Circus of Fear 1966  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Mystery
aka: Psycho-Circus
Circus of Terror
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey, Werner Jacobs
Cast: Christopher Lee, Leo Genn, Anthony Newlands, Heinz Drache, Klaus Kinski, Eddi Arent, Margaret Lee, Victor Maddern, Maurice Kaufmann, Cecil Parker, Skip Martin
Murders in a traveling circus bring Scotland Yard detectives in to find the killer as well as uncover money stolen in a robbery. There are plenty of suspects in this fair suspense film.
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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner 1967   N/R, 108 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Stanley Kramer
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, Katharine Houghton, Cecil Kellaway, Beah Richards, Isabel Sanford, Roy Glenn, Virginia Christine, Tom Heaton, Alexandra Hay, Barbara Randolph, D'Urville Martin, Skip Martin
When Joey's (Katharine Houghton) parents (Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy) discover their daughter is going to marry a Black man (Sidney Poitier), they express their concerns and disapproval. For 1967, this movie dealt with racism in a mature manner. Hepburn won the Best Actress Oscar for her role. The film also won an Academy Award for Best Writing and was nominated for eight more, including Best Picture, Director, Supporting Actor (Cecil Kellaway), and Supporting Actress (Beah Richards). 2 User Reviews
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| | Relevant Social Film | AvidMovieFan 09/22/2007 | | This film in all its glory was groundbreaking in revealing the human spirit in what and how race matters in America. I loved this film because it captures the true feelings in each of us and challenges the status quo to "marry someone of your own race". Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy offer stellar performances along with Sir Sydney Poitier and Katherine Houghton. The film is set in beautiful San Francisco and offers a sense of hope to all who view the world as colorblind. The year this film was made Jim Crow was still active in this country and challenges us to look inside ourselves and question self-prejudice. Excellent film for all, especially for people who are in and interracial relationship. The line at the end, "you'll just have to hold on to each other tight" and don't give a DAMN what anybody thinks is priceless! |
| | Should a rich white girl marry a black nobel prize winner? | 1fatts 03/26/2007 | I really wanted to like this film.
It was Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy . . . in fact, Tracy's last film. Stanley Kramer directed. And in 1967 to dislike anything Sidney Poitier was in was seen, pretty much in itself, as an act of racism.
But the film -- its comedy and its "importance" -- turned, ultimately, on the conflict caused by the white woman and the black man wanting to marry. And it was all a straw man. The girl (Katherin Houghton), aside from playing about as vivid as a cardboard cutout of a Bryn Mawr recruitment ad, faced no sacrifice of money, position, parental angst, or anything else. The boy was a PhD, brilliant, a guaranteed financial and professional success and spoke the Queen's English with an ease and sophistication that John Gilgood could have envied.
In short: no conflict, no tension, no comedy, no "significance".
"In the Heat of the Night" it wasn't. Maybe "in the cool of the cocktail hour." |
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Horror Hospital 1973  PG, 91 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Computer Killers
Director: Anthony Balch
Cast: Michael Gough, Robin Askwith, Vanessa Shaw, Ellen Pollock, Skip Martin, Dennis Price, Kurt Christian, Barbara Wendy, Kenneth Benda, Martin Grace
Young pop-singer Jason (Robin Askwith) needs a vacation from his tough schedule, so he heads to a retreat. He meets Judy (Vanessa Shaw), the niece of Aunt Harris (Ellen Pollock), who runs the retreat with her crazed husband, Dr. Storm (Michael Gough). Jason uncovers the REAL story concerning the retreat, as the place abounds with the doctor's monstrous creations. When he finds out that he is to become part of the doctor's mind-control experiments, Jason and Judy, with the help of one of the creatures, attempt to get out.
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Masque of the Red Death 1964 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Roger Corman
Cast: Vincent Price, Hazel Court, Jane Asher, David Weston, Patrick Magee, Skip Martin, Nigel Green, Robert Brown, Paul Whitsun-Jones, Julian Burton
This is one of Vincent Price's best horror films. He plays the villainous Prince Prospero of Spain who hides in his castle while the Bubonic Plague sweeps over the countryside.
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 Son of Dracula 1974  PG, 90 min.
Genre: Musical / Comedy / Horror
aka: Young Dracula
Director: Freddie Francis
Cast: Harry Nilsson, Ringo Starr, Rosanna Lee, Freddie Jones, Dennis Price, Skip Martin, Suzanna Leigh, Peter Frampton, Keith Moon, Morris Bush
This rock/horror/comedy film was produced by Ringo Starr, but even several songs by Harry Nilsson were not enough to make this film worth watching.
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| 1. Circus of Fear (1966)
aka: Psycho-Circus
aka: Circus of Terror
2. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
3. Horror Hospital (1973)
aka: Computer Killers
4. Masque of the Red Death (1964)
5. Son of Dracula (1974)
aka: Young Dracula
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