Billion Dollar Brain 1967  N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama / Thriller
Director: Ken Russell
Cast: Michael Caine, Karl Malden, Ed Begley, Oskar Homolka, Francoise Dorleac, Guy Doleman, Vladek Sheybal, Milo Sperber, Mark Elwes, Fred Harwood, Donald Sutherland, Janos Kurutz, Alexei Jawdokimov, Paul Tamarin, Iza Teller
Former British agent Harry Palmer (Michael Caine) has become a private investigator and accepts an assignment to deliver a thermos flask to a friend in Finland. Once there, he becomes involved in a billionaire's plot to upset the balance of the Cold War. This is the third in the series of Harry Palmer films; the others are "Ipcress File" (1965) and "Funeral in Berlin" (1966).
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Doppelganger 1969  G, 97 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
aka: Journey to the Far Side of the Sun
Director: Robert Parrish
Cast: Roy Thinnes, Ian Hendry, Patrick Wymark, Lynn Loring, Loni von Friedl, Herbert Lom, George Sewell, Vladek Sheybal, Ed Bishop, George Mikell, Franco De Rosa, Philip Madoc
This unusual sci-fi film is entertaining. A new planet is found by a British agency headed by Jason Webb (Patrick Wymark) in the 21st Century. The reason that it had not been found earlier is that it is in an orbit identical to Earth's, but directly opposite Earth on the other side of the Sun. British astrophysicist John Kane (Ian Hendry) and American astronaut Colonel Glenn Ross (Roy Thinnes) set off on an expedition to investigate the phenomenon with interesting results.
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 From Russia with Love 1963  PG, 118 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Thriller / Romance
Director: Terence Young
Cast: Sean Connery, Daniela Bianchi, Lotte Lenya, Robert Shaw, Pedro Armendariz, Bernard Lee, Eunice Gayson, Walter Gotell, Francis De Wolff, Lois Maxwell, George Pastell, Nadja Regin, Aliza Gur, Vladek Sheybal, Martine Beswick
James Bond (Sean Connery) is back in his second film and discovers that he is on the Russian "hit list." While in Istanbul to "pick up" a secret de-coding machine from Russian cipher clerk Tatiana Romanova (Daniela Bianchi), Bond runs into trouble with a capital "T." A deadly trap has been set involving enemy agent Red Grant (Robert Shaw) who is assigned to take the machine from Bond and kill him. A fight to the death ensues between Bond and Grant aboard the Orient Express.
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The Jigsaw Man 1983 PG, 91 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Terence Young
Cast: Michael Caine, Laurence Olivier, Susan George, Robert Powell, Charles Gray, Michael Medwin, Morteza Kazerouni, David Kelly, Vladek Sheybal, Eric Sevareid
A British spy, Philip Kimberley (Michael Caine), goes to Russia where he undergoes plastic surgery and returns to England as double agent Sergei Kuzminsky.
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Kanal 1957  N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: They Loved Life
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Cast: Teresa Izewska, Tadeusz Janczar, Emil Karewicz, Wienczyslaw Glinski, Vladek Sheybal, Tadeusz Gwiazdowski, Stanislaw Mikulski, Zofia Lindorf, Teresa Berezowska, Jan Englert, Janina Jablonowska, Maria Kretz, Kazimierz Dejunowicz, Zdzislaw Lesniak, Maciej Maciejewski
This compelling story is the second in Andrzej Wajda's trilogy concerning the Polish Resistance Movement of World War II. In September, 1944, when Warsaw was in the midst of rising up against Nazi occupation, a doomed resistance group bids final good-byes to families and trudges through Warsaw's underground sewer system in a desperate attempt to escape.
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The Lady Vanishes 1979 PG, 98 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Anthony Page
Cast: Elliott Gould, Cybill Shepherd, Angela Lansbury, Herbert Lom, Arthur Lowe, Ian Carmichael, Gerald Harper, Jenny Runacre, Jean Anderson, Rosalind Knight, Vladek Sheybal, Wolf Kahler, Dan van Husen
While riding an express train through pre-World War II Germany, Amanda (Cybill Shepherd) meets and makes friends with Miss Froy (Angela Lansbury). But, Miss Froy disappears, and, when Amanda can't find her, she gets help from an American photographer (Elliott Gould). Their efforts lead to the discovery that there is more to Miss Froy than meets the eye.
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Mosquito Squadron 1969  G, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Boris Sagal
Cast: David McCallum, Suzanne Neve, David Buck, David Dundas, Charles Gray, Dinsdale Landen, Michael Anthony, Vladek Sheybal, Nicky Henson, Bryan Marshall, Peter Copley, Robert Urquhart
During World War II, RAF pilot Quint (David McCallum) must tell his best friend's wife, Beth (Suzanne Neve), that her husband has been killed during a bombing raid. A new romance between Quint and Beth, who were a couple before she met her husband, is rekindled. Quint then receives orders to bomb a rocket factory but is also told that there are POWs there, including his best friend. Quint devises a plan to free the POWs and then bomb the plant, but his friend is killed in the otherwise successful operation.
