Tuesday 6 July 2010

KILLER SHREWS US 1/2sh '59

The Killer Shrews, the 1959 Ray Kellogg science fiction (sci-fi) giant rodent monster horror thriller ("All that was left after... 'THE KILLER SHREWS'"; about a group of people trapped on an island with a doctor whose experiment has unwittingly created giant shrews) starring Ingrid Goude, James Best, Ken Curtis, Baruch Lumet, and Gordon McLendon.


WAR BETWEEN THE PLANETS US 1/2sh '71


Il Pianeta Errante (released in the U.S. in 1971 as "War Between the Planets"), the 1965 Anthony Margheriti (billed as "Anthony Dawson") Italian science fiction planet collision outer space horror thriller ("The Earth is scourged by floods, earthquakes and disasters... Until a space station discovers a fiery unknown planet heading for a collision to destroy all humanity!"; "The earth is scourged by floods, earthquakes and disasters...") starring Jack Stuart, Giacomo Rossi-Stuart, Pietro Martellanza, John Bartha, Marco Bogliani, Ombretta Colli, Vera Dolen, Enzo Fiermonte, Renato Montalbano, Giuliano Raffaelli, and Franco Ressel.


DOWNHILL RACER US 1/2sh '69


Downhill Racer (sometimes referred to as "The Downhill Racer"), the 1969 Michael Ritchie Olympic skiing sports melodrama ("How fast must a man go to get from where he's at?"; based on the novel by Oakley Hall) starring Robert Redford, Gene Hackman, Camilla Sparv, Joe Jay Jalbert, and Tom J. Kirk



STRAW DOGS US 1/2sh '72

Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs, the classic 1972 Sam Peckinpah English/U.S. ultra violent rape revenge crime thriller ("Special Notice : 'Straw Dogs' unleashes such dramatic intensity that this theatre is scheduling a 5-minute interval between all performances"; "The knock at the door meant the birth of a man and the death of seven others."; based on the novel "The Siege of Trencher's Farm" by Gordon M. Williams) starring Dustin Hoffman, Susan George ("as Amy"), Del Henney, Peter Vaughan, and T.P. McKenna


JAWS Japanese '75
Jaws, the classic 1975 Steven Spielberg Universal man-eating shark horror thriller ("The terrifying motion picture from the terrifying No. 1 best seller."; "If you forgot what TERROR was like... It's back"; "See what you missed the first time... After you closed your eyes."; "Based on the novel by Peter Benchley"; "...May be too INTENSE for younger children"; Academy Award winning musical score by John Williams; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award; special effects by Robert A. Mattey) starring Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Carl Gottlieb, Jeffrey Kramer, Susan Backlinie, Jonathan Filley, Ted Grossman, Chris Rebello, Jay Mello, Lee Fierro, Jeffrey Voorhees, Craig Kingsbury, and Dr. Robert Nevin


TAXI DRIVER Japanese '76

Taxi Driver, the classic 1976 Martin Scorsese unraveling-of-a-psychopath crime thriller ("On every street in every city in this country there's a nobody who dreams of being a somebody."; "He's a lonely forgotten man desperate to prove that he's alive."; "Written by Paul Schrader"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award) starring Robert De Niro (in his nominated for Best Actor Academy Award role), Jodie Foster (in her nominated for Best Supporting Actress Academy Award role), Albert Brooks ("as Tom"), Harvey Keitel, Leonard Harris, Peter Boyle (the wonderfully zany comic actor, who improves every movie he is in, and was recently in TV's "Everybody Loves Raymond"; "as 'Wizard'"), and Cybill Shepherd ("as Betsy")



INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS style A advance Japanese '09
Inglourious Basterds, the 2009 Quentin Tarantino U.S./German World War II (WWII) occupied France Nazi resistance black comedy action thriller ("Once upon a time in Nazi occupied France..."; "A basterd's work is never done."; "Brad Pitt is a Basterd"; "A New Film by Quentin Tarantino") starring Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Michael Fassbender, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Daniel Druhl, Til Schweiger, Melanie Laurent ("as Shosanna"), August Diehl, Julie Dreyfus, Sylverster Groth, Jacky Ido, Dennis Menochet, Mike Myers, Rod Taylor, Martin Wuttke, and B.J. Novak


MASH US 1/2sh '70
M*A*S*H, the classic 1970 Robert Altman Korean War army-life military dark comedy ("Screenplay by Ring Lardner, Jr."; "From a novel by Richard Hooker"; nominated for the Best Director and Best Picture Academy Award) starring Donald Sutherland (as 'Hawkeye' Pierce), Elliott Gould (as 'Trapper John' McIntyre), Tom Skerritt (as 'Duke' Forrest), Sally Kellerman (in her nominated for Best Supporting Actress Academy Award role; as 'Hot Lips' O'Houlihan), Robert Duvall (as Major 'Frank' Burns), Jo Ann Pflug (as 'Dish' Schneider), Rene Auberjonois (as Father Mulcahy), Gary Burghoff (as 'Radar' O'Reilly), Roger Bowen (as Colonel Henry Blake), Fred Williamson (as 'Spearchucker' Jones; black African-American former NFL Oakland Raiders/Kansas City Chiefs professional football player, who successfully appeared in movies, mostly "blaxploitation" ones), Kim Atwood (as Ho-Jon), John Schuck (as 'Painless' Waldowski), and David Arkin (as the PA announcer)

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