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  • Dan Curtis – The Night Strangler AKA Kolchak: The Night Strangler (1973)

    USA1971-1980Dan CurtisHorrorThriller

    Synopsis:
    The Night Strangler is the sequel to the enormously successful 1972 TV movie The Night Stalker. Darren McGavin returns as seedy reporter Carl Kolchak, who previously ran into conflict when Las Vegas authorities refused to acknowledge Kolchak’s uncovering of a modern-day vampire. Now he’s in Seattle, on the trail of a mysterious strangler who drains the blood of his victims. Kolchak’s quest takes him to a hidden underground city beneath Seattle and the bizarre residents therein. Margaret Hamilton (The Wizard of Oz) is seen briefly as an expert on alchemy; John Carradine also makes cameo. The success of this telemovie and its predecessor inspired a brief 1974 TV series, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, also starring McGavin.

    — Hal Erickson.Read More »

  • Daniel Petrie – Inherit the Wind (1999)

    Drama1991-2000Daniel PetrieTVUSA

    This is another re-enactment of the play about the trial in 1925 of a school teacher who dared to teach Darwinian theory in his classroom. He did this as a consequence of one of his student’s request to know… The student was a lad named ‘Stebbins’, and the trial (dubbed the ‘Monkey Trial’) pitted the great attorney of the day, Clarence Darrow, against the often running presidential candidate, and famous orator, William Jennings Bryan.Read More »

  • Paul Bogart / Arthur Miller – Great Performances: A Memory of Two Mondays (1971)

    Drama1971-1980Arthur MillerClassicsPaul BogartUSA

    Set in the summer of 1933,in the depths of the Great Depression, Arthur Miller’s one-act play “A Memory of Two Mondays” (1955) focuses on the workers in a Brooklyn automobile parts warehouse, a grim place in which men and women work for small wages and are grateful for the work. Appearing at the beginning of this production to set the scene, Miller observes that the Civil War and the Depression were the only times in American history in which the whole country was in the same boat-“You could not do a single thing that you wanted to do because no one had any money.” The warehouse, he notes, became a grotesque sort of haven for the employees since they, at least, had jobs.Read More »

  • Robert Stevenson – Johnny Tremain (1957)

    1951-1960AdventureRobert StevensonUSAWar

    Plot: In colonial Boston, a young silversmith’s apprentice injures his hand, and finds himself befriended by the Sons of Liberty and caught up in events of the American Revolution.Read More »

  • Val Guest – Au Pair Girls AKA The Young Playmates (1972)

    1971-1980ComedyEroticaThe Cannon GroupUSAVal Guest

    A detailed investigation of the 70’s Au Pairs, leaving no stone unturned and milking every situation.

    Four young women from Europe and Asia, recently arrived in England, begin their new jobs as Au Pairs. They quickly find that the English are not as stuffy and staid as they appear, and the young ladies are soon spending more time in bed than on the job.Read More »

  • Peter Bogdanovich – What’s Up, Doc? (1972)

    USA1971-1980ClassicsComedyPeter Bogdanovich

    Synopsis:
    Two researchers have come to San Francisco to compete for a research grant in Music. One seems a bit distracted, and that was before he meets her. A strange woman seems to have devoted her life to confusing and embarassing him. At the same time a woman has her jewels stolen and a government whistle blower arrives with his stolen top secret papers. All, of course have the same style and color overnight bag.Read More »

  • Robert Aldrich – Ulzana’s Raid (1972)

    USA1971-1980ActionRobert AldrichWestern

    Synopsis:
    Report reaches the US cavalry that the Apache leader Ulzana has left his reservation with a band of followers. A compassionate young officer, Lieutenant DeBuin, is given a small company to find him and bring him back; accompanying the troop is McIntosh, an experienced scout, and Ke-Ni-Tay, an Apache guide. Ulzana massacres, rapes and loots across the countryside; and as DeBuin encounters the remains of his victims, he is compelled to learn from McIntosh and to confront his own naiveté and hidden prejudice.Read More »

  • Otto Preminger – Advise & Consent (1962)

    Drama1961-1970Otto PremingerPoliticsQueer Cinema(s)USA

    Synopsis
    The setting is familiar. A Senate subcommittee meets to confirm the President’s controversial nominee for Secretary of State. A TV camera rolls. And the wolf is at the door…Read More »

  • Joe May – The House of the Seven Gables (1940)

    1931-1940DramaJoe MayThrillerUSA

    Synopsis:
    Clifford Pyncheon’s (Vincent Price) father, Gerald (Gilbert Emery), decides that in his dying days, the family’s mansion must be sold to clear their debts. Gerald also believes it will remove the family of a curse — a result of their many misdeeds over the years that allowed their once-prominent lifestyle. However, Gerald’s other son, Jaffrey (George Sanders), has different ideas as to what should be done with the property, and frames Clifford for murder in an attempt to keep the mansion.Read More »

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