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Red Dawn 1984  PG-13, 114 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama
Director: John Milius
Cast: Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Powers Boothe, Ron O'Neal, Lea Thompson, Ben Johnson, Charlie Sheen, Harry Dean Stanton, Jennifer Grey, Darren Dalton, Brad Savage, Doug Toby, Frank McRae, Vladek Sheybal
In the mid-1980s, Russians and Cubans are invading the United States, and paratroopers land in a small town in Colorado where they attack a high school. Some of the teenagers escape. They stop at a store to get a truck, weapons, and other supplies and head for the nearby mountains. Now, from their secluded hide-away, the teens stage guerilla operations in an attempt to hold back the invaders. This is the first film ever to receive a PG-13 rating. 2 User Reviews
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| | I will never forget this movie | DREAMIN 09/15/2009 | | I still have this movie, it was one I first bought when dvds came out and I am going to put it on dvd, it is an excellent movie,really shows what can happen and if you have the strength to survive it.he is and always will be my favorite actor. |
| | anonymouse 10/21/2007 | | the film for the time was good |
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S*P*Y*S 1974  PG, 87 min.
Genre: Comedy / Action
Director: Irvin Kershner
Cast: Elliott Gould, Donald Sutherland, Zouzou, Joss Ackland, Kenneth Griffith, Vladek Sheybal, Kenneth J. Warren, Yuri Borienko, Michael Petrovitch, Pierre Oudrey, Jacques Marin, Shane Rimmer, George Pravda, Nigel Hawthorne, Andy Ho
In this satire on the espionage world, CIA agents Griff (Elliott Gould) and Bruland (Donald Sutherland) have repeatedly bumbled their assignments. Their ineptness results in them being targeted for elimination not only by the KGB but by the CIA as well.
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Scorpio 1973 PG, 114 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller
Director: Michael Winner
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Paul Scofield, John Colicos, Gayle Hunnicutt, J.D. Cannon, Joanne Linville, James Sikking, Mel Stewart, Vladek Sheybal, Mary Maude, Jack Colvin, Burke Byrnes, William Smithers, Shmuel Rodensky
The daring world of espionage is the setting for this film about Soviet defector Cross (Burt Lancaster) who tries to escape the bullet of a CIA-blackmailed assassin, Laurier (Alain Delon).
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The Sell Out 1976 PG, 88 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Peter Collinson
Cast: Richard Widmark, Oliver Reed, Gayle Hunnicutt, Sam Wanamaker, Vladek Sheybal, Ori Levy, Assi Dayan, Shmuel Rodensky, Peter Frye
Retired CIA Agent Sam Lucas (Richard Widmark) lives the quiet life in Israel until a former protege, Gabriel (Oliver Reed), asks for help: he had defected to the Soviets but now wants out. The chase is on when both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. order the capture of Gabriel.
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Smiley's People 1982 TV, 325 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Simon Langton
Cast: Alec Guinness, Eileen Atkins, Anthony Bate, Bernard Hepton, Michael Byrne, Barry Foster, Michael Lonsdale, Bill Paterson, Beryl Reid, Curt Jurgens, Vladek Sheybal, Patrick Stewart
George Smiley (Alec Guinness) comes out of retirement and rejoins the British Intelligence to investigate the death of an agent friend. Clues lead Smiley to Paris, Germany, and Switzwerland as he tracks down his old nemesis, the Soviet double-agent Karla (Patrick Stewart).
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Strike It Rich 1990 PG, 87 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Loser Takes All
Director: James Scott
Cast: Robert Lindsay, Molly Ringwald, John Gielgud, Max Wall, Simon de La Brosse, Margi Clarke, Vladek Sheybal, Michel Blanc, Frances de La Tour, Gerard Dimiglio, Marius Goring
Bertram (Robert Lindsay), a math wizard and accountant at a large London firm, meets and falls in love with American Cary (Molly Ringwald). It isn't long before they make wedding plans, and his boss (John Gielgud), impressed with Bertram's skills, offers to pay for a honeymoon in Monte Carlo. Unfortunately, the boss is absent minded and forgets about the couple. Before long they are in need of money, and Bertram uses his skills to come up with a mathematical scheme to win at roulette. Soon they are VERY rich, turning Bertram into a power-hungry man, and predictable events follow.
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The Wind and the Lion 1975 PG, 120 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: John Milius
Cast: Sean Connery, Candice Bergen, Brian Keith, John Huston, Geoffrey Lewis, Steve Kanaly, Vladek Sheybal, Roy Jenson, Nadim Sawalha, Aldo Sambrell
In 1904, a Barbary pirate (Sean Connery) kidnaps an American widow (Candice Bergen) and her children. This act prompts Teddy Roosevelt (Brian Keith) to send in the Marines.
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 Women in Love 1969 R, 132 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ken Russell
Cast: Glenda Jackson, Oliver Reed, Alan Bates, Jennie Linden, Eleanor Bron, Alan Webb, Michael Gough, Vladek Sheybal, Catherine Willmer, Phoebe Nicholls, Sharon Gurney, Christopher Gable
Glenda Jackson won the Academy Award for Best Actress in her role of Gudrun, whose cruel treatment of her husband, Gerald (Oliver Reed), leads to his suicide. Set in England during the 1920s, Gudrun's marriage is contrasted to her sister Ursula's (Jennie Linden) happy wedded life. A nomination was received for Best Director.
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| 1. Billion Dollar Brain (1967)
2. Deadfall (1968)
3. Doppelganger (1969)
aka: Journey to the Far Side of the Sun
4. From Russia with Love (1963)
5. The Jigsaw Man (1983)
6. Kanal (1957)
aka: They Loved Life
7. The Lady Vanishes (1979)
8. Mosquito Squadron (1969)
9. Red Dawn (1984)
10. S*P*Y*S (1974)
11. Scorpio (1973)
12. The Sell Out (1976)
13. Smiley's People (1982)
14. Strike It Rich (1990)
aka: Loser Takes All
15. The Wind and the Lion (1975)
16. Women in Love (1969)
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