Truck Turner (DVD) Soul Cinema When an ex-football player turned bounty hunter goes after a notorious criminal the odds are long - the crook has killed everyone who has come after him. But Mac Truck Turner is successful and now must dodge everyone in th...
When an ex-football player turned bounty hunter goes after a notorious criminal the odds are long - the crook has killed everyone who has come after him. But Mac Truck Turner is successful and now must dodge everyone in the territory as the dead man`s girlfriend is offering herself and her business (hooking) to whoever can take Truck out.
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Director: Jonathan Kaplan
ACTORS: Isaac Hayes, Yaphet Kotto, Nichelle Nichols, Alan Weeks, Annazette Chase
Algiers (DVD)
In John Cromwell`s ALGIERS, based on the 1937 adaptation of Roger D`Ashelbe`s popular French novel PEPE LE MOKO, a renowned thief has been hiding from police in the Casbah, the native quarter of Algiers, for more than two years. Inspectors Slimaine and Louvaine (Joseph Calleia and Walter Kinsgsford) see Pepe Le Moko (Charles Boyer) repeatedly, but until he strays outside the Casbah they are powerless to arrest him. Then a member of Pepes inner circle, worried about his own safety, rats Pepes hideout location to the police while simultaneously warning Pepe about the breach. Pepe and numerous bystanders, including attractive Gaby (Hedy Lamarr), are wounded as the band of thieves narrowly escapes the police. Gaby and Pepe begin to fall in love as the schemes to ensnare the master criminal grow deeper and more devious. This suspenseful romantic thriller, a Hollywood classic, features fine performances, a quality score, and excellent cinematography by James Wong Howe.NR"
Director: John Cromwell
ACTORS: Charles Boyer, Hedy Lamarr, Peter Lorre, Sigrid Gurie, Joseph Calleia
Hell Comes to Frogtown (DVD)
Rowdy Roddy Piper, the former WWF superstar, stars in this ultra campy low budget post apocalyptic thriller as Sam Hell, one of the few fertile males left on Earth after WWIII. Rescued from torture by a government official, Sam is outfitted with a genital monitor and sent, along with an attractive Medtech officer named Spangle (Bergman), to fertilize as many females as he can. However, when Hell and Spangle discover that the nefarious Captain Toty, the ruler of a city populated by half-human/half-frog mutants, has taken a number of healthy human females captive, they invade Frogtown to rescue the captive women. An often funny and genuinely effective sci-fi thriller, HELL COMES TO FROGTOWN is good freakish fun for those with a taste for camp.R"
Director: R.J. Kizer
ACTORS: Roddy Piper, Sandahl Bergman, Cec Verrell, Rory Calhoun, Julius Le Flore
3 Women DVD
Robert Altman's Three Women takes a surreal, improvisational and rather eerie look at the lives of three women in a western desert town.
Robert Altman's Three Women takes a surreal, improvisational and rather eerie look at the lives of three women in a western desert town. The plot centers around the youngest of the women, Pinky (Sissy Spacek), an eccentric, withdrawn woman trying to begin a new life. She finds work as an attendant at a hot springs spa catering to the elderly and infirm. There she befriends her co-worker Millie (Shelley Duvall), an equally strange but more outgoing woman; the two bond, and are soon sharing an apartment. Pinky becomes increasingly dependent on Millie, eventually adopting aspects of her personality and appearance. This obsessive attachment is threatened when Pinky discovers Millie with a man Edgar (Robert Fortier), the macho, faux-cowboy husband of local artist Willie (Janice Rule), the last of the title's three women. Pinky's subsequent, desperate actions precipitate the film's enigmatic conclusion, involving an unexpected series of confrontations and role reversals amongst the three women. This story tends to take a backseat to the elliptical, spooky imagery, particularly the desert landscapes, and the quirky performances not surprising, given that the film was reportedly shot without a full screenplay and inspired by Altman's own dreams. Judd Blaise
Suburbia (DVD) Roger Corman Presents The Director`s Series From the director of THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION and WAYNES WORLD comes this tale of a group of runaway -- collectively called The Rejected -- punks with spikey hair and strange clo...
From the director of THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION and WAYNES WORLD comes this tale of a group of runaway -- collectively called The Rejected -- punks with spikey hair and strange clothes who move into a condemned suburban development and almost immediately find trouble. They become the target of Citizens Against Crime, a group consisting mainly of laid-off GM workers. Features live performances by T.S.O.L., The Vandals, and DI.
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Director: Penelope Spheeris
ACTORS: Chris Pederson, Bill Coyne, Jennifer Clay, Timothy Eric O`Brien, Flea
