Mom Can I Keep Her?
The various adventures of six friends that find their lives torn apart by the advent of the second world war. Starring George Peppard (The A-Team Banacek) and George Hamilton (Evel Knievel Zorro the Gay Blade) and directed by Umberto Lenzi (Eyeball Cannibal Ferox).
Treasure Of The Sierra Madre: Greed and the lure of gold affects the lives of three men prospecting in the dangerous Sierra Madre mountains... To Have And Have Not: A jaded American charter boat captain risks his life to help a group of French freedom fighters and an attractive young woman with whom he falls in love. They Drive By Night: Two brothers struggle as truck drivers when one comes to harm the other is accused of his friend's murder...
When they killed his friend stole his money and put him in jail all C. J. Thunderbird had left was his courage and his fists. With this heart and honour on the line he descends into the world of bare-fisted boxing to avenge the death of his friend.
This 1968 oddity is probably a film only a total Beatlemaniac could love, but it carries both musical and historical resonance. It also gives intimations of what would happen in the next 30 years as artists gained more and more power over how they were presented. The roots of virtually any rock star's vanity project (including Prince's Under the Cherry Moon) can be traced to this little Liverpudlian home movie. Fresh from the success of their films A Hard Day's Night and Help!, and still under the influence of the intoxicants of the era, the Beatles set out to make their own fancifully psychedelic project. What they got out of it was, essentially, a knock-off album with a few good songs and a lot of filler, which is more than can be said for this alternately self-indulgent and mildly amusing British version of Ken Kesey's magic bus tour. Using some of their favourite actors (including Victor Spinetti, who was in their first two movies), the Beatles make an alternative British travelogue, stopping occasionally to sing songs like "I Am the Walrus" and "The Fool on the Hill." Strictly for completists. --Marshall Fine, Amazon.com
Dead In The Water
For Creepshow 2, the quickie 1987 sequel to the Stephen King-scripted/George Romero-directed 1982 original, Romero shifted jobs to become the screenwriter, earning King (who also has a goony cameo as a trucker) a "based on stories by" credit. Cinematographer Michael Gornick stepped up to make an uninspiring directorial debut, turning out a conventional TV-look picture unlike the sometimes striking Creepshow. A frame story mixes live action and cartoon as a small boy leafs through the latest issue of his favourite horror comic while plotting revenge against neighbourhood bullies. A pun-dropping host called the Creep (played by Tom Savini when not a cartoon) introduces three anecdotes. In "Old Chief Wooden Head", George Kennedy and Dorothy Lamour are kindly Western shopkeepers killed by tearaways and avenged by the wooden Indian which stands outside the place. In "The Raft", four obnoxious teens are terrorised on a lake by a hungry slime-monster. And in "The Hitch-Hiker", hit-and-run driver Lois Chiles is haunted by her squashed victim, who keeps reappearing in a progressively battered forms. Though King and Romero deliver a good mix of cynical and melodramatic dialogue, the stories are disappointingly thin and predictable, with especially weak punch-lines. Of the performers, only Chiles really works up the hysterical attack needed to play a comic book character. On the DVD: just a trailer. The picture is a fullscreen print that cuts off crucial details in the comic book panels. --Kim Newman
Tracklisting:{~1~}The Magical Mystery Tour{~2~}Richard B. Starkey & His Aunt Jessica{~3~}Good Morning Ladies & Gentlemen Boys & Girls{~4~}Fool On The Hill{~5~}Miss Winters{~6~}The Sarge{~7~}Magical Mystery Tour Marathon{~8~}The Magicians{~9~}Mr Bloodvessel & Aunt Jessica{~10~}I Am The Walrus{~11~}Five Little Dickie Birds Sitting On Your Head{~12~}Aunt Jessie's Dream{~13~}The Theatre{~14~}Blue Jay Way{~15~}Back On The Bus{~16~}I Wonder What The Magicians Are Cooking Up Now?{~17~}Accordian Medley{~18~}The Strip Show - Death Cab For Cutie{~19~}Your Mother Should Know{~20~}Magical Mystery Tour End Credits.
