrible Dr. Hichcock 1962 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Foreign / Horror
Director: Riccardo Freda
Cast: Robert Flemyng, Barbara Steele, Maria Teresa Vianello, Harriet Medin, Silvano Tranquilli, Neil Robinson, Howard Nelson Rubien, Spencer Williams, Evar Simpson, Al Christianson
Necropheliac Dr. Hichcock enjoys playing sexual "funeral games" with his drugged wife. But, a mistaken overdose kills her. Years later he remarries and brings his new wife to his old house–plotting to restore his rotted first wife with the blood from wife number two. There is a sequel: "The Ghost."
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Rambo's Revenge 1975 R, 92 min.
Genre: Foreign / Action
aka: Syndicate Sadists
Director: Umberto Lenzi
Cast: Tomas Milian, Joseph Cotten, Maria Fiore, Luciano Catenacci, Silvano Tranquilli, Guido Alberti, Ida Galli, Femi Benussi, Luciano Pigozzi, Adolfo Lastretti
Biker/fighter Rambo (Tomas Milian) is on the trail of the gang that kidnapped a rich man's son for the ransom and must take on powerful crime boss Paterno (Joseph Cotten) along the way.
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Sunflower 1970  G, 101 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Cast: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Lyudmila Savelyeva, Galina Andreyeva, Anna Carena, Germano Longo, Nadya Serednichenko, Glauco Onorato, Silvano Tranquilli, Marisa Traversi, Gunars Cilinskis, Carlo Ponti Jr., Pippo Starnazza
Just days before the beginning of World War II, Giovanna (Sophia Loren) and Antonio (Marcello Mastroianni) marry in Italy. When Italy enters the war, Antonio is sent to the Russian front where, after the pressures of war, he meets and marries a Russian, Mascia (Lyudmila Savelyev). Years pass, the war ends, and Giovanna tries to find Antonio by going to Russia and searching through records to find what became of him. She does find him with Mascia and then leaves to begin a new life back in Italy where she marries Ettore (Germano Longo), and they have a son. More time passes, and then Antonio appears in Italy to discuss reconciliation with Giovanna. But they both realize that they must live separate lives, and Antonio leaves for Russia with no plans to return.
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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. Castle of Blood (1964)
aka: Castle of Terror
3. Escape from Death Row (1973)
aka: Mean Frank & Crazy Tony
4. Happy New Year (1973)
5. The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (1962)
6. Rambo's Revenge (1975)
aka: Syndicate Sadists
7. Sunflower (1970)
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