The Assassination Bureau 1969  PG, 106 min.
Genre: Action
aka: The Assassination Bureau Limited
Director: Basil Dearden
Cast: Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas, Curt Jurgens, Philippe Noiret, Warren Mitchell, Beryl Reid, Clive Revill, Vernon Dobtcheff, Annabella Incontrera, Jess Conrad, George Coulouris
Based on a Jack London story, this film is set on the eve of World War I and involves a journalist (Diana Rigg) who offers money to the head of the Assassination Bureau (Oliver Reed) to target himself as the next victim.
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Drop Dead Darling 1966  N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Arrivederci, Baby
Director: Ken Hughes
Cast: Tony Curtis, Rosanna Schiaffino, Lionel Jeffries, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Nancy Kwan, Mischa Auer, Anna Quayle, Warren Mitchell, Noel Purcell, Jacqueline Bisset
After years of carrying out murders of women for his own financial gain, Nick Johnson (Tony Curtis) meets his match.
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Jabberwocky 1977  PG, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Terry Gilliam
Cast: Michael Palin, Deborah Fallender, Annette Badland, Max Wall, John Le Mesurier, Warren Mitchell, Peter Cellier
This film does not measure up to Monty Python's quality; however, there are some funny moments as the one member of the Monty Python troupe, Michael Palin, tries to slay the monster.
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The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone 1961  N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jose Quintero
Cast: Vivien Leigh, Warren Beatty, Coral Browne, Jill St. John, Lotte Lenya, Jeremy Spenser, Bessie Love, Carl Jaffe, Stella Bonheur, Warren Mitchell
Aging actress Karen Stone (Vivien Leigh) travels to Rome where she finds adventure in a love affair with the greedy Paolo (Warren Beatty). Lotte Lenya was nominated for an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress.
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Surprise Package 1960 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Stanley Donen
Cast: Yul Brynner, Mitzi Gaynor, Bill Nagy, Lionel Burton, Barry Foster, Eric Pohlmann, Noel Coward, George Coulouris, Warren Mitchell, Lyndon Brook
Based on Art Buchwald's novel, this is an amusing comedy about exiled mobster Nico March (Yul Brynner) who is deported to Greece where he meets King Pavel II (Noel Coward) and plans to get his hands on the royal jewels.
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The Trollenberg Terror 1958  N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: The Crawling Eye
Director: Quentin Lawrence
Cast: Forrest Tucker, Laurence Payne, Jennifer Jayne, Janet Munro, Warren Mitchell, Andrew Faulds, Frederick Schiller, Stuart Saunders, Colin Douglas, Derek Sydney
Based on a BBC TV series, this film takes place in a remote mountain area of Switzerland where decapitation of people is occurring. The culprits are tentacled creatures with one eye who are also able to take over people by telepathy. They're hiding in a radioactive cloud in the mountains, and somebody has to do something to save humanity. I'm scared. 2 User Reviews
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| | Atmospheric and well done. | Mark Davidson 06/27/2009 | | A favorite for decades. It's an English 1950's sci-fi movie. So story, rather than special effects, is the main strength of the picture. One special effect sequence (planes bombing) is poor, but the balance is fairly well done. The story is very good, the characters are intelligent, and the acting is realistic and excellent. The movie starts as a mystery with horror overtones that, with discovery and disclosure of a back story, turns into a sci-fi "reasoning-alien" monster movie. Beautiful Janet Munro becomes telepathically linked to "something" in the Swiss Alps that has a purpose. On 1-10 scale: Story and acting = 7; monster/creature = 6 special effects, for English mid-50s = 5. Overall = 6.5-7 (I like it). Up there with the Quartermass movies. |
| | Anonymous 03/09/2007 | | A strange film, bad special effects and dodgy buildings... Sooner or later I know hollywood will remake it. |
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| 1. The Assassination Bureau (1969)
aka: The Assassination Bureau Limited
2. Drop Dead Darling (1966)
aka: Arrivederci, Baby
3. Jabberwocky (1977)
4. The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961)
5. Surprise Package (1960)
6. The Trollenberg Terror (1958)
aka: The Crawling Eye
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