25 classic country songs on one DVD! Tracklist: 1. Porter Wagoner - Y'all Come 2. Johnny Russell - Crystal Chandeliers 3. Hank Williams Jnr & Johnny Cash - Kaw Liga 4. George Jones - The race Is On 5. Tanya Tucker - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down 6. Helen Cornelius - Banks Of The Ohio 7. Wayne Billingsley - Tennessee Waltz 8. Waylon Jennings - Don't You Think This Outlaw Bit's Done Got Out of Hand 9. Gary Morris - Wings Beneath My Wings 10. Kenny Arledge - Wild Side of Love 11. Willie Nelson - Night Life 12. Frenchie Burke - Faded Love 13. Freddy Fender - Jambalaya 14. Tex Williams - Deck of Cards 15. Gail Davis - Singin' The Blues 16. Johnny Tillotson - Heartaches By The Number 17. Tammy Wynette - When The Grass Grows Over Me 18. Patty Stone - Crazy 19. Merle Haggard - Faded Love/Maiden's Prayer 20. Gene Watson- No One Will ever Know 21. Freddy Weller - Games People Play 22. Ronny Robbins - El Paso 23. Dottie West - Rocky Top 24. Barbara Fairchild - Gotta Travel On 25. Hoyt Axton - Joy To The World
The word 'cop' isn't written all over him - something more puzzling is. In one of his most memorable roles Steve McQueen stars as Detective Frank Bullitt a hard-driving tough-as-nails San Francisco cop. Bullitt has just received what sounds like a routine assignment: keep a star witness out of sight and out of danger for 48 hours then deliver him to the courtroom on Monday morning. But before the night is out the witness will lie dying of shotgun wounds and Bullitt a no-glitter all-guts cop won't rest until he nabs the gunmen and the elusive underworld kingpin who hired them. Famed for it's Lalo Schifrin score and one of the greatest car chases in cinema-history 'Bullit' won the 1969 Oscar for Best Film Editing (Frank P. Keller).
A brilliant film a classic black comedy. A group of war-eager military men plan a nuclear apocalypse that is both funny and frightening - and seems as relevant today as ever. Through a series of military and political accidents two psychotic generals - U.S. Air Force Commander Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) and Joint Chief of Staff ""Buck"" Turgidson (George C. Scott) - trigger an ingenious irrevocable scheme to attack Russia's strategic targets with nuclear bombs. The brains behind the scheme belong to Dr. Strangelove (Peter Sellers) a wheelchair-bound nuclear scientist who has bizarre ideas about man's future. The President is helpless to stop the bombers as is Captain Mandrake (Sellers again) the only man who can stop them...
Destiny Rides Again (Dir. George Marshall 1939): Destiny Rides Again will forever be remembered for Marlene Dietrich's performance as Frenchy a crooked saloon waitress with a heart of gold. Her rendition of ""See What the Boys in the Back Room Will Have"" is one of the highlights of her career. But Destiny Rides Again has much more to offer than just Dietrich's performance. This hilarious satire carries Jimmy Stewart in the lead as Tom Destry a supposedly tough law enforcement man who doesn't like guns. Stewart's comic touches are brilliant as he eagerly gives out educational anecdotes anytime an opportunity affords itself. The plot concerns the efforts of a saloon owner and a corrupt Mayor to rob the local cowpokes blind. Frenchy's on the payroll of the bad guys but when sparks fly between her and Destry her loyalty becomes a deciding factor in whether it's Destry or the bad guys who will ride off into the sunset. A Foreign Affair (Dir. Billy Wilder 1948): A congressional committee visits occupied Berlin to investigate G.I. morals. Congresswoman Phoebe Frost appalled at widespread evidence of human frailty hears rumors that cafe singer Erika former mistress of a wanted war criminal is ""protected"" by an American officer and enlists Captain John Pringle to help her find him...not knowing that Pringle is Erika's lover.
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