Canicule 1984  N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Dog Day
Director: Yves Boisset
Cast: Lee Marvin, Miou-Miou, Jean Carmet, Victor Lanoux, David Bennent, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Tina Louise, Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Pierre Clementi
Lee Marvin is on the lam after robbing a French bank. Somehow he escapes the police and takes refuge in a farming household where the family turns out to be strange, indeed. Lots of violence in this loser.
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Day of the Outlaw 1959  N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Andre De Toth
Cast: Robert Ryan, Burl Ives, Tina Louise, Alan Marshal, Venetia Stevenson, Nehemiah Persoff, David(1) Nelson, Helen Westcott, Jack Lambert, Frank DeKova, Lance Fuller, Elisha Cook Jr.
Ruthless Jack Bruhn (Burl Ives) and his band of Army renegades take over a remote Western town. Reluctant rancher Blaise Starrett (Robert Ryan) is the only one who will stand up to the gang. Good performances by Ryan and Ives who stage the final shootout in a snowstorm.
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Dixie Lanes 1988  R, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Don Cato
Cast: Hoyt Axton, Karen Black, Art Hindle, Moses Gunn, John Vernon, Nina Foch, Ruth Buzzi, Tina Louise, Pamela Spingsteen, Christopher Rydell
One would think that Clarence's (Hoyt Axton) return home from World War II would be a grand reunion, but his odd family may be harder to deal with than the war.
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Evils of the Night 1985  R, 95 min.
Genre: Horror / Sci-Fi
Director: Mardi Rustam
Cast: Aldo Ray, Neville Brand, Tina Louise, John Carradine, Julie Newmar, Karrie Emerson, Bridget Holloman, G.T. Taylor, David Hawk, Keith Fisher, Amber Lynn, Tony O'Dell
Over-sexed teen campers are kidnapped by two drunks who have been hired by aliens. The aliens need their blood to improve their longevity. A terrible film, but fun to see the name actors hamming it up.
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God's Little Acre 1958  N/R, 112 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Anthony Mann
Cast: Robert Ryan, Aldo Ray, Tina Louise, Buddy Hackett, Jack Lord, Fay Spain, Vic Morrow, Helen Westcott, Michael Landon, Lance Fuller
TyTy Walden (Robert Ryan) is a poor farmer in Georgia who is convinced there is buried treasure on his barren land. Meanwhile, Bill Thompson (Aldo Ray) thinks it makes more sense to reopen the cotton mill than waste time searching for treasure.
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The Good Guys and the Bad Guys 1969  PG, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Burt Kennedy
Cast: Robert Mitchum, George Kennedy, David Carradine, Martin Balsam, Tina Louise, John Carradine, Douglas Fowley, Lois Nettleton, John Davis Chandler, Marie Windsor
Flagg (Robert Mitchum) is a retired–and over the hill–sheriff who has a final showdown with his long-time adversary, has-been-train-robber McKay (George Kennedy).
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The Happy Ending 1969 PG, 112 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Brooks
Cast: Jean Simmons, John Forsythe, Shirley Jones, Lloyd Bridges, Teresa Wright, Dick Shawn, Nanette Fabray, Tina Louise, Bobby Darin, Barry Cahill
Jean Simmons was nominated for an Academy Award for her portrayal of Mary Wilson, a disillusioned and bored housewife who uses pills and booze to relieve her feelings of being unloved. The film was nominated for another Academy Award: "What Are You Doing the Rest of My Life" for Best Song.
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Johnny Suede 1991 R, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Tom DiCillo
Cast: Brad Pitt, Alison Moir, Calvin Levels, Catherine Keener, Michael Luciano, Richard Boes, Cheryl Costa, Nick Cave, Tina Louise, Wilfredo Giovanni Clark, Ralph Marrero, Peter McRobbie, Samuel L. Jackson
Johnny Suede (Brad Pitt) wants to be a rock 'n' roller like his idol, Ricky Nelson, back in the 1960s. He has the hair but still needs the suede shoes, and they literally fall from the sky. Now he's ready to roll. But he learns from his love affairs and experiences with the band he forms that there may be more to life than a pair of suede shoes.
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O.C. & Stiggs 1987 R, 109 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Robert Altman
Cast: Daniel Jenkins, Neill Barry, Paul Dooley, Jane Curtin, Ray Walston, Louis Nye, Tina Louise, Martin Mull, Dennis Hopper, Melvin Van Peebles
Two teenagers have nothing better to do than make life unbearable for an insurance man and his family.
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 The Stepford Wives 1975 PG, 115 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller / Mystery / Fantasy
Director: Bryan Forbes
Cast: Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson, Nanette Newman, Tina Louise, Josef Sommer, Mary Stuart Masterson, Patrick O'Neal, John Aprea, William Prince, Carol Eve Rossen, Carol Mallory, Judith Baldwin, Barbara Rucker, Toni Reid
Ira Levin's best-selling novel is brought to the screen as mysteries unfold behind the personalities of "perfect" housewives in the town of Stepford, Connecticut. Joanna (Katherine Ross) and Walter (Peter Masterson) move with their children to Stepford to enjoy what they believe is an ideal suburban community. But, Stepford has a dark secret: the husbands are replacing their wives with robots that will perform domestic tasks and exist only to please their husbands. Will Joanna be able to escape this nightmare?
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The Trap 1959 N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Norman Panama
Cast: Richard Widmark, Lee J. Cobb, Tina Louise, Earl Holliman, Lorne Greene, Carl Benton Reid, Peter Baldwin, Richard Shannon, Carl Milletaire, Walter Coy
Ralph (Richard Widmark) is the son of a slain sheriff in a California town. Ralph had been the henchman for a crime boss (Lee J. Cobb), but now he is determined to avenge his father's death.
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Welcome to Woop-Woop 1997 R, 103 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Stephan Elliott
Cast: Johnathon Schaech, Rod Taylor, Susie Porter, Dee Smart, Barry Humphries, Richard Moir, Paul Mercurio, Rachel Griffiths, Maggie Kirkpatrick, Tina Louise
With creditors hot on his trail, Teddy (Johnathon Schaech) heads for Australia and travels the Outback in a Volkswagen camper. He picks up a hitchhiker, Angie (Susie Porter), and drives her to her very strange hometown of Woop-Woop, and meets her equally odd father, Daddy O (Rod Taylor), and sister, Krystal (Dee Smart). When Teddy has had enough of Woop-Woop, he discovers that it is not an easy town to leave.
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The Wrecking Crew 1969 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Comedy / Action
Director: Phil Karlson
Cast: Dean Martin, Elke Sommer, Sharon Tate, Nancy Kwan, Nigel Green, Tina Louise, John Larch, John Brascia, Ted Jordan, Wilhelm von Homburg, Pepper Martin, Weaver Levy
Secret agent Matt Helm (Dean Martin) gets assistance (?) from bumbling spy Freya Carlson/MI5 (Sharon Tate) in finding a $1 billion gold shipment that had been stolen by Count Massimo Contini (Nigel Green).
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| 1. Canicule (1984)
aka: Dog Day
2. Day of the Outlaw (1959)
3. Dixie Lanes (1988)
4. Evils of the Night (1985)
5. God's Little Acre (1958)
6. The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (1969)
7. The Hangman (1959)
8. The Happy Ending (1969)
9. How to Commit Marriage (1969)
10. Johnny Suede (1991)
11. O.C. & Stiggs (1987)
12. The Stepford Wives (1975)
13. The Trap (1959)
14. Welcome to Woop-Woop (1997)
15. The Wrecking Crew (1969)
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